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The Kingdom of Israel
John Shepard
April 8, 2002
Overview
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The purpose of this article is to show at a glance what the early church fathers believed regarding the end-times.
I have analyzed the end-time viewpoint of 31 Early Church Fathers up to and including Augustine. The results:
10 were premillennial and 5 (or more) were amillennial.
13 were NOT premillennial and 7 were NOT amillennial.
In conclusion, it is not correct to say (as many premillennialists do) that the early church fathers were premillennialists.
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I analyzed the writings of each of the major early church fathers (or writings from others about their views) and categorized them according to their end-time viewpoint. This page list the results of this study.
Note: in the following, a writer may fall into more than one category
Based on 6,000 years of human history (which is wrong) -- 5
End didn't come when they said -- 2
Different than modern ideas -- 10
Had amillennial ideas -- 1
Definite -- 7
Probable -- 3
Definite -- 9
Probable -- 4
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Total -- 31
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Since this study was not to determine if a writer was amillennial there are more entries under "other" then there might be otherwise.
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Total -- 31
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