<P> However the unique contribution of Seventh - day Adventists to this doctrine does not stop there . Seventh - day Adventists are post-tribulation premillennialists who accept the Bible teaching on a literal 1000 years in Revelation 20 that immediately follows the literal second coming of Christ described in Revelation 19 . In contrast to almost all premillennialist groups they do not believe in a 1000 - year kingdom on earth during the millennium . In Adventist eschatology Christ's promise to take the saints to His Father's house in John 14: 1--3 is fulfilled at the 2nd coming where both the living and the dead saints are taken up in the air to meet the Lord (see 1Thess 4: 13--18). John, the author of Revelation, calls this moment the "first resurrection" in Revelation 20: 5--6 . Instead of a Millennial Kingdom on earth, Adventists teach that there is only a desolated earth for 1000 years and during that time the saints are in heaven with Christ (See Jeremiah 4: 23--29). </P> <P> On November 18, 1848, Ellen White had a vision in which God told her that her husband should start a paper . In 1849, James, determined to publish this paper, went to find work as a farm - hand to raise sufficient funds . After another vision, she told James that he was to not worry about funds but to set to work on producing the paper to be printed . James readily obeyed, writing from the aid "of a pocket Bible, Cruden's Condensed Concordance, and an abridged dictionary with one of its covers off ." Thanks to a generous offer by the printer to delay charges, the group of Advent believers had 1000 copies of the first publication printed . They sent the publication, which was on the topic of Sabbath, to friends and colleagues they believe would find it of interest . Eleven issues were published in 1849 and 1850 . </P> <P> In 1860, the fledgling movement finally settled on the name, Seventh - day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs . Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh - day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization . </P> <P> The first annual regional camp meeting took place September 1868 . Since then, the annual regional camp meeting has become a pattern among Seventh - day Adventists and is still practiced today . </P>

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