The Bible reveals that at the end of the age, the world will fall under the influence of a dreadful person called the Antichrist. And, so that no one need be surprised by his arrival, the Bible further presents a series of developments that will overwhelm society, as his rise to power draws near. One of them is apostasy - religion going bad. Another is anarchy: no law, no king, no ruler, so that society begins to come apart. But then it says:

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, That they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness," 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.

Thus the Scripture predicts that lying and delusion will characterize the end of the age. It says the same thing in other places as well. When they asked Christ what it would be like when this current age draws to its close, He said:

"For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many," Matthew 24:5.

The Apostle Paul said:

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that, in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons," 1 Timothy 4:1

So a primary component of society in the Last Days will be delusion: so many lies being passed around, that no one will be able to discern the truth. That delusion is breaking upon us even now, in the form of what we have come to call "secular humanism." The errors of this egregious philosophy are now believed by many, subverting their logic and leaving them vulnerable to the ultimate delusions of the Antichrist.

Human Knowledge Is Sufficient

We live in the day of autonomous man. We live in the day of the rise of academia. We live in a time where very sophisticated and sometimes snooty professors will say, "Trust me. I have the final word. The knowledge that I will give you, will lead you to ultimate wisdom."

Job spoke to his self-righteous friends, denouncing their superficial assessment of his problems: "wisdom shall die with you" (Job 12:2). Human knowledge is not sufficient! The idea that knowledge is the answer to our problems, is the core of an old heresy called "Gnosticism." The Gnostics were people who had knowledge. They looked down thier long noses at other people, confident that they alone possessed the ultimate stuff. That twisted idea has become so popular in our time, that it is part of the very foundation of our culture.

One of the first facts that you need to know if you would be thought knowledgeable or educated, is the fact of the limitation of knowledge. There are a lot of things that knowledge cannot tell us. Knowledge cannot tell us what love is. Knowledge cannot tell us the essential nature of a human being. We know a little. But beyond that are mysteries built on mysteries that no one yet has been able to understand.

For instance, the knowledgeable people start to tell us, "We cannot believe that the earth is the center of the universe." I talked to some of them. I said, "Do you know the extent of the universe? Where does it end?" They said, "Oh, we don't know that." Then I said, "How can you know the center of something, of which you do not know the extent? You cannot."

Yet in the world of academia these days, such unprovable pronouncements are pawned off on our young people as precious tidbits of wisdom and knowledge. Never have I seen people walk with greater confidence in the foolishness of that ancient heresy called Gnosticism. Sadly, I doubt that with all their vaunted knowledge, they even make the connection. The Bible asks the question:

"Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the dispute of this age? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?, 1 Corinthians 1:20.

The Bible does not commend human knowledge as being the answer to all things. To put one's faith in human knowledge is to live under the influence of great delusion. But people are believing it big in our time. Don't you be one of them! Don't become entangled in the trap that says there's no such thing as faith; there's no such thing as confidence in the God who stands behind it all. Remember that the Word of God gives us divine knowledge, which is infinitely more dependable than human knowledge. The Bible says, "the just shall live by faith" (Habakkuk 2:4). "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:20). A delusion of our time promoted under the aegis of secular humanism is that human knowledge is sufficient.

Autonomous Man Can Run the World Without God

Autonomous man: that means man seeing himself as being independent, in need of no supply from the outside, not wired to anything as a source of power, alone. In the lunacy of our time autonomous man envisions himself standing across the horizon of history like the Colossus of Rhodes. He calls himself superman, and he promises that he can be the master of everything.

How utterly foolish! What total delusion! Every psychiatric clinic, every lost opportunity, every cemetary, every false statement is a demonstration that the human mind is neither perfect nor eternal. Mankind is characterized by imperfection and mistakes on every hand. If people do not recognize this, they will be killed by the very mistakes that they choose to ignore.

What should a person trust in, in the last analysis? He should trust in God. He should trust in the purpose of Jesus Christ. If he says he trusts in his own mind, and insists that his mind can become the master of everything, you are watching a person wo is already quite delusionary.

But alas, how much has happened in our time. This last fabulous century, this last 100 year period in which man has professed himself to be so smart and so enlightened, has seen more wars and more degeneracy and more reprobation that any before it. Modern times may look good on the surface, but beneath it, we are living in the worst world that ever was.

Fifty thousand people die every year on various battlefields, despite the fact that in 1917 we fought the "war to end all wars." We've said that we can do away with every kind of disease, and another 50,000 die of the AIDS epidemic every year in the United States alone. Already, over 1/4 of the million homosexual young men have died of this dreadful disease, because no one knows what to do about it. We pretend to be sufficient as autonomous man, but things get out of hand so very quickly. I implore you to heed the command of Scripture, when it says:

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths," Proverbs 3:5-6

What is the beginning of wisdom? What is it that makes a person capable of doing significant things? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. If someone doesn't believe that, he will begin to believe the lie of human autonomy.

Human knowledge is not all-sufficient. It is relative to the perfect knowledge, which is the knowledge of God. One of the dangerous delusions of the Last Days, going so strong in our time, is that human knowledge is sufficient, and autonomous man can run the world without God.

All Religions Do Not Essentially Differ

Closely touching these negative assertions, these lies, is the incredible allegation that all religions do not essentially differ. I've been amazed to hear statements such as came from Nikolai Lenin, who was involved in the conspiracy called Communism that murdered 60 million people in the Soviet Union. Lenin said the religion was the opiate of the people. In other words, he said religion was something that was invented by man, in order to beguile people to be in subjection to the great religious state.

So Communism built itself into a religion that murdered people if they didn't believe it. It did so by preaching the doctrine of human knowledge, and then asserting that the world can be run without God managing things.

The intellectual today says, "It doesn't matter what religion you believe." If he is a little bit positive, he adds, "Just so you believe it sincerely." But usually, he says, "All religions are a pack of lies, and therefore it doesn't matter, because there is no substance in any of them whatsoever."

Well, surprisingly I almost agree with that. I almost agree that most religions of the world are a pack of lies, and it doesn't matter what you believe. But let me tell you something. It is not a lie to assert that God made the world. It is not a lie to announce that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. It is not a lie to say that He came into this world to die for our sins according to the Scriptures. It is not a lie to hold up a Bible and announce that:

". . .all flesh is like grass, and all the glory of man like the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and its flower falleth away, But the word of the Lord endureth forever. . .," 1 Peter 1:24-25.

So all the religions of the world are not all the same. Here is one, historic Christianity, the announcement that Christ is the Son of God, which is the true revelation of God, and not the concoction of man. That is what stands in a world like this. And I wish that everyone of us would see the clear, beautiful, sunlit assertion of the reality of Jesus Christ, as apposed to all of the other human, pagan religions of the world. The idea that religions are all alike and do not essentially differ is a delusion that should not be pursued by anyone.

Delusion is a far more serious thing than many people are willing to admit. It doesn't mean that the mind is confused. It means that the mind is committed addictively to a principle that is wrong, and you cannot deter that mind from believing the implications of that principle. A person who becomes addicted to a delusion will ultimately die of that addiction, and it happens every day in this enlightened land of ours

That is why the Bible is giving us a serious warning when it talks about the emergence of the Antichrist and says:

". . .because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, That they all might be judged who believeth not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness," 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12.

Christ Has Not Come in the Flesh to Save Us

To believe that which is false is to put oneself in very serious danger. There is a very high level of falsity going on in our world today. We've already considered a number of these delusions of the last days, but there is another which must be loudly and energetically disputed. It is the one that says Christ has not come in the flesh to save us.

Now we've put that in very seriously, because it is a very malignant delusion that arose in the early Church, and it threatened to quench the light of the Gospel. Amazingly, it is spreading again through the Church of our time. Christianity began with the death, burial, and ressurection of Christ. Then the disciples and the apostles went out to preach the Gospel, and many people were saved. The Church began to grow, multiplying itself across the world.

As it grew, people began to ask, "What do we believe?" They came up with a lot of ideas that were true, but they came up with many that were soon to be condemned as heresy. One of them, probably the best known one, became the umbrella under which the rest of the heresies began to grow. That was the idea of "Gnosticism" - salvation by intellectualism, which we have already discussed. These so called intellectuals believed the wrong thing about God, and about Christ, and about the purpose of life.

But then there grew up under the idea of Gnosticism, some specific heresies. One of them was Docetism. This is the idea that Jesus Christ was God, but that He only seemed to have a human body, and was therefore not truly a man. They had a hard time with the idea that God could make Himself incarnate in the form of human flesh.

Then they had another heresy called Arianism. The Arians believed that Jesus Christ was more than a man, but was still a created being who was not truly God. The effect of these early heresies was to deny that the eternal God has come in the flesh to save man and give him everlasting life. In the devil's providence, these heresies were organized by Satan to prevent people from coming to know Christ and having everlasting life. The early Church was shot through with these early heresies. Parenthetically, they began to write to Rome to get the answer. Rome then became the heresy hunter, and took unto itself the authority to judge what was good and what was bad. Finally, seduced by its lust for power and influence, Rome itself became terribly heretical.

About this matter of Christ coming in the flesh, denied by the Arians, denied by the Docetists, certainly denied by the Gnostics, listen to what the Bible says. This is one of the most careful theological verses in the entire New Testament:

"Beloved, believeth not every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world," 1 John 4:1-3

How about that? The spirit of antichrist is now in the world. One day it will coalesce in the form of that dreadful person who will aspire to rule the world. But that spirit is in the world today. And what form does it take? It takes the denial of the essential Deity and humanity of Jesus Christ. A person who says, "Jesus Christ is not the Son of God," is expressing the spirit of antichrist. The person who says, "Jesus Christ was not truly human, and therefore cannot save us," is mouthing the spirit of antichrist. That was the case already in the early Church. It will be the case as we move toward the consummation of history, so much so, that we will not have only the spirit of the antichrist, but Antichrist himself. Therefore, a word of admonition needs to be lifted. The Scripture says:

"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip," Hebrews 2:1.

That is the truth of Scripture. You ought to take the time every day to study your Bible. You ought to take the time every day to ask, "Is this message that I just heard from Rev. so and so, consistent with what the Bible teaches concerning the truth of Jesus Christ?" We must be thoughtful about this, because it will be the concerted attempt of the Antichrist to deny the truth of Jesus Christ, thus cutting off the message of salvation so there would no longer be in the world:

". . .hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began," Titus 1:2.

Remember, then, that you are doing something very serious when you affirm that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He is the Savior of the world.

Jesus is more than just your good friend. He's more than gentle Jesus, meek and mild. He is the Paschal Lamb, who gave Himself for the sacrifice that produced forgiven sins. Believe in Him, in Him alone, with the total passion of your life, and you'll avoid some of the dreadful delusions going on in our time.

There are a lot people in today's world who look at the surroundings of life and say, "It's a wonderful world. We can believe people; we can trust one another. We have little problems now and then, but these can be overcome, as we learn some new things and we can just depend upon the fact that utopia is coming upon us."

This is very interesting, but the only trouble is, it's not true. In fact, it's consistent with the warning that the Apostle Paul gave the world way back in the days of the early Church. He talked to the church at Thessalonica in most earnest fashion, and he told them, "You are going to be the custodians of the truth that there's going to come a great world ruler. He'll produce a world government, and a world religion, and a lot of other things. And when he does, one thing that will characterize the world is delusion."

Many people benignly will believe in the Antichrist, willing to follow him, wanting to be a part of his kingdon. For this cause, because people have forsaken the love of the truth, Paul says:

". . .God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, That they all shall be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness," 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.

I've taken the time to think about some of the delusions going on in our time, which certainly correspond with the warning of the Apostle Paul. And I think that what Paul had to say, about believing the truth and not believing error, needs to be said to the Church of our time as emphatically, and maybe more so, as was the case in that day.

World Peace Can Be Created by Negotiation

First of all, one of the utopian dreams going on in our time is the notion that world peace can be created by negotiation.

I suppose nothing is being spoken of much more in our time than how to have the key to peace, so that we won't have the problem of thousands being killed, and maybe millions dying. And so, peace conferences have been held over the course of this last century and are continuing today. I suppose it can be said that two of the most common activities have been peace conferences and war. To this very day, people think that they can talk together and come to an agreement: a racial agreement, a financial agreement, a political agreement, an agreement where one nation takes over another, and then we will have peace.

I've been greatly amused and greatly saddened during my lifetime to see the many attempts at world peace that simply do not come to pass. In fact, I've come to the conclusion that peace conferences do not prevent war. They cause war. And they make war more terrible when it actually comes to pass.

Well, "How can we have peace in the world?" people ask. Can we put together something so that we can have a more dependable future? The answer to that question, is that we will never have peace in this world. The Bible teaches:

"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet," Matthew 24:6.

It was very common for Christ to finish His messages in all the Gospels and say "wars, rumors of wars, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, and the rest of it - these will characterize the world as we move to the end of the age." How then will we have peace? We will not. Rather, we should learn to witness in the midst of a troubled world, about the hope of eternal life, about the reality of Heaven. We cannot remake this world into a peaceful place, so long as it is inhabited by unregenerate man. Why? The Bible explains:

"From where come wars and fightings among you? Come they not here, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and ye have not; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask remiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts," James 4:1-3.

So, in the midst of an attitude in mind and heart like that, forget it. Peace will be impossible. However, as we know, the Bible offers "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Philippians 4:7). It offers peace with God, when we come to know Christ as personal Savior. But the world will probably not effectively pursue this as long as it believes that you can have peace through negotiations. It's not going to happen. It's one of the great delusions of our time.

Nationalism Is Bad; Internationalism Is Good

Very close to that is another delusion that says, nationalism is bad, whereas internationalism is good. The fact is, it's just the opposite. We have a spirit going in our time of internationalism: let's put together the nations of the world. Let's have a new world order. Let's put together a new understanding of how states relate to one another. And so here, and in otherplaces, people gather together and organize movements for world understanding.

I'm on the mailing list of a couple of these people, and I've been astonished at the promises that they make, about how if nations will relax their hold on their individual characteristics, leave those differences behind, and merge together with other nations of the world, finally to make one great strong wonderful world government, that will be the key to peace.

You know, they tried that once in the world. Back in the days of the building of the Tower of Babel, they said, "We're going to have world peace. We'll have a world order without God; and we'll have a religion without the Lord." That's what they tried for a short time, and then God interrupted it with a smashing new confusion. The people tried to communicate with one another, and they couldn't do it, and so the whole thing came apart and went down the drain.

Well, that was God telling the world that internationalism was not His will. God is against internationalism in political things. Internationalism in the preaching of the Gospel - that's His will. An international community of nations will be assembled successfully. When it does happen, it will be the rise of Antichrist.

Uniformity Is the Will of God

I was talking to a group of perceptive people one day, and we were thinking of various Christian organizations that are doing their thing across the world, and thinking of the Church itself. The Question came up, "Don't we need some new organization that will do what these orgaizations are not doing?" There were contributions made by people around the table, thoughts on one thing or another, and they asked me, What do you think? What kind of a new organization do we need to get the job done?"

I said that the Church does not need to be further organized. In fact, it needs to be atomized. There is a call to unity based on organizational contacts between one and another, that is inhibiting the work of God across the world. The work of God is to be carried on first by consecrated individuals who are individual conversationalists for Christ, individuals who are responsible.

But there is what is called "anti-individualism" going on in the Church of our time. There's a well-known magazine that recently publshed an article about the sin of individualism. I believe the opposite. An individual is a beautiful thing, the only entity made in the image of God, conducting his life forcefully for Christ.

Let's put it candidly, shall we? All men are creted different fron one another. I don't know two people who are equal. If all men were created equal, then every football game should end with a tie score. Every weightlifting contest should be precisely the same between people. No two people are equal. No two heads of hair; no two leaves on any tree in the world; no two anything. The Spirit of God manifests Himself in diversity, never uniformity.

"Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit," 1 Corinthians 12:4.

It is my belief that even within the Church, that belief that uniformity is the will of God, is a great inhibition to the going of God in the world today.

Remember that word "diversity." God has uniquely endowed you with capability which, if you will pursue it - "stir up the gift of God, which is in thee" (2 Timothy 1:6) - possibilites are very wonderful.

I would like to inveigh against that doctrine of uniformity, both in the Church, and in the world. The world will continue to bankrupt itself, which is what the United States is doing now, attempting to make everything uniform. In so doing, it turns excellence into mediocrity and denies the sparkling and unique qualities of the individual. Let not the Church get into such a program. But rather, let the Church encourage every individual to pursue the will of God for his life, rather than join some group and everybody be exactly the same height, and the same color hair, and the same set of eyes, and of course, the same set of killing frustrations which will get them nowhere.

Diversity is the name of the game. It is a delusion to assert the will of God. The call for uniformity will be one of the great tools of the Antichrist. He will use it in his attempt to stamp out the image of God. There's no place in creation where uniformity is the case, and there's no place, in my judgment, that it will ever be proved.

Money Can Solve All Problems

The idea that money will solve every problem springs from a delusion called economic determinism. The biggest and most notable place where the idea of economic determinism was totally preached across the world was in the Svoiet Union. Communist doctrine said that everybody was alike and should be alike economically, and the reason that this isn't the case is that the bourgeoisie has stolen the means of production, and taken it away from the proletariat. So the proletariat has money that is rightfully theirs stolen from them by the bourgeoisie, and they are tramped down in the muck and mire, and until we get the money, we will never solve the problems. That doctrine of economic determinism - you are what you are because of your economic environment - has pervaded the world.

What happened in Russia because of that doctrine? The answer is, terrible days came to pass. One of the most fearful sessions of slaughter in the world was the session of the Communists in Russia, where for 80 years they killed anybody on a moment's notice who did not believe their terrible Communist doctrine. They believed that money will solve it all, and as a result they are still in hopeless bankruptcy.

If we think in the United States that money, given by the Federal Government, or by anyone else, in return for doing nothing, will solve the problems in the life of the individual, or in the life of the culture, we are sadly mistaken. About this matter of money being the solution to everything, Christ said something very interesting to us, did He not? He said:

". . .Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth," Luke 12:15.

There's many a wealthy family that rues the day that they ever had any money, because one of the sons is an alcoholic. Another is already dead from an overdose of drugs. Another had a car crash, from which he may not recover. Indulgence in these things might not ever have been possible, if they did not have the money to pay for the indulgences that ultimately killed them. Too much money is very destructive, because one of the great inhibitions to iniquity is poverty. Poverty can therefore be a very good thing, in the life of many peoole, because if they had money, it would produce ruin in their lives, and that of course is what we don't want.

What is real value? Value is competence. Value is knowing Christ. Value is being stimulated by God to accomplishment. Value is developing a sense of responsibility without which he will never be able to handle money anymore.

The World Will Go On Forever

Finally, let's notice that one of the really big delusions going on in our time is the idea that the world will go on forever. That's a view that has a scientific name to it: the uniformity of nature. Notice again the use of the word "uniformity!" The uniformity of nature, taught in many a quasi-science class in the universities today, says, "Nature has always been, and nature will go on forever. The world has always been; the world will go on forever."

The people who hold this view are very fond of quoting things like, "We found some fossilized germs inside a rock the other day, and that rock was 3 billion years old. Therefore, the world's been around for billions of years before that, and we can assume it will go on forever."

How do they know that rock is 3 billion years old? You don't know the age of anything at God's creation; you were not present. How do they know that those things inside that rock are fossilized germs? That sounds like a pretty unknowable situation to me. And how do they know that this came from Mars, anyway? "The wind came and blew it off of Mars, and it landed on earth" - come on, what do they take us for? They are talking about a trillion to one chance, and really there is no way to be sure.

Those who believe in the uniformity of nature will go to any length to deify nature and put man down. They say that man is just an accidental visitor to this world, who soon will be gone, but nature goes on forever. I'm sorry; this is not true. Man will go on forever. Nature will be done away with.

". . .the earth also, and the works that are in it, shall be burned up," 2 Peter 3:10.

"And the world passeth away, and the lust of it; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever," 1 John 2:17.

Trees and plants and flowers, the world, as wonderful as it is today, should be cared for and respected. But God says that one day He's going to roll it up like a scroll. It will be folded up like an old coat, and thrown away. Nature, then, will have served its purpose. Its purpose was not to be eternal, but to be the temporary backdrop for the life of man.

What is man's ultimate destiny? Natue doesn't have an ultimate destiny, but man's ultimate destiny is to one day be home with God in Heaven, that eternal dwelling place.

So, this is a very good time to press a reminder upon every one of us. It is so easy to be beguiled by the beauties of nature. It is so easy to tell ourselves, "I'm just a passing thing, but nature is eternal." You are eternal but nature is not. God has put us in this world of nature, first of all, to receive the God of nature, Jesus Christ, as our personal Savior. Then we are to use the world, but not abuse it, so that this world can be a useful instrument for God to communicate Himself to others, with our help perhaps, so that people will come to know Christ as their personal Savior.

But one day, the battle will be over. It will be done. Natue will be gone, and God will say, "Come up higher." He will take us up to super-nature, to our home on high, into the place where He lives. What a day that will be!

Therefore, may I suggest that you not fail to say that wonderful "Yes" to Jesus Christ, and believe the Gospel. Do not buy into the delusion of the eternity of matter, the infinite effectiveness of money, the things of this world being able to satisfy. They will all pass away very quickly. But in the midst of them, you are invited to become a Christian.

Fianlly, I have two recommendatons: one, be sure that you know Christ as your very own. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31), and you'll have the God who made the world as your personal Savior. Secondly, in the midst of this world, God leaves us here, in the vicissitudes of nature, in order that we should be a testimony for Jesus Christ. The delusion that we are here in this world to be fulfilled and satisfied and simply live lives of indulgence and pure enjoyment is not true. The truth is that we live on a battleground in which we are to be gladiators for Jesus Christ. Be one of those, won't you?

"I beseech you therefore, brethen, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," Romans 12:1-2

Come to know Christ, and then commit yourself to Him. I pray that you will.

Exchange Your Delusions for Ultimate Truth!

One day, God will do away with nature. It will be all gone. But in the meantime, He offers to every person alive the opportunity to know Christ. Have you accepted Him, and trusted Him as your personal Savior? If not, you can do it today. Today, you can be saved. Today, Christ will come and live within your life, if you will trust Him as your very own. You may want to pray this prayer, inviting Christ into your life and asking Him for the assurance of salvation. Won't you do it?

"Heavenly Father, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that Christ died for my sins on the cross and rose again to give me eternal life. Just now, I want to trust Him as my very own. Please come to live within my heart, and give me the assurance of salvation, I pray in Jesus' Name, Amen."

If you prayed that prayer and meant it, you are now a child of God. You have the promise of God's Holy Spirit indwelling you, and you will not fall prey to the delusions that are sweeping the world in these Last Days.