Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus (Titus 2:13)

EVENTS LEADING TO THE DAY OF THE LORD 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, The order of events is: (1) The working of the mystery of lawlessness under divine restraint which had already begun in the apostle's time (2Th 2:7). (2) the apostasy of the professing church (2Th 1:3); (Luk 18:8); (2Ti 3:1-8). (3) the removal of that which restrains the mystery of lawlessness (2Th 2:6); (2Th 2:7). The restrainer is a person -- "he," and since a "mystery" always implies a supernatural element, (See Scofield) - (Mat 13:11), this Person can be none other than the Holy Spirit in the church, to be "taken out of the way"; (2Th 2:7); (1Th 4:14-17). (4) the manifestation of the lawless one (2Th 2:8-10); (Dan 7:8); (Dan 9:27); (Mat 24:15); (Rev 13:2-10). (5) the coming of Christ in glory and the destruction of the lawless one (2Th 2:8); (Rev 19:11-21). (6) the day of Jehovah (2Th 2:9-12); (Isa 2:12).