Many of us feel, as poet John Donne put it in The Anatomy of the World in 1611, “Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone”.
The Christian tradition tells us to be on the lookout for the Antichrist, who will appear shortly before the big finish. Vast amounts of Christian ink have been used to try and work out when he will come and just how we might identify him when he does.
The lore is deep, the Johannine stuff influential but there is tons of others.
From the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel, the Enochian tradition, the apocalypses of Peter, Adam, Paul, John, Gog and Magog etc.
Around Pseudo-Methodius and Qur’an, look to the east, kinda time seems to when it notches up a gear all the ways to the joys of US rapture obsession, Watchtower, LDS, George Romero, Resident Evil and all that good stuff.
Reading over Michael Penn’s early sources on Islam and the end seemed rather real for a few peeps
