sovereigngrace
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The following just came to mind. With post # 36 in mind, and my use of real world examples and something being submerged, IOW hidden, until it rises to the surface, why isn't anyone interpreting Revelation 13:1 in light of the following in 2 Thessalonians 2?
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The first mistake many make concerning this verse, they are misapplying what 'taken' means according to the Greek. The Greek word is ginomai
a prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.):--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Notice something here, one of it's defs---arise. This Greek word doesn't mean something is being removed, it means something is coming to be, as in was hidden until it comes out in the open.
And in Revelation 13:1 we see something rising up out of the sea, and in Revelation 17 we are told that this same something rises up out of the BP. Surely all of these things are connected with 2 Thessalonians 2:7, both Revelation 13:1 and Revelation 17.
I would then think---only he who now letteth will let--is being applied while the beast is in the pit---and this part---until he be taken out of the way---is being applied to when the beast emerges from the pit. Even though I'm not Amil, why would Amils choose to disagree with me here? Because I'm Premil, and that no Premil can be correct about anything involving things like this since Premil is not a valid position to begin with? It shouldn't matter that I'm Premil, I'm simply just trying to make sense out of these texts involved, and where ever that leads, either to Premil or to Amil, is where that leads.
You are unto something. I agree.
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