20:11–15 Next the seer sees a great white throne and him who is seated on it; he witnesses there the last judgment as yet a final episode in the concluding chapter of God’s triumph at Christ’s parousia. What is so striking about this vision is not John’s recapitulation of the universal judgment theme—that the dead, great and small, stood before the throne to be judged by God according to the books. Rather, it is the realization that God’s judgment of all creatures and nations, and of Satan and his unholy comrades, does not yet conclude the history of evil. The final enemies are death and Hades (cf. 1:17–18) because they are the results of evil in the world. They too, together with the demonic se…