APOSTATES, AND WHY "GOD VISITS THEM WITH
AN ACTIVE DELUSION." (2 Thessalonians 2:11B Moffatt).

All those who believe in the Lord, should examine themselves, and the conduct of those whom God has visited with an active delusion. This, for the following reasons:

Firstly, to prevent being misled by them. For they are a group of people of a kind who did "get to believing the lie" referred to in 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12, and are perishing.

Secondly, we need to consider the reason why God is allowing the deluding of so many of those who actually believed in God after they had acquired knowledge of Him through His Son. The reason given is that "they refuse to love the Truth that would save them" (Moffatt). So God visited their minds with a delusion, one which would become active "till they put faith in falsehood" (V.11 Moffatt). This falsehood is manifest in all their "lying signs and portents".

Let us examine the unGodly development of those who refuse to love the truth: These are people who after hearing the Will of God, understanding it, and preferring to believe in it as the truthful course to live by, refuse to love righteous principles from Him and show agap¾ love. Is it so important that we should love the truth? Yes it is. Otherwise, we would not follow to its completion the 'narrow way' leading to true love through righteous disciplines, spirit adjustments, and persecutions, successfully. It is this 'narrow way' of the truth that leads us to everlasting spirit life. But many of the "great crowd" of "other sheep", who are not of the "little flock" of anointed ones, have been taught by JW 'elders' that their future hope is a resurrection to life back on earth after their death. This is one of the major elements of the active delusion visited upon them by God, and active in the minds of all apostates. Consequently, they hate any corrections from the bitter "Little Scroll" that will be prophesied worldwide. (Rev 10:2, 8-11). Its bitterness will bring about their end.

The gaining of immortality in the spirit heavens is the intended purpose of God for mankind now living life in the flesh, and is progressively achieved only when truths from God are actively obeyed. Believers who refuse to love the truth by refusing righteous disciplines from God, do not love or worship God at all, but are worshipping satan while believing they worship God. JWs may preach regularly from the Bible, but they began changing the "times and law" of God and harassing the sons of the Kingdom of God (Dan 7:25 NWT) to suit their deluded purpose. They ended up appointing many elders to teach delusion! Their publications are riddled with unsuccessful dates intended to fulfil Biblical prophecies. This is the only religion on earth to prophesy "lying signs and portents" worldwide.

When these people are fully revealed in "the lie" (V.11 NWT) then the scripture will be fulfilled in their case: They will become an "object of astonishment" to all. (Micah 6:16). On being visited with an active delusion from God, their first faith through their repentance proved to be a meaningless act. It is then they become active in their faith in falsehood. True Christians must continue to show works befitting true repentance, otherwise our repentance that first led to an active faith in the truth about God would become meaningless.

Apostates later developed a faith to alter-natives to believe in them, through "lying signs and portents" manufactured and declared in books circulated worldwide by those falsely calling themselves Jehovah's Witnesses. Their followers are all enjoined to them as members of the composite "man of lawlessness" and are being revealed by the breath of Michael's lips through this writer and his descendants. After the revealing of them is concluded, our Lord will destroy them all by his spirit "appearance".

SPIRIT SACRIFICES: The offering up of spirit sacrifices to God is what pleases our Father most. These are the spirit adjustments toward holiness, which we obey, until all our superfluous dispositions are removed. This is what lawless 'elders' hate: being corrected, especially by "eleventh hour" anointed brothers. (Matt 20:1-16).

DELUSION: Anything that deceives the mind with a false impression, a deception. A fixed opinion with regard to objective things, esp. as a form of mental derangement. (Oxford Dictionary).

30/8/94.

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