The experience of the disciples who preached the “gospel of the kingdom” at the first advent of Christ, had its counterpart in the experience of those who proclaimed the message of His second advent. As the disciples went out preaching, “The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand,” so Miller and his associates proclaimed that the longest and last prophetic period brought to view in the Bible was about to expire, that the judgment was at hand, and the everlasting kingdom was to be ushered in. The preaching of the disciples in regard to time was based on the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 . The message given by Miller and his associates announced the termination of the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14 , of which the seventy weeks form a part. The preaching of each was based upon the fulfillment of a different portion of the same great prophetic period. GC 351.1 Like the first disciples, William Miller and his associates did not, themselves, fully comprehend the import of the message which t…
"And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
Ellen White directly references Daniel 8:14 in this passage.