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University of Virginia Religious Movements Homepage; student author not displayed
A profile last updated before the projected 2001 arrival describes successive 1974–1976 expectations and the later 2001–2010 landing sequence.
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Public English web edition
Group Profile; Beliefs; religion self-description
Naser Makarem Shirazi
Proposes Dajjal imagery as technologically powerful materialism and Sufyani as recurring counter-revolutionary characteristics, allowing a principal individual. Identifies rising sun metaphor with the Imam while rejecting indiscriminate allegorization, demonstrating variation within Twelver eschatology.
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Al-Islam.org English HTML/export PDF, print edition and translator unestablished
PDF pages 98–106, Dajjal and Appearance of Sufyani; page79 publisher note
Meher Baba
Connects a promised universal transformation to breaking his silence and identifies the present incarnation as the last of a cycle.
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Universal Message, entire separately titled statement
Georg Schmid
A participant reports Icordo retaining all purification predictions, abandoning exact dates, and insisting Uriella would live to see the new age.
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Full main account, especially opening exchange
Oswald Eggenberger
Earlier account of the prophetic claimant’s asserted exclusive channel, return to a spiritual homeland and community disciplines. Establishes reception before the later failed deadlines.
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Informationsblatt 3, complete article
Kum. Geeta P. Kurandwad
Compares Kalki in Bhagavata and Agni and develops an invader analogy; distinguishes mythological Buddha from historical interpretation.
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Wisdomlib hosted English edition / source PDF
Chapter4 sectionX, PDF227–229; host essay identification
Buddhist — Mahāyāna
Anonymous Buddhist scripture; dialogue between the Buddha and Subhuti
A Mahāyāna scripture presented as a dialogue between the Buddha and Subhūti. It examines attachment to concepts and the qualities of a bodhisattva; section VI places continued understanding within the future decline of the teaching.
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Faith during the decay of the good Law →
A translation question about faith · commentary →
Müller’s reading of the five-hundred-year periods · commentary →
“Frame a true idea” · commentary →
F. Max Müller English translation in Buddhist Mahayana Texts, Sacred Books of the East XLIX; Internet Sacred Text Archive transcription.
Section 6, printed pp.115–117; discussion of believers in the last 500 years and Müller’s accompanying note
Traditional attribution Vyasa; online English translator not explicitly verified
The Vayu Purana is a Sanskrit religious collection covering cosmic history and other subjects. Chapter 58 describes recurring ages and the deterioration preceding renewal.
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Renewal after Pramiti's destructive campaign →
The people named as enemies · commentary →
Earlier ages and difficult wording · commentary →
Vedic People As-is Vachanam online English
Chapter58, especially complete73-126 plus earlier decline description
Zoroastrian textual tradition; James Darmesteter translator
Yima receives warning of destructive winters and instructions for a refuge preserving living kinds; relevant to later renovation traditions.
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The winter demon in later interpretation · commentary →
What is a Vara? · commentary →
Darmesteter on the winter tradition · commentary →
Darmesteter English translation, Peterson digital edition
Fargard 2.1–36, especially 20–30, and synopsis/notes
Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith’s verse-by-verse teaching through the Bible at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, recorded 1979–82 and published as transcripts by Blue Letter Bible with permission of The Word for Today. Passages on Hosea and Jeremiah set out the 1948-generation reckoning with 1988 and 1981 and a 6,000-year count reaching about 1996.
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Chuck Smith in 1981: the fig-tree generation, 1988, and the rapture by May fourteenth · commentary →
Chuck Smith: on Ussher’s chronology the seven thousandth year begins about 1996 · commentary →
Chuck Smith, “Verse by Verse Study on Hosea 5-9 (C2000),” transcript of the 1979–82 audio teaching at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Blue Letter Bible, https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/smith_chuck/c2000_Hsa/Hsa_005.cfm (audio listed as “Hosea 5-9 (1979-82 Audio)” at https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/smith_chuck/5000/hsa/verse-by-verse-study.cfm). One passage, from “Now here the nation” through “continue much longer.”. Transcript wording kept, including its bracketed insertions and spoken grammar; whitespace normalized. Chuck Smith, “Verse by Verse Study on Jeremiah 31-35 (C2000),” transcript of the 1979–82 audio teaching at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Blue Letter Bible, https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/smith_chuck/c2000_Jer/Jer_031.cfm (audio listed as “Jeremiah 31-35 (1979-82 Audio)” at https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/smith_chuck/5000/jer/verse-by-verse-study.cfm). One passage, from “The interesting thing to me” through “a kingdom that will never end.”. Transcript wording kept, including its bracketed insertions and spoken grammar; whitespace normalized.
Hosea 5–9; Jeremiah 31–35
Renaud Russeil
Interprets destruction as cyclic transition and stresses mediated memory of early visions. Its claim that early writings were destroyed conflicts with another essay on the same site describing surviving 1943 documents.
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Institutional English web text; revision unreported
Complete essay, especially historical origin and reference-document sections.
Traditional attribution to Vyasa; English H. H. Wilson · Parashara as textual speaker; historical authorship not established
Kalki restores Vedic practice and Krita age amid political and moral decline; adjacent royal lists need separate historical treatment.
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Kalki and the renewal of the age →
Wilson identifies the star of Tishya · commentary →
Wilson 1840 historical English edition
IV.24, pp.483–485
H. H. Wilson, The Vishnu Purana (1840), Internet Sacred Text Archive transcription
Book IV, chapter XXIV, pp.483–484, paragraph beginning When the practices; ends Krita age shall return
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon; Joseph Smith Papers edition
Vision jointly attributed to Smith and Rigdon describes celestial persons returning with Christ, sharing the first resurrection, and dwelling with God. Only selected pages read, not every category of destiny.
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The vision of heavenly glory →
Joseph Smith Papers featured historical witness, specified in locator and source note; modern documentary transcription
Revelation Book 2, pages 1 and 6
Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith Papers edition
Reports heavenly messengers and Elijah's declaration that the day of the Lord is near. This is a recorded visionary claim, not independent observation of supernatural events.
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D&C 110: the Kirtland Temple visions and Elijah’s keys →
Elijah in the Kirtland Temple · commentary →
Joseph Smith Papers featured historical witness, specified in locator and source note; modern documentary transcription
Joseph Smith Journal 1835–1836, pages 192–193
Ruhaniyyih Ruth Moffett; later provenance comments by Thellie Lovejoy and editor J.W.
These notes circulate claims of sudden urban catastrophe and peace timing attributed to Shoghi Effendi. Appended comparisons dispute that attribution, alleging borrowing and alteration from other pilgrims’ reports.
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Robert Stauffer1997 transcription, Thellie Lovejoy1998 proofreading and commentary; purported photocopied1978 Hawaii National Library Service copy
Title/scanner notes; pages16–18 on calamity and teaching; appended Research Notes and Cautions
Zoroastrian liturgical tradition; translated by L. H. Mills
Honors future communities and unborn benefactors who bring the renovation of the world.
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Mills, Sacred Books of the East, American edition 1898; Peterson digitization with normalized spelling.
Kardah 1.3 and 11.7, PDF pages 1–2 and 12
John McKinnell
Proposes a pagan poet exposed to Easter instruction as a route for Christian apocalyptic imagery, while testing poem dates and directions of textual borrowing.
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Edition stated above
Alvíssmál 12, pages 3–9 and 18–21
Historical account
James J. Strang and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Voree
The newspaper of James J. Strang’s movement in Voree, Wisconsin Territory, preserving revelations and contemporary claims.
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A promised record and a gathering at Voree →
The place of the buried record →
Reported revelation dates and surviving printed witnesses · commentary →
Reported revelation dates and surviving printed witnesses · commentary →
Volume 1, January 1846 pp.3–4 and August 1846 pp.1–2. Original newspaper scans; independently transcribed selected complete revelations.
Volume1, selected January and August issues
CESNUR; Massimo Introvigne, with Rodney Perkins and Forrest Jackson
CESNUR’s watch page collects outside reporting on Chen Tao and its expectations for March 1998, drawing on work by Rodney Perkins, Forrest Jackson and Massimo Introvigne.
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Chen predicts God’s appearance in March 1998 →
What Chen expected people to see · commentary →
Chen on 25 March 1998: “my predictions of March 31 can be considered nonsense” · commentary →
Public English web version
Watch page main account and appended counseling flyer
Harold B. Lee; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Warns against secret or localized claims of Christ’s return and interprets contemporary claimants as false Christs; uses a reported missionary survival episode to urge readiness.
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Closing discussion of false Christs, Matthew 24, and Peru earthquake report
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Connects the Lord's Supper to expectation of a personal return and urges readiness without claiming knowledge of the hour.
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Spurgeon keeps watch without fixing the sequence · commentary →
Spurgeon keeps watch without fixing the sequence · commentary →
Spurgeon Library transcription from Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit; printed volume listed on page
Luke 12:37–38; opening communion and watchfulness discussion
Harold Camping
Camping predicts a May rapture followed by the world’s end in October.
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Camping’s two dates for 2011 →
Camping places 7 September 1994 inside the tribulation · commentary →
How Camping connects the two dates · commentary →
Family Stations, Inc.; revisedAugust 2010. Selected clause, printed p. 63 / PDF page 71.
Chapter 5 conclusion, p.63
Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari (Chariji); Shri Ram Chandra Mission
Predicts unavoidable destruction while distinguishing spiritual advancement from bodily protection, in an address responding to contemporary disaster and social conditions.
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Institutional English web transcript
Complete speech, especially final destruction discussion.
Neil L. Andersen; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Contrasts contemporary declining belief with an anticipated universal confession of Jesus as Christ.
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All the angels, and the gathered righteous · commentary →
All the angels, and the gathered righteous · commentary →
Official Gospel Library English transcript
Opening discussion of declining belief and future universal confession