Hello, I'm Gary Stevens, and welcome to the History in the Bible podcast.

All the history, in all the books, in all the Bibles.

Welcome back again. It's Gary and Steve are back with you. And today we're talking the

apocalypse. It's our guide to the apocalypse to get you ready for it. And we're really focusing in on

several books of the very early Christian period

and the Jewish period of books, some of which made it into certain canons, some of which

didn't make it into most canons at all. And they're all revolving around this idea of the

apocalypse.

And we'll get into more about what apocalypses are and what they aren't. Because a lot of what apocalypse is isn't exactly what lines up with our popular conception of apocalypse.

So without further ado, Gary, how are you today?

I'm fine. Thank you, Steve,

and yourself. I hope you are well. I'm well. Thank you. What can you say in general about apocalypses? Apocalypses. In English today, the word apocalypse means, what, the end of

times, doesn't it? Yeah, but that's not the real origin the word in greek

it comes from a phrase meaning something like hidden and in english that's been really quite

transmuted into something quite different but the original concept of an apocalypse as a as a

work was that this was secret knowledge sort of you know you know, Gnostic stuff. But nowadays,

apocalypse is taken to be the end of time, sort of almost synonymous to Armageddon, I suppose,

isn't it? Yeah, and I wonder, does the word apocalypse, that must be related in some way

to apocrypha writings that weren't quite canon, but still had something good in them.

That's a good point.

Apocrypha.

Does Apocrypha mean hidden works as well?

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