Adventists do not believe in a pre-determined date for the second coming of Jesus, but are looking forward to it.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church came out of revival movements where date setting was popular. William Miller,who became a pioneer of the Adventist Church, preached about the soon return of Jesus between 1831 and 1844. He predicted, based on his study of the Bible prophecy of Daniel 8:14, that Jesus would return to earth sometime between 1843 and 1844. Others within the movement named a date - October 22, 1844.

Miller's followers were bitterly disappointed when Jesus did not appear. Most of the thousands who had joined the movement left, but a few re-studied their Bibles. They discovered the date was correct, but they had misinterpreted what was to take place. (Read our fundamental belief concerning this event). These became the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The new church, from the very beginning, rejected any date-setting.

Another question is of course whether God has set a specific date for the coming of Jesus. The Bible never says so, but encourages us to be always ready for Jesus’ return.

1. Do Adventists give and accept blood?
2. Do Adventists meet on Saturday just to be different?
3. Do Adventists promote alternative health remedies and diets above conventional medical treatments?
4. Do Adventists believe they need to do good works to go to heaven?
5. Do Adventists believe Ellen G. White and her writings to be as important as God and the Bible?
6. Do people have to be vegetarians to be Adventists?
7. Do Adventists believe that only 144,000 people will go to heaven and that they will only be Seventh-day Adventists?
8. Do Adventists consider themselves to be the only true, remnant church?
9. Do Adventists belong to a cult?
10. Do Adventists believe in a pre-determined date for the second coming of Jesus Christ?
11. Do Adventists dislike Catholic people?
12. Do Adventists have their own edition of the Bible called the Clear Word?
13. Do Adventists believe in the same things as Jehovah's Witnesses?
14. Do Adventists think that the media persecuted the church during the Lindy Chamberlain incident?