Daniel 9:27 - In continued support for the case that this final future false one-world religious system will have its roots in Roman Catholicism, this lesson focuses on unpacking the Letter to the Church at Thyatira (Rev. 2:18-29). As Bill Salus has noted, this passage presents strong suggestions that the Catholic church will remain on earth after the Rapture, and that it will endure a violent and sudden destruction by the antichrist as Rev. Ch. 17 spells out.