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The '''End Times''', also called the '''Last Days''', refers to the period of time in [[Christian]] [[theology]] just before and during the [[Second Coming]] of [[Jesus Christ]]. This period of time is foretold in the [[Old Testament]] prophetical books, such as [[Daniel]] and [[Ezekiel]], and in the [[New Testament]] with the [[Gospels]], several of the [[Pauline Epistles]], and in the [[Revelation]].
The '''End Times''', also called the '''Last Days''', refers to the period of time in Christian theology just before and during the [[Second Coming]] of Jesus Christ. This period of time is foretold in the [[Old Testament]] prophetical books, such as [[Daniel]] and [[Ezekiel]], and in the [[New Testament]] with the [[Gospels]], several of the [[Pauline Epistles]], and in the [[Revelation]]. All theologians agree that the Bible spends a great deal of attention on the subject, but there is very wide disagreement as to the meaning.
[[File:End-time.jpg|thumb|400px|Dispensationalist interpretation]]
==Views of the End Times==
==Views of the End Times==
Three main views exist regarding the End Times and the Second Coming. These views are '''"premillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture3.html], '''"postmillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture5.html], and '''"amillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture4.html].
Three main views exist regarding the End Times and the Second Coming. These views are '''"premillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture3.html], '''"postmillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture5.html], and '''"amillennialist"''' [http://www.jeremiahproject.com/prophecy/rapture4.html].
* Sandeen, ''The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930'' (1970), the standard scholarly history
* Sandeen, ''The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930'' (1970), the standard scholarly history
* Weber, Timothy P. ''Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982'' (2nd ed. 1987)
* Weber, Timothy P. ''Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillennialism, 1875-1982'' (2nd ed. 1987)
==External links==
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/projects/vcb/ChristianMedia/prophecy_premdisp.html "Prophecy and the End-Times: What is Premillennial Dispensationalism?"]