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• William MillerPeople

  William Miller (1782–1849) was an American Baptist lay preacher who, on the basis of calculations from the prophecies of Daniel, proclaimed that Christ would return in 1843–1844. He was the central figure of the nineteenth-century Advent movement and of the Great Disappointment.

• Great Pyongyang RevivalHistory

  The Great Pyongyang Revival was a movement of repentance and spiritual awakening that began in January 1907 at the winter Bible study conference for men of South Pyongan Province, held at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, and spread throughout Korea. It is regarded as the defining revival movement of Korean Protestantism.

• Great AwakeningHistory

  The Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement that arose in the British North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, centered on figures such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. The name is also applied to the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century.

• Great CommissionBible

  The Great Commission is the command in which the risen Jesus instructed his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing and teaching them. Its principal text is Matthew 28:18-20.

• Great TribulationDoctrine & Theology

  The Great Tribulation is an eschatological term for a period of intense suffering said to occur immediately before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Interpretations of its duration and nature, and of whether the church will pass through it, vary among theological positions.

• Great White Throne JudgmentBible

  The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment scene that John saw in a vision, recorded in Revelation 20:11-15. Before a great white throne, the dead are judged according to their works, and whoever is not found written in the book of life is cast into the lake of fire.

• Great Fire of RomeHistory

  The Great Fire of Rome was a fire that destroyed a large part of the city of Rome in July AD 64, during the reign of the emperor Nero. It holds an important place in the history of Christian persecution because, according to Tacitus, Nero blamed the Christians for the fire and had them executed.

• Great SeaBible

  The Great Sea is a biblical place name for the present-day Mediterranean Sea, which lies west of the land of Canaan. The name appears mainly in passages that describe the western boundary of the Promised Land.

• Great WhoreBible

  The great whore is a symbolic figure in Revelation 17–19. She is depicted riding a scarlet beast, drunk with the blood of the saints, and committing fornication with the kings of the earth, and she is called "Babylon the Great."

• The Great Century of MissionsHistory

  The Great Century of Missions is a name coined by the American church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette for the period from 1800 to 1914, during which Protestant foreign missions expanded dramatically.

• Second Great AwakeningHistory

  The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement that spread across the United States from the late 1790s to about the 1830s, shortly after American independence. During this period the Methodists and Baptists grew dramatically, and a number of social reform movements arose.

• Parable of the Great BanquetBible

  The Parable of the Great Banquet is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 14:15–24. When the invited guests make excuses and fail to come, the host calls in the poor and people from the roadsides to fill his banquet.

• Alexander the GreatPeople

  Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) was a king of ancient Macedonia who overthrew the Persian Empire and built an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus River. The Greek language and culture spread by his conquests formed the backdrop of the intertestamental period and the New Testament era.

• Babylon the GreatBible

  Babylon the Great is a symbolic city that appears in Revelation 14–18. It represents worldly power that opposes God and the judgment that falls upon that power.

• East–West SchismHistory

  The East–West Schism was the division between the Western Church (Roman Catholic) and the Eastern Church (Orthodox). Its starting point is commonly dated to 1054, when the papal legates and the Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other.

• Diocletianic PersecutionHistory

  The Diocletianic Persecution, also called the Great Persecution, was the last large-scale persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire, lasting from 303 to about 313.

• Holy SaturdayFeasts & Seasons

  Holy Saturday is the Saturday of Holy Week, the day between Good Friday and Easter on which the church remembers that Jesus Christ lay in the tomb.

• Western SchismHistory

  The Western Schism was a division in the Western (Latin) Church from 1378 to 1417, during which two, and later three, rival claimants to the papacy held office at the same time. It ended when the Council of Constance elected Martin V as the new pope.

• CyrusPeople

  Cyrus, known in general history as Cyrus II or Cyrus the Great, was a king of the ancient Persian Empire. The Bible records him as the ruler who permitted the people of Judah held captive in Babylon to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.