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SDA History #1

The early Sabbatarian Adventist movement arose from a sector of Adventism that accepted the shut-door belief and the date of October 22, 1844 as a fulfillment of prophecy. Hiram Edson's realization on October 23, 1844 that Christ had entered the Most Holy Place rather than returning led to Bible studies that provided insights into the heavenly sanctuary. By 1848, Sabbatarian leaders agreed on key doctrines including the Sabbath and began conferences and publications to spread their message. Their periodicals eventually merged to form the Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now known as the Adventist Review. By the 1850s they moved beyond shut-door beliefs and organized as the Seventh-day

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SDA History #1

The early Sabbatarian Adventist movement arose from a sector of Adventism that accepted the shut-door belief and the date of October 22, 1844 as a fulfillment of prophecy. Hiram Edson's realization on October 23, 1844 that Christ had entered the Most Holy Place rather than returning led to Bible studies that provided insights into the heavenly sanctuary. By 1848, Sabbatarian leaders agreed on key doctrines including the Sabbath and began conferences and publications to spread their message. Their periodicals eventually merged to form the Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now known as the Adventist Review. By the 1850s they moved beyond shut-door beliefs and organized as the Seventh-day

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Be familiar with the major formative influences that shaped the early
Sabbatarian Adventist movement. What were they and how did they
impact the formation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
The Early Sabbatarian Adventist Movement
Sabbatarian Adventism arose out of the midst of that sector of Adventism that
had accepted the shut-door belief and October 22 as a definite fulfilment of prophecy.
At first the distinction between the shut-door and Sabbatarians were not so clear but
gradually it became evident that two different parties were developing along lines
existing side by side in Hale and Turner’s January 1845 Advent Mirror article on the
coming of the bridegroom.
The majority shut-door party came to emphasize the fact that Christ had come on
October 22, 1844, but He had come spiritually rather than physically in the clouds of
heaven. This party known as the spiritualizers, claimed that the seventh-month
movement had been correct on both the event predicted and the time. But this resulted
to strange new interpretations of the Bible and genuine fanaticism.
Sabbatarian Adventism found one of its beginning places in the October 23
experience of Hiram Edson and his realization that October 22 fulfillment of Daniel
8:14 symbolized Christ’s entering the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary on
October 22, rather than His coming out from the Second Apartment on that date. The
full implications of that insight took time to work out. One of the first steps in that
process was the Bible study sessions held between Edson, O.R.L Crosier, and F.B.
Hahn. Their combined study led them to gain significant insight into the nature of the
heavenly sanctuary and Christ’s two-apartment ministry in that sanctuary. The results
of their study were published by Crosier in the Day Star, Extra of February 7, 1846,
as “The Law of Moses.”
By 1848 the Sabbatarian leaders had agreed on a set of basic doctrines. The also
believed that they had a responsibility to share their beliefs with those Adventists who
were still suffering from confusion concerning what had taken place in October 1844.
The sabbatarians chose typically Millerite approaches for sharing their beliefs. Their
first tactic in spreading their message was to organize a series of conferences. The
first Sabbatarian conference was held in the spring of 1848 in Rocky Hill,
Connecticut. The purpose of the conference, according to James White, was the
“uniting of the brethren on the great truths connected with the message of the third
angel.” James and Ellen White took strong leadership roles early in the Sabbatarian
conferences. The times demanded forceful, goal oriented leadership to form a body of
believers within the chaotic conditions of post-Disappointment Adventism.
The basis of the Sabbatarian gathering time is uniting a people on concepts
related to the Advent and the Sabbath. In addition to the conferences, Bates and James
White also used publications to get their message out as they sought to gather a
people around their doctrinal platform. Bates preferred small books while James opted
for periodicals as guided by his wife. Encouraged by Ellen White, James began
publishing periodicals and in July 1849 The Present Truth was brought out. In the
summer of 1850 The Advent Review came into fruition. By November 1850, both
papers were combined into Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, generally
referred to as the Review and Herald and currently as the Adventist Review.
By the early 1850’s the Sabbatarians would move beyond their early shut-door
concepts as they progressively came to realize that in 1844 and its aftermath God had
opened the door to a new mission for the third angel that would eventually reach “to
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people” (Rev. 14:6). By 1863, they would
organize into the Seventh-day Adventist Church to facilitate their ever widening
concept of mission on the basis of the 3rd angel. Their concept of prophecy drove them
on in what both they and their spiritual descendants have seen as the “gathering time”
that is to precede the second coming of Christ.

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