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THE GREAT CONTROVERSY

This book faithfully traces the development of the greatest war ever fought— the war over your eternal destiny. Relying on the prophecies of the Bible, The Great Controversy speaks to a world looking for hope. Book • GCJBT • US $9.99 SALE $6.99 10–27 US $4.29 each 28–111 US $3.99 each

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In an unprecedented age, the Bible provides clarity and hope. Find reliable answers to life’s most important questions. Don’t miss Revelation Today: The Great Reset, presented by Pastor John Bradshaw from It Is Written.

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New daily devotional by John Bradshaw THE HOPE OF GLORY

Christianity is something like a Rubik’s Cube. Virtually everyone has heard of it, most people have tried it, but few have figured out how to do it successfully. In his struggle to live a victorious Christian life, Paul recounted his experience of falling far short of what he knew to be the will of God. But he went on to write about a Christianity that works. The Hope of Glory will encourage you to experience a faith that connects your heart with the heart of God. Daily Devotional • US $19.99

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Earl A brick and stucco home with a terra cotta tile roof sits in a quiet, comfortable suburban neighborhood in southern Arizona under a beautiful blue sky. Nothing out of the ordinary until you meet the owner. Earl grew up in Barbados with his mother and brother. There wasn’t money for extra things like flooring, or refrigerators, and definitely not televisions. But when he turned 11, the small family moved to a newer home. It had a black and white television and for the first time Earl saw Hollywood. Families had running water and refrigerators! He remembers asking as a young boy, “Why do we have to be this poor?” Earl’s vision for a better life went deeper than the home furnishings. He knew there was something deeper he was missing. Earl sang in the Anglican church choir and studied catechism, but when the family moved to their new home, he started seeing hypocrisies between what some of the church leaders were

A high-ranking military sergeant comes face to face with the God of heaven’s armies.

preaching and living. “I stopped going to church as a young man,” Earl remembered, “because things just didn’t line up.”

But he didn’t stop searching. Determined to build a better life for himself, Earl, at 15, bought two books: Think and Grow Rich and The Magic of Thinking Big and started to put the principles into practice. He got a job at the local library and started applying his get-rich book knowledge to the lottery. That had a rather disappointing outcome, so he tried envisioning his first car. That dream did come true three years later, but was dashed the following year in a car accident that totaled his car and should have taken his life.

But God was working out a much bigger plan for Earl than a disappointing lotto ticket and a totaled dream car. At 19 while on leave from work following the crash, Earl was invited to New York to be with his father and stepmom. His father was a United States Merchant Marine and showed Earl a life he had never seen before—the theatre, big city shows. But Dad also taught Earl discipline, and Earl picked up every lesson his dad laid down for him. Earl enlisted in the Army when he was 20, and after basic training, began training as a key punch operator. Because of his special training, Earl went to Texas instead of following most of his unit to Vietnam. He was later sent to South Korea where he was subjected to MK-Ultra mind control techniques. The experience left him with bad flashbacks and paranoia that lasted for years.

Maybe to deal with the flashbacks or just to satisfy the search in his heart, Earl started attending church again when he returned to the United States. He was looking for teaching more than preaching and discovered a keen interest in Revelation. He watched evangelists on television from his base housing, but he never found what he was looking for. Revelation just didn’t make sense to him.

But in other ways life was good. Earl got married, received several more promotions, and advanced in leadership, information technology, and computer science. He received the highest available security clearance and worked on the president’s top secret projects. He had found his niche.

He was hand picked for projects, became an airplane pilot, and reached the rank of Master Sergeant E8. After 20 years serving the United States Army, Earl retired, only to enter the workforce as a civilian.

For another 20 years, Earl worked as a consultant in the information technology field for many of the large tech companies as a system administrator, engineer, and architect. And then tragedy struck: Earl’s wife got sick. For a while treatment helped, but then one day she didn’t come home. She went from the emergency room to hospice and passed away within two weeks. Earl was lost, devastated. What had all his years of work and accomplishment meant if it all ended with IV tubes and a tombstone?

Earl went back to work, but the tears that he had never cried as a child, or as a soldier, or even when his parents died, now wouldn’t stop. He cried every day. Work felt meaningless. He was at a crossroad in life unsure of what to do next. A month after his wife passed away, Earl was sitting in his office holding a brochure for grief counseling when the phone rang. It was a representative from the counseling center he had just been reading about. Earl began meeting with a counselor who

God had was also a pastor. This meant a great deal to Earl, and his something heart slowly began to mend. On March 31, 2019, eight very special months after his wife had planned for passed away, Earl walked into his office at home, looked at Earl to do. the certificates on the wall, the accolades of appreciation on his desk, and realized he didn’t want to work anymore. He emailed his boss the next morning that he was quitting. He never looked back. Now he had time to travel, to buy that second vacation timeshare. He had the time and money to do whatever he wanted to do. And God had something very special planned for Earl to do. He had been

Pastor Ed

waiting for the perfect time to tell Earl about it, and this was it. Five months after retiring, Earl walked to the end of his short driveway and picked up the mail. In it he saw a flier for a Revelation Today series coming to his hometown in October. Maybe this would finally answer his questions about Revelation!

When Earl walked through the door of the Mesa Convention Center, Ed greeted him warmly and showed him around. Earl enjoyed the first few meetings but had a prior engagement out of town and missed a few nights. While out of town, he texted Ed and asked him if he could catch up on what he had missed. Ed replied and invited Earl back to the rest of the meetings and signed his text as “Pastor Ed.” Earl had no idea he was the pastor!

Earl went back to the meetings. Revelation started to make sense and, to his surprise, Earl discovered that his wife was resting, sleeping until Jesus returns. “It brought me so much peace,” Earl recalled. “I felt like God was answering so many of my needs. He gave me peace that only came from Him. Now the Second Coming gives me a lot of hope. I’ll meet Jesus, I’ll see my wife again! It will be so good. I cannot even imagine.”

Earl began studying the It Is Written Bible Study Guides with Pastor Ed, and they became good friends. “I wouldn’t have continued if Ed wasn’t Ed,” Earl said. “He was so cordial, friendly, and

accommodating. There were 20 pastors at the Revelation Today meetings, but I needed to meet Ed.” Earl started listening to the Bible, and it began to make more sense than ever before. Pastor Ed was thrilled to re-baptize Earl in a lake in May of 2021. “All through my youth, all through the military, I was always missing something deeper,” Earl said. “I couldn’t even find it in church. I didn’t find it until I attended Revelation Today with Pastor John Bradshaw.”

Earl’s commitment to Jesus took him one more step. Even before his re-baptism, Earl began supporting It Is Written and became a Partner in 2020. “I was led to contribute and inspired to give at the Partnership level,” Earl said. “God put it in my heart. I just did what God asked me to do.”

All through his life, Earl can see the hand of God. Protecting him, guiding him, directing him exactly to where he is right now. “Someone has always been looking out for me,” Earl said. He knows that God has fulfilled His promise to guide him along the best pathway for his life (Psalm 32:8) and that the One who has been there all his life will safely bring him home (Philippians 1:6).

JOCELYN ANDERSON is the interim director of development. Jocelyn coordinates all the Partnership events each year and enjoys connecting with donors.

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