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The Katechon and the Future of Latin America

The Greek word katechon means to restrain, to hold back, or to prevent. In his second letter to the Thessalonians,² the Apostle Paul employed this concept against the coming of the Antichrist. Twenty centuries later, Carl Schmitt adopted the same concept, but gave it a political meaning. Before the Second Coming, two events must occur: the great universal apostasy, and the coming of the "man of sin," i.e., the Antichrist.³ There had been some unrest among the Thessalonians as a result of believing that the Second Coming was imminent. This was partly due to the misunderstandings described in Paul's first...