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The Great Disappointment in the Millerite movement was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller's ... When Jesus did not appear by October 22, 1844 ...
After the failure of Miller's expectations for October 22, 1844, the date became known as the Millerites' Great Disappointment. Hiram Edson recorded that "Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before... We wept, and wept, till the day dawn." [20]
The widespread acceptance of the "shut-door" belief lost ground as doubts were raised about the significance of the October 22, 1844, date—if nothing happened on that date, then there could be no shut door. The opposition to these "shut-door" beliefs was led by Joshua Vaughan Himes and make up the second post-'Great Disappointment' group ...
The world was supposed to end in October 1844, but when it didn't, a group of locals were disappointed, to say the least. This is their story. Worcester County Wonders: The rapture of 1844 that ...
Edson spent October 22, 1844 with friends waiting for the event, and was heart-broken when Jesus did not return as expected. He later wrote, "Our fondest hopes and expectations were blasted, and such a spirit of weeping came over us as I never experienced before. It seemed that the loss of all earthly friends could have been no comparison.
Samuel Sheffield Snow (1806–1890) was a skeptic turned Millerite preacher who calculated that the return of Christ was to take place on October 22, 1844. His teaching sparked what became known as the "Seventh-Month movement," which led to the Great Disappointment when Jesus did not return as expected.
October 22: The Great Disappointment occurs in which Millerites are disappointed due to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ not happening on October 22, the date that the Second Coming was predicted to happen by William Miller. [3] October 23: The Báb is publicly proclaimed to be the promised one of Islam (the Qá'im, or Mahdi).
After the "Great Disappointment" of October 22, 1844, many people in the movement gave up on Adventism. Of those remaining Adventist, the majority gave up believing in any prophetic (biblical) significance for the October 22 date, yet they remained expectant of the near Advent (second coming of Jesus). [1] [5]