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In the Early nineteenth century the Seventh-day Adventist church was in what movement?

Definition
Second Advent Movement
Term
Who was the founder of what was called the Millerite movement?
 Definition
William Miller
Term
In the first years of the nineteenth century, William Miller abandoned his Baptist religion for what belier that rejects Christianity with its miracles and supernatural revelation?
 Definition
Deism
Term
What was William Miller's method of Bible study; and other than the Bible, what other book did he use?
 Definition
Comparing Scripture with Scripture/Cruden's Bible concordance
Term
How many years did William Miller intensively study his Bible?
 Definition
Two years (1816-1818)
Term
From around 1843, William Miller reached his conclusion that Christ will return to earth and what book of the Bible did he reach that conclusion?
 Definition
Daniel
Term
William Miller reasoned that Christ would return to earth at the end of what prophetic period?
 Definition
2300 days of year prophecy found in Daniel 8:14
Term
How many years did William Miller study the 2300 days-of-prophecy?
 Definition
Nine years
Term
According to the Millerites, Christ would return at the beginning of what?
 Definition
1,000 years
Term
AFter studing Daniel 8:14, WIlliam Miller entered into a solemn covenant that if God opened the way, he would do what?
 Definition
Go and teach about the second coming
Term
What happened within a halp hour of William Miller's agreement with God?
 Definition
He has his first request to preach on the Second Advent
Term
The most significant ministerial conver was who, and what church was he the pstor of?
 Definition
Joshua V. Himes; Pastor of the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston
Term
Joshua V. Himes published what magazine to get the Advent message befor the world?
 Definition
THe Signs of the Times
Term
In addition to Signs of the Times, in 1842, Himes began publishing what magazine to wake up New YOrk City to the nearness of CHrist's return. WHat was that magazine?
 Definition
The Midnight Cry
Term
In July 1841m the Adventist publishing comittee emp[loyed a Methodist minister to serve as its general agent, who was this minister?
 Definition
Josiah Litch
Term
Joshua V. Himes initiated the first General Conference of Christians expecting the Advent of Christ when?
 Definition
October 1840
Term
Joshua V. Himes had a forceful role in develping what, and pioneered in the use of what?
 Definition
Developing of Adventist camp meeting and pioneered the use of tents.
Term
The Millerite method for world-wide outreach was generally not to send missionaries, but to place their poublications on what?
 Definition
Ships bound to various seaports
Term
After 1843 the Millerites came under progressivlely more riducule and often had to decide between what?
 Definition
Their Advent beliefe and that of their denominations
Term
Charles Firth ( a popular Millerite minister of the Congregationalist denomination) preached a sermon on Revelation 18 in the summer of 1843, focusing on the fall of Babylon, what was that sermon?
 Definition

"Come out of her, my people".

 
Term
According to William Miller's conclusion based on the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8:14, and the Jewish calendar, Miller predicted that Christ would return sometimes between what dates?
 Definition
March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1944
Term
Charles Fitch argued that Babylon is antichrist, and anyone who opposed the personal reign of Jesus Vhrist over this world is antichrist. Fitch's definition of the antichrist included?
 Definition
All Catholics and Protestants who rejected the teaching of a soon-coming Christ.
Term
What church was William Miller a member of thhat expelled him?
 Definition
THe Low Hampton Baptist Church
Term
After March 21, 1844, Joshua V. Himes, used two scripture readings to encorage the dissappointed Millerites. What were these scripture readings?
 Definition

Habakkuk 2:3 (For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay)

 

and

 

Matthew 25:5 (The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.)
Term
After the first dissappointment, the Millerite Adventist entered what special time?
 Definition
The Tarrying Time
Term
What were the Seventh-Month Movement anf the "True Midnight Cry", and what Millerite minister presented this?
 Definition
S.S.Snow through a variety of mathamatical calculations that the fullfillment of the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8:14 would take place in the autumn of October 22, 1844
Term
On what date did Joshua V. Himes announce that the Advent Herald, previously Sign of the TImes,  would cease publication?
 Definition
October 16, 1844
Term
Before October 22, 1844, what did some Millerites do to prepare for the Coming of Christ?
 Definition
Left their crops unharvested, closed their shops, and resigned from their jobs.
Term
What movements came out of the Millerites movement after the GReat Dissappointment?
 Definition
  1. ALbany Conference movement
  2. Spiritualizers movemnet
  3. Seventh-day Adventist movement
Term
What movement was the last to gain visibility?
 Definition
The SEventh-day ADventist movemnet
Term
WHo was the Methodist farmer of Port Gibson, New York, that has a vision that Daniel 8:14 referred to the sanctuary in heaven to be clensed and not the earth or the church?
 Definition
Hiram Edson
Term
In the articel written by O.R.L. Croiser, entitled, "THe Law of Moses", what were the six point of this articel?
 Definition
  1. A literalsanctuary exists in heaven
  2. The earthly sanctuary was patterned after the heavenly santuary
  3. two-phase ministry of christ is heavenly. The first phase began in the holy place at His ascension, while the second startedon OPctober 22, 1844.
  4. The first phase of Christ's ministry dealt with forgiveness the second involves the blottin out of sins
  5. The cleaning of Daniel 8:14 was a clensing from sin and therefore accomplished by blood rather than fire
  6. CHrist would not return to Earth until He completedHis seconf apartment ministry
Term
What became the building blocks of Seventh-day ADventist theology?
 Definition
The Sanctuary, adn the Second Coming of Christ
Term
Pre-Adventist judgement is kn as the?
 Definition
Investigative Judgement
Term
Who were the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
 Definition
  1. James White
  2. Ellen Harmon WHite
  3. Joseph Bates
Term
Regarding church organization, what was George Storrs summation?
 Definition
"No church can be organized by man's invention but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized".
Term
Prior to the Millerite Movement, James White and Joseph Bates had belonged to what religiouse movement?
 Definition
Christian Connection
Term
Ellen Harmon was a member of what denomination?
 Definition
Methodist Episcopal Church
Term
What were the names of the conferences that helped with the development of Seventh-day ADventism?
 Definition
Sabbatarian Conferences
Term
Where and when was the first Sabbatri=an conference held?
 Definition
Rocky Hill, COnnecticut in the spring of 1848
Term
Beyond Joseph Bates' pamphlets, what was the first joint publishing venture of the Sabbatrain leadership?
 Definition
"A Word to the Little Flock"
Term

An Ellen White vision in Dorchester, Masssachusetts, during November 1848 stimulated a major transition in Adventism?

 Definition

publishing
Term
An Ellen White Vision in Dorchester, told her husband to "begin to print a little paper and send it out to the people..from this small beginning it was shown to me to be like".?
 Definition
"streams of light that went clear round the world"
Term
In 1852, James White began  publishing the YOuth Instructor, what is it modern successor?
 Definition
Insight Magazine
Term
By the end of the 1850s, the Sabbatrarian publishing effort had become a major business venture, where was the first bublishing house established?
 Definition
Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1855
Term
As a result of the Sabbatrain aggressive outreach through conferences and publishing aimes at the large body of searching Millerites, their adherentds went from about 200 in 1850 to approximately what, by 1852?
 Definition
2,000
Term
What was the Sabbratarian Adventist mean of "Gospel Order"
 Definition
Church Organization
Term
THe Sabbatarian Adventist faces several problems as a result of having no church organization, what were they?
 Definition
  1. They has no way to certify clergy
  2. They had no way to distribute funds to ministers
  3. THey had no legal organization for holding property
Term

THe first significant discussiions amoung Sabbatarians regarding "Gospel Order" took place in?

 Definition
1850 and 1851
Term
In order for the celebration of the "ordinances of the Lord's house to take place, the early 1850s congregarions were ordaning...?
 Definition
deacons
Term
By 1853, who were issuing signed identificantion cards to traveling men in order to thwart imposters?
 Definition
Joseph Bates and James WHite
Term
In the book "Early Writing", Ellen White wrote, "There is order in heaven. THere is order in the church when Christ was upon Earth...ANd now in theses last days, while God is bringing His children into the unity of the faith, there is more real need off..."?
 Definition
"Order than ever before"
Term
What was the nickname given to Systematic Benevolence?
 Definition

"Sister Betsy"
Term
In 1859, what was the proposed plan that came to be known as Systematic Benevolence?
 Definition
  1. Men were encouraged to contribute five to 25 cents per week
  2. WOmen two to 10 cents
  3. Assesd to one to five cents per week for each $100 property
Term
When was the present day tithing plan adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
 Definition
Late 1870s
Term
What was the first Seventh-day Adventist conference organized and who was teh layman who was elected as its president?
 Definition
  1. Michighan Conference
  2. WIlliam A. Higley
Term
When was the "General COnference" organized, and who was its first president?
 Definition
  1. May 21, 1863
  2. John Byington
Term
By the time the General COnference was organized, how many members did it have?
 Definition
3,500 members
Term
What was the meaning of the "shut door"?
 Definition

The door of mercy had closed in October 1844 for all but those who had accepted the soon coming of Jesus before the Great Dissappointment
Term
By early 1849, Ellen WHite had begun to tie shut foor termiology to what doctrinal belief?
 Definition
The heavenly sanctuary
Term
When di James WHite switch to an open-door evangelistic policy?
 Definition
February 1852
Term
Who were the men who had the gift of prophecy befor Ellen G. White
 Definition
  1. William FOy
  2. HAzen Foss
Term
Ellen G. White recieved her first comprehensive health reform vision on?
 Definition
June 5, 1863
Term
In Manuscripts , Vol. 1, 1863, Ellen G. White is quoted as saying?
 Definition
"THe more perfect our health, the more perfect will be our labour".
Term
Who was an all-around health reformer for many years prior to ELlen G. White's vision on the subject?
 Definition
Joseph Bates
Term
Joseph Bates discarded what from his table prior to the Millerite movement?
 Definition
Tea, coffee, mean, and highly seasoned foods, strong drinks and wine
Term
THe first ADventist to accecpt the Seventh-day Sabbath heard of it from what religious group?
 Definition
Seventh-day Baptists
Term
Who was the woman who challended an Adventist preacher, Pastor Frederick WHeeler, belonging to the Methodist CHurch to keep all of GOd's commandments, inclluding the Seventh-day Sabbath?
 Definition
Rachael Oakes
Term
Who published a tract entitles "The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign" in August 1846?
 Definition
Joseph Bates
Term
What were Joseph Bates three contributions to th eprophetic understanding of the Sabbath?
 Definition
  1. Connection between Sabbath and the sanctuary
  2. Three angel's messages of Revelation 14
  3. The validity of the gift of prophecy
  4. THe obligation to observe the seventh-day Sabbath
  5. The immortality is not an inherent human quality but something people reciene only through faith in CHrist
Term
By 1848 the Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, through extensive and intensive Bible study, had come to basic agreement on at least five point of doctrine, what were they?
 Definition
  1. The personal, visible, premillenial return of Jesus
  2. The clensing of the sanctuary, with Christ's ministry in the second apartment having begun on October 22, 1844
  3. The validitu of the gift of prophecy
  4. The obligation to observe the seventh-day Sabbath
  5. That immmortality id not an inherent human quality but something people recieve only through faith in CHrist
Term
THe enemies of the Sabbath, according to Ellen White in REview  Herald, December 15, 1863, says they not only strive to abolish  the ten commandments, but they also wanted to abolish?
 Definition
The true sanctuary
Term

One of the most interesting examples of the dynamic, developing quality otf "present truth" among the early Adventists is the topic of?

 Definition
unclean foods
Term
In November 1859 James WHite argues extensively, on the basis of Acts 10 and other texts, of what permissible food allowed in gospel dispensation?
 Definition
Pork
Term
Who did Ellen WHite rebuke for agitating the question on God's people not eating swine;s flesh?
 Definition
S.N. Haskell
Term
In Testimonies to the CHurch, Volume 1, pages 206, 207, Ellen WHite admonishes God's people to b elead by the SPirit regarding eating swine's flsh, what did she say?
 Definition
"If it is the duty of the church to abstain from swine's flesh, God will discover it to more than two or three. Hewill teach his church their duty".
Term
Once the doctrinal and organizationa steps were in place, what became the next step in the development of Adventism?
 Definition
Lifestyle Issues
Term
What were some of the lifestyle health issues Adventists taught?
 Definition
  1. Frequent bathing
  2. Germs cause diease
  3. the harmful effects of tabbacco
  4. the danger of certain types of drugs
  5. balanced diets
Term
Name the non-Adventist who taught much of the ADventist health reform package in the late 1830s?
 Definition
Sylvester Graham
Term
AN overworked and intemperate James WHite suffered a paralytic stroke on what date?
 Definition
August 16, 1865
Term
In 1865, the Seventh0-day ADventist Church teetered on the brink of disaster from?
 Definition
Poor health habits of its leading ministers
Term
Who was appointed at the age of 24-years-olf as chief administator of the Western Health Reform Institute?
 Definition
John Harvey Kellogg
Term
The Western Health Reform Institute changed its name to what?
 Definition
Battle Creek Sanitarium
Term
What was the second lifestyle issue confronting the newly organized denomination?
 Definition
Military service
Term
One of the issues regarding military service was the?
 Definition
requirement of war
Term
Should Adventist men serve in the military? If the answer of the question was yes, then should they?
 Definition
Bear arms, and kill other human beings
Term

James WHite made an extremely controversial suggestion, "In the case of drafting," he said, ?

 Definition
"the government asssumed the responsibily of the violation of the law of God, and it would be madness to resist."
Term
What was the satisfactory solution for members of the Seventh-day ADventist Church regarding military service?
 Definition
THe gevernment developed provisions for drafted consciention believer to do hospital and other work that provided the opportunitu for them to serve in the nation without killing
Term
What was the third lifestyle development of the Seventh-day ADventist Church?
 Definition
Christian education
Term
Focusing on the nearness of the end of the world, early Adventists regarding Christian edication, questioned?
 Definition
the need of sending their children to school if the wordl id soon to end
Term
The first independent Advensti Christina School that opened in 1853, was in?
 Definition
BUck's Bridge, New York
Term
By 1867, what was the first established denomination supported school and who was its proncipal?
 Definition
  1. Battle Creek, Michigan
  2. Goodlow Harper Bell
Term
According to Ellen G. White, what was the emphasis of Christian Education?
 Definition
developing mental, physicalm and spiritual powers.
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