: Historical Pre-Millennial

Historical Pre-Millennial
Non-Dispensational

Specific Distinctives:
Christ's return does not end history
Do not see a sharp distinction between Israel and the Church
There is no ‗secret rapture' or 7-year Tribulation
Great apostasy and tribulation occur before the return of Christ
The Church will be persecuted by the Antichrist
This view is similar to Post-Tribulationalism
The Millennium separates the "first" resurrection from the "second" resurrection
Satan will be bound, and the kingdom will be made visible during the Millennial reign of Christ
Satan loosed at the end of the Millennium instigating the rebellion of Gog and Magog
God destroys the rebellion and the "second" resurrection or final judgment occurs
The creation of a new Heaven and Earth occurs and eternity begins

Background:
This appears to be the view of many of church fathers up to the 4th century
The Didache (circa 90-100 AD) (Chapter 16) contains elements of Futuristic Pre-Mil thought (future Antichrist, Great Tribulation)
Ireneaus (140-203), who as a disciple of Polycarp, who had been an disciple of the apostle of John, along with Justin Martyr (100-165), Tertullian (160-225) and Papias (80-155) were Premillennial proponents
Pre-third century Chiliasts: Lactanitus, Hippolytus, Methodious, Commodianus
Epistle of Barnabas (~ 100 AD) is claimed as an early Pre-Mil document

Works:
Robert Duncan Culver, Daniel and the Latter Days (Moody Press, 1977)
George E. Ladd, A Commentary on the Revelation, (1987)
Craig Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung, A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology (2009) Theological Persuasion:
Some are Calvinists and some are Arminians

Chruches:
Presbyterians, Baptists, independent chruches
Some staff at both Fuller Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Evangelical Free) and Denver Seminary

Past Notables:
F.F. Bruce,, Walter Martin, J. Barton Payne, Heny Alford, Theodore Zahn (German NT specialist),
Francis Schaeffer, John Gill, George Eldon Ladd, James Montgomery Boice
Charles Spurgeon is also cited as holding Historic Pre-Mil views

Current Notables:
John Warwick Montgomery, Roger E. Olson, Wayne Grudem, Millard Erickson, Russell D. Moore, Douglas J. Moo, David Pawson,
Craig L. Blomberg (Denver Seminary), Gordon Clark, D. A. Carson, Robert Gundry, Mark Driscoll, John Piper

Web Sites
www.theologue.org/HistoricPremillennialism-WickBromall.html
www.theologicalstudies.citymax.com/premillennialism.html
www.reformedreader.org/mchart.htm

Quotes:
"I am not Pretrib. I believe that there is one more coming of Christ not two, and that at that coming he will not take the churchback to heaven but will gather the church to reign on the earth" (John Piper Q&A)

"The most striking point in the eschatology of the ante-Nicene age is the prominent chiliasm, or millenarianism, that is the beliefof a visible reign of Christ in glory on earth with the risen saints for a thousand years, before the general resurrection and judgment." (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, 2:614)