This is a message from Dr. Michael Yousef, Bible teacher, on leading the way.

Our prayer is that it will encourage you in your walk of faith.

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Growing up in the Middle East, the only dogs that I was introduced to and exposed to, wild dogs

are guard dogs. They are attack dogs. And we had some at our house, not in the house, but

outside the house.

None of us, no one could ever come near them, except my father.

He is the only one who could get to them early in the morning and tie them in a chain

so that people can come and go.

He's the only one who could go up there late at night and set them loose.

Please understand, I have nothing against your lovable, hugable pet.

Do not send me cards with pictures of your dog in telling me how lovely your dog is,

because I do get that and it really happens all the time as I, sometimes I joke about it,

but really this is not a joking matter. Because these dogs that I was exposed to, standing on their hind legs,

they were taller than six feet high. What they did to an intruder once is an image that I will

never forget. And that is why during the day they had to be restrained. They had to be tied down.

That is why during the day they'd be held back. Otherwise, no one can come and go. In the verse 6 of 2, Thessalonians 2,

the Apostle Paul indeed want to give us this word picture like I've seen in real life,

how God is the one who restraining the Antichrist.

The word restraint means to hold back or to hold down or to suppress.

And through the years there have been speculations about who is that, or what force that is suppressing,

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