Glenn McClary Author of “The Little Book” A Brief Introduction

My father was working in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at Ahwahnee, California, and the family was living in a tent when I was born on 1 January 1941. I was their first child. It was snowing and the wolves were howling. My grandmother often said if she had known how much trouble I would be, she would have given me to those wolves to raise. I have three brothers, no sisters. We were raised in central California.

My family attended the Church of Christ at least three times per week, and sometimes more often. More than anything else, that determined the shape of my character, and the direction of my life. When I think about it, I cannot pick a day in my life when I made a decision to believe in God and His Word: my faith and that belief have been there as long as I can remember. The Lord blessed me in many ways, the greatest of which is faith, and next is the love of Truth. I believe the Bible is His Literal Word, that He said what He meant to say, and means what He said.

There have been several experiences over my lifetime directly related to my relationship with Jesus. These events are not the foundation of my faith, nor do they confirm His existence to me–or anyone else. Each experience did have an effect on me, and on the direction of my life.

I joined the Navy in 1958, and took part in a test of missiles launched from the sea in the fall of that year. I realized later that those were the prototype of the submarine-launched Polaris Nuclear weapons.

After I left the U.S. Navy, my life was more or less normal, except I was convinced that nuclear weapons would be used some day. Because of my confidence in God’s Word, I searched it for evidence that the weapons I had seen tested would be used. I discovered scriptural evidence that Nuclear weapons will be used. However, I was unable to find an understandable clue to the time or circumstance.

My marriage failed, and after the divorce, I moved to Oregon. I continued to study His Word. I must confess that I also struggled with my human weakness. Still, the study of His Word, and an effort to figure out the sequence of End Time Events, which I believed included nuclear weapons, was a necessity in my life.

It was traumatic to discover that some of the Doctrine taught by the Church of Christ was wrong. One of the errors of the Church of Christ concerned the gift of the Holy Spirit. I also found that the three major end time doctrines contradicted each other, and the literal Word of God. I concluded there was no correct explanation for the prophecies of Daniel and John’s Revelation.

In time, I felt defeated by the limit of my mind and education. I acknowledged my sins to God and asked if He would allow a sinner like me to understand the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. On three occasions, then, I received understanding as a gift from the Holy Spirit.

It became impossible to work on a full time job and Eschatology, so I quit my job and apartment and took a tent into the woods. For over nineteen years, then, I lived in His hand. If He did not give me food, I did not eat. If He did not give me shelter, I slept on the ground. When I was ill, He healed me. When He did not give me clothing, I wore rags. I have been struck in the face twice, shot at, and betrayed by those I befriended. I have been deceived, in fear of my life, cursed by witches, asked to leave a Church, and thirsty, hungry and alone. Through it all, I was guided by His Holy Spirit.

For almost twenty years, as I lived in the woods of North-West Oregon, near the Tualatin River, I worked to put together a presentable explanation of the events described by Daniel and John. Then, when it seemed my work was done, the Lord called me to leave the woods.

I have come, now, to the end of my labors. My journey is near its end, and my last task is to tell you that the Lord will give you what He has given me. If you will ask the Lord for the understanding of Daniel and Revelation, He will give it to you. Ask, and you will receive. It is Time.

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(Note from Rowland (9th March 2004): Glenn posts as ‘Oldwetdog’ in alt.christnet.christianlife).