world to come
Beyond this life
The world to come is a religious concept referring to the afterlife or a future state of existence following death or divine judgment.
In Jewish tradition, olam ha-ba (the world to come) contrasts with olam ha-zeh (this world).
Christianity and Islam have parallel concepts of paradise or heaven awaiting the righteous.
The phrase appears in discussions of eternal reward, resurrection, or messianic ages: They believed their suffering would be redeemed in the world to come.
Sky or bliss
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- hereafterLife after death
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
resurrection · immortality · transcendence · nirvana · reincarnation · ascension · eternal life · departed
Relating to a savior
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- prophecyForetelling of future events
rapture · tribulation · millennium · judgment day · resurrection · antichrist · new earth · restoration
Commitment to act
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- salvationDeliverance from harm
deliverance · restoration · renewal · fulfillment · blessed hope · inheritance · reward · glory
heaven
Sky or bliss
spirit · resurrection · immortality · transcendence · nirvana · reincarnation · ascension · eternal life · departed · ancestors
messianic
Relating to a savior
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
prophecy · rapture · tribulation · millennium · judgment day · resurrection · antichrist · new earth · restoration · redemption
promise
Commitment to act
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
salvation · deliverance · restoration · renewal · fulfillment · blessed hope · inheritance · reward · glory · transformation
eternal
Lasting without end
- everlastingLasting for all time
- timelessUnaffected by eras
- infiniteHaving no bounds
perpetual · immortal · endless · unending · boundless · ageless · imperishable · undying · forever · permanence
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- eschatologyeschatology, apocalypse, end times, final judgment, judgment day
- Jewish AfterlifeGarden of Eden, Gehenna, resurrection day, Sheol, paradise
- Maimonidesnegative theology, incorporeality
world to comethis world
here and now · earthly realm · fallen world · the present · mortal realm
world, worlds, worldly, worldliness, unworldly, otherworldly, come, comes, came