Mystery of Godlessness

March 1

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now holds it back will continue to restrain it, until He (the Holy Spirit) be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,” II Thessalonians 2:7-11.

“I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not,” Isaiah 66:4.

How, we might wonder, will the antichrist be able to come upon the world stage without being recognized as the demonic entity that he is? How can it possibly be at that juncture in time that so many people will hail him as a savior rather than seeing him as the foul demon from the pit that he will ultimately reveal himself to be?

Of course, we know he will purport himself to be a good man with the best intentions for our troubled world, but we are forewarned of his scheming. How can it be that when it unfolds before our eyes we will not see it?

The answer to that may be as complicated as there are people interpreting it, but the essence of it is found in two aspects of that time: 1. The Holy Spirit will no longer be present among us, and 2. the departure of the Holy Spirit will have come about because of our rejection of TRUTH.

The one primary thing the Holy Spirit is doing today is that He is about the business of revealing Christ to the hearts of men. He is touching them with a revelation of the Living Word of the One True God and He is visiting them in dreams and visions. He is compelling them to houses of worship where the name of Jesus is being lifted up.

Simultaneously, the evil one is doing his work of sowing seeds of doubt and disorder. Lawlessness is abounding—even in high places—and many are turning away from TRUTH, away from FAITH IN THE ONE WHO IS THE TRUTH.

Jesus said, “You shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall set you free,” John 8:32. We live at a time in the Western world when we disdain TRUTH! We live in a time when TRUTH is not only ignored, but it is turned on its head! We live in an age when the word spoken by the prophet in Isaiah 5:20 is coming to pass, we, “…call evil good and good evil.” As Isaiah said, the Lord has pronounced WOE upon us for calling His immutable Word a lie!

A wise man once said, “If you don’t stand for truth, you’ll fall for anything,” Anonymous. We are indeed falling for the twisted, godlessness of the age that is being spewed upon us from every quarter—from the entertainment industry, to the media, to the government, and even from some who purport themselves to be leaders of the church!

If we do not open our minds and hearts and spirits to the BIBLE, to the unfailing, immutable WORD of God; if we do not allow ourselves to be washed clean of sin by the LIVING SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, if we do not open ourselves to the baptism of the Holy Spirit who has been sent to “teach us all TRUTH,” John 14:26, John 16:13, we will indeed be blinded to everything that is holy in this vacuous age that is rapidly filling with corruption and godlessness!