2 Thessalonians 2:6-7

The Man of Lawlessness

⁶ And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷ For _l the mystery of lawlessness _m is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

1. Cross References
   Revelation 17:5
   And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.
   Revelation 17:7
   But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
   
2. Cross References
   1 John 2:18
   Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
   1 John 4:3
   And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.