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