Ladies and gentlemen, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, this is Brother Frank speaking to you from the Mission Center in Krefeld - Germany. 

I’m glad for this opportunity to share with you God’s Holy Word. We call this ministry “The Apostolic Prophetic Bible Hour”. It’s something that we need to know that God is His Own interpreter. We don’t interpret what the Scripture says, we believe what the Scripture says. That is a big difference. Now, as we are living so near to the Return of Christ – and everybody who knows the Scriptures also will come to understand that the handwriting is on the wall. The signs of the time clearly speak to us and say: When you see all these things come to pass, then you know that the Return of Christ is near. At that time we should look up, for our redemption, the bodily redemption is drawing near. Our soul is already redeemed. We have received the forgiveness of our sins, we have the experience of being born again and filled with the Holy Spirit but we are waiting as Romans 8 declares: The whole nature, the whole universe, the whole creature is waiting for the Return of Christ, for the manifestation of the sons of God. That means to say that our body will be changed, corruptible will put on incorruption as we find written in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. But now as we call it “Apostolic Prophetic Bible Ministry”, we shall go to the Old and the New Testament and understand from the Scriptures God’s plan of salvation. In the Old Testament the things were foretold, they were predicted, in the course of the New they are coming to fulfilment. As I almost repeat in every of my sermons all over the earth that there were promises pertaining to the first coming of Christ and there are promises that speak what would take place before He returns. In John chapter 14 our LORD made the promise: I go to prepare the place for you and then I will return and take you to be where I am. But now this time is almost upon us. The Return of Christ is actually overdue. It’s only God’s longsuffering waiting until the last ones would come in and then the door would close. If we go to the promised Word for today, we always look back to see how God dealt with humanity in the past. He always took one man who was His servant, His prophet, His messenger and to him His Word was revealed and then they were sent with a direct “Thus says the LORD”. We don’t say: Thus says Isaiah or thus says Jeremiah or thus says Ezekiel. It’s God speaking thru those men who were in direct contact with the Almighty who knew Him personally, who saw visions, who heard His voice audibly. Men living on earth being united, being in fellowship in a direct relationship with God Almighty. And especially since the LORD came to us, since He was Man. We all understand, in the Old Testament He was in a visible body walking in the garden of Eden but that was not a body like we have, it was a spiritual body which at the same time could also be a natural body in the Old Testament. But in the New Testament our LORD was born into this world. He became human like we are. HE had a human nature, He slept, He wept, He prayed. HE was human in the body. But He was the LORD of glory in the Spirit. But He had to come into a body of flesh to redeem us, to pay the price, to shed His blood, to give His life so that we could be reconciled with God receiving eternal life. And therefore all who have eternal life will live eternally and those who do not have eternal life, of course can not live eternally. There is only one form of eternal life and that is in God. And God was manifested in Christ, the Son and therefore the Scriptures says: “He that has the Son of God has eternal life and he that has not the Son has not life.” Therefore God did not bring us a religion. He brought us salvation. We were reconciled with Him and when the time comes and the trumpet will sound and the voice of the archangel will be heard, the dead in Christ shall rise first and we who are alive and live with Christ – and we can only live in Christ if Christ lives in us. Christ the hope of glory must live His life thru us. As the apostle Paul said in Galatians chapter 2 verse 20: I’m crucified with Christ. Now I live no more but Christ lives in me.” We could refer to many Scriptures but I like to share one thought with you today about God sending His messengers. It says, our LORD speaking, in John chapter 13 verse 20: “Verily, verily I say unto you, He that receiveth whom so ever I send receiveth me and he that receiveth me receiveth him that send me.” This statement of our LORD takes us right away to John chapter 20 verse 21: “As the Father has send me so send I you.” It is the same commission, the same redemption, the same plan of salvation but it takes a divine call to have a divine commission. And if there is a divine call and a divine commission, we have God’s revealed Word, then only we have the true message of God’s Word for this day. Otherwise we will just say what church fathers have said, or what church books say. But I’m not here to waste your time and I’m not here to waste my time. I’m here today to tell you that this is a prophetic age and now Bible Prophecies are being fulfilled and what the apostle Peter stated in 2 Peter chapter 1 remains true forever. And especially in the time we are now living in it’s so important to know the prophetic Scripture. And again it’s important not to interpret Bible prophecies but watch them as they do come to fulfilment. In 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 19: “e have also a more sure Word of prophecy.” If you take it literally: In the days of Christ, the teachers were studying the Word of God day and night, especially on every Sabbath day they were reading from the Torah, they were preaching about the coming of the Messiah. It was the hope that was living in them and all the people came to hear about the fulfilment of all these predictions the prophets had made or to state it in a better way, God had made thru the prophets in the Old Testament. But beloved brothers and sisters, dear friends, when the time of fulfilment came there eyes were blinded because of their own interpretations and expectations of how they had put things, they missed the day of God’s visitation. Many times I thought about Saul of Tarsus, how he sat at the same time when Christ had His ministry at the feet of Gamaliel who taught theology. How big was the difference between sitting at the feet of Gamaliel or then going into Arabia and remaining there a few years studying the Word of God and then coming forth with the message and he is the main writer of the New Testament. But beloved, it takes a divine call, a divine commission and then you are with the LORD and the LORD is with you and you don’t just preach, you preach the Word of God revealed by the Holy Spirit.

By the way, if I have a call from God, if I do have a commission form the LORD, I should preach the same gospel baptise as Paul baptised or even as he was baptised making his statement in Romans chapter 6 verse 3: We all who are baptised in Jesus Christ we are baptised into His death because we are buried with Christ by baptism. As I said in some of the other sermons many people call baptism just sprinkling a few drops of water onto the forehead. That’s not baptism! A baptism must be administered by immersion. And it can only be done after a person has received Christ as personal Saviour and their forgiveness of sins and that happens when the gospel is being preached as we have the example right from the day the New Testament Church was established. And Peter the apostle could make the statement to those who wish to be saved: “Repent every one of you and be baptised in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins.” The sins were already forgiven by believing in Jesus Christ as Saviour Who shed His blood for the remission of sins. But to confirm that their sins were forgiven, they were baptised in the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ.

Beloved, you can go to Acts chapter 9, to chapter 22, to chapter 26 were the apostle speaks about his experience he had and how he received his commission. But you can also go to Moses, you can go to all the prophets in the Old Testament, you can go to John the Baptist who said: I knew Him not but He that send me to baptise said: Upon whom you see the Spirit of God descending that is the One. All true men of God received a divine commission and I have to share with you in all humility: The dear LORD has called the most unworthy person that He could find in the 20 st century. It happened on April 2^nd 1962 just at the dawning of a new day when I looked towards the window and voice of the Almighty came from up but from the right saying these words: “My servant, your time for this city will soon be over. I will send you to other cities to preach my Word.” I just collapsed, all strength had left me. I fell over to my left, landing on my arm and with the face towards the carpet.

Beloved, I’m not lying to you! I’m just sharing the experience I had. I do have a direct commission from the lips of the LORD to preach His Word. And beloved, I must not keep from you that His Return is imminent. I must also share with you that as there was a message to forerun the first coming of Christ – a voice in the wilderness, a man in the Spirit and power of Elijah to prepare the way of the LORD, not to start a new church, new denomination, new religion. But that prophecy might be fulfilled and the kingdom of God would take its turn and way. 

Beloved, I came to know the man of God in the 20 st century, William Branham. I had the great privilege in my life time right since 1949 to have part in the revival the LORD had started in 1946 when a supernatural being came to Brother Branham. An angel send from the presence of Almighty God on May 7^th. You might and you might not believe it but I knew Brother Branham for ten years. I experienced the supernatural, I saw Bible days with my own eyes. I was present in Europe and present in the USA when the supernatural ministry took place, when the lives of the people were revealed. William Branham was a prophet, He saw visions, He was shown who the people are what there problems would be, where they came from even their names, their cities, their addresses, like it was in the ministry of Jesus Christ who in John chapter 1 could say: “Before Philip called you I saw you under the tree.” When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well in John chapter 4, He could say: “Five men you had, the one you have now is not your husband.” HE could tell everybody whatever was shown to Him. And we find His Own statement in John chapter 5 verse 19: “The Son can do nothing but what He sees the Father do, the Son does likewise.” 

Beloved friends, I must share this with you! Otherwise God will judge me for not telling you the truth. I’m not here to tell you what great evangelists are doing. I’m here to share with you what God is doing according to His Word now before the second coming of Christ. 

According to Malachi chapter 4, there was to come a prophet like Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD would be. Just at the end of the day of salvation, at the end of the time of grace, the calling out of God’s people would take place so that all confusion, all interpretations, all misunderstandings would come to an end and God would have a bride church, a Word bride called out from all that is not according to the Scripture. And this man of God, William Branham was told already on June 11^th 1933: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, you are send with a message which will forerun the second coming of Christ.” And beloved, my ministry is directly connected to his. All the mysteries from Genesis to Revelation which were hid in God’s Word but are so important in the plan of salvation were made known to this man sent from God because he had the Word of God, the message of the hour. His ministry was to call out, to bring us back to all the Bible teachings and practises. And I count it a great privilege which God gave to me that I would know this man for ten years, drive with him in the same car, eat with him at the same table, participate in the same meetings. And I can say today like John the apostle in his time: “What our eyes have seen, our ears have heard from the Word of Life that we share unto you.” 

Beloved, I’m not talking about fables. I’m talking about reality. The Return of Christ is imminent. I saw Bible days with my own eyes, I saw Hebrews 13:8 fulfilled: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.” I saw John 14:12 also accomplished: “The works that I do shall you do also and greater than these shall ye do.” 

Beloved, let me finish in saying: This is God’s time for God’s people to return to God’s Word, to know what He promised and to have part in what He is doing right now just before He returns this gospel of the kingdom in its original form is being preached to all nations. I’m glad to share God’s Word with you. All I can say is: May God bless you, may He speak to your heart, may He give you divine understanding and revelation by the Holy Spirit so that you would understand all things the right way. May the blessings of God rest upon you, I would be glad to hear from you in Jesus’ Holy Name. Amen.