day of reckoning

Noun
  1. (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives (synset 115196354)
    referred to in: new testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
    is a type of: day - some point or period in time
    same as: crack of doom, day of judgement, day of judgment, doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, judgement day, judgment day, last day, last judgement, last judgment
  2. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny (synset 107348806)
    "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world"
    is a type of: destiny, fate - an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
    same as: doom, doomsday, end of the world

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