The LORD God has surely given a clear promise for the last and most important ministry:

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal. 4:5-6).

As certain as the hearts of the believers in the Old Testament were turned to the faith of the children of the New Covenant through the ministry of John the Baptist (Lk. 1:16+17), so the hearts of the children of God are now turned to the faith of the apostolic fathers.

It is a fact that God will do nothing unless He first reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets (Am. 3:7) and that God’s Word is the truth in the mouth of a true prophet (1. Kgs. 17:24). Everything that is part of the plan of Salvation has been foretold by prophets, and God has fulfilled it and is still doing so even today. Our LORD said in Lk. 24:44, “… that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”

Let us take a look at our time. Of course, everybody knows that John the Baptist was a promised prophet (Isa. 40:3; Mal. 3:1; Mat. 11:10; Lk. 3:1-20). However, we also know that in our time God has fulfilled the promise to send a prophet like Elijah before the terrible day of the LORD (Mal. 4:5-6).

This promise is connected to the plan of Salvation at the end of the time of grace and is obviously so vitally important that our LORD Himself confirmed it in Mat. 17:11 and Mk. 9:12. Both of these facts are true: John came in the spirit and in the power of Elijah; therefore, the LORD referred to his ministry as already completed (Mat. 17:12; Mk. 9:13). Yet He also announced the Prophet Elijah still for the future, through whom all things were to be restored before the Return of the LORD (Acts 3:17-21). I personally witnessed that unique ministry in the meetings in Germany and in the USA.

The THUS SAITH THE LORD in his mouth was more than a thousand times the revealed Word of God. Without exaggeration, one can say that there has been no prophet or apostle whose ministry can be compared to the unique ministry of Brother Branham. I have repeatedly written about this over the past forty-four years and have illuminated it from the viewpoint of the Holy Scripture.

Brother Branham once asked, “What is the message?” Then he also gave the answer right away: “Back to the Word; back to the doctrine of the apostles!” For it is THUS SAITH THE LORD. Elijah had to come first and restore all things and return them to their divine order (Mat. 17:11; Mk. 9:12). That is fulfilled Scripture before our very eyes. Although God has taken the messenger, the message still remains with us and has been entrusted unto me by the commission of God. Brother Branham saw the final revival in the Bride before the Rapture:

“But watch when the spiritual Bride when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God, watch then again (You see?), how that the Scriptures, at that time there’ll be a message sweep out to catch that Bride …” (November 25, 1965). Indeed, the Scripture is being fulfilled before our very eyes, and we are the privileged generation that may witness this now, before the Return of Christ.

Now, however, it is about something entirely different, namely about the deception that William Branham is being turned into Jesus Christ, that he is being deified and presented as infallible; there is even the claim that every Word which came from his lips is supposed to be the Word of God. He is made the main subject of the sermons by many message preachers; yes, he is even made into a cult figure so that they no longer preach from the Bible, but only from his sermons. Although they speak exclusively of “the prophet” and “the message,” they have derived a completely different message therefrom (Gal. 1).

As it was written about Elijah, this must also be said of Brother Branham: “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are …” (Jas. 5:17a). He was a husband; he was a father; he was a human being just like any one of us. His hunting trips confirmed this in particular. The supernatural did not come from William Branham, but from God Himself. Our Redeemer said as Prophet and Son of Man, “Not I do these works but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth His works.” That is how it happened in our time.

At probably every healing service, Brother Branham mentioned Jn. 5:19: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” Many people who attended Brother Branham’s meetings witnessed the helplessness of our brother – especially during the prayer for the sick. But then the supernatural happened as in the ministry of our LORD: The light, the pillar of fire came down and the angel of the LORD stood at his right side, and he was shown things from the lives of the individuals for whom he was to pray. In his testimony he says, “Right at the beginning the angel of the LORD appeared to me and told me how I should minister, that I would see a light and hear a voice speaking to me and that I will see visions.” (Full Gospel Businessmen’s Voice). Not William Branham did those supernatural things, but the Almighty God, to Whom Alone belongs the glory for all eternity.

On one hand, we see Brother Branham as the announced prophet for our time, who had an infallible ministry, who saw visions and who could say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” and it was so. On the other hand, however, he was a preacher and, as he said himself time and again, just a simple man, a sinner saved by grace.

Sadly, brothers misunderstood and misinterpreted his statements, and without any regard for the Word of God, they fabricated the various unscriptural teachings – always with the assertion: “The prophet said!” In this way, they not only twisted unto their own destruction what Brother Branham said, but also the words of our LORD and the words which Paul and others left for us in the Scriptures (2. Pet. 3:16).

The LORD God has surely given a clear promise for the last and most important ministry: 

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal. 4:5-6). 

As certain as the hearts of the believers in the Old Testament were turned to the faith of the children of the New Covenant through the ministry of John the Baptist (Lk. 1:16+17), so the hearts of the children of God are now turned to the faith of the apostolic fathers. 

It is a fact that God will do nothing unless He first reveals His secret to His servants, the prophets (Am. 3:7) and that God’s Word is the truth in the mouth of a true prophet (1. Kgs. 17:24). Everything that is part of the plan of Salvation has been foretold by prophets, and God has fulfilled it and is still doing so even today. Our LORD said in Lk. 24:44, “… that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”

Let us take a look at our time. Of course, everybody knows that John the Baptist was a promised prophet (Isa. 40:3; Mal. 3:1; Mat. 11:10; Lk. 3:1-20). However, we also know that in our time God has fulfilled the promise to send a prophet like Elijah before the terrible day of the LORD (Mal. 4:5-6). 

This promise is connected to the plan of Salvation at the end of the time of grace and is obviously so vitally important that our LORD Himself confirmed it in Mat. 17:11 and Mk. 9:12. Both of these facts are true: John came in the spirit and in the power of Elijah; therefore, the LORD referred to his ministry as already completed (Mat. 17:12; Mk. 9:13). Yet He also announced the Prophet Elijah still for the future, through whom all things were to be restored before the Return of the LORD (Acts 3:17-21). I personally witnessed that unique ministry in the meetings in Germany and in the USA. 

The THUS SAITH THE LORD in his mouth was more than a thousand times the revealed Word of God. Without exaggeration, one can say that there has been no prophet or apostle whose ministry can be compared to the unique ministry of Brother Branham. I have repeatedly written about this over the past forty-four years and have illuminated it from the viewpoint of the Holy Scripture. 

Brother Branham once asked, “What is the message?” Then he also gave the answer right away: “Back to the Word; back to the doctrine of the apostles!” For it is THUS SAITH THE LORD. Elijah had to come first and restore all things and return them to their divine order (Mat. 17:11; Mk. 9:12). That is fulfilled Scripture before our very eyes. Although God has taken the messenger, the message still remains with us and has been entrusted unto me by the commission of God. Brother Branham saw the final revival in the Bride before the Rapture: 

“But watch when the spiritual Bride when She begins to have a revival, when She begins to come back and line Herself up with the Word of God, watch then again (You see?), how that the Scriptures, at that time there’ll be a message sweep out to catch that Bride …” (November 25, 1965). Indeed, the Scripture is being fulfilled before our very eyes, and we are the privileged generation that may witness this now, before the Return of Christ. 

Now, however, it is about something entirely different, namely about the deception that William Branham is being turned into Jesus Christ, that he is being deified and presented as infallible; there is even the claim that every Word which came from his lips is supposed to be the Word of God. He is made the main subject of the sermons by many message preachers; yes, he is even made into a cult figure so that they no longer preach from the Bible, but only from his sermons. Although they speak exclusively of “the prophet” and “the message,” they have derived a completely different message therefrom (Gal. 1). 

As it was written about Elijah, this must also be said of Brother Branham: “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are …” (Jas. 5:17a). He was a husband; he was a father; he was a human being just like any one of us. His hunting trips confirmed this in particular. The supernatural did not come from William Branham, but from God Himself. Our Redeemer said as Prophet and Son of Man, “Not I do these works but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth His works.” That is how it happened in our time. 

At probably every healing service, Brother Branham mentioned Jn. 5:19: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” Many people who attended Brother Branham’s meetings witnessed the helplessness of our brother – especially during the prayer for the sick. But then the supernatural happened as in the ministry of our LORD: The light, the pillar of fire came down and the angel of the LORD stood at his right side, and he was shown things from the lives of the individuals for whom he was to pray. In his testimony he says, “Right at the beginning the angel of the LORD appeared to me and told me how I should minister, that I would see a light and hear a voice speaking to me and that I will see visions.” (Full Gospel Businessmen’s Voice). Not William Branham did those supernatural things, but the Almighty God, to Whom Alone belongs the glory for all eternity. 

On one hand, we see Brother Branham as the announced prophet for our time, who had an infallible ministry, who saw visions and who could say, “THUS SAITH THE LORD,” and it was so. On the other hand, however, he was a preacher and, as he said himself time and again, just a simple man, a sinner saved by grace. 

Sadly, brothers misunderstood and misinterpreted his statements, and without any regard for the Word of God, they fabricated the various unscriptural teachings – always with the assertion: “The prophet said!” In this way, they not only twisted unto their own destruction what Brother Branham said, but also the words of our LORD and the words which Paul and others left for us in the Scriptures (2. Pet. 3:16).