End times - Catholics

The end times are, in one version of Judeo-Christian eschatology and in Islam, a time of tribulation that will precede the Second Coming of the Messiah. Specifically, what is usually referred to as the 'end times' revolves around a cluster of beliefs in Christian or Rastafarian millennialism. These beliefs typically include the ideas that the biblical apocalypse is imminent and that various signs in current events are omens of Armageddon. These beliefs have been widely held in one form, by the Adventist movement (Millerites), by Jehov ...

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• End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief
• End times - The dispensationalist prophecies
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• End times - Catholics
• End times - Jehovah's Witnesses
• End times - Latter-day Saints
• End times - Preterism
• End times - Rastafarians
• End times - Fictional treatments
• End times - Literature
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End times - Catholics. Catholics refer to the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel in which Christ says that "no one knows the hour or the day," except the Father. While Catholics believe the prediction of dates or times is futile, many believe that Jesus foretold of signs which would indicate that the "end of days" was near. Some of these signs include natural disasters, civil problems, and other catastrophes. Of the precise time, howev ...

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Post-Exilic Hebrew books of prophecy such as the Book of Daniel and Book of Ezekiel are given new interpretations in this Christian tradition, and in Rastafari, while apocalyptic forecasts appear in the Judeo-Christian Sibylline Oracles and in the whole field of apocalyptic literature, which includes the Book of Revelation ascribed to John, the apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter, and the Second Book Of Esdras. Religious movements which expect that the second coming of Christ, or of Haile Selassie, will be a cataclysmic event, generally ca ...

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End times, End times - Christianity, End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief, End times - The dispensationalist prophecies, End times - Views by groups, End times - Catholics, End times - Jehovah's Witnesses, End times - Latter-day Saints, End times - Preterism, End times - Rastafarians, End times - Fictional treatments, End times - Literature, End times - Motion pictures

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End times beliefs in Christianity vary widely. Christian premillennialists, who believe the End Times are now, usually articulate a fairly specific timetable that climaxes in the end of the world. For some, Israel, the European Union, or the United Nations are seen as key players whose role was foretold in prophecies. Among dispensational premillennialists, there are those that hope that they will be supernaturally summoned to Heaven by the Rapture before the tribulations prophesied in ...

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Varying beliefs about the end times have been the subject of a number of works of fiction. End times - Literature. The Left Behind series of novels, comics, and motion pictures, originally by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, are a fictional telling of these tales from the most popular, Futurist point of view, of an evangelist who wishes to convert people to belief in these prophecies. China War and the Third Temple by Irvin Baxter Dark Intentions, inside the mind of th ...

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The foundation of Israel in 1948 gave a major boost to the dispensationalist belief system; Israel's history of wars with its Arab neighbours did even more for it. After the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973, it seemed plausible to many fundamentalist Christians in the 1970s that Mideast turmoil may well be paving the way for the Battle of Armageddon. Leaders of the movement such as Hal Lindsey claimed furthermore that the European Economic Community was a revived Roman Empire, and would become the kingdom of the comi ...

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End times, End times - Christianity, End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief, End times - The dispensationalist prophecies, End times - Views by groups, End times - Catholics, End times - Jehovah's Witnesses, End times - Latter-day Saints, End times - Preterism, End times - Rastafarians, End times - Fictional treatments, End times - Literature, End times - Motion pictures

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