How the Pre-Trib Rapture Became Popular in the Modern Church

God said from Genesis thru Revelation that His People/His Elect/His Saints will suffer Tribulation as we wait for His Second Coming.

That was not what Apostasy means. This is what it means:

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away (apostasia) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

The word "falling away" is apostasia from where we get the words Apostate and Apostasy. Obviously it means a moral and spiritual religious "departure" not a physical departure.


Don't believe anything that says this event is the rapture. Here are 5 expert sources that prove the "departure" in 2 Thess 2:3 is the Apostasy:

Strong's definition G646

apostasia

ap-os-tas-ee'-ah

Feminine of the same as G647; defection from truth (properly the state), (“apostasy”) : - falling away, forsake.

Total KJV occurrences: 2


Thayer Definition:

G646 apostasia


1) a falling away, defection, apostasy

Part of Speech: noun feminine

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: feminine of the same as G647

Citing in TDNT: 1:513, 88

Total KJV occurrences: 2





Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Apostasia

defection, apostasy, revolt; in late Gk. (MM, Exp., viii; Lft., Notes, 111; Cremer, 308) for cl. ?p?stas?? , freq. in sense of political revolt, in LXX (e.g. Joshua 22:22, 2 Chronicles 29:19, Jeremiah 2:19) and NT always of religious apostasy: Ac21:21, II Th 2:3.







Liddell and Scott:

A defection, revolt, v.l. in D.H.7.1, J.Vit.10, Plu.Galb.1; esp. in religious sense, rebellion against God, apostasy, LXX Jo.22.22, 2 Ep.Th.2.3 .





Winer's Grammar:



Apostasia, a falling away, defection, apostasy; in the Bible namely, from the true religion: Acts 21:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ; ((Joshua 22:22; 2 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 33:19); Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 3629) 32 Complutensian; 1 Macc. 2:15). The earlier Greeks say Apostasis; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 528; (Winer's Grammar, 24).

The tribulation of life, living for Christ! Not the wrath of God on sinful man in the end.

Surly you know the difference?

Pre-trib has the church rapturing away before the man of sin is revealed but Paul said the rapture would not happen until the man of sin was revealed.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (the rapture)
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, (the day of the rapture) except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;


Pre-trib: church raptured BEFORE the man of sin is revealed.
the bible: church raptured AFTER the man of sin is revealed.

This proves rapture cannot happen before man of sin is revealed which proves the Great Tribulation will have started before the rapture occurs.

Do you really believe that the falling away is the rapture? You’re actually right, then. The rapture theory does lead to the great falling away—the great Apostasy.

CORRECT - Tribulation is not the Wrath of God.

1 Thess 1:10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

I guess you haven't read 1 Thes. 2:8 " and then shall that Wicked be revealed"

This comes AFTER that is taken out of the way in vs. 7.

And you are wrong.

Where does God say you are right?

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.

HE is the Holy Spirit, the Restrainer, who will step aside at the unction of the FATHER.

HE never leaves His Elect - the Saints.

Matt ch24, 1 Thess & 2 Thess , 1 Tim 4:1 , 1 John 2:14-19 , the Prophets Enoch, Noah, Daniel, Job, Elijah , James ch5
and Revelations ch1-3, 6:9-11 , ch7 , ch12, ch13, 14:9-13, ch19-20

Yes and those in that errant doctrine actually want to commit Apostasia! Fiction isn't this creative! Nevermind the real Greek definition of the word. They will make up their own definition, place the rapture at the time of the Apostasy, move the rapture from after the revealing of the man of sin to BEFORE the revealing of the man of sin and POOF, instant-bad-theology just add hot water and it's ready to be swallowed whole with some spiritual gagging!

Pre-trib: church raptured BEFORE the man of sin is revealed.
the bible: church raptured AFTER the man of sin is revealed.

Your beliefs are contrary to bible.

Hey, you guys are gang-banging ol' Charlie. That's not fair, is it?

We are sharing the love of Christ with you = His Truth

You are mistaken, let's read it! Slooooowly.

2 Thes. 2:6-8

"And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

OH, OK, I took that the wrong way didn't I? lol

That's not the rapture. Paul already said rapture would not happen until the man of sin was revealed. Pre-trib goes against what Paul taught.

Pre-trib has the church rapturing away before the man of sin is revealed but Paul said the rapture would not happen until the man of sin was revealed.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, (the rapture)
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, (the day of the rapture) except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;


Pre-trib: church raptured BEFORE the man of sin is revealed.
the bible: church raptured AFTER the man of sin is revealed.

This proves rapture cannot happen before man of sin is revealed which proves the Great Tribulation will have started before the rapture occurs.

No, that's not it, my friend! You do not understand the pre-trib belief.

2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,//// and by our gathering together unto him,

Paul is speaking of the Second Coming and the Rapture here. Notice!

"by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ," is the Second coming.

"and by our gathering together unto Him," is the rapture.

Do you see the "coma" between the two statements? Paul is referring to two different happenings!

Everyone knows those are two different events but what you don't understand is they happen the same day.


"for that day shall not come" Paul is speaking of a single day not two different days like you believe.



You are also sidestepping the fact that Paul said the gathering to Christ happens after the man of sin is revealed. That makes pre-trib impossible.