# For this reason
"Because the people do not love the truth"
# God is sending them a powerful delusion so that they will believe a lie
The powerful delusion is a metonym for the person who will delude the people. Alternate translation: "God is sending the man of lawlessness to delude them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# a powerful delusion
a lie that sounds so true that many people believe it