Have You Bought Into the Great Delusion of the End Times?

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie... —2 Thessalonians 2:11

Paul the Apostle taught, preached, and wrote of things in the future. He explained how The Holy Spirit has been a restraining force in the world, restraining and holding back both the ultimate evils of human beings and that of the demonic forces of fallen angels.

Paul taught that the human being has a capacity for evil that dwarfs even the appalling acts of Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Chairman Mao. For even as just these three combined destroyed hundreds of millions of precious souls, our hearts are even darker, and whose actions, if unrestrained, could have obliterated every human on the face of the earth.

Psychology, Secularism, and New Age Thought, (as well as today's majority of Mainline Protestant Churches) are convinced people are basically good and resort to deviant acts and criminal behavior because of negative experiences in their lives. And recent proposals to reduce police forces and interventions with psychologists and social workers are a natural progression of "all people are basically good" ideas.

The Bible clearly and emphatically states the opposite. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah wrote (Jer 17: 9) clearly says "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

While speaking of the end times, Jesus said (Matthew 24:22) "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened."

Today we’ve had Covid-19, lockdowns, Censorship, and "The Vaccines". Has "The Delusion" Paul wrote of finally arrived?