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William Miller (February 15, 1782 – December 20, 1849) was an American clergyman who is credited with beginning the mid-19th-century North American religious movement known as Millerism.
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Feb 27, 2023 · William Miller was a farmer, soldier, and deist who became a Christian and predicted the second coming of Christ in 1843. His followers formed the Millerism movement, which later split into different groups, such as the Seventh-day Adventists.
William Miller was an American religious enthusiast, leader of a movement called Millerism that sought to revive belief that the bodily arrival (“advent”) of Christ was imminent. Miller was a farmer, but he also held such offices as deputy sheriff and justice of the peace.
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The prophet of doom was no bug-eyed fanatic. He was a square-jawed, honest, church-going farmer named William Miller. A former captain in the War of 1812, Miller converted from Deism in 1816.
Learn about William Miller, a farmer who became a preacher and a prophet in the 1800s. He studied the Bible and concluded that Jesus would come back in 1843 or 1844, sparking a religious revival called the Millerite Movement.
The Great Disappointment in the Millerite movement was the reaction that followed Baptist preacher William Miller's proclamation that Jesus Christ would return to the Earth by 1844, which he called the Second Advent.
In October 1844, tens of thousands of people in New England believed the world would soon end. They followed William Miller, a man who claimed that through his study of the Bible to know the exact day of Jesus’s return to earth.
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