Let it be said once more in all clarity: Every Word of God is a permanent component of the divine Testament, and we must accept the evangelistic part as well as the teaching part and the prophetic part from the first to the last verse. In the proclamation of the Word, I have and will only ever refer to that which is written in the Old and in the New Testament. I owe this to the heirs of God and co-heirs of Jesus Christ, as certain as the truthfulness of God dwells in me.

In the past 50 years, many false doctrines have been introduced by the “Branham experts.” However, not one of them could report of a divine calling, even until today. Quotes about “the seven thunders,” “the tent vision,” “the third pull,” etc., etc., are recited and then private interpretations are preached, without taking anything back to the Holy Scripture for verification, usually without opening the Bible at all. The highlight is the modification that was made in Jeffersonville. Until the 1980s, the designation “Spoken Word Publications” was in force, and the 7^th verse of Rev 10 was the voice of the seventh angel. Then he was declared to be the “Voice of God.” From that time on, all people were to hear the “Voice of God” in the sermons with their own ears because every word that the prophet spoke was said to be the Voice of God. Thus Brother Branham was officially presented as “God,” after previously already being revered by some as “the Word manifested in the flesh,” as “the anointed,” and as “the Son of Man.”

William Marrion, the son of Charles and Ella Branham, was a modest man and, as he said it himself many times, a sinner saved by grace. James wrote this about the Prophet Elijah: “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are …” (chap. 5:17). Brother Branham was also a human being like us. How often did he tell his stories and experiences before a sermon! His hobbies were hunting and fishing. As a young man, he was a good boxer. So he recounted on August 22, 1950, “… I won fifty-two professional fights.” His critics have counted how many times he accidentally misspoke. Within just a few minutes, he said twice, “Enoch walked with God five hundred years.” But Enoch only lived 365 years (Gen 5:23)! Or: “Enoch was the seventh after Noah …” instead of “after Adam.” Seventeen times he mentioned the year 1977; he especially referred to it in the sermon on August 6, 1961, when he spoke about the 70 weeks of Daniel. He had read the books by Dr. Larkin and by Uriah Smith and was therefore under the impression that 1977 was the fiftieth year of jubilee, and by then everything would have come to an end, the rapture would have taken place, and the USA would have been destroyed. But he said, “I do not prophecy; I predict that everything that was shown to me in visons in 1933 will come to pass by 1977.” On July 8, 1962, Brother Branham said, filled with hope, “And so I’m waiting for that great time when I will go to Israel someday to bring the Gospel to them …” and then on July 11, 1965, “My ministry isn’t finished in Africa.”

Thanks be to God that I have understood everything the right way from the beginning, including what Brother Branham said as a man. I also got to know him as a human being, ate with him at the same table, drove with him in his car; I knew him personally for 10 years. His humanity and the things he said of his own accord do not alter the fact that he had an infallible, unique ministry, which he carried out by the direct commission of God. We are very grateful for it, because the following cautionary Words of our Lord still apply: “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).

At the same time, the fact remains that God does not give His Glory to another. The Lord has sent all of His servants, but the Glory and praise belong only to Him for all eternity. We do not need to thank Moses, Elijah, Peter, or Paul, and also not Brother Branham. We reject idolatry and any cult built around a man. The following still holds true for the genuine worshippers: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (Jn 4:24).

The chaos was caused only by the “Branhamites.” Had they not taken quotes out of context and fabricated their own message out of them, then everything would have been all right. Regrettably, the brother who conducted the funeral service for the prophet on April 11, 1966, in Jeffersonville and since August 30, 2015, lies in a mausoleum in Tucson also disseminated his own ideas and teachings in the book The Acts of the Prophet. These include the notions that the resurrection of the dead will coincide with the great earthquake in California on the west coast of the USA and that Brother Branham will then have a special ministry in a tent for at least 30 days. And that is even accompanied by the claim that the prophet told him this – including the tasks that would be assigned to him in the tent! From the beginning and even until today, the objective for all those who have called and ordained themselves has been to hide behind the prophet as a means to gain the respect of the naive believers. The Word of God, the Bible, is no longer being respected or even considered; redemption, forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration are not being proclaimed; Jesus Christ is not being preached there at all. They just repeat over and over: “The prophet said …” – “The prophet said …” The believers in Berea adopted a nobler approach: “… they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11).

I would like to emphasize once more: If there had not been a messenger, then there would be no message. God foreordained all things. All true children of God are grateful for the ministry of Brother Branham; they believe the divine message, are connected to God, and will experience the completion by His grace.

All of the prophets and apostles had their time and their ministry and are no longer on earth, but the Word which was revealed unto them remains forever, and that is what we preach (1 Pet 1:25). The last, pure, biblical message has now reached all nations. Just one more question remains, which may be asked only by those who are called and sent by God: “Lord, who hath believed our report? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” (Rom 10:16+15).

After the Lord explained to His disciples the parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, He asked them, “Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.” (Mat 13:51). Have we understood all these things? Also the parable of the two different seeds (vv. 37-38)? Did we also correctly understand what Brother Bran-ham often mysteriously said in the past tense as though it had already taken place, even though it is still in the future? The entire Book of Revelation is likewise written as if everything therein has already taken place. John saw what would take place; he saw the New Jerusalem descending and also saw the New Heaven and the New Earth.

In the closing prayer of the meeting on March 24, 1963, Brother Branham expressed the following: “Then, Lord, I pray that You’ll help me. I’m beginning to fade away, Lord. I know my days can’t be too many more, and I pray that You’ll help me. Let me be true, Lord, and honest and sincere that I might be able to bear the message as far as it’s ordained for me to bear. And when it comes to the time that I must lay down, when I get down to the river, and the waves begin to come in, O God, may I be able to hand this old Sword over to somebody else that’ll be honest with It, Lord, and will pack the truth.”

At the beginning of the spreading of the message, to which the Lord God Himself ordained me, was the Word. It was not until later on that men appeared who sowed their own interpretations through quotes about the seven thunders, about the third pull, about the tent vision, and other subjects. I preach the Word of God, which remains forever: There is nothing written therein about the seven thunders, the tent vision, or the third pull. I really cannot say anything about it; it was part of Brother Branham’s ministry, and I respect that.

In his Epistles, Paul repeatedly warned against false doctrines, the first time in Acts 20: “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” (v. 30). And also: “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” (Rom 16:17). The biblical proclamation, with which I was entrusted, has not caused a single division; on the contrary, it unites the true believers under Christ, the Head.

In the last five conversations which I had with Brother Pearry Green at the end of 2014 and in the beginning of 2015, he told me that after another split in his church there were now nine “message churches” in Tucson. During our conversations, he emphasized three times: “Brother Frank, I believe that your calling is as true as the one of Paul on his way to Damascus.” He wanted to come and give this testimony before the church, but he could not fly with the oxygen tank he needed to assist his breathing.

I most certainly do not need anybody to confirm the calling and sending; God has done that for more than half a century. However, no one can imagine what kind of sorrow I carry due to the misguided developments, given my responsibility before God. All of the brothers who are propagating false teachings stand in opposition to the true carrier of the divine message. Nevertheless, my testimony is the same as the one of Paul: “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” (2 Tim 4:17).

Let it be said once more in all clarity: Every Word of God is a permanent component of the divine Testament, and we must accept the evangelistic part as well as the teaching part and the prophetic part from the first to the last verse. In the proclamation of the Word, I have and will only ever refer to that which is written in the Old and in the New Testament. I owe this to the heirs of God and co-heirs of Jesus Christ, as certain as the truthfulness of God dwells in me.

In the past 50 years, many false doctrines have been introduced by the “Branham experts.” However, not one of them could report of a divine calling, even until today. Quotes about “the seven thunders,” “the tent vision,” “the third pull,” etc., etc., are recited and then private interpretations are preached, without taking anything back to the Holy Scripture for verification, usually without opening the Bible at all. The highlight is the modification that was made in Jeffersonville. Until the 1980s, the designation “Spoken Word Publications” was in force, and the 7th verse of Rev 10 was the voice of the seventh angel. Then he was declared to be the “Voice of God.” From that time on, all people were to hear the “Voice of God” in the sermons with their own ears because every word that the prophet spoke was said to be the Voice of God. Thus Brother Branham was officially presented as “God,” after previously already being revered by some as “the Word manifested in the flesh,” as “the anointed,” and as “the Son of Man.”

William Marrion, the son of Charles and Ella Branham, was a modest man and, as he said it himself many times, a sinner saved by grace. James wrote this about the Prophet Elijah: “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are …” (chap. 5:17). Brother Branham was also a human being like us. How often did he tell his stories and experiences before a sermon! His hobbies were hunting and fishing. As a young man, he was a good boxer. So he recounted on August 22, 1950, “… I won fifty-two professional fights.” His critics have counted how many times he accidentally misspoke. Within just a few minutes, he said twice, “Enoch walked with God five hundred years.” But Enoch only lived 365 years (Gen 5:23)! Or: “Enoch was the seventh after Noah …” instead of “after Adam.” Seventeen times he mentioned the year 1977; he especially referred to it in the sermon on August 6, 1961, when he spoke about the 70 weeks of Daniel. He had read the books by Dr. Larkin and by Uriah Smith and was therefore under the impression that 1977 was the fiftieth year of jubilee, and by then everything would have come to an end, the rapture would have taken place, and the USA would have been destroyed. But he said, “I do not prophecy; I predict that everything that was shown to me in visons in 1933 will come to pass by 1977.” On July 8, 1962, Brother Branham said, filled with hope, “And so I’m waiting for that great time when I will go to Israel someday to bring the Gospel to them …” and then on July 11, 1965, “My ministry isn’t finished in Africa.”

Thanks be to God that I have understood everything the right way from the beginning, including what Brother Branham said as a man. I also got to know him as a human being, ate with him at the same table, drove with him in his car; I knew him personally for 10 years. His humanity and the things he said of his own accord do not alter the fact that he had an infallible, unique ministry, which he carried out by the direct commission of God. We are very grateful for it, because the following cautionary Words of our Lord still apply: “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).

At the same time, the fact remains that God does not give His Glory to another. The Lord has sent all of His servants, but the Glory and praise belong only to Him for all eternity. We do not need to thank Moses, Elijah, Peter, or Paul, and also not Brother Branham. We reject idolatry and any cult built around a man. The following still holds true for the genuine worshippers: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (Jn 4:24).

The chaos was caused only by the “Branhamites.” Had they not taken quotes out of context and fabricated their own message out of them, then everything would have been all right. Regrettably, the brother who conducted the funeral service for the prophet on April 11, 1966, in Jeffersonville and since August 30, 2015, lies in a mausoleum in Tucson also disseminated his own ideas and teachings in the book The Acts of the Prophet. These include the notions that the resurrection of the dead will coincide with the great earthquake in California on the west coast of the USA and that Brother Branham will then have a special ministry in a tent for at least 30 days. And that is even accompanied by the claim that the prophet told him this – including the tasks that would be assigned to him in the tent! From the beginning and even until today, the objective for all those who have called and ordained themselves has been to hide behind the prophet as a means to gain the respect of the naive believers. The Word of God, the Bible, is no longer being respected or even considered; redemption, forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration are not being proclaimed; Jesus Christ is not being preached there at all. They just repeat over and over: “The prophet said …” – “The prophet said …” The believers in Berea adopted a nobler approach: “… they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11).

I would like to emphasize once more: If there had not been a messenger, then there would be no message. God foreordained all things. All true children of God are grateful for the ministry of Brother Branham; they believe the divine message, are connected to God, and will experience the completion by His grace.

All of the prophets and apostles had their time and their ministry and are no longer on earth, but the Word which was revealed unto them remains forever, and that is what we preach (1 Pet 1:25). The last, pure, biblical message has now reached all nations. Just one more question remains, which may be asked only by those who are called and sent by God: “*Lord, who hath believed our report? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”* (Rom 10:16+15).

After the Lord explained to His disciples the parables of the Kingdom of Heaven, He asked them, “Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.” (Mat 13:51). Have we understood all these things? Also the parable of the two different seeds (vv. 37-38)? Did we also correctly understand what Brother Bran-ham often mysteriously said in the past tense as though it had already taken place, even though it is still in the future? The entire Book of Revelation is likewise written as if everything therein has already taken place. John saw what would take place; he saw the New Jerusalem descending and also saw the New Heaven and the New Earth.

In the closing prayer of the meeting on March 24, 1963, Brother Branham expressed the following: “Then, Lord, I pray that You’ll help me. I’m beginning to fade away, Lord. I know my days can’t be too many more, and I pray that You’ll help me. Let me be true, Lord, and honest and sincere that I might be able to bear the message as far as it’s ordained for me to bear. And when it comes to the time that I must lay down, when I get down to the river, and the waves begin to come in, O God, may I be able to hand this old Sword over to somebody else that’ll be honest with It, Lord, and will pack the truth.”

At the beginning of the spreading of the message, to which the Lord God Himself ordained me, was the Word. It was not until later on that men appeared who sowed their own interpretations through quotes about the seven thunders, about the third pull, about the tent vision, and other subjects. I preach the Word of God, which remains forever: There is nothing written therein about the seven thunders, the tent vision, or the third pull. I really cannot say anything about it; it was part of Brother Branham’s ministry, and I respect that.

In his Epistles, Paul repeatedly warned against false doctrines, the first time in Acts 20: “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” (v. 30). And also: “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” (Rom 16:17). The biblical proclamation, with which I was entrusted, has not caused a single division; on the contrary, it unites the true believers under Christ, the Head.

In the last five conversations which I had with Brother Pearry Green at the end of 2014 and in the beginning of 2015, he told me that after another split in his church there were now nine “message churches” in Tucson. During our conversations, he emphasized three times: “Brother Frank, I believe that your calling is as true as the one of Paul on his way to Damascus.” He wanted to come and give this testimony before the church, but he could not fly with the oxygen tank he needed to assist his breathing.

I most certainly do not need anybody to confirm the calling and sending; God has done that for more than half a century. However, no one can imagine what kind of sorrow I carry due to the misguided developments, given my responsibility before God. All of the brothers who are propagating false teachings stand in opposition to the true carrier of the divine message. Nevertheless, my testimony is the same as the one of Paul: “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” (2 Tim 4:17).