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	Millerites
		The Millerite tradition is a diverse family of denominations and Bible study movements[?] that have arisen since the middle of the 19th century, traceable to the Adventist movement sparked by the apocalyptic teachings of William Miller[?].
		Some modern Millerite branches identify themselves as Evangelical Protestant Christians, although others teach that their latter-day church is the only faithful remnant, and the replacement of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Jewish Israel.
		Typical of the post-Disappointment Millerite perspective is the belief that genuine Christianity had been lost to the world through a Great Apostasy, but is restored in these last days by a new outpouring of prophecy or spiritual insight.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Millerite.html (1649 words)

	Millerites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Millerite tradition is a diverse family of denominations and Bible study movements that have arisen since the middle of the 19th century, traceable to the Adventist movement sparked by the teachings of William Miller.
		Nearly all Millerites speak of "present truth" and "new light" (such as the Seventh-day Adventist periodical The Present Truth), by which the faithful are called out from the less enlightened or apostate traditions of Christianity.
		The Millerites were a part of the restoration period of American religious history, and as such, sought to restore the earliest Christian church, complete with beliefs that had been lost or changed in some fashion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millerites (1923 words)

	A Second Coming Survey - Chapter 9
		Himes, the knight-errant of the Millerites, donned his coat of arms, mounted his faithful charger, unsheathed his magic sword, and rode to the rescue of the despairing Millerites, slaying all dragons along the way.
		Thousands of white-robed Millerites, not know- ing how they were to be lifted into eternity, crouched all night in padded boxes, laundry baskets and washtubs, determined that their journey to heaven would be as comfortable as possible.
		Some of the Millerites remained staunch in their faith, some returned to the churches from which they had come to follow Miller, some lost faith in all religions and groped in the outer darkness of agnosticism and infidelity for the remainder of their lives.
	tenderbytes.net /hal/2ndcomng/ch09.htm (2593 words)

	W. Collins Work in Progress
		The Millerites in the United States were at their height in the 1830s and 1840s.
		The culminating lessons began with reference to the Millerites, whose prediction of Christ's return in 1844 was both an astounding coincidence for the proto-Baha'is, as well as a vindication of a native millennialist movement in America.
		That its occurrence was not recognized by the Millerites and other Christians was a function of their traditional view of the second advent as a literal bodily return of the same person Jesus Christ coming down from the skies.
	www.mille.org /scholarship/papers/collinswip.html (1080 words)

	Justification by faith and a Review of Seventh-day Adventism
		The Millerite movement was correct in its recognition of the importance of the "cleansing of the sanctuary" of Daniel 8:14 as an eschatological event, related to the consummation of earth’s history.
		The Millerites were justified in their belief that "cleansing of the sanctuary" also relates, as Miller affirmed, to the "justification" of the "saints".
		The Millerites were not wrong in their affirmation of Protestant Historicism, but they were incomplete in their understanding of the meaning of the "cleansing of the sanctuary" of Daniel 8:14.
	www.jesusinstituteforum.org /TSE-I.html (8447 words)

	Seventh Month Movement
		The climactic phase of the Millerite movement, occurring during the summer and autumn of 1844, in which the proclamation of the "definite time" (Oct. 22) for the expected Second Advent, the tenth day of the seventh (Jewish) month, lent a heightened enthusiasm.
		The Millerites had expected the Second Advent at least by the spring of 1844.
		One by one the Millerite leaders, who had been the last to take part in it, accepted the seventh-month message.
	www.nisbett.com /sanctuary/seventh_month_movement.htm (806 words)

	The Karaites & 1844
		Beginning in the summer of 1844, Millerites in general, though not William Miller himself, became convinced that Christ would return on October 22 of that year, what was considered the Day of Atonement by Karaite reckoning.
		Thus, it is claimed, this Millerite date, and the subsequent date used by Seventh-day Adventists for the beginning of the antitypical Day of Atonement, is flawed.
		So well over a year before Snow got going, Millerites were talking about Karaite reckoning, and even claiming that "many travelers" to Israel had confirmed the fact that the barley is not ripe for Passover the way the Rabbanites calculate the beginning of the year.
	www.pickle-publishing.com /papers/karaite-reckoning-1844.htm (2502 words)

	Millerites Not Comet Kooks -- by Larry Kirkpatrick
		Others left of their own accord, not only finding themselves unwelcome, but coming to realize that the chilling wave of coldness arose from the rejection of the Holy Spirit by those who refused to follow the light that God was now bringing to His people.
		As the Millerites shared the necessity of reform, they came face to face with several factors which opened their eyes to the fulfillment of the second angel of Revelation 14:8, announcing the fall of Babylon.
		Stories of Millerite believers donning "ascension robes" and waiting upon high eminences and hills for the return of Christ have never been confirmed.
	www.greatcontroversy.org /pioneer/Millerites.html (2564 words)

	History of Adventism by Walter Martin
		The entire superstructure of the Millerites' prophetic interpretation was based upon their view of the book of Daniel, chapters eight and nine, with particular emphasis upon Daniel 8:14 and 9:24-27.
		The Millerites believed that the prophecy of the seventy weeks of Daniel nine must date from the year 457 b.c., which, as recent archaeological evidence confirms,C-16 was the exact date of the decree of King Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25).
		The fact remains, however, that the Millerites erred in their prophetic, chronological interpretation of the book of Daniel, and only the concept of Hiram Edson in the cornfield and the explanatory writings of O. Crosier, buttressed by the "revelations" of Ellen G. White, saved the day.
	millennium.fortunecity.com /lincoln/666/history/index.htm (3695 words)

	Millerites : Exhibit pieces depict doomsday Scripture - religious cults and sects
		A 19th century group called the Millerites did just that to teach their belief that the world would end between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844, a doomsday timetable they found in the Bible.
		The Millerite movement took its name from William Miller, who studied the Bible for four years and by 1822 concluded that it taught that Christ would descend to Earth a second time and that the end of the world could come "on or before 1843."
		When the world continued much as before, another Millerite re- calculated and figured the new end of time would be Oct. 22, 1844.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an011227-19.html (575 words)

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		While Millerites believed that they were deprived, it was more of a spiritual matter than a material one.
		Many Millerites maintained their belief that the prophecy was correct.
		One of the most used quotes about the Millerite movement is one that sums up the wonder surrounding it well.
	www.msu.edu /~benoitai (1006 words)

	Prophecy Failed Winter 1996, 1997
		Sexual imagery was employed throughout the Millerite prognostication of the end times, especially as the date of October 22 approached.
		In retrospect, the Millerite movement became a paradigm of what happens “when prophecy fails.” The failure of prophetical realization does not dissuade all believers from belief in their creed’s validity.
		The parallels linking the doomsday vision of the Millerites and that of the Branch Davidians have not escaped a range of religious, political, and cultural observers.
	www.americanatheist.org /win96-7/T2/prophesyfail.html (3513 words)

	Millerites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The largest Millerite group at the present time is the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference (the Seventh-day Adventist Church), with approximately 11 million members, world-wide.
		The Jehovah's Witnesses are another large group with descendent lineage from the Millerite movement.
		Many Millerites and Latter Day Saints including prominent Millerite and Latter Day Saint leaders, were Campbellites or belonged to other Restoration Movement sects before converting.
	millerites.kiwiki.homeip.net (1801 words)

	Sunday Services : UU Church of Nashua
		So convinced were many of his followers that hundreds, if not thousands, of them got rid of all their worldly possessions and gathered on hillsides as the appointed day approached, believing that they would be among the participants in the reign of the triumphant Christ.
		Well, needless to say, October 22, 1844 came and went, and those Millerites who'd chosen not to hedge their bets had nothing to show for it other than the clothes they were wearing.
		Perhaps learning a lesson from the Millerites, they don't tie it to a specific date--like January 1, 2000--but do see in the coming new year, century, and millennium one more sign that some sort of apocalyptic end is nigh.
	www.uunashua.org /sermons/millennialism.shtml (2772 words)

	Mass Moments: Millerites Await End of the World
		Many "Millerites" sold all their possessions to prepare for the day when Christ would return to earth, gather them up to heaven, and purify the rest of the world in an all-consuming fire.
		In the spring of 1844, a prophetic sign appeared: Miller's prediction that the end of the world was near gained new weight, and new adherents, when a great comet was seen moving across the Massachusetts sky at noontime.
		The vast majority of Millerites were devastated, and some impoverished, by the failure of the prophecy.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=305 (633 words)

	Adventist Review: What Is Adventist in Adventism?
		The open and shut door labels came from the Millerite understanding of Matthew 25:10, which says that when the bridegroom arrived the wise virgins went into the marriage with him while the door was shut to all the rest.
		Concluding that the Millerites had been correct on both the time and the event predicted at the end of the 2300 days, the spiritualizers inferred that Christ had returned on October 22.
		It was along such lines of argument that some post-disappointment Adventists began to see that such central Millerite texts as the judgment of Daniel 7 and the arrival of the bridegroom at the wedding meant the coming of Christ to the pre-Advent judgment rather than His return in the clouds of heaven.
	www.adventistreview.org /2001-1524/story5.html (9362 words)

	EGW & Her Critics-A Sketch of Early Adventist History
		They averred that the movement was in the tarrying time, that the 2300 days ended October 22, 1844, and that the cry which was to go forth at midnight, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh,” was due to be heard at that very time, the summer of 1844.
		This led the Millerite leaders in general to apply to the members of these churches the command: “Come out of her, my people.” This feature of the Advent preaching began to be increasingly prominent as the opposition and ridicule increased.
		The Millerite leadership in general did not seek to find an explanation for their disappointment by a re-examination of the words of the prophecy of the 2300 days.
	www.ellenwhitedefend.com /egwhc/egwhcc13.html (4629 words)

	Bound for Glory! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Millerite preaching struck a responsive chord within the hearts of Blacks not only because of their religious inclinations.
		The Millerite movement attracted hundreds of Blacks.[Ref 2] If Miller's description of the imminent prospect of discarding earthly cares and experiencing heavenly joy in God's presence enthralled Whites, imagine how mistreated Blacks were affected.
		Millerites were clearly amenable to the inclusion of Blacks in the Second Advent movement.
	www.oakwood.edu /ocgoldmine/hdoc/sdahistory/bound.html (1568 words)

	About LLUAHSC: Legacy (book) chapter 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As this group of Millerites (including Joseph Bates, one of the few Millerite leaders among them) reevaluated their position on the cleansing of the sanctuary, they began to understand the Scripture's teaching on the sanctuary.
		Indeed, the Millerites attending the Boston Advent Conference on May 29, 1843, had taken an action stating: "We have no confidence whatever in any visions, dreams, or private revelations.''1 Likewise, this remnant of the Millerite movement was ready to doubt anyone who made such claims.
		After the Millerite ministers had been disfellowshipped from their various churches in early 1844 for accepting the literal, personal Coming of Christ, they referred to those churches as "Babylon"--sources of unscriptural teachings and traditions and thus sources of "confusion," the literal meaning of the word Babylon (Revelation 18:1-4).
	www.llu.edu /info/legacy/legacy14.html (5977 words)

	Keith Hunt - Investigating the Investigative Judgment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Millerites, as they were called, predicted that Christ would return to this earth: first, in the fall of 1843, then in the spring of 1844, and finally on October 22,1844.
		It began to be taught shortly after 1844 by a few former Millerites who were seeking an explanation for why Christ had not returned to earth that year.
		On that date, Millerites met in their local gathering places and awaited the Lord's return.
	www.keithhunt.com /Invest.html (2531 words)

	Ellen White & Adventism - From the Great Disappointment to A Worldwide Movement
		Meanwhile the Millerites continued to set and reset dates, and hold their own exuberant meetings, moving further away from the religious mainstream which they denounced as "Babylon" whose fallen nature was described in the book of Revelation.
		But rumors (probably not difficult to believe given the extremes to which some Millerites and other contemporary sectarians went in believing themselves released from sexual mores) about the nature of their relationship began to create problems, and James and Ellen were married by a justice of the peace in August of 1846.
		As with those Millerites who continued to cling to their faith after October 1844, the failure of the space beings to appear as predicted led not to a widespread rejection of prophecy but to further refinement of it to account for the apparent discrepancy between what had been predicted and actual events.
	home.earthlink.net /~jcmmsm/EGW.html (9673 words)

	A Doom Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Page 3
		The Millerites, as they now called themselves, spent the majority of their time either steeped in prayer, informing all their non-Millerite acquaintances that they were going to burn in hell or else, working themselves into convulsive, tongues-speaking, limb-flailing ecstatic trances.
		When the appointed date finally came and went without a Savior to be seen, the public-at-large showered the Millerites with all the heartfelt sympathy they believed they deserved.
		The histrionics escalated as the countdown counted down and by the morning of October the 22nd, tens of thousands of Rapture-ready Millerites were clustered together, arms outstretched and waiting to be cleared for take-off...
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9941/doomwish3.html (3385 words)

	William Miller (preacher) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Again using the calendar of the Karaite Jews, this date was determined to be October 22, 1844.
		Miller is buried near his home in Low Hampton, NY and his home is a registered National Historic Landmark and preserved as a museum: William Miller's Home.
		Estimates of Miller's followers--the Millerites vary between 50,000, and 500,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Miller_(preacher) (1893 words)

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