CHURCH GROWTH: FOR IT OR AGAINST IT
In scripture, the word “falling” is usually described as “falling down” or “falling into.” You can read about it in the following verses. · Numbers 24:4 & 16 · Proverbs 25:26 · Isaiah 34:4 · Luke 8:47 · Luke 22:24 · Acts 27:41 · I Corinthians 14:25 Then there is, “falling headlong,” in Acts 1:18. This is concerning Judas and his act of betrayal against Jesus. Which brings me to the most important description of “falling” in scripture. The “Falling Away.” Now brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the “falling away” comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts him