For so many these are such hard things to read, even as very strong believers, we can allow ourselves to be tempted to look back like Lot's wife and wish things where different maybe, to devise some romantic/victorious scheme to make it all make sense even though the facts are so plainly in front of us. Praying for you as you offer up these articles for reading and praying for those who read them, that they not allow their hearts to go away from Him in some wrong direction, guided by wishful thinking not in accordance with His Word.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/2Th/2Th002.html#3
2Th 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;