The Great Lie

Created: 22-Sep-2021
A Proposed Theory

Last updated: 7-Apr-2023
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1 The Great Lie 2 What the Great Lie May Be

The Great Lie

The "Lie" mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:11, is often called the Great Lie.  It is perhaps commonly known, by most serious Bible students, to be dealing with a delusion dealing with the Tribulation Period. Most Christians can correctly state that the Great Lie is the belief in something that is against God and that there is no God.

Notice the different points given to us in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12:

  1. Verse 3: Not to be "beguiled", which is deceived.
  2. Verse 3: The man of sin, which is the Antichrist, must be revealed first.
  3. Verse 4: This man of sin will try to be worshipped as God, which is the Abomination of Desolation.
  4. Verse 6: God is restraining this event from happening until the appointed time in the future.
  5. Verse 7: The mystery, which means something to be revealed, is already at work.
  6. Verse 7: God will stop restraining the evil work of the man of sin, which is the Antichrist.
  7. Verse 8: Jesus Christ, at the appointed end, will slay the man of sin with a breath of his mouth.
  8. Verse 9: The man of sin, will speak blasphemies against the true God and will deceive many by false powers.
  9. Verse 10: The false powers of the man of sin will have people believing in the man of sin having righteousness.
  10. Verse 11: God, because of the people believing in the man of sin, will be sent thoughts to further believe in the lie of the man of sin.
  11. Verse 12: The people given over to the lie, will be marked for judgment because of their belief in the man of sin. 
  12. Verse 12: After being given over to the lie, Biblical Scholars link this verse to receiving the Mark of the Beast.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until He be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

What the Great Lie May Be

The Great Lie is absolutely the deception in believing the Antichrist is god and receiving the Mark of the Beast.  Many Biblical Scholars and Christians, since reading the scriptures in the New Testament dealing with the Great Lie, have speculated many theories on how can the Antichrist deceive the Earth, besides the false powers.

Biblical Scholars have speculated the answer to this is contained in so many links in the scriptures and seeing events in the media.  There are perhaps three key areas, of many, for the Christian to consider:

  1. Psalm 2 - Earth's Leaders Oppose God
  2. Future reappearance of the Nephilim
  3. The deception in the media concerning UFOs.

The following is an excerpt from the Psalm 2 topic:

What is Psalm 2's Purpose for the Christian?

Many Biblical Scholars propose the main prophecy of Psalm 2 is dealing with:
  1. The many of the entire Earth's Leaders come together to formulate a Plan.
  2. The Plan is to oppose a Controlling Force (CF) outside of the earth, where they do not know it is God, because of the Great Lie.
  3. The Earth's Leaders believe they are capable of opposing the CF and not be under the CF's authority and bonds.
  4. God will view this Plan being thought about and taking place.
  5. God will laugh and then put all of the Earth's Leaders, along with the military/opposing forces created by the Earth's Leaders into a state of confusion.
  6. The Earth's Leaders, once they realize it is Jesus Christ they are opposing, will be in great fear and will try to hide in the earth.  This is the same as what happened to the Five Kings when losing the battle against Joshua.  The Book of Joshua is a small model of the Book of Revelation.
Isaiah 2:19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.
Joshua 10:16-18 16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

While Psalm 1 and 2 are absolutely dealing with King David's prayer, the purpose of Psalm 2's original meaning goes into a far greater meaning just like Ezekiel 28:11-19 and Isaiah 14:3-23 started with an Earthly person but was directed towards Lucifer.

There is an additional interpretation theory dealing with the future concerning Psalm 2, by some Biblical Scholars, which this author is summarizing from a few sources, along with adding some additional speculative thoughts:

  1. In order for the Earth's Leaders to be conspiring against God, then has to be dealing with the end of the Tribulation Period and the end of the 1,000 ~ Millennial Kingdom
  2. In order for the Earth's Leaders to have the thoughts of being able to oppose God, then the Earth's Leaders are being deceived by Lucifer and the Satanic Spiritual Realm into thinking CF can be conquered.
  3. If the deception is there to think a CF can be conquered, then the Earth's Leaders must be thinking that there is no god, but an unseen CF in the Universe that has control over the Earth.
  4. The question asked by many Biblical Scholars, is:
    "What or who could the Earth's Leaders think the CF power is that they are 'conquering and breaking their bonds' - Psalm 2:3?"
  5. In a few Biblical Commentaries, that this author has read/heard, the CF is often theorized as a reappearance of the Nephilim, as the meaning of the prophesied by Jesus Christ when speaking in Matthew 24:4, Matthew 24:37 and Daniel 2:43. 
    (a) See the section on the "Future Reappearance", in the Nephilim topic, for more scriptural background and interpretation. 
    (b) In the Matthew 24:37 verse, Jesus Christ is speaking about something unique from the days of Noah, that Biblical Scholars point to the more complete reason why the Great Flood occurred.
    (c) The Nephilim, according to a few Biblical Commentaries, state the Nephilim will masquerade as Extraterrestrials coming throughout history as UFOs where they represent a galactic power that is opposing another evil galactic power.  See the Nephilim topic for the correlation between Matthew 24:37 and the Nephilim.
    (d) In the Daniel 2:43 reference's full explanation, as is discussed in the Nephilim topic, the key verse part is "they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men", which means they have to be something other than the seed of men.
    (e) Also in the Daniel 2:43 reference, notice the "shall not cleave to one another", which means the mingling is temporary, which Biblical Scholars state the alliance is temporary in order for the Antichrist to get power.  Once the Antichrist has power, through Lucifer, then the first goal is to eliminate all Jews from the planet and then the last deception is to go to war against God.
    Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
    Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
    Daniel 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
  6. This author has a theory in development, which a few Biblical Scholars have speculated something similar, that there may be a potential of the future Great Lie will have a foundation created by a new agnostic type-of belief in reincarnation group (NATRG), where the NATRG already have websites, classes and groups of followers.
    (a) The NATRG state that the Earth is a prison planet of Souls, where we all are destine for never ending reincarnations, as explained in the Reincarnation Topic. 
    (b) This NATRG group could be the start of the future Great Lie.
    (c) As mentioned in #5, the Nephilim could be appearing as visitors from other worlds in the universe where thy will state that they have come to help the Earth from a great war that will be happening soon against an evil galactic entity, where the entity is really God. 

What to read next?

See: (a) Time and Time Travel, (b) Time Domains, (c) Kingdom of God, (d) Singularity and the Big Bang Theories, (e) E=mc²,  (f) Ten Dimensions of the Universe, (g) Age of the Earth, Periods that Developed Life, Heavens, (h) Evolution, (i) Great Pyramid in Bible Prophecy?