Welcome back to Shemis Poppre. I'm Joe Heschmire. Did Jesus Christ return in glory on October 22nd?

That might sound like an odd question to a lot of you, but it's part of this fascinating moment in American history.

If you're not familiar, October the 22nd of 1844, is a day known as the Great Disappointment,

in which a group of Protestants, called Millerites, following a farmer by the name of William Miller, foretold the end of the world, that Jesus was going to come in glory.

That might just be a quirky footnote in American history, were it not for the fact that they bequeathed thus a religious sect still around today, the Seventh-day Adventists.

If you think about the name, they're called Seventh Day because they believe

Christians should celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday, and Adventists because Advent, meaning coming,

you know, think we say Advent for the coming of Christ at Christmas, and they're Adventists

because they believe Christ is coming soon in glory. And originally they had a very specific

idea of just how soon. Now, with the Millerites,

this is actually not the first time they'd gotten the date of Christ's return wrong. Daniel Golovinco,

who is himself an Adventist pastor, points out that Miller had originally preached that sometime

between March 21st, 1843 and March 21st, 1844,

Christ would return. That year comes and goes, and Christ did not return. So then he recalculates,

and they say, okay, April 18th to 19th. And then eventually they settle on October 22nd. And of course,

that doesn't happen. And of course, that doesn't happen.

And so this, you know, creates a lot of mockery from those who are around them, who say,

oh, you know, the, even children are described as going up and saying, did you get your

ticket to heaven?

And just kind of making fun of them for this because they made this very specific prophecy.

It was very obviously false. And then the people who invested everything into, you know,

Christ's return on October 22nd, 1844 didn't know what to do. And so the official website

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