Therefore God will send them a strong delusion, that they should believe the lie: that they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth but
Jer. 10:3-5 declares "For the customs of the peoples are delusion; because it is wood cut from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. They decorate it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so that it will not totter....
Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but