Dear Friends, 

this is Brother Frank speaking to you from the International Mission Center in Krefeld, Germany. It’s always a joy and a privilege for me to address God’s people in all the nations on every continent, and today I can speak to you about God, about His Word, His plan of Salvation, about the end-time, about the return of Christ, about the Bible doctrines, about all the important subjects we need to know from God’s holy Word. There is a big difference between the Word that was in the beginning and all the interpretations which came up later in the course of church history. I just finished writing a little book with the title “In the beginning was the Word – not the interpretation”. And I believe, the time has come to know the original Word of God, forsake all interpretations and return to the teachings and practices of the beginning.

We call this ministry “apostolic-prophetic”. It speaks of itself. We have to understand that actually only what we find in this Book is from God. Beloved, we have to understand that God does all things according to His Word. We also look into the world with the many religions, and every one promises something. If you go into the Christian religion, we have the many denominations and interpretations and everyone claims to believe in God, to believe the Word of God, and all come to different conclusions, and all go into different directions. But this has already started in the days of the beginning in original Christianity. “One faith, one Lord, one baptism” was very soon forsaken. Even in the days of the apostles, brothers came up with wrong teachings, presenting their own views, and the apostles had to emphasise, especially the Apostle Paul, who had a direct commission from the Lord, who saw the light, who heard His Word, who directly was commissioned to preach the Word to the nations. Beloved, like the apostles, so we in this day must see the same light, we must hear the same Lord Jesus Christ speak to us and we have to return to the Bible teachings. 

In Galatians, chapter 1, verse 10, the Apostle writes, “For do I now seek the favour of men, or of God?” And then he makes the statement, “If I yet would please men, I should not even be the servant of Christ.” Beloved, let’s be very plain and straight forward: The return of Christ is imminent, promised in John, chapter 14, “I go to prepare the place, then I will return and take you to be where I am.” And now this time is drawing real near. And if we say, the return of the Lord is imminent, we do say that on the basis of the fulfilment of Bible prophecies which are now coming to pass, which were predicted events – predicted to take place before Christ returns. We have the main sign with the children of Israel, where God promised that at the end of days He would bring them back into the Promised Land. And, Beloved, from 143 nations the Jews returned to the land of their fathers, where David, where Solomon, for 3,000 years the children of Israel lived there in the Promised Land. Of course, then they were scattered into all the nations, but now they are gathered, as the Lord promised.

In the New Testament we do find it in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 32, where our Lord said, “Learn a parable of the fig tree …” By the way, beloved Brothers and Sisters, dear Friends: all of God’s Word is in parables, in symbols, and we have to know these symbols. We have to understand what is hidden in these parables. And therefore you can right to Genesis, chapter 1 and continue through the Old and the New Testament:  in one way God has revealed His purpose, His will and Himself; in another way, the things are still hidden. For some they are revealed, for others they are hidden. And Paul wrote to the Corinthians, that “to some the Gospel which we preach is hidden, to the others it’s revealed”. Even when we preach about Jesus Christ, some receive Him as personal Saviour, others do not. If we preach divine healing, some believe it, others do not. If we speak about the fulfilment of Bible prophecies, some believe it, others say, it has always been like it is now. If we read 2. Peter, chapter 3, the scoffers would say in the last days, “As the things have been since the beginning, so they are continuing.” But then the Apostle Peter says, “The Day of the Lord will come …”, and he explains in detail what will take place when this day comes, when all the elements will melt in fervent heat, when fire will cleanse the earth, before the millennial reign of Christ begins. But then we have to go back to the promise for this day: Malachi, chapter 4, “I will send you Elijah, the Prophet, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.” This promise our Lord repeated in Matthew 17, verse 11, “Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.” And then we go to Malachi, chapter 3, which was a promise, fulfilled in the ministry of John the Baptist. He came 2,000 years ago in the spirit and power of Elijah to prepare the way of the Lord, to turn the hearts of the Old Testament fathers to the children of the New Testament. John the Baptist bridged the Old to the New Testament, Luke 16:16, “The law and the prophets were until John the Baptist; from that time the kingdom of God is being preached …” Beloved, everything God promised will take place when the time is fulfilled. Now we are at the end of the day of Salvation. If you read Isaiah, chapter 49, verse 8, it speaks about the day of Salvation and about the Lord who would be a salvation to the ends of the earth. And then you go to 2. Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 2, where the Apostle Paul says, this is the day of Salvation, this is the acceptable time. And then we take it back to Malachi, chapter 4, where the promise was given, that just before the Day of the Lord would come, God at the end of time of grace would send a prophetic ministry to take us back to the Word, out of all interpretations, of all misleadings, of all that is wrong, and, Beloved, I have to be straight forward: everybody calls things “Christianity” today. We have Christian churches, Christian Bible schools, even trade unions are called “Christian trade unions”. Everything is Christian, Christian, Christian. But what I try to say is this: We don’t need a Christian message – we need the message of Christ! We don’t preach a Christian religion – we preach Jesus Christ, and Him crucified! We preach the Word, the Word of God, the Word that includes what happened on the cross of Calvary when God was in Christ, reconciling the world with Himself. That Word is still the power of God unto salvation to everyone that would only believe. 

We have to start in the right way. And in John, chapter 3, our Lord declared very clearly, unless someone is born again, he cannot even see the Kingdom of God. We can sing about it, we can dream about it, we can preach about it, but we shall not see the Kingdom of God unless we enter into the Kingdom of God, and like we enter this world by birth, not by singing, not by preaching, in the natural we enter this world by birth. We all have our birth certificate, we all know the day of our birth, and the place. And, Beloved, in the same way we enter the Kingdom of God: we are born again. First we receive God’s Word as seed into our soul, and then we believe it, and the Holy Spirit comes upon us, and the life, that is in God’s Word comes forth in us and we are born again to a living and eternal hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. As certain as He rose from the dead we rose with Him to a new life. That is why the Apostle Paul in Romans, chapter 6, very clearly states that we are crucified with Christ, we died with Christ, and by baptism we are buried with Christ, and we rose to a new life. Not changing churches, not changing religions, but the change happens in our heart, in our life. In the Old Testament God made the promise, “I will make a new covenant, give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new life.” In the New Testament it became a reality. God was in Christ, and anyone that is in Christ is a new creature. In 2. Corinthians, chapter 5, from verse 17, the Apostle very clearly shows us the way of salvation, and Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. God was personally manifested in Christ. Our Lord could say in John 14, “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.” He could say in chapter 10, verse 30, “I and the Father are one.”

Beloved, nobody can explain God, we cannot even explain ourselves. How do we exist? Where are we? You see my body, you see my head, you see me, but actually I am just speaking. You don’t see me in reality. Someday, if the Lord should tarry, this home, this body will be placed into a coffin, but I will be gone. This is just the home we are living in. The time that God allotted to us to prepare for the one that is way yonder. Beloved Brothers and Sisters, let me emphasise the importance of the personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Only in Christ God met humanity and reconciled us with Himself. And only in Christ we can meet God. As I stated earlier, there are many religions, and every one believes to be right, every one promises different things. 

I am a missionary, and actually I am in the ministry for over 40 years, having visited over 130 countries, knowing the religions of the world, and practically I preached in almost every denomination that exists. So I am not a newcomer in the Kingdom of God, I know about the things which go on in the spiritual realm. Actually since 1949 I was part of the revival which God started in 1946 through the ministry of William Branham, a man sent from God to prepare the way of the Lord, to restore us back to the original Word and to place the apostolic doctrines back to where they were at the very beginning. Since 1955 I knew him personally, and I was in him meetings in Europe and also in the U.S.A. I came to know about his divine call, commission and ministry. I saw Bible days with my own eyes. I saw Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and for ever. But, Beloved, at the same time people recognised the special ministry unique in every way. If we know about what God has done in our time, then we should also know the purpose connected to whatever God does. It is not enough to admire a man who has a special ministry – we must know about the purpose connected to that ministry. The moment I came to know that Brother Branham had a direct call and commission and the words were spoken to him already in June 1933, “As John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming of Christ, you are sent with a message which will forerun the second coming of Christ.” In December 1965 the Lord took His servant and prophet, William Branham, but the message of restoration, the revealed Word of God was left to us, and this precious Word I take to the ends of the earth. It was maybe in 1958 when I saw a book with the title “Men who heard from heaven”. It was published by Gordon Lindsay in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. A number of men were shown. The photos could be seen. Brother Branham was there with a large picture. But, Beloved, when it really came to the matter, there was only one of all the men who could place his hand upon his heart and could say, “It was May 7th, 1946, it was there and there when the Angel of the Lord came to me. When He came into the room, a supernatural light illuminated the whole room, when the commission was given to me to take a gift of divine healing to the nations and that this message would forerun the second coming of Christ.” 

Beloved, the ministry of Brother Frank is directly connected to the ministry of William Branham – not to all the deviations, but to the direct message of the hour, which is the promised Word for today, revealed by the Holy Spirit, the bringing back to the original teachings now before Christ returns. A full restoration must take place! Not what was done with the statements of William Branham, I am not responsible for that at all, I am only responsible for the Word of God this man of God was teaching and preaching – about the Godhead, about water baptism, about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, about the Lord’s Supper. All the Bible teachings were put into place again according to the apostolic pattern. So it’s not a special teaching, it’s not a new religion, not new interpretations, but the bringing back to the original Word of God. And I conclude in saying, I, Brother Frank, who is speaking to you, by God’s grace, in the Name of the Lord, from the International Mission Center in Krefeld, Germany, I just finished writing a book with the title “In the beginning was the Word – not the interpretation”. May God bring us back to the beginning, is my prayer, and may His blessings rest upon you and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord teach you and guide you, and may His blessings rest upon you. I would like to hear from you. May you be blessed in Jesus’ holy Name. Amen.