RE: 'Gift from God'

It is not clear how many evangelicals believe literally in those type of prophecies.

They are called premillenialists and of true evangelicals my wild guess would be that about 80% of them believe in the modern literal interpretations of eschatological scripture. Unfortunately, much of what they believe is non-scriptural and the result of quite a bit of extrapolation.

...And for the record, apocalypse simply means "hidden truth." What Tanya and Strother are actually talking about is hard to pin down. Sometimes it is called Armageddon, but that is a place-name reference from the Apocalypse of John (a.k.a the Revelation). Probably the most accurate name for it would be the cusp of the Millenium, but that's pretty wonkish. In any case, it refers to the last battle between Satan and the forces of Heaven. There are some groups who believe said battle has already occured and we are living in the period of time when the Beast is loosed on the Earth again "for a season" after his initial defeat at the hands of the archangel Michael. There is convincing scriptural evidence for that belief. There are others who believe the events of the Book of Daniel as well as John's Apocalypse exist outside the man-made construct of time (and space), and relative to humanity they have occurred, are occurring, will occur. I could go into that one for pages, but...