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 Latter-day Saint · Condition
If the people do not repent
Such eventually is to be the condition of this whole nation, if the people do not repent of their wickedness;
Pratt interprets the Civil War as an initial judgment and warns of later national collapse if people do not repent. His suggested political mechanism is expressly conjectural (“For aught we know”); he says how and when have not been revealed. This is Pratt’s interpretation and warning, not added wording of D&C 87.
Orson Pratt on Daniel’s vision · Orson Pratt, as reported by George F. Gibbs, 25 February 1877; Journal of Discourses 18, pp. 340–341, five paragraphs from “I might dwell still longer” through “at least a hundred million of people.”
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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Duration
1,290 years after the daily sacrifice ceased, six years before the Temple’s destruction
this computation terminates at the end of 1,290 years from the day the daily sacrifice was removed
Rashi counts 1,290 years from the removal of the daily sacrifice, which he places six years before the destruction of the Second Temple, and adds that the king Messiah may be concealed for a further forty-five years. He states the interval and its starting point.
Rashi’s Commentary on the Tanakh · Rashi; English translation by A. J. Rosenberg, Judaica Press — Daniel 8:14, both comments
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General Latter-day Saint · Relative deadline
Until the last resurrection, when Christ has finished his work
these are they who shall not be redeemed from the devel untill the last reserection untill the lord even christ the Lamb shall have finished his work
The vision places redemption of the telestial group at the last resurrection.
Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]
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General Christianity · Alternative durations
400, 500 or 1,000 years from the Ascension
some have said that four hundred, some five hundred, others a thousand years
Augustine reports, without naming them, reckoners who allowed four hundred, five hundred or a thousand years from the Ascension to the final coming, and rejects all such computation. No resulting years are given.
The City of God · Augustine, The City of God XVIII.53, first paragraph; Marcus Dods translation, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series II (1887), pp. 394–395.
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General Christianity · Condition
When the feast of the Annunciation coincides with Good Friday
when the Lord’s Annunciation fell on Good Friday
A rumour reported by Abbo tied the end of the age to the Annunciation (25 March) falling on Good Friday. The condition recurs in some years;
Liber apologeticus
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General Christianity · Duration
Three and a half years after the spring of 1878
it will require three and a-half years for this part of the harvest work
Russell applies the pattern of the Jewish harvest: the gathering after the spring of 1878 takes three and a half years, and translation follows, “how long after we know not.” He says this “is not setting a time for translation.”
Herald of the Morning, July 1878 · C. T. Russell (signed “C. T. R.”), “The Prospect,” Herald of the Morning, July 1878, p. 11 (first two paragraphs) and p. 14 (two paragraphs); omission marked.
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Jewish / Christian — Shared scriptures · Duration
1,335 years from the removal of the daily sacrifice
they are the 1,335 years stated at the end of the Book
Rashi reports Saadia Gaon’s reading of “a time, two times and half a time” as 1,335 years, counted from the discontinuing of the daily sacrifice six years before the destruction. Rashi’s note on Daniel 8:14 says a calculation in Saadia’s name had already passed. No resulting year is stated.
Rashi’s Commentary on the Tanakh · Rashi; English translation by A. J. Rosenberg, Judaica Press — Daniel 7:25, fourth comment
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General Latter-day Saint · Duration
For the space of many years
he cannot be loosed for the space of many years
Because of the people’s righteousness Satan has no power and cannot be loosed for many years. The passage gives no number of years and no starting date.
The Book of Mormon
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General Latter-day Saint · Condition
Many generations, until they are persuaded to believe in Christ
until they shall be persuaded to believe in Christ
The scattering lasts “for the space of many generations” and ends with a condition rather than a date: belief in Christ, after which the Lord restores his people a second time.
The Book of Mormon
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Lakota / Ghost Dance · Relative deadline
The rest of the lunar month after 31 October 1890
we must dance the balance of this moon
Short Bull places the earth’s shaking at the end of the moon then current, after advancing the time from “two seasons.” Mooney summarizes this as “even within the next month.”
The Ghost-dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 (1896 print)
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General Latter-day Saint · Relative deadline
Before that great day
before that great day shall come, the sun shall be darkened
The darkened sun, blood-red moon and falling stars are placed before the day of Christ’s coming. The order is stated.
Doctrine and Covenants 34
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General Judaism · Duration
The world lasts six thousand years
For six thousand years the world will continue
Rav Kattina (Rodkinson: “R. Ktina”) gives the world six thousand years and says it will be destroyed in the seventh millennium; the disciples of Elijah divide the six thousand years into three two-thousand-year periods, the last being the days of the Messiah.
Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin
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