Even today it is possible to see how easily people reject truth. The truth will be available, but the demonically directed will abhor it, refusing to hear it or believe it. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved (2 Th. Unfortunately, this is the course the world is taking now: Not only will these people refuse to do what is right, they will revel in doing what is wrong, caring about nobody but themselves. In the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. They probably will exhibit the characteristics of 2 Timothy 3:1–5: These people will follow the Antichrist gladly and worship him as God. 2:7) and God will place the world into the vicious, cruel, satanic hands of the Antichrist.Īlthough everyone left behind will be an unbeliever, not everyone will react to the new world order in the same way: The Holy Spirit will no longer restrain (2 Th. 63:10).įor millennia the Holy Spirit has restrained evil, enabled people to understand Scripture, and guided believers to a closer walk with God. 51:11) and the prophet Isaiah spoke of grieving the Holy Spirit (Isa. King David begged God, “Do not take Your Holy Spirit from me” (Ps. Even in Old Testament days, the Holy Spirit came upon people for service. For 2,000 years, since Pentecost (Shavuot) in Acts 2, the world has not known a day when the Holy Spirit has not indwelled true believers in Jesus Christ. But after the Rapture, they will be gone. Today Bible-believing Christians stand in his way. In that day, Satan will use everything he can, including technology, to consolidate his power through the Antichrist in an attempt to overthrow God.
Jesus described the Tribulation as a time of evil and trouble “such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Mt. The event that will befall the planet when they are gone is called the Great Tribulation. It is a snatching away of those who have been redeemed. The event that removes them is called the Rapture of the church.
A completely different world is coming-one that, for a time, will not contain a single, genuine, Bible-believing Christian.
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