“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Heb 13:8)

Circular letter JUNE 1971

I greet you very warmly with the Scripture from Psalm 89:7:

“God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.”

To the glory of the Lord we can say many dear children of God have come to believe the preaching of the revealed Word. The arm of the Lord has been revealed unto them because God has led them out of the modern Babylon of this time by His mighty hand. God’s Word has not returned void but it has accomplished what it has been sent for. The Lord has remembered his promises and he has accomplished what he foretold through the mouths of His holy servants and prophets long time ago.

Based on what God promised in Amos 8:1, a great spiritual famine appeared in the midst of God's people. This is similar to the famine at the time of Joseph when he was in Egypt. In Genesis 41:56 we read that “Joseph opened all the storehouses…” At the time God took care to make sure that His people did not die during the famine. He acted with Joseph in a special way when he had commanded him to fill the storehouses before the famine struck. Joseph was a spiritual man but he first had to follow a difficult way. His brothers hated him he was cast into a pit and he was sold. He had to go through these difficult trials but God was with him. Through revelation it was shown to him that there will be seven years with the rich harvest followed by 7 years of drought. When the revelation came true, his brothers came to him to buy wheat. They hated him to death and got rid of him because they did know his commission.

The ways of true servants of God were difficult to understand for many brethren especially after they were equipped by God with extraordinary spiritual gifts. As there is a wonderful similarity between the times of Joseph and our time, we simply have to mention it. The prophetic Word makes references to spiritual famine as we've just mentioned it. It was right at the time of the famine when the brothers found their way to Joseph without even knowing or wanting it. From his hand they then received food – he showed his great love for them. When he made himself known to them, they were deeply moved by that and they were helpless so he comforted them with these words from Genesis 45:5, 8: “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life … So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God…”

How wonderful it is when we look at God’s ways with His people. His servants are going through many misunderstanding because through them God’s intention is fulfilled. The whole history of salvation gives witness that God has always stood by His servants and prophets. He has always been very close to them and He was able to reveal His will to them. We are filled with great joy and thankfulness to God when we imagine that God the Lord gave His commission to our beloved brother Branham in a vision to store in the food. It is not a religious wish or just something fabricated, but Thus saith the Lord. God was ready to send famine upon His people according to His prophetic word but before the famine could struck God had taken care that the food was put in store. According to God's revelation brother Brennan knew which promises of the prophetic Word were given for our time. As Joseph had the responsibility to store in natural food so that the blessed ones of the Lord did not die during the general famine, so the Lord again took care that the blessed of the Lord were preserved during the time of the spiritual fame in through the Word of life.

We are now in the time of spiritual famine and nobody can change it and nobody should carelessly tell lies about it. Jesus himself said that man would not live on bread alone but on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. This spiritual hunger cannot be satisfied through human interpretations of the Scripture but only through the Word of God which is our spiritual food. Nobody should say “I am full and I don't need anything…” but we should all ask God to make us hungry for His Word unless it is the case with us. The holy Scripture says: “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent…” In Revelation 3:1-2 we read: “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die.”

We simply have to be sure that nobody can stop the course of the plan of salvation. It doesn't matter any longer what this or that person says, what matters is what God has said. We are standing amid God's plan of salvation coming true. God will not be hindered, He will lead His work to completion and He will accomplish it for the glory of His name. We are very grateful to God that we can now, in the time of spiritual famine, open God’s store and draw from the rich fullness of His revealed Word.

Missionary trip report

To the glory of God and with a thankful heart, I would like to briefly mention what I experienced in India in March 1971. It was in the beginning of February when we, with supplication, chose individual cities and countries for meetings. All of a sudden I said: “O, God, if it is in your will for me to visit India this year, may brother David from New Delhi write this week to invite us.” After two days I actually received a letter from brother David asking me to come in March. I initially replied I could not come in March because I had planned to visit Denmark at the time. Without mentioning my refusal he replied that the dates for the meetings were set and asked me to let him know when I would arrive. In the meantime I received a message that the meetings in Denmark had to be postponed. So there was nothing that would prevent me from going to India.

What we experienced there from the very first day was simply wonderful beyond any measure. It was God’s hour for India.

Many dear children of God prayed to the Lord to send me, but our contact was broken and I had to wait until God opened a new door. I took the movie about brother Branham with me and I was sure that it would be a great blessing. I had to be aware that the movie could cause a problem in some countries, but when I stepped down from the last stair of the plane and I stood on the Indian soil, I spontaneously said: “Lord, you have given this country to us.” While I was walking to passport control a nice man approached me and said he came to pick us up. Soon we found out that he had more authority than officers in charge. He ensured that we could get through passport control without any difficulties.

Then we met our brethren and learned the officer was sent by brother Victor David. God provided us with the right brethren in our team. A brother who worked for the Indian government and whose responsibility it was to check and censor all foreign movies provided a movie projector for the whole journey. From the very first day we experienced how God led and blessed. In New Delhi we had meetings in a nice hall belonging to YMCA. All those who were present but deeply moved by what they saw and heard in the movie and they were richly blessed. Altogether we had three meetings there.

Then we continued to Ba where the Lord led it in such a way that we could use a large Methodist Church for both meetings. It was simply overwhelming to see all the masses. At least 1000 people were sitting and standing and they were in expectation of what the evening would bring them. Before the start of the meeting I was told that a professor from the Methodist Seminary was present and also some important local personalities. In all freedom, I was allowed to present God's plan of salvation on the basis of the prophetic Word and then the movie was screened. Everybody was overwhelmed, moved and deeply struck. The second evening I spoke about the restoration that was promised in the Word of God and I openly proclaimed the whole counsel of God. I also had to say that as God’s servant I could not adapt to any other person but I was obliged to preach the whole truth of God, I also spoke about repentance, about how those who came to believe are baptised and about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was simply wonderful to see how the Lord was opening people's hearts. With God's help I did all I could and the rest has to be done by the Lord through his Word and His spirit.

From there we continued to Bo. Here they had a Christian meeting for the first time in a nice City Hall. These meetings were organised somewhat in a hurry, still we were amazed when we saw how many people came. They rejoiced that they could hear brother Branham and experience his ministry. The movie made an extraordinary impression everywhere because everybody could see in it how God worked in our time.

After the seven meetings in the northern part of India I was led by the Holy Spirit to go to the southern part of the country. Especially to the city of Madras was on my heart because in 1985 and 1969 we had large and blessed meetings there. The only contact I had was through La. We could not use that contact, but the Lord had already planned everything. We met brother Banker from Mumbai who attended brother Branham's meetings in 1954 and witnessed great healing miracles. For example, he saw how an Indian man who had been blind for 22 years was healed and how brother Branham told him through the gift of discernment what his name was, where he came from, that he was married and had two children. All over India the name of Branham is known thanks to these mighty meetings and the signs and miracles that God did. Brother Banker drove us to Madras where he organised meetings. The very first evening about 700 people were already present and significantly more people came the next evening. It was simply God’s hour to help God's children who were in doubt and inner need. They gave the Word of God their undivided attention. In one of the meeting I read about 20 Scriptures to answer various questions from people. For God's children in Madras it was as if somebody blew a trumpet and declared a year of Jubilee. They understood that the day came for them to be set free from any human domination, from the interpretations of the Scripture and from bondage. Also here we screened the movie and people were deeply moved by it. After the last meeting was over, nobody wanted to leave. They still hoped that I would be able to stay longer to bring the Word of God to them.

Meetings in other cities were also richly blessed and they made a visible impact. I am grateful to God with all my heart that He opened the door. The Lord has given us our Indian brethren who preach the Word of God, screen the movie and distribute sermons. We are certain that the unchanged gospel must be preached as a witness to all nations (Matthew 24:14) According to the holy Scriptures it is “the everlasting gospel” (Revelation 14:6). Who changes even the smallest detail in the gospel given from God and preached through the apostles will be accursed (Galatians 1:8). With full respect and esteem for every brother who the Lord could use, it is our duty to remain in the Word of God. Brother Branham said: “If somebody leaves the Word, he only leaves people because God has already left him.”

Our God is God of His Word. He will now never abandon His Word and He will not allow anyone to alter it. In 1Peter 1:25 we read: “But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”

Speculation or Revelation

I was very surprised to have heard in India that God now supposedly revealed things that were not written in the Bible. For every true child of God it holds that the Holy Scripture is the foundation of everything that we believe and teach. God has revealed His full counsel of salvation in it. If people claim to have for a revelation of the seven thunders, we only decorate themselves with a halo to cover their own hypocrisy. Concerning this topic we have to say that it does not profit anyone to speculate about the seven thunders. When John heard them on the Isle of Patmos, he was forbidden to write about them. When brother Branham saw the seven thunders he was not allowed to say a single word about them. As Paul says in 2Timothy 4:2: “Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season…” A true servant of God is a preacher of the Word of God. Nobody shall ever preach about the seven thunders because they are not described in the Word of God. God has reserved it for Himself to fulfil it in due time. Brother Branham said that it concerned the final and closing things which God Himself will do directly in the midst of His people before the rapture of the Bride Church. He said: “… the public will not know about it…” May it be put into everyone's heart once and for ever by the Holy Spirit that our God is God of His Word.

What has so far been published in India and USA under the pretext of the seven thunders is nothing but blasphemy to God. We can only say that as those people did not believe the truth of God's revealed Word, God sent them strong delusion (2Thessalonians 2:11-12).

According to 2nd Corinthians 11:13 there are also false apostles who have only put on a mask and according to Revelation 2:2 they were tried and found as liars. I had to write a booklet with the intention to clarify various issues on the foundation of the Bible. Everyone who was led to unrest by various publications and who would like to receive clarification about these things can ask for a booklet titled “Open Letter”.

Trusting God and His Servants

The truth is through preaching a servant of God builds trust towards God in people. It is also true that God in turn builds trust towards His servants in His people. A true servant of God will be characterised by sincerity and veracity. We can say as Paul did: “For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness…” (1Thessalonians 2:3-5)

How truthful this scripture is: “Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe His prophets, so shall ye prosper.” (2 Chronicles 20:20). As surely as true prophets represented God so God represented them and confirmed His Word. To the glory of God, we can see now that still more and more children of God from all around Europe come to trust God and His Word as it has been revealed fresh. Initially, many believers receive it with restraint but now they fully trust and know that we are not focusing on ourselves but in God's truth we preach the Word of the Lord. By God's grace the initial doubt is now completely gone because first especially preachers of so-called full gospel considered it their role to attack brother Branham and his teachings. From a human standpoint, this is perhaps understandable because naturally everyone wants to preserve his church so they must declare what is their own as true and all the rest as false. But they had to confess that all warnings against brother Brenham were in vain because still more and more people attended the meetings.

This has never been my attitude because as surely as I represented God with all my effort and sincerity so God has also represented me. Everywhere people had original English sermons of brother Branham delivered to them and they found out that we only focus on what was revealed through the Holy Spirit to our beloved brother Branham from the Word of God. So now all mouths are shut as those who think perversely in their heart can only speak perversely. God’ people is moving on without being hindered and is becoming stronger and stronger in faith.

It is also claimed that we belong to the Jesus Only movement, but I want to tell all those who do not know it yet that we have never belonged to this or any other organisation. According to what brother Branham said, both extremes are false - the teaching of Trinity as well as the teaching of Oneness. All would be well if everyone would hold tight only to what is written in the Bible. The Bible teaches that there is only one God therefore that is what we believe. We also find in it that God has revealed Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit and so we believe it. The Bible presents God as our Father in heaven, it speaks of Jesus Christ the Son of God who was revealed on earth in the body of flesh. When Jesus was on earth the heaven was not left empty and nor was the earth empty after Jesus ascended to heaven. Our God fills the whole universe according to Psalm 139. The same God that was revealed as Father in heaven and as Son on earth dwells in us as the Holy Spirit. We receive every word of God as it is written, but in love we must emphasise that we must leave every word of God where God has placed it. People get in trouble because they take certain biblical concepts out of context and place them where they do not belong. Those to whom Lord Jesus revealed Himself in the power of His resurrection know who Jesus is (Gospel of John 12:28).

Obedience is better than sacrifice

If we already read in the Old Testament that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry (1Samuel 15:23), we should carefully look into the mirror of the Word again and ask ourselves if we have not replaced worship with idolatry and if the curse of witchcraft is not upon us through disobedience.

On April 18, 1971 we were staying in Berlin on the occasion of screening the movie. As we had no meetings on Sunday morning, after many years we visited a Pentecostal church, not with the intention to criticise but to hear the Word of God. But what we saw there made me write these lines. We believe that the Word of God is holy and there must be the fear of God and order in the house of God. Who gives women the right to come to the service in tight long trousers or miniskirts? Who has given them the right to come with their hair so short that it does not even cover their nose? Doesn’t the Bible say in 1Corinthians 11:14-15 that if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. Who gives young people with their shoulder length hair the right to take their seats in the first or second row. People of this world can do as this world does but we are not of this world (Gospel of John 17:14). God's children make themselves aligned with God and His Word. Is the purpose to have the full house or is it to ensure that people are renewed and born again unto the living hope? Then they can testify: “Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

Nobody may fill old vessels with new wine and nobody should place new patches on an old garment. Brethren, hasn't there been terrible defection in everything? Hasn’t the spirit of this world and this time expel the Holy Spirit? Hasn’t only a dead form of worship remained without the power of God? What is the purpose of such make-believe? God sees how it really is. Brothers, tell people the truth because only the truth sets free otherwise you will once be blamed and badly reproached. Never again take the Word of God lightly but bring all the solemnness of God's truth to the balances of God because “Mene Tekel” will surely come and if it then proclaimed: “Weighted in the balances and found wanting”, it will be too late for ever. O God, remember your people for whom you have paid the high price.

A report from the journey
through Eastern and Western Europe

We have experienced God's grace and help everywhere. There was great joy amid God's people in all cities and countries. We can say that we are in the middle of a revival. it is not an evangelistic period revival, but a revival according to the Bible pattern. Based on work that has been done for years we can say that this is bringing lasting fruit. Love and unity among believers are multiplying and becoming stronger. Here and there I am asked why there are no regular meetings in many cities. I can only reply that that is not my commission. My commission is only to go from city to city and to preach the Word for this time as it has been revealed by God fresh from His throne, but not to establish churches. In fact there are more than enough communities. But because existing organised churches do not accept what God has given to His people through the end time message, true children of God are forced not to attend their meetings. On this occasion I would like to say that it doesn’t make any sense if a preacher criticises people because they do not attend the meetings. However this is how it goes in the plan of salvation. At the time of reformation all those who came to believe the Word of God left the Roman church and they followed the Lord. The same happened in all the following revivals. Pentecostal churches were also made of people coming from various denominations and free churches. But I have never heard of a preacher who would send those people back. Should we send the hungry children of God back to where they came from if they came to receive the Word revealed from God. Preachers, if you do not want all true children of God to flee from you, it is high time that you start preaching the whole counsel of God according to the revelation of the prophetic Word. In all revivals, true children of God went out of existing denominations and they walked on with God and so it is now. May the faithful Lord have mercy on His children who walk in His Word in obedience and may He raise up shepherds after His own heart.

Full devotion and effort

From the very beginning we have given the work of God our undivided devotion and full effort. We are grateful to God with all our heart for those many brethren He has given us in many countries. It was upon my heart to make sure that all responsible brethren receive a copy of the movie about brother Branham. We also provided brethren with cards and necessary equipment. For the glory of the Lord we must say that it was right in Europe where He made His people willing to help our brothers and sisters in India, Africa and other parts of the world. In addition to regular monthly contributions we also bear responsibility for printing brother Branham’s sermons in various languages. With God's help we have so far delivered four cars to our brethren in other countries and we plan to provide more because it not possible that these brethren travel such distances on foot. Right now we are arranging a car for brethren in India as well as other things necessary for missionary work. May the Lord use all of us to be of help to our brothers and sisters with whom we will be in eternity. After the rapture nobody will be able to go to a bank to send money or even to collect interest. Whatever we plan to do we must do while we are still here. Together we want to work with full devotion and we must have the work of God as our top priority. May the faithful Lord many times repay to all brothers and sisters and our friends for what they sacrifice to ensure the distribution of the Word of God. You may all be sure that it will only be used for the purposes of the kingdom of God.

Radio broadcasts

Again and again I am asked why we no longer broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. Many would like to know whether I ended these broadcasts due to financial reasons, but I would just like to say that the reason we stopped broadcasting was that it was my intention to travel to various countries. As far as finance is concerned I have never asked God or any people for money. I absolutely trust God that He will take care of His work. We have always had enough money to pay all expenses on time. Should it happen in the future that I no longer spend so much time travelling and if I am able to get an acceptable broadcasting time, I am immediately ready to start recording radio broadcasts again because it was just through them that the attention of many was drawn to the end-time message. We simply say: “May the will of God be done.”

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Author: Preacher Ewald Frank, 415 Krefeld, Postfach 905 This publication is sent free of charge to all.