There is also the intriguing possibility of a parallel passage to Revelation 20:1–10 found in 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, where Paul spoke of the coming of our Lord occurring after an unprecedented apostasy and the revelation of the man of sin, all because the one who presently restrains such activity ceases to do so. Indeed, this apostasy ends, and the man of sin is destroyed by the splendor of our Lord’s coming, events that sound much like those depicted in Revelation 20:7–10.
