03-21-2021, 01:53 PM
V. THE AGE OF THE CHURCH'S TRIUMPH.
A. Church and State: When the Great Monarch has achieved total victory there shall be on earth only
One Emperor and twelve monarchs. The Emperor shall be supreme in things temporal, the pope
in things spiritual (67, 81, 97, 104d, 114, 129).
B. Things spiritual:
1. When God has ended the confusion a new world begins similar to its first state (34, 54, 65),
a world dominated by the Kingdom of God (12, 28). Satan is bound many years (54, 129,
141).
2. The Church is reorganized (91, 93b, 97, 99, 113, 114, 150), Apostolic discipline is restored
(113), and religious orders are reestablished and flourish, as do vocations, chiefly among
the workers and poor (113, 150, 167, 173b), penance and good works abound (67, 140,
151). At first the state helps finance worship but apparently the Pope puts the church on a
freewill offering basis, for the most part (97, 139).
3. It then falls to the lot of the Holy See and the Church to rebuild society (64, 104, 112, 160).
Accordingly the Pope will lead the bishops in a crusade of instruction (144, 173). Some speak
of twelve apostles of the new age and other marvelous things connected with a campaign of
this nature (139, 156, 168b, 172, 184). It will be realized that failure to preach God's word
previously had resulted in the punishments (173). Thus the Gospel will be preached in all
lands (97). This is the age of the triumph of the Church, happy those who live to see it. The
people will be like the primitive Christians and unbelievers seeing the Church's glory will flock
into her (100, 107, 137, 144, 145, 149, 150, 161, 163, 164, 172). Heresy will disappear at
least in so far as it is organized, also schism: certainly they will lose government support. In
some instances whole nations will become Catholic (67, 83, 84d, 102, 104c, 114, 117, 129,
130, 138, 156, 166, 169). Many heathen also will be converted (84d). (It would seem,
however, that many, but not all Jews - q. v. - would join the church).
4. Concerning specific nations then are the following items: Arabs or Asiatics or both make an
attempt against Europe. Poland is in the fray. They fail and one army is driven into the far
east while the other (Mohammedan) retires into North Africa. The Moslems become
Christian, also the Chinese (Tartars) and other heathens (89, 99, 123d, e, 129, 130, 135,
156, 157, 184). The Greeks and the Russians return to the Church (99, 156). England loses
her Eastern colonies and ceases to be a great power but she returns to the Church which
again flourishes there. Ireland is in some way instrumental in this (70d, 72b, 80, 82b, 84c,
122, 128, 129, 156, 163). After Germany is defeated, disarmed, and dismembered. she
returns to Christian unity and monarchy (103, 104b, 129). A four-nation Slav Federation with
the Capitol at Warsaw and with St. Andrew Bobola as patron plays an important role against
Asiatics and Moslems, and in the new Christian world (148, 157, 17k 175, 182). Belgium.
Spain, France (despite her sins), and other Catholic nations laid waste in war and
persecution, regain their sovereignty and something more (66, 69b, 74, 76, 147a, 173c), but
nations which have irreparably lost the true faith disappear (147c).
So, as the reign of the Great Monarch progresses Christian Unity is achieved, apparently
even to the point where it can be said that there is but one Flock and one Shepherd (8, 16b,
17b, 40c, 60b, c, 67, 72b, 81, 87, 90, 92, 93b, 97, 99, 100, 101, 104d, 109, 114, 125, 138,
139, 146, 168, 169).
A. Church and State: When the Great Monarch has achieved total victory there shall be on earth only
One Emperor and twelve monarchs. The Emperor shall be supreme in things temporal, the pope
in things spiritual (67, 81, 97, 104d, 114, 129).
B. Things spiritual:
1. When God has ended the confusion a new world begins similar to its first state (34, 54, 65),
a world dominated by the Kingdom of God (12, 28). Satan is bound many years (54, 129,
141).
2. The Church is reorganized (91, 93b, 97, 99, 113, 114, 150), Apostolic discipline is restored
(113), and religious orders are reestablished and flourish, as do vocations, chiefly among
the workers and poor (113, 150, 167, 173b), penance and good works abound (67, 140,
151). At first the state helps finance worship but apparently the Pope puts the church on a
freewill offering basis, for the most part (97, 139).
3. It then falls to the lot of the Holy See and the Church to rebuild society (64, 104, 112, 160).
Accordingly the Pope will lead the bishops in a crusade of instruction (144, 173). Some speak
of twelve apostles of the new age and other marvelous things connected with a campaign of
this nature (139, 156, 168b, 172, 184). It will be realized that failure to preach God's word
previously had resulted in the punishments (173). Thus the Gospel will be preached in all
lands (97). This is the age of the triumph of the Church, happy those who live to see it. The
people will be like the primitive Christians and unbelievers seeing the Church's glory will flock
into her (100, 107, 137, 144, 145, 149, 150, 161, 163, 164, 172). Heresy will disappear at
least in so far as it is organized, also schism: certainly they will lose government support. In
some instances whole nations will become Catholic (67, 83, 84d, 102, 104c, 114, 117, 129,
130, 138, 156, 166, 169). Many heathen also will be converted (84d). (It would seem,
however, that many, but not all Jews - q. v. - would join the church).
4. Concerning specific nations then are the following items: Arabs or Asiatics or both make an
attempt against Europe. Poland is in the fray. They fail and one army is driven into the far
east while the other (Mohammedan) retires into North Africa. The Moslems become
Christian, also the Chinese (Tartars) and other heathens (89, 99, 123d, e, 129, 130, 135,
156, 157, 184). The Greeks and the Russians return to the Church (99, 156). England loses
her Eastern colonies and ceases to be a great power but she returns to the Church which
again flourishes there. Ireland is in some way instrumental in this (70d, 72b, 80, 82b, 84c,
122, 128, 129, 156, 163). After Germany is defeated, disarmed, and dismembered. she
returns to Christian unity and monarchy (103, 104b, 129). A four-nation Slav Federation with
the Capitol at Warsaw and with St. Andrew Bobola as patron plays an important role against
Asiatics and Moslems, and in the new Christian world (148, 157, 17k 175, 182). Belgium.
Spain, France (despite her sins), and other Catholic nations laid waste in war and
persecution, regain their sovereignty and something more (66, 69b, 74, 76, 147a, 173c), but
nations which have irreparably lost the true faith disappear (147c).
So, as the reign of the Great Monarch progresses Christian Unity is achieved, apparently
even to the point where it can be said that there is but one Flock and one Shepherd (8, 16b,
17b, 40c, 60b, c, 67, 72b, 81, 87, 90, 92, 93b, 97, 99, 100, 101, 104d, 109, 114, 125, 138,
139, 146, 168, 169).