The Antichrist: A Catholic Understanding | Rev. Fr. Alfred McBride
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- Rev. Fr. Alfred McBride explains the Catholic understanding of the Antichrist.
This is an excerpt from lecture 6 of the TAN Course: Unveiling the Apocolypse: The End Times According to the Bible.
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End-times hysteria peaked during the late 1990's as the millennium drew near. It has resurfaced in more recent years because of evangelical prophecies and an end-times fever.
Does the Book of Revelation disclose the date of the end of the world? When will the seven years of tribulation happen? Are we actually living in the end times?
The Book of Revelation is probably the most frightening and most perplexing book of the New Testament. Full of signs and symbols, predictions and warnings, it speaks of extraordinary times marked by falling stars, a blood covered moon, the collapse of empires, and widespread havoc. Such hyper-dramatic language characterizes all apocalyptic literature.
Fr. Alfred McBride, O. Praem. sets the record straight with an authentic Catholic interpretation of the Book of Revelation. He gives you three keys to understanding the Book of Revelation and offers sustaining hope for Christians who have or who will experience the trials and persecutions that have always accompanied members of the Church.
In addition to discussing the end of the world, Fr. McBride presents authentic Catholic teaching on topics including the Rapture, the "mark of the beast," the Antichrist, the thousand years of peace and more in this course, Unveiling the Apocalypse.
Lectures
1. Three Keys for Understanding the Book of Revelation
--Father McBride discusses apocalyptic language, the role of prophets, and interpreting the Book of Revelation on three levels of time and history.
2. Letters and Warnings to the Seven Churches
--The Letters all contain common elements: Jesus 'knows' the situation, he commends righteousness and condemns wickedness, and he calls for repentance or perseverance.
3. A Vision of Heaven and the Seven Seals
--St. John was privileged to behold the revelation of the Lamb who opens the Seven Seals and unleashes the Four Horsemen.
4. Trials and Tribulations
--144,000 are sealed by the angel of God; the Seven Trumpets sound terror and catastrophe; and the abyss of Hell opens.
5. A Woman Clothed with the Sun
--A great sign appears in the sky: a woman clothed with the sun, crowned with twelve stars, and the moon under her feet.
6. The Antichrist
--St. John says that the Antichrist, who appears as a dragon, a leviathan, and a behemoth, will become a divinized tyrant with awesome powers and its own earthly throne.
7. Christ’s Thousand Year Reign
--The expression 'a thousand years' appears six times in Revelation 20:1-7 and its meaning has been debated since the Early Church.
8. A New Heaven and a New Earth
--In the Book of Revelation, we witness the wedding feast of the Lamb, risen and victorious, praised in the throne room of Heaven.
Rev. Fr. McBride was listed as a most influential educator in the database of Christian Educators of the 20th Century. He was appointed the Ecclesiastical Assistant for the United States in 1989, served as consultant to the Archdiocese of Boston for the implementation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and was a Professor of Homiletics and Catechetics at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts. In 1992, Fr. McBride became the Spiritual Director for the U.S. branch of the World Wide Mission called the "Aid to the Church in Need". In 2003, Fr. McBride celebrated his Golden Jubilee as a priest and decided to return home to De Pere and rejoin his confreres. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by both St. Norbert College in De Pere and Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, NC. He lectured and wrote widely, publishing 68 books and about 200 articles. Fr. McBride passed away in 2020. He was a humble man, always thankful to God for his remarkable gift of writing.
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May Almighty God rebuke the spirit of satan and antichrist. Amen
Thank you for sharing this. Funds are a bit tight at the moment, but as the Lord provides, I will purchase the course as soon as I'm able, God willing. May the Holy Queen of Heaven pray for the soul of Fr. McBride, that the King & Lord of All would grant him eternal bliss and the Beatific Vision. AMEN!
wanna understood who is the real antichrist? THE ANTICHRIST IS OUR SAVIOR he is neo that lead us outside of the matrix. christ is the demon in disguise and he love to have humanity brainwashed to him saying there amens amen amen amen amen amen
Please Jesus hurry back soon. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. I ready to give up. Jesus please continue to give me the strength to keep supporting my two autistic children. My boys require a lot from me because they are special needs. Due to them having issues in school, I’m now homeschooling them. I’m a single mother. I’m overwhelmed. I lost my job at Forsyth hospital because I declined the vaccine. I have heart disease and I suffer from lupus that’s the major reason why I declined the vaccine. I’m waitressing and I’m grateful but I’m not making enough to make ends meet. Bills are piling up and I can barely afford groceries for my children. I feel like a failure. Every month is a struggle, and now that I’m homeschooling them my schedule is limited. I’m so overwhelmed and ashamed. But God’s gives me strength. I get harassed and bullied on this app for sharing my testimony and for asking for prayers but prayers are all I NEED. Even as I struggle! I keep faith in God. He is the God of possible! I HAVE FAITH HE WILL PROVIDE!
If you contact a medicaid office and explain that you need help..they might be able to help you. You can look them up online. They also offer financial help. All the border jumpers get all kinds of assistance and money.
I will pray for you child of God!
I don't think it's Jesus’s physical return but the Eucharist reign and an era of peace which is approaching. Mama Mary ask her beloved Son to give you the strength you need and help your family. Bless, protect and guide you all. Saint Joeseph terror of demons, pray for us. Amen 🙏 ❤️
@@MaranathatoJesusthroughMary Jesus will physically return on the last day to judge the living and the dead.
I hope you’re doing ok and know you’re a success of the highest order! Our world needs to function differently so you are and feel supported, but within your means with what you’re able to do just remember you are a success.
Thank you father
Matthew 23:9-11 KJV
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 24:23 isn't talking about mistaking anyone for the Antichrist. It is telling us to ignore those who either claim to be the Messiah or who claim to know where or who the Messiah is. Jesus himself warned us about the Man of Sin. Scripture gives us a very detailed description of the Antichrist so we will be aware of his presence, not so we can ignore the warning signs and pretend all is normal. The Church has not always taken such a cavalier approach to the Antichrist. I don't know why it does now.
I think Dr. Fauci is right up there too for body counts. Thank you Fr.
1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
The beast lives in all of us. It's pride=Ego. Haughty and arrogance are the people that choose to serve Satan and not Yahuwah the Creator.
The narcissist are all about them.They choose to serve the beast. It's all about themselves.
A child of the Creator is all about Unity with what the Creator created.
The one who tends to divided serves mammon . They love this world and
Things of this world. they are far from the Father. How can people says they are near Yah when they love pleasure , riches and are worry.
People run after what? We are on earth to be guided by the only Rabbi Yahuwshuwa to come back home to Yahuwah. At the end only Yahuwah will be and His name.
If we don't have LOVE a relationship with Yahuwah . How can we love.
We are sinners because we desires things of this world. But Abba Yahuwah is pure love. Our Abba is calling His children that He choses to go back home. It's a love story.
Love the rest is illusion.
Yes but there will actually be an antichrist as well as an actual being before the second coming of Christ. It is written in Matthew and in Revelation.
Pride and ego is not of God you are right
we don't, we don't have to discuss the appearance hehehe...... can't that wait, hehehe....... 😡🤬
Revelation 17:3 KJV .............I saw a woman (harlot church) sit upon a scarlet colored beast (in Daniel a beast is a kingdom), full of names of blasphemy, having "seven heads and ten horns" (Roman Empire as described in Daniel). 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color (colors of catholic liturgy worn by priests), and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls (rcc is among the richest organizations), having a golden cup in her hand (mass cup) full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication (not faithful to the Holy Scriptures). 5 and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (beginning of pagan and image worship at the Tower Of Babel).
Revelation 17:7 KJV ...........I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 8:8 KJV .............. behold the beast that was (was pagan), and is not (not in the old form), and yet is (pagan in a new form but disguised as Christianity).
Revelation 17:9 KJV And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits (Rome is known for being built on seven hills).
Revelation 17:18 KJV And the woman which thou saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth (at the time of this prophecy the Roman Empire based in Rome reigned over the Roman world).
Thus the woman and the beast refer to the Roman Catholic Church and the worldly secular system it incorporates (rides).
Exactly right! The Vatican is the most evil entity on the face of this Earth 🌍
😆 great one who taught you this you pastor ?
@@r.c4914 GOD taught me!
John 6:45 KJV "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me."
By the way, the woman it talks about is based in Rome 17:18 and even rcc scholars agree with that.
@@r.c4914 🎯
Thank you for this! I knew that the beast was the Roman Catholic Church, but I didn't know this... It makes sense why they are trying to convince everyone that Revelation is about other dictator's and leaders.
GIVE US THE BEEF NOT POLITICAL SEMANTICS
NONE of them can give the politics, or the beef!
Everyone else is CLUELESS, until the Antichrist 👑👑 is already set up somewhere, some how, ASAP o'clock!
If it was up to Jesus with over 3 billion Christian & Catholic gang members it, we will all keep waiting for WHENEVER o'clock 🤭
The only expert about the Antichrist 👑👑 is the Antichrist 👑👑💯
Everyone else can only play the guessing, gossiping, blaming & ACTING like experts game 😂🤣
Jesus & Satan are half brothers, both are legendary failures to the Antichrist👑👑
Both born waiting for the exact same ANYONE ELSE as all major faiths still wait for!
Jesus tried hard to be Kalki👑👑 & Moshiach 👑👑
This guy has ZERO clue!
There's only one of me, NOBODY can do what I can 💯
You people will never figure out one person & it's been over 20 CENTURIES not decades 😂🤣
Revelation 13:1 KJV "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea (sea of pagan nations), having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy (a description of the fourth and last world empire called a beast from Daniel 7:7 KJV with ten horns which is pagan Rome).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death (Constantine moved his pagan empire, Christian in name only, to the East); and his deadly wound was healed (Rome paganism now disguised as Christianity): and all the world wondered after the beast (harlot church).
4 And they worshipped the dragon (devil) which gave power unto the beast (harlot church based in Rome): and they worshipped the beast........
7 And it was given unto him (RCC beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them (brutal persecution and inquisitions against true Christian believers): and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations (ruled alongside European monarchs by threats of excommunication of the monarch and their subjects).
8 And all that dwell upon the earth (the Roman world) shall worship him (obey the RCC which is Christian in name only), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth (the office of the popes concerned only with earthly matters); and he had two horns like a lamb (the popes pretending to be in the place (vicar) of Christ), and he spoke as a dragon (the devil speaking false doctrine of RCC sacramental works).
12 And he (office of the popes/antichrist) exercises all the power of the first beast (pagan Rome) before him, and causes the earth (Roman world) and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast (pagan Rome), whose deadly wound was healed (paganism now disguised as Christianity).
Islam is a much better candidate when you really look into it. Please come to Catholicism, you’re missing out on the Church Christ established.
Nope, just Protestant propaganda to justify leaving the one true Church and making up their man made tradition of Sola Scriptura.
Your first mistake is using the KJV, that shows that you do not take any type of scripture scholarship seriously. Based on that premises, it then tells that your assertion is faulted from the very beginning, thus your conclusion is completely wrong.
@@corneliusmakin-bird7540 Revelation 17:3 KJV .............I saw a woman (harlot church) sit upon a scarlet colored beast (in Daniel a beast is a kingdom), full of names of blasphemy, having "seven heads and ten horns" (Roman Empire as described in Daniel). 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color (colors of catholic liturgy worn by priests), and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls (rcc is among the richest organizations), having a golden cup in her hand (mass cup) full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication (not faithful to the Holy Scriptures). 5 and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (beginning of pagan and image worship at the Tower Of Babel).
Revelation 17:7 KJV ...........I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 8:8 KJV .............. behold the beast that was (was pagan), and is not (not in the old form), and yet is (pagan in a new form but disguised as Christianity).
Revelation 17:9 KJV And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits (Rome is known for being built on seven hills).
Revelation 17:18 KJV And the woman which thou saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth (at the time of this prophecy the Roman Empire based in Rome reigned over the Roman world).
Thus the woman and the beast refer to the Roman Catholic Church and the worldly secular system it incorporates (rides).
@@jacktracy8356 Aparently you cannot read my first comment and won’t even address it. That seems to be a you problem.