The Catholic Catechism warns society about making a secular messiah because the church knows that only when Jesus Christ returns, will society enter the perfect age that can only be possible after Christ has judged this earth. The church also teaches that just before the Second Coming of Christ, an anti-Christ will appear on this earth to lead unbelievers astray and prepare this world for the last and final Judgment of God. Throughout history there has been many world leaders who have persecuted the Church, but the final secular leader is prophesied in 2 Thessalonians 2, the bible warns about the final Anti-Christ that will appear before the Second Coming:
2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
The secular world has gained a lot of power over the past 20 years, God is constantly being pushed out of our culture, however the Second Coming of Christ is imminent which means it could happen at any moment. When the church is raptured and the dead in Christ are raised, then the final anti-Christ will appear on this earth. The church is saved from God’s wrath, and I believe as soon as the Holy Spirit is taken from this earth, the church goes with Him! So now there are many anti-Christs, but the Church is waiting for her Lord and Saviour. (See 1Thess. 4)
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. This is Mike.
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