CIRCULAR LETTER May 2010
Heartfelt greetings to all of you in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ with the following Scripture from Mat. 4:4:
“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.“ (Deut. 8:3).
In the beginning God said, “Let there be light!” and there was light. And God separated the light from the darkness. In the beginning was the Word, not the interpretation. “In the beginning was the Word (Hebrew text: Dabar – the One Who speaks) … In him was life and the life was the light of men.” (Jn. 1:1-5). The genuine believer does not only live naturally by bread, but spiritually by every Word that has come from the mouth of God. God does not need to take back one single Word, no matter when, where, or to whom He spoke, be it in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Yet, from the very beginning there was both: light and darkness, day and night, belief and disbelief, obedience and disobedience, good and evil – life and death. That is how it shall remain until the end.
In every Word of God is the germ of life, but only when it is sown as a seed into the hearts of the believers does the life spring up (Mk. 4:26‑29). According to Mat. 13, the sower sowed the good seed, and while the people slept, the enemy came and sowed his seed. Both the wheat and the weeds will grow until the harvest time. The Lord Himself explained the parable: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.” (vv. 37-39). After the sower has sown the Word (Mk. 4:14; Lk. 8:11), the enemy sows the interpretation. One seed is truth, the other one is lie and deception.
First Moses brought the true Word, for God remembered the promise which He had given to Abraham (Gen. 15:13). Then Balaam came on the scene to lead the people of God astray (Num. 22-24).
First Christ, the promised Prophet, appeared on the scene (Deut. 18:18; Acts 3:22-23; Acts 7:37-38); He sowed the Word. Then came the antichrist and false prophet (1. Jn. 2:18; Rev. 16:13); he sowed the interpretations. And the false christs, namely the false anointed ones, are still doing it. They can even show forth wonders, which they consider to be their confirmation (Mat. 7:21-23), so that even the elect have to be vigilant to not be deceived (Mat. 24:24).
First the true apostles appeared, then the false ones (2. Cor. 11:13; Rev. 2:2).
First the apostles commissioned by the Lord proclaimed the true doctrine (Acts 2:42; Eph. 2:20); thereafter, false apostles introduced damnable heresies (2. Cor. 11:1-13; 2. Pet. 2:1).
First Brother Branham came on the scene as an evangelist, then followed the many self-appointed healing evangelists who preached a prosperity gospel to the audience and without exception built their prosperous, million-dollar empires.
What is happening in our time? What is taking place now according to God’s plan of Salvation? Who came first by the power of a divine calling to carry the message of the Word unto the ends of the earth? Who appeared later in his sole discretion and is still spreading strange doctrines, so-called “special revelations,” in order to draw in disciples to follow him?
Mat. 24 and 25 are very important in view of the last time period before the Return of Christ, also for the Church. First the faithful Lord answers all the main questions and gives this warning: “Take heed that no man deceive you.” He speaks of wars, of earthquakes, and of false prophets, but then He comes to the essential point: “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” (Mat. 24:14). This did not take place in the time of Luther or Wesley or a hundred years ago. It is happening now, and we may witness it: The full Gospel with all the promises is being preached to all nations through the last message – to some for a witness, to others for the calling-out (2. Cor. 6:14-18). It is the everlasting Gospel (Rev. 14:6), as it was at the beginning. Every child of God believes and lives by every Word and is particularly grateful for the promises that are coming to fulfilment in our time.
Then the Lord continues and describes the events which will take place until the coming of the Son of Man and the great tribulation, even until the very end. And again something very important follows: “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.” (Mat. 24:32-33). According to Hos. 9:10, Israel is the fig tree.
In Lk. 21:24, the Lord predicted what would happen with them: “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
Already back then these promises existed: “I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.” (Mic. 2:12).
“And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” (Eze. 36:28).
“And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.” (Zec. 2:12).
The Lord says to His Own, “So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.” (Lk. 21:31). Amen! The gathering of the twelve tribes of Israel from all nations is not only a sign among many, but rather the sign of the imminent Return of Christ.
In Mat. 24:39-41, the Lord then speaks of the Rapture, when two shall be on the field, two at the mill, and two in one bed, and one will be taken and the other one left behind. He gives this admonition: “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.” (v. 44).
“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” (Mat. 25:10).
In Mat. 24:45-47, our Lord foretold in a parable what has to take place with the household before chapter 25 can be fulfilled and the bridegroom comes. He asked the question: “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” – not to rule over the ministers, but to bring the revealed Word as the fresh food to all those who carry out a ministry in the Church and to share it with them. We are now more than ever living of this Word. Verse 47 is also Thus saith the lord: “Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.” That is complete restoration and a perfect introduction into the whole Counsel of God.
Through the biblical end-time message, all hidden mysteries were also revealed. They do not only contain what each individual, every woman, every man, and the whole Church need for their preparation, but also what belongs to the fivefold ministry according to Eph. 4. That is how every minister can contribute to the edification of the body of Christ according to the apostolic pattern: “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ …” (Eph. 4:11-16).
However, only he who respects every Word of God – that includes the Word for this present time – and who really believes and correctly places it where it belongs will have it revealed to him. That is the only way the actual inclusion into the divine order of the plan of Salvation is possible. It also applies to all of the ministering brethren. The main promise for the Church in our time is this: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal. 4:5-6).
The day of the Lord is described in great detail in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. The Prophet Joel wrote the following: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.” (Joel 2:31). Before the day of salvation comes to its end, before the sun turns into darkness and the moon into blood (Acts 2:20), the second part of the promise from Mal. 4:6 is now being fulfilled.
In Mat. 17:11-13 and Mk. 9:12-13, our Lord illustrated what is connected to the promise of Elijah. He confirmed the ministry of John the Baptist, who acted in the Spirit and power of Elijah, but also pointed to the future: “Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.” So, here it is not about a homemade message, but about the divine salvation message of the complete restoration of all things that were in the Church in the beginning and got lost. Everything has to be restored to its correct order: the ministering brethren and the entire Church. Through the ministry of John the Baptist, the hearts of those who lived in the faith of the Old Testament fathers were guided to the faith of the children of the New Covenant, “… to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Lk. 1:16-17). Through the ministry that God gave to Brother Branham, the hearts of the true children of God are brought back to the faith of the apostolic fathers to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
On June 11, 1933, Brother Branham received his calling and commission before many witnesses. When he was about to baptize the seventeenth person in the Ohio River, he was told the following from the supernatural light which descended above him and which was seen by approx. 4,000 people: “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, so you are sent with a message that will forerun the second coming of Christ.”
In the evening of May 7, 1946, the heavenly messenger came to Brother Branham as to Zechariah in Lk. 1 and explained to him the heavenly commission in detail. Only then did he start his extraordinary ministry, which God Himself confirmed a thousandfold.
Finally, Brother Branham, whose ministry is in direct connection to God’s plan of Salvation, received the instruction to store in the spiritual food, the promised and revealed Word. However, he was never told that he would give out that food; neither was he ever told that he would die and then resurrect again to complete his ministry. Children of God who are born again and filled by the Holy Spirit believe only what the Scripture says. As it was specifically announced to him from heaven on June 11, 1933, the message of the whole Counsel of God that was entrusted unto him foreruns the second coming of Christ – and that is in agreement with the testimony of the Holy Scripture.
Also Acts 3:21 is Thus saith the Lord and must be fulfilled before the Return of Christ: “Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” Through the message given to Brother Branham, everything that was lost to the Church of Christ was restored to us by His grace. The revealed Word has reached the ends of the earth.
As announced in Amos 8:11, God has sent a spiritual hunger to hear the Words of the Lord. People are driving more than 1,000 kilometres to be in the meetings where the revealed and promised Word is preached, the Word that is now coming to fulfilment. It is the fresh manna that the Lord promised to the overcomers (Rev. 2:17).
Now we are waiting for the supernatural working of the Holy Spirit as on the day of Pentecost and for God Himself to restore the fivefold ministry, all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, all the fruits of the Holy Spirit, and all the virtues in the Church, for the end must be as the beginning was. He promised it; He will do it Himself by a mighty move of the Holy Spirit.
God called His servant and prophet unto Himself on December 24, 1965. I say the following on purpose so that all those who have to fill their cup of sin may do so now and all who are predestinated to believe every Word may rejoice with all their hearts:
Brother Branham told me as a prophet in the presence of witnesses on June 11, 1958, in Dallas, Texas, “Brother Frank, you will return with this message to Germany …”
Brother Branham told me as a prophet in the presence of the same witnesses on December 3, 1962, “… wait with the giving out of the food until you get the rest of the food …”
In the evening of April 11, 1966, the day of Brother Branham’s funeral, the Spirit said to me in the same manner as it spoke to Philip in Acts 8:29, “Now your time has come to give out the food and to go from city to city to preach the Word of God.” I have obeyed the heavenly calling from the first day and can say together with Paul:
“Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come …” (Acts 26:22).
Also this is Thus saith the Lord, Who called out to me with a commanding voice: “My servant, I have ordained you according to Mat. 24:45-47 to give out the food!” – It is as true as Jn. 3:16. I certainly did not invent these experiences at some point in time, they have been known to all of you from the Circular Letters since the 60ies and 70ies.
I have carried out the commission that the ever faithful Lord gave me before sunrise on April 2, 1962, throughout the past 44 years since the departure of Brother Branham in over 150 countries. As Joseph in the Old Testament filled the granary with natural food, I likewise had exactly seven years, namely from the end of 1958 until the end of 1965, to fill the storehouse with the spiritual food (Mal. 3:6-10), and I may still give it out. Every sermon that Brother Branham preached was sent to me directly. Brother Branham personally sent me to Leo Mercier, who was responsible for the recordings, so that they were mailed to me. So not only in Jeffersonville, but also here the same spiritual food was being put in storage, according to the directions of the Lord. We are not living in the past of the 1940ies, 1950ies, or 1960ies. We also do not decorate the grave site of the prophet. We are living in the presence of God in every Word and have been given the connection to the last work of God by His grace.
A true prophet never became a false one; the truth never turned into a lie; a faithful and true servant never became a false and evil servant. With God everything is in perfect order: Light and darkness are divided; truth and lie are separated. Every seed brings forth after its own kind and “… by their fruits ye shall know them.” Whoever is born of God believes every Word, every promise, and all the wise virgins who are going out to meet the Bridegroom do not defile themselves with unbiblical doctrines – they are the Bride that is washed in the Blood of the Lamb, sanctified in the Word of Truth, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption.