Susan Maneck wrote:

The first millennial movement was started during the Crusades by Joachim  de Fiora who probably laid the groundwork for dispensationalism. He held that Age of the Holy Spirit would begin in the year 1260 A.D. Of course 1260 in the Muslim calendar is 1844 in the Christian one.

[D.A.L.] I hadn’t run across this most interesting bit of information before.  Could you give a little more of this history, or perhaps point me towards some further reading?

 

Many thanks….Dave Lambert

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