Book Of Revelations

[Guest hermanita]

What is the official Church teaching on the Book of Revelations and the "Last Days." Last night at a Christmas party there was quite a discussion--mostly Protestant folks from work-and I realized that I honestly don't know how the Church interprets it. Help please.

Edited December 20, 2011 by hermanita

[Theoketos]

The Book of Revelation speaks specifically and in a veiled manner about events which will happen [b][u]soon[/u][/b] (relative to the end of St. John' life). That being said the book is also an allegory for the end of our world.

I think the book is best looked at for its theological and Christological content and [i]not[/i] as a how to guide for predicting the end of the world because no one knows the hour of the day.

For further reading I have two amazon links:

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Lambs-Supper-Mass-Heaven-Earth/dp/0385496591"]http://www.amazon.co...h/dp/0385496591[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Navarre-Bible-Revelation-New-Testament/dp/1851820892/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324680514&sr=1-2"]http://www.amazon.co...24680514&sr=1-2[/url]

And finally the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1021 to about 1060 will help.

[url="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2K.HTM"]http://www.vatican.v...G0015/__P2K.HTM[/url]