The History of Prophetic Interpretation (from Richards Complete Bible handbook, page 813)
The Early Church. The Didache was probably written about A.D. 100. It gives this picture of the future as understood in the postapostolic church: "Watch for your life's sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be ye ready, for ye know not the hour in which our Lord cometh. When lawlessness increaseth, they shall hate and betray and persecute one another, and then shall appear the 'world-deceiver' as Son of God, and shall do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he shall do iniquitous things which have never yet come to pass since the beginning. Then shall the creation of men come into the fire of trial, and many shall be made to stumble and shall perish, but they that endure in their faith shall be saved from under the curse itself. And then shall appear the sign of the truth, (a) first, the sign of an opening in heaven, the outspreading of the heaven; (b) then the sign of the sound of the trumpet; and (c) third, the resurrection of the dead, yet not of all, but as it is said: The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him. Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven" (Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII, 382).
In A.D. 140-160 Justin Martyr wrote, "I, and as many as are orthodox Christians, do acknowledge that there shall be a resurrection of the body, and a residence of a thousand years in Jerusalem, adorned and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel, Isaiah, and others do unanimously attest" (Fathers, Vol. 1, 239).
Irenaeus, a great missionary and church father, who died in A. D . 202, summed up the picture of the future taught in his day., "When the Antichrist shall have devastated all things in this world, he will reign for three years and six months, and sit in the temple at Jerusalem; and then shall the Lord come from heaven in clouds, in the glory of the Father, sending this man, and those who follow him, into the lake of fire; but bringing for the righteous the times of the kingdom, that is, the rest, the hallowed seventh day; and restoring to Abraham the promised inheritance, in which the kingdom of the Lord declared that `many coming from the east and from the west should sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob' " (Fathers, Vol. 1, 560).