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History Unplugged Podcast

William Miller Predicted Christ’s Return in 1844. Here's What Happened After His Prophecy Failed

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In October 1844, tens of thousands of people in New England believed the world would soon end. They followed William Miller, a man who claimed that through his study of the Bible to know the exact day of Jesus’s return to earth. His followers sold...

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History isn't just a boring list of dates and facts. It's a collection of all the stories

1:14.3

around community's existence that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

1:19.5

Unplugged Podcast, where we explore the forgotten, misunderstood, strange, and even counterfactual

1:25.7

stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Brech.

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We're going to start today's episode by going to Massachusetts in October 1844. There

1:37.5

were tens of thousands of people who were gathered, and they were all there because they were

1:41.1

expecting the world to come to an end. There were followers of William Miller, a man who

1:45.6

claimed to know the date of Jesus' return. They were called Millerites and many of them

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