Special greetings to you all in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For reflection I chose the following statement of the Apostle Paul:

"Holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain" (Phil. 2:16).

A man of God does not expect any praise from others, as it is written, "He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord" (1Cor. 1:31). His part is the fruit of his ministry, the souls which have been led to Christ and are ready to see His face at the return of the Lord Jesus. It is not sufficient to preach anything, but you have to preach the Word of Life – the original Word, as it came forth from the mouth of God. All believers must hold to it until the day of the return of Jesus Christ to make sure that the labour and effort have not been in vain. We can see from what happened in the Garden of Eden how serious, yes deadly, the smallest deviation is. The proclamation of the pure Word as the sound doctrine cannot be esteemed high enough. Every alteration and private interpretation are deceptions, they bring spiritual death and plunch one into destruction without people noticing it. In the contrary, they think to be wise, because they have eaten from the tree of knowledge. The enemy has led the first couple into this deception. The tree of knowledge brought deadly wisdom and left them thinking to be wise but separated from God. We must partake of Christ – the tree of life—which is in the midst of the paradise of God (Rev. 2:7). He is our life.

Of his co-worker Timothy Paul writes in verse 20 and 21: "For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel." The same applies right to this day. Only those who are truly concerned with the things of God without having extra thoughts will serve in brotherly fellowship and unity for the edification of the Body of Christ.

Whoever thinks of himself cannot be of service to Christ, but rather of damage. In this way misunderstandings, divisions and separations happen. The notion to do a service unto the Lord without being commissioned by Him is useless. Men who fall under this category even think they are something special and can accomplish more than their brethren. There are only very few who truly serve the Lord and His own. Most of them think about themselves and not about the welfare of the Church of the living God. The Lord searches for faithful, self-denying laborers whom He can send into His harvest.

I am overwhelmed by the proclamation of the Word, the doctrines, and the prophetic part of the Scriptures pertaining to the divine plan of salvation. After giving myself sincerely the Word-test I am finding that everything is perfectly dovetailing with the written and revealed Word of God. Over and again I stand the judgment of the Word and ask myself because of the direct responsibility before God whether everything is right. If then the Holy Scripture itself gives testimony that we believe and teach as the Scripture says, it causes a deep thankfulness in us.

I wish to repeat here what I said many times: I would preach in the presence of all the prophets and apostles, yes, in the holy presence of my beloved Lord, what I preach and teach. This does not speak of a failable being, but of the divine calling. No man has anything of himself, except it is given to him from the Lord. I don't hesitate for a moment to place everything Brother Branham taught properly in the Scriptures. In spite of what many think and one Brother has written: "We don't need someone to place all things biblically for us…", we certainly need it. Only if the infallible Word itself, founded on more than one place, teaches what we teach, we can rest assured in it and proclaim it to others. Satan can turn and twist one verse, but not two or three.

There cannot be another Gospel, no other message except the one which was proclaimed from the beginning (1Pt 1:12 + 25; 1J 1:1-5). Nothing can be added to it; nothing can be taken from it.

Of course God can reveal, as He has already done, give more light and clarity, but the thing itself must remain the same. If the Lord ordains someone to proclaim His Word, it is normal, when the Spirit of God in him is against all those self-made teachings which were arbitrary fashioned from some of the quotes of Brother Branham. Whoever asserts the man of God of this hour to teach or to preach something else instead of what is clearly witnessed and taught in the Bible makes him a false teacher and false prophet.

Repeatedly Brother Branham emphasized, "I'm just a man, my words can fail," then he lifted the Bible and said to the congregation: "This is God's infallible Word. That is my absolute." There are fanatics who exchange this role; they don't hesitate to question God's Word or even to

put it aside and emphasize that every utterance Brother Branham made was thus says the Lord. They even misplace and dislocate it. He was a prophet, also a preacher and evangelist and was led from light to light and from revelation to revelation. Such people who are wrong in their thinking give special glory to a man which belongs only to God and actually don't care for the well-being of the Church of the living God. They compare quote with quote and build one upon the other instead of putting all of it upon the unshakable foundation of God's holy Word.

A noted Brother of the Englisch language told me on 12^th November 1989 straight into my face, "Brother Frank, you don't even believe the message." Astonished I said, "Beloved Brother, I did more for the spreading of the message throughout the world than the others did together." He replied, "I don't care what you have done, if you don't believe the seven thunders you don't believe the message, because the seven thunders are the message." He added, "You don't even believe that Christ came down to earth and is now judging and that Revelation chapter 10 is totally fulfilled." Such men emphasize the statement that the Lamb left the mercy seat to take the book and open the seals, but don't mention what also was said, that only after the last one has come in the Lamb will leave the mercy seat. Satan used one Scripture when he tempted the Lord, but our Saviour replied, "It is also written…" That much I can say without being presumptuous: in my presence those gentlemen would not preach as they do before congregations who easily believe, as they think special revelations are presented to them.

It seems there is no end of the various interpretations which they call the revelation of the seven thunders. The actual tragedy of such people is described in the following Scripture: "Because they received not the love of the truth (which is the written Word of God), that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie " (2Ths 2:10-11). Only if we have the true love of God for the Word of truth, we are able to reject and discern all the errors.

I declare before God and all man that I do not believe a single one of all the "thunder-teachings" or the "parousia" and others which are falsely called the message. I further don't believe that the Lord already came. Such coming is not a reality but an illusion in the heads of some people. The return of Jesus Christ will be exactly accompanied by all the events the Scriptures clearly show and speak of. As far as I am concerned the message is the eternal Word of God with all the promises for this time. In fact, the hearts of God's children have been turned to the original faith of the fathers. More I don't wish to declare here, because the time is too precious to be wasted. Whoever is born by Word and Spirit believes the original Word which is Spirit and Life.