“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry ...” (1. Tim. 1:12).

I am writing as someone who, by His grace, had the full experience of salvation on the day of Pentecost in 1949 in the Elim assembly on Bachstreet in Hamburg. I am writing as someone who has been preaching since 1952, who has been translating Brother Branham’s sermons since 1959, and who has been making missionary trips into all the world since 1964. I am writing as one who knew Brother Branham personally, who drove with him in his car, who ate with him at the same table, and who until now has kept his 21 letters from the years 1962 until 1965. But all of this is nothing in comparison to the responsibility in regard to the commission that the Lord Himself has given me, which Brother Branham confirmed twice before witnesses. I have carried it out faithfully, and I am grateful for the fruit that has been produced by the proclamation of the Word over the past decades. What hurts me deeply is the hopeless confusion among those who are referring to Brother Branham. The enemy succeeded in not only causing great damage in heaven, then in the Garden of Eden and in Israel, but also in our time within the so-called “end-time message.” Satan always causes the worst havoc wherever God is at work in a special way, just as it was at the first coming of Christ when the children in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas were killed because it had been promised that the Saviour would be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5). Also in the New Testament Church he did his work of destruction during the church ages: Very soon false teachers crept in with the doctrine of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans and also a Jezebel came on the scene, who managed to seduce the servants of God by presenting herself as a prophetess and teacher (Rev. 2:20).

In our time, Satan has taken on the task of destroying the Church that was called out through the ministry of Brother Branham to begin with and is still being called out and is being led according to the Word even to this day. Here at this place, from which the message is being carried into all the world, the enemy vented his wrath in particular. The attack from hell happened in the place that God Himself appointed for the purpose of storing in and giving out the food. Especially since 1979, the evil one has managed to bring many precious souls under his influence who at first turned their backs on the true proclamation and later also on the church.

However, God’s perfect Will is still coming to pass. His true Word, which is being carried into all the world, accomplishes what it was sent for in the elect, who cannot be deceived. The Redeemer is watching over the Redeemed, the Bridegroom over the Bride. Our beloved Lord will finish His Work. He will have a Church without spot or wrinkle. I am holding fast to the promise that, at the end, a great multitude will be ready for the Rapture, just as it was shown to me in January 1981. May all straying sheep find their way back to the flock and to the good Shepherd soon so that even the last one comes in and the Bridegroom can then come to fetch His Bride.

“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry ...” (1. Tim. 1:12).

I am writing as someone who, by His grace, had the full experience of salvation on the day of Pentecost in 1949 in the Elim assembly on Bachstreet in Hamburg. I am writing as someone who has been preaching since 1952, who has been translating Brother Branham’s sermons since 1959, and who has been making missionary trips into all the world since 1964. I am writing as one who knew Brother Branham personally, who drove with him in his car, who ate with him at the same table, and who until now has kept his 21 letters from the years 1962 until 1965. But all of this is nothing in comparison to the responsibility in regard to the commission that the Lord Himself has given me, which Brother Branham confirmed twice before witnesses. I have carried it out faithfully, and I am grateful for the fruit that has been produced by the proclamation of the Word over the past decades. What hurts me deeply is the hopeless confusion among those who are referring to Brother Branham. The enemy succeeded in not only causing great damage in heaven, then in the Garden of Eden and in Israel, but also in our time within the so-called “end-time message.” Satan always causes the worst havoc wherever God is at work in a special way, just as it was at the first coming of Christ when the children in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas were killed because it had been promised that the Saviour would be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5). Also in the New Testament Church he did his work of destruction during the church ages: Very soon false teachers crept in with the doctrine of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans and also a Jezebel came on the scene, who managed to seduce the servants of God by presenting herself as a prophetess and teacher (Rev. 2:20).

In our time, Satan has taken on the task of destroying the Church that was called out through the ministry of Brother Branham to begin with and is still being called out and is being led according to the Word even to this day. Here at this place, from which the message is being carried into all the world, the enemy vented his wrath in particular. The attack from hell happened in the place that God Himself appointed for the purpose of storing in and giving out the food. Especially since 1979, the evil one has managed to bring many precious souls under his influence who at first turned their backs on the true proclamation and later also on the church.

However, God’s perfect Will is still coming to pass. His true Word, which is being carried into all the world, accomplishes what it was sent for in the elect, who cannot be deceived. The Redeemer is watching over the Redeemed, the Bridegroom over the Bride. Our beloved Lord will finish His Work. He will have a Church without spot or wrinkle. I am holding fast to the promise that, at the end, a great multitude will be ready for the Rapture, just as it was shown to me in January 1981. May all straying sheep find their way back to the flock and to the good Shepherd soon so that even the last one comes in and the Bridegroom can then come to fetch His Bride.