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getting the date wrong, but there was a remnant

in this movement that said this was not

wrong. Hiram Edson said that the date did not

refer to the second coming but rather to Jesus

cleansing the heavenly sanctuary, which he

called The Investigative Judgment. He taught

that Jesus entered into the Holy of Holies in

Heaven to complete the final atonement for

humanity. Then another man by the name of

Joseph Bates, another Millerite, became convinced

that the holy day of the week was Saturday, the

Sabbath, which is borrowed from the Seventh-

Day Baptist, and that’s where the Sabbath

observance came about in this organization.

From 1844 to 1851 this group taught the

shut-door doctrine based on Jesus’ parable of

the ten virgins. Anyone who had not accepted

the Adventist message by the time Jesus entered

into the Holy of Holies – this would be 1844,

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