Joseph Bates

Joseph Bates was a 19th-century American preacher and one of the early founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was instrumental in promoting the observance of Saturday as the biblical Sabbath, emphasizing health principles and biblical prophecy. Bates’s leadership and teachings helped shape the church’s core beliefs, particularly regarding the Sabbath, health reform, and the Second Coming of Christ. He is remembered for his dedication to biblical authority and his role in establishing the doctrines that continue to influence Seventh-day Adventism today.