St. John Henry Cardinal Newman described what he saw as a burgeoning movement of apostasy among Christian nations—perhaps a harbinger of the Great Apostasy. In its various features, he saw the agenda of Antichrist at work.

What is chilling about his words is the fact that so many Christians today—including many Catholics—fully agree with, or at least do not object to this agenda.

In the books of Maccabees—books whose events are widely linked with Daniel’s prophesies, and thus likely reveal a type of the end times—we have a False High Priest, Menelaus (the “False Prophet”), escorting Antiochus (the “Antichrist”) into the Jerusalem Temple (the “Church”) to desecrate it (the “Abomination of Desolation”). This in turn leads to the cessation of the daily sacrifice prophesied by Daniel (what many Church Fathers and Catholic theologians argue will be the cessation of the public sacrifice of the Eucharist in the mass), and arguably the worst persecution of faithful Jews up to that time (the “Great Tribulation”) on the part of apostate Jews (the “Anti-Church”) who are allied with pagan Greeks (the “world”).

On September 18, 1793, a unique and disturbing ceremony took place in the new capital of the youthful United States. The cornerstone of the new Capitol building was laid, and the ceremony for the occasion was led by none other than President George Washington.

But the ceremony was rather unique: it was Freemasonic, and conducted by Freemasons, most notably Washington himself,

This is Part 2 about the binding and loosing of Satan, the bookends of the Catholic Epoch of Christendom, the katechōn that restrains the mystery of iniquity until it is “out of the way.”

The binding and loosing of Satan are the bookends of the history of the katechōn, Christendom, which restrains the mystery of iniquity until it (the katechōn) is “out of the way.”