“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2. Cor. 11:2-3).

That was also the primary concern of Brother Branham, who saw the redeemed multitude in paradise, all dressed in white. I may say, it is also my ambition, as we are now much closer to the Return of the heavenly Bridegroom, especially since I was taken out of my body in January 1981 and experienced the Rapture together with the great multitude, all young and dressed in white.

Paul feared that Satan, who adapts to every situation, would come slyly as a serpent with deadly poison disguised as an angel of light and beguile the Church of believers. This concern was legitimate, for Satan appeared already in the time of Job, when the sons of God were gathering in heaven (Job 1:6). And amazingly enough, he came straightaway even to the next meeting of the angels (Job 2:4). After the first visit, the destruction of everything Job possessed took place; after the second visit, the attack of Satan was on Job himself. No matter how, where, and when, there is always destruction left behind when Satan is seen and heard in a meeting.

The seduction of Eve happened by the twisting of one Word that the Lord our God spoke to Adam. Satan started with the sentence, “Yea, hath God said …?” He cast doubt on what God had said to make his lie believable. The old serpent even could have said to Eve, “Did you hear it? Were you there? Do you know if it is correct?” In the time of Moses, he could have said to Korah, “Were you there when Moses was called? Were you on the mountain when God spoke to him?” To the despisers at the time of the apostles he could have said, “Were you there when Paul was called? Did you hear the voice from heaven?”

To the doubters in our time he could have said, “Were you there when the light came down in June 1933? Did you hear what the angel of the Lord said to Brother Branham on May 7, 1946?” Satan is still sowing doubt as he did with Eve, by saying, “Has the Lord really spoken to him? Were you there on April 2, 1962? Did you hear it? Were you present on December 3, 1962? Did the prophet really say that? Did you hear it? Were you there in July 1976 when the Lord commanded him to consecrate the adjacent property unto Him and to build on it, or in September 1976 when it was about the food, or when the Lord said in Marseille: ‘My servant, rise and read 2. Timothy 4 …!’ when the concern was about the seven thunders, and all the other times?” Satan seduces in the same way every time questions what God has said and so brings the people under his influence.

Brother Branham was explicitly told, “If you get the people to believe you …” The enemy always sows doubts on that what God has said and commanded. Unbelief is followed by sin, the crossing of the line. What is left is enmity between the two seeds, as it happened already in the Garden of Eden. There are those who believe God and hold fast to what He said, and then there are the ones who let doubts prevail; they are scoffers who sin against the divine commission and against the Holy Spirit who leads into all the truth. However, what the Lord Himself said stays valid:“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).

If there would not have been the fall at the beginning in the Garden of Eden, then the plan of Salvation that God purposed from eternity would not have come to fulfilment. If there would not have been this terrible deception in May 1979 here in the local church, from where the direct commission is carried out, the thought would never have come to anyone that the divine order has to be restored. Satan is the deceiver of the whole world, but in connection with the rapture of the man child, he is called “the accuser of the brethren” and finally cast down (Rev. 12:10). We have to pay close attention that we do not come under the influence of the accuser of the brethren, but that we also in this regard place ourselves on the side of God and His Word and say with Paul, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” (Rom. 8:33). That is being attempted by Satan and all who are under his influence.

Satan is now standing before the Church to prevent the birth of the man child. But God connected the most important task, namely the calling out and preparation of the Bride Church, to the ministry of the prophet. Now everything in the Church is being restored to its original state. Now it is manifested who only speaks of the message or who truly submits to every Word of God, is found to be in the Will of God, and lives out every Word in reality. Then all discussions are superfluous. God will restore everything in a double portion, as He did with Job (ch. 42). As it is written in Jas. 5:7-11 in connection with the Return of Christ, the former and latter rain will fall before the coming of the Lord, and then will also be fulfilled what is promised in Joel 2:23-24: “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.” It is remarkable that Brother Branham spoke about this subject in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1955.

Whoever cannot say with a pure heart as the Lord, our Redeemer, said and Brother Branham emphasized: “My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” (Jn. 4:34), has not yet understood what it is really all about. It is not enough to speak of message and messenger, of food, of the revealed Word. Now, when the table of the Lord is so richly prepared in the presence of our enemies as never before, we have to do the Will of God by the strength of the spiritual food so that He can complete His work. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. Everyone has to be able to say with a pure heart, “Not my will, but thy Will be done!” The perfect Will of the heavenly Bridegroom will now be done in His Bride, and unto Christ will be presented a pure virgin. Amen.

“… yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight …” (Col. 1:21-22).

“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2. Cor. 11:2-3).

That was also the primary concern of Brother Branham, who saw the redeemed multitude in paradise, all dressed in white. I may say, it is also my ambition, as we are now much closer to the Return of the heavenly Bridegroom, especially since I was taken out of my body in January 1981 and experienced the Rapture together with the great multitude, all young and dressed in white.

Paul feared that Satan, who adapts to every situation, would come slyly as a serpent with deadly poison disguised as an angel of light and beguile the Church of believers. This concern was legitimate, for Satan appeared already in the time of Job, when the sons of God were gathering in heaven (Job 1:6). And amazingly enough, he came straightaway even to the next meeting of the angels (Job 2:4). After the first visit, the destruction of everything Job possessed took place; after the second visit, the attack of Satan was on Job himself. No matter how, where, and when, there is always destruction left behind when Satan is seen and heard in a meeting. 

The seduction of Eve happened by the twisting of one Word that the Lord our God spoke to Adam. Satan started with the sentence, “Yea, hath God said …?” He cast doubt on what God had said to make his lie believable. The old serpent even could have said to Eve, “Did you hear it? Were you there? Do you know if it is correct?” In the time of Moses, he could have said to Korah, “Were you there when Moses was called? Were you on the mountain when God spoke to him?” To the despisers at the time of the apostles he could have said, “Were you there when Paul was called? Did you hear the voice from heaven?” 

To the doubters in our time he could have said, “Were you there when the light came down in June 1933? Did you hear what the angel of the Lord said to Brother Branham on May 7, 1946?” Satan is still sowing doubt as he did with Eve, by saying, “Has the Lord really spoken to him? Were you there on April 2, 1962? Did you hear it? Were you present on December 3, 1962? Did the prophet really say that? Did you hear it? Were you there in July 1976 when the Lord commanded him to consecrate the adjacent property unto Him and to build on it, or in September 1976 when it was about the food, or when the Lord said in Marseille: ‘My servant, rise and read 2. Timothy 4 …!’ when the concern was about the seven thunders, and all the other times?” Satan seduces in the same way every time questions what God has said and so brings the people under his influence.

Brother Branham was explicitly told, “If you get the people to believe you …” The enemy always sows doubts on that what God has said and commanded. Unbelief is followed by sin, the crossing of the line. What is left is enmity between the two seeds, as it happened already in the Garden of Eden. There are those who believe God and hold fast to what He said, and then there are the ones who let doubts prevail; they are scoffers who sin against the divine commission and against the Holy Spirit who leads into all the truth. However, what the Lord Himself said stays valid:  “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).

If there would not have been the fall at the beginning in the Garden of Eden, then the plan of Salvation that God purposed from eternity would not have come to fulfilment. If there would not have been this terrible deception in May 1979 here in the local church, from where the direct commission is carried out, the thought would never have come to anyone that the divine order has to be restored. Satan is the deceiver of the whole world, but in connection with the rapture of the man child, he is called “the accuser of the brethren” and finally cast down (Rev. 12:10). We have to pay close attention that we do not come under the influence of the accuser of the brethren, but that we also in this regard place ourselves on the side of God and His Word and say with Paul, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” (Rom. 8:33). That is being attempted by Satan and all who are under his influence.

Satan is now standing before the Church to prevent the birth of the man child. But God connected the most important task, namely the calling out and preparation of the Bride Church, to the ministry of the prophet. Now everything in the Church is being restored to its original state. Now it is manifested who only speaks of the message or who truly submits to every Word of God, is found to be in the Will of God, and lives out every Word in reality. Then all discussions are superfluous. God will restore everything in a double portion, as He did with Job (ch. 42). As it is written in Jas. 5:7-11 in connection with the Return of Christ, the former and latter rain will fall before the coming of the Lord, and then will also be fulfilled what is promised in Joel 2:23-24: “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.” It is remarkable that Brother Branham spoke about this subject in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1955.

Whoever cannot say with a pure heart as the Lord, our Redeemer, said and Brother Branham emphasized: “My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” (Jn. 4:34), has not yet understood what it is really all about. It is not enough to speak of message and messenger, of food, of the revealed Word. Now, when the table of the Lord is so richly prepared in the presence of our enemies as never before, we have to do the Will of God by the strength of the spiritual food so that He can complete His work. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the churches. Everyone has to be able to say with a pure heart, “Not my will, but thy Will be done!” The perfect Will of the heavenly Bridegroom will now be done in His Bride, and unto Christ will be presented a pure virgin. Amen.

“… yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight …” (Col. 1:21-22).