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James E. Talmage
James E. Talmage explains Latter-day Saint teachings through the Articles of Faith. The selected sections discuss the gathering of Israel, Zion, the signs of Christ’s return and the first resurrection.
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Who takes part in the first resurrection? · commentary →
Who takes part in the first resurrection? · commentary →
Talmage reads the signs as approaching fulfillment · commentary →
The Ten Tribes return to an established Zion · commentary →
Why Zion has not yet been built · commentary →
Christ as king on earth · commentary →
The day and hour remain unknown · commentary →
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Eleventh English edition, The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, 1919. Project Gutenberg 42238 transcription.
Lectures XVIII–XXI
Parley P. Pratt; edited by his son Parley P. Pratt
Parley P. Pratt’s autobiography, written before his death in 1857 and published by his son in 1874. It recounts his missions and the Missouri persecutions, and quotes in full the August 1833 revelation that Joseph Smith sent to the Saints in Missouri.
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Parley P. Pratt: the revelation was not complied with, and the judgment followed · commentary →
Johann Heinrich Alsted (English translation attributed to William Burton)
English translation (London, 1643) of Johann Heinrich Alsted’s Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), a defence of a coming thousand-year reign of the saints on earth. Among its reasons it reckons from Daniel 12 that the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner.
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Alsted: the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner · commentary →
Alsted: the thousand years begin in 1694 or sooner · commentary →
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Johann Heinrich Alsted, The Beloved City, or, The Saints Reign on Earth a Thousand Yeares (London, 1643), the English translation of his Diatribe de mille annis apocalypticis (1627), “Faithfully Englished” with notes (ESTC attributes the translation to William Burton); “The third Classis of Arguments”, “Reasons, or Consequences”, nos. VI–VII, p. 57 (heading p. 56). Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A25221). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […].
Third class of arguments, reasons VI–VII, p. 57
Maya compilers; Ralph L. Roys, translator and editor
Preserves cyclical katun prophecy and a critique of colonial oppression, alongside a visibly Christian account of final judgment.
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Katun 11 Ahau →
The compiler on conquest and oppression · commentary →
The Last Judgment in a colonial Maya text · commentary →
Roys on the judgment account’s language and sources · commentary →
Roys’s notes on Katun 11 Ahau · commentary →
Joseph Smith, credited translator; prophetic speakers identified in each passage
A scriptural work of the Latter Day Saint movement, presented as records of ancient peoples and published through Joseph Smith. Its prophetic passages include the gathering of Israel, New Jerusalem, judgment and a renewed world.
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The three disciples who will not taste death →
Nephi’s vision of the last days →
Nephi explains the scattering and gathering of Israel →
Nephi’s plain prophecy of scattering and restoration →
Nephi foresees a voice from the dust →
The sealed book and a marvelous work →
Warnings to the churches of the last days →
More of God’s word and the gathering of Israel →
A restored people and a world at peace →
Jacob on the Messiah’s second recovery of Israel →
Other sheep and the fulness of the Gentiles →
Enlarge the place of thy tent →
Jesus expounds all things to the last day →
The covenant already beginning to be fulfilled →
Gathering Israel and building New Jerusalem →
Ether’s two Jerusalems →
Zenos’s allegory of the olive tree →
The record comes forth in a day of pride →
The mountain of the Lord and peace among nations →
The branch from Jesse →
Malachi 3:1–6 →
Elijah returns →
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Project Gutenberg eBook 17, English HTML transcription, updated 11 October 2025. Chapter and verse numbering as displayed. HTML removed and paragraph whitespace normalized; wording, punctuation and verse labels retained.
3 Nephi 20:10–46; 3 Nephi 21:1–29; Ether 13:1–12; 1 Nephi 14:1–30; 2 Nephi 30:1–18
Joanna Southcott; sixth book published by Daniel Jones
Jones claims to have purchased signed sealed letters in 1852, not continuously held them since 1813. The communication anticipates a Pomeroy marriage and interprets Christ’s second coming spiritually through that union. This is reported prophecy.
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Southcott’s promised marriage to Pomeroy →
Anonymous Chinese transmission; Buddhist Text Translation Society English edition
The Ultimate Extinction of the Dharma is a Buddhist sutra preserved in Chinese transmission. It describes the loss of the teaching and a future recovery; the English version collected here is hosted among introductory materials for the Shurangama Sutra.
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The disappearance of Buddhist teaching →
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BTTS institutional English web text
Complete standalone sutra embedded as introductionII to Shurangama materials; Taisho396 identification from NTI catalogue.
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s catechism on the thousand years’ kingdom of Christ, first printed in 1690. The second edition (London, 1696), “with Considerable Additions”, ends the 1260 years begun at 437 and the Beast’s 42 months from 475 in 1697.
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Beverley’s Catechism of the Kingdom, 1696: the 1260 begun at 437 and the Beast’s 42 months both end in 1697 · commentary →
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[T. Beverley], The Catechism of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Thousand Years. The Second Edition with Considerable Additions, in Relation to the Kingdom of Christ (London: Printed for and Sold by William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street, and also by John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street, 1696). P. 18 (leaf n21), from “I hence by express Letter of Scripture” to “Rev. 12. 1.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-catechism-of-the-kin_beverley-thomas_1696; title page n0). The title page does not print the author’s name (a manuscript note on this copy adds “By Thomas Beverly”); the “Catalogue of Late Books By That Reverend Divine Mr. Thomas Beverly” printed at the end of the volume (leaves n24–n27) lists the Catechism and its second edition. A pen stroke after “437,” is left out. 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 and marginal notes omitted; spelling, capitalization 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.
P. 18
D. Todd Christofferson; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Explains apparent delay of the return as mercy permitting repentance and relates Christlike character to preparation for a new earth and millennial reign.
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What manner of persons ought we to be? · commentary →
Augustine of Hippo
Discusses final judgment and alternative readings of the two resurrections and thousand years; all books consolidated as one work.
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Augustine on those who counted 400, 500 or 1,000 years · commentary →
Augustine: “many” includes everyone raised · commentary →
Augustine counts three and a half years · commentary →
Augustine connects Elijah with understanding the law · commentary →
Augustine on the first resurrection and Satan’s binding · commentary →
Augustine on Antichrist, the restrainer and deceptive signs · commentary →
Augustine distinguishes final judgment from other comings · commentary →
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Source. Translated by Marcus Dods. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 2. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887.) New Advent revised web edition.
Book XX, chapters 5 and 7; later Antichrist discussion
Colin Deal
Colin Deal’s 1988 book, published by the author at Rutherford College, North Carolina. It argues that watchful Christians can know the month and day of Christ’s return, which it places on the Feast of Trumpets in September or early October, and sets out plans for the year: a 7,000-year plan placing Christ’s return around the year 6,000 from Adam, 2,000 A.D.; seventy Jubilees ending between about 1989 and 2030; the fig-tree generation from 1948, 1918 or 1967; and a fourth plan from the Great Pyramid placing Christ’s Millennial Kingdom around 2,000 A.D. The same text was also issued as Armageddon & the 21st Century.
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Colin Deal: Christ’s return around the year 6,000 from Adam, 2,000 A.D. · commentary →
Colin Deal: the fig-tree generation from 1948, 1918 or 1967 · commentary →
Colin Deal: the seventieth Jubilee and the Millennium between about 1989 and 2030 · commentary →
Colin Deal: the Great Pyramid places Christ’s Millennial Kingdom around 2,000 A.D. · commentary →
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Colin Deal, The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (Rutherford College, North Carolina: Colin H. Deal, copyright 1988 by Colin Hoyle Deal). Selections from pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144. Internet Archive item dayhourjesuswill0000coli, leaves 89, 96–97, 101–104 and 156, copyright page leaf 6; transcribed from the page images. The unmatched quotation mark printed before Thus (p. 77) is omitted; a stray mark between date and somewhere (p. 84) is omitted; italics rendered plain; small capitals in B.C.E. rendered as capitals; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dashes as printed; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144
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Colin Deal, Armageddon & the 21st Century (Rutherford College, North Carolina: Colin H. Deal, copyright 1988 by Colin Hoyle Deal). Selections from p. 81 and pp. 144–145. Internet Archive lending item bwb_W9-BRZ-331, leaves 93 and 156–157 (leaf = printed page + 12), copyright page leaf 6; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 5 October 2026. Italics rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; spaced dashes as printed; […] marks omissions. The copyright page and pp. 77, 84–85, 89–92 and 144 read the same as The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (1988), as does p. 81; the two titles are one text.
P. 81 and pp. 144–145
J. H. Paton
J. H. Paton’s 1880 book on the plan of the ages, published at Pittsburg by A. D. Jones and cited by “A. D. J.” in Zion’s Watch Tower in January 1881. It reckons Daniel’s 1335 years from 538 to 1873 or 1874 and expects the resurrection of the dead and the translation of the living church before 1914.
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Paton’s Day Dawn: the 1335 years end in 1873 or 1874; resurrection and translation before 1914 · commentary →
Paton’s Day Dawn: the times of the Gentiles end with A.D. 1914, when God’s kingdom becomes universal · commentary →
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J. H. Paton, The Day Dawn; or, The Gospel in Type and Prophecy (Pittsburg, Pa.: published by A. D. Jones, 1880; printed by M. C. Richardson & Co., Lockport, N.Y.), chapter “Times and Seasons,” pp. 73–74: from “The exact time when the resurrection” through ““the time of the harvest” begins.” Internet Archive item TheDayDawn (document 1880_Day_Dawn_First_Edition), BookReader leaves 72–73; title page leaf 1. Transcribed from the page images. Line-end hyphenation joined (“resurrec tion”); spaces before colons and semicolons closed; whitespace normalized. “Verse 12.” is printed before the words of Daniel 12:13 and kept.
Chapter “Times and Seasons,” pp. 73–74
Anonymous canonical work; Lowell Cook and 84000 translation team
Maitreya pledges to seek those who hear or practice the dharani after his awakening and give them awakening prophecies, including animals.
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Maitreya’s pledge after his awakening →
The root mantra in English · commentary →
The heart mantra in English · commentary →
The auxiliary heart mantra in English · commentary →
A variant in the root mantra · commentary →
Anonymous work; apostolic framing is not established authorship · M. B. Riddle (editorial notes)
The Didache’s final chapter describes deception, testing, heavenly signs, resurrection, and the Lord’s coming. It places these expectations within instructions to remain watchful and faithful.
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The Didache’s account of the Lord’s coming →
Riddle weighs the signs and the first resurrection · commentary →
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M. B. Riddle’s annotations in Ante-Nicene Fathers VII (1886), p.382, notes2517–2519. CCEL HTML transcription. The transcription’s “o pening” is retained.
Didache16, notes2517–2519
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Explains universal salvation, world reconstruction as the Joyous Life, and promised freedom from illness, death, and weakening through the Service.
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How the Doctrine connects salvation with the Service · commentary →
How the Doctrine connects salvation with the Service · commentary →
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Official Tenrikyo English web excerpt; underlying English edition date unspecified.
Pages12–19, official excerpt titled The Path of Single-hearted Salvation
Edgar C. Whisenant
Edgar Whisenant’s 1989 sequel to 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, published by WBS in Nashville for free distribution. It explains the passing of September 1988 by a missing year in the first century, reads Rosh Hashanah 1988 as “the shout,” and sets the rapture on Rosh Hashanah, 1 September 1989, with a dated sequence to Armageddon in 1996.
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Edgar Whisenant in 1989: the rapture on Rosh Hashanah, 1 September 1989 · commentary →
Edgar Whisenant’s 1989 timetable: Armageddon on 23 September 1996 and the Millennium from 12 December 1996 · commentary →
Edgar Whisenant in 1989: 6,000 years leave five years, 1988–1993, and the rapture comes by 1993 at the outside · commentary →
Edgar Whisenant’s 1989 timetable: World War III on 22–23 September 1989 and the Antichrist’s kingdom on 24 September 1989 · commentary →
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Edgar C. Whisenant, The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989 (Nashville: WBS, 1989), pp. 2, 6 and 7, and Figures 3–5 (pp. 12–14), whose date labels are transcribed in reading order. Internet Archive lending item finalshoutraptur0000unse; transcribed from page images supplied by the user from their own loan on 5 October 2026, in which the reader’s search hits for “1989” are highlighted. Italics (the title 88 Reasons...) and bold rendered plain; line-end hyphenation joined; […] marks omissions.
Pp. 2, 6–7; Figures 3–5, pp. 12–14
Joanna Southcott
Retrospectively presents dreams, household events and national distress as signs, explicitly distinguishes shadow from substance and identifies a claimed 1801 realization of earlier expectations.
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Southcott’s account of a visitation in 1792 →
Southcott defends her calling · commentary →
John Wesley
Applies Romans 8 and Revelation 21 to restoration of nonhuman creatures beyond their original capacities, explicitly rejecting annihilation as deliverance.
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Does the renewal include animals? · commentary →
Does the renewal include animals? · commentary →
John Wesley
Expects renewal to continue until sin, misery and death end in universal holiness; historical demographic estimates and disparaging descriptions are the preacher's.
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Wesley expects the promises to reach every nation · commentary →
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CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 63; opening Isaiah 11:9 and concluding paragraph
James Mooney
James Mooney’s 1896 study records Ghost Dance teachings and their transmission among Native communities. Its account of Wovoka’s message is an edited English rendering by an outside recorder.
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Short Bull’s advanced time, 1890 →
Wovoka’s message of reunion and renewed life →
Mooney: the spring of 1891 was the date all the tribes recognized · commentary →
The two written versions · commentary →
John Wesley
Rejects separate judgments immediately after death and at the end, locating the account of stewardship at the general resurrection and glorious return.
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One judgment, after the resurrection · commentary →
One judgment, after the resurrection · commentary →
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CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 51; section III, paragraphs 1–2
John Wesley
Uses a contemporary court gathering to introduce the universal judgment seat of Christ; delivery venue and date appear in the editorial heading.
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Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
Wesley gathers the signs before judgment · commentary →
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CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 15; opening Romans 14:10 and assize comparison
Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy presents a Christian historical and prophetic narrative. It interprets the New England Dark Day and the Leonid meteor storm as signs associated with Christ’s return.
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Ellen White’s account of the Dark Day · commentary →
Ellen White’s account of the 1833 meteors · commentary →
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1911 text in White Estate electronic PDF, copyright page 2017; PDF running pages differ from bracketed original pagination
Chapter17, original p306; PDF page266; Chapter18, original p333; PDF page288
Anonymous canonical work; Karen Liljenberg and Ulrich Pagel translators
Maitreya is anointed to preserve Dharma in the final five-hundred-year period; warnings identify dishonest livelihood and desire for gain among false bodhisattvas.
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Maitreya accepts the protection of the Dharma →
A parallel with Ānanda’s request · commentary →
The Tibetan posture of supplication · commentary →
A tentative translation of Mahākāśyapa’s refusal · commentary →