Douglas D. Reynolds, Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and has over 50 years experience as an engineering educator. He received a preacher's license and served as a local pastor in rural Indiana while working on his Ph.D. degree at Purdue University in W. Lafayette, IN. Professor Reynolds has over 50 years of experience in Christi an education and has been involved in prayer and healing ministries. He has taught classes on the Bible and in areas of basic Christian principles, gifts of the Holy Spirit, marriage, prayer, the time of the end and return of Jesus from an Evangelical perspecti ve. Professor Reynolds' experience as an engineering professor and in Christian education have given him a unique ability to write about practical aspects of our relati onship with God through our faith and trust in and obedience to Jesus and of future events associated with the seven-year tribulation, the time of the end, and the return of Jesus.