Bible Prophecy in the Didache (And the Apostolic Fathers)

By Richie Cooley

What did the Apostolic Fathers believe about Bible prophecy? This writing briefly seeks to demonstrate that they held to a futurist outlook.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: Feb 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463142707

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Bible Prophecy in the Didache

(And the Apostolic Fathers)

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2020)

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Table of Contents

I. More about Matheson

II. The Apostolic Fathers

III. The Didache’s Prophecy

IV. Unrighteous Investigations

V. Citations

VI. Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes that are common to my writings…

Bible Versions…

*Old Testament Scripture is normally taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (NASB), copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

*New Testament Scripture is normally taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament: Third Edition (ALT3). Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry. Previously copyrighted © 1999, 2001, 2005 by Gary Zeolla.

*For the sake of harmonizing the format, slight changes are sometimes made to the NASB and ALT3 verses.

*The ALT3 distinguishes between singular and plural second-person pronouns by means of an asterisk (*).

Writing Style…

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*The terms LORD, GOD, and Hashem are all ways to describe the personal name of God, also rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

Another Brief Note:

When quoting from the Apostolic Fathers, two translations were employed. Unless otherwise stated, the usage breaks down as follows:

The Didache section:

Staniforth, Maxwell and Andrew Louth. The Apostolic Fathers. Penguin Epub, 1968 (original copyright)/1987 (updated copyright).

All other sections:

Zeolla, Gary. Analytical-Literal Translation of the Apostolic Fathers. A Darkness to Light Ministry Epub, 2016.

I. More about Matheson

I’ve mentioned Richard Matheson in the past, as I found the well-travelled blurb by Stephen King about the late author significant. King asserted that Matheson was a