Barbara Roberts

The mystery of iniquity and the strong delusion are biblical terms

“For the mystery of that iniquity does he already work, which only locks until it is taken out of the way.” (2 Thessalonians 2:7)

How can we understand this? I do not know. But I know it is something to deeply ponder.

Let us read it in context. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-17 (link) —

Let no man deceive you by any means. For the Lord comes not unless there come a departing first and that sinful man be revealed – the son of perdition, who is an adversary, and is exalted above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he shall sit as God in the temple of God and show himself as God.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholds, so that he may be manifest at his time. For the mystery of that iniquity does he already work, which only locks until it is taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be exposed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the appearance of his coming – namely him whose coming is by the working of Satan, with all lying power, signs, and wonders, and in all the deceptiveness of unrighteousness among those who are perishing. They perish because they would not receive the love of the truth, so that they might have been saved. And therefore God will send them strong delusion, so that they will believe lies; so that all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you for salvation, through sanctifying by the Spirit and through believing the truth, to which he called you by our gospel, to obtain the glory that comes of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast. And keep the ordinances that you have been taught, whether it was by our preaching or by epistle.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in all doctrine and good-doing.

Now I will repeat verses 3-12, showing some words in bold.

³Let no man deceive you by any means. For the Lord comes not unless there come a departing first and that sinful man be revealed – the son of perdition, ⁴who is an adversary, and is exalted above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he shall sit as God in the temple of God and show himself as God.

And now you know what withholds, so that he may be manifest at his time. ⁷For the mystery of that iniquity does he already work, which only locks until it is taken out of the way. ⁸And then shall that wicked one be exposed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and will destroy with the appearance of his coming – ⁹namely him whose coming is by the working of Satan, with all lying power, signs, and wonders, ¹⁰and in all the deceptiveness of unrighteousness among those who are perishing. They perish because they would not receive the love of the truth, so that they might have been saved. ¹¹And therefore God will send them strong delusion, so that they will believe lies; ¹²so that all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The strong delusion

Notice this: the one who sends the strong delusion is God (verse 11). God allows and ordains that all who will not receive the love of the truth will be strongly deluded by the deceptions of the evil one.

The evil and deception that is in this world is beyond the understanding of any one of us as individual human beings.

Each of us as individual human beings, and all of us collectively, cannot comprehend or plumb the depth of evil in this world.

It would be hubris to think that as mere human beings we can discern all the deceptions of the evil one. While I urge each and every one of us to strive to discern and see through the deception, we as human beings cannot solve the problem of evil. But God understands. God is across it all. And God offers us a way out. He came into this world as a man and bore in his own flesh the punishment for all evildoing. He did this out of love.

God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked

“God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” (Exekiel 18:23, click here to read it in context)

“No one who believes in him [Jesus] will perish, but will have eternal life. For God so loves the world, that he has given his only Son, so that none who believe in him should perish, but should have everlasting life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world through him could be saved. Whoever believes on him shall not be condemned. But whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he does not believe in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the condemnation: that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:15-19, click here to read it in context)

Jesus said: “Heaven and earth shall perish, but my words will abide.” (Matthew 24:35)

“The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some count slackness, but is patient toward us, and would have no one lost, but would receive all to repentance. Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which day the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth with the works that are in it shall burn.
If all these things will perish, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy living and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire and the elements shall be consumed with heat? Nevertheless, we look for a new heaven and a new earth according to his promise, wherein righteousness dwells.” (2 Peter 3:9-13)

Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give to them eternal life. And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father who gave them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to take them out of my Father’s hand.” (John 10:27-29)

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Bible versions used in this post

New Testament: William Tyndale’s translation gently updated in the New Matthew Bible (NMB). Old Testament: Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Jesus can take the sting out

My thoughts on Q

I’m using this video as my departure point — Q: The Plan to Save the world.

Q has done good by helping people expand their thinking. Q’s diagnosis of the problem is okay up to a point, but it doesn’t get to the root.

When there are faults or shortfalls in a diagnosis, the treatment plan will probably be inadequate. The treatment may mitigate some of the problem and reduce some of the suffering, but it won’t eradicate the problem and bring complete healing.

That video about Q says: “We realise that the problem was never capitalism or socialism, democrat or republican, black or white, muslim or Christian. We know it was just very powerful criminals who have too much power.”

It’s a faulty diagnosis because

it falls short
it implies that all religions are equally true
it casts the elite criminals as the enemy: “the greatest force of evil the world has ever known”.

Yes, there ARE very wealthy elite criminals who for generations have been enemies of ordinary people.

But the Bible says the real enemy, the one at the top of the hierarchy, is Satan: the fallen angel Lucifer.

The Bible refers to Satan as the adversary, the father of lies, the evil one. Satan is a spiritual being created by God. He is NOT as powerful as God. He is destined for the lake of fire.

The angel Lucifer rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven. He controls a hierarchy of fallen angels (aka demons) who fell with him when he was cast out.

Satan controls human beings who have given their souls to him. He also influences every human being in this world, some more than others. He does his best to blind, confuse and mislead us. And harm us.

Some human beings have been systematically tortured to make them into mind-controlled slaves for the use of the elite criminals. This is done by Trauma Based Mind Control (TBMC). The CIA’s MK-Ultra program is a form of trauma based mind control.

It appears that the elite criminals have given their souls to Satan. They are what the Bible calls reprobate.

I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that henceforth you must not walk like other Gentiles walk, in vanity of their mind, blinded in their understanding, being alienated from the life that is in God, through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their hearts; who, being past repentance, have given themselves over to wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness, even with greediness.
Ephesians 4:17-19

Past repentance = reprobate. Here are some reprobates in the Bible: Judas, Esau, Pharaoh, the priest Eli and his sons Hophni and Phineas.

But has every MK-Ultra slave chosen to give his or her soul to Satan? To what degree has each of those slaves had a choice? Moot point.

‘Bounded choice’ refers to having a range of choices but all of the options are dangerous and will produce harm: harm to others or harm to yourself or both.

Luciferian bounded choice: Commit crimes at the behest of those who have power over you, or refuse to commit the crimes and get tortured.

Another example of bounded choice: Refuse to hurt or kill a child, and other people will hurt and kill the child…they will make sure the child suffers more pain and fear than if you had done the crimes to the child.

Factor in the dissociation that comes from Trauma Based Mind Control. Dissociated parts (alters) may or may not remember what other parts of the person have done.

Some victims of Trauma Based Mind Control have come to faith in Jesus Christ. This is the work of God. To set free the captives.

I am well aware that the institutional churches have been infiltrated by evildoers. Many or most or all institutions that call themselves churches have been deep captured by the cartel. (If you want to know what I mean by ‘deep capture’ watch Dr Katherine Horton’s video series System Analysis Basics.)

I follow the Bible. I do not have much respect for the institutional churches. I distrust many church leaders. I know that some church leaders are psychopaths and many others are blind to the presence of the wolves among them.

That video about Q says we have always accepted the turmoil and suffering in the world as “just human nature, and simply the way the world works, something inevitable, and due to the weaknesses of human nature that drives human actions.” It oversimplifies the problem and flatters us by saying: “We are not criminals. It is not in our nature to fight and be racist. It is not in our nature to rob from others.”

In contrast, the Bible says that ever since the Fall every human being (other than Jesus) has been born with a sin nature—a bias towards doing the wrong thing.

We may not all have committed crimes. But we have all sinned.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) Click here to read it in context.

The Bible says that the natural human is spiritually dead and under the wrath of God; but God has provided a remedy: salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.

There is no salvation for Satan and the demons. There IS salvation for all human beings who repent and believe by faith in Jesus.

If you want to know more about salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, click here. And here.

If you want to know more about how Jesus can heal the broken hearted, click here.

Jesus will come again to judge the world. He will pour out His wrath on the evildoers. “Vengeance is mine, says the Lord.” (Romans 12:19)

Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life.

Donald Trump and his allies may be able to partly put the brakes on some elite criminals and get some of them jailed. But the Pentagon and Donald Trump are not the Messiah.

What is the likelihood that at least some of the senior people in the Pentagon are psychopaths? Maybe they are not part of the elite cabal, but systems analysis tells us that psychopaths often rise to the top in large organisations. (see System Analysis Basics)

Can we really believe that there are no psychopaths in high positions in US Military Intelligence? Or in any military organisation?

Power corrupts. Human beings who possess power tend to become corrupt. Large organisations become corrupt because psychopaths work their way to the top of the organisation.

Power corrupts your perception of the truth and your sense of right and wrong so you lose your compass.

Jeffrey Epstein was in prison when he died or was disappeared. No prison officers have been sacked for dereliction of duty. The head of that prison ought to have been fired. So far as I am aware, Trump and Attorney General Barr haven’t done anything to prosecute the people who are responsible for Epstein’s death or disappearance.

Does Q ever point to let alone honour the real victims who have been trying to expose child sex trafficking for years?

Jesus can take the sting out

To know about the depths of evil can be overwhelming. When I hear victims testify about the horrible things that the Luciferians did to them, I have sometimes felt overwhelmed.

You may know that I am a born again Christian. I know Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. I did not in any way seek for Jesus. I hated Jesus. I thought Christianity was a load of bollocks. But God revealed to me the truth that Jesus is God and He loves me.

It took me quite a while to recalibrate after I met Jesus.

When I feel overwhelmed by hearing accounts of what the evildoers (especially the Luciferians) do to their victims, I ask Jesus to take the sting out.

I pray to Jesus. Knowing Him as my Lord and Saviour, I utter in spoken words or say in my mind:

“Dear Lord – my mind, my heart, my soul cannot bear this stuff. I don’t want to block out this stuff by going into amnesia. I want to remember the facts of it, but my mind can’t bear the pain and horror. You know the pain and horror. You bore it all on the Cross. Please take the sting out so my mind can remember the facts without my heart being whited-out by the abominations that evildoers do.”

My human frail mind cannot bear the sting: it is too overwhelming to think with my heart and soul, empathetically, with and for the victims of these evildoers.

But Jesus can and has borne the sting—He bore it on the Cross. He willingly suffered the wrath of God for all sins that human beings have and will ever commit.

He can and He does take away the sting so that I can remember and think about the evil without being overwhelmed by it.

This is my experience. This is my testimony.

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