God’s message to the church is to return to the faith of the apostolic fathers. The doctrines of the First Century church have been deviated from and replaced by the doctrines of man. Because of man putting his own interpretation to the Word of God and due to errors being introduced into the Bible through the translations into English, the truth of God’s Word has been obscured. In order for the church to attain to the level of faith in God’s Word that He expects, the church must be taught and adopt the doctrines that were delivered to the Lord’s Apostles. Faith in false doctrines that have been taught down through the years have blinded the eyes of believers from being able to see and accept the truth, and it does not produce the results expected by God. God has sent a Messenger to the church in these last days to reveal the truth of His Word, and the messages published by this Messenger reflect the true meaning of that Word.
The following scriptures and prophetic utterances form the basis for these revealed messages.
God has spoken to us in many ways, telling us that there will be a Messenger that comes to the church in the Endtime. He spoke through the prophet Malachi when He said:
Mal 3:1 “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, who you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, who you delight in: behold, he shall come, said the LORD of hosts.”
Mal 4:5 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD”:
Mal 4:6 “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.”
In Malachi 3:1, God spoke of the coming of John the Baptist to prepare the way before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the first time. Also, the first part of Malachi 4:6 “turning the heart of the fathers to the children” was to take place with the ministry of John. This is attested to by the words of the angel in Luke 1:17 and by the words of Jesus in Matthew 11:14. Note also that God, speaking through Malachi, said that He would send the prophet Elijah, the same as the angel said in Luke 1:17.
But John the Baptist did not fulfill the task set out in the Scripture of Malachi 4:6 about: “turning the heart of the children to their fathers.” This was to be fulfilled by another coming of the spirit of Elijah at a future time.
After this, Jesus also spoke of a future coming of the spirit of Elijah to restore all things.
Mat “And Jesus answered and said to them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.”
Jesus knew that after He ascended to the Father, the day would come when the church would need to be restored to the truth of God’s Word, just as He gave it to His Apostles. This was revealed to the Apostle Paul, and he made mention of it in his letter to the Thessalonians saying:
2 Th 2:3 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition”;
The Greek word “apostasia,” translated into “falling away,” more specifically means to defect from or fall away from the truth. So the plan of God was to send a man, in the spirit of Elijah, to the church in the last days to restore it back to the truth of God’s Word.
The Apostle John was given a message that he wrote in the book of Revelations that also pertains to the restoration of the faith by restoring the knowledge of the truth to the church in the last days of the church.
Rev 10:7 “But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared to his servants the prophets.”
This seventh angel is actually an earthly messenger sent by God in the spirit of Elijah to the church in the last days.
An endtime prophet by the name of William Branham sent by God to the church in the last days and vindicated by many signs and wonders, also spoke of the coming of this last messenger to the church.
Brother Branham said: “The church needs to get back to the original faith.” He said: “the message that he was delivering to the church, through his ministry, would fore run the ministry of the endtime Elijah.’ He said that the message of the hour was to repent and turn again to the original faith. He said: “There was coming someone with the true spirit of Elijah and that he was laying a foundation for him through the ministry he was taking to the people. Brother Branham said: The last message being brought by this last messenger is supposed to straighten everything up that has been so misconstrued down through the ages concerning church doctrines.”
The following doctrines have been misinterpreted down through the ages and have been set straight by these messages that have been revealed by God.
1. Our Bible has been poorly translated and contains errors.
2. Many have been called to preach, but have not been sent by the Lord.
3. Women are not forbidden to preach the gospel.
4. Water baptism should be in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
5. Tithes are not for the New Testament church.
6. Women are not forbidden to cut their hair or wear slacks or trousers.
7. Divorce is only allowed because of fornication, sex before marriage.
8. Foot washing is not a commandment of the Lord.
9. No person is predestinated for eternal life.
10. There is only one way to be born again into the body of Christ.
11. Only those who have been baptized according to Acts 2:38 receive the Holy Spirit.
12. Jesus is not God the Father, but the Son of God.
13. All believers do not receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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