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And, of course, the good guys always find a way to survive, right?
Glossary
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Apocalypse/Revelation:
Mean the same thingâa showing or revealing.
Apocalypse
is Greek;
Revelation,
Latin. However over the centuries, Revelation has come to be used mostly for the book of John of Patmos and Apocalypse both for the book and for a disaster of major proportions, probably leading to the end of the world.
Mean the same thingâa showing or revealing.
Apocalypse
is Greek;
Revelation,
Latin. However over the centuries, Revelation has come to be used mostly for the book of John of Patmos and Apocalypse both for the book and for a disaster of major proportions, probably leading to the end of the world.
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Chiliasm:
The Greek term for millenarianism. It comes from the Greek for one thousand. I like it; it's shorter. Of course, every time I read it, I get a craving for Tex-Mex food.
The Greek term for millenarianism. It comes from the Greek for one thousand. I like it; it's shorter. Of course, every time I read it, I get a craving for Tex-Mex food.
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Dispensation:
Another term for era. The division of the biblical history of the world into “dispensations.” We are, of course, in the last one.
Another term for era. The division of the biblical history of the world into “dispensations.” We are, of course, in the last one.
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Eschatology:
The study of the ways is which people look at the end times, both of individual humans and of the world.
The study of the ways is which people look at the end times, both of individual humans and of the world.
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Exegesis:
Explanation for the meaning of what someone else wrote. This is very popular with those who study the Bible, but there are scholars who specialize in Shakespearean exegesis, too, and for any writer who might have a hidden agenda.
Explanation for the meaning of what someone else wrote. This is very popular with those who study the Bible, but there are scholars who specialize in Shakespearean exegesis, too, and for any writer who might have a hidden agenda.
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Latitudinarian:
Someone who is easygoing about religious beliefs as long as they don't infringe on others' lives.
Someone who is easygoing about religious beliefs as long as they don't infringe on others' lives.
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Messianic:
A type of religious belief that a savior will arrive to clean up the mess that humans have made or to remove a corrupt or oppressive government. One can expect a messiah without the world ending. However, in many traditions, the messiah only appears shortly before the end.
A type of religious belief that a savior will arrive to clean up the mess that humans have made or to remove a corrupt or oppressive government. One can expect a messiah without the world ending. However, in many traditions, the messiah only appears shortly before the end.
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Millennialism:
The belief that there will be a thousand years between the beginning of Christianity and the end times. It has been stretched to imply a belief that the end is coming soon. It's also been stretched to assume that God doesn't measure time the way people do.
The belief that there will be a thousand years between the beginning of Christianity and the end times. It has been stretched to imply a belief that the end is coming soon. It's also been stretched to assume that God doesn't measure time the way people do.
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Occultation:
In Islam, the concealment of the Mahdi, who will return when needed. In astronomy, the eclipse of a star or planet by the moon.
In Islam, the concealment of the Mahdi, who will return when needed. In astronomy, the eclipse of a star or planet by the moon.
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Parousia:
Another word for the Second Coming of Jesus. It is from the Greek and is used when people want to sound classy.
Another word for the Second Coming of Jesus. It is from the Greek and is used when people want to sound classy.
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Premillennialism (or millenarianism):
The belief that the thousand years of peace under the rule of Jesus will be preceded by disasters, tribulations, and the reign of the Antichrist. Premillennialists tend to be pessimistic about the possibility of making the world better without divine help and hope to be raptured up to heaven before things get much worse. But many of them still believe in helping out others when there is need.
The belief that the thousand years of peace under the rule of Jesus will be preceded by disasters, tribulations, and the reign of the Antichrist. Premillennialists tend to be pessimistic about the possibility of making the world better without divine help and hope to be raptured up to heaven before things get much worse. But many of them still believe in helping out others when there is need.
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Postmillennialism:
The belief that Christ's incarnation began a thousand years in which people can improve the world, convert almost everyone to Christianity, and prepare humankind for the Second Coming, which will arrive at the end of the millennium. The early 1800s saw many reform movements made up of postmillennialists, such as antislavery leagues.
The belief that Christ's incarnation began a thousand years in which people can improve the world, convert almost everyone to Christianity, and prepare humankind for the Second Coming, which will arrive at the end of the millennium. The early 1800s saw many reform movements made up of postmillennialists, such as antislavery leagues.
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Syncretism:
The blending of two or more different religious beliefs to form a third, which often has elements found in neither.
The blending of two or more different religious beliefs to form a third, which often has elements found in neither.
Index
Abraham
Abu Bakr
Adams, John
Adeodatus
The Admonitions of Ipuwer
Adoptionism
Adventists.
See
Seventh Day Adventists
See
Seventh Day Adventists
âAffan, âUthman ibn
African Muslims
Africanus, Julius
Afterlife
Age of Exploration
Age of Peace
Ages of world
Ahiram (god)
Ahmad, Mirzam Gulam
Ahmad, Shaykh
Ahmadiya
Ahtawhhungnah
ceremony
ceremony
Akhtoy (Egyptian king)
Akkadians
Alexander (bishop of Lincoln)
Alexander I (Russian czar)
Alexander the Great
Alexander VI (pope)
Ali (son-in-law/cousin of Muhammad)
Ali, Maulvi Mohammad
“Alien seed” theorists
Almanacs, Nostradamus'
Altar of Victories
Ambrose (bishop of Milan)
Ambrose (boy in Nennius' book)
America.
See also specific movements
See also specific movements
Civil War in
Jews and
utopian communities in
American Revolution
Amitabha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas
Anabaptists
Ancestors
Angels.
See also specific individuals
See also specific individuals
Angkor Wat, temples at
Anglican Church
Antichrist.
See also
Al-Dajjal
See also
Al-Dajjal
Apocalypse of Peter on
appearance of
beast as
Islam on
Joachim of Fiore on
New World Order under
Old Believers on
pope as
in
Prophecies de Merlin
Prophecies de Merlin
Antiochus
Apocalypse.
See also
Book of Revelation
See also
Book of Revelation
Augustine and
Four Horsemen of the
of John
of Paul
of Peter
survival of
of Thomas
Apocalypse
(Meidner)
(Meidner)
Apocalyptic movements
Apollo (god)
Apollonius
Applewhite, Marshall
Armageddon
Art
on end of world
during Middle Ages
religious
Savonarola and
Artaxerxes of Persia
Arthur, King
Ascension
Ascension robes
Assyria
Asteroids
Astrology.
See also
Nostradamus
See also
Nostradamus
ATF (Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)
Atomic bombs
Atrahasis (Noah)
Augustine
The
Avesta
(Zoroaster)
Avesta
(Zoroaster)
Avvakum (archpriest)
Aztecs
Babad Kadhiri
Babylon
Babylonians
Bacon, Roger
Bak'tun
Balance
Ball, Fanny
Ball, Joseph
Baptism
Barahin-i-Ahmadiya
(Ahmadiya Proofs) (Ahmad, M.)
(Ahmadiya Proofs) (Ahmad, M.)
Barebones Parliament
Beasts
in Book of Daniel
in Book of Revelation
in
The Fall of Babylon
The Fall of Babylon
number of
Beginning of world, theories about
Belshazzar
Berdyaev, Nicolas
Bethlehem Chapel
Bhagavad-Gita
Bible.
See also
New Testament; Old Testament;
specific books
See also
New Testament; Old Testament;
specific books
Africanus' chronology of
books of, Essenes and
Liang on
Miller on
Newton on
Qur'an
vs.
vs.
translation and availability of
Bible Code
The Bible Code
(Drosnin)
(Drosnin)
Big Bear (Cherokee)
Black Death
Blackwell, William
Blood, in Mayan rites
Blood libel
Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Book of Daniel
beasts in
Book of Revelation and
Fifth Monarchists and
four kingdoms in
Messiah in
Miller on
Newton on
Rome as fourth monarchy in
witnesses in
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Life
Book of Mormon
“Book of Prophecies” (Columbus)
Book of Revelation
angels in
Armageddon in
Babylon in
beasts in
Book of Daniel and
as book of New Testament
dragon in
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in
Heaven in
Joachim of Fiore on
lake of burning sulfur in
Last Judgment in
martyrdom in
Merlin's prophecies and
seven churches in
seven seals in
views on
Book of the Dead
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
The Book of the Hopi
(Waters)
(Waters)
The Book of Two Ways
Borgia, Cesare
Borgia, Lucrezia
Boyle, Katherine (Lady Ranelagh)
Boyle, Robert
Boyle's Law
Brahma
Branch Davidians
Breault, Marc
Brethren
Britons
Buddhism
Bullard, Isaac
Calendars
Chinese
Hebrew
Jewish
Mayan
Muslim
Calvin, John
Cary, Mary
Cathars
Catherine de Medici, Queen (of France)
Catherine the Great
Catholic Church
Charlemagne
Charles I, King (of England)
Charles II, King (of England)
Charles VIII, King (of France)
Chelchiký, Peter
Cherokee Ghost Dance
China
Christ, death of
Jews' role in
Newton on date of
Christ, return of.
See also
Second Coming
See also
Second Coming
first Christians on
as Jew
Jews' conversion to Christianity and
Lee as
Montanism on
Newton on date for
Christianity.
See also
Bible; Crusades; Montanism;
specific sects
See also
Bible; Crusades; Montanism;
specific sects
Age of Exploration
conversion to
dispensationalism and
Judaism
vs.
vs.
on martyrdom
Roman Empire and
Christians
Book of Daniel and
evangelical
first
Fundamentalist
missionaries
order of society and
pagans
vs.
vs.
on Sibylline Oracles
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.
See
Mormons
See
Mormons
Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT)
Cistercians
City of God
(Augustine)
(Augustine)
Civil War
in America
in England
Classic of the Transformations
Clement III (pope)
Clement of Alexandria
Climate
Coe, Michael
Columbus, Christopher
Comets
Communion
Communism
Compendium of Revelations
(Savonarola)
(Savonarola)
Confessions
(Augustine)
(Augustine)
Confucianism
Confucius
Constantinople
Constantius
Cosmos
Council of Constance
Council of Nicaea
Creation stories, Mayan
Cromwell, Oliver
Crusades
Cuban missile crisis
Cults
cargo
characteristics of
of Egyptian king
Cuneiform writing
CUT (Church Universal and Triumphant)
Cyprus
Cyril of Jerusalem
Al-Dajjal (Antichrist)
Daniel.
See
Book of Daniel
See
Book of Daniel
Dante,
Inferno
Inferno
Daoism
Darby, John Nelson
Darius, the Mede
Davidians.
See
Branch Davidians
See
Branch Davidians
Day of Brahma
Dead Sea Scrolls
Demons
Devil/Satan
Dharma
Dionysius the Great
Dipanagara (prince-religious leader)
Disasters
in Book of Revelation
ecological
interpretation/prediction of
Dispensationalism
Dominicans
Dönme
(convert)
(convert)
Doomsealers
Dragons
in Book of Revelation
Joachim of Fiore on
in Merlin's prophecies and
Dresden Codex
Drosnin, Michael
Earthquakes
Eclipses
Egypt
Egyptian Days
Electricity
The Elect
Elijah
Emergence stories, Hopi
End of world
earliest stories of
ideas about
Jews, Israel and
End of world, date for
apocalyptic movements on
Chinese on
Christians and
Joachim of Fiore and
Mayans and
Millerites on
Nostradamus on
predictions through time
Shi'ites on
Taborites on
End of world, signs of.
See also specific signs
See also specific signs
Christians on
Davidian belief in
Hesiod on
Hinduism on
in Merlin's prophecies
Qur'an on
Taborites on
England.
See also
Fifth Monarchists;
specific individuals
See also
Fifth Monarchists;
specific individuals
Civil War in
Jews and
Revolution and
Enlil (god)
Epic of Gilgamesh
Epiphanias
Epistle of Barnabas
Erasmus, Desiderius
Erickson, George
Essenes
Eusebius
Evelyn, John
Evil.
See also
Good
vs.
evil
See also
Good
vs.
evil
Exegesis
Exposito in Apocalypsim
( Joachim of Fiore)
( Joachim of Fiore)
Facing Millennial Midnight
(Lindsey)
(Lindsey)
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