The days leading up to the second coming of the Messiah (Christ), when the world will be judged.
And I can hear it loud and clear / The world is ending, and what do I care? / She's gone, end times are here
The days leading to the coming of the Mahdi, the Messiah or Judgment Day.
Both Islam and Christianity have a strong eschatology (view of the end times) that comes from their worldview.
Corresponding periods in other religious traditions.
Hellenistic Judaism was familiar with the idea that deceit is characteristic of the end times (see T. Levi 10:2; 16:1).
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