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Oh, boy. So, she believed herself to be the “Lesser Light” to guide us to the “Bigger Light.”

Her titling of her works as, “The Testimonies of Jesus Christ” is enough to blow my mind.

I like the way Pastor Tim is going line by line, refuting with scripture, and making things as plain as day.

The Adventists arose out of the Millerite movement -- note that the founder, William Miller, later repented of his dispensationalist view and rejected Millerism

But the Millerite movement continued with the Dispensationalist and rapture philosophy and branched off in strange and different ways

William Miller was initially a Baptist preacher who started going into the entire Darby pre-tribulation rapture thingie

. In September 1822, Miller formally stated his conclusions in a twenty-point document, including article 15, "I believe that the second coming of Jesus Christ is near, even at the door, even within twenty-one years,—on or before 1843."

As per the Millerite rapture philosophy, Jesus was due to return on October 22, 1844 - they were wrong

Charles T Russell the founder of the Jehovah's witnesses worked with an Adventist, Nelson H Barbour,
Russell quit company with Barbour because the two repeatedly disagreed about doctrine,
Taze and Barbour in 1876 wrote a magazine called “Herald of the Morning”. In that magazine, Barbour had present his calculations that Jesus had returned invisibly in 1874. Russel became a co-editor of that magazine. They also co-authored a book called “Three Worlds, and the Harvest of This World”
They parted company in 1878 when there was a dispute over the atonement ransom sacrifice of Jesus. Russell started the Watchtower magazine in 1879

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you can see the parallels, strangely enough, in

Islam - the Bahai movement arose (and now it is separate from Islam) with a new "prophet" in the 1800s. This split from the earlier Babai movement just as the Witnesses and Adventists
Hinduism with the rise of the Bhakti movement and more emphasis on the Ramayana