Autobiography

Chapter 1

I’m getting to be rather an old guy. If a Biography is going to be done, looks like now is about the time.

And yet, Biographers don’t seem to be waiting in line to do the job.

As it happens, however, I’m an Author, and I have all the information, so I’ll just go ahead and do the book.

I believe my story will help others, such as young people coming up.

I was born into a conflicted family. My Mother was a Christian, but my Dad was an unbeliever. He said he was an Atheist.

Mother told me later that she thought that if she married the man who would become my Dad, he would become a Christian.

She was wrong. He never did.

That’s why the Bible tells us in Corinthians, “Don’t be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.”

So Mother had 67 years of a marriage that was mostly rocky.

The Bible says, “How can two walk together unless they are agreed?”

Dad had it rather tough as a child, and lived at an orphanage. He grew up struggling to survive. I guess he had some contact for a while with his Mother.

I never heard what had happened to my paternal Grandfather. It just didn’t come up in the conversation. But that man had German ancestry, and my paternal Grandmother was from Austria.

Mother’s side of the family was from Sweden. My maternal Grandmother came over on a ship from Sweden. Her newborn child died on the trip because my Grandmother couldn’t get enough to eat.

During the Great Depression, they had the C.C.C.’s, the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Dad joined the CCC’s and was able to eat. Dad was later a Radioman in the Navy, but the nation was not then at war.

My Dad had an unpleasant experience working for a Jew, and apparently came to the conclusion that all Jews are bad.

It very much surprises me that Dad would come to that incorrect conclusion, since Dad was a rather smart fellow, and did well on I.Q. tests administered by one of his employers.

My High School Geometry teacher was Jewish, Mrs. Rosen, and she was absolutely wonderful as a Geometry teacher.

My High School band and orchestra teacher was a Jew, Aaron Rosenzweig, and he was just great.

One time, my Dad said to Mother, “You worship a Jew?”

Though Dad was a smart guy, Theology was not his strong suit.

Is God a Jew? No.

But when Jesus came down from heaven, he was born into a Jewish family because of the covenant between God and his friend, Abraham, the first Jew that we know about in the Bible.

So, you could say that Jesus was a Jew for his short life on earth of about 33 years, but for probably at least four thousand years before that, while he was living in heaven with God, His Father, Jesus was not a Jew.

So, four thousand years or more vs. 33 years. Which carries more weight?

When World War 2 broke out, my Dad was already a civilian employee for a government contractor that joined the work on the war effort, so Dad didn’t get drafted because of the work he was doing.

My Mother was also from a poor family. She was smart, but she didn’t get to finish high school because she had to go to work to help support her family.

Later, she went to night school, and got her high school diploma.

Mother was quite musical, and played piano, saxophone, and guitar, and sang in a ladies’ trio at church.

As a young woman, Mother had attended a Presbyterian Sunday School. One Sunday, her lady Sunday School teacher got rather aggressive with her, and practically insisted that Mother pray a sinner’s prayer to become a Christian, which Mother did.

Later, when Mother got alone, the Lord spoke to her. He said, “Well, you weren’t very enthusiastic today about becoming a Christian, were you?”

She answered, “No, I wanted to have some fun.”

Mother had older sisters and brothers who would go out dancing, and no doubt, she looked forward to the time when she would be able to do that also.

The Lord spoke to her again, “Do you want to be lost?”

She said, “No, I don’t want to be lost.”

I am the oldest of the children of my Mother and Dad. I also have a younger brother, but no sisters.

My Brother went out for swimming in high school, and did well in competition. He studied Spanish in High School and College.

After graduation from College he wanted to go to medical school. But it’s not so easy to get into American Medical Schools, so he attended Medical School at the University in Guadalajara, Mexico.

After medical school, he did an internship at a hospital, and then he had his own practice in general medicine. He’s now retired, and very much involved in music.

He’s an excellent Pianist, and plays Trombone.

My Dad was a very strict parent, and had rules about everything.

Dad, as a hobby, learned to fly, and got a private pilot’s license.

He bought his own small propeller driven private airplane.

My brother and I were invited to fly with him.

My brother went, and learned to pilot. Later, my brother got his private pilot’s license.

But I declined the invitation to fly with my Dad, because I knew that he would have a rule about everything, and I expected that that would take the enjoyment out of it.

As a young woman, Mother’s family lived in New Jersey. Later, they moved to Southern California, and Mother got involved with Angelus Temple in Los Angeles.

She and two of her sisters sang in a ladies’ trio.

One of my Mother’s sisters was an excellent seamstress, and made clothes for “Sister,” (Aimee Semple McPherson.)

Later, Mother was a Pianist at an Assembly of God church, and taught Sunday School class.

Mother also received the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.

Raising two children was sometimes a full-time job, plus the cooking and housekeeping for the family.

But when she had time, my Mother worked in the printing industry as a proofreader, and bookbinder.

Later, she got a job with a local aerospace contractor.

I played Trumpet in grammar school, Junior High School, and High School, and later, in the University of Calif. Marching Band (Berkeley).

In Junior High, I took typing class, which has helped with my authoring.

In Junior High School, we had Algebra 1, 2, 3, and 4. Something my Dad had said helped me with Algebra.

Dad said that in Algebra, he was Number 1.

So then, I expected also to do well in Algebra, and I did.

Mother told me I raised my hand in Church to accept Jesus when I was 4 years old.

Chapter 2

At about 13 or 14, I received the Baptism with the Holy Ghost at a Christian Youth Summer Camp.

They had a class on the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.

At the end of the first session, the Teacher asked, “Now who wants to receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost?”

Well, I did, and went forward.

But I didn’t receive on that occasion.

When I got alone, I pondered why I hadn’t received, and decided that it was probably because I hadn’t used enough faith.

So I said, “O.K., I’m going back to that class tomorrow, and when the invitation is given, I’ll receive.” And I did. Don’t remember whether I said that out loud or just to myself.

The Bible says we’re made in the image of God. We’re made in the image of the God who spoke the worlds into existence.

So, we also have some power to speak things into existence.

A good book on this subject is “God’s Creative Power Will Work for You,” by Charles Capps.

I’ve seen it at Christian book stores, at the book store, ask where the shelves are for “Charismatic” books, such as by Charles Capps, Kenneth E. Hagin, and Norvel Hayes.

Capps also has a website at www.Charlescapps.com

Hagin has books at Amazon.com and at www.Rhema.org

Hayes has books at Amazon and at, www.nhm.cc

The Lord wants His Christians to receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.

The evidence of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost is the speaking in unknown tongues (languages). You’ll pray in a language you never learned.

Please see my book, “How to Receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost.”

When I was a Senior in Junior High School (middle school), my Orchestra teacher invited me to play a Trumpet solo at my Junior High School graduation, accompanied by the orchestra.

The selection was, “A Trumpeter’s Lullaby,” by Leroy Anderson.

It was probably first performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler.

Anderson and Fiedler seemed to have an arrangement where, when Anderson finished a new composition, the Boston Pops would perform it.

Anderson also composed “The Blue Tango,” “The Syncopated Clock,” “Belle of the Ball,” and many others.

Apparently, Anderson was quite a gifted musician, and played many musical instruments. Seems like I remember that he was very much involved with the Harvard Marching Band.

It was a pleasure to perform that Trumpet solo with the orchestra.

In High School, my favorite subjects were math, science, and music.

As a High School Freshman, I walked into Band Class with my Trumpet just a bit late the first day.

They were playing the wonderful strains of “La Gazza Ladra,” (the Thieving Magpie), by Rossini. The Conductor was Dominick DiSorro.

He was an excellent teacher.

Later, DiSorro got a teaching position at a local college, and was replaced by Aaron Rosenzweig, who was just great with the high school band and orchestra.

In the Fall semester, we had marching band. In the Spring semester, we had concert band.

At the end of one of the semesters, Mr. Rosenzweig asked me to play French Horn next semester in the Orchestra.

I said I’d never played it.

He said the fingering is about the same as Trumpet.

I said, “I don’t have a French Horn.”

He said the high school would provide one.

So, the next semester I played French Horn in the Orchestra.

As I was adding up semester credits in high school, it looked like I would have enough credits to graduate after five, instead of the usual six semesters.

I asked my Counselor, John Francis, about it, and he said that yes, I could accelerate and graduate after five semesters.

So I graduated high school at age 16, with a 3.01 Grade Point Average out of a possible 4.0

I had done well on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, and was accepted at the University of Calif., Berkeley.

My Brother said something to me about why not go to UCLA, and live at home. I answered, “I’d like to get away from home.”

He later said that when I said that, it was like a light bulb went on in his head.

The reason I wanted to get away from home is that I wanted to get out from under the authority of my Dad.

I think my Brother wanted that, too, but being younger, he would have to wait a while.

I had had newspaper delivery routes in my youth, and in High School, I had a part-time job selling athletic shoes for an Adidas dealer.

So I had my own car.

As the Fall semester approached, I loaded up the car, and drove off to Berkeley.

I liked my classes at U. of Cal, but the money didn’t last very long.

I was in the Cal Band, on Trumpet, and was living at the Cal Band House, which was a little like a fraternity house, and was located on fraternity row.

I washed dishes at the Cal Band House, and my Dad was sending $50 per month, but I could see that the expenses exceeded the income.

I went to the Navy Recruiter, and took some tests. They would accept me, and send me to Electronics school.

But being only 17, I needed my parents’ consent.

The Navy sent them the papers.

I don’t know how much discussion there was, and I’m sure my Mother was disappointed that I was dropping out of college, but my parents gave their consent.

I withdrew from U. of Calif., and the Navy sent me to Boot Camp in San Diego, CA.

Early on, in Boot Camp, we were given a battery of tests.

After taking some of the tests, a door opened, and a man came out of a back room. He came to me and asked how much education I had had. I said, “I’m a high school graduate.”

He told me I had done very well on the tests.

But I attribute my high test scores to my being a Christian, and not just a Christian, but a Holy Ghost Baptized Christian, and to the Lord’s help.

Psalm 1:3, says “Whatever he does will prosper.” It was just the normal thing that I would do well on tests.

One of those tests in Boot Camp was the GCT test (General Classification Test), and another was the ARI test (Math test).

I scored 100% on both of those tests, and well on the other tests.

On the basis of the test scores, I was made Recruit Chief Petty Officer, the highest ranking recruit in my company of about 75 recruits, and reporting to Company Commander Chief Machinist’s Mate Seely.

I marched the recruits around, such as to the mess hall for meals. Our company scored well at Boot Camp graduation.

Chapter 3

Next, the Navy sent me to Electronics Technician “A” School, Treasure Island, CA.

Treasure Island is an island in the San Francisco Bay.

They gave us some pretty good teaching there.

Later, when I was in the Army, they taught us to troubleshoot to the Printed Circuit Board level.

You would find the bad P.C. board, and swap it out. It would be sent somewhere else for repair.

But the Navy taught us to troubleshoot to component level. You would find the bad transistor, or vacuum tube, or resistor, etc.

After graduation from ET “A” School, my next duty station was an Aircraft Carrier, where I met new friends.

Sometimes, you’d go out to sea for two weeks at a time. You’d work an eight hour day, and then our electronics guys played a lot of Chess.

After a while it was decided we’d have a tournament.

I came out as the winner of the tournament.

The food was good aboard ship.

I repaired a lot of equipment on the Aircraft Carrier, including some of the equipment used on the airplanes.

By the time I got out of the Navy, I had advanced to Second Class Petty Officer.

I was Honorably Discharged.

My Navy training got me some good civilian jobs.

I worked for an Aerospace contractor that worked on the Apollo Project.

In the S.F. Bay area, I was looking for work, and there didn’t seem to be a lot of jobs available.

But there was an ad for an Electrician at a manufacturer in Willits, north of San Francisco.

I applied, and got the job. They said, “Based on your knowledge of electronics, we’ll hire you in as a Journeyman Electrician. So, I didn’t have to go through an apprenticeship.

I got some extra books and studied up on three phase electrical power and on electrical motors.

I later had a job with an Aerospace contractor in Sunnyvale, CA. They were working on the Hubble Space Telescope project.

They were using a PAL integrated circuit chip (Programmable Array Logic) that would replace half a dozen other chips.

At one point, I went to the Engineer and asked, “What goes into the PAL?”

He took out an older schematic diagram and circled some chips.

I wrote the Boolean Algebra expression for that logic and went to the machine that would program the PAL by burning certain fuses in the PAL.

The programming machine would show you ahead of time which fuses would get blown.

But they were the wrong fuses.

I found that by rearranging the terms of the Boolean expression, I could get the right fuses to blow.

This indicates that there was something wrong with the programming machine, because the order of terms of a Boolean expression shouldn’t matter.

Another problem they were having there was with a small circuit board that didn’t seem to be working right.

The hardware people said it was a software problem.

The software people said it was a hardware problem.

(Generally, you’re either a Hardware Engineer, or Software Engineer, but not both.)

But I knew both the hardware and software, so I wrote some software routines that proved the hardware was working.

I took my routines to the Software people and said, “If you’ll do it like this, it will work.”

They did, and it did.

After the Navy, in Southern California, I heard about another church that seemed interesting, Faith Center Church, in Glendale, CA.

They seemed to have a nice young people’s group, and I dated some of the young ladies.

That church was building its own TV station, and obtained a license for the station from the Federal Communications Commission.

One night, at mid-week choir practice, someone asked Byron Mobus, the radio station Chief Engineer how the TV station was coming along.

Mobus answered, “Well, he’s just one guy, but he’s making progress.”

He was referring to Bernie Marston, the TV Chief Engineer.

I spoke up and said, “Well, I’m available.”

Mobus said, “Oh, are you unemployed?”

I said, “No, doesn’t he work evenings, weekends?”

Not long after that, at one of the Sunday evening services at the church, Mobus invited me to come over to his home after church, where I would meet Bernie Marston.

Mobus’ wife made us a terrific toasted bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich.

Marston and I talked some.

A couple days later I got an offer of employment to work as an Engineer under Bernie Marston for the TV station.

I had not really been looking for an offer of a full-time job. I had a full-time job. I was my intention to volunteer to donate my time in the evenings and on weekends.

But with their offer of employment, I said here is something I can do for the Lord.

So I quit my other job, and went to work for the TV station.

At first, we were working at Marston’s shop in Alhambra, CA.

I drew a schematic diagram of the aural and visual cabinets and the high voltage power supply, correcting some wiring problems as I did so.

Then, we moved the equipment up to the new building at the transmitter site on Sunset Ridge in the Angelus National Forest.

After the TV station got on the air, I became the main operator of the TV station, driving the Jeep from the facilities in Glendale with the program materials, and a fifty gallon drum of water up to the transmitter.

We hauled our own water, and then pumped it into a large tank at the transmitter to use for flushing, washing the hands, cooking.

We were on the air about four hours a day, at first. Later, we went to seven hours a day.

There was no live programming because we didn’t have a microwave link down to the facilities in Glendale.

I believe they got that later.

The programming was all 16 mm movies, and video tapes. Station breaks were done with 35 mm slides and audio cassettes.

I believe it was winter when we first got on the air.

But as the temperature started to warm up in the spring, a problem developed with the high voltage power supply.

Expensive “doorbell” diodes were burning out.

At one of the morning meetings of the TV station, and officer of the station said, “We may have to go dark.” He meant that we might have to go off the air until the problem was solved.

I said, “That can’t be the will of God.”

I got the program materials and went up early to the transmitter.

I looked at all of the high voltage wiring. It had white Teflon insulation. I was looking for a black spot where there might have been some arcing—a short circuit.

I found no black spots.

I took the cabinet blower out of the high voltage cabinet door, and mounted it on a ladder, blowing the air directly at the doorbell diodes.

And the doorbell diodes stopped blowing out.

The doorbell diodes were called that because of their shape like a doorbell.

Marston got another blower for the high voltage cabinet, and we didn’t have any more trouble with the diodes.

Somewhere along in there, I don’t remember exactly what year it was, the Lord said to me, “You’re a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek.”

Until the Lord said that to me, I was not aware that there could be another priest after the order of Melchizedek.

But I kept that revelation to myself for about the next forty years.

Just because the Lord reveals something to you, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re supposed to go blabbing it around.

But, about two years ago, I felt the Lord wanted me to start telling people about it, so I did start telling people about it.

Now, Kenneth E. Hagin was called by the lord to be a Teacher.

In the early days of his ministry, Hagin pastored a couple of churches.

But apparently, he was in the permissive will of God, and not the perfect will of God, because the Lord told him, “I called you to be a Teacher, not a Pastor. You’re going to have to quit your pastorate, and go out on the road. You’ll teach at other Pastor’s churches.”

So, Hagin obeyed the Lord.

But when the Lord told me I was a priest, he didn’t tell me to quit my job and go do something.

I continued with my career in technology.

I had felt, since my youth, that the Lord wanted me to do a replacement translation for the King James Version of the Bible.

I worked on that some in my spare time.

After retirement, I finished it. I wrote a computer program that worked with two lists of words.

One list was the old King James words.

The other list was the replacement word in twenty first century American English.

The computer went through the King James Bible, and whenever it saw a word from the first list, it replaced the word with the word from the second list.

But it’s not really quite that easy.

You still have to go through manually, because English is a rather complex language. Some words have two or three meanings, so I had to make some manual changes.

Still, the computer program took a lot of the drudgery out of the task.

The other main thing that I’ve been doing in my retirement is the writing of books, published at Amazon.com and at Barnesandnoble.com.

I also have audio books at Audiobooks.com

So, the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version is copyrighted 2011 (and the New Testament, Hoehn Version).

After the Navy, I had some pretty good civilian jobs.

But then in the mid-seventies, there seemed to be a recession. I was in Texas, and having trouble finding technical work.

I went to the Army recruiter and enlisted.

They sent me to school on one of their missile systems.

Chapter 4

In school, I met a new friend, Sergeant First Class Catlett.

After school, we also served in Korea together.

When I got to Direct Support Detachment, in Korea, there was a radar there that no one had been able to repair for three months.

The antenna wanted to rotate when it wasn’t supposed to.

I wasn’t assigned to work on that radar, but I worked on it in my spare time.

I was able to measure one ampere of current flowing where there shouldn’t have been current flowing. I suspected a short circuit.

Using the diagrams, I followed where that circuit with the excessive current flow went.

One place that it went was to a connector near the bumper of the trailer for that radar.

The problem wasn’t immediately visible because there was a rubbery boot that covered the back of the connector.

When I pulled back the boot, the problem immediately appeared. Someone had done just a terrible job of soldering that connector. They don’t solder that badly at the factory.

Someone in the field had soldered the connector, and left blobs of solder, causing a short circuit.

I showed Sergeant Catlett the problem. Catlett got me another connector.

He asked me if I wanted him to get someone to do the soldering.

I said, “Well, my Dad taught me to solder when I was about twelve years old, and I’ve been soldering ever since. You’d better let me do the soldering.”

He did. I did. And the radar was fixed.

While stationed there in the Republic of Korea, I met and married my wife, Kum Yong, a Christian young woman.

She bore me two children, daughters. Both of my daughters have married.

But my marriage only lasted about four and one half years.

A couple years after the divorce, my ex-wife married another man.

I had rather a fun job in the Silicon Valley area in California.

They needed a programmer for their Protocol Converter product.

Some of these oil companies have rooms full of printers.

With the protocol converter, you could replace a lot of expensive IBM printers with cheap ASCII printers.

I did their programming tasks, and then I said, “Please let me redesign the product.”

The boss had hired me as a software guy, and may have not been very aware of my rather extensive hardware background.

He said, “Take a week, and see if you can at least come up with a block diagram.”

I went back to him in less than a week with a seven page schematic diagram for the replacement product.

They did a cost analysis and found that they could build the new one cheaper than the old one.

But the Lord has helped me with my technical achievements. He is, after all, the best Hardware Engineer, and the Best Software Engineer.

When I lived in Houston, TX, I found Lakewood Church.

Pastor John Osteen had some excellent things to say.

My Mother flew out from California and stayed with me at my apartment for a day or two. She went with me to Lakewood Church.

They also had some excellent guest speakers at Lakewood such as Kenneth E. Hagin, Dr. Norvel Hayes, and Charles Capps.

I’ve been quite blessed to have had the opportunity to have learned from these men.

No doubt, it has changed my life.

“The entrance of thy word gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.”

And now, the Lord has made me a teacher, too, with my books.

Norvel Hayes said the Lord told him, “Now these are the most important words that ever came out of my mouth…”

Jesus was talking about the words in Mark 16:17,18 that say, “These signs shall follow those who believe, In my name, they’ll cast out demons, they shall speak with new tongues (languages, unknown tongues from the Baptism with the Holy Ghost), they’ll lay hands on the sick, and they’ll recover.”

Please notice that the very first sign following that Jesus said Christians should be doing is casting out demons.

But I think there is a severe scarcity of that in our American Christian churches these days.

Why is it that Christians are not doing what Jesus said to do?

Back in the San Fernando Valley, after the Navy, working full time, and going to college part-time, I was able to complete a year of college work toward an Engineering degree in about two years.

So, on my resume, I used to say, under the heading “Education,” “A.A. equivalent, with a year of college, plus two years of military technical schools.”

Maybe not every prospective employer bought it, but some did.

One time when I was in the Silicon Valley area of Calif., I was looking for work.

At the peak, in Silicon Valley, you could open the Sunday San Jose Mercury News and find about a hundred pages of technical jobs.

But on that occasion, I found only 19 jobs that I could apply for.

At the Mountain View public library, they had the Sunday Chicago Tribune.

In it, I found 59 jobs I could apply for.

I said, “I’d better get myself to Chicago.”

The Bible says, “Happy is the man who always fears.”

Noah was moved with fear when he built the ark.

I loaded up the car, checked out of where I had been living, and drove to Chicago.

I found a place to live, and almost immediately found employment.

It is always important to seek the Lord’s guidance and help.

Also, we Christians should be speaking things into existence.

A good book on that subject is, “God’s Creative Power Will Work for You,” by Charles Capps.

I often use a method I got from Kenneth E. Hagin, who got it from the Lord.

It’s in Hagin’s book, “How God Taught Me About Prosperity.”

The Lord told Hagin, “I don’t want you to pray about finances any more, not like you’ve been praying. Here’s what I want you to do. 1) Claim whatever it is you need or want. 2) Say, “Satan, take your hands off my finances.” 3) Say, “Go ministering spirits and cause the money to come.”

Hagin asked about that third one, and the Lord reminded him of the scripture in the early part of the book of Hebrews where it says the angels are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation.

So, Hagin saw that he could give his angels assignments.

But I use that plan for more than just finances.

For best results, read it in Hagin’s book.

A thing that Christians should be doing every day is claiming promises over themselves and their families out of the Bible.

I say, “It shall be well with you, Fred, for it is written Say ye to the righteous it shall be well with him.”

I’ve compiled lists of promises under the title of “A Collection of Promises from God for his People,” at Amazon.

A promise from the Psalmist: “You surround me with favor, as with a shield.”

And remember what God told Joshua: “Speak the Bible, meditate on it, do it, and you’ll have good success.” (Josh 1:8)

Although I’ve missed out on a College degree, I believe I have something better with my A.U.G. degree. (Approved Unto God.)

Paul writes to Timothy, “Study to show yourself Approved Unto God…”

And the Lord has given me a promise, “Your seed shall be as the sand of the sea.” I believe he means my spiritual children.

“Because I turn many to righteousness, I’ll shine like the stars.”

The Lord’s mercy endures forever.

The Lord bless you.