Essays on Premillennialism: A Modern Reaffirmation of an Ancient Doctrine. Jerome identifies him as a premillennialist. ^ In his Commentary on Revelation and from the fragment De Fabrica Mundi (Part of a commentary on Genesis).^ Note this is Victorinus of Pettau not Marcus Piav(v)onius Victorinus the Gaelic Emperor.^ Simonetti writes in the Encyclopedia of the Early Church “We know that Melito was also a millenarian" regarding Jerome's reference to him as a chiliast.^ According to the Encyclopedia of the Early Church “ Commodian (mid 3rd c.) takes up the theme of the 7000 years, the last of which is the millennium ( Instr.Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. He considers the Mosaic history of the creation a type of six ages of labor for the world, each lasting a thousand years, and of a millennium of rest, since with God ‘one day is as a thousand years.’ Millennial Sabbath on earth will be followed by an eight and eternal day in a new world, of which the Lord’s Day (called by Barnabas ‘the eighth day’) is the type" ( access The Epistle of Barnabas here). ^ ”Among the Apostolic Fathers Barnabas is the first and the only one who expressly teaches a pre-millennial reign of Christ on earth.^ Chung, Sung Wook Mathewson, David L.A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, Volume 1, ICC. ^ Reverend Doctor Stephen Call "Historic Premillennialism" (2019).^ Reverend Doctor Stephen Call "Premillennialism"(2021).^ Reverend Doctor Stephen Call "Overview of Eschatology"(2019).Carson, Gordon Clark, Bryan Chapell, and Carl F. Individual proponents of historic premillennialism include: John Gill, Robert Shank, Charles Spurgeon, Mike Bickle, Benjamin Wills Newton (a contemporary and fierce theological rival of the father of dispensationalism, John Nelson Darby), George Eldon Ladd, Albert Mohler, Clarence Bass, John Piper, Francis Schaeffer, D. Proponents of historic premillennialism include Baptists, Presbyterians, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and several Evangelical groups. However, the premillennial views of Montanus probably affected the later rejection of premillennialism in the Church, as Montanism was seen as a heresy. Premillennialism was supported by in the early church by Papias, Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Pseudo-Barnabas, Methodius, Lactantius, Commodianus, Theophilus, Melito, Hippolytus of Rome, Victorinus of Pettau, Nepos, Julius Africanus, Commodianus, Tatian and Montanus. Thus, historic premillennialists see no issue with the church going through the Great Tribulation, and their system does not require a separate pre-tribulational rapture of some believers as the dispensational system does. Historic premillennialists do not see so sharp a distinction between Israel and the church as the dispensationalists do, but instead view believers of all ages as part of one group, now revealed as the body of Christ. See the summary of Christian eschatological differences.Ī major difference between historic and dispensational premillennialism is the view of the church in relation to Israel. The two major species of premillennialism are historic and dispensational premillennialism, the latter of which is associated with pre-tribulational and mid-tribulational views. Premillennialism is a view alternative to both postmillennialism, which teaches that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur after a thousand-year period of righteousness, and to amillennialism, which teaches that the thousand-year period is not meant to be taken literally but is the current church/messianic age. Papias was an early advocate of Millennialism Post-tribulational premillennialism is the Christian eschatological view that the second coming of Jesus Christ will occur prior to a thousand-year reign of the saints but subsequent to the Great Apostasy (and to any tribulation). The doctrine is called "historic" because many early church fathers appear to have held it, including Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, and Papias. Historic premillennialism does not require that apocalyptic prophecies be interpreted literally. Historic premillennialists hold to a post-tribulational rapture, meaning the church is raised to meet Christ in the air after the trials experienced during the Great Tribulation. It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation). Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism.
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