'Now we beseech you, my brothers,
.. with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
.... and our gathering together to Him,
...... that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled,
........ neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us,
.......... as if the Day of Christ is at hand.
Let not anyone deceive you by any means.
.. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away,
.... and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
...... who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped,
........ so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?
.. And now you know what holds back,
.... for him to be revealed in his own time.
...... And now ye know what withholdeth
........ that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
.. only he who now letteth will let,
..... until he be taken out of the way.
........ And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
........... whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth,
....,........ and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:'
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
.. with all power and signs and lying wonders,
.... And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
...... because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
.. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
.... but had pleasure in unrighteousness.'
(2 Thess. 2:3-12)
