The office of Antichrist, as described in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4, is teeing this up for one of his successors to take it even further.
The confusion is purposeful so as to finesse it into ‘did God really say?’ like his spiritual father Satan did in the garden.
Genesis 18:21 niv
I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”