Ice: Go read 2Thessalonians chapter 2. Who do you think The Restrainer is?? Its The Holy Spirit in The Church. So The AC cannot rise to power until The Church is out of here. Anyway, my Mother who died and had an NDE in 1983 confirmed this interpretation. And she was a traditional Catholic who did not believe in personal interpretation of Scripture. Her visions blew her away and none of my siblings accept them. We are twelve by the way. Mom died six weeks following these revelations.