World of Deception
Society is built upon deception. From falsified information and appearance to political and military disinformation, this world churns on deception. The same peoples of the world have been deceived into believing that there are various gods, or that the true God manifests Himself in different ways, at different times, to different cultures. All of the world’s major religions are looking for a great spiritual leader to come on the scene at the beginning of the next millennium. Christians are looking for the return of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. Jews are looking for a Messiah. Hindus are looking for Krishna. Moslems are looking for the Iman Mahdi. Buddhists are looking for the fifth Buddha. New Agers are looking for Maitraya. The world is now ripe for a more insidious religious deception.
The great end-time deception will parade under the banner of Christianity. The False Prophet will deceive the world into believing that God’s true witnesses are the Beast and the False Prophet. So the Beast makes war against God’s servants and kills them (Revelation 11:7). “And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 11:10). One will sit in the temple of God exalting himself above all that is called God while showing himself that he is God (2 Thessalonians 2:4, paraphrased).
Even though the two witnesses have power to perform miracles and call fire down from heaven, they will not seek to glorify themselves. Their mission will be to warn people of God’s impending judgment upon all nations. Satan will deceive the earth into believing that the plagues the two witnesses inflict upon the peoples of the earth, in an effort to bring them to repentance, are not of God. Satan will cleverly reverse the roles. He will feign the return of Christ and set himself up as God.
Exactly how this deception will take place no one knows for sure, but Christ warns us: “For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. (Matthew 24:24-25).
Study your Bible carefully and accurately so as to not fall for the greatest deception God says will ever come upon the inhabitants of Earth (Revelation 13).
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