Actually it doesn't. Do you discount what Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 1? Perhaps you should read that. They were under persecution at the time Paul wrote to them. Paul is encouraging them to maintain their faith, as well as warning them of what was to come.
Paul clearly tells us the delusion is for those who will not believe. The passage says "those who perish because they would NOT receive the love of the truth....
Paul was example of what Christians would endure in
the 1st century [and today], before the great day of wrath in 70ad.
2Co 1:4
who comforts us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 11
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more:
in harder labor,
in more imprisonments [Luke 21:12 Revelation 2:10]
24 By Judeans five times forty minus one
25 Three times I was beaten with rods,
once I was stoned,
three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
26 In my frequent journeys, I have been in dangers of rivers
and to dangers of bandits,
in dangers from
fellow race,
from the Gentiles,
in city and in wilderness,
in danger on the sea
and to dangers in false brothers,
27 in labor and toil and often without sleep,
in hunger and thirst,
and often without food, in cold and exposure.
1 Corinthians 4:
9 For it seems to me that God has
displayed us Apostles at the end of the procession, like
prisoners appointed for death.
We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ.
We are weak, but you are strong.
You are honored, but we are dishonored.
11 To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty,
we are poorly clothed,
we are brutally treated,
we are homeless.
12 We work hard with our own hands.
When we are vilified, we bless;
when we are persecuted, we endure it;
13 when we are slandered, we answer gently.
Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
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Matthew 23:34
Therefore behold! I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes.
Some of them ye will kill and crucify;
and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and
persecute from city to city;
John 8:44
"
Ye out of a father,
the Devil are, and the desires<1939> of the father of ye, ye are willing to be doing.
Luke 21:12
“But before all these things,
they will lay their hands on you and
persecute you, delivering
you up to the
synagogues and
prisons.
You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake.
Revelation 2:10 "tribulation 10 days"
‘Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to be suffering,
behold!
the Devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried,
and ye shall have
tribulation ten days;...........
