Catechism Paragraph 675
Part 1:
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
Section 2: THE CREEDS
Chapter 2: I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
Article 7: "FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD"
Section 2: THE CREEDS
Chapter 2: I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
Article 7: "FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD"
Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.[573] The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth[574] 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 place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.[575]
š Footnotes
[573]
Cf. Lk 18:8; Mt 24:12.
[574]
Cf. Lk 21:12; Jn 15:19-20.
[575]
Cf. 2 Th 2:4-12; I Th 5:2-3; 2 Jn 7; I Jn 2:1 8, 22.