I am very grateful to God for the local church in Krefeld, which has participated in the commission I received from the very beginning. And I am also very grateful for those, who consider themselves to be part of it. As the LORD instructed, I never founded a local church in any other city. My task is to reach all of God's children who are still scattered in the different churches and to share God’s Word with them. It is also well known that all churches have published their own song books, to distinguish their denomination from the others. I can sing from any song book, but I am not permitted to publish one myself. As Brother Branham very clearly stated, this last revival will not bring forth a new, organised church, but instead the Bride Church of Jesus Christ.

We find the calling Paul received recorded three different times in the Book of Acts. He placed much emphasis upon the fact that he was divinely commissioned. For only the ministry connected to the divine commission was his legitimisation. In his epistles, he identified himself at the very beginning as who he was: an apostle of Jesus Christ, someone directly sent. That precludes that there had to be a sender, who gave the order to carry the special message of the sender. In this connection he refers to himself as servant of Christ, “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God... “(Rom. 1: 1). He did not place himself in this high position, but rather referred to the ministry given to him. He was destined to preach the whole counsel of God (Acts 20: 27). As servant and witness, it was his task to open the eyes of the people by his exposition of the Scriptures (Acts 26: 16-18). To him were revealed the mystery of God in Christ, the mystery of Christ in the Church and all the other mysteries, right to the transformation of the mortal bodies at the time of the first resurrection and rapture when Christ returns (1Cor. 15; 1 Thess. 4 a. o.). His extraordinary calling was connected to the special teaching ministry for the Church of Jesus Christ.

His intention was to present to Christ a chaste virgin, but he feared that as Eve was beguiled, so the Church would also be corrupted (2 Cor. 11: 2-3). In spite of it, he was convinced and believed that the LORD would take care of His Own, “... that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” (Eph. 5: 27). In his letter to Titus the apostle opens his heart and we see his calling and commission for the faith of the elect and for the knowledge of God in all truth. “Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began, but hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God, our Saviour,” (Tit. 1: 1-3). That is what can be called -ministering according to God's commission- even today.

A comparable calling and direct commission was given to William Branham on 7th May, 1946. He was the promised prophet who should appear, before the great and dreadful day of the LORD cometh, to turn the hearts of God's children back to the faith of the apostolic fathers of the very beginning (Mal. 4: 5-6; Mt. 17: 11 a. o.). To him the LORD revealed how the fall in the Garden of Eden actually happened. Just like to Paul, the entire plan of Salvation was also revealed to him. It can truthfully be said that God has revealed all His Word from Genesis to Revelation. All the truths that were hidden therein and lost are now made known. Once again we can live by every Word of God and can be nourished by the hidden Mannah. At the beginning, Paul laid the foundation - Brother Branham did the same at the end of the time of grace. Paul was the apostle and teacher placed by God and therefore refers to himself as co-worker of God (I Cor. 3: 9-15; 2 Cor. 6: 1), as ambassador of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5: 16-21). The same applies to Brother Branham. He taught and did the same. In 1 Cor. 4, the Apostle Paul admonishes the believers as the steward of the mysteries of God. The teaching and practice revealed to him is binding for the New Testament Church. Even today it is the only valid pattern before God. Only what completely coincides with it, without the slightest deviation, originates from God and is truly faith as the Scripture says. That I also received such a calling I cannot and will not deny. On the contrary: I have the same responsibility today as the men of God had before me.