NO Rapture until AFTER the Son of Perdition revealed....
[ Bible Probe ]Posted by Bible Probe on July 16, 2006 at 15:45:40:
WE WILL NOT be raptured (Christ descends from heaven and meets TRUE BELIEVERS in the air: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1) before the Antichrist (Son of Perdition) arrives.
There will be NO rapture until an apostasy AND until AFTER the Son of Perdition is revealed. The Son of Perdition will arise in the wake of the "great apostasy" (or falling away).
The Apostle Paul told us, Jesus Christ WILL NOT come to gather His people to Himself until after the Great Apostasy (falling away), and until AFTER the Son of Perdition is revealed.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The only 2nd time this phrase "Son of perdition" is used is when Jesus Himself used it to describe Judas in John 17:12.
So regarding "Son of Perdition"--we are most likely speaking about someone who is trusted by Christians, who walks and talks like a Christian--but really was taken over by Satan, like Judas Iscariot (His familiar friend: Psalm 41:9) was in Luke 22:3. This Son of Perdition will appear to be a follower of Jesus and even profess his love for Jesus.
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