What is the Catholic church's stance on the endtimes?

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Sts. Enoch and Elijah are supposed to return from the place they went to and preach to the people. There is supposed to be some kind of very bad trouble/tribulations, with an antichrist arising and being defeated, the conversion of the Jews, and then the “rapture” of all the saints. What these things are, or the specific order or time they will last, and how much is literal or figurative, has not been firmly decided by the church.
 
We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums, drums in the deep. They are coming…
 
Yes, I used one of David Currie’s books in my critique on the “Left Behind” books. He’s pretty readable.

Rapture, Elijah, Antichrist, seven-year rule (divided into two parts of 3.5 years each), unique and dangerous role for ethnic Israel, separating it from national Israel, and interpreting Biblical texts literally vs. symbolically (vs. literalistically). Pretty much everything but the kitchen sink is in the L.B. books, except for Catholic, E Orthodox, and mainline Protestant teachings.

Props for the quotes: The End Times started with the Ascension of Christ. We are living in them.

EDIT: I should add that the L.B. authors are quite sincere about saving souls and getting people into Heaven. They believe that if that’s what anyone needs to know to go to Heaven, they need to tell everybody.
 
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Yeah 😠 Hopefully, the Disney Fox Deal will solve all those problems 😊
 
Well, you may say many interpreters, including famous ones such as St. Thomas Aquinas disagree with me. But you cannot say I am incorrect, because this is not settled subject.

Besides, we can’t simply ignore the account of Saint Matthew (17) and the words of Our Lord Himself.

Furthermore, I have studied enough archaic hebrew to say without fear that Enoch and Elias are dead and in Heaven nowdays. They are not even the two witnesses mentioned by St. John the Apostle. ; )
 
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You’re Still Wrong.
 
Do explain! “No.” somehow fails to satisfy.

I think I was addressing the Parousia - my bad there.
 
The question of the post was worded as “the endtimes”, not as the Parousia/second coming. Your answer was correct with respect to the Second Coming of Christ. It was incorrect with respect to the end times. The Church teaches that the end times started with the Ascension of Christ. End Times can be read as the final era. We had the era before the fall, from the fall to the birth of Christ, the Incarnation, and the End Times. Those four. What protestants who follow the dispensationlist teaching get wrong is that there is another era after the second coming of Christ. There is not. The distinction is important due to the wide spread notion of the rapture.

From the CCC
670 Since the Ascension God’s plan has entered into its fulfillment. We are already at “the last hour”. “Already the final age of the world is with us, and the renewal of the world is irrevocably under way; it is even now anticipated in a certain real way, for the Church on earth is endowed already with a sanctity that is real but imperfect.” Christ’s kingdom already manifests its presence through the miraculous signs that attend its proclamation by the Church.
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Thank you. My bad for misunderstanding. I have so many medical issues and am taking so many steroids and other medications that sometimes I breeze right past the actual subject. To paraphrase Rick James†, “Steroids are a h*** of a drug!”
 
No problem, I should have been more clear in my response, I had responded previously in what I felt like was an explanation, but that does not justify a short terse post such as mine.
I pray you get better.
 
Thank you for the information… I could not recall such number (unless we reference Apocalypse [Revelation] 12 which is in reference to the Woman, not the anti-Christ; the only other reference of power/reign is that of the Beast and the kings but this is but for one hour (a short period of time) where the kings of the world submit to Satan (the anti-Christ) as they herald him as their authority… all symbolic and all unfolding throughout time as man chooses the Creature over the Creator.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
I fully concur; just as the Kingdom of God was activated (so to say) at the Resurrection!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
This is because she accepts Christ’s definition of what and when of the things to come; sadly, people are more interested in projecting what things will/may be rather than to listen to Christ: “Be ready, for you do not know…!”

Maran atha!

Angel
 
No. They are speaking of the two Witnesses:
3 And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths, and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain. (Apocalypse [Revelation] 11)
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(Coincidentally, this brings us back to the 3 1/2 years.)

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Aulef said:
Furthermore, I have studied enough archaic hebrew to say without fear that Enoch and Elias are dead and in Heaven nowdays
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…wait, you have that much power/knowledge?

…could you school me a little? If they were both taken alive into Heaven limbo? how are they dead?

Maran atha!

Angel
 
…wait so that “comedian” was right?.. drugs made her think and text stupidly?

That’s scary.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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