millennium (eschatology)

Presents the final book in the "Left Behind" series that describes the end of the tribulation period, the thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ, and the final battle between the forces of good and evil.

Aimed at grades 4-8.

Examines the activities twentieth-century millenarians, or people who anticipate a sudden and dramatic change in the world order with the guidance of supernatural beings.

Alarmed by a prophecy that the world will end with the arrival of the year 1000, the students of Dragon Slayers' Academy get some advice from Zack, a boy who has traveled back from 1999.

What if hell really existed? The premise of The Descent is just that. We first meet the protagonist of the story, Ike Crockett, as he guides a group of tourists on a Tibetan walkabout. Trapped on a mountain during a blizzard, Ike leads the group into a cave that just happens to be a gateway to hell. More hellish evidence soon emerges at sites as far-flung as Bosnia and the Kalahari Desert.

Discusses the Western millennium and some of the prophecies associated with its arrival, from Nostradamus to the Bible code and Edgar Cayce.

Alarmed by a prophecy that the world will end with the arrival of the year 1000, the students of Dragon Slayers' Academy get some advice from Zack, a boy who has traveled back from 1999.

Discusses the year 2000 as a milestone marking two thousand years of human achievement, as a threshold leading into a new millennium, and as an important anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.

After falling through his computer screen, Zack travels back in time to a school in 999 A.D. where the students believe the world will end in the new millennium.