[JohnnyM]

How do you guys interpret 2 Thess 2:

3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it[the coming of Christ] will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

Did this event already happen in 70 AD at the destruction of the temple or is this still in the future?

JM

[tabsternager]

You didn’t address me, and I don’t really know who the man of lawlessness was.

But what I do know is that since there’s no third temple mentioned in the Bible, he took his seat in the last one. Also, note the following verses:

Thessalonians 2:6-7: And now you know what IS holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness IS ALREADY at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

[Lee N. Field]

"4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God."

Did this event already happen in 70 AD at the destruction of the temple or is this still in the future?

This has been gone over before. One of Paul's metaphor for the church is as the temple. The picture is not of a Romanian creep taking up residence in a reconstructed temple building at the end of time, but of an arch-deceiver arising in the midst of the church. IMHO, yet future.

[topcat54]

Here's one interpretation from a preterist perceptive.

The Man of Lawlessness: A Preteristic Postmillennial Interpretation of 2 Thessalonians 2 by Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.

I personally have not worked through all the implications of 2 Thess. 2.