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Addressing your Strong Delusion writing:

Out of Context. The next verse says this: “in order that they all may be judged WHO DID BELIEVE THE TRUTH, but took pleasure in wickedness.” 2Th 2:12.

E____

Hi E____,

Just a few scriptures for your consideration:

Pro 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Pro 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
Pro 20:24 Man’s goings [ good or evil ] are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

And here is a scripture to back that scripture up:

Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye [ Joseph’s brothers] thought evil against me; but God meant it [ that very evil] unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Jer 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

So it appears that those who “receive not the love of the Truth,” receive it not because “God sent them strong delusion… lest they should be converted…” (2Th 2:11 and Mat 13:

Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Mat 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Mat 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Why do the seeing see, and why are the blind blinded?

Rom 8:20 For the creature was made [ by the maker] subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

What hope?:

1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

The fact that God gives them strong delusion because they receive not a love of the truth does not mean that their lack of love of the truth is not also the working of God in them, just as Joseph’s brothers’ evil was really intended by God to bring about good.

Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

All evil will eventuate in good by the working of God!

Jer 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Rom 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy [ or hardens].

Read the article After The Counsel of His Own Will for further information.

Mike