The Anti-christ IS the "restrainer"?

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Please answer my question. How can Jesus avenge the church Paul wrote to and deal with their persecutors if the vengeance is long after they're dead and gone with no one who persecuted the church there to be able to be dealt with?

Why avoid my question?

Jesus was glorified in the saints by having proved himself right and avenging the church under fire. Don't make all prophecies irrelevant to the people to whom they were written.

The same way he could give instructions to people who would not read his words until 2000 years later. Everything Paul wrote was to THEM, but do we not claim it as instructions for us as well? Paul assumed Christ was soon to come it seems.