And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." (Ephesians 4:11-15).

Question#144:: "Please explain each office gift of Ephesians 4: 11-15, the-five fold ministry and their function?"

Answer:Ephesians 4: 9-13, "(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers…" Five different office gifts, alright, "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ…" In other words, the five fold ministry is set here for the perfection of the saints. For the unity, not the division. The unity of the brethren, unity of the church, unity of the faith, and until we come to the full measure of faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness and brotherly kindness. "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive."

This five-fold ministry is set here for the perfection of the saints, to protect us from the enemy and his perversions that we may become matured Christians. Yes, that we could discern right and wrong, all craftiness of men and all deceptions of men. Let me tell you this with all humility, that we have come to that place to a great extent. We challenge any false prophet, any heretic to come in here with the sleight of men and their cunning craftiness. Let them try to deceive us. Something is about ready to happen. I have confidence in what I preach to you and I believe that the Word that we preach to you is able to help you to discern all these heretics, and all these false prophets.

Now you will recall that in my last message that somebody asked about the five-fold ministry and I said that I am not speaking about the functioning of these ministries, but I am speaking in general of what is the call, what are the qualifications and about the ordination of the ministry in general. And I left this hanging there because this question is to be answered to explain each office gift. I can only do so by the scriptures, not according to the theory and the great big claims that they have in organization and are very popular around the message and in ministers' meetings. They boast themselves and they take great big photographs and hang it up in different churches and say that it's the five fold gathering together. Let us examine that by the scripture.

Now, the easiest way for me to explain the scripture under these conditions is, if I am going to teach about what is an apostle, a Prophet, an Evangelist, teacher or pastor; is to find an example of it in the Bible and let the Bible speak. So then it is not according to my knowledge, theory and opinion. Now let us find an apostle, and find out how an apostle is described and identified in the Bible, and we have many examples, the night will finish if we try to bring them all out.

First of all, Jesus was one of the first apostles, and the high priest of our profession. "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus." (Hebrews 3:1). Now I notice that Paul just went on and said, "Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ. " Peter writing said, "Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ". It was a common thing to be recognized in that day with the office that a man held. He was not ashamed to say what his office was, because he was positive about his office.

Now, the word apostle means that he is a sent one. A sent preacher is an apostle; and 'how can they preach except they be sent.' So now that's a sent apostle. Now, although the Lord sent twelve of them, he did not call them apostles at that time, but they were functioning in that capacity. Although he sent seventy, he did not call them apostles, but they were functioning in that capacity. The gift was in these men. So now, beyond a shadow of a doubt an apostle is a sent one. Now if he is a sent one he is sent somewhere. It is just not a name. He is a sent one and he is sent somewhere. We could find that in the Bible.

Let us take the greatest apostle of the entire age. He said that he was the wise master builder; his name was Brother Paul, and he was the apostle to the gentiles. "For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles." (Galatians 2:8). So beyond a shadow of a doubt we have an example of an apostle in the Bible.

The name is not just a flowery something; an apostle means a sent one. Acts 13:2-3: "As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away".

After that, how many knows that Paul made three missionary journeys? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] Alright, then when an apostle is sent he is sent into the field to carry the gospel. Then this apostle who is sent, in other words, is a missionary. So now, missionary is not one office and apostle another office. There are only five office gifts in the Bible. So now, this apostle is actually a missionary. Missionaries are not all of these dry bone kinds of intellectual giants, which they hatch up in the Bible schools. Carry a whole suitcase of books and say, they are missionaries into China, into India, and into Africa, and go like that. They are no missionaries. A missionary is an apostle.

This apostle, Brother Paul, made three missionary journeys. The reason that they are called missionaries is that the apostle went out on a mission, so the term was used now as missionary. The apostle that was called of God, sent of God, went on a mission, and going on a mission they start calling him a missionary. I think that happened in the days of the Methodist people, but they were never called missionary before, in apostolic times.

Quote: E-18 "Missionary is a very fine word, but I got a better word for it. You're an apostle. See? That's right. Now, what does the word "apostle" mean? "One that's sent." What does the word "missionary" mean? "One that's sent." It's the same thing… So, as long as you are a missionary or an apostle, you're one sent of God to a mission." (Joseph Meeting His Brethren 56-1230).

Alright, now an apostle here was a man fully equipped. He is a compact unit of God, and this might be a little too much for the outside friends, but an apostle is a compact unit of God with all five gifts in him. He's an Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Evangelist, and Pastor, a compact unit that can face any situation.

Quote: 247-3 "The apostle Paul who was both apostle and prophet." (Church Ages).

Quote: 68 "Judas… He sold his Lord, after he had the opportunity to even be an apostle, the highest calling in the Bible, higher than a prophet." (Remembering The Lord 62-1209).

Quote: 19 "God never intended the church to be run by men. God runs His church, and He runs it through gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit is in the church to correct the spirit. He's got five ministerial offices in His church. First of them is apostles, or, missionaries. Missionary is the highest calling there is, apostle." (Smyrnaean Church Age 60-1206)

Quote: E-71 "The Bible said, "First are apostles." Is that right? The apostles, we call them today, missionary. That's the first. The highest calling is a missionary. What does "apostle" mean? "One sent." (Door Inside Door 58-0209).

Quote: 189 "First apostles; that's missionaries… The highest order is a missionary who travels the seas for the Lord Jesus." (Baptism Of The Holy Spirit 58-0928m).

Quote: E-19 "Every one of the apostles was declared insane by the public, 'cause their ministry was so supernatural till the people thought they were out of their minds." (What Does Thou Here 59-0301e).

When the time comes to teach he teaches, when the time comes to pastor he pastors, when the time comes to prophesy he prophesies, and when the time comes to go out on another mission, he goes. He's a compact unit.

So now this apostle, besides having these gifts, he is a man with other gifts of God out of the nine divers gifts. He is given the gift of miracle, the gift of signs, the gift of wonders, and this could be traced in Brother Peter's ministry. Even his shadow healed the people.

Now he's majoring on the Word, but he is gifted with other gifts, hear how an apostle speaks:

"And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).

So now when God sends an apostle, He sends him as a fully compact unit with the five office gifts, and with many gifts of the Spirit.

To understand what is an apostle just read the entire book of Acts which describes an apostle, and from the other books of the Bible, Romans, Ephesians, Corinthians, and right down to the end we see the functioning of apostles. So now an apostle is a gifted man who is actually set over the church of God, not an assembly but he is set over many churches. That's an apostle.

Now when problems come up in these churches like the Corinthian church, and in Thessalonica, problems arose here and there, they sent these questions to Brother Paul because they knew that he had a superior gift in handling the Word of God, and then the Pastors and the teachers and all those other gifts recognize the apostolic gift and directed their questions to Brother Paul. That is how we got the book of Corinthians, Thessalonians and other books, because there were questions written to Brother Paul, and he wrote back. Some of it was exposition of damnable heresies, so he wrote and he sent it out to them and they gained confidence in that gift and confidence in the answers that man gave, and then at length he would tell them that I will be visiting you, I am coming down there. He said, "What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?" (1 Corinthians 4:21). And he said, "Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you." (1 Corinthians 4:18). So they used to be fighting for the opportunity to hear this apostle in person.

My God, that is how the Lord sets up the church. You had a leader, a man to direct the people, to answer their questions and to settle the harder problems. That's an apostle, and the apostle was gifted with signs, wonders and miracles.

Alright, so now if you want to find out what is an apostle, study the ministry of Brother Peter, study the ministry of Brother Paul and study the life and ministry of the different ones in the scripture, who left epistles behind. The entire book of Acts deals with the apostolic ministry.

My Brother, the world forgot what an apostle looked like and God sent one today. Brother Branham was the only true apostle in the end time here. Yes, he was an apostle, together with a prophet, he was a teacher, he was an evangelist, and he was a pastor. God gave the world an example of what an apostle really is. Brother Branham pastored for about seventeen years, afterward the Lord called him to do the work of an evangelist. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] And Brother Branham became Elijah the prophet in the true sense when he opened the seals, and Brother Branham was one of the greatest bible teachers. So he was a pastor, a prophet, a teacher, Evangelist; everything in one, and Brother Branham was endued with nine divers gifts, and many more. That is a true apostle. Anybody who claims to be an apostle, around the world, compare yourself with the Bible, compare yourself with Brother Branham, and if you don't compare, then you are a false apostle. And Brother Paul spoke of the sign of the apostle, yes; there is a sign of an apostle and a seal of apostleship. "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds."(II Corinthians 12:12). "If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord." (1 Corinthians 9:2). In other words what I am producing; the fruits that I produce, the quality of sheep that I produce, the kind of preachers that I produce, the kind of men that I produce, are the seal of my apostleship. O glory to God.

The greatest apostle of all times was William Branham. If Paul was a wise master builder, Brother Branham was even more so. He laid the foundation. That is an apostle. You heard the life story of Brother Branham recently. [Congregation says, "Amen!"] Well, what you were hearing is how an apostle acts, how God uses an apostle and the qualities of a true apostle.

An apostle is a wonderful, wonderful gift. The Lord placed all five office gifts in a man, compact it inside of him and then turn around and give him the gifts of the spirit. Yes! Some are fortunate to have all nine, some are fortunate to just have a few, and there are different capacities amongst them, but he is a compact unit.

When God sends him, he is like a time bomb. He is a weapon in the hands of God. When he reaches down there, wherever the Lord sends him, he is equipped for anything. Paul reached in a certain place, (Acts 8:9-11) and the Lord spoke to him and said, "Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them."

Did you learn something there? Sometimes God may not have nobody in Freeport, but one or two, and his elect might be gathered in Port-of-Spain, where the Lord has many elect living there, and only God knows that. So when Paul reached Corinth, the Lord spoke to him and told him He has much people there, and do you know what Paul done? Brothers and Sisters, he stopped travelling, and he turned into a teacher. And the Bible said, "And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them", and he won many people. Yes, and after that he started travelling again as a missionary and apostle. Yes, that was a teacher. He stayed there and pastored the church. Anywhere he goes, he just changed his office to suit. When it comes to pastoring, he could pastor, teaching, he could teach; you come to evangelism he's ready to go; you come to a prophet he is ready to prophesy. An apostle, a sent one. He's ready to go overseas.

Follow the life and teaching of Brother Paul and you are going to see that he had three missionary journeys. At certain times he was a pastor, he was a teacher at certain times, he was an evangelist and he was a prophet (the word of the Lord comes to the prophet). Yes, and he said, "But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." (Galatians 1:11-12), therefore he was a prophet. Now that's a compact unit of God.

I challenge the whole world to show me one man like that in China, in India or in Africa. Show me an apostle, with all the boast that they make that they are apostles, and they make all these big claims. Bring it to the scripture. Pick up the challenge. You cannot! Brother Branham was an apostle, Paul was an apostle, James was an apostle, Bartholomew was an apostle, and there were many apostles in the New Testament. It doesn't change. That's a mouthful when a man claims to be an apostle.

Let us deal with the Prophets. Alright! I'll have you to know that there is a major prophet and a minor prophet. Brother Branham was a major prophet, John the Baptist was also a major prophet! Jesus was the most major prophet. He was not just a prophet but he was God the prophet. A prophet of God is different from God the Prophet. God the prophet is when God becomes a prophet and a prophet of God is when God sends a prophet. So you have God the prophet. The Son of Man was God the prophet. Alright!

If you could find another fellow who was a prophet of the five-fold ministry in the Bible, then we could know the functions of a prophet in the five fold ministry. Very simple. Alright! Let us see how he functions. Hear what the Bible said "And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them." (Acts 15:32).

The Bible is telling me here that Judas and Silas were also Prophets; that is beside their missionary work that they were doing. We had a prophet called Agabus. Let me see how he functions. "And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar". (Acts 11:28). Agabus was a prophet and this is how the prophet in the church functions; he also preaches. Silas and Judas exhorted the brethren; so Agabus was a little different he stood up in the church and said, "Thus saith the Lord, there is going to be drought through the whole world, and he sat down. And they secured some food and sent it to the brethren in Jerusalem. That's a prophet. Not a prophet who stands up and says, "Yea saith the Lord, the Lord is coming soon". No! This man prophesied something and the Bible said that his prophecy came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. They traced out the prophecy and the prophecy came to pass.

Quote: E-68 "Look at Joseph… he was a prophet. He could prophesy, foretell things to come, interpret dreams, spiritual." (We Would See Jesus 62-0727).

Quote: E-5 " A prophet is a seer who sees the people's hearts and foretells the things that's coming to pass." (Greater Than Solomon Is Here 62-0725).

Quote: E-13 "A prophet, singular, p-r-o-p-h-e-t is borned a prophet, comes up a prophet. Everything he says in the Name of the Lord is absolutely truth, if he's prophesying. Now, you say, "That was for the Old Testament." Oh, no. They had prophets in the New Testament. Agabus and many of them were prophets in the New Testament." ( I.Perceive.You.Are.A.Prophet 53-0614e).

Quote: E-30 "Now, I'll admit there's gift of prophecy that goes in a church, but that's not a prophet. A prophet's borned. See? Now, he must be from childhood up and every word right. See?" (BeOf Good Cheer 54-0721).

Quote: 216 God said, "If there be one among you who's spiritual or a prophet, and what he says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm with him… It must not just be once; it must continually all the time." (Perseverant 64-0305).

Quote: E-84 "All the prophets... That's where He said to know them. If they spoke, "and what they said come to pass, then believe them, for I'm with them." ( New Ministry 59-1115).

Quote: E-12 " Isaiah was Jehovah's prophet. Therefore, being anointed with the Holy Spirit of God upon him, he could not prophesy wrong, because he was borned a prophet and we know that his words are true."(Mary's.Belief 61-0121).

Quote: 123 "Moses said, "I am the prophet of the Lord. Now, watch and see that what I prophesy. If it comes to pass, then you'll know I'm sent of the Lord... Now, if I prophesy of this and it happens, and that and it happens, and this and it happens, every time just the same, now you know I'm sent of the Lord to tell you." ( Proving.His.Word 64-0816).

"…And one of his servants said…Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. (II Kings 6:12).

"Is there not a prophet...that we may enquire of the LORD by him?"(I Kings 3:11).

"And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another…is Saul also among the prophets? (I Samuel10:11).

"For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet." (John 4:18-19).

"Say…unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD…And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them." (Ezekiel 33:27-33).

It wasn't any nonsense about, "Yeah saith the Lord, I discern a spirit here in this congregation". Any Man could say that. Do you know how many bad spirits are sitting here right now? Yes. You don't have to be a Prophet for that. The Bible said that there are wheat and tares. There are two spirits within the framework of the Christian church. You don't need a prophet for that. Or "Yea saith the Lord somebody committed a sin and came to church today". Do you know how many people commit sin and seated here today. That don't qualify you as any prophet. It's a gimmick. The prophet described a true prophecy.

Quote: 880-39 "Now, we all know that the Lord is coming; we're aware of that. And if Brother Neville got up each night and said, "Behold, the Lord is coming. Behold, the Lord is coming," that would be all right. See? But the pastor at the platform, for he's got the Word for that… prophecy, or a prophet speaking; that's something that's not written in the Word. What's written in the Word, he's to bring it; but what's not written in the Word, is what you're to tell him. Like, for instance, "Tell Brother Wheeler, THUS SAITH THE LORD, 'Tomorrow, in his sand pit, not to go to it, because there'll be a truck turn over,'" or something like that, and it's got to be done… And if that comes to pass exactly the way the interpretation said, we raise our hands and give thanks to God for His Spirit among us. If it doesn't come to pass, then don't do it any more till that evil spirit's out of you. God don't lie; He's always Truth. Then, you see, you're old enough now to act like men, not children: "Goo, goo, goo," you got to have some meaning to something." (Church Order63-12-26).

What we want to hear my brother is when this earthquake is going to sink Port of Spain, Capital of Trinidad, and tell us where to run for safety. Tell us when a famine is coming. Tell us when a hurricane is going to hit us here. Tell us who is going to die next so their family could take out an insurance for a couple million dollars, [Congregation roars with laughter.] and if it don't come to pass you are going to pay for it, because you are a false prophet. Not these Pentecostal nonsense: "Yea saith the Lord, the Lord is going to lift up Oral Roberts through the whole world". Do you know how many millions of prophecies there are like that? "The Lord is going to lift up sister so and so and exalt her for His glory". What does it have in that? We want to have something substantial friend, we want to hear about a famine, we want to hear about a hurricane, we want to hear about an earthquake, and it must come to pass.

Hear Agabus in action again: "And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles." (Acts 21:10-11). That is exactly what came to pass. Paul went up to Jerusalem they bound him and sent him straight to Caesar and he died down there as a martyr.

That's prophecy. I want somebody to prophecy and say when somebody is coming to kill the Pastor so he would know where to hide. That's the prophecy we want to hear in the church. Not all these nonsense of "God is going to exalt this one and that one and then they backslide tomorrow". It's not a promotion, but a demotion.

Beloved, tell me the truth ministers in Africa, ministers in India, do you have any such thing going on in Africa, India, the Philippines, in Europe, in United States, or wherever this tape is going to come? Can you put your hand on such a one? I want to meet him; I want to communicate with him. I have some things for him to seek God about. I want to find out how close we are to the Token outpouring. We have the need of a prophet. Now I am not saying that men do not have this gift. No! I am saying that I want to meet a man who has that gift operating in his life in a perfect way, set in order by the Holy Ghost.

Evangelist is the next. Who is he? O my, they go all around and preach here and there and SAY, "I'm Evangelist so and so", and they got to put their wife's names on their call cards. Evangelist swell headed and Mrs. Maria Where did you ever find that in the Bible, you big sissy? Imagine that? This religious world is sick.

Let us compare this evangelist with all the evangelist claims that they have in the world tonight.

"Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. And there was great joy in that city. (Acts 8 -17).

The story continues that even the Obeah man (Sorcerer) came and repented. Yes! Notice something with this evangelist; his powers were limited because he was not an apostle. Then he had to call for the apostle from Jerusalem to come and lay hands upon the people to impart the baptism of the Holy Ghost. The story continues that Phillip the evangelist went out, he found a certain Eunuch. The Lord directed him to a place there where a certain fellow from Africa was reading his Bible. This is evangelistic operation. This is a true evangelist in the Bible. And he walked up to the man and he said, "Understandest what thou readest?" The presence of the Lord just fill that area and that treasurer felt something he never felt in his church. He said, "How can I understand save I have some man to guide me?" God bless that Ethiopian. He said, "Come up in to the queen's chariot." O my God, perhaps it was the first time the evangelist climbed in a beautiful chariot like that. He said, "Open up your scripture. Where are you reading from?" He said, "I am reading this:

"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth… I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?" Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?" (Acts 8:26-39).

He went down to the water, he baptized him and he walked out and Phillip the evangelist disappeared. That is power: cast out devils, convicted Simon the sorcerer; you are talking about an evangelist. Devils crying went out of the people in one accord. Samaria received the Word of God, thousands were healed and tens of thousands received the Gospel. That is evangelist. The Bible said, and there was great joy in Samaria. (Acts 8:8). O my Lord! that is an evangelist.

Phillip was one of the seven chosen as deacons and he had four daughters and all prophesied. (Acts 21:8-9). You talk about a living church with living signs and living wonders. And we had many evangelists like Phillip in that time, that preached the gospel, and each one of them was endued with power, signs and wonders, and they never believed in carrying the gospel without power, because they did not want the faith of men to stand in the wisdom of man, but in the power of God.

We dealt with apostles, with the prophets, and the evangelists. Three out of the five ministries. Here we come to the teacher. What kind of a teacher is this , and how are these teachers set for the work of the Lord? Let us get a little description. First of all, we see Paul as a teacher and he stayed for one year and six months and taught the people. Let us see the kind of reputation that these teachers used to carry. I know of another teacher called Apollos and hear how they used to value these teachers: "And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. (Acts 18:24). Talking about a teacher. That is before the man even became a disciple of Jesus Christ. He had only known about John's Baptism. When Paul met him he was preaching Jesus Christ to them but lacked the token.

270-365 "Then Paul had met some of those people up in Acts 19. They had them a preacher up there which was a converted lawyer by the name of Apollos. And Apollos was a mighty man in the Scriptures, and he was proving by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. See?..." (Hebrews 1957).

27-3 "Apollos was teaching to them and proving by the Bible the mechanics, that Jesus was the Christ, but they didn't have the Dynamics yet." (Rising Of The Sun 65-0418m).

The Physician Luke described in wonderful words Apollos

"And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria…" That was the seat of learning in Egypt in that time. "…an eloquent man…" You talk about a gift to speak the Word of God, that when he spoke the Word vibrations went through his congregation. Yes! He held the attention of his people for hours. Paul preached all night until daybreak. Teachers have a certain anointing. They put the Word of God together they are mighty in the scriptures. They could take the scripture and place it here, take one and place it here; put in here what Brother Paul spoke about, put in what Peter spoke about, and paint a picture for you and hold your attention there for hours. "…mighty in the scriptures…" "This man was instructed in the way of the Lord…" All he wanted was a little instruction in the way of the Lord and he set the house on fire, because he had this gift of teaching inside of him before he even came to the Lord Jesus.

Quote: 6 "Now, preaching usually catches the sinner, brings him under condemnation by the Word. But teaching places a man positionally what he is. And we can never rightly be able to have faith until positionally we know what we are."(Ephesians Parallels Joshua 60-0515e).

Quote: 141 "And you seen a man pick up a certain Scripture, and, brother, that man can take that Scripture and make it live new, make it live just exactly what it promised here in the Bible. And the next man will see him do it, and he'll come around and try to do it and fail. He'll fail. Why? The Scripture is not inspired to him." (Hear Recognize Act On Word 60-0221).

"This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John." (Acts 18:25).

He had not yet come to the revelation of the son of man all he had known was Malachi 3.

"And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.' (Acts 18:26). Although this man was a mighty man in scripture and eloquent, do you see how a gifted man of God behaves. This man was preaching John the Baptist message but knew nothing of the revealing of the son of man, so then Aquila and Priscilla found him and they said, "Brother Apollos, you're a sincere man and all these things, but you're lacking some revelation on the opening of the seals and the son of man". In type And the bible said that they took him apart and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. You could know the message of Malachi 4 but you need a man to expound the way of God to you more perfectly. Serpent seed and water baptism is not all. You need somebody to expound the way of God unto you more perfectly though you be a follower of Malachi 4.

"For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ." (Acts 18:28). Mightily convinced them.

So now that gift of teaching is an ability to bring the scriptures together, bring the Word of God together, hold the attention of the people and convince them of the truth. That is a teacher.

Bro Paul had that teaching ministry; Bro Branham had that teaching ministry. Now my brothers and I want to find a teacher like that around the world. I want to sit down under him. I want to see him take the scriptures and bring it together, then I will understand that he is a teacher. But many a preacher is trying to teach and many pastors are playing prophet and playing that they are Apostles.

Quote: E-64 "And if that's a gift God's give you brethren, stay with it. That's where God wants you. You'll never make a eye, if you're a ear; you remember that. You'll only mess up the body until you get your right place and abide there in your calling. If you're a deacon, stay a deacon; you're pastor, stay a pastor. Don't try to be something that you're not; be just what you are." (Queen Of The South 58-0620).

Alright, the next one is pastor. This is a troublesome fellow. Brother there are scores of question concerning this pastoral ministry. Now the pastor; who is he? He is a man who stays with the sheep and keep them in green pastures. Yes! He is a fellow that is appointed over the sheep to make sure that the sheep of God are fed.

So after the missionary passes by and forms the congregation; they aren't going to see him maybe for six years. Then the Lord raises up a pastor who is also called an elder and puts him over this flock. In the early age it might have been five thousand people, and there might be many pastors who are now learning the ways of the Lord. You have to get deacons. Then you must have the gifts of the Spirit.

So this pastor is going to take care of this flock out here. He is not necessarily a traveling man. He is not necessarily an evangelist. So he starts taking care of the flock and he'll be dealing with their problems, leaning on his staff like Moses. "Yes, and why did you curse the brother, why did you take away the man's wife, why did you steal the thing and why you hit your husband with a stick on his head?" The pastor takes care of all their problems. He's feeding the sheep, the sheep love him, he loves the sheep and he understands the sheep. It is a hard job to deal with all of those people and their personal problems. Yes! Somebody is dying; they want to see the pastor. Somebody is sick; they want to see the pastor. They have a problem; they want to see the pastor. He is the shepherd of the flock.

In early times they were also gifted to help the congregation with the gifts of the Spirit. "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up..." (James 5:14-15). So even these pastors were gifted men in the Spirit in order to help the church of God.

The entire five-fold ministry were gifted of the Spirit to help the congregation. An example of that, while Brother Branham pastored, the Lord endued him with power to help the people and to lead the people. I want somebody to show me where there is a five-fold ministry set in order around the world in relation to the scriptures that I pointed out to you tonight and they cannot show me that. I challenge the world upon this fact. Why is it so empty around the world with all their claims of a five-fold ministry. And cannot bring their-five fold ministry and fit it back in the Bible nor the message of Brother Branham. I challenge the world upon this fact. It is a total impossibility to disprove the things that I have taught on the scriptural five-fold ministry.

"Ministers' meetings are referred to as the assembling of the five fold ministry. I was not fortunate to identify all five offices in any meeting, why?"

Answer:: I can testify the same way tonight, that through thirty -six years of being in the ministry, I have looked for these five-fold offices and I have not found them. I want to state here clearly and firmly, that I do believe that there is a five-fold Ministry that is called, and the things that I am about to say must not convey the wrong message to my listeners that I do not believe in a five-fold ministry. I do believe in a five- fold ministry, but the things that I am trying to put in place, are to answer these questions as they are given to us.

This question is saying that the person looked for the five-fold ministry in Ministers' meetings for many years and could not identify it. I am testifying of the same observation that I myself, looked for the five-fold ministry set in order in all the ministers meetings that I attended from 1968. In the first one, I was very disappointed, because I went in there in full expectation that these "mighty men of God" will be gathered who handled the message and even knew the message before me and in full assurance of faith, walking on pins and needles, with great reverence and respect, to know that I was coming into the presence of the "five-fold ministry" that was supposed to handle the message of the hour.

I looked forward for the nine divers gifts to be in operation, of an Apostle to stand up as a leader, and a prophet to prophesy an evangelist to be in the midst, and by prophecy they call him out, "Separate me brother so and so for the work whereunto I will send him". And when I went there, it was a gathering of pastors, without the apostle, without the prophet, and to say a man was an prophet sounded like blasphemy in that audience. So since that time, I carefully looked for the five-fold ministry.

This question is saying that when ministers are gathered around the message they termed that as the gathering of the five-fold. That's a big name. The person could not justify that claim, of the ministers meetings in identifying a five-fold ministry of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors. I made the same observation and I could not justify this claim of the five-fold ministry gathering, to discuss a problem all for their own edification. What I found was a big argument, and the ministers reached nowhere, they went out more divided, more bitter, with more hate, more malice, more deaf and blind. I understood from that time on, and better today, and I have the answer, that there is something wrong with the claims of a five-fold ministry, gathering in a ministers' meeting

We laid out carefully in our last message, what each office gift was, and their individual operations of pastor, prophet, evangelist, apostle and teacher. And this claim that is being made of the assembling of the five-fold, we come to find out it is a big wild boast. A false claim. Therefore I identify such a claim that the five-fold ministry is gathered in these ministers' meeting as a heresy. To make such a claim is heresy.

We cannot see the pattern of Brother Paul or Peter as apostles, the pattern of Silas, Judas and Agabus the prophets, the evangelist like Phillip, a teacher like Apollos who was mighty in the Scripture and who mightily convinced the Jews that Jesus was Christ, and a pastor gifted of the Holy Spirit, in order to help his congregation. Therefore, I condemn this claim as heresy, antichrist, and as a satanic claim, but with all of that, I do believe that there is a five-fold ministry on earth, but something is wrong with it. And the ministers because they don't know what is wrong with that "five-fold ministry", they make such boastful claims.

To verify what is a five-fold ministry, we will examine a ministers' meeting where the five fold was gathered, as we did last night, each office gift in the Bible. I want to point out in scripture to you a certain place where the five-fold ministry was gathered. They had reason for a ministers' meeting. It was not a formal money meeting, like the organizations project, and like what the followers, of Malachi 4 organized, to come and argue about thunders. There was a certain reason why this meeting was held, and I will quickly read here, from the Acts chapter 15:

"And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question". (Acts 15:1).

I am asking the followers of Malachi 4 today with all the disputes on thunders and other doctrines, who can they go to as recognized leaders whom they know can give the answers to their questions? This here is a different picture all entirely; the people had somewhere to go. Paul did not have to go, he already had the revelation. But these heretics and nicolaitans down there insisted that they go up to Jerusalem because even the heretics recognized apostleship in Jerusalem. Even those who were wrong recognized apostleship and headship in Jerusalem, and they realized that the apostles were placed in the church to lead the entire body, and answer all the hard questions.

So they went up there, Peter and James got up and spoke. It was an assembly of apostles, more apostles than you needed. It was an assembly of prophets. Silas and Judas were right in the midst to be sent out. You say, "Where are the pastors and all these fellows?" Paul went up to the apostles and the elders. Elders cover the other offices of deacons and pastors and what more. They were assembled together, and after a discussion James spoke, and then they concluded. There was not any bickering, fighting and fussing of thunders out there. No! This is what was concluded.

"Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren…" Are there Chief men among the Brethren? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] but everybody is "a chief" today. "…And they wrote [letters] by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren [send] greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia". (Acts 15:22-23).

Can we find a letter like that coming down today to New York, to Jeffersonville who will straighten up the "seven thunders", written from the apostles and the elders to settle a dispute on a certain doctrine concerning the message? No, something is wrong somewhere and we know what it is."Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls..." Heretics, false prophets, "…saying Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment…" Do you see who was giving the commandment? The church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. "…It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul…" (Acts 15:24, 25). They had full unity, this five-fold ministry had full unity, and they were assembled together in one accord. They had one faith, one Lord, one doctrine, one Spirit, and they could have decided what was right and what was wrong. That is a five-fold ministry. Glory to God! Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors all assembled to settle out the dispute that was going on in the message. That is the only thing that will settle out the people today in the message around the world and that is God must loose some more New Testament prophets, to get the bride into one unity, one faith, and serving one Lord, before she goes in the rapture. And that is not a far fetch statement; it's going to come to pass pretty soon. That five-fold ministry is in the making right now and under training around the world.

"Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth…" (Acts 15:26,27). Glory to God! They wrote a letter and entrusted the letter into Paul's hand. They sent two men who had the same faith, the same love, and the same doctrine. These men, when they preached they would never contradict that letter, because they have one faith. "They will tell you the same thing by mouth." Remember when they reached down there, the Bible said, "And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them."(Acts 15:32). These men were saying the same things.

"For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." (Acts 15:28-29). The Letter came to an end, authority spoke and went down to Antioch, the Christian center at that time, where the people were first called Christians. My God, what an assembly. Here two apostles that came up to Jerusalem to meet the other apostles, because of a dispute, they carried down two prophets with them, and a letter signed by the apostles. You are talking about authority to straighten up heretics, and heresies in the message, and the whole church in Antioch. That is what the church needs today, yes sir, it is coming.

Tell me the truth my brethren, and those of you who will listen to this message, when the ministers are gathered over there in Zambia and Nigeria and in the States, and you pay all that money to attend one of those meetings, is that the pattern of those ministers' meetings? I am way down here in the West and I am telling you, 'no'. Because the same spirit of confusion is here in the West, that is in India and Africa and everywhere that this message is preached, because of the lack of these apostles in the church. But they are coming down the road. "Do you hear them coming brother? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] I can hear them coming. The Church of God is going to be set in order before the rapture takes place. Unless this takes place there will be no rapture. The bride is not going out of here as a disunited people. So the claims of the five-fold assembling is heresy.

Generally in all the ministers meetings around the world and in all the assemblies, the best that we have heard and seen is a one fold; the gathering of pastors, as a one fold. We are not talking about a one fold, we are talking about a five-fold. That is far different from the apostolic church. You might find a pastor, you might find somebody that may call himself a teacher, self-appointed teacher, then you come up to a two fold. Now the Bible is not speaking about a two fold it is speaking of a five-fold. And then sometimes you find a fellow who is running about, everywhere with a microphone and running from church to church and let them pick up an offering for him, and calls himself an evangelist. "Did God call you brother, and told you that you are an evangelist, or did you just guess that you are an evangelist and picked up a Bible and started going around the world"? An angel spoke to the evangelist called Phillip and told him where to go. O yes! Because that angel was appointed over his ministry, and that angel was directing Phillip the evangelist. (Acts 8:26). So we come up to a three fold, because of this claim, and this evangelist is nowhere in comparison with Phillip. That's a name for him, and it's a name for the pastor and for the teacher. We are not talking about titles my friend. We are not talking about names here; we are talking about Bible pattern.

You may have somebody who is a self proclaimed apostle, self proclaimed prophet. Did God appear to him and tell him that he is an apostle? I will show you my brother that he is guessing. Then it came up to a four fold. The Bible is not speaking about a four fold, because that cannot compare to the Bible. This is not Bible yet, this is practical common sense. If you say that you are five-fold and I walk in there or a minister walk in there, he must be able to identify the five-fold. I will like to see your apostle, hear his testimony, to see if it fits Brother Paul, Brother Peter, Brother James and different ones. And where is you prophet? I have a problem. Where is Agabus? Brother Agabus I want you to pray for me because I lost my donkey. Oh glory to God. "Alright, abide here and I will tell you more about the donkey. The donkey is found and I am seeing way over there your father is worrying, but stay here and I am going to anoint you king". That's the operation of a prophet. I am typing Samuel. (Samuel 10:2-6). Oh yes!

And then when you enter that congregation and ask, "Where is your teacher? I have a lot of hard questions. I want to ask him about a lot of things". When you question him, he cannot answer. He says, "I have to go and ask a certain man over there." You ask him what Brother Branham said, he doesn't even know the message, but he calls himself a teacher. But Apollos was mighty in the scriptures, only known the preaching of John the Baptist. And then, "Where is your evangelist? I have a church down there; the thing is dead, their isn't any power, a lot of sick people down in Samaria and I want to get your evangelist from this meeting". Oh yes, here is he, but he is going to walk with a spoken word book and a tape recorder in his hand and enough medication. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen!"], he is more sick than the people.

Phillip went down there and cast out devils left and right, and he even caused the Sorcerer to repent. And there were certain things that he could not do. He could not impart the baptism of the Holy Spirit, so he recognized authority. He knew his limit as an evangelist. He said, "Lord, here is where my ministry stops, right on this junction. I recognize headship in Jerusalem. The apostles over there can lay their hands upon these men and give them the baptism of the Holy Spirit". Oh glory to God!

Today we would like to pick up our telephone and call Brother Peter, and say, "Brother Peter; thousands of people received the gospel down here in Samaria, would you please come down and lay hands upon them and impart the baptism of the Holy Spirit?" Peter would say "I will be there right away brother. Continue to preach and make converts to the gospel of Jesus Christ and don't be afraid; I will lay hands upon them and impart the Holy Ghost to them. And the things you cannot discern among the believers, the Lord has given me the discernment. I am coming down to test out the Sorcerer, to see if he is a hireling or if he is a good shepherd. Yes sir!

That is a living gospel friends, I want to see a living church like that. How many want to see a living church like that? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] I want to see living apostles, living prophets, living evangelists, living teachers, living pastors, and we are going to see it, by another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. I am not talking about 'apostles' like Richard Gan, who believes in a dead gospel; 'Apostle Jackson' with all his heresies; 'Apostle Coleman', 'Apostle Vin Dayal'. They are all dead. 'Apostle Santiago", who claims to be 'God himself manifested in human flesh'. He's demon possessed!

Can we send our hard questions to Santiago? No! Can we send our questions to Vin? No! To Richard Gan, No! To Junior Jackson, No! [Congregation says, "No!"], we don't recognize them. But even the heretics recognized the apostles in Jerusalem in that day, and they forced Paul they said, "go up to the apostles to rectify this question which they argued concerning". Oh glory, there is nothing to straighten this confusion but the apostles of God, they will be sent to straighten the mess around the message. It will take a short time.

Question#146: "Can the five-fold ministry be identified in any part of the world in the message churches, or in ministers' meetings?"

Answer:The answer to that question is no. This claim of the assembling of a five-fold ministry and operation like the early church is a heresy. It's a false claim. It is imaginary. Here is a big ministers' meeting. I want to meet the apostles, I want to meet the prophet, the evangelist, the teacher, who is eloquent like Apollos. I want him in my church, to break down the Scriptures. I want some teachings from your pastor too, of how to pastor my church. "Well I guess brother, the best I can present to you is a pastor". Then you have a one-fold; and that goes for all parts of the world. You say, "You were not in all parts of the world, how do you know that?" I'll tell you just now. I never identified it personally, on the website. I never seen it displayed on the magazines, on their papers, or heard it by reports from letters that come to us from around the world. " Now preacher how can you talk like that if you had not been around the world?" I speak by divine revelation. I know what is the problem and I know the solution to the problem, by divine revelation. And based upon my revelation of the five-fold ministry, that is proving to you that nobody at the present time can scripturally identify the five-fold ministry to anybody in the church, I challenge the religious world. I challenge the followers of the message, to scripturally prove their claims by the identification of the five-fold ministry among them. They cannot do it.

If you claim something you must be able to prove it. If you are gathered together, and you tell me that there are five scientists present, I must have the liberty to come and say where are your five scientists? Not because you say that you are a scientist. You must be able to show me your certificate. And if you have a bogus certificate, you are an impersonator. If you show me how you could build five atomic bombs, then I know that you are not lying. You are proving your claims. This is common sense I am talking about. And let me send out this challenge, I am not afraid. By the revelation that the Lord has given to us, I do not have to be in every country, to search for a five-fold ministry. I know what is wrong I know the solution, and I know the solution has not come yet. Only when the solution to that problem comes then you will be able to identify a five-fold ministry.

So I challenge the religious world, I challenge all the followers of Malachi 4 to scripturally prove their claims by the identification of the five-fold ministry among them. If they cannot do it, as a church group, let it be identified from several groups. And when that fails, I further challenge you to identify the five-fold from an international gathering, of the so-called five fold. By that I mean, if you cannot show me five of these major offices operating in ten or twenty churches or in one country gather all the ministers around the world who preach the message, and pick out for me five offices to match the Bible. Do you think that they can do it? [Congregation says, "No!"] They cannot do it.

It is a total impossibility to pick up that challenge. Get all the ministers around the world in the message and bring them together by the tens of thousands and let their leaders send forth the "apostle" and match him with Paul, match him with Peter, match him with James. Send forth the "prophets", match them with Silas, match them with Judas, match them with Agabus. You have already failed the test. Send forth your evangelist and just match him with Phillip the evangelist. You have already failed. Yes sir! And I will take a "teacher" and match him with Apollos, a man who had not even known Jesus Christ. And the Bible says that he was an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures, and he mightily convinced the Jews. (Acts 18:26-28). And I always like to think of this, though mighty he was, Aquilla and Priscilla passed by, and explained to him more clearly the gospel. And the mighty teacher humbled himself and he said, "Yes, teach me. You came in contact with the coming of the Lord. I don't know anything about that event, I only know about the forerunner." Glory to God!" That is how a true gift proves itself. Yes.

And beloved, though they may gather tens of thousands of self appointed offices, they cannot prove by the Scripture and they cannot prove by Bible standards that those five men that they will bring to me, from the whole world, match the Bible of an apostle, prophet, evangelist, teacher and pastor. They cannot do it.

Question#147:"Why are the four gospels silent about a five-fold ministry, though Jesus ordained the twelve and then seventy preachers?"

Answer:: Good question. Was anybody able to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with all the preachers that the Lord ordained and was able to pick out amongst those preachers who were apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist, and pastor? [Congregation says, "No!"] Then the four gospels were silent concerning the five- fold ministry. And then this person is asking here "Why?" "Under such a great ministry of the Lord Jesus where he raised the dead, walked upon the waters, healed the sick and did all kinds of miracles at that time, why was there not a five-fold ministry identified under the four gospels and the most mighty preacher that ever preached upon the face of the earth?"

I will give you the answer. Because it only existed and was not positionally placed, and since it was not positionally placed, the preachers and the apostles had no authority to the claims of a five-fold ministry, though they had power and the devil was subject to them, and signs and wonders were done, almost equal to the Lord's ministry. With power, with signs, with wonders, with ordination by the hand of Jesus himself, they had no business and no authority to claim the five-fold ministry. They had no authority to say, "It's the gathering of the five fold". But they guessed at it, and in their guessing, there arose an argument among them of who should be the greatest in the kingdom of God.

If they were positionally set there would not have been any argument. The reason that there were arguments is because they were not positionally set. So the argument arose because they were not certain of their positions. So they argued about who will be the greatest, and they were full of pride and the Lord heard it and He rebuked them. He said, "You are jumping ahead. Come here, I will teach you a lesson". And he took up a little child, and said, "Whosoever shall desire to be the greatest shall be the least, and unless you humble yourself as this little child you shall in no wise enter into baptism of the Holy Spirit (the kingdom of God)". Matthew 18: 1-4).

Quote: 1121-274 "Now, you're on your road through justification and sanctification to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. But when you're genuinely baptized with the Holy Ghost, you're in the Kingdom." (Questions And Answers 64-0830m).

Now let me make this statement preachers: Preachers around the world, if the apostles with signs, wonders and miracles, never claimed a manifested five-fold, you are out of place to claim that, and to boast about that, and that makes you impersonators, to make such claims, because you are powerless. You fabricate miracles and signs. Yes, you fabricate an office, and you blow up certain miracles that take place in the church of God, to make yourself look like the early apostles, and the early prophets and the early miracle workers; you fabricate spiritual gifts. Put down your pride and the Lord will help you.

Question#148:"When was the five-fold ministry identified to the early church, before or after Pentecost?"

Answer:: Ephesians 4:11-15, it was positionally placed and set in order at Pentecost, by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] And the false claims of a five-fold ministry today are exposed and condemned because the church is to return to the power of Pentecost, where the five-fold ministry will be set in order, and thoroughly identified to all men.

It took the outpouring to identify the five-fold ministry, and it takes another outpouring of the Holy Spirit to identify the five-fold ministry today. And these preachers are identifying the five-fold ministry before this outpouring of the Holy Spirit; they are found impersonators.

Maybe you want to hear the prophet a little. Some fanatic might say today that there are only two offices since the opening of the seals. Is that so?

Quote: E-64 "Then God went up and give gifts to men. Now, what does gifts do? Some of them are first apostles, after that prophets, teacher, evangelist, is that right? All gifts put in the church, it was in the early church at the beginning. Now, it's been dark two years, it's coming out over here in the last age, in the western country, alpha, omega. (Faith Once Delivered To The Saints 55-0501).

What do you understand by that? The prophet made a little mistake and he said, "It had been dark for two years". Now you want me to say what the prophet say. Now must I behave dumb and say "two years". That is how people understand the message. I am hearing the prophet by divine revelation; it had been dark for two thousands years. The gifts were set at Pentecost, and since that time it had been dark through out the ages, but the gifts are going to be set in order again, because he is alpha and he is omega, and the gifts were positionally placed with one man first, called William Branham.

Quote: E-51 "But you realize that God knows you before you ever come on the earth. You believe that? How many believes that gifts and callings are without repentance? The Bible said there's five gifts in the church. God has set in the church Apostles, or missionaries, apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Truly. If there's apostle, there's a prophet. If there's a prophet, there's a teacher. If there's a teacher, there's a pastor or a evangelist. See. You can't just say there's a pastor and evangelist, no prophet or apostle. God still sets... As long as He's got His church, He's still got His church setting. Certainly. Now, you don't lay hands on one another for them gifts. God has set in the church." (Tested.Faith.Produces.Goods 58-0518).

As long as the church exists you must be able to have that five-fold ministry, and you cannot say that you just have the pastor or a teacher today, since the opening of the seals. If there are pastors and teachers you must have the prophets and the apostles. I am asking all the followers of Malachi 4, where are your apostles? Where are your prophets? They've got to be somewhere around, but you cannot make them out yet.

Quote: 205 "Preaching is a gift, inspired preaching. See? And the gift... Some are apostles, some prophets, some teachers, some pastors, some evangelists; that's the gifts that's in the church. See? But it's possible we can have more than one like Paul or any of those. Now, as long as there's a apostle, there's got to be a prophet. As long as there's a prophet, there's got to be an evangelist. Why is it ministers say there is a pastor and evangelist, but there's no prophet. See? That's picking what you want to, making it say something that it doesn't. But God is His own interpreter of His Word. He says whether it's right or not." (Voice Of The Sign 64-0214).

Now, did Brother Branham confirm that there ought to be apostles today, and there ought to be prophets today? He said, "You just cannot have part of the five fold ministry, you've got to have all". Yes. I believe in all. And when I go to the ministers' meeting, I am asking for all. When I go to the churches I want to see all. If you claim a five-fold I want to see all. I don't want to hear names now. I don't want to hear titles now. No! I want to see them match the scriptures. So it is a false claim.

Let me put in something here. It's a thorn in those preachers' flesh. How many knows that Brother Branham said that the reformers were not real prophets, that they were reformers? [Congregation says, "Amen!"]

Quote: 149-4 {218} "Why did Martin Luther say that? Because he was a reformer, not a prophet." (First seal 63-0318)

Quote: 247-3 "Martin Luther was a reformer, not a prophet. Now I know the history book calls him a prophet, but it doesn't mean that the history book is right, for there is no record of Martin Luther qualifying as a true prophet of God in the grand Scriptural sense of that word." (Church Ages).

Well then, in the dark ages brothers and sisters it lacked prophets positionally placed, and it lacked apostles positionally placed. Therefore there was not a five-fold ministry set in order in the middle ages. Preachers, when were your five-fold ministry set in order and how? Your false claims are exposed!

How many also know that Brother Branham said that the last and seventh church age messenger will be a prophet, and as a result he will restore the Word of God, because he is a true prophet. [Congregation says, "Amen!"] The world had never seen an apostle since the early apostolic church until the arrival of William Branham and they had never seen a true prophet until the arrival of Elijah the prophet. Therefore, the five-fold ministry began to be set in order only when William Branham came on the scene. The world had forgotten all about apostle and prophet and true evangelists, teachers and pastors. God sent a sheaf wave-offering Yes. A man with all the five gifts in him, of apostles, prophets, teacher evangelist and pastor, and endued with the nine gifts in him, a man who was both an old testament prophet and new testament prophet, and God sent him here as a sheaf wave-offering to show the end time bride what is the true five-fold ministry.

Brother Branham had all the five-fold ministry in him with the nine divers gifts and many other gifts. The alpha that set the five-fold ministry by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost was the Omega that came to William Branham, and begin to set the five-fold ministry in order again, and he was just an example to the end time bride, of what we should have today. Malachi 4, William Branham was the true apostle and true prophet, and Oral Roberts was a false apostle and a deceitful worker. And all the other evangelists were false apostles and deceitful workers, in his day. And they are still deceitful workers and money lovers, but William Branham was a true prophet and a true apostle, and the bride must hunger and thirst to see that kind of ministry come back to the church. Yes!.

All the claims of apostles and prophet… How did Brother Branham become an apostle and prophet? God spoke to him and revealed his ministry to him and appointed an angel and many more angels for the operation of that ministry. Notice that Paul was an apostle and he was travelling in a boat, and he said my angel which stand at my side spoke to me tonight. (Acts 27: 22-23). And notice, there was another apostle; glory to God! and they put the apostle in jail, and the angel of the Lord came in awoke him and opened up the gate and set him free. (Acts 12: 6-10). That is the operation of an apostle. An apostle is a gifted man, and an angel is appointed on to him for the ministry. Yes sir! Notice when Brother Branham came to the pulpit, he said there is an angel that is standing by his side, and that the angel gave him a commission for divine healing. Yes sir! Oh Glory to God!

Brethren I don't have time to explain this, but all those apostles that were in the upper room, and were gifted with offices, an angel was appointed unto them immediately when they went into the body of Christ and they received the fullness of the Holy Ghost. They were gifted at that time and given an angel. Brother Branham said that when the church is positionally set in order he will appoint an angel to you and he will gift you and you will do the very same works like the apostles.

Quote: E-28 He took him into a place, and there he adopted him into his family… The church ought to be that way tonight, an Angel come to you, set you apart and tell you your position, where you're at. Not a bunch of men to lay hands on you, that's earthly. I mean God; God sets you apart in a place where you belong. God does it; your Tutor does it. He's present when it takes place." (Hear.Ye.Him 56-0611).

Quote: 159 "God trying to place His church in position to manifest Hisself, getting one that He can work through like this, say… Get another one over here and place him…Adoption, placing, manifesting, take him out here and put a ceremony on him, visit him with an Angel, tell him something… when God manifests Himself and He sends him out. And then he goes forth, and what he says is truth. What he does is the truth. What he does, he manifests Christ." (Position In Christ 60-0522m).

Preachers are hog tied from Genesis to Revelation. All the claims of your five-fold ministry are nonsense. Yes. If a man is an apostle, there is an angel appointed unto him. Yes, he will travel with him from here to Rome. Glory to God! Yes sir. I am telling you the truth. If you get into prison the angel will open the prison and set you free, unless he wants you in there for a purpose like Paul

An Angel of God was with William Branham because he was a true apostle, he was a true prophet, he was a teacher, pastor and an evangelist at the same time. Yes. What nonsense are you talking about, five-fold. Yes I want the whole world to hear about this. Yes, I am questioning all the ministers around the world, I am asking you where is your five fold ministry preachers. I have disproved it by the Word of God. I have exposed your claims as fanaticism. I have exposed your claims as heresy. I exposed your claims as wild boast. Where is your five fold? It is a proud boast and you need to humble your heart like a little child, Jesus said, if you're going to get a place in the kingdom of God. Yes friend.

In conclusion, none can hope to be set in the five-fold ministry and be identified in the church as any part of the five-fold ministry without another outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This proves that our teaching and our doctrine, for better than three decades is correct, that there will be another outpouring of the Holy Spirit like the day of Pentecost. Without that outpouring there is no rapture, without that outpouring the five-fold cannot be scripturally identified, without that outpouring Christ cannot bring the dead from the grave. You believe that with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind. [Congregation rejoices in the Spirit.] I know what I am talking about. Yes sir. Hold on to that for life. Don't let an impersonator fool you a bit. Yes, no power, no rapture. No power, no Apostolic Ministry. Yes sir! you've got to see the five-fold ministry set in order. Glory to God! Yes.

Though you are called to the five fold ministry, you cannot hope to be manifested as a member of the five-fold without the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. There is a long way from being called into the five-fold, and being vindicated as a member of the five-fold. Yes sir.

All Judases will miss this appointment. Judas never made it up to Pentecost to be identified with that five-fold. Yes. I believe in a five-fold. Don't say I don't believe. I challenge the false claims of the ministry around the world, and I challenge you with just common sense. When you are gathered, invite me and introduce to me the five-fold ministry, yes, and give me the book of Acts that they wrote. "That's a very hard demand." No, the prophet of God said it will come to pass. I've got to see it. Just like the book of acts which recorded the acts of the Holy Spirit working through the five fold Ministry.

Quote: 61 " first branch that came from this Vine, they wrote a Book of Acts behind that branch. We see the way the Holy Spirit acted in that first church, that church of Pentecost… if this original Vine ever puts forth another branch, they'll write another Book of Acts behind it, because it's the same Life that's in the Vine. And if the first branch put forth a bunch of grapes, and then we find a bunch out here that's got watermelons growing on it, or pumpkins, or cucumbers, we know that it isn't the life that's in the vine." (Investments 63-0803b)

Similar quotations can be found on (E-60 Jehovah Jireh 1 64-0402, E-51 Letting Off The Pressure 62-0609e, E-82 The Way Back 62-1123, E-31 Believest Thou This 60-0402).

And he said, don't you compromise for nothing else than what they received on the day of Pentecost: The same kind of a sign, the same kind of wonders, the same kind of miracles and the same kind of everything. Yes sir! I believe.

Quote: 276 "Don't you compromise with anything less than the baptism of the Holy Ghost like they got at Pentecost, with the same type of water baptism, the same things that they did there. Don't you let nothing put anything in your heart less than that." (Laodicean church age 60-1211E).

Question#149:: "Will each local assembly consist of a five fold?"

Answer:You are talking about hard questions. "And the Queen of Sheba came down to Jerusalem, to try Solomon with many hard questions." But I thank God there is a greater than Solomon, who is here today, yes, and he helps us out. Yes. "Will each local assembly consist of a five fold?" It is highly possible that you will have certain groups, certain assemblies with all five-fold ministry. But I believe all assemblies individually would not have their entire five fold, even because the apostle is a travelling man, and the evangelist is a travelling man, and if every assembly has their own five-fold ministry, there is no need for an apostle to come to them, and there is no need for an evangelist to come to them. So I believe that there are certain assemblies that will have all five-fold and many of them will not have a complete five-fold, then they will need the apostle from the next assembly and the evangelist, and they may even need the teachers. And that was demonstrated in the Scriptures, when Brother Paul went out the second time, on his second missionary journey, he went back to the churches to strengthen them in the Word of God, because his gift was greater than what they had in the churches. And that was also demonstrated in the ministry of Timothy. Paul pastored Timothy until the day of his death. He was very submissive and he listened to the apostle because he was an experienced servant, a man gifted. Paul could not come to Timothy but he wrote letters and answered his questions, told him how to do battle, how to fight, how to shut the mouths of the heretics and how to shut the mouths of these tattling women in the church. It worked out well, and we are still using the exposition of damnable heresies that Brother Paul wrote. Oh Glory to God!

I believe that within certain groups there will be lacking certain major offices, especially the apostle and the evangelist. And likely there will be prophets in almost every assembly, because that is a common gift. And you may have prophets in every assembly to keep the church clean. From the time you come in with sin, that little sister is going to stand up and say, "Thus saith the Lord, there is somebody that committed fornication, fooling with an unsaved man, staying out late from work to fool with an unsaved man, and they come piously and sit in the House of God, repent or perish! There is a young man who is fooling with an unsaved woman. He went out and committed fornication. Repent or perish!" And if he has a lying spirit, he would stand up and say, "I never done that. Me?!" He falls down and die like Ananias and Sapphira. Fearful times are coming into the House of God. Fearful times friends. We'd better clean up our lives, now.

Question#150: "We know the Holy Spirit rules the church, but is there someone to lead the church? Who should lead it?"

Answer:: Smart question. My beloved, Brother Branham Said that the Lord has never left the earth without a witness.

Quote: E-13 "And then, we understand that God in all ages has had gifts and wonders that He's worked through, calling the people. In every age, practically, God has had a servant, or somewhere a person sometimes, that He could lay His hand on, or a people. He's never been without a witness, and He never will be without a witness, as long as there is an earth, to bear with Him." (Queen.Of.Sheba 58-0503)

Quote: E-8 "And God has never left Hisself on the earth without a witness. God has always, somewhere, some place, had a person that He could put His hands on and would stand for a witness." (Secondhanded Robe 56-1125m).

Quote: E-17 Sometimes it comes to just one person, like in the days of Noah, or the time of Elijah, and so forth. Sometime it's just one person. But He's never been without a witness, as long as there has been an earth. And He never will be without a witness, as long as there is an earth. There's always someone that He can put His hands on, and put His trust in, and say, "This is My servant that'll do My will." (Deep.Calleth.To.The.Deep 56-0415)

ALL AGES HAD HIS REPRESENTATIVE ON EARTH: NEVER WITHOUT A WITNESS

Quote: E-13 "Now, in the days of Solomon God was working. Again, He's never left His people without a witness. All ages God has had His gift in His people. Just get that again. In all ages God has had His representative on the earth: never without a witness." (Sin Of Unbelief The 58-0517).

Similar quotations can be found on (E-61 Five Junctions Of Time 56-0122, 124 Testimony Of A True Witness 61-1105 and E 28 About Jesus 55-0612).

"Is there somebody to lead the church?" It is perfectly scriptural. Didn't you read in the Bible in the Book of Galatians where it says that Paul was chosen as a light to the Gentiles and he was sent to the Gentiles, and Peter was sent unto the Jews? (Galatians 2: 8). Were they leaders? The answer to this question I state that, God set the apostles as the leaders of the church. Let somebody refute that somewhere.

Now since they were set as the leaders of the church of God, the Bible says we are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone. (Ephesians 2:20).Romans 1:5 says that the Lord set apostles for the obedience of the faith.

So now, the very reason that there is so much confusion and disarray, and everybody doing what they want around the message is because they lack these apostles amongst the church as leaders, and intellectual men have taken up the message and taken up the Bible and try to lead the people around the world. So it is the day of the false apostles and the false anointed ones. Soon after that will come these true apostles to straighten out the mess in the message. Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen!"]

You say, "Where is that preacher?" There was a white horse rider, riding the trail, and there was a false prophet and a false apostle, and the white horse rider drove him off the trail and said, "Get off this trail, no man can ride this trail except he is ordained to ride it". (And knoweth it not 1965).

"What is that white horse preacher?" The apostolic church in power. It is coming in power to drive all these false prophets around the world, that hold the Bride in their grip of heresies. God is going to raise up a ministry of apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists and pastors, and He is going to expose these false prophets, just like He silenced Simon the Sorcerer, He is going to silence all these witches that handle the message today. You are talking about witches preaching this message. You are talking about Simon the Sorcerers preaching this message for money. The Lord is coming to drive them off the trail with an apostolic ministry. God say so and we believe it. [Congregation says, "Amen!"] God will loose these New Testament apostles and prophets in the end time here, because we are living in the eagle age, and He will drive them off the trail.

Question#151:"I read Book Seven - Exposition of Damnable Heresies, and I wish to do evangelism, but would like to go in power. Should I wait or continue as before?

Answer:O Glory to God! My precious brother, I will answer this question in this way. If you are qualified according to Bible pattern as an apostle, prophet or evangelist, I bid you go. Glory to God. And if you have fulfilled the five musts, that Brother Branham declared on Doing God A Service Without His Will, then go. Yes sir.

Quote: 108 "To do God a service correctly, there is five musts… I want you to remember these. No matter how sincere a man may be in doing it, doing God a service, these five must be there: First, it must be His time to do it… Must be in His time, it must be in His season, time and season, and it must be according to His Word that has been spoken… and it must be given according to the person He has chosen to do it by… Moses tried to run from it. "Take somebody else." But God chose Moses to do it. Many of them... But it's got to be by the one He chooses to do it. And it must come first to His prophets. The Word of God must come to His prophets: Amos 3:7, "The Lord God will do nothing until first He reveals it to His servant the prophet." Four. And the prophet must be a-vindicated by the Word of God. There's your five musts. It's got to be that way: His time; His season (when He said it would be); and the man that He chose, and it must come to the prophet; and the prophet must be a vindicated prophet." (Trying To Do God A Service 65-0718m).

Jesus told the apostles, tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high, then shall ye be my witnesses and reap the harvest. (Luke 24-29). Is that right? [Congregation says, "Amen!"] Answer closed.

Question#152: "Should ministers go two together? If they don't are they breaking the commandment of Jesus?"

Answer:My God, these people could ask you some questions. That is Scriptural. Jesus called two and two and he sent them out where he himself may come. But then this brother is asking here, "Should we follow that pattern, and then if a man doesn't follow that pattern, then does he break the Scripture?"

I want to say this my brother, that there is no direct command, and I found a man who went alone as an evangelist and he was called Phillip the Evangelist. Yes and he had an angel too, though he was an evangelist. He was positionally set in order and his angel directed him where to go, and he directed him to a certain man and he went alone. When he went down there and he baptised the man, the angel snatched him up and took him away. (Acts 8: 26-40). Yes, easy transport, money saved, airfare saved. Oh my God! We're looking for that. Yes. So there is no direct command of the Lord on that, although he done that. Don't forget that was before the day of Pentecost when the apostles were still feeling around. But after that we had different men who went alone. Yes and Acts 13, we see the same thing here where Paul and Barnabas was sent. The Holy Ghost said, "Take out these two fellows".

The Bible said that two is better than one. Yes, two is better than one, that if one fall he would support the other, but a three-fold cord is not easily broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). Yes, so I like a company.

Question#153:: "If a man is a eunuch, is there any place for him in the five fold ministry? It's important."

Answer:Now, of course, this is based upon the wrong theory, that if a man is single he cannot preach. And this is the answer that I will give from Matthew 9:10-2: "His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men…" They castrate them. "…and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake." They are healthy men and they could be married, he said, but they have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of God's sake.

"Is there a place for a eunuch of this type, who was born a eunuch, made a eunuch of man, or made himself a eunuch. Can you point in the Scriptures Brother Bruce where certain men had made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of God's sake?" Jesus the Christ. Glory! He was a healthy man. And in John 17, He said, "I have sanctified myself because of them". And the Bible said that he was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin". (Hebrews 4:15). He made himself a eunuch for the kingdom of God's sake.

And I know of another man, who made himself a eunuch and his name was Brother Paul. Yes, he said, I have the power to lead around a sister. (1 Corinthians (9:5-6). In other words he was a healthy man; he could get married and have children. Yes, and Barnabas. Yes sir, he said, but every man has his proper gift. (1 Corinthians 7:7). Yes, and there are men who make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of God sake and refuse to get married because they so loved God. Yes, so there is a place for a eunuch in the kingdom of God.