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1 | Restrainer? Who and How? | 2 Thess 2:7 | enoch | 31713 | ||
Who does the Lockman Foundation feel is the "restrainer" of 2 Thess. 2; and why? The orginal Greek hsa "restrainer" as both nuter and masculine gender. Is it a person, entitity, or concept. Then follows the obvious question: How will it be taken out of the way? jw Bremerton WA |
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2 | Restrainer? Who and How? | 2 Thess 2:7 | kalos | 31729 | ||
Enoch: I do not speak for the Lockman Foundation. None of us here are authorized to do that. In 2 Thess. 2:6-7, "When it comes to the identity of the restrainer, we know only what is recorded here, which is not as much as we would like, and his identity has long been hotly debated" (page 124, THE RAPTURE QUESTION ANSWERED, Robert Van Kampen, Fleming H. Revell, 1997). 2:7 '*taken out of the way.* This refers not to spatial removal (therefore it could not be the rapture of the church) but rather "a stepping aside." The idea is "out of the way," not gone. . . . This restraint will be in place until the Antichrist is revealed, at the midpoint of the Tribulation, leaving him 42 months to reign (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 13:5)" (MacArthur Study Bible). Grace to you, kalos |
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