Texts and commentaries

Another Prophet Now Has Come!

Mark E. Petersen

Interprets Acts 3 and Revelation 14 as predicting restoration and renewed prophetic leadership; associates succession to Harold B. Lee with preparation for advent and millennium. Its ecclesial exclusivity is the speaker’s claim.

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Answers to Questions, March 1832 [D&C 77]

Joseph Smith; Joseph Smith Papers edition

Interprets Revelation's seals as successive thousand-year periods and the earth's temporal existence as seven thousand years. No Gregorian conversion is inferred.

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Joseph Smith: two prophets to the Jewish nation · commentary →

Who are the twenty-four elders? · commentary →

The little book as John’s gathering mission · commentary →

Joseph Smith on the sea of glass and living creatures · commentary →

The angels and the 144,000 · commentary →

Seven seals as seven thousand years · commentary →

When Smith places the ninth chapter · commentary →

Preparing the earth before Christ’s coming · commentary →

Antagaḍa-dasāo (Fortunes of End-winners)

Śvetāmbara Jain scripture; dialogue attributed to Ariṭṭhanemī (Nemi)

A Śvetāmbara Jain scripture narrating people who end the cycle of rebirth. Its fifth chapter reports Nemi’s prediction of Krishna’s death, rebirth and eventual appearance as a future Tirthankara.

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Krishna’s future birth as Amame →

Barnett explains the third earth · commentary →

What Barnett means by Kevalī · commentary →

The nyagrodha tree · commentary →

The Puṇḍa people · commentary →

The name Juhiṭṭhile · commentary →

Antichrist

Louis Ginzberg

Proposes Jewish exegetical origins for Pauline motifs and compares Belial, Gog, Armilus and Dajjal; its strong historical conclusions remain attributed hypotheses.

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General Islam

Anwar al-tanzil wa-asrar al-tawil

Abd Allah ibn Umar al-Baydawi

Al-Bayḍāwī discusses Jesus’ coming, descent and raising of the dead as signs, then records a descent report and the alternative Qur’an reading.

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Jesus’ miracles and his return · commentary →

Apocalypse and Millennium: Catastrophe, Progress, and the Lesser Peace

William P. Collins

Distinguishes catastrophic, spiritualizing and progressive approaches to Bahai peace expectations and tracks disputed timetables and pilgrim notes. Reports retrospective reassignment of Daniel's 1335 days to completion of administration and distinguishes textual authority from popular prediction.

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Apocalypse Not: Relief as prediction for Ragnarok passes!

JORVIK Viking Festival; Danielle Daglan quoted

The festival’s own statement acknowledges its February 22 deadline passing and frames the forecast as an interpretation accompanying a theatrical finale.

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Apocalypse Now: Zoroastrian Reflections on the Early Islamic Centuries

Touraj Daryaee

Reads Pahlavi apocalypse as reflection on conquest, Abbasid revolution and religious conflict. Distinguishes priestly hostility to nonorthodox Iranian rebels from a generalized national resistance story.

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Apocalypse of John (noncanonical)

Anonymous, attributed to John

Describes a monstrous deceiver, drought, compressed time, and Enoch and Elijah; distinct from canonical Revelation.

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Apocalypse of Paul

Anonymous, attributed to Paul

Depicts differentiated judgment of departing righteous and impious souls; collective final judgment must be distinguished from this immediate postmortem sequence.

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Apocalypse of Peter

Anonymous, attributed to Peter

Describes the place of the righteous and contrasting punishments in a revealed vision.

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Peter’s vision of paradise and punishment →

Apocalypse of Sedrach

Anonymous, attributed to Sedrach

Connects repentance and divine mercy to final destruction with Antichrist; attribution and precise composition date unresolved.

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Apocalypse of the Virgin

Anonymous

Presents Mary's inquiry into punishments and Michael as future awakener of the dead; a visionary punishment narrative.

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Apocalypse—When?

Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned institutional article

Identifies the 1914 generation as remaining alive until the apocalypse and invokes dwindling veteran numbers. Gives a sequence of peace/security, political destruction of world religion, tribulation and Armageddon, then earthly paradise. Veteran statistics and historical generalizations are cited claims.

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Apocalyptic i. In Zoroastrianism

Mary Boyce

Locates later apocalyptic transmission and reports a historically specific expectation approaching1620 with Rivayat references.

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Apocalyptic Literature, Neo-Hebraic

Moses Buttenwieser

Compares recensions, flags inexact printed editions and describes differing adversaries and two-messiah roles; historical dating judgments need modern corroboration.

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Apocalyptic Thinking and Process Thinking: A Bahai Contribution to Religious Thought

Moojan Momen

Argues that peace develops through stages of articulation, international adoption, partial implementation and full normalization. Infers that the worst calamity is past from twentieth-century institutional letters while allowing reverses.

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Apocalyptic Thought in Christianity and Buddhism

Jan Van Bragt

Distinguishes canonical Maitreya expectation from accelerated political and religious identification; offers comparative vocabulary without requiring equivalence.

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Apology

Tertullian

Defends return of the same human person at resurrection for judgment, contrasting it with transmigration.

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Apology of Aristides

Aristides (attributed)

Concludes with the prospect of judgment of the entire human race through Jesus; translation tradition needs specialist comparison.

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Apology of the Augsburg Confession

Philipp Melanchthon

This defense of the Augsburg Confession reports agreement from its opponents on the article about Christ’s return and judgment.

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Apostolic Constitutions

Anonymous compiler; apostolic attribution

Connects last-days deception with Christ's defeat of the adversary, resurrection and judgment.

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Archiving a prophecy: An ethnographic history of the John Frum files (Tanna, Vanuatu, 1941–1980)

Marc Tabani

Analyzes colonial archives as both evidence and participants in the development of John Frum expectations. Quotes dated 1942 reports associating American arrivals with anticipated liberation.

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Are You Ready?

Harold Camping

Harold Camping’s 1993 book, published by Vantage Press as a sequel to 1994? (1992). It reads the Jubilee trumpet of Leviticus 25:9 and the trumpet of 1 Thessalonians 4:16 together and gives 15–27 September 1994 as the most likely time of the end of the world, while declining to name the exact day.

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Harold Camping: the end most likely between 15 and 27 September 1994 · commentary →