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Please don't try to "guilt" Catholics in to watching / reading something.
Second I read and watch plenty of things not directed by the Magisterium.
Third he is a perfect example of 2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.<>BR> Fourth I really hope you don't put too much stock into anything he said except Mark 13:32 / Matthew 24:36 "But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

A very good friend died this morning, a true brother in Christ. He had been suffering from diabetes for many years and had lost both of his legs. A group of us visited him in his hospital room Saturday morning for our monthly fellowship; and we knew that the end could be near. We talked to his sister outside the room before we left. She was of course very distraught, but she told us that she firmly believes that God knows in advance the day we are born and the day we will return to Him.

As you remind us, verga, the Father alone knows. All we can do is be always alert as the wise virgins were and the good servant was.

Peace,
Rich

You said/wrote: "Second I read and watch plenty of things not directed by the Magisterium." And that is why I had hope that you would watch at least a portion as I indicated beginning at minute 19:38. What JD offered is not distortion. It may be hard to understand, but it is backed up by numerous scriptural references which are enlightening.

Are you studied in the difference between the Luke Temple Discourse and the Matthew and Mark Olivet Discourse?

And agree, no man knows the hour except the Father. That is also a parallel to the Jewish Wedding process, because even the bridegroom does not know the hour the Father of the Bridegroom will tell the Son to go get the Bride. And when the Son approaches, the bride comes out to meet Him so He does not come all the way to the bride's houme. The Son / bridegroom takes the Bride back to the Father's House for the rest of the wedding process ... 1 Thess 4:13-17 'to meet the Lord in the air', not on the ground.

As to the events in the Tribulation and how to know the beginning, Scripture is very plain on that and we are able to know, and Jews will know the exact hour The Messiah returns to set foot upon the Earth at the end of the Tribulation/ seventieth week of Daniel's Prophecy to Israel/ Time of Jacobs Trouble. But that return of Messiah is The Second Coming, not the snatching away of the bride/ the body of Christ before God pours out His wrath upon the Earth to redeem Israel. The Tribulation period is not about The Church, the Bride of Christ, it is about Israel and as Daniel put it, make an end to sin.

...which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Catholics are 'taught' that Prots are 'untaught and unstable'; correct?

At least it seems that way in the majority of things posted by them on FR.

But; in reality; don't we Prots 'learn' the same about them?

"If they'd 'only' do this or that; then the IMPORTANCE I feel about the subject would just HAVE to become apparent to them."

I'd bet; verga; that you are about as tired of trying to change my mind over certain things, as I am about trying to change yours.

I'm going to try a little harder to QUIT being the toad that says that YOU are ugly.

For after cleaning MY mirror, I see that those bumps on me are NOT beauty marks; but warts.

Elsie; take the following to heart:

Romans 14:4 Douay-Rheims Bible
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.