The Seed of Satan: Part 4—Who is the He?

The Seed of Satan: Part 4—Who is the He?

In Part 4 we will focus on 2 Thessalonians 2:6-9. This section of scripture is back dropped with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him via the rapture of the church (verses 1-2). Through it is not specifically stated we can see that Satan is lurking in the background always ready to bring his lawless son of destruction on the world stage. The only thing holding back his revealing is the Holy Spirit—the Restrainer. 

Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3Let 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, 4who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 5Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains [will do so] until he is taken out of the way. 8Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9[that is], the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.  

The Holy Spirit restrains Satan from bringing the antichrist onto the world stage before the kairós—the exact right time. That is verse 7. Verse 7 is not talking about holding back sin in the world—it is talking about restraining a person—Satan. Verse 8 continues: Then that lawless one will be revealed—that is after the restrainer is taken out of the way. Satan would have produced his man of sin far before his God-ordained appointed time, but God restrains him. The antichrist cannot possibly be the one who is restrained, since he will be of human descent. This restraining is taking place throughout the years in the spiritual realm, where Satan has already existed since before the Garden. Therefore, the two “hims” in verse 6 represent two different persons: Satan, the first him: And you know what restrains him [Satan] now, and the antichrist who: in his time he [the antichrist] will be revealed. 

Could it be that the Holy Spirit restrains Satan until his time comes to produce this Seed of Satan—the antichrist—whom, I propose, is likely a Nephilim? 

Plain exegesis shows this section of scripture has nothing to do with the Holy Spirit, the Restrainer, being removed along with the rapture of the church, but rather it has to do with the Holy Spirit being taken out of Satan’s way to produce his son of destruction—the antichrist. Could it be that this taking away of the Holy Spirit allows for another period of time where, as in Genesis 6, God allows fallen angels to come into the daughters of men to have children by them? These scriptures seems to lend to the view that this mixed breeding of angels and women led to the Flood. Jesus said that His return would be as in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:38). Likewise, Jude 6 discusses certain angels who left their proper abode whom God has already put in chains awaiting their judgment. Why chain these angels and not all fallen angels? Demons too fell in betrayal along with Satan. Why aren’t they already chained? Jude 6-7 ties the sexual sin of Sodom and Gomorrah to these chained angels, noting they too went after strange flesh:

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. Jude 6-7 

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