CHURCH OF GOD TIMELINES - Origin of Nations

Church of God Timelines
Date Event Source
1815, was the Beast that went into the bottomless pit (Revelation 17:8). – The
Hope of Israel, Vol. III, No. 19, February 23, 1869”
“A church in Daviess County, in northwestern Missouri [initially known as
Sabbatarian Adventist Church], that learned of the Marion, Iowa, group in 1866. The
Missouri group was founded in 1858 by two men who were evangelists associated
with James and Ellen White's still-unorganized Adventist Sabbath-keeping
movement.
Dixon Cartwright interview with Robert Coulter, The Journal, Sept-
Oct, 2008.
However, when Mrs. White began having certain visions, the groups in northwestern
Missouri became disillusioned with her, and about half of those brethren severed
their association with the Whites. One of those leaders was a man named A.C. Long,
and those Christians became the General Conference of the Church of God.
Mr. Coulter said he finds interesting the differences in the organizational policies of
the SDAs and the Churches of Gods at that time.
The SDAs were organized by the Whites so their affiliation could own property.
"But when our conference was organized it was a grassroots effort. It originated in
Iowa and Missouri. We had state conferences. Each passed a resolution earlier in
the year that they needed to organize a general conference."
1860 “In the autumn Sabbath-keeping Adventists hold a conference in Battle Creek,
Michigan to discuss legal organization. James and Ellen White help persuade
those at the conference to adopt the name Seventh-Day Adventist for the new
group. Disagreements however about the new church name, the rejection of the
belief that Ellen G. White's visions were divinely inspired, and other issues would
eventually lead to a church split.”
From www.journal.org
In other words, the SDAs were incorporated as an association that year.
On 10 June, the sabbatarian Church of Jesus Christ of Marion, Iowa was formed
by Merritt E Cornell. He had been observing the Sabbath since 1852. The groups
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