I'm wondering how the verse that
@frederick reference in the other thread connects to this info.
"When considering the claims pseudo-christs and pseudo-teachers make, and what people will be led to believe, there really are no limits to their excesses. Writing about the last days and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, Paul reminded the Thessalonian saints that one of the actions of the lawless one will be to sit in the temple of God showing himself that he is God (2 Thes. 2:3-4). Because people want anything but the truth, the majority will accept those claims and worship him, taking his mark."
I am not sure there is a singular antichrist, there are many ante-christs (substitute christs) and each individual can reject His kingdom.
Paul wrote about the mystery of lawlessness being that which exalts self above the knowledge (instruction/wisdom?) of God.
There is only one thing we can give Him, and that is our will, doing His instead if our own. Most want to BE THEIR OWN GOD.....not obey the living God. (Christians sitting in the temple that should be His doin' their own thing?)
As someone once said "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried."