Step still to come (one reading among others)
The man of lawlessness revealed (2 Thess 2)
? Not yet happened, no date
See the full entry: sources, objections, answersIn short
The announcement. The apostle Paul, in his second letter to the Thessalonians, announces that after a great falling away from the faith, a “man of sin” will appear, will set himself above everything that is called God and will proclaim himself God.
What happened. This has not happened yet. According to Paul, the falling away comes first, then this man is revealed, and he is then destroyed by the Lord Jesus at his coming.
What is still debated. the idea that a system of evil could exist before the man who embodies it is a possible reading, not a statement of the text.
Main objection (in French for now)
Le système peut précéder l’homme qui l’incarne : c’est une hipótesis cohérente avec 2 Th 2, pas une affirmation du texte.
The text (World English Bible)
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction. He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the ma…
2 Thess 2:3-10