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Cyprian of Carthage
Collects scriptural passages identifying Christ as future judge and king, including Revelation and Matthew's judgment scene.
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Robert Ernest Wallis, Ante-Nicene Fathers 5 (1886), New Advent revised transcription.
Book II, sections 28-30
Theodore M. Burton; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Presents Daniel’s stone, Elijah and restitution expectations as pointing to Joseph Smith’s restoration and the preparation for Christ’s return. Broad assertions about other Christian beliefs are the speaker’s polemic, not neutral historical conclusions.
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Official English web text
Restoration sequence beginning That day has come
Neil L. Andersen; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Combines wars and disasters with an optimistic restoration narrative and an appeal to courage.
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Official Gospel Library English transcript
Opening description of days before the Second Coming
Terry Kleeman
Explains early Celestial Masters expectations of disasters followed by Great Peace.
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The Encyclopedia of Taoism, edited by Fabrizio Pregadio, Routledge, 2008; Golden Elixir online reproduction.
Opening overview and Origins and Early History, including numbered beliefs
Anthony Strano
Sets 5,000-year cycle and incorporeal divine intervention alongside human transformation; reframes destruction as ongoing accelerating systemic change and attributes prior date expectations to some members.
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Institutional English web text; revision unreported
Complete article before reader comments; cyclic time, divine renewal, and final paragraphs.
Harold Camping
Harold Camping’s 2005 chronology of the Bible from creation in 11,013 B.C. to A.D. 2011, published by Vantage Press and distributed free by Family Radio. Its preface reinterprets 1994, the year of his earlier book 1994?, as the start of a final harvest, and it names 2011 as the likely year of the end and the fall of 2011 as its likely season.
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Harold Camping, Time Has An End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C.–A.D. 2011 (New York: Vantage Press, copyright 2005 by Harold Camping), second printing, ISBN 0-533-15169-4, in the PDF distributed by Family Radio (496 pages, created 11 December 2008; Chapter One replaced by the line “Chapter One is being revised and currently not available”), at https://www.may-212011.com/downloads/TimeHasAnEnd.pdf. Preface pp. xiv–xv (two paragraphs, from “About thirteen years ago”) and p. xxii (one paragraph, from “If this world”); chapter 10, pp. 419–420 (from “Given all of the foregoing information” through “the fall of A.D. 2011.”, with two omissions). PDF pages 15, 23 and 412–413. Taken from the PDF text and checked against the rendered pages; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; […] marks omissions. Collated with the Vantage Press second printing (Internet Archive lending item timehasendbiblic0000camp) from the user’s screenshots of the copyright page and pp. xi–xv, xxii and 418–420: identical.
Preface pp. xiv–xv and xxii; pp. 419–420
Glenford Mitchell; notes prepared by Raymond Jeffords, edited by Greg Watson
Reads September 11 as a warning and promise within integration/disintegration processes; distinguishes governments' political peace work from spiritual transformation. Applies Shoghi Effendi's terrorism language retrospectively.
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Authorized posting of transcribed notes, Bahai Unity Center Atlanta; archive HTML
Opening through America's mission discussion; exclude appended editor-selected texts from speaker attribution
Commentary
Multiple contributors; selected editorial unsigned
An early Latter-day Saint newspaper; the selected editorial responds to millennial date-setting and reprints another newspaper’s argument.
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An 1842 newspaper challenges the expected millennium · commentary →
1 October 1842, pp.940–941; unsigned editorial introduction and God’s Ways Are Equal reprinted from the Boston Olive Branch. Joseph Smith Papers historical transcription; modern editorial notes excluded.
1 October 1842, pp.940–941
Nalini Balbir
Collates variant future Tirthankara identities and explains their karmic framework rather than a unique savior model.
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Why Krishna’s future birth follows punishment · commentary →
Aspects of Jainology, volume III contribution, Jain Quantum transcription
Printed pp. 34–42, 46–49; canonical/later lists, ethics and conclusion
Nammalvar; S. Satyamurthi Ayyangar translator
Devotional verse expects Kalki after earlier avatars; translation note interprets the future avatar as continued divine care.
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Wisdomlib hosted English edition / source PDF
5.1.10
Theophilus of Antioch
Defends general resurrection through natural analogies and presents judgment according to deeds.
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Marcus Dods, Ante-Nicene Fathers 2 (1885), New Advent revised transcription.
Book I, chapters 13-14
Cyprian of Carthage
Explains disasters through divine judgment and asserts the end is near while rejecting pagan blame of Christians.
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Source. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) New Advent revised web edition.
Treatise 5, sections 5 and 23
Menasseh ben Israel
Petitions for Jewish residence and worship in England; the second motive explicitly relates Daniel 12:7 to completing dispersion everywhere before messianic restoration, with England the outstanding destination. Economic and religious-liberty motives coexist with this expectation.
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1655 English pamphlet reset in Lucien Wolf, ed., Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (1901), Project Gutenberg 62562
Printed pp. 75–80, opening address and Declaration of the Motives, especially second motive
Classic Maya scribes of Tortuguero; reading by Sven Gronemeyer and Barbara MacLeod
A Classic Maya inscription from Tortuguero, Tabasco. It refers to the completion of the thirteenth Bak’tun, 13.0.0.0.0, in 2012; Gronemeyer and MacLeod also cite other references to that date.
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Tortuguero Monument 6 and 13.0.0.0.0 →
Wayeb Notes 34 (2010), short excerpt
Blocks O2–P5; Wayeb Notes 34, p. 8
Augustine of Hippo
Distinguishes present spiritual resurrection through faith from future bodily resurrection and judgment.
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John Gibb, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series 7 (1888), New Advent revised transcription.
Tractate 19, sections 8–10 and 14–18, on John 5:24–29
Arnold of Villanova
Treatise of 1297 (with a part of 1300) by the physician Arnold of Villanova on the time of Antichrist’s coming, condemned by Paris theologians. Excerpts printed by Heinrich Finke in 1902 place Antichrist about the seventy-eighth year of the fourteenth century.
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Arnold of Villanova, Tractatus de tempore adventus Antichristi (first part 1297), excerpts printed from Cod. Vat. lat. 3824, fol. 50 ff., in Heinrich Finke, Aus den Tagen Bonifaz VIII.: Funde und Forschungen (Münster: Aschendorff, 1902), Quellen, pp. CXXXI–CXXXII (Internet Archive ausdentagenboni00finkgoog, leaves n450–n451). Transcribed from the page images. Finke’s spelling of the manuscript (abhominatio, terre illus, videlicat) retained; his errata (p. CCXXXII) correct “videlicat” to videlicet, and his footnote says “septuagesimum octavum” stands on a correction in the manuscript. Finke’s ellipses retained; his footnote markers omitted; German-style quotation marks as printed. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such.
Finke ed. pp. CXXXI–CXXXII
Joseph Wolff
Joseph Wolff’s autobiography in two volumes (London, 1860), dictated and narrated in the third person. It says he long ago gave up fixing dates for unfulfilled prophecy and regrets having named 1847.
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Wolff in 1860: he gave up fixing dates and regrets 1847 · commentary →
Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D., 2 vols. (London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1860). Narrated in the third person; the preface says Wolff dictated it “aloud in a family circle” with verbal revision assisted by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. Internet Archive scans b29351972_0001 and b29351972_0002 (Wellcome Library), page images inspected: vol. I, p. 402, from “Napier made a mistake here.” through “the errors here alluded to.”; vol. II, pp. 128–129, from “He also talked of their friends in England” through “Because I was a great ass.” Line-end hyphenation joined; spaces before semicolons and colons closed; whitespace normalized.
Vol. I, p. 402; vol. II, pp. 128–129
Hemacandra; translated by Helen M. Johnson
Hemacandra’s work recounts the lives of sixty-three illustrious figures in Jain tradition. Its Mahavira narrative includes accounts of coming decline and an oppressive ruler called Kalkin.
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Time measured from Mahavira’s nirvana · commentary →
The monks’ response · commentary →
Helen M. Johnson translation, Wisdom Library transcription
Mahavira-caritra chapter XIII, parts 5–7 (fifth spoke, Kalkin, sixth spoke)
Louis Marie de Montfort
Interprets Mary’s future role and describes the missionaries who will act in the latter times.
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Montfort Missionaries English text,1987, published on the Company of Mary site.
Sections49–59, Mary’s role and apostles of the latter times
Jacob ben Asher
The star imagery is interpreted as a Messiah who gathers dispersed Israel and has authority beyond Israel.
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Sefaria: Eliyahu Munk translation
Numbers 24:17, full displayed commentary entry
Fatima Tofighi
Distinguishes ritual waiting, Babi-Azali reception of constitutional revolution, and political-philosophical reinterpretations by Motahhari, Khomeini, Shariati and Fardid.
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Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, English online edition
Introduction through State Discourses on the Mahdi
Andrew Fergus Wilson
Interprets Lyssa Royal Holt’s expected collective evolution and reintegration into a cosmic whole. Provides an adjacent renewal model.
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Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century, chapter 8; thesis appendix H, A149–A154
Michael Blume
Discusses failed landing and apocalypse dates, Ashtar postponement explanations and Heaven’s Gate as examples of responses to disconfirmation.
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German public text
Lecture manuscript, printed pages 11–17
Anonymous Zoroastrian treatise; B. N. Dhabhar translator
First treatise discusses57years before resurrection and end of evil; alternate version names successive restorers and expanding scripture before final renewal.
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Three restorers before the resurrection →
Blochet’s reference for Bahrâm Amâvand · commentary →
Blochet’s reference for Bahrâm Amâvand · commentary →
Two readings of “words on this matter” · commentary →
Two readings of “words on this matter” · commentary →
An alternative reading of the closing sentence · commentary →
An alternative reading of the closing sentence · commentary →
Dhabhar1932English, Avesta.org transcription
Dhabhar Persian Rivayats437ff; MU II72–80 and alternate80–86, especially latter34–40