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Andreas Doctor

Buddhist translator who checked this English translation against Tibetan, wrote its introduction, and edited the text.

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Angelo Sodano

Connects the Fatima vision with the attack on John Paul II.

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Arnold of Villanova

c. 1240–1311

Physician and lay theologian whose treatise of 1297 placed Antichrist’s appearance about the seventy-eighth year of the fourteenth century.

Historical event

Assault on Delhi in 1857

1857 · event named in the later claim

Macauliffe’s 1909 preface reports that unnamed Sikh writers treated the assault on Delhi under Nicholson as fulfillment.

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Attar Singh of Bhadour

Translator and annotator of the 1873 English Sakhee Book. His preface discusses its disputed authorship and his purpose in publishing it.

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Augustine

Interprets prophetic passages in The City of God, including the millennium, Daniel, Elijah, and the restrainer.

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B.H. (Plain Remarks)

Author quoted and criticized in Southcott’s True Explanations of the Bible.

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Bahá’u’lláh

Author of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Tablet of Carmel, and the interpretation from the Kitáb-i-Íqán displayed here.

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Beatus of Liébana

died c. 798

Asturian monk whose Commentary on the Apocalypse dated the end of the sixth age to the Era 838 (800 CE).

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Benedict XVI

Interprets the continuing significance of the Fatima message in his 2010 homily.

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Bernt Knipperdolling

Münster Anabaptist leader whose confession of July 1535 reports the king’s Easter promise.

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Bhadrabahu Vijay

Author credited by Jainworld for Guidelines of Jainism; this profile concerns that modern introductory work.

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Brigham Young

Latter-day Saint leader whose sermons address preparation for Christ’s coming.

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Charles Hindley

Charles Hindley of Brighton, who reprinted a Mother Shipton chapbook in 1862 and, according to Notes and Queries in 1873, admitted fabricating its 1881 prophecy.

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Charles Taze Russell

Author of The Time is at Hand. The preserved 1907 edition describes his expectations for 1914.

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Christoffel Golden

Latter-day Saint speaker whose 2021 address discusses preparation for Christ’s return.

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Chuck Smith

died 3 October 2013

Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California, from 1965, whose verse-by-verse teaching is distributed by The Word for Today.

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Colin Deal

born 1946

Writer on Bible prophecy from Rutherford College, North Carolina, author of The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (1988).