| How
I Got Here - Bio
“Thou therefore
endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 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.” II Timothy 2:3-4
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.
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.
![Chap. [Chaplain] Paul J. Maddox conducting Easter sunrise services for men of IV Corps. In front is Major General Willis D. Crittenberger, C.G., IV Corps. Photo by McWhirter. 196th Signal Photo Co., Castelluccia, Italy. 1 April 1945.](https://i0.wp.com/bookofrevelation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Chaplain_Paul_J._Maddox_conducting_Easter_sunrise_services_for_men_of_IV_Corps._cropped.jpg?resize=620,306&ssl=1)
Chap.
[Chaplain] Paul J. Maddox conducting Easter sunrise services
for men of IV Corps. In front is Major General Willis D.
Crittenberger, C.G., IV Corps.
Photo by McWhirter. 196th Signal Photo Co., Castelluccia,
Italy. 1 April 1945.
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 teenage mother sang in the choir throughout the
event.
Billy Graham's tent for his Los Angeles revival meetings
Uncle
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.
Melodyland Theater, 1964 Built in 1963, Melodyland featured
Broadway-style shows, musical acts and ice spectaculars in a
theater-in-the-round setting.
In 1969 a Christian minister bought Melodyland and turned it
into a church. It was demolished in 2003, and the property
is now Anaheim GardenWalk,
an outdoor shopping mall and hotel complex. – Anaheim
Historical Society
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).
Me with Dr. Scott at the historical
Chasens restaurant in
Los Angeles CA. |
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.
Dr, euGene Scott and Joseph A. Cortes on their sets. See any
resemblance?
 Joseph
A Cortes (I've dubbed
The Reluctant Preacher),
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.
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,
BigAddison
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