I have made this page to promote the best Catholic eschatology book of the Twentieth Century.  The book Trial, Tribulation & Triumph  by Desmond A. Birch is based on the 2000 year Tradition of the Catholic Church. 

Note:This book and this review were written in 1996

"(today) Many think the end of the world and the great Antichrist may be just around the corner, and that he would appear before the year 2000.  Not a few deny there will be a personal Antichrist.  A powerful aid [to remedy these errors] is now available in a solidly theological work, Trial, Tribulation and Triumph, by Desmond Birch.

     He [utilized] chiefly four solid sources [the Catechism, Scripture, Tradition, and majority opinions of the Fathers].  Tradition...as found in the documents of the Magisterium today, and in the virtually unanimous teaching of the early Fathers of the Church, given when they show by their words that they are passing on truths revealed from the beginning, from Christ Himself.

     All of this Birch did, as we say, in a thoroughly scholarly, theological way.  Now there will be no excuse for false notions or denials on the Antichrist and the other last things.  We are and should be extremely grateful to our author for this tremendous resource.

[TTT.....p.vi]

Fr. William G. Most

Will the Second Coming of Christ come in the year 2000?

[this was written in 1996]

.....according to Scripture and Tradition, (especially the writings of the Fathers of the Church) prior to the Second Coming of Christ, we must see and experience,

1.  The mass conversion of the Jews to Christ.

2.  The Reign of antichrist - which lasts three and one half years.

3.  After the death of Antichrist, a time of unknown duration for the final repentance and conversion of the nations.

4.  Prior to the coming of Antichrist, the appearance of the False prophet who will precede him, the appearance of the man destined to be his herald.

5.  The appearance of a great military leader, who will militarily prepare the way for Antichrist.  (This is not an exhaustive list of those things which must precede him.  But it is enough for the moment to make our point.)

6.  The "fullness" of the Gentiles.  This has been universally interpreted to refer to St. Paul's reference to a general revolt or apostasy which is universal on the earth

According to Scripture, Tradition (most especially the Fathers of the Church), minimally, the processes or events described above should take an absolute minimum of five years for completion.  As this is being written (1996), it is already less than five years till the year 2000. 

[TTT     p. lvii]

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