6. And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.
7. For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,
8. and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth and wipe out by the manifestation of his arrival.
9. The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan’s working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,