The Lord told us what goes along with such a sending: “… as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” (Jn 20:21). Paul could also testify to this when he reported about his calling: “Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:17-18).

The admonition that Paul gave to his co-worker Timothy also applies to me as well as every servant of God: “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ …” (1 Tim 6:14).

The Lord must first give a commission before it can be carried out. Paul had a commission; he was able to testify of the day, the hour, the place, and what he had been told (Acts 9:22, 26). Moses was able to do the same (Exo 3) and so was Joshua (chap. 1). Isaiah reported: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” (Isa 6:8). All true servants of God bear witness to their commission. Brother Branham could refer to June 11, 1933, to May 7, 1946, to February 28, 1963, to the period of March 17-24, 1963, all the times when the Lord had given him special instructions.

Likewise, I too can look back on special experiences in which the Lord addressed me as “My servant,” beginning with April 2, 1962, and can testify to the time and place as well as what He commanded with a mighty Voice each time. By the grace of God, I have faithfully obeyed each directive that the Lord has given me – all by grace, which goes along with a divine calling and sending.

In the Circular Letter from December 2005, I mentioned some of the direct instructions and supernatural experiences that the faithful Lord has given me. This has not happened since the days of the Bible. But because we have arrived in the most important period of the entire history of the Plan of Salvation, the Lord shows us that He is looking after His Church. The commission must be carried out without rebuke, as Paul wrote.

I signed my first Circular Letter in September 1966 with the words “By His commission” and have continued to do so to this day. No one can imagine what it means to hear the all-penetrating Voice of the Lord and to receive direct instructions.

It was God’s decision to send me all over the world as the bearer of the pure, holy message.Thanks to His guidance, I was given the privilege of personally knowing Brother Branham for 10 years and attending his meetings in Germany and the USA. I am an eye- and ear-witness of what God has done in our time. I will never forget my first personal meeting with Brother Branham on August 15, 1955. Even before I greeted him, he said to me, “You are a preacher of the Gospel.” I also clearly remember the day of June 12, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, when he said, “Brother Frank, you will return to Germany with this message!” And on December 3, 1962, with that same infallible prophetic gift, he repeated what the Lord had told me at the time of my calling and concluded with the words: “Wait with the giving out of the food until you have received the rest of it.”

He asked me to speak in his stead to the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship, founded by Demos Shakarian, in Clifton’s Cafeteria on the following Saturday, December 8, 1962, because he had to prepare for his move to Tucson, Arizona, on account of a vision. He also asked me to speak for him on Sunday, December 9, at Ernest Hutton’s Church in Oakland, California. He even gave me the address of Paulaseer Lawrie, who had attended his meetings in Bombay and was a well-known healing evangelist. I was supposed to contact him if I were to travel to India. I could continue at length with accounts of how the faithful Lord has led everything so wonderfully from the beginning.

Through God’s predestination and guidance, the message, as the man of God had been told, was now being carried into all the world before the Second Coming of Christ. The full, everlasting Gospel has been preached to all nations as a witness, according to Mt 24:14, and the end will come. This is further indicated by the signs of the end times. Our Lord said, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Lk 21:28).

As sure as the written Word is infallible and without rebuke, the Bride of the Lamb, who now believes God’s revealed Word, will certainly meet the Bridegroom at the Rapture without spot or wrinkle and without blemish. It must be clear to everyone that no false teacher and none of the ones who have been misled will be raptured. God can only put His seal on those who are washed in the blood and sanctified in the Word (2 Cor 1:21-22).

The time is near; the time is here. When we look back at the recent past once again, then with a clear view of the future. All those who know the ministry of Brother Branham are familiar with the years from 1933 to 1965. But who has recognized what God has done since 1966 according to the calling and the promised sending?

The last 53 years have been the continuation of the true proclamation, which is happening in the direct commission of God worldwide. There are two phases: The first one was from 1966 to 1979. It has already been 40 years since Satan attempted to destroy me and the Church in 1979. There has never been anything like it: The ends of the earth have been reached and millions of people have come to know what God has done in our time. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise. He will wait, however, until the full number of chosen ones is reached and the last few are added. Unfortunately, especially in the last 40 years, there are brothers who have come on the scene without a calling. They present their own doctrines and draw in disciples to follow them, with the slogan: “The Prophet said!” That is how various different factions, so-called “message fellowships,” have emerged in many cities, and each of them follows their respective leader and his teachings.

However, the Lord builds only His Church. He commanded me at my calling: “My servant, do not establish any local churches and do not publish a hymnbook, for it is the sign of a denomination!” As sure as He told me on September 19, 1976, “My servant, I have ordained you according to Mt 24:45-47 to give out the food in due season,” there are certainly faithful brothers in the various countries and cities who distribute the same spiritual food in the churches there.

Fifty-three years of the blessed proclamation of the message of the Word; forty years of false brothers who crept in to spread heresies. Now all the true children of God who have been under the wrong influence since 1979 are coming back from all the wrong directions they have taken. The message has reached the ends of the earth – the Return of our Redeemer is imminent. The call is going forth loud and clear: “Behold, the Bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him!”

Brother Branham often said, “At evening time, there shall be light!” That has come to pass. But now we have arrived at the midnight hour. Only those who are ready will be called unto the marriage supper. Brother Branham has completed his commission; I am carrying out my commission. Whoever has ears to hear will hear, and whoever is of God will accept it. Let everyone examine themselves in regard to the sending. Thus saith the Lord: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” (Jn 13:20).

Those who pretend to believe the message should look around their own city and ask the question: How many churches of God were there in Ephesus, Corinth, Philadelphia, and Laodicea? Then there has to be something wrong if today there are several “message churches” in the same city. The time has come for the judgment to begin in the house of God, “… which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Tim 3:15).

We are expecting a biblical revival in which the power of God will be manifested. May this be a year of jubilee, a year in which all the misled individuals are set free! The time is near; the time has come for all true believers everywhere to become of one heart and of one soul, as it was in the beginning. The Lord stands at the door and knocks.

The following Scriptures should encourage us and strengthen our faith:

“But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. … For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” (2 Cor 1:18-22).

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. …

“That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” (Eph 1:1-14). This shall come to fulfillment for all those who belong to the Bride Church.

The Lord told us what goes along with such a sending: “… as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” (Jn 20:21). Paul could also testify to this when he reported about his calling: “Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:17-18).

The admonition that Paul gave to his co-worker Timothy also applies to me as well as every servant of God: “That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ …” (1 Tim 6:14).

The Lord must first give a commission before it can be carried out. Paul had a commission; he was able to testify of the day, the hour, the place, and what he had been told (Acts 9:22, 26). Moses was able to do the same (Exo 3) and so was Joshua (chap. 1). Isaiah reported: “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” (Isa 6:8). All true servants of God bear witness to their commission. Brother Branham could refer to June 11, 1933, to May 7, 1946, to February 28, 1963, to the period of March 17-24, 1963, all the times when the Lord had given him special instructions.

Likewise, I too can look back on special experiences in which the Lord addressed me as “My servant,” beginning with April 2, 1962, and can testify to the time and place as well as what He commanded with a mighty Voice each time. By the grace of God, I have faithfully obeyed each directive that the Lord has given me – all by grace, which goes along with a divine calling and sending.

In the Circular Letter from December 2005, I mentioned some of the direct instructions and supernatural experiences that the faithful Lord has given me. This has not happened since the days of the Bible. But because we have arrived in the most important period of the entire history of the Plan of Salvation, the Lord shows us that He is looking after His Church. The commission must be carried out without rebuke, as Paul wrote.

I signed my first Circular Letter in September 1966 with the words “By His commission” and have continued to do so to this day. No one can imagine what it means to hear the all-penetrating Voice of the Lord and to receive direct instructions.

It was God’s decision to send me all over the world as the bearer of the pure, holy message.  Thanks to His guidance, I was given the privilege of personally knowing Brother Branham for 10 years and attending his meetings in Germany and the USA. I am an eye- and ear-witness of what God has done in our time. I will never forget my first personal meeting with Brother Branham on August 15, 1955. Even before I greeted him, he said to me, “You are a preacher of the Gospel.” I also clearly remember the day of June 12, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, when he said, “Brother Frank, you will return to Germany with this message!” And on December 3, 1962, with that same infallible prophetic gift, he repeated what the Lord had told me at the time of my calling and concluded with the words: “Wait with the giving out of the food until you have received the rest of it.”

He asked me to speak in his stead to the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship, founded by Demos Shakarian, in Clifton’s Cafeteria on the following Saturday, December 8, 1962, because he had to prepare for his move to Tucson, Arizona, on account of a vision. He also asked me to speak for him on Sunday, December 9, at Ernest Hutton’s Church in Oakland, California. He even gave me the address of Paulaseer Lawrie, who had attended his meetings in Bombay and was a well-known healing evangelist. I was supposed to contact him if I were to travel to India. I could continue at length with accounts of how the faithful Lord has led everything so wonderfully from the beginning.

Through God’s predestination and guidance, the message, as the man of God had been told, was now being carried into all the world before the Second Coming of Christ. The full, everlasting Gospel has been preached to all nations as a witness, according to Mt 24:14, and the end will come. This is further indicated by the signs of the end times. Our Lord said, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Lk 21:28).

As sure as the written Word is infallible and without rebuke, the Bride of the Lamb, who now believes God’s revealed Word, will certainly meet the Bridegroom at the Rapture without spot or wrinkle and without blemish. It must be clear to everyone that no false teacher and none of the ones who have been misled will be raptured. God can only put His seal on those who are washed in the blood and sanctified in the Word (2 Cor 1:21-22).

The time is near; the time is here. When we look back at the recent past once again, then with a clear view of the future. All those who know the ministry of Brother Branham are familiar with the years from 1933 to 1965. But who has recognized what God has done since 1966 according to the calling and the promised sending?

The last 53 years have been the continuation of the true proclamation, which is happening in the direct commission of God worldwide. There are two phases: The first one was from 1966 to 1979. It has already been 40 years since Satan attempted to destroy me and the Church in 1979. There has never been anything like it: The ends of the earth have been reached and millions of people have come to know what God has done in our time. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise. He will wait, however, until the full number of chosen ones is reached and the last few are added. Unfortunately, especially in the last 40 years, there are brothers who have come on the scene without a calling. They present their own doctrines and draw in disciples to follow them, with the slogan: “The Prophet said!” That is how various different factions, so-called “message fellowships,” have emerged in many cities, and each of them follows their respective leader and his teachings.

However, the Lord builds only His Church. He commanded me at my calling: “My servant, do not establish any local churches and do not publish a hymnbook, for it is the sign of a denomination!” As sure as He told me on September 19, 1976, “My servant, I have ordained you according to Mt 24:45-47 to give out the food in due season,” there are certainly faithful brothers in the various countries and cities who distribute the same spiritual food in the churches there.

Fifty-three years of the blessed proclamation of the message of the Word; forty years of false brothers who crept in to spread heresies. Now all the true children of God who have been under the wrong influence since 1979 are coming back from all the wrong directions they have taken. The message has reached the ends of the earth – the Return of our Redeemer is imminent. The call is going forth loud and clear: “Behold, the Bridegroom is coming! Go out to meet him!”

Brother Branham often said, “At evening time, there shall be light!” That has come to pass. But now we have arrived at the midnight hour. Only those who are ready will be called unto the marriage supper. Brother Branham has completed his commission; I am carrying out my commission. Whoever has ears to hear will hear, and whoever is of God will accept it. Let everyone examine themselves in regard to the sending. Thus saith the Lord: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.” (Jn 13:20).

Those who pretend to believe the message should look around their own city and ask the question: How many churches of God were there in Ephesus, Corinth, Philadelphia, and Laodicea? Then there has to be something wrong if today there are several “message churches” in the same city. The time has come for the judgment to begin in the house of God, “… which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Tim 3:15).

We are expecting a biblical revival in which the power of God will be manifested. May this be a year of jubilee, a year in which all the misled individuals are set free! The time is near; the time has come for all true believers everywhere to become of one heart and of one soul, as it was in the beginning. The Lord stands at the door and knocks.

The following Scriptures should encourage us and strengthen our faith:

“But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. … For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” (2 Cor 1:18-22).

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. …

“That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” (Eph 1:1-14). This shall come to fulfillment for all those who belong to the Bride Church.