28/ Here, the prophets insist on the exception of the Parousia—not as futurity but as present reality intensifying toward universal recognition. The eschaton already burns. What's provisional is not its arrival but the conditions still shielding eyes from what stands before them.
19/ Apocalypse is the mercy that won’t permit that: it shatters the wall that keeps theology innocent and the alliance that anesthetizes the world. It names the rulers of this age at their point of seizure, breaking their power precisely where it unseals their claim upon reality.
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Copy of tweet here: The Jewish charge that the messiah has not yet come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent with the parousial initiation of a unicity in which w@nick_routledge · Moltmann, Agamben, Illich and Cayley likewise aver "messianic eclipse" (Benjamin) an aggregate goal of all religious and secular systems hanging upon a Judgment Deferral Complex; and such catastrophic permanency checked only in the game-ending irruption of a "messianic arrest."