ion teachings of the Buddhist and Hindu traditions), that this single life determines an individual's eternal fate, and that the Righteous will exist in eternal harmony and satisfaction at the end of time. The religions have a common hope in the final victory of life over death, of good over evil, and mutually agree on the broad events that will herald this victory and what this victory will mean to the literal earth.
A study of the "End World" should begin with a description of what will presage this world. By all accounts of these three religions, the commencement of the final move towards the consummation of history, towards what Teilhard De Chardin refers to as the "Omega Point, " will be characterized by tribulation. The picture of the world immediately before the end of time is a horrific one, painted with equal gruesomeness by all three religions.
Judaism describes the end of time thus:
With the footprints [heralding] the Messiah, presumption will increase and dearth reach its height; the vine shall yield its fruit but the wine shall b
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