Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, dear Friends in Christ,

I greet you from my heart right here from the International Mission Center in Krefeld, Germany. It’s a great privilege for me to share God’s precious and holy Word with the nations. We still have programmes in a number of different countries, trying to reach the utmost parts of the earth with the true Word of God.

And Friends, the subjects remain the same: the Return of Jesus Christ, the fulfilment of Bible prophecies in our time, knowing that first God makes promises, and when the time comes, He watches over His Word to fulfil what He promised. We do realize, the time we are living in is the end-time, and in every church every TV-evangelist speaks about the signs of the end-time. Then in connection with this we do see what actually is taking place at this time. In the first few months in the year 2010 many things have happened: the earthquake in Chile, the earthquake in Haiti, the earthquake again on Sumatera. And Friends, when we look even at the volcanic eruptions, which we never heard of in our time, maybe from history. But friends, things are happening as never before. Then the oil-crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. This has never been before. Then we have the bank crises, government crises, family crises, marriage crises, just one thing after the other. Where is the solution?

And then we look to the Middle East: the crisis, the crisis. And Israel is always the target, the target. And Friends, I have been to Israel, I think, 23 or 24 times. I am taking groups to Israel. I love Israel with all my heart. At the same time we have to recognize, that because they did not recognize the day of God’s visitation and did not receive the Messiah on whom they waited for 4,000 years, they had to go through terrible times, through persecutions. But then the Lord God of Israel made the promise, that He will gather them again at the end of days. And this is taking place before our very eyes. And our Lord said in Luke, chapter 21, verse 24, that Israel will be scattered among the nations until the times of the Gentiles are over. And then, not to accuse anyone, but the Arab nations they simply hate Israel without a cause. This no one really can understand. Even to the teaching that the twelfth magi cannot come unless Israel is destroyed and exists no more. So they have to do it according to their own teachings. They must try to destroy Israel, so the twelfth magi can come, called Madi. “Madi” they call him. And then the whole earth would be in peace and the half moon would become the full moon. But where is a promise for such a thing in the Word of God? 

Beloved, we have to come to the point to make our decision. Whether we are going to believe what a religion says, what the Pope says, what cardinals say, what bishops say or if we are going to believe what God says in His Word. I made up my decision many, many years ago. I don’t smile very often, because I take the proclamation of the holy Word of God seriously all my life. When I started the ministry I was 21, but I took the thing very, very seriously. And now, soon I will be 80, looking back to the many, many years of ministry: the Lord was good to me. And may I give just as a testimony what my eyes have seen and my ears have heard. Every man of God had a calling, knew the day and the commission he received from God, wether it was in the Old and the New Testament. 

Our Lord said, “I will send you scribes, I will send you apostles.” And if you look into the New Testament Church, 1 Corinthians 12, 13, 14 and then Ephesians 4, God has placed different ministries into the Church, into the Body of Christ. In our time, beloved Friends, God used Brother William Branham in a very, very special way. I had the great privilege to know the Lord already in 1949. But then, but then in 1955, when Brother Branham came to Germany and Switzerland, Friends, I saw Bible days, I saw Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and for ever. I heard the original Gospel preached; I saw the confirmation of that Word of God right on the platform. I was in many meetings, be it in Europe or in the USA. When God confirmed His Word and especially William Branham was not only a prophet, he was a seer: he saw a vision about the person he was to pray for. How many times did the Lord show him, where the person comes from, even the name of the person and whatever illness or problem they had. I am a witness of that: I heard it; I saw it. Even when Brother Branham preached in Germany, not knowing a word of the German language, but with every person on the platform in the presence of thousands upon thousands of people, the Lord would show a vision; he would tell the sister: “You are coming from Hamburg. You have got this and that.” He could tell a brother: “You are coming from Berlin”, and telling all the details of their illness and even life.

Friends, that was the ministry our Lord had, when He walked on earth, because He had to be a prophet according to Deuteronomy, chapter 18, “A prophet like unto me the Lord will bring forth from your brethren.” So this prophetic ministry seeing a vision – you go to John, chapter 5, verse 19 and 20: “The Son can do nothing but what He sees the Father do. What He sees the Father do the Son does likewise.” Friends, no philosophy, but reality! I am for reality! And believe me: the Lord God gave the same ministry to William Branham in our time to draw our attention to the Word of God, to the promises. And then finally, when this man of God was granted in 1963 to receive the revelation, the opening of the seven seals. And Friends, all of the Book of Revelation with the 22 chapters was made known and we could see all the details. And now we can place all things into the proper divine order. 

But now, for a few moments let me ask you, what are you believing? In which church are you? Our Lord said, “I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” Then if you go to Zechariah, chapter 4, where the prophet saw the golden candlestick. He saw how the oil was moving down through seven pipes into the lambs of the golden candlestick. Then if you go to Revelation, where John on the Isle of Patmos saw Jesus Christ walking among the seven golden candlesticks. But then we read about the promise, “Not by might and not by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.” And then you read two times about the headstone. Jesus Christ, our Lord, is the chief cornerstone. He is also the headstone. He is the first; He is the last. He is Alpha and Omega. He redeemed His Church; He builds His Church; He established His Church; He put all the gifts and all the ministries into the Church by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 

And now before the Return of Christ the New Testament Church must be restored to where she was at the very, very beginning. What does restoration mean? When God says, “I will restore”, what does it mean? If something has collapsed and then needs to be restored, then it will be in the same state as it was before after the restoring. So now the time has come, not to interpret a single scripture and a single statement Brother Branham made, but put all things into the right connection within the Holy Scriptures according to the Plan of Salvation.

Recently I made the statement, “If you cannot believe every Word of God the way it is written and leave it where and how it is, something is wrong somewhere.” Our Lord said that heaven and earth shall pass away, “but My Words shall not pass away.” And every Word pertaining to the first coming of Christ was fulfilled to the letter. Every promise became a reality. Even now the calling-out time, like our Lord made the promise, it’s a reality, a reality! “I will send you Elijah, the prophet, to restore all things” (Matthew 17, verse 11). And this statement our Lord made after He met Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration. After the ministry of John the Baptist was long finished, our Lord made the statement, “Behold, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, to restore” – can you believe it? – “… to restore all things.” 

John the Baptist had the ministry to prepare. Every time you read about John the Baptist’s ministry, you only find the word “prepare”: in Isaiah 40, verse 3; in Malachi 3, verse 1; in Matthew 11; in Mark, chapter 1; in Luke, chapter 3; wherever you read about the ministry of John the Baptist, you find the word “prepare”, even in Luke 1, verse 16 and 17. John the Baptist fulfilled his task and prepared the people to receive Christ, the Lord, the Saviour. He pointed to Him and said, “This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.”

But now before the Return of Christ, as promised in John, chapter 14, “I go to prepare the place. Then I shall return and I will take you to be where I am.” Do you believe it? And Friends, now to the very, very serious point: If you read 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, from verse 45, please read it carefully with prayer and ask yourself, if you can agree with every verse, with every statement made in 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, from verse 45 right to the end; through 51 that our Lord will return in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. 

I ask you in the Name of the Lord: never follow again your own thoughts, your own interpretations. Never try to say: “But the prophet said. But the prophet said.” Let me tell you very honestly: the prophet never said anything contrary to the Word of God. It’s your misunderstanding, your misunderstanding – because you don’t dare to come back to the Scriptures. You don’t have the courage to look up the Word of God and finally to be able to say, “The Scripture says …” Why are all these wrong teachings which are moving around the globe? Why does nobody say, not a single brother who is on his way with the interpretations, always referring to the prophet and not a single time referring to the Bible? Do you understand, what I mean? Do you understand, what I mean? 

And Friends, I am the one who knew Brother Branham for ten years, from 1955 to 1965. I am the one who took the Word, the message of the hour, as the first one to all the nations, to all the nations. And why? Because of a direct commission! But let me say this again: I never misunderstood Brother Branham. I never saw a contradiction between what we call “the message” and the Bible. Why? Because by God’s grace I did not only hear what Brother Branham said, I understood what he said. I knew what he meant, when he made a statement. And Friends, that was the grace of God granted to me from the very, very beginning. 

I do not have two things: message here, and Bible there – I have only one thing: that God sent His servant and prophet in our time to bring us back to the Word, to all the true teachings about the Godhead, about water baptism, about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, about the first resurrection, about election – foreordained from before the foundation of the world, showing and sharing with us all the mysteries pertaining to the Kingdom of God, starting right with the Garden of Eden, with the original sin, showing to us the whole counsel of God, as it was not known through the past 2,000 years. In the same way as the Apostle Paul was used of God to touch all subjects, the same William Branham did in our time.

But we preach Jesus Christ, and I say again: not a single contradiction. I need to ask you, even if you read 1 Thessalonians 4, from verse 13, please, please don’t put your thoughts, don’t put your imagination and don’t put your statement, “But the prophet said.” Please never do this in all your life. Never do this! Never use: “But the prophet said …” If you make the prophet say something else as God said in His Word, you know what you are doing? No, Friends, not with me and not with God and not with the Word. God’s servant and prophet was a Word-prophet, and the Lord God used him in such a mighty way. 

Friends, I have to close. I say this again: We are very near to the second coming of Christ. And when He comes I wish to be ready. We spoke about the crisis, about all things. Let me finally say all over the world: Those who are part of the Bride Church hear what the Spirit says unto the churches, and we are getting ready in the love of God, in the Holy Spirit, in the Word of God, being united as Bride with the Bridegroom, preparing for that great moment, when the trumpet shall sound and the voice of the archangel shall be heard and the Lord will come with a commanding tone and the dead in Christ will rise first, and we shall be changed and immediately taken up to Glory to meet the Lord in the air and go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

God bless you and be with you, is my prayer, in Jesus’ holy Name. Amen.