Status Updates From John's Use of the Old Testa...

Really interesting. So much of it, however, is in dialogue with such a large body of interacting works of scholarship on Revelation that I know nothing that much of it kinda goes over my head.

37 pages read in 1 h 32 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

"If the reign in 20:4–6 has been influenced by the general Jewish idea of an intermediate reign on earth, then the intermediate period is plausibly now the so-called church age and the reign takes place in heaven, though 1:6 and 5:10 show that it also takes place on earth among those who are regenerate" (393).

"The way they actually carry out their reign with him is likely through agreement with and praise of his judicial decisions (cf. Rev. 19:1–6), which is consummated by their witness being a basis for Christ’s judgment of the ungodly at the end of the age (e.g. cf. 11:3–13; 17:14; 19:14–15)" (p. 373).

"...a fourfold ending of the book reflects the ending of Ezekiel 37–48: resurrection of God’s people (Rev. 20:4b; Ezek. 37:1–14), messianic kingdom (Rev. 20:4b–6; Ezek. 37:15–28), final battle against Gog and Magog (Rev. 20:7–10; Ezek. 38–39), and final vision of the new temple and new Jerusalem, described as a restored Eden and sitting on an exceedingly high mountain(Rev. 21:1–22:5; Ezek. 40–48)" (362).

"The following exegetical idea for Rev. 20:1–15 can be formulated: the millennium is inaugurated during the interadvent age by God’s limitation of Satan’s deceptive powers (vv. 1–3) and by deceased Christians being vindicated through reigning in heaven (vv. 4–6), and it is concluded by a resurgence of Satan’s deceptive assault against the Church (vv. 7–8) and the final judgment (vv. 9–15)" (358).

"...a number of the expressions appear irregular because John is carrying over the exact grammatical form of the Old Testament wording in order to create ‘syntactical dissonance’, which causes the reader/hearer to pause and increases their chances of recognizing the unusual wording to be an Old Testament allusion" (345).