According to Jewish Apocalypticism, the World Was Ruled by

According to Jewish apocalypticism, the world was ruled by

A) evil powers that would one day be crushed by the Messiah, God's chosen agent, after which the righteous would be rewarded and the evil punished.
B) corrupt human beings whose crimes would one day incur God's wrath and cause the destruction of earth by fire.
C) a positive divine force who secured a blessed afterlife for believers.
D) the Messiah, who was gathering the souls of the righteous into an army that would destroy evil people throughout the world.