2Th 2:11 And therefore God will be sending them an operation of deception, for them to believe the falsehood,
2Th 2:12 that all may be judged who do not believe the truth, but delight in
injustice."
The two main teachings of Ray at B-T are the salvation of all (with the inherent injustice of eternal destruction), and the sovereignty of God (with the fallacy of free-will). BOTH of those are in that passage.
Are we to come to the understanding that the verse above is how Everyone eventually will come to know Christ and come to bow before Him when they fall away from worshipping themselves? If so, that makes some kind of sense to me.
OURSELVES is just one of the things mankind will stop worshiping.
Peter (and all the other disciples) forsook the Lord, Who they loved and Who loved them. The prodigal son left the love of his father.
Paul wrote earlier:
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
That's what's hard for me to understand. We can't preach the meat of the Gospel to those who think they are doing God a favor, and have Jesus as their personal pocket savior. Ray said the carnal church has not yet experienced this falling away. It's not that they haven't fallen, it's just that they don't know they've fallen. Can you relate? You start well perhaps, as a "baby christian", but before you know it you're corrupted. And whether or not you end up in the pig-pen of the world, you're in the pig-pen of the worldly church, eating what you've been feeding. Naked, without knowing you're naked. Before long, you "do not believe the truth, but delight in
injustice"--maybe even the injustice of eternal conscious torment.
Jesus came to save those who are LOST. Some people seem to have only been religiously "lost" before they were religiously "saved". They've got a hard, hard lesson to learn. They won't learn it until they have left their first love and then repent--because you can't repent of something you haven't done. That was Peter (and the others), Paul, the lost sheep, the prodigal son, Ray... First, leave--later, Pentecost, with a death and resurrection in-between.
So for my part, what gospel I can "preach" is to those who HAVE experienced the "falling away". Anything I can tell a carnal christian about it would just be turned into a religious exercise. And it's not a "good thing"...it's an evil that He intends for good. It is as John said...this has to be lived, and once lived, then we can understand (with a little help, like Paul did for the Thessalonians). The GOOD NEWS isn't "if you're a good christian, and do the right things, you can go to heaven".
Does that make sense?
But, yes, this is what has to happen before the "Day of the Lord" happens to you, when the Lord Jesus RETURNS to YOU in Spirit. I have to believe it's the same for every "christian", each in their own order at the consummation. The rest of the world as a whole is not the "many called". It will be better for them in Judgement. But there is no "bad news" in the end.