Jonathan Kirsch - A History of the End of the World

Langston, E. L.

The Late Great Planet Earth (Lindsey and Carlson)

Lawrence, D. H.

Lazarus, Emma

Left Behind: The Kids (LaHaye)

Left Behind (LaHaye and Jenkins)

“The Left Behind Prophecy Club” Web site

Left Behind series

Lerner, Robert E.

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (King)

Lindsey, Hal

Little Apocalypse of the Gospels

Louis XIV (King of France)

Luther, Martin

Maccabean Revolt

McDonald, Margaret

McGinn, Bernard

McPherson, Aimee Semple

Magog and Gog

Maimonides

Malone, Mary T.

Mandeville’s Travels

Manifest Destiny doctrine

mark of the beast

Martin of Tours

Martyred Christians

Mather, Cotton

Mather, Increase

Mather, John

Maximilla

Maxwell, Arthur

medieval era: apocalyptic imagery during; apocalyptic tradition developed during; The Church Militant and Triumphant of; Crusades of; Inquisition of; Year 1000 belief during

Melville, Herman

Messiah: Antichrist as self-styled; biblical version of the; Common Era self-styled; Jan Bockelson as self-styled; Jesus of Nazareth rejected as; Judaism tradition regarding; lamb symbolism of; Maimonides on the; Shabbatai Zevi as self-styled

Michael (archangel)

Midnight Cry (Millerite periodical)

Miles, Jack

millennium: premillennialism/postmillennialism beliefs on the; prophecies on the. See also Second Coming

Miller, Father William

Millerites

Miller, Perry

Milton, John

Mirror of History (1250)

The Mirror of the Simple Soul (Porete)

Montanists

Montanus

Moody Bible Institute

Moody, Dwight L.

Moorhead, James H.

Moses

Mount Carmel community

Muhammad

Müntzer, Thomas

Muratorian Canon

Mussolini, Benito

The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation Explained and Applied (Mather)

Nag Hammadi

Napier, John

Na Prous Boneta

Nazi Germany

Nebuchadnezzar

Nero Caesar

Nero redivivus myth

Netanyahu, Benjamin

New Jerusalem

“New Prophecy” movement

New Testament: debate over Revelation inclusion in; First Epistle to the Thessalonians; Gospel of Mark; Gospel of Matthew; Gospels of; Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. See also Hebrew Bible; Revelation

Newton, Sir Isaac

new world apocalypse tradition: Christian Zionists and; Civil War and; First World War events and; Founding Father’s role in; Great Awakenings (eighteenth/nineteenth century) and; premillennialists, fundamentalism and; Puritan colonists and the; Second World War/postwar events and. See also God-less apocalypse

The New World Order (Robertson)

Nicolaitans

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Nightmare of God (Berrigan)

The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon (Lindsey)

Notes on the Apocalypse (Edwards)

nuclear war science fiction films

number symbolism: challenge of interpreting; of number seven; 666 alphanumeric code. See also Revelation symbolism

Old-Fashioned Revival Hour (radio show)

O’Leary, Stephen D.

Olivi, Peter John

The Omega Man (film)

The Omen (film)

On the Beach (film)

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

opposition symbolism

O’Sullivan, John

Pankhurst, Christabel

Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis

Pastor Angelieus (Angelic Pope)

Patmos Isle

Paul

Peoples Temple

persecution

Philo

“Pious Ones” (Hasidim)

Planet Earth 2000 A.D . (Lindsey)

Pliny

Plymouth Brethren

Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus

Porete, Marguerite

possessions/wealth

postmillennialism

premillennialists

Presbyter John

Prisca

prophecy/prophecies: apocalyptic tradition of; book of Daniel; concerning coming messiah; false prophets and; Second Coming; traditional end (538 B.C.E.) of. See also end-times prophecies

prophets: authentic and inauthentic; David Koresh as self-styled; The Didache on; false; link between classical and apocalyptic; Montanists as self-styled

Protestant fundamentalism. See Christian fundamentalism

Protestant Reformation: continued in the new world; Revelation’s influence on the

“Protoapocalypses”

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (anti-Semitic forgery)

Protocols (Ford)

Pseudepigrapha (“false writings”)

Puritan colonists

The Pursuit of the Millennium (Cohn)

Qumran sect (Essenes)

Raimarus, Nicholas

Rapture

The Rapture (film)

Rauschenbusch, Walter

Reagan, Ronald

A Rebirth of Images (Farrer)

red dragon/pregnant woman symbolism

Revelation 10:9

Revelation: allusions to Hebrew Bible passages in; attitude toward women evident in; comparing the Gospels to; debate over canonization of; Google search hits on; Jewish roots evidenced in; linkage between Holocaust and; literature references to; medieval apocalyptic tradition and influence of; medieval church mosaic representation of; mysterious content and appeal of; night visions of; Reformation debate over; religious propaganda fueled by; as revenge fantasy; spiritual approach to reading; two witnesses vision in; villains and characters described in. See also End-times prophecies; New Testament

Revelation author: black-or-white morality/opposition of; characteristics evidenced about; claim of divine authorship by; debate over; discernments about the; earlier writings/ideas influencing; injustice feelings expressed by; John the Baptist as candidate for; John the Evangelist as; presbyter John as candidate for; theological origins evidenced by. See also John the Evangelist

Revelation symbolism: the beast; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Great Whore of Babylon; opposition; woman (pregnant)/red dragon. See also Number symbolism

Richard the Lion-Hearted (King of England)

Robertson, Pat

Roberts, Oral

Robison, James

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

Roman Catholic Church: apocalyptic revolution within; “the Babylonian Captivity” of; The Church Militant and Triumphant as; inquisitor actions against women of; medieval development of; Revelation used by Martin Luther against. See also Christianity

Roman Empire: decline and fall of the; Emperor worship in; end-times prophecy on rebuilding of; evidence in Revelation of author’s hatred for; Great Whore of Babylon symbol of; Maccabean Revolt against; New Testament authors’ treatment of; symbol of the spirit (or genius ) of; various Jewish responses to

Rosenberg, David

Rosen, George

Rowley, H. H.

Russell, Charles Taze

Sabbath Age

Sacchi, Paolo

Satan: as Antichrist; battle in heaven between Michael and; bound by Christ; final battle between God and; Hebrew Bible characterization of; Revelation on nature of

Savonarola, Girolamo

Schoepflin, Rennie B.

Schweitzer, Albert

science fiction films

Scivias (Hildegard of Bingen)

Scofield, Cyrus R.

Scofield Reference Bible (1902)

Second Coming: dating the; Great Disappointment (nineteenth century) and; Jewish state established prior to; premillennialists and postmillennialists on the; Rapture of; signs of the; Tribulation prior to the. See also end-times prophecies; millennium

The Second Coming (Yeats)

Second Epistle to the Thessalonians

Second Great Awakening (nineteenth century)

Second World War

Seleucid dynasty

September 11, 2001

Septuagint (Greek Bible)