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* The Dutch version of this text was published in a collection dedicated to Prof. Dr. Georges De Schrijver on the occasion of his retirement in Lieven Boeve & Jacques Haers (eds.), God ondergronds: Opstellen voor een theologisch vrijdenker (Averbode: Altiora, 2001) 377-399. Translation by Dr. Brian Doyle. 1. The expectation of a messianic kingdom is to be found in the first book of Enoch, the fourth book of Ezra and in the New Testament book of Revelation (or Apocalypse). The devil is to be imprisoned for a period of one thousand years, a time in which Christ will reign together with the righteous martyrs. The devil is thereafter set free for a short time before his definitive defeat. It is at this point that the final judgement will take place, to be followed by the establishment of a new heaven and a new earth and the descent of the new Jerusalem from heaven (Rev 21). For further information and additional literature on this topic, see “Apocalypses and Apocalypticism,” The Anchor Bible Dictionary, I (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 279-287. God Interrupts History Apocalyptism as an Indispensable Theological Conceptual Strategy
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