a position of splendor appropriate to a herald of victory. From this vantage point he will be able to deliver effectively his message to the birds that circle in mid-heaven. His message is, Come to the great supper of God and gorge on the flesh of the fallen! Representative of a somewhat squeamish point of view, one writer calls this a “bloodthirsty picture … far more in line with Old Testament apocalyptic expectations than with the gospel of Jesus Christ.”1 That it draws upon OT apocalyptic is