This is a vision I had in October of 2021. The vision was brief but answered an important question I had about the restrainer mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2. Here is the passage.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, ² not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. ⁵ Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? ⁶ And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. ⁹ The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, ¹⁰ and  with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. ¹¹ Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, ¹² in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

The two prevailing beliefs about the restrainer are that it is either the Church or the Holy Spirit. This is what the Lord showed me in this brief vision.

In a time of prayer, I saw this brief vision play out in front of me. It only lasted for about 15-20 seconds or so, but it was very clear.

I saw The Devil facing away from me, staring at a peculiar-looking object. I was standing slightly behind Satan and to his left. He was wearing a royal blue or purple cloak that fell to his feet. It had a gold band about 4 inches wide that started from the floor and went around his neck. I could only see part of the left side of his face, but I had seen him before in 1998 when he walked into my bedroom and told me he was going to kill me. I could see he was intent on this object that was suspended in the air in front of him. He did not look to the right or left. His gaze was fixed. He was obviously waiting for something.

This object was approximately 2 feet tall, about 3 feet in length, and 4 to 6 inches thick, rectangular in shape with rounded edges. It was suspended in the air about 3 feet off the ground. It was tan colored and had some type of inscription or stamp on it that reminded me of a wax seal stamp or a carving. It almost looked mechanical. I did not understand the inscription on the object.

Directly behind this object was a wall of darkness and evil with many contorted and angry faces that I knew were demons. They were acting like racehorses at the starting gate, eager to run. There was a lot of clamoring, rage, and great noise coming from this wall of darkness. Satan paid no attention to the demonic horde, only to the object in front of Him.

I then perceived that the object was some kind of seal or memorial that had to do with the number of the Gentiles being fulfilled. (Romans 11:25) As I watched Satan staring intently at this object, it began to disintegrate. First, it seemed like little pieces of sand began to fall from the object to the ground, much like sand from an hourglass. As this began to fall in more volume, Satan turned his back on it and walked quickly away to my right. The object then collapsed completely into dust, and the demonic horde came raging forth toward me.

That was the end of the vision.

I am not going to pretend that I understand this completely, but I believe that the object that Satan was staring at was one of the seals that the Lord breaks in Revelation 6. Specifically, the fourth seal.

Revelation 6:7-8 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.” 8 So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

The number of the Gentiles is almost fulfilled. We must strengthen ourselves for what is coming.

JESUS IS COMING!

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JC