Eyes Wide Shut

Be careful therefore how you listen. For to him who has [spiritual knowledge] will more be given; and from him who does not have [spiritual knowledge], even what he thinks and guesses and supposes that he has will be taken away.
Luke 8:18 AMPC

Psalm 81:11,12
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me…
Psalm 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him

1 Kings 22:22
And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’

Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Jeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”

Romans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.

This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 CJB

2 Timothy 4:4
So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.