Martin Koestler was born in the middle of the last century (1950).

The vast majority of his schooling was in Christian, educational institutions.  He attended college at Concordia Teachers College (now ‘Concordia University’) at Seward, Nebraska, majoring in Music Education, and received a Bachelor of Science in Education degree.  Later he graduated with distinction from Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois/Fort Wayne, Indiana with a Master of Divinity degree.

For twenty-five years he served as a pastor of local assemblies of Christians in Interlaken, New York, and in the following cities of Minnesota – Aurora, Hamburg, Wykoff, and Preston.

He spent ten years in Jinan City, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China as a worker/evangelist, working as a professor of English in three different universities.

He has been a serious student of the Bible for over fifty years, taking as many Greek and Hebrew courses in the seminary as he possibly could and continuing his study in the biblical languages ever afterward, because he really wanted to be able to share with people what the Bible actually says.  He also has a keen interest in knowing what the patristic fathers had to say about the Bible.  These traits are evident in his books, videos, Bible studies, and messages.

Martin Koestler has posted some of his teaching on youtube under his name and has published a number of books, including one entitled “Time in the Bible” and another entitled “Kerygma.”

He and his wife Xiyan currently live in Rochester, Minnesota.