Note(JB): All of humanity are Children of God and all deserve to be treated as such. However this is NOT, a derogatory against the people within this church system, but it is against the System itself, and the leadership, down through time, who know better but are spoken of in .... 2 Thessalonians 2.. Christ shall render His judgments, not men.
The question that confronts us at this point it this: HOW and WHEN was the restrainer 'taken out of the way'? What or who removed the man of sin's chains so that he could come forth from hiding and fully reveal himself? We find the answer in the Books of Daniel and Revelation and in human history. [ Read this in 2 Thessalonians 2.]
A careful examination of Paul's prophecy indicates that in the forefront of his mind was the prophecy of the Little Horn in Daniel 7:23-24.. In fact, virtually all bible scholars agree that the man of sin and the Little Horn are symbolic of the Antichrist.
Note(JB): 1Jn 2:18. 1J n. 2:22. 1Jn. 4:3 and 2Jn. 1:7 all use the word Antichristos, as the opponent of Christ. Most scholars today tend to use the word INSTEAD OF CHRIST. YOU'LL LEARN LATTER BY THEIR OWN WORDS OF THE WHY.
Daniel 7 describes in chronological sequence the rise and fall of earthly kingdoms from the time of Daniel until the year 1798 AD.as follows....
Kingdom time King Metal man.. from dream
- The Lion:Babylon (605-539 BC.) king Nebuchadnezzar Head of Gold
- The Bear:Medo-Persia (539-331 BC.) Arms-chest of silver
- The Leopard: Greece. (331- 168 BC. A. the Great Belly/thighs of Bronze.
- The Dragon Pagan Rome 9168- 476 AD. Legs of iron
- The Ten Horns on the Dragon Feet of iron and of clay
- Little Horn from the Dragon's head: Papal Rome 9538-1798 AD the Ten Toes.
NOTE(JB): The reason the Bible refers to those kingdoms under the symbols of beasts, is that the king/leader, ruled both the religious and the civil as one unit.Violating this..Separation of church and State.
Mark 12:17 " And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him."
Notice that Daniel 7:23,24 describes three consecutive stages of the fourth beast (the dragon) "Thus he said: the fourth beast shall be a {1} fourth kingdom ,[the Roman Empire] on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces,
{24} The {2} Ten Horns, are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom {the divided Roman Empire} and {#} another shall rise after them {Papal Rome} :HE shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings." Daniel 7: 23-24.
According to these verses, after a time the Roman Empire would break apart into the Ten Kingdoms and then the little horn or the Man of Sin would rise to power from this divided kingdom.
Summarizing the three stages of the dragon beast:
- The Dragon The Pagan Roman Empire (Paul lived during this period)
- The Ten Horns The Roman Empire Divided (Future to Paul's day)
- The Little Horn The Divided Roman Empire, ruled by the Little Horn (Paul's future).
The apostle Paul was living during the period of the Roman (Pagan) Empire before the emergence of the Ten Horns and of the Little Horn. This means that the ittle horn would would rise to power sometime after the year 476 AD when the Empire fell apart into t4en kingdoms.
The Book of Revelations describes this transfer of power from the Ten Horned Roman Empire to the papacy:
Revelation 13:2 And the beast [the papacy] which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon [ the Roman Empire] gave him [the papacy] his power, and his seat, and great authority.
NOTE(JB): History notes that when the last Emperor vacated his seat, the Bishop of Rome's church moved to occupy it, taking the place of the Caesars! Date ? 538 AD.
In her book, "The Great Controversy" p.54 she, Ellen White, wrote this: "In the sixth century {538 AD] the papacy had become firmly established. Its seat of power was fixed in the Imperial City and the Bishop of Rome was declared to be the head over the entire church. Paganism had given place to the papacy. The dragon had given to the beast 'his power, and his seat and great authority'.
Revelation 13:2 "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority
And, now began, the 1260 years of papal oppression foretold in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 13:5-7.
Daniel 7:25 "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
Revelation 13:5-7 "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." [The Great Controversy P. 54. for further study.]
CYRIL of Jerusalem: (318-386 AD.) he lived just before the break-up of the Pagan Roman Empire, understood very well the link between Daniel 7 and @ Thessalonians 2. "But this afor-said Antichrist is to come when the (1) times of the Roman Empire shall be fulfilled, and the end of the world is drawing near. There shall rise up together (2) ten kings of the Romans, reigning in different parts, perhaps, but all at the same time and,after those, an eleventh, the Antichrist, who by his magical craft shall seize upon the Roman Power;and the kings who reigned before him, "three he shall humble" and, the remaining seven he shall keep in subjection to himself."
'Catechetical Lectures' section 15, on 11 Thessalonians 2:4 . [Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol,VII, p.108 {New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1895 ]
Carl Conrad Eckhadt's "The Papacy and World Affairs, [Chicago 'The University of Chicago Press, 1937, p.1
In this he described the three (3) stages of Rome;: "Under the Roman Empire {stage #1, the dragon] the popes had no temporal powers. But when the Roman Empire had disintegrated [Stage #2 the ten horns ] and its place had been taken by a number of rude, barbarous kingdoms, the Roman Catholic Church [stage # 3 as the Little Horn-Daniel 7] not only became independent of the states in religious affairs but DOMINATED SECULAR AFFAIRS AS WELL."
THE REMOVAL OF THE RESTRAINER.
HOWEVER, THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS UNANSWERED IS HOW THE RESTRAINT UPON THE 'MAN OF SIN' "WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY"
2 Thessalonians 2:3 "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;"
Human history has the answer: In the year of 330 AD, Emperor Constantine moved the seat of Government of the Roman Empire to his new capital Constantinople {Istanbul today] for the Eastern Roman Empire, leaving the Western parts, politically, and militarily, weakened., by series of weak Emperors, the last being Romulas Augustus was the last in 476 AD.
All during the late fourth and early fifth, centuries, hordes of barbarian tribes, from the north invaded and carved up the Roman Empire west.
Paul Hutchinson & Winnifred E. Garrison, '20 Centuries of Christianity: A concise History First Edition p.93 1959, Harcourt,Brace & world Inc. New York please find this: " When the insignificant Romulas Augustus was deposed 94760 there was no longer eve n a titular emperor."
Note(JB) That why history admits that the Popes slid into the seat of the Emperors, and ruled as they used to rule total and complete, until 1798 and Berthier leading a French army arrested the then pope, and removed its secular powers, until Mussolini restored it to the Vatican's 114 Acre nation again in 1929!
As history proves, when Constantine abandonment of the Western Empire this allowed the barianians to their incursions into the West Empire and leaving turned upside down, ands caused the civil society to fall into disarray, allowing the Bishop of Rome to claim the an emperor's title! Thus bringing some semblance of order to the old empire.
The results was that the Bishop of Roman church was NOT ONLY the Spiritual leader but he also became the TEMPORAL Ruler of the state. THUS THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS 'taken out of the way' to give way to the papacy.
NOW WE LOOK AT HOW THIS IS SHOWN BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Roman Catholic historian. James P. Conroy, explains it this way: Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western Emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to the one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, in this simple manner the best title of all, to to Kingly Right, commenced the Temporal Sovereignty of the popes, and Meekly {?? JB has there ever been a meek pope?} stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter [and crown] to which the Kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages." American Quarterly Catholic Review, April 1911.
CARDINAL EDWARD MANNING [ Formerly the titular head of the Anglican church of England, now serves the pope!] who converted the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Faith explaining the importance of Constantine's transfer of the Roam Empire to the east. "But from that hour, when Constantine, in the language of Roman law ' Deo juente,' 'by the law of God', TRANSLATED the seat of power to Constantinople, from moment there never reigned in Rome, a temporal prince to whom the Bishops of Rome owed a permanent allegiance" "The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, second edition London, Burns & Lambert,pp 11,12.
Cardinal Manning , also described The Manner in which the Roman Pontiff originally rose to civil power in the Roman Empire due to the barbarian incursion in to the Empire: "Now the abandonment of Rome was the Liberation, of the pontiffs. Whatsoever claims to obedience the emperors may have made, an d whatsoever compliance the pontiffs may have yielded, the whole previous relation, anomalous, and annulled again and again by the vices and outrages of the emperors, was finally dissolved by a Higher Power, . The providence of God permitted a succession of irruptions, Gothic, Lombard { Southern Italians] and Hungarian, to desolate Italy, and to efface from every remnant of the empire. The pontiffs found themselves Alone, the sole fountains of order, peace,law, and safety. And from that hour of this Providential Liberation, when, by the DIVINE INTERVENTION, the ... chains fell off, from the hands of the successors of ST.Peter, as once before from his own, no sovereign has ever reigned in Rome except the Vicar of Jesus Christ."
The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Preface ,pp xxviii, xxxix. London Burns & Lambert, 1862.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 "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; 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."
NOTE(JB): All one needs to do is Google Inquisition, or Eric Phelps "Vatican Assassins, or Foxxes' "Book of Martyrs." as well as many other historians writing about the Dark or the Middle ages of Europe, and the millions that Rome's "Believe as I say or die" dogma, ruled for 1260 years just as Daniel foretold 500 years before Christ!
Please know.... Catholic dogma declares that the Writings of the Church Fathers is most important, the Holy Bible is but Secondary 5to their faith, and here's the why.....
"Apostolic Digest , Book 5 "The Book of Obedience" Pope Boniface 13th ... "We declare and pronounce, that it is absolutely necessary, for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
YOU must choose believe God or man? {by the way has man ever told a lie?)
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
CYRIL of Jerusalem: (318-386 AD.) he lived just before the break-up of the Pagan Roman Empire, understood very well the link between Daniel 7 and @ Thessalonians 2. "But this afor-said Antichrist is to come when the (1) times of the Roman Empire shall be fulfilled, and the end of the world is drawing near. There shall rise up together (2) ten kings of the Romans, reigning in different parts, perhaps, but all at the same time and,after those, an eleventh, the Antichrist, who by his magical craft shall seize upon the Roman Power;and the kings who reigned before him, "three he shall humble" and, the remaining seven he shall keep in subjection to himself."
'Catechetical Lectures' section 15, on 11 Thessalonians 2:4 . [Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, vol,VII, p.108 {New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1895 ]
Carl Conrad Eckhadt's "The Papacy and World Affairs, [Chicago 'The University of Chicago Press, 1937, p.1
In this he described the three (3) stages of Rome;: "Under the Roman Empire {stage #1, the dragon] the popes had no temporal powers. But when the Roman Empire had disintegrated [Stage #2 the ten horns ] and its place had been taken by a number of rude, barbarous kingdoms, the Roman Catholic Church [stage # 3 as the Little Horn-Daniel 7] not only became independent of the states in religious affairs but DOMINATED SECULAR AFFAIRS AS WELL."
THE REMOVAL OF THE RESTRAINER.
HOWEVER, THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS UNANSWERED IS HOW THE RESTRAINT UPON THE 'MAN OF SIN' "WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY"
2 Thessalonians 2:3 "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;"
Human history has the answer: In the year of 330 AD, Emperor Constantine moved the seat of Government of the Roman Empire to his new capital Constantinople {Istanbul today] for the Eastern Roman Empire, leaving the Western parts, politically, and militarily, weakened., by series of weak Emperors, the last being Romulas Augustus was the last in 476 AD.
All during the late fourth and early fifth, centuries, hordes of barbarian tribes, from the north invaded and carved up the Roman Empire west.
Paul Hutchinson & Winnifred E. Garrison, '20 Centuries of Christianity: A concise History First Edition p.93 1959, Harcourt,Brace & world Inc. New York please find this: " When the insignificant Romulas Augustus was deposed 94760 there was no longer eve n a titular emperor."
Note(JB) That why history admits that the Popes slid into the seat of the Emperors, and ruled as they used to rule total and complete, until 1798 and Berthier leading a French army arrested the then pope, and removed its secular powers, until Mussolini restored it to the Vatican's 114 Acre nation again in 1929!
As history proves, when Constantine abandonment of the Western Empire this allowed the barianians to their incursions into the West Empire and leaving turned upside down, ands caused the civil society to fall into disarray, allowing the Bishop of Rome to claim the an emperor's title! Thus bringing some semblance of order to the old empire.
The results was that the Bishop of Roman church was NOT ONLY the Spiritual leader but he also became the TEMPORAL Ruler of the state. THUS THE ROMAN EMPIRE WAS 'taken out of the way' to give way to the papacy.
NOW WE LOOK AT HOW THIS IS SHOWN BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Roman Catholic historian. James P. Conroy, explains it this way: Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western Emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to the one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, in this simple manner the best title of all, to to Kingly Right, commenced the Temporal Sovereignty of the popes, and Meekly {?? JB has there ever been a meek pope?} stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter [and crown] to which the Kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages." American Quarterly Catholic Review, April 1911.
CARDINAL EDWARD MANNING [ Formerly the titular head of the Anglican church of England, now serves the pope!] who converted the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Faith explaining the importance of Constantine's transfer of the Roam Empire to the east. "But from that hour, when Constantine, in the language of Roman law ' Deo juente,' 'by the law of God', TRANSLATED the seat of power to Constantinople, from moment there never reigned in Rome, a temporal prince to whom the Bishops of Rome owed a permanent allegiance" "The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, second edition London, Burns & Lambert,pp 11,12.
Cardinal Manning , also described The Manner in which the Roman Pontiff originally rose to civil power in the Roman Empire due to the barbarian incursion in to the Empire: "Now the abandonment of Rome was the Liberation, of the pontiffs. Whatsoever claims to obedience the emperors may have made, an d whatsoever compliance the pontiffs may have yielded, the whole previous relation, anomalous, and annulled again and again by the vices and outrages of the emperors, was finally dissolved by a Higher Power, . The providence of God permitted a succession of irruptions, Gothic, Lombard { Southern Italians] and Hungarian, to desolate Italy, and to efface from every remnant of the empire. The pontiffs found themselves Alone, the sole fountains of order, peace,law, and safety. And from that hour of this Providential Liberation, when, by the DIVINE INTERVENTION, the ... chains fell off, from the hands of the successors of ST.Peter, as once before from his own, no sovereign has ever reigned in Rome except the Vicar of Jesus Christ."
The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, Preface ,pp xxviii, xxxix. London Burns & Lambert, 1862.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 "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; 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."
NOTE(JB): All one needs to do is Google Inquisition, or Eric Phelps "Vatican Assassins, or Foxxes' "Book of Martyrs." as well as many other historians writing about the Dark or the Middle ages of Europe, and the millions that Rome's "Believe as I say or die" dogma, ruled for 1260 years just as Daniel foretold 500 years before Christ!
Please know.... Catholic dogma declares that the Writings of the Church Fathers is most important, the Holy Bible is but Secondary 5to their faith, and here's the why.....
"Apostolic Digest , Book 5 "The Book of Obedience" Pope Boniface 13th ... "We declare and pronounce, that it is absolutely necessary, for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
YOU must choose believe God or man? {by the way has man ever told a lie?)
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
From Evangelical Christendom, January 1, 1895 P.15 [ Pub. i n London bt J.S. Phillips] P{ope Pius 10th, said this, " The Pope is not simply the representative of Jesus Christ. On the contrary he is Jesus Christ, under the veil of flesh"
"Does the Pope speak? It is.....Jesus Christ who is speaking. Hence, when anyone speaks of the Pope, it is not necessary to examine but to obey"
Acts 5:29 "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
Jesus Christ walked upon the water, and healed the sick and raised the dead, has any Pope done this?
Daniel 7:25 "........ and THINK to change times and laws........"
Genesis 1 shows clearly that God set the days from SUNSET to Sunset as the 24 hour day but Pope Gregory 13th {The Great..but at what"] changed this from that to our current Mid-night to midnight, as our 24 hour day. PLUS.. Read Exodus 20:7-11 about the Sabbath Worship of the 7TH DAY, look at most calendars and know which is the Seventh day! Year =earth's evolution of the sun,
Month = lunar cycle, day = one earthly spin cycle o n its axis 24 hours, but where did the 7 day weekly cycle come to us?
Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."\
SANCTIFIED IT: What did God sanctify but the seventh day Sabbath, now can man, or men make a day holy? NO! Only God is able. Yet do not most churches then obey the Roman Popes for Sunday, the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, TO WORSHIP thus obeying ,am rather than God?????
Luke 4:16 " And he [who is this He..but Jesus?]had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read."
How many of you, think that God did not know this Sabbath change by men,A ND THAT it WAS COMING??
Mark 7:9 "And he unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition."
Anyone who has even read both Daniel and Revelation, with prayers asking for wisdom to understand, will learn that near the end of flesh humanity, there will be only two camps. the sheep and the goats, the sheep are those who follow and believe i n Jesus Christ, the goats are those who believe in human laws. Which camp have Y O U chosen.
PAUL'S CRYPTIC LANGUAGE.
The church fathers both before and after the Council of Nicaea (325AD) were virtually unanimous that the "RESTRAINER" of 2 Thessalonians 2:6
2 Thessalonians 2:6 " And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time."
This speaks the what the restrainer/withholder.[ The Roman Empire].In the next verse...
2 Thessalonians 2:7 "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."
This speaks to the WHO,. {The Roman Emperors} using the masculine article HOkate`chon in Vs 7.The neuter article TOkate`chon referring to the Roman Empire.. InVs 6 used the masculine article referring to who as the Roman Emperors as masculine article for who as HOkate`chon.
Obviously, as Paul was subject to Roman Law, he could not in reality write that the Roman Empire would soon fall away!, and not be open to a charge of sedition.
SADLY, EVANGELICALS...
Who believe in the Rapture of the church BEFORE the tribulation erroneously identify the restrainer as the Holy Spirit, Whom God will remove from the earth before the tribulation. This understanding is incorrect because God did not Remove the restraint of the Holy Spirit from the earth when the Papacy first arose to power in the sixth century. It is clear that Paul could not Identify the "Restrainer" openly and he did not need to, because the Thessalonians knew who the restrainer was, the Pagan Roman Empire.
Cardinal Manning, also described THE MANNER in which the Roman Pontiff originally rose to civil power in the Roman Empire due to the barbarian incursion into the Empire." Now the abandonment of Rome was the LIBERATION of the Pontiffs. Whatsoever compliance may have yielded, the whole previous relation, anomalous, and annulled again and again by the vices an d outrages of the emperors, was finally dissolved by a HIGHER POWER. the Providence of God permitted a successions of irruptions.......
This language Manning used is very significant. He wrote that the fall of the Roman Empire led to the LIBERATION of the Roman Pontiff. Thus it was the old Roman Empire's Emperors that was the RESTRAINER!
TERTULLIAN (160- 240 ad)
2 Thessalonians 2:7 " For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."
Iniquity, mean s lawlessness regarding the Ten Commandments, thus this lawless power was already working at lawlessness. The power that is not LETTING, him ( the worker of iniquity) to do as he will So Tertullian wrote: "What obstacle is there, but the Roman Empire, , the falling away, by being scattered into the Ten Kingdoms, shall then introduce Antichrist, upon its own ruins?" And then shall the wicked one be revealed." "On the Resurrection of the Flesh" Chap 24. ANTE-NICENE FATHERS. vol. iii p.56
CHRYSOSTOM (DIED 407AD ) Ambrose (337-397 AD) Lantantius (240-320) agreed as did Jerome (347- 420 AD)
When the Roman Empire, is taken out of the way, then he [ The Antichrist] shall come. As long as the fear of this Empire lasts, no one will willingly exalt himself, but, when it is dissolved, he will attack the anachary, and endeavour to seize upon the government of both man and God. Homily o n 2 Thessalonians. 'Nicene and Post-Nicene. vol XIII.p389 {New York Charles Scribner's And Sons . 1905.
I N HIS TIME:
The apostle Paul continued his line of thought:
2 Thessalonians 2:6 " And now ye know what withholdeth [ blocks, strains] that he might be revealed in his time."
REVEALED IN HIS TIME....must mean that God has set a specific time frame for this event. Yet we must again, link the prophecy of 2 Thessalonians and Daniel 7:25 where in we are told that there was a specific time for this Little Horn {horn indicated earthly power) to rise and fall., that is time, times and the dividing of time,' Revelation 13:5, refers to this same period as 42 month and Revelation 12:15 as 1260 days.{set on as the Hebrew's year as 360 24 hr days.)
NOTE (JB):Daniel 9:25 the order to rebuild came from Ezra 7::11+ and the King Artaxerxes in 457 B.C. and it is this date that must be used as starting date, for Daniel 2300 years of prophecy, this ended in the year of 1843 A.D.It accurately gave, the beginning od Christ's ministry post baptism and His death 3.5 years {one half week later 3,5 days/years.from Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 1`4:34)
Find this also in the book "The Great Controversy, by E.R. White, P. 356. by the way this books lst chapters give a n outline of the the events found in Revelations of Jesus Christ. By the way, few even teach from this Bible's last Book, but look...
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Revelation 1:3 " Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
Many men say, it's not for our understanding, other say they totally refuse to teach from it, so why did God cause John to write it and please explain the above highlighted verse!
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 " For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY WAS already at work in the days of Paul. The word 'Iniquity' is identical word that is translated 'transgression of the law' as used in 1 John 3:4. The 'man of sin' would teach his followers to transgress the law. As is well known, the papacy openly violates the Second Commandment that forbids the making and bowing before idols and claims that God's DAY OF rest IS NOW ON Sunday, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK IN PLACE OF GOD'S SEVENTH-DAY SABBATH ON FRIDAY'S SUNSET TO SATURDAY'S SUNSET! (SPLITTING THE 10-TH INTO 2 PARTS! yet THEIR DOUAY Bible SHOWS THE TRUTH, proving few even read it?
This ends PART 1.
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