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Judgment Day or Doomsday, central point of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic eschatology, sometimes called the Day of the Lord. References to it throughout the Bible are numerous. The Christian belief in the Last Judgment asserts that this world will end, the dead will be raised up in the general resurrection resurrection (rĕz'ərĕk`shən) [Lat.,=rising again], arising again from death to life.
..... Click the link for more information. , and God, or his agent, will gloriously come to judge the living and the dead. The sinners shall be cast into hell hell, in Western monotheistic religions, eternal abode of souls damned by the judgment of God. The souls in hell are deprived forever of the sight of God. The punishment of hell is generally analogized to earthly fire.
..... Click the link for more information. , and the righteous shall live in heaven heaven, blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision).
..... Click the link for more information. . These concepts are also common themes in early Jewish apocalyptic speculation. No generally accepted Christian teaching pronounces when Judgment Day shall occur, but many individuals have prophesied its date. Doomsday believers are called chiliasts, millenarians, or, specifically, Adventists Adventists (ăd`vĕn'tĭsts) [advent, Lat.
..... Click the link for more information. . See also Antichrist Antichrist (ăn`tĭkrīst)
..... Click the link for more information. ; Armageddon Armageddon (är'məged`ən)
..... Click the link for more information. ; millennium millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on Rev. 20, has recurred in Christianity since the earliest times.
..... Click the link for more information. ; apocalypse apocalypse (əpŏk`əlĭps) [Gr.
..... Click the link for more information. . The Last Judgment also figures in the Qur'an.

Judgment Day

the occasion of the Last (or General) Judgment by God at the end of the world

Judgment Day

final trial of all mankind. [N.T.: Revelation]

See : End