In the large, international meeting in Brussels on June 11, 2017, we remembered the commission of Brother Branham on June 11, 1933.

On June 12, 2017, I recalled my conversation with Brother Bran-ham on June 12, 1958, in Dallas, Texas. At the end of that conversation, he said, “Brother Frank, you will return to Germany with this message.”

After our conversation in Dallas, Brother Branham said right at the beginning of his sermon “We would see Jesus”: “Just now, a man laid his arm around me from Germany, just now, where we had on the average of ten thousand converts every night: fifty thousand in five nights.” In the course of this sermon, he also spoke of the supernatural light that had been photographed at various places and said, “Here’s a man from Germany, here’s right now, was there when it was taken three times by the German camera.” The photo that was taken at the preachers’ meeting and captured the light above Brother Branham can be seen on the Internet. Yes, I was an eye- and ear-witness of his special ministry.

Due to the fact that changes of serious consequence have been made to the commission given on June 11, 1933, we shall once again cite the exact wording as well as the changed version for comparison.

Original: “As John, the Baptist, was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, the message that is given you will be a forerunning of the second coming of Christ.”

Brother Branham repeated the exact words spoken from within the supernatural cloud a total of 55 times, and so that all of the elect would take it seriously and believe it, he emphasized the following on February 10, 1960, and on several other occasions: “Not that I would be a forerunner, but the message was the forerunning.”

Unfortunately, the abbreviated version was circulated shortly after Brother Branham had gone home to glory: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord, so you are sent to forerun His second coming.” The main word “message” had been omitted. Therefore, it must be emphasized once more that no one has the right to change the precise words of the commission.

On May 7, 1946, a heavenly messenger visited Brother Branham, saying, “Do not fear, for I am sent from the Presence of the Almighty God … to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you’re to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world.” This reminds us of Lk 1:19, when the angel came to Zacharias and announced the birth of John the Baptist: “I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.”

Both of the commissions given to Brother Branham must be placed in their divine order according to the Holy Scripture: The first one was connected to the message which would forerun the second coming of Christ; the second one was in reference to his evangelistic ministry. Both of them were carried out by the man sent from God. Having received divine authority and the gift of healing, Brother Branham traveled the continents and preached in evangelistic meetings in various countries. As it happened in the ministry of our Redeemer, spontaneous healings took place in the meetings of Brother Branham: The blind received their sight; the lame could walk; the deaf could hear. That is the way the worldwide healing revival began in 1946. While preparing to pray for the sick, Brother Branham is on record at least 280 times as he referred to what our Lord said in Jn 5:19: “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do …” He also saw in visions what God was about to do and could tell that to each person in the prayer line and confirm it with Thus saith the Lord. I personally witnessed it in the meetings.

God led in such a manner that I was able to place everything pertaining to the Counsel of God into the divine order of the Bible from the very beginning. Right from the start, my absolute was, and shall forever remain, the written Word of God. The Lord Himself commissioned me to preach the Word of God the way it is written. The only concern in regard to the message is to solely proclaim what the Holy Scripture says, a proclamation that is absolutely faultless and beyond reproach.

On November 28, 1963, Brother Branham said,“You must never leave that Word. You must stay exactly with that Word the way It’s written. Don’t put no private interpretation to It. Just say It just the way It’s written. That is God’s Word, and that is God. God and His Word is the same, just the same.”

On September 19, 1965, he emphasized in his sermon, “You--you mustn’t--you mustn’t never go for anything unless it’s exactly the Word of God. You must stay right exactly with that Word.”

Sadly, beside the continuation of the proclamation of the true Word according to God’s commission, right away there were also various different interpretations introduced. Brothers who referred to Brother Branham succeeded in presenting their own interpretations as credible and in drawing away disciples to follow them (Acts 20:30). Statements of the prophet are interpreted and presented as doctrines. That has caused and still is causing new groups to come into existence. Not once have I participated in a discussion about any of his quotes, since all that does is create divisions in the congregation (Rom 16:17).

The tragedy lies not in what Brother Branham said – sometimes it is hard to understand – but in what brothers do with it (2 Pet 3:16). Even what Brother Branham said in the sermon “The Rapture” is being misinterpreted as though the Lord is already in the process of descending with a shout. The shout in 1 Ths 4 refers to the resurrection of those who have died in Christ, not to the ones who are now living. At the Return of Christ, everything will happen precisely as it is predicted in chapter 4, from verse 13 to 18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Please consider also 1 Cor 15:45-58.

The shout that is now going forth through the message is meant to wake up the living, according to Mat 25: “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” (v. 6). All of the virgins hear the last call and go out to meet the Bridegroom.

In Mat 13, we find the parable of the man sowing the good seed in his field. In that parable, our Redeemer said, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” (Mat 13:25). Speaking to His disciples, He explained the parable as follows: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one …” (Mat 13:37-38).

That is exactly what happened in our time: First the good seed of God’s Word was sown; then the enemy succeeded in sowing his seed of interpretation among the wheat. That happened when the virgins became tired and fell into a spiritual sleep. But the wheat nevertheless remains wheat, and the tares also remain what they are. The two seeds originated with Cain and Abel. The one hated, and the other one was hated. “But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” (1 Jn 2:11; 1 Jn 3:7-15). It can be said that someone who does not have a brother like Cain cannot be an Abel.

And in this context we also find the admonition: “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandethit not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.” (Mat 13:19). It is so very important to believe and to understand every Word; otherwise, the enemy will rob us of the true seed and sow his interpretation. The Lord asked His disciples, “Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.” (Mat 13:51).

Who can honestly answer with “Yes,” even today? Who has truly understood everything that has been preached and written in accordance with the Word of God by divine commission? Whose eyes and ears can the Lord proclaim as blessed? Evidently, all of the virgins who were waiting for the coming of the bridegroom ended up falling asleep. All of them woke up, but only the wise fell asleep with the seed of the Word and then also woke up with it. Since they brought along the vessel with oil and were able to draw from the fullness of the Holy Spirit, they were prepared to enter the marriage supper. The foolish listened to the interpretations of the enemy and were beguiled (2 Cor 11:3-4); they will be knocking on the closed door in vain (Mat 25:11-13).

In regard to His coming, the Lord particularly urges us to be vigilant: “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Mat 24:42).

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet 3:9).

This Scripture clearly disproves the false doctrine that the time of grace has come to an end and that the Blood is no longer on the Mercy Seat. By the grace of God, we are still living in the day of salvation (2 Cor 6:2); the Lord is still calling to repentance; He is calling out the believers from all spiritual confusion. The false teachers, who present their own interpretations in regard to what Brother Branham preached, will only be heard by the foolish virgins. It must be stressed here once again: Leave all things the way they were said! Do not add anything to the written Word of God!

Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Brother Branham revealed all of the hidden mysteries. His unique and extraordinary ministry, for which we are grateful to God, has been fully accomplished. He truly received the revelation of all things that belong to the Plan of Salvation: the Godhead, water baptism, the Lord’s Supper, what really happened in the Fall in the Garden of Eden; the complete revelation of all things, including the seven seals, was given to him.

The mighty experience Brother Branham had on February 28, 1963, as the supernatural cloud appeared and seven mighty thunders, accompanied by an earthquake, shook the entire area by Sunset Mountain, was of particular importance to him in regard to the opening of the seven seals; therefore, he frequently referred to those seven thunders. However, the seven thunders in Rev 10:3 will only sound their voices when the Angel of the Covenant descends, surrounded by a rainbow.

None of the things written in the seven seals actually happened while Brother Branham preached about them in March 1963. The Lamb did not leave the throne in March 1963; the Blood of the New Covenant was not taken from the Mercy Seat in the Holiest of Holies. Brother Branham merely repeated what the Apostle John had seen and written down on the Isle of Patmos, and then he spoke about what had been revealed unto him in that regard.

He could precisely identify and scripturally place the riders in the first four seals as the Antichrist in his four stages of development, riding on four different horses, as he progressed in relation and parallel to the New Testament Church.

Brother Branham was able to show that the fifth seal is about the Jewish martyrs who are calling for vengeance. In this context, he even mentioned Adolf Eichmann, who was mainly responsible for the murder of the six million Jews during the Holocaust.

The prophet also correctly placed the sixth seal (Rev 6:12-17), namely into the time of tribulation, because that is when the Day of the Lord breaks forth, the sun turns into darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:31; Acts 2:20).

Rev 7:1-8 is about the 144,000 Jews from the twelve tribes of Israel who will then be sealed. In verses 9 to 17, the great, uncountable multitude from all nations is shown, all of which have come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb.

When the seventh seal is announced in chapter 8, seven judgement angels appear before the throne of God, and they are given seven trumpets to bring the judgements upon the earth. In chapters 8 and 9, we see what happens on earth during the six trumpet judgements. In chapter 10, the Angel of the Covenant makes the announcement, confirmed by an oath, about what shall take place when the seventh judgment angel sounds his trumpet (v. 7), for then “the mystery of God should be finished …”

The announcement in chapter 10:7 is shown in its fulfillment in chapter 11:15 at the beginning of the Millennial Reign: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”

In the large, international meeting in Brussels on June 11, 2017, we remembered the commission of Brother Branham on June 11, 1933.

On June 12, 2017, I recalled my conversation with Brother Bran-ham on June 12, 1958, in Dallas, Texas. At the end of that conversation, he said, “Brother Frank, you will return to Germany with this message.”

After our conversation in Dallas, Brother Branham said right at the beginning of his sermon “We would see Jesus”: “Just now, a man laid his arm around me from Germany, just now, where we had on the average of ten thousand converts every night: fifty thousand in five nights.” In the course of this sermon, he also spoke of the supernatural light that had been photographed at various places and said, “Here’s a man from Germany, here’s right now, was there when it was taken three times by the German camera.” The photo that was taken at the preachers’ meeting and captured the light above Brother Branham can be seen on the Internet. Yes, I was an eye- and ear-witness of his special ministry.

Due to the fact that changes of serious consequence have been made to the commission given on June 11, 1933, we shall once again cite the exact wording as well as the changed version for comparison.

Original: “As John, the Baptist, was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, the message that is given you will be a forerunning of the second coming of Christ.”

Brother Branham repeated the exact words spoken from within the supernatural cloud a total of 55 times, and so that all of the elect would take it seriously and believe it, he emphasized the following on February 10, 1960, and on several other occasions: “Not that I would be a forerunner, but the message was the forerunning.”

Unfortunately, the abbreviated version was circulated shortly after Brother Branham had gone home to glory: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of the Lord, so you are sent to forerun His second coming.” The main word “message” had been omitted. Therefore, it must be emphasized once more that no one has the right to change the precise words of the commission.

On May 7, 1946, a heavenly messenger visited Brother Branham, saying, “Do not fear, for I am sent from the Presence of the Almighty God … to tell you that your peculiar birth and life has been to indicate that you’re to take a gift of Divine healing to the peoples of the world.” This reminds us of Lk 1:19, when the angel came to Zacharias and announced the birth of John the Baptist: “I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.”

Both of the commissions given to Brother Branham must be placed in their divine order according to the Holy Scripture: The first one was connected to the message which would forerun the second coming of Christ; the second one was in reference to his evangelistic ministry. Both of them were carried out by the man sent from God. Having received divine authority and the gift of healing, Brother Branham traveled the continents and preached in evangelistic meetings in various countries. As it happened in the ministry of our Redeemer, spontaneous healings took place in the meetings of Brother Branham: The blind received their sight; the lame could walk; the deaf could hear. That is the way the worldwide healing revival began in 1946. While preparing to pray for the sick, Brother Branham is on record at least 280 times as he referred to what our Lord said in Jn 5:19: “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do …” He also saw in visions what God was about to do and could tell that to each person in the prayer line and confirm it with Thus saith the Lord. I personally witnessed it in the meetings.

God led in such a manner that I was able to place everything pertaining to the Counsel of God into the divine order of the Bible from the very beginning. Right from the start, my absolute was, and shall forever remain, the written Word of God. The Lord Himself commissioned me to preach the Word of God the way it is written. The only concern in regard to the message is to solely proclaim what the Holy Scripture says, a proclamation that is absolutely faultless and beyond reproach.

On November 28, 1963, Brother Branham said, “You must never leave that Word. You must stay exactly with that Word the way It’s written. Don’t put no private interpretation to It. Just say It just the way It’s written. That is God’s Word, and that is God. God and His Word is the same, just the same.”

On September 19, 1965, he emphasized in his sermon, “You--you mustn’t--you mustn’t never go for anything unless it’s exactly the Word of God. You must stay right exactly with that Word.”

Sadly, beside the continuation of the proclamation of the true Word according to God’s commission, right away there were also various different interpretations introduced. Brothers who referred to Brother Branham succeeded in presenting their own interpretations as credible and in drawing away disciples to follow them (Acts 20:30). Statements of the prophet are interpreted and presented as doctrines. That has caused and still is causing new groups to come into existence. Not once have I participated in a discussion about any of his quotes, since all that does is create divisions in the congregation (Rom 16:17).

The tragedy lies not in what Brother Branham said – sometimes it is hard to understand – but in what brothers do with it (2 Pet 3:16). Even what Brother Branham said in the sermon “The Rapture” is being misinterpreted as though the Lord is already in the process of descending with a shout. The shout in 1 Ths 4 refers to the resurrection of those who have died in Christ, not to the ones who are now living. At the Return of Christ, everything will happen precisely as it is predicted in chapter 4, from verse 13 to 18: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Please consider also 1 Cor 15:45-58.

The shout that is now going forth through the message is meant to wake up the living, according to Mat 25: “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” (v. 6). All of the virgins hear the last call and go out to meet the Bridegroom.

In Mat 13, we find the parable of the man sowing the good seed in his field. In that parable, our Redeemer said, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” (Mat 13:25). Speaking to His disciples, He explained the parable as follows: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one …” (Mat 13:37-38).

That is exactly what happened in our time: First the good seed of God’s Word was sown; then the enemy succeeded in sowing his seed of interpretation among the wheat. That happened when the virgins became tired and fell into a spiritual sleep. But the wheat nevertheless remains wheat, and the tares also remain what they are. The two seeds originated with Cain and Abel. The one hated, and the other one was hated. “But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” (1 Jn 2:11; 1 Jn 3:7-15). It can be said that someone who does not have a brother like Cain cannot be an Abel.

And in this context we also find the admonition: “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.” (Mat 13:19). It is so very important to believe and to understand every Word; otherwise, the enemy will rob us of the true seed and sow his interpretation. The Lord asked His disciples, “Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.” (Mat 13:51).

Who can honestly answer with “Yes,” even today? Who has truly understood everything that has been preached and written in accordance with the Word of God by divine commission? Whose eyes and ears can the Lord proclaim as blessed? Evidently, all of the virgins who were waiting for the coming of the bridegroom ended up falling asleep. All of them woke up, but only the wise fell asleep with the seed of the Word and then also woke up with it. Since they brought along the vessel with oil and were able to draw from the fullness of the Holy Spirit, they were prepared to enter the marriage supper. The foolish listened to the interpretations of the enemy and were beguiled (2 Cor 11:3-4); they will be knocking on the closed door in vain (Mat 25:11-13).

In regard to His coming, the Lord particularly urges us to be vigilant: “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Mat 24:42).

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet 3:9).

This Scripture clearly disproves the false doctrine that the time of grace has come to an end and that the Blood is no longer on the Mercy Seat. By the grace of God, we are still living in the day of salvation (2 Cor 6:2); the Lord is still calling to repentance; He is calling out the believers from all spiritual confusion. The false teachers, who present their own interpretations in regard to what Brother Branham preached, will only be heard by the foolish virgins. It must be stressed here once again: Leave all things the way they were said! Do not add anything to the written Word of God!

Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Brother Branham revealed all of the hidden mysteries. His unique and extraordinary ministry, for which we are grateful to God, has been fully accomplished. He truly received the revelation of all things that belong to the Plan of Salvation: the Godhead, water baptism, the Lord’s Supper, what really happened in the Fall in the Garden of Eden; the complete revelation of all things, including the seven seals, was given to him.

The mighty experience Brother Branham had on February 28, 1963, as the supernatural cloud appeared and seven mighty thunders, accompanied by an earthquake, shook the entire area by Sunset Mountain, was of particular importance to him in regard to the opening of the seven seals; therefore, he frequently referred to those seven thunders. However, the seven thunders in Rev 10:3 will only sound their voices when the Angel of the Covenant descends, surrounded by a rainbow.

None of the things written in the seven seals actually happened while Brother Branham preached about them in March 1963. The Lamb did not leave the throne in March 1963; the Blood of the New Covenant was not taken from the Mercy Seat in the Holiest of Holies. Brother Branham merely repeated what the Apostle John had seen and written down on the Isle of Patmos, and then he spoke about what had been revealed unto him in that regard.

He could precisely identify and scripturally place the riders in the first four seals as the Antichrist in his four stages of development, riding on four different horses, as he progressed in relation and parallel to the New Testament Church.

Brother Branham was able to show that the fifth seal is about the Jewish martyrs who are calling for vengeance. In this context, he even mentioned Adolf Eichmann, who was mainly responsible for the murder of the six million Jews during the Holocaust.

The prophet also correctly placed the sixth seal (Rev 6:12-17), namely into the time of tribulation, because that is when the Day of the Lord breaks forth, the sun turns into darkness and the moon into blood (Joel 2:31; Acts 2:20).

Rev 7:1-8 is about the 144,000 Jews from the twelve tribes of Israel who will then be sealed. In verses 9 to 17, the great, uncountable multitude from all nations is shown, all of which have come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb.

When the seventh seal is announced in chapter 8, seven judgement angels appear before the throne of God, and they are given seven trumpets to bring the judgements upon the earth. In chapters 8 and 9, we see what happens on earth during the six trumpet judgements. In chapter 10, the Angel of the Covenant makes the announcement, confirmed by an oath, about what shall take place when the seventh judgment angel sounds his trumpet (v. 7), for then “the mystery of God should be finished …”

The announcement in chapter 10:7 is shown in its fulfillment in chapter 11:15 at the beginning of the Millennial Reign: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”