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Alice A. Bailey
Places Christ and a spiritual hierarchy close to intervention in contemporary world affairs and presents representatives of world faiths awaiting coordinated action.
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Online English edition identified by URL; precise limits stated in inspection note
The Return of the Christ, May1947, pp.591–593
Daniel Beben
Argues that post-Mongol Nizari community memory centered on Alamut's resurrection proclamation, while later public imamate formation renewed emphasis on the Fatimid past. Contrasts outside antinomian accounts with Nizari explanations of unveiling religious essence.
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Edited version of chapter in Farhad Daftary and Shainool Jiwa, eds., The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions (I.B. Tauris / Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2017); IIS PDF
PDF pages 1–8, especially pages 1–3 on the memory of the 1164 qiyama
Assemblies of God USA, General Presbytery
Defends irreversible judgment and eternal punishment against universal reconciliation and annihilationism. Frames the removal of evil as necessary for renewed creation and warns ministers against confidently naming who is damned.
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Unpacking Fundamental Truth 15 and Guidelines for Teaching
Jabril Muhammad
Calls Elijah Muhammad and Farrakhan two messiahs, claims little scripture remains unfulfilled, and frames remaining events as producing mass recognition. Uses Gospel narrative proportions and anti-conspiracy teaching to exhort followers; records continuing expectation decades after earlier dates.
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Final Call English web reprint
Whole column, especially opening interpretation and final-phase paragraphs
Edgar C. Whisenant
Edgar Whisenant’s 1989 sequel to 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, published by WBS in Nashville for free distribution. It explains the passing of September 1988 by a missing year in the first century, reads Rosh Hashanah 1988 as “the shout,” and sets the rapture on Rosh Hashanah, 1 September 1989, with a dated sequence to Armageddon in 1996.
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Edgar Whisenant in 1989: the rapture on Rosh Hashanah, 1 September 1989 · commentary →
Edgar C. Whisenant, The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989 (Nashville: WBS, 1989), pp. 2, 6 and 7, and Figures 3–5 (pp. 12–14), whose date labels are transcribed in reading order. Internet Archive lending item finalshoutraptur0000unse; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 5 October 2026, in which the reader’s search hits for “1989” are highlighted. Italics (the title 88 Reasons...) and bold rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 2, 6–7; Figures 3–5, pp. 12–14
Denis Kaiser; Biblical Research Institute
Denis Kaiser examines Ellen White’s statements about people hastening or delaying Christ’s return alongside divine foreknowledge. He also distinguishes hearing a date in a vision from remembering or publicly communicating it.
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Introduction; Flexibility; Fixedness; Summary and Conclusion
Alberto R. Timm; Biblical Research Institute
Presents Adventist reception of 1755, 1780 and 1833 as prophetic signs and distinguishes them from later cosmic rearrangements. Claims about other traditions and political fulfillment remain the author's polemical interpretation, not independent historical evidence.
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Introduction; Great Controversy Framework; Cataclysmic Signs
Joanna Southcott
Retrospectively presents dreams, household events and national distress as signs, explicitly distinguishes shadow from substance and identifies a claimed 1801 realization of earlier expectations.
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Southcott’s account of a visitation in 1792 →
Southcott defends her calling · commentary →
Scanned historical print; imprint details not fully image-collated
PDF/printed pp. 1–5 and 15–17
John Wesley
Applies Romans 8 and Revelation 21 to restoration of nonhuman creatures beyond their original capacities, explicitly rejecting annihilation as deliverance.
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Does the renewal include animals? · commentary →
Does the renewal include animals? · commentary →
CCEL, identified 1872 edition
Sermon 60, section III, paragraphs 1–3
John Wesley
Expects renewal to continue until sin, misery and death end in universal holiness; historical demographic estimates and disparaging descriptions are the preacher's.
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Wesley expects the promises to reach every nation · commentary →
CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 63; opening Isaiah 11:9 and concluding paragraph
James Mooney
James Mooney’s 1896 study records Ghost Dance teachings and their transmission among Native communities. Its account of Wovoka’s message is an edited English rendering by an outside recorder.
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Short Bull’s advanced time, 1890 →
Wovoka’s message of reunion and renewed life →
Mooney: the spring of 1891 was the date all the tribes recognized · commentary →
The two written versions · commentary →
Public full-text edition or reprint
Chapter X, printed pages 777–783, Messiah Letter variants and editorial discussion
John Wesley
Rejects separate judgments immediately after death and at the end, locating the account of stewardship at the general resurrection and glorious return.
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One judgment, after the resurrection · commentary →
One judgment, after the resurrection · commentary →
CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 51; section III, paragraphs 1–2
John Wesley
Uses a contemporary court gathering to introduce the universal judgment seat of Christ; delivery venue and date appear in the editorial heading.
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Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 15; opening Romans 14:10 and assize comparison
Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy presents a Christian historical and prophetic narrative. It interprets the New England Dark Day and the Leonid meteor storm as signs associated with Christ’s return.
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Ellen White’s account of the Dark Day · commentary →
Ellen White’s account of the 1833 meteors · commentary →
1911 text in White Estate electronic PDF, copyright page 2017; PDF running pages differ from bracketed original pagination
Chapter17, original p306; PDF page266; Chapter18, original p333; PDF page288
Anonymous canonical work; Karen Liljenberg and Ulrich Pagel translators
Maitreya is anointed to preserve Dharma in the final five-hundred-year period; warnings identify dishonest livelihood and desire for gain among false bodhisattvas.
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Maitreya accepts the protection of the Dharma →
A parallel with Ānanda’s request · commentary →
The Tibetan posture of supplication · commentary →
A tentative translation of Mahākāśyapa’s refusal · commentary →
84000 v1.0.14(2025)
1.46–1.59, PDF22–24; introduction/imprint
Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell (APOD editors)
NASA’s illustrated account describes the great meteor storm visible over eastern North America before dawn on 13 November 1833.
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, 10 December2024
Explanation
John Cumming
Cumming’s lectures interpret biblical prophecy through historical chronology. This second series opens with his expectation of a crisis in 1867 and his qualifications about what the evidence can establish.
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Cumming expects a crisis in 1867 · commentary →
John Cumming, The Great Tribulation; or, Things Coming on the Earth, Second Series (New York: Rudd & Carleton; London: Richard Bentley, 1860), Lecture XXI, 1867, printed pp. 9–10. Title and both source pages visually collated. Complete biblical epigraph and opening paragraph, ending before Elliot and Mede. Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; italics rendered plain; small capitals rendered title case. Archive page-image n8 is the title, n14–15 are printed pp. 9–10.
Lecture XXI, pp. 9–10
Marshall Vian Summers; Society for the New Message from God
Presents conditional global upheaval and a smaller future population alongside religious warnings about an alleged extraterrestrial intervention masquerading as humanity’s savior.
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The Great Waves Prophecy, opening forecast through preparation and alien intervention discussion
Henry Alford
Allows an early and an ultimate application of gospel proclamation, and weighs rival identifications of the desolating abomination.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The Greek Testament: Critical Exegetical Commentary; exact print edition requires collation.
Matthew 24:13-15
Moses Maimonides
Explains Isaiah's cosmic imagery as political catastrophe or restoration, and argues creation does not entail eventual universal destruction. Allows Joel's signs to refer either to Sennacherib or Gog/Magog; distinguishes permanent natural law from exceptional miracles.
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Maimonides links knowledge with peace · commentary →
Maimonides on prophecy and the world’s permanence · commentary →
M. Friedlander English translation, 1904 edition represented by Wikisource
Part II, chapters XXVII–XXIX
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Supports rebuilding Palestine as refuge and cultural homeland while defining universal brotherhood and peace as the messianic goal. Describes revelation as continuous and principles as guidance rather than fixed creed.
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CCAR official English HTML transcription
A.5 Israel, B.8 Peace and introductory provisional-guide framing
Charles H. Hambrick
Studies Jien's historical interpretation and mappo chronology, including the traditionally accepted 1052 transition.
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 5/1, pp. 37–58
Printed pp. 37–43 (PDF pp. 1–7)
The Watch Tower (C. T. Russell, editor)
Unsigned lead article of The Watch Tower for 1 September 1916. It holds that the Times of the Gentiles ended in October 1914, calls the expectation that the harvest would close by then a mistake, and sets out parallels in which the nominal Christian house is made desolate from 1881 to 1918.
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn, N.Y.), vol. XXXVII, no. 17, 1 September 1916, unsigned article “The Harvest Is Not Ended,” pp. 263–264 (reprint pp. [5949]–[5950]): the paragraph “We see no reason for doubting” through “also will appear with him.”; the section “Our Mistake Respecting the Harvest,” its first two paragraphs; the table “Jewish and Christian Parallels”; the first two sentences of the paragraph “We imagined”; and, from p. 265, the paragraph “Incidentally we remark”. Omissions marked “…”. Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine, which sets two original pages on each reprint page with the original page numbers in parentheses: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1916, BookReader leaves 130–131 (reprint pp. [5949]–[5950]). Transcribed from the page images. Capitals of the section headings rendered in title case; the table set as rows with “|” between its columns; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized. C. T. Russell was editor.
pp. 263–265
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad interprets a poem attributed to Nimatullah as foretelling his own mission, applying its names, chronology and succession imagery to himself.
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Muhammad Akram Ghauri English translation, Islam International Publications 2005, revised by Shamim Akhtar and Iftikhar Ahmad Ayaz
Printed pages 3–8 poem; 13–14 rival identification discussion; 24 and 31–33 commentary; edition pages