2. What if you receive a prophecy, report or letter that is supposed to have come from us? What if it says that the day of the Lord has already come? If it does, we ask you not to become easily upset or alarmed.
3. Don't let anyone trick you in any way. That day will not come until people rise up against God. It will not come until the man of sin appears. He is a marked man. He is sentenced to be destroyed.
4. He will oppose everything that is called God. He will oppose everything that is worshiped. He will give himself power over everything. He will set himself up in God's temple. He will announce that he himself is God.
5. Don't you remember? When I was with you, I used to tell you those things.
6. Now you know what is holding the man of sin back. He is held back so that he can make his appearance at the right time.
7. The secret power of sin is already at work. But the one who now holds that power back will keep doing it until he is taken out of the way.
8. Then the man of sin will appear. The Lord Jesus will overthrow him with the breath of his mouth. The glorious brightness of Jesus' coming will destroy the man of sin.
9. The coming of the man of sin will be Satan's work. His work will be seen in all kinds of fake miracles, signs and wonders.