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[Revvzone]

Have you ever wanted to know where the Watchtower got its 1914 delusion?​

William Miller Predicted Christ’s Return in 1844. Here’s What Happened After His Prophecy Failed​

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In October 1844, tens of thousands of people in New England believed the world would soon end. They followed William Miller, a man who claimed that through his study of the Bible to know the exact day of Jesus’s return to earth. His followers sold everything they had in preparation for Christ’s second coming, in which he would gather them into heaven, and cleans the Earth in fire. The “Millerites” donned white garments called ascension robes. They climbed trees or mountains to speed up their ascension.
But Christ never came. The followers sat in confused disappointment. What happened to them after they gave up completely in their lives on earth? Moreover, what made them believe in Miller in the first place? Was he a particularly charismatic speaker, or was something happening in the United States that made belief in the apocalypse ripe? If so, what are those conditions and can they happen again?
Does this sound anything like 1975?
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[alan ford]

The “Millerites” donned white garments called ascension robes. They climbed trees or mountains to speed up their ascension.

This cracked me up Throughout the history it was proven time and again that following men leads to dead end.

 

[Watchman]

The Bible Students got caught up in the same rapture hysteria. If you have ever read Macmillan's Faith on the March, Mack, as he was called, confessed that he and a few others sold their winter coats in the summer of 1914 because they imagined that wouldn't need them come winter. The irony is, everything is lining up now that indicates the time of the end is about to begin, and yet the prophets of Bethel who have for decades been shouting from the rooftops that we are in the time of the end, now deep in the time of the end, in the last days of the last days with soon to come the last day of the last days, do not have a clue. Truly, the stage is set for Christ to come as a thief in the night at an hour they do not think likely.

 

[PJ54]

This just comes to show how JW's never truly gotten out of Babylon the Great. Christendom has a rein on the Org whether they realize it or not. At this rate I am wondering if the higher echelon will start pulling the Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copland, & Pat Robertson (700 club) with speaking in "tongues" & making very outlandish statements.

 

[Revvzone]

This cracked me up Throughout the history it was proven time and again that following men leads to dead end.

Other followers such a J.D.Pickands
Believed Jesus had returned but was sitting on a cloud, and all they had to do, was pray him down.
Here is an excerpt of some of the goofy ideas and fall-out....Also, In 1914 The Watchtower Bible Students climbed to the roof of the bethel printing facilities with telescopes, looking for Jesus coming on the clouds, some shouting "Here we are Lord"...

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RepercussionsEdit​

An 1843 prophetic chart illustrating multiple interpretations of prophecy yielding the year 1843.
The Millerites had to deal with their own shattered expectations, as well as considerable criticism and even violence from the public. Many followers had given up their possessions in expectation of Christ's return. On November 18, 1844, Miller wrote to Himes about his experiences:

Some are tauntingly enquiring, 'Have you not gone up?' Even little children in the streets are shouting continually to passersby, 'Have you a ticket to go up?' The public prints, of the most fashionable and popular kind [...] are caricaturing in the most shameful manner of the 'white robes of the saints,' Revelation 6:11,[26] the 'going up,' and the great day of 'burning.' Even the pulpits are desecrated by the repetition of scandalous and false reports concerning the 'ascension robes', and priests are using their powers and pens to fill the catalogue of scoffing in the most scandalous periodicals of the day.[27]

There were also the instances of violence: a Millerite church was burned in Ithaca, New York, and two were vandalized in Dansville and Scottsville. In Loraine, Illinois, a mob attacked the Millerite congregation with clubs and knives, while a group in Toronto was tarred and feathered. Shots were fired at another Canadian group meeting in a private house.[28]

Both Millerite leaders and followers were left generally bewildered and disillusioned. Responses varied: some continued to look daily for Christ's return, while others predicted different dates—among them April, July, and October 1845. Some theorized that the world had entered the seventh millennium—the "Great Sabbath", and that therefore, the saved should not work. Others acted as children, basing their belief on Jesus' words in Mark 10:15:[29] "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." Millerite O. J. D. Pickands used Revelation 14:14–16[30] to teach that Christ was now sitting on a white cloud and must be prayed down. It has been speculated[by whom?] that the majority simply gave up their beliefs and attempted to rebuild their lives. Some members rejoined their previous denominations. A substantial number joined the Shakers.[31]

 

[MickHewitt]

Other followers such a J.D.Pickands
Believed Jesus had returned but was sitting on a cloud, and all they had to do, was pray him down.
Here is an excerpt of some of the goofy ideas and fallout....Also, In 1914 The Watchtower Bible Students climbed to the roof of the bethel printing facilities with telescopes, looking for Jesus coming on the clouds, some shouting "Here we are Lord"...

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RepercussionsEdit​

An 1843 prophetic chart illustrating multiple interpretations of prophecy yielding the year 1843.
The Millerites had to deal with their own shattered expectations, as well as considerable criticism and even violence from the public. Many followers had given up their possessions in expectation of Christ's return. On November 18, 1844, Miller wrote to Himes about his experiences:


There were also the instances of violence: a Millerite church was burned in Ithaca, New York, and two were vandalized in Dansville and Scottsville. In Loraine, Illinois, a mob attacked the Millerite congregation with clubs and knives, while a group in Toronto was tarred and feathered. Shots were fired at another Canadian group meeting in a private house.[28]

Both Millerite leaders and followers were left generally bewildered and disillusioned. Responses varied: some continued to look daily for Christ's return, while others predicted different dates—among them April, July, and October 1845. Some theorized that the world had entered the seventh millennium—the "Great Sabbath", and that therefore, the saved should not work. Others acted as children, basing their belief on Jesus' words in Mark 10:15:[29] "Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." Millerite O. J. D. Pickands used Revelation 14:14–16[30] to teach that Christ was now sitting on a white cloud and must be prayed down. It has been speculated[by whom?] that the majority simply gave up their beliefs and attempted to rebuild their lives. Some members rejoined their previous denominations. A substantial number joined the Shakers.[31]

When they likened the Behemoth, Leviathan of scripture to the steam engine: I probably would have been with them on it back then whole heartedly ...blessed we are to be so informed....to see this day!

 

[alan ford]

climbed to the roof of the bethel printing facilities with telescopes, looking for Jesus coming on the clouds, some shouting "Here we are Lord"...

Others acted as children, basing their belief on Jesus' words in Mark 10:15

Christ was now sitting on a white cloud and must be prayed down.

Wheee 🤡 so ridiculous I am having hard time believing this could be true. But then I remember where we are now...