QUOTE="Base12, post: 980350, member: 8477"]The 'Strong Delusion' is defined and clarified in this verse...
Isaiah 66:4
"I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;..."
Thus, the Strong Delusion that will come is basically folks having their worst nightmare manifest and come to life. Whatever someone fears the most, that is what they will experience. Sounds utterly horrible!
I believe that same Strong Delusion is what Torments will be like for the Unsaved in Hell.
Here is the reason why God will send it...
"...because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not."[/QUOTE]
Good post. The Word is GOD. Isaiah prophesied as you quoted, and is combined with 2 Thessalonians 2:v.8-12 and Matthews 24:v.15 to 25:
2 Thessalonians 2:v.8-12:
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:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs 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 DAMNED who believed not the Truth - believed not in JESUS -, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Matthew 24:v. 15 to 25
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand).
THE PRIOR ADVICE OF OUR LORD
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
ABOUT STRONG PUNISHMENT
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
TIME OF GREAT DANGER EVEN FOR THE ELECTS - THE FALSE CHRIST
23 Then if any man -Pastors, and Bishops, or Evangelists, Missionaries, among others - shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets -FALSE PREACHERS OF THE WORD OF GOD-2 Corinthians 11:v.13-15, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive (even) the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
In Christ JESUS, KING of kings (kings made by Him), and LORD of lords