The full antithesis is found in the final contrast between the New Jerusalem and the Old Babylon, the City of God and the City of Sin, or the Redeemed Church and the Godless World.
IV A Threefold Theocratic Method in Man's Redemptive History
1 By Moral Conflict—the Evil against the Good;
2 Through Divine Preservation—God Caring for his Own;
3 Unto Christian Triumph—the Victory of the Redeemed.
Appendix B: Current Questions of Divided Opinion
I The Four Schools of Interpretation
1 The Preterist, or Contemporaneous-Historical School;