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The Key to Understanding 1844 - Part 1

[Editor’s note: All 15 Proofs as well as William Miller’s 1843 chart (that Ellen White said was just as God wanted it) are also available in my Library at DefendingTheGospel.com.]

The foundation for Adventism is laid in Ellen White’s comprehensive endorsement of William Miller’s methods and message.

William Miller was a farmer who, using his King James Bible and a concordance, came to the conclusion that Christ was going to come sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844.

"My principles in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844. (Everett N. Dirk, William Miller and the Advent Crisis, pp. 96-97)

This became William Miller’s mission statement for his "1843 Message". You can view a readable copy of the famous 1843 chart that he used in his meetings, "A Chronology Chart of the Visions of Daniel and John", in our DefendingThe Gospel.com library. Over the course of this study we will be referring to this chart, and his 15 proofs known as "Time Proved Fifteen Different Ways".

Ellen White’s endorsement of William Miller is seen in her earliest writings. As former SDA Pastor Dale Ratzlaff notes in his excellent book, Cultic Doctrine of Seventh-day Adventists,

Not only does Ellen White endorse Miller’s 1843 message, she professing the prophetic authority of a messenger of God, unequivocally states — as we will soon see — that God chose, enlightened, and empowered Miller in his methods of study and his conclusions.

Therefore, at the very outset, the SDA church is faced with the dilemma. If Miller was right, so was Ellen G. White. If Miller was wrong, so was EGW. There are no other conclusions. It should be noted here that EGW’s endorsement of Miller’s conclusions came after 1844 when it should have been obvious that Miller was wrong. If all of the quotations from EGW cited in this chapter were written after her first "vision" in December 1844 why did she support known error? In the citations to follow, it should be observed that EGW not only endorsed Miller’s interpretation of October 22, 1844 as the fulfillment of Daniel 8:14, she also endorsed many of the methods and other teachings of Miller.

In my next post I will carefully examine what Ellen White said about William Miller.

Gilbert Jorgensen
It has been 164 Years, 1 Months, and 21 Days since October 22, 1844

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