Bible: 2 Thess. 2:5-9
2:5 Surely you recall 1 that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you. 2:6 And so 2 you know what holds him back, 3 so that he will be revealed in his own time. 2:7 For the hidden power of lawlessness 4 is already at work. However, the one who holds him back 5 will do so until he is taken out of the way, 2:8 and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord 6 will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival. 2:9 The arrival of the lawless one 7 will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles 8 and signs and false wonders,
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