The Anti-christ IS the "restrainer"?

[Michael The Disciple]

With THAT in mind Paul goes to the heart of the matter? When will HE BE REVEALED?

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

Jesus coming/revelation is being delayed by time. It cannot happen till the man of sin is first revealed.

There are two revealings. The subject is the coming/revelation of Jesus is whats being delayed or "witheld".