apocalypse

concept of a prophetic revelation, sometimes about eschatology

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Also known as Apocalypse

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“I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals.”
— Jerry Falwell, on Paula Zahn Now (31 July 2006), as quoted in "CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill" at Media Matters for America (1 August 2006)
“"Listen," croaked Skuzz. "Got something important to tell you. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse … they're right bastards, all four of them."”
— Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.”
— Fredric Jameson, "Future City", New Left Review (May-June 2003)
“Surely the Hour is coming--I am about to make it manifest--so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives. So let not him, who believes not in it and follows his low desire, turn thee away from it, lest thou perish.”
— Quran, chapter 20: 15-16
“His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace; and his voice was as the sound of many waters.”
— 1: 15
“It has been granted to her to be clothed with bright, clean, fine linen—for the fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the holy ones.”
— Apocalypse 19: 8

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