That Strong Delusion

"In 2 Tessalonians, Paul, writing particularly of the second
coming of the Lord, says:
2 Thessalonians 2
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with
all power and signs and lying wonders, 

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.

 
In other words, immediately preceding the coming of the

Lord, God will give to men full opportunity to accept the
truth, the love of which will save them from deception, and
from the destruction that will surely come upon all who do
not receive the love of the truth.
But many will reject that truth, they will not receive the
love of it, and in rejecting the truth they place themselves on
the side of falsehood, and in a position where Satan can and
will work in them with all deceivableness of unrighteousness.

 

When men reject the truth and will not receive the love of the
truth, what then can they receive but lies? 

 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie;
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

God will send them strong delusion,

 by simply giving them
up to their own delusion, 

by letting them have their own way."

A.T. Jones