The bible clearly prophesies that the church of the end times will be characterized by apostasy. paul said that the antichrist will not be revealed until the apostasy comes first,2 thes 2;3 jesus prophesied that many will fall away and peoples love will grow cold math 24;10,12.Paul supplies us with some strong clues as to why the end time church will be full of apostasy. One of those clues can be found in 2 Tim 4;3-4 the time will come when they christians, will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled ,they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.