"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." (Heb. 13: 8)

Circular Letter December 1992

Special greetings to all of you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ with the Scripture passage from Isa. 45:11:

"Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of things to come concerning my sons; and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me."

What important statements! The Lord Himself has spoken. We can ask Him about things to come, we can also ask Him about His sons and concerning the work of His hands. We have confidence in Him and in the infallible answers He gives us by His Word. We do not explain anything, we just permit the Holy Spirit to reveal unto us the future things based on the prophetic Scriptures. In Bible prophecy we are mainly concerned with the events foretold and then happened in reality at the first coming of Christ and secondly now with the space of time just before His return. For both periods all essential events are foretold in the Holy Scriptures.

Everything in reference to the forerunner namely John the Baptist and of course everything pertaining to our Lord, the Messiah, from His birth until His resurrection and ascension to glory. The Lord Himself, the four evangelists and also the apostles used every opportunity to base whatever happened on the foundation of the prophetic Scriptures. Because God is omniscient He could foretell everything. The end was before Him as the beginning, the future as well as the present. He saw and planned everything that was to happen from the beginning of time until it merges into eternity.

Who ever asked God about the future things which then at the first coming of Christ were presently taking place oriented themselves with the word of prophecy. The same infallible way the Lord has now with His own. The foretold prophecy merges into fulfilled reality before our very eyes.

In Lk. 24 we find several important utterances of our Lord which can show us and be beneficial to our understanding of His plan at this time. "Then he said unto them, O, foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! … And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself." After He referred to all the prophetic Scriptures which then came to their fulfillment, He opened their understanding for the same. Thus the promised Word became illuminated and of course their hearts were burning while He spoke with them.

"And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures."

When the Lord spoke to the prophet Daniel and revealed unto him the future events and the things pertaining to the last days, he was told by the angel Gabriel who was commissioned by the Almighty God, "… and I am come to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved. Therefore, understand the matter, and consider the vision." Undoubtedly we are now in the midst of the fulfillment of end-time Bible prophecy. We are not only living in the end-time, we are swiftly moving towards the end of the time of grace. The Word the Lord revealed to His servants, the prophets, has shown forth the right application to His apostles gives us the same light in a perfect manner by the same Holy Spirit.

Also in this regard God does not change His mind or the way He does things. The same applies to His servants at all times. They were connected with the plan of salvation and had the ministry of the Word. For each event they found the respective prophetic Scripture and built thereupon. Thus it happens now. With the servants of God there is no theoretical, illusional proclamation or any guessing, but rather in the contrary an absolute certain and obligatory exposition of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God and the end-time events.

The documented examples in the Bible will show us how the servants of God divided and placed the Scriptures. The Lord does the same today with His own as He did then. HE points at two things: the prophecies and the fulfillment. The comparison of twenty Bible references will actually show forth what is meant. That is the way to divide and to place God's Word correctly under the direct anointing and leading of the Holy Spirit. Most of the time in the comparisons it was possible to take just one part of the verse from the Old Testament and then continue with the same as given in the New Testament. Everything happened so precisely to the letter that we can only be astonished. The resurrected Lord did not point to His authority, to His signs and wonders to legitimate Himself. He was the living Word that became flesh and He used the written Word which was fulfilled in Him as His authority. The same He does today. He points to the promised Word which comes to fulfillment in His church and in all other spheres which are included in the end-time plan of God. To Him be the Glory.