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Sayyid Qutb
Qutb connects the verse with Jesus’ descent, citing Abu Hurayra and Jabir reports and treating knowledge of this unseen event as scripturally grounded.
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Arabic HTML transcription, Quran-tafsir.net commentary library.
Qur’an 43:61, substantive commentary entry
Christian Ruch
Documents the movement’s response to failed 1998–1999 expectations, claimed cosmic evacuation, internal friction and continued worldly activity.
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Public German transcription or author PDF
Lecture introduction and substantial biography, prophecy, UFO and belief sections
Meher Baba
Predicts imminent destruction of three-fourths of the world around the breaking of silence, a short manifestation with a violent bodily end, and a return after seven hundred years.
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Public English web edition
Final Declaration, entire dated statement
Erin R. McMurry, Michael C. Stambaugh, Richard P. Guyette, Daniel C. Dey
A study using fire scars to investigate New England’s Dark Day of 19 May 1780. It supports wildfire as a likely explanation for the darkening, providing historical evidence to consider alongside Ellen White’s prophetic interpretation.
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International Journal of Wildland Fire 16 (2007), 266–270; DOI10.1071/WF05095; USDA-hosted PDF
p266, opening account and abstract
Justin Martyr
Argues from claimed prior fulfillment to a future glorious advent, bodily resurrection, and judgment; the argument is Justin's.
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Source. Translated by Marcus Dods and George Reith. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapter 52
Clement of Rome (traditional attribution)
Uses the anticipated Lord and natural cycles to encourage belief in a future resurrection.
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Source. Translated by John Keith. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 9. Edited by Allan Menzies. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1896.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapters 23–24
Paul
Paul’s letter to the church at Corinth discusses resurrection, the defeat of death and God’s kingdom.
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American Standard Version (1901), eBible transcription
1 Corinthians 15:20–28
Abdu'l-Baha
Presents unity of conscience and overcoming prejudice as conditions for universal peace, referring back to Bahaullah's addresses to sovereigns.
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Official Bahai Reference Library English HTML
Opening through discussion of religious and national prejudice
Neal A. Maxwell
Warns against premature expectation from selective signs and against complacency. Distinguishes multigenerational developments from rapid scourges, and explicitly says some but not all signs suggest nearness. His Jewish-return fulfillment assertion remains attributed interpretation.
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Maxwell sees some signs still ahead · commentary →
Official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints online conference text
Opening prophecy caution through fig-tree analogy; conclusion
Michael Puett
Analyzes Taiping jing inherited decline and Celestial Masters' seed-people expectations within comparative imperial history.
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Wissensoikonomien, edited Schmidt/Pissis/Uhlmann, Harrassowitz, pp. 123–133
Printed pp. 127–132, section 2 and subsequent comparative argument; title metadata
Michael Puett
Explains promised survival into Great Peace and repeated Laozi manifestation without presuming a single timeless Chinese cyclical cosmology.
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Journal of Chinese Religions 32, pp.1–27
Printed pp.10–17, cosmological comparison, Celestial Masters and Xiang'er discussion
Michael M. Baxter; 1918 Christian Herald edition
A 1918 American edition of Michael Baxter’s prophetic calendar, published by the Christian Herald after his death. Its calendar dates the end of the age to 2 May 1929 or 9 April 1931.
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The 1918 publishers: Baxter averaged other writers’ dates · commentary →
The 1918 publishers: Baxter averaged other writers’ dates · commentary →
The 1918 calendar: Armageddon on 2 May 1929 or 9 April 1931 · commentary →
Michael M. Baxter (“the late Rev.”), Forty Prophetic Wonders Predicted in Daniel and Revelation, “our second edition” (Cleveland, Ohio: Union Gospel Printing Co.; copyright 1918, The Christian Herald, New York). Internet Archive scan fortypropheticwo0000mich (The Master’s College Library), page images inspected: Preface, pp. 3–4, the paragraph “Regarding the Calendar of prophetic dates” through “compilation of the Calendar.”; Prophetic Calendar, p. 8, the Thirty-Sixth through Fortieth Wonders. Small-capital headings rendered in title case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
Preface pp. 3–4; Prophetic Calendar p. 8
Isaac Newton
An unpublished manuscript fragment interpreting Daniel and Revelation. Newton calculates 2060 from a proposed 800 CE starting point, allows a later ending, and rejects claims to know the exact end.
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Newton’s conditional 2060 calculation · commentary →
Isaac Newton, YahudaMs7.3g, f13v, complete calculation beginning “So then the time times” through its closing qualification. Newton Project normalized electronic edition, transcription Shannon Higgins, checked Niki Black, code checked Robert Ralley. Normalized edition incorporates additions and expands abbreviations.
YahudaMs7.3g,f13v
Ivan Kohout and Marek Vinklat
Studies messianic succession through Jacob and Eva Frank, Red Letters warning of catastrophe, communal military preparation and transformed-Torah expectations; contrasts doctrinal ideals with reported communal practice.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Introduction, Final Refuge, Preparing for Ultimate Conflict, Sexuality, opening Frankist Court in Offenbach
Almut Hintze
The article traces the language of renovation and differences among Pahlavi accounts of its sequence, helpers and the fate of sinners.
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Encyclopaedia Iranica online edition
VolXpp190–192; full body, Gathic/YoungerAvestan/Pahlavi sections
Andrew Fergus Wilson
Traces McKenna and Arguelles expectations within a wider apocalyptic milieu. Distinguishes early vague dating from the later explicit 2012 date.
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Published contribution or author repository version
Published chapter 16, reprinted as thesis appendix D, A50–A53, PDF pages 109–112
Late Heian compilation
A Japanese chronicle in kanbun from the late Heian period, arranged by reign with an emphasis on Buddhist events. Its entry for Eishō 7 (1052) records that the Final Dharma began that year.
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Fusō ryakki: the Final Dharma begins, 1052 →
Kokushi taikei, vol. 6 (Tokyo: Keizai Zasshisha, 1897)
Book 29, Eishō 7/1/26; Kokushi taikei 6, p. 796
Canonical Buddhist discourse; Thanissaro Bhikkhu translator
The discourse forecasts deterioration in ordination, teaching and practice while urging action to prevent it.
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Five dangers to the teaching →
What “developed in body” means · commentary →
Thanissaro ATI
Whole discourse; five institutional dangers
Canonical Buddhist discourse; Thanissaro Bhikkhu translator
Predicts luxury and property accumulation undermining renunciant practice; contextual decline, not world-ending prediction.
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When monks seek comfort and possessions →
Thanissaro ATI
Whole discourse; five future monastic dangers
Michael Baxter
Michael Baxter’s prophetic calendar in its eighth edition of 1894, published by the Christian Herald in London and New York. Its title page dates the ascension of 144,000 living Christians to about 12 March 1903 and the Second Advent to 23 April 1908; a postscript of 1897 allows a covenant week ending in 1911.
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Baxter’s dates for 1903 and 1908 →
Baxter’s preface and 1897 postscript: the covenant week may instead run to 1911 · commentary →
Baxter’s preface and 1897 postscript: the covenant week may instead run to 1911 · commentary →
Rev. M. Baxter, editor of “The Christian Herald,” Future Wonders of Prophecy … eighth edition in 1894, “one hundredth thousand” (London: Christian Herald Office, 20 Tudor Street, and Bible House, New York). This copy includes a postscript dated 1897, so it is a printing of 1897 or later. Internet Archive scan futurewondersof00theouoft (University of Toronto, Robarts Library), page images inspected: title page (leaf 4), complete title block from “Future Wonders of Prophecy” through “for 1000 years.”; Preface to the Eighth Edition, dated March 1894, and its “Postscript in 1897,” complete (leaf 8). Title page set in capitals and small capitals, rendered here in title case following the large capitals; the misprint “Ppophecies” is kept; spaces before semicolons closed; broken type read as “without” and “with”; whitespace normalized.
Title page; preface and 1897 postscript
Traditional attribution Vyasa; English translation Manmatha Nath Dutt
Opening incarnation catalogue predicts Kalki as Vishnujasa's son amid kings' destruction. Chapter CCXXI instead invokes Kalki for present protection against sin, demonstrating that references to the future avatar are not invariably forecasts.
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Dutt 1908, Wisdom Library edited digital transcription
Agastya Samhita chapter I complete; Dhanvantari Samhita chapter CCXXI complete
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura; English translation Bhumipati Dasa
Interprets Chaitanya's divine self-identification through cited incarnation traditions including Kalki and recurring divine forms. The underlying verse names Nilacala-candra, Kapila and Nrsimha; Kalki occurs in the commentator's supporting citations.
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2008 Bhumipati Dasa translation hosted by Wisdom Library
Commentary to Antya-khanda 3.1.253, complete commentary
Mansour Shaki
Locates Gayomart's promised immortality and first resurrection alongside Soshyans in Bundahishn34.6, explaining the first-human figure's role in renovation rather than treating him as a separate returning messiah.
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Updated scholarly web article
Encyclopaedia Iranica X/3,345-347; opening through comparison of creation, death and resurrection traditions.
Sarah Harvey and Suzanne Newcombe
Examines gendered preparation and expectations of future communities, including changes when an anticipated end does not arrive within members' lifetimes.
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Web edition identified above
Introduction; Millennial Movements with Gender-Normative Beliefs; Distinctive Beliefs through Family International