to datechon/ho katechon, now we know what was restraining the Antichrist
- F M SHYANGUYA
- Mar 20, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 15
Update: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Cf. to datechon/ho katechon, now we know what was restraining the Antichrist | Blog: Pro Libertate et Exaltatione Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae (For the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church) [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125225011/https://libertate-et-exaltatione-sanctae-matris-ecclesiae.com/2020/03/20/to-datechon-ho-katechon-now-we-know-what-was-restraining-the-antichrist/]
The Apostle [St. Paul] gives three stages in the evolution of evil: the leaven of iniquity, the great apostasy, and the man of sin. But he adds a clause calculated to determine the time of the main event more accurately; he describes something first as a thing (to datechon), then as a person (ho katechon), preventing the occurrence of the main event: “Only he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way.” - Catholic Encyclopedia > Antichrist
He mentions this in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians:
2 Thess 2:6-7 (RSVCE): 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.[fn. Evil will operate secretly till the final unmasking.]
Now that daily Mass has ceased and this is mentioned in prophet [Daniel [9:26-27 (RSVCE); continual burnt offering], in hindsight we can now see that it was the Pope (ho katechon)/the Papacy (to datechon)
That was restraining the appearance of the Antichrist.
Being the ape of God, the devil knows:
Mk 3:27 (RSVCE): 27 But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man; then indeed he may plunder his house.
With them now seizing the Papacy[1], the Apocalyptic Beasts, can now make war on the saints and conquer them.
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