Mark
Hitchcock graduated from law school in 1984 and worked for a judge at the
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for four years. After a clear call to
full-time ministry, Mark attended Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating in
1991. Since that time he has served as senior pastor of Faith Bible Church in
Edmond, Oklahoma, which has an average Sunday attendance of 850. He completed
his Ph.D. at DTS in January, 2006. He has authored fifteen books related to end
time Bible prophecy, with almost 400,000 books in print, and served as
contributing editor for the Left Behind Prophecy Club for three years. Mark and
his wife Cheryl live in Edmond, Oklahoma with their two sons Justin and
Samuel.
| Date of Birth: | July 17, 1959 |
| Place of Birth: | Oklahoma City |
| Salvation: | June 10, 1965 while watching Billy Graham on TV |
| Education: | BS 1981 (Okla. State Univ.); JD 1984 (Okla. City Univ. School of Law); ThM 1991 (DTS); PhD 2005 (DTS) Dissertation topic: A Defense of the Domitianic Date of the Book of Revelation |
| Work: | 1984–88 Attorney, Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals |
| Ministry: | 1991–Present Senior Pastor,
Faith Bible Church (Edmond, OK) Prophecy editor of an internet ministry The Left Behind Prophecy Club |
| Family: | Married 20 years to Cheryl Two sons, Justin (17) and Samuel (15) |
NEWEST Book:
The Late Great United States: What Bible Prophecy Reveals about America's Last Days
End Times Answers Series (Multnomah)
The Apocalypse of Ahmadinejad: The Revelation of Iran's Nuclear Prophet (Multnomah, September 2007)
Iran: The Coming Crisis: Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat (Multnomah, July 2006)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2004)
What Jesus Says about Earth's Final Days (2003)
Seven Signs of the End Times (2003)
Is the Antichrist Alive Today? (2003)
The Coming Islamic Invasion of Israel (2002)
Is America in Bible Prophecy? (2002)
What On Earth is Going On? (2002)
Publications:
Could the Rapture Happen Today? (Multnomah, 2005)
55 Answers to Questions About Life After Death (MMultnomah, 2005)
The Truth Behind Left Behind (with co-author Tommy Ice, Multnomah, 2004)
The Second Coming of Babylon (Multnomah, 2003)
101 Answers to the Most Asked Questions About the End Times (Multnomah, 2001)
The Complete Book of Bible Prophecy (Tyndale, 1999)
After the Empire: Bible Prophecy in Light of the Fall of the Soviet Union (Tyndale, 1994)
Contributor:
End Times Controversy, ed. Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice
The Gathering Storm, ed. Mal Couch
Tim LaHaye Prophecy Study Bible
The Popular Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy
The Left Behind Prophecy Club Newsletter, Contributing Editor