Father Miller's Daughter

Ellen Harmon White

Donald Edward Casebolt

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781666797992, 9781666797985
• eBook ISBN: 9781666798005
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Teologia cristiana

The crisis in Adventist eschatology is due to its reliance on Millerism's faulty methodology and falsified prophetic predictions. Ellen White taught that Father Miller's sole authority was Scripture and a concordance; that his interpretations were literal commonsense; and most importantly, that God had originated his date-setting conclusions by repeated angelic guidance. She announced that Miller was typological of John the Baptist; that Miller was a forerunner to Christ's Second Advent as the Baptist was to his First. This book will document that these three misconceptions are falsified by primary sources from roughly 1835 to 1851. Miller was highly dependent on disconfirmed, centuries-old, historicist speculations; his interpretations were allegorical and arbitrary not literal; his falsified proofs obviously not of angelic origin. For example, Miller initially predicted the Parousia and fall of the Ottoman Empire for 1839. White also endorsed Snow, Joseph Turner, and Crozier, whom, she said, God had given "true light." Post-Disappointment, these men continued using Miller's allegorical-typological-historicist methods, and Ellen Harmon "was taught" by these men. About two centuries after "The Midnight Cry" and the "end-times" signs of 1755, 1780, and 1833, the SDA church's tenacious reliance on Millerite proofs makes its eschatology increasingly implausible.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Introduction: EGW’s Dependence on Miller’s Erroneous Allegorical Historicism
• Chapter 2: Test Case of the Ottoman’s Empire’s Failure to Collapse
• Chapter 3: Hosea, Luke: The Day = 1000 Years Principle
• Chapter 4: Prophecy of Moses = Seven Times of Gentiles
• Chapter 5: Potpourri of Fanciful and Arbitrary Prophetic Interpretations
• Chapter 6: Snow’s Explanation of Miller’s March 21, 1844 Failure
• Chapter 7: Crosier’s Extended Atonement
• Chapter 8: J. Turner’s Bridegroom and Shut Door
• Chapter 9: EGW saw Sabbath, High Priest, and Censer in late 1847 Vision Only after These Ideas Were Taught Her by Bates, Crosier, Turner. They Are Missing “behind the Veil” in December 1844 Vision
• Chapter 10: “Then I Saw in Relation to the ‘Daily’ (Daniel 8:12) That the Word Sacrifice Was Supplied by Man’s Wisdom and Does Not Belong to the Text.”
• Chapter 11: 1851 Chart Perpetuates Erroneous “Daily” Concept
• Chapter 12: Waldenses: Poster Children for Historical Sabbatarians
• Chapter 13: “Enslavement of the Papacy” (Caspar)—or “Supremacy” of the Papacy (White)?
• Chapter 14: I saw “Solitary vice is killing tens of thousands.”
• Chapter 15: Summary of Evidence
• Epilogue
• Bibliography