Although William Miller's spiritual children, the

Seventh-day Adventists, Advent Christians, Jehovah's

Witnesses, and World-wide Church of God have minor

differences in what they expect to occur about the

year 2000 AD, each of these groups expects a radical

change to occur at Christ's Second Coming, and the

original view of the Millerites is still supported to some

extent, emotionally if not logically.

......The central "hope" [or flaw] in these expectations,

is that Jesus Christ, as a part of the ALL-POWERFUL

TRINITY, or God-head, will bring everything to a

halt on this earth of a mundane nature, and in the most

extreme view, KILL everyone "by the brightness of His

Coming".

........Only those so perfect in nature as to be already fit

to live in heaven will be able to endure this event, which

will be so world-shattering that only ruins will be left a

few hours later....ruins that will be inhabited for 1000

years by bats and owls and beasts and the Devil and

his demons.......Billions of dead people will be unburied

until they rot or are eaten by carrion-eaters, because

not one human is still alive to mourn over them or bury

them.

......Those saintly people of other centuries who met

earlier, lesser standards of Holiness, will rise out of

their graves as Jesus calls to them from His cloud

overhead, and this triumphal procession, all very much

alive and with flesh and blood bodies [but perhaps

weightless] , will travel to Heaven [a seven-days'

journey] to judge the dead for 1000 years.

......After 1000 years, the wicked of all ages will rise

from the dead for one last gesture of defiance against

God, at which time they will die a second death in

torture appropriate to their sinful lives.

Scores or hundreds of Bible Texts are used to support these ideas, and if

one looks at each of these texts as being LITERAL, not SYMBOLIC, and

makes no allowance for "Apocalyptic" exaggerations, they do INDEED

support the scenero presented above.....Generation after generation has

held this to be the ABSOLUTE TRUTH during my lifetime and before!

However, other texts in both the Old and New Testa-

ments support another SCENERO, radically DIFFER-

ENT than the one just presented.....One that has

found many more supporters than the Millerite view.