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personal consequence, to desire to conform oneself to that which the Spirit illumines
to us.

Much of the church lacks this integrity, however. We live in the perilous last days
that Paul spoke of where men will not endure sound doctrine and where the masses
of Christendom are heaping to themselves teachers to tickle their ears and to tell
them what they want to hear. We live in the day in which Paul foretold to Timothy
that men would turn aside to myths and fables, and he further declared to the
Thessalonian believers that Yahshua would not return unless the apostasy occurred
first, the apostasy being a divorcement from truth.

In this same passage to the Thessalonian believers we find some sobering words.
“Because they did not receive the love of the truth... for this reason God will send
upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false” (II
Thessalonians 2:10-11 ). When people do not hold the truth as their first objective in
studying the scriptures, when they approach the word of God with the intent of
supporting some position that appeals to them, then the Father has declared that He
will send them deception.

If we approach the scriptures with anything less than a sincere desire to know truth,
the Father will allow us to find exactly what we want. If we desire falsehood, He will
give us over to delusion. Only those who desire truth, despite all personal cost to
themselves, will find it. In the matter I will address here, many have received
delusion because they really didn’t want truth. They wanted something less than
truth. They simply desired to find a doctrine that they felt would not lead them
outside of their comfort zone, or bring them to a place of personal crucifixion. Even
in the Old Testament we find that there were always many more false prophets than
true. It is no different in Christendom today.

Satan’s chief weapon is deception and deception always works best when it has an
element of appeal in it. By offering an enticing deception, Satan deceived the first
woman in the Garden of Eden. The fruit that Satan invited Adam’s wife to partake
of was physically appealing, and Satan’s lies made it even more attractive to her soul.

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,
she took from its fruit and ate...

In the same way, there is much in the doctrine that says there is no governmental
difference between men and women in the kingdom, that makes it attractive both to
the women and the men who would eat of this fruit.