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- An Introduction
- The End of the 2300 Days
- A Truth Established by the Witness of the Holy Spirit
- The Sanctuary and the Sabbath
- The Sanctuary Truth Under Fire
- Points Sustained Only by Misused Scriptures
- The Reality of the Heavenly Sanctuary Affirmed
- The Ark and the Law in the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Last-Day Delusions Will Involve Vital Truth
- With Eyes Fixed on the Sanctuary
- This Little Book
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- Integrity of the Prophetic Periods
- The Sanctuary of the Old Covenant
- The New-Covenant Sanctuary in the Heavens
- The Glories of the Earthly Sanctuary and the Heavenly Temple
- Christ's Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Determining the Sanctuary of Daniel 8:14
- Practical Lessons From the Types
- But a Type of Heavenly Realities
- The Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary
- Study Questions
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The Last of the Signs
In 1833, two years after Miller began to present in public the evidences of Christ's soon coming, the last of the signs appeared which were promised by the Saviour as tokens of His second advent. Said Jesus: “The stars shall fall from heaven.” Matthew 24:29. And John in the Revelation declared, as he beheld in vision the scenes that should herald the day of God: “The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.” Revelation 6:13. This prophecy received a striking and impressive fulfillment in the great meteoric shower of November 13, 1833. That was the most extensive and wonderful display of falling stars which has ever been recorded; “the whole firmament, over all the United States, being then, for hours, in fiery commotion! No celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, since its first settlement, which was viewed with such intense admiration by one class in the community, or with so much dread and alarm by another.” “Its sublimity and awful beauty still linger in many minds.... Never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell toward the earth; east, west, north, and south, it was the same. In a word, the whole heavens seemed in motion.... The display, as described in Professor Silliman's Journal, was seen all over North America.... From two o'clock until broad daylight, the sky being perfectly serene and cloudless, an incessant play of dazzlingly brilliant luminosities was kept up in the whole heavens.”—R. M. Devens, American Progress; or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, ch. 28, pars. 1-5....CIHS 92.1
In the New York Journal of Commerce of November 14, 1833, appeared a long article regarding this wonderful phenomenon, containing this statement: “No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event, I suppose, like that of yesterday morning. A prophet eighteen hundred years ago foretold it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understand stars falling to mean falling stars, ... in the only sense in which it is possible to be literally true.” Thus was displayed the last of those signs of His coming, concerning which Jesus bade His disciples: “When ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” Matthew 24:33. After these signs, John beheld, as the great event next impending, the heavens departing as a scroll, while the earth quaked, mountains and islands removed out of their places, and the wicked in terror sought to flee from the presence of the Son of man. Revelation 6:12-17.CIHS 93.1
Many who witnessed the falling of the stars, looked upon it as a herald of the coming judgment, “an awful type, a sure forerunner, a merciful sign, of that great and dreadful day.”—“The Old Countryman,” in Portland Evening Advertiser, Nov. 26, 1833. Thus the attention of the people was directed to the fulfillment of prophecy, and many were led to give heed to the warning of the second advent....CIHS 93.2