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William Miller (February 15, 1782 – December 20, 1849) was an American clergyman who is credited with beginning the mid-19th-century North American religious movement known as Millerism. After his proclamation of the Second Coming did not occur as expected in the 1840s, new heirs of his message emerged, including the Advent Christians (1860 ...
Millerites. Official website. www .acgc .us. The Advent Christian Church, also known as the Advent Christian General Conference ( ACGC ), is a "first-day" body of Adventist Christians founded on the teachings of William Miller in 1860. The organization's Executive Director is Reverend Steve Lawson, and its President is Reverend John Gallagher. [5]
John T. Walsh (February 15, 1816 – August 6, 1886) was a minister and Millerite who, after the Great Disappointment, led a group of Adventist Millerites.They believed that Christ had returned on October 22 of 1844, only invisibly, and that the Millennium had begun on that date.
Origins. Miller was a prosperous farmer, a Baptist lay preacher, and student of the Bible living in northeastern New York. He spent years of intensive study of symbolic meaning of the prophecies of Daniel, especially Daniel 8:14 (Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed), the 2,300-day prophecy. [1]
v. t. e. Shut-door theology was a belief held by the Millerite group from 1844 to approximately 1854, some of whom later formed into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It held that as William Miller had given the final call for salvation, all who did not accept his message were lost. The door of salvation was shut, hence the term "shut door".
The Advent Christian Church is a U.S. church building located at 1598 Highland Avenue, Eau Gallie, Florida. The original building was constructed in 1914 and a new building was constructed between 1946 and 1948 using a majority of the materials from the old church. [1] The church congregation initially formed on October 10, 1910 as the Second ...
Adventism. Elder Jonas Wendell (December 25, 1815 – August 14, 1873) of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, was a zealous Adventist preacher following in the spirit of William Miller. Following the "Great Disappointment" Wendell experienced periods of weak faith, as did many Adventists. He eventually recovered his faith after renewing his study of Bible ...
t. e. The Seventh-day Adventist Church ( SDA) [2] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [3] [4] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [5] the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [4] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its ...