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“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth will let, until He be taken out of the way” (2 Thessalonians 2:7).
Here we have another mystery, or secret, that some people know and others do not. The “secret of iniquity” means that already Satan is working behind the scenes to cause all kinds of trouble and sinfulness in this world. Iniquity simply means doing our own will, and for those who do not know the Lord, it means doing whatever they want, without any restraint. But thankfully there is someone who does restrain all that—the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God lives in every true believer, and also lives among believers collectively as the house of God. His presence in this world holds back the evil so that it cannot go beyond a certain point.
However, when you and I are called home at the Lord’s coming, the Holy Spirit will leave with us, and then the evil will break loose in a way that we can scarcely imagine. How thankful we should be that the Holy Spirit is here in this world, and that we will not be here when He is gone, when the evil has nothing to hold it back.
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