Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 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. 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;
Curiously enough, some teach in error that the "falling away (apostasia)" is the rapture. They claim that apostosia, composed from apo and histemi, means to depart from the earth rather than the faith.
The rapture is tightly coupled with the parousia of the Messiah ( the coming of Messiah, the Second Coming of Christ ). There will not be one without the other, and they occur at the same time.
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