This conflict is to have a climax. The sin of man will head up in the
Man of Sin. This is he who shall come in the spirit and power of Satan,
the false Messiah. Jesus forewarned of his coming, when he said: “I am
come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come
in his own name, him ye will receive” (John 5:43). The Isaiah passage
describes not only the scene in heaven when Satan reached after the
throne of God, but it foreshadows the Man of Sin on earth, “the son
of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that
is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sitteth in the temple
of God, setting himself forth as God ... even he, whose coming is
according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that
they should believe a lie” (2 Thess. 2:3, 4, 9-11).