Then, now and tomorrow: Ethical relevance of biblical eschatology

Biblical eschatology is a coin where two inextricable sides concur and interact: the circumstances contemporaneous to the prophet and those envisioned for the future while proleptically mirrored in the former. Ethical relevance and an implicit stewardship of power shine in both as a seamless flux linking past, present and future, and stressing the inescapable option either for good or for evil within the all-encompassing historical scenario of the controversy between God and Satan.