The great falling away is an apostasy of the faith, it's not believers falling away or apostatizing. I John 2:18-19 "Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us."
Those that are apostate are not of us, they were around us, they fall away to show us that they were not of us and are antichrists. I always understand the pre-trib rapture to be after the son of perdition was revealed, but anyway.
Can I get someone to answer this for me, because I'm wondering if the sign of His coming, is the rapture and the end of the end is His literal coming to earth, can someone help out here? Because the way I read it is, the disciples asked, when will these things happen (destruction of the Temple), the sign of your coming is in the sky after the sun and the moon change, after that the sign of His coming. 24:30 "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
After the sign of His coming, the whole world will mourn, and they will see the Son Of Man coming in power and great glory. It doesn't say and then they will see the Son of Man coming. There a separation between the sign of His coming and His coming in power and great glory. Because when He comes in His glory, He will sit in His tone and judge the nations. 25:31 "“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory."
There is not two second comings, what I'm seeing is a sign of His coming which is in the sky, the earth mourns after the sign. Verse 36 "of that day no one knows the hour or the day", what day? It seem to me it's referring back to the day that the sign of the Son of Man coming. Then after He says He didn't know or the angels. He starts talking about days Noah and two in the field, one taken one left. 24:44 "Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." Placing the same expectancy that John place on it, by saying it's the last hour or any time the end is coming. Then the parables and 25:31 The Son of Man comes to the earth in His glory, His second coming, not the sign of His coming in chapter 24.
Help me out here, from what I'm reading, there's is a sign of His coming in the sky, after that people are taken, then His has a gap with teaching, then His coming to the earth in His glory to sit in His throne. It seems to me that the sign of His coming is the gathering. His coming to earth He gathers the nations to judge them.
I need help, I getting confused.