Anyone Else Looking Forward to the General Judgment?

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Maybe I’m just weird, but as much as I don’t want to stand there in front of the entire world while all my sins are made known, I’m actually eager for the General Judgment. Not because of seeing everyone’s sins, but because I can’t wait to see all the good things people have done, and the effect they had on people. Anyone else like this?
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
You want to stay on earth here like it is, rather than be united with God in Heaven?? Maybe I am weird. :confused:
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Earth is God’s creation and life here is His gift.

As much as I find its cosmology boring, I’d think twice about wishing this gift trashed. (A makeover on the other hand…)
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
Earth is God’s creation and life here is His gift.

As much as I find its cosmology boring, I’d think twice about wishing this gift trashed. (A makeover on the other hand…)
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Well, at the end of the world the earth will be made new again…
 
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Deo_Gratias42 said:
Maybe I’m just weird, but as much as I don’t want to stand there in front of the entire world while all my sins are made known, I’m actually eager for the General Judgment. Not because of seeing everyone’s sins, but because I can’t wait to see all the good things people have done, and the effect they had on people. Anyone else like this?
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I’m not sure the form of the General Judgment, but if God is ready, I’m ready. 👍

If God wanted me to stand up and be judged – even cut down – in front of other people, then I would jump right in and do what He asks. My only problem would be that my pride might swell even as God was cutting me to the quick. It would be like another Dark Night, perhaps, only this one on steroids. Perhaps He could use me as an unfortunate example of pride and show people what a truly crushing blow to pride might look like? Owww … it would be like Divine Surgery … yes, I would play that role without even being told where it would lead. Because I trust where God takes me. Through my trials he has given me great triumph, and I owe more than my physical life to Him. 🙂

He’s already taken me out of the “world” and into the kingdom. I can’t wait to see what’s next; I trust the Holy Spirit will guide me, and that the goodness of God’s gifts are be profound. :heaven:

Alan
 
I must be weird too. I look forward to it greatly. There is alot about God’s plan that I just don’t understand and I think it bring me tremendous peace to understand it.
 
exoflare said:
As if we have a choice. :rolleyes:
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We have a choice to keep it from happening.

Cuz God or not, I cannot see how any Catholic can wish for this in good conscience. You’re celebrating the end of the world, the death of many, and the annihilation of a planet.

How any of that is aligned with what Catholicism teaches about valuing life and the human person is beyond me.
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
We have a choice to keep it from happening.

Cuz God or not, I cannot see how any Catholic can wish for this in good conscience. You’re celebrating the end of the world, the death of many, and the annihilation of a planet.

How any of that is aligned with what Catholicism teaches about valuing life and the human person is beyond me.
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Jesus prophesied about the “end times” which is where our world is going now. How can a Catholic, in good conscience, want to see it prolonged beyond what God has prescribed?

Alan
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
Maybe I’m just weird, but as much as I don’t want to stand there in front of the entire world while all my sins are made known, I’m actually eager for the General Judgment. Not because of seeing everyone’s sins, but because I can’t wait to see all the good things people have done, and the effect they had on people. Anyone else like this?
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I’m looking forward to it only in the sense that humanity would finally be done. Those who are fortunate and loyal enough to Christ will make Heaven or at least Purgatory and the rest of humanity will get what they deserve and be cast off. No one innocent will get hurt anymore. No more suffering will happen. So yeah, definitely looking forward to judgement.
 
As long as I’m in a state of Grace, I would love to die soon (as long as it would be painless,) but I’m not exactly looking forward to the General Judgement, as **so many **people will go to Hell then. Also, before that can even happen there will be the rule of the Antichrist who will persecute anyone who will not worship him and have many people killed and I most certainly do not want to be alive for that.
 
The other day I was listening to the 13th century Latin hymn “Dies Irae”, and I realized that I was actually not looking forward to that day: one could argue that our beloved Lord will suffer a lot when He will have to call many for a resurrection of condemnation…I think that it will be most sorrowful for Him to see for the last time all those who chose to reject salvation, all together, before the final condemnation…because He never ceased to love them of an ineffable love…it is them who ceased to love Him…

…then again, I could be totally mistaken, since “His thoughts are not our thoughts”…

And @ Lost Wanderer, I think you do not know what the day of judgment is.

It will be humanity who will bring forth, through its evil works, the end of the world, the death of many, and the annihilation of a planet.

On the Last Day, Christ will come to stop the evil before destruction is absolute, wiping away forever in Hell the spirits of evil and all the souls who throughout history chose iniquity over goodness. The earth will be restored and all other souls will receive a glorified body which is free from all imperfections and inclinations to do evil…by our own free will we will do everything in accordance to God’s will, for we will be like the resurrected Christ.

I am not asking you to believe in this, but please do get the record straight as to what is it that we profess. There is a reason if we call Christ our Savior, not our destroyer.
 
AlanFromWichita said:
Jesus prophesied about the “end times” which is where our world is going now. How can a Catholic, in good conscience, want to see it prolonged beyond what God has prescribed?
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So we violate His teachings in favor of His prophecy?

Well that’s something you can open a whole new thread about.
 
R_C said:
I am not asking you to believe in this, but please do get the record straight as to what is it that we profess. There is a reason if we call Christ our Savior, not our destroyer.
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The way I read this thread posits Him more as the latter than the former.

You say humanity will bring about its own end. And yet, here is the Church constantly teaching everyone to fight against what brings forth that end. 🤷
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
Maybe I’m just weird, but as much as I don’t want to stand there in front of the entire world while all my sins are made known, I’m actually eager for the General Judgment. Not because of seeing everyone’s sins, but because I can’t wait to see all the good things people have done, and the effect they had on people. Anyone else like this?
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You must have heard yesterday’s gospel from Luke Chapter 12. 👍

"There is nothing concealed that will not be revealed,
nor secret that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness
will be heard in the light,
and what you have whispered behind closed doors
will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Like you, I share your sentiments about seeing all the good people have done.

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Lost_Wanderer said:
The way I read this thread posits Him more as the latter than the former.

You say humanity will bring about its own end. And yet, here is the Church constantly teaching everyone to fight against what brings forth that end. 🤷
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Christ the Destroyer? 😃 I think that’s how the demons call him 😃

Humanity will bring about its own end out of its sheer disobedience to God’s will. It will do this through sin, and the process will be greatly pushed forth with the coming of Antichrist.

The Church constantly teaches everyone to do God’s will, to imitate Christ, to “be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect”. But God already knows that the workers of iniquity will be able by their works to bring forth the end of the world…because it is a fact that “many are called but few are chosen” and that there will always be those who prefer darkness to light.

Thus Christ will come to reward the Church for bringing forth the Kingdom of God amidst the world of darkness, by wiping away in an instant, like thunderbolt, all the works of iniquity, and all that will remain will be that Kingdom that the Church and all the men of good will have been establishing amidst the darkness. That is why it is written: “the darkness shall be no more”.
 
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