Eschatology or the Last Seven Things – Nicholas Lebish

Nicholas Lebish present this a four part series entitled "The Last Things" where he will talk about Death, the Particular Judgement, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, the Second Coming, Resurrection, Last Judgement, and the New Creation.

What are the “Last Things”

1. Eschatology: “Eschaton” (end, final, last) with “Logos” (word, saying, study).
2. Traditional division: Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell.
3. The “Novissima” is the classic term: the newest things after death.
4. The new Catechism expands it to: “The Last Seven Things.

The “Seven Last Things”

1. Death
2. The Particular Judgement
3. Heaven
4. Purgatory
5. Hell
6. The Second Coming, Resurrection, and Last Judgement
7. The New Creation

Mark 12:26-27. And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.

Rapture vs Second Coming Doctrine - Allison Tobolla

Dr. Allison Tobolla Low answer questions on the dispensationalist doctrine of rapture and the second coming of Jesus and what happens after death. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Faith Formation.

Dispensationalism

• Defines history into epochs/dispensations/periods. This method also includes a distinct period of the end times.
• Today form of Dispensationalism made popular in the 1800s. Common among Protestants who are Fundamentalists and Evangelicals. Includes the idea of a "Secret rapture of believers"

1 Thess 4:16-17 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.