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Joanna Southcott
Describes custodianship and opening of sealed writings and reinterprets prior war warnings through types and shadows. The second installment explicitly explains delayed publication; reported original sealing dates remain authorial claims.
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Why Satan’s sentence did not mean immediate destruction · commentary →
Heinrich Bullinger; Reformed confessional tradition
Places Antichrist’s persecution before Christ’s destructive return, resurrection and gathering; rejects universal eventual salvation and a pre-judgment earthly golden age. Its anti-Jewish polemical label describes the confession’s rhetoric, not Jewish teaching.
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The Second Helvetic Confession on Christ’s return · commentary →
Moses ben Nahman (Nachmanides)
Argues that return under Ezra included only a remnant of the northern tribes, so prophetic restoration of the whole people remains outstanding; connects Obadiah's House of Joseph with future deliverance.
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Nahmanides: 1,290 years from the destruction to the Messiah son of Ephraim, 1,335 to complete redemption · commentary →
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Brit-Am English extract, citing Chavel edition, Mossad HaRav Kook, 5762; translator not individually credited
Brit-Am extract opening through Zarephath discussion and separated editor note
Joseph Smith; revelatory Bible revision
The Book of Moses is part of Joseph Smith’s revelatory revision of Genesis, later included in the Pearl of Great Price. Its Enoch narrative describes a city of Zion, heavenly visions and the future return of Christ.
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Enoch sees Zion return →
View cited source · churchofjesuschrist.org ↗Edition and location
Official English scripture HTML, accessed 10 September 2026. Moses 7:42–69; Noah, the Son of Man and the future rest of the earth. Verse body only; modern headings, section summaries, footnotes and cross-reference markers excluded. HTML removed, verse numbering retained, paragraph spacing normalized. Web transcription verified.
Moses 7:42–69; Noah, the Son of Man and the future rest of the earth
Zadspram; English compilation includes West and later translated selections
Uses house-building and seasonal analogies for resurrection; sequential abstention weakens Az before renewal.
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The defeat of hunger and the renewal of creation →
About this transcription · commentary →
Oomoto Seventy-Year History Compilation Committee
Oomoto’s institutional history traces the movement’s founding, teachings and development. Its account of the first revelation distinguishes the early writings attributed to Nao from Onisaburo’s later edited publication.
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Why an 1892 revelation has a 1917 publication date · commentary →
View cited source · reikaimonogatari.net ↗Edition and location
Ōmoto Nanajūnen-shi (Seventy-Year History of Oomoto), upper volume, compiled by the Oomoto Seventy-Year History Compilation Committee, published by Oomoto, 1964; p. 93, “The first revelation.” Reikai Monogatari Net electronic text inspected 20 September 2026. Publication year verified against National Diet Library catalogue R100000039-I3003950. B1954 is the website book identifier.
Upper volume p. 93, first revelation
Fujiwara no Sukefusa
The diary of the Heian courtier Fujiwara no Sukefusa. Its entry for the eighth month of Eishō 7 (1052) records the burning of Hase-dera and calls that year the first of the Final Dharma.
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Shunki: the first year of the Final Dharma, 1052 →
Pali Buddhist canon; Thanissaro Bhikkhu translator
Future neglect of the Buddha's discourses is compared with a drum gradually replaced by pegs; training can counter the disappearance.
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When the original teaching is replaced →
How the commentary describes the drum · commentary →
Abdu'l-Baha; table talks recorded by Laura Dreyfus-Barney
Interprets Christ's return and falling stars spiritually, referring readers to the Iqan. Isaiah 11 is applied to Bahaullah, with universal peace and a tribunal still described prospectively. This is identified Bahai reception.
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‘Abdu’l‑Bahá reads Isaiah’s peace as the age of Bahá’u’lláh · commentary →
What does it mean for Christ to return from heaven? · commentary →
View cited source · bahai.org ↗Edition and location
Official Bahai Reference Library, extensively revised 2014 English translation
Chapter 26, paragraphs 1–6; chapter 12, paragraphs 1–5
Traditionally attributed to Vyasa; Bhumipati Das translator; Purnaprajna Das editor
Narrates promised advent in Sambhala to Visnuyasa and Sumati, allied divine births, defeat of Kali, Maru/Devapi rule and restored Satya-yuga. Distinguish future narration in past tense from historical fulfillment.
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Kalki’s birth and the renewal of the world →
Four brothers, then three named elders · commentary →
Traditional Vyasa attribution; BBT English translators · Textual narrator Śukadeva addressing Parīkṣit; historical authorship not established
Kalki intervention, transition of ages, Devapi and Maru; separate original scripture from modern Purports.
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Devāpi and Maru return →
Kalki and the renewal of the age →
View cited source · vedabase.io ↗Edition and location
BBT English translation on VedaBase; chapter and numbered verse pages
12.2.18–23, Translation; dedicated /18/, /19-20/, /23/; 21–22 on chapter page; 12.2.24, Translation and Synonyms; https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/12/2/24/; 12.2.37–38, Translation; dedicated /37/ and /38/
Published as Charles Taze Russell’s posthumous work; edited by C. J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher; Peoples Pulpit Association
The Finished Mystery was issued as Charles Taze Russell’s posthumous work. Clayton J. Woodworth and George H. Fisher compiled it, and its dated forecasts are attributed to their published text.
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The Finished Mystery’s dated expectations →
The publisher’s preface · commentary →
Republics disappear in 1920 · commentary →
The Finished Mystery expects persecution through 1921 · commentary →
View cited source · gutenberg.org ↗Edition and location
Project Gutenberg transcription of displayed 1918 edition
Title and Publisher’s Preface; Revelation 3 commentary pp. 58–59; Revelation 7:3 commentary pp. 128–129
AbuDawud, compiler · Abu Dawud (compiler); report attributed to Muhammad via Abdullah ibn Masud · Abu Dawud (compiler); report attributed to Muhammad via Umm Salamah
Family ruler and Fatimah-lineage Mahdi reports, with explicit variants and host-attributed alAlbani grades.
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The community deferred half a day →
This community not detained less than half a day →
Reports about the Mahdi’s family →
Al-Albani’s grading of report 4282 · commentary →
Al-Albani’s grading of report 4284 · commentary →
View cited source · sunnah.com ↗Edition and location
Sunnah.com Arabic/English electronic collection, live version accessed 2026-09-08; no print-edition collation
Hadith 4282; Book 38 Kitab al-Mahdi, chapter 1; in-book 38:4; English 37:4269
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Sunnah.com Arabic/English electronic collection, live version accessed 2026-09-08; no print-edition collation
Hadith 4284; Book 38 Kitab al-Mahdi, chapter 1; in-book 38:6; English 37:4271
Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Majah (compiler)
The long Nawwas report joins Dajjal, Jesus near Damascus and at Ludd, Gog and Magog, relief, a gentle wind and the Hour.
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The Dajjal, Jesus, and the final Hour →
View cited source · sunnah.com ↗Edition and location
Sunnah.com English/Arabic online edition; displayed Sahih (Darussalam) grading attributed to host
Hadith 4075; in-book 36:150
Chinese attributed Kumārajīva; English Shōtarō Iida and Jane Goldstone
Predicts future prosperous society, Maitreya awakening and assemblies, Mahakasyapa encounter, and survival of his teaching. Text has an 84,000-year human life against 80,000 in DN26.
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Maitreya’s descent and awakening →
Why describe Maitreya’s future world? · commentary →
Why describe Maitreya’s future world? · commentary →
Numbers and measures in this translation · commentary →
Numbers and measures in this translation · commentary →
View cited source · scribd.com ↗Edition and location
Iida and Goldstone, BDK America2016, Taisho14 no.454; Scribd-hosted full book text
Entire translated sutra printed pp.15–24 (Taisho423c–425c); title/copyright and introductionpp.5–12 also inspected
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s book of October 1903, in Urdu and Arabic, on the executions of two of his followers in Afghanistan. It includes his prophecy that before three centuries pass those awaiting Jesus’ descent from heaven will be disappointed.
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Ghulam Ahmad’s three-century limit →
View cited source · files.alislam.cloud · PDF ↗Edition and location
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain (Qadian: Diya’ul-Islam Press, 1903; written and published October 1903), p. 65 (Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 20, p. 67), as translated in Syed Hasanat Ahmad (comp. and ed.), An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam (Tilford: Islam International Publications, 2010), printed p. 359. Complete quoted passage from the PDF published by the community at files.alislam.cloud, retrieved 1 October 2026; checked against the PDF text layer; superscript honorific “sa” set inline.
p. 65 (Ruhani Khaza’in vol. 20, p. 67), English excerpt
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
At 43:61 favors Jesus' miraculous birth and acts as evidence resurrection is possible over identifying that verse with his future descent, while 21:96 commentary separately accepts descent among transmitted signs. Also allows Gog and Magog's mutual conflict rather than assuming a joint attack.
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Jesus as evidence that resurrection is possible · commentary →
View cited source · islamicstudies.info ↗Edition and location
Islamicstudies.info Towards Understanding the Quran, displayed with permission of Islamic Foundation UK; QuranX parallel Tafhim English text
43:61, note 55; commentary 21:94–103
Ibn Kathir
Places breach of Gog and Magog's barrier after Dajjal and before resurrection, interweaving Quran with reports about the trumpet, corruption and collective destruction. At 21:96 links ancestry and geography through commentary; these are interpretive traditions, not independent historical identification.
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Ibn Kathir: Jesus’ descent before resurrection · commentary →
View cited source · api.quran.com ↗Edition and location
Quran.com resource 169, explicitly Ibn Kathir (Abridged), English; parallel QuranX English excerpts
18:97–99, Barrier restrains Them; 21:95–97 introductory explanation and first hadith
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qurtubi
The commentary presents Jesus and Qur’an referents, descent traditions and discussion of whether religious obligations continue after Jesus returns.
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Al-Qurtubi on Jesus’ return and continuing religious obligations · commentary →
View cited source · quran.com ↗Edition and location
Arabic Qur’an commentary displayed by Quran.com.
Qur’an 43:61, displayed commentary with embedded pp. 97–98 markers
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
The commentator assembles transmitted readings of the pronoun as Jesus or the Qur’an, and discusses the reading of the word concerning knowledge/sign of the Hour.
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Jesus or the Qur’an: al-Tabari’s transmitted readings · commentary →
Samuel Rapaport
Samuel Rapaport collects English retellings and sayings from the Midrash. His section on the Messiah connects biblical promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the future outpouring of God’s spirit described in Joel.
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Rapaport: the Messiah teaches the nations · commentary →
Rapaport places Joel’s outpouring in the messianic age · commentary →
View cited source · sacred-texts.com ↗Edition and location
Samuel Rapaport (1907), “Messiah,” pp.47–49; Internet Sacred Text Archive transcription. This is Rapaport’s English compilation.
Messiah, pp.47–49
Hal Lindsey
Hal Lindsey’s 1980 survey of the coming decade, published by Bantam in 1981. It dates the prophetic countdown from Israel’s rebirth on 14 May 1948 and holds that the generation that saw it will see the rapture and Christ’s return.
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Hal Lindsey in 1980: “We are the generation He was talking about” · commentary →
View cited source · archive.org ↗Edition and location
Hal Lindsey, The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon (New York: Bantam Books, Bantam edition, March 1981; copyright 1980 by The Aorist Corporation, Inc.), ISBN 0-553-01303-3, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 80-70283. Pp. 12, 162–163 and 170. Internet Archive lending item 1980scountdownto00lind; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 6 October 2026, in which the reader’s search hits for “1948” and “generation” are highlighted. Italics (“this”) and small capitals rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 12, 162–163 and 170
Pierre Jurieu; anonymous English translator
Pierre Jurieu’s commentary on Daniel and Revelation, written for persecuted French Protestants and translated into English in 1687. It dates the fall of the Antichristian empire between 1710 and 1715.
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Jurieu in 1688: the papacy ends between 1710 and 1720; an anonymous writer says 1705 · commentary →
Jurieu: the Antichristian empire falls between 1710 and 1715 · commentary →
Jurieu: the Antichristian empire falls between 1710 and 1715 · commentary →
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Pierre Jurieu, The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies, or the Approaching Deliverance of the Church, anonymous English translation “from the New French Edition” (London, 1687): title page; Part 2, Chap. V heading (p. 48) and p. 54 (Internet Archive accomplishmentof00juri, Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, leaves n4, n371, n377). Title-page statement, chapter heading, and the two paragraphs on p. 54 from “Then therefore from the wrecks” to “between 1710, and 1715.”; intervening text omitted and marked […]. Superscript “th” in “18th” lowered. 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.
Title page; Part 2, Chap. V, pp. 48, 54
Joseph Smith
Thirteen statements of Latter-day Saint belief first published with Joseph Smith’s Church History in 1842. Article 10 declares expectations about Israel, Zion, Christ’s reign and the renewed earth.
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The gathering of Israel and a renewed earth →