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Podcast: NTEB BIBLE RADIO: Rightly Dividing
Episode: NTEB RADIO BIBLE STUDY: Refuting The False Teaching That The 'Falling Away' In Thessalonians 2:3 Is Actually The Rapture Of The Church
Description: On this episode of Rightly Dividing, the Greek word used for ‘falling away’ is ‘apostasia’, G646 in your Strong’s Concordance, from which we get our English word for ‘apostasy’, meaning a ‘defection from’ or a ‘falling away’ from something. We are not left to wonder what this ‘something’ is, for Paul in 2 Timothy 4:1-4 gives it to us in great detail. The ‘falling away’ in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is a reference to a time at the end of the Church Age when Bible doctrine will be abandoned in favor of the lukewarm Laodicean ear tickling warned of by Paul, John and Peter. We see great illustrati...