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Joseph Bates (8 July 1792 – 19 March 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, whose followers would later establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Bates is also credited with convincing James White and Ellen G. White of the validity of the seventh-day Sabbath.
Nov 28, 2023 · Joseph Bates was a mariner, social reformer, pamphleteer, and evangelist who co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The birth of the American Republic, marked by ratification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights in 1789, took place just three years before Joseph Bates was born July 8, 1792, in Rochester, Massachusetts.
During the Advent Awakening, the retired sea captain became a respected evangelist and spiritual leader among the Adventists. In early 1845, Bates was providentially led to an understanding of the truth concerning the seventh-day Sabbath, and in 1846 he published a 48-page tract on the subject.
Joseph Bates was a sailor-turned-preacher who joined the Millerite Movement and waited for the Second Advent of Jesus to happen in 1844. Despite being disappointed when this didn’t occur, Bates held onto his faith and played an integral part in starting the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Joseph Bates 1792 - 1872 Joseph Bates was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church along with James and Ellen White. Perhaps there was no more unlikely Seventh-day Adventist preacher than Joseph Bates.
The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates provides an in-depth look into his childhood, his adventures traversing the ocean, his conversion and the reform movements he supported, and his study of Scripture and the biblical truths he discovered.
Joseph Bates was probably the greatest worker after James and Ellen White in building up the early Adventist church. In the area of reform he was without peer, being perhaps the first among Adventists to quit using coffee, tea, and meat.
Apr 27, 2011 · An ex-sea captain, he was affectionately called “Father Bates” by Ellen White and the younger generation of believers. Without question Captain Bates was the father of the young Seventh-day Adventist Church—and it is possible that without him there would not be a Seventh-day Adventist Church today.
Mar 4, 2020 · Joseph Bates’ views were not exceptional among his Millerite or Sabbatarian Adventist peers. Rather, his radicalism provides a window to catch a glimpse of the worldview of early Adventism.
Shanghaied by the British in 1810, Joe Bates spent the next five years as a British sailor and prisoner, surviving the Dartmoor massacre. Soon he was captain of his own ship, forcing his sailors to swear off liquor and talking pirates out of their prey.
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