Yes, those are the verses I wrote about. And the question remains – does the Church consider the current state of the world the tribulation spoken of in the Bible, the one that shortly precedes the end of the world?
Do you still do not understand? Can you not hear? Can you not understand? Can you not read the signs of the times? Jesus said these or similar words to those who just did not get it.
You need to get away from the
end times Rapturists, the political Christ who is going to take over the
new world orderists, the Hal Lindsey = Late Great Planet Earth
political conspiracy theorists, the Benny Hinn
health and wealth Gospel deceivers, and any
religious cult predicting the year, day, or hour, of the end times, including sects like the Jehovas Witnesses, the ***Mayan calendar 2012 ***end of the world hype’sters,
Tim LaHaye’s Left Behinders, and the hundreds and hundreds of other ***profiteers of every ilk ***who could care less about eternity, or Christ, or about Truth, or about Salvation, all those profiteers who simply understand that
end times hype=profits, that
end times sermons bring in new members.
If the Truth was all that people were concerned about, we’d all be Catholic. The temptations are to run down all these other rabbit holes and to get lost in the process, eternally lost.
The end times are upon all of us and have been since Jesus lived, died, and rose from the dead. You see, St Peter lived in His End Times. So did St Paul. So did the Christians of every age until now. There will eventually be One magnificent and terrible end, but, make no mistake,
NO ONE KNOWS the day or the hour of the last tribulation. This is the Catholic view point because this is simply what Jesus literally said.
I will say it again because it apparently needs to be repeated over and over again,
in Matthew 24:36 Jesus says "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.". I mean, this is really very simple, literal and clear. What part of this are you having trouble with?
This is the One and Eternal Truth as spoken by Christ Himself, and yet false prohets have arisen just as Jesus Himself said they would (Re-read Matthew 24). And these false prophets are deceiving everyone, accept the elect, and the elect in this context are all those who have remained faithful to the original teaching of Jesus.
And yet you ask: ***“So, when is it? Really. Is it now?” ***And 5 days, 5 weeks, 5 months, 5 years, or even 50 years later, you might still be asking, “Is it now?” You are thinking like a child. On every journey taken by a child, the child asks incessently, ***“Are we there yet?” ***You see the problem here?
We get there when we get there. And we are all going to get there by going through our own trials and tribulations. There is no Christian on earth who will not experience trial and tribulation.
Jesus Himself experienced Trials and Tribulations! And His Body, the Church, must do what He did, and more! And that includes THE TRIBULATION in the end. If you think that you can avoid tribulation, or even THE TRIBULATION, then you have fallen into the deception of a false Gospel and need to seek out and to grab ahold of the Truth.
Please, re-read all these scriptures: Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, John 6:27, Acts 14:22, 2nd Thessalonians CH 2, Romans 2:9, 5:3, 8:35, and 12:12, Revelation 1:9, 2:9-10, and 7:9-14. There are countless more references throughout the New Testament which describe the Kingdom of God, which describe the Kingdom of Heaven, which speak of the end, and
in every case, in every verse, in every parable, in every example, in every single one, there is the tribulation, and THEN HE COMES.
Read these verses again, and again, in context. See for yourself what these verses teach, what Jesus says and what the Church He left behind continues to say to all those who have ears to hear.
Until the end in Christ,
Gene
