I. He Will Come Again in Glory
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The glorious Messiah’s coming is suspended at every moment of history until his
recognition by “all Israel”, for “a hardening has come upon part
of Israel” in their “unbelief” toward Jesus.568 St.
Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: “Repent therefore,
and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may
come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed
for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all
that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.”569
St. Paul echoes him: “For if their rejection means the reconciliation of
the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?”570
The “full inclusion” of the Jews in the Messiah’s salvation, in the
wake of “the full number of the Gentiles”,571 will enable the
People of God to achieve “the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ”, in which “God may be all in all”.572
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
- Article 7 “FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAlN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD”
- I. He Will Come Again in Glory
- Article 7 “FROM THENCE HE WILL COME AGAlN TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD”
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1V.HTM