Current Events-The Delusion

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/12/29/facebook-pop-up-stores-offer-taste-vr/95955060/

Virtual reality...the next hot trend. Im willing to suggest the "delusion" alluded to in 2 Thessalonians 2 may somehow be linked to virtual reality. Curious? Not me. Im ok with actual reality.

9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

"It's all about the first step," said Stephanie Llamas, director of research and insights at SuperData Research. "Once they take it, you open them to a world of possibilities they couldn't have imagined. It's a Matrix moment. But they can't know the possibilities without being proactive, so companies not only have to make consumers aware but also make them feel like trying it was their own idea."

Just like satan did in the garden...he deceived her/lulled her into taking that "first step" and the "world of possibilities" that would come with it. But in order to be like God, they had to take the first bite. And although the Word doesn't say that Eve and Satan discussed the event after the fact, I'd venture to say that he would've absolved himself from any wrongdoing and blamed her for it all. He doesn't make people sin...he just paints the picture to see if they'd buy it. It is our own hidden desires that ultimately make us sin. As it is written "each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death."

I would guess this "virtual reality" would have a bigger impact than drugs because it removes people from reality without any tangible side effects.  

Is there a time and place to worship?

My response to an article titled "A response to Christians who are done with church"... found here http://careynieuwhof.com/a-response-to-christians-who-are-done-with-church/

I would go to any church you would invite me to but I certainly dont find it a bad thing to worship God when I want to, how I want to, and where I want to because it happens when the Spirit leads me to doing so whether its Sunday or Monday, 1 am or 1pm, at home, in the car, at work, at the grocery store, while playing video games, at my sister's , etc. Worship to me is far from a to do list and it can be quite dynamic. Sometimes it consists of bible study which at times has inevitably led to singing and vice-versa. Sometimes it consists of deliberately tithing after either of singing or reading the Word. Sometimes I even write on my journal with pen and paper. Sometimes they all happen. Sometimes just one. Sometimes two. But they rarely happen the same way it took place last time.
What have I observed in a gathering filled with hundreds or thousands of "saints" that kinda turned me off? One time I saw a woman singing at the top of her lung fighting not to entertain the thought that some may have been ridiculing her. This bothered me a lot because it prevented me from ever doing so there. Another time I found myself at a bible study sponsored by this church where a guy was literally cursing God. Other times I found myself being looked down upon because i was younger than everyone else and so they expected me to play the role of "apprentice" because all they cared about was bringing more converts to Christ not realizing I was already in Christ. Am I a faultfinder? Maybe. Or perhaps Im just concerned with the quality of worship I engage in because Im certainly weary of worshiping in the midst of wolves and worshiping is very important to me. Does God prefer that I worship with others everytime I worship? That hasn't been revealed to me. My thinking is that anything done with a genuine heart will never go unheard. God is WORTHY of worship! It's hard for me to fathom the idea that God would turn me away or would rather have me in the midst of other believers on a set day at a set time than in the way that I currently worship just because.

UPDATE 4/1/19

I have been to two separate congregations over the past month. One of them is an obvious New Age gathering masquerading as a church filled with sensationalism and fallacious teachings including a preterist approach regarding eschatology that justified accepting the mark of the beast. If it wasn't for the Holy Spirit intervening on my behalf(Thank you Lord)who knows how duped I could have been.

The other gathering I went to was more in line, however, there was/is an obvious Jezebel spirit present who was making sexual sounds in the midst of worship. That's right. In the middle of worship.

What to do? Not worship there.