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On one hand you say, “William
Branham was a mighty
prophet! God revealed everything to him!”, as it was testified
by Rev. T. L. Osborn, on
the other hand you say, “He was wrong in his teachings!” How
does that fit together?
You say, “God has given him an incomparable, unsurpassed
ministry with divine
confirmation, as no one else ever had.” At the same time you
bypass the message he
brought in the name of the Lord, which must forerun the second
coming of Christ to
show us the right way. Thereby you are loading great guilt
upon yourselves, which can
never be made up. You present yourselves as men of the hour.
But at the same time,
are you not guilty of character assassination of God’s servant
and prophet, as you have
done everything to kill the God-given influence of the unique
and extraordinary
ministry in our time? You will not succeed in keeping the
elect unto the end, for they
— the true sheep — will heed the call of the good shepherd.
God’s Word will
accomplish what It was sent for in our time in all those who
are ordained to eternal life!
Are you not doing what the scribes did then, rejecting God’s
Plan of Salvation for
yourselves (Lk. 7: 29-30), not agreeing to be baptised
biblically, even though Paul
himself attested to having been baptised that way (Rom. 6: 3)?
Have you not taken
away the key of knowledge and did you not hinder others from
entering (Lk. 11: 52)?
The Divine Church Order, taught by Paul and presented anew by
Branham, you
disregard with a superior smile and continue in your own ways.
You assert, “Those are Branham’s teachings: the Godhead, the
fall, the Baptism, the
biblical place of the woman and so on.” Really? Are they not
the teachings of the Holy
Scripture? Whom do you think the Lord Himself indicts today
with the sevenfold
“Woe!”, as He did with the spiritual leaders then (Mt. 23:
13-33)? God claims His
people from all shepherds who feed themselves; and He demands
faith and obedience
from everybody.
In Mt. 24 our Lord does not only speak about the circumstances,
which would be
before the return of Christ, He also mentions the part which
is connected to the total
restoration and now finds its fulfilment, “Who, then, is a
faithful and wise servant,
whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them
food in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall
find so doing. Verily I
say unto you that he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
(vv. 45-47). Now the
entire proclamation, the full Word, all the spiritual goods
must be presented. Due to
the direct commission, which I received by the mighty,
commanding, all-penetrating
voice of the Lord on 2nd April, 1962, to preach the Word, I do
carry, as Paul did, a
great responsibility toward God. I have to proclaim the last
message before the return
of Christ with truthfulness in all the world. God has taken
His servant and prophet to
be with Him, but the Word revealed to him remains with us as
the spiritual food, as
the fresh manna for His people in the great famine that God
would send (Amos 8: 11).
The Word remains for ever, and whoever is born of God will
hear God’s Word. It also
applies now, what the prophet Haggai wrote, “... the remnant
of the people obeyed the
voice of the Lord, their God, and the words of Haggai, the
prophet, as the Lord, their
God, had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord.” (Hag.
1: 12).
We are still living in the time of grace and everyone has the
opportunity to change his
ways and take his stand with God. Now, for the last time,
God’s Word is addressed
unto us for our Salvation and teaching and to be brought back
unto the way the
Scripture shows. The same Word will be judgement to all who do
not obey (Jn. 12: 48).
To each and everyone applies the admonition, “Today if ye will
hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.” (Heb. 4: 7). He addresses each individual,
“If thou hadst known,
even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong
unto thy peace!” (Lk. 19:
42).
The enemy, the adversary of God has caused great damage in
Heaven and on Earth. He
has spread his lies everywhere, has twisted God’s truths and
made people believe them.
But as the Word was in the beginning, the same Word remains
the Truth until the
end. Now at the end of the time of grace, all of God’s true
children are being sanctified
in the Truth (Jn. 17: 17). World-wide they recognise that God
sent His Word to heal
us, to take us out from all that is wrong and out of all
confusion. In this final
revival, all true believers who are part of the Bride Church
will come out from all errors
and confusion. The Bride of Jesus Christ by grace will soon
experience the final and
mighty victory over all artful practices of the enemy. To them
the following scriptures
applies, “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and
by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev.
12: 11).
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him; for the
marriage of the Lamb is
come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was
granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is
the righteousness of saints.
An he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they who are called
unto the marriage supper
of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings
of God.” (Rev. 19: 7-9).
I trust that this entire exposition will be accepted as a
well-meant guidance of God,
speaking to everyone through His Word. May the grace of God
and His peace and
blessings be with you all in the precious Name of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
“And he saith unto me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of
this book; for the time is
at hand ... And, behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with
me, to give every man
according as his work shall be ... He who testifieth these
things said, Surely, I come
quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with
you all. Amen.” (Rev. 22: 10, 12; 20-21). |
