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Nichiren
Responds to envoy executions, claims earlier prediction fulfillment, and treats invasion risk as consequence of rejecting correct teaching.
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Soka Gakkai Writings of Nichiren Daishonin English online
WND I75 pp.628–629
John Wesley
Reads Revelation 21 as future cosmic renewal and challenges interpretations confined to a historical flourishing of the Church.
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A new creation beyond the present world · commentary →
CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 64; paragraphs 1–4 and conclusion
Lawrence and Michael Sartorius
A modern compilation anticipates planetary ascension, extraterrestrial evacuation, a second sun, magnetic reversal and a rebuilt Earth. Supplies an adjacent cosmic renewal model.
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Substantial introduction and opening cosmological account
The Aetherius Society
States that the coming Cosmic Master will publicly demonstrate his identity; date and identity are unknown, and a transformed peaceful earth is expected afterwards.
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Web edition identified above
Main article paragraphs following title
Jorunn J. Buckley
Analyzes declared resurrection and later return to law through ritual time and communitas, arguing it transcends the exoteric/esoteric pair rather than merely replacing external law with hidden meaning.
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Studia Islamica60 pp137–165; Ismaili.net split HTML transcription, bibliographic identity checked JSTOR issue
Introduction, I.B From Qiyama to HasanIII, V Conclusion
Nichiren
Connects the appearance of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth with the Latter Day and reads earthquakes and comets as signs.
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin I, Nichiren Buddhism Library English edition; full title specifies the fifth five-hundred-year period.
WND I, text 39, pp. 371–377, Bodhisattvas of the Earth and closing signs
Jassim M. Hussain
Evaluates reports circulating across Waqifi, Zaydi and Imamite settings and explains al-Numani's use of predecessors and two-occultation interpretation. Offers specific source-dependence and attribution cautions.
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Al-Islam.org English HTML, foreword by I.K.A. Howard.
Introduction; Survey of Sources sections 1A–C
Nichiren
Reads the Lotus Sutra’s evil-age persecution passage as reflecting contemporary Japan and opposition to Nichiren.
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin I, Nichiren Buddhism Library English edition.
WND I, text 30, pp. 269–270, transition into the Encouraging Devotion quotation
Thomas Hopko; Orthodox Church in America
Connects return with final judgment and contrasts experiences of the divine presence according to human response. Counts the catechetical work once, not each chapter.
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Institutional web edition
Volume I, Symbol of Faith, Judgment
John Henry Newman
Interprets2Thessalonians2 through patristic writings, discussing apostasy, the restraining power, and an individual Antichrist.
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Newman Reader transcription of Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects, Longmans1907; original Tract83 retained as work identity.
Lecture1, The Times of Antichrist, printed pp.44–57; publication history in collection advertisement
Quorum of Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ
A Message from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, Issue 30, December 2018, complete four-page document inspected; The Church of Jesus Christ, headquartered in Monongahela.
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The Monongahela apostles describe a peaceful era before the millennium · commentary →
A Message from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, Issue 30, December 2018, complete four-page document inspected; The Church of Jesus Christ, headquartered in Monongahela.
A Message from the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, Issue 30, December 2018, complete four-page document inspected; The Church of Jesus Christ, headquartered in Monongahela.
Joseph Parker
Applies the coming of Christ to personal, national and universal change, emphasizing vigilance amid conflict and uncertainty.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The People's Bible; exact printed witness requires collation.
The Exciting Element in Christ's Ministry, discussion of watchfulness and Christ's coming
People's New Testament commentator; precise edition attribution pending
Places an era of church apostasy between Jerusalem's fall and Christ's visible return, interpreting the celestial imagery symbolically.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The People's New Testament; exact printed witness requires collation.
Matthew 24:27-35
Attributed to John Archer (title page prints Henry Archer)
A 1641 treatise arguing that Christ will reign visibly with the saints for a thousand years, including a reckoning of when that kingdom begins.
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Archer: the seventh trumpet about 1666, Christ’s reign about 1700 · commentary →
Archer: the seventh trumpet about 1666, Christ’s reign about 1700 · commentary →
The Personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth (London, 1641), pp. 52–54 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-personall-raigne-of-_archer-john-preacher_1641, leaves n53–n55; EEBO microfilm image). Selected unit from “So then unto 360. or 366.” to “the full setting up of the Kingdome.” The title page of this copy prints “By Henry Archer, sometimes Preacher of All-Hallows Lumbart-street” with “Henry” struck through and “John” written in by hand; library catalogues attribute the work to John Archer. Printed misreadings “656.” (for 1656) and “Ganaan” retained. 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.
pp. 52–54
Robert R. Edgar
Connects Mgijima’s judgment visions and interpreted signs with land dispossession. Distinguishes police and Israelite accounts of the confrontation and questions how widespread bullet-to-water expectations were.
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New Contree 90, pages 1–3 and battle account on pages 4–5
Anonymous medieval poets; Henry Adams Bellows, translator
Preserves the seeress’s cosmic destruction and renewed earth, Baldr’s return, a righteous dwelling and an unnamed powerful ruler.
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Völuspá, stanzas 48–66 and associated editorial notes
Anonymous Graeco-Egyptian author; translation attributed to L. Koenen
Predicts foreign rule’s destruction, return of divine images, and renewed prosperity under a divinely established king. Supplies a non-Abrahamic restoration tradition with a finite reign.
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Edition identified above; exact limits in inspection note
Displayed oracle, especially return of gods and fifty-five-year beneficent king
Tertullian
The rule of faith includes Christ returning in glory, bodily resurrection, eternal life and punishment.
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Peter Holmes, Ante-Nicene Fathers 3 (1885), New Advent revised transcription.
Chapter 13, with chapters 12 and 14 context
Universal House of Justice
The Universal House of Justice’s 1985 statement addresses the peoples of the world, joining confidence in eventual peace with a call for human action.
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Official Bahai Reference Library English HTML
Opening address through section I
Shoghi Effendi
Explicitly interprets Napoleon III's downfall at Sedan and Pius IX's loss of temporal power as fulfillments of Bahaullah's warnings, within a wider account of collapsing monarchies. Uses the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf and reports attributed to Nabil; evidentiary dependence must remain visible.
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Official Bahai Reference Library English text of letter to Bahais of the West
Humiliation Immediate and Complete, opening through Battle of Sedan discussion; preceding transition on fallen dynasties
Sayyid Ali al-Husayni al-Milani
Uses reports about knowing an imam, Jesus following a community leader, and perpetual divine proof to argue specifically for Twelver imamate. Claims Sunni agreement and rejects dissent, while distinguishing alternative abdal interpretation.
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Islamic Truths Center, Ideological Researches 33; English translation Sayyid Abdur Rauf Afzali (metadata spelling varies); publication date not shown
Part 1 sections 1 and 2A, especially perpetual imam and Jesus prayer argument
R. Hann
Critic compares alleged three-year conviction and death predictions with later explanations, claiming an edition change from revelation to personal judgment. The claim needs both Southcott editions before adjudication.
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Hann objects that the three years have passed · commentary →
IAPSOP historical scan; edition details noted separately
Title and PDF pp. 4–6, printed pp. 3–5
Canonical Buddhist discourse attributed to Śākyamuni; compiler unidentified
Predicts the establishment, protection and threats to the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan during a future age of conflict.
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Dharmachakra Translation Committee, Laura Dainty and Andreas Doctor; 84000 English translation of Toh 357. Website returned full reader text at this PDF route.
Translation §§1.14–1.29; introduction §§i.7–i.10
Himal Ramji
Analyzes how colonial interrogation shaped surviving testimony about Nongqawuse, Nonkosi and Nombanda. Questions determine what evidence a deposition can preserve.
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UCT doctoral thesis, printed pages 33–38, depositions and show trials