Many people assume the Catholic Church treats the Beast of Revelation and the Antichrist as the same future figure. It does not. Catholic teaching and the majority of Catholic biblical scholarship distinguish between the Beast of Revelation 13 (often linked to Nero and first-century Rome) and the future Antichrist described in 2 Thessalonians 2 andContinueContinue reading “Nero, the Beast, and the Coming Antichrist: Why Christian Zionism Fits the Catechism’s Warning”
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The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Is a 19th-Century Idea: the Catholic & Evangelical Readings of Revelation Are Farther Apart Than Most Christians Realize
A long-form look at Darby, Scofield, and the two very different ways Christians have read the Book of Revelation Many evangelical churches teach the pre-tribulation rapture, a future seven-year tribulation, a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, and a literal thousand-year earthly kingdom as if these were simply “what the Bible says” and “what Christians have alwaysContinueContinue reading “The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Is a 19th-Century Idea: the Catholic & Evangelical Readings of Revelation Are Farther Apart Than Most Christians Realize”
