There are a handful of historical reasons why after three hundred years the Church overall shifted away from premillennialism to amillennialism. Historian Richard Kyle encapsulates one of the most significant reasons: “The rejection of apocalyptic [pre]millennialism [by later church fathers] must be seen in its proper context. Constantine had been converted to Christianity in 312, [...]
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A Significant Reason Why the Church Shifted to Amillennialism 300 Years After Christ
March 30th, 2009 
Alan Kurschner An Encapsulated Dynamic from Three Millennial Perspectives
July 26th, 2008 Alan Kurschner The Millennial Maze, pp. 139-41 (To be sure, the author of this “comparison” book is Amill and his bias comes out in various places; nevertheless, Grenz does have a keen, nuanced eye when describing the dynamic between millennial positions.) Historic premillennialists have attempted to carve out a distinctive position between dispensationalism on the one side, [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – Revelation 20:3 and Its Purpose Clause
July 14th, 2008 Alan Kurschner “and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.” – Rev 20:3 I came across some helpful points on Revelation 20:3 by someone named [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – A Plea to Amillennialists to Read Revelation 20:1-6 in Context
July 7th, 2008 Alan Kurschner Inevitably, when the discussion of Premill versus Amill is broached, the text “Revelation 20:1-6″ is invoked. This is unfortunate because that is not where the passage begins, so the amill proponent (and sadly the premill can do this as well) dives right in the middle of the passage ignoring what precedes it. The immediate passage [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – Hebrews 11:10, 16
June 29th, 2008 Alan Kurschner These two verses are common proof-texts used by Amillennialists who make the false assumption that the “heavenly” new Jerusalem must be understood as nonearthly. Amillennialism frequently makes this false dichotomy, and you need to be aware of this in order to respond properly and Biblically. The following is an excerpt from Robert L. Saucy’s book, [...]
Premillennial Nuggets: The Coming Millennial Kingdom : A Case for Premillennial Interpretation
December 12th, 2007 Alan Kurschner Edited by Donald K. Campbell and Jeffrey L. Townsend Fourteen evangelical scholars have brought together a collection of essays for the best case for Premillennialism under one cover. With each scholar writing in his field of expertise, this book covers both the Old and New Testaments and gives cogent exegetical evidence for Premillennialism. The Post [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – Luke 21:24
The Times of the Gentiles
September 24th, 2007 Alan Kurschner [The following is a selection taken from the Parousia #14 newsletter by Charles Cooper.] “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” It would be difficult to [...]
Posted in Premillennialism Premillennial Nuggets – Premillennialism Can Claim Orthodoxy
August 22nd, 2007 Alan Kurschner Recently, I have been discussing Premillennialism with a good friend of mine who is Amillennial. The subject of what the early church fathers believed was broached. I mentioned to him that it is fact that the very early church fathers in a singular voice affirmed premillennialism (He takes criticism well). His response to me was [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – Daniel 9:24
God’s Covenant Promises to Israel and Jerusalem
August 18th, 2007 Alan Kurschner [The following is a selection taken from the Parousia #14 newsletter by Charles Cooper.] “Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophesy and to anoint [...]
Premillennial Nuggets – Acts 15:12-18
The Restoration of the Nation Israel
August 10th, 2007 Alan Kurschner [The following is a selection taken from the Parousia #14 newsletter by Charles Cooper.] And all the multitude kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God has done through them among the Gentiles. And after they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying
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