Ok, I wasn’t going to do any more posts regarding the election, but I stumbled across this in the CCC while looking up something else:

675 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 earth⁵⁷⁴ 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 [emphasis added].⁵⁷⁵

The good news?

677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.⁵⁷⁸ The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.⁵⁷⁹ God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.⁵⁸⁰

Now, I have been saying that every single generation has been absolutely convinced that theirs was the final one and it was going to be “all over” shortly, so I take with a grain of salt anyone who says that this is the end, that anything is the end.  The Bible tells us no man knows the day…therefore as soon as someone claims to know the day, I guess we can rule out that day.  That in mind, I do believe we are closer than we have ever been; obviously we are because time only moves in one direction on this mortal coil.  Does that change how I behave and what I do?  No way.  I’m not looking to “be good” at the last minute.

Still, it’s interesting reading from the Catechism.