How to Experience the Second Coming of Jesus tells the story of how the call of the Holy Spirit whose name is Jesus first came to my grandfather in Germany in the years around 1850. The call was to prepare for the second coming of Jesus. My grandfather, Christoph Hoffmann, and my grandfather on my mothers side, David Hardegg, founded the Temple Society Palestine.

Max Hoffmann was born on June 10, 1933, in Jaffa, Palestine. He is a naturalised Australian. He is happily married to his wife, Eileen, and together they have four grown-up boys and one married daughter. He is a retired cattle farmer and born-again Jesus freak, as well as a second generation Palestinian