Acknowledgments
I want to thank God who gave me the grace and stamina to write this study. My hope is this work will achieve for the people of God a deeper understanding for Christâs future Parousia and kingdom. I thank with deepest gratitude my wife, Donna, who was beginning to think that I would be bound to this writing project for a thousand years. Thank you for your loving patience. I also want to thank Stanley E. Porter, Cynthia Long Westfall, and Martin M. Culy for their constructive criticisms on my Greek linguistic analyses as it helped to produce a more competent work. I thank Christopher D. Land for introducing me early on to important studies on the literature of cohesion; John J. H. Lee for his feedback on my cohesive harmony analysis; Francis X. Gumerlock for his comments on the appendix concerning historical views on the millennium; Michael J. Svigel for providing me with his unpublished notes regarding the issue of the identity of the ones who sat on thrones in Rev 20:4; David J. Fuller and his encouragement to keep pressing on; and Zachary K. Dawson for his tedious proof of the manuscript.
Finally, I dedicate this work to David and Kristen Wisen, who helped me achieve this time-consuming project through their support and prayers. I am grateful and humbled.