2Thessalonians:2:1-12

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* Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him , I entreat you , brothers , * 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 ." * 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 , * 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 . * Do you not recall that I often told you this , when I was with you ? * And now you know what is holding him back , to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time . * 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 ; * 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 ; * even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan , in every power and sign and lying wonder , * and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing , because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation . * For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion , that they should put faith in a falsehood ; * so that they all should be condemned , who are faithless to the truth , but take pleasure in evil .

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