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[058]. A Message From A Poem – Delusionalism Contradicts What’s Truth
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 13, 2025 (message contributor)
[058]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – DELUSIONALISM CONTRADICTS WHAT’S TRUTH
I believe Christians who ignore what is happening in the world are living in a bubble. We must understand current events and especially as they line up with the last days and biblical prophecy.
We live in the days of delusion and deception. A good deal of what you hear and read is not true or it is distorted. This comes not only from the mainstream media (legacy media) but much of it is propagated on social media. A lot of it is agenda driven. Only the discernment of the Holy Spirit can help us through this tangled mess of deception.
Delusion is when a cloud of lies covers a person and infiltrates that person’s mind so he/she starts to accept that as the truth. I suspect that today’s world does not examine seriously these new ideas because the critical examination skills once taught in schools is lacking today, and education has become more an absorption principle, sadly with socialist, left-wing ideologies.
This poem looks at concepts of delusion and its advance in the world. One thing we must do is not concentrate on how bad the world is – we acknowledge the world will get more deluded and worse, but this verse must focus our real attention elsewhere. One verse here – {{Luke 21:28 “When these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads because YOUR REDEMPTION IS DRAWING NEAR,”}} can apply to us when taken in hope.
Our redemption (the culmination of that) comes when the Lord returns for His Church and we are removed from earth and from its delusion – {{1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 “for this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep, for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”}}
The signs of the times given in the scriptures are the indication that the time is close. Therefore the activity of Satan is on the rise. People are deluded that gender reassignment, and sex changes for children and teens, and homosexuality, gender pronouns, the green religion, and all manner of woke propaganda are correct.
Don’t waste your time because the coming of the Lord is close. Be on your guard. {{Colossians 2:4 “I say this in order that NO ONE MAY DELUDE YOU with persuasive argument”}}
God allows delusion to occur because people do not want to believe the truth, so the Lord allows the sinful mind to believe the lie. {{2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 “and with ALL THE DECEPTION OF WICKEDNESS for those who perish because THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH SO AS TO BE SAVED. For this reason God will send upon them A DELUDING INFLUENCE SO THAT THEY MIGHT BELIEVE WHAT IS FALSE, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.”}}
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DELUSIONALISM CONTRADICTS WHAT’S TRUTH
It is so easy to disbelieve what’s truth,
As it suits the human nature.
Man has departed from God by his sin,
And is reprobate in failure.
His destiny was of the darkest hue,
But chose, not on God, to rely.
Mankind has fashioned his own failed patches;
Such pathetic ones to apply.
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Difficult times on the world are coming,
And they will not abate at all.
These are the last days God clearly spells out:
Days when true decency will fall.
Evil men rise, outdoing what’s past -
This worldwide trend is uniform.
Globalism spreads its glue-like control.
Corruption will become the norm.
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Men push on with delusionalism;
Their substitution for the Lord,
Unified by “Climate Change” religion
Men ascribe to with one accord.
What replaces God is Satan’s false ruse -
Lies of froth that lock up the mind.
These, men grasp at; but not Almighty God,
By souls, who to the truth are blind.
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Dishonour and deceit will continue,
Growing stronger day after day.
The world plunges towards the precipice,
As it cements its chosen way.
Soon the Lord will come with triumphant call,
Removing the Church from this scene.
Glory, honour and praise be unto Him,
To the loving God, Lord supreme.
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26 May 2022 R E Ferguson Metre = 10-8-10-8 throughout ABCBDEFE
The last two stanzas of this poem were written on the morning of a major ear operation in Townsville. The first two stanzas were composed a bit before that.
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