It is the indescribable grace of God that we can correctly place the Word of Truth according to the Scripture. All brothers who really serve the Lord are partaking in the distribution of the spiritual food of the revealed Word, and together we may say, just like Paul, “… as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.” (1.Ths. 2:4).

No prophet or apostle has called me, but the Lord Himself. As the one sent by Him, I not only may, but I must proclaim the whole counsel of God in this time.

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” (2. Cor. 5:20). The true believers cherish the apostolic-prophetic teaching and are grateful for the ministry that is taking place now, which brings them back to the original Word.

Whoever does not believe and accept the written Word of Truth in every detail about any subject, also when it is about the Return of Christ and the different comings, such a person is, as Paul wrote to Timothy, “… proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth …” (1. Tim. 6:4-5). To such people God sends strong delusions so that they are damned to believe false doctrines which are nothing but lies (2. Ths. 2:12). As many times before, once again 2. Jn., verse 7, has to be emphasized here as well: Whoever does not believe that the same Lord, who rose bodily (Jn. 20) and ascended bodily to heaven (Lk. 24:50), shall also return bodily (Acts 1:9-11) has not only fallen prey to a false doctrine, but has become a direct victim of the antichrist spirit. “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

That is how it is also written in the Scofield Bible, which Brother Branham read and which I am reading as well: “... who confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh.” After His resurrection, Jesus Himself said, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” (Lk. 24:39).

“... this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11).

John continued, “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” (2. Jn. 10).

Yes, it gets very serious, for never before in the past two thousand years have there been as many deceivers at work as in our time. And they even come from our midst: “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” (Acts 20:30).

Their main doctrines are:

1. that the Return of Christ has already taken place;

2. that the Rapture occurred with the opening of the Seals;

3. that the time of grace is over and

4. that the blood is no longer on the mercy seat;

5. that the resurrection and Rapture take place spiritually and that both have already happened. The Lord’s Supper does not have to be celebrated anymore.

6. that the so-called “revelation” of which they speak has already transferred the ones who believe it into the Millennium;

7. that not the message, but the messenger has forerun the second coming of Christ.

8. The inconceivable claim is: As Jesus Christ was on earth back when John carried out his ministry, so He also had to be on earth during the time when Brother Branham had his ministry.

Many more unscriptural teachings are being propagated.

On December 4, 1965, exactly twenty days before his passing, Brother Branham said the following in the sermon “The Rapture” and led from 1. Ths. 4 over to Mat. 25, namely to what is taking place now: “It’s a Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now, ‘Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps.’ And they did. Some of them found they didn’t even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it’s lamp trimming time. It’s Malachi 4 time … It’s Luke 17. All those prophecies that it can--perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures, we see it living right there. ” (page 28).

Yes, we see very clearly what Brother Branham said about Mat. 25, Lk. 17, and Mal. 4. That is the message, the last call, addressed to all who are now living. Amen! Likewise we see that 1. Ths. 4 is still in the future. This we also say by the Word of the Lord: The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a commanding shout that is addressed to those who fell asleep, accompanied by the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. Then it shall happen that the dead in Christ will rise and those who are alive in Christ shall be changed and be caught up together in the Rapture.

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1. Cor. 15:53-54).

Michael and his angels fight the last battle with the dragon at the rapture of the man child:“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” (Rev. 12:1-12). At the very end, Michael also stands up for Israel: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” (Dan. 12:1).

In the last three minutes of the same sermon, Brother Branham said, “You want to make the Rapture? How many’s interested in making the Rapture, say, ‘God, I want to make it with all my heart.’ ” All those who claim that the Rapture already took place in 1963 should be ashamed of themselves! It is written that Enoch walked with God. He had the testimony that he pleased God, and Enoch was not found because God had translated him (Heb. 11). And yet all these “raptured” dreamers are still here, together with all of their followers! What a miserable, self-made “rapture”!

The claim that it is about a special “revelation of the seven thunders” is absurd. What John was commanded is still valid: “Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.” (Rev. 10:4). Only when the Lord comes down as the Angel of the covenant will the seven thunders utter their voices. But before that He will come as Bridegroom to take His Bride home. We close this subject without going any further into all the pointless Parousia theories and false doctrines. We have not followed cleverly devised fables, but instead believe the Word of God the way it is written. At the Return of our beloved Lord, all the corresponding Scriptures will be one hundred percent fulfilled. The same applies to all the other comings. Amen!

Everything that belonged to the ministry of Brother Branham is fulfilled and finished. He was sent with the message that reveals the entire plan of Salvation and is forerunning the second coming of Christ. And all those who are part of the Bride Church are now being called out and prepared unto the glorious day of the Return of Jesus Christ, our beloved Lord and Saviour (Phil. 2:16). This means that the Church of Jesus Christ is brought into absolute agreement with God and His Word in all aspects, as it was with the first true believers. Right at the very beginning, there were neither false brothers nor false doctrines; instead, the Church was established upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. God Himself has placed the ministries therein for her edification. Every biblical church emerges from a revival brought by the Holy Spirit like on the day of Pentecost, and thus the church herself becomes the foundation and the pillar of truth (1. Tim. 3:15). The true Church is the living organism, the body of the Lord, and He, as the head, has the rule over her. That is how it has to become now in the perfect restoration.

It has always been the case that the true Word was proclaimed first, and thereafter came the interpretations. The Lord sows the Word; the enemy sows the interpretations. “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ...” (Mat. 13:38). A true man sent from God preaches the Word; those who preach without a divine calling are spreading interpretations. When brothers come under the wrong influence and propagate strange doctrines, it always results in splits. They appoint themselves and others to certain positions and bind the people to themselves and their doctrines, drawing them away from the Word into their special revelations. It is how churches come into existence that are no longer in the Will and Word of God. They are not an organism born of the Spirit as the body of the Lord, but an organisation like all the others. In the early church, there was only one local church in each city. There is one thing they all have in common with Jannes and Jambres and Dathan: They rise publicly as despisers against the man of God (Num. 16; 2. Pet. 2:15). They fight against the carrier of the Word who was appointed by the Lord Himself. By any means possible, they try to destroy his influence and his reputation and reject him. In this regard, Brother Branham said, “They try to destroy the influence; they try to destroy everything, because it’s nothing but jealousy. It started in Cain and proved that it was jealousy, and it’s still the same thing today when the natural, the carnal, and the spiritual meet together.” (April 18, 1965).

That is how it was already at the time of the apostles, and so it is even to this day. The best example is Diotrephes, who would not even receive the Apostle John (3. Jn.). The apostle wrote: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (v. 4). Truth always remains truth, and a lie remains what it is, namely a lie, and only he who is of God hears God’s Words (Jn. 8:47).

The warning that our Lord gave applies to us as well: “Take heed lest any man deceive you.” Never before has His admonition been as current as it is today: “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.” Also this Word has to be fulfilled. It is addressed directly to the called-out ones in this time, for there it says: “… if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mat. 24:23-27). We owe God our gratitude for all eternity for His clear and true Word! And all the people say: “Amen!”

It is the indescribable grace of God that we can correctly place the Word of Truth according to the Scripture. All brothers who really serve the Lord are partaking in the distribution of the spiritual food of the revealed Word, and together we may say, just like Paul, “… as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.” (1.Ths. 2:4).

No prophet or apostle has called me, but the Lord Himself. As the one sent by Him, I not only may, but I must proclaim the whole counsel of God in this time.

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” (2. Cor. 5:20). The true believers cherish the apostolic-prophetic teaching and are grateful for the ministry that is taking place now, which brings them back to the original Word.

Whoever does not believe and accept the written Word of Truth in every detail about any subject, also when it is about the Return of Christ and the different comings, such a person is, as Paul wrote to Timothy, “… proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth …” (1. Tim. 6:4-5). To such people God sends strong delusions so that they are damned to believe false doctrines which are nothing but lies (2. Ths. 2:12). As many times before, once again 2. Jn., verse 7, has to be emphasized here as well: Whoever does not believe that the same Lord, who rose bodily (Jn. 20) and ascended bodily to heaven (Lk. 24:50), shall also return bodily (Acts 1:9-11) has not only fallen prey to a false doctrine, but has become a direct victim of the antichrist spirit. “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”

That is how it is also written in the Scofield Bible, which Brother Branham read and which I am reading as well: “... who confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh.” After His resurrection, Jesus Himself said, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” (Lk. 24:39).

“... this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:11).

John continued, “If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.” (2. Jn. 10).

Yes, it gets very serious, for never before in the past two thousand years have there been as many deceivers at work as in our time. And they even come from our midst: “Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” (Acts 20:30).

Their main doctrines are:

1. that the Return of Christ has already taken place;

2. that the Rapture occurred with the opening of the Seals;

3. that the time of grace is over and

4. that the blood is no longer on the mercy seat;

5. that the resurrection and Rapture take place spiritually and that both have already happened. The Lord’s Supper does not have to be celebrated anymore.

6. that the so-called “revelation” of which they speak has already transferred the ones who believe it into the Millennium;

7. that not the message, but the messenger has forerun the second coming of Christ.

8. The inconceivable claim is: As Jesus Christ was on earth back when John carried out his ministry, so He also had to be on earth during the time when Brother Branham had his ministry.

Many more unscriptural teachings are being propagated.

On December 4, 1965, exactly twenty days before his passing, Brother Branham said the following in the sermon “The Rapture” and led from 1. Ths. 4 over to Mat. 25, namely to what is taking place now: “It’s a Message to get the people together. A Message comes forth first. Now, ‘Lamp trimming time. Rise and trim your lamps.’ … ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh. Rise and trim your lamps.’ And they did. Some of them found they didn’t even have any oil in their lamp. See? But it’s lamp trimming time. It’s Malachi 4 time … It’s Luke 17. All those prophecies that it can--perfectly set in order for this day in the Scriptures, we see it living right there. ” (page 28).

Yes, we see very clearly what Brother Branham said about Mat. 25, Lk. 17, and Mal. 4. That is the message, the last call, addressed to all who are now living. Amen! Likewise we see that 1. Ths. 4 is still in the future. This we also say by the Word of the Lord: The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a commanding shout that is addressed to those who fell asleep, accompanied by the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. Then it shall happen that the dead in Christ will rise and those who are alive in Christ shall be changed and be caught up together in the Rapture.

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1. Cor. 15:53-54).

Michael and his angels fight the last battle with the dragon at the rapture of the man child:  “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” (Rev. 12:1-12). At the very end, Michael also stands up for Israel: “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.” (Dan. 12:1).

In the last three minutes of the same sermon, Brother Branham said, “You want to make the Rapture? How many’s interested in making the Rapture, say, ‘God, I want to make it with all my heart.’ ” All those who claim that the Rapture already took place in 1963 should be ashamed of themselves! It is written that Enoch walked with God. He had the testimony that he pleased God, and Enoch was not found because God had translated him (Heb. 11). And yet all these “raptured” dreamers are still here, together with all of their followers! What a miserable, self-made “rapture”!

The claim that it is about a special “revelation of the seven thunders” is absurd. What John was commanded is still valid: “Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.” (Rev. 10:4). Only when the Lord comes down as the Angel of the covenant will the seven thunders utter their voices. But before that He will come as Bridegroom to take His Bride home. We close this subject without going any further into all the pointless Parousia theories and false doctrines. We have not followed cleverly devised fables, but instead believe the Word of God the way it is written. At the Return of our beloved Lord, all the corresponding Scriptures will be one hundred percent fulfilled. The same applies to all the other comings. Amen!

Everything that belonged to the ministry of Brother Branham is fulfilled and finished. He was sent with the message that reveals the entire plan of Salvation and is forerunning the second coming of Christ. And all those who are part of the Bride Church are now being called out and prepared unto the glorious day of the Return of Jesus Christ, our beloved Lord and Saviour (Phil. 2:16). This means that the Church of Jesus Christ is brought into absolute agreement with God and His Word in all aspects, as it was with the first true believers. Right at the very beginning, there were neither false brothers nor false doctrines; instead, the Church was established upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. God Himself has placed the ministries therein for her edification. Every biblical church emerges from a revival brought by the Holy Spirit like on the day of Pentecost, and thus the church herself becomes the foundation and the pillar of truth (1. Tim. 3:15). The true Church is the living organism, the body of the Lord, and He, as the head, has the rule over her. That is how it has to become now in the perfect restoration.

It has always been the case that the true Word was proclaimed first, and thereafter came the interpretations. The Lord sows the Word; the enemy sows the interpretations. “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ...” (Mat. 13:38). A true man sent from God preaches the Word; those who preach without a divine calling are spreading interpretations. When brothers come under the wrong influence and propagate strange doctrines, it always results in splits. They appoint themselves and others to certain positions and bind the people to themselves and their doctrines, drawing them away from the Word into their special revelations. It is how churches come into existence that are no longer in the Will and Word of God. They are not an organism born of the Spirit as the body of the Lord, but an organisation like all the others. In the early church, there was only one local church in each city. There is one thing they all have in common with Jannes and Jambres and Dathan: They rise publicly as despisers against the man of God (Num. 16; 2. Pet. 2:15). They fight against the carrier of the Word who was appointed by the Lord Himself. By any means possible, they try to destroy his influence and his reputation and reject him. In this regard, Brother Branham said, “They try to destroy the influence; they try to destroy everything, because it’s nothing but jealousy. It started in Cain and proved that it was jealousy, and it’s still the same thing today when the natural, the carnal, and the spiritual meet together.” (April 18, 1965).

That is how it was already at the time of the apostles, and so it is even to this day. The best example is Diotrephes, who would not even receive the Apostle John (3. Jn.). The apostle wrote: “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” (v. 4). Truth always remains truth, and a lie remains what it is, namely a lie, and only he who is of God hears God’s Words (Jn. 8:47).

The warning that our Lord gave applies to us as well: “Take heed lest any man deceive you.” Never before has His admonition been as current as it is today: “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.” Also this Word has to be fulfilled. It is addressed directly to the called-out ones in this time, for there it says: “… if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” (Mat. 24:23-27). We owe God our gratitude for all eternity for His clear and true Word! And all the people say: “Amen!”