Religion

It's one of the contradictions between scripture and what is believed by some Christians. There's quite a large group of believers who think the end times is still to come and has requirements that must take place beforehand.

Those beliefs are supported by a hodgepodge of scriptural references, most of them from the book, "Revelation."

Bottom line is that none of it is based on any contemporaneous writings by actual witnesses, so who can say what is accurate, if anything, or who wrote it down.

Besides, those scriptures date back to times that were very much unlike today's times. The words have passed through many edits and translations, so it's likely that they bear only passing relationships with the originals, assuming those existed in the first place.