² ·Do not [We ask/request that you don’t] become ·easily [quickly] ·upset [unsettled; shaken] in your thinking or ·afraid [disturbed; alarmed] if you hear that the day of the Lord has already come [^Cthe time of Christ’s return and the judgments associated with it]. Someone may have said this ·in a prophecy [^Lby a spirit; or by the Spirit] or ·in a message [or by word of mouth] or in a letter as if it came from us [^Ca forged letter]. ³ Do not let anyone ·fool [deceive] you in any way. That day of the Lord [v. 2] will not come until the ·turning away from God [great rebellion; apostasy; Matt. 24:11–12; 1 Tim. 4:1; 2 Tim. 3:1–5; 2 Pet. 2:3; Jude 18] happens and the Man of ·Evil^[a] [Wickedness; ^LLawlessness; ^Cprobably the Antichrist; 1 John 2:18; Rev. 13], ·who is on his way to hell [^Lthe son of destruction; John 17:12], appears. ⁴ He will ·be against [defy; oppose] and ·put himself above [exalt himself against] any so-called god or ·anything that [any object that; or any place where] people worship [Is. 14:13–14; Ezek. 28:2–9; Dan. 11:36] ·and [or so that] he will even go into the Temple of God and sit there and ·say that he is [present himself as] God.