Understanding the Bible is simple if we just let it say what it says and do not put our own agendas into it.
a question Coup cannot answer
1 THESSALONIANS CHP 2
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
this clearly says that before the day of the Lord returning the man of sin must be revealed.
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
Here is the question: who is the HE that has to be taken out of the way?
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
after this "he" is taken out of the way, THEN THE ANTICHRIST IS REVEALED...
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
THIS VERSE SHOWS IT IS THE ANTICHRIST THAT THEY ARE DESCRIBING AS "THAT WICKED"
QUESTION:
- WHO IS IT THAT IS THE HE WHO NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE THE ANTICHRIST CAN COME?