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about the Total Onslaught
It must have been roughly five years ago that I heard

lectures I needed to hear. I felt presseries from my mom. She kept telling me about these
not for the reasons you may think. You
sured by her bringing it up again and again, although
was raised in the church and attended
see at the time, I was not part of the SDA church. I
of college. It was a great experience
church school, including academy through my first year
schools. But when I got out of college and met
tist
and I am so glad I was able to grow up in the Adven
ians, we were basically the same and had
nd, I was very naive. I thought that if we were both Christ
my husba
next
at a non-denominational church, and did so for the
similar beliefs. So I began attending church with him
eleven years.
of the doctrines I was taught—the obsolesHowever, through those years, I struggled with some

re in
rtal soul, and the Second Coming of Christ/ Raptu
cence of the Sabbath, the state of the dead/immo
issues, I became even more confused.
s to study these
particular. But when I would sit down with my friend
the Bible didn’t seem so clear when
been taught as a child that I thought were so clear in
The doctrines I had
I studied them.
nd gave me a New International Version Bible
I should mention that when I got married, my husba

to
King James I’d had since childhood. But as I began
as a gift. From that point on, I used it in place of the
the Bible, I just got more
to search out the answers in
question the new doctrines I was being taught and
it was all sort of
I felt like I was in a spiritual fog. Nothing seemed clear;
confused, even to the point where
y of Christ when I read the notes
nce and the divinit
garbled. I even had moments of doubting God’s existe
nt of Jesus’ resurrection and
some of the earliest manuscripts do not have the accou
in my Bible stating that
the 40 days He spent on earth afterward.
five weeks alone at my mom’s house along with
Well, through a miracle of God, I was able to spend

nd was working out of state. During that time, I began
my two and three-year-old children while my husba
jumped at the opportunity to share the Total Onslaught
to open up a bit and ask questions of my mom. She
one
felt the fog lift off my mind. It was amazing! The first
DVDs with me. From the moment I watched them, I
d and all the pieces began to
astounded at what I learne
she showed me was the Battle of the Bibles. I was
y I saw and understood
my old childhood Bible and began reading, immediatel
fall into place. As I pulled out
sional. It was so much deeper and more
to three-dimen
so much more—it’s like the Bible had gone from one
hearing the truth—straight, direct,
known. I felt a huge sense of relief and joy at finally
amazing than I’d ever
and beautiful.
anging to me were The Crime of All Ages and
Other DVDs in the series that were especially life-ch

I
one of the churches on the Strange Fire DVD and
Strange Fire. The current church I was attending was
was shown and feeling
ber being at the meeting that
recognized many of the people in it. I particularly remem
ing these DVDs,
going on and what the preacher was doing. After watch
very uncomfortable about what was
the years I had not honored God by
and remorse for all
I had a powerful conversion. I felt incredible sadness
to Him in repentance. And I
ents. I remember crying hard tears and calling out
not obeying His commandm
hed.
, and cheris
felt a wonderful joy at knowing I was forgiven, loved
s at my new-found faith and my return
I went back home, I knew my husband w