Irenaes's eschatological vision includes many details which we will explore and fill out in due course. However, we will see that his eschatological perspective may be described as premillennial and futurist, as he believed in a 7 year tribulation period at the end of the age, climaxing in the return of Christ as king, the resurrection of the righteous as well as a remnant of mortal survivors of the Antichrist reign left to repopulate the Earth, followed by a 1000 year intermediate Kingdom and concluding with the resurrection of the wicked and ushering in of the eternal renewed creation. Though he claimed to have received this foundation in structure of his eschatology from his previous generation, - the students of the apostles- this eschatology took different paths after the second century. - Michael J. Svigel, The Fathers on the Future, p.8