Short Bio: About Norman Willis
[This is my short bio. For the long bio, please see the other page.]
I don't consider who I am to be very important: only YHWH and Yeshua are important. However, sometimes people want to know a little more about me. They want me to say a little bit more about myself: so here it is : )
I was born and raised in the Methodist Church in the greater Seattle area, but I left the church at the age of nine because they were teaching Evolution in the government schools. I figured that if Evolution was true, then Genesis could not be true; and if Genesis was not true, then the rest of the Scriptures must not be true also. So because of what the government taught me in school, I fell out of the faith. As a young man, I was not able to catch the lies and the inherent contradictions of Evolution Theory.
A young man needs to believe in something, so I believed in my country. I therefore became a patriot. I began to idealize serving in the military, 'laying down my life to serve others' in that way. After I graduated from the University of Washington with a Psychology degree I entered the United States Army, and served as an infantry officer in one of the parachute infantry in the Republic of Panama.
In Panama, my life hit a crisis. You read stories about people who 'see things that they should not have seen' when they are in the service, and basically that is my story. Just the fact that there are people who 'see things that they "should" not see' is a witness against the system. I could see that there were dark spiritual forces in the world, but because the government had taught me not to believe in Scripture I had no framework to figure things out. Had I known and understood that Satan is the prince of this world, and that the governments of the world work for the Beast Empire in Rome I could have made sense of it; but because I did not know that, I had a very difficult time. Also, the fact that several other officers turned me on to Asian mysticism did not help.
I left the army as a captain, and returned back to school, to prepare for a doctorate in psychology. However, my mind was not at rest from the things I had seen while in the service. In trying to search for truth everywhere but the Scriptures, I got caught up in protests against government encroachments upon civil rights.
When service to Yeshua is not the bedrock and foundation of your life, your life can get to be pretty much of a mess. Eventually I got very concerned about the establishment of a New World Order, which seemed like a major threat to human life and liberty even while I was not saved. Eventually I had the bad judgment to protest government infringement of the Second Amendment, and not in the best of ways. YHWH saved my life in a miracle that showed me His power. At that time I knew I would be giving the rest of my life to Yahweh, and doing all I can to re-establish the original faith of the apostles.
Right now I am living in North Central California, although I look forward to the day when I can return to Jerusalem, this time to stay.