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==Victor Houteff and Adventism==

During the 1920s, Victor Houteff, always a faithful Church member, and strict Adventist, became a Sabbath School teacher at the Exposition Park church in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], California. A keen student of the [[Bible]], Houteff began to delve deeply into it, and the writings of [[Mrs. [[Ellen G. White]]. His Bible study classes lasted longer, and became more complex, attracting large groups of Adventists, every week. Houteff's particular focus was the Scriptures from Isaiah, in chapters 54 through 66. Houteff encountered much hostility from the ministerial bureaucracy of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, since many of its noted [[theologians]] were unable to answer his doctrinal questions. Eventually, Houteff and a large number of his Bible class were [[disfellowshiped]] by their Church.

Houteff persisted, moving his class of more than fifty Adventists to a large house across the street from the church, where he continued to study and teach. Houteff attempted to interest the California SDA General Conference in his Biblical findings, which he believed were really a continuation of the Three Angels Message of Revelation 14. The Three Angels Message is one of the basic [[doctrines]] of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.