2 Thessalonians 2:9 - 12?

Question

"But according to the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and portents and with every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth that they might be saved. So that is why God lets an operation of error go to them, that they may get to believing the lie, in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness."
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all apower and bsigns and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be adamned who bbelieved not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness
King James Version

How do you recognize the difference of a powerful work from God and that of Satan?

Answer 1

Matthew 7:20 Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Answer 2

First of all, the New World Translation is a falsified document, unreliably translated for the express purpose of underscoring the non-Christian beliefs of the Jehovahs Witness religion.

How do you recognize the difference between Godly works and Satanic works?

Godly works line up with the rest of the Bible always.

Satanic works MAY line up with one or another aspect of the Bible but will lead the recipient of the work into deception and generally some act that is against the rest of the Bible.

Answer 3

In the New Testament, believers are given a 'test' for all things spiritual. In the Old Testament, we are given a test for men who say they speak for God.

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and now is already in the world."
1John 4:1-3

"And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?' - when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him."
Deuteronomy 18:21-22

The test for false prophets enables us to clear out the bulk of the riff-raff. As believers walking in the Spirit, we test the Spirit and accuracy of all things against the scripture before we accept it.

Answer 4

All true. Yet, there is still time. Today is the day of salvation. May the Lord Jesus soften their hearts. It is God's will that none should perish, but all have everlasting life. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16).

Just as I was redeemed by the Lord so can you or anyone that asks Him for forgiveness. Today is the day of salvation, the day of judgment may be fast approaching.
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As to your question, they first did not receive the love of truth, they rejected Christ first so now their dark hearts accept a lie.

Answer 5

God gave you everything you needed to survive in the world and he said you will toil from daybreak to days end. Women will suffer in child birth. Nations will not understand one another. Jesus gave you a new view of things.

That's it from God.

Satan gives you anything you want. Satan is all pleasure and fun.

You know the term ask and yo shall receive. Ask from God and God may give you what you need, but Satan will give you your hearts desires.

Its up to you.

Hard work or a short cut.

Answer 6

Dear Daniel L,

The Lord (Jesus Christ) will never contradict His word-The Bible. That is why it is so important to study the Scriptures and ask the Lord for understanding. The devil (satan) wants to be God (Isaiah). The devil who hates the Lord and the elect of God attempts to deceive by coming as an angel of light. The devil 's workers can also come as ministers of righteousness. That is why it is so important to study the Bible to know what the truth is.

Answer 7

This is a description of the coming anti-christ and those who have rejected Christ and followed after this deceiver.
What can be confusing is verse 11, God is not the author of deception but He allows those who reject God to be deceived and to follow after their own vices and be misled by falsehood. This principle is similar to how God reacts to those who practice homosexuality and He gives them over to a reprobate mind.

Answer 8

What's the question? Is it to choose from the Elizabethan KJV style or the floppy translation of the most modern version? And if so, why to choose a text (out of context!!) that contributes to reinforce the image of Christianity as backward spirituality.

Answer 9

God works through our FREE WILL because He does not want us to be robots. If we go in the wrong direction, willfully, God will not stop us unless we ask Him to. As humans, we become addicted to doing what is wrong just as an alcoholic gets addicted to his drink and gets worse and worse until it eventually does him in.

Answer 10

Paul had informed the Ephesian overseers that when his going away wolflike adult adult males might enter in. (Ac 20:29) Paul prophesied that apostasy might advance and a guy of lawlessness might seem formerly this technique’s end. “apostasy” meant, between different issues, a “defection” or a “insurrection.” various translations render it as “revolt.” William Barclay’s version states: “That day can not come till the super revolt has taken place.” The Jerusalem Bible calls it “the super insurrection.” as a result, interior the context of what Paul is discussing, “apostasy” skill a insurrection against genuine worship. Verse 7 says “The secret of this lawlessness is already at artwork.” So interior the 1st century, this lawless one had began to look himself. comprehend guy or woman might desire to stay from Paul's day before. This lawless guy is a composite guy or woman: the non secular clergy of Christendom. all of them, no count if popes, priests, patriarchs, or Protestant preachers, proportion duty for the non secular sins of Christendom. they have exchanged the truths of God for pagan lies, coaching such unscriptural doctrines as immortality of the human soul, hellfire, purgatory, and Trinity. to boost themselves much greater above the person-friendly human beings, this lawless class has observed distinctive cloths. added, they have decorated themselves with each and every style of issues, crowns, crosses, and different issues that set them different than for the folk. (analyze Matthew 23:5, 6.) yet Jesus and his followers had no such clothing; they dressed as did the person-friendly human beings. The clergy have additionally taken to themselves titles which contain “Father,” “Holy Father,” “Reverend,” “maximum Reverend,” “His Excellency,” and “His Eminence,” which upload to their ‘lifting themselves over each and every person.’ yet, Jesus taught touching directly to non secular titles: “do no longer call anybody your father on earth.” (Matthew 23:9) in addition, Elihu, in rebutting interest’s hypocritical comforters, mentioned: “enable me no longer, please, coach partiality to a guy; and on an earthling guy I shall no longer bestow a call.”—interest 32:21. To such ones Jesus says: “get far flung from me, you workers of lawlessness.”—Matthew 7:21-23.