Deducing Today's Delusion

Deducing Today's Delusion - Terry James - http://raptureready.com/rap16.html

 

The title of this week's commentary is a proper one, I think. The famous fictional detective invented by mystery author Conan Doyle--Sherlock Holmes--often used the term "deduced" in his brilliant dissection of seemingly unsolvable crimes. He would "deduce," or conclude, that the circumstances surrounding the mystery had led to the inevitable solving of the murder, theft, or whatsoever the crime involved.

 

There is no greater mystery than the mystery of iniquity mentioned by Paul the apostle: "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way" (2 Thessalonians 2:7).

 

We are presently in the midst of iniquitous circumstance and behavior by a world of rebellious earth dwellers--as the KJV terms the anti-God masses of humanity that will one day suffer God's wrath and judgment. At the heart of the mystery of iniquity that surrounds us is a growing evil spiritual dementia that is setting the stage for the prophecy given through the apostle Paul. The prophecy is from the same section of the second letter to the Thessalonians above: "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12).

 

I think it is patently obvious to any true student of Bible prophecy that we are witnessing a form of spiritual dementia--of upside-down thinking each and every day. This evil darkening of the ability to think sanely, morally, comes from precisely the anti-God rebelliousness the great apostle warned about in his letter to the Romans:

 

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Romans 1 28-32)

 

I believe it is relatively easy to deduce from things taking place all around us today that the delusion Paul forewarns will be full-blown when the Holy Spirit withdraws as restrainer of evil is even now developing. As a matter of fact, my own conclusion is that the satanically inflicted dementia is already rather far advanced. The evidence grows hour by hour that we are in a world going mad with luciferian rage.

 

Let's examine that evidence to see if we are on to something, as Sherlock Holmes might say...

 

* Economic Irrationality

 

As oft is said about insanity, as attributed first to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over to solve a problem although it fails every time and expecting a different result.

 

This is exactly where today's thinking is at this hour of history in America. The government runs the Treasury printing presses over and over to produce trillions of dollars with nothing to back them in order to solve the national economic woes, which only get worse and worse.

 

Lyndon Johnson's presidential administration conducted a War on Poverty to produce a Great Society. Since that 1964 all-out effort to solve America's differences in the plight of the have-nots vs. the haves, the poverty has only increased. More than $22 trillion has been thrown at the problems involved. The nation is now bankrupt for all practical purposes, and the national debt grows exponentially.

 

It's the same all over the world. Nations are in dire economic chaos, and the global economic structure--for the most part inextricably linked to the U.S. dollar--is on the brink of collapse. Only the staying hand of Almighty God is keeping global depression beyond any ever experienced from happening. Yet, the powers that be continue to use the same methodologies time and time again in their insane effort to somehow get a different result.

 

* Diplomatic Dementia

 

The international community of diplomats views Israel as the hold-up to peace. This, even though Israel is a thin sliver of a nation that threatens no other nation, but provides vast goods and inventive services to the whole world.

 

Israel's enemies, on the other hand--the Arab nations that surround the Jewish state--threaten to annihilate the tiny nation on a daily basis. Israel offers to sit down and come to peace with those who hate them, but the Arab states won't even recognize Israel as a country. Yet the United Nations as a whole blames Israel for not being willing to give their enemies the land they want. The land Israel's antagonists want, of course, is the very buffer territory that gives Israel a degree of protection from their enemies, who have attacked them in three major wars.

 

The diplomats cannot understand or refuse to recognize the true problem in the region. It is a satanically spawned dementia that dominates their thinking.

 

* Societal insanity

 

Can there be much argument that we are faced with a culture seemingly gone mad, considering things we see transpiring as of late? What were just a few short years ago designated mental/psychological disorders are now proclaimed to be normal human behavior. As a matter-of-fact, there now are laws that demand we assign things like homosexuality, trans-gender identification and other conditions formerly considered aberrant or abnormalities special status, warranting privileged treatment --or else.

 

The absolute insanity of making us agree, through legal stipulation, that men, if they feel like a woman on any given hour or day, must be allowed to go into women's restrooms, should speak for the far advanced state of reprobate thinking in which we find ourselves. The evidence makes it a no-brainer to deduce that there is already considerable delusion in society and culture today.

 

I'm sure you can think of dozens of things going on in society and culture that are even more bizarre.

 

* Religious Reprobate Reasoning

 

Religious delusion at this time of the end of the age is running wild. God's Word, Jesus Himself, says that the Son of God is the only Way to God the Father--to Heaven.

 

Even some "evangelical" ministries are now wanting to make nice with apostate religionists within Christianity. Even more deludedly, they are reaching out to embrace other religions that will have nothing to do with Jesus Christ as a spiritual factor, much less as Deity who offers the only Way to their perverse version of Heaven.

 

Crislam, the combining of Christianity and Islam, is one such effort sponsored by some well-known supposed Christian leaders. Recently, Pope Francis was interviewed on a flight returning to the Vatican. He was recorded saying over and over that Islam is a religion of peace and that it presents only love, not danger, to mankind.

 

Following the murder of a Catholic priest in northern France by those who claimed the act was done for Allah, the pope opined the following:

 

I think it is not right to identify Islam with violence...This is not right, and it is not true...I don't like to talk about Islamic violence because each day when I read the paper I see violence here in Italy...Terrorism is born of worshipping money in a capitalist society. I know it dangerous to say this, but terrorism grows when there is no other option and when money is made a god, and it, instead of the person, is put at the center of the world economy...That is the first form of terrorism. That is a basic terrorism against all of humanity.

 

Pope Francis has said on occasion that Christianity and Islam are both religions of conquest, and he has blamed Western thinking and interference in the Middle East as responsible for the rise of Islamic extremism. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20).

 

It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that the end times delusion Paul prophesied for the Tribulation period as recorded in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 has truly already infected this pre-Tribulation era.