The major problem in the church today is when Christians exchange the Divine and supernatural economy of redemption for an attempt to do no more than change the world.

Many Catholics have forgotten that the Church is established for the forgiveness of sins and the proclamation of the gospel, and believe instead that the Church is here to make the world a better place, and that this needs to be accomplished by all sorts of educational, social welfare, political and even revolutionary activities.

Preachers, priests and prelates have decided Jesus’ kingdom really is of this world after all and have exchanged the gospel of salvation for the gospel of political activism. They are more concerned with saving the planet than saving souls.

Tell it straight. This is the message of anti-Christ.
In a telling passage the Catechism quotes Pius XI’s, encyclical Divini Redemptoris,
The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the hame of millenarianism, especially the intrinsically perverse political form of a secular messianism.” para. 676

Remember, those words were written during the papacy of Pius XI who witnessed the rise of communism and fascism in Europe.In other words, whenever you see a system like socialism or Marxism or capitalism attempt to bring in a utopian new world order–it’s the spirit of Antichrist, and be assured the Catholic Church will be its Public Enemy Number One.

Whenever you see a church or pastor or pope more involved in social reform, political renewal or plans to change the social order (no matter how well intentioned) you see an apostate. Whenever you see the secular press, the media manipulated masses and the celebrity stars idolize a new political hero who is going to save the world–be alert and watchful. Persecution is around the corner.

Persecution is around the corner because all tyrants and those intent on a New Secular World Order know that the Kingdom of God is the enemy of the Kingdom of this World which is always the Kingdom of the Prince of this world who is also the Prince of Darkness.

Paragraph 675 of the catechism teaches, “Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution will unveil the mystery of iniquity in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo messianism by which man glorifies himself in the place of God.

Therefore, be sober and vigilant because your adversary, like a roaring lion, stalks about seeking whom he may devour.