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Alice A. Bailey
Predicts a shared future religious calendar of Easter, Wesak and Goodwill festivals after Christ's reappearance. These identifications are Bailey's synthesis, not consensus among the named traditions.
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A shared calendar of spiritual festivals →
The three festivals Bailey anticipates · commentary →
Dorothy Field
Documents colonial-era circulation of attributed predictions of European rule, Sikh alliances and temple destruction, explicitly asserting1762 and1857 fulfillment.
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Gobind Singh’s reported predictions about the Khalsa and the English →
Owen Russell Loomis Crosier
Argues that Daniel’s sanctuary is heavenly rather than the earth or Palestine, using Hebrews and tabernacle typology to redirect the interpretation of the 2300 days.
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Crosier locates the sanctuary in heaven · commentary →
View cited source · m.egwwritings.org ↗Edition and location
Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
The Sanctuary, reprint pp. 1–6; accompanying explanatory note
Collected discourses of Sot’aesan (Pak Chung-bin); Won-Buddhist compilation
Interprets Maitreya’s advent as a developing world of awakened practice and anticipates moral transformation rather than destruction.
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Sot’aesan’s coming moral world →
What Sot’aesan means by the coming world · commentary →
View cited source · static1.squarespace.com · PDF ↗Edition and location
The Doctrinal Books of Won-Buddhism, 2016, Committee for the Authorized Translations of Won-Buddhist Scriptures; Wonkwang Publishing.
Chapter XIV, Prospects, 16–20; printed pages 465–469, PDF pages 479–483
William Cuninghame
William Cuninghame of Lainshaw’s chronological treatise of 1838 on the great periods that he holds end in that year. Writing on 15 September 1838, he ends Daniel’s 1260 years in 1792, the 1290 in 1822 and the 1335 in 1867, by when, he argues, the kingdom of God will have been established upon earth.
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Cuninghame, 1838: the 1335 years end in 1867, by when the kingdom of God is established on earth · commentary →
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William Cuninghame, The Septuagint and Hebrew Chronologies Tried by the Test of Their Internal Scientific Evidence … Also, On the Great Periods Which Terminate in, and Mark the Year 1838 (London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1838), pp. 93–94: from “It remains that I should briefly offer the reasons” through “necessary they should begin immediately.” The footnote on p. 93 dates the writing “September 15th, 1838.” Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy (bsb10410307), Internet Archive item 10410307bsb, BookReader leaves 4 (title page), 114 and 115. Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals (“Fourth Kingdom”, “Christian Europe”) rendered in title case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
pp. 93–94
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned article
Unsigned lead article of The Watch Tower for 15 August 1926, applying Isaiah 49 to the Bible Students. It recalls that in 1925 many said the ancient worthies had not returned.
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The Watch Tower in 1926: in 1925 many said “The ancient worthies have not returned” · commentary →
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn), 15 August 1926, unsigned lead article “The Servant and Service,” p. 247, left column, the paragraph beginning “Verse fourteen of the prophecy reads,” complete (paragraph number omitted). Internet Archive item w_E_19260815, image 6, inspected; the type is worn. Two worn marks after “said” and “revived” are read as commas (the OCR layer reads the first as a period). Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
The Watch Tower, p. 247
Hermas as narrator/attributed author; historical identity not established
The vision's own interpretation connects the beast with a coming trial and repentance with escape.
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Hermas and the great beast →
John Wesley
Applies a first-coming signs text to a contemporary religious visitation and dawn of a prophesied day.
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Wesley sees signs of a spreading renewal · commentary →
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CCEL electronic presentation of Sermons on Several Occasions, identified 1872 edition where stated; editorial notes not author text
Sermon 66; opening Matthew 16:3 and paragraph 11
Max Arthur Macauliffe
Reports predictions attributed to Teg Bahadur and Gobind Singh about European power and Sikh alliance with the English, and explicitly connects one with1857.
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Gobind Singh’s reported predictions about the Khalsa and the English →
Teg Bahadur’s reported vision of Europeans →
A claimed fulfillment at Delhi in 1857 · commentary →
How Macauliffe linked these prophecies to imperial loyalty · commentary →
How Macauliffe linked these prophecies to imperial loyalty · commentary →
His stated reason for presenting the prophecies · commentary →
His stated reason for presenting the prophecies · commentary →
Macauliffe explains the scope of his book · commentary →
Macauliffe explains the scope of his book · commentary →
View cited source · sacred-texts.com ↗Edition and location
1909 historical English work, volume I, Internet Sacred Text Archive transcription.
VolumeI, Preface, printed pp.xviii–xix and surrounding political explanation
George Reynolds
George Reynolds retells and explains the Book of Mormon narrative. These selections interpret Nephi’s vision and Jesus’ teachings about the latter-day gathering and New Jerusalem.
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Reynolds identifies the latter-day work in Nephi’s vision · commentary →
Lehi’s descendants and the building of New Jerusalem · commentary →
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Fourth edition, Hillison & Etten Co., Chicago; title page gives no publication year, copyright 1888. Project Gutenberg 50029 historical transcription, updated 22 October 2024. Chapters II and XLVII; paragraph line wrapping normalized. Transcription read.
Chapters II and XLVII
Joanna Southcott
Joanna Southcott’s early writings describe her prophetic calling, interpret biblical images and predict divine judgment and recognition of her mission.
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Southcott: three years to convince the nation →
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The Strange Effects of Faith, Third Part, Exeter: G. Floyde, in a collected historical scan. Part closes with Southcott’s signed date, 19 May 1801, p. 144; printer colophon G. Floyde and J. Winter. Selected pp. 127–128 visually collated against PDF 139–140; closing date collated PDF 156. Long s rendered s, line-end hyphenation joined, whitespace normalized, emphasis plain.
Third Part, pp.127–128, complete bells-and-nations argument
Anonymous canonical work; Dharmachakra Translation Committee
Predicts Maitreya's death in twelve years and rebirth in Heaven of Joy, later teaching after a vast interval, and future encounter/awakening prophecy for devotees.
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Maitreya’s rebirth in the Heaven of Joy →
The Brahmin Bāvarī · commentary →
The village name · commentary →
Threefold liberation or absorption? · commentary →
Blue beryl · commentary →
Lotus seats in the Chinese version · commentary →
How many gods? · commentary →
Teaching and liberation · commentary →
The later descent and a reference to another sutra · commentary →
George Storrs
Prospectively insists upon a personal visible advent in the impending seventh-month interval of 1844, deriving confidence from typology. Preserves what was asserted before the disappointment.
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Storrs urges the waiting Adventists to wake · commentary →
Storrs urges the waiting Adventists to wake · commentary →
Storrs urges the waiting Adventists to wake · commentary →
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Ellen G. White Writings digital transcription; anthology or reprint details specified above
Advent Herald, October 9, 1844, pp. 73.7–74.20; opening argument and signature
Thomas Beverley
Thomas Beverley’s answer (London, 1691) to Richard Baxter’s new treatise against the thousand years’ kingdom of Christ. He holds that the 1260 days of the apostasy expire “at 97” and names his 1689 treatise on the Kingdom of Christ entering its succession in 97.
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Beverley in 1691: the 1260 days of the apostasy end at 97 · commentary →
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T. Beverley, The Thousand Years Kingdom of Christ, In its Full Scripture-State: Answering Mr. Baxter’s New Treatise (London, Printed in the Year MDCXCI [1691]). Title page (leaf n0), pp. 2, 3, 5 and 8 (leaves n3, n4, n6, n9), from “the Apostasie of Antichrist” to “Entring its Succession in 97. Page 8.” (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1691; a second scan of the same setting, with the imprint cut off, is bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-thousand-years-kingd_beverley-thomas_1690). “Christivn” on p. 5 is kept as printed. 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.
Title page; pp. 2, 3, 5, 8
Charles Taze Russell
Russell predicts the end of Gentile dominion in 1914 and lists seven consequences, including the Kingdom’s universal rule and the Church’s glorification before the year ends.
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What Russell expected by 1914 →
The Time is at Hand, 1911 printing: the Kingdom of God fully established near the end of A.D. 1915 · commentary →
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The Time is at Hand, Studies in the Scriptures, SeriesII;454,000 edition, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, Allegheny,1907 (title page verified). Pages 76–78, concluding introductory claim and all seven stated consequences, before “The Beginning of Gentile Times.” Scan inspected; line-end word divisions joined and spacing normalized. This is the 1907 witness.
StudyIV, pp 76–78
Joanna Southcott; correspondence included
Treats episcopal silence as consent to her mission. Explains a maze exercise through promises to the woman at creation and fall, connecting the latter promise to the Second Coming. Later Psalms discussion explicitly distinguishes her own judgment. Parts count as one work.
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Has the serpent already been defeated? · commentary →
Nostradamus; translated and annotated by Theophilus de Garencières
The prophetic quatrains of Nostradamus with French text, English translation and commentary by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672).
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Nostradamus to Henry II: persecution of the Church until 1792 →
Nostradamus, Century X.72: the year 1999 and seven months →
Le Pelletier: the renovation of the age is the republican era of 22 September 1792 · commentary →
Garencières reads the King of Angoulesme as Francis I · commentary →
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The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, translated and commented by Theophilus de Garencières (London, 1672), Century X, quatrain LXXII with its French text, English translation and annotation, p. 433 (Internet Archive b30334494, Wellcome Collection copy, leaf n520). French and English printed as verse; line breaks retained. “nonante” is partly smudged in this copy (OCR “nonarite”); the reading is confirmed by the English “ninety”. 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.
Century X, quatrain 72, p. 433
The Watch Tower (unsigned)
The Watch Tower’s issue of 15 December 1918, published at Pittsburgh. Its “Interesting Questions” column answers that the ancient worthies will be made alive at the beginning of the earthly phase of the kingdom, “in 1925 we believe.”
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The Watch Tower, 15 December 1918: the ancient worthies made alive at the beginning of the earthly kingdom, “in 1925 we believe” · commentary →
The Watch Tower, 15 December 1918: the ancient worthies made alive at the beginning of the earthly kingdom, “in 1925 we believe” · commentary →
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Pittsburgh, Pa.), vol. XXXIX, no. 24, 15 December 1918 (masthead, reprint p. [6367]), “Interesting Questions,” the question and answer headed “Meaning of the East Gates of the Temple,” from “Question: What is represented” through “the court to which the porch belongs.”, ending on p. 381. Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1918, BookReader leaves 179 (masthead), 181 (running head “December 15, 1918”), 183 (reprint p. [6371], marked “(377-381)”) and 184 (reprint p. [6372], marked “(381)”). Transcribed from the page images. Small capitals of the heading rendered in title case; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
“Interesting Questions,” p. 381
Islam — Ahmadiyya
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Ghulam Ahmad anticipates his death and promises that a second manifestation of divine power will sustain his community. The booklet also contains warnings of calamities and earthquakes.
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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s promised second Manifestation →
Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyya · commentary →
The community addressed · commentary →
The publisher supplies the full Qur’anic translation · commentary →
Sunnatullāh · commentary →
Oneness of God · commentary →
View cited source · files.alislam.cloud · PDF ↗Edition and location
2023 format, 2024 UK reprint; translation Chaudhry Muhammad Ali and Mirza Anas Ahmad, originally 2005; Islam International Publications; ISBN 978-1-84880-565-1
Printed pages 2–9; title, foreword and edition statement
Attributed to Thomas Beverley
A four-page 1697 tract using the lunar cycle to argue that the Beast’s forty-two months end, and the Kingdom of Christ succeeds, in 1697.
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Beverley: the Beast’s reign ends and Christ’s kingdom succeeds in 1697 · commentary →
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The Wonderful Confirmation of the Succession of the Kingdom of Christ at 1697 ([London], 1697), four-page tract without title page, author not named in the text; library cataloguing (EEBO/Wing) attributes it to Thomas Beverley. Caption title (p. 1) and the whole of p. 4 (Internet Archive bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-wonderful-confirmati_beverley-thomas_1697, leaves n0 and n3); pp. 1–3 propositions omitted and marked […]. An ink blot in this copy covers part of “Confirmation” in the caption title; the reading follows the catalogue title and the running text. 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.
Caption title and p. 4
Otto Fetting and W. A. Draves
2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
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Draves reports another messenger →
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2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
2023 authorized edition published by The Church of Christ With the Elijah Message, The Assured Way of the Lord, Inc.; selected Messages 1, 12 and 31.
Ellen G. White
Connects the three angels and approaching judgment with worldwide proclamation, future church-state coercion and the mark of the beast; these are the author’s expectations.
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White calls for a worldwide warning · commentary →
White calls for a worldwide warning · commentary →
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society; unsigned article
Unsigned lead article of The Watch Tower for 15 February 1925 on the jubilee reckoning. It recalls past dates from 1844 to 1914 and advises caution “about predicting particulars” for 1925.
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The Watch Tower in February 1925: “Let us be cautious … about predicting particulars” · commentary →
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The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn), 15 February 1925, unsigned lead article “The Year of Jubilee,” p. 57, paragraph 51, complete (paragraph number omitted). Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1925, leaf 57, page image inspected. Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
The Watch Tower, p. 57, paragraph 51
Harold Camping
Harold Camping’s 2005 chronology of the Bible from creation in 11,013 B.C. to A.D. 2011, published by Vantage Press and distributed free by Family Radio. Its preface reinterprets 1994, the year of his earlier book 1994?, as the start of a final harvest, and it names 2011 as the likely year of the end and the fall of 2011 as its likely season.
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Harold Camping in 2005: Christ came in 1994 to begin completing the evangelization; the end in the fall of 2011 · commentary →
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Harold Camping, Time Has An End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C.–A.D. 2011 (New York: Vantage Press, copyright 2005 by Harold Camping), second printing, ISBN 0-533-15169-4, in the PDF distributed by Family Radio (496 pages, created 11 December 2008; Chapter One replaced by the line “Chapter One is being revised and currently not available”), at https://www.may-212011.com/downloads/TimeHasAnEnd.pdf. Preface pp. xiv–xv (two paragraphs, from “About thirteen years ago”) and p. xxii (one paragraph, from “If this world”); chapter 10, pp. 419–420 (from “Given all of the foregoing information” through “the fall of A.D. 2011.”, with two omissions). PDF pages 15, 23 and 412–413. Taken from the PDF text and checked against the rendered pages; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized; […] marks omissions. Collated with the Vantage Press second printing (Internet Archive lending item timehasendbiblic0000camp) from the user’s screenshots of the copyright page and pp. xi–xv, xxii and 418–420: identical.
Preface pp. xiv–xv and xxii; pp. 419–420