The Secret Power

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The Secret Power
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The Man of Lawlessness
Lawlessness
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The Man of Lawlessness

• Lets imagine
• a world
• without Laws

No Definition Of Right and Wrong
No Idea of Truth and Falsehood
No Moral Restrictions
What kind of world would it be?
No Values
Nothing
The Man of Lawlessness
without Rules
without Boundaries
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 23-5) Don't let anyone deceive
  you in any way

What kind of world would it be?
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 23-5) for that Day of the
  Lord will not come until the Rebellion occurs
  and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed

Rebellion
revealed
The Sign of End of the Times
Revealed - Unmasked
Rebellion apostasia
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Lawlessness is unmasked yet many will ignore it.
Truth is twisted and many will fall away
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 23-5) he is the man doomed
  to Destruction

man doomed to
Son of
Destruction
The Sign of End of the Times
Destruction Eternal ruin
Revealed - Unmasked
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Spiritual chaos follows him but no one sees it.
Lawlessness is unmasked yet many will ignore it.
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 23-5) He will oppose and will
  exalt himself over everything that is called God
  or is worshiped

The Sign of End of the Times
Destruction Eternal ruin
God is his Enemy but no one stands against it.
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Spiritual chaos follows him but no one sees it.
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 23-5) so that he sets himself
  up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Spiritual confusion is his trademark but no one
questions it.
God is his Enemy but no one stands against it.
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The Man of Lawlessness

• (1 Timothy 41-2) The Spirit clearly says that
  in later times some will abandon the faith and
  follow deceiving spirits and things taught by
  demons

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (1 Timothy 41-2) Such teachings come through
  hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been
  seared as with a hot iron.

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Timothy 31-5) But realize this, that in the
  last days difficult times will come

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Timothy 31-5) For men will be lovers of
  self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
  revilers

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Timothy 31-5) disobedient to parents,
  ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable,
  malicious gossips

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Timothy 31-5) without self-control, brutal,
  haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Timothy 31-5) lovers of pleasure rather
  than lovers of God holding to a form of
  godliness, although they have denied its power
  and avoid such men as these.

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Peter 21-3) But there were also false
  prophets among the people, just as there will be
  false teachers among you...

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Peter 21-3) They will secretly introduce
  destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign
  Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction
  on themselves

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Peter 21-3) Many will follow their shameful
  ways and will bring the way of truth into
  disrepute

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The Man of Lawlessness

• (2 Peter 21-3) In their greed these teachers
  will exploit you with stories they have made up

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The Man of Lawlessness
Lawlessness
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• (2 Peter 21-3) Their condemnation has long
  been hanging over them, and their destruction has
  not been sleeping.

The Power of Lawlessness
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 25-8) Don't you remember that
  when I was with you I used to tell you these
  things?

The Power of Lawlessness
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 25-8) And now you know what
  is holding the Man of Lawlessness back, so that
  he may be revealed at the proper time

The Battle at End of the Times
There is a Power that will hold back the Lawless
One until the proper time
He is the Spirit of Truth that was sent into the
world to restrain his influence.
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (John 1416-17) And I will ask the Father, and
  He will give you another Counselor to be with you
  forever-- the Spirit of Truth

The Battle at End of the Times
He is the Spirit of Truth that was sent into the
world to restrain his influence.
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (John 1416-17) The world cannot accept Him,
  because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But
  you know Him, for He lives with you and will be
  in you.

The Battle at End of the Times
He is the Spirit of Truth that was sent into the
world to restrain his influence.
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 25-8) For the secret power of
  lawlessness is already at work

The Battle at End of the Times
The power of lawlessness secretly (i.e., not
openly) battles against the Spirit
He is the Spirit of Truth that was sent into the
world to restrain his influence.
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 25-8) but the One who now
  holds it back will continue to do so till He is
  taken out of the way

The Battle at End of the Times
The power of lawlessness secretly (i.e., not
openly) battles against the Spirit
until the restraining influence of Spirit of
Truth is removed from the world
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The Power of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 25-8) And then the Lawless
  One will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will
  overthrow with the breath of His mouth and
  destroy by the splendor of His coming.

The Deceit of Lawlessness
The Battle at End of the Times
until the restraining influence of Spirit of
Truth is removed from the world
to pave the way for the Coming of the Lord Jesus
in a Final Battle against him.
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The Deceit of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 29-10) The coming of the
  Lawless One will be in accordance with the work
  of Satan

The Deceit of Lawlessness
The Goal at End of the Times
There is one goal that the Lawless One will seek
to achieve, and it is the same goal as the work
of Satan
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The Deceit of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 29-10) displayed in all kinds
  of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders

The Goal at End of the Times
There is one goal that the Lawless One will seek
to achieve, and it is the same goal as the work
of Satan
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The Deceit of Lawlessness

• (2 Thessalonians 29-10) and in every sort of
  evil that deceives those who are perishing

The Goal at End of the Times
There is one goal that the Lawless One will seek
to achieve, and it is the same goal as the work
of Satan
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The Deceit of Lawlessness
The Question is Where do YOU stand?
The fact is the Battle is Happening Now.

• (2 Thessalonians 29-10) They perish because
  they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

The Goal at End of the Times
There is one goal that the Lawless One will seek
to achieve, and it is the same goal as the work
of Satan
It is a goal that is achieved by the power of
Satan to fool those who have ignored the Spirit
of Truth.