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Sen McGlinn
Critiques selective numerical calculations, historicist mappings and unverified pilgrim notes in Riggs. Advocates historically grounded interpretation that preserves Christian textual context while allowing situated Bahai reception.
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Tracy Gustilo; OCA website
Presents Paul's mission as disclosure, defeat of evil and cosmic transformation, not only doomsday. Opening Peter citation has a chapter typo; conclusion correctly gives 2 Peter 3:13–16. Broad descriptions of ancient Jewish expectation remain interpretation.
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Orthodox Church in America HTML publication
Paul's apocalyptic calling; concluding resurrection and new-creation discussion
William P. Collins
Challenges Lambden's conclusion that upheaval is largely complete; proposes punctuated progressive millennialism. Distinguishes unity of nations from a political Lesser Peace and argues neither future catastrophic events nor their absence can be guaranteed.
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Bahai Studies Review 10, pages 134–144, archive HTML
Main commentary from millennial definitions through uncertainty about future calamities
Rudolf Steiner
Names 1933,1935 and 1937 within a 1930–1940 transition toward etheric vision of Christ. Explicitly rules out another physical incarnation and anticipates that the experience could go unrecognized.
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Stefan Kamola
Analyzes a post-Mongol Zoroastrian apocalyptic manuscript and the extension of Jāmāsp traditions into Mongol history.
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Joseph Smith
Thirteen statements of Latter-day Saint belief first published with Joseph Smith’s Church History in 1842. Article 10 declares expectations about Israel, Zion, Christ’s reign and the renewed earth.
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The gathering of Israel and a renewed earth →
James E. Talmage
James E. Talmage explains Latter-day Saint teachings through the Articles of Faith. The selected sections discuss the gathering of Israel, Zion, the signs of Christ’s return and the first resurrection.
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Who takes part in the first resurrection? · commentary →
Who takes part in the first resurrection? · commentary →
Talmage reads the signs as approaching fulfillment · commentary →
The Ten Tribes return to an established Zion · commentary →
Why Zion has not yet been built · commentary →
Christ as king on earth · commentary →
The day and hour remain unknown · commentary →
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Eleventh English edition, The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, 1919. Project Gutenberg 42238 transcription.
Lectures XVIII–XXI
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Treats birth, death, resurrection and ascension as leading to a fifth event, the glorious return, and connects it to bodily resurrection.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Acts 1:10–11; opening five-event structure
Anonymous composite work attributed to Isaiah
Predicts Beliar’s rule and the Beloved’s descent with angels, destruction of Beliar and judgment.
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Parley P. Pratt; edited by his son Parley P. Pratt
Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography, written before his death in 1857 and published by his son in 1874. It recounts his missions and the Missouri persecutions, and quotes in full the August 1833 revelation that Joseph Smith sent to the Saints in Missouri.
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Parley P. Pratt: the revelation was not complied with, and the judgment followed · commentary →
Kees Samplonius
Argues that Christian imagery shaped the poem, testing world-destruction formulas and the linguistic interpretation of Surtr’s fire against competing indigenous-origin explanations.
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Johann Heinrich Alsted (English translation attributed to William Burton)
English translation (London, 1643) of Johann Heinrich Alsted’s Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), a defence of a coming thousand-year reign of the saints on earth. Among its reasons it reckons from Daniel 12 that the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner.
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Alsted: the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner · commentary →
Alsted: the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner · commentary →
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Johann Heinrich Alsted, The Beloved City, or, The Saints Reign on Earth a Thousand Yeares (London, 1643), the English translation of his Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), “Faithfully Englished” with notes (ESTC attributes the translation to William Burton); “The third Classis of Arguments”, “Reasons, or Consequences”, nos. VI–VII, p. 57 (heading p. 56). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A25221). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […].
Third class of arguments, reasons VI–VII, p. 57
Jason Greenberger
Compares era schemes, future Maitreya world and Later World; traces textual and interview sources, which remain distinct from the paper.
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Ellen G. White
Relates unknown timing to active preparation; distinguishes a worldwide gospel witness from universal conversion and says neglected mission has delayed the return.
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Review and Herald, November 13, 1913, paragraphs 1–10
Maya compilers; Ralph L. Roys, translator and editor
Preserves cyclical katun prophecy and a critique of colonial oppression, alongside a visibly Christian account of final judgment.
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Katun 11 Ahau →
The compiler on conquest and oppression · commentary →
The Last Judgment in a colonial Maya text · commentary →
Roys on the judgment account’s language and sources · commentary →
Roys’s notes on Katun 11 Ahau · commentary →
Joseph Smith, credited translator; prophetic speakers identified in each passage
A scriptural work of the Latter Day Saint movement, presented as records of ancient peoples and published through Joseph Smith. Its prophetic passages include the gathering of Israel, New Jerusalem, judgment and a renewed world.
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The three disciples who will not taste death →
Nephi’s vision of the last days →
Nephi explains the scattering and gathering of Israel →
Nephi’s plain prophecy of scattering and restoration →
Nephi foresees a voice from the dust →
The sealed book and a marvelous work →
Warnings to the churches of the last days →
More of God’s word and the gathering of Israel →
A restored people and a world at peace →
Jacob on the Messiah’s second recovery of Israel →
Other sheep and the fulness of the Gentiles →
Enlarge the place of thy tent →
Jesus expounds all things to the last day →
The covenant already beginning to be fulfilled →
Gathering Israel and building New Jerusalem →
Ether’s two Jerusalems →
Zenos’s allegory of the olive tree →
The record comes forth in a day of pride →
The mountain of the Lord and peace among nations →
The branch from Jesse →
Malachi 3:1–6 →
Elijah returns →
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Project Gutenberg eBook 17, English HTML transcription, updated 11 October 2025. Chapter and verse numbering as displayed. HTML removed and paragraph whitespace normalized; wording, punctuation and verse labels retained.
3 Nephi 20:10–46; 3 Nephi 21:1–29; Ether 13:1–12; 1 Nephi 14:1–30; 2 Nephi 30:1–18
Joanna Southcott; sixth book published by Daniel Jones
Jones claims to have purchased signed sealed letters in 1852, not continuously held them since 1813. The communication anticipates a Pomeroy marriage and interprets Christ’s second coming spiritually through that union. This is reported prophecy.
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Southcott’s promised marriage to Pomeroy →
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad argues that his messianic mission ends religious warfare. He interprets technological changes as prophetic signs and explains the Messiah and Mahdi as a spiritual reappearance.
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Tayyba Seema Ahmed and Lutfur Rahman English; revised Ahmed Muneeb Saeed/Munawar Ahmed Saeed; Islam International2006/2018 ISBN1853727490
Printedpp9–10,17–20,31–36; imprint and main booklet signaturep27
Anonymous Chinese transmission; Buddhist Text Translation Society English edition
The Ultimate Extinction of the Dharma is a Buddhist sutra preserved in Chinese transmission. It describes the loss of the teaching and a future recovery; the English version collected here is hosted among introductory materials for the Shurangama Sutra.
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The disappearance of Buddhist teaching →
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BTTS institutional English web text
Complete standalone sutra embedded as introductionII to Shurangama materials; Taisho396 identification from NTI catalogue.
Dharmachakra Translation Committee; anonymous canonical work
Predicts that practitioners accepting nonapprehension will form Maitreya's first great assembly, distinguishing correct view from fearful misinterpretation of emptiness.
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Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s catechism on the thousand years’ kingdom of Christ, first printed in 1690. The second edition (London, 1696), “with Considerable Additions”, ends the 1260 years begun at 437 and the Beast’s 42 months from 475 in 1697.
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Beverley’s Catechism of the Kingdom, 1696: the 1260 begun at 437 and the Beast’s 42 months both end in 1697 · commentary →
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[T. Beverley], The Catechism of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Thousand Years. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions, in Relation to the Kingdom of Christ (London: Printed for and Sold by William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and also by John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street, 1696). P. 18 (leaf n21), from “I hence by express Letter of Scripture” to “Rev. 12. 1.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-catechism-of-the-kin_beverley-thomas_1696; title page n0). The title page does not print the author’s name (a manuscript note on this copy adds “By Thomas Beverly”); the “Catalogue of Late Books By That Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Beverly” printed at the end of the volume (leaves n24–n27) lists the Catechism and its second edition. A pen stroke after “437,” is left out. Long s (ſ) rendered s; ligatures expanded; roman and italic type not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; spacing normalized (one space after punctuation, paragraph breaks as blank lines); running heads, catchwords, signatures and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as printed; omissions inside the selection marked […]. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images and checked against the item’s OCR text layer.
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South African History Online
Distinguishes earlier Russian-rescue expectations during the Crimean War from Nongqawuse’s 1856 commands and the differing responses of chiefs.
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Annie Besant
Expects the same being she identifies with Christ to appear again as a human teacher soon, interpreting contemporary religious expectations as signs.
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D. Todd Christofferson; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Explains apparent delay of the return as mercy permitting repentance and relates Christlike character to preparation for a new earth and millennial reign.
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What manner of persons ought we to be? · commentary →