3Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
4Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
5Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
6And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
7For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
8And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
9Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,