The last lecture is named, you know, the one who withholds because that's the meaning of the word katachon. I think only only mentioned a few times in the Bible about the entity or the thing that withholds the apocalypse. And Gerard's point is don't confuse the lack of actuality for violence, for the lack of the potential for violence. He says there are three institutions that are the katachons of modernity. It's capitalism, law, and then war.

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