The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

No Mistake in Reckoning the 2300 Days

As this people carefully looked over their reckoning of the period, they found no defect; but the Lord did not come, neither was the earth cleansed by fire. What did it mean? Of a surety they knew that the Lord had been with them in the great movement; but now they were in suspense. Their confidence in the Lord was unshaken. They knew he would not forsake them. The light would come from some source. The trying question before them is stated in the words of Jeremiah already referred to, “Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?” Faith did not cherish this doubt, for the words of the Lord by the prophet Habakkuk respecting the vision occurred to their minds, “At the end it shall speak, and not lie.” ¹⁹ The expression already quoted from the editor of the Voice of Truth well sets forth their position: “We cannot yet admit that our great High Priest did not on that very day accomplish all that the type would justify us in expecting.” GSAM 192.1