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Hippolytus

The catalogued treatise On Christ and Antichrist is attributed to Hippolytus.

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Hon-Ming Chen

Author of the prediction quoted by CESNUR in its Chen Tao watch page.

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Huang Hongshou

Historian whose Qingshi jishi benmo (1914) reports the Tianli sect’s appointed day in 1813.

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Hōjō Tokisuke’s revolt

1272

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin identifies this event as fulfillment of Nichiren’s warning about rebellion and foreign invasion.

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Ibn Kathir

Commentator represented here by an abridged English rendering of his interpretation of Qur’an 43:61.

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Innocent III

1160/61–1216

Pope (1198–1216) whose crusade letter Quia maior (1213) said the 666 years of the beast were nearly complete.

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Irenaeus

Interprets the beast’s number in Revelation and the restored animals in Isaiah.

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Isaac Abravanel

1437–1508

Jewish statesman and biblical commentator whose Mashmia Yeshuah dates the salvation of the LORD to the Saturn–Jupiter conjunction of [5]282 (1521–22).

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Isaac Newton

Author of Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.

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J. Buckley

Author of A Defence of the Holy Scriptures, a response to Joanna Southcott.

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J. E. Esslemont

Author of Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era. His 1923 text connects Daniel’s 1,335 days with 1957.

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J. F. Rutherford

Author of Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1920), which set 1925 for the return of the faithful men of old.

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J. N. W. B. Robertson

Translator and annotator of the 1899 English Acts and Decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem.

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J. Wendell

Adventist writer of Edenboro, Pennsylvania, whose 1873 tract gave evidences for Christ’s coming that year.

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Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

1445–1505

Egyptian scholar whose treatise al-Kashf (898 AH) holds that the Muslim community will last beyond a thousand years and less than fifteen hundred.

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James Darmesteter

Translator and annotator of the historical English Vendidad edition used here.

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James E. Talmage

Author of Articles of Faith and Jesus the Christ; his interpretations of gathering, resurrection and the Millennium are quoted here.

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James J. Strang

Leader of the Latter Day Saint movement based at Voree, whose newspaper published his reported revelations.

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James Mooney

Author of the historical account that records the Wovoka selection.

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James Mulholland

Scribe who wrote the 1839 draft of Joseph Smith’s history containing the account of Moroni’s visits.

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Jan van Leiden

c.1509–1536

Leader and king of the Anabaptist kingdom at Münster, 1534–1535.

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Jason W. Briggs

Early Reorganization leader whose reported 1851 revelation concerns Zion and a successor to Joseph Smith.