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.
General Judaism · Duration
1,335 years from the destruction; 1,540 years under Rome
for in the year one thousand three hundred and thirty-five our redemption will be complete
Nahmanides places the complete redemption in the 1,335th year after the destruction, forty-five years after the 1,290th, and adds Rome’s 206 years of rule before the destruction, giving, in his figure, 1,540 years under Rome.
Sefer ha-Geulah · Moses ben Naḥman (Nahmanides), Sefer ha-Geulah, fourth gate (ed. Lipschütz, London, 1909, pp. 30–31); new English translation by Rainbow Watch (2026).
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Judaism — Sabbatean · Duration
One year from 27 Kislev
That one year from the 27th of Kislau
Rycaut reports Nathan’s prophecy that one year from 27 Kislev the Messiah would appear before the Sultan and take his crown. Rycaut glosses Kislev as July (his margin prints June; Kislev falls in November–December).
The History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677
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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Duration
Three and a half years
Three and a half years, so says John the Revelator.
Pratt takes the interval from Revelation 11 and places it before the Mount of Olives event. No starting date is given.
Orson Pratt on the second advent and the return of the Jews · Orson Pratt, as reported by David W. Evans, 25 July 1875; Journal of Discourses 18, pp. 65–66, six paragraphs from “After awhile, when tens of” through “Saints will come with him.”
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General Christianity · Duration
Immediately after the number of a thousand years is completed
as soon as the number of a thousand years was completed Antichrist would come
The preacher Abbo heard in Paris placed Antichrist’s coming immediately after a thousand years, with the Last Judgment soon after.
Liber apologeticus
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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Duration
Three years and a half; the prophets’ bodies lie three days and a half
have more or less power over it for three years and a half
Pratt draws these intervals from Revelation 11 and places them before the Messiah’s coming in Zechariah 14. They have no stated starting date.
A Voice of Warning · Parley P. Pratt, A Voice of Warning, eleventh edition (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Company, 1881), chapter II, “On the Fulfilment of Prophecy Yet Future,” pp. 82–86; five paragraphs from “Zachariah, in his fourteenth chapter” through “the saints of the Most High.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Duration
Three generations and many of the fourth
until three generations shall have passed away, and many of the fourth generation shall have passed away in righteousness
Nephi foresees peace after Christ appears to his descendants, lasting three generations and much of a fourth, followed by “a speedy destruction.”
The Book of Mormon
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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Minimum interval
Final judgment more than a thousand years after this gathering
Not the final judgment, because that is to take place more than a thousand years after this.
Pratt places the Ancient of Days’ judgment before the final judgment, which he describes as more than a thousand years later.
Orson Pratt on Daniel’s vision · Orson Pratt, as reported by George F. Gibbs, 25 February 1877; Journal of Discourses 18, pp. 341–344, twelve paragraphs from “Who would be the most likely person” through “Lord of lords upon this earth.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Relative deadline
Some people living in 1832 will see the house reared
the people living in 1832, when the revelation was given, will not all pass away
Forty-five years after the revelation, Pratt says a generation has no fixed length in this usage and that some people living in 1832 will survive to see the house built.
Orson Pratt on what a generation means · Orson Pratt, as reported by George F. Gibbs, 9 December 1877; Journal of Discourses 19, pp. 215–216, one paragraph from “As regards the number of” through “things are at our doors.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Condition
If the Saints keep the celestial law
If we would go back then, we must comply with the celestial law
Pratt makes the return conditional: a return under the existing order would fail, and the Saints must first live the law of consecration. This is his interpretation, not added wording of D&C 84.
Orson Pratt on the temple promised to the generation of 1832 · Orson Pratt, as reported by David W. Evans, 14 June 1874; Journal of Discourses 17, pp. 111–112, four paragraphs from “Shall we ever return to” through “before God, and never before.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Condition
Not until a large portion of the remnants of Joseph go back with the Saints
never can have the privilege of going back to Jackson County
Pratt conditions the building of the New Jerusalem on the conversion and participation of the remnant of Joseph, while saying not all the tribes must first be converted.
Orson Pratt on the redemption of Zion · Orson Pratt, as reported by David W. Evans, 7 February 1875; Journal of Discourses 17, pp. 301–302, three paragraphs from “What I wish to call” through “after the city is built.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Relative deadline
Before the generation living in 1832 has all passed away
before the generation that was living forty-two years ago has all passed away
Speaking in June 1874, Pratt counts forty-two years from the 1832 revelation and expects the Saints to return and build the Jackson County temple before that generation has entirely died. He says the time “must be pretty near.”
Orson Pratt on the temple promised to the generation of 1832 · Orson Pratt, as reported by David W. Evans, 14 June 1874; Journal of Discourses 17, pp. 111–112, four paragraphs from “Shall we ever return to” through “before God, and never before.”
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General Latter-day Saint · Relative deadline
Within the generation living in the Church’s early days; forty-three years already passed
the times of the Gentiles would be fulfilled in the generation then living upon the earth
Pratt attributes this limit to an early latter-day revelation he does not name, counts forty-three years already elapsed in January 1874, and says he cannot tell how many years remain.
Orson Pratt on the stick of Joseph and the times of the Gentiles · Orson Pratt, as reported by David W. Evans, 25 January 1874; Journal of Discourses 16, pp. 352–353, two paragraphs from “Inquires one—"How long will the” through “promised to their ancient fathers.”
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