The Return ping
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
The coming of our Lord could be the Rapture or it could be the 2nd Coming, except,
Are we going to be gathered onto the Lord at the 2nd Coming??? He will be landing on the Earth and people will be scattered all over the Earth...
Where we Christians will be gathered onto him is the Rapture, not the 2nd Coming...
2Th 2:3 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;
That day will not come until the Anti-Christ is revealed...We know he will be revealed at least three and a half years before the 2nd Coming and probably seven years before...So the events in these verses can't be the 2nd Coming...
Who are doing the falling away and what are they falling away from??? Is this the Pre-Trib Rapture itself???
Are these Christians who have kicked out God/Jesus/Holy Spirit from indwelling them???
I don't happen to believe that's possible...
Christians who are leaving their Joel Olsteen type churches???
Massive groups of Catholics who are leaving the mother church???
If the Rapture doesn't happen, there's going to be millions upon millions of Christians running around the Earth pointing at the Anti-Christ and banging people over their heads with their bibles...
I'm pretty sure it's the Rapture...
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
This one isn't hard at all...There's only one thing that has power over Satan...And that of course is God...When the church is gone, there's no need for the Holy Spirit to hang around...And the Devil certainly isn't going to run things while God is around...