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The year 1843 was
pointed out in the Millerite Chart in several places. However
NOTHING of a prophetic nature happened in 1843 at all.
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Let's take our minds
back into time. It is the 1830's and William Millers Message of the Second
Coming in 1843 is being preached every where in America and Europe and several
other places around the globe.
That's right I said
1843. It was not until 1843 that the Advent believers realized the actual time
for the cleansing of the Sanctuary was to be in 1844. Take a look at the
1843 Millerite chart below, everything pointed to the year 1843.
(Click
this image to see a larger version of it in a new window)
Sister
White declared that there was a
"mistake in some of the
figures" in this
chart.
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"I
have seen that the 1843 chart was directed by the hand of the Lord, and that
it should not be altered; that the figures were as He wanted them; that His
hand was over and hid
a mistake in some of
the figures, so
that none could see it, until His hand was removed." - Early Writings p. 74. |
At the time it was
necessary for this chart to be exactly the way it was. Eventually it helped
people all over the world to learn about the heavenly sanctuary. In the same
way that God allowed these people to think the cleansing of the sanctuary
meant the second coming of Jesus, the Lord allowed these people to make "a
mistake in some of the figures" on this chart. This was necessary at the
time.
A wonderful thing was
about to happen in the Heavenly Sanctuary and God needed the entire world to be
aware of it. These mistakes made everyone aware of Daniel and Revelation's other
great prophecies. Without these mistakes none of this would have happened.
Without these mistakes there would not have been the same sense of urgency in
spreading the message.
By late 1845 those who
remained in the advent movement were corrected about one of these
mistakes. They no longer believed that either 1843 or 1844 marked the Second
Coming of Jesus, that was evident by that time. They now began to understand
that October 22, 1844 marked the beginning of the Investigative Judgment
in Heaven.
It is important for us
to realize something. The year 1843 was pointed out in the Millerite Chart
in several places. However NOTHING of a prophetic nature happened in 1843 at
all. Some might say, "that was the year of "the great awakening." However the
great awakening started several years earlier when Miller preached his first
sermon on the prophecies of Daniel, and lasted until 1844. In other words the
great awakening was not a movement exclusive to the year 1843. It did not start
in 1843, and it did not finish in 1843. A sobering reality is that there would
be no purpose in a post-1844 world for a prophecy to point to the year 1843 at
all.
The
year 1843 becomes an embarrassment!
Originally the Millerite's believed the 2300 days ended in 1843,
so their view of the 1335 ending in 1843 made sense to them at that time. When
it was discovered that William Miller had mistakenly neglected to calculate the fact that there is
no year between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D. the Millerite's learned that the date the 2300 days ended was
actually 1844, and not 1843 at all.
Since then no one has
even attempted to place an event in 1843 which would correspond with the 1335
days ending that year.
As long as the Millerite's believed the 2300 days ended in 1843
they had no need to give another event for that year. As it stands to this day
there is no event given for the year 1843 to close the 1335 days, and we have
stuck to this interpretation for no better reason than for the sake of tradition
and loyalty to our pioneers. Since that time the jury has been out
on the 1335 days, and it has been taboo to even discuss this prophecy.
Later James White went on record from at least 1857 - 1870 teaching that the
1335 day prophecy actually ended in
1844!
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"for the blotting of the
sins of all of every age, the cases of patriarchs and prophets, and
sleeping saints of all past ages will come up in judgment, the books
will be opened and they will be judged according to the things
written in the books....thus it is that according to the Scriptures,
at the end of the
1335
days in 1844,
Daniel stood 'in his lot in the decisions of the judgment of the
righteous dead'....the judgment of the righteous dead commenced at
that time." R.H. January 29, 1857 |
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"The day and hour of
Christ's second coming are not revealed in the Scriptures. Neither
is the year in which this glorious event is to take place pointed
out. No one of the prophetic periods reaches to the second coming of
Christ. The sanctuary is to be cleansed at the end of the 2300 days,
and Daniel is to stand in his lot at at the end of the
1335
days. But that these events occur before the second
appearing of Christ, is susceptible of the clearest proof. Both
these prophetic periods terminated in 1844" Second Coming of
Christ, p. 62. 1870 |
With all due respect to
James White, to say the 1335 day prophecy ended in 1844 is absolutely
preposterous and invites well deserved ridicule! In order to move the
1335 date from 1843 to 1844 the other dates (1260 and 1290) would also have to
be adjusted. If what James White said, were true the 1290 days would have
started in 509 A. D. & The 1260 Days started in 539 A. D. and Ended in 1799 A.
D. Of course none of this is true.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY
that
that the 1335 days ended in 1844!
Point in Fact: After
1844 James White made no attempt to justify the 1335 day prophecy ending in
1843. He knew nothing of importance happened in that year.
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