ABSTRACT
During Interregnum England, the Quakers waged war against the world, fighting with the weapons of the Spirit as their prophets "alarum'd the Nation". This chapter examines the politics of apocalyptic language and scriptural myth-making in some of George Fox's most polemical writings of this revolutionary period when he himself was actively serving as the "Lamb's Officer". It considers how his millenarian texts, which announced that the dreadful day of the Lord was coming, engaged with religious and political authorities. The chapter also examines, more distinctly than commentators on Quaker culture have usually done, the verbal and scriptural texture of Fox's vehement apocalyptic writing during the Interregnum years when he and other Quaker prophets thought that they were living "in the last times". Fox managed to revitalize prophetic scriptural language, metaphors, and myths so that they indeed acquired fresh eschatological meanings and became potent weapons with which to alarm the nation and wage the unsettling War of the Lamb.
