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Here is more scripture to lay the foundation of my thinking.

2 Thessalonians 2: 4-10 focus on verse 7

4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.


two points from this: The spirit of Antichrist is already working and the Spirit of Christ through his called out ones, his Church, are hindering the antichrist progress...until they are taken out of the way.

LET (katecho): Usually in the sense of "permit" (Anglo-Saxon, leetan), but also in Old English with meaning of "hinder" (Anglo-Saxon, lettan)


Thus we can surmise why The antichrist system wars against Christianity and why the persecution of various degrees.