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James E. Talmage
James E. Talmage’s account of Jesus’ life and mission concludes with a discussion of his expected return and the Millennium, drawing on the Bible and Latter-day Saint scripture.
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Talmage gathers the scriptural promises · commentary →
The last enemy and the final judgment · commentary →
The kingdom of God prepares for the kingdom of heaven · commentary →
Modern revelations announcing Christ’s return · commentary →
The earth’s regeneration · commentary →
Enoch and his city · commentary →
Those who knew no law · commentary →
Zion, Jerusalem, and the signs before the return · commentary →
Zion, Jerusalem, and the signs before the return · commentary →
Life during the Millennium · commentary →
Life during the Millennium · commentary →
Life during the Millennium · commentary →
Jnaneshwar; English translation by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat
Explains divine manifestation as protection of the world’s spiritual order when evil threatens the good; directly relevant to the existing Gita4 renewal passage.
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Protecting dharma in every age · commentary →
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Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat English translation, host-dated1954, Wisdom Library transcription.
Commentary on Bhagavad Gita4.7, chapter4, following verse49
Hebrew Bible · Book of Joel
Joel is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible. Its visions connect communal distress, divine intervention and restoration; the passage collected here promises an outpouring of the spirit before the Day of the Lord.
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Joel: the Spirit poured out →
Joel 3: the nations judged in the valley of Jehoshaphat →
The Watch Tower (unsigned)
Unsigned article in The Watch Tower of 1 August 1918 that reads the story of Joseph and his brethren as a type of the church’s last years. On Genesis 45:6 it counts five years “to the spring of 1925, to the resurrection of the ancient worthies.”
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The Watch Tower, 1 August 1918: five years to the spring of 1925 and the resurrection of the ancient worthies · commentary →
The Watch Tower, 1 August 1918: five years to the spring of 1925 and the resurrection of the ancient worthies · commentary →
View cited source · archive.org ↗Edition and location
The Watch Tower and Herald of Christ’s Presence (Brooklyn, N.Y.), vol. XXXIX, no. 15, 1 August 1918 (masthead, p. 227), unsigned article “Joseph and His Brethren,” p. 232, the paragraph on Genesis 45:6 from “For these two years” through “—Gen. 45:6.” Read in the Watch Tower Society’s reprint of the magazine: Internet Archive item magazines-the-watchtower-and-herald-christ-presence-1918, BookReader leaves 111 (masthead, reprint p. [6299]) and 114 (reprint p. [6302]). Transcribed from the page images. Line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
p. 232
Joseph Smith; retrospective history written with scribes
Joseph Smith—History is an extract from Joseph Smith’s history, begun in 1838 and drafted with scribes in 1839, now part of the Pearl of Great Price. It recounts his early visions and the messenger’s visits of September 1823, which he reported as quoting Malachi, Isaiah, Acts and Joel and as warning of judgments to come.
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Elijah returns →
Joseph Smith recounts Moroni’s visits →
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Official English scripture HTML, accessed 30 September 2026. Joseph Smith—History 1:27–54. Verse body only; modern headings, section summaries, footnotes and cross-reference markers excluded. HTML removed, verse numbering retained, paragraph spacing normalized. Italic type in verses 37–39 and print page-break markers removed. Web transcription verified.
Joseph Smith—History 1:27–54
Joseph Smith; revelatory Bible revision
Joseph Smith—Matthew is Joseph Smith’s 1831 revelatory revision of Matthew 23:39 and chapter 24, included in the Pearl of Great Price. It presents a distinct Latter-day Saint textual version of Jesus’ discourse on the Mount of Olives.
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Jesus’ discourse on the Mount of Olives →
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Official English scripture HTML, accessed 10 September 2026. Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:1–55; complete work. Verse body only; modern headings, section summaries, footnotes and cross-reference markers excluded. HTML removed, verse numbering retained, paragraph spacing normalized. Web transcription verified.
Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:1–55; complete work
Joseph Smith Papers editors
This Joseph Smith Papers companion presents early revelation texts with historical introductions and source notes. Its D&C 88 chapter distinguishes the December and January revelations and the combined printed edition.
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These closing instructions were added in 1835 · commentary →
The January revelation begins here · commentary →
Reported in 1843, collected as scripture in 1876 · commentary →
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Church Historian’s Press, 2020; official HTML chapter on Doctrine and Covenants 88. Source notes, historical introductions and note 94 consulted for dating, combination of the revelations and the added ending. Rainbow Watch supplies brief editorial paraphrases; no modern prose quotation is reproduced.
Doctrine and Covenants 88 chapter: source notes, introductions and note 94
Commentary
Multiple speakers and reporters
A nineteenth-century collection of reported sermons by Latter-day Saint leaders. Each sermon retains its speaker, reporter and delivery date.
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Pratt places the valley of Jehoshaphat beside Armageddon · commentary →
Pratt places the valley of Jehoshaphat beside Armageddon · commentary →
Pratt: Isaiah 60 describes the latter-day Zion, visible to all nations · commentary →
Pratt links reported dream visitors among American Indians with the three Nephites · commentary →
Pratt: islands moved and the earth restored to its first condition · commentary →
Pratt: islands moved and the earth restored to its first condition · commentary →
Pratt: Joel’s prophecy was not fulfilled at Pentecost · commentary →
Pratt identifies the Ancient of Days as Adam · commentary →
The Civil War, and judgments still to come · commentary →
Pratt: Elijah came before the great and dreadful day · commentary →
Kimball: ready for the New Jerusalem when it comes down · commentary →
Kimball: ready for the New Jerusalem when it comes down · commentary →
Young: the redemption of Zion comes first · commentary →
Cannon: the land where Adam will gather his posterity · commentary →
Pratt locates the image and the stone that strikes its feet · commentary →
Pratt: the times of the Gentiles end within a generation · commentary →
Pratt identifies the Book of Mormon as the stick of Joseph · commentary →
Cannon: the return waits on obedience to the united order · commentary →
Pratt expects the Jackson County temple before the 1832 generation passes · commentary →
Pratt identifies Anthon and the translation with Isaiah’s sealed book · commentary →
Pratt: no return to Jackson County without the remnant of Joseph · commentary →
Pratt: no Second Coming until the angel brings the gospel · commentary →
Pratt’s sequence for Jerusalem’s siege and deliverance · commentary →
Pratt’s sequence for Jerusalem’s siege and deliverance · commentary →
Pratt, forty-five years on: some of that generation will live to see the house · commentary →
Cannon: the time is near, but no day, hour or year is revealed · commentary →
Taylor: as in Noah’s day, and Enoch’s Zion will descend · commentary →
Taylor: as in Noah’s day, and Enoch’s Zion will descend · commentary →
Pratt reads the gathered Saints into the Psalms · commentary →
Woodruff expects the Gentiles’ time to end within this generation · commentary →
Preparing for Christ’s coming through everyday duties · commentary →
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Journal of Discourses, volume 12, pp.167–174. Brigham Young, delivered 29 March 1868, Salt Lake City Tabernacle; reported by G. D. Watt. Complete historical sermon; column-break word division rejoined.
Volumes 12 and 15, selected complete sermons
Anonymous modern English pamphlet; Namdhari E-Library uploader; narrative attributes speech to Guru Nanak
Presents Khalsa renewal, universal rule and divine bodily manifestation; closing questions explicitly ask what decline or action precedes the Guru's return.
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A return to restore the Khalsa →
What the pamphlet asks its readers to do · commentary →
The later pamphlet’s version · commentary →
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Undated English pamphlet hosted in Namdhari collection; two files are variants, counted once
Entire seven-page pamphlet OCR: Karni Nama, Raj Nama, concluding Questions
Parley P. Pratt
Parley P. Pratt’s 1855 exposition of Latter-day Saint theology discusses revelation, resurrection and the future transformation of the earth. It includes his own predictions as well as quotations from scripture.
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Pratt expects the resurrection within a few years →
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Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1855. Project Gutenberg eBook 35470, Mormon Texts Project transcription, updated 7 January 2021. Chapter XV opening argument; HTML paragraphs id00727–id00750. HTML markup removed and prose whitespace normalized; poetic line breaks, wording and punctuation retained. Transcription verified.
Chapter XV, opening argument from “There are three general resurrections” through “progress towards perfection” (HTML paragraphs id00727–id00750)
Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi
Reports enumerate signs of the Qa'im and different relations among Sufyani, Yamani, and other claimants. Variations are retained as report-level differences instead of harmonized into a timeline.
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Five signs before the Qa’im rises →
Twelve Hashimite claimants →
Awf, Shu’ayb and the Sufyani →
The Khurasani, Sufyani and Yamani appear together →
An Egyptian and a Yemeni before the Sufyani →
View cited source · al-islam.org ↗Edition and location
English translation Sayyid Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi; Ansariyan, first edition 2012/1433/1391; ISBN 9789642192878
Reports 427–428, 437, 443–444; PDF title and publication metadata
MuhammadibnIbrahim al-Numani, compiler · Al-Numani (credited compiler); modern editorial apparatus separately labelled · Faris Hassoon Kareem (signed Preface by the Verifier); al-Numani is the underlying book compiler, not the author of this modern preface.
Twelver concealment reports, signs and timing prohibitions; Arabic/English attribution discrepancies flagged.
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The Qa’im and appointed times →
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Abdullah alShahin translation, Ansariyan imprint1381–1423–2003
Chapter10 two-occultations subsection;14report9;16reports3,5,8–10,13
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Kitab al-Ghayba, Abdullah al-Shahin translation; verified by Faris Hassoon Kareem; Ansariyan Publications, Qum, first edition imprint 1381-1423-2003, ISBN 964-438-428-8; Al-Islam HTML accessed 2026-09-08
Opening edition metadata and imprint
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Kitab al-Ghayba, Abdullah al-Shahin translation; verified by Faris Hassoon Kareem; Ansariyan Publications, Qum, first edition imprint 1381-1423-2003, ISBN 964-438-428-8; Al-Islam HTML accessed 2026-09-08
Chapter 10, Al-Qaim Disappears Twice subsection, reports (1) and (2) (not chapter-opening reports 1/2); Chapter 10, Al-Qaim Disappears Twice, unnumbered prose after report (9) and before (10)
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Kitab al-Ghayba, Abdullah al-Shahin translation; verified by Faris Hassoon Kareem; Ansariyan Publications, Qum, first edition imprint 1381-1423-2003, ISBN 964-438-428-8; Al-Islam HTML accessed 2026-09-08
Chapter 14, report (9), chain through Umar bin Handhala to Abu Abdullah as-Sadiq
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Kitab al-Ghayba, Abdullah al-Shahin translation; verified by Faris Hassoon Kareem; Ansariyan Publications, Qum, first edition imprint 1381-1423-2003, ISBN 964-438-428-8; Al-Islam HTML accessed 2026-09-08
Chapter 16, reports (3), (5), (8)-(10), contextual timing dossier
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Kitab al-Ghayba, Abdullah al-Shahin translation; verified by Faris Hassoon Kareem; Ansariyan Publications, Qum, first edition imprint 1381-1423-2003, ISBN 964-438-428-8; Al-Islam HTML accessed 2026-09-08
The Method Of Verification, closing signature
Shaykh al-Mufid
Lists conditional and necessary signs, unusual Ramadan eclipses, Pure Soul fifteen-night interval, red death as sword and white death as plague, and destructive rain before the Qa'im.
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Signs before the Qa’im’s rising →
Testing before deliverance · commentary →
A trial before the Qa’im · commentary →
Trials and transformation · commentary →
The still sun in an attributed interpretation · commentary →
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English excerpt credited to Tehrike Tersile Quran, pp.541–548; translator and publication date not identified on this page.
Chapter The Twelfth Imam, pp. 541–548; opening signs list and attributed reports
John Tillinghast
John Tillinghast’s 1654 harmony of the numbers in Daniel and Revelation. It ends the Beast’s 1,260 years with 1656 and places Christ’s personal appearance and the beginning of the thousand years in 1701.
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Tillinghast: Christ’s personal appearance in 1701, the Beast’s reign ending in 1656 · commentary →
Tillinghast: Christ’s personal appearance in 1701, the Beast’s reign ending in 1656 · commentary →
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John Tillinghast, Knowledge of the Times, or, The Resolution of the Question, How Long It Shall Be unto the End of Wonders (London, 1654), concluding summary of the periods, pp. 306–307. Transcribed from the EEBO-TCP keyed text (CC0; textcreationpartnership GitHub repository A94356). Long s (ſ) rendered s; TCP line-end hyphenation markers joined; page breaks joined; marginal notes and running heads omitted; roman and italic type not distinguished; spelling, capitalization and punctuation otherwise as keyed; omissions marked […]. The summary list of concurrent events is printed as separate lines and kept so. No Internet Archive scan of this edition was located; the TCP keying is the witness checked.
pp. 306–307
General Islam
Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri
Al-Qushayrī identifies the sign with Jesus being sent down from heaven before the resurrection. This is the full short entry for the verse.
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Al-Qushayrī on the sign before the resurrection · commentary →
Baha'u'llah
Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet of Carmel addresses Mount Carmel as a living participant in a sacred encounter and announces renewal.
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The Tablet of Carmel →
Joseph Smith; clerical copy identified in date field
Joseph Smith’s letter to Lyman Wight and others, dated 16 August 1834, discusses gathering to Jackson County under stated conditions. The surviving text is a retained clerical copy in his letterbook.
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Gathering to Jackson County →
Joseph Smith; clerical copy identified in date field
Describes the Son of Man’s advent and cosmic upheaval as rapidly approaching, grounding ethical vigilance. The following generation phrase concerns the revealed work.
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Preparing for Christ’s coming · commentary →
Joseph Smith
Protests partial publication of the January warning, claims divine command for the entire text and assigns responsibility to the editor for withholding it. Documents contemporary transmission and claimed authority.
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Smith asks Saxton to publish the entire warning · commentary →
Joseph Smith
Predicts unprecedented national bloodshed and disasters, gathering to American Zion and Jerusalem, and return of lost tribes; explicitly says some then living will see the described things. Its Indigenous ancestry claims are Smith’s statements, not findings about Indigenous history.
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A warning to the United States →
The Rochester editor introduces an extract of Smith’s letter · commentary →
Joseph Smith, Frederick G. Williams and Oliver Cowdery
Makes denial of refuge and inheritance conditional on refusal of available material help. The fundraising context is essential to interpreting this prophetic warning.
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Helping Zion, or losing its refuge →
Joseph Smith, author; William Clayton, scribe
A letter Joseph Smith dictated in Nauvoo, Illinois, in September 1842 with instructions on recording baptisms for the dead. It links the practice to Malachi’s prophecy of Elijah and declares that the great day of the Lord is at hand. It is now Doctrine and Covenants 128.
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D&C 128: the welding link and the great day at hand →
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Joseph Smith Papers featured historical witness: Loose manuscript letter, nine pages, Revelations Collection, CHL. Source note and historical introduction consulted 30 September 2026. Catalogue identity for the revelation; the selected reader text is the later official English scripture witness (edition-lds-dc-128-english).
Loose manuscript letter, nine pages, Revelations Collection, CHL
Joseph Smith
The last of three open letters Joseph Smith published in the Messenger and Advocate in 1835. It reads the parables of Matthew 13 as a history of the kingdom from Jesus’ day to the latter-day gathering, and answers the Church’s critics.
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Joseph Smith: the sower concerns the setting up of the kingdom in that age · commentary →
Joseph Smith reads the harvest parables as the latter-day gathering · commentary →
Joseph Smith: the Book of Mormon as the mustard seed of the last days · commentary →
Joseph Smith: the tares grow with the church until the harvest · commentary →
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JS, Letter, Kirtland Township, Geauga Co., OH, to “the Elders of the Church of the Latter Day Saints,” [30 Nov.–1 Dec. 1835]. Featured version published in Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, Dec. 1835, 2:225–230. Selected units pp. 226–227, 227 and 228–229. Joseph Smith Papers historical transcription (reading text), retrieved 30 September 2026. Page-break word divisions joined and page markers removed; typographic quotation marks as in the transcription; JSP editorial insertions in square brackets are omitted, including the silent expansion “Mr. [Eber D.] Howe’s,” which follows print p. 227 as “Mr. Howe’s.” Pages 226–227 compared word by word with the Internet Archive scan’s OCR text layer and p. 227 left column and right-column top visually checked; pp. 228–229 rely on the Joseph Smith Papers transcription because the scan’s OCR interleaves columns. No passages omitted within selected units.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, Dec. 1835, 2:225–230
Joseph Smith
Connects consecration and recorded inheritance to protection at burning; promises a mighty and strong figure to order God’s house and warns the man steadying the ark of death.
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One mighty and strong →