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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Kyle Allen

Fulfilling Kim’s Dream

Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this Sabbath day.

Thank you for bringing everyone here today to Advent Hope.

Lord, we pray that in this message today that Jesus would be lifted up.

We pray that you would speak to our hearts, Lord, because we know that We are living just at the close of time.

And you are calling each and every 1 of us to do our part to take the gospel to the world.

So Father, we pray that you would just be with us now, and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.

How many of you know what happened this past week?

Does anybody know where this picture is from?

Andrew Blumberg, I see your hand went up first.

That's right, at the William Miller Farm.

Have any of you ever been there by chance?

This is 1 of our Adventist heritage sites.

By the way, I would encourage you to go if you get a chance to.

But this last week, actually last Sabbath, we had the 175th anniversary celebration.

I don't know if you would call it a celebration, but it was a commemoration of 175 years since when?

Since the Great Disappointment, October 22, 1844.

Now, the purpose of the message today is not to go through the history of that, but I do want to tie something in very important.

Now, this is William Miller's farm here, the house behind you that you see in this picture.

And of course, they call it the birthplace of Adventism in America.

But you know the story, and by the way, we had over a thousand there last Sabbath.

Elder Wilson preached, we had Dwayne Esmond from the White Estate preach, The theme, thy kingdom come.

Now, without telling the full story of William Miller, I wanna focus in on 1 particular aspect.

How many of you know a little bit about William Miller?

He did preach, but was he a trained preacher?

In fact, talking of ASI, William Miller was your consummate ASI member.

He was a layman who was interested in God's work.

He was actually a deist, believed that God kind of created the world and just let it run on its own.

Many of our founding fathers were deists.

But he had an amazing experience in the War of 1812 where he almost lost his life, and that experience led him to believe in God and believe that God was actually preserving his life for something very important.

And you'll remember if you've read his story that William Miller decided that he wanted to go through the Bible verse by verse to understand what the Bible was saying.

And so he goes through the Bible verse by verse by verse.

And if you go to his house, you can actually stand in the very room and at the very desk where William Miller went into his Bible and studied verse by verse, where Ellen White says that angels guided him as he studied.

And it was there that William Miller found that precious truth in Daniel 8, verse 14, unto 2, 300 days, then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

Now of course we know that the Millerites understood that.

William Miller and those who later followed him, they understood that to mean that Jesus would come in about the year 1843 or 1844.

We won't go through the whole history of how that movement developed and how they ended up setting dates and eventually they settled in 1844.

First it was April, then that didn't happen, and then finally they set a new date in October and it took William Miller A long time to accept that that October date was real, but of course, October 22, 1844 came and went, and Jesus didn't come.

But William Miller wrote these words, which are on the screen here, after the great disappointment.

If you can imagine the disappointment that the believers felt when Jesus didn't come back on that day.

William Miller did not lose faith in the fact that Jesus would still come.

He said, I have fixed my eyes on another time.

And here I mean to stand until God gives me more light.

He believed in the soon coming of Jesus until the day he died.

And Ellen White says that angels actually guard the precious dust of his tomb.

So William Miller, the farmer turned preacher.

Now here's what I want to tell you today.

William Miller didn't actually want to preach.

He found the truth of Daniel 8 14, but he didn't want to preach.

He actually was scared, but he prayed a prayer, which is a very dangerous prayer to pray.

If within half an hour, I'm gonna say, Lord, if within half an hour no 1 comes and says to me, Father Miller, we want you to preach, I'm released from this burden of having to preach.

I'm not gonna preach about these prophecies.

Well, it's a dangerous thing to make a deal with God, right?

William Miller prayed that prayer and there was a knock on the door.

And not only to preach, because he had preached before, but to preach about the prophecies.

And Miller was so upset, he was like, and so he goes out into that maple grove at his house, and he wrestles with God, but as the old saying goes, as 1 of our pioneers wrote about that incident, he went into the maple grove, a farmer, and he came out a preacher.

He was not especially gifted at speaking, but what did he have?

Like it says in Isaiah chapter 6 and verse 8, here I am, Lord, send me.

That's how William Miller responded to the Holy Spirit working in his life and he believed that Jesus was coming soon.

Brothers and sisters do you and I still believe 175 years later that Jesus is coming soon?

And it's amazing if you look at the history of our church how God took the disappointment of the Millerite movement and turned it into an appointment, amen, to take the gospel to the world.

God brought together the precious truths of the Sabbath, of the state of the dead, of the sanctuary, into a beautiful package of truth, powered by the belief that Jesus is still coming soon.

And friends, I believe today that he is still coming soon.

That is why we are Seventh-day Adventists, amen?

By the way, there's 1 other church that is still operating that comes out of the Advent movement.

I just learned this last weekend, but there's only about 50, 000 of them.

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