#11919 AMA: Ascension, Excommunication and the Israel-Hamas War Prophecy - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

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Questions Covered: 10:38 – Why was the Ascension “necessary”? 13:05 – Some saints were said to have levitated. Will our resurrected bodies have abilities like levitation, telekinesis, etc.? 17:12 – What if the pope breaks the seal of confession? Is he excommunicated? Who would he be excommunicated from? 21:00 – Is the war in Israel/Hamas prophesied in the Bible? 24:06 – I’d like to know the church’s view on the union dock worker strike? Is it ok to stop working in this situation/what roles does the union play in society? 32:22 – After the bodily resurrection, do we live in Heaven, the new Earth, or some combination of the two? 33:14 – Hi Jimmy. Why were there guards stationed at the tomb of Jesus if Jews only believed in Resurrection at the end the world? Doesn’t this imply that the Jewish authorities at least thought Jesus’s followers believed Jesus could rise from the dead? Do you think His disciples believed he would rise after 3 days? 37:35 – Jimmy Akin. Do you think that Jesus received any grace when he ate the Eucharist? I know He is the source of grace, but He was strengthened by an angel in the Agony in the garden. Curious to hear your thoughts on what is happening in both of these instances, on a metaphysical or ontological level. 42:40 – Are there instructions or limits to cursing? My intuition is that it is bad… but Jesus did curse a fig tree and said woe to whom betrayed Him. Was it OK because He’s God? Furthermore, would it be bad to curse a war and what would be the effect? 51:09 – When death occurs suddenly and the incident is faster than the brain can comprehend (as in the case of a submarine implosion) does God give a grace of awareness to the victim, or is it possible for the soul to be confused at the judgment seat of Christ? …

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0:44.0	that means that we're off today, actually, because these big feasts we take off here at
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0:54.4	Jimmy Aiken, our guest, both hours, and both hours, Internet Open Forum. We've got lots and lots
1:00.5	of questions. This is one thing we have no shortage of around here, questions, and they come in
1:05.7	all different ways. And Jimmy gathers up the Internet questions, and we get to ask him today.
1:12.2	So I will probably, as I usually say, I will probably give out the number, but when I do, that will be a mistake because we don't have phones today.
1:19.7	It's all from the Internet.
1:21.1	Jimmy Aiken is the senior apologist here at Catholic Answers.
1:25.6	Many, many people know him from Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious
1:28.7	World, the very popular podcast that tackles mysteries of all kinds. And now also the proprietor
1:36.4	of the Jimmy Aiken podcast. Hello, Jimmy Aiken. How do you side? Now, you mentioned that we
1:41.9	tend to take off not just major feast, but holy days of obligation.
1:46.1	Oh, yeah. Okay. Right. Right. When they occur on weekdays. And the flip side of that is we don't take off a lot of federal holidays. So, you know, they may be some federal holiday. We're busy at work, but we take off the holy days instead.
2:00.1	Yeah, which is actually in, I kind of like that in a certain way because of the traffic.
2:05.0	I get that, like when you're working on a federal holiday, it is just a smooth breeze
2:10.1	coming into work.
2:11.0	But I've noticed that.
2:14.2	I have, I encounter very little traffic on those days on the route from my bedroom to my home office.
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