There is a delusion coming.....can we agree on that? Paul warns of it in the second chapter of Second Thessalonians. So what might this delusion be? The possibilities are so many that all we can do is give passing speculation. We cannot pinpoint anything for there is not enough information given us. What we can do is keep in our mind that strong delusion is ahead of us...if not already here.
When I came into the faith I settled into apologetics and defense of the gospel.....primarily from what are labelled Christian cults......sects that claim to be Christian but deny the essentially doctrines of the Christian Faith. Included in this defense are doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ....the Trinity....and that Jesus was both 100% man....and...100% God. A few years after this it became necessary to pay attention to Gnosticism.....claims of special knowledge that God gave only to certain people who would then teach the rest of us.
The benefit of this path that I took was that it was ingrained in me that the genuine has to be learned and understood first. Then when false teachers came it would be easier to spot them. This is a lot easier than falling for false teacher after false teacher on the way to maturity only to have to humbly and penitentially admit the errors that we fell for.
The last quarter of the nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century saw theological liberalism destroy the foundations of the Christian Faith for many. The second and third quarters of the twentieth century saw gnostic heresies move into a prominent position of the Christian church. Since then we have fallen for a more subtle delusion....increasing as the years passed....so much that today we are fully into the delusion that politics can be our savior. The genuine....Jesus Christ established this nation for His purposes alone.....He alone determines our future or even our continued existence....and if we reject Him or try to mold Him to fit our desires then we are undone....this the genuine has been lost. We could not spot Donald Trump. We can't see the stock market for what it is. We have placed our security in military might alone. Those in our pulpits have just thrown up their hands and avoided anything that might make them whipping boys to the postmodern...technologically rocketing...humankind spiraling...America that has evolved.
Whether this is part of the delusion that Paul wrote about I don't know, but it is certainly 'a' delusion that we have fallen for. We were forty years plus into God's warnings of judgment upon America before Donald Trump came along. We have not changed one iota...not one iota....since the great election of 2016. What we have done is lower our guard even more since then. At least be aware of this delusion that we were warned of folks. Maybe I'm incorrect in my theorizing so consider the delusion for yourselves. The best way to do this is to focus on the genuine....return to the genuine....for then the false teachers and false prophesies and false hopes will increasingly become more self-evident. If the church will not provide this for us then there are ministries that will....and none are better than Ligonier Ministries of the recently departed to be with the Lord...R. C. Sproul.....ligonier.org.
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When I came into the faith I settled into apologetics and defense of the gospel.....primarily from what are labelled Christian cults......sects that claim to be Christian but deny the essentially doctrines of the Christian Faith. Included in this defense are doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus Christ....the Trinity....and that Jesus was both 100% man....and...100% God. A few years after this it became necessary to pay attention to Gnosticism.....claims of special knowledge that God gave only to certain people who would then teach the rest of us.
The benefit of this path that I took was that it was ingrained in me that the genuine has to be learned and understood first. Then when false teachers came it would be easier to spot them. This is a lot easier than falling for false teacher after false teacher on the way to maturity only to have to humbly and penitentially admit the errors that we fell for.
The last quarter of the nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century saw theological liberalism destroy the foundations of the Christian Faith for many. The second and third quarters of the twentieth century saw gnostic heresies move into a prominent position of the Christian church. Since then we have fallen for a more subtle delusion....increasing as the years passed....so much that today we are fully into the delusion that politics can be our savior. The genuine....Jesus Christ established this nation for His purposes alone.....He alone determines our future or even our continued existence....and if we reject Him or try to mold Him to fit our desires then we are undone....this the genuine has been lost. We could not spot Donald Trump. We can't see the stock market for what it is. We have placed our security in military might alone. Those in our pulpits have just thrown up their hands and avoided anything that might make them whipping boys to the postmodern...technologically rocketing...humankind spiraling...America that has evolved.
Whether this is part of the delusion that Paul wrote about I don't know, but it is certainly 'a' delusion that we have fallen for. We were forty years plus into God's warnings of judgment upon America before Donald Trump came along. We have not changed one iota...not one iota....since the great election of 2016. What we have done is lower our guard even more since then. At least be aware of this delusion that we were warned of folks. Maybe I'm incorrect in my theorizing so consider the delusion for yourselves. The best way to do this is to focus on the genuine....return to the genuine....for then the false teachers and false prophesies and false hopes will increasingly become more self-evident. If the church will not provide this for us then there are ministries that will....and none are better than Ligonier Ministries of the recently departed to be with the Lord...R. C. Sproul.....ligonier.org.
whitehorseinn.org
equip.org
gty.org
