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In The Return of Christ, Berkouwer addresses himself to a wide range of questions: How does Christian expectation differ from ordinary human longing for a better future? Is there an “intermediate state” between the death of the believer and the return of Christ (or, where does the Christian go immediately after death)? Is the Christian faith in crisis because the Lord has not yet returned? What...

binding of Satan. The language Revelation uses here is forceful and radical: an angel descends with the key to the abyss and a mammoth chain. He seizes (ekrátēsen) the dragon, the old serpent, the devil, Satan, binds (édēsen) him a thousand years, and throws (ēbalen) him into the pit, which is shut and sealed (ékleisen kaí esphrágisen), so that he may not deceive the nations (20:1f.; cf. Isa. 24:22). Those who interpret the millennium as already realized in the history of the church try to
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