In Light of My "Foreboding" Comment

There is a, "delight[] in wickedness," in America today, unlike any before this generation.  It is a cankerworm, a devouring, spreading disease in the press and the American Public.  The "public" acceptance of, "wickedness," began in an unprecedented way in Bill Clinton and has been maturing in Barack Obama.  How far this disease has "spread" and metastasized in the US will be revealed in the days ahead.
 

There is a "literalness" within the following passage which I see in this hour in the United States of America, including Christendom.

From 2 Thessalonians 2. 

1. "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 (lit.,'no law') 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.... 

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 ('no law') 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 refuse 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.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Hebrews 12:2

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