Spiritual Declension in the Church and in the World

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Nathaniel

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I think it was Warren Buffet who was once asked, how does one go bankrupt? His answer, "Slowly, and then all at once."
 

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Even now are many antichrists deceiving many. But there will be tribulation when the last major one begins to rule....that will involve the strong delusion I believe.
""Even now are many antichrists deceiving many""
YES, yet the 2 Thess 2:8 one has not yet been revealed.
""But there will be tribulation when the last major one begins to rule""
"".that will involve the strong delusion I believe."""

Yes, AFTER 2 Thess 2:8
 

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“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; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: ”
2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 KJV

I don't pin entire theological positions on just one verse. The entire chapter is significant, and if you aren't reading verse one in context of the rest of the chapter, you will miss what Paul was talking about. I see no mention of the tribulation.
Thx BL & thumbs up for using the KJV
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""and that man of sin be revealed,""
Pre-trib debunked if that happens B4 the rapture.