Welcome to Revelation Unraveled, I'm your host, William Tapley, also known as
the Third Eagle of the Apocalypse and the Co-Prophet of these End Times.
On this program I want to talk about the difference between Millenarianism and
the Millennium and a lot of Catholic Bible scholars confuse the two;
they really have a fuzzy understanding of a true Bible prophecy, which is the
Millennium, and a heresy, which is Millenarianism. So first, I want to read
what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about Millenarianism and
then we'll go through all of the pertinent verses in Scripture about the
Millennium. And this is paragraph number 675 in the Catechism of the Catholic
Church: "Before Christ's second coming," and when the church says the second coming
they lump together all of his End Times comings. The church does not understand,
for the most part, that there will be a third and a fourth coming as well as a
second coming. I've mentioned that before: Jesus came at his birth as a
baby, he will come as a bridegroom at the Rapture, he will come as a soldier at
Armageddon, and he will come as a judge at the final Judgment. So, let me continue
with this paragraph 675: "Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass
through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. (And I can't
think of a worse final trial than to have the Pope be the False Prophet of
the End times.) The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will
unveil the 'mystery of iniquity' in the form of a religious deception (that's
what we have right now) offering men an apparent solution to their problems
at the price of apostasy from the truth." Pope Francis is very popular but
he is being popular at the expense of the truth) the supreme religious
deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo messianism by which man glorifies
himself in place of God and of His Messiah come in the flesh." And I have
mentioned many times that man before God is the same as 2 before 3 which
yields the decimal, .666. And now here's paragraph 676:
"The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape
in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that
messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the
eschatological judgment." Now 'eschatological' simply means 'final'. "The
church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to
come under the name of Millenarianism (and if you look up or google 'Millenarianism',
you will find out dozens and dozens of examples of movements throughout human
history of Millenarianism, the false hope that man can achieve utopia without
going through a Great Tribulation) especially the 'intrinsic perversity' of a
political form of a secular messianism." Certainly the World cannot bring us to
the great era of peace, the Millennium. And paragraph 677: "The church will enter the
glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her
Lord in His death and Resurrection. "That is very simple and that sums up what the
Catechism is saying here. When was the last time you heard a Catholic priest
say anything close to that from the pulpit? You don't!
The heresy of Millenarianism has infected the Church. "The kingdom will be
fulfilled, then, not by historic triumph of the Church through a progressive
ascendancy, (that is key; how many priests think that everything is hunky-dory
in the 'Church of nice'? That we are going to proceed towards perfection in our human
society? And that is impossible, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church is
teaching here) but only by God's victory through the final unleashing of evil,
which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven." All of that is very true and
the Bride come down from heaven will be the converted Protestants who have been
raptured and there are two other armies that will join with Jesus at the Battle
of Armageddon, and that would be the holy martyrs and the protected Catholics.
So now, let's go through the seven verses of the Millennium, in the book of Revelation,
which describe the Millennium and the first would be in chapter 20, verse
number 1: "And I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key of the
bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand." And I suspect this is the Archangel
Michael. It doesn't have to be, obviously; if it had to be, Saint John would have
mentioned his name. Verse number 2: "And he laid hold on the dragon the old
serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years."
I've put the "thousand years" in red so that you'll understand that this is indeed
about the Millennium and John writes about this period of time
eight times; it's very important. And notice here, by the way, that he gives
four names for Satan and, of course, that's because this is end times
prophecy and 4 is the most important end times number.
Verse number 3: "And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal upon him that he should no more
seduce the nations, till the thousand years be finished. And after that he must be
loosed a little time." And we really understand very little about what John
is prophesying here because we don't have any idea what is meant by Satan
being loosed a little while at the end of the Millennium. We know it will happen
and I'm sure that God will send many prophets in those thousand years of
peace that will explain how they must prepare for Satan returning and being
unlocked from Hell. Verse number 4: "And I saw seats and they sat upon them
(who is this 'they') and judgment was given unto them; (and now, this is another group)
and the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the
word of God, and who had not adored the Beast nor His image, nor received his
mark or character on their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and
reigned with Christ a thousand years." This is referring to two groups who will
reign with Jesus during the Millennium. Now the first sentence there about
receiving seats and sitting on them and rendering judgment, I believe those are
the protected Catholics, but it could be the converted Jews. The souls of those
who are beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of
God; those would be the holy martyrs. The ones who are beheaded for the
testimony of Jesus would be the Christian martyrs; those who are beheaded
for the word of God would be the Jewish martyrs in these end times.
And moving on to verse number 5:"The rest of the Dead lived not, till the
thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Now this is quite a
confusing verse: 'the rest of the dead who lived not
till the thousand years were finished', that's people who die today, for example.
They will meet their final judgment a thousand years from now; these will not
be part of the 'first resurrection'; that's where the confusion comes in. This is the
first resurrection; it refers to the previous verse, verse number 4. And
those groups that were mentioned there, they will be involved in the first
resurrection: the holy martyrs, the protected Catholics and the converted
Jews who are chosen by God to join him at Armageddon, that would be the first
resurrection. And verse number 6: "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in
this first resurrection. In these the second death hath no power (they won't die
again) but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a
thousand years." Again, this is another group, those who will be priests of God
and Christ. God and Christ would be the Jews and the Christians together in the
Millennium. And this group, I'm not sure if this group that will be priests
in the Millennium, if they are the converted Jews or if they are the
protected Catholics. And verse number 7: "And when the thousand years (that's
the eighth time John has referred to the Millennium in this chapter) and
when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of
his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations, (as I say, we really don't
understand what this is about) which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog,
and Magog, and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the
sand of the sea." So obviously, there will be billions and billions of people alive
during this thousand years of peace even though, at the Battle of Armageddon,
most of humanity will be wiped out. And I forgot to mention that, not
only does the 'thousand years' in this chapter refer to the era of peace but
also the 'first resurrection'. John uses the term a 'thousand years' 6 times to
refer to the Millennium and he uses the term 'first resurrection' twice to refer
to the Millennium. And this reminds me of the prophecy at Fatima where Mary said:
"In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, Russia will be converted ,and an
era of peace will be granted to mankind." I have no doubt that this era of peace
is the same as this Millennium. But remember, Mary said before that there
will be the 'Annihilation of Nations'. And so, in conclusion, we need to prepare for
not only the Millennium but for the millenarian period in which we will be
told the falsity that our society is ever-improving
and everything is going great, and smooth, and swell. Michael Voris says that the
Church is called the 'Church of nice' in his opinion. And you'll never hear
priests talk about any of this; and that is a real shame! But, if they did, I
would be out of a job! And I want to thank three people who have helped me
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