Packet 2: Tossup 14

Specific term required. Bahá’í views of this event, which occurred seven months after the Edict of Toleration, appear in William Sears’s book The Thief in the Night. After this event, a female prophet saw a vision of people going to New Jerusalem down a path lit by the “midnight cry.” In the leadup to this event, Samuel S. Snow devised a chronology based (10[1])on the establishment of a Jewish (10[1])state in Ezra 7. Hiram Edson claimed that Christ moved from the Heavenly Sanctuary to the Holy of Holies during (-5[1])this event. The examination of the “books of record” began during this event according to the doctrine of “investigative judgment.” (10[1])This event was inspired by the “2300 days” in Daniel 8 and led Ellen G. White to (10[1])co-found the (10[1])Seventh-Day Adventists. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[2]-5[1])name this October (10[1]-5[1])22, (10[1])1844, (10[1])event (10[2])in which followers of William Miller did not (10[1]-5[1])witness the return of Jesus. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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