JESUS DOES NOT COME BACK UNTIL...

The Word of God, through the Apostle Paul,

Makes very Clear

That Christ Jesus does not come back

Until the Man of Lawlessness is revealed.

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The Man Of Lawlessness

CONCERNING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

And out being gathered to Him,

We ask you brothers,

2 Not to become easily unsettled or alarmed

By some prophecy, report of letter

Supposed to have come from us, saying

THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS ALREADY COME.

3 DON'T LET ANYONE DECEIVE YOU IN ANY WAY,

FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNTIL THE REBELLION OCCURS

AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED,

THE MAN DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION.

4 HE OPPOSES AND EXALTS HIMSELF OVER EVERYTHING

THAT IS CALLED GOD OR IS WORSHIPED,

AND SET HIMSELF UP IN GOD'S TEMPLE,

PROCLAIMING HIMSELF TO BE GOD.

5 Don't you remember that when I was with you

I used to tell you these things?

6 And now you know what is holding him back,

SO THAT HE MAY BE REVEALED AT THE PROPER TIME.

7 FOR THE SECRET POWER OF LAWLESSNESS IS ALREADY AT WORK;

BUT THE ONE WHO HOLDS IT BACK

WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL HE IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.

8 AND THEN THE LAWLESSNESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED,

WHOM THE LORD JESUS WILL OVERTHROW

WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH

AND DESTROY BY THE SPLENDOR OF HIS COMING.

9 THE COMING OF THE LAWLESS ONE

WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WORK OF SATAN

DISPLAYED IN ALL KINDS OF COUNTERFEIT

MIRACLES, SIGNS AND WONDERS,

10 AND EVERY SORT OF EVIL

THAT DECIEVES THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING.

THEY PERISH BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO LOVE THE TRUTH

AND SO BE SAVED.

11 FOR THIS REASON

GOD SENDS THEM A POWERFUL DELUSION

SO THAT THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE

12 AND SO ALL WILL BE CONDEMNED

WHO HAVE NOT BELIEVED THE TRUTH

BUT HAVE DELIGHTED IN WICKEDNESS.

(2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)