I used to be pre-tribulation, but I am now inclined to believe that there is only ONE second coming. I have never listened to a Catholic teaching but this is refreshing. I now class myself as a bible-believing lover of Christ as I am so disappointed with Western theology- especially evangelical views about the rapture. Not only has this been a pleasure to listen to, it has also changed my view towards Catholics, which I'm rather pleased about. I will watch more of this man's videos.
I'm a Protestant and hold these views. Thank u for clarifying and providing Biblical support. I appreciate people searching out the truth regardless of man-made religious delineations.
this guy makes me want to be catholic rather than the rest of the ones I know I didn't know how scripturally correlated the church is rather than what I have been taught all my life, thank you
I am not a Catholic but on this teaching we agree. You have explained it smoothly and with scriptures... Loving it. God bless you Father. I will be happy to see you in Heaven. Heist Jesus is the only Way to The Father.
The only one that I cannot fathom if Christ is reigning in the church right now, is why did Christ even go to heaven to leave the church to reign for the 1000 year right now, so Christ using the church was already reigning during the Church Inquisition in which the Catholic Church put to death the hundred of thousands øƒ people for the love of suppressing the truth then conducted false trials and testimony in the name of Jesus Christ? Well that’s a Godly 1000 Millennium Year Reign and its still not over?
@@jhayjay-2x Christ is the Head of the church. My question to you is, is it that you dispute that Christ is Reining in the church or it's just that you have a problem with how the Catholic church handled itself
Thank you for educating us. For so long we’ve had no words to defend our faith and what we believe. The church never taught us how. Now you are changing all that for us and making us strong, and helping others to see the Catholic Church with better eyes, rather than as these helpless people who don’t know how to give an answer for what we believe, and therefore looking as if we are the wrong ones.
Very true about satan reeking havoc , my marriage and family are under full attack by the evil one. Thank you Fr.Chris, I needed a boost of hope today.
Yes very true, satan wrecked my marriage years ago. My ex was narcissistic, committed adultery and turned my 2 children away when they were 9 and 12 yrs. I now have 2 estranged adult children and.4 grandchildren who r unbelievers. I.had a traumatic childhood .. blitz and ww2 in England and lost Dad fighting in France.Followed by.traumatic adolescence and marriage. Since.ive.had Psychiatriac help.and given my life to God. My Priest has helped me forgive my ex and others..I believe, in faith, that God will restore my children and they will convert to.Jesus. Yes Satan destroys marriage/families but God restores it in His way and time.
@@jennyrama6349 🐑 John 10 KJV 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: ♥️know♥️ 1 John 5 KJV 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Again , Again , Again, and Again ,,, THANK YOU , FR. CHRIS , for another GREAT Study , and for all You do for the sake of Your Flock , and Growing Flock . All for GODS GREATER GLORY.
God bless you and your family always Fr. Chris. Hope your Mom is doing better. Still praying for her complete healing. Not just until the end of your term as a superior director.
Jesus Christ loves you.♥️ 2 Corinthians 4 KJV 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 1 Corinthians 15 KJV 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Romans 3 KJV 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 🎁 free gift 🎁 Titus 3 KJV 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Ephesians 2 KJV 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. Romans 4 KJV 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Romans 11 KJV 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
@@alexanderbrown2717 With Respect: Was there a particular point you wanted to share, hidden in that string of passages? A simple, this is what I/my church believes based on _____? I want to understand what you are trying to convey here… Blessed Be.
Thank you so much for your teachings. I was raised Catholic and was Baptist for 30 years, and I am coming back to the Catholic faith, it is the true faith, even though it has been attacked by Satan the longest..
Welcome back home!! And yes it has always been attacked by Satan and his followers. Even Jesus chose Judas (became possessed by Satan) and betrayed Jesus. 11 good faithful Apostles and one demonic Apostle. Jesus chose Judas to show us that there will always be wolves in sheep's clothing infiltrating The Church (until He comes again).
If it was. They would not pray to saints angels or even Mary. Only Jesus Saves. Nor are we to call anyone father. Only God is holy. But i agree with this priest. the rapture is true. And the rapture and his 2nd coming are 2 sperate events. We become Christians the moment we believe. Were not born Christian by physical birth. The nano second one comes to Christ Jesus, they are sealed with the holy spirit. This priest is speaking truth. Amen,
@@davidneal9368 you do not understand scripture by saying we are not to call any man father. Do you think Jesus called St. Joseph "abba" (father) or Joseph? Abraham is called our father, and YWHW told Abraham he would be "the father" of many nations!! St. Paul called himself "father". That passage in scripture is referring that we do not place anyone above God, our Father in Heaven. We are to love Him above all else. That God created us, thereby He is our Father, and not those pagan false gods like "father Zeus". As for praying to "to dead": well Jesus declared in the Gospels that ALL are alive to Him. Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!" Matt 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Luke 20:38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” Not only that, at the Transfiiguration of Christ, the "dead" Moses and Elijah were very much alive and conversing with Jesus. Peter and the other 2 Apostles witnessed this! Saw Moses, Elijah and saw them speaking! Prayers can go directly to Jesus of course. No one has to ask anyone else for prayers of help. However, sin separates us from God. Small or more serious sins, are sin regardless. Sin makes us unrighteous. And any grave sin, mortal sin, can ONLY be forgiven by the sacrament of confession/Reconciliation. Jesus established that and made it quite clear. We do fall at times, sin, and so we are not sinless. Repentance and confession cleanses us. The saints in heaven are more righteous than any of us, for they are spotless, free from all sins and unable now to ever sin again. They are face to face with God in heaven. We on earth aren't there yet. God is all powerful, mighty, omnipresent and omnipotent etc. Nevertheless, ask yourself why God gave each of us our own guardian angels? Why God the Father, instead of comforting Jesus directly (Garden of Gestham) sent angels to minister to and comfort Jesus? Same when Jesus was tempted. Angels ministered to Jesus. Ask yourself this: God can heal us directly if He chooses, yet why does God send His angels to heal us? (Many examples in Scripture if you don't know, I can provide). Why do you think St. John saw the angels and saints carrying our prayers to God? So, yes, you are certainly free to reject any help God gifted us with by blessing us with Guardian Angels and Saints to pray for us, and carry our prayers directly to God. Rev.5:8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. Rev 8:3 Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. Jesus was at the wedding in Caanan and knew that the wine had run out. (A great embarrassment to the married couple: wine should never run out!). Yet, did Jesus do anything? Who also noticed and interceded for the married couple? Mary. She cared. And prayed to her son Jesus. Jesus said His time had not yet come. Regardless, Mary got the servants and told them to "do whatever He tells you". She didn't demand anything, and left the decision to her son, to assist or not to assist in this. So what did Jesus do? He honored His dear mother's prayer and changed water into the best wine. His first miracle, because of Mary's intercession. The last recorded words of Mary in the Bible are "do whatever He tells you". She is pointing her finger to her Son, and has always been with Him. By the way: have you sinned? Sin separates a person from God. Scripture tells us God gave the authority to forgive sins “to men; His ordained Bishops and Priests” (Matt. 9:8) and to Christ’s ministers in particular. Jesus told them, “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. . . . Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:21-23). Jesus "breathed" on His Apostles when He conferred this upon His ordained Apostles and their successors. The only other time God breathed upon man was when He created Adam and Eve, and they became living souls. The Sacrament of Confession is life giving.
@@davidneal9368 yes Jesus called his foster father, St. Joseph by the proper name of "father" and Mary as "mother" What did you call the male person who begat you? In Deuteronomy 5:16, God commands, "Honor your *father* and your mother ... Matthew 19:16-19, Jesus includes honoring one's human father as a prerequisite to attaining eternal life. A father is one who begets children. Your ignorance of the meaning of scripture is regrettable. Please be teachable to the truth. 2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. 1 Tim 3:15 The Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth Quote: In Matthew 23:9, Jesus emphasizes the primary role of Our Heavenly Father. He created us in His image and likeness (cf. Gen. 1:26-28). He made us His children through Baptism in the death and Resurrection of His Son (cf. Rom. 5:12-21; 6:3-4; 8:12-17). Because God created us in His image and likeness, we share in the attributes of God. Insofar as men share in the attributes of the Father, they participate in the one fatherhood of God. End quote Mark 7:9-13, Jesus criticizes the Pharisees and scribes for not honoring their "fathers." Furthermore, calling the apostles and their successors "father" was common within the early Christian communities (see these where men are called father: 1 Cor. 4:15; 1 Jn. 2:12; Acts 7:2; 22:1). As in the case of all scriptural interpretations, we must understand this passage in light of the rest of Scripture (cf. 2 Pet. 1:20; 3:16). God bless
Fr. Chris, we must all thank you for the vivid clarification on the topic Rapture. It’s highly remarkable and is of great value to us Catholics. Why others waste much of their time making their own interpretations. We only have to follow the teachings of Jesus given to His apostles. “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” He’s the light of the world but many choose their own light that leads them to total darkness, the way of Satan. We hold on to our Catholic beliefs and we’re in Jesus company now and forever. God bless us all and praying for our salvation.
Another Fr Chris, a passionate shepherd, talks about the rapture. He is Aussie Lebanese and one of the few priests who is not afraid to speak the Truth.❤
This has been such a great presentation!! I work with an Evangelical woman who is very anti- Catholic. I feel that I understand her stance on the Rapture, but I am also able to share my Catholic faith! Thank you Fr. Chris! You NEVER have any boring talks! I honestly have never heard any Catholic talk about this topic!
Thank you, Father Chris. It’s very important to believe and know our faith. Jesus, please bless everyone here. Let understanding come over me so that I may love you more, Jesus.
I am very happy that you are speaking out to us, enlightening us for I have never heard a catholic priest doing this before. For that reason I used to listen to others from other churches who explained the Bible. I am grateful God has led me to you. Amen
I agree. My priest doesn’t talk about these things either and I so wish he would . It is needed and I thank Father Alar so much for his time and knowledge. A true shepherd to the flock.
Thank you Fr Chris I need to replay too many good stuff and sharing this Talk. Praying for your good health Mom's healing Dad Pam nephew and Sandy. Thank you Peter and Br Mark. God bless you and everyone 🙏❤️
Fr. Chris, because of the fact that I had learnt so much from your talks, i can boldly argue, in a friendly manner, with our non- Catholic friends, boldly armed with the bible verses you mentioned. God bless you abundantly. A Marian Helper here always praying for the religious and non-religious of the MIC/Divine Mercy order and every other single order under the Catholic Church all around the world! All you Marian Helpers, we can all storm Heaven with our prayers! And oh yeah...Kirk Cameron was the poster boy in all the teen magazines! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🇲🇾
Your segment in this teaching on Luke 17:34-36 is the same way the Seventh Day Adventists teach about the rapture. I have several friends who are Adventists and they have been trying to convert me. I now have our Catholic view to give them. They aren't the only group either... Thank you for taking us "back to seminary" and teaching in a way that is so clear that it enables me to refute false conceptions of our Catholic faith!
The Protestant Reformers believed that Daniel 9:24-27 was a 490 year prophecy pertaining to Messiah’s coming and was fulfilled in 34AD. The Protestant Reformers identified the Papacy as anti-Christ, as the “little horn” power of Daniel 7:8, and as the “man of sin, son of perdition” in 2 Thes 2:3. They preached this for hundreds of years. They did not preach anything about an anti-Christ in Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy. Anti-Christ means “in place of Christ”. The Papacy claims to be God/Christ here on earth in official public statements. To deal with the Protestant Reformers, the Papacy created the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order. The Jesuits created a theology that claimed the anti-Christ was yet into some distant future time. The Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera was the first one to separate the 70 week in Daniel’s Messianic prophecy and project it into the future. Ribera also claimed that the “He” in verse 27 was referring to an Anti-Christ and not Messiah. This happened in 1587. This theology evolved and grew over time and infiltrated the Protestant churches. John Nelson Darby, an “Ex” Roman Catholic priest, added the pre-trib rapture and dispensation theology to Futurism. Futurism/dispensationalism/Christian Zionism, all related, deflect attention away from the Papacy, the true Anti-Christ. The Jesuits also created the theology known as Preterism, which claims that the anti-Christ came in the past in Antiochus Epiphanes. In summary, there are three views to eschatology. Two of them came from the Roman Catholic Church, and one of them came from the Protestant Reformers. Most Christians do not know the history of pre-trib rapture theology. To learn more about it look up “Historicism vs Futurism” by Pastor Stephen Bohr. There are 12 parts. Nobody is getting raptured out of here prior to the 2nd coming of Messiah. Daniel 9 was a Messianic prophecy and was fulfilled. There is no seven year tribulation time period in that prophecy. This came from the Jesuits. Believers will go through the un-specified tribulation time period.
@@brisadelcastillo2840 WoW! Pastor Stephen Bohr is a Seventh Day Adventist preacher. I went to school with his kids. Yeah, there is a convoluted formula which William Miller presented to “prove” The Second Coming was going to be October 22, 1844. Respectfully, you have your doctrines and dates, as per SDA theology totally mixed up. I was born SDA and left to have a Catholic wedding mass. Amazingly, my nightmares re SDA end-times have disappeared…. Hmmm… Blessed Be…
@@cindiloowhoo1166 Sounds like you have an interesting journey. Nobody teaches eschatology like the SDA in my research. And SDA’s don’t all agree. The Historicist position makes the most sense of all three eschatological choices. And the alternate two come from the Jesuits. Understanding eschatology is much easier when you are given all of the historical information, like br. Bohr does in those presentations. If I have errored in dates please tell me where so I can correct my notes. Sorry you had a bad experience with SDA. I don’t promote any denomination. I listen to some former SDA’s as well who don’t believe that Saturday is the Sabbath. However they still hold to Historicism and the Papacy as being anti-Messiah.
@@brisadelcastillo2840 Brother Bohr views Scripture via the lens of “Sister Ellen G White”. That Woman is a whole ‘nother conversation. That church is based on disobeying Jesus and attempting to predict the date of The Second Coming; obviously wrong and now going to thru whatever contortions to save face. Please explore groups based on escaping SDA…
I was raised in a Protestant church. I now fully believe that there is no rapture. I was taught the rapture as fact but began to doubt after studying the scriptures and could not find enough biblical support to back the idea . Plus learning that the idea didn’t even originate until the 1830’s bothered me a lot. Through out scripture I do not see the Lord allowing us to escape hard times but walks with us through those hard times.
I read a book a while back called the “Rapture Trap” and said exactly the same thing Father did. You don’t want to escape the trials but pray for God to help you through it.
The last 31/2 years are not a trial, they are the time that the wrath of God is poured out on the earth in horrific judgement. If you mean “you don’t want to escape the trials” just know not to take the mark of the beast. One will have to loose their life (beheading) Revelation 20:4. This may be a form of escape…..
These are the words of Christ. He said to pray this prayer everyday. Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Has a priest ever led you in this prayer?
@@freedomrider266 the book of Revelation was written by John during his exile. It is NOT necessarily a prophecy of the future but a Beatific vision of Heaven, John saw numerous people from all nations who survived the great trials and whose “robes had been washed in the blood of the Lamb”. That is not a vision of Saints who were kept safe from tribulations but suffered and were martyred as a witness to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. Death is the only way to eternal life. Make it count!!
So happy that I came across this Father. Thank you for your explanation. I am a Marian helper but never heard this explanation. Never did I believe in rapture because Jesus told us to follow Him that we need to pick up our cross and follow Him. Amen
You've gone through a great deal to explain this perplexing topic. Thank you very much Rev.Fr.Chris. God bless you and your Congregation always Amen Bangalore 25/9/22
Not boring at all. I forwarded this to a Baptist friend. She gasped whenI told her there was not a rapture. I tried to explain but this video does a much better job. Thank you and God Bless you Fr. Chris Alar!
Thanks so much Fr. Chris 🙏🌹 For me if a Catholic who doesn't know that Christ comes to judge the living and the dead then he/she is residing under a rock. Everytime we say the Apostles Creed we affirm our belief saying 'He will come to judge the living and the dead and His Kingdom will have no end'' 🙏 My mother, God rest her soul she died this July, taught me my prayers as a babe and I've never forgotten because I say them all the time. I try to see the words in pictures in my mind and it helps with understanding what one is saying.
Father, I am returning back slowly..reciting my rosary which I have not at all into only when my dad were alive we were doing rosary during the month of May..I shall also see a priest upon a very good confessions from deep thinking to action ...pray for me, for my family..and all those who like me and does not like me God bless 🕍
Thank you so much father for the enlightenment, pls. Don't get tired spreading, sharing the TRUTH. against false teachings and Different Gospel of our Lord God. Bless you father may our Lord Jesus Christ accompany you in your journey as an instrument of our Lord Jesus Christ to spread the Truth, Justice, mercy and love of God. All for the service to God.
Great talk Father. As a former long time Evangelical who's now converted to Catholicism, I'm extremely familiar with all of these teachings about the Rapture. If I still lived in MA I would have been happy to come speak with you on the subject. I saw the 'Left Behind' original movie when it first came out, as a young adult in the Evangelical church, which would have been in the early 1980's. Many evangelical churches were playing the film at the church for people to watch, but very often it was played for youth groups and such in the church, as a tool of ministry. And it was very effective! Although some may call it "cheesy" today, back then when it was played for us in those days, not a single person felt it was cheesy, on the contrary most of us found it extremely shocking, and a film we'd never forget. Anyhow, I enjoyed your talk on this, and felt it was very well done. And that's coming from someone who's intimately familiar with the subject of the rapture, having once fully believed it to be biblical, correct teaching.
@@DivineMercy_Official how could Matthew 24:37-38 and Revelations 6:15 - 17 be true at the same time ? No the rapture happens before the beginning of Revelation 6 !
thank you so much Father Chris! as a former Protestant I've never really been able to understand what the Catholic church taught about the rapture, and you did such an excellent job! I pray for our good and holy priests and religious everyday that they will be supernaturally protected and that they will be more vocations to the priesthood and to religious life 💗
@@Keepitoriginalministry ok sure. This talk explains it all. Please watch, it isn't what you would expect. God bless th-cam.com/video/CvlImO9-bQk/w-d-xo.html
@@DivineMercy_Official he is right the church isnt what saves you. You are saved by faith through grace. As plain and simple as that is i dont a church in that verse
Father Chris, you are always clear and give logical explanations. Thank you. I understood that the rapture wasn't catholic teaching, but you helped me understand the why behind it.
Did you know the tribulation saints and the church age Saints have different gospels? ✝️ Church age gospel ✝️ 1 Corinthians 15 KJV 1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: ♥️ tribulation saints gospel ♥️ Revelation 14 KJV 6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. 8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. 12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. ♥️ why can’t church age saints receive the everlasting gospel preached by a angel? Galatians 1 KJV 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, 9 If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. The Christians must be removed before the tribulation so the angel can come and preach the everlasting gospel or else that angel would be cursed.
Dear Fr Chris, excellent talk on this teaching of The Church, so many of us in the chat were saying this one is a multiple re-watch!!! (You should see my notes! lol). We are so deeply thankful that you take the time to explain The Faith, esp teachings that may be new to many of us (even cradle Catholics like me). 🙏✝️🙏
You missed a chance at the beginning to say " and boy are my arms tired"...and Thank you Father Alar you really, really helped me understand and learn so much about the faith, I drive for a job and listen to understanding the faith almost every day 😀
Oh no Fr Chris, not boring at all! Thank you for teaching us the Truth of the Word and the Church... convert or cradle Catholic... God bless you. We pray for you always and also for your late Grandmother. May God have mercy! She will see the Light of God...🕯🕯🕯👐🌹🌹🌹
@Honorable Harbinger The 4th Commandment calls someone other than God “Father.” What do you call the man who sired you?; The rich man called out “Father Abraham” to come and dip his finger in cool water (parable LK 16:24); St. Paul calls religious leaders “fathers” in Acts 7:2 and 22:1; St. Paul tells the Corinthians in 1Cor4:15, “I became your father”; a priest is a “spiritual father” w/many children; Jesus in Jn 8:56 said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Jesus meant that there is only one creator, or one true father, one “Abba”. As the 4th commandment testifies, Jesus did not mean to never call someone father in one sense. Jesus meant we are no longer under the covenant of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob). We are now under the covenant of the one and only “Abba, the Father” Helps to know the history of Christianity.... that is how the theologians all explained it. I think they know better than you and me :) God bless.
Thankyou Fr. Chris. Really appreciate your knowledge, and your talks. And as you say," you cannot love what you do not know". So thankyou for teaching us about our faith.
Excelente!!! as always dear Fr Chris God bless you and makes you happy on earth, and then gloriously happy in eternity May God Father bless you and protect you and gives you all His graces
I love listening to Fr.Chris to understand more about Catholic religion, born Catholic and attended Catholic school in a convent for four years on my high school years but always hungry to learn more about my religion. Thanks for sharing Fr. Chris
Thank you for this topic dear Fr. Chris! And please continue more on this formation! We must put on the armour of GOD incl knowledge. Prayers goes to you and your team. From Singapore, Dominic and family🇸🇬
Wonderful talk, Fr. Chris! Praying for you and your family. Also, I've been seeing so many miracles through the MIC enrollments and having masses said for them. One of my friend's father's I enrolled went in remission for 2 types of cancer and some of his family are thinking of coming back to the Church. Several people I put in enrollments are starting to have conversions. Thanks so much for praying for them!
Thank you once again Fr Chris !! Praying the Holy Spirit continues to give you all that you need 🙏 🙏🙏 Lord please keep Fr Chris safe and healthy 🙏 ❤️🙏❤️
God bless our good priests who know and speak truth. Went through private schools. Love the Bible so many things are missed. I love these videos. I have waited for them. Thank you. God bless all who are a part of.
Thank you for your dedication Fr. Chris, your life, time, talent & effort, so grateful for all these learning I gained, filling up my "nearly empty cup"! Blessings to all the priests worldwide!
Thank Fr. Alar you once again helped me understand our Catholic faith which I love dearly, and too also clear up my confusion. I am grateful to God and to you as a teacher of the word of Our Hod. Safe travel’s and I am looking forward to the next episode of ETF. God bless Pam S
Thank you Fr Chris for giving us seminary teaching. You make it easier for me to understand the bible There are some sources out there trying to shut down God We need to pray for the souls that are going astray I am thankful for what God is doing in my life If I did not put my trust in Jesus my life would have been destroyed Praise Jesus Thank you Jesus for the anointed priests you have given us God bless Fr Chris I will continue to pray for you and your family
I've been waiting for this program my whole life thank you , takes a lot of stress away, a cleans up the filth in my mind and takes a lot of garbage in mind away, filled with goodness now. Have a greater understanding of these subjects now. Thank you again, Excellent explanations!!!
God bless you Father Chris and thank you. It’s a lot of information. I’ll have to watch again. Prayers for you and your family. Thank you also Brother Mark and Peter. 😇🙏🏻✝️
Thank you Fr. Alar! This was excellent! I used to believe in rapturing befjre The 2nd coming. But now No longer! I converted to Catholisism from being first a Methodist & then 5 years a Baptist. Loving, kind, well meaning people that believe in Christ but they have chosen the loss of partaking of the TRUE body & blood. Poor protestants.
Wow.. just said…THAT MAKES SENSE….then you Father said…I HOPE THAT THIS MAKES SENSE! MY confirmation! Thank you Father! This was wonderful!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇😇😇😇
The Simpsons clip made me giggle! I genuinely feel sorry for people who have no sense of humor, even when translucent lives are involved. Iykyk. On a serious note, I was raised protestant and the timeline of the end times made zero sense to me. I feel like I understand "the rapture" for the first time in my life. I know we don't base our faith on our feelings, but I think the Holy Spirit helps us to discern when we are hearing the truth. I would say I know this is true because I felt like the Holy Spirit was helping solve something that has puzzled me my whole life. Perhaps I describe it as a "feeling" because I am female, I don't know. Whatever the case may be, thanks Fr. Chris for explaining the more complex aspects of the faith. God bless you, your ministry, and all of the people and ministries of the Shrine.
Thank you Fr.Alar we love your very very interesting and informative talks They really increase our faith God bless you Marian Fathers for your wonderful ministry.
Thank you! I really did not know nor understand this rapture thing. You've clarified this perfectly! I feel set free in so many ways! I couldn't really grasp this understanding and its caused a lot of confusion. You are a blessing Father Chris!
God bless you Father Chris. Keep it up! We’re always listening and hopefully learning & growing more in the faith. We’re praying for you, all priests and religious & the Pope.
"We must go through Passion before Resurrection." -i guess this summarizes everything. no one can escape. continue trusting in the Lord and work for your salvation with fear and trembling. ✝️🙏
@Honorable Harbinger The 4th Commandment calls someone other than God “Father.” What do you call the man who sired you?; The rich man called out “Father Abraham” to come and dip his finger in cool water (parable LK 16:24); St. Paul calls religious leaders “fathers” in Acts 7:2 and 22:1; St. Paul tells the Corinthians in 1Cor4:15, “I became your father”; a priest is a “spiritual father” w/many children; Jesus in Jn 8:56 said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Jesus meant that there is only one creator, or one true father, one “Abba”. As the 4th commandment testifies, Jesus did not mean to never call someone father in one sense. Jesus meant we are no longer under the covenant of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob). We are now under the covenant of the one and only “Abba, the Father” Helps to know the history of Christianity.... that is how the theologians all explained it. I think they know better than you and me :) God bless.
Thank you so much Father Chris. That was great! I’m 82 and have never heard such an explanation that touched me so much. I’m already a believer and love the Divine Mercy. God Bless you & all. 🇨🇦🙏💕🇨🇦
Does anyone else need pictures and and lines and graphs to follow what's what? I'm really not good at following jumping- about multi- layered instructions. I'll watch again with a whiteboard and pen. But wow, Fr Alar, I deeply appreciate that you teach so precisely on a subject. Thankyou. T.
Thank you, Father Chris! I have been so confused and overwhelmed about all the different things I have heard and read about the 2nd coming and the “rapture”. This really helps!! 😇🙏
@@DivineMercy_Official I would like to know what exactly does it mean when it mentions quote; the dead will rise first when we all belive the souls of the dead have left the body by default!?
@@gtibrucehe dead (in heaven and hell) will have their resurrected immortal bodies, then we who are alive on earth will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye (get our new immortal resurrected bodies). We will all face the Judgement (either eternal life/salvation in heaven or eternal damnation/separation from God, in hell). 1 Corinthians 15: 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” Read the whole chapter as well God bless
I love how you explained this. I feel so much gratitude for your teachings. I love being Catholic and I honor your teachings and guidance. You've really helped straighten my thoughts out on this. God bless you Father Chris!
As a protestant .& Some family now Catholic , I thank you! Best explanatory I have found!
I used to be pre-tribulation, but I am now inclined to believe that there is only ONE second coming. I have never listened to a Catholic teaching but this is refreshing. I now class myself as a bible-believing lover of Christ as I am so disappointed with Western theology- especially evangelical views about the rapture. Not only has this been a pleasure to listen to, it has also changed my view towards Catholics, which I'm rather pleased about. I will watch more of this man's videos.
I also used to be pre-tribulation. I also used to be Protestant.
I'm a Protestant and hold these views. Thank u for clarifying and providing Biblical support. I appreciate people searching out the truth regardless of man-made religious delineations.
Thank you and God bless you for taking the time to join us in your faith journey. Welcome!
this guy makes me want to be catholic rather than the rest of the ones I know
I didn't know how scripturally correlated the church is rather than what I have been taught all my life, thank you
Thank you and God bless you for being open to God's grace
I am not a Catholic but on this teaching we agree. You have explained it smoothly and with scriptures... Loving it. God bless you Father. I will be happy to see you in Heaven. Heist Jesus is the only Way to The Father.
The only one that I cannot fathom if Christ is reigning in the church right now, is why did Christ even go to heaven to leave the church to reign for the 1000 year right now, so Christ using the church was already reigning during the Church Inquisition in which the Catholic Church put to death the hundred of thousands øƒ people for the love of suppressing the truth then conducted false trials and testimony in the name of Jesus Christ? Well that’s a Godly 1000 Millennium Year Reign and its still not over?
@@jhayjay-2x Christ is the Head of the church. My question to you is, is it that you dispute that Christ is Reining in the church or it's just that you have a problem with how the Catholic church handled itself
Thank you for educating us. For so long we’ve had no words to defend our faith and what we believe. The church never taught us how. Now you are changing all that for us and making us strong, and helping others to see the Catholic Church with better eyes, rather than as these helpless people who don’t know how to give an answer for what we believe, and therefore looking as if we are the wrong ones.
Very true about satan reeking havoc , my marriage and family are under full attack by the evil one. Thank you Fr.Chris, I needed a boost of hope today.
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May God rebuke the evil assailing you and your family! In Jesus' mighty name!
Oh I wish I cud send or give u ths brown scapular as a gft. It's what u must have whenever u feel under full attack by the evil one.
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Yes very true, satan wrecked my marriage years ago. My ex was narcissistic, committed adultery and turned my 2 children away when they were 9 and 12 yrs. I now have 2 estranged adult children and.4 grandchildren who r unbelievers. I.had a traumatic childhood .. blitz and ww2 in England and lost Dad fighting in France.Followed by.traumatic adolescence and marriage. Since.ive.had Psychiatriac help.and given my life to God. My Priest has helped me forgive my ex and others..I believe, in faith, that God will restore my children and they will convert to.Jesus. Yes Satan destroys marriage/families but God restores it in His way and time.
Thank you Father Chris. Prayers for you and all our priests.
Watch my u tube video called Warning the rapture is September 25,2022
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Amen thanks Fr. Chris. I understand better now about this rapture is not catholic teaching.
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John 10 KJV
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
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1 John 5 KJV
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
I LOVE attending your catechism classes! Thank you Father for being one of our Lord's disciples here on earth!! You're saving lives here!!!
Again , Again , Again, and Again ,,, THANK YOU , FR. CHRIS , for another GREAT Study , and for all You do for the sake of Your Flock , and Growing Flock . All for GODS GREATER GLORY.
God bless you and your family always Fr. Chris. Hope your Mom is doing better. Still praying for her complete healing. Not just until the end of your term as a superior director.
Thank you and God bless you
God's plans are simple and clear to everyone. People create secrets and complex plans that feed their pride. God bless Fr Chris.
Jesus Christ loves you.♥️
2 Corinthians 4 KJV
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
1 Corinthians 15 KJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Romans 3 KJV
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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Titus 3 KJV
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Ephesians 2 KJV
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 4 KJV
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 11 KJV
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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With Respect:
Was there a particular point you wanted to share, hidden in that string of passages?
A simple, this is what I/my church believes based on _____?
I want to understand what you are trying to convey here…
Blessed Be.
Thank you so much for your teachings. I was raised Catholic and was Baptist for 30 years, and I am coming back to the Catholic faith, it is the true faith, even though it has been attacked by Satan the longest..
Welcome back home!!
And yes it has always been attacked by Satan and his followers. Even Jesus chose Judas (became possessed by Satan) and betrayed Jesus. 11 good faithful Apostles and one demonic Apostle. Jesus chose Judas to show us that there will always be wolves in sheep's clothing infiltrating The Church (until He comes again).
If it was. They would not pray to saints angels or even Mary. Only Jesus Saves. Nor are we to call anyone father. Only God is holy. But i agree with this priest. the rapture is true. And the rapture and his 2nd coming are 2 sperate events. We become Christians the moment we believe. Were not born Christian by physical birth. The nano second one comes to Christ Jesus, they are sealed with the holy spirit. This priest is speaking truth. Amen,
@@davidneal9368 you do not understand scripture by saying we are not to call any man father. Do you think Jesus called St. Joseph "abba" (father) or Joseph? Abraham is called our father, and YWHW told Abraham he would be "the father" of many nations!! St. Paul called himself "father". That passage in scripture is referring that we do not place anyone above God, our Father in Heaven. We are to love Him above all else. That God created us, thereby He is our Father, and not those pagan false gods like "father Zeus".
As for praying to "to dead": well Jesus declared in the Gospels that ALL are alive to Him.
Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!"
Matt 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Luke 20:38
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”
Not only that, at the Transfiiguration of Christ, the "dead" Moses and Elijah were very much alive and conversing with Jesus. Peter and the other 2 Apostles witnessed this! Saw Moses, Elijah and saw them speaking!
Prayers can go directly to Jesus of course. No one has to ask anyone else for prayers of help.
However, sin separates us from God. Small or more serious sins, are sin regardless. Sin makes us unrighteous. And any grave sin, mortal sin, can ONLY be forgiven by the sacrament of confession/Reconciliation. Jesus established that and made it quite clear. We do fall at times, sin, and so we are not sinless. Repentance and confession cleanses us. The saints in heaven are more righteous than any of us, for they are spotless, free from all sins and unable now to ever sin again. They are face to face with God in heaven. We on earth aren't there yet.
God is all powerful, mighty, omnipresent and omnipotent etc. Nevertheless, ask yourself why God gave each of us our own guardian angels? Why God the Father, instead of comforting Jesus directly (Garden of Gestham) sent angels to minister to and comfort Jesus? Same when Jesus was tempted. Angels ministered to Jesus.
Ask yourself this: God can heal us directly if He chooses, yet why does God send His angels to heal us? (Many examples in Scripture if you don't know, I can provide).
Why do you think St. John saw the angels and saints carrying our prayers to God?
So, yes, you are certainly free to reject any help God gifted us with by blessing us with Guardian Angels and Saints to pray for us, and carry our prayers directly to God.
Rev.5:8
Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev 8:3
Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Jesus was at the wedding in Caanan and knew that the wine had run out. (A great embarrassment to the married couple: wine should never run out!). Yet, did Jesus do anything? Who also noticed and interceded for the married couple? Mary. She cared. And prayed to her son Jesus. Jesus said His time had not yet come. Regardless, Mary got the servants and told them to "do whatever He tells you". She didn't demand anything, and left the decision to her son, to assist or not to assist in this. So what did Jesus do? He honored His dear mother's prayer and changed water into the best wine. His first miracle, because of Mary's intercession. The last recorded words of Mary in the Bible are "do whatever He tells you". She is pointing her finger to her Son, and has always been with Him.
By the way: have you sinned? Sin separates a person from God.
Scripture tells us God gave the authority to forgive sins “to men; His ordained Bishops and Priests” (Matt. 9:8) and to Christ’s ministers in particular. Jesus told them, “As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. . . . Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained” (John 20:21-23).
Jesus "breathed" on His Apostles when He conferred this upon His ordained Apostles and their successors. The only other time God breathed upon man was when He created Adam and Eve, and they became living souls. The Sacrament of Confession is life giving.
@@c.Ichthys Jesus said it
@@davidneal9368 yes Jesus called his foster father, St. Joseph by the proper name of "father" and Mary as "mother"
What did you call the male person who begat you? In Deuteronomy 5:16, God commands, "Honor your *father* and your mother ...
Matthew 19:16-19, Jesus includes honoring one's human father as a prerequisite to attaining eternal life. A father is one who begets children.
Your ignorance of the meaning of scripture is regrettable. Please be teachable to the truth.
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
1 Tim 3:15
The Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth
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In Matthew 23:9, Jesus emphasizes the primary role of Our Heavenly Father. He created us in His image and likeness (cf. Gen. 1:26-28). He made us His children through Baptism in the death and Resurrection of His Son (cf. Rom. 5:12-21; 6:3-4; 8:12-17). Because God created us in His image and likeness, we share in the attributes of God. Insofar as men share in the attributes of the Father, they participate in the one fatherhood of God. End quote
Mark 7:9-13, Jesus criticizes the Pharisees and scribes for not honoring their "fathers." Furthermore, calling the apostles and their successors "father" was common within the early Christian communities (see these where men are called father: 1 Cor. 4:15; 1 Jn. 2:12; Acts 7:2; 22:1). As in the case of all scriptural interpretations, we must understand this passage in light of the rest of Scripture (cf. 2 Pet. 1:20; 3:16).
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May many blessings be upon Fr. Chris Alar and all of the Marians who help to ensure that these teachings are shared with God’s people.
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Thank u n God bless u too!!
Fr. Chris, we must all thank you for the vivid clarification on the topic Rapture. It’s highly remarkable and is of great value to us Catholics. Why others waste much of their time making their own interpretations. We only have to follow the teachings of Jesus given to His apostles. “ I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” He’s the light of the world but many choose their own light that leads them to total darkness, the way of Satan. We hold on to our Catholic beliefs and we’re in Jesus company now and forever. God bless us all and praying for our salvation.
Well said
Another Fr Chris, a passionate shepherd, talks about the rapture. He is Aussie Lebanese and one of the few priests who is not afraid to speak the Truth.❤
This has been such a great presentation!! I work with an Evangelical woman who is very anti- Catholic. I feel that I understand her stance on the Rapture, but I am also able to share my Catholic faith! Thank you Fr. Chris! You NEVER have any boring talks! I honestly have never heard any Catholic talk about this topic!
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Thank you, Father Chris. It’s very important to believe and know our faith. Jesus, please bless everyone here. Let understanding come over me so that I may love you more, Jesus.
Amen 🙏 May God bless you always 🙏 💕
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I am very happy that you are speaking out to us, enlightening us for I have never heard a catholic priest doing this before. For that reason I used to listen to others from other churches who explained the Bible. I am grateful God has led me to you. Amen
Thank you for joining us Maria and God bless you!
By the way,we r not Christians they believe in fake ,we r yaohudims.nd YAOHU ULHIM GAVOHAS...
TRUE BELIEVERS.
I agree. My priest doesn’t talk about these things either and I so wish he would . It is needed and I thank Father Alar so much for his time and knowledge. A true shepherd to the flock.
Thank you Fr.Chris ,God Bless You !
@@gregtowle8830 Wow ~ you really need to discern between idols and statuary ~~~
God bless Father Chris and May God give your grandmother favor ❤
Thank you Fr Chris I need to replay too many good stuff and sharing this Talk. Praying for your good health Mom's healing Dad Pam nephew and Sandy. Thank you Peter and Br Mark. God bless you and everyone 🙏❤️
Amen dear Florian 🙏💖🙏
Listening again also Florian. So much great information was given today. ❤️🌷❤️❤️🔥❤️
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Fr. Chris, because of the fact that I had learnt so much from your talks, i can boldly argue, in a friendly manner, with our non- Catholic friends, boldly armed with the bible verses you mentioned. God bless you abundantly. A Marian Helper here always praying for the religious and non-religious of the MIC/Divine Mercy order and every other single order under the Catholic Church all around the world! All you Marian Helpers, we can all storm Heaven with our prayers! And oh yeah...Kirk Cameron was the poster boy in all the teen magazines! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🇲🇾
Your segment in this teaching on Luke 17:34-36 is the same way the Seventh Day Adventists teach about the rapture. I have several friends who are Adventists and they have been trying to convert me. I now have our Catholic view to give them. They aren't the only group either... Thank you for taking us "back to seminary" and teaching in a way that is so clear that it enables me to refute false conceptions of our Catholic faith!
The Protestant Reformers believed that Daniel 9:24-27 was a 490 year prophecy pertaining to Messiah’s coming and was fulfilled in 34AD. The Protestant Reformers identified the Papacy as anti-Christ, as the “little horn” power of Daniel 7:8, and as the “man of sin, son of perdition” in 2 Thes 2:3. They preached this for hundreds of years. They did not preach anything about an anti-Christ in Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy. Anti-Christ means “in place of Christ”. The Papacy claims to be God/Christ here on earth in official public statements. To deal with the Protestant Reformers, the Papacy created the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit order. The Jesuits created a theology that claimed the anti-Christ was yet into some distant future time. The Jesuit priest Francisco Ribera was the first one to separate the 70 week in Daniel’s Messianic prophecy and project it into the future. Ribera also claimed that the “He” in verse 27 was referring to an Anti-Christ and not Messiah. This happened in 1587. This theology evolved and grew over time and infiltrated the Protestant churches. John Nelson Darby, an “Ex” Roman Catholic priest, added the pre-trib rapture and dispensation theology to Futurism. Futurism/dispensationalism/Christian Zionism, all related, deflect attention away from the Papacy, the true Anti-Christ. The Jesuits also created the theology known as Preterism, which claims that the anti-Christ came in the past in Antiochus Epiphanes.
In summary, there are three views to eschatology. Two of them came from the Roman Catholic Church, and one of them came from the Protestant Reformers. Most Christians do not know the history of pre-trib rapture theology. To learn more about it look up “Historicism vs Futurism” by Pastor Stephen Bohr. There are 12 parts. Nobody is getting raptured out of here prior to the 2nd coming of Messiah. Daniel 9 was a Messianic prophecy and was fulfilled. There is no seven year tribulation time period in that prophecy. This came from the Jesuits. Believers will go through the un-specified tribulation time period.
@@brisadelcastillo2840 WoW! Pastor Stephen Bohr is a Seventh Day Adventist preacher. I went to school with his kids. Yeah, there is a convoluted formula which William Miller presented to “prove” The Second Coming was going to be October 22, 1844.
Respectfully, you have your doctrines and dates, as per SDA theology totally mixed up. I was born SDA and left to have a Catholic wedding mass. Amazingly, my nightmares re SDA end-times have disappeared…. Hmmm…
Blessed Be…
@@cindiloowhoo1166 Sounds like you have an interesting journey. Nobody teaches eschatology like the SDA in my research. And SDA’s don’t all agree. The Historicist position makes the most sense of all three eschatological choices. And the alternate two come from the Jesuits. Understanding eschatology is much easier when you are given all of the historical information, like br. Bohr does in those presentations. If I have errored in dates please tell me where so I can correct my notes. Sorry you had a bad experience with SDA. I don’t promote any denomination. I listen to some former SDA’s as well who don’t believe that Saturday is the Sabbath. However they still hold to Historicism and the Papacy as being anti-Messiah.
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Brother Bohr views Scripture via the lens of “Sister Ellen G White”.
That Woman is a whole ‘nother conversation.
That church is based on disobeying Jesus and attempting to predict the date of The Second Coming; obviously wrong and now going to thru whatever contortions to save face. Please explore groups based on escaping SDA…
Pray and believe I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, thank you Jesus for all your blessing and opportunities today and everyday
I was raised in a Protestant church. I now fully believe that there is no rapture. I was taught the rapture as fact but began to doubt after studying the scriptures and could not find enough biblical support to back the idea . Plus learning that the idea didn’t even originate until the 1830’s bothered me a lot. Through out scripture I do not see the Lord allowing us to escape hard times but walks with us through those hard times.
I read a book a while back called the “Rapture Trap” and said exactly the same thing Father did. You don’t want to escape the trials but pray for God to help you through it.
Read Chapter 12 of The Revelation, and you'll see that God has prepared a place for ALL true Christians to be safe from the 3 1/2 years tribulation!
The last 31/2 years are not a trial, they are the time that the wrath of God is poured out on the earth in horrific judgement.
If you mean “you don’t want to escape the trials” just know not to take the mark of the beast. One will have to loose their life (beheading) Revelation 20:4. This may be a form of escape…..
These are the words of Christ. He said to pray this prayer everyday.
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Has a priest ever led you in this prayer?
Why are you insulting the priest the person here can believe what they want
@@freedomrider266 the book of Revelation was written by John during his exile. It is NOT necessarily a prophecy of the future but a Beatific vision of Heaven, John saw numerous people from all nations who survived the great trials and whose “robes had been washed in the blood of the Lamb”. That is not a vision of Saints who were kept safe from tribulations but suffered and were martyred as a witness to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. Death is the only way to eternal life. Make it count!!
So happy that I came across this Father. Thank you for your explanation. I am a Marian helper but never heard this explanation. Never did I believe in rapture because Jesus told us to follow Him that we need to pick up our cross and follow Him. Amen
When we see the truth clearly and listen to it carefully, Miracles happen everyday ❤️
Amen ❤
“Openness to the Holy Spirit”
Those who trust in the lord see miracles
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ABSOLUTE TRUTH!!
You've gone through a great deal to explain this perplexing topic. Thank you very much Rev.Fr.Chris. God bless you and your Congregation always Amen Bangalore 25/9/22
Not boring at all. I forwarded this to a Baptist friend. She gasped whenI told her there was not a rapture. I tried to explain but this video does a much better job.
Thank you and God Bless you Fr. Chris Alar!
Thank you for sharing this message and God bless you
Thanks so much Fr. Chris 🙏🌹 For me if a Catholic who doesn't know that Christ comes to judge the living and the dead then he/she is residing under a rock.
Everytime we say the Apostles Creed we affirm our belief saying 'He will come to judge the living and the dead and His Kingdom will have no end'' 🙏 My mother, God rest her soul she died this July, taught me my prayers as a babe and I've never forgotten because I say them all the time. I try to see the words in pictures in my mind and it helps with understanding what one is saying.
I thank you Father for solidifying what I read in the Scriptures and prayed about. The early church Fathers helped a lot too ❤
Excellent news!!!
Father, I am returning back slowly..reciting my rosary which I have not at all into only when my dad were alive we were doing rosary during the month of May..I shall also see a priest upon a very good confessions from deep thinking to action ...pray for me, for my family..and all those who like me and does not like me God bless 🕍
Thank you and God bless you
I believe knowledge of the faith brings conviction, and educated conviction is much needed. God bless you.
Thank you so much father for the enlightenment, pls. Don't get tired spreading, sharing the TRUTH. against false teachings and Different Gospel of our Lord God. Bless you father may our Lord Jesus Christ accompany you in your journey as an instrument of our Lord Jesus Christ to spread the Truth, Justice, mercy and love of God. All for the service to God.
Great talk Father. As a former long time Evangelical who's now converted to Catholicism, I'm extremely familiar with all of these teachings about the Rapture. If I still lived in MA I would have been happy to come speak with you on the subject.
I saw the 'Left Behind' original movie when it first came out, as a young adult in the Evangelical church, which would have been in the early 1980's. Many evangelical churches were playing the film at the church for people to watch, but very often it was played for youth groups and such in the church, as a tool of ministry. And it was very effective! Although some may call it "cheesy" today, back then when it was played for us in those days, not a single person felt it was cheesy, on the contrary most of us found it extremely shocking, and a film we'd never forget.
Anyhow, I enjoyed your talk on this, and felt it was very well done. And that's coming from someone who's intimately familiar with the subject of the rapture, having once fully believed it to be biblical, correct teaching.
Thank you for the input and thank you for opening your heart to come to the faith where God has led you. God bless!
Thank you Father for explaining all of this. Thank you for explaining the Catholic view and how it is biblical.
Thank you Marci for watching with us God bless you
Watch my u tube video called Warning the rapture is September 25,2022
Thank you so much Fr. Chris for your great teachings, God bless you and your family and your Ministry.
Thank you and God bless you too!
@@DivineMercy_Official When is Pam's birthday!
@@mariesolomon206 Jan 31 😇
@@DivineMercy_Official Thanks!
@@DivineMercy_Official how could Matthew 24:37-38 and Revelations 6:15 - 17 be true at the same time ? No the rapture happens before the beginning of Revelation 6 !
I continue to look to Fr Chris for guidance , as the Holy Spirit shows me the Marian ministry to be an inspiration
Thank you Paul and God bless you, it's great to have you with us!
thank you so much Father Chris! as a former Protestant I've never really been able to understand what the Catholic church taught about the rapture, and you did such an excellent job! I pray for our good and holy priests and religious everyday that they will be supernaturally protected and that they will be more vocations to the priesthood and to religious life 💗
Thank you Josie and God bless you for being open to God's grace!
@@DivineMercy_Official open? You Are The one who deny his grace.
@@Keepitoriginalministry ok sure. This talk explains it all. Please watch, it isn't what you would expect. God bless th-cam.com/video/CvlImO9-bQk/w-d-xo.html
@@Keepitoriginalministry sorry, I misunderstood your post
@@DivineMercy_Official he is right the church isnt what saves you. You are saved by faith through grace. As plain and simple as that is i dont a church in that verse
Father Chris, you are always clear and give logical explanations. Thank you. I understood that the rapture wasn't catholic teaching, but you helped me understand the why behind it.
Did you know the tribulation saints and the church age Saints have different gospels?
✝️ Church age gospel ✝️
1 Corinthians 15 KJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
♥️ tribulation saints gospel ♥️
Revelation 14 KJV
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
♥️ why can’t church age saints receive the everlasting gospel preached by a angel?
Galatians 1 KJV
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again,
9 If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
The Christians must be removed before the tribulation so the angel can come and preach the everlasting gospel or else that angel would be cursed.
Father.but what of all these prophecies of our lady and 3 days of darkness?
Dear Fr Chris, excellent talk on this teaching of The Church, so many of us in the chat were saying this one is a multiple re-watch!!! (You should see my notes! lol). We are so deeply thankful that you take the time to explain The Faith, esp teachings that may be new to many of us (even cradle Catholics like me). 🙏✝️🙏
💯 agree God bless you Paula Ann ❤. I’m watching again now.
@@alwaysmisskaryn dear Karyn Ann can’t wait to discuss with you 💖💖💖
@@paulaann6117 🌷💓🌷💓
Thank you for trying to listen and understand. It may require a rewatch but it is learnable 😇
@@DivineMercy_Official Had better understanding the second time I watched. I really enjoy your books Father Chris I hope a third one is in the works.
You missed a chance at the beginning to say " and boy are my arms tired"...and Thank you Father Alar you really, really helped me understand and learn so much about the faith, I drive for a job and listen to understanding the faith almost every day 😀
Thank you for joining us and God bless you
Praying for you Fr. Chris Alar, carrying out the missing God set for you. Amen.
Thank you for your teaching Fr Chris. God Bless you!
Thank you Father Chris for this enlightening talk. God bless you more and more!!!
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Oh no Fr Chris, not boring at all! Thank you for teaching us the Truth of the Word and the Church... convert or cradle Catholic... God bless you. We pray for you always and also for your late Grandmother. May God have mercy! She will see the Light of God...🕯🕯🕯👐🌹🌹🌹
Father Chris. Thanks for your talks! Also, thank you for your love! We are blessed to have you. Paise God in His goodness for our holy priests.
Thank you for coming here with us Wendy and God-bless you!
@Honorable Harbinger The 4th Commandment calls someone other than God “Father.” What do you call the man who sired you?; The rich man called out “Father Abraham” to come and dip his finger in cool water (parable LK 16:24); St. Paul calls religious leaders “fathers” in Acts 7:2 and 22:1; St. Paul tells the Corinthians in 1Cor4:15, “I became your father”; a priest is a “spiritual father” w/many children; Jesus in Jn 8:56 said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Jesus meant that there is only one creator, or one true father, one “Abba”. As the 4th commandment testifies, Jesus did not mean to never call someone father in one sense. Jesus meant we are no longer under the covenant of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob). We are now under the covenant of the one and only “Abba, the Father” Helps to know the history of Christianity.... that is how the theologians all explained it. I think they know better than you and me :) God bless.
That comment shows you don't know the difference between necromancy and intercession. God bless
Thankyou Fr. Chris. Really appreciate your knowledge, and your talks.
And as you say," you cannot love what you do not know".
So thankyou for teaching us about our faith.
Many blessings to you Fr. Chris and to all of us.
Excelente!!! as always dear Fr Chris God bless you and makes you happy on earth, and then gloriously happy in eternity May God Father bless you and protect you and gives you all His graces
I am a Catholic and this video has helped me so much thank you
Thank you Fr Chris for this very important talk..
We are blessed with your wisdom and works of mercy..
I love listening to Fr.Chris to understand more about Catholic religion, born Catholic and attended Catholic school in a convent for four years on my high school years but always hungry to learn more about my religion. Thanks for sharing Fr. Chris
Thank you for joining us Ella and God bless you!
Thank you for this topic dear Fr. Chris! And please continue more on this formation! We must put on the armour of GOD incl knowledge. Prayers goes to you and your team. From Singapore, Dominic and family🇸🇬
Thank you for joining us Dominic and God bless you
Wonderful talk, Fr. Chris! Praying for you and your family. Also, I've been seeing so many miracles through the MIC enrollments and having masses said for them. One of my friend's father's I enrolled went in remission for 2 types of cancer and some of his family are thinking of coming back to the Church. Several people I put in enrollments are starting to have conversions. Thanks so much for praying for them!
Those who trust in the lord see miracles
Wow Margie that is awesome! Thank you and God bless you for leading souls to Christ!
How do you enroll others I thought you can only enroll yourself 😮
@@jmm91910 No, you can enroll any one of your friends or family or loved ones. Please call us and ask for Peter at 413-298-1303. God bless you!
@@DivineMercy_Official Catholics are unlikely to go in the rapture anyway, they believe in looking to priests and chanting to Mary, for forgiveness
Thank you so much Father Alar for your clear and concise explanation of the Holy Word of God! Much love and respect! Viva Christo Rey!🙏✝️🙏✝️❤️
It was such a blessing to be there Saturday to see and hear you give this teaching. It was my 1st visit to the National Shrine of Divine Mercy. 🙏🏻📿♥️
Welcome!
I wanna go there some day, God willing. Excellent news!!!
Thank you once again Fr Chris !! Praying the Holy Spirit continues to give you all that you need 🙏 🙏🙏 Lord please keep Fr Chris safe and healthy 🙏 ❤️🙏❤️
Amen 🙏🕊️
God bless our good priests who know and speak truth. Went through private schools. Love the Bible so many things are missed. I love these videos. I have waited for them. Thank you. God bless all who are a part of.
Thank you for your dedication Fr. Chris, your life, time, talent & effort, so grateful for all these learning I gained, filling up my "nearly empty cup"!
Blessings to all the priests worldwide!
Thank Fr. Alar you once again helped me understand our Catholic faith which I love dearly, and too also clear up my confusion. I am grateful to God and to you as a teacher of the word of Our Hod. Safe travel’s and I am looking forward to the next episode of ETF. God bless
Pam S
Thank you Pam for joining us and God bless you
Thank you Fr Chris for giving us seminary teaching.
You make it easier for me to understand the bible
There are some sources out there trying to shut down God
We need to pray for the souls that are going astray
I am thankful for what God is doing in my life
If I did not put my trust in Jesus my life would have been destroyed
Praise Jesus
Thank you Jesus for the anointed priests you have given us
God bless Fr Chris
I will continue to pray for you and your family
Thank you and God bless you
he is not telling you the truth.
I've been waiting for this program my whole life thank you , takes a lot of stress away, a cleans up the filth in my mind and takes a lot of garbage in mind away, filled with goodness now. Have a greater understanding of these subjects now. Thank you again, Excellent explanations!!!
Thank you for listening with an open heart and God bless you
Thank you Father Chris, for this video on ‘ The Rapture.’ You and our Holy Catholic Church are always in my prayers.
Thank you Father Chris!
Thank you Fr. Chris for sharing this reflection on the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ. Very deep and profound.
Thank you Father Chris for always giving us sound teachings
Stay United. Pull your family together.
Everything about you Fr. Chris is interesting. You just keep getting better and better.
Thank you Fr Chris. This bears watching again and again.
I second that. ❤
Watched for 28 minutes and did not press like ;))). God bless you Fr. Chris, you are in my prayers!
God bless you Father Chris and thank you. It’s a lot of information. I’ll have to watch again. Prayers for you and your family. Thank you also Brother Mark and Peter. 😇🙏🏻✝️
Thank you Fr. Alar! This was excellent! I used to believe in rapturing befjre The 2nd coming. But now No longer! I converted to Catholisism from being first a Methodist & then 5 years a Baptist. Loving, kind, well meaning people that believe in Christ but they have chosen the loss of partaking of the TRUE body & blood. Poor protestants.
Wow.. just said…THAT MAKES SENSE….then you Father said…I HOPE THAT THIS MAKES SENSE! MY confirmation! Thank you Father! This was wonderful!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇😇😇😇
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Thank you so much for this teaching! i'm going to listen to it again to catch it all better. Wonderful work you do! You are in my prayers.
Matthew chapters 24 and 25 talks about the End Times and Christ’s second coming especially the Particular Judgement and the General Judgment
I’m not catholic but I share this view. Thanks for the teaching.
I’m here too
The Simpsons clip made me giggle! I genuinely feel sorry for people who have no sense of humor, even when translucent lives are involved. Iykyk. On a serious note, I was raised protestant and the timeline of the end times made zero sense to me. I feel like I understand "the rapture" for the first time in my life. I know we don't base our faith on our feelings, but I think the Holy Spirit helps us to discern when we are hearing the truth. I would say I know this is true because I felt like the Holy Spirit was helping solve something that has puzzled me my whole life. Perhaps I describe it as a "feeling" because I am female, I don't know. Whatever the case may be, thanks Fr. Chris for explaining the more complex aspects of the faith. God bless you, your ministry, and all of the people and ministries of the Shrine.
Thank you for your truthfulness and fearlessness in defending and explaining our One True Faith
Thank you Fr.Alar we love your very very interesting and informative talks
They really increase our faith
God bless you Marian Fathers for your wonderful ministry.
Thank you for joining us Rebecca and God bless you
Thank you! I really did not know nor understand this rapture thing. You've clarified this perfectly! I feel set free in so many ways! I couldn't really grasp this understanding and its caused a lot of confusion. You are a blessing Father Chris!
FAR FROM BORING! So ENLIGHTENING…AMEN!
God bless you for preaching Biblical truth, Fr. Chris! 🙏🏼✝️🕊️
Hi Father: Thanks for the sound Catholic teaching. Very brilliant! God bless you!
God bless you Father Chris. Keep it up! We’re always listening and hopefully learning & growing more in the faith. We’re praying for you, all priests and religious & the Pope.
Thank you Father Chris. Never boring and never too long. Praying for you and your grandmother. 🙏
It’s an hour and eighteen minutes!!!
"We must go through Passion before Resurrection."
-i guess this summarizes everything. no one can escape. continue trusting in the Lord and work for your salvation with fear and trembling. ✝️🙏
I’ve been listening to Pastor Greg Laurie about the rapture. Until Fr Chris explained the catholic side of rapture. Thank you so much Father😊😊😊
Thank you for taking the time to watch with us and God bless you
@@HonorableHarbinger 🤣🤣🤣
@@HonorableHarbinger Exodus 20:16 - Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor.
@Honorable Harbinger The 4th Commandment calls someone other than God “Father.” What do you call the man who sired you?; The rich man called out “Father Abraham” to come and dip his finger in cool water (parable LK 16:24); St. Paul calls religious leaders “fathers” in Acts 7:2 and 22:1; St. Paul tells the Corinthians in 1Cor4:15, “I became your father”; a priest is a “spiritual father” w/many children; Jesus in Jn 8:56 said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad." Jesus meant that there is only one creator, or one true father, one “Abba”. As the 4th commandment testifies, Jesus did not mean to never call someone father in one sense. Jesus meant we are no longer under the covenant of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob). We are now under the covenant of the one and only “Abba, the Father” Helps to know the history of Christianity.... that is how the theologians all explained it. I think they know better than you and me :) God bless.
I love you father Chris! You are truly a kind leader and I pray Lord Jesús keeps you safe in his heart ♥️ and strong in the world 🌎
Thank you so much father, I have this question for some time in my mind. You explained it very well. God bless you and all our priests.
As always, 3 Hail Marys for Fr. Chris Alar and the Marian Fathers, Brothers and Marian Helpers 🌹🌹🌹🙏🏻✝️
Thank you so much Father Chris. That was great! I’m 82 and have never heard such an explanation that touched me so much. I’m already a believer and love the Divine Mercy. God Bless you & all. 🇨🇦🙏💕🇨🇦
Thank you Maryanne and God bless you!
Does anyone else need pictures and and lines and graphs to follow what's what? I'm really not good at following jumping- about multi- layered instructions. I'll watch again with a whiteboard and pen. But wow, Fr Alar, I deeply appreciate that you teach so precisely on a subject. Thankyou. T.
Thank you, Father Chris! I have been so confused and overwhelmed about all the different things I have heard and read about the 2nd coming and the “rapture”. This really helps!! 😇🙏
Thank you for being with us Laura and God bless
@@DivineMercy_Official I would like to know what exactly does it mean when it mentions quote; the dead will rise first when we all belive the souls of the dead have left the body by default!?
@@gtibrucehe dead (in heaven and hell) will have their resurrected immortal bodies, then we who are alive on earth will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye (get our new immortal resurrected bodies). We will all face the Judgement (either eternal life/salvation in heaven or eternal damnation/separation from God, in hell).
1 Corinthians 15:
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed- 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Read the whole chapter as well
God bless
Praise and glory to you Jesus Church, Almighty.Amen.
Exactly… thank you for Christ Truth Father Chris!
God Bless Everyone✝️🕎✡️🇺🇸👋❤️✝️
I love how you explained this. I feel so much gratitude for your teachings. I love being Catholic and I honor your teachings and guidance. You've really helped straighten my thoughts out on this. God bless you Father Chris!
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Amazing!!! Thank you God for Father Chris 🙏!!!
Thank you Fr. Chris Alar, MIC for the lovely talk about this topic.God bless us all and for always ❤..