Markell Carl Vogel, the compiler of this Trilogy, has a 1972 Bachelor of Arts Degree from the School of Architecture, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.  He served two years active duty from 1972–74, as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, First Infantry Division, Corps of Engineers, Fort Riley, Kansas, (thankfully missing the Vietnam war by a few months) and made two NATO trips to Germany from Fort Riley.  He was married to Gale Fleming Wren on August 17, 1974, in Nashville, Tennessee; having two children, Ross Nathan Vogel and Alison Gale Vogel Florea.  He retired September 2012, as a director, from the State of Tennessee, Real Estate Asset Management Division, with twenty-seven years of service.  The first draft, of the master and detailed timelines, was completed on his fortieth wedding anniversary, August 17, 2014. 

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The compiler has been involved with multiple denominations as well as interdenominational organizations that have expanded his views of the Bible and Judeo-Christian cultures.  He has studied the Scripture with and has been influenced by the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, in the states of Iowa, Tennessee and Alabama; Southern Baptist churches, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee; the United Methodist Church, Nashville; the Presbyterian Church, PCA and USA, Nashville; the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Madisonville, Kentucky; Campus Crusade for Christ, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; The Navigators, Fort Riley, Kansas; and the Evangelical Institute of Greenville, South Carolina.

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Dr. Gale F. W. Vogel, EdD., wife and Language/ Clarity-Content Editor, has retired from the State of Tennessee as an elementary principal with thirty-six years in education.  She has provided numerous reference materials and sound counseling during the compiling of these study-books.  Gale's father, James Fleming Wren, is a World War II Navy veteran and retired Cost Accounting Manager of thirty-six years from the Methodist Publishing House (Abingdon • Cokesbury Press) in Nashville, Tennessee.  Several of the reference books used for this Trilogy came from his Publishing House collection.  For a brief but fascinating biography, see Book Two §2.1–Line Y / WWI/WWII / FN 2.