[sasportas]

Your is a "Johnny come lately" interpretation. There is no historical support for it. I mentioned Justin Martyr of the ECF who wrote about AD 140 the Antichrist would be "the man of the apostasy" (falling away). Here's another, Irenaeus AD 160, who, writing about the antichrist, interpreted "apostasy" in the passage at issue, 2 Thess. 2:3, for us. I put the word at issue in capitals:

"The apostle thus speaks in the second Epistle to the Thessalonians:

‘Unless there shall come A FALLING AWAY first, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God.

The apostle therefore clearly points out HIS APOSTASY, and that he is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped.'"

[Safrguns]

>>> Your is a “Johnny come lately” interpretation...

My interpretation lines up with other scriptures referencing the same EVENT.

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>>> The apostle therefore clearly points out HIS APOSTASY, and that he is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped.’”

The title of the thread points it’s finger at the church... or the bride of Christ as “falling away”... interpreting “falling away” as apostacy.

Now you say that the object of the passage in question is the Anti-Christ himself?

Which is it?