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eschaton

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Noun1.eschatoneschaton - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
day - some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"


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Accepting that Jesus was God's messiah necessitated significant revision of inherited preconceptions, but if a militant model of messiah-ship was merely interrupted or postponed until the eschaton, perhaps that revision did not extend far enough.
Second, Israel's distinctive covenantal relationship with God will continue until the Eschaton.
In Christian terms, the vision of governments bringing about a heaven on earth is the Gnostic heresy that Eric Voegelin used to call "immanentizing the eschaton.
 
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