A Barna Survey says that church attendance has been declining nationwide over past ten years! The March 25, 2014, report says regular church attendance has declined from 43 percent in 2004 to 36 percent in 2014. Why? Now let us read II Thessalonians 2:3 and then we will break the Greek words down for a better understanding! “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, that the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” Comment: So why Pastor’s are pulling out what hair they have left on their head trying to figure out drop in church attendance the scriptures themselves provide the answer! So what does the term “Falling away” mean? The Greek means to abandon the first to rule! The author of creation! To abandon Christ himself! You see your drop in church attendance is a refection of a culture that is abandoning Christ! The word man used in this scripture is irrespective of gender! It is a spiritual condition! Sin meaning missing the end of your true purpose! The word perdition is an interesting word! The Greek translates this word as the condition of men after death exempt from Salvation! So a drop in church attendance is prophetic as we near the end of time! It is not to say we and Pastor’s should not try to be better in our presentation of the Gospel but also not to deny scriptures to popular culture to be please the crowd! It goes on in verse 4 to say they make themselves God! That is the most dangerous position for any culture to be in! We see reflections of this in our culture with promotion of socialism, global warming, abortion, open borders, anti-Semitism, Christian mockery and more! The greatest destruction of the world as history has shown us is when man makes himself God! Atheism along with Darwinism are two outstanding examples! So keep the faith in Christ and understand these signs are prophetic and means Jesus second coming and the rapture of his church is near! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com