and who will “not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness” (2 Thess. 2:12), nothing else dazzles them as much as Satan’s power and glory. The Antichrist will have only the glory of the nations (Luke 4:5–6). For people who have no true standard of assessment, the glory of the fallen world often substitutes for the glory of God. Paul revealed in 2 Corinthians 4:3–4, “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded
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