A Catholic view of the End Times
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2021
- Have you ever noticed the Catholic church never seems to talk about the end times, but Protestant churches are always talking about it?
Why is That?
Well, actually during Advent, the season it is at the time of making this video, we are supposed to talk about it.
But I think the reason the Catholic church doesn't dwell on it like a lot of Protestant churches do is, for one, everyone has their own end time to worry about. We're all going to die some day and the Catholic church's main job is to administer the sacraments so that we can go to heaven.
I have been Protestant all of my life. For no reason at all, my life turned upside down at once in several ways. Without reading or knowing why, I began to feel a strong desire to be catholic. My dreams from months ago now make sense, and just in attempting to pray correctly as I began to read about the things I was feeling, my life is changing. My family are all Protestants and my state is all Protestant. I will be torched by them for thinking this way, and I don’t know at all how to go about this from here. Just out of nowhere I feel I’m called to “go home” in a sense and I feel it’s the Catholic Church. Very happy and confusing times I’m in.
Praying for you and I feel the same way! I grew up Protestant, but decided to convert to Catholicism this year a few months ago. I go so much pushback from my mom who is Protestan, but I wouldn't let that deter me from my decision. I pray that the Lord Jesus will guide you in the fullness of His Truth in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church! God bless you!
Welcome home! Please check out Steve Ray, he is a convert and it was difficult for him, he was shunned by his friends and family. God gave him better friends, he’s extremely knowledgeable you will love him. God bless you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Welcome home! Good advice to check out Steve Ray from above previous commentator
Also strongly recommend Scott Hahn, another convert
I feel the same way... I was protestant and had no interest in Catholicism. In fact I hated Catholics and I considered the pope to be an antichrist. I started to feel this pull to the church and now I am on my way to being a Catechumen
You're not supposed to trust your feelings but trust scripture, and it will never bring you to the catholic church.
Ive been living in horror from Christians for over 2 years now
Thank you for making this since i am Catholic i found myself at home tremendously
Thank you and May God Bless you forever and ever
Well done! Concise, precise and true to Catholic teachings.
God bless
Thanks for helping me understand this better! I’m a Roman Catholic but most of my christian friends are Non Denominational (and therefor, Protestant) so I wasn’t getting to hear the full truth of the Catholic faith on this matter until now. Thank you so much!
Did any of them mention the rapture? Haha
@@DavidTheZealot they have, but they didn’t know too too much about it either. Also both of them are now Catholic! All glory to God
@@scrapdog2113 wow great to hear they turned Catholic!
When I was Baptist, the rapture was mentioned often. Then, after I became Catholic, I began researching the rapture theory. It's an interesting study which I was clueless about. We mostly went by what the Left Behind series said which, I suppose, came from John Darby's camp. I think our best sources, as Catholics, are well read Protestants who converted to Catholicism. Men like David Currie, David Anders, Tim Staples and his CA crew. That's because the Catholic church doesn't embrace the theory. The Church simply embraces what Scripture says which, from what I know, this video covers but in more graphics means.
Another excellent video. Thank you. From Ireland ☘️
A great number of Priests and Bishops are more interested in the current secular 'Church of Nice' where we don't talk about anything that's negative or accepting. That's why most Catholics don't hear about the end of times.
Seems like a slippery slope, if you're always focused on the end then are you really doing much to minister to people in the here and now?
@@Murph_gaming There's plenty of 'hear and now' matters people like you overlook.
@@nl396 who are people like me? I'll wait..
Another excellent upload. Keep them coming. Thumbs up.
The failed prophecies of the American Evangelical church will bring their end. If they are wrong on that, what else were they wrong about?
David Currie's book about the rapture contains a chronological list of ppl who had predicted the end of the world over the last 2,000 years. They each had their reasons for their belief but, of course, they were all wrong.
Mary
I’m Protestant and I detest date setters also. Careful not to throw the baby out with the water because of these guys who are the sensationalists. Plenty of solid evangelicals who have carefully, thoughtfully, and diligently lay out biblical truths, not Bible sourced, interpretations. This is a HUGE difference. John MacArthur, RC Sproul, D James Kennedy, Scott Ardavanis, William Barrick, Jack Hibbs, Amir Tsarfati (completed Jew by the way!), Barry Stagner, Sam Musgrave, Andrei Sava, Johnny Ardavanis, Costi Hinn (he separated from his Uncle Benny Hinn after true conversion for his uncle is a false teacher taking in millions!), etc
I was raised nominally Protestant, but was never a student of Protestant eschatology. I left Protestantism many years ago, today embracing the Orthodoxy.
There is unfortunately no coherent eschatology in the Orthodox Church, so I have spent a lot of time researching Catholic teaching in this area.
In 2010, I experienced a vision of Christ in my home that included many miracles both in private and in public places. I wrote a book about some of these things that I published in 2016.
When Christ appeared to me, he spoke to me audibly and called me to write down everything I heard him say, which I share with many others by various means including social media platforms like this one.
I hear a lot of things in your discussion that concern me due to the teaching I was given when the Lord Jesus appeared to me.
I certainly don't claim to understand everything in the book of Revelation, but there are some key teachings that Christian believers are embracing that they will never see materialize.
I'm not posting this comment to go over every detail or to address every one of your points in the video. I'll just give you one particular example as a small sample of how we differ.
You said that the destruction of the temple in 70 AD was the judgement of God upon the Jews, and that is totally correct.
You then say that the prophecy of Jesus about a false Messiah to be embraced by the Jews has not yet occurred, and will be fulfilled by the future beast in Revelation.
In fact, the very prophecy in Matthew 24 about the destruction of the temple and the removal of every foundation stone beneath it was fulfilled both in 70 AD and in 135 AD.
Yes, the temple was completely desecrated in 70 AD by Rome, however the removal of the foundation stones did not occur until the end of the Simon Bar-Kopka revolt between 132 and 135 AD.
Who was Simon Bar-Kopka? He was the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah the Jews embraced when they went to battle against Rome in 132 AD!
It was this event that led Rome to completely surround Jerusalem, massacre every Jewish fighter, and trigger the great Jewish diaspora.
Just three years later, Rome pulled every stone in the city out of the ground, exactly as Jesus had said.
In Daniel we read that a future world tyrant will deny the god of his own ancestry, regarding only the god of military might.
No future Jewish Messiah could possibly deny the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, nor could an Islamic Mahdi deny Allah.
The future beast, Antichrist, or whatever you want to call him, will not be messianic, but rather a secularist.
Trace this comment if you want to know more. God bless!
The Antichrist will either be Satan himself in the flesh or a man who was given the world to him just like the devil offered to Jesus. Both will be intellectually gifted who comes from Jewish or Christian decent.
Nicely done. And, I would like to suggest that you never feel any shame over the affiliation with Orthodoxy. It is not for me as I see clearly in the Catholic fixture the truth of the origins. I see too the reality of the issue with a central authority, but, we humans need that and to be united in our faith, love and dedication to Jesus Christ we must have a common administration that provides a congealing effect. We have this consolation from Christ and I hear it in my mind’s eye every single day, “The gates of hell will not prevail against it”, in respect to His Church. We are, even if some think not, one. I don’t know about the Prots, my jury is on alert over that. I see a TON of heresy swarming out from that but, I know that Jesus is in that mix too… …but, it is an easy place for Satan to resource unwitting laborers to spill his hate; since they have a hate doctrine stitched into their teaching. Anyway, that was a nice response you reeled out up there. Gratitudes!
@@MrDoyle07once saved always saved is a lie from the pits of hell
Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To thee do we cry poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then most gracious advocate thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Oh clement, oh loving, oh sweet Virgin Mary. Pray for us oh Holy Mother of God, that we be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Amen.
Amen
Just subed this ch. great interpretation, I new most but u still have me even more. It will b bad but for us faithful, it won't b without love.
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Absolutely great content and video! Keep going! How can I contact you?
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Holy trinity forgive 🙏 my sins ✝️❤️🔥🕊
Not holy trinity, the blood of Christ. Believe the atoning work of Christ on the cross. You are forgiven the day you believed the lord to be your savior 😊😊😊
@@krishnaswami3362 holy trinity is real God Jesus and holy spirit all three are same God and we all weak sinners ✝️☦️🛐 amen
Those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ are no longer sinners. They are fully forgiven and justified before God. Come to God but through the Lord Jesus Christ.
@krishnaswami3362 belief is not enough. Faith alone is dead, you have to show your faith through your works, that is, true repentance and real change. That is faith. Without works is it dead.
Tell me what kind of work you are speaking of. Works of the law or good works? Former means legalism and for the latter, we are created for. Eph2: 10.
Amen. Thank you.
I think the simplistic answer is always the best. John was most likely talking about the time he was in and not 2,000 years into the future.
What do you mean by the pope will be removed from the situation?
How does the Great Monarch prophecy fit in? It seems to be in alignment.
He will rise to power first, reign about 40 years a d the Antichrist will usurp his throne
Thx
It's been my understanding that Nero was the Beast during "The Great Tribulation" and the Roman Empire was the Anti-Christ, which makes sense seeing that apostate Israel was the "Great Harlot"...
There is much cyclical history that lines up with the prophecies of Revelation. I truly hope that we are nearing the conclusion.
A lot in the Protestant community seem to fear certain technological advancements as being the mark of the beast. I try to take a more rational approach to it.
The Anti-Christ is a man of science, and immortality thru science, mind and moral law through A.I. He's already here somewhere. This is what the reformation brought about.
Revelation 22:18-19 (ESV) 18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
Read Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo's prophecy : La Sacra Scrittura XX1V ' Apocalypsse'.
Any end times that made the rabbis heroes are anathema
Is there anything truth to our Lady of Garabandal Prophecy about the Pope going to Moscow and when he returns to Rome Would war III brakes out ?
Dont know. My understanding is it came from Padre pio to Conchita. So if that part is true it doesnt mean Garabandal is.
Private revelations are not part of the deposit of faith and therefore are to be dealt with with pious caution.
Nero was dead about 25 years before John wrote “antichrist shall come” (90-95AD) only way this fits is if the “Beast” (Rev 13) and the “antichrist” (1 John 2:18) are separate individuals (which many theologians believe they are the same) can someone clarify?
You will have to double check but, as I recall, Jimmy Akin dates the writing of Revelation the first half of 70 AD. It was August of the same year, if I recall correctly, that Jerusalem was destroyed. But please double check with Jimmy at Catholic Answers.
Who said Christ would leave after the thousand years?
There is a school of thought that interprets the Millenarianism (that word) as the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Our Lord JesusChrist reigns on Earth in Eucharist way. A true Eucharist Revival.
Ave Christus Rex!
Salve Maria Regina!
Focusing on the end times is actually a waste of time for the most part. Our focus should only be on our Salvation and not the End Times. Don't worry about tomorrow because it will take care of itself. Worry about today and your Salvation that is at hand.
Worry is a sin. Contemplating the End Times is not. Many of us are able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
You said the pope will be removed during the equation.
But didnt vatican 1 say there will be a pope till the very end times?
Where did I say the Pope will be removed? Give me a time stamp.
Its been a while since I made this video, I just went through the script and I dont see it.
I dont velieve Ive ever said we would be without a Pope.
The Pope will flee Rome and be killed and it may be a while before we get another one, months or maybe even a couple of years. But thats not unusual given church history
Eighteen Minutes Fifty Four Seconds
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He said "the Pope will be removed from the situation" meaning that he won't be able to stop the antichrist from coming to power.
Where does it say the generations are 40 years?
From my Catholic AI for what it's worth :)
One biblical reference that has been associated with the notion of a generation lasting 40 years is the Israelites' wandering in the wilderness. In Numbers 14:33-34, after the Israelites grumbled and rebelled against God, He declared that they would wander in the wilderness for 40 years, with each day representing a year. This period of wandering is often understood as a generation, as it is stated in Psalm 95:10, "For forty years I loathed that generation and said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not know my ways.'"
Where do u get this part about the conversion of the jews as a necessary belief?
The catechism says this
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The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come upon part of Israel" in their "unbelief" toward Jesus.569 St. Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old."570 St. Paul echoes him: "For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?"571 The "full inclusion" of the Jews in the Messiah's salvation, in the wake of "the full number of the Gentiles",572 will enable the People of God to achieve "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ", in which "God may be all in all".
Not that catechisms in and of themselves are dogmatic.
But it does reflect the common teaching of the Church on this matter, which is binding.
Something does not have to be declared infallibly in order for us to be bound to believe.
If it's the common teaching, but not infallible, you are bound to believe it unless you have grave reason not to. But that reason must be rooted in theology and tradition in order for you to say it's wrong.
Not because you have a certain attitude towards a group of people
the bible and tradition are pretty clear that the jews will accept Jesus as the messiah.
@I Miss Christendom
thanks. However, I think it's clear that this already happened prior to 70AD. As it stands now there no longer exists any Jewish/israelite peoples. They were all genocided off the earth by way of inter mixing or killing. The 10 northern tribes had already been genocided by the assyrians centuries before Christ and all that remained were the two tribes of the house of Judah (jews). The Romans finished off the jews in the 70sAD. Those claiming to be jews today do not have a direct line of succession to Abraham. So, this is actually impossible to fulfill in any futuristic sense.
This is behind us and not in front. It's already done!! Thanks again!
@@ugotlj4133 my understanding is that because the Northern kingdom of Isreal (10 tribes of Isreal) were conquered, dispersed and assimilated amongst the Gentile nations, that when proclamation of the Gospel went out to the Gentile nations (first their conversion) then by this the lost Israelites will be converted, since they are now part (assimilated) of the Gentile nations. First converts were the Jews (Tribe of Benjamin and Judah -- aka Southern Kingdom of Judah from whence the word "Jew" derived), then the Gentiles, and last the lost Israelites within those nations. We also have Jewish converts still occurring calling themselves "Messianic Jews".
God bless
P.S. the Isrealites were not all "genocided"as you state. And there are still some (few) Jewish peoples with direct lineage to Abraham (very few). The remainder were/are converts ie: Sephardic and especially Ashkenazi Jews.
Nonetheless, being "Jewish" per se, is not about blood, but about adoption into that Faith and lifestyle. Many examples in the OT, and also the 4 women mentioned by name in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel.
Read Romans 11-12
@@coolcatbaron Welcome to the convo. The issue is that ALL of the Jews that were going to come in have come in already. All of the Gentiles that were going to come in have come in already. The Church has been fully built and is now established upon the earth and in heaven and reigns forevermore.
Nobody can prove that they are in the bloodline of Abraham...except Jesus Christ. Those that claim to be Jews today do not have any more proof that they are Jews than do Japanese people. It is completely farse.
I've heard a lot recently about Jews that are believing in Christ, that he is the true Messiah, not converting to Christianity, but becoming Messianic Jews, Jews that believe that Christ is the Messiah
I know people are very quick to denounce full preterism, but I'd highly encourage people to look into it. It explains everything so well as long as you have a a proper hermeneutic. To gain a proper hermeneutic, the "Covenant Hermeneutics and Biblical Eschatology" podcast with Gary Demar and Kim Burgess is fantastic.
Interesting topic. This would be a good question for either Tim Staples or Jimmy Akin at Catholic Answers.
I did ask my Catholic AI and got the following:
"Since Full Preterism is not a widely accepted or recognized theological position within mainstream Christianity, it has not been the subject of discussion or deliberation in any church council."
@@billlee2194 yep it's definitely not a popular topic, but actually there were quite a few early Catholic fathers who were full preterists, even in the first century
I thought we were supposed to talk about the end times immediately before Advent, as the Church Year ends and we celebrate the solemnity of Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. At least, that's what my priest did at my Church during his November homilies.
That was also discussed in OCIA class.
Didn’t Napoleon surround Rome and take Papal States?
Why does the priest bring Jesus down on the altar at every mass?
I thought there was only a 2nd coming...
Jesus told His Apostles 'this IS My body. Do this in memory of Me'. That's what the Eucharist and Mass has been for 2,000 years.
@@billlee2194 unfortunately 😕 the romanists consider this an unbloody sacrifice and are literally eating Jesus. Macabre.
What Christ finished on the cross romanists continue on an altar.
Jesus spoke in parables.
He also said He was the door. Why not worship a door??
As an ex-Baptist, slowly becoming Catholic, it was the Rapture that was the biggest red flag for me. None of it made any sense, and none of the verses they point to seem to actually be saying what they believe they are saying. It almost seems like a spiritual blindness.
Do you really believe that we have just had 1000 years of peace where God's Will has been done globally on earth as it is in heaven? Where swords have been beaten into ploughshares (instead of war), where creation has been returned to harmony with man, where the people who lived in moral darkness have seen a great light (of spiritual illumination) causing God's rule over all the nations in justice from sea to sea? This is what Christ taught the Church to hope and pray for. It hasn't happened yet but it will soon as the chastisement grows during the WWIII, and afterwards an era of peace will cover the earth under Christ's (spiritual not physical) rule until the devil is loosed once more and Christ returns in glory to finally vanquish him at the end of the world.
The " 1000 year riegn" in Revelation 20 says none of that.
All it says is they will riegn with christ 1000 years. But that riegn is in heaven.
Rev 20
4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
It says Satan will be bound so he can't fool the nations. In other words , the gospel can spread. Not that he can't do other things
Yet the Gospel is still being proclaimed and spread, so Satan can't be already released from the pit...
@@imisschristendom5293 The only prayer Christ taught us was to prayer for the coming of his Kingdom where the Father's will would be done on EARTH as it is in heaven. This must happen before the second coming.
I think that we are probably in the last leg of the end times. And there may be one more great persacution coming and Nero was an example of how it would be repeated near the end times. I don't believe we are ever getting raptured away we don't put on armor to fly.
do you think there will be another mark of the beast then?
Jesus directly calls Judas the Son of Perdition, so there might something there 🤷♂️
Hospital in 2017, secretly c hipp'd me, head to foot.
How did you figure out
@@mathfrom0to96 got scans to prove it. Was hard to find when only a few in the world to the scans
Keep an eye out for the AC. Decernment is needed as he will hide himself in plane sight for a while. Check out the new French PM, a Jewish young man raised cstholic from Tunisia where his parents are from. Maybe maybe not.
You should read David Currie's book The Rapture:..... He includes a list over 2,000 years with names and dates of folks who have predicted the end times including Billy Graham in the early 1950s. Every prediction, as we know, has been wrong.
Thank you
Yes Protestants
Call it Expository Bible study
Chapter by chapter verse by verse. Different than our Mass readings
Which are held together by a common golden thread
We don’t just sit down and eat one thing for dinner
Metaphor that led to misunderstanding scripture
Reading it in isolation
With a microscope
The Catholic way is better
Our plate has vegetables potatoes meat for better nutrition
So is reading the Bible
It’s a banquet
Enjoy the Catholic way of reading the Bible
I get it now
Logosophi
The amount of wrong Evangelical end time predictions is getting ridiculous and out of control but no one calls them on their cookery.
isaiah's prophecy of the lamb making his home with the wolf was fulfilled when Peter established the church in rome, the city of the wolf. the mark of the beast in revelation was fulfilled in the reign of Trajan, possibly Domitian, when christians had to sacrifice incense to the image of the emperor. the beast in revelation is indeed Nero because of two manuscript families as witness, 666, and 616 gematria. the prince was Titus. and just as the hebrews wandered for 40 years in the desert, God allowed sacrifices at the temple for 40 years after the crucifixion: Jesus died on passover 33 ad, and the last jewish resistance with any hope of reviving temple sacrifice ended in Masada when it fell on passover 73 ad. although the temple was destroyed was destroyed in 70 ad, it took the romans 3.5 years to level the temple even tear its foundations because the gold and silver from the temple melted and flowed through the cracks broken by the fire; this is the reason there is no trace of the temple. the entire New Testament was finished with the book of revelation in 67 ad.
Dr. Taylor Marshall put forth the idea that Pope Benedict XVI was the restrainer.
Taylor Marshall is devoted, strong in his Faith to the Catholic Church. Nevertheless he is in error about some things. His heart is good
Revelation 20:1-5
New King James Version
Satan Bound 1,000 Years
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
The Saints Reign with Christ 1,000 Years
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:4 says quite clearly Jesus reigns with the Saints for 1000 years. Chapter 19 tells of Jesus coming down from heaven to defeat Satan's army. The beginning of chapter 20 tells of an angel coming down from heaven with keys to the pit.
It doesn't say Jesus came down defeated the armies and returned to heaven.
Catholicism is NOT Christian.
The prophesy of the end times is that of Jesus Christ. The catholic church will be destroyed. Revelation chapter 17.
Hell shall not prevail against the Catholic Church. It may well be driven underground and persecuted, just as it's founder, Jesus Christ, was.
God bless!
@@Dienekes678 Yes this is true for His church. The catholic church through disobedience left His church a long time ago. You can tell them by their fruits. Millions have died around the world due to the actions of the catholic church.
@@francissweeney7318 more rubbish, again Francis. May your eyes be opened one day. God bless.
@@Dienekes678 So the prophesy of Jesus Christ concerning the catholic church is "rubbish" to you ?
@@francissweeney7318 your twisting and false interpretation of it are rubbish. God bless.