The Great Tragedy and God’s Plan of Salvation in the Light of the "Endtime Message"
/ Ewald Frank
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18. The Main Criteria
- Foreword
- First and Second Creation How did it begin? How will it end?
- The Fall and its Restitution
- The Two Seeds
- All will be well
- God Does all Things According to His Word
- Clear View
- The Right Placing
- God Shares His Intentions with us
- Witnesses in our Time
- The Supernatural Confirmation Demands a Decision
- Signs Point Toward the Goal
- The Marks
- The Ministry in the New Testament
- False Prophets and False Christs
- Now Everything Must be put to the Test!
- The Climax of the Deception
- The Main Criteria
- The Challenge





Wherein lies the difference between the correct and the wrong teaching? How do we recognise what is being done correctly and what is not? What do the Holy Scriptures say on this matter ? We may as well keep our own opinions to ourselves, as they have no value in the Kingdom of God.
The statements of faith of the church fathers deviate from the fundamental scriptural doctrines. Their religious teachings about Godhead, Baptism etc. do not agree with the apostles. Unaware of that fact, the majority remains in the traditional falsified Christendom, in spite of the many blessings. That is the tragic account at the end of the time of grace. God-sent prophets, apostles and teachers, for instance, only knew one true God , not a tri-une one. They also did not know a “Jesus Only”-doctrine. They knew God in the manifold ways in which He manifested Himself. The Trinity doctrine about the three equal persons of God, who are supposed to exist from eternity, is unscriptural and a very old heathen concept, that still exists in Buddhism today.
The development of the New Testament Church has a great similarity with Israel. “And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ...” (Ex. 32: 1). He consented and made a golden calf, because in Egypt they were worshipping the bull. And then it is also written, “... and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.” (v. 4). One must picture the scene: The God of Israel descended on the mountain, speaking to Moses, “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ...” (Ex. 20: 1-4) — at the same time Aaron, together with the people, practised well-meant idolatry and called a calf “god”.
Since our Lord lingered with His promised return, the church fathers did the same: They formed and formulated a three-headed, three-shaped God, according to the heathen pattern and said, “That is your God, Christianity.” Whoever touches this image is being treated as having insulted their Holiest of Holy. Which is the right belief then? The Apostle Paul greatly emphasises the correct doctrine, urging, “... seeing it is one God ...” (Rom. 3: 30) and also stating, “Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.” (Gal. 3: 20). In the Holy Scriptures, not one single time can we find the term “triune God” or “trinity”, and never “heavenly” or “eternal Son”. The God that was “formed” this way is not known in the Old or the New Testament. He is completely foreign to the prophets and apostles. Someone with a clear mind can never face God’s Word with the belief, that there are three who reign in heaven and that these three persons are in agreement and form a trinity. If there truly was a Trinity in Heaven, it would be clearly documented in the Bible. Since it is nowhere to be found in the Bible, it subsequently cannot exist in Heaven.
Some even exaggerate the whole matter, shouting, “Now we invite the Holy Trinity!” The announcer then invites the Father, and all clap their hands in excitement. Then he invites the Son, and all are taken up with enthusiasm. Finally, the Holy Spirit is also invited into their midst: The whole congregation gives applause. Does someone sincerely believe, that there are three eternal, three who are omnipotent and three who are omnipresent? Then it is obviously no longer the one and only God the Bible testifies about. Three individual persons are three gods, not one God, for words to make any sense. Therein we see the great falling away, that was predicted by the Apostle Paul. It happened when Christianity left the Jewish ground of revelation.
In the Old Testament the falling away always signifies the turning away from the ONE TRUE GOD to other gods. In the New Testament Church, the turning away from the ONE TRUE GOD to a Trinity-Godhead was the beginning of the “great falling away”. Paul writes to the Galatians, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel ...” (Gal. 1: 6). In the same chapter he speaks a curse over those, who preach another Gospel. Later on he asks the question, “... who hath bewitched you ...” (3: 1).
All who use the triune formula for baptism have to submit to the same accusation. Since the New Testament Church was founded, all believers were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, as Peter declared in his first sermon, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2: 38). Many agree with church tradition, but not with the Word of God.
The same people, who use the name of Jesus so mightily, categorically reject to be baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the way Peter, Paul and the other apostles, who heard the commission from the Lord Himself, commanded and did. But that alone does not satisfy them: They even declare the true baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, as documented in the Bible, to be heresy. And they do so in speeches and publications. It would be worthwhile to ponder on about these things. Those who preach heresy today, insinuate therewith that Peter, who had the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, and Paul, who had Divine authority because of the direct commission, were teaching and baptising incorrectly and therefore had deceived the first believers in the original Christianity. They themselves do not act according to the commission our Lord gave, as the apostles did, they simply repeat Mt. 28: 19 as if it was a magic formula. Is it not commonly known, what is being done by the use of these “three high titles” on the entire old “Christian” continent? Magic spells, sorcery, spiritism, table turning, palm reading, fortune telling, every kind of hocus pocus and occultism are practised with that formula.
The critical research of the Bible contends, that the text in Mt. 28: 19 in the earliest, hand-written manuscripts was as follows, “en to onomati mou” — “in-to My name ”, as also the church father Eusebius confirms. According to the writings of church historians, the Baptism in the first centuries was administered in the name of Jesus Christ. The change came about only after men brought in their own tri-une ideas. In some of the translations, like the King James Bible, which is being read on every continent, the unbelievable supplement verse is still found in 1 Jn. 5: 7: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit ...” Every Bible student of the first semester knows, that this verse does not at all exist in the original manuscripts. It is also not found in the Hebrew text, not in the Greek interlinear nor in the German Luther translation or any other German Bible edition, not in the Zurich edition, which dates back to Zwingli, not in the French one of J. N. Darby, not in the Lamsa, neither in the many others. It is not found in the German Scofield Bible, and the English Scofield carries the footnote, “It is generally agreed that this verse has no ms. authority and has been inserted.” But because of inherited tradition, it is left there, against better knowledge, and pastors even preach about it. The apocryphs also don’t belong into the Bible. As already previously stated, not only the Saviour, but also God’s Word fell into men’s hands — what a tragedy! For some time now, the doxology has been added to the Lord’s Prayer, and recently even the formula, “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost” is being recited after it. The differences in the Bible translations in the various languages are also grave in some parts, for instance with the Lord’s prayer. The original Arameic version states, “… and lead us that we do not fall into temptation …” God does not lead us into temptation (Jas. 1: 13) like we usually pray.
These things have to be said for once, so that the original Truth will prevail. All brutal crusades, all witch trials, stakes, the whole inquisition, all the persecutions, the murdering of the Jews and other believers were done with the blessing of the clergy: “In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.” Also for the slaughtering of the thirty thousand Hugenottes in France, the Trinitarian “blessing” was given to the culprits from the pulpits. Up till today, all who enter a certain order must recite their vow in the Name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit — even Jews who join as members in a free-mason’s lodge. All who belonged to the inner circle of Hitler’s Waffen-SS (wearing a black uniform and a tattoo on their right arm, showing on the buckle of their belts the inscription “Blut und Ehre” = “Blood and Honour” and on their caps a scull) had to swear an oath upon “Reich und Fuehrer” in the Name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In the course of church history, millions upon millions were slaughtered, sometimes tortured in the cruellest way, under this formula. Jews who survived Auschwitz told me personally, as I was visiting the former death camp, and also testified publicly in TV-interviews on the “Holocaust Memorial Day”, that those slaughterers wearing the black uniform were regularly attending the catholic mass in the camp chapel. While the smoke of those put to death in the gas chambers was ascending to the sky, the incense in the chapel also rose towards the ceiling and the prayers were recited in the Name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.
Whoever is familiar with the international church history, has knowledge of the fact that the Trinity idea and the triune formula was first introduced in the third century A.D. Polycarp and Ireneus did not know of any debate concerning Christ. They knew Christ as the apostles had preached Him. These doctrinal debates became an issue only in the Nicene Council (325) and then continued and were formulated in the Council of Chalcedon in the year 381. Their general validity as church doctrine was first proclaimed in the year 441 by Pope Leo I!
Whether there were 50 or even 60 millions, who died the martyr’s death by the Trinity mother church, the writers of history cannot agree on. But it is well known, that the ultimatum given to those, who believed differently and especially to the Jews, who were denounced as “murderers of Christ and rejected by God”, was that they had to accept the faith in the triune God and be baptised in the triune baptism. Especially for any orthodox Jew this was not an option, for it meant the price of his soul, because thereby he would have overstepped the first and most holy commandment God Himself had given, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord!” (Dt. 6: 4). The souls of these martyrs call for revenge, according to Rev. 6: 9-10. “And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” Now we need to ask who this institution is, that shall be called upon by God to give account. Who could be meant with the following Scripture references,
“For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets ...” (Rev. 16: 6).
“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus ...” (Rev. 17: 6).
“And the woman whom thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” (Rev. 17: 18).
“And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” (Rev. 18: 24).
The hour of truth has come. Everything — all teachings, all practices, the entire belief, all must be examined in the light of the Word. From now on, you have knowledge about this complex theme. Can anybody escape the final judgement without being held accountable? Must we not ask ourselves, whether we belong spiritually and doctrinally to the blood-bought Church of Christ, the Church of the first-born (Heb. 12: 22-23), or to the blood-stained church, which is referred to as mother in reference to daughter churches and is called “Mystery Babylon, the Great” (Rev. 17: 1-6)? Everyone can now recognise, where he or she stands.
Since the spiritual breakthrough of the Reformation, the Lord calls His people step by step back out of all that is unscriptural, until His Church is completely restored to the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone (Eph. 2: 20).
Preachers, brethren, do you not realise where the journey of mainstream Christianity is leading to? Some of you have established Bible seminars, you are teaching others, but do you accept God’s teachings yourself? Do you not recognise, that the one true God has revealed Himself for our Salvation in the New Testament, as our Father in Heaven, in the Son on Earth and in His Church by the Holy Spirit? This has happened in the one, unique New Testament covenant name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom alone is all Divine Salvation, into which believers are baptised.
In the Old Testament, nobody prayed to a “Father in Heaven”, but to the Lord GOD. This terminology is found therein 6,700 times. No prophet has ever known anything about or has called unto an “eternal Son in Heaven”. That is the new incomprehensible, unexplainable mystery, which was predicted and promised in the Old Testament: it is the revelation of God in Christ (2 Cor. 4: 6; Col. 2: 2-3; 1 Tim. 3: 16 a. o.). Whoever does not have this revelation, will misunderstand, misinterpret and misplace the Word. The Name (singular) of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, into which we were commissioned to baptise, is indeed the Lord Jesus Christ. The Hebrew word Yashua means “Yahweh-Saviour”, as Immanuel means “God with us”. The Lord/Yahweh of the Old Testament is the Lord Jesus in the New Testament. That is the Divine Truth. The name of the Father is also the name of the Son (Ps. 22: 23), in Whom He has manifested Himself. All preachers, evangelists, charismatic personalities and all believers are herewith challenged to admit that in the apostolic days and in the following 200 years no scriptural act or prayer was ever done in a triune formula.
Peter, the man of the first hour, obeyed precisely what the risen Lord had commissioned His disciples to do, “... teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you ...” (Mt. 28: 20). For forty days after the resurrection, our Lord spoke to His disciples about the Kingdom of God, He taught them personally (Acts 1: 1-3). It was then, that He gave the great commission, which was carried out precisely. The teaching of Christ was and still is God’s teaching. “Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” (Jn. 7: 16-17). And the teaching of the apostles was the teaching of Christ. “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Godspeed; for he that biddeth him Godspeed is partaker of his evil deeds.” (2 Jn. 9-11).