The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller who, in 1833, first shared publicly his belief in the coming Second Advent of Jesus Christ in roughly the year 1843. ==Origins== Miller was a prosperous farmer, a Baptist lay preacher and student of the Bible, living in northern New York, in the region of that state which has com...
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(from the article `Miller, William`) American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival (`advent`) of Christ was ... ...on the basis of his interpretation of Daniel 8:14, which spoke of 2,300 days, he concluded that Christ would return about 1843. He began ...
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