The Nicene Council Endorsed Chiliasm!

(from The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, Vol. 2, 1850) “The Council of Nice which met in the year 325, promulgated among its “forms of ecclesiastical doctrine, according to which all teachers in the church were to frame their discourse,” a declaration which brings out the decided Chiliasm of that assembly.  It is to the following…

Charles Spurgeon- Between The Two Appearings

(1891) “THE two great links between earth and heaven are the two advents of our Lord: or, rather, he is the great bond of union, by these two appearings. When the world had revolted, and God had been defied by his own creatures, a great gulf was opened between God and man. The first coming…

Hippolytus- On The Day of Judgment

(from Discourse On the End of the World, and On Antichrist, and On the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, c. 210 A.D.) For at that time the trumpet shall sound, and awake those that sleep from the lowest parts of the earth, righteous and sinners alike. And every kindred, and tongue, and nation,…

Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Ph.D–On Chiliasm In The Early Church

(from Notes on Eusebius’s Church History, 1890) Chiliasm, or millennarianism,–that is, the belief in a visible reign of Christ on earth for a thousand years before the general judgment,–was very widespread in the early church. Jewish chiliasm was very common at about the beginning of the Christian era, and is represented in the voluminous apocalyptic…

Lactantius- On The Millennial Reign

(from Epitome of the Divine Institutes, c. 320 A.D.) Then the heaven shall be opened in a tempest, and Christ shall descend with great power, and there shall go before Him a fiery brightness and a countless host of angels, and all that multitude of the wicked shall be destroyed, and torrents of blood shall…

Lactantius- On Antichrist & The Last Times

(from Epitome of the Divine Institutes, c. 320 A.D.) When the last end shall begin to approach to the world, wickedness will increase; all kinds of vices and frauds will become frequent; justice will perish; faith, peace, mercy, modesty, truth, will have no existence; violence and daring will abound; no one will have anything, unless…

Charles Spurgeon- Christ Will Gain The Victory!

“For our part, we have been so engaged in seeking to win souls, and in endeavoring to contend with the common errors of the day, that we have scarcely ventured to land upon the rock of Patmos, or to peer into the dark recesses of Daniel and Ezekiel. Yet this much we have ever learned…