Deceived
Luke 21:35 "For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
America is helping to set the stage for an unbelievable ending to this world. The baby boomers have cultivated the shallow thinking that gives Satan the effortless ability to make the world think that black is white, wrong is right, evil is good, substituting bitter for sweet and vice versa. America has lost her identifiable marks. Satan now can pull off the worse deception on mankind of which Jesus was accused. [Matt. 27:63]. As a matter of fact Christ told us that Satan would do this in the end [Matt. 24:4]. Christ was answering in this chapter the disciples question 'what will be the sign of the end of the age.' [24:3] proliferation of many false Christ’s, but one surpasses all by a gospel that is well-received. There is a focus of hatred in that day on the Jewish nation and especially on those who have received the true gospel. Every nation including America if it is still around hates them. In this day Biblical perversion of OT scripture abounds [vs. 11]. And the 144,000 Jews finally preach the Gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth [vs. 14]. We know deception is the primary trait of Satan and we are not to be misled [Matt. 24:24] and only the elect will deny the false path Satan offers during the tribulation. The first half of the second coming of Christ is soon followed by the first coming of the antichrist. The vultures are gathering as foretold [Matt. 24:28]. Satan uses a brilliant twist on the prophesies in the OT which foretold of the Messiah's first coming. He will bring a false Messiah unto a tense scene to die a death from a head wound [Rev. 13:3][1] and then comes back from the grave to make those who trust in him sure that their faith is placed in the right name [John 6:43]. The only trouble is he dies from a head wound instead of a cross and so the Genesis prophecy [Gen. 3:14] and the Deut. teaching on being accursed[2] of God [Deut. 21:23] needs to be severely undermined and Satan has brilliantly accomplished that feat already. The Apostle Paul knew that if you were to present another gospel that differs from the gospel that the apostles gave concerning Christ, then they must offer one accursed to show the Father is satisfied and the sin has been expiated and the curse was sufficient by His raising that Christ back from the grave [Gal. 1:8-9]. Although this was the curse of God, the Christ was defeating death for the sake of sinful men who desperately need God's help to save them from their hopeless state. Men eventually find themselves at the end and the antichrist appears with his gospel. The sad fact is that truth has such poor application that Satan has desperate men all over the earth receiving a false Christ with a false gospel. The numbers are as the sand of the seashore. And there are fixed in their trust for they receive his mark.
[1] There was now given to the seer a vision of the method of Satan when thus cast down to the earth. It is that of a beast to whom power is given. It is certainly the portrayal of Antichrist, who is the counterfeit of Christ. He appears with all the signs and symbols of kingship. He, moreover, has supernatural signs, coming up out of the abyss, having a death wound which has been healed. He is characterized by great personal attractiveness, for the whole earth wonders at him. Moreover, he is followed by another beast, who makes men worship the first, and employs signs of fire and of occult wonders, and creates a fellowship of material things, in which men may buy and sell of each other if they have the mark of the beast. Upon the head of the first are "names of blasphemy"; and in this symbolic portraiture we see that the final method of evil will be that of attempting to seduce men by these false representations of the things of Christ and His Holy Spirit. Antichrist has surely not yet appeared in human history. Many tyrants, many despots, the world has had, but the last will surpass them all in subtlety, and in seductive influence. It is for us to remember that these are the true unveilings of godlessness; this is the true inwardness of evil. And further it is for us to keep in mind most clearly the vision granted to us at the beginning, of the Throne, and the One, and the Lamb opening the seals. As we do so, we shall know that evil is being thus compelled to express itself by that Throne, and that, m order to its final overthrow. There is no moment in which that Throne is in danger.
[2] Anethama
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