Here is what Paul said we would see in the last days in the church:
II Thess 2 ...
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (They would fall away from the scriptures and set up another doctrine to please themselves and to exalt themselves.), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of HIS mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of HIS coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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A woman named Lilly McBride was in the Faith Movement.
One day I was speaking with her by phone. I asked her to take II Thess. 2 and read it aloud to me.
When she reached verse 11 ... "and for this cause GOD shall send them strong delusion." she was very shocked to think God would do this for they were being taught all "good" is from God and all "bad" is from the devil.
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II Thess. 2 ... Antichrist was going to act as God as he sat "in the temple of God, showing himself to be God." (Antichrist comes through the churches ... apostate churches where scripture is altered.)
Antichrist is a spirit that operates in many people just as the devil is not one man but a spirit in many men.
That spirit was already working in people in the day of Paul and John.
John says the following about antichrist …
I John 2:18 … Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
These antichrist people will leave the real people of God and they will go to churches where false doctrines are established to please humans and they will stay with churches that fall away from scripture.
This, I see when pastors and others make up things that are not in the Bible and set up doctrines of men which are not true and not by the Bible and not by the Spirit of God.
Notice that not only will they end up being destroyed but all those who refuse the truth and continue in unrighteousness will be "damned". II Thess. 2
II Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
You cannot sit there among them in churches when you see scripture being eliminated in part, and omitted, and changed.
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The poison gas dream …
In 1979, God gave me a dream which was very shocking. I believe this dream shows what was going on in churches then and is happening today, though it is even worse today in church groups as they move toward "one church" of this world.
In this dream: Destruction was everywhere.
A meeting was going on. There was one vacant chair on the aisle. I went into the room and sat down and began listening to the man who was speaking to the group. Then another man came in and rushed up to the platform and said ... "Wait ... stop ... can't you see? It's too late. It's already begun." (The first man resumed speaking)
I looked out the window to see what was happening. I was shocked!
There was a tall, yellow civil defense type speaker on top of a tall pole. It was supposed to warn the people. But out of our own speaker was coming a gas that would poison us and kill us.
I looked at the man sitting next to me. This man was sitting upright and seemed to be paying attention to the speaker. His eyes were open and he had a smile on his face but this man was a corpse, he was dead.
I looked around the room at the other people and they were all dead, though they looked alive.
And as I sat there among them, I began to fall asleep and I knew that I was being gassed to death also as I sat among them and it would kill me if I remained there.
This is what happens in the churches today when the preachers preach a type of "I'm okay, you're okay”, gospel without warning the congregation.
Or when pastors take scripture and twist scripture thereby eliminating the rules for the church. The people fall asleep, die, and lawlessness moves into the church ... the man of lawlessness who is the antichrist pastor.
The speakers who should be warning the church are often killing the church.
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For several years, I sat in church group where preacher taught that all good is from God and all bad is from devil, and he taught we, as believers, have power over the devil.
The problem was everyone assumed that we (of ourselves) could tell the difference between good and evil.
This is a problem Eve faced ...
Gen. 3 ... Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (Notice Eve added "neither shall ye touch it".)
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
God showed me the truth with the following example: We would have called an earthquake bad for it destroys property and often kills humans. Therefore we would say earthquakes are from the devil. But the following scripture concerns an earthquake and this earthquake was from God.
Mt. 27 ... Jesus, when HE had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after HIS resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
By this, God showed me that we, humans, don't always know the difference between good and evil.
Another problem, weather events, such as hail storms are very destructive. Roofs of houses are destroyed. Crops are destroyed. Animals and even humans can be killed by hail.
Yet hail is from God... as is thunder, lightning, rain, snow, sleet, wind, tornadoes.
Psalm 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling HIS word:
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When God chooses to send a judgment, that is of God. It can seem evil to us.
The children of God at Jerusalem sinned greatly against God many times, though God, in His mercy, sent them prophets to warn them against their sins and to tell them to turn from those sins. They would not hear but continued in sin.
God sent the king of Babylon to destroy Jerusalem and to kill and take captive the people and to carry those persons who remained into captivity in Babylon. God put a sentence of 70 years captivity on the people.
Ezra 5:12 ...But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, HE gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
And the Babylonians destroyed the wall around Jerusalem ... they burned the temple ... they burned the houses of many of the noble people of Jerusalem.
It was all ordained by God and set in motion by God. God even chose the king of Babylon to do this destruction against Jerusalem and against the people.
And in the book of Revelation we read …
Revelation 16:4-6 … And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because THOU hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and THOU hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
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In the church I attended in the early 80's, a faith movement church, they would have said this destruction was from the devil. They said we were to "take authority" over the devil and forbid the devil from touching our property.
During that time, a tornado struck one of the southern cities of USA. I wondered why those great men of faith in the faith movement didn't take authority over the tornado and stop it from striking.
They didn't because they couldn't.
Their doctrine was false.
Psalm 148:8 ... Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling HIS word:
Psalm 147:18 ... HE sendeth out HIS word, and melteth them: HE causeth HIS wind to blow, and the waters flow.
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And God says ...
Isaiah 45:7 ... I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.