Revelations

literary form that uses dramatic events and highly symbolic language to offer hope to people in crisis

• providence

• persecution

• apocalyptic literature

• four last things

practice of harassing or abusing those who differ in origin, religion, or social outlook

• persecution

• hell

• New Jerusalem

• Last Day

self-satisfaction, especially when accompanied by unawareness of dangers or deficiencies.

• Heaven

• purgatory

• complacency

• persecution

a symbol of renewed society in which God dwells, a symbol of the Church, the "holy city"

• New Jerusalem

• four last things

• Last day

• persecution

when the Church refers directly to death, judgement, Heaven, Hell

• reincarnation

• persecution

• purgatory

• four last things

judgement occurring immediately at the time of our death determining us as worthy or unworthy of Heaven

• Last Day

• final judgement

• particular judgement

• incorruptible

state of final purification needed after death and prior to entering Heaven

• purgatory

• hell

• New Jerusalem

• incorruptible

judgement of the whole human race by Jesus Christ at His second coming

• Heaven

• final judgement

• New Jerusalem

• persecution

referencing our bodies, not subject to decay or dissolution occurring at the end of time as we know it

• apocalyptic literature

• complacency

• incorruptible

• providence

the day everything in our lives that is hidden, both good and bad, will be brought to light and we receive judgement according to those deeds.

• Last Day

• complacency

• Hell

• apocalyptic literature