1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken from your understanding or alarmed by *any spirit or message or by any letter supposedly from us alleging that the day of *Christ has already come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any manner, for that day cannot come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of *sin is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god and object of worship, so that he sits *as God in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.