Apostacy 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 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. 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.

Commentary:
This passge of scripture is a the Aposlte Pauls second Epistle to the Thessalonians which is well after the resurrection of Christ and the organization of the Apostolic reign of the Church.

This Biblical passage speaks of an apostacy (which means a falling away from) of the Church presently constituted.

It starts off talking about the comming of the Lord. Since His first coming was already done and essentially over with this means that Paul is talking about the Second Coming of Christ.

The passage starts off with “Now we beseech you…”, what is being beseeched is that the Saints or Christians “be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word”.

Paul goes on to say “Let no man deceive you by any means” for that day (The Second Coming of Christ) shall not come, “except there come a falling away first”. The “falling away” is the apostacy. This would indicate that Paul, in his Apostolic capacity, was prophesying that there would be a falling away from the church that was then constituted under Apostolic reign.

Remember Paul was not one of the original Twelve Apostles of the Lamb. There were a few new Apostles but then eventually all the Apostles died off or we killed. They were not replaced. After sometime without the oversight of the Apostles, the Church which they had flourishing started to fall apart and splinter into different sects with different ideas on interpretation of the various books of scripture that were not yet compilled into what we know now as the Holy Bible.

It is truely a blessed miracle that enough books of scripture were preserved well enough to make it in to the Bible we now know. It is also sad as to doctrines and books that well may have been lost.