In previous articles on this web-site we have spoken about Apollo as Lucifer. The article "The Beasts of Revelation" is recommended reading for this revealing..
In II Thessalonians 2:1-9 we read: " Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That yea 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.
3 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;
4 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.
5 Remember yea not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now yea know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,….."
What is made clear from these previous verses is that before the Lord’s people are "gathered together unto HIM (Jesus)" there are two events that must occur. First, there would be a great falling away or "apostasia"(verse 3). Anyone would have to completely blind not to see that the Christian churches and Christian Ministries are completely out of touch with the Spirit of the Most High God. Second that the "son of perdition" would be revealed.
Modern scholars are making erroneous assumptions as to who this "son of perdition" may be. This individual man known in our common vernacular as the "Anti-Christ" is presumed to be the son of perdition.
(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthur.html ).
I believe this identification of the Anti-Christ as the son of perdition is true on one layer, but what is important to recognize is that there is a SPECIFIC spirit behind the Anti-Christ and that is who we are searching for here.
The following paragraph is an excerpt from the article "The Beasts of Revelation":
"Apollo is also the beast in Revelation 17:8. Wherein is stated that the beast "was, and is not and is" and goeth into perdition. The Greek name for perdition is apoleia. In Rev. 9:11 the Greek for Apollyon is "destroyer" and the Greek word apoleia not only means perdition but also destruction as seen in Mathew 17:3. These are two interesting etymological references pointing to the identity of Apollo as the beast. Apollo seen as the eighth would be another topic; he being associated with the sun could indicate a period of seven or eight "suns". Considering that Apollo is the beast we can also make an association that the beast out of the bottomless pit that kills the two witnesses in Revelation 11:7 is also Apollo. Keep in mind that the King over the bottomless pit in Rev. 9:11 is Apollyon and he is called a Beast out of the bottomless pit in Revelation 11:7! Thus we start to see how this all makes sense and fits so well into other scriptures in seeing the beast as Apollo and not the Dragon".
Notice here that the word perdition is "apoleia", also notice the connection between Apollo as not only the beast but also the strong etymological connection with Apollo and the word "perdition"! There are other articles on this site about Apollo, showing that he is also known as Lucifer. Apollo is Lucifer, not Satan. What we know about Apollo/Lucifer is that he is associated with "the dawn" (Isaiah 14) and that he attempts to be LIKE THE MOST HIGH as seen in Isaiah 14:13-14. Notice the similar language of these verses in Isaiah and II Thess 2:9 in the context of attempting to be like the most high.
A thorough study of apollyian mythology strongly suggests that Apollo is associated with the Sun as he is often called a type of Sun god. Apollo is seen associated with the sun because it would seem he was originally created to be a similitude of THE SON of the Most High God. A Christ Like figure. Evidence suggests that Apollo and Artemis were once "married" and where originally created by the most High God to be a similitude of the Bridegroom and Bride that we see mentioned so often in scripture. To put it another way Apollo and Artemis were created to be represent a powerful likeness of Christ and his Church, until of course they rebelled. What this information tells us is that at one time before their fall the Lord’s once Holy creation, Apollo, was a Christ like Figure. One could say that Apollo was originally "created in the Image of Jesus" and Artemis was created in the image of the Holy Spirit as it appears that Apollo’s bride, Artemis, was a similitude of the Holy Ghost. Of course, post rebellion they are anything but this.
The picture we get from the evidence of Apollo as Lucifer, the light bearer, is that he was created as a type of son and in him this quality was once represented as the brightness of a sun. The article on this site: "The Seven Heads in Revelation are Still Not Seven Consecutive Leaders" is useful information for this subject of Apollo, the sun and Lucifer.
It becomes clear from many pieces of evidence that the "Son of Perdition" in II Thess. 2 is Apollo. Or put another way the specific spirit that is driving the Anti-Christ is Apollo. Apollo is the son of perdition, the man of sin to be revealed in II Thessalonians 2:3. Apollo, once a Christ like figure, now in the end is reduced to the pathetic miserable role of "Anti-Christ".
The man known as the Anti-Christ is an image of the fallen angel Apollo. Other references on this site make it clear that Apollo is also the "beast" in Revelation 13. Thus the Anti-Christ as the image of Apollo also becomes the Anti-Christ as the image of the beast! Revelation 20:10.