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Apocalypse
Greek:
"Revelation".
Revelations
of the end of time and the last judgment. A book
of the Bible that includes a description of the
end of the world.
Apocalyptic
literature deals with such subjects as heaven,
the future of this world, the activities of angels
and the soul's future existence.
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Russian
painter Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov portrayed one
of the Bible's end-of-the-world events in his painting
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1887). According
to the Bible's Book of Revelation, the horsemen represent
war, famine, pestilence, and death. The painting hangs
in the Museum of Religion and Atheism in Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
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