We appear to be converging on an “age of grace” “prophesied” threshold ─ an incipience of “lawlessness” ─ unrestrained corruption at all levels ─ Constitutional Law vs. the dictum of a metastasizing shadow government and ─ the concurrent decimation of civility and burgeoning anarchy.
“Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed” (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 NAS).
What does the apostle mean? “it will not come” ─ consistent with the context, Paul is referring to the “Day of the Lord” when He will return in Judgement.
“The apostasy” indicates a time when belief in and obedience to the Word of God is in marked decline. And that must precede the revelation of the "man of lawlessness," i.e., the antithesis of Christ.
"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way” (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:7, NAS).
What does Paul mean “mystery of lawlessness”? – the covert reality that the lawlessness of our world, stoked by the lawless one, is a boiling cauldron, that will not overflow until "He who now restrains," i.e., the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way.
When will He be “taken out of the way”?
No one has a clue when the Holy Spirit “and” those He indwells will be “caught up” ─ but when they are, that boiling cauldron of lawlessness will overflow and every "thought and intent of the heart" on earth will be as it was in the days of Noah ─ without restraint!
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