Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 

This is Brother Frank speaking to you from the International Mission Center, I would almost say, in Europe. And, dear Friends, the world has become very small. And these sermons are beamed out in many different countries. So, the best is to address everybody, regardless on which part of the globe you might be. 

Our ministry, as you understand, is apostolic, prophetic, a Bible ministry, sharing the original Word of God with God’s people, with those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. We understand from the Holy Scriptures that God has a plan, a plan of salvation. We also understand, there were promises for the first coming of Christ, and there are promises for the second coming and also predictions of what will take place before our Lord returns. And especially about Israel, God’s natural chosen people with a natural land and also very natural promises. And then the promises the Lord made to the church and finally the Bride of Christ, that comes out of the church to be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. So, Beloved, I trust that you are acquainted with the Holy Scriptures. This is very, very important, and equally important is that we don’t interpret a single passage of God’s Word, but just believe every verse and every chapter the way it is written and place it according to the Plan of Salvation. 

In reference to Israel we have to say God made promises, to bring them back into their own land at the end of days. And, Friends, I just love to read a few scriptures: just one verse from Isaiah, chapter 11, and it is also verse 11, “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people …” Then from Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 10, “Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the coasts afar off, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him again, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” And then in Ezekiel, chapter 36, verse 24, “For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” These are promises made not by men, but by God Himself to His chosen people Israel.

And then, if you go further to the prophets in the Old Testament, there are again things we have to pay attention to. Hosea, chapter 6, verse 1 and 2, “Come, and let us return unto the Lord;  for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us; in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” 

If we go to the New Testament, Matthew 24 and the other parallel Gospels, our Lord speaks about the victory. To just briefly make a few statements: The Jews were scattered, they were persecuted, they were murdered through the periods of 1,600 years. And now since 1948 we have a state, a country called Israel. And our Lord said repeatedly, “When you see those things I promised, I predicted, then you know the time is very near.” So, as it says here, in Hosea, chapter 6, “After two days …” One day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. So they were scattered for 2,000 years, persecutued for about 1,600 years, and now they are back in their homeland. 

And, Friends, we believe, we believe that this is God’s time for God’s people. And also as we see the fulfilment with the people of Israel, we understand, we understand that the Church runs parallel to Israel: Just as the Jews are taken from all countries and brought back into the promised land, all the true believers are taken from all countries, from all denominations back to the promised Word for this day. 

And Friends, I like to read to you from Mark, chapter 1, to let you know how our brethren at the beginning of the New Testament showed that everything that happened in the Kingdom of God was done according to what God foretold by His prophets. Let me read from Mark, chapter 1, starting with verse 1, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the son of God: as it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.” The second part is in verse 3, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” 

This is so very important to know and to observe, that God has a plan, and this plan is foretold in His Word, Old and New Testament. We must make sure that we now see what God is doing according to His holy Word. I love it as it is written here, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God: As it is written in the prophets …” The New Testament started with the fulfilment of promises and prophecies from the Old Testament. The New Testament finishes with the fulfilment of promises and whatever God has foreordained to happen before the Return of Christ. 

Now, dear Friends, one more scripture in this regard: from Luke, chapter 1. Luke chapter 1. It says here in verse 2, “… even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitness, and ministers of the word.” Those who were eyewitnesses of those things which happened, as the prophets foretold in the Holy Scriptures, they gave a record, and this record is found in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Reading in verse 3, “It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.” The certainty! God’s Word is certain and the things He does are certain. So we have to know God’s Plan by divine revelation. 

And to be honest with you, beloved Brothers and Sisters, we are all in a crisis. The whole earth is in a crisis: economically, religiously. Every nation on earth has a battle in this or that way. Everywhere crisis. And it seems, even denominations are in a crisis. I don’t want to be personal, but even the biggest churches known all over the earth, they are in a crisis. Everybody is in a crisis. The church is in a crisis. 

Friends, I am a Protestant from top to bottom, I am a believer of the Holy Scriptures, and I might say, by the grace of God I know the Lord Jesus Christ personally. I dedicated my life to Him in 1949, and Friends, I look back to over 50 years in the ministry, sharing the precious and holy Word of God with millions in 150 countries. Friends, let me tell you the truth: God has a way with His people. God has a plan, a program, even now for the endtime, to restore, to bring back to where the New Testament Church was at the very beginning. 

Then it is just a few months ago: The emphasis of the Vatican was that all the other Christian churches are not actually churches. They are just Christian fellowships or denominations. But there is only, as the announcement came, one church, and that is the Roman church, or the church of Rome with the papacy on top of it. And, Friends, in this report you could read it in your e-mail that all the other churches would have to come back to the mother church to experience full salvation.

The news I have from the Bible are totally different, totally different: Full salvation is not in a church, not in a denomination, only in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. You cannot separate salvation from the Saviour. You cannot separate healing from the Healer. You cannot separate a single experience that you need with Christ from Christ. Everything God shared with us is in Christ. In Christ was the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And only in Christ we have salvation, forgiveness, reconciliation. Only in Christ and through Christ we have eternal life. I don’t need to go to Rome, I just need to come to my Lord and Saviour and experience full salvation, the renewal and also the new birth and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 

And, Friends, as I try to say: everything is moving into some direction. And, Friends, I hope that God is moving you into the right direction – not being found following a man or a system. And the other thing is this: all in all 350 Protestant denominations, every priest, everyone who goes to the pulpit on a Sunday has the Bible. And everyone gives his own thought, his own interpretations from the Holy Scriptures. And this is not permitted at all: the Holy Scripture is of no private interpretation. And therefore I have to emphasize in love that the first sermon and the last sermon must be the same. The last baptism and the first baptism must be the same. Everything in the Church of Jesus Christ remains the same. Therefore we have to go back to the Book of Acts to know how the New Testament Church started. It started through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It was the act of God: those who were redeemed by the blood of the Lamb gathered in Jerusalem to receive the power from on high to be the first ones on the day of Pentecost to be baptised by the Holy Spirit into one body and Christ being the head of this supernatural body, called the Church of Jesus Christ. You need to read 1 Corinthians 12 and other chapters. 

So, making it very plain: the Church of Jesus Christ is not found in any denomination, is not found in Rome, is not in the Greek Orthodox or Roman Catholic or Anglican or Lutheran. No, the Church of Jesus Christ exists of born again believers who had the personal experience of salvation, recognizing the Word of God to be the Truth and then coming also into obedience. 

If you read the Holy Scriptures, and this is absolutely necessary, please remember this: we cannot make it to heaven in our own ways. This is impossible. We have to be on God’s way, in God’s Word, in God’s will. The problem started in Genesis right in the garden of Eden, when the serpent beguiled Eve and took her away from the Word under his influence. And then came disobedience and the Fall. But in Christ we are placed back into obedience, into fellowship with God and then we understand that no lie originates with the truth. But the Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth, guides us into all the Truth. And the Truth is the Word of God. 

Summarizing what we try to say today: Beloved, the Return of Christ is imminent. We are not only saying it – it is so. And we can expect His Return at any time. The signs of the time declare it very, very openly. And everyone that has an ear to hear can hear it and an eye to see can see it: the coming of the Lord is very, very near. And therefore the last message, the message of the hour – that’s what I like: the term “the message of the hour” – God’s promised Word for this day. And I love to take it back to the beginning of this sermon: Mark, chapter 1, Luke, chapter 1, as it was promised by God through the prophets, that is how God started. And that is precisely how God is ending. And He made a special promise: to send a prophet like Elijah, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. And, Friends, I have to share this if possibly in every sermon: I must inform God’s people of the main promise before the Return of Christ. And this promise finds its fulfilment in our time. The true Word of God including all the promises of the Holy Scriptures are shared with all of God’s people around the earth. And therefore, as I said, we need to check with the Word of God and find out if we are walking in obedience, in the ways of God and if we are preparing for the second coming of Christ.

Beloved Brothers and Sisters, dear Friends, make your way back to God, to His Word. Follow the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be happy on that morning, when the trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall descend and the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive shall be changed. And then together we shall be taken up. I want you to be there. I told the Lord, I wish to share His Word in such a way that all who hear His message from my lips I will see again in Glory. 

May the grace of God be with you and the blessings of the Almighty also. In Jesus holy Name. Amen.