Bible Questions Answered: Anti-Christ-Revealed

Bible Questions Answered:
Why haven't we seen this person called the Anti-Christ?
Helen/ Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Bible Answers:
The answer is found in The Apostle Paul's writing to the Thessalonians.

II Thessalonians 2:6-8 NLT
6 And you know what (Who: God The Holy Spirit.) is holding him (The Anti-Christ)back, for he can be revealed only when his time comes.
7 For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way.
8 Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath of His mouth and destroy him by the splendor of His coming.

Today, our Lord, is still building His Church.

Acts 15:14 KJV (The Church)
...God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His name.

The Anti-Christ cannot be revealed/ unleashed, into our world until the Church of Jesus Christ, the Bride of Christ, is complete, and taken out of the way.

I Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV (Could happen at any time!)
[16] For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
[18] Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

I Corinthians 15:51-58 NLT
51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!
52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.
53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die,this Scripture will be fulfilled:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power.
57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

I Thessalonians 1:9,10 KJV
[9]... ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
[10] And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Revelation 3:10 KJV
Because thou hast kept the word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Christians are the light of the world.

Philippians 2:15 KJV
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Light and darkness cannot exist in the same place.
Only when the light of this world, The Gospel sharing saints of God, are gathered out of this world, and God the Holy Spirit, ceases His work as "Restrainer of evil( II Thess. 2:6-8)," will the lawlessone be able to come into the world.

Matthew 24:21-26 KJV
[21] For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
[22] And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
[23] Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
[24] For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
[25] Behold, I have told you before.
[26] Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.