What the Early Church Really Believed About the End Times In this episode of Spirit & Truth, Pastor Lee Cummings sits down with Dr. Michael J. Svigel — theologian, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, and author of The Fathers on the Future: A 2nd-Century Eschatology for the 21st-Century Church. Together, they unpack what the early Church Fathers actually believed about the return of Christ, the rapture, the millennium, and the end of the world.