Who is the restrainer that is taken out of the way in 2 Thessalonians 2:7?
The restrainer is the Holy Spirit, who hinders through His indwelling role in believers. When the church is removed in the departure, His role as indwelling the believer ends, and He is taken out of the way, allowing the man of sin to be revealed.
Les teaches that the hindering force in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 is the Holy Spirit in the person of the believer, and He hinders until He is taken out of the way. That removal occurs in the departure, when the church is removed. At that point the Holy Spirit’s role of indwelling the believer has ended. Les explains, however, that the Holy Spirit will still be on the earth as the omnipresent God during the tribulation; He does not cease to be God. The mystery of iniquity was already working, going back to the Tower of Babel, and then the wicked one, the Antichrist, will be revealed.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
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Who is the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2:7?
The 'he who now hindereth' in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 is the Holy Spirit, who is the hindering force in the person of the believer until he is taken out of the way when the church is removed at the departure/rapture.