Beware Of Lying Wonders (2)

SATAN has been a liar, a deceiver, a seducer and a corrupter from the very beginning. His spirits are lying spirits (1 kings 22: 22). His miracles and wonders are lying wonders (2 Thessalonians 2:9). His interpretations of the Scripture are deceptive and destructive (Genesis 3: 4-7; 2 Corinthians 11:3,4). His gifts and favours are dangerous and deadly (Revelation 13: 14-18; 14:9 -12). The man of sin and all men in sin working miracles, delude themselves and deceive multitudes of followers. The great deceiver will unscrupulously use every form of wickedness to deceive those who love miracles more than salvation. Those who love the world and worldly ease more than heaven and eternal realities will fall for his deception. The son of perdition will draw souls to perdition through their own lusts and uncontrollable desire for deceptive miracles, false signs and lying wonders. Even today, false prophets and heartless deceivers “having their conscience seared with a hot iron” (1 Timothy 4:2) drive souls into damnable error “with all unrighteousness”. Those who do not love the truth that saves, those who reject the truth that sets us free, those who abandon the truth that sanctifies are given over to “a reprobate mind” and “strong delusion” (Romans 1: 28, 2 Thessalonians 2: 11). Since they will not believe the truth that they might be saved, they are abandoned in a state of delusion, believing false doctrine and the lies of antichrists and Satan. All who live and die in Satan’s lies and deception will spend eternity with him.

“That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness”. All who believed not in Christ, the ultimate Truth, will be damned. All who believed not the truth of His grace and the transforming truth of His atonement will be judged and condemned. His truth sets us free from sin, when we believe with the heart. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”(John 8: 32). Some people give a mental assent to the truth but because they love and take pleasure in unrighteousness, they do not “believe to the saving of the soul” (Hebrew 10: 39). Loving and living in unrighteousness, practising and encouraging unrighteousness in others, preferring “pleasure in unrighteousness” to the way of holiness, they are forever doomed and damned, forever separated from God and glorious rest. They loved their sin more than the Saviour; they chose the pleasures of sin instead of the free gift of righteousness in Christ; they turned away from the true faith and were swept away with the tide of iniquity and corruption; their condemnation is just.

Further Reading (King James Version): 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12; Matthew 24:24,25; Acts 8:9,18-23; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; Revelation 13:11-16; 16:13,14; 1 John 2:18; Matthew 7:15-23; 2 John 7-11; Mark 13:5, 6, 22, 23; Acts 16: 16-21; 2 Corinthians 11: 3,4, 13-15; Ephesians 4: 14; 1 Timothy 4:1,2; 2 Peter 2:15-22; Galatians 1:6-9; Titus 1:10,11,16; 2 Timothy 3:13,14; Psalms 9: 17, 52:3-5; Matthew 23: 28-33; John 3: 18-20, 36; Acts 13:40, 41; Romans 1: 28-32; 1 Peter 4: 17, 18; 2 Peter 2: 1-3; Jude 4-6.