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Jerome
Author of the Commentary on Daniel.
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Jesus
The Gospels present Jesus as the speaker of these teachings about watchfulness and coming events.
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Jiaqing emperor
1760–1820
Qing emperor (r. 1796–1820) whose essay on the 1813 rising tells when the Eight Trigrams leaders agreed on their day.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Speaker who dissolved the Order of the Star in 1929.
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Joachim of Fiore
Calabrian abbot whose division of history into three states underlay the Joachite expectation of 1260 reported by Salimbene.
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Joanna Southcott
Author of the 1806 account describing revelations and a visitation she dates to 1792.
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Johann Albrecht Bengel
Author of the Gnomon commentary; its chronological table assigns years to the final events of Revelation.
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Johann Heinrich Alsted
1588–1638
Reformed theologian at Herborn whose Diatribe de mille annis (1627; English 1643) reckoned that the thousand years would begin in 1694 or sooner.
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John Archer
Preacher at All Hallows, Lombard Street, to whom library catalogues attribute The Personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth (1641); the title page of the inspected copy prints Henry Archer.
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John Calvin
Interprets Malachi’s promise of Elijah in relation to John the Baptist.
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John Chrysostom
Interprets the meeting with Christ and the restrainer in homilies on the Thessalonian letters.
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John Cumming
Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden; author of The Great Tribulation.
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John Gill
Commentator whose exposition of Revelation 13:5 proposes 1866 as the end of Antichrist’s reign, with an explicit qualification.
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John Napier
1550–1617
Scottish mathematician whose 1593 commentary on Revelation dated the day of judgment between 1688 and 1700.
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John of Patmos
Revelation’s narrator identifies himself as John and places his vision on Patmos (Revelation 1:9).
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John Paul II
Pope wounded in the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981; Sodano connects that event with the Fatima vision.
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John S. Fullmer
Recorder of a report of Joseph Smith’s discourse of 10 March 1844.
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John Taylor
Latter-day Saint leader whose sermons connect the gathering, Enoch’s Zion and Christ’s coming.
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John Thomas
Physician and writer of Richmond, Virginia, author of Elpis Israel (1849).
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John Tillinghast
1604–1655
English Independent minister associated with the Fifth Monarchists, whose Knowledge of the Times (1654) placed Christ’s appearance in 1701.
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John Wesley
Author of explanatory notes on the New Testament.
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John Whitmer
Scribe of the preserved Revelation Book 1 copies of D&C 45 and 133.
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Jonathan Edwards
1703–1758
New England minister and theologian; his Humble Attempt (1747) allowed that the millennium might begin about the year 2000.
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Joseph Davey Cunningham
Historian whose appendix transmits the Raj Nama account.