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Brothers and sisters, we have this request to make of you about our Lord Jesus Christ's coming and our gathering to meet him.
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Don't get upset right away or alarmed when someone claims that we said through some spirit, conversation, or letter that the day of the Lord has already come.
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Don't let anyone deceive you about this in any way. [That day cannot come unless] a revolt takes place first, and the man of sin, the man of destruction, is revealed.
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He opposes every so-called god or anything that is worshiped and places himself above them, sitting in God's temple and claiming to be God.
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Don't you remember that I told you about these things when I was still with you?
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You know what it is that now holds him back, so that he will be revealed when his time comes.