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Millers remaining followers after the Great Disappointment called themselves “Adventists” and believed that Jesus entered into the “Most Holy Place” for a secret judgement of those in the world who are holy enough to receive His atonement. After he has determined this, he will return very soon though nobody knows the exact date” in 1844. (cf. JWs)
The Seventh Day Adventists are an offshoot of the Adventists which were remnants of the Millerites. Because of all the failed predictions of the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, this group was facing extinction. Then, in 1844, a woman named Rachel Oakes Preston introduced the idea of the Saturday Sabbath observance or the “Seventh Day” sabbath which was contrary to 1800 years of Christians meeting on what they called “The Lord’s Day” of Sunday due to His resurrection from the dead on that day.
The disorganized Adventists would get new leadership & spark in the person of Ellen G. White, who was considered a prophetess – she would organize the church in 1863 with a membership of 3500. She held that the church needed to return to observing the Seventh Day
This new Saturday sabbath idea was quickly accepted by the small group that included James and Ellen White. An alliance was formed with other disillusioned “Millerite” groups in the region and in 1860 this sparse group settled on the name “Seventh-day Adventist”. In 1863, the movement became an official organization.
Seventh-Day Adventist Believe in the imminent, pre-millennial, visible Second Coming of Christ or “Advent” which is to be preceded by tribulation and an anti-Christ.
The founder Ellen G. White was considered the Lord’s messenger and whose “writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction”
Regarding the state of the dead, they believe that death is a “sleep” during which the “dead know nothing” until the righteous dead are resurrected at second coming and for the wicked dead, a resurrection to judgement after the millennium (thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth). Similar beliefs found their way into the cultist views of Jehovah’s Witness who do not believe in heaven but rather a permanent soul sleep.
Like their Adventist cousins, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Seventh Day Adventists do not believe that hell exists but that the wicked will be destroyed by fire.
In 1929, a man named Victor Houteff broke away from the mainline Seventh Day Adventist teaching and formed the Davidian Seventh-day Adventists in Waco, Texas. This splinter group would subdivide again and form what would become the “Branch Davidians”. Although a cult, they were mercilessly massacred at the hands of Janet Reno’s ATF agents. The entire event was covered up and the all evidence of burning women and children alive was bulldozed to the ground.
This atrocity led to the retaliatory bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building by Tim McVeigh. The details of this connection were downplayed by the mainstream/legacy media to further cover for the Clinton administration and Janet Reno.
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