They are human beings... though their spirit may be of the devil.
Well, at least you're getting around to seeing TWO parties in the equations.
The working of Satan, the spirit of devils is "collective" in the flesh of ALL humanity.
The false messiah will go to the Temple and deceive people into thinking he is the true Messiah.
The temple is man. Satan and his own sit currently as "rulers" "kings of the earth" over the flesh of every spiritually blinded person. Acts 26:18, 2 Cor. 4:4.
God Himself will send them strong delusion, that they will believe this lie.
In 2 Thes. it speaks very specifically that this working is the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
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,
10 And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Paul also refers to this pseudo god as the defiler of the temple.
1 Corinthians 3:
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
The body dies because of sin. There is both the mystery of iniquity and the defiling of the temple.
We also know that God does NOT dwell in temples made with hands:
Acts 17:24
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 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.
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.
That temple can only be the body of MAN.