Hailed By the Amazing Display

March 7

Because “signs and lying wonders”( II Thessalonians 2:9) will be part of the deception the antichrist launches against a world that is ripe for delusion, because the world will have turned aside from the truth of scripture and sought in its place affirmation of its sin, man shall find it virtually impossible to discern truth in the last days.

Most of mankind will be caught in the net of deception that will sweep through the Sea of Indifference where unregenerate man will be taking his ease in the time of the end. Because once stalwart seekers of truth will have reduced themselves to basking in the sun of prosperity, they will not be able to discern the looming danger of mighty waves of delusion that are rising to engulf them!

Here are two questions we must ask ourselves, presuming either of the other theories of the Rapture and Tribulation is true and not the ‘pre-trib’ theory: ‘How will I be able to recognize the lies of the antichrist? How will I be able to distinguish the deceptive wonders he will perform from the miracles the real Jesus will surely do upon His return? Again, our God has not left us to our own devices in such a momentous matter.

I Thessalonians 4:16 says, “The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” When we see the archangel, when we hear the trumpet, when the graves are open and the believers who have gone on walk again among us, we will be able to know beyond a shadow of doubting that Jesus is the One being hailed by the amazing display!