It is quite possible the antichrist could be from the U.S. That is quite a possibility since it is the establishment of not just the freedom of religion, but the freedom of heresy.
The Mark of the Beast, as the writer says, “one who has wisdom.” That should be telling since Solomon was attributed with wisdom, as a gift from God. But then he abused that gift with numerous woman he had as wives, and wealth, and so forth.
The sign of the beast is the lacking in Covenant relation to God.
The day which marks creation of creatures, but man. A beast. And that also means the mark of the Covenant fading, as well.
I forgot the word/term people use to think angels had children with humans (which is not what happened.) But that was the time men of renown were known. But the Covenental endurance of Seth began to fade. That’s another key indicator. Then again, there’s Noah and the flood. Whereby people were in marriage, and given into marriage. The attention to the Covenant was fading. It wasn’t God just standing there. However, it was Salvation History about to end, because Salvation was no longer being exhibited, lived. Except for Noah and his family.
The mark of the beast has purveyed man and history. It is the fall of man out from Salvation. However, if the world contends that man must give up the Sacraments, give up the teachings of the Church, and no longer live in Covenant, in order to buy or sell. In order to live in the world. And if man will not suffer martyrdom in the Sacraments. Then that would be the mark of the beast.
When man’s heart leaves God. And he turns to his own pride, arrogance, and desires, passions, and sins. Then he lives by the mark, like the devil.
The mark of the beast follows plight of hell, satan, the devil, the harlot, and the beast. It is the mark of evil. Man fallen out of Covenant. Like the angels who fell.
Our Lady in Fatima and the Angel, knew this. That was also the nihilistic age brought about by man. For Our Lady took good insight to the children in Fatima, by showing hell where poor sinners go when they have no one to pray for them. In addition, the Angel bowed before the Sacrament, and said for those “who do not believe, who do not adore, and do not hope, and do not love.” And then Angel’s last decree, “Penance! Penance! Penance!”
Our Lady’s turning point for souls to escape the mark of the beast.
And who knows, since man cannot really live without God. The mark may be deceptive as being Christian. People who allow for divorce, allow for transgender, gay or other sexual orientations that do not fall into the Covenantal surrender to the state of Matrimony (one man and one woman.) Perhaps to summarize partly the mark of the beast would be clearly rendered in “Humane Vitae.”
And the U.S. which is partly tied to heresies and societies who have been adversaries of the Church. Really house that inheritance, as antichrist.
