Great Apostasy

right|thumb|Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler. In Christianity, the Great Apostasy is the notion that mainstream Christian Churches have fallen away from the faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his Twelve Apostles. Quotes about Now concerning athe coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our bbeing gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or calarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or ea letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that fthe day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, hunless the rebellion comes first, and ithe man of lawlessness is revealed, jthe son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness mis already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then nthe lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus owill kill with pthe breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by qthe appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan rwith all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore tGod sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe uwhat is false, in order that all may be condemned vwho did not believe the truth but whad pleasure in unrighteousness. Paul of Tarsus in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 2:1-12 ESV. See also Satan Apostasy False prophet External links Category:Christianity