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Baxter’s title page: the Second Advent on 23 April 1908

Future Wonders of Prophecy (eighth edition) · Title page, complete title block

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Rev. M. Baxter, editor of “The Christian Herald,” Future Wonders of Prophecy … eighth edition in 1894, “one hundredth thousand” (London: Christian Herald Office, 20 Tudor Street, and Bible House, New York). This copy includes a postscript dated 1897, so it is a printing of 1897 or later. Internet Archive scan futurewondersof00theouoft (University of Toronto, Robarts Library), page images inspected: title page (leaf 4), complete title block from “Future Wonders of Prophecy” through “for 1000 years.”; Preface to the Eighth Edition, dated March 1894, and its “Postscript in 1897,” complete (leaf 8). Title page set in capitals and small capitals, rendered here in title case following the large capitals; the misprint “Ppophecies” is kept; spaces before semicolons closed; broken type read as “without” and “with”; whitespace normalized.

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FUTURE WONDERS OF PROPHECY Between 1898 and April 23, 1908, as foreshown in the Ppophecies of Daniel and Revelation; Great Conflicts, causing an Allied Confederacy of Ten Nations about 1899; Covenant between a Syrian King Napoleon and the Jews for seven years from Passover Day, April 4, 1901, to Passover Day, 1908; Renewal of their Sacrifices about Nov. 14, 1901; Great Religious Revivals before the Ascension of 144,000 Christians without dying about March 12, 1903; Dreadful Wars, Famines, Pestilences and Earthquakes prefigured by the Seals, Trumpets and Vials; Fiery Ordeal of Britain and America; the Great Tribulation and Antichristian Persecution for 1260 days from Aug. 20, 1904, to Feb. 1, 1908; Ministry and Slaying of the Two Witnesses; the Closing Struggle at Armageddon; the Second Advent of Christ upon the earth on the Last Day of Passover Week, April 23, 1908, and his Personal Reign over the Nations for 1000 years.

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Baxter’s preface and 1897 postscript: the covenant week may instead run to 1911

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On: the Second Advent of Christ upon the earth on the Last Day of Passover Week, April 23, 1908

Linked by Rainbow Watch. The preface and postscript explain how the dates on this title page were calculated and offer a later alternative; they are printed in the same book.

Source quotation · Michael Baxter, Future Wonders of Prophecy, eighth edition (1894), Preface to the Eighth Edition, dated March 1894, and “Postscript in 1897,” both complete.

The discovery was made by the author in March, 1887, that Daniel’s 2300 years ended with the Crimean War Treaty of Peace on the last day of Passover Week, 1856, and that from thence the additional 45 years end with Passover Week, 1901. A further discovery was made in January, 1894, and at once published in his little pamphlet “Great Events at Hand,” that the Final Seven Years (the Jewish Covenant Week in Daniel ix. 27) will probably begin (instead of ending) with Passover Week, 1901, and will therefore end with Passover Week (April 16 to 23), 1908, as the End of this Age. All the dates of the Future Wonders of Prophecy in this 8th Edition published in March, 1894, are consequently calculated on the basis that the final 1908 days (during which the Seals, Trumpets, and Vials, are refulfilled) will begin on February 2, 1903, and end on April 23, 1908. (See Explanation of Prophetic Calendar on p. lxiii.) POSTSCRIPT IN 1897.—If, however, the Ten Horns and Ten Toes prefigure also Ten Years for the Final Crisis from Passover Week, 1901, to Passover Week, 1911, then the Covenant Seven Years (prefigured by the Seven Heads) may be from Passover Week, 1904, to Passover Week, 1911. Time will soon settle this question.

Future Wonders of Prophecy (eighth edition) · Rev. M. Baxter, editor of “The Christian Herald,” Future Wonders of Prophecy … eighth edition in 1894, “one hundredth thousand” (London: Christian Herald Office, 20 Tudor Street, and Bible House, New York). This copy includes a postscript dated 1897, so it is a printing of 1897 or later. Internet Archive scan futurewondersof00theouoft (University of Toronto, Robarts Library), page images inspected: title page (leaf 4), complete title block from “Future Wonders of Prophecy” through “for 1000 years.”; Preface to the Eighth Edition, dated March 1894, and its “Postscript in 1897,” complete (leaf 8). Title page set in capitals and small capitals, rendered here in title case following the large capitals; the misprint “Ppophecies” is kept; spaces before semicolons closed; broken type read as “without” and “with”; whitespace normalized.

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Nineteenth-century publication, public domain in the United States.

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1894 · eighth editionBaxter’s Future Wonders of Prophecy, eighth edition Prophecy given or recorded
1897 · postscriptBaxter’s postscript offers 1904–1911 as an alternative Interpretation recorded
About 12 March 1903 · ascension of 144,000Baxter: 144,000 living Christians ascend without dying, about 12 March 1903 Predicted date · stated March 1894
23 April 1908 · last day of Passover WeekBaxter: the Second Advent of Christ upon the earth on 23 April 1908 Predicted date · stated January 1894Baxter’s 1897 postscript: the covenant seven years may run to Passover Week 1911 (Passover Week 1911 · conditional alternative) revises this date.Revises Baxter, 1887: the end of this age on Thursday, 11 April 1901, last day of Passover Week (11 April 1901 · last day of Passover Week).
Passover Week 1911 · conditional alternativeBaxter’s 1897 postscript: the covenant seven years may run to Passover Week 1911 Predicted date · stated 1897Revises Baxter: the Second Advent of Christ upon the earth on 23 April 1908 (23 April 1908 · last day of Passover Week).

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