2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders, and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.  Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.  And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

We find today’s verse in the midst of warnings about deceptive teaching regarding the Lord Jesus’ return. We hear of a “lawless one” who will come, and his ways will not serve the truth, but instead the lie. Make no mistake, those who refuse to believe the truth – Jesus Christ – will perish. If you refuse to believe the truth, that means that the truth has been offered to you, and you have rejected it. God is merciful and Just, and our freedom to choose Him is preserved by His grace. We are not a people oppressed by our own God, we are empowered to choose life in Him. He has brought us the revelation of His Son Jesus to be our Savior, and we must choose to believe the truth that He is everything we need. Repent today! You have been invited to know the living God who has made Himself known in these last days by His Son Jesus!