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What does 2 Thessalonians 2:6 mean?

"Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season."

— 2 Thessalonians 2:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

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he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

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Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

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Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

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For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

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Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

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even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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