2nd Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.
Therefore, if anyone comes to the conclusion that a mere mortal man has the authority or the power to move God’s presence from one day to the next, that person will be designated as being deceived. And if a change of heart and perspective does not occur, that person will eventually take the mark of the beast, because the number 666 is the number denoting man’s authority as being superior to God’s, or so they think.
Man was created on the sixth day of the week, and therefore, any system that has the three sixes at its core is representative of an attempt to eliminate God out of the human equation, and this is what will bring earth’s probation to a permanent, and irreversible close…. [Last Day Events pp 133>134] When our nation, in its legislative councils, shall enact laws to bind the consciences of men in regard to their religious privileges;
Enforcing Sunday observance and bringing oppressive power to bear against those who keep the seventh-day Sabbath; The law of God will, to all intents and purposes, be made void in our land, and national apostasy will be followed by national ruin. It is at the time of the national apostasy when, acting on the policy of Satan, the rulers of the land will rank themselves on the side of the man of sin.
2nd Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!