The end times is a period in which God will bring human government to an end — that is, the human experiment of ruling over nations — and will establish His own kingdom. This is a term more closely associated with the nations. For this reason, one may speak of the end times of the nations, or the end of the reign of the nations.

Daniel 2:1–45; Daniel 7:13–14

The last days refer to the period of time spanning from the birth of the Church on the Day of Pentecost to the Rapture of the Church. This period is characterized by a spiritual awakening among the children of God, a proliferation of false prophets, and so forth. The term "last days" is primarily associated with the Church. Some Bible translations may render this term as "the latter times."

Joel 2:28–29; Acts 2:16–21

The Bible defines the Great Tribulation as a period of great suffering, great persecution, and great trial for all those who will refuse to worship the beast (the Antichrist) and his image.

Revelation 13:15 "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."

The Wrath of God is the event by which God will punish the world for its wickedness and the wicked for their iniquity. On that day, God will take vengeance upon those who live in all ungodliness, upon those who are rebellious against the truth, upon those who shed innocent blood… For God is a God of vengeance — He avenges, and will by no means leave the wicked unpunished.

Isaiah 13:9–11 "⁹Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. ¹⁰For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. ¹¹And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible."

Revelation 6:15–17 "¹⁵And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"