If you have been with us for the first two broadcasts concerning the mysteries of God, I hope you are excited about the ones we are going to look at in the future. We have seen that the mysteries of God are found throughout the New Testament. These secrets that God has revealed to us that we might know something of what He has planned for us. These mysteries answer the biggest questions that the world is asking, and it gives us, as Christians, the answers and comfort found in the Word of God. Last time, we looked at The Mystery of His Will as found in Ephesians 1. Today we are looking at The Mystery of Lawlessness.
We find this in 2 Thessalonians 2. The context of this chapter is in the end times. We are looking at a period of time in which the antichrist has now stepped onto the scene, and he is proclaiming himself to be God. He wants to be worshipped. He has deceived the world, so much so, that the world has turned against God and totally against Christ and we are seeing the ultimate end of the antichrist in this passage. Paul assures us in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 that what is now coming about at the end times in reference to the antichrist is not altogether new, it is just different in intensity, because he says, “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.” That is to say that this mystery of lawlessness has always been permeating humanity since the fall of Adam and Eve, and at the end of 2 Thessalonians 2:7 it says, “only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.” . . .
