How are William Miller and the early advent movement connected to the New Moon and the lunisolar calendar?
In the 1840’s, William Miller, a student of prophetic time and a leader of a great religious awakening around the globe, believed the Lord was to return very soon. Together with Samuel Snow and others, they reckoned from Scripture and ancient Hebrew lunisolar calendation that prophetic 2300 evenings and mornings were symbolic of literal years. They discovered that this prophetic period that began at the time of Artaxerxes’ decree was to end in October 22, 1844. While it was to clearly mark the anti-typical day of Atonement and the cleansing of the Sanctuary, it was wrongfully assumed by Miller that this marked the second coming of Christ Yahushua in the clouds of heaven. So because of their error as to the event to take place they along with all the believers world wide experienced what is commonly known today as the “Great Disappointment of 1844”. The participants in this religious movement were Christians from all religious faiths and were called “Adventists” because they looked to t
