The Early Church Fathers - Tertullian a.d. 145-220

Tertullian believed that the Christians and the Church would be on the earth and that the Antichrist and the False Prophet would wage war with them..

Tertullian of Carthage [A.D. 155-225]

 

Chapter XXV.--St. John, in the Apocalypse, Equally Explicit in Asserting the Same Great Doctrine.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf03.v.viii.xxv.html

 

In the Revelation of John, again, the order of these times is spread out to view, which "the souls of the martyrs" are taught to wait for beneath the altar, whilst they earnestly pray to be avenged and judged: (taught, I say, to wait), in order that the world may first drink to the dregs the plagues that await it out of the vials of the angels, and that the city of fornication may receive from the ten kings its deserved doom, and that the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God; and that, after the casting of the devil into the bottomless pit for a while, the blessed prerogative of the first resurrection may be ordained from the thrones;