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Beatus of Liébana
Commentary on the Apocalypse compiled by Beatus, a monk of Liébana in Asturias, in the late eighth century, printed by Enrique Flórez in 1770. Book IV reckons that the sixth age of the world ends in the Spanish Era 838 (800 CE).
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Beatus: the sixth age ends in the Era 838 (800 CE) · commentary →
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Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse, book IV, chapter VII, in Enrique Flórez (ed.), Sancti Beati presbyteri hispani Liebanensis in Apocalypsin ac plurimas utriusque foederis paginas commentaria (Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1770), p. 322 (Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y León, image 374 of 641). Transcribed from the page image; the library’s OCR layer was used to locate the passage. Flórez’s accents (à, verò), ligatures (æ) and ampersands retained; italics of the scripture quotations not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; Flórez’s note marker “(1)” after V.CCXXVII omitted (it refers to his prologue, n. 66, on these figures); marginal references omitted. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such.
Book IV, ch. VII, Flórez ed. p. 322
Paul Raffaele
Firsthand reporting documents continuing John Frum return expectations and the distinct Unity movement of Prophet Fred. Includes retrospective accounts of wartime promises and a lake-flood prediction.
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Ross Woodman
Interprets Revelation's bride and New Jerusalem through Bahaullah's Maid of Heaven, Fatimih, Tahirih and Carmel imagery. Uses a symbolic divine marriage to connect spiritual transformation and equality.
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John Breck; OCA website
Offers a sympathetic Orthodox reading of Teilhard's cosmic Christology, treating the Parousia as creation's culmination rather than merely catastrophe. This is Breck's interpretation, not inspection of Teilhard's original works or scientific proof.
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Orthodox Church in America HTML publication
Essay discussion of Teilhard's Omega Point and conclusion
Touraj Daryaee
Argues for older shared structural motifs beneath late historical redactions, comparing four ages, final battles and bodily recomposition while outlining competing views on antiquity.
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Universal House of Justice
Limits scope of Guardian infallibility and distinguishes historical information available to Shoghi Effendi. Uses Haji Mirza Aqasi in God Passes By and a report from Yazd to explain historical correction, directly relevant to evaluating fulfillment histories.
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Helen Bradford and Msokoli Qotole
Introduces competing Xhosa-language historical accounts and explains translation problems in the ancestral-return movement, including the identification of Grey as Antichrist.
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Alice A. Bailey
Anticipates the World Teacher toward the middle or close of the author's century, with preparatory institutional changes. Wording provides a direct source against which later timing interpretations can be checked.
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Who are the Masters? · commentary →
Several timeframes in one forecast · commentary →
John Calvin; translated by Henry Beveridge
Advent hope sustains perseverance; critiques limiting Christ’s kingdom to one thousand years and interprets Revelation’s millennium through the church’s earthly trials. Modern inserted footnotes discuss objections to Calvin and must not be attributed to him.
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CCEL Henry Beveridge English translation; historical original print uncollated
Book III, chapter 25, sections 1–2 and 5
Joseph Smith, attributed author; Oliver Cowdery probably assisted in preparation
An instruction on priesthood and church offices that Joseph Smith prepared in Kirtland, Ohio, in spring 1835 (between circa 1 March and circa 4 May, according to the Joseph Smith Papers), possibly presenting it to the Twelve Apostles in late April, and printed in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants. It includes an account of Adam’s last blessing at Adam-ondi-Ahman. It is now Doctrine and Covenants 107.
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Joseph Smith Papers featured historical witness: Doctrine and Covenants, 1835 ed., pp. 82–89. Source note and historical introduction consulted 30 September 2026. Catalogue identity for the revelation; the selected reader text is the later official English scripture witness (edition-lds-dc-107-english).
Doctrine and Covenants, 1835 ed., pp. 82–89
Joseph Smith; reported by William Clayton and Willard Richards
D&C 130 collects Joseph Smith’s instructions at Ramus, Illinois, about divine appearances, the future earth and resurrection. It includes his account of a conditional promise about seeing the Son of Man at eighty-five, with his own uncertainty about its meaning.
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Joseph Smith’s conditional promise at eighty-five →
Smith recalls the South Carolina revelation in 1843 · commentary →
Clayton records both the promise and Smith’s uncertainty · commentary →
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Current official English scripture transcription, Doctrine and Covenants 130:1–23, accessed 10 September 2026. Complete verse body and numbering retained; modern heading, synopsis, footnotes and reference markers excluded; whitespace normalized. The section compiles reported instructions given on 2 April 1843 and was added to the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876.
D&C 130:1–23; complete section
Commodianus
Envisions Nero’s return, an Elijah interval, a descended city and two stages of judgment surrounding a thousand years. Anti-Jewish and national enemy imagery remains attributed to the historical poem.
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Robert Pearson Flaherty
Details the embassy as an interpreted Third Temple, conditional location, and nuclear-war reading of Revelation. Identifies three French books later combined in Intelligent Design.
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Web edition identified above
The Embassy Project; Nuclear Holocaust and the Apocalypse; publication history
Printed as Abbot Joachim’s
A Latin commentary on Jeremiah printed at Venice in 1525 as the work of Abbot Joachim, addressed in its explicit to the Emperor Henry VI. In chapter 20 the forty-two months of Revelation 11 are 42 generations of the Christian people’s affliction, ending in 1260.
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Super Hieremiam: the forty-two months are 42 generations, ending in 1260 · commentary →
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Interpretatio preclara Abbatis Ioachim in Hieremiam Prophetam (Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 10 November 1525; colophon “Impressum Venetiis per Bernardinum Benalium. 1525. Die. 10. Nouembris.”, leaf n174), chapter 20, fol. 45v, left column, from “[Atrium] dico graecorum” to “in anno christi 1260.” (Internet Archive bub_gb_hjr_h4c--JMC, leaf n132; running head of fol. 45r “Super Hieremiam prophetam. ca. xx.”, leaf n131; margin “Ap. 11.” beside the selection). The explicit names the work as Abbot Joachim’s, “quem scripsit ad Henricum. vi. Imperatorem”. Abbreviations expanded (Atriū Atrium, græcoꝝ graecorum, qđ quod, nõ non, pticipãs participans, gẽtibus gentibus, .ſ. scilicet, gñalis generalis, gñaliter generaliter, vſq; vsque, gñationes generationes, qbus quibus, xp̃i christi, ꝛ and &); the printed “iu finem” kept; the lemma brackets ⌊ ⌋ rendered [ ]; æ rendered ae; u/v and capitals as printed; spacing normalized. English translation new and AI-assisted (Rainbow Watch, 2026). Transcribed from the Internet Archive page image.
Ch. 20, fol. 45v
Universal House of Justice, Research Department
Finds no authoritative interpretation of three passages invoked by Sears and others; permits personal conclusions while allowing spiritual meanings beyond historical context. Notes a different Ezekiel passage in God Passes By concerning Akka.
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Research Department, Bahai World Centre
Distinguishes authoritative interpretations from Moffett/Riggs's individual readings. Finds no authoritative Khomeini prophecy identification or explanation of 144000, Ezekiel9:2 and Genesis28:12; provides Revelation cross-reference leads.
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Recipient-family transcription on Bahai Library Online, posted 2004; dates and sources retained
Memorandum paragraphs 1–3 and enclosed Revelation reference table
John R. Hinnells
Distinguishes individual judgment from universal renovation and compares Gathic allusions, Yasht19 and detailed Middle Persian sequences. Notes differing accounts of evil's final fate and the cumulative defeat of evil across savior eras.
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Abu al-Suud
Reads descent as a sign and fatherless birth or reviving the dead as evidence for resurrection; includes the Afiq/Jerusalem account and an alternative Qur’an interpretation.
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John Nelson Darby
Defends believers' prior reception to Christ against an opponent's insistence that the church stays on earth until the appearing. This is direct controversial reception of Scripture, not independent evidence of future events.
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Hebrew Bible · Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 11 describes a ruler from Jesse’s family who judges fairly, a peaceful world pictured through animals, and the gathering of dispersed people. These images form part of Jewish and Christian messianic interpretation.
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Isaiah 60: arise, shine, for thy light is come →
Isaiah 52: the herald of good tidings →
Isaiah 52:13–53:12: the servant of the LORD →
Isaiah 29: a voice from the dust and a sealed book →
The mountain of the Lord and peace among nations →
The branch from Jesse →
Baha'u'llah
Presents religion as a basis of order and calls rulers to establish peace through concord.
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Verena Klemm
Distinguishes traditional continuous deputyship from sparse early evidence and later systematization, examining uncertainty after Askari's death and legitimating use of predicted occultation.
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Said Amir Arjomand
Analyzes competing early political and non-apocalyptic usages of Mahdi and the Jesus-only countertradition; proposed historical origins remain Arjomand's argument.
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Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Traces doctrinal uncertainty after the eleventh Imam and the roles of Numani, Ibn Babuya and Tusi; distinguishes later standardized belief from early conflicting reports.
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Encyclopaedia Iranica online article, displayed author and publication/update dates
Hesitation and progressive development; birth and occultation; influence and consequences