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Justin O'Shea characterizes this hadith as "narrated by Abu Hurayrah but of questionable origin," [3] and cites Will McCants' description of a "mythology" in which one sign of the End Times is that a Shia army with yellow flags (eg. Hezbollah) will arise to fight the black flags in Syria — a mythology promoted and exploited by ISIS. [3]
After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times. [107] 1941 Jehovah's Witnesses: A prediction of the end from the Jehovah's Witnesses, a group that branched from the Bible Student movement. [108] 1943 Herbert W. Armstrong The first of three revised dates from Armstrong after his 1936 prediction failed to come true. [107] 1947
In Judaism, the end times are usually called the "end of days" (aḥarit ha-yamim, אחרית הימים), a phrase that appears several times in the Tanakh. These beliefs have evolved over time, and according to some authors there is evidence of Jewish belief in a personal afterlife with reward or punishment referenced in the Torah.
The end of the world or end times [2] is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism , and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults .
By the time of the New Testament's Revelation 20 (Revelation 20:8), Jewish tradition had long since changed Ezekiel's "Gog from Magog" into "Gog and Magog". [2] The Gog prophecy is meant to be fulfilled at the approach of what is called the "end of days", but not necessarily the end of the world.
Popular Islamic pamphlets and tracts on the End Times have always been in circulation, but until around 2010 their "impact on political and theological thinking was practically nil" among Sunnis. [134] Interest in the End Times is particularly strong among jihadis and "since the mid-2000s, the apocalyptic currents in jihadism have surged."
While interpretations of what the Quran and hadith say about the end times are "diverse and complex", [4] the signs of Judgment Day's arrival include disruptions in the order of both human morality and the natural world; but also the appearance of the saviors, Mahdi and Jesus, which "is seen to represent the ultimate victory of the ummah of ...
The classic Adventist commentary on the end-times was Uriah Smith's Daniel and the Revelation. The writings of Ellen G. White have also been highly influential, particularly the last part of her book The Great Controversy. "Prophecy seminars", developed since the mid-20th century, have been a key popular source.