Mission Statement

The mission of An Overwhelming Surprise is to expose Satan’s efforts to catch the church unprepared for his final campaign against the commandments of God and the Sabbath In particular. Satan knows that his time is short and will use all the power of his intellect to arrange things so as to cause confusion among the people concerning important events as they unfold.

We are expecting events to transpire in a particular manner and Satan knows that, and will do all he can to catch us off guard; while we are looking in one direction for his assault he is likely to approach from another, therefore the “overwhelming surprise” of which the inspired writers warn.

-Gerald Conken

“The signs in the sun, moon, and stars have been fulfilled. Since that time earthquakes, tempests, tidal waves, pestilence, and famines have multiplied. The most awful destructions, by fire and flood, are following one another in quick succession. The terrible disasters that are taking place from week to week speak to us in earnest tones of warning, declaring that the end is near, that something great and decisive will soon of necessity take place. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise.”

The watchman, Dec 1909, paragraphs 1 & 2