From the Passion, resurrection and ultimate triumph of Jesus Christ in his Church
by Bishop LG Segur
JESUS CHRIST and the Church form an indivisible whole, and the fate of one is the fate of the other, and even that is where the head, there also has to find the body, as well the mysteries that have acomplis in Jesus Christ during his earthly life and mortal must complete in his church during his activist life here below. JESUS CHRIST was his passion and crucifixion: the church should be, too, and his passion, his final crucifixion. JESUS CHRIST is Risen, and miraculously triumphed over death, the Church will rise, too, and triumph over Satan and the world, the greatest and most wonderful of all miracles : The instantaneous resurrection of all the elect, even as our Lord Jesus Christ, opening the heavens and come down again in full glory with his holy Mother and all his angels. Finally, Jesus Christ, Head of the Church, ascended bodily into heaven on the day of the Ascension, in turn, the Church triumphant resurrected and ascend into heaven with Jesus, to enjoy with him in the bosom of GOD , of eternal bliss.
We know with certainty, "neither the day nor the hour (Ev.Matth., XXV, 13.)" Or go without those great things. What we know, but generally infallible because it is revealed from GOD, is that "consumption will come when the Gospel has been preached throughout the world in the face of all peoples (ibid., XXIV. 14.)" What we know that before the Supreme and terrible shocks which constitute the Passion of the Church and the reign of the Antichrist, there will be, "says St. Paul, apostasy (II ad Thess., II, 3.) general apostasy or quasi-general of the faith of the holy Roman Church (Corn. a Lap., in loc.). Finally, what we do know is that this dreadful time the general nature of the illness of the soul is "weakening universal faith and cooling of divine love, as a result of the overabundance of sins (Ev.Matth., XXIV, 12). "
The Apostles who once asked our Lord to the faithful what signs might recognize the approach of recent times, he replied: first that there would be major attractions, and many false teachers, many purveyors of false doctrines would fill the world of mistakes and deceive many ( Ibid., 10, 11.) - then, there would be great wars and that hearing only about fighting; that people would throw themselves upon each other, and that the kingdom would amount the cons Realms (Ibid., 6, 7.) - that there would be on all sides of extraordinary plagues, contagious diseases, plagues, famines, and large earthquakes (Ibid., 7).. "And all this," said the Savior, it will still only the beginning of sorrows (Ibid., 8.) "Satan and all demons are the cause. Knowing that they have left more than a short time, they redoubled fury against the holy Church, they will make a last effort to destroy, to destroy the faith and all God's work. The rage of their fall shake Nature (Rev., XII, 9, 12.), Whose elements, as we have said, will remain until the end under the influence bad evil spirits.
Then begin the most terrible persecution that the Church has ever known; fit for appalling suffering that his divine Head had to suffer in his body very sacred, from the betrayal of Judas. Even in the Church there will be outrageous betrayal of huge defections and dismal; before the tip of the persecutors and the horror of torture, many will fall, even priests, even bishops, "the stars of heaven shall fall," Gospel says. And the Catholic faithful will be hated by all because of this very fidelity (Ev. Matt., XXIV, 5, 9.).
So whatever St. Paul calls "the man of sin and son of perdition (II Thess ad., II, 3.)" Antichrist begins his reign and satanic rule over the whole universe. It shall have the power and malice of Satan (Rev. XIII. 2.). He will go to Christ, the Son of God, he will worship him as God and religion, which will be anything other than the worship of Satan and the senses, will rise on the ruins of the church and on the debris of all false religions that will then cover the earth (II ad Thess. II, 4.).
The Antichrist will be a sort of universal Caesar, which will extend its sway over all kings, all the peoples of the earth, it will be a infamous parody of the universal kingdom of JESUS CHRIST. Satan will lead a high priest, sacrilegious parody of Pope, and this high priest will preach and worship the Antichrist over all the earth. By the power of Satan, he will make great spendthrifts, to call down fire from heaven in the presence of men, and, through these illusions, it will appeal the universe. He will love it, on pain of death, the image of the Antichrist, and this image will be available live and speaking also on pain of death, he commanded that all, without exception, bear the forehead or right hand the sign of the beast, that is to say the character of the Antichrist. Whoever does will point this sign, will not be sell or buy anything (Rev. XIII, II-17.). Around images of the Antichrist, Satan's delusions are such that almost everyone will take them for real miracles and elected officials themselves may have been seduced in the long run, but because of them, the Lord shorten these days (Matt. Ev.., XXIV, 22, 24.).
"The abomination of desolation reign in the holy place (Ibid., 15.)" For "three and a half years, for forty-two months (Rev., XIII, 5.), Corresponding to the forty- two hours have passed, as we have already said, since the beginning of the darkness of the crucifixion of Jesus, the Good Friday until the hour of resurrection on Easter Sunday at sunrise.
Although still visible, consisting of its essential elements, the Church will be throughout this time as crucified, as dead and buried.
be given to the Antichrist to defeat the servants of God, and to bend under the yoke of all peoples and all nations of the earth, and, except a small number of elected members, all residents the earth shall worship him, together they will worship Satan and author of its power (Ibid., 7, 8, 4.). Where once the fierce Diocletian believed for a moment that he had definitely destroyed the Christian name, what will it be in those days, including those of Diocletian Nero were a pale symbol? The Antichrist will proclaim proudly forfeiture of Christianity, and Satan, master of the world thinks himself an instant winner.
But those times, as we learn and Scripture and Tradition, the Antichrist will rise up against "two major witnesses (ibid., XI, 3.)" JESUS CHRIST Reserved these days, namely the patriarch Enoch and the prophet Elijah, who did not die, as taught explicitly in Scripture. They will preach the ways the Lord. They preach Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God for twelve hundred and sixty days, that is to say almost entirely during the reign of the Antichrist. The virtue of God will protect and keep them. They have the power to shut heaven and "stop the rain during the time of their mission. They have the power to change water into blood and to smite the earth with all kinds of wounds (Ibid., 3, 4, 5, 6).. They will do wonders without number, similar to those of Moses and Aaron ("You can see the story in several prophetic passages of the Apocalypse, which as everyone knows, is the great prophecy of the last time of the Church "), where they fought the wicked Pharaoh in Egypt and prepared the deliverance of the people of GOD. Like Moses and Aaron, the two witnesses of JESUS CHRIST shake the empire and prestige of the Cursed.
It nevertheless manage to capture them, and they will suffer martyrdom, "where their Lord was crucified (Rev., XI, 8.)" Is to say, in Jerusalem; or perhaps to Rome, where the last Pope has been crucified by the Antichrist, according to immemorial tradition.
After three days and a half, the two major precursors of the King of glory shall rise in the face of all the people, and they ascend to heaven on a cloud, while an earthquake will cast terror everywhere (Ibid., 11, 12, 13.).
To meet its power, the Antichrist, mimicking the triumphant ascent of the Son of God and of the two great prophets, try, too, ascended to heaven in the presence of his chosen followers. And then our Lord Jesus Christ, "like lightning from east to west rips the sky, appear suddenly in the clouds, to the majesty of its power (Matt. Ev. ., XXIV, 27, 30.) "striking his breath and the Antichrist (II Thess ad., II, 8.) and Satan and sinners. All This is predicted in formal terms (I ad Thess., IV, 15.). As we have said, the Archangel Michael, Prince of the heavenly host, will resound throughout the land the cry of triumph which will raise all the elect (Matt. Ev.. Xxiv.. 31). This will be the Consummatum is the church militant, coming forever in the joy of the Lord.
This "voice of the archangel" will be accompanied by a universal combustion, which purify and renew all creatures desecrated by Satan, the world and by fishermen. Faith teaches us, in fact, that last day, Jesus Christ is to judge the world by fire (Rit.Rom.). Avenger Sanctifying this fire and renew the face of land and will make "a new heaven and new earth (Psal., CIII, 30.), (Rev. XXI, 1.)". As at Sinai, as the Upper Room, the Holy Spirit will manifest itself by fire and, in between all this dreadful day.
This will be the terrible and glorious end of the church militant, as will, so far as the light still somewhat veiled prophecies allows us to glimpse, as is the Passion of the church, this will be his resurrection followed by its triumph. Mystical body of the Son of God, she has followed her divine Head to Calvary, to the grave, and she has earned that loyalty to share his glory forever. "
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