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I thought I'd post some of the better known and lesser known predictions of interest to Baha'is based on what I found on a very cursory search:



BENGEL, JOHANN ALBRECHT

yōˈhän älˈbrĕkht bĕngˈəl, 1687–1752, German Lutheran theologian and biblical scholar. He was appointed (1713) professor in charge of a theological training school at Denkendorf and remained there for 28 years. In this period he produced his most important works—a carefully prepared Greek text of the New Testament (1734), with an Apparatus criticus, which formed the point of departure for modern New Testament textual criticism, and his Gnomon Novi Testamenti (1742), an exegetical commentary, later translated into German and English.

Bengel Johann Albrecht: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library

June 18, 1836 was one such date for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. It was proposed by Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687-1752), one of the greatest Bible scholars of the eighteenth century.[2] Placed within the context of Bengel’s total scholarly output, we are left to wonder why “this man of eminent piety and vast and sound learning”[3] felt compelled to calculate a date for the end-times, and how he arrived at this particular date. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the life and work of Bengel, this article will explore the apparent contradiction between Bengel the meticulous Bible scholar and Bengel the apocalyptic speculator.

The End-Time Calculation of Johann Albrecht Bengel

JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY founders of Methodism:

Charles and John Wesley: the Beginning of the End Times

Predicting the end of the world is often thought of as the preserve of small, tightly knit cults. However, this is not the case. For example, the founder of Methodism, Charles Wesley, believed that the world would end in 1794. The French Revolution would doubtless has encouraged him min that belief. Wesley’s brother, John, believed in a different, predicting that the end times would begin in 1836, again a period of significant social upheaval in Europe.

Predicting the End of the World - One More Time: Answering the Question - Are We Living in the End Times? | Suite101.com


WILLIAM MILLER:

The Great Disappointment was a major event in the history of the Millerite movement, a 19th-century American Christian sect that formed out of the Second Great Awakening. Based on his interpretations of the prophecies in the book of Daniel (Chapters 8 and 9, especially Dan. 8:14 "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), William Miller, a Baptist preacher, proposed that Jesus Christ would return to the earth during the year 1844. The more specific date of October 22, 1844, was preached by Samuel S. Snow.

Great Disappointment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GEORGE RAPP:

The German-American George Rapp (1757-1847) was the founder of the "Harmonist" sect and community, the most successful utopian association in America in the 19th century, and an inspiration for comparable ventures.

Read more: George Rapp: Biography from Answers.com


Rapp predicted that on September 15, 1829, the three and one half years of the Sun Woman would end and Christ would begin his reign on earth.[4] Dissension grew when Rapp's predictions went unfulfilled. Perhaps his greatest error was in 1831 when he accepted Bernhard Müller, who called himself Maximilian Count de Leon, the "Lion of Judah" as the man who would unite all true Christians. In the year that followed Rapp changed his mind, but one third of the Society members separated and joined with Müller in establishing a separate community, the New Philadelphian Congregation. After Rapp's death in 1847, a number of members left the group because of disappointment and disillusionment over the fact that his prophecies regarding the return of Jesus Christ in his lifetime were not fulfilled.

George Rapp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GERMAN TEMPLE SOCIETY:

Believed the Day of Judgement was near:

"In 1868, a large group of German Templers landed in Haifa. Although they bore the same name as the Crusaders who were based on the Temple Mount hundreds of years earlier, the two groups had nothing in common, Indeed, the German movement was an evangelical sect, a splinter group that had seceded from the Lutheran Church in 1854. German Templers believed that the Day of Judgment was near and favored Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel.

"Following the establishment of the movement, Templer leaders Christoff Hoffman and George David Hardegg were both persecuted and excommunicated in their native southern Germany. Eventually they decided to gather their followers and settle them in the Holy Land. Not missionaries in any sense, they hoped to establish a spiritual Kingdom of God together with the People of the Book. They had faith that the ideal society they planned to create would set an example for the local population."


The original Germans of the German Colony -

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Wasnt a dissapointment for us Bahais.

thanks for this post I find it most interesting. I will study it more later.

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MUNIRIH KHANUM

Translator's Note, by Sammireh Anwar Smith....... ix

Translator's Note

Munirih Khanum remains a relatively unknown figure in Bahá'í history. This book will perhaps serve to make her more widely known within the English-speaking world.

In the first section, we are presented with some memories of her early life. These include anecdotes from her father, Mirza Muhammad-'Ali Nahri, also from her uncle, Aqa Mirza Hadi, and from Khadijih Bigum, the widow of the Báb. Unfortunately, her account ends with her marriage to 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 1871

(Misc Baha'i, Munirih - Memoirs and Letters)





My uncle, Mirza Hadi, also came to Karbala with his family. There he associated with my father and with the shaykhis, until the year 1260 A.H. (1844 A.D.) when they heard the Call of the Promised One by the name of the Báb, from Shiraz. As soon as they heard this message, they hastened from Karbala for Shiraz, without informing the members of their households.

The reason for their haste was to ascertain for themselves the truth of the person who had raised this Call. Because when they had attended Haji Sayyid Kazim Rashti's classes, they had repeatedly seen His Holiness the Báb and had observed remarkable signs and manners apparent in His holy Person. In connection with this, my uncle used to relate the following:

Before the year sixty,[1] when Haji Sayyid Kazim Rashti was in
Karbala, occupied in guiding and teaching people, and pro- claiming that
"the Kingdom of God is at hand," my brother and I were among his
students, many of whom had been students of the late Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa'i.

We attended the classes every day. One day we went on pilgrimage to
the Shrine of the Lord of the Martyrs,[2] upon him be
greetings and praise. We passed over the sacred threshold and saw a young
sayyid possessed of the utmost beauty, comeliness, serenity, and
dignity. He stood before the Shrine with the greatest humility and
respect, praying and chanting. When I saw such dignity and observed His
perfection and beauty, I was so overcome that I was transfixed, in a state
of utter bewilderment.

[1 1260 A.H. or 1844 A.D.]
[2 Imam Husayn, the martyred grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.]

Every day I had heard from Sayyid Kazim that the advent of the
Promised One was at hand, that all must constantly be seeking Him and
inquiring about Him -- for the Lord of Revelation was present among men
and associating with them, but the people were veiled from Him and
heedless of His presence. I said to myself: Praise be to God! Maybe He is
the hidden Qá'im come on pilgrimage to the Shrine of His Ancestor.

P. 8

MUNIRIH KHANUM
Memoirs and Letters of Munirih Khanum
Translated by Sammireh Anwar Smith

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JOSEPH SMITH

The complete fifty-six-year-prophecy paragraph of Oliver B. Huntington's Autobiography18 states:

On the 14th of Feb. 1835, Joseph Smith said that God had revealed to him that the coming of Christ would be within 56 years, which being added to 1835 shows that before 1891 and the 14th of Feb. the Saviour of the world would make his appearance again upon the earth and the winding up scene take place. In connection with this event, was related by my brother Dimick Huntington, the fact that when Joseph and Hyrum Smith submitted in their feelings to consent to give themselves up to the state mob at Nauvoo Illinois, after they had passed the Mississippi River. Joseph said "if they shed my blood it shall shorten this work 10 years". That taken from 1891 would reduce the time to 1881 which if the true time within which the Saviour should come much must be crowded into 6 years.19

http://www.shields-research.org/Gene...th/56_Year.htm