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Rapture and Second Coming predictions in the 1800s

The nineteenth century's best-known date predictions were not about a Rapture in the modern pre-tribulation sense. They were about a visible Second Coming, and they came out of the Millerite movement. The pre-tribulation Rapture idea was only beginning to take shape in Britain in the 1830s.

2 entries, in date order.

1843–1844 William Miller and the return of Christ in 1843 to 1844 William Miller and the Millerites · Later reinterpreted William Miller concluded from Daniel 8:14 that Christ would return around 1843. He later refined the window to the Jewish year from March 21, 1843 to March 21, 1844.
October 22, 1844 Samuel Snow, the seventh-month message and October 22, 1844 Samuel S. Snow and the Millerites · Later reinterpreted After earlier dates passed, Millerite preacher Samuel Snow argued in August 1844 that Christ would return on the Jewish Day of Atonement, which he calculated as October 22, 1844.