Chuck Missler

Charles W Chuck Missler is an author evangelical Christian Bible teacher engineer and former businessman He is the founder of the Koinonia House ministry based in Coeur dAlene Idaho Charles W Missler graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1956 before working for several years in the aerospace and computer industries He joined the Ford Motor Company in 1963 Missler joined Western Digital as chairman and chief executive in June 1977 and became the largest shareholder of Western Digital In a 1984 interview Western Digitals then chairman Roger Johnson described the company under Missler as having a good reputation for technology with a terrible reputation for execution and seriously undercapitalized In 1983 Missler became the chairman and chief executive of Helionetics Inc another technology company He left Helionetics in 1984 to pursue other opportunities in the hightechnology field In August 1985 Helionetics sued Missler alleging a conflict of interest claiming that after Missler and other Helionetics executives had decided not to purchase a small defense electronics maker that same company was purchased by an investment corporation in which Missler held a controlling interest The suit was settled when Misslers firm agreed to pay Helionetics 16 million In 1989 he headed up the Phoenix Group International a former Colorado real estate company that entered the hightech industry to sell personal computers to Russian schools Phoenix filed for bankruptcy protection in 1990 when the deal did not develop as anticipated After teaching for many years at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Missler moved to Coeur dAlene in 1992 and founded Koinonia House Through this organization Missler distributes a monthly newsletter and Bible study tapes hosts a radio show and speaks at conferences He has also been involved in efforts to use computers to decipher what he considers coded messages contained in the Bible Missler is a prominent speaker on the subject of bible prophecy Missler has had numerous programs aired on the Christian television station GOD TV namely the DVD versions of his biblical studies Learn the Bible in 24 Hours The Book of Revelation The Book of Genesis and The Book of Danielcitation needed Missler has also written the foreword to ExoVaticana a book that uses evidence to draw attention to the Vatican and its practices The book loosely presents the possibility that the Vatican is communicating with extraterrestrial life