2 Thessalonians 2
1BUT RELATIVE to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and our gathering together to [meet] Him, we beg you, brethren,
2Not to allow your minds to be quickly unsettled or disturbed or kept excited or alarmed, whether it be by some [pretended] revelation of [the] Spirit or by word or by letter [alleged to be] from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has [already] arrived and is here.
3Let no one deceive or beguile you in any way, for that day will not come except the [
1] apostasy comes first [unless the predicted great [
2] falling away of those who have professed to be Christians has come], and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, who is the son of doom (of perdition),(
1)
4Who opposes and exalts himself so proudly and insolently against and over all that is called God or that is worshiped, [even to his actually] taking his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.(
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What is the time frame for this "falling away?" Is it still to come? Or has it already come, long ago. I know it is the latter.
What is the "temple of God" spoken of here? A Jewish temple in Jerusalem? Why would Paul call the temple of God here a Jewish temple in the latter days but define the temple of God in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 as something else?