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Tanya

grew up in Kazakhstan, a former

Soviet-bloc country located at the

crossroads of Asia and Europe. Growing up atheist, she had

given little thought to the notion of a god. But after she moved
to America with her husband Carey, a neighbor invited her to

church.“I accepted Christ,” she shares,“and began attending

mainstream churches. First I went to a Baptist church and

then to a non-denominational mega church.”
Tanya even became a trusted children’s Sunday

School teacher, which she loved, but sometime later she

started to feel empty in her heart. She began wondering,
“Am I really a Christian?”

For a year and a half, Tanya stopped going to church.

“One night,” she remembers, “I got on my knees and

prayed,‘God, I need to know the truth. I feel like I’m going
nowhere with You. Please show me the truth.’ I cried out in

desperation. I can still hear the clear thought in my head

when God answered, Tanya, there is a whole lot you don’t

know. Are you ready? If I reveal the truth to you, you will be
accountable. Are you ready for that? That scared me out of

my socks! I asked,‘God, can I think about that and come up.” She told herself that she didn’t care anymore, but deep

back tomorrow?’”
inside she was still searching. In desperation, Tanya decided to
Tanya couldn’t sleep. After much wrestling, she do a Google search, looking one more time for the truth and she

recognized that she needed to know the truth and was didn’t care who the messenger was. So she typed in the search

ready to hear it. The next day, she returned to her knees. box: What Is Truth? “I didn’t know what else to type. Then a

“God, I do want to know the truth, but I’m afraid. Can you video popped up that was titled ‘USA in Bible Prophecy’ by
show me under one condition? Can you help me to swallow Doug Batchelor. It was from The Prophecy Code series.”

the truth and be obedient, even though it is hard?” Again, Tanya had never heard of Doug Batchelor, but she couldn’t

Tanya heard a clear thought in her mind assuring her, believe that the United States could actually be in Bible
Tanya, if you are willing to follow the truth, I will help you
prophecy. So she listened out of curiosity.“Only a few minutes
do it. “I am willing,” she answered.
into the topic, I nearly fell off my chair.” She paused his talk and

ran to get her Bible.“I thought maybe this guy had a secret Bible
A New Journey Begins
or something. But he spoke straight from the Bible. Not just his
From that encounter, Tanya began a two-month own opinions. The Bible!”

journey of searching for God’s truth, seemingly coming to Just when Tanya wished she could hear more, the program

one dead end after another.“I was so disappointed that I ended by stating the whole series was available online. So

finally decided that I must have dreamed the whole thing
she kept listening with her Bible by her side.“Twenty-four

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