October 31, 2017, will be observed as a special holiday all over Germany: It has been 500 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, and thereby facilitated the breakthrough of the Reformation. Now all of the Christian churches that profess the Nicene Creed are returning to the womb of the mother church.

A stone relief on the facade of the town church in Wittenberg dates back to 1305: It portrays a sow with Jews suckling on its teats. This image was meant to publically humiliate Jews in the Middle Ages. Recently, there was an initiative to remove the so-called “Judensau” (Jew-Pig), but the city council and the church council in Wittenberg have decided not to remove it so that it can continue to serve as a memorial against antisemitism. Thus, visitors and delegations from all over the world can see this symbol for the discrimination against the Jews with their own eyes.

Martin Luther had experienced the justification by faith. Embraced by the Spirit of God and filled with the grace of God, the reformer then preached the Gospel. He believed in the completed Work of Redemption through the Redeemer’s death on the cross. What he then said about the Jews as an old, sick man after he had also been disappointed by a Jewish doctor must simply be taken for what it is worth. However, historians tend to keep silent about the fact that his statements about the Jews originated with declarations made by the churches, particularly at the Lateran Council in 1179.

The hatred toward the Jews has been in existence for a very long time. Their persecution began shortly after Emperor Constantine declared Christianity as the state religion in the entire Roman Empire in the year 311. With a view to the crucifixion of Christ, they were generally accused of being the murderers of Christ and of God.

In the year 321, the Jews were forbidden to keep the Sabbath and were forced to observe Sunday instead. Against the backdrop of these tragic developments, the Council of Nicaea took place from May 20 to July 25 in 325. Constantine was interested in the unity of all his citizens, which is why he invited the leaders of the various Christian directions that were in existence at the time. There the heathen church representatives discussed biblical subjects; the Words of the Holy Scripture were used and then misused: The first unbiblical profession of faith about the Trinity, namely that God exists in three separate eternal persons, was proclaimed and was finalized in 381 at the Council of Constantinople with the declaration that the Holy Ghost was supposedly the third person of the Trinity.

The biblical profession of faith is only found in the Bible, and only what is written in the Acts of the Apostles originated with the apostles, and only what is taught in the Epistles of the Apostles is apostolic doctrine. Being true to the Bible clearly means to believe precisely what is written therein!

The Early Church remained in the doctrine and in the practice of the apostles: “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts 2:42).

The true Church of Jesus Christ is still “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone …” (Eph 2:20).

The complete agreement of the Old and the New Testament is overwhelming. From the first verse in the Bible, God/Elohim introduces Himself as the Creator. At the beginning of time, He, the Eternal One, Who is Spirit, came forth from His eternal fullness of spirit, light, and life into a visible form as Lord/Yahweh. Through His Almighty Word, He spoke all things into existence, the visible as well as the invisible. He walked in the Garden of Eden and created man in His own image.

In the Old Testament, God foretold through His prophets what He had purposed from eternity in the Plan of Salvation. Right from the beginning of the first chapter in the New Testament, we are shown the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies.

The main subject in all of the Holy Scriptures was and is the Godhead. In the 4,000 years of the Old Testament, the Lord God revealed Himself in many different ways: as Creator, Sustainer, King, Judge, etc. For our Salvation, He revealed Himself in the New Testament as Father in heaven in His Son on earth and through the Holy Spirit in His Church. Throughout all of the Old Testament right up to the Prophet Malachi, who lived 400 years before Christ, no one ever spoke of a Father in heaven, not a single time of a Son in heaven, not once of three eternal persons who are in agreement and form a trinity.

In the Old Testament, the main concern was the coming of the Messiah as the Redeemer. There are over 100 prophecies that make reference to the Redeemer, Who was to be born from a virgin as Son of God: “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isa 7:14; Isa 9:5; Micah 5:1; …)

In the New Testament, the birth of the Son of God is described in detail. The Angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Lk 1:30-35).

The Lord God revealed Himself personally to Abraham (Gen 18), to Moses (Ex 4), and to all the prophets in the Old Testament. But in order to redeem us from sin, the Lord Himself had to come into a body of flesh. From the time of His birth: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk 2:11), the Son is referred to as “Lord” 300 times. He is always the same Lord, whether it is in the Old or the New Testament (Heb 13:8). “… no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” (1 Cor 12:3b).

There is not a single Scripture which states that God as Father has begotten and born the Son in eternity. What the heathen church fathers formulated, especially at the Council of Nicaea and then in Constantinople, and subsequently labelled “Apostles’ Creed” is totally foreign to the Bible. It does not matter if it is written in the Didache or in a catechism or a church constitution – if it is not written in the Holy Scripture, it is not biblical.

All churches have the right to decide what they believe and what they teach and practice. Our primary concern is to believe only what the Holy Scripture actually says. What Tertullian, Athanasius, Augustine, Hieronymus, and others said was the foundation for the state church in the Roman Empire. Bible-believing Christians can believe only what the men of God said by divine commission at the foundation of the New Testament Church. All those who refer to Eph 4:5, namely “One Lord, one faith, one baptism,” should go back to the Book of Acts and read for themselves how the apostles carried out the baptism (Acts 2:38; Acts 8:16; Acts 10:48; Acts 19:5). Not a single time was it administered in a Trinitarian formula but exclusively in the New Testament Covenant Name in which God revealed Himself as Father in the Son and through the Holy Spirit, and that is “in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” In Mat 28:19, the original text states, “… baptizing them in the name …,” not names, not three titles, but in the Name that is above all other names. The Apostles Peter, Paul, and Philip carried out the Great Commission in a precise manner.

No one may add anything to what the Apostles Peter, John, James, and Paul taught, practiced, and wrote down. Indeed, the true Apostles’ Creed is found solely in the Bible. The New Testament is also a divine, finalized document, whereunto nothing may be added and wherein nothing may be changed (Rev 22).

In all truthfulness we can say before the true and Almighty God, “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” (2 Pet 1:16).

We have been brought back to the original Word that came forth from Jerusalem and may experience what God is doing during this most important part in the Plan of Salvation. The scriptural message, through which all things are to be restored and brought back to their rightful order before God, has reached the ends of the earth; the hearts of God’s children worldwide have been turned back to the true faith of the Fathers.

The Lord God completed His Work of Creation, and He Himself shall complete His Work of Redemption by doing exactly what He has promised in His Word: “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).

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isa 55:11). Amen.

By His commission,

Br. Frank

October 31, 2017, will be observed as a special holiday all over Germany: It has been 500 years since Martin Luther posted his 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, and thereby facilitated the breakthrough of the Reformation. Now all of the Christian churches that profess the Nicene Creed are returning to the womb of the mother church.

A stone relief on the facade of the town church in Wittenberg dates back to 1305: It portrays a sow with Jews suckling on its teats. This image was meant to publically humiliate Jews in the Middle Ages. Recently, there was an initiative to remove the so-called “Judensau” (Jew-Pig), but the city council and the church council in Wittenberg have decided not to remove it so that it can continue to serve as a memorial against antisemitism. Thus, visitors and delegations from all over the world can see this symbol for the discrimination against the Jews with their own eyes.

Martin Luther had experienced the justification by faith. Embraced by the Spirit of God and filled with the grace of God, the reformer then preached the Gospel. He believed in the completed Work of Redemption through the Redeemer’s death on the cross. What he then said about the Jews as an old, sick man after he had also been disappointed by a Jewish doctor must simply be taken for what it is worth. However, historians tend to keep silent about the fact that his statements about the Jews originated with declarations made by the churches, particularly at the Lateran Council in 1179.

The hatred toward the Jews has been in existence for a very long time. Their persecution began shortly after Emperor Constantine declared Christianity as the state religion in the entire Roman Empire in the year 311. With a view to the crucifixion of Christ, they were generally accused of being the murderers of Christ and of God.

In the year 321, the Jews were forbidden to keep the Sabbath and were forced to observe Sunday instead. Against the backdrop of these tragic developments, the Council of Nicaea took place from May 20 to July 25 in 325. Constantine was interested in the unity of all his citizens, which is why he invited the leaders of the various Christian directions that were in existence at the time. There the heathen church representatives discussed biblical subjects; the Words of the Holy Scripture were used and then misused: The first unbiblical profession of faith about the Trinity, namely that God exists in three separate eternal persons, was proclaimed and was finalized in 381 at the Council of Constantinople with the declaration that the Holy Ghost was supposedly the third person of the Trinity.

The biblical profession of faith is only found in the Bible, and only what is written in the Acts of the Apostles originated with the apostles, and only what is taught in the Epistles of the Apostles is apostolic doctrine. Being true to the Bible clearly means to believe precisely what is written therein!

The Early Church remained in the doctrine and in the practice of the apostles: “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.” (Acts 2:42).

The true Church of Jesus Christ is still “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone …” (Eph 2:20).

The complete agreement of the Old and the New Testament is overwhelming. From the first verse in the Bible, God/Elohim introduces Himself as the Creator. At the beginning of time, He, the Eternal One, Who is Spirit, came forth from His eternal fullness of spirit, light, and life into a visible form as Lord/Yahweh. Through His Almighty Word, He spoke all things into existence, the visible as well as the invisible. He walked in the Garden of Eden and created man in His own image.

In the Old Testament, God foretold through His prophets what He had purposed from eternity in the Plan of Salvation. Right from the beginning of the first chapter in the New Testament, we are shown the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies.

The main subject in all of the Holy Scriptures was and is the Godhead. In the 4,000 years of the Old Testament, the Lord God revealed Himself in many different ways: as Creator, Sustainer, King, Judge, etc. For our Salvation, He revealed Himself in the New Testament as Father in heaven in His Son on earth and through the Holy Spirit in His Church. Throughout all of the Old Testament right up to the Prophet Malachi, who lived 400 years before Christ, no one ever spoke of a Father in heaven, not a single time of a Son in heaven, not once of three eternal persons who are in agreement and form a trinity.

In the Old Testament, the main concern was the coming of the Messiah as the Redeemer. There are over 100 prophecies that make reference to the Redeemer, Who was to be born from a virgin as Son of God: “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isa 7:14; Isa 9:5; Micah 5:1; …)

In the New Testament, the birth of the Son of God is described in detail. The Angel Gabriel came to Mary and said, “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” (Lk 1:30-35).

The Lord God revealed Himself personally to Abraham (Gen 18), to Moses (Ex 4), and to all the prophets in the Old Testament. But in order to redeem us from sin, the Lord Himself had to come into a body of flesh. From the time of His birth: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Lk 2:11), the Son is referred to as “Lord” 300 times. He is always the same Lord, whether it is in the Old or the New Testament (Heb 13:8). “… no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.” (1 Cor 12:3b).

There is not a single Scripture which states that God as Father has begotten and born the Son in eternity. What the heathen church fathers formulated, especially at the Council of Nicaea and then in Constantinople, and subsequently labelled “Apostles’ Creed” is totally foreign to the Bible. It does not matter if it is written in the Didache or in a catechism or a church constitution – if it is not written in the Holy Scripture, it is not biblical.

All churches have the right to decide what they believe and what they teach and practice. Our primary concern is to believe only what the Holy Scripture actually says. What Tertullian, Athanasius, Augustine, Hieronymus, and others said was the foundation for the state church in the Roman Empire. Bible-believing Christians can believe only what the men of God said by divine commission at the foundation of the New Testament Church. All those who refer to Eph 4:5, namely “One Lord, one faith, one baptism,” should go back to the Book of Acts and read for themselves how the apostles carried out the baptism (Acts 2:38; Acts 8:16; Acts 10:48; Acts 19:5). Not a single time was it administered in a Trinitarian formula but exclusively in the New Testament Covenant Name in which God revealed Himself as Father in the Son and through the Holy Spirit, and that is “in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” In Mat 28:19, the original text states, “… baptizing them in the name …,” not names, not three titles, but in the Name that is above all other names. The Apostles Peter, Paul, and Philip carried out the Great Commission in a precise manner.

No one may add anything to what the Apostles Peter, John, James, and Paul taught, practiced, and wrote down. Indeed, the true Apostles’ Creed is found solely in the Bible. The New Testament is also a divine, finalized document, whereunto nothing may be added and wherein nothing may be changed (Rev 22).

In all truthfulness we can say before the true and Almighty God, “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.” (2 Pet 1:16).

We have been brought back to the original Word that came forth from Jerusalem and may experience what God is doing during this most important part in the Plan of Salvation. The scriptural message, through which all things are to be restored and brought back to their rightful order before God, has reached the ends of the earth; the hearts of God’s children worldwide have been turned back to the true faith of the Fathers.

The Lord God completed His Work of Creation, and He Himself shall complete His Work of Redemption by doing exactly what He has promised in His Word: “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).

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isa 55:11). Amen.

By His commission,

Br. Frank