Davy
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Nope. You have to consider Apostle Paul's full message there in the 2 Thess.2:3-4 verses, for they are connected, including the idea of the "strong delusion" he mentions in a later verse."except there come a falling away first", not afterwards. Again, the apostasy is in full swing now. COVID-19 really propelled this apostasy further.
"Davis and Graham write in their book, “The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?” that “more people have left the church in the last 25 years than all the new people who became Christians from the First Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening, and Billy Graham crusades combined.” What does the falling away look like? It looks like this, but even worse than you think it is. Let me explain.“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;” 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (KJB)" - The 'Great Dechurching'
Today's Churches that are not... warning about the coming "man of sin" as one with supernatural power of miracles and wonders, to actually play God, are deceived and not prepared to make a stand for Christ against that coming false Messiah.
If you ask your preacher about the coming false Messiah, and all they can say is that it's the pope, or that he is already here, or something else other than... what Apostle Paul said there in 2 Thess.2, then that preacher is deceived and is deceiving his whole congregation for the future great apostasy of believing that coming false Messiah is Christ having returned.
That is exactly what the devil's false pre-trib rapture theory is preparing the deceived for, to fall away in worship to that coming false Messiah that will work supernatural wonders and miracles on earth, and claim to be Jesus Christ.