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Hebrew Bible · Book of Haggai
Haggai describes God shaking heaven, earth, and nations while promising glory and peace for the Temple. That Temple setting matters when considering later applications of its cosmic language.
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Haggai’s promises to the builders →
JPS1917; Mechon-Mamre electronic English; Hebrew verse numbering
2:6–9
Jacob Zvi Mecklenburg
Challenges reading the oracle as covering every nation and reports a narrower interpretation concerning Ammon and Moab, tied to Baal Peor worship.
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Sefaria: HaKtav VeHaKabbalah, Frankfurt 1880; complete Hebrew comment inspected.
Numbers 24:17, complete Hebrew comment
Cemil Kutluturk
Examines Nakalanki/Ali identifications in ginans and distinction between incarnation and manifestation of divine light.
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Journal PDF hosted by ISAM
Journal of Shia Islamic Studies10(1),35-60; inspected35-43 and48-50.
William Kelly; STEM Publishing transcription
Criticizes Haslam’s sequencing of Revelation and conflation of several hostile rulers. Distinguishes the Western imperial ruler, Antichrist and northern king. These are Kelly’s polemical interpretations.
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STEM English transcription
Bible Treasury 18, pp. 61–62, whole displayed review
Ellen G. White
Uses 1 Peter’s future revelation of Christ to urge holy conduct and repaired relationships in a church preparing for resurrection and heavenly community.
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Sermons and Talks 1, pp. 39–42
George Leo Haydock, compiler; named earlier commentators
Connects Jerusalem’s destruction with future persecution and records different readings of the end and the abomination of desolation.
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Bible Hub English transcription; contains individually attributed Haydock, Witham, Maldonatus and other notes. Print edition unspecified on inspected page.
Matthew 24, comments on persecution, worldwide preaching and the abomination of desolation (verses 9–15)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Interprets coming with clouds as a visible return seen by all and accompanied by mourning, calling readers to personal readiness.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Revelation 1:7; three-part outline and section I
Unknown; traditionally attributed to Paul
The Letter to the Hebrews, a New Testament homily with a letter ending, addressed to Christians in danger of abandoning their faith. It presents Christ as high priest and, in chapter 11, recounts the faith of Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses and the prophets.
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Hebrews 11: the faithful who received not the promise →
American Standard Version (1901), eBible.org electronic text
Hebrews 11:1–40
Palatinate theological team under Frederick III; CRC edition
Presents the returning judge as the believer's prior redeemer and thus as comfort under persecution.
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Institutional English web presentation at cited URL
Question 52
David Brown
The article discusses corrective and everlasting punishment, including uncertainty about the surviving wording of Origen’s teaching.
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology online article
Section 3.1.3, Eternal or otherwise, through Augustine and proportionality argument
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Interprets 5751, Nissan and Omer numerically as signs of redemption while explicitly acknowledging Messiah has not arrived; transfers responsibility to listeners and urges immediate action and charity.
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Sichos in English Collection volume48, Chabad.org English presentation
Opening calendar interpretations and concluding appeal beginning Because of the unique stress on the Redemption
N. H. Barbour, editor; unsigned article
Monthly prophetic paper edited by Nelson H. Barbour at Rochester, New York. After 1873 and 1874 passed, it argued that the day of the Lord was a period of time and that the time of harvest had begun in 1874.
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Barbour’s paper explains why 1873 and 1874 passed · commentary →
Barbour’s paper explains why 1873 and 1874 passed · commentary →
Herald of the Morning: the first half of Zion’s warfare measured at 1841½ years · commentary →
Barbour in January 1874: the Lord comes in the seventh month of 1874 · commentary →
Herald of the Morning (Rochester, N.Y.), No. 4, September 1875, unsigned article “Harmony in Prophetic Periods, or ‘The time of the end’,” pp. 57–59. Internet Archive scan “Herald of the Morning, N. H. Barbour, éditions de 1874 à 1880” (BookReader leaves 72–74; masthead on leaf 64). Transcribed from the page images; the OCR text layer was used only for comparison. Line-end hyphenation joined, italics rendered plain, typographic quotation marks as printed, whitespace normalized. Selected units: p. 58 last paragraph through p. 59 first column (“Those who do not understand” through “shows us our whereabouts.”) and p. 59 second column (“Now, as strange as it may seem” through “(Isa. 40: 2).”).
No. 4, September 1875, pp. 57–59
Meher Baba
Explains recurrent divine manifestation and the distinction between Avatar and spiritual master; contextualizes later return claims.
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Public English web edition
Highest of the High, entire dated statement
Ankur Barua
Examines the limits of translating apocalyptic and millenarian categories into Hindu world-cycle and Kalki traditions.
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CDAMM online article
Introduction; The End Times in Hinduism; Comparison
Rodulfus Glaber; Maurice Prou, editor
Rodulfus Glaber’s five books of Histories, written in Burgundy in the 1030s and 1040s. Book IV arranges famine, peace councils and portents around the thousandth year of the Passion.
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Glaber: the thousandth year of the Passion →
Paris: A. Picard, 1886
Book IV.1, IV.13–14; pp. 90, 102–103
Historical account
Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith
An official Reorganized Church history preserving earlier letters, testimony and institutional claims.
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Briggs expects Zion’s restoration and a successor from Joseph’s family →
What this historical witness establishes · commentary →
Gurley reads Isaiah while reconsidering Strang’s leadership · commentary →
Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith, fourth edition, Lamoni: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church, 1911. Centerplace transcription compared with printed pages 200–201 and 205–206; page breaks removed.
Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith, fourth edition, Lamoni: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church, 1911. Centerplace transcription compared with printed pages 200–201 and 205–206; page breaks removed.
Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla
Explains elaboration of renewal in Pahlavi writings and interprets final restoration and divine helpers.
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1938 English text hosted by Avesta.org
Part 5, printed pp.321–323,353–354,373–374
Historical compilation about Joseph Smith
A later historical account of Joseph Smith’s 10 March 1844 discourse about rainbows and Christ’s return. It can be read alongside the earlier recorded accounts.
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Joseph Smith’s rainbow discourse →
History E-1, p. 1922
History E-1, p. 1922
Paul T. Cohen
Challenges conflation of northern Thai moral-renewal movements with lower Mekong apocalyptic rebellions. Gives specific reported predictions by Ong Keo and Molam Noi Chada and differentiates precursor holy men from Maitreya identifications.
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Published journal PDF,18 pages
Journal of the Siam Society 109(1),83-100; inspected pp83-88.
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article
Connects revised generation interpretation to progressive spiritual illumination. Says the lives of anointed witnesses of 1914 overlap those seeing the start of great tribulation, and anticipates new scrolls of requirements during the millennium.
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Watchtower Online Library transcription of identified issue
The Watchtower, pp. 7–11, paragraphs 13–18
Steven Kostoff; OCA website
Reads Holy Week hymnography through final judgment and watchfulness, distinguishing the end of Christ's earthly ministry from the beginning of the kingdom's new age.
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Orthodox Church in America HTML publication
Discussion of Bridegroom Matins and conclusion
John Chrysostom
Explains believers' hidden life and future manifestation in glory with Christ.
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John A. Broadus, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series 13 (1889), New Advent revised transcription.
Homily 7, exposition of Colossians 3:1-4
John Chrysostom
Explains the instantaneous transformation of living and dead bodies at the last trumpet.
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Talbot W. Chambers, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series 12 (1889), New Advent revised transcription.
Homily 42, sections 3-4, on 1 Corinthians 15:51-56
John Chrysostom
Interprets meeting the descending Lord as an honor comparable to citizens greeting a king; joins the resurrection and gathering rather than supplying a modern pretribulation timetable.
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Welcoming the king, in Chrysostom’s reading · commentary →
NPNF first series 13 (1889); site credits John A. Broadus; New Advent revision
Homily 8, exposition of 1 Thessalonians 4:15–18