Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 6th January 2016 in Second coming Series | Revelation,New Jerusalem,The Church,Holy City,Early Church,Early Church Fathers,Eusebius,Origen,Barnabas,millennium,millennial reign,1000 years,New Heaven and Earth
...eared the
coming kingdom like Herod did. But when quizzed, the Christians said it was not an earthly one they were waiting for, but a heavenly one (though admittedly, they were still waiting for it to come at the end of time itself).
And when they were asked concerning Christ and his
kingdom, of what sort it was and where and when it was to appear, they answered that it was not a temporal nor an earthly
kingdom, but a heavenly and angelic one, which would appear at the end of the world, when he should come in glory to judge the quick and the dead, and to give unto every one according to his works.
– Eusebius, Church History, Book 3, ch. 20.6
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