At the time this message was first announced, every Christian denomination held that the judgment would take place at the second coming of Christ. So a people under those circumstances, giving the message of the hour of judgment come, while holding that view, would necessarily proclaim the second coming of Christ. In fact, that which gave force to the message, and most mightily moved the people, was the proclamation of definite time. First they claimed that the end of the world would come some time during the “Jewish year” 1843, and that this was embraced in the time between March 21, 1843, and March 21, 1844. After this time passed by, we learn in the Midnight Cry of the year 1844 that the definite day was fixed upon for the termination of the prophetic times. This was the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month, corresponding to Oct. 22, 1844. GSAM 109.1