Normalcy Bias keeps people believing things are just going to keep going on.
The Black Swan Event (or two?) might wake them up - by then it’ll be too late I’m afraid.
Satan knows his time is short.
He is more “rapture ready” than even we who see the signs approaching understand.
Our pastor says, and I agree, that since Satan does not know when the rapture will happen and when the Tribulation will begin, in every generation he has someone ready to fill the role of the antichrist.
That explains why so many people in history have fit the bill, like Stalin, Hitler, etc. And yes, they were antichrist in spirit, but not THE Antichrist of the Tribulation time frame.
I think the biggest deception Satan has afflicted some people with is conflating tribulation, just general tribulation and troubles we face in this life, with the Great Tribulation, and the spirit of antichrist, which is anything that raises itself up against Christ, with THE Antichrist who is the major player indwelt by Satan himself during the Great Tribulation time period.