And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
Do you understand what THE LIE is?
Context here-
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 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.
2Th 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:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 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.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
believed not. i.e. because they refused to believe it; the negative, mē, used here, expresses more than the fact that they did not believe the truth; what exposed them to this judgment was their refusal to believe it (Hogg & Vine, p. 268). 2Th_1:8, Mat_13:19, *Joh_3:18, Rom_2:8, Heb_3:19; Heb_4:2; %*Heb_10:39, 2Pe_3:5.
G5579
Total Occurrences: 9
ψεύδει pseúdei (2) N-DSN
a lie Rom_1:25, 2Th_2:11
ψεῦδος pseûdos (2) N-NSN
lie 1Jn_2:21, 1Jn_2:27
ψεῦδος pseûdos (4) N-ASN
a lie Joh_8:44, Rev_21:27, Rev_22:15
lying Eph_4:25
ψεύδους pseúdous (1) N-GSN
lying 2Th_2:9
English to Strong’s
lie G2621, G2749, G5574, G5579, G5582
lying G245, G906, G1747, G1968, G2749, G5579
pseudos G5579 [lie, falsehood]
pseudomai G5574 [to lie],
pseudés G5571 [false],
pseusma G5582 [lie, falsehood],
pseustés G5583 [liar],
apseudés G893 [true],
apseustos [truthful]
Paul.
a. Paul uses pseudomai negatively as a catchword in the solemn affirmation of Rom_9:1. The parallel references to Christ, conscience, and the Holy Spirit give the protestation its force. In Rom_1:25 humanity sins by exchanging the truth of God for a lie; it is through humanity itself that sin gains entry (5:12). When God's truth is manifested, all people are shown to be liars (3:4). To see the character of God's work as grace and irrevocable word is to perceive the self-evident absurdity of the objection of v.3.
b. In Tit_1:2 God never lies. Deceptive signs and wonders, however, accompany antichrist (2Th_2:9; 2Th_2:11). The group also occurs in the exhortation of Col_3:9 and various admonitions in Eph_4:25; 1Ti_1:9-10 (cf. Jas_3:14).
3. John.
a. Truth is a leading concept in John, but an antithesis comes only with Joh_8:44-45, where falsehood has a personal representative, who again has children. Lying here is an active contesting of the truth, i.e., unbelief. On the one side we have God and Christ, on the other the father of lies and Christ's opponents. Murderer and liar go together (as do truth and life) in 14:6.
b. God is light, and hence we should do the truth in fellowship (1Jn_1:6; 1Jn_2:4; 1Jn_4:20). Lying denies the confession (2:21-22). The liar manifests antichrist. Confession includes admission of sin; refusing to admit it is the same as opposing God's truth and thus treating God as a liar (1:10; 5:10).
c. Revelation attacks those who falsely claim to be Jews (3:9) and also false prophets (2:2). The 144,000 do not lie (14:5), and lying receives emphasis as the last of the things excluded from the eschatological city (21:27; cf. 22:14-15).
And for this reason God sendeth them (kai dia touto pempei autois ho theos).
Futuristic (prophetic) present of the time when the lawless one is revealed.
Here is the definite judicial act of God (Milligan) who gives the wicked over to the evil which they have deliberately chosen (Rom_1:24, Rom_1:26, Rom_1:28).
A working of error (energeian planēs). Terrible result of wilful rejection of the truth of God.
That they should believe a lie (eis to pisteusai autous tōi pseudei). Note eis to again and tōi pseudei (the lie, the falsehood already described), a contemplated result. Note Rom_1:25 “who changed the truth of God into the lie.”
Robertson.
J.