What is the End-Time Delusion?

Jun 11, 2023

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It’s been a week of disclosures in the U.S., but do those revelations change anyone’s mind? The dangers of choosing delusion over truth.

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0:00- Intro

3:50- The End-Time Delusions 2 Thessalonians 2

The End-Time Delusion – 2 Thessalonians 2

The Man of Lawlessness

2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Stand Firm

13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits[b] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings[c] we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

The Didache
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm

Bible study on 2 Thessalonians 2

13:30- Denying truth and the spirit of harlotry

Bible study on Hosea and the Spirit of Harlotry

Are you willing to be wrong

15:41- Is this the End-Time Deception

17:30- Nazi sins and generational curses

April 6 event, video: Luminaries gather at Holocaust March of Remembrance in Kingwood
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/kingwood/news/article/April-6-event-video-Luminaries-gather-at-9410768.php

February 23, 2018: Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay Jewish College Student
ProPublica obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white supremacist group. When Samuel Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned only that the group’s cover might have been blown.
https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group

20:30- What is blocking you from hearing God?

25:33- Choosing delusion

28:00- The consequences of refusing truth

36:22- National sins must be repented

May 23, 2012 Nazi legacy: The troubled descendants
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18120890

February 24, 2022: HISTORY EDUCATIONHOW AMERICA EDUCATED THE CHILDREN OF NAZIS AFTER WORLD WAR II
How America Educated the Children of Nazis after World War II
https://time.com/6150118/nazi-scientists-american-schools-education/

December 1, 2010: Revealed: How Himmler’s ‘Nazi princess’ daughter is still the heroine of shadowy Nazi group fighting war criminal’s extradition
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334738/Himmlers-daughter-helps-run-support-group-Nazi-mass-murderers-seeking-comfortable-retirement.html

April 10, 2019 TWISTED SOURCES: How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South’s schoolbooks
https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/04/twisted-sources-how-confederate-propaganda-ended-souths-schoolbooks

December 3, 2020: Southern schools’ history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/education/2020/12/03/southern-history-textbooks-long-history-deception/6327359002/

Rewriting History – Education professor Chara Bohan on how the Lost Cause narrative came to dominate U.S. history books — and the lingering effects of our miseducation.
https://news.gsu.edu/research-magazine/rewriting-history-civil-war-textbooks

September 8, 2020: The “lessons” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy still have influence today in the Mid-South
The Confederate women’s organization erected monuments and wrote textbooks for public schools in the 20th century.
https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/the-lessons-of-the-united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-still-have-influence-today-in-the-mid-south/522-aa3185da-142b-48b2-b64e-f44fa70e5309

August 24, 2020: Women’s Clubs and the “Lost Cause”
Women’s clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.

Women’s Clubs and the “Lost Cause”

It was John Wesley that wrote a letter to William Wilberforce about slavery.
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/wesley-to-wilberforce

24 February, 1791

Balam. England

Dear Sir:

Unless the divine power has raised you up to be as “Athanasius against the world,” I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them stronger than God? O be not weary of well-doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of His might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall vanish away before it.

Reading this morning a tract wrote by a poor African, I was particularly struck by the circumstance, that a man who has a black skin being wronged or outraged by a white man, can have no redress; it being a LAW in all of our Colonies that the OATH of a black man against a white goes for nothing. What villainy is this!

That He who has guided you from youth up may continue to strengthen you in this and all things is the prayer of, dear sir,

Your affectionate servant,

John Wesley

Denying Truth and the Spirit of Harlotry Today

When justice comes

Trump removed classified documents

Espionage = Immediate arrest

Golf buddies were shown plan of attack against Iran

June 10, 2023: Instigation of chaos to stop justice

6 My eyes will be on the faithful in the land,
    that they may dwell with me;
the one whose walk is blameless
    will minister to me.

7 No one who practices deceit
    will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
    will stand in my presence.

8 Every morning I will put to silence
    all the wicked in the land;
I will cut off every evildoer
    from the city of the Lord. Psalm 101:6-8

September 16, 2022: The Jan. 6 rioter who wore a ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt gets 75 days in jail
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/16/1123424585/jan-6-rioter-camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-sentenced-jail

June 15, 2022: Man who carried Confederate flag in US Capitol and son found guilty of felonies
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/politics/kevin-hunter-seefried-confederate-flag-capitol-riot/index.html

June 10, 2022: White supremacists carrying Nazi & DeSantis 2024 flags protest at Disney

43:12- A Texan example of Jeremiah 2-5 – Ken Paxton

June 9, 2023: Austin investor Nate Paul, accused of bribing Texas AG Ken Paxton, is charged with lying to lenders
Paul, 36, is charged with overstating and understating his assets and liabilities to several lending institutions between 2017 and 2018.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/key-figure-ken-paxton-impeachment-charged-lying-18144122.php

January-February 2022: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tried to Overturn the Election. Now He’s Going After Roe.
In a golden age of Republican corruption, even a warm body with nothing to lose can do a lot of damage.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tried to Overturn the Election. Now He’s Going After Roe.

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear: Jeremiah 5:21

 

13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.  Matthew 13:13 NIV

Afghanistan News

54:15- Door-to-door searches in Pakistan, Afghan refugees arrested

Afghans in Pakistan arrested & deported

Afghans will remain in jail until deported

Reports of arrests

More reports

Arrests continue

Jailed for lack of residence permits

Stopped and questioned

Update from one of our people, June 11, 2023

hi Dear Carla ma’am

how are you ,hope to be so healthy and happy!

these days in Islamabad police arresting afghans

three days ago they searched all our area home by home room by room and arrested alot of afghans including me
5:59 AM

I was in bazar and coming to the room on down side road they stopped me and direct asked me the documents, I told them let me get from by room i don’t have in hand or in pocket but they didn’t listen, and put me in the truck ,took me to their station for two days ,yesterday I got the chance ,called my friend he brought m0y passport and visa,then they feel sorry

still they are searching all Islamabad and arresting undocumented afghans including ladies

1:04:00- The U.S. and Afghan visa applicants

Is the persecution part of the U.S.’s plan?

Afghan ally killed

Mother at Risk

June 4, 2023: Afghan mother at risk of deportation back to Taliban death squads, blaming UK Government visa delays
EXCLUSIVE The ex-British Council teacher and her family are cooped up in a cramped hotel room in Pakistan and have been told by the Government they will be waiting months to come to the UK due to a lack of accommodation
https://inews.co.uk/news/afghan-mother-risk-deportation-taliban-death-squads-uk-government-visa-delays-2382728

Haqqani calls for nation to be ‘more united’

Haqqani calls for nation to be ‘more united’

1:06:38- A life of misery for Afghan under the Taliban

Jailed for speaking out

Without hope, Afghan youth are committing suicide

June 6, 2023 – Jailed and tortured for daring to speak out against Taliban in Afghanistan
https://www.channel4.com/news/jailed-and-tortured-for-daring-to-speak-out-against-taliban-in-afghanistan

Taliban’s projection

Taliban war crimes

Trump, Biden, and the Taliban

June 10, 2023: Opinion: A blistering indictment of the Trump-Biden legacy in Afghanistan
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/opinions/taliban-afghanistan-us-withdrawal-un-report-bergen/index.html

Secret schools in Afghanistan

1:09:04- Afghanistan dissent cable

Access to Afghan dissent cable

June 5, 2023: Blinken gives Congress access to Afghan dissent cable, ending months-long battle for document
https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/blinken-gives-congress-access-to-afghan-dissent-cable-ending-months-long-battle-for-document/

Afghans denied visas to UK

On the brutality of the Taliban

The Taliban have no honor

The Taliban cannot be trusted

1:10:54- Severe water shortage in Afghanistan

Water shortage in Kabul

Water extracted at unsustainable rates

1:12:20- The cost is born by the children

The burden born

June 4, 2023: How the Taliban’s return is killing young Afghans, without using guns or bombs
Poverty, despair and lack of opportunities are taking a toll on Afghans’ mental health and driving many to attempt suicide.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2023/06/04/how-the-talibans-return-is-killing-young-afghans-without-using-guns-or-bombs.html

Claims poppy production are down
I didn’t cover this in the livestream, but this same claim was made last year, and in the end, poppy and opium production was up 32 percent in 2022. It was the best harvest in years.

1:14:06- Afghan refugees & misinformation

Slow processing in the U.S.

The Afghanistan Project Podcast Episode 16: Anna Segur, Val Simich, and Aziza Akbari

June 6, 2023: Almost two years since Kabul fell, a frayed refugee system creates obstacles for Afghans in Texas
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/06/texas-afghan-refugees-visa-asylum/

Refugee Processing Center
https://www.wrapsnet.org/admissions-and-arrivals/

1:19:50- Number of Afghan immigrants

1:23:44- Helping Afghan refugees

1:28:31 Afghan flutist on the Hindu Kush

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