Thankyou for your help. i have another question if you don't mind. Could you please explain this scripture.
"And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie" (Thes.2:11)
There is so much I understand and still so much to learn, I get overwhelmed at times.
For which cause? Read the verses above.
2Th 2:1 But we entreat of you, my brethren, in regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and in respect to our being congregated unto him,
2Th 2:2 that ye be not soon agitated in your mind, nor be troubled, neither by word, nor by spirit, nor by letter, as coming from us, that lo, the day of our Lord is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way; because [that day will not come], unless there previously come a defection, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God.
2Th 2:5 Do ye not remember, that, when I was with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now, ye know what hindereth his being manifested in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of the evil One already beginneth to be operative: and only, if that which now hindereth shall be taken from the midst;
2Th 2:8 then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent.
2Th 2:9 For the coming of that [evil One], is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life.
2Th 2:11 Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;
2Th 2:12 and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.
You understand who the Evil one working the works of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceptiveness of iniquity is?
You understand who "them that perish because they did not receive the love of the truth"--the ones the Evil one is working in--is? That was us, and is all those still having the Evil one working in them with all power and signs and lying wonders and deceptiveness of evil.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 is core teaching at BT, put in many ways in many articles.
God will send upon those who did not receive the love of the truth a "strong delusion"/"operation of deception" that they may believe a lie--(the word translated strong is actually a noun, not an adjective, but the translation is proper, put together) in order that they all may be condemned (essentially, judged) who believe not the truth, but (instead) have pleasure in iniquity.
I'm glad to have been revealed to be "condemned", because He did not come to condemn the world (it stands condemned) but to save it.
That's probably more explanation than you wanted (unless it was less
), but if it whets your appetite, read the letters to Hagee and Kennedy and LOF 10 on the front page.