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[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED[AUG 12 2026]—Total solar eclipse — Greenland / Iceland / Spain—OBSERVED[AUG 28 2026]—Partial lunar eclipse — Americas / Europe—OBSERVED[FEB 17 2026]—Annular solar eclipse — Antarctic—OBSERVED[AUG 02 2027]—Total solar eclipse — longest of the century, Egypt / Saudi Arabia—OBSERVED[MAR 11 2011]—M9.1 Tōhoku earthquake — 15,900 dead—OBSERVED[DEC 26 2004]—M9.1 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami—OBSERVED[FEB 06 2023]—M7.8 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence—OBSERVED[APR 15 2014]—First eclipse of the 2014–15 tetrad—SPECULATION[SEP 28 2015]—Fourth eclipse of the tetrad — nothing recorded—SPECULATION[OCT 21 2011]—Camping's final date — no event recorded—EXPIRED

The Claimants

Who is expected, who is feared, and everyone who has been accused of being either. Quoted texts are SCRIPTURE or TRADITION. Identifications are SPECULATION. The register is long, and its length is the finding.

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Tradition

The awaited

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Each tradition's expected figure, named in its own terms, with the signs it says will precede him and the disagreements it has never settled.

CHRISTIANITY

The Second Coming of Christ

The return of Jesus of Nazareth, bodily and visibly, to judge and to reign.

Primary citations
  • Acts 1:11 — “This same Jesus… will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
  • Matthew 24:30 — “They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.”
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
Expected preceding signs
  • — The gospel preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations (Matthew 24:14).
  • — Wars and rumours of wars, famines and earthquakes — described as the beginning of birth pains, not the end (Matthew 24:6–8).
  • — The falling away and the appearance of the man of lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 2:3).
  • — A day and hour stated to be unknown to anyone, including the Son (Matthew 24:36).
Internal disagreement

Four standing schools read the timetable differently. PRETERIST: the discourse was fulfilled in the events of AD 70. HISTORICIST: it unfolds across church history. FUTURIST: it is still ahead. AMILLENNIAL: the thousand years is the present age, not a future political reign. All four are held by confessional Christians in good standing; the tradition has never settled it.

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On the scoring

THE FIT measures criterion match, not probability. It is not an estimate of likelihood. No score on this page asserts that any person is or is not the figure described.

Three numbers, three different questions. THE FIT asks what the texts require. COVERAGE VOLUME asks how loudly it is discussed. THE CONSENSUS asks what our readers believe. They rarely agree. That disagreement is the finding.

COVERAGE VOLUME is GDELT's share of monitored articles for the stated query over a trailing 90 days, then scaled against the loudest claim in the same run, which reads 100. It measures discussion, not belief.

THE CONSENSUS is a reader vote, one per visitor per claim, changeable at any time. It is unscientific by construction: the sample is self-selected and the write path is rate-limited rather than policed.

THE CONSENSUS is not a poll of the public. It is a poll of people who voluntarily visit an apocalypse dashboard. Weight accordingly.

On the portraits

Portraits are halftone derivatives of Public Domain or Creative Commons images from Wikimedia Commons. No press or wire photographs are used. Institutions, technologies and objects render a geometric mark, never a face. A closed file is held at reduced opacity; a circulating file sits in brackets. Full attribution: The Sources.

Tag law on this surface
  • Quoted texts are SCRIPTURE or TRADITION, per source.
  • Any identification of a person is SPECULATION or DISPUTED, never DATA, and names its claimant.
  • No card asserts in our own voice that any person is or was the figure described.
  • Entries naming living people carry a rebuttal or an unresolved status in the same card.