This is one major reason, among many, that the world is beyond the point of no return. The world must be chastised by Heaven to purge the systemic, ubiquitous evil from it. Most elements of the modern world, and a majority of people who inhabit it, must be wiped out. There must be reset of the human, social, technological, civil and global order which, actually, would be an act of mercy by God. A chastisement would be an act of Divine mercy. A deeper punishment for our sins and lukewarmness is to allow this wickedness to continue unabated and in a metastasis leading up to Antichrist's public emergence.