end times

end times pl (plural only)

1. (Christianity) The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.
   • 1999, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Are We Living in the End Times?, Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN.
   • 2004, Bruce David Forbes and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series, Macmillan, →ISBN.
   • 2005, James M. Efird, Left behind?: What the Bible Really Says about the End Times, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, →ISBN.
   • 2007, Hank Hanegraaff, The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible Really Says About the End Times and Why It Matters Today, Thomas Nelson (publisher), →ISBN.
2. (Islam) The days leading to the coming of the Mahdi
   • 2004, William Wagner, How Islam Plans to Change the World, Kregel Publications, →ISBN, page 210:

     Both Islam and Christianity have a strong eschatology (view of the end times) that comes from their worldview.

   • 2012, Henry Bayman, The Teachings of a Perfect Master, Page 169

     The coming of the Mahdi during the end—times […]

3. Corresponding periods in other religious traditions.
   • 2002, Raymond F. Collins, I & II Timothy and Titus: A Commentary, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     Hellenistic Judaism was familiar with the idea that deceit is characteristic of the end times (see T. Levi 10:2; 16:1).

   • 2002, Larry R. Helyer, Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period: A Guide for New Testament Students, InterVarsity Press, →ISBN, page 22:

     The apocalyptic writings are at times quite fascinating, especially since they stand in some relationship to the apocalyptic visions of the end times found in both the OT and NT.

• Often capitalized (End Times) or hyphenated (end-times).

• Apocalypse
• Armageddon
• Millennium
• Rapture
• Second Coming
• Tribulation

• Edmisten, end items, enmisted, midteens, sediment, tidesmen