If I understand this correctly, you are saying that the falling away is among the unsaved? That is not what the Word says....If I'm wrong, could you please clarify....Talk to me as though I had dementia.
It is clear that Jesus warns that the end time will be very difficult times and many will fall away. He asks: “will I find any faithful” before His return.
We are repeatedly told to watch and be ready and to hold steadfast in the doctrine of the Truth as recorded in scripture.
We are warned that in the last days there will be a great reversal in society. Good will become evil and evil will become good, right will become wrong and wrong will become right, the natural will become unnatural and the unnatural will become natural, lies will become the truth and truth will become the lie...
This great reversal in society is the falling away. When society no longer looks to and defends God’s Word, God give them up to the strong delusion. There are only two options: follow God or follow self (Satan). Satan is the father of all lies. He whispers to every soul to follow self and to do as you please. If you denounce yourself and your self pleasure, then you are still listening to and following God.
Look at the church today: the community church is all but gone. In its place is the mega church. No real accountability, come when you want, be entertained by a music band, listen to a feel good message, grab some coffee and donuts, buy the pastors books and tapes, then go home and do as you please. No more preaching of denying self; a life of hardship and sacrifice and carrying the cross, not becoming conformed to this world, not being too comfortable in this world, and to denounce idols.
There is a large number of people professing to be “Christians” but in name only. Maintaining their comfortable bubble is their primary concern. This my friend is falling away from the truth and the life Jesus lived.
When the disciples asked Jesus when His return would be, he told us to not be deceived. Meaning, many would fall away from the truth...then He would come as a thief in the night.
So it is clear to me that Christianity will become perverted by false prophets. All of society will be under attack by secular false prophets.
God has been forced out of society since the 60s. Society has embraced the doctrine of self and self pleasure. Yet we see the evidence that society is morally bankrupt.
I was a member of Calvary Chapel and was baptized by Chuck Smith. On one of the walls on the church property was the saying “Jesus is coming back soon.” That saying was removed. I never hear mention of Jesus coming back soon anymore, except from the older generation who still hold to the promises of God.
When Jesus returns for His church it will be to take away those who have not falling away, nor succumbed to the strong delusion. Many who claimed to be Christians will be left behind. You cannot serve two masters.