Millennium
All the Early Church Fathers believed in what modern theologians call the “Millennial Day theory” or the “Sabbath Millennial theory.” This end time eschatology was believed and taught by the Early Church. The apostles also taught that the days of creation were a pattern of God’s timeline to reveal what He was going to do on the Earth and when the end would come. When the Day of the Lord is mentioned in Scripture, it is actually referring to the Millennial Kingdom. If you count from the time of Adam until now, it has been six thousand biblical years, with a millennium being 1000 years. Peter wrote that a thousand years is as a day to the Lord (2 Peter 3:8). It has been six thousand years from the time of Adam, or six days. Barnabus, the disciple of Paul, tells us that after six thousand years we come to the true Sabbath, which is the Millennial Kingdom or the millennial reign of Christ. The process in which this happens and how this will take place is no longer being taught in the chur