This continuing education study explores God's leading during the early development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Objectives of this study include: 1. Recognize the wide influence of the Millerite movement. 2. Explain how the Millerites arrived at the precise date of October 22, 1844, for predicting Christ's coming. 3. Describe how Adventists discovered that the sanctuary to be cleansed is in heaven rather than on earth. 4. Explain how early Adventists discovered what Jesus is now doing for us in heaven. 5. Identify the key emphasis in each of the three angel's messages. 6. Explain how early Adventists began keeping the seventh-day Sabbath. 7. Describe what it means to proclaim the Sabbath "more fully". 8. Summarize the results of the Bible-study conferences of 1848. 9. Describe the development of the Adventist Review. 10. Explain how Sabbath-keeping Adventists developed an understanding of the investigative phase of the pre-advent judgment. 11. Summarize why the sanctuary truth is "the foundation of our faith".

NOTE: No longer valid for continuing education credit.