- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
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- 2 Th 2:10 (KJB)
- And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
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- Deceivableness - Treachery and deceit
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- Along with all the signs and wonders of the false gospels come the fact
that their deceit leads or lets them continue on in unrighteousness. They
will continue to sin against the Lord, whether it will be sins of pleasure
or sins of religion where they make up their own rules and reject the
teachings of the Lord. What is in view in this verse is definitely
unbelievers who have rejected the Word of God and have chosen to stay within
the confines of their church teachings or the teachings of some TV minister
who brings false teachings which appease the hearers. It is these men of sin
that are happily deceived by the more famous men of sin who could be the
pastors or the evangelists who come with fairy tales instead of true
doctrine.
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- 2 Th 2:11 (KJB)
- And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie:
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- Strong - Powerful
- Delusion - Error, wandering (from the path of truth)
- Lie - Falsehood
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- Since the unbeliever is continuing in their sin and will not even look
at the possibility that they might be in error in doctrine and lifestyle,
God will help perpetuate that life of falsehood by sending in a delusion,
which is a wandering from the path of truth. If they want to believe a lie,
then God will allow them to believe a lie. Since they are perishing and not
God’s Elect, they do not want the truth of God, instead they want to bask in
those false signs and wonders which gives them good feeling but a false
hope. Since their minds are darkened by sin, to believe a lie will go with
the sin filled mind. Lies are more easily digested by the unbeliever than
the truth and that is why they spurn the truth. Since these people want
nothing to do with God, He will give them up unto their own unrighteousness.
(Psa 81:12 KJV) So I gave them up unto
their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Psalm 81:12 speaks of God giving up the children of
Israel to their own counsels and that is the principle found in 2 Thess.
2:11. Their own counsel will be their strong delusion because knowledge void
of God only brings one into ruin. God will give them every reason for them
to think they are right until they are finally destroyed on Judgment Day.
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- 2 Th 2:12 (KJB)
- That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
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- Damned - Judged
- Pleasure - Be well pleased or delight in
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- The end of this section of Scripture deals with the final judgment which
will happen when the Lord returns. Those who found much delight in
unrighteousness, whether it is the unrighteousness of sin or of religion
will be judged at the White Throne Judgment Seat. What the unbelievers do
not understand is that there may be pleasure in sin for a while but the end
is damnation.
(Heb 11:25 KJV) Choosing
rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season; Moses knew of this
because he was in the palace of Pharaoh and had everything a person could
possibly want and yet, because God saved him and placed a different spirit
within him, he saw beyond the horizons of the earth and realized there was
more to this than just the present pleasures of sin. When God saves someone,
their perspectives change from the temporal to the eternal. So in conclusion
of this portion of Scripture, we can see that those who are men of sin and
bring the deceptions will be judged just as those who believe these men of
sin and follow their pernicious teachings.
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