Koch gives a more comprehensive picture which differs in many ways from Vielhauer’s: 1. An urgent expectation of the impending overthrow of all earthly conditions in the immediate future. 2. The end appears as a vast cosmic catastrophe. 3. The time of this world is divided into segments. 4. The introduction of an army of angels and demons to explain the course of historical events and the happenings of the end time. 5. Beyond the catastrophe a new salvation arises, paradisal in character and destined