1 Concerning
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to be with
him: I beg you, my friends,
2 not to be
so easily confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of the
Lord has come. Perhaps it is thought that we said this while prophesying or
preaching, or that we wrote it in a letter.
3 Do not let anyone deceive you in any way. For the Day
will not come until the final Rebellion takes place and the Wicked One appears,
who is destined to hell.
4 He
will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above
them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.
5 Don't you remember? I told you
all this while I was with you.
6 Yet
there is something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is.
At the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear.
7 The Mysterious Wickedness is already at work, but what is
going to happen will not happen until the one who holds it back is taken out of
the way.
8 Then
the Wicked One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him
with the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence.
9 The
Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false
miracles and wonders,
10 and use every
kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they
did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
11 And so God sends the power of error to work in them so
that they believe what is false.
12 The
result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in
sin, will be condemned.
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