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not intervene between the coming of Christ for His saints in the air and His coming with His saints to the earth. Indeed, there are indications that there must be such an inter val. Christ has much to do with His Church before He comes with His Church to deal with the world. Furthermore, we are dis tinctly taught in the 6th and 7th verses of this same chapter that there is now a re straining power that hinders the manifesta tion of the man of sin. Paul says, ''And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work; only there is one that restraineth now, .until he be taken out of the way. And then shall be revealed the lawless, one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the mani festation of his coming.'' It is only natural to presume that this restraining power has something to do with the Church; and the in evitable implication seems to be that the Church must be removed from the earth be fore "the lawless one" can be revealed on the earth. 5. The last days and the time of the re turn of our Lord Jesus will be a ti,ne of
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