What Berardelli said is quite
true. With each discovery being made on Mars, humanity's view of reality is
being changed. Already, many people are beginning to wonder if life, long
thought to be nothing other than a cosmically rare occurrence at best by the
scientific community, may be commonplace throughout the universe.
Could a scientific
break-through rattle your faith?
If tomorrow a breaking news
story appeared on your television as you ate dinner with your family
indicating skeletal remains of a martian sea creature had been found by one
of the Mars rovers, would you be tempted to question your faith? Would you
begin to question the Creation as documented in the book of Genesis?
If the photo of the face on
Mars taken by the Viking Orbiter 1 in 1976 was revealed to be a structure
made by intelligent life, would you begin to wonder if the human race was
created by a master race of alien beings instead of by God?
What if NASA's Stardust
probe, which recently gathered a sample of the dust of a comet, lands in
2006 as planned and subsequent study of the comet's dust proves what many
non-believers theorize could be true concerning our existence - that comets
contain all the elements necessary to seed life and fly throughout the
universe doing so? Would your faith be rattled?
I can't help but ask myself,
given mankind's fascination with science and technology, whether it would be
easy for the scientific community to convince a large portion of mankind
life is a common occurrence wherever water exists in the universe, leaving
mankind to ask itself whether humanity was created by a loving God or was
instead created as the result of a cosmic collision between the ancient
earth and a comet.
Many people are going to
buy a bold lie!
The Bible tells us there will
be a generation susceptible to believing a great lie during the end times -
a lie so great many of them will buy it hook, line and sinker, although this
lie will be a total contradiction of the Word of God! Why will they believe
a lie instead of the truth? Because they will, in my opinion, view it as an
alternative to judgment.
In describing the people who
will believe the incredible lie that will come upon mankind during the
tribulation period after the Rapture of the Church has taken place, the
Bible points out their sin as being the foundation upon which the great lie
will be built.
Those who will believe the
lie that will be told to mankind will be those who received not the love of
the truth that they might be saved (2nd Thessalonians 2:10). These will be
the ones who believed not the truth as told in the Bible, but took pleasure
in their unrighteousness (2nd Thessalonians 2:12).
Who will be the author or
presenter of this great lie? Either the Antichrist himself, the confirmer of
a seven-year covenant of peace in the Middle East, or his government. We
know that as the Antichrist, referred to as Wicked in the prophetic passage
detailing the great lie to come, will have come forward onto the world
stage. We know this passage of Scripture refers to the Antichrist as the
prophetic Scripture tells us the Lord will consume him with the Spirit of
His mouth and destroy him with the brightness of His coming.
Will the Antichrist or his
government allege mankind is the product of an alien master race? Will he
allege life is universal throughout the galaxies and offer so-called
evidence to support that claim? The possibilities are endless.
Although those of you who
read this may be shaking your head as to how this could be accomplished,
it's important to remember those who will be here at the time of the
Antichrist's rise to power and subsequent reign will be present in the world
to hear his lie as a result of their lack of willingness to accept the truth
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! In other words, they'll be those who have
already been deceived by Satan! The only difference will be the lie that
will be presented to mankind in the prophetic future will be so incredibly
crafty it will be capable, if it were possible, to deceive the very elect
(Matthew 24:24).
If you're reading this and
you have never accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you need to
take heed of the words recorded in this commentary and accept Him today. If
nothing else, you need to remember what Scripture says concerning a great
lie that will be presented as fact to mankind in the future in case the
Rapture of the Church comes before you make your decision and you find
yourself left behind to endure the horrors of the tribulation period to
come!
The Rapture will someday come
and millions of believers will vanish without explanation.
2nd Thessalonians 2:7: For
the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let,
until he be taken out of the way.
The body of believers,
indwelt by the Holy Spirit, will be taken out of the way at the Rapture.
Christ calls Christians the light of the world. When the light of the world
is taken out of the way at the Rapture, what will fill its place? Darkness,
of course.
2nd Thessalonians 2:8: And
then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
The Antichrist will arrive on
the world stage, appearing with all the craftiness of Satan, flaunting his
demonic power.
2nd Thessalonians 2:9: Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders,
Those left behind to see him
will be those who rejected the Gospel, those who valued the world and their
sin over their God and salvation.
2nd Thessalonians 2:10:
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Because of this, God is going
to send a great delusion to come upon unrepentant mankind that many of them
should believe the lie to come.
2nd Thessalonians 2:11:
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie:
I don't know what the lie
prophecy tells us is going to come in the future will be, but it's going to
be one whopper of a lie! It may have something to do with alien beings. It
could possibly have something to do with our origins. It may even be some
sort of scientific evidence that supposedly proves the Gospel of Jesus
Christ is a lie. I don't know what to say it will be, but, whatever it will
be, you can bet it will be presented in a believable fashion.
There's no reason why you, me
or anyone else has to be present to hear the lie Bible prophecy tells us is
going to come upon mankind during the tribulation period. Through a
relationship with Jesus Christ based on faith in Him as our Savior, none of
us have to be in this present world to even hear the lie! The Bible paints a
clear picture of a Rapture of believers that will take place before the rise
of the Antichrist occurs. That, my friends, is no lie.
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