After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20 - Couverture souple

Mealy, J. Webb

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1691284017 ISBN 13 : 9781691284016

Editeur : Independently published, 1992

Synopsis

After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20 brings forward a new paradigm for studies of the millennium of Revelation 20. Its method foregrounds the fact that every vision description in Revelation depends for its meaning both on its relationship with everything in Revelation that has led up to it and on every Old Testament prophetic passage that John alludes to in order to provide background for it. This study, praised for its meticulous exegetical method and sensitivity to both these kinds of deep context, concludes that the millennium, though presented as beginning with Jesus Christ's coming in glory, is also presented as being reserved for the faithful alone and as being set in the context of the new heavens and earth of Revelation 21. Thus John presents the attack of Gog and Magog at the end of the thousand years (Rev. 20:7-10) as the resurrection and final judgment of the unrepentant dead, who, like the devil, had been imprisoned in the underworld "until the thousand ears were ended" (compare Rev. 20:3, 5, 7). Imprisoned together, the devil and the unrepentant are released together (compare Isa. 24:21-23; 27:1-5; Rev. 1:18; 20:1-3, 7-10). Just as the judgment of Christ's coming in glory was first revealed in Rev. 19:11-21 as a battle scene, recalling Psalm 45, and then as a courtroom proceeding in Rev. 20:4-6, recalling Daniel 7, so the resurrection of the unrepentant is first revealed in Rev. 20:7-10 as a battle scene, recalling Isa. 26:10-11, 20-21 and 66:22-24, and then in 20:11-15 as a courtroom scene. This stereoscopic interpretation of John's visions leads to some startling conclusions: (1) The resurrection of the unrepentant is an undeserved gift that they throw back in God's face and so show themselves adamant in their enmity with God and the faithful and thus unworthy of existence (compare Isa. 26:9-11; 57:15-21). (2) The deluge of fire that incinerates the attackers of the Beloved City in Rev. 20:8-9 is not different from the pool of fire that drowns those whose names are not written in the Book of Life, the citizen-rolls of the New Jerusalem, in Rev. 20:14. (3) The millennial age is not, for the resurrected faithful, an age that is in any way less glorious in character from those that follow it (compare Rev. 20:4, 6; 22:1-5); it is only an age of delayed resurrection for "the rest of the dead" (Rev. 20:5; compare Isa. 26:12-19), who will, after the end of it, be offered one last opportunity to take part in God's creation in peace (compare Rev. 20:1, 7-10; Isa. 27:1-5).Scholarly praise for After the Thousand Years: “perceptive,” “illuminating both in content and in method,” John Sweet; “amply rewarding,” D.S. Russell “a resource for many years to come,” Steve Moyise; “a viability that cannot henceforward be ignored by commentators,” “a methodological contribution without precedent,” Gregory Beale; “and exegetical tour de force,” John Court.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1691284017
• ISBN 13: 9781691284016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 274
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