Revelation 20:11

John hints where Isaiah is explicit (Revelation 6:1). Nothing is said about the uselessness of intercession; cf. 4 Ezra 7 :[102 115] 33: “and the Most High shall be revealed upon the judgment-seat, and compassion shall pass away, long-suffering shall be withdrawn”. Enoch xc. 20 sets up the throne near Jerusalem, and most apocalypses are spoiled by similarly puerile details. Compare with 11 b the tradition in Asc. Isa. iv. 18 where the voice of the Beloved (i.e., messiah) at the close of the millennium rebukes in wrath heaven and earth, the hills and cities, the angels of the sun and moon, “and all things wherein Beliar manifested himself and acted openly in this world”. John's Apocalypse, however, follows (yet cf. Revelation 22:12) that tradition of Judaism which reserved the judgment for God and not for the messiah (Esther 4:1-10; Esther 4:1-10; 2Es 7:33 f. anti-Christian polemic?) although another conception (En. xlv. 3, lix. 27 etc.; Ap. Bar. 72:2 6) assigning it to the messiah had naturally found greater favour in certain Christian circles.