514 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 43 - They Will Believe the Lie! - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 43 They Will Believe the Lie! - Part 2 II Thessalonians 2:9-14 Let’s begin again with verse 10. Remember the anti-Christ has now, since the middle of the Tribulation, become the absolute world despotic leader. They’ve had their opportunity. They’ve understood it. If the Lord should come tonight, they’ll be left behind." So never give up. Let’s first qualify, if I was misunderstood. We’ve always got to clarify first if there’s a need. Revelation 7:3 we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." I’ve always said this is Israel’s redeeming moment. Why is God going to bring such wrath and judgment on this last closing generation of people? There are more people living on the planet right now than have lived all the way back. Revelation chapter 7 and verse 9. Revelation 7:9a Not Israel! Now immediately if you will just sit and think for a moment, what part of the world has the most people who have never heard Paul’s gospel, and who are not up on all this technology, that as soon as the world is announced that everyone is going to have to have this 666 number to buy or sell, what area of the world could care less? Well a good portion of the third world countries. They’re not use to credit cards, or our high technology, and I can see the masses of Pakistan, India, and China and places in Africa where these people will respond to this gospel of the kingdom. Not the Gospel of Grace that is preached here in the Church Age, but these 144,000 will be preaching the same gospel of the kingdom that Jesus and the disciples preached during his earthly ministry, and there is a difference in these two messages. Isaiah 24:6 Here in II Thessalonians, chapter 2 Paul makes that so plain. Verse 10 again. II Thessalonians 2:10 Now verse 11. II Thessalonians 2:11 They’ve heard the Gospel, they considered it, but they rejected it, and so consequently, for this cause) God shall send them strong delusion, (He’s going to fry their brain, or mix up their thinking,) that they should believe a lie:" They’re going to say, "The anti-Christ is the God we’re looking for. Listen! If I were a lost person in the world today, I would rather have never heard the Gospel, than to sit under it Sunday after Sunday, week after week, and reject it. So to those who have heard, contemplated it, and rejected it, that God will send a delusion to change their thinking. That you can be like God. Genesis 3:4 A lie. Genesis 3:5a "For God doth know…" See how Satan brought God in. God. Oh somehow they’ll say, "May God bless our nation," or something like that. See they’ve got to bring God in at least that much. Genesis 3:5 "For God doeth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened (of course God knew in a far better way than Eve could have ever understood.) and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Oh to have the power of a god, and that’s the lie. See Christianity never teaches that we will be God. The New Agers do, and other cults do, but our Gospel never teaches that we become God. We’re going to be joint-heirs with Christ, we’re children of God, but we’ll never be God. Remember that. See that’s the lie of Satan, "Oh come on Eve, eat of the fruit, and you can be like God." That’s the lie. Now back to II Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 11 again. II Thessalonians 2:11 "And for this cause (because they rejected Paul’s gospel) God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" That they don’t need the Gospel of the Grace of God - they’re going to follow this man anti-Christ. Now verse 12. II Thessalonians 2:12 "That they all (these people who have heard Paul’s gospel, have considered it, they know it’s the truth, but they say, ‘not now, maybe later at a more convenient time’) might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." See God isn’t going to condemn them because of their evil works. You know we were talking the other day, if the Gospel of the Grace of God was something that would just demand a million dollars or a trip overseas, or to climb some high forbidding mountain, people would be after salvation by the millions. Now it would be different, and I can understand their rejecting the Gospel if God was laying a lot of demands on them, like a lot of the cults do. Now you see every person that rejects this offer of God’s Grace in so many words is saying, "God you’re lying to me. Now if I would have told her, now listen lady if you can scrape up $50,000 or if you can do this or do that for salvation, she would have been elated and tickled pink. The only reason they will go out into eternity lost is they didn’t believe the Gospel. Come over to the Book of Hebrews chapter 3. So now look what God’s controversy was with them. Hebrews 3:17-19 #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible