My question concerning: now you know what withholds (restrains) that he might be revealed in his time
…until he be taken out of the way.
And then that wicked shall be revealed.
Whom the Lord shall consume with the brightness of His coming?
1) if the Spirit of God is the restrainer that restrains…the one who withholds …until the Spirit of God is taken out of the way …then what or who reveals; uncovers, makes manifest or reveals in “And then that wicked one, that man of sin is revealed”? If the Spirit of God is the one restraining to be taken out of the way …then what good is “and then that man of sin is revealed” when there is no light?
Which leads to another question. If the Spirit of God is the restrainer taken out of the way, then why is the Spirit of God the One coming where His presence and brightness consumes and destroys that man of sin then revealed? Is God taking Himself out of the way and coming in brightness at the same time?
Ephesians 5:12-14 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. [13] But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. [14] Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
John 3:19-21 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. [20] For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. [21] But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
yet what is often proposed is it is the Light which restrains and keeps that man of sin from “and then that man of sin is revealed”…instead of it being the darkness which restrains …hinders…prevents….withholds…the Light of the gospel of Christ “lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
2 Corinthians 4:2-4 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of (Christ)the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. [3] But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: [4] In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
It seems it is the god of this world which restrains, prevents, hinders, persecuting the way where Christ said I am the way. The god of this world withholds the Light while God who is gracious and full of mercy said How much more He will give the gift of the Holy Spirit (A Lamp, Light) to those who ask. It seems it is the god of this world that restrains and hinders as He said to the Pharisees not only do you not enter in to the kingdom of God, but you do not suffer others to enter in. It seems it is the god of this world who is to be taken out of the way …then that man of sin is revealed whom God destroys and consumes with the brightness of His coming, while Christ is glorified in those whom the glorious light of the gospel of Christ shined unto. We say, or it is prosed time and time again the Holy Spirit is the restrainer that hinders or withholds and prevents until He…the Spirit of God is taken out of the way. And then that man of sin, that evil one is revealed. It Makes no sense. Luke 11:33-36 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. [34] The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. [35] Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. [36] If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
We propose to be the Light the world …to let the Light Shine. But at the same time say the Spirit of God is the restrainer of Light? Instead of the restrainer which makes blind is the darkness; that hinders and blinds that they stumble and know not what they stumble over…that is to be taken up or away or removed…as in take up the stumbling block from before My people …see that you cast not a stumbling block before the blind that they stumble in the way.
is it not the god of this world which restrains until he be taken out of the way …then that man of sin is revealed(made manifest) (by His coming) whom the God of all things present and to come destroys and consumes with the brightness of His coming.