Beside the collossal disregard for God, this passage presents several important revelations.  First:  The expression “the God of his fathers” would seem to indicate that the Man of Sin would come from a lineage of Christians.  Second:  His disregard for the desire of women is evidence of his hatred of the true Messiah; for this reference is probably to the desire of every Jewish woman to be the mother of Messiah.  Third:  Those who acknowledge the strange god, (Satan), whom he honors, will be prospered, and the land will be divided unto them and he will give them authority and glory.

In the New Testament the Man of Sin is described as “the one who comes in his own name,” whom men will receive (Jno. 5:43); “that man of sin,” “the son of perdition” (II Thes. 2:3); “that Wicked one” (II Thes. 2:8); and the “beast” (Rev. 13:1), and to him Satan gives all the power and glory he offered to Christ (Lu. 4:5, 6).  Of the many references to him, two passages deal with him at length.  In the first (II Thes. 2:1-10), his coming is mentioned as directly following the removal of God’s present restraint from the earth; and in the second (Rev. 13:1-8), as has been shown, his coming is said to directly follow the casting of Satan from heaven into the earth (Rev. 12:7-12), and continues until the glorious appearing of Christ, which is described in Rev. 19 and 20.

The former passage (II Thes. 2:1-10) is as follows:  “Now, we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.  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; 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.  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?  And, now, ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:  only he who now letteth (restrains) will let, until he be taken out of the way.  And then shall that Wicked (one) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

In this passage it is predicted of this mighty person that he will assume to be very God, “sitting in the temple as God,” and winning the worship of the multitude by his miraculous power, signs, and lying wonders; deceiving all who perish, and who would not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved.