5. Do you not recall that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
6. And now you know what it is that holds him back, so that he may be revealed in his own time.
7. For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. And only one now holds back, and will continue to hold back, until he is taken from our midst.
8. And then that iniquitous one shall be revealed, the one whom the Lord Jesus shall bring to ruin with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy at the brightness of his return:
9. him whose advent is accompanied by the works of Satan, with every kind of power and signs and false miracles,