Ernest L. Martin was born in Meeker, Oklahoma on April 20, 1932, and died in Portland, Oregon, on January 16, 2002, at age 69. He attended elementary and high school in Exeter, California and graduated from the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California (specializing in Meteorology). He was a member of United States Air Force from 1950 to 54, and was sent by the Air Force to the University of New Mexico for advanced Meteorological training. He forecasted the weather in Greenland for a year, another year at Research and Development in High Altitude studies at Lowry AFB, Denver, Colorado. He changed careers in 1955 from science to social science (Theology and History).

He attended Ambassador College (now University and regionally accredited) for B.A. (1958), M.A. in Theology (1962), and Ph.D. in Education (1966). He was Secretary of the Board at Ambassador campus in England from 1960 to 72 and Senior Professor of History and Theology and Elementary Meteorology. He was dean of the faculty at Ambassador College in the United Kingdom from 1966 to 1972. He brought about the alliance of Ambassador with Hebrew University in the largest archaeological excavation in Israel near the Western (Wailing) Wall from 1969 through 1973. He supervised 450 college students for those five years at the archaeological site in Jerusalem for the summer months and Time magazine featured his program for providing academic credits for archaeological work during that period.

Dr. Martin became Chairman of the Department of Theology at Ambassador in Pasadena, California in 1973. He left Ambassador in 1974 (and gave up his tenured professorship) and started F.B.R. (the Foundation for Biblical Research) in Pasadena. He was Chairman of the Board of F.B.R. from 1974 to 85. He left F.B.R. to found the Associates for Scriptural Knowledge (A.S.K.) in 1985 and is presently Chairman of the Board. 

He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Planetarium Society, and is listed in the (1997,'98,'99) editions of Who's Who in America, also Who's Who in Religion' Who's Who in Education, and Who's Who in Biblical Studies and Archaeology. He authored five editions of The Tithing Dilemma (over 100,000 copies sold) (1974 to 95); two editions of The Birth of Christ Recalculated (1978,1980); two editions of Restoring the Original Bible (1984, 1996); two editions of Secrets of Golgotha (1987,1996); 101 Bible Secrets (1991); The People that History Forgot (1994); The New Third Temple (1994); The Biblical Manual (1995); The Star that Astonished the World (1996); and The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot (2000).

He is the author of hundreds of special theological and historical studies in printed form, and over 200 cassette taped lectures on similar subjects, and has appeared numerous times on Television and Radio programs in which he was interviewed. He is married to Ramona Jean Martin and has two daughters Kathryn and Phyllis and one son Samuel, and several grandchildren. His primary profession is that of advanced studies as a research theologian and historian with a deep interest in the relationship between the subjects of science and biblical matters.

He is an ordained Christian minister in the A.S.K. ekklesia (translated as "church" in the King James Version). Dr. Martin was first ordained in London, England in January 2, 1959 by WCG; then F.B.R. in January, 1974; and finally ASK in January, 1985. His ecclesiastical persuasion is non-denominational in beliefs. His main interest is to restore biblical truth and to help all people have the opportunity of knowing the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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