Why do people perish according to 2 Thessalonians 2?
People perish because they received not the love of the truth—the love of Christ—that they might be saved. Having rejected salvation, God sends them a strong delusion, taking away their ability to comprehend truth, so they believe the lie.
Les explains that in 2 Thessalonians 2:9, Paul describes the Antichrist, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders. At the heart of deceit is a lie. These people perish because they received not the love of the truth—or the love of Christ—that they might be saved. Because they rejected salvation, God shall send them a strong delusion; He takes away their ability to comprehend truth, and they believe the lie. That is what sets the tribulation in motion, as the world again believes the lie of the Father of all lies. By contrast, Paul says he did not come with deceivableness or the power of a lie.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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Why do people perish in the tribulation?
Those who perish do so because they did not receive the love of the truth, which would have saved them.