end-times prophecy

Doomsday religious forecast

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

Most commonly associated with Christianity, these prophecies draw from biblical texts like Revelation, Daniel, and Matthew to describe events preceding the Second Coming of Christ—tribulation, the Antichrist, rapture, final judgment.

He spent years studying end-times prophecy, convinced the signs were unfolding.

The term extends to apocalyptic predictions in other traditions and sometimes to secular doomsday scenarios.

Related

tribulation · last days · seven seals · seals · four horsemen · eschatology · earthquakes · antichrist · Armageddon · final judgment · horsemen · trumpets · Mayan calendar · millennialism · famine · wars · fire · bowls

Opposites
temporal orientation

end-times prophecyhistorical analysis

Systematic study of past events

historiography · chronicle · historical record · recorded history · oral history

epistemic method

end-times prophecyskeptical analysis

Doubting examination of claims

positivism · agnosticism

cosmological narrative

end-times prophecycreation myth

Origin narrative of existence

origin story · cosmogony · beginnings · utopianism · progressivism

Family

ends, ending, endless, endlessly, time, times, timely, timer, timeless

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