Page 5 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

history that surround the founding of the United States, as well as revealing the policy of propaganda
that is carried forth by the cooperative efforts of the government and media. The title of the book is
taken from the following verses in the book of Revelation.

Revelation 12:15-16
And the serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause
her to be swept away with the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its
mouth and drank up the river which the dragon poured out of his mouth.

Satan is the dragon, the winged serpent of the Bible. What is it that comes out of the mouth? Words.
Being communicated through the symbolic speech of the book of Revelation is that Satan will use
a flood of deception to sweep away the woman, the church of Christ. Seeing that God has seen fit
to warn His sons and daughters that this will be the tactic of the adversary in the last days, should
not the people of God make it a priority to exercise discernment in all things? Should they not
develop their sense of discretion, testing and examining everything with the utmost care and
attention? Yet we see just the opposite occurring in this hour. The church is abandoning all
judgment. By doing so they are making themselves extremely vulnerable to the damning and
destructive deceptions of Satan.

The Bible foretells of experiences at the end of this age when “if possible, even the elect” will be
misled by the astonishing signs and wonders that will be revealed in these days (Matthew 24:24,
Mark 13:22). Brothers and sisters, is not the church anticipating that “the coming of the lawless one,”
the one the Bible identifies as the antichrist, is near at hand? Consider then the manner in which the
Holy Spirit has told us the appearing of this lawless one will manifest.

II Thessalonians 2:9-12
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying
wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive
the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 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.

Let us look once more to the Amplified Bible to bring forth further insight from this passage.

II Thessalonians 2:9
The coming [of the lawless one, the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan and will
be attended by great power and with all sorts of [pretended] miracles and signs and delusive marvels
- [all of them] lying wonders...

When the apostle Paul wrote these words nearly 2,000 years ago, the television, the computer, and
the Internet were beyond the imagination of mankind. Civilization has changed enormously as
technology and industry have advanced and knowledge has increased. The words “pretended
miracles and signs,” “delusive marvels,” and “lying wonders” are fitting descriptions of a great
portion of the content that is broadcast through television and streamed across the Internet.