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I have been reading on and off the last few months through Edward Fudge's The Fire That Consumes (it's really long and exhaustive) and came across this passage I found interesting and just wanted to share here, located in a section where Fudge talks about the book of Revelation and cites the observations of a writer named Hanns Lilje concerning what appears to be the final "battle" between God's believers and the followers of Darkness in Revelation 20:
Hanns Lilje, who finished his commentary while imprisoned under Hitler’s Gestapo, marvels that John gives no description here of any battle. “The very moment when this purpose of God is fulfilled,” he writes, “the mighty power of the beast shrivels up like a collapsed balloon, as if it had never been. It has been unmasked, and its true character revealed: it was empty, futile presumption.”39 Lilje writes, “Fire from heaven falls upon these hosts, and annihilates Satan and his armies. God’s will has triumphed gloriously;
Hanns Lilje, who finished his commentary while imprisoned under Hitler’s Gestapo, marvels that John gives no description here of any battle. “The very moment when this purpose of God is fulfilled,” he writes, “the mighty power of the beast shrivels up like a collapsed balloon, as if it had never been. It has been unmasked, and its true character revealed: it was empty, futile presumption.”39 Lilje writes, “Fire from heaven falls upon these hosts, and annihilates Satan and his armies. God’s will has triumphed gloriously;
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