Let no man deceive you by any means [note well the warning against deception in regard to this truth]: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (2 Thess. 2:3). This, then, is perfectly clear: that day cannot come until two things happen. First a “falling away” (the apostasy of the last days) followed by the revelation of the Man of Sin. The coming of the Antichrist will usher in and precede the Tribulation. Notice also