Dear ladies and Gentlemen,
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Saint Paul says “Be not thou
therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:
but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God” 2 Timothy 1:8.
Brother Branham received from God a message that can be
summarized in one sentence: People of God must return to authentic biblical
teachings and leave all interpretations and creeds of different churches and
organizations. Because, the return of Jesus is very near. And God Himself was
with this humble man to confirm His message.
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A man sent by men (organizations) will teach to please those
organizations. But, a man sent by God will always stand for the Truth about the
Bible to please God. This apply to brother Branham too: His teachings exhort us
that we should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the
saints.
And the Lord being clear about this
says : "He that receiveth you
receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. He that
receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward;
and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall
receive a righteous man's reward." Matthew 10:40-41
Ewald Frank
Many precious brothers are continuing to preach the
true Message of God to
our generation. But, we give a special attention to brother Ewald Frank’s
Ministry because of the Call that the Lord addressed him audibly on April
02,1962, while brother Branham was still among us. This audible commission
was repeated on December 3rd, 1962 by brother Branham, thanks to discernment
gift, to Ewald - Frank, in the presence of two witnesses : Brother Banks
Woods, and brother Sothman. The two witnesses are still alive and many
children of God have gone to Jeffersonville, USA, to verify these
testimonies to these survivors.
On that morning, the Lord said this to brother Frank: “ …store in food,
because the time of famine will come on earth… you will stand in middle of
people and distribute food…” And by gift of discernment brother Branham
repeated this commission to brother Frank and he gave him the understanding
that “ …the food you are to store is this revealed word… wait for the
distribution until you receive the last sermon…”
So according to Numbers 12:6-8; there can be many true preachers. But, when
God speaks and commissions clearly a servant; as people of God we are to pay
attention. It’s written: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth
him that sent me.” John 13:20.
Other testimonies
HERE ARE SOME QUOTATIONS, AND TESTIMONIES:
1: < < the story of William Marrion Branham is so much out of this world and
beyond the ordinary one, that if one were not in the presence of the
infallible evidence, documenting and attesting its authenticity, one could
justify whoever considers it exaggerated and incredible. But the facts are
so well-known, and of such a nature being able to be so easily verifiable by
any sincere inspector, that they remain a testimony of the firm divine
intention to revel Hisself to human being, as He already did in the times of
the apostles. The story of the life of this prophet -- because he is
prophet, even this term is not very common -- testifies reality indeed that
the biblical days are again here. > > Extracted from the introduction of the
book "William Branham a man sent of God", written by rev. Gordon Lindsay.
2: < < In biblical times, there were men of God who were prophets and seers,
but throughout the holy scriptures, none does not seem to have had a greater
ministry than that of William Branham, a prophet and a seer, whose
photograph appears on the cover of this publication: God used William
Marrion Branham to resuscitate the dead in the name of Jesus . > >
Declaration of Thomas R. Nickel, extract of the newspaper "Full Gospel Men'
S Voice" of February 1961.
3: < < the majority of those who participated in the revival of the divine
healing, of the years 1947..., regards William Branham as being its
initiator... William Branham became a prophet for his generation... Evening
after evening, in front of thousands of believers amazed, he discerned the
diseases of the sick and pronounced them cured. The power of the meetings of
William Branham... remains legendary in the charismatic movement history. >
>. Extracted from the book "All Things are possible" of David Edwin Harred
Jr .
4: < < God called this humble man... anointed his ministry with such a
degree that in less few years, his name was known until in the jungle.
Anywhere you go in this world, you will note that the name of this messenger
preceded you. > > Extracted the book "Wind over the 20th Century" of Morris
Cerullo.
T. L. Osborn
As the writer of this booklet, brother Frank who
knows many witnesses who have experienced this unique ministry since its
early phase right from its beginning. Not only once, but through the years
they were witnesses of what God did in our generation. Among these are Rev.
Gordon Lindsay, Demas Shakarian, David DuPlessis and many others of the
North-American evangelists. To a number of them he served as an interpreter.
Most certainly many who are still alive could be called upon. he decided to
choose the world-renowned evangelist Rev. T. L. Osborn to give witness. What
he said on January 26th, 1966, at the memorial service held after the going
home of William Branham, follows.
“This was the closing generation. Something had to happen. It couldn’t go as
past
generations had gone. This one is IT! Therefore, in God’s divine mercy,
somehow
stepping beyond the bounds of ordinary measure, He had foreordained at this
hour to send again this prophet.
Some are going to think I am sacrilegious or off doctrinally (and it doesn’t
really
matter), but God came again in human flesh and said, “Apparently I must show
them again. I must remind them again. They must see one more time. Once
again they must know what God is like.” And He stepped down and sent a
little man, a prophet, but more than a prophet this time, A Jesus-man this
time!
Elijah was not that. This is more than that which we have beheld! Moses was
not
that, for because of the different dispensation in which he lived, it
couldn’t be what
we have seen. More than that! A Jesus-man, a man full of God, but sent as a
special sign to a generation — this generation. A supernatural sign, an
extra-ordinary measure.
Why? It was done before, why do it again? To arouse this last generation!
Once more to be the forerunner; once more, to be sure the record is clear ,
to be sure there is no excuse, and to be sure that God has demonstrated
afresh; to be sure there can be no mistake, and to be sure that we are
reminded afresh of what God is like, how Jesus was, and of what God does in
the flesh. To be sure that this generation, charged with bringing back the
King, would know without question what it must be like, what the work must
be to do, and what the minister must be. So we would know what our mission
is to perform, what our witness is, how we are to perform and execute it,
what we are to do, and how we are to act. Once more to be without excuse,
beyond measure. To be the forerunner of His second coming.
The first night I ever heard and saw Brother Branham minister, I didn’t hear
a voice, I didn’t know that it had been said of him, and I didn’t know that
the voice from heaven had spoken these words. I knew nothing of that. I had
not been with any of the ministers that believed in him, for most of those
that I was with did not believe in him. But like a voice, and yet not like a
voice, I heard it. I knew it. It came to me! “As John the Baptist was sent
as a forerunner of His first coming, William Branham is sent as a forerunner
of His second coming.” I knew that.
I was an inexperienced young preacher. I was not a theologian. I did not
know the
Scripture. Why I knew this, I do not know; but I knew it. I said, “Thank
God, he
crossed my path. Thank God, I learned. Thank God, I caught on.” It did not
take ten nights, only one night.
This generation seeks a sign, another sign, another one, and still another
one! One is enough! One is ample! God willing, to be sure, that we don’t
fail in the knowledge of the immutability of His covenant, did it again in
the twentieth century, the generation destined to bring Him
back. This generation must know. This generation must be without excuse, for
unto this generation is committed the task to do this. So, He sent forth a
particular human vessel, surrounded by supernatural signs to attract
attention and to make this wayward generation look up, ponder, search, and
think.
Thus, the halo of light that appeared at his birth, the star, the angel, the
discernment, the gifts — all of these were given for that purpose. For what?
TO SHOW US GOD AGAIN! To repeat what He showed us in Jesus Christ, when He
came in the form of flesh; and to remind us one final time. Like Jesus,
Brother Branham redemonstrated the very thing which made men believe that
the true Messiah had come.
He was a seer; he saw. He lived in both worlds, the seen and the unseen at
the same time, and transcended both of them practically all the time. Jesus
said, “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. The Son can do nothing of
Himself but what He seeth the Father do.”
Here comes Brother Branham along in the twentieth century and does exactly
the same way. GOD IN THE FLESH, again crossing our paths; and many did not
know. THEY WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN HIM IF THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE WHEN GOD
CROSSED THEIR PATH IN THE BODY THEY CALLED JESUS CHRIST! People have not
changed. Those who questioned then, would question now. Those who didn’t
believe then, would not believe now. “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but
what He seeth the Father doing. For what things soever He doeth, these also
doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all
things.”
He saw the miracles before they happened. Jesus saw the crippled man who 38
times had been to the pool but never could get into the water. Jesus saw all
this before He went in, stood there, and told him to stand up.
He saw Lazarus raised before it came to pass. He had already settled it with
the
Father. It had already been rehearsed.
He saw Nathanael before Philip ever called him, when he was over under the
fig tree, before they were even converted.
He foretold exactly how the disciples would go down the streets and meet a
man
carrying a pitcher of water. He said that they should follow him and would
find an ass tied there, and He also told them to bring him. He saw all this
before it happened.
This was William Branham’s life. Precisely as we read it in the Scriptures .
Then men hear Brother Branham say this, and they say, “It is wrong today;”
but it isn’t. They don’t believe today; they would not have believed then.
But God has come again, crossed our paths again, and showed us again what
the God-man is like, what God is like, what He is like in the flesh, and
what the new creation is like.
See what this is? This is the new creation at work. He was a discerner, as
Jesus
discerned the woman at the well and her life. And how many times have you
sat and
marveled? If we believe when we read the Scriptures of the few things that
we heard that Jesus did, how can we be without excuse when we sat night
after night and saw these things repeated, not once, but dozens of times in
the same perfect manner in which Jesus did them? Exactly! How it has been
that one could see this and not believe, is beyond me.
Brother Branham knew diseases. He knew them everywhere before anyone told
him. The same God knows all things. It is God in man, demonstrating His
knowledge — what He is, how that He transcends all natural barriers, and
nothing is impossible with Him.
He knew when virtue had gone out of him. How many have sat and watched when
Brother Branham whirled around and said, “There she is”, “There he is”? Only
once in the Scriptures did the little woman see this. Of course we do have
the fact that later everybody heard about it, and they all got it; but only
one case is set forth in detail. But my eyes have beheld dozens of cases,
and some of you have seen hundreds of cases! How can I not believe?
This does not bring doctrinal barriers to me. This simply tells me that what
happened then is the same today. My God is unchanged.
By these signs it is witnessed in the Scriptures that the Gentiles were made
obedient by word and deed through mighty signs and wonders by the power of
the Spirit of God. Have we not looked on and seen the multitudes come to
Christ as they beheld the wonders and repented of their sins, cried out for
Salvation, and received eternal life, not only here, but abroad to the count
of as many as 30,000 in a single day, standing to receive the life of Jesus
Christ, because God crossed their path in human flesh and unveiled Himself?
Is this a mystery? This is not a mystery, this is the wonder of God! Is this
a matter to dicker over doctrinally? This is a matter to give glory to our
God, Who has come in the flesh again in our generation. He has come in the
flesh in all of us, but in a particular way in this man who was His prophet
for this generation, for He surrounded him with these supernatural signs
which were to attract the attention of the world once again by a sign.” Here
we end with the testimony of Rev. T. L. Osborn, who is respected world-wide
as the most influential evangelist of the “first revival wave”.> >
From the book: GREAT TRAGEDY book, pg 23. Written by Rev.
E.Frank
NB: We cannot exhaust testimonies of this ministry; And we are grateful to
the Lord for the contribution of those who knew brother Branham and obtained
these testimonies. Books and audio recordings of this great prophet of God
are distributed worldwide thanks to the effort of those who knew him as
their father, thanks to those who knew him as friend, thanks to those who
knew him and acquainted to take photo etc.
May God bless them all!
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