Like Clockwork
And when the hour of the prophecy struck, in 1844, the people of the prophecy came. In 1844 a little group of believers in Christ’s soon coming—Adventists they were—saw the truth of the unchanged Sabbath of the Lord their God, the sacred seventh day of the fourth commandment. They began fully to “keep the commandments of God.” Soon others joined them. The truth about the judgment hour in the heavenly sanctuary was erelong made plain as they studied with other believers. It was clear that a message of preparation for the judgment hour and the coming of Christ was to be preached to men,—the threefold message of Revelation 14:6-12.SPIAM 17.2
Thus was seen arising the definite advent movement of the prophecy as the hour of God’s judgment came in 1844. It has developed the Seventh-day Adventist people, who are preaching the message of the judgment hour in all the world.SPIAM 17.3