It’s About Time!

II Timothy 2:3 “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”

My name is Addison B. Bachman. I’m a soldier of Jesus Christ. I’m on a 2-Point mission to fulfill my part of the Great Commission and to confront Satan, the enemy, to expose him, and the fraud he’s perpetuating about Christianity and its eschatological teachings.

This is how I got here:

Addison B. Bachman    –   Publisher  JesusMAGA.com

During my adolescent years I bounced around different Christian study groups and prayer groups. I bought the new Bible translations being printed for teenagers, like “The Way”. In high school I joined a Christian organization called Campus Life. In those days these organizations were allowed on high school campuses after school hours to recruit teenage members.  I went with a team of nine to the 1976 Montreal Olympics to “witness” to the people flooding into the events, where I quickly discovered I hated “witnessing”. Tossing my sack full of Christian tracts for the seats of the Olympic tracks. In September of ’76 I turned sixteen, the next couple of years were dedicated to cars, girls, and ditching school for the beaches of Laguna, California.

After graduating high school 1978, I started taking acting lessons in Hollywood. Long story short, a little more than a year later I was cast as a lead in a movie. A true story about the invention of an electric car called The Second Millennium Cruiser (the movie was never made). At a press conference to announce the cast and see a demonstration of the car, I was surprised to see my great uncle (as in my mother’s uncle), Dr. Paul Maddox in attendance.

Quick Background About Uncle Paul:

My great uncle Paul was a preacher, early in his career he was a military clergyman. He rose quickly through the ranks and became the Chief Of Chaplin’s of the European theater in WWII. His were the first units to arrive into every German city that was captured by American forces as we closed in on Hitler.

When he came home after the war he befriended a fellow pastor named Billy Graham. Paul would go on to help organize Billy Graham’s “coming out” event called the “Los Angeles Crusade of 1949.” (My mother sang in the choir throughout the event).

Paul later joined with Pastor Ralph Wilkerson and helped to build the historical “Melodyland Christian Center” across the street from Disneyland in Anaheim, California where he would meet another preacher, a soon to be infamous preacher.

Taking me aside at the press conference, completely out of the blue, uncle Paul told me “Great One (that was his nickname for me. I don’t know why), I know you’ve been searching for God, if you really want to learn about God, you must listen to a man by the name of Dr. Gene Scott”. Turns out Dr. Scott had been invited as a guest speaker at Melodyland, and uncle Paul was quite impressed with him. So much so, instead of recommending his iconic friend Billy Graham, he steered me to a man who would become known as the “Shock Jock of Televangelism“.

My Christian Red Pill

In the late 70’s Dr. Scott could be heard 24/7 on FM radio in Southern California. He also had a broadcasting license and a small television transmitter atop the local mountains. The very day uncle Paul told me about Doc (that’s what he went by), I tuned in for his nightly broadcast. As chance would have it, he sent his mother that night to cover his absence. We called her Mom Scott. She decided to tell the miracle story of bringing up young Gene, and how God chose him to become his voice in the wilderness. This introduction was a one time event never to be repeated. A few days later I heard Doc for the first time. I immediately knew I found what I had been looking for.

Within two years of participating with his ministry I was hired as an intern. I completed my four year internship and remained with the ministry for nearly 28 years total, including nearly two years after Doc passed on Feb 21, 2005.

I could go on for pages describing Doc, instead I’ll invite you to visit a website I built in his memory. You can visit it at www.GodsAngryMan.com. The name of the website is the title of a documentary film the famous director Werner Herzog made about Doc (available on the site).

What was Different About this Preacher?

What made Doc stand out from every other TV Evangelist or preacher I had ever heard was his scholarly approach to teaching the word. Doc was a two-time PhD from Stanford university. He spoke, read, and wrote Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, Spanish and English. For the first time I was hearing the correct translation of the Bible. It was being explained and proven like a college course. The students were not asked to believe, we were taught with facts. Secondly, Doc was a man’s man. He insisted his message be judged, not the messenger. He was free in Christ, and he set his listeners free from the judgmental yoke every other ministry collared its parishioners with.

During my time with Doc’s ministry, he would eventually become the person God chose to fulfill the prophecy of taking God’s word to the whole world. By “whole world” (Pre-internet), I mean every square inch of the globe. Doc did this using a combination of satellites, radio, television stations, and using shortwave radio stations located in strategic locations on the planet, to include arrays once used by the Soviets to block the Voice of America broadcasts. For at least a decade there was not a spot on Earth one could not hear Doc preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Salvation through Grace, kept by Faith.

When the Student Becomes the Teacher

Doc came to television in the mid-seventies after being voted in by desperate church board members to save FBN Faith Broadcasting Network (The world’s first television ministry), from corruption and bankruptcy. It wasn’t long before he had fired and kicked out the likes of Paul & Jan Crouch and Jim & Tammy Baker.

Joseph A Cortes was a member of FBN before Doc came to town.  At 17, he became the first intern Doc enlisted when he arrived at a failing church. In Joe’s words “Pastor Cortes spent 30 years under the ministry of the great theologian Dr. Gene Scott, in which 10 of those years he became Dr. Scott’s personal assistant in all areas of the ministry where he was instrumental in spreading Dr. Scott’s ministry and message across the United States.”

During my time with Doc’s ministry, I of course knew Joe, but pretty much in passing. We never had much of a relationship. Joe was ever present, and I knew he was held in high esteem by Doc. In fact, I always expected Joe would take over the ministry once Doc retired. What I didn’t know (and I don’t think he did either), was Joe was biding his time under the direct tutelage of his mentor. While Joe was completely loyal to Doc, he used his access to parallel study down paths God was directing him to travel.

When Doc passed in 2005, the keys to the kingdom went to his recently married to wife. She took over as pastor. That’s when Joe made his exit. Five months later Joe started his own television ministry. I left her ministry in 2007, and It wouldn’t be until the Spring of 2009 that I first started listening to Joe. I could hear an echo of “God’s Angry Man” in Joe’s tenor, and I felt at home with the simple studio set, but I was astonished by how Joe was using the foundation messages of Doc’s ministry as launching pads to newer and brighter understandings of the scriptures. Many in startling contrast to what Doc taught, especially in field of eschatology. Joe started to unravel the Book of Revelation like it was the easiest book in the Bible to understand.  His teaching was light years ahead of Doc’s.

Now in 2023, 18 years into his ministry, Joe has set himself apart from all others, including his mentor. He has established himself without comparison. He has many contributions of better rightly divided understandings of such things as Salvation, Spiritual Warfare, Discipleship, Communion and especially the happenings and timelines of the Last Days Revelatory message. Click here to discover it for yourself. 

God Bless Us All,

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