Also, the antichrist will have a statue of himself made, which will be set up in the temple the Jews will build, that the false prophet will supernaturally make speak. Satellite TV will broadcast events from there worldwide. The FP will begin to issue the marka the beast at the same time. (I believe the rapture will occur shortly before the AC comes to full power.)Paul is speaking to the Church at Thessalonia about what is happening in the Church, not the temple of old. According to Paul the man of sin, the son of perdition will be with or among believers in the temple of God, which Christians are.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 (KJV) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
To 'sitteth' in the temple of God simply means he is with the body of Christ, the Church because the Church being Christians are the temple of God.
Sitteth is defined from the Greek word kathízō which means to seat down, i.e. set (figuratively, appoint); intransitively, to sit (down); figuratively, to settle (hover, dwell):—continue, set, sit (down), tarry.
1 Corinthians 6:19 (KJV) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (KJV) Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Apparently some among them are trying to say that Christ has either already come again and they missed being caught up in the air with Him, or that His coming again was imminent. Neither of which is true. So, Paul explains that the coming of our Lord and our gathering unto Him will not come until certain things first come to pass. Then the wicked will be revealed and will be destroyed with the brightness of His coming.
2 Thessalonians 2:1 (KJV) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 Thessalonians 2:8-10 (KJV) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Shortly afterward, the great trib will occur, with the seals, trumpets, & vials judgments occurring together in rapid succession. Shortly after Jesus ends those judgments lest all life on earth perish, He will return. There'll be no "battle of armageddon", as the beast's armies, gathered to try to fight Jesus, will be wiped out by His spoken word there.
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