A Comprehensive List of End Times Scriptures

Below is a fairly comprehensive list of Bible scripture that are highly-focused on the end-times.  The main players / phases to in play include:

THE SAINTS

THE DAY OF THE LORD

THE COMING OF JESUS (on the white horse after the Great Tribulation)

JESUS FORGIVING THE JEWS (Sons of Jacob as they Repent upon His arrival)

ENJOY!!! PRAISE GOD

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Major Bible Passages on the End of Times

Scope

This survey covers Scripture passages that look to the final stretch before Christ’s return, drawn from the 66-book canon. The phrase “last days” carries two senses in the Bible: sometimes the whole period from Christ’s first coming onward (Acts 2:17, Heb. 1:2, 1 John 2:18), and sometimes the final climactic period before His return.

The passages below point to that final stretch, and the notes flag where the scope is debated. Both 2 Timothy 3:1-6 and 4:3-5 are included as fully end-time texts.

Old Testament

The Old Testament sets the vocabulary of “latter days,” the Day of the Lord, and a final adversary, and Daniel is its most important end-time book.

Foundational “latter days” texts

• Genesis 49:1 and Numbers 24:14. Jacob and Balaam each announce what will happen to Israel and the nations “in the latter days,” which sets the phrase up as a prophetic term.
• Deuteronomy 4:25-31, 30:1-10, 31:29, and 32. Moses foresees Israel’s disobedience, scattering, and eventual repentance and regathering. This is the template later prophets build on.

Isaiah

• 2:2-4. In the last days the Lord’s house is exalted, the nations stream to it, and there is lasting peace.
• 11:1-16. The Messianic king rules in righteousness, creation is at peace, and Israel is regathered a second time.
• 13:6-13, 24-27 (the “Isaiah Apocalypse”), and 34. The Day of the Lord brings cosmic upheaval and judgment on the earth, with the defeat of death (25:8, 26:19).
• 63:1-6. The Lord comes in vengeance, which parallels Revelation 19.
• 65:17-25 and 66:15-24. The new heavens and new earth, and final judgment.

Jeremiah

• 23:19-20 and 30:1-11. The “time of Jacob’s trouble,” an unparalleled distress from which Israel is saved.
• 31:31-37. The new covenant, with Israel’s permanent preservation.

Ezekiel

• 36-37. Israel’s spiritual renewal and restoration, and the dry bones vision.
• 38-39. Gog and Magog invade a regathered Israel “in the latter years” and are destroyed.
• 40-48. The restored temple and the Lord’s presence.

Daniel

• The statue and the stone, in which God’s kingdom replaces all human empires.
• The four beasts, the “little horn” who wars against the saints for “time, times, and half a time,” and the Son of Man receiving an everlasting kingdom.
• 8 and 11:36-45. A willful king who exalts himself above every god.
• 9:24-27. The seventy weeks, with the final “week” and the abomination that causes desolation.
• 12:1-13. Unprecedented distress, the resurrection of the many, and the closing time periods.

The Minor Prophets

• Hosea 3:4-5 and 5:15-6:3. Israel returns to the Lord “in the latter days.”
• Joel 2:28-32 and 3. The outpouring of the Spirit, cosmic signs, and judgment of the nations.
• Amos 9:11-15. David’s fallen booth is restored.
• Obadiah 15-21. The Day of the Lord for all nations.
• Micah 4:1-8 and 5:2-5. The mountain of the Lord, and the ruler from Bethlehem.
• Zephaniah 1:14-18 and 3:8-20. The great Day of the Lord and the purified remnant.
• Zechariah 12-14. The nations gather against Jerusalem, Israel looks on the one they pierced (12:10), and the Lord’s feet stand on the Mount of Olives (14:4).
• Malachi 3:1-5 and 4:1-6. The messenger before the “great and terrible day.”

New Testament

The New Testament draws these threads together in the teaching of Jesus, the letters of Paul and the other apostles, and the book of Revelation.

The words of Jesus

• Matthew 24-25, Mark 13, and Luke 21 (with Luke 17:20-37). The Olivet Discourse covers wars, famines, false messiahs, persecution, the abomination of desolation, the great tribulation, and the Son of Man coming on the clouds. Parts of it also address the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, so interpreters differ on how to divide the material. Matthew 25 adds the parables of the ten virgins and the talents, and the judgment of the nations.
• Matthew 13:24-43 and 13:47-50. The wheat and the tares, and the dragnet, both of which describe separation at “the end of the age.”
• John 5:28-29 and 6:39-54. Resurrection “on the last day.”

Acts

• 1:6-11 and 3:19-21. Christ’s visible return and “the times of restoration of all things.”

Paul

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11. The rapture or gathering of the saints, the Day of the Lord coming like a thief, and the call to be sober.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10 and 2:1-12. Christ revealed in flaming fire, and the “man of lawlessness,” preceded by “the rebellion” (apostasy) and the removal of the restraining power.
• 1 Timothy 4:1-3. In later times some will depart from the faith, following deceitful spirits and demonic teachings.
• 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 3:13, and 4:3-5. “Difficult times” marked by self-love, lovers of money and pleasure, form without power, and people who will not endure sound doctrine but gather teachers to suit their desires.
• Romans 11:25-32. The hardening of part of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, and then “all Israel will be saved.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:20-58. The order of resurrection, the last trumpet, the defeat of death, and the transformation of the living.

General epistles

• Hebrews 10:25, 10:37, and 9:26-28. The Day drawing near, and Christ appearing a second time.
• James 5:1-8. Judgment on the rich who hoard in “the last days,” and the call to patience until the Lord’s coming.
• 2 Peter 3:3-13. Scoffers in the last days who deny the promise of His coming, and the Day of the Lord arriving like a thief with the elements dissolving.
• 1 John 2:18-23 and 4:1-3. “Antichrist” and the spirit of antichrist, with many antichrists already present.
• Jude 14-19. Enoch’s prophecy of the Lord’s coming with His holy ones, and mockers who follow their own ungodly desires “in the last time.”

Revelation

• 1:7. Every eye will see Him.
• 6-19. The seals, trumpets, and bowls. The two witnesses (11), the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet (12-13). The mark of the beast (13:16-18). Armageddon (16:12-16). The fall of Babylon (17-18).
• 19:11-21. The return of Christ and the defeat of the beast.
• The binding of Satan, the thousand years, the final rebellion, and the great white throne judgment.
• 21-22. The new heaven, new earth, and New Jerusalem.

Recurring themes across both testaments

Seven themes run through the passages above, from the Old Testament prophets to Revelation.

1. Apostasy and moral decay. The last days are marked by religious form without power, false teachers, and rejection of sound doctrine (2 Tim. 3-4, 2 Thess. 2, 2 Pet. 3).
2. A personal embodiment of evil. The little horn (Dan. 7), the willful king (Dan. 11), the man of lawlessness (2 Thess. 2), and the beast (Rev. 13) are widely read as pointing to the same final adversary.
3. Unparalleled tribulation. Compare Daniel 12:1, Jeremiah 30:7, and Matthew 24:21.
4. Israel’s regathering and restoration. Deuteronomy 30, Ezekiel 36-37, Zechariah 12-14, and Romans 11 are central here.
5. The Day of the Lord. It arrives suddenly, brings judgment on the nations, and then blessing and renewal.
6. The return of Christ and the resurrection. Both are a visible, bodily return and a resurrection and judgment.
7. New creation. The story ends in Isaiah 65-66 and Revelation 21-22.

How interpreters differ

The passages above are listed without committing to one interpretive scheme, because Christians group and sequence them differently.

Millennial views (pre-, a-, and post-) and the timing of the rapture relative to the tribulation (pre-, mid-, and post-) further shape how the passages are grouped and sequenced.