Last Judgment
God's ultimate verdict
The Last Judgment is the final reckoning in Christian theology when God judges all humanity at the end of time, separating the saved from the damned.
The concept appears in other religious traditions as well.
References to the Last Judgment often invoke finality or ultimate accountability: You'd think it was the Last Judgment the way she interrogated me.
Revival from death
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- divine justiceSacred moral reckoning
heaven · hell · purgatory · souls · afterlife · Book of Life · righteous · sinners
Florentine sculptor and painter
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
- tympanumSound-receiving ear membrane
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
Bosch · damned · blessed · hellmouth · iconography · Byzantine · mosaic · Romanesque
Prophesied ultimate conflict
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- RevelationProphetic biblical finale
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- tribulationState of great distress
four horsemen · antichrist · false prophet · seals · trumpets · plagues · beasts · Babylon
Settlement of accounts
- verdictOfficial court decision
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
repentance · sin · virtue · morality · justice · penance · forgiveness · mercy
Boundless temporal existence
- irrevocabilityInability to be undone
- permanenceQuality of lasting indefinitely
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- fatePredetermined course of events
closure · ultimate · decisive · irreversible · sealed · unchangeable
resurrection
Revival from death
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- salvationDeliverance from harm
divine justice · heaven · hell · purgatory · souls · afterlife · Book of Life · righteous · sinners · angels
Michelangelo
Florentine sculptor and painter
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
- tympanumSound-receiving ear membrane
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
fresco · Bosch · damned · blessed · hellmouth · iconography · Byzantine · mosaic · Romanesque · Dies Irae
Armageddon
Prophesied ultimate conflict
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- RevelationProphetic biblical finale
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
tribulation · four horsemen · antichrist · false prophet · seals · trumpets · plagues · beasts · Babylon · lake of fire
reckoning
Settlement of accounts
- verdictOfficial court decision
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- absolutionFormal clearing of guilt
atonement · repentance · sin · virtue · morality · justice · penance · forgiveness · mercy · punishment
eternity
Boundless temporal existence
- irrevocabilityInability to be undone
- permanenceQuality of lasting indefinitely
- destinyPredetermined course of events
fate · closure · ultimate · decisive · irreversible · sealed · unchangeable
- Christian loreAdam, Eve, Adam and Eve, Noah, Satan
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- papacypontiff, Pope, pope, Holy See, papal election
- Renaissance artMichelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian
- Afterlife ArtDivine Comedy, Sistine Chapel, Inferno, Paradise, heaven
- Baroque sacred artaltarpiece, altarpieces, Catholic art, Catholic imagery, baroque art
Last JudgmentGenesis
First biblical book
Big Bang · primordial chaos · Garden of Eden · dawn of time · cosmogony
Last Judgmentpreliminary hearing
Proceeding to evaluate evidence
first impression · appeal · second chance · stay of execution · reprieve