Cults and Sects: Seventh-Day Adventists

The Adventist movement originated with William Miller, a converted deist, who became a Baptist minister. He became a close student of the Scriptures, especially of the prophetic portions. He became convinced that Christ’s second coining was to be personal, premillennial, and that it was near at hand. The outstanding feature of his teaching was that Christ’s second coming would occur in 1843 or 1844 and then also the “cleansing of the entire earth” would take place. Much interest was aroused in...