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 illustrations of this in the ‘ministries’ of people like Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Beth Moore, Joel Osteen and others. So how is it that there are those who would pervert this simple Bible teaching and attempt to make it say that the ‘falling away’ is actually a ‘falling UP’ into the Rapture? Sheer nonsense. Join us tonight as we open the pages of our King James Bibles to compare scripture with scripture, and see that ‘falling away’ of the church into apostasy is exactly what the Holy Spirit meant to say. One of the false teachings that has gained some popularity lately, one might also say infamy, is the erroneous idea that the term ‘falling away’ in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 is referring to the Pretribulation catching away of the Church and not talking about falling away of the Church in apostasy. But as we will quickly and easily see, this idea is absolutely false. https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/nteb-radio-bible-study-refuting-false-teaching-that-falling-away-in-thessalonians-23-is-actually-the-rapture-church/