When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance upon those who do now know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at in all who have believed.

(1 Thessalonians 1:7-10)

Respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord, esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves … admonish the idle, encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. Rejoice always,  pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances … Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything; hold fast to what is good, abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:12-19)

We hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busy- bodies, not doing any work. If anyone will not work, let him not eat. Such persons we command and exort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living. Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing. (2 Thessalonians 3:10-13)

And finally, Paul’s description of the end of days, and his words of hope, found in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11:

But we would not have you be ignorant concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangels’ call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.

But as to the times and the seasons, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. But you are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the  night and of darkness … So since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation … Encourage one another and build one another up just as you are doing.

Judaism

The Torah is the first five books of the Bible, the law books of the Jewish faith. The Talmud is the collection of Jewish law and tradition and describes how to apply the rules of the Torah to a variety of circumstances.

According to the Talmud, the world as we know it will exist for a total of six thousand years, counting from God’s creation of the world. Based on the Jewish calendar, the year 2008 is calculated to be the 5,765th year of the world’s existence, with the end of days to occur in 2240.

The end of the world, called acharit hayamim in Judaism, will be catastrophically violent and deadly. In fact, a wise man of the Talmud has written, “Let the end of days come, but may I not live to see them.” This time of great suffering, though, will usher in an era of peace, holiness, and global spiritual enlightenment.

Jewish tradition about the end of days anticipates:

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