Chuck Missler, founder of Koinonioa House, prolific author
and encourager for those who study the Bible, has died at the age of 83.
Koinonioa House, a publisher and conference organizer,
announced his death Tuesday.
Missler died peacefully at his home in Reporoa, New Zealand,
to which he moved following his retirement from full-time involvement in
Koinonia, which is based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
He was preceded in death by his wife and Koinonia
co-founder, Nancy Missler, in 2015.
She founded The King’s High Way Ministries.
Both Misslers were raised in Southern California, and they
were married after Chuck Missler took his commission in the Air Force and
completed flight training. He later became the branch chief of the Department
of Guided Missiles, and started and salvaged several private corporations.
Chuck Missler also was preceded in death by two sons,
Charles and Mark.
He is survived by two daughters, Lisa Bright and Meshell
Missler, grandchildren Emily Wilmore, Madeline Wilmore, Mason Missler, Noah
Bright, James Bright, Sommer Bright, Alexandra Bright and Sophie Missler.
Joseph Farah, WND founder and CEO, knew Missler for many
years.
“Chuck Missler was an inspiration to me for 40 years. He was
a true friend for 40 years. He played a unique role in my life for 40 years.
Words are inadequate to explain the role he played in my life for all that
time. I mourn his passing but with the assurance that we will be reunited in
God’s Kingdom – the Kingdom He taught me and the rest of the world so much
about,” he said.
Missler’s first career, after he concluded his education at
the United States Naval Academy and subsequent time in the U.S. military,
involved a wide range of leading edge technology ventures. He started several
companies and saved many more. He worked at the executive level, having served
on boards for a multitude of publicly held operations.
He was recruited by the Ford Motor Company into a senior
management position and established the first international industrial computer
network in 1966.
His final consultancy in the American technology sector was
as an adviser to the Super-Wide Area Satellite (SWANsat) System, an
international telecommunications venture.
His second career, Koinonia House explained, was that of
biblical studies.
“Truly the passion of his life was encouraging of others to
commit to the serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God,” the
organization said of its founder.
He started out with an informal affiliation with Calvary
Chapel of Costa Mesa, California, and worked more than 40 years to share his
teachings on the integration of Scripture with science, history and prophecy.
His work covered spanned the technology of audio cassettes
and video tapes to internet downloads and YouTube videos.
Missler had earned a Masters Degree in engineering at UCLA
with additional post-graduate studies in applied mathematics, advanced
statistics and information sciences. He completed earned his doctorate at
Louisiana Baptist University.
His vast library of published works includes “The Kingdom,
& Power, & Glory,” “The Romance of Redemption,” “Isaiah: An
Expositional Commentary,” “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” and “Storm Warming.”
He occasionally drew attention for some novel concepts about
the Bible, such as the 2013 event where he concluded the Bible is not from our
“time domain.”
He’s created a video presenting evidence.
“The Bible is incredible, and you can demonstrate it is of
extraterrestrial original,” he said in a talk to the Christ’s Commission
Fellowship Church.
He also saw a message in the genealogical sequence of the
names Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and
Noah.
According to the associated letters in Hebrew alphabet, the
names together say: “Man appointed mortal sorrow. Blessed God shall come down
teaching that His death shall bring the despairing comfort.”
When his wife died it was reported the couple had taken on
some weighty issues, addressing questions such as: Will eternity be the same
for believers who follow Christ faithfully and those who live a carnal
lifestyle?
Another issue was: Scripture says we are to “prepare
ourselves” for Christ’s soon return. What does this mean for each of us
personally? What’s at stake?
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