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Introduction
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The believers were being misinformed that the day of the Lord has come.
Paul responds by saying that certain events must first come to pass before the day of the Lord.
the falling away and the revealing of the man of sin will precede the day of the Lord.
the falling away is a particular occasion, and it will come to its climax in the man of sin
Main Points
The nature of Apostasy
Apostasy is not as simple as going away; it is a serious matter before God.
Apostasy is unfaithfulness to God
The Hebrew word is meshubah, backsliding, backturning, apostasy, faithlessness
faithless (backsliding)
faithless (backsliding)
faithless (backsliding)
apostasy, apostasies (backsliding)
Apostasy is rebellion against God
Eng.
apostasy comes from the Grk.
apostasia
The root word of Grk.
apostasia is the Grk.
word apostates (where the English apostate comes from)
apostates = rebel (a political term used for those who turn their back to the ruling authority)
apostasia = rebellion, a going against the existing authority or rule
Definitions
APOSTASY Act of rebelling against, forsaking, abandoning, or falling away from what one has believed.
apostasia (ἀποστασία, 646), “a defection, revolt, apostasy,” is used in the NT of religious apostasy;
APOSTASY.
In classical Gk. apostasia is a technical term for political revolt or defection.
Joshua
LXX is the Greek translation of the Hebrew O.T., which is here translated verbatim into English
faithless (backsliding)
Jeremiah 3.6
faithless (backsliding)
Jeremiah
faithless (backsliding)
Jeremiah 2.18
Jeremiah 8.8
apostasy, apostasies (backsliding)
Apostasy is departure from true faith
fall away - depart (NKJV)
The Grk. word
Grk.
aphistemi - to abandon, to depart, to distance oneself
The Progress of Apostasy in Church History
The Progress of Apostasy in Church History
The apostle Paul used the word aphistemi and apostasia to denote departure from the faith in God and in the gospel as delivered to the apostles.
“False” men arose in the early church
False prophets, False Teachers
False apostles
1 John 4.1
False Apostles
Acts 20.
False Apostles
Antichrists
2 Corinthians 11.12-14
1 John 2.18
antichrists - anti- (instead), christ (Jesus Christ)
“antichrist” (plural) will precede the Antichrist (singular)
“they went out” - doctrinally, or the apostolic teachings
The early stage of “the apostasy” was the emergence of “false anointed ones” within the early church who brought in “false doctrines” and caused “some to depart from the faith”.
Apostasy Progressed through the Church Ages
Beyond the time of the apostles (1st Century) , the Book of Revelation gives us the picture of how apostasy progressed.
Show Illustration #1 - 7 Church Ages
The Nicolaitans
Revelation 2.
the “deeds” in Ephesus has progressed into a “teaching” in Pergamos
According to Irenaeus, the Nicolaitans originated from Nicolaus, the proselyte of Antioch who was given church leadership in Act 6:5 (Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, 1.26.3).
Although Irenaeus did not initially identify Nicolaus as gnostic, he later referred to the Nicolaitans as an offset of the “falsely called knowledge” (Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, 3.11.1).
The Nicolaitan doctrine introduced heirarchy and succession of leadership in the church
succession of leadership was introduced
authority and government were given to “authorized” or “ordained”individuals
Authority to study and interpret the Scripture was held by those in authority
Nicolaita - nikao, to conquer and laita, people
Doctrine of Balaam
Revelation 2.14
Balaam was a prophet
King Balak hired Balaam to curse Israel
Balaam’s idea: entice Israel to sin by holding a feast for idols coupled with acts of immorality
The Teaching of Balaam introduced the veneration of saints in Christianity through images and icons
The woman Jezebel
Revelation 2.20-23
Jezebel was the queen of Ahab, king of Israel
Jezebel introduced Baal worship
Baal means “lord”
Jezebel represents the formation of the “apostate church”
Jezebel represents the “apostate church”
she claimed to be the true and original church of Christ
she established idolatry within Christianity, first brought in by the “Balaam teaching”
The RCC was the only Christian church that tolerates veneration of saints via images and icons
Denominationalism
Revelation 3.1
Name - Grk. onoma
Sardis Age was the age of Reformation, and the multiplication of churches under different “names” or denominations
Name does not equate “life”
Denominationalism is the practice or idea that one is a Christian because he/she belongs to a certain denomination
Iglesia Ni Cristo (Manalo)
Reformed churches
Baptist churches
Pentecostal churches
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