When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile

Author:Leah Sottile [SOTTILE, LEAH]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2022-10-04T00:00:00+00:00

By the time Chad Daybell arrived on AVOW, he was a well-known LDS author and publisher. People were elated he was there among them.

“What a pleasure it is to see you here at LONG LAST Chad!” Parrett wrote.

“Wow! THE Chad Daybell,” wrote one poster. “Welcome to AVOW!”

Chad promoted his books on the site and teased what he was working on. In 2012, he wrote that a new book would incorporate some of Sarah Menet’s NDE visions of a bioterror attack in America. “I will definitely be buying this book,” responded one member.

AVOW posters declared Chad’s books to be “fun”—and he agreed. “The series is filled with man-made plagues, earthquakes, floods, economic turmoil, and quite a few deaths of the spiritually unprepared,” he wrote, “which we secretly cheer for as we think of our own haughty ward members.”

When Julie Rowe began posting about her NDEs in the conversation about energy work, a chorus of people chimed in to commend her for sharing her story. Her post also caught Chad’s attention, and he asked if they could speak on the phone. Once Chad and Julie got talking, they had lots in common: Both claimed to have had several near-death experiences, and both felt compelled to share those with the world—despite church authorities cautioning people like them against doing so. Both felt burdened by what they couldn’t say and wanted to free themselves from those constraints.

As he had years earlier with Suzanne Freeman, Chad told AVOW he quizzed Rowe on her visions. “I’ve seen a wide spectrum of people who claim they have had visions and NDEs,” he wrote. “I can easily spot the frauds now.”

Not only did Chad believe Rowe, he also believed he had seen her in a vision of his own. Chad said he had seen a “tall, dark-haired woman” in “a full waking vision of her speaking to a large group.”

He offered to publish her story through his Spring Creek Book Company, believing she would address specific holes that he thought Spencer had carelessly left in Visions of Glory. “Part of her motivation to write her book was Spencer’s lack of detail about the Tent Cities,” he told AVOW readers.

For her book, Rowe mined a deep well of visions she claimed to have had about the coming apocalypse, “reliving the horrors she had seen concerning the coming troubles and destruction,” Chad explained on his blog. “It really wore her down emotionally, but she pushed forward with it. She could have been much more graphic and detailed in her descriptions, but that wasn’t the purpose of the book.”

The NDE market didn’t demand quality writing as much as moments of destruction, pestilence, famine, fire, and despair. They came for validation that their preparations were not extreme but a measure of their spirituality that could be counted in cans of food and barrels of water.

Chad liked to tell a story about the production of Rowe’s book: While he was putting the finishing touches on A Greater Tomorrow: My Journey Beyond the Veil, he woke from sleep one night.

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