It isn't off topic, because the Lord had his hand in every step of my career to ensure that I had the skills to do the job he wanted as specified above. I'm a chemical engineer who has had a long career investigating all kinds of issues including those related to process, project, operations, maintenance, shipping/receiving, environmental, safety, and personnel management inefficiencies and incidents at major chemical companies throughout the USA. Mid-career I was hired by Los Alamos National Laboratory as a subject matter expert to assess and audit performance throughout their programs in their almost 50 square mile facility. Most notably, I managed the investigations group and had a specialty job addressing and implementing programs to prevent and address major incidents of nuclear safety and security. I had a direct line to management and Washington D.C. oversight. Included in my career has been specialty training and certification like the FBI interrogation training.
Why do I bring all this up? Because the Lord steered every step of the way in my career so that I had the skills to perform a very unique and effective review of scripture. The only evidence of Jesus that exists are the words in scripture. Since there are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus outside of scripture, I had to dig deep into scripture to try to identify the gospel authors--a major source of disbelief in gearheads like me. Jesus ensured that there were enough breadcrumbs remaining in scripture to obtain answers. Why now and why me? It's above my paygrade, but I can take a stab at it. Prophecy says that the time of Jesus is winding down, and many come to Jesus because of the gospel. But most doubters like me see the conflicts and contradiction of having over 48,000 congregations of Christian churches with various rules, laws, and practices. The Lord with the disciples created one unified church. The eyewitness testimony of Nicodemus, James, John, and Peter bring certainty to the truth of Jesus and with them, rereading scripture reveals only the truth of Jesus--contradictions disappear. Every contradiction that a doubter has was introduced through false teachers who have corrupted the church.
People in the church don't want to hear about corruption-they only want to hear about Jesus, and I admire this. My work is not for those who see only the beauty of Jesus and don't need the truth of the gospel authors. My Baptist born and raised wife is like this. However, my job is to reveal the corruption on the hopes that some will come to Christ through the truth. I know that so far my books have touched a few and brought them to Christ, and this is the only reason for me investigating and writing. The upcoming books that clear up and thoroughly explain the truth of prophecy will certainly be rejected by most in the church. However, I have tried to understand Daniel and Revelation prophecy in the past and failed like everyone else. The truth of prophecy is a beautiful story of the of the future of the church. With the truth one can see how intimately God has been with us from the beginning because history proves that it was all predicted in advance. I have been proofing the upcoming book on Revelation and when I read it, I now understand Revelation but I don't recognize the book as something I wrote. That might sound weird, but it can't be my writing, and I can't take credit for it --just like for the revealing of the Gospel authors.
Certainly I will be ridiculed for what I wrote here, but it doesn't matter because I have a job to do and in accordance with where I'm being led, I am to start speaking of the results. The proof is in the documentation and analysis and some will find it valuable and others will scoff at it. It doesn't matter that there will be those who scoff at the results. I stick to the facts and thus far there have been many attacks on what I have found and written about, but nobody has provided any data or evidence that contradicts anything I have written. My mind is open to evaluate evidence that will adjust the results. I've just tried to do the best I can. Blessings!!