1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

If this calculation in correct, - and 1 think no a
can doubt it, - then the seventy weeks was fulfilled to a
day when our Savior d ered on the crosa Is not the
mevent weeks fairly proved to have been fnlfilled by
7 And does not this ve that oar vision and tbe
=iaYs ought to be so Ged Yee, if 6- m t y
weeke are a part of ihe maon. Does not the angel my
plainly, I have come to show thee ; therefore understand
the rncrtter, and consider the vision Yes We$ what
cm a rnan ask for more than plain positive -y,
and a cloud of circumstances agreeing with it
But one thing still remains to be proved. When did
the 2300 years be 'n Did it begin with Nebnchadnezzafa
dream KO For if it had, it must have been
fulfilled in the year D. lW. Well, then, did it bein
when the angel Gabriel came to instruct Daniel
k to the 70 weeks No, for if then, it would haye
been tininlred in the year A. D. 1762. Let us begin it
where the angel told ue, from the going forth of the
decree to build the walls of Jerusalem in troublooe
times, 457 yeam before Chriat ; take 457 fium and
it will leavo A. D. 1Bd3; or take 70 weeks of years,
being 4!)0 years, fro111 2300 years, and it will leave 1810
sbr (:l~ritrt'a death Add his life, (because we bepn
to reckon our time at his birth,) which is 33 yeare, and
we come to the same A. D. 1843.
Now lot us examine our subject, and see what we
have learned by it thus far. And,
I. Wc learn that there are two aborninationa spoken
of by Daniel. The fimt is the Pagan mode of worship,
which wos performed by the sacrificing of be- upon
altam, similar to the Jewish rites, arid by which meuna
the nations around Jerusalem drew away many of the
Jews into idolatry, and brought down the heavy juclglncnts
of (id upon idolatroun Ismcl; and God permitted
his people to be led into ca tivity, and persecuted by
the "cry nations that they, the Pews, had been so fond of
wpyi~~g aRer ill their mode of worship. Therefore were
the sanctuary nr~d plnce of worullip at Jerusalem trodden
down by l'agan worshipl)enr ; und the altnra, erected
by the command of God, and according to the pttern