Rapture/Falling Away

The Falling away is the Rapture

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Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be soon taken, shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ has already come. Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and then the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sets as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. And one thing I wanted to talk about that is really misunderstood out of that passage is that the falling away. People believe, many believe, I would probably even say a majority of the Christians believe that that is talking about some kind of leaving the Christian faith. And it's not that. Paul makes a statement, and what he says is there is going to be some kind of religious setting apart, pulling apart, falling apart, moving apart of some sort. And um excuse me. I got film in my throat. There we go. Okay. Some kind of pulling apart or leaving or separation, but it's a separation. That's the best that you can get out of the uh the original Greek about that fall so-called falling away. Um, and so what has been interpreted, misinterpreted, if I may, over the years is that it's some kind of falling away from the church or falling away from Christ. And that's just not true. It's not what that is. It's talking about separation. So, what separation is Paul talking about? Well, he goes on to explain it. Paul often writes like that. Paul will make a statement, and then as you read, he will go on to explain that statement. He went on to explain that statement just in those verses that I read to you. He said that he or excuse me, it's not those verses that I read to you, but he talks about in verses um beyond that, what verse about six or so. He says, and he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. There is the separation that Paul mentioned up there in the first four verses, where he talks about that falling away. And um, and uh what he is saying is that it's the rapture. He says that, you know, the the the end times they believed that Christ, you know, had already come back and so on and so forth. And he said, that can't be. You have to understand why. Because he says, first off, there's gonna be a taking away. And then he explains that he says, the Holy Spirit, the body of Christ, the that power that restrains the Antichrist will be taken out of the way. That's the body of Christ. He said, and then the Antichrist will be revealed, then, and uh then he's got to go into the temple and and he's gonna show himself to be God and all of that. And he said, and and and that so that none of that has taken place yet. And so Paul's letting them know that. All right, great. Let's see what that sounds like.