Catholic Community Bible Study

CHAPTER 1:1-5

In this our first episode of Ruth, we will tear into FIVE WHOLE VERSES of Chapter 1! This book is AHHHH REFRESHING! We’ll dig into some Jewish backstories, take a look at some fascinating historical perspectives on the famine, and take a little road trip through Bethlehem to the slaughter of the Innocents by King Herod 1000 years after Ruth.

The final episode with Chapter 14, the two stories of Bel and The Dragon. The theme of both is essentially: my God is bigger than your god. Wrapping up the series with a few words about End Time prophecies and then we conclude this amazingly fun study! I pray it touched you!!

Chapter 13: The story of Susanna, only found in the Greek and Latin Bibles, and now in the Catholic Bible. A great story of judgement, virtue, faith, and being known by God. Also looking at the Protestant view of the Rapture: where it came from, Jonathan Nelson Darby, and where it fails as a theory.

Chapter 12 The vision of the Resurrection of the Dead from the angel. And we look at the Catholic Church teaching on the End Times, Resurrection, Second Coming, and New Heavens and New Earth. There is a LOT to take in!

Chapter 11:40 through all of 12. Much on the antichrist from Fr. Arminjon and much on the resurrection of the dead. We begin 13 insights into chapter 12.

All of Chapter 10 and 11... this is a quick RACE through many details of war and intrigue that Daniel foresees with the help of an angel. Complicated histories with the wars of the North and the South, culminating in Antiochus IV and the desolation of the Temple. Then, something odd happens... as the prophecy seems to change from Antiochus to Antichrist! This is a set up for something HUGE!

Daniel 9:20-27 The Seventy Weeks of Years -- one of the most stunning prophecies in the entire Bible... we look at the words of Gabriel to Daniel through the lens of a fulfilment with Antiochus IV and the time of the Maccabees, as well as with Jesus Christ, as well as with the antichrist and end times. This is dense and deep!

Episode 9 8:15-9:19

Don’t miss this episode! We start to put together a major puzzle in Biblical Christianity: how do the prophecies of Daniel line up with the words of Jesus? And how do they fit together for the end times and the second coming of Jesus? Also, a fascinating look at something we have been told for thousands of years… yet God Himself NEVER said.

Daniel 8 Chapter 7:23- 8:14

The angel explains the vision of the four water beasts; we dive into history and the classic understanding of the fourth beast, ten horns, and growing little horn as being Rome. Then Daniel has ANOTHER Dream. This one a ram overtaken by a goat. The little horn of the goat we knows as Antiochus Epiphanes... and then to tie some images together, we end with the Beast of the Sea from Revelation 12 & 13. WOW. There is a LOT happening here!

Episode 7 Daniel 7:1-22

We explore the first half of Chapter 7 as we experience Daniel’s visions that relate to the Jewish people and the coming of the Messiah. We’ll talk about apocalyptic writing and dreams and parables… Why does God so often communicate with us in riddles? We’ll spend some time again on the historical context of the world powers at that time, and focus in on the most important SON OF MAN who is given authority by the ANCIENT OF DAYS…