Seventh Day Adventist Daniel 8:14 fail

"The prophecy which seemed most clearly to reveal the time of the second advent was that of Daniel 8:14: “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” Following his rule of making Scripture its own interpreter, Miller learned that a day in symbolic prophecy represents a year;
[Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6.]"

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

- This story was a literal punishment for the Israelites refusing to go where God sent them. This text is a description for how long God was going to punish them.
- Nowhere in the chapter, or book does it state a day in symbolic prophecy represents a year

Ezekiel 4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

- Again, this is a story depicting God literally punishing the Israelites again for another transgression. And again, how God had determined the length of that punishment.
- Nowhere in the chapter, or book does it state a day in symbolic prophecy represents a year

"...he saw that the period of 2300 prophetic days, or literal years, would extend far beyond the close of the Jewish dispensation, hence it could not refer to the sanctuary of that dispensation. Miller accepted the generally received view, that in the Christian age the earth is the sanctuary, and he therefore understood that the cleansing of the sanctuary foretold in Daniel 8:14,represented the purification of the earth by fire at the second coming of Christ. If, then, the correct starting-point could be found for the 2300 days, he concluded that the time of the second advent could be readily ascertained. Thus would be revealed the time of that great consummation, “the time when the present state, with all its pride and power, its pomp and vanity, wickedness and oppression, would come to an end; ... when the curse would be removed from off the earth, when death would be destroyed, reward be given to the servants of God, to the prophets and saints, and all them that fear his name, and those be destroyed who destroy the earth.”

- Ellen G White, The Great Controversy, Chapter 18, An American Reformer

- How did this Prophecy pan out?
- SDAs claim this as an accurate prophecy where the Symbol for "sanctuary" has been changed from Earth to Heaven (how convenient that a verified blunder is exchanged for an unverifiable theory)

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