Month: October 2015

can seventh-day adventists calculate the day of atonement?

Can you calculate the Day of Atonement? As Seventh-day Adventists, you would think that we would have seminars and training sessions on how to calculate it. After all, that was the major focus of the start of the Advent movement – Jesus is coming back on October 22, 1844, get ready!! That was the first angel’s message, and the second was to come out of the fallen churches before October 22, 1844. The third one is to keep the Sabbath, and all of these are wrapped up in the Righteousness of Christ.

Yet today, I dare say that less than 20 of us SDAs (out of 18.8 million) in the whole world can correctly calculate the Day of Atonement.

This day is described in detail in Leviticus 16 and 23. The wording used is the same as for the 7th day Sabbath, which us Adventists keep, but why we don’t see a need to keep this day, which is the beginning of Jesus’ ministration in the Most Holy Place, is a mystery to me.

Whatever the case may be, even if you don’t agree that we should keep this day holy, can you give a good defense to anyone who says that the Day of Atonement in 1844 was not on October 22? That is important, isn’t it? Beware, even the current Karaites say that we are mistaken on this date!!!

I made a little video about how to calculate it, which can be viewed here:

Grace Amadon Collection

The Grace Amadon Collection is a collection of material from the General Conference committee in the 1930s that were tasked with delving deeply into the biblical basis for how the Day of Atonement is to be calculated scientifically. Another point of the study was to settle beyond all scientific doubt that October 22, 1844 was the actual day of Atonement that year.

Both of those goals were met in this study, but somehow, even though the leading SDA theologians of the day (LeRoy Froom and M.L. Andreasen) were on the committee, and seemed to agree with the results, and even though this study took several years and quite a lot of money to produce, it was never released in a normal way to the church, but basically just shelved.

Be that as it may, what I have found available on the internet is a treasure trove of info for figuring out for yourself how to calculate the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and of course all the Feasts of the Lord, each year.

Grace Amadon Collection shows clearly the biblical way to calculate the Feast days

This report shows that Jesus Christ was crucified on a Passover on Friday, April 27, 31AD, and went into the Most Holy Place on October 22, 1844. With these two time anchors, it becomes quite easy to determine when any of God’s holy feast days occurs. Personally, I believe we are to still keep them, as Jesus did, as he is our perfect example.

List of links to files in the Grace Amadon Collection

Most of the following files are in PDF format, with one in RTF, and one written by myself in TXT. I recommend that they be read in the order below. If you just want to dive right into the technical details, please go to Report Part V.
www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/Letter_of_Conveyance.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/The_1844_Millerite_Time_Problem.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/Brief_review_of_the_new_views_regarding_Millerite_chronology.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/Jewish_Feast_Cycle_(1843_and_1844).pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_I.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_II.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_III.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_IV.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_V.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_V-april27-31ad.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/RC_Report_Part_VI.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/How_The_Millerites_Chose_Oct_date.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/Courageous_action_of_Millerites_on_Jewish_Calendar_problem.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/calculating-october-22-1844.rtf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/Research_Committee_Final_Report.pdf

www.great-controversy-movie.com/blog/articles/grace-amadon/grace-amadon-collection-notes.txt