3. Don’t be fooled by what they say. For that day will not come until there is a great rebellion against God and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the one who brings destruction.
4. He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
5. Don’t you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you?
6. And you know what is holding him back, for he can be revealed only when his time comes.
7. For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way.
8. Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming.
9. This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles.