2:11 Sends them a powerful delusion. After God’s restraining influence is “taken out of the way” (v. 8; see article on The Age of the Antichrist) and the lawless one is revealed, people who have “refused to love the truth and so be saved” (v. 10) will come under “a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie” (cf. Ro 1:25). As a result, they will be eternally lost (i.e., without hope of spiritual salvation, eternally separated from God). (1) These people will consist of all those inside or
2 Thessalonians 2:11