Where does the RCC stand on this?

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Good Morning all… I am just curious. Where does the Roman Catholis Church stand on the End Times Prophecies? This is not a setup to post my views or attack the church or anyone at all. I am honestly curious. I have been looking around and I don’t see where the RCC stands on this so I was hoping someone could clarify and maybe provide documentation or something? Historical? Preterist, Futurist? Mix of a few different views? I’d like to know…

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CCC:
V. THE LAST JUDGMENT

1038 The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust,"621 will precede the Last Judgment. This will be "the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man’s] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."622 Then Christ will come "in his glory, and all the angels with him … Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left… And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."623

1039 In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.624 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life:

All that the wicked do is recorded, and they do not know. When “our God comes, he does not keep silence.”. . . he will turn towards those at his left hand: . . . "I placed my poor little ones on earth for you. I as their head was seated in heaven at the right hand of my Father - but on earth my members were suffering, my members on earth were in need. If you gave anything to my members, what you gave would reach their Head. Would that you had known that my little ones were in need when I placed them on earth for you and appointed them your stewards to bring your good works into my treasury. But you have placed nothing in their hands; therefore you have found nothing in my presence."625

1040 The Last Judgment will come when Christ returns in glory. Only the Father knows the day and the hour; only he determines the moment of its coming. Then through his Son Jesus Christ he will pronounce the final word on all history. We shall know the ultimate meaning of the whole work of creation and of the entire economy of salvation and understand the marvelous ways by which his Providence led everything towards its final end. The Last Judgment will reveal that God’s justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God’s love is stronger than death.626

1041 The message of the Last Judgment calls men to conversion while God is still giving them "the acceptable time, . . . the day of salvation."627 It inspires a holy fear of God and commits them to the justice of the Kingdom of God. It proclaims the “blessed hope” of the Lord’s return, when he will come "to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed."628
 
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VI. THE HOPE OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH

1042 At the end of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its fullness. After the universal judgment, the righteous will reign for ever with Christ, glorified in body and soul. The universe itself will be renewed:

The Church . . . will receive her perfection only in the glory of heaven, when will come the time of the renewal of all things. At that time, together with the human race, the universe itself, which is so closely related to man and which attains its destiny through him, will be perfectly re-established in Christ.629
1043 Sacred Scripture calls this mysterious renewal, which will transform humanity and the world, "new heavens and a new earth."630 It will be the definitive realization of God’s plan to bring under a single head "all things in [Christ], things in heaven and things on earth."631

1044 In this new universe, the heavenly Jerusalem, God will have his dwelling among men.632 "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away."633

1045 For man, this consummation will be the final realization of the unity of the human race, which God willed from creation and of which the pilgrim Church has been "in the nature of sacrament."634 Those who are united with Christ will form the community of the redeemed, “the holy city” of God, "the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."635 She will not be wounded any longer by sin, stains, self-love, that destroy or wound the earthly community.636 The beatific vision, in which God opens himself in an inexhaustible way to the elect, will be the ever-flowing well-spring of happiness, peace, and mutual communion.

1046 For the cosmos, Revelation affirms the profound common destiny of the material world and man:

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God . . . in hope because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay… We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.637

1047 The visible universe, then, is itself destined to be transformed, “so that the world itself, restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the service of the just,” sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ.638

1048 "We know neither the moment of the consummation of the earth and of man, nor the way in which the universe will be transformed. The form of this world, distorted by sin, is passing away, and we are taught that God is preparing a new dwelling and a new earth in which righteousness dwells, in which happiness will fill and surpass all the desires of peace arising in the hearts of men."639

1049 "Far from diminishing our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come. That is why, although we must be careful to distinguish earthly progress clearly from the increase of the kingdom of Christ, such progress is of vital concern to the kingdom of God, insofar as it can contribute to the better ordering of human society."640

1050 "When we have spread on earth the fruits of our nature and our enterprise . . . according to the command of the Lord and in his Spirit, we will find them once again, cleansed this time from the stain of sin, illuminated and transfigured, when Christ presents to his Father an eternal and universal kingdom."641 God will then be “all in all” in eternal life:642
 
Does not believe in “the rapture”, that is about all i know for sure!
 
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martino:
Does not believe in “the rapture”, that is about all i know for sure!
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Yup.

The Rapture is non-biblical “prophesying” started by Hal Lindsey that sells a lot of books, but makes no legitimate theological sense. See Carl Olsen’s article or read his book, “Will Catholics Be Left Behind?”
 
in full agrrement with what Jesus Christ said about it… "Only His Father In Heaven Knows… 👍
 
Several words stuck out at me in the passages from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: world, earth, universe, cosmos, heavens. Many of those words were from scripture quotes or were amplifications on scripture. But it seems to me that those worlds are deliberately left vague in meaning such that they could be interpreted to refer to the natural world or else all creation, natural and supernatural. The worlds ‘earth’ and ‘world’ could be interpreted to mean something other than the third planet rotating around the sun.

If a person views those worlds in the strict natural sense, I think he would tend to see the End Times in something of a “Left Behind” way and would worry about Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, and all that. Such a person likely interprets the Book of Revelation rather literally. If a person considers the words to be somewhat more figuratively then the end times and the transformation of creation could be understood to be more on the spiritual level and only secondarily on the physical level.

It is my understanding that the Catholic Church is not really concerned with predicting how the physical earth ends because what is to come is so much more important.
 
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SMHW:
It is my understanding that the Catholic Church is not really concerned with predicting how the physical earth ends because what is to come is so much more important.
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Correct!

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow then this world will have physically ended for me. I need to live my life preparing not for this world which will eventually end for all, one way or another but for the next which is everlasting.

Death comes like a theif in the night - “What profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul”
 
One key point that is often over-looked is that the Church does believe in a “left behind” formulation, but in reverse from the popular Protestant model. The righteous will be left behind, and the unsaved will be taken away. The world will become like Eden again, and God will be present with all people; the Beatific Vision. This is why Catholics stress the resurrection of our bodies during the “Last Days”. Heaven is not a place, in Catholic theology, but a closeness to God, and the final destiny of Earth is to itself become one with Heaven.
 
The Barrister:
The Rapture is non-biblical “prophesying” started by Hal Lindsey that sells a lot of books, but makes no legitimate theological sense.
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The false doctrine of the secret rapture of the Christians is not Hal Lindsey’s invention. That doctrine has its roots in the visions of Mary Margaret Macdonald in 1830.

Margaret Macdonald’s Original Pretribulation Vision

Margaret Macdonald’s visions were accepted by John Nelson Darby, a popular preacher of the Plymouth Brethren. Darby taught the doctrine of the secret rapture of the Christians to C.I. Scofield, who incoporated the false doctrine into the Scofield Reference Bible. It is primarlily through the Scofield Reference Bible that Protestant fudamentalists in North America have learned the false doctrine of the secret rapture.

Dave McPhereson is one of the best researchers into the source of the secret rapture doctrine, and the later cover-up of that source.

David McPhereson, The Incredible Cover-up
Available for $7.00 by writing Omega Publications, 1-800-345-0175.

Dave MacPherson Study Archive
 
The Barrister:
Yup.

The Rapture is non-biblical “prophesying” started by Hal Lindsey that sells a lot of books, but makes no legitimate theological sense. See Carl Olsen’s article or read his book, “Will Catholics Be Left Behind?”
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On the catholic answers website, there is a file entitled ‘false profit’ by Jimmy Akins where he discusses the ‘Left Behind’ books. In this file he states that the concept of the Rapture was unknown to Christians until the 1830s when a Scottish preacher by the name of Darby started preaching it.
 
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Matt16_18:
The false doctrine of the secret rapture of the Christians is not Hal Lindsey’s invention. That doctrine has its roots in the visions of Mary Margaret Macdonald in 1830.
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Correct you are. I meant to say that it was *popularized * by Lindsay. My error. :o
 
The Barrister:
Correct you are. I meant to say that it was *popularized * by Lindsay. My error. :o
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I checked out your webpage. 👍

Perhaps you could add a link to David McPhereson’s webpage from your webpage.
 
Ghosty: Heaven is a place, in a sense, right now…but I agree with you that the earth will be restored. Remember that all of creation is groaning while it waits for the revelation of God’s sons.
 
There are multiple ways to understand Heaven. It isn’t necessarily a location per se, but is defined by the proximity of God. “Heaven on Earth” can be a literal reality. Right now, “wherever” Heaven is, it’s not Earth.
 
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