2 Thessalonians 2:3 says "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;
Paul presents some things that must happen before Christ comes back and brings judgment. First of all, there come a falling away. The Greek word for falling away is APOSTASIA. It's the word apostasy. So first there must come an apostasy. Apostasy means that people will leave the truth of the gospel, leave the faith in Christ, and it will be a godless world more and more. So first an apostasy against God and the gospel.
Paul wrote to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:1 and he said now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons. We have that in our day.
Notice the order of things:
It will be the experience first and then scrambling to find the doctrine to back it up. When Satan presents the things of God, he gives an experience first, and then a twisting of the scriptures to back it up.
Some of us may have been in assemblies where things seemed a little strange. And it's the seducing of that atmosphere, the seducing of that experience that draws people to supposedly be following Christ, but it's a seducing spirit and doctrines of demons. These are demon-backed doctrines!
So there must be an apostasy first. That's happening in our day. It happened back in Paul's day and they thought that it would really be a serious time. It was for them, but it's gotten much worse today!
Secondly, and that man of sin be revealed, who is called the son of perdition;
The word perdition means destruction. It's a title. There's only one other person in the bible called that, and that's Judas Iscariot in John Chapter 17.
So first there must be an apostasy. Secondly, the man of sin needs to be revealed. He can't just show up. It's going to take some circumstances that are going to reveal him.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 says "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;
Paul presents some things that must happen before Christ comes back and brings judgment. First of all, there come a falling away. The Greek word for falling away is APOSTASIA. It's the word apostasy. So first there must come an apostasy. Apostasy means that people will leave the truth of the gospel, leave the faith in Christ, and it will be a godless world more and more. So first an apostasy against God and the gospel.
Paul wrote to Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:1 and he said now the Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of demons. We have that in our day.
Notice the order of things:
It will be the experience first and then scrambling to find the doctrine to back it up. When Satan presents the things of God, he gives an experience first, and then a twisting of the scriptures to back it up.
Some of us may have been in assemblies where things seemed a little strange. And it's the seducing of that atmosphere, the seducing of that experience that draws people to supposedly be following Christ, but it's a seducing spirit and doctrines of demons. These are demon-backed doctrines!
So there must be an apostasy first. That's happening in our day. It happened back in Paul's day and they thought that it would really be a serious time. It was for them, but it's gotten much worse today!
Secondly, and that man of sin be revealed, who is called the son of perdition;
The word perdition means destruction. It's a title. There's only one other person in the bible called that, and that's Judas Iscariot in John Chapter 17.
So first there must be an apostasy. Secondly, the man of sin needs to be revealed. He can't just show up. It's going to take some circumstances that are going to reveal him.
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