the Holy spirit is/ has always been the restrainerAnd in Revelation 7, if the Holy Spirit is gone, who are those who come out of the Great Tribulation arrayed in white robes?
13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?”
14 And I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.