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The Antichrist and The Restrainer - Chuck Missler

eschatologyguy 9 Apr 14
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Personally, I don't think we can know what/who the restrainer is. I tend to agree with Leon Morris when he writes:

Once again he [Paul] directs attention to a fact that was well known to the Thessalonians and on which, therefore, he has no need to enlarge. Since they knew what he was writing about, he had no need to be specific. He has accordingly left his allusion so general that commentators through the centuries have been baffled as to exactly what he did mean and many conjectures have been put forward, sometimes supported by ingenious arguments. But we cannot feel at all sure that we have the clue to the situation, and it is best to face that fact. (The First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians, pp. 224-225)

The plain fact is that Paul and his readers knew what he was talking about, and we do not. We have not the means at our disposal to recover this part of his meaning. It is best that we frankly acknowledge our ignorance. (Ibid, p. 228)

Chuck's conjecture, however, is a pretty common one in some circles, and it is certainly well within the bounds of orthodoxy.

My thinking is based on these two things:

  1. "Until He is taken away". So it is not a "what". The Restrainer is a Person.

  2. Only God can restrain evil. So for me it all seems to fit.

I've heard of the Restrainer being the Church. The main problem I see in that is that the Bride of Christ is being addressed in the masculine.

My own pastor thinks the Restrainer might be an angel. He also thought it's OK to accept donations from a drug lord ( he said it during a pre-Covid bible study and he was "lightly" rebuked - chided - by an elder for it). I think he's changed his position since then 😊 Because we all chimed in 😁 I see him, as with the rest of us - me included - as a work in progress.

@eschatologyguy I have heard and read some who speculate that the Restrainer is Michael the Archangel. Your pastor isn't the only one who has held such a notion. I think this view would also fit well within the bounds of orthodoxy. I just think that we should be careful to make it clear that such perspectives are, in fact, speculation, and that we should not be too dogmatic about any of them.

@KeithThroop I remember him saying he read it somewhere.

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