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The antichrist will not come until the chastisement has ended and a short time of peace ensues. The antichrist will come when the Temple is rebuilt and he sits within to be worshiped. Since Christ IS the Temple, the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple and anything within to be worshiped would be antichrist.

We are quite possibly in the midst of a worldwide chastisement.

Last night, my wife and I went to see "Constant Gardener". The coming attractions featured a movie about two gay cowboys and their forbidden love. I turned to my wife: 'Are you friggin' kidding me? Now the Marlboro Man is gay?'

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Unless "the Temple" allegorically is the Church. In which case, the infiltration of the church by anti-Catholic/anti-Christian secret societies, Communists, and criminal sexual deviants begins to look like a preliminary stage to something even more diabolical - if it were even possible to imagine that. There had been speculation whether "the abomination of desolation" was the infiltration of the sanctuary by anti-Christian unbelievers. Supposedly, the Antichrist puts to an end the "sacrifice." Is that a reference to the Blessed Sacrament at Mass perhaps? All very interesting speculation, of course. At any rate, I don't really know.

It is certainly true that liberal secular humanists have expanded the state so as to create a temporal realm demanding veneration and something almost like worship quite above and beyond any jutstified claims or rights in any normal understanding of the relation between Caesar and Christ. The decline of faith, morals, and Christian institutions definitely opens things up for Antichrist-like attitudes, practices, and...horrors. Some of which we can already see.