1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering
together to him, we ask you

2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind
or troubled, either by spirit or by word or
by letter as if from us, saying that the day
of Christ has already come.

3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For
it will not be unless the rebellion† comes
first, and the manof sinis revealed,the son
of destruction.

4 He opposes and exalts himself against
all that is called God or that is worshiped,
so that he sits as God in the temple of God,
setting himself up as God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was
still with you, I told you these things?
6Now you know whatis restraining him,
to the end that he may be revealed in his
own season.

7 For the mystery of lawlessness already
works. Only there is one who restrains
now, until he is taken out of the way.

8 Then the lawless one will be revealed,
whom the Lord will kill with the breath of
his mouth and destroy by the manifestation
of his coming;

9 even he whose coming is according to
the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders,