Just in the seven crusades from ad 1095 to 1292, 22 million people were murdered. Is that supposed to be considered as the administration of salvation? Whoever reads the declaration made by Pope Urban II in the council of Clermont in the year ad 1095 will be stunned. And whosoever further reads that after the terrible massacre in June 1099 the number of Jews and Muslims then living in Jerusalem was reduced from 40,000 to only 100 will indeed be speechless. What did this have to do with the liberation of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ from the hands of unbelievers, as the order of Urban II stated, considering that the story about the Holy Sepulchre within the city is purely fictional? The tomb was then and is to this day in the garden nearby Golgotha, the place of a skull, outside the city, as the Scripture testifies. Amen. “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.” (Jn. 19:41). Further it is written, “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.” (Heb. 13:12). Amen.

One may not finish the thought about the consequences of the countless misdirections and misinterpretations the enemy has invented. On the other hand, we still have the one book on earth that gives us the correct and complete information and is incorruptible and ends with the Revelation of Jesus Christ, wherein even the last mysteries have been unveiled. Behind us are one thousand years of the absolute rule of Rome, the dark ages with the Inquisition, the stakes, the witch hunting, the persecution of the Jews, the massacre of the Huguenots, etc. — a lot of blood was shed. The Church of Rome exercised its religious and worldly powers. Some Bible experts assert that this is reflected in Rev. 18:24, “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.”

Can anyone accuse today’s pope, cardinal, or priest in this regard? Most certainly not! The developments in the church have been going on for the last 1,500 years. They have all been born into that tradition, have been educated therein, and take for granted that everything is right. The same applies to all other churches and their clergy. All have their own beginning and history and tradition.

Every church has developed her own existence. However, the Church of Jesus Christ remains as she was on the very day of her founding. As the records of church history convincingly demonstrate, the concern in all the various church denominations was no longer the true significance of the Word of Jesus and the apostles, but rather their own interpretation, which all of them are guilty of producing. Furthermore, they were all forced into the state church. After the Reformation the many different teachings came forth again. And now all of them, regardless of what they believe and practise, are returning to the mother church.

No church can actually claim to be the original Church of Jesus Christ. Christ Himself builds His Church of all those who accept the grace of God and receive eternal life, as they did in the beginning. From all nations, languages, tribes, from all state churches and all non-denominational churches, from all religions and cultures God calls forth His Own through the message of the Gospel. Throughout the entire span of the time of grace the following is being fulfilled, “… And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.” (Acts 13:46-49). Amen. Never was salvation connected to a man or to an institution. From the very beginning the divine message was focussed on the Redeemer, “… for there is none other name under heaven given among men …” (Acts 4:12), only the Lord Jesus Christ in Whom alone we find God’s Salvation. His call goes forth even to this day, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden …” (Mt. 11:28). Therefore a messenger of God can during the sermon address the listeners with these words, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved …” (Acts 16:31). Faith in a church can never be faith in God. That is impossible. Only the one true faith in the one true God Who revealed Himself unto us in Jesus Christ is valid. Through a personal experience of Salvation every one of us can be born again and have the living hope (Jn. 3:1-10; Jas. 1:18; 1. Pet. 1:22-25).

All religions, all churches have the right to be in existence. And whosoever does not respond to God’s call and does not wish to receive eternal life may remain where and what he or she is. But those who believe as the Scripture says must keep only to what is written in the Bible. In reality, there are only two confessions of faith: The first one is found in the teachings of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), which are to the last detail the teachings of Jesus Christ, as we find them affirmed in the Holy Scripture. The other one is found in the teachings and confessions of faith established by the churches. The first one is biblical, the others are simply labelled as “biblical”. One is apostolic, the others are just claiming to be “apostolic”. As harsh as it may sound, the one excludes the other. Now we all have the opportunity to decide for ourselves, and everyone will then stand in the final judgement, knowing that the righteous Judge will pronounce the verdict only according to His Own Word.

What is the reason for concealing the deviation in the development of the church in the Roman Empire, all the way to its division in the year ad 1054 and all the other stages thereafter? Why are things no longer being compared with the Holy Scripture? What is indeed authoritative? What bears the Seal of God? Does anyone today still believe in the contributions of Pippin or Constantine? Has it not been proven that the Church of Rome was interested in worldly power, which was exercised in the name of Christianity? Is it not repeating itself now with all the different churches and denominations in the various countries, that religion and politics are joining forces? Therefore we ask this question: What does this have to do with the true Church of Jesus Christ? God Himself decided that the glorious message — the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ was to be preached in all the world and that all who receive the Salvation of God through Christ obtain the forgiveness of their sins. For our Lord said, “… for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (Jn. 8:24).

Only those who believed, who had experienced their personal Salvation through repentance and conversion, were then baptised by immersion according to the Great Commission in Mark 16, “He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved …” We find this confirmed throughout the Book of Acts and also later on, all who believed were baptised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They also experienced the promise which was declared through John the Baptist (Mt. 3:15) and confirmed by our Lord in Acts 1:5, “For John truly baptised with water; but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost …” None of the experiences a true believer makes is an official act of the clergy, but rather the supernatural working of God in those who are ordained to believe in Jesus Christ. Repentance for the life we lived without God, conversion to turn back from the broad, mainstream way and instead walk the narrow way, rebirth by the seed of God’s Word which was placed into our soul (Jas. 1:18; 1. Pet. 1:23), renewal of our innermost being through the working of the Holy Spirit (Tit. 3:5) — all these are personal experiences one makes as he or she comes to believe. Every one must actually experience for oneself that God has established a personal relationship with us in order to call us, the children of man, back to be children of God. The following advice can be given to everyone: Believe only God and accept the Holy Scripture as the solely valid guideline for faith, doctrine, and practice.

Church history has acquainted us with the various revivals that have happened since the Reformation and also with all the accompanying controversial, much-disputed issues. Martin Luther and others in his time preached what they had personally experienced: The grace of God and the justification through faith in Jesus Christ, the Saviour. Then followed the revival wherein John Wesley and others took another step in the right direction. They not only proclaimed justification, but also the personal experience of sanctification according to the Word of God. John Smith and many others followed, with the acknowledgement of the baptism by immersion of those who believed in Jesus Christ. In every revival those things were personally experienced by the reformers and the believers. The past centuries indeed show the footprints left behind by the revivals, which delved ever deeper and led us closer to God’s Word and the testimony of the original Church. In every revival the true believers acknowledged and experienced first-hand the message preached unto them, whether it was justification, sanctification, or the infilling with the Holy Spirit. It was always a personal experience. Martin Luther could preach about justification only after he personally had the experience. That is how it was with John Wesley. He had personally experienced the sanctifying power of the Word and then he testified of it. This also applies to John Smith, whose testimony of the baptism of the believers led to a breakthrough. The same happened in the Pentecostal revival about a hundred years ago. First the brethren in Los Angeles, then the ones on every other continent received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. After receiving their own experience, they testified of it and all those who believed their testimony also experienced it personally.

After World War II the dear Lord Himself gave a divine calling and a special commission. With view to the approaching Return of Jesus Christ, William Branham was called on May 7^th, 1946, in the same supernatural way as the Apostle Paul. By direct commission he had to preach the original divine message, which was to forerun the second coming. Not since the days of our Lord and the time of the apostles has such a ministry been on this earth. The sick were healed, the blind could see, the deaf could hear, the lame could walk, and some were even raised from the dead. As in the beginning, the full Gospel was being preached and the dear Lord confirmed His Word in a supernatural way. It is commonly known that about five hundred evangelists in the USA started their own ministries after they were inspired by what they had witnessed and experienced in one of Brother Branham’s meetings. The mighty worldwide revival, wherein the salvation of the soul and the healing of the body was preached and experienced, reached the ends of the earth in a short time. In the years from 1955 to 1965 I personally was a true eye- and earwitness of that unsurpassed God-given ministry.

Now we no longer have only a part of the truth, as it was the case in the past centuries, now we have the full Gospel with all the experiences, the proclamation of the whole counsel of God, the total restoration of the divine order of Salvation in the Church of Jesus Christ. Now taking place is the calling-out of those who are preparing themselves to be ready at the Return of Jesus Christ. According to Mt. 25 the cry is now going forth, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” All who belong to the Bride Church hear the voice of the Bridegroom. This last message must coincide with the first message one hundred percent. All who make up the true Church of Jesus Christ now have the same teachings about the Godhead, the baptism, the Lord’s Supper, etc., etc., and they do have the same experiences. Not all who say “Lord, Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of God, even if they prophesied and performed miracles (Mt. 7:21-23), but only those who actually do according to the Will of the heavenly Father. Connected to the term “the end-time message” is the calling-out from all traditions, from absolutely everything which does not agree with God or His Word (2. Cor. 6:14-18; Rev. 18:4).

No one will dispute the fact that Christianity is in a complete spiritual chaos, in the direct Babylonian confusion and captivity, and that all speak their own religious language. Therefore the calling-out of God’s people from all that separates us from Him and from one another and the total restoration in agreement with His Word are taking place. Whoever is of God will hear the Voice of God and understand what the Spirit says unto the churches. All those who seek diligently and honestly will most certainly find it. And to them applies, “Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts!” (Heb. 4:7). Amen. Amen means: So be it!

Krefeld, June 2005

By His commission

Bro. Frank

Just in the seven crusades from ad 1095 to 1292, 22 million people were murdered. Is that supposed to be considered as the administration of salvation? Whoever reads the declaration made by Pope Urban II in the council of Clermont in the year ad 1095 will be stunned. And whosoever further reads that after the terrible massacre in June 1099 the number of Jews and Muslims then living in Jerusalem was reduced from 40,000 to only 100 will indeed be speechless. What did this have to do with the liberation of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ from the hands of unbelievers, as the order of Urban II stated, considering that the story about the Holy Sepulchre within the city is purely fictional? The tomb was then and is to this day in the garden nearby Golgotha, the place of a skull, outside the city, as the Scripture testifies. Amen. “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.” (Jn. 19:41). Further it is written, “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.” (Heb. 13:12). Amen.

One may not finish the thought about the consequences of the countless misdirections and misinterpretations the enemy has invented. On the other hand, we still have the one book on earth that gives us the correct and complete information and is incorruptible and ends with the Revelation of Jesus Christ, wherein even the last mysteries have been unveiled. Behind us are one thousand years of the absolute rule of Rome, the dark ages with the Inquisition, the stakes, the witch hunting, the persecution of the Jews, the massacre of the Huguenots, etc. — a lot of blood was shed. The Church of Rome exercised its religious and worldly powers. Some Bible experts assert that this is reflected in Rev. 18:24, “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.”

Can anyone accuse today’s pope, cardinal, or priest in this regard? Most certainly not! The developments in the church have been going on for the last 1,500 years. They have all been born into that tradition, have been educated therein, and take for granted that everything is right. The same applies to all other churches and their clergy. All have their own beginning and history and tradition.

Every church has developed her own existence. However, the Church of Jesus Christ remains as she was on the very day of her founding. As the records of church history convincingly demonstrate, the concern in all the various church denominations was no longer the true significance of the Word of Jesus and the apostles, but rather their own interpretation, which all of them are guilty of producing. Furthermore, they were all forced into the state church. After the Reformation the many different teachings came forth again. And now all of them, regardless of what they believe and practise, are returning to the mother church.

No church can actually claim to be the original Church of Jesus Christ. Christ Himself builds His Church of all those who accept the grace of God and receive eternal life, as they did in the beginning. From all nations, languages, tribes, from all state churches and all non-denominational churches, from all religions and cultures God calls forth His Own through the message of the Gospel. Throughout the entire span of the time of grace the following is being fulfilled, “… And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.” (Acts 13:46-49). Amen. Never was salvation connected to a man or to an institution. From the very beginning the divine message was focussed on the Redeemer, “… for there is none other name under heaven given among men …” (Acts 4:12), only the Lord Jesus Christ in Whom alone we find God’s Salvation. His call goes forth even to this day, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden …” (Mt. 11:28). Therefore a messenger of God can during the sermon address the listeners with these words, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved …” (Acts 16:31). Faith in a church can never be faith in God. That is impossible. Only the one true faith in the one true God Who revealed Himself unto us in Jesus Christ is valid. Through a personal experience of Salvation every one of us can be born again and have the living hope (Jn. 3:1-10; Jas. 1:18; 1. Pet. 1:22-25).

All religions, all churches have the right to be in existence. And whosoever does not respond to God’s call and does not wish to receive eternal life may remain where and what he or she is. But those who believe as the Scripture says must keep only to what is written in the Bible. In reality, there are only two confessions of faith: The first one is found in the teachings of the apostles and prophets (Eph. 2:20), which are to the last detail the teachings of Jesus Christ, as we find them affirmed in the Holy Scripture. The other one is found in the teachings and confessions of faith established by the churches. The first one is biblical, the others are simply labelled as “biblical”. One is apostolic, the others are just claiming to be “apostolic”. As harsh as it may sound, the one excludes the other. Now we all have the opportunity to decide for ourselves, and everyone will then stand in the final judgement, knowing that the righteous Judge will pronounce the verdict only according to His Own Word.

What is the reason for concealing the deviation in the development of the church in the Roman Empire, all the way to its division in the year ad 1054 and all the other stages thereafter? Why are things no longer being compared with the Holy Scripture? What is indeed authoritative? What bears the Seal of God? Does anyone today still believe in the contributions of Pippin or Constantine? Has it not been proven that the Church of Rome was interested in worldly power, which was exercised in the name of Christianity? Is it not repeating itself now with all the different churches and denominations in the various countries, that religion and politics are joining forces? Therefore we ask this question: What does this have to do with the true Church of Jesus Christ? God Himself decided that the glorious message — the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ was to be preached in all the world and that all who receive the Salvation of God through Christ obtain the forgiveness of their sins. For our Lord said, “… for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (Jn. 8:24).

Only those who believed, who had experienced their personal Salvation through repentance and conversion, were then baptised by immersion according to the Great Commission in Mark 16, “He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved …” We find this confirmed throughout the Book of Acts and also later on, all who believed were baptised in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They also experienced the promise which was declared through John the Baptist (Mt. 3:15) and confirmed by our Lord in Acts 1:5, “For John truly baptised with water; but ye shall be baptised with the Holy Ghost …” None of the experiences a true believer makes is an official act of the clergy, but rather the supernatural working of God in those who are ordained to believe in Jesus Christ. Repentance for the life we lived without God, conversion to turn back from the broad, mainstream way and instead walk the narrow way, rebirth by the seed of God’s Word which was placed into our soul (Jas. 1:18; 1. Pet. 1:23), renewal of our innermost being through the working of the Holy Spirit (Tit. 3:5) — all these are personal experiences one makes as he or she comes to believe. Every one must actually experience for oneself that God has established a personal relationship with us in order to call us, the children of man, back to be children of God. The following advice can be given to everyone: Believe only God and accept the Holy Scripture as the solely valid guideline for faith, doctrine, and practice.

Church history has acquainted us with the various revivals that have happened since the Reformation and also with all the accompanying controversial, much-disputed issues. Martin Luther and others in his time preached what they had personally experienced: The grace of God and the justification through faith in Jesus Christ, the Saviour. Then followed the revival wherein John Wesley and others took another step in the right direction. They not only proclaimed justification, but also the personal experience of sanctification according to the Word of God. John Smith and many others followed, with the acknowledgement of the baptism by immersion of those who believed in Jesus Christ. In every revival those things were personally experienced by the reformers and the believers. The past centuries indeed show the footprints left behind by the revivals, which delved ever deeper and led us closer to God’s Word and the testimony of the original Church. In every revival the true believers acknowledged and experienced first-hand the message preached unto them, whether it was justification, sanctification, or the infilling with the Holy Spirit. It was always a personal experience. Martin Luther could preach about justification only after he personally had the experience. That is how it was with John Wesley. He had personally experienced the sanctifying power of the Word and then he testified of it. This also applies to John Smith, whose testimony of the baptism of the believers led to a breakthrough. The same happened in the Pentecostal revival about a hundred years ago. First the brethren in Los Angeles, then the ones on every other continent received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. After receiving their own experience, they testified of it and all those who believed their testimony also experienced it personally.

After World War II the dear Lord Himself gave a divine calling and a special commission. With view to the approaching Return of Jesus Christ, William Branham was called on May 7th, 1946, in the same supernatural way as the Apostle Paul. By direct commission he had to preach the original divine message, which was to forerun the second coming. Not since the days of our Lord and the time of the apostles has such a ministry been on this earth. The sick were healed, the blind could see, the deaf could hear, the lame could walk, and some were even raised from the dead. As in the beginning, the full Gospel was being preached and the dear Lord confirmed His Word in a supernatural way. It is commonly known that about five hundred evangelists in the USA started their own ministries after they were inspired by what they had witnessed and experienced in one of Brother Branham’s meetings. The mighty worldwide revival, wherein the salvation of the soul and the healing of the body was preached and experienced, reached the ends of the earth in a short time. In the years from 1955 to 1965 I personally was a true eye- and earwitness of that unsurpassed God-given ministry.

Now we no longer have only a part of the truth, as it was the case in the past centuries, now we have the full Gospel with all the experiences, the proclamation of the whole counsel of God, the total restoration of the divine order of Salvation in the Church of Jesus Christ. Now taking place is the calling-out of those who are preparing themselves to be ready at the Return of Jesus Christ. According to Mt. 25 the cry is now going forth, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” All who belong to the Bride Church hear the voice of the Bridegroom. This last message must coincide with the first message one hundred percent. All who make up the true Church of Jesus Christ now have the same teachings about the Godhead, the baptism, the Lord’s Supper, etc., etc., and they do have the same experiences. Not all who say “Lord, Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of God, even if they prophesied and performed miracles (Mt. 7:21-23), but only those who actually do according to the Will of the heavenly Father. Connected to the term “the end-time message” is the calling-out from all traditions, from absolutely everything which does not agree with God or His Word (2. Cor. 6:14-18; Rev. 18:4).

No one will dispute the fact that Christianity is in a complete spiritual chaos, in the direct Babylonian confusion and captivity, and that all speak their own religious language. Therefore the calling-out of God’s people from all that separates us from Him and from one another and the total restoration in agreement with His Word are taking place. Whoever is of God will hear the Voice of God and understand what the Spirit says unto the churches. All those who seek diligently and honestly will most certainly find it. And to them applies, “Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts!” (Heb. 4:7). Amen. Amen means: So be it!

Krefeld, June 2005

By His commission

Bro. Frank