{"id":1359,"date":"2026-07-15T12:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:42:05","slug":"prophecy-in-st-augustines-city-of-god-book-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/blog\/2026\/07\/15\/prophecy-in-st-augustines-city-of-god-book-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophecy in St. Augustine\u2019s City of God, Book XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Prophecy in St. Augustine\u2019s City of God, Book XX<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>How did one of the Church\u2019s greatest theologians understand the final judgment, the thousand years of Revelation 20, the binding and loosing of Satan, and the conflict involving Gog and Magog?<\/p>\n<p>In Book XX of\u00a0<em>The City of God<\/em>, St. Augustine examines some of Scripture\u2019s most important passages concerning the end times. Rather than treating Revelation as a collection of isolated predictions, he interprets it within the broader witness of the Old and New Testaments and the life of Christ\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>This collection brings together selected excerpts from Book XX that are especially relevant to the study of biblical prophecy, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Last Judgment and the resurrection of the dead<\/li>\n<li>The first and second resurrections<\/li>\n<li>The thousand-year reign of Revelation 20<\/li>\n<li>The binding and loosing of Satan<\/li>\n<li>Gog and Magog<\/li>\n<li>The present and future reign of Christ and His saints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This resource accompanies Faith &amp; Family Bible Study <strong>Episode 594 <em>(airing July 30, 2026)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and allows listeners to read St. Augustine\u2019s teaching directly while considering how his interpretation helps illuminate Revelation and the Church\u2019s understanding of the end times.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/luke21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/PDF-Prophecy-in-the-City-of-God-Book-XX-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the handout<\/a> and follow along with Episode 594.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2>About This Resource<\/h2>\n<p>These are selected public-domain excerpts from St. Augustine\u2019s City of God, Book XX, examining the Last Judgment, Revelation 20, the thousand years, the binding of Satan, Gog and Magog, and the reign of Christ and His saints.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text adapted from the public-domain Marcus Dods translation of St. Augustine\u2019s City of God.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophecy in St. Augustine\u2019s City of God, Book XX How did one of the Church\u2019s greatest theologians understand the final judgment, the thousand years of Revelation 20, the binding and loosing of Satan, and the conflict involving Gog and Magog? In Book XX of\u00a0The City of God, St. Augustine examines some of Scripture\u2019s most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[189,190,136,119],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-biblical-prophecy","tag-faith-and-family","tag-scripture","tag-steve-wood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibleforcatholics.com\/faith-family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}