Christian History Aspects

• Not One Stone Left Upon Another : The catastrophic fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 forever changed the face of Judaism—and the fate of Christians

• Preterist Kerygma:  “The fall of Jerusalem was the vengeance of God upon the Jewish Nation for their rejection of the Gospel.”

• JEWISH/CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL STUDIES (1500BC-AD70)

•  EARLY CHRISTIAN PRETERISM (AD70-1000)

• Attractions of the New Perspective(s) on Paul

• Jerry Jenkins on the Second Coming of Christ

• LaHaye, Has Jesus Already Come?, p. 7)

• St. Chrysostom (4th Century)

• St. Chrysostom’s Liturgy

• Gary DeMar and Francis X. Gumerlock: The Early Church and the End of the World

• Jonathan Edwards

• Miscellany #1199

• Philip Schaff

• Eusebius
  Proof of the Gospel

• 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth

• Tommy Ice

• The Proof of the Gospel

• Olivet Discourse

• Chrysostom

• Origen

• Premillennialism

• Dispensationalism

• Chrysostom’s Matthew Homilies

•  “Shreds of Preterism” Among First Century Writers

• Theology Adrift: The Early Church Fathers and Their Views of Eschatology

• Christ as the spiritual Israel

• preterist Emperor Constantine

• Alan Patrick Boyd

• St. Athanasius

• Melito of Sardis

• Odes of Solomon 

• Theophania

• Samuel Lee

• Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem

• N. Nisbett

• FIRST CENTURY WRITERS
  (USING ROBINSON’S DATES)

• King Jesus
  (Around AD30)

• Matthewc. 40-60+)

• Mark the Evangelist
  (c. 45-60)

• Luke: “Western Acts” (c.-57-62+)

•  Milton Terry 

• scriptural glosses.

NOTE: Naturally, pre-A.D.70 writings (such as the book of Revelation) are still in the framework of prophecy, and not fulfillment; However, I wish to show the time-frame references of Scripture to show the apparent absolute nearness of external fulfillment.  Many precise dates are not known by the Archive curator. In such cases, the time will be listed as whether early (E), mid (M), or late (L) in the appropriate century/centuries. Robinson’s dates are used for all first century Christian writings.

 

 

 

Dead Sea Scrolls (I Cent. BC/AD)

Mara BarSerapion (“A.D.73 Syrian”)

Josephus (75-79)

“Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs”

EARLY CHURCH (EC) – A) Views espoused by all Christian sources during the first thousand years of church history, during which the only systematizing being done was in Catholic and Orthodox circles.  B) This class includes all the earliest church fathers, historians and pseudepigraphic writers, dating back to the writings of the New Testament.  C) Sources could be considered “Historicist” or “Futurist” but very rarely “Preterist” in any developed way (Eusebius would be the most likely to be considered Preterist)  (Broadest in Years, Broadest in Doctrine – First Thousand Years of Church History – Pret-related comments color-coded with “Historical Preterism” due to similarities)

Shepherd of Hermas (-c. 85)	Second Baruch (c.70s)	Odes of Solomon (L I Cent.)	Ignatius (50-117)	Mathetes (130-200)
Justin Martyr (150)	Melito of Sardis (M, II Cent.)	Pseudo Clement (L, II Cent.)	Hegesippus (165-175)	Gospel of Peter (80-110)
Clement of Alex. (L, II Cent.)	Irenaeus (174)	Origen (L II, E III Cent.)	Hippolytus (L II, E III Cent.)	Cyprian (250)
Victorinus (270-303)	Lactantius (260-330)	Eusebius (325)	Athanasius (327)	Aphrahat (345)
Chrysostom (347)	Epiphanes (315-403)	Pseudo Chrys. (L, IV C.)	Syrian Ephraim (c.306-373)	Sulpicius Severus (360-425)
Pseudo Hegesippus (370)	Ambrose of Milan (390)	Gregory of Nyssa (385)	Sulpicius Severus (403)	St. Jerome (405)
Augustine (409)	Isidore of Pelusium (412)	Joshua the Stylite (507) “On the region of Mesopotamia also, in which we dwell, great calamities weighed heavily in this year, so that the things which Christ our Lord decreed in His Gospel against Jerusalem, and actually brought to pass..” (Syriac Chronicle XLIX)
John Cassian (435)	St. Remigius (437- 533)	Andreas (L V, E VI Cent.)	St. Remigius (437-533)	Arethas (M, VI Cent.)

Below is a table of some of the Christian theologians of the Middle Ages.  Many display prophet fulfillment in the form of spiritual exercises, but nearly all remain within the official Futurist Catholic dogma.

• The Second 1,000 Years of Christian History & The Protestant Reformation Period

  16th-18th Centuries | 19th Century | 20th Century

• The Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem – N. Nisbett (1787)

• The Prophecy of Matthew 24 – Dr. Thomas Newton (1754).

• Preterist Eschatology in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

• On the Early History of Christianity

• The Second Coming of Christ and the Destruction of the World)

• The Parousia, by James Stuart Russell

• Apocalypse of the Gospels, by Milton S. Terry.

  Newcombe Cappe (1801)	Dr. John Smith (1804)	John Jortin (1805)	John Gill (1809)	Adam Clarke (1810)
  Thomas Scott (1817)	Albert Barnes (1832)	Alexander Keith (1832)	Johann Neander (1837)	Noah Webster (1838)
  Daniel Smith (1840)	Ephraim Currier (1841)	Samuel Lee (1842)	Abiel Livermore (1843)	Moses Stuart (1845)
  Rudolph E. Stier (1851)	E.B. Elliott (1851)	Heinrich Meyer (1852)	John Brown (1852)	P.S. Desprez (1854)
  Robert Roberts (1855)	Carl A. Auberlen (1856)	Johann P. Lange (1857)	David Brown (1858)	Benjamin Jowett (1860)
  F.D. Maurice (1861)	A.R. Fausset (1871)	Robert Jamieson (1871)	J.B. Lightfoot (1871)	Ernest Renan (1873)
  Philip Schaff (1877)	William Patton (1877)	James S. Russell (1878)	C.H. Spurgeon (1878)	Israel P. Warren (1879)
  Isaak A. Dorner (1879)	Henry Cowles (1881)	John Broadus (1886)	F.W. Farrar (1886)
  B.W. Johnson (1891)	E. Hampden-Cook (1891)	Alexander Brown (1894)	Ezra Gould (1896)	Milton Terry (1898)

The Ways of Providence.. The Overthrow of the Jewish Commonwealth by the Romans and the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus – Robert Roberts (1881) “The survey of the ways of providence would be incomplete without something more than a glance at the events attending the overthrow of Jerusalem and disruption of the Jewish polity over thirty-five years after Christ left the earth. At first sight, it might seem as if this were outside the scope of the work which aims at the illustration of the subject from Biblical narrative alone. On a further consideration, however, the matter must appear otherwise. Although we have no scriptural narrative of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, yet we have much scriptural forecast of that terrible event, and therefore the particulars of the event are the particulars of a divine work. ” | Holford, George Peter – The Destruction of Jerusalem (1803) | Renan, Ernest – Antichrist (1873) | Terry, Milton S. – Apocalypse of the Gospels (1898) | The Parousia  (1878) | Schaff, Philip – History of the Christian Church (1898)