Saturday, December 2, 2023

Is Christ Coming Soon? My Conjecture for a Yes


Does Apocalypse 20 mention AD 1033? · Is Christ Coming Soon? My Conjecture for a Yes

Q
Is Jesus Christ actually coming soon?
https://www.quora.com/Is-Jesus-Christ-actually-coming-soon/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1


Hans-Georg Lundahl
Catholic convert, reading many Catechisms
2.XII.2023
Two converging evidences might suggest that.

  1. The last few decades, like 60 years, are the first in which ASCII, a binary code for commands (values 0–31) and signs on the screen (32=space, 65=A, 97=a) has existed. That Vladimir Iljitj Uljanov, as a Swede would spell his name, added up to 616 as IULJANOV could not have been apparent in his time, it is only apparent in retrospect. Hence, he could not have been idenified as Antichrist by that or even more importantly by 666 for WLADIMIRA (Polish direct transscription for Владимира — Vladimir’s — in block letters).

    On the other hand, since ASCII code exists, it has become possible for parents to arrange for their children to have the 666 gematria, and a few decades from now, all who CERTAINLY got it without such parental rearrangement will have died. It makes sense that parents cannot doom their children to be Antichrist by giving them such a gematria, even if afterwards also initiating them into very Satanic evils. It’s a flag about Antichrist, or about a possible one, not a button to produce one. A few decades from now, any suspect could be potentially exonerated (as is already the case with Hebrew and Greek gematrias) by saying that’s a role the parents were casting him for, not necessarily one he has in God’s eyes. The Antichrist will be the most evil of all men, and one problem with parents casting someone for the role and him assuming it is, obeying the parents would be in and of itself a virtue. Unless of course it was a very idolatrous kind of obedience to parents, the one that for instance St. Barbara refused her father.

  2. Someone asked me what Biblical event happened 1000 years ago. I suppose he meant of AD 1033 was mentioned in Apocalypse 20. Two ways of reading the thousand years of the saints ruling with Christ already exist.

    • a) they will start after Harmageddon and all saints will be resurrected 1000 years prior to everyone else, and all will rule 1000 years, one fewer than 1001 and one more than 999;
    • b) they started in AD 33, the first resurrection being one of souls, made possible when Jesus opened the pearly gates. The idea behind the question that was posed to me was obviously, that they would finish when the first of these saints, for instance St. Stephen Protomartyr, had reigned 1000 years. A more common idea is that the 1000 years are a symbolic number, not an exact one.


    I propose the number could actually be an exact one. But it’s not ending when St. Stephen Protomartyr has reigned with Christ for 1000 years, but when the medium length of reign in Christ has become 1000 years. For ALL the saints, a number obviously known only to God. The medium length between St. Peter and St. Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus is now 1040 years, but they are only two of a very large number. The medium length of St. Stephen Protomartyr and the venerable Sister Clare Crockett who died this millennium in an earthquake, well, the medium of when their reigns with Christ began would be (33 + 2016) / 2 = 1024 AD, 999 years. Obviously, the number of saints reigning with Christ will by Harmageddon be at least 144 000, and it is impossible for us to know all of these regnal lengths, therefore to calculate exactly when the medium length of all has become 1000 years. That’s why this criterium cannot violate the disposal in Mark 13:32.[1] But it is suggestive that two pairs involve a medium length already very close to 1000.


So, my bet is, He is coming pretty soon. I don’t know if He divides saints into categories like “Pre-Flood saints, Roman Pagan Persecution Saints, Arian Crisis Saints” and so, but if He does, the saints now alive on earth could arguably be the ones He counts as Latter Day Saints, which obviously does not make Mormonism His Church, though it might suggest they could be converting soon, if there was any piety in them.

Footnote:
[1] Douay-Rheims Bible Mark 13:32
https://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=48&ch=13&l=32#x

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