Apocalypse
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Apocalyptic literature is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile but persisting in Christianity and Islam. In apocalypse, a supernatural being reveals
Apocalypse depicted in Christian Orthodox traditional fresco scenes in Osogovo Monastery, North Macedonia
The Book of Daniel is one of the earliest instances of apocalyptic literature within the Abrahamic traditions.
The Seven trumpets.
Cross of the Apocalypse (2008), Andrea da Montefeltro, Vatican City
Eschatology
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Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions, which teach that negative wo
Apocalypse
…centuries, as with the Book of Daniel, composed during the 2nd century BCE but bearing the name of the legendary Daniel from the 6th century BCE. Eschatology (from Greek eschatos, last) concerns expectations of the end of the present age. Thus, apocalyptic eschatology is the application of the apocalyptic…
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut print from the Apocalypse of Albrecht Dürer (1497–1498)
The Antichrist, by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1521). Here the Antichrist is shown wearing the triple crown of the Roman papacy.
Icon of the Second Coming. Greek, c. 1700 A.D.
William Miller predicted the end of the world in 1843, known as the Great Disappointment.