"PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD!"

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4                   (ESV)

"1 Now concerning the coming of our LORD JESUS CHRIST and our being gathered together to HIM, we ask you, brothers,

2 not to be quickly SHAKEN IN MIND or ALARMED, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

3 Let NO ONE DECEIVE YOU in any way. For that day will not come, UNLESS THE REBELLION COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of GOD, "PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD"."

With all of the uproar about a homosexuals having the right to join together is some sort of a legal partnership does not equal "marriage", no matter what a court says.  GOD ordained "marriage" between one man and one woman (Genesis 2:18-25; Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5:22-33...etc..).  Anything outside of GOD's Framework, by definition, cannot be "marriage".   Since GOD made "marriage", only HE can change who gets to participate.   Don't let the 

"great deceiver" attempt to use a man-made definition to restructure what GOD has already established.  

Humankind has a desire, instilled in us from the great deceiver, to "PROCLAIM HIMSELF TO BE GOD"!  A friend of mine was writing recently about "weeding" and the need to continually get the weeds from her lawn. Pulling the weeds from our lives must be a continuing process as the evil one roams about as a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8) "seeking someone to devour"!   The enemy desires, and attempts to get us to desire, to be as a god, making our own decisions about our lives and the direction we take with our lives.

But we aren't wise enough, nor righteous enough, to keep us out of hell!  In Mark 9:21-23  JESUS says "For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."  We must have a complete BLOOD TRANSFUSION to live Spiritually!  

The enemy can tell us we are something we are not, because he is a liar (John 8:44) and he can't help but to lie?  "PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD" is an illness that will spread among humans worse than cancer.  True JOY and PEACE can only come from JESUS and HE IS the only ONE who can "PROCLAIM HIMSELF TO BE GOD" with authority!!!