end-time prophecy

Doomsday foretelling tradition

End-time prophecy refers to religious predictions about the final days of human history or the world itself.

Most commonly associated with Christian eschatology—the Book of Revelation, the return of Christ, the rapture, tribulation, and final judgment—though Judaism, Islam, and other traditions have their own versions.

End-time prophecy has fueled countless predictions of imminent apocalypse.

The term often carries connotations of literalist interpretation and urgent warning.

Related

Mahdi · tribulation · eschatology · blood moon · signs and wonders · trumpets · seals · millennialism · rapture · Messiah · four horsemen · resurrection · Armageddon · final judgment · earthquakes · bowls · eternal life · horsemen

Opposites
temporal direction

end-time prophecyhistorical record

Preserved account of past

creation narrative · origin story · sacred history

epistemological status

end-time prophecyempirical evidence

Proof from measurable observation

historical record · eyewitness account · historiography · annals · archaeological record

cosmic timeline position

end-time prophecycreation story

Account of existence's origin

genesis · cosmogony · origin myth · beginning of time · first things

Family

ended, ending, endless, endlessly, time, times, timed, timely, timeless

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Rated PG