The Antichrist

What is this world coming to? When you read reports in the news, or you try to watch the evening news, you have to wonder. What is this world coming to? Disasters, destruction, depression and despair serve as the backdrop for the events on the world stage. Perhaps you have grown disenchanted with life itself. You might be looking on your life, your career, your marriage, your daily routine through the dark lens of despair. Our text today helps us to understand these events and these feelings. At the heart of this despair is deception. Passages such as Jeremiah 17:9, James 1:22, and Galatians 6:7 warn us about the self-deceiving hearts of human beings. So it is that in verse 10 of today’s text, we find the words “deceivableness of unrighteousness,” referring to the deception of those who are lost. And like a red flashing light, the words “the mystery of iniquity is already at work” (verse 7) should warn us today.