Welcome to The Tipping Point Show. I'm the guest host for today. I'm Mark Hitchcock.

And you can catch my weekly program every week called Marking the End Times.

I do that a weekly program where I do some teaching and answer questions.

And again, thanks for watching today. We always appreciate having you with us.

And what I want to do today, I want to have a bit of teaching, and then we'll go to a time of some current events for subscribers only. And then I'm going to answer some really good questions. I'll tell you a little bit more about that at the end of this teaching time. But during this teaching today, what I want to talk about is a very unique prophetic passage. One that we get a lot of questions about. You probably

had some questions. I hope I'll answer some of these today. It may generate some more questions

that you can send in that we'll answer. But don't talk about the removal of the restrainer.

The removal of the restrainer. The only place we find out about this restrainer that's removed in the end times is in 2nd Thessalonians

chapter 2. That's the key text, a very unique prophetic passage. Now, to kind of put this passage

in its context, the Apostle Paul traveled over to Greece on his second missionary journey.

And up in the area of Macedonia, he visited the city

of Thessalonica. And he stayed there for a few weeks. And while he was there, he taught them about a lot of

different topics, but he taught them a great deal about prophecy or the end times, which let me just

pause right here and just make a comment about that. You think about Paul was probably at Thessalonica, maybe for six to eight weeks. We know from Acts 17 that he taught in the synagogue there

for three Sabbaths, so he was there at least three weeks, but probably there a little bit longer

to carry out a Gentile ministry there. But Paul was only there, maybe six to eight weeks at most.

During that time, Paul taught them extensively about Bible prophecy. Now, you know, a lot of people will say, well, you know, one of things

you don't want to ever teach to new believers is, you know, tell them about Bible prophecy

and confuse them all about end times. But Paul didn't believe that. He really gave these,

these believers there at Thessalonica

a crash course in Bible prophecy or eschatology. So he got run out of town from Thessaloniki,

eventually makes his way down to the city of Corinth in southern Greece. While he's there,

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