#12300 What is The Rapture? Eschatology, the Antichrist, and More - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Will there be a Rapture?” This episode dives into the Catholic perspective on popular rapture theology and explores key topics such as the concept of a literal thousand-year reign, the Catholic understanding of the Three Days of Darkness, and the nature of the Antichrist. Join us for an examination of these important eschatological questions.

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Questions Covered:

05:30 – Will there be a Rapture, and how should Catholics respond to popular “rapture” theology?
20:00 – Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the “millennium”)?
31:00 – What is the Catholic understanding of the Three Days of Darkness?
33:00 – What is the Illumination of Conscience or Warning, and when might it occur?
43:00 – What is “Antichrist”?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live. I am Cy Kelly, your host, Jimmy Aiken is our guest, Jimmy
0:35.2	Senior Apologist here at Catholic Answers, and we're
0:38.2	asking them all the questions we could think of about the end of the world in the two hours
0:42.1	we've got with him. And I mentioned a word, a couple words at the beginning. And Jimmy's like,
0:49.9	pay off. You got to pay. If you tease, you got to pay off. And so let me pay that off.
0:55.1	Two words we often hear. I hate it when I'm listening to radio hosts, like late night radio or
1:00.6	something. And I don't do this much anymore. But I did in the day. And I'd hear the hosts tease
1:05.0	what they're going to ask the guest. And it's like, oh, I want to hear the answer to that.
1:08.5	And then they never get around to asking the question they tease.
1:11.1	I'm looking at you, George Norrie.
1:12.5	I am looking at you, George. Yeah. Come on. All right. So we teased it. And there are two words that are often seem like anyways. They are associated with the end times. And if I remember, they are Saskatoon and Saskatology. Is that, did I get the correct?
1:10.0	No, your Spanish is interfering with your English there.
1:30.9	Because you're, uh, Spanish doesn't like, um, doesn't like S's on the front of words. So it wants to put an E on the front of them. Like, so school becomes Esquela. I never made that,
1:47.3	I never made that association with Speedy. You're right. Yeah. And it's not Spain. It's
1:52.7	Espania. And Stephen is Esteban. Esteban. Yeah. So they don't like S on the front of a word in
1:59.7	Spain.
2:04.6	But so we need, and that's what we got going on here.
2:08.9	It's not scatology, which is a real word.
2:15.7	Oh, I don't mean what I didn't mean to open that Pandora's box of flavor and smells.
2:20.2	So, no, got to give the audience closure.
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