Dale Ratzlaff was a fourth generation Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) and was educated in SDA schools. He pastored in the Adventist church for 13 years, seven of these as a Bible teacher at Monterey Bay Academy, La Selva Beach, California.

In the 1980s, while nearing the end of his doctoral program at Andrews University, Dale Ratzlaff did an in-depth study of the SDA doctrine of the Investigative Judgment and Cleansing of the Heavenly Sanctuary, which Adventists teach started in 1844. He became convinced that this doctrine could not be supported by Scripture, was contrary to clear biblical teaching, and undermined the new covenant gospel of grace. As he could no longer teach this doctrine in clear conscience, Dale Ratzlaff and his wife, Carolyn, left the SDA denomination.

About two years after leaving the SDA church. Mr. Ratzlaff led a group of Christians in a seven-month inductive Bible study of the Sabbath. He continued studying the topic of the gospel, the covenants and the Sabbath and published Sabbath in Crisis in 1990. This book went through four printings, was revised and enlarged and printed under the title, Sabbath in Christ. The present volume is the second revision of Sabbath in Christ.

Mr. Ratzlaff has authored three other books dealing with Seventh-day Adventist issues: The Cultic Doctrine of Seventy-day Adventists, Truth Led Me Out and Truth about Adventist “Truth”. Three of these are now available in Spanish and are being translated into several other languages. He owns and operates LAM Publications, LLC, gives weekend seminars on Adventism and is a speaker at Former Adventist Conferences. He founded Life Assurance Ministries, Inc. and was the founding editor of Proclamation! now sent to about 30,000 homes. He has dozens of published articles.

The Ratzlaffs live in Peoria, Arizona have two married sons, Bruce and Mike, and four grandchildren.

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