Apocalypse of John the Little

[3][Note 3] The Apocalypse of John the Little survives in the incomplete codex Harvard Syriac 93, and by palaeography, J. Rendel Harris dates it to the middle of the eighth-century AD.

The fourth kingdom will conquer entire lands as alluded in Daniel 11:5 and plunder, cause drastic taxation, and enslavement.

God would eventually be angered by it and send an angel of wrath to cause discord amongst the populace which would then lead to a high-casualty civil war.

[8] The Apocalypse of John the Little is pseudonymous because of the historical events referenced in the text occurred centuries after the first-century AD such as the death of Khosrau II, Constantine the Great, the Islamic conquest, the beginning of the Umayyad dynasty, and the defeat in 692 of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.

[9] Recent scholarship argues the number twelve referenced to Ishmael fathering twelve princes in the Book of Genesis was more valued by the author for its symbolic importance rather than its historical accuracy, and the details in the Apocalypse of John the Little more accurately correlates to the reign of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan who died in 705 which most modern scholars conclude the text was composed in the early eighth century.

Christ's birth is erroneously dated that year in the Seleucid calendar of the Gospel of the Twelve Apostles, an error pointed out by Harris.

Instead, the text concludes with God sending the people of the South back to their place of origin and not the initiation of the eschaton.