To some Millerites this concept signified a point of time, others felt it was a period of time. Miller himself said that the “time of the end” meant the end of the power of the pope “to tread on the Church by his civil authority, or reign over the kings of the earth, and to dispose of lands for gain.”100 Papal power came to an end during the French Revolution when, “in the beginning of the year 1798, on the fifteenth of February, a French general, Berthier, entered Rome with a French army without