Premillennialism | Belief Origin

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Premillennialism

~100 AD — early church

Premillennialism holds that Christ will return before (pre) the millennial kingdom described in Revelation 20 — a literal thousand-year reign of Christ on earth. This is the dominant eschatological view of the early church fathers (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Papias). It was displaced by Augustine’s amillennial allegorical interpretation and suppressed in medieval Catholicism. The Reformation revived interest in eschatology, and premillennialism recovered through the Puritan movement, the Plymouth Brethren (John Nelson Darby, who develops dispensational premillennialism ~1830 AD), and 19th-20th century evangelical and fundamentalist movements. Dispensational premillennialism — which adds the concept of the Rapture and divides history into distinct ‘dispensations’ — is the dominant eschatological view among American evangelical Protestants. The Scofield Reference Bible (1909) and the Left Behind series (1995–2007) are its most influential popular vehicles.