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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...

in which they were written. He writes: “It is fitting to add to these accounts the true prediction of our Saviour in which he foretold these very events. His words are as follows: ‘Woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. For there shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.’ ”47 The discerning reader will recognize
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