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Most significantly, from a Baha'i point of view, it can be said that Miller was one of the great Christian Adventists who taught that Christ would return in the year 1844 - the year that marks the beginning of the Baha'i era. Miller was instrumental in shifting attention from the 1,260 years (Dan. 12:7; Rev. 11:2-3) to the 2,300 years (Dan. 8:14). According to Miller and many others, these two periods began at different times in history but culminated at the same point with the Second Advent. Miller was not an innovator; rather, as recent historians have noted, he simply took a method of calculation that had been acknowledged for centuries and drew it to its logical conclusion.
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