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Lawrence Farley; OCA website
An Orthodox argument for present faithfulness in response to preoccupation with the apocalypse.
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Orthodox Church in America HTML publication
Prophetic/apocalyptic distinction; Revelation discussion; conclusion
Augustine of Hippo
Discusses final judgment and alternative readings of the two resurrections and thousand years; all books consolidated as one work.
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Augustine on those who counted 400, 500 or 1,000 years · commentary →
Augustine: “many” includes everyone raised · commentary →
Augustine counts three and a half years · commentary →
Augustine connects Elijah with understanding the law · commentary →
Augustine on the first resurrection and Satan’s binding · commentary →
Augustine on Antichrist, the restrainer and deceptive signs · commentary →
Augustine distinguishes final judgment from other comings · commentary →
Source. Translated by Marcus Dods. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 2. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887.) New Advent revised web edition.
Book XX, chapters 5 and 7; later Antichrist discussion
John Nelson Darby
Makes expectation of return integral to Christian life while distinguishing the church's any-moment hope from signs concerning divine government of the world. The surviving source explicitly identifies itself as uncorrected notes.
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STEM Publishing historical transcription
Opening; paragraphs on Matthew 25, morning star and Luke 12
William Kelly; STEM Publishing transcription
Distinguishes the believer’s gathering from the day of judgment, arguing that the text corrects a claim the day is already present rather than denying its nearness. Personal reunion with Christ is presented as the Christian hope.
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Opening 2 Thessalonians 2:1–2 exposition and discussion of Revised Version
Bruce R. McConkie; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Anticipates wider mission, congregations in Moscow, Peking and Saigon, numerous temples, severe persecution and reunion with Enoch’s city. No individual fulfillment is inferred from these expectations.
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Forward-looking vision beginning Looking ahead through Psalm of the Restoration
Barbara Hendrischke
Examines inherited communal evil and world salvation, expressly challenging Petersen's anti-messianic label because the Heavenly Master and disciples retain a salvific role.
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East Asian History 2, pp.1–30; journal PDF includes four frontmatter pages
Printed pp.1–3 and 28–30, especially p.29 footnote 187; PDF pages5–7 and32–34
Russell M. Nelson; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Connects future disclosure of creation’s purposes and the earth’s paradisiacal renewal at the Second Coming with current stewardship and family obligations.
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Closing account of future revelation and renewed earth; Our Responsibilities
Colin Deal
Colin Deal’s 1988 book, published by the author at Rutherford College, North Carolina. It argues that watchful Christians can know the month and day of Christ’s return, which it places on the Feast of Trumpets in September or early October, and sets out plans for the year: a 7,000-year plan placing Christ’s return around the year 6,000 from Adam, 2,000 A.D.; seventy Jubilees ending between about 1989 and 2030; the fig-tree generation from 1948, 1918 or 1967; and a fourth plan from the Great Pyramid placing Christ’s Millennial Kingdom around 2,000 A.D. The same text was also issued as Armageddon & the 21st Century.
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Colin Deal: Christ’s return around the year 6,000 from Adam, 2,000 A.D. · commentary →
Colin Deal: the fig-tree generation from 1948, 1918 or 1967 · commentary →
Colin Deal: the seventieth Jubilee and the Millennium between about 1989 and 2030 · commentary →
Colin Deal: the Great Pyramid places Christ’s Millennial Kingdom around 2,000 A.D. · commentary →
Colin Deal, The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (Rutherford College, North Carolina: Colin H. Deal, copyright 1988 by Colin Hoyle Deal). Selections from pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144. Internet Archive item dayhourjesuswill0000coli, leaves 89, 96–97, 101–104 and 156, copyright page leaf 6; transcribed from the page images. The unmatched quotation mark printed before Thus (p. 77) is omitted; a stray mark between date and somewhere (p. 84) is omitted; italics rendered plain; small capitals in B.C.E. rendered as capitals; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dashes as printed; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144
Colin Deal, Armageddon & the 21st Century (Rutherford College, North Carolina: Colin H. Deal, copyright 1988 by Colin Hoyle Deal). Selections from p. 81 and pp. 144–145. Internet Archive lending item bwb_W9-BRZ-331, leaves 93 and 156–157 (leaf = printed page + 12), copyright page leaf 6; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 5 October 2026. Italics rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dashes as printed; […] marks omissions. The copyright page and pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144 read the same as The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (1988), as does p. 81; the two titles are one text.
P. 81 and pp. 144–145
J. H. Paton
J. H. Paton’s 1880 book on the plan of the ages, published at Pittsburg by A. D. Jones and cited by “A. D. J.” in Zion’s Watch Tower in January 1881. It reckons Daniel’s 1335 years from 538 to 1873 or 1874 and expects the resurrection of the dead and the translation of the living church before 1914.
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J. H. Paton, The Day Dawn; or, The Gospel in Type and Prophecy (Pittsburg, Pa.: published by A. D. Jones, 1880; printed by M. C. Richardson & Co., Lockport, N.Y.), chapter “Times and Seasons,” pp. 73–74: from “The exact time when the resurrection” through ““the time of the harvest” begins.” Internet Archive item TheDayDawn (document 1880_Day_Dawn_First_Edition), BookReader leaves 72–73; title page leaf 1. Transcribed from the page images. Line-end hyphenation joined (“resurrec tion”); spaces before colons and semicolons closed; whitespace normalized. “Verse 12.” is printed before the words of Daniel 12:13 and kept.
Chapter “Times and Seasons,” pp. 73–74
Anonymous Pahlavi work; Kaikhoshroo Jamaspji Jamasp Asana translator
Calendar-day pattern assigns Peshotan's return, Hushedar's sun miracle, resurrection and immortal existence to Khordad in Farvardin.
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K. R. Cama Memorial Volume 1900; hosted transcription
PDF pages 4–5; original publication pp.122–129
Shafique N. Virani
Explains Nasir Khusraw's six prophetic cycles and Qa'im as Sabbath, his precursor and successors, and resurrection as disclosure of spiritual meaning. Identifies tension between numerical hierarchy and continued imams.
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IIS ten-page English PDF bearing copyright 2007 Nasiri Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and IIS
Ten-page PDF, especially The Sabbath and Ta'wil and Lord of the Resurrection, pages 1–2 and 7–9
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Distinguishes the Church's present glory in Christ from its future manifestation and expects continuing upheaval to intensify desire for the return.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Haggai 2:7; discussion of second-coming glory and worldwide shaking
Alice A. Bailey
Predicts an Aquarian emphasis on the risen Christ, recognition by all, shared understanding among nations and a church gathered from multiple religions.
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Online English edition identified by URL; precise limits stated in inspection note
Section8, Christ and the Coming New Age, pp.148–152
Anonymous canonical work; Lowell Cook and 84000 translation team
Maitreya pledges to seek those who hear or practice the dharani after his awakening and give them awakening prophecies, including animals.
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The root mantra in English · commentary →
The heart mantra in English · commentary →
The auxiliary heart mantra in English · commentary →
A variant in the root mantra · commentary →
84000 v1.0.1(2024); PDF generated2024-12-02
Toh890 1.1–1.6, PDF12–13; introduction and imprint
Anonymous work; apostolic framing is not established authorship · M. B. Riddle (editorial notes)
The Didache’s final chapter describes deception, testing, heavenly signs, resurrection, and the Lord’s coming. It places these expectations within instructions to remain watchful and faithful.
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Riddle weighs the signs and the first resurrection · commentary →
Ante-Nicene Fathers volume7 as revised/edited by Kevin Knight for New Advent
Chapter16, final paragraph
M. B. Riddle’s annotations in Ante-Nicene Fathers VII (1886), p.382, notes2517–2519. CCEL HTML transcription. The transcription’s “o pening” is retained.
Didache16, notes2517–2519
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Explains universal salvation, world reconstruction as the Joyous Life, and promised freedom from illness, death, and weakening through the Service.
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How the Doctrine connects salvation with the Service · commentary →
How the Doctrine connects salvation with the Service · commentary →
Official Tenrikyo English web excerpt; underlying English edition date unspecified.
Pages12–19, official excerpt titled The Path of Single-hearted Salvation
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Víctor Manuel Fernández
Confirms a cautious prae oculis habeatur determination, limits public cult, and distinguishes prayer for the dead from attempted spirit communication. Its extended catechesis separates the intermediate state from future bodily resurrection.
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Proposed determination; Communion between the pilgrim Church and the deceased
Shaykh al-Mufid
Distinguishes the purely faithful or wicked returning with the Qa'im from others awaiting resurrection; interprets bridge imagery, passes and weighing through theological argument rather than treating all imagery as physical description.
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Irfan Abdul Hamid translation, World Organization for Islamic Services; generated 74-page PDF.
Generated PDF pp.40–42 on souls and raj'a; pp.50–52 on sirat, passes and scales; translator preface pp.1–3
Ross Woodman
Contrasts Bahaullah's new creation with philosophical eschatologies, presenting modern political catastrophes as distorted counterparts to religious renewal. Reads the end of the prophetic cycle through planetary consciousness.
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Journal of Bahai Studies 3(3), English ten-page archive PDF transcription
PDF pages 1–5, particularly Hegel, Nietzsche and prophetic-cycle discussion
Rudolf Steiner
Gives 1930–1950 as a period for new perception, connects it with Christ's etheric appearance and describes materialism as a possible obstacle to recognition.
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GA118; paragraphs2–3 and9–11
Rudolf Steiner
Steiner predicts a gradually wider perception of Christ over 3,000 years and consoling appearances in the near future. His 1910 lectures instead give a period of 2,500 years.
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GA130; passage beginning the etheric Christ enters earthly life
Bede
Explains Revelation’s repeated presentations of the Church’s conflicts and the heavenly Jerusalem through recapitulation and symbolic numbers.
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Edward Marshall translation, Oxford and London: James Parker and Co. (1878); Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Bede’s introductory letter to Eusebius: seven sections and rules of interpretation
Historical Expositor's Bible contributors; Matthew author requires edition verification
Treats Jerusalem as the primary horizon of the discourse while extending its scope to the final end.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The Expositor's Bible; exact printed witness requires collation.
The Coming of the Son of Man, opening discussion of Matthew 24:3-44
Contributors to The Expositor's Greek Testament
Reads the cosmic imagery as describing the social and political collapse associated with Jerusalem while addressing the discourse's transition to the advent.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The Expositor's Greek Testament; exact print edition requires collation.
Matthew 24:29-31