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QUESTIONS - Did Early Church Fathers Reject Postmillennialism?

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9801 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

A lot of Christians say that Postmillennialism is a recent fad, without any representation in church history. Is this statement true?

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0:00.0

Is it true that the early church fathers rejected post-millennialism?

0:06.6

The answer is no.

0:08.6

Yes, in a sense, but ultimately, no.

0:12.0

Okay, so let me read real quick.

0:14.0

Let me read a couple excerpts that I have highlighted here.

0:19.4

As far as our preserved writings go, I just, I did all that because

0:22.9

I first wanted you to see, you know, who cares about the church fathers if we're comparing that

0:28.2

to the witness of scripture? First, I wanted you to see that post-millennialism, I believe, is in the

0:33.0

Bible. And there are multiple other places we could go. Isaiah chapter 65, 1 Corinthians

0:36.8

chapter 15. There are many different other things that we could go. Isaiah chapter 65, 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

0:37.7

There are many different other things that we could look at.

0:41.1

Revelation chapter 1.

0:42.2

We'll look at that here in a moment.

0:44.6

First, I want you to see it's biblical.

0:46.4

Second, I want you to see that it does bear the witness of church history and the early

0:50.2

church fathers as well.

0:51.8

Here we go.

0:52.5

Some things that I want to highlight. As far as our

0:56.1

preserved writings go, premillennialism finds a slightly earlier development than post-millennialism.

1:02.0

So anybody who says that premillennialism is the earliest, in terms of church history, is the

1:07.3

earliest eschatology. They are correct. That's true. However, dispensational

1:12.6

premillennialism is not the earliest. In fact, dispensational premillennialism is only about 150 years old.

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