CLV(i)
3 No one should be deluding you by any method, for, should not the apostasy be coming first and the man of lawlessness be unveiled, the son of destruction,
4 who is opposing and lifting himself up over everyone termed a god or an object of veneration, so that he is seated in the temple of God, demonstrating that he himself is God?
5 Do you not remember that, still being with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you are aware what is detaining, for him to be unveiled in his own era."
7 For the secret of lawlessness is already operating. Only when the present detainer may be coming to be out of the midst,
8 then will be unveiled the lawless one (whom the Lord Jesus will despatch with the spirit of His mouth and will discard by the advent of His presence),
9 whose presence is in accord with the operation of Satan, with all power and signs and false miracles"
10 and with every seduction of injustice among those who are perishing, because they do not receive the love of the truth for their salvation."
11 And therefore God will be sending them an operation of deception, for them to believe the falsehood,