Hosea 10:13-15
But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors, the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be devastated-- as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children. Thus will it happen to you, O Bethel, because your wickedness is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.
Human strength is limited as compared to the strength of the LORD. Human strength will somehow end up with wickedness. If you have promoted human strength above the strength of the LORD, you are about to fail miserably. Human strength ends up with deception. More so, when you equate human strength with the strength of the LORD. Human strength cannot match the strength of the LORD in any way. When you plant the wickedness of your dependence on human strength into others, you will reap the curse of devastation of that same human strength. The greater the trust in your own human strength, the greater will be your wickedness. When that day dawns on you, complete destruction will overtake you suddenly. You would have earned for yourself; shame, humiliation and defeat, like you never did before. The fruit of deception in you will tell you a different thing, but reality will devastate you in the end.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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. 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.
