Circular Edition 2000
The years 1960 to 1979 were a special time for the local church, also in connection with the initial spreading of the message of the hour. 1980 was a new beginning with the propagation of God's revealed Word in almost all the existing churches. God has led in such a way, that I am being received with respect. It has been a great privilege for me to serve the LORD throughout all these years. The true Church of God receives the fresh food of the Word. It should not seem strange to anyone, that I have the same responsibility as Paul had, because of the divine commission. The chosen ones will recognise God's ways and walk therein. Whoever respects what God says, must acknowledge that God's gifts and callings are without repentance (Rom. 11: 29). A gift and a calling merges into the task. I believe, what Brother Branham, who was the promised prophet and messenger, was told on 11th June, 1933, from the super natural light, which was witnessed by approximately 4,000 people as the baptismal service was going on, “AS JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS SENT TO FORERUN THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST, THE MESSAGE THAT IS GIVEN YOU WILL BE A FORERUNNER OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.” We now see this announcement fulfilled. The messenger was taken to Glory, but the message remains with us. Not the many special doctrines about parousia, so-called revelations of the seven thunders etc., but the original Word is being preached as God's message. God so ordained the whole matter, that my ministry is connected to Brother Branham's as no one else's on earth.
God's revealed Word is valid for all of God's children. The last message is being proclaimed in all clarity and truthfulness as a testimony. Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Once again, so everyone will for ever understand, I need to mention that according to my calling, my ministry is in a twofold way: Firstly, to preach the Word of God. Secondly, to give out the spiritual food. This I do. I preach the Word in the light in which it was revealed, including everything that was given to Brother Branham, and let the Bible, as God's Word, remain the highest and final authority. The sermons of Brother Branham I do not preach again, do not take quotations from them to make up special doctrines, I leave them all the way they are. And all the brothers and sisters, who read or listen to them, are richly fed and blessed. Whoever is right in his heart will understand everything the right way, including the ministry I received from God. Whoever is false in his spirit will understand all things the wrong way. That is the spiritual principle. All brethren who place statements of Brother Branham above the Bible should think about it, because they are twisting things, causing their own downfall and the destruction of others, as Peter was writing of those men who already did the same in apostolic days with the Holy Scriptures and with the statements of the Apostle Paul (2 Pet. 3: 14-18).
With all who remain in the sound teachings God's Word has fallen on fertile ground. Whoever follows interpretations, forsaking Bible ground, making doctrines from quotations, is twice deceived. For only those who remain in God's Word truly remain in God. “For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God...” (Jn. 3: 34). The same applies to the servants He sends, “He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.” (Lk. 10: 16). Our LORD says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” On (Jn .13: 20). The concern today is also the direct commission, “... as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” (Jn. 20: 21). The calling is the actual condition for the ministry, as Brother Branham said, “No one has the right to be in the pulpit, unless he had an experience with the LORD like Moses and received a commission.” Only then applies what John wrote, “We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. By this know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 Jn. 4: 6).
At this point I would like to mention with appreciation that all the staff members, who take part in the Mission Center work since 1980, are still here with us today. They serve the LORD in all faithfulness in the office and distribution department. As for you, my beloved brothers and sisters in Europe and all over the world, as you are walking with the LORD and have accompanied me in this ministry in the past 40,30,20 or 10 years or how long it might be, I wish to thank you with all my heart. Together we shall spend eternity with our beloved LORD. In all faithfulness many of you remember this ministry in your prayers. Also special thanks to those, who give unto the LORD what actually belongs to Him. You are blessed in a special way according to His promise. Your tithes and offerings do not go to a man and not to an association, but unto the LORD directly, into the storehouse, so the spiritual food can be distributed (Mal. 3: 6-10). This also is part of the divine order, that all true believers comply with. The brothers and sisters of the three German speaking countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, bear the main burden of this mission work. May God richly bless all those of you, who share the burden, all of you who give, and may He reward you and supply all your needs according to the riches of His Glory. Thank you for remembering God's work also in this important practical way.
Also I wish to thank all ministering brethren in Europe and worldwide for the good co-operation. May the LORD restore the Church quickly to where she was at the very beginning, totally re-built and endued with the power of the Holy Spirit, to do the final will of God and experience all things, right to the last promise.
The true teaching ministry will now be followed by a true and mighty work of God. By a real outpouring of the Holy Spirit God's love is poured into our hearts (Rom. 5: 5). That is the love for the Truth. In this true love the Bride Church is being completely united with Christ, the Head, and becomes one heart and one soul, baptised by one Spirit into one Body (1 Cor. 12). Only perfect love will enter there. Jesus Christ, the First and the Last, Alpha and Omega, has redeemed and established His Church and He also completes the same for the day of His return. Truly the best is yet to come at the end of the time of grace! Brother Branham saw what would take place just before the rapture, namely a mighty supernatural work of God, as also promised in His Word (Hag. 2: 5-9; Hebr. 12: 25-29 a. o.).
By faith we proclaim the total victory of the crucified and resurrected LORD over all the power of the enemy (Rom. 16: 20; Col. 2: 13-15). It could be that we are now moving into the last part. Blessed are all who faithfully walk in the ways of the LORD right to the end. Together we believe what the Scripture says, ,For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.,< (Rom. 9: 28).
May we all reach the level where God's pleasure might rest upon us and we could cry out from our hearts, “Maranatha, come soon!” “He who testifieth these things saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Rev. 22: 20-21).
I wish to sincerely apologise to all those, whose letters and requests 1 could not reply to. 1 am travelling each month, sometimes over two weeks, and when I am here, the translation work and other duties consume my time, mostly up until midnight every day. It is therefore impossible to reply to letters personally. The material you order will be sent to you as promptly as possible. In Glory, when time shall be no more, 1 shall be able to sit with each one of you and together we will enjoy His presence for ever.
For the year 20011 wish you all God's richest blessings, expecting by faith from the LORD our God what Apostle Paul wrote: “Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.” (Eph. 3: 20-21).
By His commission
bro Frank
The years 1960 to 1979 were a special time for the local church, also in connection with the initial spreading of the message of the hour. 1980 was a new beginning with the propagation of God's revealed Word in almost all the existing churches. God has led in such a way, that I am being received with respect. It has been a great privilege for me to serve the LORD throughout all these years. The true Church of God receives the fresh food of the Word. It should not seem strange to anyone, that I have the same responsibility as Paul had, because of the divine commission. The chosen ones will recognise God's ways and walk therein. Whoever respects what God says, must acknowledge that God's gifts and callings are without repentance (Rom. 11: 29). A gift and a calling merges into the task. I believe, what Brother Branham, who was the promised prophet and messenger, was told on 11th June, 1933, from the super natural light, which was witnessed by approximately 4,000 people as the baptismal service was going on, “AS JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS SENT TO FORERUN THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST, THE MESSAGE THAT IS GIVEN YOU WILL BE A FORERUNNER OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.” We now see this announcement fulfilled. The messenger was taken to Glory, but the message remains with us. Not the many special doctrines about parousia, so-called revelations of the seven thunders etc., but the original Word is being preached as God's message. God so ordained the whole matter, that my ministry is connected to Brother Branham's as no one else's on earth.
God's revealed Word is valid for all of God's children. The last message is being proclaimed in all clarity and truthfulness as a testimony. Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Once again, so everyone will for ever understand, I need to mention that according to my calling, my ministry is in a twofold way: Firstly, to preach the Word of God. Secondly, to give out the spiritual food. This I do. I preach the Word in the light in which it was revealed, including everything that was given to Brother Branham, and let the Bible, as God's Word, remain the highest and final authority. The sermons of Brother Branham I do not preach again, do not take quotations from them to make up special doctrines, I leave them all the way they are. And all the brothers and sisters, who read or listen to them, are richly fed and blessed. Whoever is right in his heart will understand everything the right way, including the ministry I received from God. Whoever is false in his spirit will understand all things the wrong way. That is the spiritual principle. All brethren who place statements of Brother Branham above the Bible should think about it, because they are twisting things, causing their own downfall and the destruction of others, as Peter was writing of those men who already did the same in apostolic days with the Holy Scriptures and with the statements of the Apostle Paul (2 Pet. 3: 14-18).
With all who remain in the sound teachings God's Word has fallen on fertile ground. Whoever follows interpretations, forsaking Bible ground, making doctrines from quotations, is twice deceived. For only those who remain in God's Word truly remain in God. “For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God...” (Jn. 3: 34). The same applies to the servants He sends, “He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.” (Lk. 10: 16). Our LORD says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” On (Jn .13: 20). The concern today is also the direct commission, “... as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” (Jn. 20: 21). The calling is the actual condition for the ministry, as Brother Branham said, “No one has the right to be in the pulpit, unless he had an experience with the LORD like Moses and received a commission.” Only then applies what John wrote, “We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. By this know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” (1 Jn. 4: 6).
At this point I would like to mention with appreciation that all the staff members, who take part in the Mission Center work since 1980, are still here with us today. They serve the LORD in all faithfulness in the office and distribution department. As for you, my beloved brothers and sisters in Europe and all over the world, as you are walking with the LORD and have accompanied me in this ministry in the past 40,30,20 or 10 years or how long it might be, I wish to thank you with all my heart. Together we shall spend eternity with our beloved LORD. In all faithfulness many of you remember this ministry in your prayers. Also special thanks to those, who give unto the LORD what actually belongs to Him. You are blessed in a special way according to His promise. Your tithes and offerings do not go to a man and not to an association, but unto the LORD directly, into the storehouse, so the spiritual food can be distributed (Mal. 3: 6-10). This also is part of the divine order, that all true believers comply with. The brothers and sisters of the three German speaking countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, bear the main burden of this mission work. May God richly bless all those of you, who share the burden, all of you who give, and may He reward you and supply all your needs according to the riches of His Glory. Thank you for remembering God's work also in this important practical way.
Also I wish to thank all ministering brethren in Europe and worldwide for the good co-operation. May the LORD restore the Church quickly to where she was at the very beginning, totally re-built and endued with the power of the Holy Spirit, to do the final will of God and experience all things, right to the last promise.
The true teaching ministry will now be followed by a true and mighty work of God. By a real outpouring of the Holy Spirit God's love is poured into our hearts (Rom. 5: 5). That is the love for the Truth. In this true love the Bride Church is being completely united with Christ, the Head, and becomes one heart and one soul, baptised by one Spirit into one Body (1 Cor. 12). Only perfect love will enter there. Jesus Christ, the First and the Last, Alpha and Omega, has redeemed and established His Church and He also completes the same for the day of His return. Truly the best is yet to come at the end of the time of grace! Brother Branham saw what would take place just before the rapture, namely a mighty supernatural work of God, as also promised in His Word (Hag. 2: 5-9; Hebr. 12: 25-29 a. o.).
By faith we proclaim the total victory of the crucified and resurrected LORD over all the power of the enemy (Rom. 16: 20; Col. 2: 13-15). It could be that we are now moving into the last part. Blessed are all who faithfully walk in the ways of the LORD right to the end. Together we believe what the Scripture says, ,For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.,< (Rom. 9: 28).
May we all reach the level where God's pleasure might rest upon us and we could cry out from our hearts, “Maranatha, come soon!” “He who testifieth these things saith, Surely, I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Rev. 22: 20-21).
I wish to sincerely apologise to all those, whose letters and requests 1 could not reply to. 1 am travelling each month, sometimes over two weeks, and when I am here, the translation work and other duties consume my time, mostly up until midnight every day. It is therefore impossible to reply to letters personally. The material you order will be sent to you as promptly as possible. In Glory, when time shall be no more, 1 shall be able to sit with each one of you and together we will enjoy His presence for ever.
For the year 20011 wish you all God's richest blessings, expecting by faith from the LORD our God what Apostle Paul wrote: “Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.” (Eph. 3: 20-21).
By His commission
bro Frank