# Jesus Christ — The End of the World character guide

> Jesus Christ in The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Christ, Jesus

**First appearance:** 0000-how

## Snapshot

The Galilean whose warnings of fire and judgment set the clock ticking for every generation that followed, his words reread as either literal doom or eternal metaphor.

## Who they are

Jesus stands at the center of the book's argument about how prophecy works: whether his foretellings in Matthew were meant as literal catastrophe or as a vision in which a trillion years shrivel to a pinpoint. Dennis traces how the four gospels rarefy the terror from Matthew's physical fear to John's philosophical calm, and how the early Church, reading the time-phrases literally, saw Nero and the fall of Jerusalem as the end already arriving. He matters because every later date-setter, from millennial monks to William Miller, is arguing with him.

## Relationships

### [Stoffler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/stoffler)

_psychological_

Jesus Christ appears to Stoffler as a figure of divine judgment or obsession, driving Stoffler's apocalyptic fervor.

### [Paul of Tarsus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/paul_of_tarsus)

_professional_

Paul of Tarsus is a devoted apostle and theologian who spreads and codifies the teachings of Jesus Christ.

### [Noah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/noah)

_social_

Jesus Christ and Noah are connected through biblical typology, with Noah's flood prefiguring Christ's final judgment.

### [Julius Africanus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/julius_africanus)

_professional_

Julius Africanus is an early Christian historian who chronologically links Jesus Christ to world history.

### [William Miller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/william_miller)

_psychological_

Jesus Christ is the central object of William Miller's prophetic calculations and religious obsession.

### [Satan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/satan)

_rivalry_

Jesus Christ and Satan are cosmic enemies, representing the ultimate struggle between good and evil.

### [Jehovah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/jehovah)

_family_

Jehovah is the Father and Jesus Christ is the Son in the Christian Trinity, sharing a divine familial bond.

### [Daniel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/characters/daniel)

_psychological_

Daniel's prophecies are seen as directly foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ, creating a prophetic link.

## In the story

### [Comet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/comet)

Referenced in the context of a star at his birth and the millennial comets at his birth and death anniversaries.

### [Water](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/water)

Referenced in the context of the Shu King account dating to the twenty-fourth century before Jesus.

### [This Year](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/this-year)

His declaration 'at hand' was later fitted to specific numerical predictions for the end.

### [Next Year](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_end_of_the_world_se/chapters/next-year)

Quoted as saying 'this generation shall not pass till all these things be done'; his eschatological words are analyzed across the four gospels.

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