Remarkable unanimity in being wrong about this particular issue. You put them on too high of a pedestal.
You are making an absolute fool of yourself here. Why don't you find out what I actually believe before spewing this nonsense? I am as far from being a pre-trib dispensationalist as you can get, but here you are thinking I believe that nonsense. I don't believe that any future individual antichrist will arise. John made it clear that antichrist is anyone who rejects Christ.
I don't. Do you have anything to offer at all besides false accusations?
I'm not seeing it. What was being restrained was wickedness. That's why he indicated it would be at some point in the future when there would be a mass falling away for a time just before the return of Christ. Jesus alluded to this as well in Matthew 24:10-13. He indicated it would be a time of increased wickedness. Before that time wickedness has been restrained by the preaching of the gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit. But, a time is coming, if it hasn't started already, when the gospel will be mostly silenced by false teaching and false religions. As an amillennialist, I see that time as correlating with Satan's little season (Revelation 20:7-9).
I say none of the above. Why do you try to limit the options? I say that Paul's reference to "the man of sin" is a general reference to sinful man in a similar way that he generally referenced godly people as "the man of God" in this verse:
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Is this referring to an individual "man of God"? No. It's referring to the people of God in a general sense. That is how I understand the reference to "the man of sin". A general reference to sinful, unrepentant people. And he talks about how there will be a mass falling away before Christ returns, so I see him as describing people who decide to turn away from God and basically see themselves as God instead.
No, I spelled "dramatic" correctly.