#4 - Evil in the Temple? 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 - A Future Man of Lawlessness? Or Maybe Not.
As I mentioned in my previous blog, there are three New Testament passages that are interpreted as speaking of a future Temple in Jerusalem (i.e. Matt. 24:15, 2 Thess. 2:4, and Rev. 11:1-2). The second of three New Testament passages that have been interpreted as predicting the rebuilding of a future temple is 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 which states, 1 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters , regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every ...