The End of This Age

Spiritual Food for Thought ^ | 9-29-10 | Mark Mallett

[mlizzy]

Great post (I love this man's writings) on this, the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel.

MARK MALLETT is a Roman Catholic singer/songwriter and missionary. He has performed and preached throughout North America and abroad.

[stuartcr]

If satan can be chained for 1000yrs, why not more, or forever?

[ShadowAce]

If satan can be chained for 1000yrs, why not more, or forever?

He will be. Just not yet. There is a plan, and everything is under control.

[stuartcr]

Then we don’t really have anything to worry about.

[ShadowAce]

Then we don’t really have anything to worry about.

Personally, I'm not worried. I know who wins, and who loses. I'm on the winning side.

The big question now is--who will *you* follow? One choice leads you to life--and all others lead to death.

[guardian_of_liberty]

Then we don’t really have anything to worry about.
Only you can answer that in regards to yourself.

[Iscool]

Interesting...Most Catholics on these threads deny the Age of the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ...

If you guys would actually read, and believe the scriptures, you could start to get an understanding of the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven given to Peter...

[stuartcr]

Well, if there’s a plan and God has everything in control, then I’m sure whatever He has planned for me personally, will be OK. So far it has.

[stuartcr]

I’ll change it to..’I don’t have anything to worry about’...hope it’s the same for you. Thanks

[ShadowAce]

Well, it’s not something you can ignore. The plan requires some action from you as well.

[stuartcr]

I imagine whatever I do, will be part of God’s plan. I don’t see how it couldn’t be.

[ShadowAce]

The possible outcomes are His plan--the choice is up to you.

I heartily encourage you to make the correct choice.

[stuartcr]

Thanks, I believe I have.

[ShadowAce]

I hope so. The more in Heaven, the better it will be.

[hoagy62]

The way I understand it (YMMV), Satan will be bound 1000 years. During this time, people will be born who will STILL have a choice to follow Christ or not. After the 1000 years, Satan will be released for a VERY short time to gather all those from the 1000-year reign of Christ who DO NOT want to follow God.

At that time, God sends fire from Heaven to consume Satan’s army, Satan himself is judged, and then he’s thrown into the Lake of Fire where the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet have already been for the previous 1000 years. (Rev. 20:7-10, if you want to look it up)
The old heaven and old Earth are destroyed, God creates a new Heaven and a new Earth, and we who follow Christ live for an eternity with Him in joy and peace.

[stuartcr]

Doesn’t God already know how all this is going to end and what people are going to do?

[rbmillerjr]

Even mere mortals can see what some will obviously do or not do.

[stuartcr]

Not before they are born, can they? I think the fact that God is the creator and cannot be wrong, adds a lot to the equation.

[rbmillerjr]

What do you think the equation is?

[stuartcr]

I think that since God knows the future and cannot be wrong, that whatever He knows (our part of His plan), will happen, must happen.

I think God creates each of us individually, with our own unique truth and we fulfill our part of His plan.