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What does 2 Thessalonians 2:7 mean?
"For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way."
— 2 Thessalonians 2:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
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;
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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