Miller was an active Freemason until 1831.Miller supposedly renounced masonry, but did he bear fruit to that end? No, he became the Harold Camping (also a Freemason) of his day.
Miller resigned his Masonic membership in 1831, stating that he did so to "avoid fellowship with any practice that may be incompatible with the word of God among masons."
By 1833 he wrote in a letter to treat Freemasonry "as they would any other evil."
source: George D. Johnson, What Will A Man Give In Exchange For His Soul? (p. 50)
The Millerite movement found new momentum with a new liar, Ellen G. White. There is only one prophetess mentioned in the new testament. Her name was Anna. Anna did not aspire to renown. Anna did not puff herself up to be a big shot in the church.
Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.How did she behave? Did she hook up with the Freemasons and start her own religion? No. She humbled herself and praised God. Anna was a servant. Did you even read one word about Anna's prophecies and visions? Did they get incorporated into the New Testament? No. Yet, for Ellen White you have volumes. White was an arrogant fraud who lifted herself up in pride and was and is being lifted up by fools who seek to profit from her chicanery. I have seen some speculation that White's visions were the product of brain damage, but you do no have to be brain damaged to be influenced by Satan...and Freemasonry. And once again, you need not look far to find the fruit from the poisoned tree of Adventism:
He [Russell] became a religious sceptic when he was 16, and his brief study of Oriental religions did not provide satisfaction. According to his own account, he was rescued from his condition in 1869 when he stumbled upon Adventism:
"Seemingly by accident, one evening I dropped into a dusty, dingy hall...to see if the handful who met there had anything more sensible to offer that the creeds of the great churches. There, for the first time, I heard something of the views of the Second Adventists, the preacher being Mr. Jonas Wendell...Thus, I confess indebtedness to Adventists as well as other denominations...Though Adventism helped me to no single truth, it did help me greatly in the unlearning of errors, and thus prepared me for the truth."
But, as an investigation shows, Alan Rogerson is right when he says, "In fact nearly all of Russell's beliefs, and certainly all the important ones, were thought up by other people - most of them Adventists...." For example, Raymond Franz writes of a Governing Body meeting in 1979, where after discussion, it was decided "that 1914 and the teaching about 'this generation' tied to it should continue and be stressed." This decision elicited a surprising (but accurate) comment by Governing Body member Lyman Swingle: "All right, if that is what you want to do. But at least you know that as far as 1914 is concerned, Jehovah's Witnesses got the whole thing - lock, stock and barrel-from the Second Adventists."
In 1876, Russell's attention was "drawn to the subject of prophetic time, as it relates to these doctrines and hopes" after reading The Herald of the Morning, edited by Adventist Nelson H. Barbour. What attracted Russell was Barbour's statement that Christ was already invisibly present since 1874. Russell reasoned: "Could it be that the time prophecies that I had so long despised, because of their misuse by Adventists, were really meant to indicate when the Lord would be invisibly present to set up his kingdom - a thing which I clearly saw could be know in no other way?" Barbour's answer showed that Russell's "surmise had been correct....that the time arguments, chronology, etc,. were the same used by Second Adventists." Russell paid Barbour's expenses to visit him and to present the evidence for his position. "He came, and the evidence satisfied me," wrote Russell. (In historical perspective, when the predictions for 1914 failed, the evidence that "satisfied" Russell, which supported the invisible presence of Christ beginning in 1874, would be rejected by his successors.)
Russell also derived his idea of "progressive revelation" from the Adventists or Millerites.
source: edited by Edmond C. Gruss, The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) (pps. 13,14)The Adventist lie gave birth to a whole slew of lies, among them the Jehovah's [false] Witnesses. The founder of the Witnesses, Taze Russell, said that it was "seemingly accident[al]" when he happened upon the Adventist meeting where he first became aware of Adventist teachings. His choice of words betrays that what he was doing was all planned and no accident at all. He was carefully designing a religion and watching what was going on within religious culture to determine what people would buy into. He and others like him were no doubt tied to men like Albert Pike and Eliphas Levi and gave rise to people like Alice Bailey who taught that the "cosmic Christ" would appear and Aleister Crowley who spoke of the Aeon of Horus. The winged disk of Horus was in fact used on early Jehovah's Witness writings:
The Divine Plan of the Ages (above) was written by Taze Russell and you can clearly see the winged disk on the front cover. This emblem is called the Behedeti Horus:
Divine Plan is part of a series called Millennial Dawn. Horus is the dawn:
Horus, who brings the dawn, and purple morn serene. (Horus: Lord of life, or of fire, worshiped by the Egyptians.) source: sir William Drummond, Byblis, a Tragedy (p. 54)The second reference above states that another epithet for Horus is the Greek word Aurora - ring any bells? These people were completely cognizant of what they were serving and what was behind their false Christianity. They were and are guilty as hell. If you really want to go deeper, then look into the relationship between the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Nazi's and the Catholic Church during the time that the Nazi's were in power. You will see that they are all heads of the same hydra. When you Google it you will find that most of the first hits refer to the persecution of the Witnesses by the Nazis. This is propaganda. No doubt they had their patsies, but the Jehovah's Witness leadership aided and abetted Hitler and were the lapdogs of the Nazis crying "Heil Hitler!" right along with everyone else. The rank and file were sold out by their leadership and many lies were told. The Third Reich was a Tribulation beta test and for the most part what called itself Christianity failed with a few very notable exceptions. This subject is worthy of several posts in its own right, so I will leave you to your Googling.
Arun, the charioteer of Surya (otherwise Aurora, or the dawn), plainly reveals to us the African Horus; for both words, as well indeed as Aurora, have undoubtedly affinity to the Chaldaic radix, AUR, lux...source: Thomas Maurice, The History of Hindostan (p. 395)
Horus the younger, son of Isis and Osiris, emblem of the dawn of the morning. source: William Holt Yates, The Modern History and Condition of Egypt, Its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities... (p. LXI)
Russell's "progressive revelation" was the tactic used by the Adventists to excuse failed prophecy and it is the same practice that Harold Camping used:
Sometimes [God] gives us the truth and sometimes He gives us something that causes us to wait further upon Him. - Harold Camping's words after his big date came and went.So according to false teacher Harold Camping Good is a big liar.
Look in the mirror, Harold. That is the liar.
And what is up with the SDA "Light Bearers":
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Why do they want to be Lucifer whose name is "light bearer?" They will say that they are bearing the light of Jesus, but that is weak. There are other ways of saying it without the overt Satanic reference. But they make the reference because that is who they truly serve: Lucifer.