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In his lectures on the Last Times_, 1856, and on the The Apocalypse_, 1866, Seiss championed the cause of a chiliasm which the General Council refused to reject.--_Dr.— American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
According to the General Council, then, while the gross and carnal millennialism of the Jews must be rejected, there is a chiliasm which should be tolerated and continue to be the subject of further prayerful research.— American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
Kind of Chiliasm Tolerated.--The chiliasm which had always been advocated by members of the General Synod, and which the General Council refused to reject, was of a kind with the one entertained by Dr. John Geo.— American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
A chiliasm, then, which expects a time of universal prosperity and glory for the Church on this side of the resurrection, a time when the whole world will be converted to Christ, a time when peace and righteousness will be established from the rivers to the ends of the earth; a chiliasm which believes in a future twofold coming of Christ, a double resurrection, a conversion and restoration of Israel, a future personal Antichrist, embodying all antichristian elements,--such a chiliasm, according to Seiss, the Lutheran Cyclopedia_, and the General Council, conflicts neither with the Bible, nor the Confessions, nor Lutheran orthodoxy.— American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)

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