What is the Catholic interperetation of the Bible prophecies that predict a Regathering & Restoration of Israel in the End Times?

[Spyridon]

This is the Churches view (and the view of all Apostolic Churches like the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Catholics as well):

Amillennialism (Greek: a- “no” + millennialism), in Christian eschatology, involves the rejection of the belief that Jesus will have a literal, thousand-year-long, physical reign on the earth. This rejection contrasts with premillennial and some postmillennial interpretations of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation.

The amillennial view regards the “thousand years” mentioned in Revelation 20 as a symbolic number, not as a literal description; amillennialists hold that the millennium has already begun and is identical with the current church age. Amillennialism holds that while Christ’s reign during the millennium is spiritual in nature, at the end of the church age, Christ will return in final judgment and establish a permanent reign in the new heaven and new earth.

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Pre-millennialism, and post-millennialism are both condemned heresies, which became popular in American Protestantism starting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Many souls have been led astray by these nefarious beliefs. Thousands of people lost faith on multiple occasions when dates were set for the “rapture” and then the date came and went with no notice whatsoever.

False prophets and entire heretical sects were founded on these wayward beliefs as well. It is satanic in origin.

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[observer333]

“I wouldn’t call it suppressionism so much as a recognition of reality.”

The reality is that Israel is real. Not only was it’s restoration prophesied in many verses, such as the famous Valley of Dry Bones chapter in Ezekiel, it has miraculously survived several attempts to destroy it in the wars of 1948, 1967, & 1973 etc…

“After the coming of Christ Jews and gentiles are equal. All that matters is faith in Jesus. You either have it or you don’t. And if you don’t, Jew or gentile, your fate is the same.”

Agreed. But the promises made to Abraham and the many prophecies which are clearly about Israel in the end days (and not the Church) were never revoked.

You said: “The Catholic Church is the new Jerusalem.”

Could you please show me how any of these prophecies could now be applied to the Catholic Church?

 

[JanSobieskiIII]

The reality is that Israel is real.

Yeah, there’s a nation state of Israel, and it’s a democracy not a kingdom that was created by mandate from the UN out of British occupied land. In what way does that relate to the Bible?

I’m not familiar enough with prophecy to cite specifics.

God’s promise to the Jews was fulfilled with Christ. They rejected him, so he welcome the gentiles. See the parable about the banquet when the host tells his servants to go to the streets when the invited guests don’t show up.

 

[Augustinian]

Pre-millennialism, and post-millennialism are both condemned heresies, which became popular in American Protestantism starting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The popular thoughts and teachings about a Rapture, and Tribulation, and the rest are relatively recent ones.

Hal Lindsey’s monographs on the topic, as well as the Left Behind series, may be popular and entertaining, but really have their roots in the teachings of men like John Darby, and the founders of movements like adventism and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and really aren’t ancient at all.

When I was a young, Catholic boy, I was taught that Christ could come back at any time, nothing else had to happen. That’s still the Catholic teaching on the matter.