WHY DOES GOD SEND THE STRONG DELUSION? by Jeff Wingo

August 23, 2015

Satan before the Lord by Corrado Giaquinto, 1750.

Satan before the Lord by Corrado Giaquinto, 1750.

The spirit of antichrist is a powerful force in the world. Its purpose is to blind the mind in order to prevent the reception of godly truth, especially truth regarding personal salvation through Christ as found in the Bible.

Spiritual blindness is a principle in Scripture.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

The god of this world of course is the Fallen Cherub, Satan, who uses spiritual power to his advantage, working in the minds of all people to blind them to the truth. That is why we have so many lies in the world.

That is also why we have so much evil: the human proclivity toward evil is driven in part by the spiritual blindness imposed by Satan and his fallen angels. The main power behind human evil though is personal sinfulness; we cannot discount that. The only remedy for both, satanic interference, and natural human sinfulness, is forgiveness and redemption which is found only in Christ.

Salvation through Jesus opens the blinded mind, sets free the sinful captive, and provides power to overcome personal sin. Christ also provides healing and deliverance from the dark powers who rule the current world system.

There is no other power available in the universe that can free a man or woman from sin other than Christ. No ritual, religious belief, or personal effort can set a human being free: God has provided the only remedy, and that is found only in Jesus Christ:

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11).

 

All beings in the universe, both human and spiritual, must bow the knee to honor and reverence the person of Christ. All must yield to His authority, “in devout recognition of the name which Jesus received from God” (Thayer).

That is why the Christian can use the name and power of Christ to overcome sin, and fallen spiritual powers. Only Christians can repel and stop a satanic attack through the name of Christ. Non-Christians do not have this authority; they can however call upon the name of Jesus. His grace provides for all.

But a demonstration of the power of His name is intended to lead the lost one to Christ, His name is not a toy to be played with, nor are we engaged in a game: the battle is real and fallen entities are real. Satan does not play games–he plays for keeps, and that my friends is eternal hell.

The conspiracy we face is real. The god of this age has spiritually blinded most of the human race. An unfortunate truth is that most of humanity will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven because they refuse to accept the truth about Christ and the redemption He provides. They are “blinded” by the allure of the world, the desires of the sinful nature, and the god of the current world system (1 John 2:15-17).

This is why so many people believe in aliens, false religions, and the many other lies that permeate the current world system. If we refuse truth when presented with it, we open ourselves to even more lies, and in the end, the last lie will be the strong delusion.

Shockingly, the biggest lie in the world will come to the people of Earth from God; it will come through the unveiling of Antichrist, and will be a strong judgment against an unbelieving, rebellious world. Although that is a hard truth to accept, it is a deep spiritual truth presented in His Word. The lie of the Man of Sin, the Antichrist, will be presented to the world because they refuse His truth. It’s that simple.

Once the restraining power of the Holy Spirit is removed the revelation of Antichrist will come.

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess.2: 8-12).

 

Paul wrote: “and for this cause God will send them energeia plane or strong delusion. The delusion is sent “because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” This makes it clear why God sends the strong delusion.

Don’t believe the lies of this world. Don’t believe the lies coming to you from the media, and certainly don’t fall for the alien lie. The illusions of UFOs and aliens are lies created by the god of this world to lead you from the truth of Christ. God, through Christ created the world and everything in it (Colossians 1:16), not aliens, or evolution (which is another big lie).

The coming lie that will flow from the mouth of the Arch Deceiver to the world is that our creator is not God, but an advanced race of extraterrestrial aliens. The lie will be convincing because it will be very difficult to dismiss the aliens, and their lies, when they are standing right in front of you.

Seek the truth of Christ. Read His Word, and allow the blessed Holy Spirit to lead and guide you into all truth (John 16:13).

Do not walk according to the lies of this world. Walk in the ways of Jesus, He will show you the way because that is who He is: He is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

Ephesians 4:17-18: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

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Jeff Wingo

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EMBRACING THE BEAST by Jeff Wingo

May 12, 2015

Saint John on Patmos by Gaspar de Crayer

Saint John on Patmos by Gaspar de Crayer

Those who desire to follow Christ as a true biblical disciple will find that the world will not appreciate your efforts, no not in the least. I think of the recent Christian martyrs in the Middle East and elsewhere. It seems that the spirit of antichrist is gaining more power and influence to destroy the witness of Christ.

Some of those martyred may not belong to the same church group that I do, but nonetheless, if they had faith in Christ, His sacrifice on the cross for their sin, and faith in the power of His resurrection, then they are just as much a Christian as I am.

Now, that does not mean that I subscribe to the ecumenism of the Roman church, other mainline denominations, or any denomination for that matter. The religious systems that most of them espouse these days are mostly anti-biblical, but that does not diminish the plain and simple faith of those who have discovered true saving faith in the power of the gospel apart from religious acts and rituals of the flesh .

To be clear, I believe in the simplicity of the Christian faith. Jesus never meant that to be saved from the power of sin required great devotion to a church system, eating a communion wafer, climbing a 1,000 steps on ones bloody knees to kiss the feet of a crumbling, decaying statue of a long dead saint, or other works including baptism. Baptism itself does not save, nor does it turn a sinner into a saint. At that point all you have is a wet sinner with a false sense of salvation.

The Bible is clear that to be saved from sin requires only faith in the gospel which is this:  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;  By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;   And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures…(1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

That is the gospel of Christ, and salvation begins with simple faith that Christ obtained that salvation when He was on the cross–He took the wrath of God that I deserved. Jesus is our sin-bearer, He became that sin before God the Father and the Father poured out His wrath in so much power that Jesus lost the sense of His Fathers presence.

My God, My God, why have you forsaken me? Matthew 27:46

What more could I add to that? Truthfully, there is nothing I can add and that is why religious systems and works of the flesh will never produce salvation; because those things are an attempt to work around the simplicity of the gospel. If works could produce eternal salvation then Christ would not have faced the cross. At that point the cross would be a worthless act. But the cross is far from worthless–it is actually the power of salvation:

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16).

So we are back to the simplicity of the cross. The gospel of Christ is the power of salvation. Not works, not baptism, not the cup of wine or the communion wafer, or the blessing of a preacher or a priest–the GOSPEL and ONLY THE GOSPEL.

“For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).

Faith and only faith in the gospel produces the power of God leading to the salvation of a sinner–“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).

Paul said that the word of faith for salvation is in your heart and in your mouth–“But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach” (Romans 10:8).

And that faith, that simple faith, is able to produce salvation because it believes the simple gospel message:

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (Romans 10:9-10, 13).
Coptic Egyptian Christians moments before they are beheaded by ISIS militants in Libya.

Coptic Egyptian Christians moments before they are beheaded by ISIS militants in Libya.

When I saw the video a few months ago of the Egyptian Coptic Christians being beheaded for their faith in Christ by ISIS several of the men said, “Yeah, Lord Jesus Christ.” Think of that for a moment–“Yeah, Lord Jesus Christ.”FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED! Its that simple, yet it is also that profound.

Why I have I called this post Embracing the Beast? Its simple. The world and the world system that lies in the lap of the evil one refuses to bow the knee to the only one who can save from the power of sin. Instead they embrace the philosophy and religion of the Beast, which is a Dragon, that Serpent of old, the Devil, who refused the God of heaven and in turn he became a Beast.

The world system hates the simplicity of the gospel of Christ, and so those who choose the Beast act like the Beast, who was a murderer from the beginning.

God sent John the Baptist as a prophet, the last of the Old Covenant prophets, and he was beheaded by a beast named Herod (Mark 6:16).

Herod is just a prophetic picture of the Beast, and the Beast system called Babylon the Great. At the end of days a Beast will rise from the depths of the abyss and bring ruin and destruction to humanity. But before that there is one thing this Beast will do: He will compel his followers to join the Beast system and receive an image in their mind, and a mark on their flesh (Revelation 13: 15-17).

Those who follow the Beast will be branded in their soul, and in their flesh, just like common cattle; and they will become beasts. In that way, those who follow the Beast will fully embrace their godless master: and become marked beasts themselves.

What of those who simply believe the saving gospel of Christ? They will not embrace the Beast and so they will be beheaded–just like the Coptic Christians who simply by faith called upon the name of the Lord–“Yeah, Lord Jesus Christ.”

Revelation 20:4:
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Will you by faith believe the simple gospel of Christ, or will you embrace the system of the Beast?

Choose life, choose Christ. But be warned: those who refuse the Beast system will face the fires of persecution. Once the Holy Spirit releases His restraining power this world system will degenerate into Babylon the Great. And the Beast system will begin the work of its evil master, who is the epitome of what it means to be a Beast.

Embrace Jesus Christ and by faith believe the gospel. Yes, true Christians will suffer persecution, but for those who are saved a glorious future is waiting, because “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

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Jeff Wingo

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