How many times have the Seven Day Adventists falsely claimed that Jesus was coming back?

Question

Net sources say they claimed false dates for Jesus's return about 8-10 times. I'm not sure.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Actually there have been none if you want the true history behind it. At the time that there was a huge following that said Jesus would be coming in October of 1844, many were called Millerites because of their leader William Miller. They were of all faiths, Baptist, Catholic, Lutherine, etc. Then when the date came and went many were disappointed and they called it the great disappointment. So the faithful ones went back and studied to see what was wrong with the prediction and found that it was the Heavenly sanctuary that was to be cleansed, not the Earthly one and that the judgement was to begin then. They also found that nobody was to know the time or date of Jesus return but only the signs of it, which we have today. Officially the Seventh Day Adventist church did not begin until the mid 1860's, you can find the exact date if you go to their website. That was the one and only time that Adventists, meaning those that believe in the return of Jesus, ever made any predictions of when He would come and there was no church at that time so you can't say it was the Seventh Dat Adventists that made the prediction as there were none as yet. Not for another twenty some years.

Answer 3

The founder of the Adventists, William Miller, crunched the numbers in the Bible and came up with a date in September of 1844. His followers SOLD (why?) their houses and waited in white robes to be sucked up into the clouds. Nothing happened. So he went back to the drawing board, rejiggered the numbers, and set a second date. Still nothing. So they had no choice but to become a permanent denomination. There were really only 2 predicted dates. It's the Jehovah's Witnesses who've predicted the end several times (the last in 1975) and been wrong. As those who predict the End will ALWAYS be wrong. The world will not end for 5 billion years, when the aging sun expands and engulfs the Earth's orbit. So relax, people-- we've got plenty of time.

Answer 4

There appear to be many factions within the Adventist church, so your question is hard to answer directly -- it depends on whom you consider to be a "Seventh-Day" Adventist.

William Miller started the Adventist movement when he predicted the second coming of Jesus as being March 21, 1844. When Jesus failed to show up, Miller recalculated and said that it would actually be October 22 of the same year. After he failed again, he acknowledged his error and gave up on prophecy.

The Seventh Day Adventists (1845) are one denomination that emerged from the chaos of the so-called "great disappointment". They re-interpreted Miller's predictions as stating that Christ began an "investigative judgment" of the Earth in 1844, not that he was physically coming back ["The Complete Guide to Christian Denominations" by Ron Rhodes].

There seem to have been many prophet wanta-bes since then.

I guess that I didn't answer your question. Maybe this cut & paste might help:

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...A small group led by Jonas Wendell projected a 1874 date. Disappointed followers spiritualized the 1874 date and projected a new date, 1914. In 1876, Charles Taze Russell was influenced by the opinion of Jonas Wendell and began a new phase in the Adventist movement....

...As the movement emerged, certain key ideas were stressed, especially chronology and the importance of 1914. The millennial dawn period (1874-1914) would be marked by a return of the Jews to Palestine and the gradual overthrow of the Gentile nations. All would be climaxed in 1914 with the glorification of the saints, the establishment of God's direct rule on earth, and the restoration of man to perfection on earth. The coincidence of the apocalyptic date with World War I was viewed by Russell's followers as a cause for great hope, in sharp contrast to earlier predictions. The war was interpreted as God's direct intervention in the affairs of humanity, and a signal of the beginning of the world's end. (Russell later revised the date to 1918 but he died in 1916.)...

...British Israelism has attracted much attention because of its racist tendencies, especially in the United States. Implicit in the theory is the natural and religious superiority of the Anglo-Saxon.

One Church of God radio minister, Herbert W. Armstrong, integrated British Israelism into his thought. Under its present name, the Worldwide Church of God, it has introduced literally millions of people to British Israelism and now claims approximately 100,000 members, the single most successful such group to ever exist.....

Answer 5

***How many times have the Seven Day Adventists falsely claimed that Jesus was coming back? ***

Ahahaha, good one.

My answer is about the same number of
times as every other religious cult or sect, forever. It's the religious wishing hell, death and destruction on us all unless we believe and do as they say believe and do. Actually there are too many of them for us to satisfy all the religious requests for our devotion. The best we could do is to pick one. Much better would be to pick none.

Answer 6

Why pin it on SDAs? Hasn't christianity in general been claiming that we are living in the last days for hundreds and hundreds of years?
SDAs were just foolish enough to give a date.

Answer 7

Thousands

Answer 8

Well, we need to first find out the first time they said that then count the number of days since that and you might have an approximate number.

Answer 9

it's all speculation isn't it. I don't worry about. when it happens it happens. too many cults out there trying to scare the rest of us about worrying about that very thing, and I say to them: hey I'm not going to let that stop me from getting some enjoyment out of life.

Answer 10

Coming back from where? I had no idea he had gone anywhere! Have I missed something in my life?