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Seventh-Day Adventists

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  1. A denomination of Christians (see also Christian) who proclaim that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the very near future. Unlike practically all other Christians, they observe Saturday, rather than Sunday, as a Sabbath.


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There are one million members of the church in North America, according to the North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2024

The only inland blue zone is Loma Linda, California – one of the world's largest populations of Seventh-Day Adventists.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2023

The Dosses are Seventh-Day Adventists, but the film gives no sense of a religious community—or, if there is one, whether the Dosses are isolated in theirs.

From The New Yorker Nov. 3, 2016

This was the climax of a horror movie sponsored by the American Temperance Society, affiliated with the tobacco-fighting Seventh-Day Adventists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purple was for non-Jewish religious prisoners, such as the Seventh-Day Adventists, or Protestant or Catholic church leaders who opposed Hitler.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

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