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I have witnessed how Christians respond in times of personal, local, national or international situations of crisis. Most of the time I came across Christian responding following three ways: 1. We need to repent.  I have absolutely no doubt about the need for repentance in crisis. All the prophets and ministers come up with this message, especially in seasons of crisis. Here are my questions: when you say repent in crisis, do we imply that the crisis is the judgment from God? Can we attribute all the crises to God? Another direction in which I am concerned, why are we preaching aggressively repentance ONLY in the context of crisis. When everything is going fine, do we need repentance? I believe that repentance must be part of our daily devotional life before God. It is not something that we need to preach and think only in the season of crisis. Repentance is an essential part of daily Christian life. Moreover, let us not forget that before we preach repentance to others, we need

`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Introduction This paper is going to discuss the apocalypticism in New Testament. To explore this, paper will discuss the different meanings of apocalipticism and the Jewish apocalypticism as background of Christian apocalypticism. The paper will further explore the apocalyptic motifs of New Testament writings and its theology.  1. Meaning of Apocalypticism The term ‘apocalyptic’ is derived from the Greek word a,pokalu,ptein which means “to reveal” or “to unveil”. This term has three main uses: literary genre (apocalypse), a kind of eschatology (apocalyptic eschatology) and a historical religio-social movement (apocalypticism). [1] Firstly, Collins defines apocalypse as “a genre