[faithandlife] Re: [FaithandLife] Re: ++Ussher and the Book of Revelation

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From: "The Rev GDVWiebe SSC.,PhD" <gdvw@...>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:42:42 -0000 (GMT)
> Father: I think we can lay much of the blame for 'premillenialism'
et.al. on the defrocked Church of Ireland priest, John Darby. Blessings.
GDVW+                                                                   
              I was just given a copy of ++Ussher's "The Annals of the
World", and while
> scanning the New Testament part of it to the end I discovered what this
> Anglican Archbishop (1581-1656) thought about the Book of Revelation.  He
> wrote:
>
> "This was the end of the Jewish affairs and happened as predicted by Jesus
> in the Gospels.  All these things came to pass in the very same generation
> that heard Jesus speak them, exactly as they were recorded in the Gospels
> {Mt 24:1-35, Mr 13:1-37, Lu 17:20-37 21:5-33}and graphically elaborated on
> by John in the book of Revelation."
>
> I cannot help but wonder when and where the premillenial view (the last
> days
> stuff) entered into Anglican ranks if this was the Archbishop's view then.
>
> Fr. J.
>
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