Should we fear a cataclysmic end of the world as we transition into the new millennium? Or do the biblical apocalyptic images signify instead a personal call for a change in spirit?

Hidden Millennium explains why a personal, rather than a universal, apocalypse is intended by the Book of Revelation. Summarizing past millennial movements, Stephen Koke explains the fallacy of doomsday predictions that keeps them from materializing. Dire prophecies of a Last Judgment are starkly contrasted to the symbolic interpretation offered by theologian Emanuel Swedenborg: through him we come to see the Last Judgment as hopeful, not fearful.