V2-48 Wonders and Deception
Walking Talking Bible Project
Why is it not possible to deceive the elect? How are the false Christs and false prophets able to perform great signs and wonders? Why is it possible to deceive the wicked? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Matthew 24:24
Matthew 24:24
24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.
Connection Passage #1: 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12
2 Thessalonians 2:9–12
9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
11 For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
12 in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
Connection Passage #2 Matthew 24:15–23
Matthew 24:15–23
15 So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
18 And let no one in the field return for his cloak.
19 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
20 Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
21 For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again.
22 If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.
23 At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.
Connection Passage #3: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
13 Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
15 By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
17 After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).