Psalm 41: 9 says "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me."
Then John 13: 18 says "I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me."
Matthew 26: 14-15: "Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15. And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."
"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled." John 17: 12
Perdition is from απωλειας, apoleias.
"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." II Thessalonians 2: 3
Perdition is from, ἀπώλεια,apoleia, See:
http://biblehub.com/greek/684.htm
"apóleia. Short Definition: destruction, ruin, loss"
"Definition: destruction, ruin, loss, perishing; eternal ruin."
"684 apṓleia (from 622 /apóllymi, "cut off") – destruction, causing someone (something) to be completely severed – cut off (entirely) from what could or should have been. (Note the force of the prefix, apo.) See 622 (apollymi)."
Daniel 9: 27: "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Is the overspreading of abomination by which he shall make it desolate in Daniel 9: 27 the same thing as the man of sin, the son of perdition, sitting in the temple of God in II Thessalonians 2: 3-4?
Remember that Acts 7: 48 says "Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet."
I Corinthians 3: 16 "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
I Corinthians 6: 19: "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
God does not dwell in temples made by human hands in the New Covenant? So how could II Thessalonians 2: 3-4 be a literal prophecy saying that the man of sin is to sit in the temple of God.opposing God and claiming to be God, as the abomination of desolation?
The Greek word apoleias in John 17: 12 and apoleia in II Thessalonians 2: 3 are the only uses of this word in the New Testament. The word means destruction, ruin, loss, perishing, eternal ruin. And that word in II Thessalonians 2: 3-4 is associated with an αποστασια, apostasy.
Paul is using the man of sin in II Thessalonains 2: 3-4 who is the son of perdition - or of spiritual destruction and ruin - sitting in the temple of God in a way that is not literal because of Acts 7: 48, I Corinthians 3: 16 and i Corinthians 6: 19.
The falling away that Paul is predicting in II Thessalonains 2: 3-4 is said to involve a spiritual destruction or ruin, The man of sin sits in the temple of God which in the New Covenant is the hearts and minds of the believers. This occupation of the hearts and minds of the believers then must be the spiritual destruction or ruin.
And so, is the focus of II Thessalonians 2: 3-4 upon an abomination of desolation, as a literal desecration of the temple of God which is not honored by God in the New Covenant, or an event such as The Great Revolt, the first of the rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire, which was a military fight to maintain Talmudic Judaism, not only against Rome but also against Christ and his Everlasting New Covenant?
The question of an apostasy happening within the hearts and minds of believers in the First Century is what has to be raised here for II Thessalonians 2: 3-4. In fact, a major apostasy within Christianity did not occur until after Constantine - after AD 312. The Jewish revolt in the First Century was not an apostasy within Chrisitianity, but an opposition of those who wanted to maintain the Old Covenant to those who opposed them.
