Apostasy or Departure? Part 2

B3 The Second Coming  (this is for Israel primarily but also for Gentile believers)

C1 This occurs at the end of the 7 year tribulation. The 7 year tribulation is for Israel Daniel 9:24-26 (MSB) Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing.

C2 There are many events happening in the tribulation (Revelation 4-19, Matthew 24:4-31, Daniel 9:24-27, Daniel 12:9-13 (the word “end” indicates not the actions of Antiochus IV Epiphanes but the end time events. Antiochus IV Epiphanes did a near fulfillment of many things but that was not the complete fulfillment of this prophecy.), Jeremiah 30:4-24 (this covers the time period of tribulation to the beginning of the Millennium. All these prophecies have not been completely fulfilled but will at that time), Psalm 118:24 (compare Matthew 23:37-39).

C3 The deliverance is revealed in Zechariah 14 (the whole chapter).

B4 There are some things that happen before the Rapture.

C1 Two interpretations of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5

D1 Apostasy (a departure from the faith/Christianity that is taught in the New Testament).

E1 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (MSB) For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine , but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

E2 2 Timothy 3:1-7 (MSB) But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, 4 traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these! 6 They are the kind who worm their waya into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

E3 2 Peter 3:3-4 (MSB) Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 “Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

E4 Jude 1:18-19 (MSB) when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.” 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, who are worldly and devoid of the Spirit.

E5 Further teaching:
Apostasia in 2 Thess 2:3—Rapture or Apostasy

D2 Departure

E1 The Greek word means departure either physical (Rapture) or spiritual (Acts 21:21 forsaking Moses (the Law he gave to Israel)).

E2 Reasons for physical departure can be in a 9 part series on 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (
The Departure First (Part 1)

Applications

“So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 1:7).

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil 3:20).

“Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand” (Phil 4:5).

“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thess 1:10).

“Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober” (1 Thess 5:6).

“That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ”(1 Tim 6:14).

“Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus” (Titus 2:13).

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb 9:28).

“Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the Day approaching” (Heb 10:24-25).

“For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry” (Heb 10:37).

“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door” (James 5:7-9).

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:13).

“But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer” (1 Peter 4:7).

“Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 1:21).

“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Rev 3:11).

“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book” (Rev 22:7).

“He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev 22:20).