Beloved brothers and sisters, dear friends in Christ, this is Brother Frank speaking to you from the Mission Center in Krefeld - Germany.
It’s always a privilege for me to share God’s Word with you. I had a great privilege in my life time to serve the LORD over 40 years, in over 130 countries just preaching the everlasting gospel, the true gospel of salvation, the gospel of Jesus Christ our LORD and Saviour in its original form – just the way it was preached in apostolic days and therefore it is my duty to not withhold anything from you but share with you the whole counsel of God as the apostle Paul was saying in his day.
Beloved, we are now living very close to the Return of Christ. We have the promise in John 14 where our LORD said: “I go to prepare the place, then I will return and take you to be where I am”. We do believe as Bible believing children of God that this promise will be kept and it will be kept very soon. Therefore we acknowledge God’s Word in its fullness. We do believe that Matthew 24:14 is now being fulfilled that this original gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached as a witness to all nations and then the end will be. Two thousand years have come and gone. Already in apostolic days our brethren waited for the Return of Christ. But now the signs of the time point very clearly to that great event and that great event could take place at any moment.
Beloved, in Romans chapter 3, verse 4 we read: “ Yea, let God be true but every man a liar”. We have to respect God’s Word the way it is written and then again it’s not enough to just take one verse and turn it into our direction. We have to go from scripture to scripture, from Old to New Testament and from the gospels to the book of Acts and from there to the epistles of the apostles and finally to the book of Revelation where all the prophetic things are mentioned and spoken of as they are taking place right now. Then again in Romans chapter 4, verse 3 we read: “For what says the scriptures?” Not, what does a man say; not what do church fathers say? But what does God say in His Word? I just finished writing a booklet. It’s here in the German language and is also now in print in the English language with the title: “In the beginning was the Word – Not the interpretation” I repeat: In the beginning was the Word – Not the interpretation.
Beloved, I shall be honest with you. If we look into churchianity, into Christianity, into all the religions. They’re man made. We have to admit this because there is only one original but many copies of this one original. If we wish to know the original we have to go to this one book and stay with the true Word of God as it was preached and taught right at the beginning. So, in John chapter 1, verse 1 we read: “In the beginning”. So, we must go back now at the end of the time of grace to the beginning, not to what church fathers said. I repeat, what I always said and will do again: Not to what Tertullian said or anyone of the church fathers, Augustin or Hyronimus. We must go back to what Peter, what John, what James, what Paul, what those men preached and taught who were placed by God Himself into the body of Christ and we have to respect the original teachings of God’s Holy Word. Then we already read in the days of the apostles that people were introducing teachings which were not in agreement with the original teachings of those ordained by God Himself and placed into the ministry. If you look into the life of Peter, of John, James, Paul they all could point back to a divine call. They knew of a day the LORD called them directly and commissioned them to be His servants, to preach His Word. They had divine authority. And the divine authority is not in a man, he be prophet, be apostle or any one. The divine authority is always in God’s Word only. And therefore, we have to try, we have to check whether somebody preaches the original Word of God or the interpretations of the original Word. For instance, we should start with the subject about God. If you go throughout all the four thousand years, in the period of the Old Testament you find that all prophets - the Old Testament gives record of One God only. Never, never, never did any prophet divide God into different persons. Never do we find the statement about one God existing eternally in three different persons. Not a single time, never was such idea ever mentioned in Bible days. Not throughout the Old Testament of course and not in the New Testament. But in the Old Testament we have just over 6000 times mentioned that God is One with the term the LORD God. Then in the New Testament we find that the Eternal One who is Spirit, who already manifested Himself in the Old Testament in a visible form of appearance known as LORD, the great I AM. It was not a different person. It was a different manifestation of the same person. The invisible made Himself visible. And therefore He remained the same, yesterday, today and forever. If we go to the New Testament - here we read like in Romans 3, verse 30: “Seeing it is one God”, one God who shall justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision thru faith.” Seeing that it is one God. To me this is the most important teaching that needs to be set right. We have to go back to the original teachings of God’s Word and find where heresies, where interpretations, where man made doctrines were introduced. Like for instance, if you go back to the term known as trinity – you have to go back to Tertullian who in the year 217 came to Rome and practised as a lawyer in Rome. And he accepted Christianity as it was known in Rome at that time. Never did he experience Christ as Saviour, he just accepted Christianity. And he was the one who is responsible for the creation of the trinity doctrine. And then of course, there were debates like in the counsel of Nicea 325 and in all the other counsels. And then the formulation was set forth that God exists eternally in three persons: The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, the Holy Ghost is eternal. But the scripture does never say that. And therefore I must be honest with you. I don’t represent a church. I don’t represent a teaching. I just represent God in the full sense of His Word. And therefore I will be derescent to say anything unless God said it in His Word. We have to acknowledge – in the New Testament God made Himself personal in Jesus Christ our LORD who was the personal manifestation of the Father in the Son. And therefore the Son could say: “If you have seen me you have seen the Father – I and the Father are One”. At the same time when He spoke as Son of man He could say: “The Father is greater than I”. Our LORD in His humanity had to be all in all. He had to be the lamb of God, He had to be mediator, He had to be the High Priest, He has to be the advocate. He was Son of man, Son of God, Son of David, Son of Abraham. All these terms placed Christ in a certain aspect to the plan of salvation. But all in all we have to say the summary that Paul left behind in I Timothy chapter 3, verse 16: “Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit”. It’s not my responsibility to explain this great mystery but it’s my responsibility to tell the whole earth that Christianity was misled, that every Bible teaching was misplaced, misinterpreted and all of humanity was misled. But now the time has come to return to God and to His Word. We have to go back as I said many times to the great commission in Matthew 28:19 and also in Mark 16 from verse 15 where the LORD gave the great commission and also to Luke chapter 24, verse 47 and to John chapter 20 from verse 21 to 23. And we have to take all these four commissions into one great commission practised on the day of Pentecost by the apostle Peter who had the keys of the kingdom, who had divine authority under the anointing of the Holy Spirit – He spoke what was truth and showed the way to those who were to enter the narrow gate and move into the glorious way of salvation. There he made the statement to those who were asking: “Men and brethren what must we do”? The answer was: “Repent everyone of you and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost”. What is it? The apostle understood by divine revelation that the New Testament Name in which God revealed Himself as Father in heaven, in the Son on earth, in the church by the Holy Spirit – this one great Name was the LORD Jesus Christ. And therefore everyone since the day of Pentecost was baptised scripturally into this wonderful Holy Name where unto man no other name is given except the name of Jesus Christ to be saved. Today people discuss about the right baptism. Even when I read the statements about Martin Luther – he was asked about baptism of those who believe and then he made the statement as such a great reformer – he said: “If we would wait until people believe, there would be nobody left to be baptised”. Brothers and sisters, dear friends we’re not living in the days of reformation. We are living in the time of the total restoration of all things. We can not go back to what Martin Luther said, John Wesley said, John Smith said, Mennosimos said and Moody said and whatever or whoever said something – We have to go back to the true Bible teachings, ignoring all man made doctrines and make God to be true and His Word to be right and everyone else to be a liar. If we don’t say precisely what God said, if we do not baptise the way the apostles baptise, of course we are wrong. Anybody would know that much if you know the Holy Scriptures. If Peter was wrong, if Paul was wrong then I love to be wrong also. But that’s totally impossible! They understood the LORD precisely. And therefore we have to acknowledge that Bible teachings are not found in any catechism, they are not found in any church doctrine. Bible teachings are found in the Holy Scriptures alone!
Beloved, one more thought. Now before the Return of Christ, the true church of the living God, all the members of the body of Christ must be called out from everything that is not in agreement with God’s Holy Word. There must be a time of separation. Light must be separated from darkness, right from wrong, Bible teachings from man made teachings. We don’t go by traditions set up by man. We go by the Word of God which remains forever. Therefore we have to emphasize that God in the last days – not only in the last days but at the end of the last days has sent a prophetic ministry. Dear ones in Christ, I experienced the revival, the miracle healing revival which God brought about after World War II thru the ministry of William Branham – a man sent from God. I am a witness, I saw people born blind receive their sight! I saw the book of Acts repeat before my eyes. I can say as John the apostle: “What our eyes have seen, our ears have heard from the Word of life that we preach and share with you”.
Beloved, I am a witness that Bible days are here again. I’m a witness that Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever. And so were many of the great evangelists in the USA who were part already at the late 40’s, in the 50’s and in the beginning of the 60’s when they came to a meeting of William Branham. And they saw as I did the hand of God, the supernatural power working, moving. And the power of God was demonstrated like in the ministry of Jesus Christ our LORD and as in the ministry of the apostles. And still people did not understand what it was all about. They said: “He is a great man, he is a prophet”.
But beloved, there is more to it than just to say: He was a great man, God used him in an unsurpassed way”. That’s not enough! He had a mission from God. He was told: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, you are given a message from God’s Word which will forerun the second coming of Christ”. And the LORD took His servant in December 65 but from that time the message he received from God by divine revelation making known to us all the mysteries right from the fall in the Garden of Eden to Revelation 22. All the mysteries within the Word of God which were hidden thru the ages as the apostle Paul puts it in his epistles to the Ephesians were made known unto us by that God ordained infallible ministry thru that man sent from God.
Beloved, I’m not here to present a man. I’m not here to preach Moses or Abraham. I’m not here to preach David or anyone of the prophets. I’m not here to preach Peter or Paul or James or William Branham. I’m just here to tell you that Bible days are still with us. And we are part of God’s plan of salvation now at the end of the time of grace. And there is a restoration promised in God’s Holy Word. God said in the prophet Joel: “I will restore unto you all the years”. Then in Acts chapter 3 we are told that the times of refreshing would come from the presence of the LORD. And then in the prophet Malachi we are told: “I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the LORD comes”.
Beloved, we can not continue to play church, we can not just listen to a prosperity gospel that is being preached. We have to come back to the Word of God acknowledge that this is God’s time for God’s people to know the plan of salvation according to the scriptures.
Beloved, I have to speak to you in such a way because I do have a responsibility, having received a divine call from the LORD. I’m responsible to share God’s true Word with you. I’m giving the warning. These are the last moments of the time of grace. And anybody who looks into the political world and altogether realises that Bible prophecies are now being fulfilled before us. May the LORD grant unto you His grace to know Him in the power of His resurrection to know His Word by divine revelation to acknowledge what God has promised for this day and to have part in what God is doing right now. I can only share these things with you. It’s up to you to believe it. I would be glad to hear from you. And now I just wish to say – May God bless you, may He be with you, may He open your understanding to know the Scripture by divine revelation. I might hear from you. God bless you in Jesus’ Holy Name. Amen.