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Ahmad ibn Hanbal
A report attributed through Ali identifies the Mahdi with the prophetic family and describes preparation in one night.
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Sunnah.com Arabic and English, Darussalam numbering/grading as displayed.
Hadith 645; Musnad Ali ibn Abi Talib, book 5 hadith 81
Sermons and sayings attributed to Ali; compiled by al-Sharif al-Radi
A reported sermon anticipates a concealed figure who frees slaves, resolves divisions, and guides others during promised events.
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Al-Islam.org English and Arabic presentation of Nahjul Balagha, Part1.
Sermon150 in this edition, opening section on future events and concealment
Based on Sakae Ōishi’s Kaiso-den; translated and supplemented by Charles Rowe and Yasuko Matsudaira
Describes the recording of Nao’s revelations and presents the opening expectation of purification and a reconstructed world of peace.
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The Oomoto Foundation, Kameoka, 1982; adapted English Kaiso-den with additional research. Japanese and English versions are conservatively one work identity.
Translators’ Note; The Beginning of the Scriptures; Content of the Ofudesaki
Bronislav Ostransky
Documents authority through visionary experience and specific predictions attributed to Daghestani, Nazim and Kabbani; discusses disappointed expectation and later retrospective fulfillment claims.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Introduction and The Naqshbandiya-Haqqaniya; beginning of Sheikh Nazim section
Herbert Berg
Distinguishes Elijah Muhammad's racialized apocalypse from Sunni Islam, traces Mother Plane and scriptural interpretations, and documents shifting dates and explanations of delay. Ends with a 1972 statement allowing salvation for some white believers, complicating blanket elimination claims.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements; DOI 10.17863/CAM.121552
Introduction, Origins and Teachings, complete The Fall of America section
Al-Biqai
Connects Jesus’ descent and miracles with universal death and resurrection, then invokes a claimed agreement among Jews, Christians and Muslims about an expected figure. His interreligious characterization needs attribution.
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Arabic HTML transcription at Quran-tafsir.net.
Quran 43:61, full commentary entry
Shanon Shah
Explains anti-Zionist objections to forcing the messianic end and differences among Neturei Karta, Satmar, other haredim and religious Zionists; documents competing uses of Maimonides's silence.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Summary, History/Origins, Beliefs and Millennial Beliefs
Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Maharal of Prague)
Explains waiting for final redemption and Sanhedrin’s condemnation of end-date calculators. Failed calculations can cause their listeners to abandon hope; the final redemption’s concealed timing is contrasted with Egypt’s announced end.
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Sefaria Hebrew: Netzach Yisrael, with footnotes and annotations by Rabbi Yehoshua D. Hartman, Machon Yerushalyim, 1997
Chapter 31, paragraphs 1–4
Asai Endo; translated by Jacqueline I. Stone
Examines tension between final-Dharma decline and inherent enlightenment, including persecution interpreted as confirmation of the Lotus Sutra.
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26/3–4, pp. 239–259
Printed pp. 239–246 (PDF pp. 1–8)
Shogo Kanayama
Discusses mappo, invasion prophecy and formation of miracle legends, including alternative explanations for a rescue light.
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Journal publisher PDF
Caietele Echinox23 pp.83–89; inspected pp.83–84,88–89
Ephrem the Syrian
Poetic speakers personify Death, Sin and Satan. Distinguishes involuntary resurrection of sinners from gracious resurrection sought by the speaker; resurrection to punishment is not equivalent to salvation. Whole hymn collection counts once; speeches are dramatic theology, not reported interviews.
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J. T. Sarsfield Stopford, NPNF second series 13 (1890 as website credits); New Advent revised HTML
Hymn 35 opening; Hymn 38 final stanza 11 and Hymn 39 opening
Anonymous post-rabbinic work; named biblical or rabbinic speakers are literary attributions
Portrays Ishmael's kingdom as deliverance from Edom and interprets Isaiah 21:7 and Zechariah 9:9 together; not collapsed into the differently framed Prayer of Shimon.
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John C. Reeves English translation; stated base: Jellinek, Bet ha-Midrasch 3:78–82, reproducing Salonika 1743 version
Opening cave revelation and rider-of-ass/camel interpretation
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Explains six prudential conclusions and distinguishes a nihil obstat from a declaration of supernatural origin; this is necessary context for classifying apparition endorsements.
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Official Vatican English web text
Presentation, New Aspects
Lee McCann
Connects Nostradamus, 1999 eclipses, Antichrist and an ensuing golden age. McCann's dated interpretive scenario.
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Edition specified in date and inspection fields
In the Twentieth Century, printed pp.413–415
Various correspondents and the editors
London weekly of questions and answers for antiquaries, founded in 1849. In 1872 a correspondent asked about a “Mother Shipton” rhyme dating the world’s end to 1881; in 1873 the editors reported Charles Hindley’s admission that he had fabricated it.
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The “Mother Shipton” 1881 rhyme →
Notes and Queries reports Charles Hindley’s admission that he fabricated the rhyme · commentary →
Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. X (London), 7 December 1872, pp. 450–451, query “Mother Shipton’s Prophecy” signed Simeon Rayner, complete. Internet Archive periodical scan sim_notes-and-queries_1872-12-07_10_258, page images inspected. Verse lines kept as printed lines; small capitals (“Ancient Prediction,” “Simeon Rayner”) rendered in title case; spaces before semicolons and question marks closed; “that ’s” printed with a thin space, rendered “that’s”; whitespace normalized.
4th ser. X, pp. 450–451; XI, p. 355
David Stuart
The project epigrapher interprets the newly excavated 2012 reference as a frame for royal political history rather than an apocalyptic prediction.
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English text identified above
Introduction, Historical Background and preliminary inscription analysis
PierLuigi Zoccatelli
Traces the 1990 messianic self-identification and the claimed ending of karma and arrival of a Golden Age, with timing tied to acceptance of the founder.
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Public English web edition
Founder’s self-identification; doctrine; symbolism
Albert Barnes
Requires an early application of the cosmic imagery while allowing a more complete fulfillment farther in the future.
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Barnes reads the darkened heavens as calamity · commentary →
Bible Hub English transcription of Barnes’ Notes; print impression unspecified.
Matthew 24:28–30, especially verse 29
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The Congregation’s notification records doctrinal objections to messages attributed to Vassula Rydén, including an imminent Antichrist and millenarian restoration.
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Paragraphs describing Antichrist and a pre-definitive-coming era of peace
Traditional attribution; historical authorship not established here
Balaam’s oracle in Numbers describes a future star and scepter from Jacob, dominion and the defeat of surrounding peoples.
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JPS1917; Mechon-Mamre electronic English; Hebrew verse numbering
24:15–19
Hebrew Bible · Book of Obadiah
Obadiah connects judgment against the nations with deliverance on Mount Zion and the Lord’s kingship. The passage places the fate of particular peoples within a wider Day of the Lord.
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JPS1917; Mechon-Mamre electronic English; Hebrew verse numbering
1:15–21
Isaac Newton
Criticizes using prophecy to foretell times and argues that fulfillment will make prophecy intelligible; the text also expects restoration of truth at the second coming.
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Newton on understanding prophecy through events · commentary →
Newton on understanding prophecy through events · commentary →
Project Gutenberg #16878, transcribed 1733 edition
Part II, chapter I, paragraph beginning with criticism of interpreters' folly
Minucius Felix
A dialogue in which the pagan interlocutor criticizes Christian beliefs about the world’s destruction by fire and the resurrection. Those objections belong to the speaker in the dialogue.
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Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.) New Advent revised web edition.
Chapter 11
Nakayama Miki
Nakayama Miki’s scripture presents divine speech in Japanese verses. These selections connect sincerity and purification of the heart with promises of long life and freedom from aging.
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Ofudesaki: salvation and long life →
Japanese text, Wikisource revision230316; original-language source for a new machine-assisted English translation
III.96–100 and IV.35–38