THE MILLENIUM (REV 20.4–6) AS HEAVEN
Taking the ‘first resurrection’ (Rev 20.4–6) as ‘heaven’ accords with early Christian, non-chiliast views of martyrs and other blessed. Exegetical development of this interpretation requires plotting (in line with the literary structure of Rev 4–22) the convergence of complementary eschatologies: fi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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1999
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New Testament studies
Year: 1999, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 553-570 |
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| Summary: | Taking the ‘first resurrection’ (Rev 20.4–6) as ‘heaven’ accords with early Christian, non-chiliast views of martyrs and other blessed. Exegetical development of this interpretation requires plotting (in line with the literary structure of Rev 4–22) the convergence of complementary eschatologies: first, the millennium brings to a climax a series of images expressing ‘vertical’ eschatology (the life of God's witnesses after death); second, the whole narrative focuses fulfilment of the Creator's scroll (‘what must take place [γενε´σθαι] hereafter’) on the very end of the end-time (i.e. ‘horizontally’, on the moment marked by the enthroned's voice in 16.17, γη´γoνην, and 21.6, γη´oναν: ‘It/They has/have taken place’), and on God's victory over those gathered by powers of deception for ‘the war’ at Armageddon (16.12–16; 19.19–21; 20.7–10). Christ's kingdom in heaven is followed by the advent of God's sacred kingdom on earth. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688598000551 |