End times and the 1000 year rule

[joseie]

About the End times what is said ,inshort,by Jesus and mainly in 1 Thesso4:15-16 is that extreme suffering and tribulations will precede Jesus second coming and that all dead(who will rise from the grave then ) and all living will be judged either for eternal life with God or for punishment in hell.
My doubt is where do the 1000 year Rule by the King of Kings(Rev19:16) with those selected,fit into this?It can be seen that this1000 year rule is after the earth is almost destroyed and after the fall of Babylon and also after the beast and the false prophet are thrown into hell and also after the celebration of the feast of the lamb. It is also seen that evil does not cease to exist even after such an apparent heavenly rule and the final end comes after satan who is released after the 1000 year is also thrown into hell.

 

[Vico]

About the End times…

Catholic Encyclopedia

St. Augustine finally held to the conviction that there will be no millennium. The struggle between Christ and His saints on the one hand and the wicked world and Satan on the other, is waged in the Church on earth; so the great Doctor describes it in his work De Civitate Dei. In the same book he gives us an allegorical explanation of Chapter 20 of the Apocalypse. The first resurrection, of which this chapter treats, he tells us, refers to the spiritual rebirth in baptism; the sabbath of one thousand years after the six thousand years of history is the whole of eternal life — or in other words, the number one thousand is intended to express perfection, and the last space of one thousand years must be understood as referring to the end of the world; at all events, the kingdom of Christ, of which the Apocalypse speaks, can only be applied to the Church (City of God XX.5-7). This explanation of the illustrious Doctor was adopted by succeeding Western theologians, and millenarianism in its earlier shape no longer received support.

Kirsch, J.P. (1911). Millennium and Millenarianism. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm

 

[Theban]

There are many things we do not yet know about Revelations, and the Church does not have an official, dogmatic interpretation for most of the book. Many good theologians have shared their thoughts on what it all means, however, and there is some licit disagreement between them on some matters, chief of all being on the millennium I think.

Some people think that we are in the millennium now, others hold that the millennium will come later. Neither position is condemned, but the former is favored by the Church following St Augustine’s arguments. If you’re interested then you should read some commentaries on the Book of Revelations. The one I’ve read argued for a premillennial interpretation, which makes sense to me, but most theologians agree with Augustine.

 

[joseie]

It is good that the church does not have an official stand on this.So one can express views freely .
My feeling is that it will be there.Since it happens after the last vial of wrath is poured into earth and the earth is almost destroyed and after beast,prophet etc are also destroyed, that period is entirely separate and noticeable and can’t come in a seamless a way from the till existing world…