So is Dr David right? Is the falling away prophesied to be before the end time? No, not really.

Matthew 24:9 “Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 “And at that time many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another. (NASB2020)

Dr Jeremiah will insist on Scriptures literal interpretation, and with that insistence I certainly agree, but is what he stated above true to his understanding of the Bible end time Truth? That is the real question. In fact, the only question that is important is this: is it true to the Scripture? What he says is true to scripture, but not to his pre-Trib teaching. So, his statement is not even true to his own truth concerning end-time doctrine. He does not teach that believers can fall away. Does he?

“Then they will hand you over to Tribulation…And at that time many will fall away,…

If what he says is in keeping with the word, and it partially is; then though we may be close to the time of the Tribulation we have not yet seen the full effects of believers apostatizing. That happens after Tribulation. Therefore, Jesus has told us “abide in Me”, there is no other way to remain faithful and to keep from falling.

In Christ we are able to do all things. Without Him we are nothing.

If Jesus was talking to His disciples as a representative of Israel alone in Matt 24 as pre-Trib proposes, then He certainly did not say so. But if He was; then we should or can believe that this is not for me. So why does David Jeremiah make it about the church? On the other hand if that is the case Why did Jesus later say this to these same disciples?

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (NASB1995)

Interesting facts concerning the end of the age:

—For Daniel:

Daniel 12:13 “But as for you, go [your way] to the end; then you will rest and rise for your allotted portion at the end of the age.” (NASB2020)

—For the Sadducees Jesus said:

Luke 20:34 Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and [the women] are given in marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; 36 for they cannot even die anymore, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. (NASB2020)

Jesus seems to closely associate the end of the age and the resurrection with no distinguishing of either. I can find no verse or passage in Scripture referring to a separate church age. Interesting? Jesus does say on this rock I will build my church. The rock: thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. Pentecost was we are told the birth of that Church:

Acts 2:41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. (NASB2020)

I always wondered: if the church was not established until that day; for if it was not; then to what were these souls who were added that day actually added?

If we consider the Olive tree of Romans 11; was that tree meant to be a picture or representation of the church? I ask because the tree of Romans is also added to. We are added because we believe in its root who is Christ. He is the root in O.T. Scripture. Also when in paradise for three days and nights He preached to the dead in Abraham’s bosom. Even all in hell heard His message according to Peter. Could this have been the beginning of the church to which these 3000 souls were added? If you find a church age on the pages of Scripture let me know. The first resurrection has a definite reference specific to time in Revelation. Also interesting.

David Jeremiah is taking scripture he has always deemed heretofore to apply only to the Israel of Tribulation, and he is now because of the direction of our own history saying that this prophecy is for the church, which is already compromising itself, and the Tribulation is not even here yet. This is where he just might be correct.