Ellen G. White & The Origin of The Seventh-Day Adventist Church

The church centers around the teachings and writings of a supposed prophetess named

Ellen G. White who claimed to receive private revelations And visions from God so a few things to know about Ellen G.

White. She was born Ellen Gould Harmon She was born in Maine So she grew up in New England, and it's interesting that all four of the major cults

They all started in either, you know, New England or New York during the 1800s

Ellen G. White is one of the most if not the most published woman in American history

But many of her works later on it was discovered that many of her works were plagiarized

Her estate has acknowledged this although they would say the plagiarism is not nearly as bad as the critics

Claim so there's some debate about how much she actually Plagiarized so how did they start out?

There was a man in the early 1800s named William Miller he was the leader of the

Adventist movement And he set a date for the return of Jesus right

Adventist They're big on the Jesus is coming back at any time so he set a date in 1943 and When that didn't happen as of course

It's not going to because no man knows the day or the hour so if somebody sets a date you can just bank on the fact

That okay, Jesus is not coming on this date So when it didn't happen in 1843, you know what he did he set another date in October 22nd 1844 many of his followers they sold their homes gave away their possessions, and they went on top of a hill

To wait for Jesus to come back when Jesus didn't come back

That event was known as the great disappointment as You can imagine

So naturally many of the followers after that many people did okay forget this and they left as you would expect

But around that time there was a man named Hiram Edson that claimed to receive a vision from God that the 1844 date was actually correct.

They just got the details wrong So it wasn't that Jesus was going to come back on that date something really did happen

He said it was just invisible so nobody could see it And that's the same thing the

Jehovah's Witnesses did they predicted the return of Christ when it didn't happen They went back and revised to know something did happen.

It's just it was just invisible So the Adventists claimed that in 1844 they say what happened is that Jesus entered into the heavenly?

sanctuary to begin what they call the Investigative judgment now how do they know that again?