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Oomoto International; individual author not identified in the inspected presentation
Explains conflicting expectations for 1921 and the movement’s retrospective interpretation after arrests and repression.
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Official Oomoto reproduction of its 1980–1982 history series; one series, not each installment. Distinct from the Nao biography on its later interpretation-history evidence.
Discussion of the Taisho Junen Setsu movement, Onisaburo’s 1917 forecast, Asano’s 1921 interpretation, and its aftermath
Anonymous (attributed to John Evelyn)
Anonymous London history of 1669, attributed to John Evelyn, of three pretenders including Sabatai Sevi; its Sabatai narrative is the one Paul Rycaut reprinted in 1680.
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Rycaut on 1666 and Nathan’s prophecy for Sabatai Sevi →
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[John Evelyn], The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatai Sevi (London: Henry Herringman, 1669), “Sabatai Sevi”, p. 46 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-history-of-the-three_evelyn-john_1669, leaf n61). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A38790). 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 […]. Checked against the page image; the keyed I for italic J (Iewes, Iune) is retained as keyed. The Sabatai Sevi narrative in this book is the account Paul Rycaut later printed in his History of the Turkish Empire (1680), where he calls it “an issue of my Pen”.
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Paul Rycaut
Paul Rycaut’s history of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1677, which includes his account of the Sabbatean movement under the year 1666.
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Rycaut: Sabatai turns Muslim and the believers’ reply · commentary →
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Paul Rycaut, The History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 (London, 1680), “Anno 1666. Hegeira 1077.”: pp. 200–202 and 214–215 (Internet Archive b30326953, Wellcome Collection copy, leaves n307–n309, n321–n322). Reader unit: year heading and introduction (p. 200), pp. 201 (“According to the Predictions”) to 202 (“trade and interest.”), with the biography of Sabatai Sevi (pp. 201–202) omitted and marked […]. Note unit: pp. 214–215 from “But now Sabatai not having faith” to “their Mahometan Messiah.” Rycaut says the account first appeared elsewhere as “an issue of my Pen”; a near-identical text was printed anonymously in John Evelyn, The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors (London, 1669), which reads “month of June” where Rycaut prints “month of July” (Rycaut’s margin prints “June.”). Superscript “th” in “27th” lowered; marginal year notes “1666.” omitted. 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, marginal notes and reference asterisks omitted; spelling, capitalization, u/v and i/j usage 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.
Anno 1666, pp. 200–202, 214–215
Menasseh ben Israel
Reinterprets Isaiah and Ezekiel as a future reunion of dispersed tribes, distinguishes Josephite and Davidic messiahs, rejects knowledge of the precise date while arguing redemption is near, and connects expulsions and collective suffering with scriptural curses. American Israelite ancestry remains the author's claim.
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Menasseh on the scattered tribes · commentary →
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1652 English text reset in Lucien Wolf, ed., Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (Macmillan/Jewish Historical Society of England, 1901); Project Gutenberg 62562, 2020, updated 2024
Sections 24–32, printed pp. 41–49
John Nelson Darby
Distinguishes accomplished redemption from the future inheritance and participation in Christ's glory; resurrection accompanies creation's deliverance. Counts the eleven-lecture work once, not eleven chapter URLs.
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Thomas Banyacya
Treats speaking at the United Nations as fulfillment and presents destruction or earthly harmony as alternative consequences of human choices. Supports a conditional-warning display.
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The choice between two paths →
An unsigned account of the following storm · commentary →
Banyacya identifies the House of Mica · commentary →
Unarius Academy of Science
Unarius’s institutional explanation of the Interplanetary Confederation presents the movement’s expectations of future contact.
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Unarius and a future interplanetary community →
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Discusses God versus Christ in the judgment-seat reading and interprets universal accountability christologically.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Romans 14:10–12; opening textual-variant exposition
H. P. Blavatsky
Predicts another twentieth-century torchbearer and conditionally describes the Society’s future usefulness, contingent on avoiding sectarianism.
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J. S. Grewal
Separates Sainapat, Chaupa Singh, Nand Lal and Bhangu accounts of Khalsa identity and enduring rule; identifies one likely post-event prediction and distinguishes sovereignty concepts from exact motto occurrence.
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Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s 1689 Calendar of Time, drawn from the four monarchies and the time, times and half time of the Papacy, and carrying on his Scripture Line of Time. It sets the succession of the Kingdom of Christ between “the present 1689” and 1697, counting the last half time of 180 years from 1517.
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Beverley in 1689: the Kingdom of Christ enters its succession at 1697 · commentary →
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T. Beverley, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering its Succession at 1697. According to a Calendar of Time (Printed in the Year 1689). Title page (leaf n0), the General Preface, first paragraphs, from “The Preface I intend” to “the Stage of Power” (leaf n12), and p. 61, from “Being thus assur’d then” to “the first Trumpet.” (leaf n78) (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-kingdom-of-jesus-chr_beverley-thomas_1689). The running head of the discourse is “A Scripture Line of Time.” “Intencion” and “Costantine” are kept as printed. 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.
Title page; General Preface; p. 61
Bahaullah · Bahá’u’lláh, as credited by official library
Bahá’u’lláh’s Kitáb-i-Aqdas warns against claims to revelation before a thousand years have passed. A separate passage addresses bloodshed at the Rhine and lamentation in Berlin.
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A thousand years before another revelation →
The Rhine and Berlin warning →
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Bahá’í Reference Library English HTML; first English publication 1992 per About this publication
Kitáb-i-Aqdas paragraph 37; https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-aqdas/5; Kitáb-i-Aqdas paragraph 90; https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-aqdas/6
Bahaullah · Bahá’u’lláh, as credited by official library
The Kitáb-i-Íqán explains earlier scripture through Bahá’u’lláh’s account of revelation and the recognition of divine messengers.
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Bahá’u’lláh reads the signs of Christ’s coming · commentary →
Bahá’u’lláh reads the signs of Christ’s coming · commentary →
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Bahá’í Reference Library English HTML; first English publication 1931 per About this publication
About this publication; Part One, paragraphs 858099620 and 663902635; Part One notes 20–21
Meditate 4 Free; attributed excerpts of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Identifies Sahaja Yoga with final judgment and interprets Kalki’s birthplace through the human forehead. Also transmits a conditional expectation of a mature Satya Yuga by 1999.
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Islam — Lahore Ahmadiyya
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali defends the finality of Muhammad’s prophethood against Mahmud Ahmad’s interpretation. Its discussion includes Jesus’ second appearance and Ghulam Ahmad’s use of prophetic language.
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S.M.Tufail English; Ahmadiyya Anjuman IshaatIslam Delhi second revised1998; foreworddated1982 though firstEnglishimprint1981
Printedpp65–67 and71–72; translator forewordpp5–11 and imprint
Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson
Hal Lindsey’s 1970 book, written with C. C. Carlson and published by Zondervan. It reads Old Testament prophecy and Jesus’ discourse in Matthew 24 as describing the politics of its own time, with the rebirth of Israel in 1948 as the chief sign.
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Hal Lindsey: within forty years or so of 1948 · commentary →
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Hal Lindsey with C. C. Carlson, The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, © 1970), eighty-first printing, November 1980, ISBN 0-310-27771-X; chapter “Israel, O Israel,” pp. 53–54, from “But the most important sign in Matthew” (p. 53, section “Perfect Parable”) through “believe that this is so.” (p. 54). Internet Archive item TheLateGreatPlanetEarthByHalLindsey, leaves 52–53, transcribed from the page images; copyright page leaf 4. Italics (“this generation”) rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dash as printed; whitespace normalized.
Chapter “Israel, O Israel,” pp. 53–54
Baqir Sharif al-Qurashi
Provides a documented example of a Twelver author identifying other traditions' saviors with Imam Mahdi; its comparison embeds hostile generalizations about Jews and indirect citations, making it relevant to auditing misleading prophecy equivalences.
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Sayyid Athar Husain S.H. Rizvi translation; Ansariyan Publications, ISBN 964-438-806-2.
Signs of Reappearance of the Imam of the Time, section 1 through final identification and notes
William Whiston
William Whiston’s answer to Anthony Collins’s Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion (London, 1724). Its corrections to his Essay on the Revelation date Daniel’s 2300 years from the first year of Darius the Mede and end them in 1731 or 1764 instead of 1716.
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Whiston in 1724: Daniel’s 2300 years end in 1731 or 1764, not 1716 · commentary →
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William Whiston, The Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Prophecies. Being a full Answer to a late Discourse, of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion (London: Printed for J. Senex, in Fleetstreet; and W. Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXIV [1724]), section VII, “Corrections and Improvements to the Essay on the Revelation of St. John” (from p. 93), p. 101, the correction to the Essay’s p. 237, lines 15–27, from “The Interval of this Vision” to “Chaldean or Julian Years.” (Internet Archive bim_eighteenth-century_the-literal-accomplishme_whiston-william_1724, leaf n104; title page n0, section heading n96). This copy carries manuscript annotations and pen strokes across the printed page; the transcription gives the printed text. A pen stroke covers the point after “1731”. The printed fraction after “365” is given as ¼. 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.
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Russell M. Nelson; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Russell M. Nelson teaches that Christ will govern from Jerusalem and a New Jerusalem on the American continent. The address calls for present preparation without specifying a date for the return.
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Nelson connects gathering and temple building with Christ’s return · commentary →
Nelson connects gathering and temple building with Christ’s return · commentary →
Mufti Zameelur Rahman
Defends a distinct future Mahdi, contests attributing a Jesus-only Mahdi position to Ibn Khaldun, and explains how Muslim's unnamed leader is identified through other reports. Notes disputed direct hearing in Wahb-Jabir chain.
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Basair.net, official blog of Deoband.org
Opening, Mahdi will lead Isa, distribute wealth, explicit traditions and Narrations from Salaf
C. W. Leadbeater
Expects an imminent embodied World Teacher while explicitly distinguishing this from centennial efforts. Separately places a future racial community centuries ahead.
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José Argüelles
José Argüelles’s 1987 book, published by Bear & Company of Santa Fe, which reads the Maya Long Count as a cycle of thirteen baktuns begun in 3113 B.C. and concluding on 21 December 2012. It also names 16–17 August 1987 as the “Harmonic Convergence.”
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José Argüelles: the thirteen baktun cycles conclude on 21 December 2012 · commentary →
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José Argüelles, The Mayan Factor: Path Beyond Technology (Santa Fe: Bear & Company, copyright 1987), ISBN 0-939680-38-6. Two sentences: chapter 2, “The Maya: Diviners of Harmony,” p. 45, and the section “The Mayan Harmonic Numerical System,” p. 203. Internet Archive item mayanfactorpathb0000argu, pp. 45 and 203, copyright page n5; transcribed from the page images. Small capitals in A.D. and B.C. rendered as capitals; […] marks the omission between the two pages.
Pp. 45 and 203
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; constituent texts individually attributed · Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Lucia dos Santos, Tarcisio Bertone, Joseph Ratzinger and Angelo Sodano represented
The Vatican’s 2000 Fatima dossier brings together Lucia’s written vision account, Cardinal Sodano’s announcement and theological commentary on its interpretation.
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Fatima: the bishop in white →
The 1981 attack on John Paul II · commentary →
The whole scene surrounding the bishop’s death · commentary →
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Official English HTML publication; text inspected using web tool
Third part of the secret, translated text ending Tuy-3-1-1944
Lukas Pokorny
Compares Korean and Japanese movements' expectations of world renewal and the special roles they assign to their nations.
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Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, Brill, 2020, pp. 299–316; DOI 10.1163/9789004435025_017.
Sections 2.1–2.2, printed pages 301–307