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Six denominations spun off the teachings of William Miller. Of those six, we will study two: Jehovah’s
Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventism.

1.4 Let’s Practice…

Let’s see how well you understood the information you just read. Take this quiz to see if you
can fill in the blanks:

1. Understanding that when witnessing to a Jehovah’s Witness, if you raise a doctrinal
objection you will generally solicit an automatic response. In what way will this knowledge
help you?

2. A Jehovah’s Witness AUTOMATICALLY “read” a verse through the “lens” of ___________.

3 Share one helpful question when asking a Jehovah’s Witness to read a passage of Scripture:

4-7. List the four characteristics of a cult.

8. Who is the person who officially founded the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1884?

9. The person above was exposed to _____________ teachings about end time prophecy and he
adopted many of his concepts.

10-11. This false prophet proclaimed that Jesus Christ was returning to earth on ___________
and his followers were called ___________________.

12. This same group preferred calling themselves ________________ because they were looking for
the coming of Christ.

13. Christ did not come on that date which now is known as ___________________ because so many
were dejected.

14. A few followers hung together, especially after a follower by the name of
published an article informing the group what really happened on that important date.

15. It was announced by the small group of “believers” that no other people could be saved except
those who were looking for the coming of Christ on this date. What is this called?

16. Miller’s followers came up with some very disturbing doctrines that went contrary to historical
Christianity and Bible doctrines. What were the five errant doctrines that came out of the Millerite
movement

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