Those skeptics, like all skeptics throughout history, failed to stop the spread of the delusional movement.

Eventually, 1843 arrived, and then William Miller wrote followers a New Year's address which said this.

This year, according to our faith, is the last year Satan will reign in our earth.

Jesus Christ will come and bruise his head.

Let us put forth our best energies in this cause. Let every one of us try by persuasion, by the help and grace of God,

to get one of our friends to come to Christ in this last year of redemption.

And if we succeed, what an army of regenerated souls may we not hail in the new heavens and the new earth.

This year, a glorious year, the Trump of Jubilee will be blown.

This year, the long looked for years of years, the best it has come.

Despite the urging of Miller supporters, he never personally set an exact date for the expected second advent.

Miller eventually narrowed the time period that the second coming would arrive.

My principles in brief are that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same,

with all the saints sometime between March 21st, 1843 and March 21st, 1844.

A year window for which I could possibly die and not have to face the consequences.

So March 21st, 1844, obviously passed without incident, but of course, despite that the majority of the Millerites maintain their faith.

A March 25th, Miller wrote this to Himes.

I am still looking for the deus saviour, the time as I have calculated it is now filled up, and I expect every moment to see the saviour descend from heaven.

I have now nothing to look for, but this glorious hope.

People are so this country has been built on the most profound stupidity.

I know. It's the same shit over and over and over and over and over.

Like you know that your belief system is awful and hollow and you just committed awful crime against your loved ones, against people of different colors.

Every part of your life is just sick, sadism, and void.

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