“The Beasts of Revelation” Matthias Gerung (1500-1570)
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What the Holy Scriptures Teach
About the Dangers of the Last DaysThere will be terrifying (distressing) times in the Last Days. People will be self-centered (lovers of themselves) and lovers of money, proud, haughty, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Avoid Them! –2 Timothy 3:1-5
“When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first but the end will not follow immediately.” Then Jesus continued, “Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and plagues (sound familiar?) and there will be dreadful portents (signs, warnings) and great signs from Heaven.” –Luke 21:9-11
What the Catechism of The Catholic Church
Teaches About the Last Days!
675: Before Christ’s Second Coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many Believers. (Luke 18:8; Matthew 24:12) The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth (Luke 21:12; John 15:19-20) will unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh. (2 Thessalonians 2:4-12;
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3; 2 John 1:7; 1 John 2:18-22)
676: The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the ‘intrinsically perverse’ political form of secular messianism.
677: The Church will enter the Glory of the Kingdom only through this final Passover, when She will follow her Lord in His death and resurrection. (Revelation 19:1-9) The Kingdom will be fulfilled, then not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause His Bride to come down from Heaven. (Revelation 13:8; 20:7-10; 21:2-4) God’s triumphant over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world. (Revelation 20:12; 2 Peter 3:12-13)
- Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled
and the Kingdom of God has come near;
Repent and Believe in The Good News!” –Mark 1:15
- You May Know the Joy of Salvation
and Eternal Life Today
Through The Good News of Christ Jesus!
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