The Era of Peace

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Hi. I’m trying to reconcile a number of Catholic books about the end times, including the Catechism and Revelation. Two of the books, both by Catholic eschatological scholars, both refer to an Era of Peace, which comes from private revelation. However, one of the books says that the Beast (from the Sea) and the False Prophet are thrown into the lake of fire before the Era of Peace, while Gog and Magog are destroyed by Jesus during the Second Coming. If so, who throws the Beast and False Prophet into the lake of fire? It can’t be Jesus, since he’s not back yet. Also, the Catechism states that there will be only “one” last assault by Satan, not two. I thought the Era of Peace is accepted as a valid revelation, but that doesn’t reconcile with the book.

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I’m not too keen on eschatology, but it is possible that the specific book is wrong? Why does he say the beast is thrown prior to the parousia?
 
That’s what I’m hoping to figure out. Two of the books both describe an Era of Peace with substantial evidence of private revelations that are accepted by the Church. Catholic teaching, as I understand it, is that the “Millennial” reign of Christ mentioned in Revelation is the Church age (of indefinite length), with Christ reigning through the Eucharist. I find it hard to believe that the Church age is the same as the Era of Peace (the books make no such claim), especially when you look at the carnage of the past 2000 years. But, if you have two onslaughts of Satan (with two antichrists), before and after an Era of Peace, then you contradict the Catechism, which identifies only “one” final attack.
 
A third book takes a preterist approach, referring to the Beast from the Sea as Ancient Rome and the False Prophet as Old Jerusalem (which rejected Christ). That would put the Beast and the False Prophet in the past, leaving only the ultimate antichrist (Gog). That would allow for some indefinite Era of Peace sometime within the Church age. However, the two books I mentioned above are definitely not advocating a preterist interpretation. One of the two books is published by the publisher to the Holy See. The other is certified by a bishop as being free from doctrinal or moral error.
 
Just found this link in another post here on this site.


Oddly, one of the books the blog author quotes, Antichrist and the End Times, is the one that throws the Beast from the Sea and the False Prophet into the lake of fire BEFORE the Era of Peace.
 
Why are people so obsessed with signs and the End of days. Jesus told us clearly NOT to look for signs and that nobody (meaning no humans alive then or today) knows the day and the hour and that we should always be ready.
 
I think it’s natural to be curious about such a transformative event, and people naturally want to understand the Book of Revelation better than they possibly do.
 
It is natural to be interested in the topic. I am. Unfortunately for those of us who really want to know what will happen in the end times, the Church doesn’t know Herself and refuses to speculate with any authority. She does not have the authority to do so. All She can state is what Christ Himself told us: that we must watch and look for signs, but no one knows the day.
The accounts of the saints and mystics can contradict each other. Moreover, human free will can change the course of what happens in this world, with God’s foreknowledge of course.
Rather than the day of doom so many expect, I lean toward a the “Great Deed” of mercy that Julian of Norwich predicts. Why not?
But no need to really care much: the only care is to watch and be ready. That’s actually what most people don’t want to do…
 
I am extremely interested in eschatology. I try very much to be mindful and always ready. I am a human, so naturally fail, but I am mindful of my failings and try to correct them. I live in hope that Jesus will return during my lifetime here on earth, but of course, I have NO idea when that great event will occur.
 
This is private revelation, and so there is no need to “reconcile” contradictory things in two different ones.

It’s supposed to be used to enhance pious devotion and deepen faith, not to develop eschatological theology.
 
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I’m interested in this topic because I’m writing several fictional novels about the Second Coming, and I want to give an accurate Catholic perspective of Revelation, rather than the myriad Protestant interpretations that are out there, many of which lead Catholics astray.
 
I found Scott Hahn’s interpretation of the Book of Revelation mind blowing. It helped a great deal.
 
Thanks. Unfortunately, it’s over $50 US and even higher in Canada, where I live.
 
No libraries in Canada? Come now. Try inter library loan at any library.
 
LOL. I forgot about libraries. 🙂 I haven’t been in one in 35 years. I just purchased another Catholic book on Revelation on Kindle. So far, it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. Amen.
 
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I’m interested in this topic because I’m writing several fictional novels about the Second Coming, and I want to give an accurate Catholic perspective of Revelation,
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It’s signficant, I think, that out of the total 404 verses of Revelation, only 129—less than one-third—are read as part of the Sunday and weekday readings in the three-year cycle of the Catholic lectionary. It’s not really a very important book.
 
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The last Great Power Saeculum (1865 - 1946) resulted in the crises embodied in the Great Depression and World War II ushering in the end of the Union’s last Fourth Turning into the American High (1946-1964). The last prophet or Missionary generation in their old age led the Union and the world in a clash against facism and reaffirmed the Union’s highest ideals during that transformative era in word history.

The current Millennial Saeculum (1946 - present) is in its fourth turning and specifically in its crisis period. The current prophet generation, the Boomers, are in positions of leadership, the Gen Xr is in the position of management and the Millennials are the new ‘foot soldiers’ on the spiritual battlefield which is turning out not to be a war against centralizing and autocratic authority of nations but rather between the opposing sides of the culture war begun by the Boomer. And if the realization of this doesn’t drive you to your knees, I am not certain what will…

There will be no peace until this is resolved either naturally or supernaturally or both.
 
From many saints I have heard that there is to be a chastisement, then a short period of peace (roughly 25 years) where a great monarch reigns and many have been converted, then an antichrist (the tribulation). After the short reign of the antichrist, Christ comes to judge and end the tribulation.
 
Thank you, misstherese. That’s generally the impression I got from two of the books I’ve read about Revelation, although they didn’t mention anything about 25 years. I’m now reading my sixth book on Revelation. It’s well written and appears to be mainstream Catholic. I’m about halfway through, so it remains to be seen what, if anything, the author says about private revelations like the Era of Peace. The four Catholic books I’ve read on this topic disagree quite a bit with one another. They even disagree as to the number and identity of individual Antichrists in the end times.
 
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