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Chuck Baldwin writes:
"According to the Scriptures, people who reject truth
are destined to receive "strong delusion." They will
"believe a lie."
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Nakano comments:
Chuck is referring here to Second Thessalonians
Chapter 2 verse 11.
This is a very interesting and even unique message
in the Bible. 2 words in this chapter are unique in
that they are used only one time in the entire Bible.
The word "strong" is used hundreds of times in the
Bible. However this particular meaning of the
word is used only this one time.
It is number 1753 (in the Greek) in Strong's
Concordance).
The word is: "energeia" (from energy)
(Please stay with me here)
In verse 9 we find the word "working"
and again it is 1753 in Strong's
In verse 7 we find the word "work" and this meaning
is also a unique useage in the Bible (only used in
this one place).
Work is number 1754 in Strong's.
1754 is "energeo"
Well......So What?
The name Russian launch booster rockets is......
"ENERGIA".
The international Space Station is to be lifted
into orbit, piece by piece by these "Energia" rockets.
The russian hardware now in orbit was put there
by "Energia" rockets.
You can read Second Thessalonians Chapter 2 in just
a few minutes.
It's a good read.
I highly recommend it.
Nakano
STRONG DELUSION
By Chuck Baldwin
Posted: January 30, 2003 - 7:30 pm pst
NewsWithViews.com
When people demonstrate a perpetual pattern of
gullibility and even willful compliance with evil, one
must wonder what is really the root cause of it all.
Is it ignorance? Is it indifference? Maybe it is
personal ambition or the love of comfort. There is
another possibility: it could be divine delusion.
According to the Scriptures, people who reject truth
are destined to receive "strong delusion." They will
"believe a lie."
I am reminded of what my good friend and noted
evangelist of many years, John Hull, recently told me.
He said, "Americans today love being lied to." Indeed
they do.
Thousands of politicians have made fortunes by lying
to people.
Thousands of preachers and merchants are guilty of the
same thing. Americans are deluged with deception on a
daily basis. Deception has become more than an
aberration in the United States; it is an art form.
However, it seems that the majority of the American
people today are quite content at being deceived. More
than that, they seem to gladly choose to be deceived.
This is easily seen by the way most people react to
truth. It is rejected out of hand.
Beyond that, messengers of truth are viciously and
vehemently repudiated and castigated. Truly, most
professing Christians and most Americans
today have "heaped to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; and they have turned away their ears
from the truth, and have turned unto fables."
This willingness to accept falsehood could be
explained in part by cowardice or convenience.
However, such massive and universal compliance
suggests something much greater at work.
Could it be that God Himself has sent a "strong
delusion" to America and especially to America's
pulpits? Could it be that Christians'
willingness to accept, even practically worship, a
presidential administration as diabolically deceptive
as the current one signals "the time of
[America's] trouble"? It just could be.
© 2003 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved
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