2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 - The Man Of Lawlessness Will Be Revealed

¹ Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, I entreat you, brothers, ² not to be "quickly shaken out of your wits" and not to be agitated either by a spirit or by a message, or by an epistle purporting to be from me, saying, "The Day of the Lord is at hand." ³ Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition, ⁴ the adversary, who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or is an object of worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, and vaunts himself as God.

⁵ Do you not recall that I often told you this, when I was with you? ⁶ And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed; ⁸ and then the lawless one will be revealed. Him the Lord will consume with the breath of his lips, and destroy with the brightness of his appearing; ⁹ even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder, ¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. ¹¹ For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood; ¹² so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.