The Early Church and the End of the World (Biblia.com)

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The claim has been made by a number of prophecy writers that the early church was predominately premillennial on millennial issues and exclusively futuristic on almost everything else. This means that early Christian writers who commented on prophetic passages like the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21) believed and wrote that the biblical authors were always referring to events in...

by non-canonical authors, and/or copies of what we know today as the New Testament. G. W. H. Lampe argues that “the main principles of the Christian position had been established against Judaism well before the first Jewish war ended,” that “the decisive event which vindicated Jesus as the Christ, the Lord, the Son of God, was not the destruction of his enemies but his resurrection from the dead and his exaltation to God’s right hand.”8 The New Testament focus was off the earthly Jerusalem and its

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