The Deceit of the Media

Bible in the News

In 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, the Apostle Paul warns the believers that there would be a falling away from the Gospel Truth, which they had been taught and had believed. In fact, he specifically says that this iniquity was already at work. This falling away or apostasy was restrained, but Paul says it would be revealed and would eventually be destroyed at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. This Christian apostasy was restrained by Paganism, the current religion of the Roman Empire at the time of the Apostle. When Paganism was removed out of the way by the armies of Constantine, a changed Christianity was the new religion of the Empire. The figure head of this falling away is called "that man of sin" who exalted himself above everything, “…so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”