Who will accept the coming of the Antichrist?
Those who accept the coming of the Antichrist are unbelievers who heard the gospel and the truth of God's Word but rejected it, loved unrighteousness, and spurned God's offer of salvation. Because they refused the love of the truth, God sends them a strong delusion to believe the lie.
Les explains that the man of sin, the Antichrist, comes after the working of Satan with power, signs, lying wonders, and all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish—that is, the unbeliever. These are people who received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. Les emphasizes that those ready to accept the Antichrist's coming had an opportunity to hear the gospel and the truth of God's Word, but they loved their unrighteousness, rejected it, and spurned God's offer of salvation. As the tribulation begins, God deals again in the supernatural, and He sends them a strong delusion that they should believe the 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 under the Antichrist's deception?
The reason the deceived perish is that they did not receive the love of the truth so that they could be saved.