Millennial Views Following the Ante-Nicene Church: Postmillennialism and Conclusion – Part 4

POSTMILLENNIALISM In the late 17th century, the Unitarian Daniel Whitby (1638-1726) developed a new alternative to both Premillennialism and Amillennialism: Postmillennialism.[1]  Just as the name suggests, Postmillennialism is the belief that Jesus will return after the thousand years of Revelation 20.  In this scheme, the Millennium, whether literal or figurative for a long period, is […]

Daniel 2:44 and the Failure of Preterism

Preterism is a form of eschatology that holds to the belief that all of Biblical prophecy was fulfilled by or soon after 70 A.D. with the destruction of Jerusalem. There is also partial Preterism which is exactly what it sounds like. There are vagaries within the partial preterist camp. Suffice it to say the partial […]

Irenaeus Did Not Teach that Jesus Lived into His Fifties Before Being Crucified

Several ante-Nicene Church Fathers confirm that Revelation was written toward the end of Domitian’s reign. This places the date of Revelation’s composition at approximately 95 or 96 A.D. Irenaeus’ teaching on this represents the earliest extant quote on the matter. Because the partial and full preterists scheme falls apart if Revelation was written after 70 […]