Early Historical Advocates for a Kingdom of God on Earth

Over the course of Christianity, who has believed in a future restoration of the kingdom of God upon the earth? Below, you’ll find out who defended the kingdom belief in the first four centuries of the Christian Church, before it faded out of the mainstream and got replaced with a belief in a celestial reward in the heavens.

Author(s) of Didache (wrote/edited AD 60-150)

Didache 8:2 — Nor should you pray like the hypocrites.  Instead, pray like this, just as the Lord commanded in his Gospel: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”

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Keywords: kingdom of God, kingdom of heaven, future age, age to come, second coming, second coming of Jesus, second coming of Christ, early church fathers, church fathers, early Christianity, Hippolytus, Didache, Clement of Rome, Epistle of Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, Ignatius, Polycarp, Hermas, Shepherd of Hermas, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Commodian, Nepos, Lactantius, Victorinus, Dialogue with Trypho, Trypho, Trypho the Jew

Bible reference(s): Isaiah 11:6-10, Isaiah 65:25, Hosea 2:18, Ezekiel 37:24-26, 2 Corinthians 5:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7, John 14:3, John 18:36, Luke 17:21, Luke 23:43, Matthew 16:28, Matthew 24:34, Philippians 1:23, Matthew 3:2, Matthew 4:17, Matthew 5:3, Matthew 5:10, Matthew 5:19, Matthew 5:20, Matthew 6:10, Luke 11:2, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 8:11, Matthew 10:7, Matthew 11:11, Matthew 11:12, Matthew 12:28, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:24, Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:33, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 13:45, Matthew 13:47, Matthew 13:52, Matthew 16:19, Matthew 18:1, Matthew 18:3, Matthew 18:4, Matthew 18:23, Matthew 19:14, Matthew 19:23, Matthew 19:24, Matthew 20:1, Matthew 21:31, Matthew 21:43, Matthew 22:2, Matthew 23:13, Matthew 25:1, Matthew 25:14, Mark 1:14, Mark 1:15, Mark 4:11, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:30, Mark 9:1, Mark 9:47, Mark 10:14, Mark 10:15, Mark 10:23, Mark 10:24, Mark 10:25, Mark 12:34, Mark 14:25, Mark 15:43, Luke 4:43, Luke 6:20, Luke 7:28, Luke 8:1, Luke 8:10, Luke 9:2, Luke 9:11, Luke 9:27, Luke 9:60, Luke 9:62, Luke 10:9, Luke 10:11, Luke 11:20, Luke 12:31, Luke 13:18, Luke 13:20, Luke 13:28, Luke 13:29, Luke 14:15, Luke 16:16, Luke 17:20, Luke 17:21, Luke 18:16, Luke 18:17, Luke 18:24, Luke 18:25, Luke 19:11, Luke 21:31, Luke 22:16, Luke 22:18, Luke 23:51, John 3:3, John 3:5, Acts 1:3, Acts 8:12, Acts 14:22, Acts 19:8, Acts 20:25, Acts 28:23, Acts 28:31, Romans 14:17, 1 Corinthians 4:20, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 15:50, Galatians 5:21, Colossians 4:11, 2 Thessalonians 1:5

Source: Compiled.

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