So now, at all costs, an explanation of the failure of Miller's prophecies must be found. In retrieving their position, the Seventh-Day Adventists introduced into their system teaching of the most wicked and anti-Christian character. They discovered now that the Sanctuary was not on earth.
But in discarding one false theory they invented another, infinitely worse, for it cast into the shade the glory of the Lord Jesus, and denied the finished work of the atonement on the cross. From the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Book of the Revelation they thought they discovered that the sanctuary was in Heaven-the glorious counterpart of the typical Sanctuary on earth.