CHURCH OF GOD TIMELINES - Origin of Nations

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although some of the independent Sabbatarian groups aligned themselves neither
with the Seventh Day Baptists, nor with the Seventh-day Adventists, yet for logical
reasons, as far as they were concerned, did actually desire cooperation and
fellowship in order to more effectively propagate gospel truths as they saw them.”
In the previous year, Cranmer accepted Miller’s advent teachings. Cranmer also
taught the Third Angels Message which was to proclaim that the protestants
should repent and accept the entire Law of God, including the Sabbath.
9. 1843-44 “In the winter of 1843 or early 1844, Rachel Oakes, a Seventh Day Baptist,
challenges a Sunday keeping Methodist Adventist minister in regards to keeping
the fourth commandment. Through his study the minister, Frederick Wheeler, is
convicted about a Saturday Sabbath and begins to meet with other Adventists on
the seventh day of the week. This is the first recorded meeting of Sabbath-keeping
Adventists.”
Wheeler was a former Methodist Episcopal minister and associate of Miller. He is
the first Adventist sabbatarian minister on record (March 1844).
Re Rachel Oakes: Harris was her maiden name; Oakes was her first married
name; and her second marriage was to a Preston
From www.journal.org
The above occurred in Washington, New Hampshire. It should be noted that SDBs
and independent Sabbatarians that emerged from the SDBs in 1818 were extant
alongside the emerging sabbatarian Adventists.
10. 1844 “What is known as The Great Disappointment occurs. William Miller's prophecy
that Christ's second coming would happen on March 21st fails. After this first failed
prophecy, one of Miller's associates named Samuel S. Snow recalculates the date
of the second advent of Christ to occur on October 22. After this second date fails,
the only cohesive factor holding Adventism together had vanished.”
From www.journal.org
For further information about Miller and the Millerite movement,
see The Midnight Cry by Francis Nichol
Thomas M Preble (a Freewill Baptist) becomes second Adventist Sabbatarian
minister (Aug).
11. 1845 Gilbert Cranmer commences keeping the Sabbath Synopsis of the History of the Church of God (seventh day), p.3
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