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Who Is It That Restrains the Anti-Christ? The man of lawlessness soon to be revealed. by Pastor Gary Boyd


The Anti-Christ now has a restrainer, this one to be revealed, the lawless rebellious one, is currently being restrained by the, you guessed it, the Holy Spirit. Paul says in scripture, “And now ye know who witholdeth that He might be revealed in his time.” (2nd Thess. 2:6). In other words his time is not yet, but some future date; we know not the name of the lawless one. Again we see the term referring to the apocalypse, or revelation, of the Anti-Christ. It cannot happen as long as the Holy Spirit is restraining him, holding him back. The very next verse notes, “For the mystery of iniquity (sin) does already work; only He who now letteth will let, until He (Holy Spirit) is taken out of the way.” (verse 7)
The Holy Spirit
So where is the Holy Spirit now? It is in every single true Christian of the true Church. So when the restrainer (Holy Spirit) is gone so will be the Christians in the rapture which is now imminent.
Notice now that the restrainer is now called “He” --- a person. Paul enlightened us with that foretelling back in the first century. The “mystery of lawlessness” has been at work ever since. That certain something, or someone, is restraining the revealing of the Anti-Christ. The only one who qualifies to be that something or He is the Holy Spirit of God. The only person in the whole universe of all creation powerful enough to restrain the rise of the Anti-Christ is God himself by way of the Holy Spirit. So our God is restraining the revealing of the man of perdition, that one who will corrupt, confuse and obfuscate the truth.

The Anti-Christ Resource
Paul tells us that the resource of the Anti-Christ is, indeed, Satan himself. He explains that once the restrainer is removed (when the Church is raptured home to heaven and the Holy Spirit withdraws his empowerment of the Church), the Anti-Christ will then be revealed.
“And then shall the Wicked, be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders” (the occult). 2 Thess. 2:8-9).
Power Behind the Beast
So, in other words, the power behind the Beast is Satan, described in the book of Revelation as the dragon. The Anti-Christ then is alive and well on the earth today waiting to be empowered by Satan, positioning himself to move into power as soon as the Holy Spirit is gone.
When the man of perdition does come to power his religion will be one of deception with his resource being Satan himself. The lawless ones attitude will be, “the world must follow me, my beliefs, my ideas, and my concepts.” John described the Anti-Christ in Revelation 13:1: “And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea.” John says later that the sea is the symbol of humanity. So this beast is a human being – he rises out of humanity. He will serve as the final culmination of the great Gentile world rulers of the day.


Not Jew or Muslim
The Anti-Christ will not be a practicing Jew. Why would a orthodox Jew make a treaty with the Jews to protect the Jews? Why would he then break that treaty and turn against his own people? He is not a Muslim. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that indicates the Anti-Christ is a Muslim. Everything in scripture implies he is coming out of Europe, from the Western world. He will be leading the Gentiles. To be continued at a later date.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

robmull Loc: florida

Although since about the beginning of Bible Prophesy, ziggy, some in-touch with the "end times" have been predicting "mysteries" in our Holy Bible that were only to be revealed in the actual "end times." Dates have come and gone. In each generation there was adequate cause to believe the end times were upon them, from the Noah "flood," to Hurricane Katrina, to the World Wars to Vietnam, "believers" were getting ready for "the big one;" and God bless those who are keeping track of each piece of the Biblical puzzle that now seem to be falling onerously and rapidly into place. And God bless America. Now with the worlds biggest terrorist Nation being given $151,000,000,000.00 by America for nuclear capabilities, are "WE" the "Mystery Babylon" mentioned in the Bible??? Hummmmm. "WE" must now be sure to keep our eyes wide-open, and peeled for ANY person who comes into our world view with a message of peace and love and hope and change; and only provides and delivers the exact opposite. Any wild guesses yet as to who THAT could POSSIBLY be??? Hummmmmmm, again.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Alexander the Great
Ivan the Terrible
Lenin
Chavez
Hitler

Hmmmmm think again.

robmull Loc: florida

Nero would have been a great "contender," dummy, but be sure to keep your eyes peeled and your finger on-the-pulse!!! Do you see anything yet, dummy??? God, look who I'm asking.

ziggy88 Loc: quincy illinois 62301

Thing is scripture says we will not know who the anti-christ is for sure until he makes a seven year peace treaty with Israel. God says that identifies him as the anti-Christ which starts the 7 year tribulation. We are currently approaching Psalms 83 prophecy that says Israel will do a pre-emptive strike on its Arab neighbors and takes back all of the promised land expanding its land four fold.
There are 22 chapters in Revelation that John wrote while he was sharing a vision which tells of the end of this world as we know it. We have now gone through 3 ½ chapters of the 22 that leads to the beginning of the end.
Christians of the true Church will not endure the wrath of God scripture states. So to escape we must be gone in the rapture before the Tribulation starts and God says that will start when the Anti-Christ is known and pledges the seven year peace treaty. Get saved while you can brother so you will be in the rapture, it will not be easy living in the tribulation....

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

...which was the point, you're dumb as they come and a sucker to boot.

Orrie

Won't be so stupid when you're kneeling before Jesus Christ to give an accounting of yourself.

bggamers Loc: georgia

your name suits you

:lol:

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

"I have been humbled, and in fact have humiliated myself, but in this instance, believe me, I am happy to be humbled. I was wrong, --- Thanks God (at least on the timing) Past performance did Not, indicate future results as I expected. And the unbelievably ridiculous number of catastrophic indicators and things happening that were all converging in the last 20 days of September caused me to wrongly presume that it had to come about during that timeframe. Technically speaking , what did have definite dates attached to it, traditionally have had a year leeway, but I wrongly presumed it had to come about during those last 20 days with so much happening in September.

Anyway, I hope you all won't mind if I don't respond to all the hateful responses this deserves and that I'm sure I will get. I can't defend myself on this one. Like I said I was wrong. And worst of all, arrogantly, so. I have no excuse. I can only offer my humble apology."

STEVE700

Steve666, he's hoping for the end of the word, so he can eat your flesh......LOL

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Wow, Jesus is judging me, not God???? What are you: Mormon or something?

Or a complete unknowledgable, talking out 'yer a__ person?

Orrie when he was a Young Retard Poster Child

PZG1225 Loc: Florida

Dumbo...you have a sinister, satanic nature about you. You just completely unravel at the mention of God....Christ...or anything of a Biblical nature. And yes, you WILL one day be bowing at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ. Unless you accept Him as your Savior, you are sealing your fate for eternity. Think about it.

Orrie

You are the one who is an illiterate in the scriptures of the Bible. Get yourself a copy of the King James Bible and read it from cover to cover. Then come back to me and let me know what you have learned.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

...crawl on your hands and knees so I can beat some sense into you....

By the way, carrying a bible around doesn't count as reading it. Expert indeed.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

I didn't unravel, you're the one unraveling, making sh_t up.