I'm not talking about the church, I'm talking about individuals within the church who, for whatever reason, stop believing the truth that is in Christ. These apostate don't even have to renounce their faith officially, they just have to stubbornly stick to false doctrine/teaching. Plus a person can't fall away from something they have never believed, so this is not talking about unbelievers.
Do you not already perceive the growing numbers of believers who cling to false doctrine/teaching and will not accept God's truth?
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.
Dan 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Dan 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
The falling away is talking about unbelievers which this is not a falling away of people in the Church that fell from the truth.
But it is a falling away of what the world used to allow especially America that one day the world will stop the preaching of the truth going by a belief system that exalts people.
Which allows the man of sin to be able to rule over them which he goes by that belief system.
Which is why the Bible says the saints will not be gathered unto Christ until there is a falling away first and the man of sin claims to be God.
Because the falling away is what causes the man of sin to rule over them.
Christians who are believing false doctrine/teaching are not going to cause the antichrist to be able to rule over the world.
But it is going to take the nations governments to stop the truth from being preached on a world wide level.
The New Age Christ will push the agenda of the new age that exalts people for three and one half years which at the end of that time it is the falling away first when then transgressors have come to the full which causes the man of sin to rule the world.
The falling away causes the antichrist to be able to claim to be God and rule the world.
Which it will not be because some people who claim to be a Christian are believing false doctrine/teaching.
But it has to take action of the unbelievers to stop the preaching of the truth to cause that for it has to be the condition of the world what they believe and allow for the man of sin to be able to rule.
The falling away first concerns the world of what the world used to allow especially America that one day the world will stop the preaching of the truth going by a belief system that exalts people.
The world used to allow the Gospel and the belief in a personal God but they fell away from doing that to adhere to the New Age Christ and his agenda for the world.
Which allowed the antichrist to rule over them.
The falling away first is when the transgressors are come to the full the condition of the world.
And then a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up, the man of sin who claims to be God.
