Human Realities can Be Superimposed

...Because the fulness is greater than any single human event can describe, the human realities involved can be superimposed one upon another. So at Jesus’ death in, let us say, 28 AD he pronounces the word “It is accomplished”. The loud voice which comes out of the Temple, from the Throne, as the seventh angel pours his bowl into the air in 70 AD says “It is done.” These are both that same word as its fulness reaches its maximal impact in human affairs. The same can be said for persecutions from the Maccabean period and those of the years immediately prior to AD70—the same beasts with horns could be seen at work with different imperial “drag”—Hellenistic or Roman. As at the time of Daniel the same beast could be the Greeks, or the Assyrians or the Babylonians...

James Alison, "Creation fulfilled and the Book of Revelation: Some questions about order, disorder and the 'apocalyptic' genre" (2018), 3-6.

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