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

It’s a great privilege for me to speak to you in a direct way that means to say to let God speak personally by His Word to you just using human lips. We do live in a very special time and therefore the gospel of Jesus Christ in its original form must be preached to all nations – then the end would be. That was our LORD’s declaration in Matthew 24 verse 14. Knowing the time we are living in and also the promised Word for this day which we call the message of the hour, the Word promised and also accomplished within the church of the living God. We do have chosen the title: “Apostolic Prophetic Bible Ministry”. We take the Old and the New Testament, we take what God promised and show what He fulfilled. God always watches over His Word to do when the time is fulfilled whatever He promised. At the first coming of our LORD many promises and prophecies and predictions from the Old Testament were fulfilled. If Dr. Larken counted right, 109 promises were accomplished at the first coming of our beloved LORD and Saviour. Everything was written in the Scriptures. Even John the Baptist was a promised prophet. But the concern now is to know the time we are living in, to know the promised Word for today, to know what God is doing at this time according to His Word. I’m in the ministry for over 40 years having visited over 130 countries knowing what goes on in the different religions and especially in Christianity. Also being aware of the many teachings, of the many churches, of the many interpretations of the Holy Scriptures I have to say: We need to return to God’s Word and let God be true and every man a liar as is written in Romans chapter 3 verse 4. Then again in Romans chapter 4 verse 3 the apostle Paul is asking: What does the Scripture say?  What does the Scripture say about God? About eternal life? About water baptism? About the Spirit baptism? About His return? I mean the Return of Christ. What does the Bible actually teach? 

And beloved friends, it is not enough to take one scripture and then to turn it into every direction under heaven. We must take scripture to scripture. And every Bible question must have a Bible answer. 

In Acts chapter 1 we are told that our dear LORD after His resurrection spent 40 days with His disciples speaking to them about the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. After He taught them He made the big statement known by everybody in Christianity in Matthew 28: “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing, teaching all nations”. But that’s not the only commission. We have to go to Mark 16 again the commission is given to preach the gospel and those who believe in Jesus Christ are to be baptised. It’s not enough to go to Matthew and Mark. You have to go also to Luke 24 verse 47: “And in His Name shall be preached the remission of sins to all nations”. It’s not enough, you have to go to John chapter 20 from verse 20, 21, 22, 23: “As the Father has sent me so send I you.” And then verse 23: “To whom you remit sins they are remitted, to whom you retain them they are retained.” How did the apostles understand this great commission found in all the four gospels. You have to go to Acts chapter 2, there is the answer. Peter summarised what the LORD had said and preached the true Word of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ. And those who believed they were baptised. First they repented because repentance and remission of sins should be preached in the precious Name of the LORD Jesus Christ. Then if you only stop with Acts chapter 2 verse 38 and don’t go to the other scriptures in the book of Acts you might have the impression that baptism is administered for the remission of sins. Therefore it’s not enough to go to Matthew, to Mark, to Luke, to John and to Acts 2. You have to go to Acts 8, to Acts 10, to Acts 11, to Acts 19, to Romans 6, Galatians, Colossians. You have to go to all the scriptures which speak about repentance, about conversion, about baptism. You have to go from Word to Word, scripture upon scripture. Otherwise if you only build upon one scripture you lopsided, you will never make it. And therefore I hope I don’t exaggerate but I feel sorry for every minister who must defend the teachings of his church, of his denomination. I don’t need to defend any teachings. I only need to preach the Word of God the way it is written. 

Then if we go to further scriptures we have to understand even when our LORD spoke. I wrote down a few things about our LORD when He spoke about that they would not be finished with the cities in Israel until He would return. How this was misunderstood and is still misunderstood today. I read to you. Matthew 10 verse 23: “But when they persecute you in this city, flee into another for verily I say unto you: You shall not have gone over the cites of Israel till the Son of Man be come.” If you don’t have the Holy Spirit revealing to you what the LORD meant then you would have to say, this utterance did not come to pass because the time for the cities of Israel was very soon over. In the year 70 after Christ the temple was destroyed and so was the city and the people were scattered. So you have to understand but not from one verse, from one chapter, you have to go to the next one. In Matthew 16 in verse 28 we read: “Verily I say unto you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. If you only take this verse, then you would have to say: Oh, something is still outstanding because they have all seen death and have not seen the kingdom of God if you take it only by head knowledge without divine revelation.

And then you continue to all the next scriptures where our LORD also speaks about it in Mark chapter 9 verse 1: “And He said unto them, verily I say unto you there be some of them that stand here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.” 

Beloved, then you have to understand John the Baptist begun to preach: “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.” You have to understand Jesus Christ our LORD begun to preach: “Repent for the kingdom is at hand.” Then you go to Luke: “The law and the prophets were until John, since that time the kingdom is preached and every man presses into it.”

But on the day of Pentecost all these predictions, all these announcements came to pass and the LORD opened the heavens and the Holy Spirit was poured out and then He made His promise true: I will not leave you, I’ll come back to you, I’ll be with you.” And then if you read Revelation chapter 1, there John saw the LORD as Son of Man walking amidst the seven golden candlesticks. So all these promises became a living reality, they were fulfilled. Many of those who saw the ministry of Jesus Christ saw the day of Pentecost. They saw the kingdom of God breaking forth, the New Testament being established. And as already mentioned they saw Jesus Christ as John was shown walking in their midst. Being present in the meetings He went to heaven bodily but in the Spirit He came down. Bodily He was with us, Emmanuel - God with us but in the Spirit He was in us – Christ in us the hope of glory. 

I only share these scriptures with you that you might understand the importance of not only saying: It’s written here. You have to take it from scripture to scripture, from prediction to fulfilment. And we need divine revelation and understanding of every Word of God. If you go into church history – men have tried to understand to explain God. If you go the man from Tunisia called Tertullian, he had the idea being a heathen himself, a Gentile, living in an area with many gods and goddesses. He was the first one to come up with the idea that God exists in three persons. But if I for one moment would take to demonstrate that the idea of three persons would in actuality mean this. That there were three, the Father eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Ghost eternal. Would you believe it? I don’t and therefore I quickly take these things away because I don’t believe what a man from Tunisia has said. I believe what God spoke thru the prophets in the Old Testament what the LORD Himself said especially in Mark chapter 12 where He refers to the Old Testament saying: “I’m the LORD your God. Thou shalt have no other gods besides me.” We have to go back to the Word of God. Then again there was man living in Lybia. His name was Sabellius and he came up with the idea that there is one God but he only puts on a different mask. And one time he acts like this, another time he acts like this. God does not need to put on a mask. And the Jesus-Only teaching is not found  in the Scriptures as also the triune teaching is not found in God’s Holy Word. But we see God as Creator, as Sustainer, we see Him as King, as Judge, as Saviour. And then we see that God who had all these attributes throughout all eternity, He manifested these attributes in Jesus Christ our LORD who was a direct image and expression of the invisible God in a visible of appearance here on earth coming into the flesh redeeming us. In the Old Testament our beloved LORD was the Logos that in the beginning - not in eternity – in the beginning came out of the fullness of God into a visible form of appearance walking in the garden of Eden creating Adam in His Own image. 

Beloved, I don’t know if you can believe this but I had the great privilege to hear the voice of  the LORD, the tremendous all commanding, all penetrating voice of the LORD on April 2^nd 1962 when He called me to the ministry, when He commissioned me to go from city to city to preach His Word. Beloved, if you look into Scripture the true men of God did not study God. God revealed Himself to them, He commissioned them, they knew Him personally and were inspired by the Holy Spirit. You can go thru the Old and the New Testament. All the mysteries of the kingdom of God, of the Word of God which are hid within the Scriptures were made known. Then if you read Amos chapter 3 verse 7 the LORD God does nothing – it says unless He reveals His secret first to His servants the prophets. Then in Romans chapter 1 we are told about the gospel of God which was promised by the holy prophets in the Holy Scriptures. Then in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 3 and 4 we read: “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures and that He was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”

Beloved brothers and sisters, the time has come to know the difference between all the interpretations of the Scriptures and the actual meaning, the actual fulfilment of what God has said in His Word. When it comes to teaching, then the apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 4 in verse 1: “Let every man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the stewards of the mysteries of God” and then in verse 17: “For this cause have I send unto you Timothy who is my beloved son and faithful in the LORD who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which are in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church.” Everywhere in every church! The same teachings, the same practise, everything, everywhere the same because Jesus Christ is the same. What do we find today in all the many churches? Everyone having their own teachings, their own practises. Even today people call sprinkling the forehead with a few drops of water baptism. And everybody knows that the Greek Word “Baptisma” means “dipping under”. And John the Baptist was not sprinkling. He was baptising. He was immersing the people into the water. Jesus Christ was baptised not sprinkled! Everybody in the Scriptures was baptised not sprinkled! Not babies but those believed the message of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ. After 2000 years even with this Word of God in their hands in their offices – and many have studied for years and years – and we see without divine revelation you just have church teachings but not the original teachings of God’s Word. 

Beloved, the Return of Christ is near! And we must return to the original teachings of the Word of God. Please, understand! This is God’s time for God’s people to know Him in the power of His resurrection to know His Word by divine revelation and to prepare for the Return of Christ is near.

I would be glad to hear from you. This is Brother Frank speaking to you from the Mission Center in Krefeld – Germany. God bless you and be with you. Amen.