Who is it that restrains the Anti-Christ?

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

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 AntiChrist 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 AntiChrist 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.