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At the very close of the second century and the beginning of the third we come upon the first bona fide amillennialists, Gaius (or, Caius) who wrote early in the third century; Clement of Alexandria, a teacher at the school there from 193 to 220; his pupil, Origen (185-254); and Dionysius (190-265). It was from these men that premillennialism suffered its first vocal and effective opposition. The nature of this opposition, its exegetical grounds, and the effect upon premillennialism are all significant.

With the close of the third century, the evidence indicates a distinct increase in power in amillennialism and a corresponding loss of power for the premillennialists. In the church, it is clear that the rising tide of amillennialism comes almost entirely from the Alexandrian school, in particular, from Clement, Origen, and Dionysius, all of this locality. Accompanying this change in the church was the corresponding political change under Constantine which became effective more and more in the fourth century. With the coming of Augustine a new day and a new chapter in the history of millennialism was written.

As can be seen, this refusal to believe scripture and insert private interpretation started in Alexandria, Africa...It started with the Catholic religion, of course...Why would a Christian follow a religion that has its roots in Africa???

This false (non)interpretation serves the Catholic religion very well...With it, they gave themselves the role of being the true religion which will last to eternity...They secured their position by joining with the worldwide Roman army and wiping out as many of the 'heretics' as they could find...

With a literal reading of the scriptures with a real Millennium, Rome doesn't exist...There is no legitimate Church of Rome...They must deny the Millennium...

I don't know what happened to the Reformers...They apparently fell off the wagon some time ago, for some reason...

If the Millennium is allegorical, people have to dump countless numbers of passages in the O.T. since they become meaningless and are a waste of good ink and paper...I don't believe God had the O.T. prophets go out and tell stories for what, entertainment???

I don't know what happened to the Reformers...They apparently fell off the wagon some time ago, for some reason...

We have a great deal we can agree with them about, but why they refuse to see how much of the Roman theology they took with them is beyond me. One of the great battle cries of the Reformers were the 5 Solas, one of these being Sola Scriptura. We find Premillennialism in Scripture, you can't find Amillennialism unless you do away with literal interpretation of prophecy.

Great illustration of where allegorical interpretation leads.

It sure seems like we are going to see our LORD any day now with all that's going on in the Middle East. The shame of it is most people don't see the implications of the Pope siding with the Palestinians, or Russia becoming involved in supporting Iraq. Allegorical interpretation blinds people to seeing God's plan playing out right before us.

>> With a literal reading of the scriptures with a real Millennium, Rome doesn't exist...There is no legitimate Church of Rome...They must deny the Millennium...<<

Interesting how that works isn’t it? We see that in many sects. In order to fit scripture into their belief system they must allegorize or ignore parts of scripture.

>> I don't know what happened to the Reformers...They apparently fell off the wagon some time ago, for some reason...<<

I think most people forget or overlook that the Reformers came out of Catholic belief and retained much too much of that belief and practice.