About the Author
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 is also the author of Truth Led Me Out and Truth about Adventist “Truth”. He is the founding editor of Proclamation! and serves on the board of Life Assurance Ministries.
The Ratzlaffs live in Peoria, Arizona have two married sons, Bruce and Mike, and four grandchildren.
Dedication
To my wife, Carolyn, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for her willingness to follow truth as we understand it, for the countless hours she spent reading the many versions of this manuscript, for her numerous helpful suggestions for its improvement, and for fifty one years and counting of wonderful marriage.