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Alexander Berzin
Interprets Kalachakra I.154 and Padmani commentary through rival historical identifications of named prophets and invading groups, preserving distinctions between text and modern hypothesis.
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Study Buddhism web edition
The Kalachakra Verse and Its Indian Commentary; Historical Analysis opening subsections; brief version complete.
Snorri Sturluson; Rasmus B. Anderson, translator
The Prose Edda is a medieval Icelandic account of Norse myths associated with Snorri Sturluson. Its question-and-answer dialogue describes the world’s destruction and renewal.
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The earth returns after Ragnarök →
Pulpit Commentary contributors; individual author unresolved
Argues that the discourse interweaves analogous events with multiple applications and resists a rigid split between Jerusalem and final judgment.
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Bible Hub English transcription of The Pulpit Commentary; exact print edition requires collation.
Matthew 24:4, opening explanation of verses 4-41
F. E. Pargiter
Analyzes how dynastic histories were cast as forecasts, including differences in narrative standpoints, manuscript tense changes and chronology.
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Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1913. Scanned edition, text layer inspected; image collation not performed.
Introduction §§10–14, printed pp. viii–x (PDF pp. 11–13); source comparison §§3–9
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Applies the new discernment framework while allowing that some messages reflect confused experiences or inaccurate theology.
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Anonymous Pali compilation; dialogue attributed to Nagasena and King Milinda; T.W. Rhys Davids, translator
This dialogue between King Milinda and Nāgasena examines Buddhist teachings through questions and answers. The selection here asks how the Buddha and the future Metteyya can lead communities while remaining free of attachment to followers.
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Nāgasena on leadership without possession · commentary →
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T.W. Rhys Davids, Sacred Books of the East XXXV (1890), book IV, chapter2, §§29–30, pp.225–226. Internet Sacred Text Archive transcription.
Book IV, chapter 2, sections 29–30, pp.225–226
Assemblies of God USA, General Presbytery
Argues for a pre-tribulation removal of believers distinct from a subsequent visible return. Reasons from imminence that required preliminary events would contradict its understanding of readiness.
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The Assemblies of God’s pretribulation teaching · commentary →
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Official English institutional HTML
Whole main position paper, especially two phases and imminence argument
Rudolf Steiner
Predicts clairvoyant faculties in some people during the twentieth century's first half. Argues that social suppression could prevent their manifestation, qualifying how nonappearance would be interpreted.
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Alice A. Bailey
Predicts a shared future religious calendar of Easter, Wesak and Goodwill festivals after Christ's reappearance. These identifications are Bailey's synthesis, not consensus among the named traditions.
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A shared calendar of spiritual festivals →
The three festivals Bailey anticipates · commentary →
Eli Rubin
Relates the Gulf War to Schneerson's use of Persia/Arabia midrash and reads his 1991 appeal to followers as transfer of responsibility rather than resignation. Links messianic action with Torah and mitzvot and describes arrangements before his1994death.
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Chabad.org English online biography; site identifies28constituent articles
Section Everyone a Tzaddik: Miracles, Transmission and Ascent,1991–1994, complete body and notes
Dorothy Field
Documents colonial-era circulation of attributed predictions of European rule, Sikh alliances and temple destruction, explicitly asserting1762 and1857 fulfillment.
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Gobind Singh’s reported predictions about the Khalsa and the English →
R. Hann
Offers a hostile biography and directly contests appeals to conditional warnings by asking whether the promised millennium is good rather than threatened evil. This methodological criticism is distinct from proof of particular missed dates.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Predicts national restoration and religious conversion, including native government and a Davidic king; no modern event is declared its fulfillment in this record.
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Metropolitan Tikhon; Orthodox Church in America
Affirms future resurrection while interpreting Pascha as divine eternity breaking into time and renewing present life.
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Rudolf Steiner
Defines the second coming as etheric experience and relates its preparation to signs including Halley's Comet. Editorial note naming Krishnamurti is distinct from Steiner's lecture text.
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Massimo Introvigne and Rosita Šorytė
Explains competing classifications of African renewal institutions and differences between official and popular Kimbanguist understandings of divine incarnation and returned Christ.
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Sections African Indigenous Spirituality: An Elusive Category; AIS and AICs: Isaiah Shembe; Simon Kimbangu and AIS
Nichiren
Interprets two fires as portents of national ruin and warns of Mongol enslavement if rival prayers persist.
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Nisshu and Nichiben, submitted document; Toki Jonin draft, Nichiren revision per edition
Uses claimed fulfillment of national calamity warnings to defend Nichiren's followers and invokes future protection against the Mongols.
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Soka Gakkai online translation
WND II 312, pp. 822–823 opening argument; dated ending/background pp. 827–828; relevant notes
Owen Russell Loomis Crosier
Argues that Daniel’s sanctuary is heavenly rather than the earth or Palestine, using Hebrews and tabernacle typology to redirect the interpretation of the 2300 days.
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Crosier locates the sanctuary in heaven · commentary →
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
The Sanctuary, reprint pp. 1–6; accompanying explanatory note
Myoe; compiled by disciple Koshin; Rebecca Rasmus translator
Explains Dharma extinction as misconduct and mistaken practice rather than the disappearance of Dharma itself, supplying a medieval Japanese counterpoint to literal decline chronology.
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Collected discourses of Sot’aesan (Pak Chung-bin); Won-Buddhist compilation
Interprets Maitreya’s advent as a developing world of awakened practice and anticipates moral transformation rather than destruction.
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Sot’aesan’s coming moral world →
What Sot’aesan means by the coming world · commentary →
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The Doctrinal Books of Won-Buddhism, 2016, Committee for the Authorized Translations of Won-Buddhist Scriptures; Wonkwang Publishing.
Chapter XIV, Prospects, 16–20; printed pages 465–469, PDF pages 479–483
LeGrand Richards; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Reads restitution and Malachi's temple messenger as prerequisites of the second advent, distinguishing them from the first coming.
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John Piper; Desiring God
Explains the interval between first and second advents as not evident in the prophetic perspective and interprets nearness as a demand for vigilance rather than knowledge of a short chronological interval.
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H. P. Blavatsky
Applies Puranic descriptions of decline to the author's contemporary West and identifies Maitreya with Kalki in an esoteric synthesis. These are Blavatsky's comparative claims, not Hindu or Buddhist consensus.
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