Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, dear Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is Brother Frank speaking to you from the International Mission Center in Krefeld, Germany. We just greet you all wherever on earth you might be in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God’s blessings rest upon you while listening to the precious and holy Word of God.
As we say every time, our main subject remains the same: the Return of Christ, the promised Return of Christ and the fulfilment of Bible prophecies in our time; then in connection with, this the calling out of those who will participate in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb – the calling out, the preparation, the separation from all that is not in agreement with the Word of God. We cannot play religion, we must take things with God and His Word very seriously, and the decision we make now we may take with us into eternity. So the preaching of the Word of God, at least for me, is the most important thing connected to the greatest responsibility on the faith of the earth. No politician, no president, no one has a greater responsibility before God at this time as a true servant of God to share the last message of God’s Word with all the promises included, before the Return or the promised Coming of Christ.
Beloved Friends, we go from scripture to scripture and let God Himself do the speaking with us and to us. In 1 Thessalonians, the 2nd chapter, the Apostle Paul was referring to his ministry and said these words, “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when ye received the Word of God which ye heard of us you received it not as the word of a man, but as it is in Truth, the Word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe.” To believe God is the most important thing for a believer. Today, every Christian is a believer, and everybody speaks and speaks as though all things would be right. And even looking into Christianity – if the account is true, we have 347 different denominations and Christian fellowships and organizations joined in the World Council of Churches.
But we have only one God, one Bible, one Saviour, one salvation, one eternal life. And our Lord Jesus Christ, who redeemed us, who paid the price on the cross of Calvary, who shed His blood, and gave His life to redeem us, He said, “I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” Then we go to the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came down, and the redeemed by the Blood were assembled as a first group of 120, where God started the New Testament Church, living Church, living organism of the Holy Spirit, the Body of Christ, as the Apostle Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, “By one Spirit we are baptised into one body.” Many members like a natural body, but one head, and the head commands every part, every member of the body. And then in verse 28, the apostle states, that God has placed into His Church apostles and prophets and teachers – not popes, not cardinals – no: apostles and prophets and teachers. They are in the Church of the living God right up to now and will be until the Church, the Bride of Christ, is perfected and will be taken into Glory.
All the true members of the Body of Christ are not members of the World Council of Churches – they are members of Christ. There are two unities coming forth right now: one is in connection with Christ, and Jerusalem, and the true teachings which came from Mount Zion, as promised in Isaiah, chapter 2. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit took place on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. So the Word that went out from Jerusalem is the true message of God with all the teachings in reference to Godhead, Baptism, Lord’s Supper, spiritual gifts, the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Everything is in this book we call “the Holy Bible” recorded. And we must examine ourselves to realize whether we are part of a church that joins with Rome, or whether we are part of the true Church of Jesus Christ, being born again by the Holy Spirit, having access to everything the Lord has provided for us. We know, He died for us, He rose on the third day for our justification, and His resurrection is the guarantee for our resurrection, and His going to Heaven is the guarantee for our going to Heaven.
So, everything that a true child of God has is connected with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour. So we don’t preach three sacraments, we don’t preach seven sacraments, because the Bible does not teach any sacrament, that means to say that by some thing that we do as a religious act people receive salvation. Salvation is very, very personal. “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ” – not in a priest, not in a church, in nothing – “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved.” So God established the contact to Himself. Even all the messengers that came to prepare and to announce the way of the Lord and the things God would do – they didn’t put the fellowship to themselves, they prepared the way of the Lord, bringing God and His people together.
And then the Scripture is being fulfilled, “He that hears My Words and believes in Him that sent Me has eternal life.” This is what it is all about: the personal relationship with God, being born again. Like we are born in the natural we must be born again. That is what our Lord said in John, chapter 3, “You must” – not: you may, but: you must, “You must be born again, otherwise you will not see the Kingdom of God.” No one can ever change this. Into the Kingdom of God we are born, we are born. Like we are born into this world we are born into the Kingdom of God. And if you go to James, chapter 1, verse 18, “… being born again by the everlasting seed of the Word of God”, if you go to 1 Peter, chapter 1, verse 23, “… being born again by the everlasting seed of the Word of God”. Then you go to Matthew, chapter 13: The Lord as Son of Man was sowing the good seed, and the children of the Kingdom of God are this good seed (Matthew, chapter 13, verse 37 and 38). So, first the seed of God’s Word must be planted into our heart, into our soul.
So we understand what our Lord said in Mark, chapter 4, verse 14, “This Word of God is the seed.”, also in Luke, chapter 8, verse 11, “The Word is the seed.” – not any interpretation, nothing but the original Word of God, as Christ, our Lord and Saviour, was the Word. He was not any interpretation. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:1,2+14). So, beloved Friends, as the Son of God was manifested in the flesh, so we are sons and daughters of God, having received eternal life, and according to Romans, chapter 8, we are waiting for the transformation of our bodies to be changed from corruptible into incorruption at the Return of our Lord Jesus Christ. But the inside must be changed first. We must have a personal relationship with our Lord. We must know of a day and of an hour where we realized that we are lost and then also recognized that we need the Saviour, and then we believed in Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour.
Then the Great Commission our Lord gave, that we should go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every nation. And, Friends, we must say this: The deviations from the original Gospel has been in such a way that it’s not enough to just shake the head. How many things – practically everything has been changed within the course of these 2,000 years since the church was established.
Beloved Friends, I cannot go into all these details, but I must say: The time has come for us to check with the Bible to make sure we believe as the Scripture has said. Even when it comes to the Lord’s Supper, people think that the wine changes into blood. No, it’s a remembrance that our Lord shed His Blood on the cross of Calvary. And according to Hebrews, chapter 9, He went as High Priest with His own Blood into the heavenly sanctuary. That’s the way our redemption was completed in Heaven. It took place on earth, but it was completed, when the Blood in Heaven was put on the mercy seat. So, Friends, don’t go by a church way or a denomination. Come back to Christ who said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
Then, even if you come to the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew, chapter 6, people have even changed it in the Bible. The original – I brought it with me: the original in the Aramaic language says, “Lead us, so we don’t fall into temptations.” In our Bibles we read, “Lead us not into temptation.” How can God lead into temptation? Satan is the tempter. Satan came to the Lord, tempting Him fourty long days. No, God cannot be tempted (James, chapter 1) and He cannot tempt anyone. So, it should be, “Lead us, so we don’t fall into temptations.” I could go with you even through the Word of God.
In Ephesians, chapter 3, for instance, where the English Bibles, not too many translations, but the English Bible here refers to a “family in heaven”, which it is never in the original, never, and it’s not in the German Bible, and it’s not in the rest of the Bibles. Ephesians, chapter 3, verse 14 and 15, “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Lord Jesus Christ” – wonderful! This we all do. And then it says in verse 15, “… of whom the whole family on earth and in Heaven is named.” If there is a family in heaven, then there is a father, a wife and a son. And this is where the triune teaching, the trinity teaching is based upon such misinterpreted scriptures. Here it should be reading, like it does in the German Bible, “… and all fatherhood – all fatherhood! –, be it in heaven or be it on earth …” Do you see the difference? Not “family” – “fatherhood”! There is one, He is our Father in heaven.
So, Beloved, we have brochures which we have written about these different subjects, letting the people know to take not only one verse, but to take every verse speaking about the same subject. And then, of course, in the King James Bible something was done that is not found in the German Bible, and it was not in the first Bible translated in the days of Reformation, in the Zurich Bible in 1531. It was not and is not in Luther’s first translation from 1543. It’s not there. But it’s in the English King James version in 1 John, chapter 5. Here is one verse 100 % inserted into the Holy Script. It’s not there. It’s not in the first translation in the time of Reformation, and it reads like this, “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one.” This verse is not in the German Bible. It was not in the first Bibles translated by Zwingli and by Matin Luther. And it’s in your Bible. But if you read the footnote, it says here, “It is generally believed and agreed that this verse has no manuscript authority and has been inserted.” It’s a footnote in my Scofield Bible.
So, summarizing what I try to say here today: Even the Word of God has fallen into human hands. We need the Holy Spirit to be led into all the Truth, to see if there is another scripture backing up what this one verse says. Is there another scripture backing up with the “family in heaven”, as we read? Is there another scripture backing up that “there are three in heaven”, as we just read? No, there is not, and every Bible teaching must be and is at least upon two and three witnesses.
So, Beloved, let me come to the conclusion by the grace of God: This is God’s final time before the Return of Jesus Christ. And all things must be restored; they must be brought back to where they had been at the very beginning. I am not wasting your time, and I don’t want you to waste my time. I want your to realize that this is the most important time to make the right decision, to come back to God, to come back to His Word and to be part of the Bride Church which is now being called out and getting ready for the Return of the Bridegroom. Matthew 25, “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet Him!” Please, join me in this. Let us together come out from everything that is not according to the Word of God and move forward, looking up, for our redemption is drawing near.
May the blessings of Almighty God, divine revelation, divine understanding be granted to you, beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, is my prayer in Jesus’ holy Name. Amen.