end times

noun[plural only]3

1. •
   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 — 2010
2. •
   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. — 2004
3. •
   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). — 2002