The Great Apostasy (The Falling Away)

Now, Brethren, concerning The Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Gathering Together to Him (Jesus Christ), We ask YOU, NOT to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from Us (Jesus’ Disciples), as though The Day of Christ (Jesus Christ) had Come.  Let NO ONE deceive YOU, by any means; for that Day will NOT come, unless The Falling Away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God (God Almighty) or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God, in The Temple of God (God Almighty), showing himself, that he is God.  Do YOU NOT remember, that when I (Paul) was still with YOU, I (Paul) told YOU these things?  And now YOU know, what is restraining, that he may be revealed, in his own time.  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He, who now restrains, will do so, until He is taken out of the way.  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom The Lord (Jesus Christ) will Consume with The Breath of His (Jesus Christ’s) Mouth and Destroy with The Brightness of His (Jesus Christ’s) Coming.  The coming of the lawless one, is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception, among those who perish, because they did NOT Receive The Love of The Truth, that they might be Saved.  And for this reason, God (God Almighty) will send them Strong Delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be Condemned, who did NOT believe The Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

 

Now The Spirit (The Holy Spirit) expressly says, that in Latter Times, some will depart from The Faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God (God Almighty) Created to be Received with Thanksgiving, by those who Believe and know The Truth.  For every creature of God (God Almighty) is good, and nothing is to be refused, if it is Received with Thanksgiving; for it is Sanctified by The Word of God (God Almighty) and prayer.