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Other Catholics can reply but from my teaching and upbringing there isn't a version of end times in the Catholic Church; the book is not emphasized.
Speaking with Jesuit priests when I was younger and from my own learning since then the book is narrative on the end of the Roman Empire at the time of Catholic Persecution under Nero. So, for example, "the sign of the beast is 666." There was an old number game at the time where you add up the numbers associated with letters to get the name of a person such as, "I love 126." In this case 666 is, "Cesar Nero."
The whole thing is like that using metaphor to point out ill of the time...but yah as a Catholic you are not going to get Revelations during Mass. So, we don't care.
so it looks like the only churches that care about revelations are mostly american based evangelical protestant churches established after the 1830s
Very much so. European Mainline Protestant such as Lutheran, Episcopalian (Anglican), Methodist, Presbyterian probably don't emphasize the book either.
Catholics lack any endtimes prophecy or inclination what the
very question implies. They are simply a faith thatbhas distanced themselves from biblical dialog relacing it with a
distracing and extremely preculiar religousity that is terrifying.
Catholics lack any endtimes prophecy or inclination what the
very question implies. They are simply a faith thatbhas distanced themselves from biblical dialog relacing it with a
distracing and extremely preculiar religousity that is terrifying.
What is terrifying are the opinions of those who are guessing what any Religion is about without knowing about that Religion.
Religion is manmade and God is God, whatever happens will happen no matter how much one thinks they are prepared or what they believe all of it is out of any one person's control and it cannot be changed.
According to Catholic tradition, there is a very clear order of events that are set to occur towards the end of the world. Quite recently, some Catholics have been heavily influenced by modern Protestant dispensationalism on the subject of the Millennium, mostly due to the popularity of the writings of Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi, Kelly Bowring and Mark Mallet. This rather peculiar end time chronology which has only surfaced in Catholic thought in the late 20th century basically follows the Protestant postmillennial template, and equates the "period of peace" promised by Our Lady of Fatima with a future binding of Satan for a thousand years. However the Catholic Church has accepted the amillennial interpretation of the Apocalypse ever since St. Augustine of Hippo expertly explained the true meaning of the Millennium described in Rev 20 in his monumental work The City of God, written in the fourth century. Since then, this view has been accepted by every doctor and saint of the Catholic Church, and the teachings of the Catechism on this subject simply does not leave room for any alternative to St. Augustine's approach to the Millennium. This recent uptake of postmillennialism by some in some Catholic circles, mostly due to popular Protestant Evangelical influences, is quite clearly at odds with the traditional teachings on the Millennium, and critically impairs our understanding of the order of events outlaid in the Apocalypse. According to the amillennial view outlaid by St. Augustine, the chronology of end time events can be summed up as follows:
The binding of Satan for the "thousand years" takes place during the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ.
At the end of the "thousand years" - which is most likely a reference to the concept of the Sabbath Millennium, Satan is once again unbound for a "little while".
Satan can once again prevent the spread of the Gospel during this "little while", by gathering the armies of the world together for battle, and because of this increase of lawlessness, the love of many grows cold (Matt 24:12).
At the end of the "little while", Satan is finally thrown out of the heavenly court and cast down to the earth by the Archangel Michael - a struggle which is marked by the appearance of the "signs in heaven".
Once he is cast down to the earth, the Devil then redoubles his efforts against the Church, and threatens to carry it away with a flood that issues from his mouth.
The earth then comes to the aid of the Woman/Church, and the flood is swallowed up during the New Springtime of the Church, brought about by the Two Witnesses. Millions are brought into the faith. A short period of peace ensues.
The Dragon then transfers his great power and authority to his servant the Antichrist, who puts the Two Witnesses to death. The fall of the end time empire referred to as "Babylon" is brought about by a "huge mountain, burning with fire" being thrown into the sea, and a subsequent global financial collapses allows the Antichrist to seize global dominion.
The final Passover of the Church takes place, which was foreseen in the Third Secret of Fatima, and many Christians are either martyred or apostatize as a result.
The Battle of Armageddon then breaks out after an attempted invasion of Israel, leading to the total collapse of human civilization.
The dissolution of the universe occurs at the Last Judgment, and the establishment of the new heaven and earth brings God's plan for creation to it ultimate conclusion.
The binding of Satan for the "thousand years" takes place during the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ.
At the end of the "thousand years" - which is most likely a reference to the concept of the Sabbath Millennium, Satan is once again unbound for a "little while".
Early Christians believed the world was to end during 1000 AD.
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The canon speaks of a time when the Antichrist would be loosed on Earth, sparking an Armageddon during which the unrighteous would be wiped out and the observant rewarded. Those events would then be followed by a thousand-year reign of the saints and the return of Christ.
Revelation sets no date for the onset of those events. But at some point, its reference to a thousand years seems to have become mixed up with the year 1000.
"Even if you take the Book of Revelations literally, it does not say that it will begin at 1000," says Jeremy Adams, a medieval historian at Southern Methodist University. "The notion of 1000 did not have a clear parentage, it just grew."
Adams says the Catholic Church actually distanced itself from the idea of a millennial apocalypse. It was lower-ranking clerics -- especially monks -- who most strongly advanced the idea. Lay members of the German court also seemed enamored by the concept, and suggested that Otto the Great (980-1002) was destined to lead the fight against the Antichrist.
so it looks like the only churches that care about revelations are mostly american based evangelical protestant churches established after the 1830s
Probably later than that.
Most Catholics don’t waste their energy thinking about “end of times’” madness.
By contrast, Evangelicals form various subgroups about end of times interpretations.
And then they look at the Pope as the Antichrist etc.
No wonder Christianity is so divided.
There was the Marian movement of priest which had a prophetic vision through God gave ideas of faith in the church and on end times ..... This movement had books on end times and ideas of faith which the prophecies came to an end as the people were getting old in the 1990s, and these came from Italy for the Vatican and would be ordained for believers
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