Apostasy

Discuss the apostasy.

Discuss the apostasy.
In Acts 20: 29-30 “29 For I know this, that after my departing shall agrievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking aperverse things, to bdraw away disciples after them.” We read how Paul sees the apostasy happening in the first century.
It teaches that it is real and is fast approaching.

Verses 31-32 “31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to awarn every one night and day with tears.
32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an ainheritance among all them which are sanctified.” He iterates that it’s not new news and he has been teaching for many years that the apostasy will happen. He also teaches that that it will happen in their lifetime, in the first century.

In Verses 33-34 he shows them he wasn’t doing things to make money. “ 33 I have acoveted no man’s silver, or bgold, or apparel.
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these ahands have bministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.”
He tells them how he spreads the gospel and calls people to repentance because he loves it and finds joy and happiness from doing so. He doesn’t travel around teaching because he wants to gain money or worldly riches.

If we relate the apostasy and the catholic church, as Dr. Hoztofel does in an analogy, we can think of it as the first century church being a house that burns down. Then the catholics show up and begin to rebuild the house. Sometimes they would get it right, and sometimes they would get it wrong. But, the catholics did not burn the church down.