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troubled, neither by spirit nor by word nor by

letter as from us.” He's saying, "Now, we've not

written a letter in reference to this,” and he

said, “Be not troubled as that the day of Christ

is at hand,” but, he says in verses 3 and 4, “Let

no man deceive you by any means: for that

day”— that is, the day of Christ—“shall not

come except there come a falling away first” —

that is, apostasy, a forsaking of the truth —

“and that man of sin be revealed, the son of

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perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself

above all that is called God, or that is

worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the

temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

And we read in verse 7, “the mystery of

iniquity.” That is the exact opposite of the

mystery of godliness that we'll read about in a

few moments. He says here in verse 7, "For the

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