You know what? The whole world is falling for this lie, for this delusion, for this working of Satan today.
But please, could God's children not be deceived?
2 Thessalonians 2 says,
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto him,
that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word,
nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
The falling away mentioned in verse 3 is a time of apostasy.
God gave the warning that churches and society as a whole would continue to degrade before we reach the end.
This phrase falling away first is something that a lot of people, you know, have had different ideas,
different ways to interpret. What does that exactly mean?
But the Bible's pretty clear that the falling away is just from truth,
that there's just going to be a great falling away from truth,
and the Bible teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is truth.
He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.
We knowing that Jesus Christ is the truth and people falling away from that could be applied in a couple ways.
First of all, salvation.
This is the fact that there's maybe a lot of people that aren't saved,
or there's a lot of people falling away from the gospel, there's a lot of corruptions of the gospel,
but I think it could be applied more broadly in the sense that this Bible is Jesus Christ.
This Bible, the word is the Lord Jesus Christ,
and there's a lot of people falling away from the Bible today.
They don't believe the Bible anymore.
They don't want to trust in what the Word of God says,
and the Bible says that there's going to be a great falling away through deception.
Look at verse number nine.
So we see a group of people, they're rejecting the love of the truth,
they're rejecting the gospel, they're rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the Bible says that the devil is going to be very believable.
He's going to use all deceivableness.
Everything that he could possibly use to deceive people,
he's going to use it so that they won't believe the truth.