I believe the falling away is when a false Christianity takes over the world that all religions accept because Christ is not the Savior of the world but a teacher as well as other teachers and their interpretation is based on nature worship that exalts man.
All religions will be interpreted according to this interpretation and fundamental beliefs will not be tolerated in the one world religious system who is the woman that rides the beast.The beast will be a man claiming to be God who will say it is all about man will no authority above them.
They will then get rid of the woman for they have no need for her for religions are obsolete for the beast will claim to be above all that is called God or is worshipped.
The beast system is a system that is all about man with no governmental or religious authority above them.
4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
[SUP]5 [/SUP]For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer(1 Timothy 4:1-5).
This is talking of the New Age's interpretation of Christianity that will eventually be the fundamental Christianity in the world that God warns us about to not follow that interpretation for it is not from God.
It says that they departed from the faith which means they departed from the truth of the Bible.They did not depart from Christianity but they departed from the truth of Christianity to accept the New Age interpretation of Christianity.
This Christianity will permeate the world.So I believe the falling away is when the world accepts this interpretation of Christianity instead of the truth which they are trying to produce the New Age Christ or the man of sin to the world.
As time goes on people become more selfish,arrogant,and exalt themselves,and that is because that is the direction they are going so it is no wonder that eventually they will weed out all authority above them which is the beast system.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men(Proverbs 30:11-14).
God is telling us of the last generation before Jesus takes over the world whose attitude in selfish and arrogance will be above any generation before it that will lead them to the beast system.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables(2 Timothy 4:2-4).
Eventually people will want to hear Christianity the way they want to hear it especially when the New Age religion believes mind creates reality more than the world around us.
They are going to never never land just like at the tower of Babel when God said they were only going by their imagination and like at the flood when the world was evil continuously.
The Bible says that the saints will not be united with Christ until the man of sin appears on the scene so there is no resurrection before the 7 years period.
The reason is that the world can still repent of their sins for the first half of the 7 years.When they take the mark of the beast then they cannot repent of their sins anymore.
As long as the world can repent of their sins the saints are staying on earth.