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Geoffrey Farthing
An internal Theosophical critic disputes later teachers’ claimed authority and rejects the imminent World Teacher project as inconsistent with his understanding of earlier teaching.
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Public English edition identified above
Historical Background; Besant; Leadbeater; Krishnamurti
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s answer (London, 1691) to Richard Baxter’s new treatise against the thousand years’ kingdom of Christ. He holds that the 1260 days of the apostasy expire “at 97” and names his 1689 treatise on the Kingdom of Christ entering its succession in 97.
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Beverley in 1691: the 1260 days of the apostasy end at 97 · commentary →
T. Beverley, The Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ, In its Full Scripture-State: Answering Mr. Baxter’s New Treatise (London, Printed in the Year MDCXCI [1691]). Title page (leaf n0), pp. 2, 3, 5 and 8 (leaves n3, n4, n6, n9), from “the Apostasie of Antichrist” to “Entring its Succession in 97. Page 8.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1691; a second scan of the same setting, with the imprint cut off, is bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1690). “Christivn” on p. 5 is 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; pp. 2, 3, 5, 8
Charles Taze Russell
Russell predicts the end of Gentile dominion in 1914 and lists seven consequences, including the Kingdom’s universal rule and the Church’s glorification before the year ends.
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What Russell expected by 1914 →
The Time is at Hand, Studies in the Scriptures, SeriesII;454,000 edition, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Allegheny,1907 (title page verified). Pages 76–78, concluding introductory claim and all seven stated consequences, before “The Beginning of Gentile Times.” Scan inspected; line-end word divisions joined and spacing normalized. This is the 1907 witness.
StudyIV, pp 76–78
Southcottian supporters; compiler not established
Explains the movement’s proposed procedure for proving writings through witnesses and explicitly privileges believers as trustworthy witnesses.
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IAPSOP scan of historical print; edition details as noted
Title; introduction and directions, PDF pp. 3–5
Attributed to Nichiren in edition
Identifies contemporary propagation with earth-emerging bodhisattvas and predicts nationwide chanting, linking future expectations to community identity.
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The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Soka Gakkai online translation
WND I 40, pp. 383–388, body/postscript/background
LeGrand Richards
Applies pre-advent worldwide preaching and latter-day finding of God to LDS restoration and mission.
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Official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints online conference text
Matthew 24 missionary requirement; final Deuteronomy 4 application
Joanna Southcott; correspondence included
Treats episcopal silence as consent to her mission. Explains a maze exercise through promises to the woman at creation and fall, connecting the latter promise to the Second Coming. Later Psalms discussion explicitly distinguishes her own judgment. Parts count as one work.
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Has the serpent already been defeated? · commentary →
IAPSOP scanned historical print
Part I title, preface, printed/PDF pp. 42–44; PDF p. 130
Nostradamus; translated and annotated by Theophilus de Garencières
The prophetic quatrains of Nostradamus with French text, English translation and commentary by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672).
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Nostradamus to Henry II: persecution of the Church until 1792 →
Nostradamus, Century X.72: the year 1999 and seven months →
Le Pelletier: the renovation of the age is the republican era of 22 September 1792 · commentary →
Garencières reads the King of Angoulesme as Francis I · commentary →
The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672), Century X, quatrain LXXII with its French text, English translation and annotation, p. 433 (Internet Archive b30334494, Wellcome Collection copy, leaf n520). French and English printed as verse; line breaks retained. “nonante” is partly smudged in this copy (OCR “nonarite”); the reading is confirmed by the English “ninety”. 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.
Century X, quatrain 72, p. 433
Shinran
Uses the sequence of Dharma ages to interpret the author’s time and recommend Pure Land practice amid the decline of religious capacities.
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Collected Works of Shinran, 1997, Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha; translation team led by Dennis Hirota. Kyōgyōshinshō is one work across its chapters.
Chapter VI, sections 73–80, especially Shinran’s own application in 78–79
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad responds to allegations about his predictions, distinguishing a prayer for an opponent’s humiliation from a prediction of murder.
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Islam International Publications English 2016; ISBN 978-1-84880-083-0; publisher distinguishes square-bracket additions and Bismillah-inclusive Quran numbering
Printed pages 27–30, 49–52 and 59–60; edition note
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Expects the second advent to surprise most people as the first did, while blessing those who wait.
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Spurgeon Library, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit transcription
Hebrews 9:27–28; comparison of the two advents
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Identifies the future glorious appearing with Jesus and relates grace's present moral instruction to that expectation.
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Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Titus 2:11–14; opening doctrinal exposition
Presented as revelatory papers; human authorship not adjudicated
Anticipates Michael/Jesus returning but explicitly leaves manner and timing unknown. Suggests multiple visits as the narrators' belief and distinguishes that speculation from a specific promise.
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Edition specified in date and inspection fields
Paper176:4.1–4.7
Anonymous Mahayana scripture; Kumarajiva Chinese version; John R. McRae English translator
Maitreya’s predicted awakening prompts an extended challenge to treating birth and enlightenment as ultimately fixed entities.
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BDK English Tripitaka 26-I, McRae 2004 from Taisho14 no.475; digital2009
McRae chapter IV sections 1–5, printed pp.97–99 / one-based PDF109–111; 84000-derived excerpt 3.48–3.54 PDF18–20
Nichiren
Claims his persecutions fulfill Lotus prophecy and anticipates four bodhisattvas appearing in the Latter Day.
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Soka Gakkai Writings of Nichiren Daishonin English online
WND I49 pp.447–449, concluding claim and postscript
The Watch Tower (unsigned)
The Watch Tower’s issue of 15 December 1918, published at Pittsburgh. Its “Interesting Questions” column answers that the ancient worthies will be made alive at the beginning of the earthly phase of the kingdom, “in 1925 we believe.”
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Pittsburgh, Pa.), vol. XXXIX, no. 24, 15 December 1918 (masthead, reprint p. [6367]), “Interesting Questions,” the question and answer headed “Meaning of the East Gates of the Temple,” from “Question: What is represented” through “the court to which the porch belongs.”, ending on p. 381. Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1918, BookReader leaves 179 (masthead), 181 (running head “December 15, 1918”), 183 (reprint p. [6371], marked “(377-381)”) and 184 (reprint p. [6372], marked “(381)”). Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals of the heading rendered in title case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
“Interesting Questions,” p. 381
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad anticipates his death and promises that a second manifestation of divine power will sustain his community. The booklet also contains warnings of calamities and earthquakes.
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s promised second Manifestation →
Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya · commentary →
The community addressed · commentary →
The publisher supplies the full Qur’anic translation · commentary →
2023 format, 2024 UK reprint; translation Chaudhry Muhammad Ali and Mirza Anas Ahmad, originally 2005; Islam International Publications; ISBN 978-1-84880-565-1
Printed pages 2–9; title, foreword and edition statement
Attributed to Thomas Beverley
A four-page 1697 tract using the lunar cycle to argue that the Beast’s forty-two months end, and the Kingdom of Christ succeeds, in 1697.
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Beverley: the Beast’s reign ends and Christ’s kingdom succeeds in 1697 · commentary →
The Wonderful Confirmation of the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 ([London], 1697), four-page tract without title page, author not named in the text; library cataloguing (EEBO/Wing) attributes it to Thomas Beverley. Caption title (p. 1) and the whole of p. 4 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-wonderful-confirmati_beverley-thomas_1697, leaves n0 and n3); pp. 1–3 propositions omitted and marked […]. An ink blot in this copy covers part of “Confirmation” in the caption title; the reading follows the catalogue title and the running text. 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.
Caption title and p. 4
Otto Fetting and W. A. Draves
2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
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Draves reports another messenger →
2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
Ellen G. White
Connects the three angels and approaching judgment with worldwide proclamation, future church-state coercion and the mark of the beast; these are the author’s expectations.
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White calls for a worldwide warning · commentary →
White calls for a worldwide warning · commentary →
Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Review and Herald, July 28, 1904, paragraphs 1–23
Adam Ashforth
Critiques interpretations of Xhosa resurrection hopes and the political uses of their remembered failure. Highlights problems translating social time and rationality.
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Public article or author full-text version
Sociological Forum 6(3), pages 581 and 584–586
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned article
Unsigned lead article of The Watch Tower for 15 February 1925 on the jubilee reckoning. It recalls past dates from 1844 to 1914 and advises caution “about predicting particulars” for 1925.
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The Watch Tower in February 1925: “Let us be cautious … about predicting particulars” · commentary →
The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn), 15 February 1925, unsigned lead article “The Year of Jubilee,” p. 57, paragraph 51, complete (paragraph number omitted). Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1925, leaf 57, page image inspected. Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
The Watch Tower, p. 57, paragraph 51
Bahá’í
William Sears
William Sears interprets biblical prophecies as pointing to the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, with particular attention to 1844 and the return of Christ.
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George Ronald, Oxford, first edition 1961 as stated on title; Bahai Library Online 314-page digital copy
Part I chapters 3–4, printed pages 8–16 (PDF 17–25), title page
Anglican formularies; Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States recension
Article IV affirms that Christ remains bodily in heaven until returning to judge humanity at the last day. The source here is the American Episcopal form of the Articles, with its edition differences retained.
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Anglicans Online transcription of 1801 American form; page updated 2017-05-23
Article IV; edition heading and Article VIII editorial comparison