Naked Bible 224: The Falling Away and the Restrainer

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 14 July 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 contains two enigmatic features. In the first four verses Paul takes on the false teaching, circulating in the Thessalonian church, that the Day of the Lord had already come to pass. In the process Paul tells the believers “Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the apostasia comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” It’s clear that the man of lawlessness is the antichrist, but what is the apostasia? Some translations render the Greek term “falling away,” but others have “rebellion”? Just what event is Paul talking that must occur before the revealing of the antichrist? Later in the chapter Paul mentions an impersonal “restraint” and a mysterious figure who is the “restrainer” that are holding back the events leading to the second coming. What or who could do that? This episode tackles both these difficulties.

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0:26.4	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 224, the following away and the restrainer.
0:32.5	I'm the layman, Tray Strickland and he's the scholar.
0:35.1	Dr. Michael Heizer, hey Mike Hargido.
0:38.0	Pretty good, busy as usual.
0:40.1	Anything else going on in Mike's world?
0:43.2	Oh, I just handed in the manuscript for the demons book that'll be a companion volume
0:50.2	to the angels book.
0:51.2	I have no idea when the demons book will be available on Amazon.
0:55.7	But the angels won, of course, is September.
0:57.7	Yeah, that'll be here before you know it.
1:00.0	And the title begins angels and demons.
1:02.4	Well, the one book will be angels, something like what the Bible really says about the
1:08.0	Heavenly Host and the other one is going to be something like demons or what the Bible
1:14.4	really says about evil spirits or something like that.
1:18.9	Not quite sure what they've decided on a subtitle, but there'll be separate books.
1:23.1	You know, they'll be sold at different times, but eventually, you know, they'll get married
1:27.2	and you'll be able to get them, you know, I'm sure Amazon will bundle them somehow, but
1:32.3	that's a ways away.
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