1 Now concerning the coming  * of our Lord  * Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to be easily upset or troubled, either by a prophecy  *,* or by a message or by a letter supposedly from us, alleging that the day of the Lord  *,* has come.  *3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy  * comes first and the man of lawlessness  * is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god  * or object of worship,  * so that he sits  * in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.