[If you believe in the Biblical Scriptures, there is a time before Christ comes where there is a mass deception.]
And the deception, FROM GOD HIMSELF, makes the scoffers BELIEVE in the Antichrist beast.
Was just discussing this with caww.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
New King James Version
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
There are levels to reality that our 4D sensing apparatus cannot detect, yet. That they are real physical reality is attested to by several passages from scripture, not the least of which is Daniel 5. The being whose hand wrote on that physical wall was standing in a where/when the partiers could not sense, but the hand came into their where/when and wrote physically on the wall then left their sensed 4D spacetime leaving a physical trace' upon that wall in palace party central, Babylon..