For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. .......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”, and all the ways that wickedness ‘deceives those who are perishing’......... They perish because ‘they refused’ to love the truth and so be saved.
( And here’s the result for not believing)....
For this reason God sends them ‘a powerful delusion’ so that ‘they will’ believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness......2 Thess. 2:1-17
(So they will believe lies over the truth...because they’ve rejected Jesus who IS the truth. There will come a time when people won’t seek truth, we see this today...therefore that gap will always be filled with something else counterfeit.)
The Heresy of Arnold Murray - Deception In The Church