Texts and commentaries

Metzudat David

David Altschuler; completed and organized by his son Hillel Altschuler

The commentary identifies the future royal shoot from Jesse with the Messiah descended from David, presenting a greater future marvel.

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Meyer's New Testament Commentary

Meyer commentary contributors; precise English edition attribution pending

Treats the immediate sequence from Jerusalem's distress to the advent as an exegetical difficulty that should not be dissolved by changing the wording's sense.

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Micah

Traditional attribution; historical authorship not established here

Nations approach Zion, weapons transformed to farming tools and secure life under vine and fig tree.

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Swords into plowshares in Micah →

Midrash Tanchuma (Tanhuma-Yelammedenu)

Anonymous rabbinic compilation with attributed teachings

The homily reads Zechariah’s great mountain and Isaiah 52:13 in relation to the Davidic Messiah’s exaltation.

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Midrash Tehillim (Shocher Tov)

Anonymous rabbinic compilation with attributed teachings

The exposition links kings’ opposition to the Messiah with Isaiah’s description of destroying the wicked by speech.

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Midrash Wa-yosha

Anonymous; rabbinic speakers are literary attributions, not verified authorship

Connects Gog, Armilos, the death of the Josephite Messiah, the Davidic Messiah and two thousand years before judgment; concludes with renewal of creation.

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Mikyal al-Makarim fi Fawaid al-Dua lil-Qaim

Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Musawi Isfahani

The work collects reports of renewed religion, a book and verdicts under a heading about restoring Islam after corruption. The accounts include opposition and the return of followers.

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Millenarianism

Jayne Svenungsson

Jayne Svenungsson traces different Christian understandings of the millennium, including Augustine’s symbolic reading and Joachim’s historical sequence. The article helps distinguish expectations of a literal thousand-year reign from other uses of the imagery.

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Millenarianism and the Age of Transition

Neville Hodgkinson

Member reflection acknowledges elapsed transformation dates and physical destruction visions; cites surviving 1943 proclamations and considers a roughly century-long transition while allowing possible failure.

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Millenarianism in Ancient Judaism

John J. Collins

Distinguishes literary scenarios from demonstrable social movements and heavenly from earthly salvation; assesses Daniel's timetable and 4 Ezra's intermediate messianic reign.

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Millennialism, Charisma and Utopia: Revolutionary Potentialities in Pre-modern Lao and Thai Theravada Buddhism

Patrice Ladwig

Develops restorative millennialism as a reading of Lao/Thai prophetic renewal, distinguishing institutional and peripheral charisma and treating crisis alone as insufficient explanation for rebellion.

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die!

J. F. Rutherford

J. F. Rutherford’s 1920 book for the International Bible Students Association. It argued that 1925 would bring the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the prophets and the beginning of an earthly restoration.

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Rutherford’s 1925 expectation →

Mindfully Facing Climate Change

Bhikkhu Analayo; Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

Compares Chinese/Pali/Tibetan seven-sun accounts and proposes cautious symbolic heat interpretation while stressing impermanence practice.

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Minutes, Discourse, and Blessings, 14–15 February 1835

Joseph Smith discourse; meeting minutes copied by Warren Cowdery

These minutes record a February 1835 meeting and associated blessings, including Joseph Smith’s statement about fifty-six years. The featured surviving copy was written later by Warren Cowdery.

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Joseph Smith’s fifty-six-year prediction →

Mishkat al-Masabih

Khatib al-Tabrizi

The compilation juxtaposes Mahdi descent and rule traditions with signs preceding the Hour, including Jesus, and preserves divergent transmitted details and source references.

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Mishneh Torah

Moses Maimonides

Sets practical criteria for a Davidic messiah; interprets Isaiah's animals allegorically and warns against date calculations or treating event sequence as fundamental.

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Modern Daoist Eschatology: Spirit-Writing and Elite Soteriology in Late Imperial China

Vincent Goossaert

Goossaert distinguishes apocalyptic destruction from a final end of all time: in these Daoist texts another cosmic cycle follows. He also distinguishes disaster affecting an individual from collective calamity. Sections I–II trace spirit-written texts associated with Wenchang, the Jade Emperor and Zhenwu. They connect divine judgment with moral teaching: humanity faces destruction, but reform and revealed instruction offer rescue. Goossaert discusses the Zitong deity’s original-vow scripture, a Zhenwu admonition dated 1302, and a later Wenchang scripture for averting catastrophe. He argues that such traditions could retain an apocalyptic outlook while relocating the savior’s work into recurring revelation and moral instruction. These are an historian’s comparisons across particular texts.

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Modern-Day Prophecy

Assemblies of God USA, General Presbytery

Affirms ongoing prophecy while subjecting claims to community assessment. Distinguishes guesses and unfalsifiably broad predictions from predictive prophecy, addresses conditional warnings, and requires correction when an unconditional near-term prediction fails.

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More on Tortuguero’s Monument 6 and the Prophecy that Wasn’t

David Stuart

Revises the author’s earlier prophetic reading, arguing that the future date frames a seventh-century shrine dedication. Acknowledges a competing interpretation.

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Mother Shipton Investigated

William H. Harrison

William H. Harrison’s examination, published early in 1881, of the Mother Shipton books in the British Museum Library. He finds the couplet dating the world’s end to 1881 absent from the earliest records and attributes it to Charles Hindley.

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Harrison in 1881: the couplet is absent from the earliest records · commentary →

Mr. Joseph Southcott, the Brother of Joanna Southcott, Will Now Come Forward

Joanna Southcott; material concerning and voiced for Joseph Southcott

Defends prophetic provenance through the disputed dealings with Pomeroy and reported earlier delivery of predictions. Explicitly says the charge of adultery is spiritual rather than an allegation of sexual conduct.

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Muntakhab al-athar fi l-Imam al-thani ashar (Selected Narrations about the Twelfth Imam)

Lutfullah Safi Golpaygani

Explicit Twelver textual criticism rejects reconciling the six days/months/years occultation report through bada. Prefers variants without that duration, discusses unknown narrators and al-Numani/al-Kafi differences. A named scholar's response to apparent duration problems.

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Muntakhab-ut-Tawáríkh

‘Abd-ul-Qádir Badáóní; translated by W. H. Lowe

Badauni’s Persian history of Muslim rule in India, critical of Akbar’s religious policy; volume II reports millennial and Mahdist claims at Akbar’s court.

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Badauni on the Mahdi and the years 989 and 990 →

Mural Paintings in Temple Complex

Daesoon Jinrihoe

Interprets paradise imagery and a Go game as Korean reunification and leadership; attributes future deathlessness to Sangje.

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