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This question has been asked many times.  To hear many religious leaders, you would think it was divorce, murder or speaking against Jesus.  This subject is discussed in several places.

Let’s go to Luke 12:8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: ⁹ But he that denieth Me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.¹¹ And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say: ¹² For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

Now let’s look at when and where this will take place.  ll Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Now go to Revelation. Where we find there are two church types that God was pleased with, the other five He was not pleased with.

Revelation 2:9 Speaking to the church of Smyrna: I know thy works and tribulation and poverty (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not but are the synagogue of Satan.

Now go to Revelation 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength and hast kept My word and hast not denied My name.

So we see in these verses that this will take place when Satan is sitting in the temple of God pretending to be God.  The elect of God will be brought before him and allow the Holy Spirit to speak through them.  Most of the world will have bought into Satan’s lies and worship him.  The door that can not be shut or opened is speaking of those people who know God’s word well enough that no one can take it away from them.

If we go to Matthew 24:15 we see Daniel referred to. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. (whoso readeth, let him understand:) This would better read whoso understandeth what he readeth. Moffett correctly translated desolation as desolator.

This gives us the more clear meaning.  When we see the desolator, who is the Devil, standing in the temple of God, pretending to be God and having the majority of the world believe he is God, we know this is the time and place.  Then the Holy Spirit will move on God’s elect and they will speak the truth about this fake.  When you see this taking place, shortly thereafter the two witnesses shall be killed and come back to life after three days. When this happens Christ shall return and God’s wrath shall come upon those who have worshiped the false Christ.

So the answer to your question is quite simple. Only God’s elect can commit the unforgivable sin and only at the time and place spoken of in the Bible. The sin is denying the Holy Spirit to speak through a person, who is one of God’s elect, when they are brought before anti-Christ acting as though he were God.

From: Understanding GOD'S Overall Plan
Chapter 15 - God’s Provisions For Man
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