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Sabbath School is a function of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, [1] Seventh Day Baptist, [2] Church of God (Seventh-Day), [3] some other sabbatarian denominations, usually comprising a song service and Bible study lesson on the Sabbath. It is usually held before the church service on Saturday morning, but this may vary.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest of several Adventist groups which arose from the Millerite movement of the 1840s in upstate New York, [17] a phase of the Second Great Awakening. [18] William Miller predicted on the basis of Daniel 8:14–16 [ 19 ] and the " day-year principle " that Jesus Christ would return to Earth between the ...
Adventist Review, the official Seventh-day Adventist magazine, issued weekly and with nearly 30,000 paid subscribers. Adventist World, an international magazine with 1.2 million unpaid circulation. Ministry, for pastors, by the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists.
Guide magazine is a Seventh-day Adventist weekly periodical published by Pacific Press Publishing Association.It is a Christian story magazine that uses true stories to illustrate Bible passages and is targeted to 10- to 14-year-old youth.
In 1858, five years before the founding of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a group led by Cranmer separated from the Adventists who supported James Springer White and Ellen G. White. Another independent Sabbatarian Adventist body formed in Iowa in 1860, and joined with the Church of God (Seventh Day) in 1863.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church holds a unique system of eschatological (or end-times) beliefs.Adventist eschatology, which is based on a historicist interpretation of prophecy, is characterised principally by the premillennial Second Coming of Christ.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church formed out of the movement known today as the Millerites. In 1831, a Baptist convert, William Miller , was asked by a Baptist to preach in their church and he began to preach that the Second Advent of Jesus would occur somewhere between March 1843 and March 1844, based on his interpretation of Daniel 8:14 .
Ellen G. White, one of the co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was extremely influential on the church, which considers her a prophet, understood today as an expression of the New Testament spiritual gift of prophecy. [1] She was a voluminous writer and popular speaker on health and temperance.