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The Great Disappointment in the Millerite movement was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller's proclamations that Jesus Christ would return to the Earth by 1844, what he called the Advent. His study of the Daniel 8 prophecy during the Second Great Awakening led him to the conclusion that Daniel's "cleansing of the sanctuary" was cleansing of the world from sin when Christ would come, and he and many others prepared, but October 22, 1844 came, and they were disappointed. These events paved the way for the Adventists who formed the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They contended that what had happened on October 22 was not Jesus' return, as Miller had thought, but the start of Jesus' final work of atonement, the cleansing in the heavenly sanctuary, leading up to the Second Coming.

atonement advent prophecy

References

  1. Knight 2000, p. 38.
  2. Miller, William (November 17, 1842). Midnight Cry. p. 4. 
  3. Knight 2000, pp. 39–42.
  4. Knight 2000, pp. 42–44.
  5. Knight 2000, pp. 44–45.
  6. Ezra 1:1–4 https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Ezra.1:1–1:4
  7. Ezra 6:1–12 https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Ezra.6:1–6:12
  8. Ezra 7 https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Ezra.7–7
  9. Nehemiah 2 https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Nehemiah.2–2
  10. Smith 1898, pp. 208–209.
  11. William to Joshua V. Himes, February 4, 1844.
  12. Knight 1993, pp. 163–164.
  13. Bliss, Sylvester (1853). Memoirs of William Miller Memoirs of William Miller. Boston: Joshua V. Himes. p. 256. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_quw1rnlbYcwC. 
  14. Samuel S. Snow, The Advent Herald, August 21, 1844, 20.
  15. "The Great Disappointment | Grace Communion International". https://www.gci.org/history/disappointment. 
  16. Knight 1993, pp. 217–218.
  17. White, James (1875). Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller: Gathered From His Memoir by the Late Sylvester Bliss, and From Other Sources. Battle Creek: Steam Press of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association. p. 310. https://books.google.com/books?id=PAdBJMNDlj0C. 
  18. Knight 1993, pp. 222–223.
  19. Cross, Whitney R. (1950). The Burned-over District: A Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. p. 310. https://archive.org/details/burnedoverdistri0000cros. 
  20. Knight 1993, p. 232.
  21. Dick, Everett N. (1994). William Miller and the Advent Crisis. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press. p. 25. https://archive.org/details/williammilleradv0000dick. 
  22. Knight 1993, p. 236.
  23. Knight 1993, p. 305.
  24. Knight 1993, pp. 305–306.
  25. Momen, Moojan (1992). "Fundamentalism and Liberalism: towards an understanding of the dichotomy". Bahá'í Studies Review 2 (1). http://bahai-library.com/momen_fundamentalism_liberalism_dichotomy. 
  26. Cameron, G.; Momen, W. (1996). A Basic Bahá'í Chronology. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. pp. 15–20, 125. ISBN 0-85398-404-2. 
  27. Shoghi Effendi Rabbani. God Passes By. p. 9. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/gpb-2.html. 
  28. Sears, William (1961). Thief in the Night. London: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-008-X. https://archive.org/details/thiefinnightor00sear. 
  29. Bowers, Kenneth E. (2004). God Speaks Again: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith. Baha'i Publishing Trust. pp. 12. ISBN 1-931847-12-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=IOjBc_wK4m8C. 
  30. Motlagh, Hushidar Hugh (1992). I Shall Come Again (The Great Disappointment ed.). Mt. Pleasant, MI: Global Perspective. pp. 205–213. ISBN 0-937661-01-5. 
  31. O'Leary, Stephen (2000). "When Prophecy Fails and When It Succeeds: Apocalyptic Prediction and Re-Entry into Ordinary Time". in Albert I. Baumgarten. Apocalyptic Time. Brill Publishers. pp. 356. ISBN 90-04-11879-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=7HBjQKtkJfEC. "Examining Millerite accounts of the Great Disappointment, it is clear that Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance is relevant to the experience of this apocalyptic movement." 
  32. James T. Richardson. "Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Cognitive Dissonance". Hartland Institute. http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/cogdisso.htm. 
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