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Amillennialism was the dominant view of the Protestant Reformers.

The Lutheran Church formally rejected chiliasm in the The Augsburg Confession — “ Art.

XVII., condemns the Anabaptists ( of Munster -- historically most Anabaptist groups were amillennial ) and others ’ who now scatter Jewish opinions that, before the resurrection of the dead, the godly shall occupy the kingdom of the world, the wicked being everywhere suppressed .’" Likewise, the Swiss Reformer, Heinrich Bullinger wrote up the Second Helvetic Confession which reads " We also reject the Jewish dream of a millennium, or golden age on earth, before the last judgment.

" John Calvin wrote in Institutes that chiliasm is a " fiction " that is " too childish either to need or to be worth a refutation.

" He interpreted the thousand year period of Revelation 20 non-literally, applying it to the " various disturbances that awaited the church, while still toiling on earth.