Was Miller right after all?
Reverend William Miller (1782-1849) was a brilliant man who attempted to decipher the Daniel prophecies. Miller's discoveries still form the basis for most modern interpretations of the book of Daniel today. Miller studied the Bible in great depth for many years, and announced that he had successfully deciphered the prophetic codes of the book of Daniel revealing the time of The End. Miller preached his theory in the churches of New England and found many people very receptive to it. But Miller would eventually fail because of an unfortunate typographical error that had occurred during the translation of our English Bibles from the original Greek Septuagint text.
Like most Protestants in America in the early 1800s, Miller believed that the Catholic Church was the great whore of Revelation Chapter 17 who had allied herself with the Roman Empire (Beast) in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea, to become the Holy Roman Church. Miller and his followers proclaimed that the end of this last beast of Revelation would occur around the year 1845, and also that this great event would be preceded by a "Rapture" of God's followers up to heaven at exactly midnight on October 22nd, 1844. Many of Miller's loyal followers sold all their worldly goods and trekked up to the hilltops of New England patiently waiting to be Raptured up to heaven. But when midnight came and the Rapture did not occur, Miller and his band of followers suffered the laughs and jeers of the local New England townfolk, who were greatly amused by Miller's great "folly".
In the year 1800 Americans considered the Catholic Church and it's papacy to be the most evil entity on Earth. Reverend Miller's calculations for the date of the end of the last of the "transgressors" against God's people were based upon the 2300-year prophecy contained in Daniel 8:14, giving the exact year of the destruction of the "Whore" of Revelation 17. It turns out that Reverend Miller was actually correct in his mathematical calculations but unfortunately fell victim to a typographical error that occurred during the Bible translation from the original Greek Septuagint text. William Miller was therefore misled not only on the timing, but also the identity of the "last of the transgressors".
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