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Prophecy and interpretation through time

When prophecies were given, the dates people predicted from them, proposed fulfillments and later interpretations. Choose a view: the overview shows where the material lies, the chronicle reads century by century, life-lines follow one prophecy or one line of prediction, and said vs. expected shows how far ahead each prediction looked.

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19th century

  1. Jiaqing 18, 9th month, 15th day · 8 October 1813

    Tongxing’s memorial with Cui Shijun’s deposition reaches the court

    Prophecy given or recordedCui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa, 1813Tianli (Eight Trigrams)

    Dating basis

    The Jilüe enters the memorial under 十五日戊寅 of the ninth month of Jiaqing 18: 是日辰刻山東巡撫同興奏言 — “on this day, in the chen hour, the Shandong governor Tongxing memorialized.” The Academia Sinica converter gives 嘉慶18年9月15日 = 8 October 1813.

    Day the memorial was presented.

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  2. Jiaqing 18, after the ninth month · 24 October 1813 – 20 January 1814

    Xu Anguo, as Cui Shijun deposed: the White Yang kalpa arrives after the ninth month of Jiaqing 18

    Predicted dateCui Shijun’s deposition: the White Yang kalpa, 1813Tianli (Eight Trigrams)

    Dating basis

    Cui Shijun deposed that in the second month of the year Xu Anguo 口稱今歲九月以後交白洋刼 — “said that after the ninth month of this year the White Yang kalpa would arrive.” The deposition is in the Shandong governor’s memorial entered under Jiaqing 18, ninth month, fifteenth day. The Academia Sinica converter gives the first day of the tenth month of Jiaqing 18 as 24 October 1813 and the first day of Jiaqing 19 as 21 January 1814.

    chinese_calendar_range: the tenth to twelfth months of Jiaqing 18, the rest of “this year” after the ninth month, when Xu Anguo said the White Yang kalpa would arrive

    Stated Jiaqing 18, second month (March 1813). Cui Shijun deposed that Xu Anguo told him in the second month of Jiaqing 18 (3–31 March 1813) that the White Yang kalpa would arrive after the ninth month of that year.

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Durations and conditions

Some passages give a span of time, a relative deadline or a condition. Explore those expressions here, with the words and context that define them.

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112 timing expressions

General Judaism · Duration

“A. D. J.”: seven years of temple building from 1874

Seven years from the autumn of 1874

the time of building is seven years

The seven years of Solomon’s temple building are applied to the period from Christ’s presence in the autumn of 1874, giving the fall of 1881.

Zion’s Watch Tower, January 1881 · Article “How Long, O Lord?” signed “A. D. J.”, Zion’s Watch Tower, January 1881, pp. 4–5 (reprint [180]–[181]), from “The laying of the foundation-stone” through “the time given for building.”

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General Christianity · Relative deadline

“This generation”

Before this generation passes

[34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

Matthew records this relative expression without defining it as a fixed count of years. Interpretations of the generation and the events remain attached to the source passage.

Gospel according to Matthew

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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Condition

A warning to those who reject Southcott’s words

Fatal consequences for denying the woman’s words

confess the Woman true, or fatal now will it be for you all that deny her words

Within her claimed divine answer, Southcott adds a conditional threat to people who deny her words. It is an attributed warning beyond the Genesis interpretation.

A Communication Given to Joanna in Answer to Mr. Brothers’s Last Book · Joanna Southcott · introductory account and claimed divine answer

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General Judaism · Maximum interval

Arnold, writing in 1297: the present age ends before two centuries are completed

Before two centuries are completed

priusquam duo centenaria compleantur, status presentis seculi finietur

Arnold, writing when “we now count 1297 years from the Lord’s coming”, says the state of the present age will end before two centuries are completed.

De tempore adventus Antichristi · Arnold of Villanova, De tempore adventus Antichristi (1297), as printed by H. Finke, Aus den Tagen Bonifaz VIII. (1902), pp. CXXXI–CXXXII; English translation by Rainbow Watch (2026)

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General Latter-day Saint · Condition

Cannon: no return until the Saints obey the earlier order

Until the Saints obey the revelation on consecration

until we did obey that the privilege of going back

Cannon reports what he had been taught: the return to Jackson County and the temple promised for “this generation” would wait until the Saints obeyed the early revelation on living as one family.

George Q. Cannon on the temple to be reared in this generation · George Q. Cannon, as reported by David W. Evans, 8 October 1874; Journal of Discourses 17, pp. 232–233, two paragraphs from “If then, my brethren and” through “in the beginning to obey.”

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General Christianity · Alternative durations

Colin Deal: forty years from 1948, or seventy or eighty from 1918

A forty-year generation from 14 May 1948, or a seventy- or eighty-year generation from the Balfour Declaration of 1918

each brings us near the same termination point

Deal reads the fig tree as Israel and says the generation that sees its rebirth will see Christ’s return. He sets out a forty-year generation from 1948 and a seventy- or eighty-year generation from 1918, says “each brings us near the same termination point,” calls the length and starting point “open for speculation,” and concludes that the generation that will witness the return “is none other than our own.”

The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return · Colin Deal, The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (Colin H. Deal, 1988), pp. 89–92; short excerpt of six paragraphs.

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General Judaism · Duration

Daniel’s closing periods

1,290 days and 1,335 days

11 And from the time that the continual burnt-offering shall be taken away, and the detestable thing that causes appalment set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Happy is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

The passage connects its count with removal of the continual offering and the setting up of the detestable thing.

Daniel

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