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. Death2. 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.
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