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Prophecy and interpretation through time

When prophecies were given, the dates people predicted from them, proposed fulfillments and later interpretations. Choose a view: the overview shows where the material lies, the chronicle reads century by century, life-lines follow one prophecy or one line of prediction, and said vs. expected shows how far ahead each prediction looked.

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1st century

  1. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedRevelation 11: the two witnessesGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  2. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedRevelation 13: the beast and its numberGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  3. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedRevelation 20: the millennium and final judgmentGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  4. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedSix trumpets of judgmentGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  5. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedJohn eats the little bookGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  6. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedThe sealed servants and the great multitudeGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  7. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedThe seven bowls of wrathGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  8. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedThe throne and the sealed bookGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

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  9. Approximately 90–95 CE · one proposed range

    Estimated composition of Revelation’s final form

    Prophecy given or recordedRevelation 14: the angel with the everlasting gospelGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives 90–95 CE; USCCB places Revelation’s present form near the end of Domitian’s reign. This follows the late-date view.

    Approximate date of the whole biblical work

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  10. Between 90 and 100 CE · USCCB estimate

    Estimated final editing of John’s Gospel

    Prophecy given or recordedJohn 14:1–23: I will come againGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    The USCCB introduction says the final editing of the Gospel of John and its arrangement in its present form probably date from between A.D. 90 and 100.

    Approximate date of the whole biblical work

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  11. Approximately 100–150 CE · disputed

    A scholarly range for the composition of 2 Peter

    Prophecy given or recordedWhy has the promised coming been delayed?General Christianity

    Dating basis

    USCCB reports dates in the first half of the second century under later-authorship views. Apostolic attribution implies an earlier chronology.

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  12. Approximately 100–150 CE · work composed

    Estimated composition of the Apocalypse of Peter

    Prophecy given or recordedPeter’s vision of paradise and punishmentChristian — Noncanonical apocalypses

    Dating basis

    Ronald J. Sider, The Early Church on Killing (2012), p. 22, dates the work to approximately AD 100–150 and discusses both Greek and Ethiopic witnesses. This is a work-level estimate.

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  13. Approximately 100–160 CE · broad proposed range

    Estimated composition period of the Shepherd of Hermas

    Prophecy given or recordedHermas and the great beastChristian — Early Christianity

    Dating basis

    Early Christian Writings gives a broad composition range of 100–160 CE for the Shepherd of Hermas.

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3rd century

  1. Years 4001–6000 from creation · 240–2240 CE

    The disciples of Elijah: the days of the Messiah are the world’s third two thousand years

    Predicted dateSanhedrin 97a–b: six thousand years and dated endsGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    The baraita of the school of Elijah (Rodkinson: “The disciples of Elijah taught”) reads: “The world will continue for six thousand years, the first two thousand of which were a chaos (Tahu), the second two thousand were of wisdom, and the third two thousand are the days of the Messiah, and because of our sins many, many years of these have elapsed, and still he has not come.” The Vilna text of Avodah Zarah 9a reads: תנא דבי אליהו ששת אלפים שנה הוי העולם שני אלפים תוהו שני אלפים תורה שני אלפים ימות המשיח. The third two thousand are years 4001–6000 of the creation count; Hebcal converts 1 Tishrei 4001 to 5 September 240 and 1 Tishrei 6001 to 17 September 2240 (proleptic Gregorian).

    hebrew_calendar_range: years 4001–6000 from creation, the third two thousand years, which the baraita calls the days of the Messiah

    Stated About 450–550. The baraita of the school of Elijah is preserved in the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 97a–b; Avodah Zarah 9a), compiled in Babylonia about 450–550 CE.

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4th century

  1. Approximately 400–450 CE · compilation estimate

    Estimated compilation of the Heaven of Joy sutra

    Prophecy given or recordedMaitreya’s rebirth in the Heaven of JoyBuddhist — Tibetan

    Dating basis

    84000 introduction i.3–i.4, citing Yamabe and Quinter, places the visualization-sutra group including this work in the first half of the fifth century, probably in Central Asia. Its Chinese colophon dates translation to 455 CE; the displayed English follows a later Tibetan translation, with differences explained in its notes.

    Attributed work-level composition estimate

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5th century

  1. 5th century CE · estimated Chinese composition

    Estimated Chinese composition of the Dharma Extinction Sutra

    Prophecy given or recordedThe disappearance of Buddhist teachingGeneral Buddhism

    Dating basis

    Jamie Hubbard, Absolute Delusion, Perfect Buddhahood, chapter 3, printed p. 61 note 20 (PDF page 7), identifies T396 as probably a Chinese composition of the early or middle fifth century. This is a scholarly composition estimate, separate from the sutra’s presentation as Buddha’s speech and from historical catalogue translation attributions.

    The source’s early to mid-century estimate.

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  2. About 450–550 CE · tractate compilation

    Sanhedrin’s discussion is compiled

    Prophecy given or recordedThe seven years before the MessiahGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    Sefaria’s About This Text metadata dates Sanhedrin’s composition in Talmudic Babylon to approximately 450–550 CE. This is a tractate-level editorial estimate for the received discussion. The seven-year sequence, objection and reply remain a single discussion.

    Approximate work-level compilation interval reported by Sefaria.

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  3. 400 years after the destruction · Hebrew 4228 · 467–468 CE

    Rabbi Ḥanina: after 400 years from the Temple’s destruction, buy no field

    Predicted dateAvodah Zarah 9b: the year after which no field is boughtGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    Rabbi Ḥanina says: “After four hundred [years] from the destruction of the Temple … do not take it.” The Gemara states that the baraita’s 4,231 years from creation exceeds this by three years, which places Rabbi Ḥanina’s date at 4,228 years from creation; Rashi explains that four thousand years were completed 172 years after the destruction, so the baraita’s end falls 403 years after it. Hebcal converts 1 Tishrei 4228 to 17 September 467 and 1 Tishrei 4229 to 4 September 468 (proleptic Gregorian). The CE span is inference from the Talmud’s own three-year comparison.

    hebrew_calendar_year: Hebrew year 4228 (derived from the Gemara’s three-year comparison), whose completion is the stated threshold (“after four hundred years”)

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  4. Hebrew 4231 · 470–471 CE

    The baraita: after 4,231 years from creation, buy no field

    Predicted dateAvodah Zarah 9b: the year after which no field is boughtGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    The baraita says: “After four thousand two hundred and thirty-one years from the creation of the world, if a man says to you, ‘Take for yourself a field worth a thousand dinars for one dinar,’ do not take it” (Aramaic: אחר ארבעת אלפים ומאתים ושלשים ואחת שנה לבריאת עולם). The passage gives no reason; Rashi explains that the date is the end appointed for redemption, when Israel returns to its ancestral inheritance. Hebcal converts 1 Tishrei 4231 to 13 September 470 and 1 Tishrei 4232 to 3 September 471 (proleptic Gregorian). “After” makes this a threshold from the completion of the stated years.

    hebrew_calendar_year: Hebrew year 4231, whose completion is the stated threshold (“after 4,231 years”); redemption meaning per Rashi

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  5. c. 500 CE (inferred, 495–505) · year 6000 from Adam, 500 years after Christ’s birth

    Hippolytus: the end when six thousand years from Adam are complete

    Predicted dateDaniel 7: oppressive kings and an everlasting kingdomJewish / Christian — Shared scriptures

    Dating basis

    Hippolytus writes: “the first appearance of our Lord in the flesh took place in Bethlehem, under Augustus, in the year 5500” and “From the birth of Christ, then, we must reckon the 500 years that remain to make up the 6000, and thus the end shall be.” The source computes the year of the world (6000) and the interval from Christ’s birth (500 years). The CE figure is an inference that places Christ’s birth near the start of the common era; Hippolytus gives no CE date. Conditions stated: the ten horns arise and Antichrist persecutes the saints before the Lord’s manifestation (section 7).

    Year 6000 of Hippolytus’s world era; c. 500; the CE conversion is inferred

    Stated About 202. Otto Bardenhewer dates Hippolytus's Commentary on Daniel to about 202, during the persecution of Christians under Septimius Severus and soon after his treatise on the Antichrist.

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  6. c. 498 CE (inferred) · 101 years after 397

    Hilarianus: six thousand years complete after 101 more years, about 498 CE

    Predicted dateHilarianus: 101 years remain to complete six thousandGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Hilarianus states that at the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus (397) 369 years had passed since the Passion and “Restant itaque anni 101 ut consummentur anni 6000”; the six thousandth year of the world ends, and the first resurrection follows when the seven thousandth begins. Adding 101 to 397 gives 498 (497–499 with inclusive or exclusive counting). He makes the end conditional on ten kings arising and Antichrist being revealed.

    Year 6000 of the world in Hilarianus’s reckoning; CE conversion inferred from the named consulship plus 101 years

    Stated 397. Hilarianus dates his reckoning to the ninth day before the Kalends of April in the consulship of Caesarius and Atticus (397), when 369 years had passed of the 470 from the Passion.

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6th century

  1. Hebrew 4291 · 530–531 CE (Rodkinson prints “two thousand, two hundred and ninety-one”)

    Ḥanan bar Taḥlifa’s scroll: the world orphaned after 4,291 years

    Predicted dateSanhedrin 97a–b: six thousand years and dated endsGeneral Judaism

    Dating basis

    Rodkinson’s 1918 translation prints: “it was written therein that after two thousand, two hundred and ninety-one years of the creation, the world will remain an orphan, many years will be the war of whales, and many more years will be the war of Gog and Magog, and the remainder will be the days of the Messiah.” The Vilna Aramaic (Wikisource Talmud Bavli via Sefaria) reads לאחר ד' אלפים ומאתים ותשעים ואחד שנה לבריאתו של עולם, 4,291 years from creation; Rodkinson’s “two thousand” is treated as his error, and both readings are preserved. Hebcal converts 1 Tishrei 4291 to 11 September 530 and 1 Tishrei 4292 to 1 September 531 (proleptic Gregorian). The claim is reported by Rav Ḥanan bar Taḥlifa from a scroll; the same scroll puts world renewal after seven thousand years.

    hebrew_calendar_year: Hebrew year 4291, whose completion is the stated threshold (“after 4,291 years”) for the scroll’s end-time sequence

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  2. 541 CE · Chinese translation

    The discourse is translated into Chinese

    Prophecy given or recordedMaitreya accepts the protection of the DharmaBuddhist — Mahāyāna

    Dating basis

    84000 introduction i.5 dates the Chinese translation Mohe jiaye hui (Taishō 310 [23]) by *Upaśūnya to 541. The displayed English derives from Tibetan, whose translation is attested by the Denkarma catalogue around 812; no Sanskrit original survives.

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7th century

  1. 610–632 CE · traditional outer bounds

    The Prophets: the promised day

    Prophecy given or recordedGog and Magog and the promised dayGeneral Islam

    Dating basis

    The University of Birmingham dates the traditional period of Qur’anic revelation to 610–632 CE. Quran.com’s introduction, adapted from Tafsir Ibn Ashur, places this surah in the late Makkan period, citing its position in Jabir ibn Zayd’s ordering. The selected closing verses are outside the introduction’s noted exception concerning verse 44. The 1876 translation edition is separate.

    Late Makkan according to the Ibn Ashur-adapted introduction; no numerical late-period boundary inferred. Traditional revelation period

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  2. 610–632 CE · traditional outer bounds

    The Earthquake: judgment of deeds

    Prophecy given or recordedThe earth tells its storyGeneral Islam

    Dating basis

    The University of Birmingham dates the traditional period of Qur’anic revelation to 610–632 CE. The Quran.com page records competing classifications: its heading says Medina, while its Ibn Ashur-adapted discussion prefers a Makkan origin and also records a Madinan ordering. The 1876 translation edition is separate.

    Makkan or Madinan: disputed traditional classification Traditional revelation period

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  3. 610–632 CE · traditional revelation period

    The barrier and the divine promise — within the traditional Qur’an revelation period

    Prophecy given or recordedThe barrier against Gog and MagogGeneral Islam

    Dating basis

    The University of Birmingham’s manuscript introduction identifies 610–632 as the revelation period in Islamic tradition. This is a whole-Qur’an outer window. The same source places codification around 650; that later stage is distinct.

    Whole-work traditional outer bounds; individual passage date remains unresolved.

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  4. 610–632 CE · traditional revelation period

    Defeat followed by victory — within the traditional Qur’an revelation period

    Prophecy given or recordedQur’an 30: defeat followed by victoryGeneral Islam

    Dating basis

    The University of Birmingham’s manuscript introduction identifies 610–632 as the revelation period in Islamic tradition. This is a whole-Qur’an outer window. The same source places codification around 650; that later stage is distinct.

    Whole-work traditional outer bounds; individual passage date remains unresolved.

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  5. 610–632 CE · traditional revelation period

    Jesus and the Hour — within the traditional Qur’an revelation period

    Prophecy given or recordedQur’an 43: Jesus and the HourGeneral Islam

    Dating basis

    The University of Birmingham’s manuscript introduction identifies 610–632 as the revelation period in Islamic tradition. This is a whole-Qur’an outer window. The same source places codification around 650; that later stage is distinct.

    Whole-work traditional outer bounds; individual passage date remains unresolved.

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8th century

  1. 8th–12th century CE · manuscript estimate in the 1896 edition

    Date range assigned to the Greek manuscript in Rutherfurd’s edition

    Prophecy given or recordedPeter’s vision of paradise and punishmentChristian — Noncanonical apocalypses

    Dating basis

    Rutherfurd’s introduction says the Akhmim manuscript has been dated between the eighth and twelfth centuries. This is the older edition’s manuscript estimate, separate from the work’s estimated composition.

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  2. Era 838 · 800 CE

    Beatus: the sixth age ends in the Era 838 (800 CE)

    Predicted dateJesus’ discourse on the Mount of OlivesGeneral Christianity

    Dating basis

    Beatus writes “Finiet quoque sexta ætas in Era DCCCXXXVIII” and that the world is to end in the six thousandth year, leaving to God whether the years are filled out or shortened. He equates the present Era 822 with 784 years from Christ’s coming, so Era 838 is 800 by his own equation (the Spanish era runs 38 years ahead). Flórez refers to his prologue, n. 66, on these numbers.

    Stated year in the Spanish era; CE equivalent from the source’s own era-to-AD equation

    Stated 784 (Era 822). Beatus counts 784 years from the coming of Christ to the present Era 822, the year from which he reckons the fourteen years left of the sixth millennium.

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  3. 9th century CE · compilation

    Zadspram’s compilation belongs to the ninth century

    Prophecy given or recordedThe defeat of hunger and the renewal of creationZoroastrian

    Dating basis

    The Avesta.org edition’s preface identifies this as a ninth-century Pahlavi text.

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  4. Ninth century CE · Hazra’s estimate

    Hazra’s estimated compilation of the Agni Purana

    Prophecy given or recordedKalki restores order at the end of Kali yugaGeneral Hinduism

    Dating basis

    R. C. Hazra, Studies in the Upapuranas II, printed page 82, footnote 203, dates compilation of the present Agni Purana to the ninth century. This is his work-level estimate.

    Attributed work-level composition estimate

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9th century

  1. Ninth century CE · collection compiled

    Recorded in the ninth-century Sahih Muslim collection

    Prophecy given or recordedThe Dajjal, Jesus, and the final HourIslam — Sunni

    Dating basis

    Sunnah.com identifies Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (821–875) as the compiler. The century is an editorial compilation estimate based on that attribution.

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  2. Ninth century CE · collection compiled

    Recorded in the ninth-century Sahih Muslim collection

    Prophecy given or recordedJesus’ descent and the prayer leaderIslam — Sunni

    Dating basis

    Sunnah.com identifies Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (821–875) as the compiler. The century is an editorial compilation estimate based on that attribution.

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  3. Ninth century CE · collection compiled

    Recorded in the ninth-century Sunan Abi Dawud collection

    Prophecy given or recordedReports about the Mahdi’s familyIslam — Sunni

    Dating basis

    Sunnah.com identifies Abu Dawud (202–275 AH) as the compiler. The century is an editorial compilation estimate based on that attribution.

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  4. 9th century CE · work redacted

    Estimated redaction of the Zand ī Wahman Yasn

    Prophecy given or recordedPeshotan comes to restore the religionZoroastrian

    Dating basis

    Jamsheed K. Choksy’s Encyclopaedia Iranica historical review identifies the Zand ī Wahman Yasn as anonymously redacted in ninth-century Iran. This estimates the compilation stage of the work containing the Peshotan episode.

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  5. 9th century CE · later redaction of the work

    The Bundahishn’s later redaction

    Prophecy given or recordedResurrection and the renewal of the worldZoroastrian

    Dating basis

    David Neil MacKenzie, Encyclopaedia Iranica, “Bundahišn,” relates the last important redaction to Farrbay, a contemporary of Zadspram, who was active around 880. The article says the first compilation cannot be dated even approximately, reports a late-Sasanian hypothesis for an earlier core, and identifies later additions. This assertion applies to the Bundahishn selections.

    Conservative century bounds around a late-ninth-century redaction estimate; not original oral delivery.

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10th century

  1. 342 AH · approximately 953–954 CE

    Recorded date for al-Numani’s al-Ghayba

    Prophecy given or recordedThe hidden Imam and signs of his appearanceIslam — Twelver Shiʿa

    Dating basis

    The edition introduction gives Dhu’l-Hijja 342 AH as the book’s completion date. A later textual study reads 342 AH as transmission to a student. The chart retains the attributed date.

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  2. Eleventh–twelfth centuries CE · Hazra’s estimate

    Hazra’s estimated compilation of the Devi Bhagavata

    Prophecy given or recordedThe gods praise the future KalkiHindu — Śākta

    Dating basis

    R. C. Hazra, Studies in the Upapuranas II, printed pages 346–347, argues for compilation in the eleventh or twelfth century. Other datings exist: the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions gives a considerably later estimate, near the fifteenth century.

    Attributed work-level composition estimate

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11th century

  1. Latter half of the eleventh century · Tibetan translation

    Maitreya’s Pledge translated into Tibetan

    Prophecy given or recordedMaitreya’s pledge after his awakeningBuddhist — Tibetan

    Dating basis

    84000 introduction i.6 identifies Vajrapani and Chokyi Sherap from the colophon and places their Tibetan translation in the latter half of the eleventh century, citing Vajrapani’s 1066 journey. This is a textual transmission estimate.

    Estimated period of the Tibetan translation

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Durations and conditions

Some passages give a span of time, a relative deadline or a condition. Explore those expressions here, with the words and context that define them.

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General Judaism · Duration

“A. D. J.”: seven years of temple building from 1874

Seven years from the autumn of 1874

the time of building is seven years

The seven years of Solomon’s temple building are applied to the period from Christ’s presence in the autumn of 1874, giving the fall of 1881.

Zion’s Watch Tower, January 1881 · Article “How Long, O Lord?” signed “A. D. J.”, Zion’s Watch Tower, January 1881, pp. 4–5 (reprint [180]–[181]), from “The laying of the foundation-stone” through “the time given for building.”

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General Christianity · Relative deadline

“This generation”

Before this generation passes

[34] Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

Matthew records this relative expression without defining it as a fixed count of years. Interpretations of the generation and the events remain attached to the source passage.

Gospel according to Matthew

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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Condition

A warning to those who reject Southcott’s words

Fatal consequences for denying the woman’s words

confess the Woman true, or fatal now will it be for you all that deny her words

Within her claimed divine answer, Southcott adds a conditional threat to people who deny her words. It is an attributed warning beyond the Genesis interpretation.

A Communication Given to Joanna in Answer to Mr. Brothers’s Last Book · Joanna Southcott · introductory account and claimed divine answer

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General Judaism · Maximum interval

Arnold, writing in 1297: the present age ends before two centuries are completed

Before two centuries are completed

priusquam duo centenaria compleantur, status presentis seculi finietur

Arnold, writing when “we now count 1297 years from the Lord’s coming”, says the state of the present age will end before two centuries are completed.

De tempore adventus Antichristi · Arnold of Villanova, De tempore adventus Antichristi (1297), as printed by H. Finke, Aus den Tagen Bonifaz VIII. (1902), pp. CXXXI–CXXXII; English translation by Rainbow Watch (2026)

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General Latter-day Saint · Condition

Cannon: no return until the Saints obey the earlier order

Until the Saints obey the revelation on consecration

until we did obey that the privilege of going back

Cannon reports what he had been taught: the return to Jackson County and the temple promised for “this generation” would wait until the Saints obeyed the early revelation on living as one family.

George Q. Cannon on the temple to be reared in this generation · George Q. Cannon, as reported by David W. Evans, 8 October 1874; Journal of Discourses 17, pp. 232–233, two paragraphs from “If then, my brethren and” through “in the beginning to obey.”

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General Christianity · Alternative durations

Colin Deal: forty years from 1948, or seventy or eighty from 1918

A forty-year generation from 14 May 1948, or a seventy- or eighty-year generation from the Balfour Declaration of 1918

each brings us near the same termination point

Deal reads the fig tree as Israel and says the generation that sees its rebirth will see Christ’s return. He sets out a forty-year generation from 1948 and a seventy- or eighty-year generation from 1918, says “each brings us near the same termination point,” calls the length and starting point “open for speculation,” and concludes that the generation that will witness the return “is none other than our own.”

The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return · Colin Deal, The Day and Hour Jesus Will Return (Colin H. Deal, 1988), pp. 89–92; short excerpt of six paragraphs.

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General Judaism · Duration

Daniel’s closing periods

1,290 days and 1,335 days

11 And from the time that the continual burnt-offering shall be taken away, and the detestable thing that causes appalment set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Happy is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

The passage connects its count with removal of the continual offering and the setting up of the detestable thing.

Daniel

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