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    Will Christ Ever Come Back?
    Will Christ Ever Come Back?
    Will Christ Ever Come Back?
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    Will Christ Ever Come Back?

    By Leonardo Castellani

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    A question Christians have been asking themselves since He ascended into Heaven. A difficult question. A necessary one. One that has been answered variously by Christians of all type of denominations. But, in the last centuries, not so much by Catholics. Fr Castellani fills the void with solid knowledge and great style.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJack Tollers
    Release dateMar 13, 2012
    ISBN9781476233383
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      Will Christ Ever Come Back? - Leonardo Castellani

      Fr. Leonardo Castellani S.J.

      Will Christ ever come back?

      a Catholic perspective of the end of times

      Published by Jack Tollers at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Jack Tollers

      Contents

      Is Christ coming back—or not?

      Christ will never come back

      My words shall not pass away

      The Great Tribulation.

      Sweet promises

      The mystery of iniquity

      The Great Whore

      The Two Beasts

      The legendary Antichrist

      Antichrist in history

      Protestant's Antichrist

      Lacunza's Antichrist

      The artistic Antichrist

      Is the Second Coming a long way off?

      The signs of the times

      The actual Revelation

      Exegetical conjecture

      The seven plagues

      The griveous sore

      The New Jerusalem

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      Is Christ coming back—or not?

      Jesus Christ is coming back, and his doing so is one of the dogmas of our faith.

      It is one of the more important dogmas wedged between the fourteen articles of faith that we recite every day in the Credo and that we intone when we assist to a solemn Mass. Et iterum venturus est cum gloria judicare vivos et mortuos.

      Also, it is a somewhat forgotten one. A splendid dogma, which few people reflect upon.

      Its translation runs like this: this world will not evolve indefinitely, nor will it end by chance, as if it were to collide with a fallen star, nor will it end by natural evolution of its elementary forces (or cosmic entropy as physics like to say). Instead, it will end by a direct intervention from its Creator.

      It will not die from a natural death, but by a violent one; or to put it better—since He is a God of life and not of death, from a miraculous death.

      The Universe does not stem from a natural process, as evolutionists or naturalists think, because it is a gigantic poem, a dramatic poem that God has reserved for Himself with its beginnings, climax and dénouement; that theologically are called Creation, Redemption and Second Coming.

      Its main characters are all free willing humans. The natural forces at play are its wheel cogs. But the first actor and director of orchestra is God himself.

      Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. So said the two Angels when the Ascension took place.

      And so will it be when the story of humanity ends.

      Christ will never come back

      Modern world’s specific mental disease is to think that Christ will never come back; or, at the very least, not to think that He´s coming.

      Consequently, our modern world doesn’t understand what’s happening to it. They say Christianity has failed. Intent on saving humanity, they invent fanatical as well as atrocious systems. They are about to beget a new religion. They want to build another Babel tower that will reach unto heaven. They want to win back Paradise with their own forces.

      Out there you’ll find the world full of prophets that say I am. Here I am. Here is the program to save the world. The Peace Letter, the Pact for Progress and the League for Happiness. The U.N., the Unesco and the Unicef! Look at me! I am."

      As Hilaire Belloc described it, apparently today’s heresy doesn’t explicitly deny any one Christian dogma, only falsifies them all.

      But on second thoughts it manifestly denies Christ’s Second Coming; and with that it denies his Regnancy, his Messiahship and his Divinity. In short, it denies the whole divine process of history. And on denying Christ’s Divinity it denies God Himself. This is radical atheism dressed up with religious clothes.

      While keeping the whole external machinery and all the Christian phraseology, it falsifies Christianity transforming it into an adoration of man; that is to say, giving man a throne in God’s temple as if he were God. It exalts man to the point of making him believe that his powers are infinite. It promises man the Kingdom of God and paradise on earth, to be obtained by his own might.

      The adoration of Science, hope in

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