What will happen if the vague and abstract prophecies of the Apocalypse suddenly begin to come true in real life? Most likely, humanity will not notice. People are used to living amid constant problems: epidemics, wars, earthquakes.
Only specialists will notice. But they too will not fall into religious ecstasy, because they are used to solving purely practical tasks. If there is a problem, there is a source of it. And a group of super agents receives an assignment — to find and neutralize the Instigator. One might say, to get him from underground or from the other world.