The Deceived

June 25, 2022

          When Jesus’ disciples were curious about when He was going to return and what would be the signs of His coming and the end of the age, they became very inquisitive. Which one of us will be the greatest in your kingdom? When are you coming back and how will we know when you’re coming back, and what will be the signs that you’re coming back? Inquiring minds want to know! Tell us! Tell us! Tell us! They were like baby birds pecking at mom, wanting to be fed.

Matthew 24: 1-3

¹ Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. ² “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

³ As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

         

We should take note that the very next thing Jesus said – the first thing he mentions in his response to them is – being deceived. Do you think He did that for a reason? Uh, yeah. He didn’t say, Well, you’ll see eight blood moons, and then wait seven more years, and then I’ll return. No, he simply and straight-forwardly, warned them (us) to watch out and see to it that they (we) are not deceived, at the end of the church age when he is about to return:

Matthew 24: 6-14

⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. ⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of birth pains.

⁹ “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ¹⁰ At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹ and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. ¹² Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³ but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

      

   Jesus never said anything ‘off the cuff’. He wasn’t exactly known for ‘shooting from the hip’ or ‘wingin’ it’. No idle chit-chat for him. Ever. Every word He used, and the times and places in which He used them, was significant. Everything He did was deliberate.

         So when He starts His answer to his disciples, about his return at the end of the age, with a warning to see to it that we’re not deceived, that means that at the very end, many will be deceived!

Matthew 24: 4-5,11

⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many.

…¹¹ and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.

Psalm 4:2

^{2 “}How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?”

         

But what we are witnessing right now….I mean, we know (per the aforementioned Scriptures) that the Bible speaks of these great delusions at the end…but it’s still a shocker to see the masses being deluded by the left. It’s stunning. I scratch my head so much my scalp is getting sore. I shake my head so much my neck hurts.

          The biggest delusion of the masses going on right now, right before our eyes, is the belief that progressive ideology is good. That Socialism is good; that the Green New Deal must be installed immediately; that sexual rebellion is virtuous; etc. The leaders of this movement are perfectly aware that it is sinister. But they want to fool the masses into believing that it’s good so they can get you to buy into their agenda (so they can remain in power). It’s called “virtue signaling.” They convince you through indoctrination via every outlet they can manipulate: Big Tech & Social Media, Mainstream Media (Including movies and TV shows), the Mainstream news outlets, the schools, especially Universities & Colleges. Through all of these venues they are spewing propaganda to the masses, non-stop. And it works to way-too-great of a degree. People will eat whatever you spoon-feed them, I guess. The critical thinking skills I’m seeing aren’t too impressive these days. Wake up, un-woke America! (this is the actual name of a chapter in my book, “Plumb Line.”). But I mean, really, wake up, already.

2 Timothy 3: 1-5

¹ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

² For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

³ Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

⁴ Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

⁵ Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

“Having a form of godliness” = virtue signaling. (Thinking you’re noble by agreeing with their definition of ‘inclusion’; thinking you’re noble because you got a vaccination plus 3 boosters; thinking you’re noble because you’re willing to wear a mask for the sake of your fellow brethren, etc. 

“…but denying the power thereof” = denying Jesus. Disbelief.

        

This describes the progressive, “woke” movement to a tee, and it has high-jacked the Democratic Party. This party was already sunk (spiritually) due to their longstanding position of pushing abortion. The leaders know they’re leading people who are well-intended but lost, and so they lead them by manipulating them into thinking that they are the ones who are virtuous, and the Christians and the right and the Republicans are evil. This is the opposite of the truth. Although there is a big infection of evil in the Republican Party, too (especially in the form of RINO-apathy and RINO-anti-Trump-ers), it’s still the only viable conduit we Christians have in the political realm. And don’t think politics aren’t important, fellow Christians. You had better wake up and realize just how important politics are, as we’re now witnessing the takeover of our nation, via the government, by evil.  

          There are what – some 335 million (334.7 million to be exact…-ish) – people in the United States. And how many actually believe that Joe Biden legally won the presidential election while blabbering in his basement. They want us to believe that he got 81 million votes? More votes than any other president in history. Come on, man!

If you believe this, you are deceived…you’re suffering from the exact condition Jesus warned us to avoid.

Here are a few more delusions of the masses, led by the Progressive, “Woke” movement:

That there is no cure for Covid (when there is, and there has been one from the beginning) and the vaccination is safe; that it is Constitutional to mandate masks or vaccines (it’s not); that the inflation that we’re experiencing and the hyper-inflation that is coming, are “transitory”; that the current inflation and coming hyper-inflation are Trump’s fault; that the high gas prices are Putin’s fault; that the police are bad and we should get rid of them; that babies are not babies, just globs; that we should shut down the entire fossil fuel industry overnight and everyone should buy an electric car – forcibly; that it’s okay to arrest pastors for holding church (when that is the one thing that is protected under the Constitution – the one thing that government cannot put their hands on – the church); that the Constitution doesn’t matter; that there is no such thing as a Second Amendment (okay – that’s the other thing the government cannot put their hands on, according to the Constitution, if anyone dared to follow it these days); that we should sick the Department of Justice on hard-working, law-abiding parents because they don’t agree with teaching their children they are either racists or victims of racism, and they don’t care to have hard-core pornography in their children’s school library, thank you very much! No one needs illustrated pictures of boys giving bl**-jobs to men in their children’s books, you stupid morons.

What is wrong with you?

           I could go on and on. Where do I stop? It’s like I’m watching a horror show while on a bad acid trip. Wow. What a catastrophic failure this psycho-“administration” is. You want to believe they’re virtuous and the Republicans are evil? Yes, if you can’t see the upside-down thinking of that, you are deceived, indeed. Welcome – you are now a member of the mass delusion.

          In fact, if you created a think tank whose entire mission was to try to think up ways to do everything wrong in government – and you and several other people were going to invest huge amounts of money, time and effort into conjuring up anything and everything you could possibly think up to destroy our government and destroy America – a whole group of people setting their minds to it – you still couldn’t think up half the s**t this clown show is doing! It’s like I’m having a nightmare that I’m in hell’s version of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. As Joe – white, curly hair, red nose and big floppy shoes – is just riding around the three-ringed circus on his bicycle…until suddenly… plop! Over he goes.

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Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Whose wine? What wine?
Where the hell did I dine?
Must have been a dream
I don’t believe where I’ve been
Come on, let’s do it again!

• (Peter Frampton)

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          How can anyone believe this is real? That this is a real government; a real administration; that these people with their bizarre, wild-eyed, creepy-Mayorkas-headed, drawn, contorted faces are really in charge? Of our entire country? Something smells very fishy, here, indeed.

2 Corinthians 4: 3-4

³ And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. ⁴ The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

         

I mean, it’s scary. That’s all I can say. But, ultimately, it’s much, much scarier for you if you’re not a Christian. I mean, put your faith in Christ and save your soul, which includes your mind. Now. Because that is the only way your eternal destination is secure and it’s the only hope you have to inoculate yourself from the pandemic of warped-mind disease. You can wait, but I wouldn’t risk it. Not now. Because at the rapid rate of destruction of these fools, they’re soon going to get us all killed.

Matthew 11: 28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Joshua 24: 15

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

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          I know where we’re going (us believers) when ya’ll – the masses, the deceived, and especially you “woke” leaders – are done destroying our beautiful nation (if you’re allowed by him to continue) and then the Lord returns. But you – the “woke” and the leaders of this coup and all those who support it – oh, you…there’s a special place in hell for you. You can watch Barnum and Bailey non-stop when you get there.

You didn’t listen to his warning!

Good job.