Please drop in now and then. It's just possible you could light a little fire under us.
Actually I think all the people who used to give me hell have become closet Unitarians. :)
We pretty much exhausted the old topics. I guess we really are a 'chat' thread now! ;o)
Thanks for the invite Reggie. :-)
I had never noticed this particular scripture before yesterday. I had read through it-- but had never really considered the implication of what Paul was telling us about the end times and what had to happen first.
2 Thess 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Would someone tell me what this means to them, especially the last part of verse 7?
RS Version - For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
NRS Version - For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.
The Amplified Bible - For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principal of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way.
Who is it on the earth today who is preventing Satan from completely releasing his evil upon man?
Who is restraining him?
Jim H