3. October 22, 1844, was not the correct date for the Jewish Day of Atonement in 1844.


Answer: There was more than one way of reckoning the Jewish calendar year. The Millerites considered the Karaite reckoning to be the closest to the Biblical reckoning.


Resources:

Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, vol. 11, 1996 ed., p. 805.

George Knight, Millennial Fever, 1993, pp. 163-164, 189.

LeRoy E. Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 4, pp. 799-805, 821-822, with charts on pp. 790-792.

For additional evidence based upon astronomy and calendation, see William H. Shea, "Day of Atonement and October 22, 1844," in Selected Studies on Prophetic Interpretation, pp. 132-137. ("Daniel and Revelation Committee Series," vol. 1.)