Replacement Theology Part 2 of 2

The transition from a pre-millennial views of the early church in the first three centuries developed to the predominantly amillennial, postmillennial or anti-millennial view. “Augustine arbitrarily made the millennium non-literal, while everything else was literal. 6. That’s what happened, and the Roman Catholic Church became amillennial, and the Protestant Reformers like Calvin, Luther and others went back to Augustine rather than to the Bible, and adopted amillennialism too.
7. But, it wasn’t until the 19th and 20th Centuries when the Bible Conference movement began, and people began to ask what does the Scripture actually say?
8. It was not until then that premillennialism became again a prominent feature in the church--as it is today in some churches, at least.

1. In the first century the church was largely Jewish in its background. They were the evangelists, and they were the apostles.
2. As the gospel grew and the Church spread, it became largely Gentile.
3. The millennium is a time when the Jews are prominent.
4. It could be that there is a latent anti-Semitism in that they were quite unconscious of, that made them question whether Israel is going to have a literal future like the Bible clearly says.