The English word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokalupsis, meaning ‘revelation’. In Greek, the last book of the New Testament, Revelation, begins with the phrase Apokalupsis Iesou Christou which means ‘The revelation of Jesus Christ’. Because the book of Revelation speaks about the end times, the word ‘apocalypse’ is sometimes used to refer to the climactic events at the end of the world.
