This person,{Christ} exercising the righteous judjment of the Father towards all men, hath prepared a just sentance for everyone, according to his works, at whose judgment seat, when all men, and angels, and demons shall stand, they will send forth one voice, and say just is thy judgment--------- but the just shall remember only their righteous actions whereby they have attained the heavenly kingdom, in which there is no sleep, no sorrow, no corruption no care, no night, no day measured by time, no sun driven in his course along the circle of heaven by necessity; and measuring out the bounds and conversions of the seasons, for the better illumination of the life of men, no moon decreasing and increasing, or introducing a variety of seasons, not will she then moisten the earth' no burning sun, no Bear turning around the pole, no Orion to rise, no wandering of innumerable stars. The earth will not then be difficult to be passed over, nor will it be hard to find out the court of Paradise, nor will there be any fearful roaring of the sea, forbidding the passengers to walk on it' even that will be made easily passable to the just, though it will not be void of moisture. Heaven will not then be uninhabitable by men; and it will not be impossible to discover the way of ascending thither. The earth will not be uncultivated, nor require too much labor of men, but will bring forth its fruits of its own accord, and will be well adorned with them. There will be no more generations of wild beasts, --------the number of the righteous shall continue, and never fail together with righteous angels, and spirits[of God] and with his word, as a choir of righteous men and women that never grow old and continue in an incorruptible state, singing hymns to God, who hath advanced them to that happines, by the means of a regular institution of life' whith whom the whole creation also will lift up a perpetual hymn from corruption to incorruption as glorified by a splendid and pure spirit.---------

I don't know what authority Josephus had if any, but sounds like he was a believer.

• JOSEPHUS'S DISCOURSE ... CONCERNING HADES