Gee, I don't red it that way. Paul no where in 1 Thess mentions the lawless one, yet he refers his readers back to what he had told them about their being gathered to Jesus. Further, it is the Day of The Lord which will not arrive unless the 'falling away'/departure and the revealing of the lawless one be revealed. Paul did not teach the folks to look for the arrival of antichrist. He told them in 1 Thess 1:9%10 that Jesus has delivered them fromt he wrath to come, and that wrath is with the anti-christ on the scene but not eh Church/body of believers.
Interestingly, in Luke the phrasing is 'before these things, and in Matthew the phrasing is 'after these things' and both passages (Luke 21 and Matthew 24) point to the wars, famine, et5c. as the before these things and after these things.
Gee, I don't red it that way. Paul no where in 1 Thess mentions the lawless one, yet he refers his readers back to what he had told them about their being gathered to Jesus. Further, it is the Day of The Lord which will not arrive unless the 'falling away'/departure and the revealing of the lawless one be revealed. Paul did not teach the folks to look for the arrival of antichrist. Well, the Day of The Lord in this contexts is used with being gathered to Jesus. We will find out which position is True, while the main issue is to keep looking to Christ, and "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." (Acts 14:22)it