The Great Disappointment - US History - Extra History

The Great Disappointment! A historical mathematical miscalculation that foretold the second coming of Jesus Christ... or so we were told by William Miller. Who ended up creating an entire religion based upon his own charts and calculations he interpreted from the bible. Which was the start of some religions that are seen today!

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[MustardLadySaveMe]

my pastor LITERALLY believed the verse stating that "no man will know the day or the hour" of the 2nd coming. He said that anytime someone claimed to know the day the world would end, God would change it to another day even if he originally planned to end it on that day. Just to spite them for being a little too ambitious 😂

[GanyuSimpingDegenerate]

"The great disappointment"
I didn't ever expect to get my own Extra Credits episode

[otsogronberg]

How can someone who studied the bible that much have missed the part where it says that no man can know the hour of christs return? (Matthew 24:36 to 24:37)

[TheNN]

As my dearly departed, and extremely religious grandmother once told me: "My dear, God's Day will come on February 32nd."

[santi]

Ironically, predicting the end of the world is directly stated as impossible in the Bible and even as heresy in many churches

[abcdef]

Suggestion: A series about the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being, created during the French Revolution. One or three episodes would be enough to cover it.

[jeffmcarthur]

I was raised Seventh-day-Adventist and we were taught this story as gospel over and over, (though from a rather different point of view.) I used to confuse the Great Disappointment with the Great Depression. After the events in this video, the Seventh-day-Adventists explained that on October 22nd, 1844, God had moved from one chamber into another, and had begun the final judgement of humanity. Like so many other things in the Bible, this didn't exactly make sense considering the fact that they were teaching that God was everywhere and had always been judging people, but they explained the last part as, "well now he's judging people even more!" and they sent me to the corner for questioning them. I was in trouble a lot in my religious grade school.

[mollywantshugs]

Apparently Miller missed the bit where Jesus literally says that no one but God knows when the last day comes. Matthew 24:36 for anyone curious.

[fluffysheap]

Samuel Snow : "Jesus will return on October 22!"
Jesus : "You know nothing, Sam Snow"

Huh, I actually was raised a Seventh-Day Adventist and learned all about this in a bible history class. Didn't expect to hear about it here, haha!

[cSkylaneRG]

"When he's good and ready" is literally what the Bible says, too: "Like a thief in the night, you will not know when he is coming, until he is already here".

[PHRCpvh]

Bible: "Jesus will come when the humanity least expects"
Everyone: (Tries to predict when Jesus will come)
Bible: "really bro?"

[tessat]

I had heard of the Millerites and the "Great Disappointment, " and I had heard of the Seventh-Day Adventists but I had no idea that they were connected. Interesting!

[oranjethefox]

Imagine being disappointed that the world didn’t end…

[ITSecurityNerd]

In his deciphering of the Bible... in EVERY deciphering of the Bible aimed at finding the date or time, HOW do people keep missing the following?

"Noone knows the day or the hour"

Or even WORSE, the statement that Christ HIMSELF doesn't know when he's coming back...

But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

[DDWyss]

The number of Millerites was either 50, 000 or 500, 000, depending on whether days were days or years.

[JonPITBZN]

I've never seen Miller's chart, so I won't speculate on what he missed. But I know one thing that Snow missed for sure:

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

Matthew 24:36, a direct quote from Jesus about the second coming that should have warned him not to make predictions about the exact day.

[abcdef]

"The Great Disappointment".

Never thought I would see an Extra History episode about my life...

[IowanMatthew]

2:22 Shout out to the brilliant "Two Soyjacks Pointing" meme reference. You guys made my day, lol

[aslandus]

It just goes to show that no matter how clever or well reasoned you might think you are, no matter how skeptical you try to be, and no matter the number of people who you can convince, you are not immune to being swept up in hype.