What is the COVENANT of Daniel 9:27?

[zone]

Zone, the temple will be rebuilded

prove it.
prove it's future to us.

Zone, the temple will be rebuilded at the beginning of the time of Jacob's trouble (Daniel's 70th week),

nah. it was rebuilded as they returned from babylon.
then Jesus came and confirmed the covenant and was killed and the apostate jews died in 70AD.
Jacob's trouble began with the coming of Christ the first time - those in Jacov who did not repent died.
those who repented became Christians.

Titus carried out the days of vengeance. on those in Jacob who did not repent.

when the antichrist confirms the covenant with Israel as prophesied in Daniel 9:27.

pulp fiction.

 

[zone]

Again, the prophecy given in 2 Thess. 2:8 where the antichrist (that Wicked) will be revealed as he stands in the temple of God during the middle of Daniel's 70th week, is a future event. It did not take place in 70A.D.

would you please recount the events from the birth of Jesus through to 70AD please?
don't leave anything undone.

and please try not to gap out.

i'll come back.
shorter posts would be good.

also, just the default font is easier to deal with...but to each their own.
k...

 

[ChosenbyHim]

STILL no The Antichrist.
so i guess you can't find him, named as such.
why keep using it?

Why keep using the title?? Well simple, because the antichrist is the same man as the beast, or the man of sin, or the son of perdition.


Its just different names and titles for the same man.

 

[ChosenbyHim]

that time is long over.

Wrong. It will take place after the Rapture of the Body of Christ.

there's One Lord; One Gospel; One Faith.

Well there is only one Lord. That is true.


One Faith? Yep that is true.


One Gospel? Only for this Dispensation known as the Dispensation of Grace (Church Age).


But not when you look at the other Dispensations and Economies in the Bible.


There is more than one Gospel. The Gospel of the Kingdom (Matthew 4:23 & Matthew 9:35) is not the same Gospel that we preach today, which is the Gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24). And the Gospel that we preach today (Acts 20:24, 1 Corinthians 15:1-6) is definitely not the same Gospel that the flying angel preaches to every nation, tongue and people dewlling on the earth during the time of Jacob's trouble (Revelation 14:6).

No one comes to the Father but through Christ.

Amen. That is correct. John 14:6.

Jacob's trouble is over.

No it is not. It has not even begun. It cannot begin until we (the body of Christ) is taken off of the earth (2 Thess. 2:7).

 

[ChosenbyHim]

you agreed 2 thess was written while the temple was still standing.
it was future to Daniel and future to Paul.

it's over. see any temple?

cuz there ain't NO 3rd.

Do I see any temple? No, I see only the Dome of the Rock.


Now there will be a third Temple though. And it will be built in Daniel's 70th week.


The Tribulation Temple (Revelation 11:1-2) 1 of 2

[video=youtube;QGYMvX1O7pM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYMvX1O7pM[/video]



11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. - Revelation 11:1-4 (Holy Bible)

 

[ChosenbyHim]

litmus test: result:

fail.

Nope. No fail. It is the truth.


The Roman Catholic church and the Papacy is the only one that fits all the descriptions as given in Revelation 17:4-9

 

[ChosenbyHim]

prove it.
prove it's future to us.

11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. - Revelation 11:1-2 (King James Bible)

nah. it was rebuilded as they returned from babylon.
then Jesus came and confirmed the covenant and was killed and the apostate jews died in 70AD.
Jacob's trouble began with the coming of Christ the first time - those in Jacov who did not repent died.
those who repented became Christians.

No, the time of Jacob's trouble did NOT take place back in the first century. The time of Jacob's trouble will take place after the rapture of the Church. The mark of the beast was not around in the first century, and neither was the man of sin.


Daniel 9:27 is a prophecy of the antichrist who will confirm the covenant with Israel for one week (7 years). And in the midst of that week (3.5 years), he will break that covenant by causing the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.

Titus carried out the days of vengeance. on those in Jacob who did not repent.

Okay, but that was not the time of Jacob's trouble. Again, the mark of the beast was not around during the first century and neither was the antichrist (man of sin).

pulp fiction.

Nope.

It is Biblical Prophecy and a very, very soon reality.

 

[ChosenbyHim]

would you please recount the events from the birth of Jesus through to 70AD please?
don't leave anything undone.

Zone, there are plenty of events which took place from the birth of Jesus to 70A.D.

Was there anything specific that you wanted me to focus in on??

and please try not to gap out.

What do you exactly mean by "gap out"?

i'll come back.
shorter posts would be good.

Alright. Well I await your repsonse.

also, just the default font is easier to deal with...but to each their own.
k...

Okay the next time around, I'll be sure to keep the font size at default.

 

[VCO]

STILL no The Antichrist.
so i guess you can't find him, named as such.
why keep using it?

LIKE I SAID BEFORE, the BIBLE states that the Antichrist will not be revealed until the HOLY SPIRIT is taken out of the way. AND, it is the HOLY SPIRIT Who is the one that is holding back the Antichrist from coming to power before his time. AND, If the HOLY SPIRIT is leaving Earth so that Antichrist can come to power when it is time; WE the entire Church age Believers will be going with HIM because we were given a very specific promise that HE the HOLY SPIRIT would NEVER leave us.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[SUP]8[/SUP]And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

See it really does help to read the whole context.

 

[VCO]

LIKE I SAID BEFORE, the BIBLE states that the Antichrist will not be revealed until the HOLY SPIRIT is taken out of the way. AND, it is the HOLY SPIRIT Who is the one that is holding back the Antichrist from coming to power before his time. AND, If the HOLY SPIRIT is leaving Earth so that Antichrist can come to power when it is time; WE the entire Church age Believers will be going with HIM because we were given a very specific promise that HE the HOLY SPIRIT would NEVER leave us.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[SUP]8[/SUP]And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

See it really does help to read the whole context.

Let me do a little more in the way of expositing these verses, because what seems obvious to me may not be obvious to everyone. Within this context we DO have the time line of the end-times events.


2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 (NKJV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP]Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
[SUP]2 [/SUP]not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.

See, there in verse 1 we find out that the "THAT DAY" which is mentioned in verse 3, is the Second coming of Christ, when HE destroys the Antichrist and his followers, just before setting up HIS thousand year Reign from the throne of David. AND, we find out in verse 8 that the HOLY SPIRIT is going to be TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY, therefore we are going with HIM because He will never leave us. AND THEN immediately after that Antichrist will be revealed to begin his seven year reign.

We also know we are NOT go through the TIME OF WRATH (the Great Tribulation), when GOD pours out HIS wrath upon the whole earth; BECAUSE GOD promised that He would keep us from going through that experience:

Revelation 3:10 (NKJV)
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP]For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Is there a more specific reason for the Holy Spirit and us to go to heave for those seven years of the GREAT TRIBULATION.

OH MY YES! We are going to be CALLED OUT to go to our Wedding to the LAMB.

John 14:2-3 (HCSB)
[SUP]2 [/SUP]In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. {That literally IS what the Bridegroom said to His Bride after she accepted His proposal, in the time of Christ. AND they were called Bride and Bridegroom from the moment she accepted on for the entire betrothal period.}
[SUP]3 [/SUP]If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

What kind of dwelling place is JESUS building for us?

Revelation 21:2 (NKJV)
[SUP]2 [/SUP]Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

When you have a large wedding in a home, there will be many wedding decorations. AND here is a whole large CITY decorated for a wedding. A Jewish Wedding 2000 years ago ALWAYS lasted for 7 days.

HENCE the WEEK OF YEARS that finishes the 70 Weeks of Years of Daniel, IS the same WEEK OF YEARS as the Great Tribulation, AND the same WEEK OF YEARS as the Wedding of the Lamb.

https://www.kingshighway.org/inspiration/articles/sanctification/wedding/

 

[Hoffco]

To Zone,Do you believe the return of Jesus Christ spoken of in 2Thess.1:6-2:4 has already taken place? Paul lists all the things that will happen when Jesus comes back to earth. Please listen to the list and tell me if they have happened. 2thess1:6-10 "When Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, WHEN He comes , in that Day to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, ..." Zone, THIS TAKEN PLACE YET? Paul goes on: 2Thess.2:1-2 "NOW, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, HAS THIS HAPPENED YET? DO YOU DENY JESUS 2nd COMING? Paul goes on: 2:2b-3 "as though the day of Chrisat had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition," Zone, HAS THIS HAPPENED YET? Paul goes on. 2 thess2:4 "Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." Zone , HAS THIS HAPPENED YET? Paul goes on. 2:8 "And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming." Zone, HAS THIS HAPPENED YET? If you know the Bible, you must ,with me, answer NO, to all my questions. What are your answers? If you should try to wiggle of the obvious,only, sane answer,NO, and answer Yes, then I have one final question for you. How did Jesus come ,in the brightness of His glory and destroy General Titus as he stood in the temple in 70 ad. and set up his false god,s.? It is very obvious , to any sane person, Jesus has not come back to earth yet. I am looking for Jesus glorious apearing , I hope you are too. Do you really believe the Bible is full of myths and fairy tales? Love to all. Hoffco

 

[watcher2013]

Historical facts:

1. The Jews restored and build Jerusalem after the seventy years of Desolation.
2. The temple and the city were destroyed on AD 70
3. Daily sacrifices were stopped/taken away thereafter.

Do you hoffco/VCO/chosenbyhim disagree on that historical facts?

Biblical certainty:
1. Daniel 9:25 (the first 69 weeks) talks about the rebuilding of Jerusalem up unto Messiah
2. Daniel 9:26 talks about the destruction of city and sanctuary: (no duration was given)
3. Daniel 9:27 talks about a week of confirming the covenant and the taking away of daily sacrifices then desolation:
4. The abomination of Desolation as per matthew 24, Mark 13 and luke 21 was foretold by Jesus, Before the Destruction of temple (AD70).
5. The majority of those who believed the prophecy were able to escape the slaughter of AD70.
6. The abomination can also be mean "non jews in the sanctuary" like what the Roman did, when they entered the temple:
Eze_44:7 In that yehave brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, anduncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house,when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenantbecause of all your abominations.

Do you hoffco/VCO/chosenbyhim agree that:
1. The Roman army have committed abomination and polluted the sanctuary when they stand in the temple during the AD70 Siege of Jerusalem?
2. Do you agree that because of the destruction of the temple, the daily sacrifices were taken away? and to this day it was not reinstated?

Biblical Uncertainty:
1. No where in the Last week of Daniel 9:27, even the first 3.5 years it said the re-building of the temple?
2. Could the temple of God in rev 11:1, be the same temple of God in Rev 11:19 (which is in Heaven)?
3. Isa 14 Lucifer said in his heart:

Isa 14:13 For thouhast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throneabove the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, inthe sides of the north: v14 I will ascend above the heights of theclouds; I will be like the most High.

could Paul probably be just describing who this son of perditionis, as "Lucifer" once did
2Th 2:4 Who opposethand exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; sothat he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

4. No where in the bible you can find 7 years of tribulation.

5. The "he" who restrain was not clear as to who?

Do you hoffco/VCO/chosenbyhim agree that the 5 above can be true and there were uncertainty?

Would you choose to believed something that are certain or those that are uncertain?

What I would say is believed those that are certain and study those you are uncertain;

In this case, The restoration and rebuilding of Jerusalem were fulfilled, The Messiah has been cut off, and to those who believed they sin no more and have everlasting righteousness:
The Temple city and sanctuary were destroyed and the daily sacrifices were taken away (metaphorically at the cross and literally on AD 70)...even to this day.

Having said that zone,

The Day of the Lord in 2 thess includes our gathering unto him:

If you consider AD 70 as that Day, what we have on AD70 was the scattering not the gathering:

Luk 21:24 And theyshall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into allnations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the timesof the Gentiles be fulfilled.

however we also cannot be deny that AD70 was also the day of the Lord against his people (Luke 21:22-23), likewise it was the day of the Lord when the Medes destroyed the Baylonian as per Isa 13.

 

[zone]

LIKE I SAID BEFORE, the BIBLE states that the Antichrist will not be revealed until the HOLY SPIRIT is taken out of the way.

it says no such thing.
that's ludicrous.

 

[VCO]

it says no such thing.
that's ludicrous.

I just quoted it to you, the Lawless One is another name for the Antichrist.


2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[SUP]8[/SUP]And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

 

[konroh]

As I understand it, Antioches Epiphanes desecrated the temple by sacrificing a pig on the alter. He spit upon the Jewish law and destroyed the temple. Daniel uses this "abomination of desolation" as a picture of a future abomination. I think that there is desecration and destruction of the temple in AD 70 and Jesus speaks of this. But He also uses this as a picture of what the future abomination will be. In Rev. the beast breaks the covenant halfway through and sets himself up as God to be worshiped by all. The false prophet/religious leader tries to persuade everyone to worship the beast, and those who do so receive his mark. This is an absolute "abomination of desolation" that will be empowered by the dragon Satan. Many antichrists (in spirit) have ruled and declared themselves god and had power, it seems like we could name Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Kim Jong Il and those are mostly in the modern era. But no one has really ruled the whole earth and been the abomination of desolation, declaring himself fully god and having all earthly spiritual and political power. This is the picture we have in Revelation, the Antichrist, who will have a head injury and seem to be dead (or possibly even be dead) and come back to life and rule as the Beast with the False Prophet and the Dragon, an unholy Triumvirate, Satan's greatest ploy, and the reason why he and the beast and false prophet are thrown alive into the lake of fire. No one else has this distinction.

 

[Laodicea]

To say that the final week of Daniel 9 is referring to the antichrist is not within the context of the rest of the chapter. The covenant of Daniel 9 is about the covenant of God, the 69 weeks is about Christ. Then people in the last verse turn it around to be a different covenant and the antichrist?

That makes the last verse out of context with the rest of Daniel 9. If we read in context then it is not antichrist and a different covenant.

 

[zone]

I just quoted it to you, the Lawless One is another name for the Antichrist.


2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 (NKJV)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
[SUP]8[/SUP]And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.

you said the HOLY SPIRIT IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY...i presume this is your fake rapture...where the church & Holy Spirit take off.

right?

 

[zone]

As I understand it, Antioches Epiphanes desecrated the temple by sacrificing a pig on the alter. He spit upon the Jewish law and destroyed the temple. Daniel uses this "abomination of desolation" as a picture of a future abomination. I think that there is desecration and destruction of the temple in AD 70 and Jesus speaks of this. But He also uses this as a picture of what the future abomination will be.

NO...He does NOT.

 

[eternally-gratefull]

To say that the final week of Daniel 9 is referring to the antichrist is not within the context of the rest of the chapter. The covenant of Daniel 9 is about the covenant of God, the 69 weeks is about Christ. Then people in the last verse turn it around to be a different covenant and the antichrist?

That makes the last verse out of context with the rest of Daniel 9. If we read in context then it is not antichrist and a different covenant.

I disagree on both accounts. I do not think you are looking at it for what it was intended to be.

The whole of the 70 weeks concerns Israel as a nation and the city of Jerusalem. Not the messiah, The people of the prince who is to come, or that prince himself.

The mention of the messiah and the "prince who is to come" are just markers we can use to know what aspects of the 70 weeks are occurring when they do.

the first 69 weeks are seen as the command to restore the city, till the time of Christ.

The final week is seen as the covenant week. which is broken by the abomination

Jesus himself lets us know the period will end with his return following the great tribulation. (matt 24)

 

[VCO]

you said the HOLY SPIRIT IS TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY...i presume this is your fake rapture...where the church & Holy Spirit take off.

right?

YES, the "HE who restains" Satan from coming to full power as the Antichrist until his time, most certainly is the Holy Spirit.

Lawlessness will continue to get worse and worse, but the Holy Spirit will not let Satan go all the way in this age. When the Holy Spirit will be removed, it will be like taking the stopper out of the bottle -- the liquid of lawlessness will pour out all over the world in that day.When will the Holy Spirit be taken out? He will be taken out with the church.

Thru The Bible with J. Vernon McGee.

2 Thes. 2:7 Even when Paul wrote, the mystery of lawlessness was already at work. By this we understand that a tremendous spirit of disobedience to God was already stirring beneath the surface. It was at work in mystery form—not that it was mysterious but rather that it was not yet fully manifested. It was still in germ form.

What has hindered the full display of this spirit? We believe that the presence of the Holy Spirit indwelling the church and indwelling every believer has been the restraining power. He will continue to exercise this function until He is taken out of the way, that is, at the Rapture.
But here an objection is raised. How can the Holy Spirit be removed from the world? As one of the Persons of the Godhead, isn't He omnipresent, that is, everywhere at all times? How then can He leave the world?

Of course, the Holy Spirit is omnipresent. He is always in all places at one and the same time. And yet there was a distinct sense in which He came to the earth on the Day of Pentecost. Jesus had repeatedly promised that He and the Father would send the Spirit (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7. How then did the Spirit come? He came as the permanent Indweller of the church and of every believer. Until Pentecost the Spirit had been with believers, but since Pentecost He has dwelt in them (John 14:17). Until Pentecost the Spirit was known to depart from believers—hence David's prayer, "Do not take your Holy Spirit from me" (Ps. 51:11b). After Pentecost the Spirit remains forever in believers of the Church Age (John 14:16).

The Holy Spirit will, we believe, leave the world in the same sense in which He came at Pentecost—that is, as the abiding Indweller of the church and of each believer. He will still be in the world, convicting people of sin and leading them to saving faith in Christ. His removal at the Rapture does not mean that no one will be saved during the Tribulation. Of course they will. But these people will not be members of the church, but rather the subjects of Christ's glorious kingdom.

2:8 After the church has been Raptured to heaven, the lawless one will be revealed to the world. In this verse, the apostle skips over the career of the Antichrist and describes his ultimate doom. It almost sounds as if he will be destroyed as soon as he is revealed. But that of course is not so. He is allowed to conduct the reign of terror described in verses 9-12 before he is brought down at Christ's coming to reign.
If we are right in believing that the man of sin is revealed after the Rapture and that he continues until Christ's Revelation, then his mad career lasts approximately seven years—the length of the Tribulation Period.

Believer's Bible Commentary: A Thorough, Yet Easy-to-Read Bible Commentary That Turns Complicated Theology Into Practical Understanding.

Who or what is restraining the satanically empowered movement against God’s law and is postponing the revelation of the man of sin? Some say it is the Roman Empire. But the empire has long vanished and “the holder back” is not yet revealed. Another suggestion is that this is Satan, but it is difficult to see why he would hold back sin. Others suggest that human governments are holding back sin and the revealing of the Antichrist. But human governments will not end prior to the Antichrist’s unveiling. Nor do all governments restrain sin; many encourage it!The Holy Spirit of God is the only Person with sufficient (supernatural) power to do this restraining. Some object to this being the Holy Spirit on the grounds that to katechon in 2 Thessalonians 2:6 is neuter (“what is holding back”). But this is no problem for two reasons: (a) The neuter is sometimes used of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13-14). (b) In 2 Thessalonians 2:7 the words are masculine: ho katechōn, the one who... holds it back. How does He do it? Through Christians, whom He indwells and through whom He works in society to hold back the swelling tide of lawless living. How will He be taken out of the way? When the church leaves the earth in the Rapture, the Holy Spirit will be taken out of the way in the sense that His unique lawlessness-restraining ministry through God’s people will be removed (cf. Gen. 6:3). The removal of the Restrainer at the time of the Rapture must obviously precede the day of the Lord. Paul’s reasoning is thus a strong argument for the pretribulational Rapture: the Thessalonians were not in the Great Tribulation because the Rapture had not yet occurred.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.