World to come

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The world to come, age to come, heaven on Earth, and the

The concept is related to but differs from the concepts of heaven or the afterlife in that heaven is another place or state of existence generally seen as above the world, and the afterlife is generally an individual's continued existence after death.^{[citation needed]}

The following section reviews religions chronologically by date of the composition of various religious texts, from oldest to most recent, although the chronology of ancient religions is not known with certainty. Later dates are more certain than earlier dates.

Zoroastrian eschatology

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In

HaOlam HaBa (העולם הבא) or

According to the Talmud, any non-Jew who lives according to the Seven Laws of Noah is regarded as a "righteous gentile", and is assured of a place in the world to come, the final reward of the righteous.^[3][4]

There is much

In Christianity, the phrase is found in the

In Hindu eschatology the current age is the

The earliest copies of the Mahabharata that exist dates from 200 CE and is the first text to mention Kalki but was likely written in its final form around 400 CE. Kalki is also mentioned in the Vishnu Purana which has a contested date of composition ranging from 400 BCE to 1000 CE.

Islamic eschatology

Both Sunni Islam and Shia Twelve Imams beliefs hold that before the Last Judgment, the Mahdi and Jesus appears and defeats the Antichrist False Messiah (Al-Masih ad-Dajjal). His rule will be paradise on Earth, which will last for seventy years until his death, though other traditions state 7, 19, or 309 years.^[9]

See also

• Messiah
• Messianism
• New world order (Baháʼí)
• Otherworld
• Possible world
• Problem of evil
• Technological singularity

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