The Antichrist and his Reign- Key Characteristics

.According to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the book that I am going to use to describe the key characterizes of the Antichrist and his reign of terror, was one of the biggest graces she has ever received. The title of the book is End of this Present World  and Mysteries of  the Life to Come.  It can be purchased here 
The author bases his assessment off of Scripture and tradition and teachings of the church fathers. This post will briefly summarize key points:

Timeline of the Antichrist in relation to the end of the world or the final judgement-
It is a common belief that Christ Himself will return to fight the Antichrist and then the world will end and the new Earth will appear. It is worth pointing out that this is NOT the general consensus among most of the church fathers and does not make sense in the context of scripture, most notably in the Book of Revelation. The more fitting description is that the Antichrist will be destroyed by the "spirit of his mouth" aka the Holy Spirit as we see in 2 Thessalonians 2:8. This is  not describing Jesus in his glorified body coming to earth to destroy the Antichrist. It is thought that after the destruction of the Antichrist, there will be an era of peace in which life will be centered around the sacraments of the church.  In being familiar with private revelations, I personally think that the "Great Monarch" and "Great Pope" aided by the Blessed Mother and Saint Michael the Archangel , combined with the remnant of God's people that weren't killed off in the persecutions (more on that later), will defeat the Antichrist, but that is another post entirely. After this era of peace, it is thought that Satan will be unchained to wreak havoc (but not in human form as he did with the Antichrist) and then the physical second coming and rebirth with put an end to him once and for all.  It is important for us to differentiate between the reign of the Antichrist and the second coming as they are not the same event.  The Antichrist marks the end of the Era and the beginning of a new one, while the end of the world is just that...the end of the world. It is also worth noting that the end of the world will not happen until the Antichrist has his way with us. 

Signs that will precede his Reign
For the sake of prudence I think we need to establish a difference between the 3 and half year reign when he has full power and his public appearance. No where do we see that his public appearance is simultaneous with his actual reign of ultimate power when he takes the throne of the universe so to speak. In fact reason and logic would point to the fact that he would make his appearance prior to crowning himself as emperor of all.  Furthermore, we should not get tunnel vision in focusing just on the person of the Antichrist at the exclusion of the reign of the SPIRIT of the antichrist which is already upon us and has been since the the beginning of the Church. Every "star" needs their red carpet rolled out so to speak and we should be vigilant in being able to identify the people and actions that are indeed rolling it out.  There is nothing spontaneous about his coming to power, it has been centuries in the works.  It is the reason why the early Christians who were persecuted by the types of the antichrist thought they would see the second coming. The thing to remember is that the final end time Antichrist will be the worst of the worst...a culmination of all the types such as Nero Ceaser. 
Prior to his reign will be great tribulations, most notably violence and famines and plagues etc.... He will use this to his advantage. Just when everything is at its worst he will offer an apparent solution for all of our problems at the price of apostasy and the denial of the one true God. He will offer people an opportunity to save their bodies and lose their souls. Everything will be tolerated accept worship that isn't directed at him, especially that directed at Jesus Christ. 

Characteristics of The Antichrist

• He will be fully man but possessed by Satan since birth
• He will mock the Lord in everything he does *THIS IS THE KEY TO IDENTIFYING HIM* everything he does will be a satanic inversion or a mimicking of Catholicism. For example he will profess to have had a miraculous or unique birth but most likely would have been born in a unclean way (ie fornication or adultery) It is my personal opinion he will be a child of science (test tube baby) and in that way he could possibly claim that his mother is a virgin but there are other viable theories as well such as being born from a satanic ritual in which the worshipers rape the woman who acts as the altar. 
• He will be of Jewish decent. Just as the Jews rejected the child Jesus for not being what they considered a "king", they will accept this "king" as their messiah initially but then will be converted to Catholicism when the 2 witnesses Elijah and Enoch show up during his reign.  For this reason, he will make Jerusalem the seat of his throne and pretend to bring about a Jewish Kingdom. He will initially force everyone to follow Jewish law such as circumcision and bloody sacrifices but will at some point stop that and force sacrifices to be offered to him alone. 
• He may be of the tribe of Dan
• . In order to have altars erected to him and to have sacrifices and worship offered to him alone, he will  ban the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and persecute the Church. I am of the opinion that prior to the abomination of desolation the Pope will be killed and an Antipope installed to bridge the gap between worshiping Christ in the Mass and worshipping the Antichrist. 
• He will wage war on the saints, the likes of which the world has never seen and will never see again. He will use deception and violence. His mission will be to exterminate Catholics, not for power or for money, but for the simple fact that he is Satan and he hates God.  He will create alliances between all of the worlds religions and heresies in order to accomplish his mission of full out extermination. The Blessed Mother will protect her remnant though and the church will never be completely wiped out. 
• He will be an expert in the occult, the arts and sciences 
• He will portray himself as an ashiest and a humanitarian at first, but these are both lies. 
• He will literally rule the world for 3 and a half years. 
• Do not lose track of the fact that the ultimate goal of Satan has always been to create his own Kingdom and will very much sell the idea of peace and harmony on earth (as soon as the pesky Christians are killed of course). He wants to dethrone Jesus and replace all the feast days, holydays, customs, traditions etc....these will be viewed as old fashioned, intolerant, and a hindrance to progress and peace. Sunday observance will be changed or done away with. No sacraments- the church will be underground and hunted. 
• He will work wonders to include even appearing having been raised from the dead due to a head wound. He will make fire fall from the sky and make statues talk, but it will all be the work of demons. Many will be deceived by these false miracles...ESPECIALLY the rationalists and scientists among us who insist that the miracles of Christ are explainable.  Many who think they are Christian will be deceived and convinced that persecuting Catholics is the right thing to do. 
• His reign will be allowed as punishment from God and many souls will be lost and to separate the wheat from the chaff. 
• He will blaspheme God and have the cooperation of 10 earthy kings like we see in the depiction of Daniel's beast.
• He will seal people with his "mark" in order to be admitted into society. The mark will be the number of his name 666 or his actual name. 
• He will be hailed as a genius that advances humanity
• If the elect were not sustained and fortified by grace from heaven, not a single person would be able to withstand this time. It is also noted that those who have not been confirmed will most likely fall. 
• There will be no where to hide (technology makes this a possibility).

Spoiler alert- In the end her Immaculate Heart will triumph. 
Stay vigilant my friends
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