Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Topic: “The Seduction of the Last Days”
Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:5-12
5. Do you not remember that while I was still with you I told you these things? 6. And now you know what is holding him back, that he may appear in his time. 7. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who is holding him back must be taken away. 8. And then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. 9. The coming of this lawless one will be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10. and with all deception of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11. For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, 12. that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Remember:
The times we live in are full of signs and lying wonders: it is this deception that God is talking to us about. Let us be careful because the world is going from bad to worse. Deception is in full swing and we must be vigilant. We know that the Lord Jesus will destroy this power of deception, at the time he wants. The wicked professes wickedness, contempt for God and his Word. He lacks piety, he lacks reverence towards God. The appearance of this wicked person will be done, by the power of Satan, with all kinds of miracles, signs and lying wonders; it is the seduction of the last times. The wicked person will even want to take the place of God. He will want to replace the sacred story of Jesus with vile and pagan things that debase the holiness of God. Let us not follow the miracles, signs and wonders that abound everywhere. Let us stay focused on God and his Word so that nothing and no one blinds us; that no one plunges us into the seduction of the last times. A sanction is reserved for the wicked and for all those who are under seduction: God sends them a strong delusion, so that they believe the lie, so that all those who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in injustice, may be condemned. Let us flee seduction so as not to perish. Excellent Tuesday. Amen
Alain Louz.-
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