Perished because they received NOT the love of the truth

Daniel
{2:46} Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. {2:47} The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldst reveal this secret.

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Of a truth it is-

God is a God of gods
Lord of kings
Revealer of secrets

Man can have all the gods they want in the world, they can worship anything, a statue of a round bald guy, a five pointed star, a woman blessed, an elephant, truly man can worship anything there are no limitations on what sort of lies man will believe, none. The truth is that there is only one living God, only one. The God of gods. Anything man chooses to worship is part of the creation of the one true God. They can worship nature and call nature itself God, but it's not true. One creator, one God. They can worship satan and they are worshipping a being created by God, an angel fallen from grace. People have throughout the ages worshipped various things, the sun, the moon. People have sacrificed other people to worship these other things created by the one true God. Staunch believers as king Nebuchadnezzer was, can believe in gods, calling in soothsayers and seers looking for answers from those gods, will find no truth. King Nebuchadnezzer was as real as King George was real. King Nebuchadnezzer was as real as our president, as real as Queen Elizabeth, as real as the dictator of Cuba. Real people not fairy tale characters. This king wanted answers to a dream he couldn't remember, and an interpretation of that dream he couldn't remember- none of those in his kingdom could reveal anything to him, none, not one, save Daniel a prophet of the one, true God.

God of gods.

People can get caught up in worshipping creation but they're caught up in the wrong thing. It's the Creator who deserves the worship, not creation no matter how majestic the creation is it couldn't have come into being on it's own without the Creator.

God of gods.

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Daniel
{4:37} Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

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Once more Nebuchadnezzar is speaking of God, while living at a time when to worship many gods and none in particular was popular he was shown over and over that there is only one God whose works are truth...

Works are truth.

In life there is truth and there is falsehood.

The truth revealed is God, all else is falsehood.

Our sensibilities tell us that *not all these people could be wrong*, the worshippers of other gods, the worshippers of messengers, the worshippers of the created not the creator. There are millions and millions, and millions probably even billions of people that worship other things than the one true God and believe they worship true. We don't want to think a majority could be wrong- it truth we don't want to think that in anything. We tend to think that because a majority believes something it makes it true, why? Because it's easier to believe that the more people that think a thing it has to be right than to believe a majority could be duped, could be wrong, could be caught up in something and deceived so fully.

I've heard these words before-

'All these people can't be wrong.'

You know what? They can be.

History shows us time and again where majorities have been wrong.

There is one truth and that is God, no other gods, no other thing.

It's scary because we live in a time once more where God is being regulated to unimportant, and yet we know that because Satan deals in counterfeit and deception, that the majority will once more seemingly turn to God and be deceived. Remember- counterfeiting is so deceptive because it appears like the real thing, what good is a counterfeit without the real thing? No good. The counterfeit can't deceive unless there is a true standard.

The Bible tells us this and we all need to pay heed to it-

2nd Thessalonians

{2:1} Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him,
{2:2} That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. {2:3} Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come,] except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
{2:4} Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
{2:5} Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
{2:6} And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
{2:7} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let,] until he be taken out of the way.
{2:8} And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming:
{2:9} [Even him,] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
{2:10} And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. {2:11} And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
{2:12} That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
{2:13} But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
{2:14} Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
{2:15} Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
{2:16} Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
{2:17} Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

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Perished because they received NOT the love of the truth
Might be damned who believed NOT the truth
Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth

The truth!

It will be out there, it is out there, but with the truth there is a counterfeit and many will believe in the counterfeit thinking it the truth.

Matthew
{24:22} And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
{24:23} Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it] not.
{24:24} For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
{24:25} Behold, I have told you before.
{24:26} Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, [he is] in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe [it] not.
{24:27} For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

False Christs, false prophet so close to the real thing that the counterfeit will deceive all but the very elect. The majority we like to believe *can't* be wrong simply because they are the majority, will be deceived if they aren't already. We have to hold fast to the truth in God, hold fast like never before.

Let's be like Daniel praying for God's people--

Daniel
{9:13} As [it is] written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
{9:14} Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
{9:15} And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
{9:16} O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people [are become] a reproach to all [that are] about us.
{9:17} Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
{9:18} O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
{9:19} O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

We would be God's in truth and mercy through the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the Son of God who came to reveal the Father to us, to reveal love, to give life everlasting.

Please Lord help us all to understand thy truth, this is our prayer, this is my prayer, by the grace of Jesus Christ.

Amen.

“Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.”- 2 Samuel 7:22