[From “The Great Falling Away and the Man of Lawlessness”]

BLUF: Europe, the Christian civilization, rebelled against Jesus Christ, and set himself in the place of God. This is the Man ofLawlessness
[Picture “Understanding Voltaire: A Beacon of Enlightenment Thought”][…]
2 Thes 2:1-12 ESV
The Apostasy, or Great Rebellion
The Day of the Lord won’t be revealed until the “man of lawlessness” is revealed, along with the great rebellion. The New American Standard Bible refers to this as the “apostasy.” The Living Bible says, “There will be a time of great rebellion against God” (2 Thes 2:3). This unique thing about the Lawless One is the utterly apostasy that accompanies him

Apostasy from what? At the time Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians was written, there could not have been an apostasy — Europe had not been converted[…]
Apostasy cannot happen before conversion, either personally or as a civilization. Europe was fully Christian, and then rebelled and became modern, secular, democratic, and atheistic under the Rule of Man
Man without Jesus Christ is Lawless
Man claimed to have invented God — this is the Age of Reason
Lawless Man placed himself in the seat of God and claims to be God[…]
The Great Apostasy appeared in the heart of Christendom
The Age of Reason, or the Enlightement, is the Great Apostasy — it is a European invention[…]
This man of Lawless is not coming — it is here. It emerged out of the heart of Christendom — this is the Great Rebellion, the Apostasy. It has been going on since the Declaration Of Independence was signed. It was not only Independence from the King of England, but independence from God. While the Colonists founded explicitly Christian nations, by the time our constitution was adopted, the insidious rebellion against God was well under way