Monsignor Pope Ping!
What I find most amazing in Revelation is that rocks and mountains are falling on the people and they still refuse to repent. What does that tell us?
I don’t sign on completely to any of the traditional interpretive approaches to Revelation (preterist, historicist, futurist, dispensationalist, etc.) and take them all with a grain of salt. I think an eclectic approach is probably more correct. But, more and more I think the idealist approach rings the most true. I think the dispensationalist take is the least persuasive.
For later.
Msgr. Pope does not mention the Mark of the Beast. Hmmm....
What the RCC author of this piece says nothing about, is the amillennialist interpretation of Revelation, of himself and his church.
So, of course he’s going to say Revelation is not about the end of the world, it is about “right now.” Amillennialists believe the church - i.e., the papacy - is supposed to be ruling the world...”right now.”
Up until the Protestant “back to the Bible” movement, their Amillennialism held sway, while they ruled Europe. But, since Revelation does not support their totalitarian interpretation, their view no longer holds sway.
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This is the end of the age!
“Antichrist” will be in view in the spring of 2021.
We are getting close to the opening of the 7th seal.