Angels-MILLENNIALISM

The term millenarian or millennialist is applied to people who believe in
the coming of a golden age—an age of light, truth, and love—usually
by supernatural means, and whose religious life is saturated by this
expectation. Although the term originated in the Christian tradition
(referring to the paradisiacal thousand-year period of Christ’s rule—
the millennium—in which, according to Revelation 20, history and
the world as we know it will terminate), by extension other, non-
Christian religious movements that are characterized by such an
expectation are also referred to as millenarian.
Norman Cohn, in his classic study The Pursuit of the Millennium,
outlines five traits that characterize the way in which millennialist
movements picture the collective salvation of humanity. The fifth and
final characteristic he ascribes to millenarians is the belief that this
collective salvation will be accomplished by or with the help of supernatural
agents. In traditional Christianity, these supernatural agents
are angels. Millennialist views of the end of time often include an
apocalyptic scenario in which the old world is destroyed in order to
make way for the new. At a spiritual level, this destruction usually
involves battles between angelic and demonic forces, as in the Book of
Revelation.