1 But we request you, brethren,in behalf of the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him,

2 That ye be not quickly tossed from your mind, nor be put in alarmeither by spirit, or by discourse, or by letter as by us, as that the day of the Lord, hath set in:

3 That no one may cheat, you, in any one respect. Because except the revolt come first, and there he revealed the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction,

4 The one who opposeth and exalteth himself on high against every one called God, or an object of worship; so that he, within the sanctuary of God, shall take his seat, showeth himself forth, that he is, God: