Texts and commentaries

Simon Kimbangu

Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot

Separates political independence from spiritual liberation and explicitly notes difficulty locating an authentic source for the four-presidents prophecy.

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Sister Jayanti's Experience

B. K. Jayanti Kirpalani; institutional transcript

Explains 1976 expectation as interpretation of a conditional land-return statement; acknowledges her own expectation and later reassessment. Also discusses limited personal knowledge of 1950 claims.

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Śiva Purāṇa

Traditional narrative attributed to Vyāsa, with the sages addressing Sūta

Interprets the speakers’ age as Kali through a sustained account of deteriorating conduct and asks how people living in that age can obtain salvation.

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Skanda Purana

Traditional Vyasa attribution; G. V. Tagare translation

Vasudeva promises Kalki incarnation at Kali's end on a divine horse, embedded within a series of protective manifestations.

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Slavic Messianism in Southeast Europe: Petăr Dănov and the White Brotherhood

Thomas Heinzel

Analyzes Dănov's expected new age, 144,000 adepts, Russia around 2000, and revised interpretation of world wars. Distinguishes his Bulgarian movement from Aïvanhov's French organization.

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Smalcald Articles

Martin Luther

Includes coming judgment among the christological articles said to be undisputed between the parties.

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Small Catechism

Martin Luther

Promises resurrection of all the dead at the last day and everlasting life for believers in Christ.

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SN 20.7 Ani Sutta (The Peg)

Pali Buddhist canon; Thanissaro Bhikkhu translator

Future neglect of the Buddha's discourses is compared with a drum gradually replaced by pegs; training can counter the disappearance.

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When the original teaching is replaced →

How the commentary describes the drum · commentary →

Some Answered Questions

Abdu'l-Baha; table talks recorded by Laura Dreyfus-Barney

Interprets Christ's return and falling stars spiritually, referring readers to the Iqan. Isaiah 11 is applied to Bahaullah, with universal peace and a tribunal still described prospectively. This is identified Bahai reception.

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‘Abdu’l‑Bahá reads Isaiah’s peace as the age of Bahá’u’lláh · commentary →

What does it mean for Christ to return from heaven? · commentary →

Some Current Questions in Eschatology

International Theological Commission

Connects Christian hope of future resurrection to Christ's resurrection and argues that expectation of a new earth should strengthen present responsibility.

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Sources of doctrine in the Solar Temple

George D. Chryssides

Traces Christ-return expectations through Bailey and neo-Templar traditions and contrasts earlier world-renewal expectations with later withdrawal. Explicitly describes its reconstruction as tentative.

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Spe salvi

Benedict XVI

Presents final judgment as a source of hope and present responsibility and contrasts it with projects to establish final justice through human history alone.

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Spiritual Science as Preparation for a New Etheric Vision

Rudolf Steiner

Foresees etheric perception becoming more frequent in 1930–1940 and developing over2500years. Warns that physical messiah claimants misinterpret the predicted return.

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Spiritualization and reaffirmation: what really happens when prophecy fails

J. Gordon Melton

Examines reinterpretation and spiritualization after failed expectations, including Universal Link’s Christmas 1967 expectation. Helps distinguish organizational survival from fulfillment.

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Sri Kalki Purana

Traditionally attributed to Vyasa; Bhumipati Das translator; Purnaprajna Das editor

Narrates promised advent in Sambhala to Visnuyasa and Sumati, allied divine births, defeat of Kali, Maru/Devapi rule and restored Satya-yuga. Distinguish future narration in past tense from historical fulfillment.

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Kalki’s birth and the renewal of the world →

Four brothers, then three named elders · commentary →

Srila Prabhupada: The Acharya for Kali-yuga's Golden Age

ISKCON Revival Movement / Back To Prabhupada

Identifies Prabhupada as fulfillment of worldwide-preaching predictions and sole continuing acharya of a ten-thousand-year age. This is the IRM's contested succession argument.

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 12.2

Traditional Vyasa attribution; BBT English translators · Textual narrator Śukadeva addressing Parīkṣit; historical authorship not established

Kalki intervention, transition of ages, Devapi and Maru; separate original scripture from modern Purports.

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Devāpi and Maru return →

Kalki and the renewal of the age →

Statement on the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Ronald Reagan

Reagan’s statement following the shooting of John Paul II documents the attack and the pope’s immediate survival. It is an event source for examining the later connection made with the Fatima vision.

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Stellt bitte keine Bedingungen: Uriellas Weltendprophezeiungen als Unterwerfungsstrategie?

Georg Schmid

Schmid examines the interaction between catastrophe forecasts and demands for obedience in accounts of Fiat Lux’s predictions for 1998–1999.

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Stromata (Miscellanies)

Clement of Alexandria

Applies Daniel's numbered periods to Roman rulers and warfare, including the sequence around Nero and Vespasian.

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Studies in the Scriptures: The Finished Mystery

Published as Charles Taze Russell’s posthumous work; edited by C. J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher; Peoples Pulpit Association

The Finished Mystery was issued as Charles Taze Russell’s posthumous work. Clayton J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher compiled it, and its dated forecasts are attributed to their published text.

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The Finished Mystery’s dated expectations →

The publisher’s preface · commentary →

Republics disappear in 1920 · commentary →

The Finished Mystery expects persecution through 1921 · commentary →

Studies in the Upapuranas

R. C. Hazra

Reports manuscripts without the printed Narasimha Purana 54.8–61 Kali-age description.

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Study on the Relations between Kang Jeungsan and Cho Jeongsan Described in Chapter Two of Passing on of the Teachings, Jeon-gyeong

Ko Namsik, Daejin University

Claims a fifty-year teaching program fulfilled in Jo's 1958 death and interprets succession as carrying forward cosmic reordering.

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Summa Theologiae

Thomas Aquinas; Supplement compiled from his commentary on the Sentences

Examines signs before judgment, uncertainty about their timing, and whether the sun and moon darken literally.

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