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Ellen G. White
Reads Revelation’s judgment books as disclosure of secret conduct and connects a present heavenly sanctuary judgment with readiness for the near return.
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Sermons and Talks 1, pp. 25–28
Dallin H. Oaks; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Says exact timing is unknown while applying the ten virgins to spiritual readiness and contemporary commotion to scriptural prophecy.
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Oaks identifies the commotion in his own time · commentary →
What would we change if we expected to meet Christ tomorrow? · commentary →
Oaks’s application of standing in holy places · commentary →
Oaks reads the ten virgins as members of the Church · commentary →
Official Gospel Library English transcript
Sections III–V
D. Todd Christofferson; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Connects restoration, a prepared people and building Zion to the return; statements of unique institutional authority remain attributed to the speaker.
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Discussion of the Church's commission, gathering and Zion
Christoffel Golden; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christoffel Golden describes Christ’s return as drawing nearer and connects preparation with the millennium and prophetic guidance.
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A day of peace for the righteous · commentary →
Official Gospel Library English transcript
Discussion preceding and following the Gospel Topics quotation
Neil L. Andersen; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Interprets missionary service as preparation for the return and the gathering of the elect.
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Missionary service and the promised gathering · commentary →
What Andersen expects at Christ’s return · commentary →
Official Gospel Library English transcript
Discussion of missions, Enoch, Daniel and gathering
J. Wendell
A short Adventist tract by J. Wendell of Edenboro, Pennsylvania, giving evidences for the coming of Christ in 1873. It reckons Daniel’s 1,335 years from AD 538 to that year.
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Wendell: the 1,335 years from AD 538 end in 1873 · commentary →
J. Wendell (Edenboro, Pa.), Present Truth, or, Meat in Due Season: Giving some of the Evidences for the Coming of our Lord and Saviour, this year, 1873 (no imprint; 1873). Internet Archive scan PresentTruthByJonasWendell, first page (leaf 1), title block and first paragraph, transcribed from the page image; the OCR layer is poor and was used only for comparison. Three worn marks in “events, only,” “prophecy, and” and “day, of course” are read as commas, as in the OCR layer. Title lines kept as printed lines; italics rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
First page
Don Baker
Explains changing cosmic-energy concepts behind Korean renewal expectations, contrasting natural cyclical transformation, ritual acceleration, and spiritual reform.
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CESNUR preliminary12-page PDF
PDFpp.1–4 and6–11, especially Kaepyok, Kim Ilbu, Kang Chungsan and Won Buddhism sections
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Ali Murtaza, compiler; Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA
Ali Murtaza gathers prophecies that he applies to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, including an interpretation of the 1894 Ramadan eclipses and comparisons with Christian, Hindu and Sikh expectations.
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Alislam.org hosted English PDF, USA community contact imprint
Fourteen-page pamphlet, especially pages 8–14 eclipse argument and conclusion
Attributed to Simon Kimbangu; translated by Niels M’baloula
Presents a sequence of colonial liberation, subsequent disorder, a preparatory teacher, and a divine king with spiritual, scientific, and political powers.
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Public English web edition
English sermon and prayer; translator’s source list
CenSAMM
Provides a working distinction between inspired knowledge, prediction, conditional warning, and social critique.
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Background; Prophecy and Prophets in History and Culture
Erika and Eberhard Bertschinger Eicke (Uriella and Icordo)
Predicts August invasion and economic collapse, subsequent impacts and a thousand-year golden age after 1999. Explicitly hopes for another postponement before the deadline.
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Public German transcription or author PDF
Complete reproduced press statement, signatures included
Traditional attribution; historical authorship not established here
Royal/priestly oracle and judgment of nations; later messianic identification must be separately attributed.
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Psalm 50: God calls his people to judgment →
Psalm 107, the companion text cited by Pratt · commentary →
JPS1917; Mechon-Mamre electronic English; Hebrew verse numbering
Psalm110:1–7
Kaufmann Kohler; H. G. Friedmann
Reports dated expectations and reactions, including 1290 and 1295 claims; the pejorative category and interpretations are those of the historical encyclopedia.
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Jewish Encyclopedia online transcription of 1901–1906 edition
Yemen claimant, Abraham Abulafia, Nissim ben Abraham and Asher Lemmlein
Islam — Lahore Ahmadiyya
Zahid Aziz (editor)
Zahid Aziz answers Mirza Masroor Ahmad’s 2006 sermons and defends the Lahore interpretation of Ghulam Ahmad’s status as a reformer rather than a prophet.
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The Light UK August2006 pp4–6 HTML transcription
The Light UK August2006 pp4–6; whole article
The Bab
The Qayyumu’l-Asma is the Báb’s commentary on the Qur’an’s chapter of Joseph. Its addresses claim divine authority while drawing on scriptural language and titles.
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Authorized English excerpts in Selections from the Writings of the Bab, first published 1976; official Bahai Reference Library
Excerpts from chapters I–V, VII and IX
Tuojin and others, by imperial command
The Qing court’s documentary account of the suppression of the 1813 Tianli (Eight Trigrams) rising, arranged by date from Jiaqing 18 to Jiaqing 21 (1813–1816). It prints the Jiaqing emperor’s essays, edicts and officials’ memorials, including the depositions of captured sect members.
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Cui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa, 1813 →
The Jiaqing emperor on the Eight Trigrams’ agreed day →
Qing palace woodblock edition, Peking University Library copy (Internet Archive 02080926.cn–02080964.cn)
Juan shou (imperial essay); juan 1, Jiaqing 18/9/15
Huang Hongshou
Huang Hongshou’s topical history of the Qing dynasty, published in 1914. Its chapter on provincial rebellions narrates the Tianli (Eight Trigrams) rising of 1813 and the day its members fixed by their scripture and the stars.
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The Eight Trigrams’ appointed day, 1813 →
Lithograph edition, 1914 (Peking University Library copy, Internet Archive 02080664.cn)
Juan 38, Jiaqing 18; volume 3, image n85
The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)
Defends a claimed supramental manifestation while allowing thousands of years for the new humanity to emerge and distinguishing spiritual perception from outward recognition.
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2 May 1956, pages 126–133
New Era editorial staff and attributed reader responses; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Responds to Y2K fears with counsel to prepare for a long life, maintain routine emergency readiness and avoid treating 2000 as a revealed return date. Explicitly labels answers as perspective rather than pronouncements of Church doctrine.
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Official English web text
New Era p. 16, main editorial response
The Watch Tower (unsigned)
Unsigned questions and answers in The Watch Tower of 15 June 1918 on the gates of Ezekiel’s temple. The answer on the east gate expects the ancient worthies to be made alive at the beginning of the earthly phase of the kingdom of heaven, “we believe in 1925.”
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn, N.Y.), vol. XXXIX, no. 12, 15 June 1918 (masthead, p. 179), unsigned article “Questions Concerning Ezekiel’s Temple,” p. 189, the second question and the first paragraph of its answer, from “Question.—Does the east gate” through “—Hebrews 11.” Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine, which sets two original pages on each reprint page: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1918, BookReader leaves 85 (masthead, reprint p. [6273]), 89 and 93 (running heads “June 15, 1918”) and 91 (reprint p. [6279]). Transcribed from the page images. Italic “Question.” and “Answer.” rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
p. 189
John Piper; Desiring God
Explicitly rejects a pre-tribulation rapture: sees one future return with simultaneous judgment and relief, and understands the meeting in the air as accompanying Christ back to earth.
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One More Coming of Christ and following lesson questions
Innocent III
Crusade letter issued by Pope Innocent III in April 1213 summoning the Fifth Crusade. It applies the number of the beast in Revelation to the span of Muhammad’s faith and says almost six hundred of its 666 years have passed.
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Innocent III: the beast’s 666 years, almost 600 completed · commentary →
Innocent III, Quia maior (1213), letter XVI.28 “Universis Christi fidelibus per Maguntinensem provinciam constitutis. De negotio terrae sanctae”, in J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Latina 216 (Paris), col. 818 (Internet Archive patrologiaecur216mign, leaf n412). Transcribed from the page image. The print’s “regorti” (for Gregorii) and “sexcenda” (for sexcenta) are retained as printed; æ ligatures retained; line-end hyphenation joined. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such; the translation renders the intended Gregory.
Letter XVI.28, PL 216, col. 818
Islamic scripture, traditionally revealed to Muhammad; English translation Mustafa Khattab
The Qur’an is Islam’s scripture, organized into chapters called surahs. The selections collected here include Jesus as a sign of the Hour, the Byzantines and the barrier of Dhul-Qarnayn.
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The barrier against Gog and Magog →
Qur’an 30: defeat followed by victory →
Qur’an 43: Jesus and the Hour →
Gog and Magog and the promised day →
Signs on the horizons and within →
Rodwell connects Gog and Magog with other texts · commentary →
Rodwell records readings of Sidjill · commentary →
George Sale’s account of traditions about Jesus’ descent · commentary →
Quran.com, Dr Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran; current online version
18:83–101 displayed context, especially 93–101; 21:96–97; 43:57–67
Bahya ben Asher
The exposition gives a Davidic historical reading and a midrashic alternating David/Messiah reading of the oracle.
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Sefaria: Eliyahu Munk, 1998 translation
Numbers 24:17, full displayed commentary entry