Of course you do not address your fallacy of using the word (it). I believe you're this first person that I've heard that doesn't believe the Beast of Revelation Rev 13, the man of sin 2nd Thess, and the AC in this passage are not the same. I do understand why you must believe that way for your eschatology to work. I feel I'm in good company to believe they're the same. Who does believe they're different men ? Could you supply some references please ?
I don't accept it. It is the FP. I do not accept that it already happened in the 1st century.
There is only 1 human in Revelation 3. It is the FP and comes out of both Daniel's beast and the "wonder" is that humans link this current religious/political human to one of Daniel's former beast, particularly the one who also "had" an abomination of desolation. This current FP will also have an image made which will also come to life and be a false messiah. The other beast is Satan.
Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 is still talking about the relationship between Satan and this FP from Daniel's prophecy. Satan is the lawless one still alive since Daniel's time, 2500 years. No man can live that long. The FP is "brought back" and the relationship continues, after the Second Coming. Satan is being revealed, it is no longer a hidden fact. Denying this point will not prevent it. It is already out there.
7 For already this separating from
Torah is at work secretly, but it will be secretly only until he who is restraining is out of the way.
8 Then the one who embodies separation from
Torah will be revealed, the one whom the Lord Yeshua
will slay with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the glory of his coming.
The full effect is not until the church leaves with the Holy Spirit. The main reason the Second Coming is first.
Then Satan will be revealed, but to the church. Paul does not describe the whole world. They would not understand any way.
The false conclusion is that Satan is destroyed immediately at the Second Coming. That is not a correct view. Even at the battle of Armageddon, this is the reference, Satan is still alive, but bound for another 1000 years, then again destroyed by fire from God in heaven, not a coming of Christ. Paul only mentions the battle of Armageddon event.
After the Second Coming after the 7th Trumpet starts, then:
9 When this man who avoids
Torah comes (the FP), the Adversary (Satan) will give him the power to work all kinds of false miracles, signs and wonders.
10 He will enable him to deceive, in all kinds of wicked ways, those who are headed for destruction because they would not receive the love of the truth that could have saved them.
11 This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie.
12 The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.
This is then Revelation 13:3-7
3 One of the heads of the beast appeared to have received a fatal wound, but its fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed after the beast (FP) in amazement.
4 They worshipped the dragon (Satan), because he had given his authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying,
“Who is like the beast?
Who can fight against it?”
5 It was given a mouth speaking arrogant blasphemies; and it was given authority to act for forty-two months.
6 So it opened its mouth in blasphemies against God to insult his name and his
Sh’khinah, and those living in heaven; 7 it was allowed to make war on God’s holy people and to defeat them; and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.
Paul is in agreement with John that Satan gives power and authority to the FP, and the second time in history this has happened.
Daniel 11:36-37
36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt himself and consider himself greater than any god, and he will utter monstrous blasphemies against the God of gods. He will prosper only until the period of wrath is over, for what has been determined must take place.
37 He will show no respect for the gods his ancestors worshipped, or for the god women worship — he won’t show respect for any god, because he will consider himself greater than all of them.
38 But instead, he will honor the god of strongholds; with gold, silver, precious stones and other costly things he will honor a god unknown to his ancestors.
39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god (Satan). He will confer honor on those he acknowledges, causing them to rule over many and distributing land as a reward.
It was already fulfilled once and Jesus told those who listened then, they already understood what he was talking about. Matthew 24:15
15 “So when you see
the abomination that causes devastation spoken about through the prophet Dani’el standing in the Holy Place” (let the reader understand the allusion)