5. do you not recall that while I was still with you I told you these things?
6. And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his time.
7. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed from the scene.
8. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord [Jesus] will kill with the breath of his mouth and render powerless by the manifestation of his coming,