A History of the End of the World

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

Muntzer, 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