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What is eschatology? Dr. Rob Lister opens with its plainest sense: Eschatology is the study of the End Times, the last things. From there the word branches in two directions. Individual eschatology asks what happens to each person after death — believer or unbeliever — and probes the intermediate state, the separation of body and soul, the Resurrection to Final Judgment, and what a final reward in Heaven or judgment in Hell might look like. Cosmic, or global, eschatology widens the view to God’s purposes for the whole earth: the Millennium of the Book of Revelation and its rival interpretations, the new heavens and the new earth, whether the eternal state is spiritual or physical, and the resurrection of the just and the unjust. In two minutes the lesson resolves into three components — the broad definition, the personal application, and the cosmic implications.
That tidy definition is precisely why this recording matters here. Roxz.tv and its curator hold no quarrel with Jews, Christians, Catholics, Muslims, or any people; the quarrel is with eschatologies — the Stories of the End Times that turn human beings into zealous automatons, programmed by the program, slaves of the story. A lie told often enough, with enough emphasis, or under threat of hellfire and damnation, becomes truth, and competing end-times fictions have proven strong enough to ignite world wars and justify genocides. Alan Moore and Grant Morrison have spent their careers showing how fictions become realities; that is the hidden mechanism beneath every colliding eschatology — ancient fictions that are today becoming blood-in-the-streets realities. Consider Manifest Destiny: in the mid-1800s it swept the continent, absorbing, syncretizing, erasing, and destroying every culture and people in its path — an eschatology of conquest wearing the mask of providence. This is foundational work. The Museum exists to expose how damaging fundamentalist eschatologies ruin lives and reshape the geopolitical landscape, because eschatologies are the stories behind how New World Orders get built.
Synopsis
– The question is posed plainly: What is eschatology?
– In its simplest sense, Eschatology is the study of the End Times — the study of the last things.
– The term is then applied in two further senses, beginning with the individual or personal.
– Individual eschatology asks what happens to a person after death — believer or unbeliever — when that death precedes the return of Christ.
– The hardest questions follow: the intermediate state, the separation of body and soul, and the Resurrection to Final Judgment.
– Lister names the stakes — a reward in Heaven or judgment in Hell.
– “Individual eschatology is what we’re talking about there.”
– The lens widens to cosmic or global eschatology and God’s purposes for the whole earth.
– This is the culmination of God’s plan of redemption, not merely individual destiny.
– The Millennium of the Book of Revelation appears, with its competing interpretations.
– The plan for the new heavens and the new earth is raised: spiritual, physical, or a combination?
– The eternal state comes into view — final judgment for believers and unbelievers, the resurrection of the just and the unjust.
– The lesson resolves into three components: the broad definition, the application to individuals, and the cosmic implications of Eschatology.
Source: Thirdmill