2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 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;
2Th 2:4 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.
The Bible states that the saints shall not be gathered unto Christ, which is those that are alive on earth, until there is a falling away first, and the man of sin claims to be God, which happens in the middle of a 7 years period.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
God has to end this sin business on earth one day for He will not allow mankind to keep on sinning on earth for that long, for He has a time frame in which He allotted people the ability to have salvation, and when the time frame is over then He will put the wicked down.
God is love and loves all people, and will not give up on the world until the world gives up on Him, so He is giving the world 7 years to have their way, and cause all people that do not love Him to follow the beast kingdom in Revelation 13, and when they take the mark of the beast then salvation is no longer available to the Gentiles, and God will end this sin business on earth.
For the first three and one half years salvation is still available to the world.
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Mat 24:50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
Mat 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church, and hypocrites do not belong to the Church, so the only people that can actually belong to the Church are those that act Christlike being led of the Spirit, and no one else.
So the Church can never fall away even if there are hypocrites, and even if there are a lot of hypocrites, for the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Church.
It does not matter how many people are in apostasy, or are hypocritical, or teaching false teachings, for it has nothing to do with the Church and does not cause the Church to fall away, for the Church can never fall away, it is only people, or as today a lot of people, that are not portraying Christianity rightly, but they do not belong to the Church so they have no bearing on causing it to be corrupt or fall away.
The Church can never fall away no matter how much people are in apostasy, or hypocritical.
This falling away first is not the Church, but the condition of the world in response to the truth, the Gospel, and the Bible, and the concept of God, that causes the man of sin to be able to appear and deceive all people that do not love God and righteousness to follow a kingdom that acknowledges no personal God, but honors the God of forces, or the power of nature as their higher power.
For it is time for God to end this sin business on earth.
The beginning of the end.
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
God warns the saints of the new age movement, and people who interpret the Bible according to evolution, and people can still evolve, the occult, nature worship, witchcraft, and Jesus is not Lord and Savior, but a good teacher in spiritual enlightenment, and an ascended master and avatar, but not the final teacher in the evolutionary process, but the New Age Christ is the final teacher in the evolutionary process, and do not acknowledge a personal God, but honor the God of forces, or the power of nature as their higher power.
Alice Bailey that laid down the foundation of the new age movement that liked the teachings of Madam Blavatsky who believed Satan is both God and the devil, wrote many books about the coming one world government, unified religious system, and the New Age Christ, held an occult interpretation of the Bible, and believed that Lucifer is a solar angel that did not fall in to disgrace and sin, but descended from Venus to Earth years ago to bring the principle of mind to the then animal-man, and will help mankind in the future to evolve to be greater, and spiritual, which the Christ conscience will come upon them to become greater, and spiritual.
They will forbid to marry for population reduction, and command to abstain from meats for they are in to nature worship, and reverence nature.
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
The new age movement is the future for this sinful world, and will lead the world to the beast kingdom in Revelation 13.
For the first three and one half years there will be a unified religious system with all religions interpreted according to evolution, and people can still evolve, and anybody that teaches contrary to that is a hate crime, and the time that the world will not endure the truth of the Bible, but according to their own lusts power through nature to evolve to be greater, and spiritual.
Rev 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
The 6 trumpets are warnings to the world to repent of their sins, and turn to God, but after the 6th trumpet they do not repent of their sins, and turn to God, but keep going on trying to establish peace on earth by people's efforts, so God gives them the man of sin to rule over them and deceive all people that do not love God to follow the beast kingdom.
That is the falling away first which occurs at the end of the first three and one half years when salvation is still available to the world, which they stopped the preaching of the Gospel as international law, and were following the unified religious system based on evolution, and people can still evolve, and did not turn to God during that period of time, so God gave them the man of sin to rule over them.
The falling away first is not the Church, but the condition of the world in response to the truth, the Gospel, the Bible, and the concept of God, in which they do not turn to God by the end of the three and one half years that God is giving the world a chance to repent, and turn to Him, so it allows the man of sin to rule over the world and deceive the people that do not love God and righteousness, and when they follow the beast kingdom, and take the mark that has to do with technology, then God will end this sin business on earth.