Texts and commentaries

Tales and Maxims from the Midrash

Samuel Rapaport

Samuel Rapaport collects English retellings and sayings from the Midrash. His section on the Messiah connects biblical promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the future outpouring of God’s spirit described in Joel.

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Rapaport: the Messiah teaches the nations · commentary →

Rapaport places Joel’s outpouring in the messianic age · commentary →

Tawilat Ahl al-Sunna

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

Discusses Jesus’ descent in the preceding passage’s context, alongside Muhammad and the Qur’an as alternative signs of the Hour. The meaning of the command to follow changes with the referent.

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Taysir al-Karim al-Rahman (Tafsir al-Sa‘di)

Abd al-Rahman al-Sa‘di

Sa‘di offers two explanations: Jesus’ creation without a father demonstrates the possibility of resurrection, or his future descent signals the Hour.

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Taysir al-tafsir

Ibrahim al-Qattan

Uses Jesus’ birth without a father as evidence of resurrection and separately records the view that the Qur’an teaches the Hour.

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Tazkirul Quran

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Treats the passage chiefly as a warning about refusing rationally presented truth and recognizing it too late on Judgment Day, without elaborating a geopolitical Gog-Magog scenario in this unit. This is a concrete contrast in exegetical emphasis.

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Te Temepara o te Haahi Ratana: The Ratana temple and Whare Maori

Keith Newman; Open University Gods’ Collections

Connects material archives, Ratana’s calling and rival claims to Potangaroa’s promised church. Distinguishes the 1881 expectation from Ratana’s 1928 visit.

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Te Ua Haumēne

Lyndsay Head

Explains the Revelation-based last-days vision, land restoration, and distinctions between Te Ua’s instructions and later followers’ military actions.

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Tefillat R. Shimon ben Yohai

Anonymous; rabbinic speakers are literary attributions, not verified authorship

Frames an eschatological revelation with an imperial persecution/exorcism story and explicit questions about messianic timing, exile-gathering and subsequent wars; related Secrets work is separately transmitted.

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Testimony at the World Uranium Hearing

Thomas Banyacya Sr.

Describes return of separated brothers with sacred tablets and beneficial inventions, nuclear destruction warnings, and human responsibility for avoiding catastrophe. Identifies the Gulf War retrospectively as the beginning of a third world war.

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Islam — Ahmadiyya

Testimony of the Holy Quran Regarding the Advent of the Promised Messiah in the Latter Days

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Ghulam Ahmad defends reports about the promised Messiah and interprets railways and Christian political power as signs of his own messianic age.

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That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope

Dwight Lyman Moody

Defends studying unfulfilled prophecy, rejects knowing the day, and separates removal of the church from judgment of the world.

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Scholarship

The 1844 Ottoman 'Edict of Toleration' in Bahai Secondary Literature

Michael W. Sours

Michael W. Sours examines how an Ottoman assurance against executing Christian converts became part of Bahá’í arguments about 1844 and Jewish return.

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The 1901-1902 Holy Man's Rebellion

John B. Murdoch

Documents regional leadership, a reported May 1901 transformation catastrophe and Thao Thammikarat expectation, followed by Ong Man's 1902 claim. Transnational account helps avoid treating present borders as separate movements.

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The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon

Hal Lindsey

Hal Lindsey’s 1980 survey of the coming decade, published by Bantam in 1981. It dates the prophetic countdown from Israel’s rebirth on 14 May 1948 and holds that the generation that saw it will see the rapture and Christ’s return.

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Hal Lindsey in 1980: “We are the generation He was talking about” · commentary →

The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar

Robert K. Sitler

Distinguishes the traditional day count from Argüelles’s Dreamspell, and traces claims of returning beings, planetary catastrophe and spiritual renewal.

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The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies

Pierre Jurieu; anonymous English translator

Pierre Jurieu’s commentary on Daniel and Revelation, written for persecuted French Protestants and translated into English in 1687. It dates the fall of the Antichristian empire between 1710 and 1715.

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Jurieu in 1688: the papacy ends between 1710 and 1720; an anonymous writer says 1705 · commentary →

Jurieu: the Antichristian empire falls between 1710 and 1715 · commentary →

Jurieu: the Antichristian empire falls between 1710 and 1715 · commentary →

The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra

Nichiren

Retrospective fulfillment claims connect persecution, rebellion and invasion, with alternative time windows and an explanation of apparently unfulfilled split-head punishment.

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The Allies of Humanity

Marshall Vian Summers; attributed to extraterrestrial Allies

Explicitly forecasts an alien-produced false Second Coming while denying that the historical Jesus will physically return. Later sections frame a conditional struggle for human freedom.

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The Anatomy of Figuration: Maimonides' Exegesis of Natural Convulsions in Apocalyptic Texts (Guide II.29)

Christopher Buck

Analyzes Maimonides' political reading of cosmic upheaval, dynasty destruction, and new heavens/earth. Helps distinguish figurative interpretation from an asserted physical prediction. Buck's reconstruction of possible contemporary messianic reapplication remains an inference.

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The Annotated Bible

Arno C. Gaebelein

Places Matthew's first section in a future completion of Israel's age, distinguishing it from Luke's account of Jerusalem's destruction.

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The Annual Lecture on the Doctrines of the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai

Nichiren; Soka Gakkai English translation and editorial background

Makes future success of the teaching depend on predictions proving correct; anticipates revolt, possible conquest, and personal exile or death.

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The Anti-Messianism of the Taiping Jing

Jens Østergård Petersen

Petersen calls the outlook of one Taiping jing stratum “anti-messianic millenialism.” His opening argument concerns TPJ-A, the Heavenly Teacher’s answers to six Perfected Ones. Footnote 1 defines that stratum by excluding TPJ-B, TPJ-C and suspected interpolations. In pages 2–8, disasters arise from inherited human guilt rather than automatically from conjunctions of cosmic cycles. The Teacher uses farming and stored grain to distinguish environmental occasions from human responsibility. Petersen also explains that the collapse of humanity threatens Heaven and Earth, while noting an awkward exception for individual immortality alongside the dominant collective remedy. He treats collation of existing scriptures as a remedy for inherited guilt, without requiring a new savior. These are Petersen’s interpretations and translations of the received text, not newly issued prophecies.

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The Apocalypse of Thomas

Anonymous work attributed to Thomas

Sets out a seven-day sequence before the end, including blood rain, smoke, earthquakes and celestial darkness.

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The Apocalypse Unsealed

Robert F. Riggs

Riggs explicitly distinguishes his intuition and deduction from official interpretation, yet adopts a purported Waite conversation as authentic on stylistic grounds. Explains ambiguity, multiple meanings, zodiac and rainbow symbolism as tools for reading Revelation.

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