After Armageddon

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What is the Catholic teaching after Armageddon? Will there be a physical earth populated by people who will never die?
The earth will still be here but how will it be changed?
My JW friend believes that 144000 will be in heaven and the rest of the righteous people will live on a paradise earth.
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Will there be a physical earth populated by people who will never die?
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No.
Waynec said:
The earth will still be here but how will it be changed?
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It won’t be any different after Armageddon.
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My JW friend believes that 144000 will be in heaven and the rest of the righteous people will live on a paradise earth.
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In all seriousness, Jehovah Witnesses don’t have a leg to stand on.
  • According to Approved Catholic Prophecy, after the Minor Tribulation and the Age of Peace, the Antichrist will arise, wage war and be defeated. There will be a short period of time afterwards that precedes The Second Coming. From there we have The Final Judgment and the New Heavens and New Earth.
Trial, Tribulation & Triumph: Before, During, and After Antichrist Trial, Tribulation & Triumph: Before, During, and After Antichrist: Birch, Desmond A.: 9781882972739: Amazon.com: Books
 
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There will be a new heaven and a new earth (as we are a new creation after baptism, renewed and regenerated) , and God will dwell among his people. There will be physical bodies and a physical world.

More than that we don’t really say.
 
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The JW have also said the world was going to end about ten times now. They don’t push that so much anymore but they are still very much apocalyptic Christians. Typical group from the 19th century.
 
It’s worth remembering that Armageddon is, first and foremost, the name of a place in Israel. You’ll find it 15 miles southwest of Nazareth, at the intersection of Route 65 and Route 66. It’s the site of an ancient hilltop fort, formerly Har Megiddo, now renamed Tel Megiddo.
 
OP, you’re very lucky that you’ve only been exposed to one strange teaching. Those “Left Behind” books incorporate the 144,000, plus:
  • plus a stupendous curb-stomp battle at Armageddon
  • plus an Intermediate Earth (7th dispensation) with immortals and Naturals living side by side
  • plus Jesus ruling from a physical throne in a physical Fourth Temple – the Antichrist stunk up the Third one
  • plus one more curb-stomp battle in front of the Fourth Temple
  • then earth vaporized and a new one created in its place.
Basically, if the 144,000 is the only thing you have to worry about, then you’ve been spared most of the argument.

Your bigger worry might be that the JWs don’t believe Jesus rose bodily from the dead.

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Where have we seen the word “pattern” before? It comes from the Jehovah’s Witnesses position on death and resurrection.

Witnesses believe that bodily death is annihilation, extinction. The wicked cease to exist. Only the righteous shall see eternity.

Well, what does that look like? Did Jesus rise? Witnesses say Yes. Did the body rise? Witnesses say No. Where did the body go? Witnesses say, most likely Jehovah dissolved it into gases, although possibly Jehovah hid it. The body could not be left in the grave because then people might think Jesus did not rise when Jesus certainly did rise. So, if the body did not rise, then did the soul rise? No, Witnesses argue that the soul is the same as the body, and that does not rise. Did Jesus’ spirit rise? No, Witnesses say the spirit is the breath, and that does not rise.

Okay, so if Jesus’ body and soul and spirit did not rise, what was left of Jesus to rise? Here is the tie-in. Witnesses believe that Jehovah-God holds you/me/us in His memory and then creates someone with your “life pattern.”

*(Note: mainstream Christianity does not agree with any of this.) *

In the most respectful sense of the word, God remembers only your best. … /(site quoted)

So, you can see why it is very important to the JWs to be among the 144,000. You want to be “real” in the afterlife.
 
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This particular Witness believes that Jesus’s spirit rose but not his body. She thinks that God “did something with it”
They don’t beleive in the Trinity either.
I kind of feel sorry for her yet she is happy within the cult.
Thanks for replying.
 
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