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STOP PRESS!
Siberia
Audio Translation in Uganda Touching
and Changing Many Lives
from Siberia
By Brother Paul Mukama, Uganda (pictured)
Special
Prayer
request
for
Brother
Adrian
Dear Brother Charles,
God bless.
I am in Siberia at present
and just got back from 4
days in the taiga.... the
forest wilderness. I have
still a few more days here
then back to Moscow.
Please pray for me as I am
preaching
constantly
every week and the
pressure is on.
Pass my greetings onto all
the Saints back home.
Shalom.
Brother Adrian.
It is such a great blessing to have the message
translated into one of the commonly spoken local
languages. For us it is Luganda in our country
Uganda. This has been going on for some good
years of which Bro Richard Oliver has played a great
role to see that translation is done.
Around two years ago God blessed Uganda again when the message went
audio in our local language. Indeed it is as it is written, “In the days of the
Voice… “
This concept and some of the necessary equipment came from a visiting team
from Cloverdale Bibleway Canada, who run the “Message hub” website. Now
the Luganda messages, already translated into books, are being translated into
Voice. Both booklets and audio can be downloaded free on
www.messagehub.info
The translated message where one hears clearly the voice of the prophet and
then the voice of the translator reached the ears of the believers with a lot of
excitement. It is Brother Frederick Kiyingi, Pastor of Seeta Eagles Church in
Seeta, a suburb of Kampala, whose voice is recorded for the translations that I
then edit and add over Brother Branham's voice.
Cloverdale Bibleway also sponsors the radio program that plays the translated
Messages.
I am the Kampala-based team member responsible for sound editing. I felt a
burden to see that believers, and all those we can reach out to, should receive
the messages and hear the message in their local language. God gave me
wisdom and I started making cds which we send to different churches. I also
reached out to the people,
whether believer or not, and
He and most members in the church
could request them to lend me
believed on the message and 15
the memory card they use in
people were baptised and others are
their phones. I then load the
yet to be baptised also.
memory cards with the translated
messages and return them. This
worked out so well because most of the phones on the market now have
provisions for a memory card and so I have successfully loaded translated
messages for a number of people. Mainly the youth have liked this.
The recent victory we have had is the conversion of a Pentecostal pastor who was given one of the cds and after
listening to one of the messages he said he followed clearly and found out this was the Absolute truth. He
preached it to his church before calling us to go there and when he called us to visit his church to bring the
Message. He and most members in the church believed on the message and 15 people were baptised and others
are yet to be baptised also.
In the photo below is the church and some of the members.
Pray for us , the demand for the cds has greatly improved, every
day almost I get phones calls requesting for the disk cds, and
somehow we can’t afford to buy enough disk cds and print the
covers on it like this (below) for all.
I thank God who has used
Brothers and Sisters locally
and around the world to
help in recording, editing
production and broadcast of the Message in the Luganda language for the
people of Uganda. Now we all, as members of His body, are bound to
spread His Word more. □
Letter of appreciation from Brother Lubogo Samson
Iganga, Uganda
Dear Brother Richard,
Greetings in the precious Name of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for all your labours of love and sacrifice. Especially the sacrifice you made to come
and minister to us. We were very much blessed by your ministry. Thank you for all your
continued support to us both spiritually and financially. By God's grace we have involved
ourselves in missionary work and here is a simple report.
We have a Prison outreach and for the last 10 years we have preached in Bufulubi Government
prison farm one of the largest in Eastern Uganda. One church has been born out of our prison
outreach. Nakimbungulya church with Pastor Mubezi Peter who believed the Message while in
prison, last month I wedded him with Sister Victoria Apili as seen in the attached photos.
Through our missionary work more 5 churches have been planted. Namatolo church is still
under a mango tree, see photo.
By His Grace we started a first Message Church on one of the Islands on L. Victoria called
Jaguzi with Pastor Salongo Kalulu Noah, see him in red shirt as I baptized him in Jesus' Name.
We boat from Bwondha landing site.
There are other calls in other places where there is even no Message Churches but the
labourers as few. In fact I preach in more than one church every Sunday trying to establish
these Churches in the present truth.
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The challenge we have in this is a reliable means of transportation, we also lack a public
address system which could help us be more effective in our crusades.
The burden on our hearts is to reach our people with this Message of truth while it is still day
John 9:4 “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no
man can work.”
Keep this work in prayers.
God bless you all richly.
Your brother in Christ,
Lubogo Samson
P. o. Box 312 Iganga, Uganda
Tel. +256_772_619233
MISSION VISIT TO MALINDI by Brother Victor Okwaro
I want to thank the Lord for great meetings during our visit to Eastern Uganda. We traveled on 25th and I had
services on 26th, 27th and 28th in a very remote area in Mayuge district, a small village along the shores of Lake
Victoria known as Malindi. Fishing is the main economic activity here.
“Malindi” is the name in the local language for the vegetation in the
background of this picture.
We had a chance of traveling on Saturday in a motor boat to Lufu, an
island within Lake Victoria, 30 minutes journey from Malindi.
Here we found some
brothers who recently
believed who travel
every Sunday to attend
fellowship in Malindi.
We used the opportunity to introduce the message to several
people in Lufu Island, some who managed to attend our service
on Sunday.
Majority of the people in many parts of Mayuge district are Muslims. As I write this report, there are not more
than three churches in Malindi, including the believers, and the largest is a Pentecostal denomination called
Bethel Church, which is a branch of a church in Kampala founded by a
certain woman who claims to have died and gone to heaven. The rest of
the people in this small village of less than 150,000 people are either
Muslims or people who do not believe in any faith. Most of them are
fishmongers and small scale farmers.
There seems to be a high prevalence of HIV/Aids and other venereal
diseases. Polygamy and poor planning of families has denied them basic
needs like food, clothes and decent housing. Continued …
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The fellowship in Malindi started in a strange way. Most of the believers attended the Bethel Church before a
disagreement began regarding a minister who was living in adultery. Around about the same time a oneness
Pentecostal preacher came to Malindi and preached baptism in the name of Jesus and convinced them to leave
Bethel Church to start a new fellowship. Later the oneness Pentecostal preacher required them to sell their
properties and give him. Their wives resisted the move and went back to Bethel Church but while they were
there, several of them had dreams of voices telling them of a true church in various towns of Uganda; Mbale,
Kamuli and Bugiri which they narrated to the brothers. One sister in particular was shown that there is a church in
Bugiri with the last Voice of God. So they sent three brothers to those towns. The brother who went to Bugiri met
a brother to whom he explained his mission. During the discussion he found out that the brother was a very close
relative whom he also found with a message book with the words: "In the days of the seventh angel." It was then
that he decided to stay and attend the Sunday service in Bugiri. That Sunday he heard the word and was
convinced that this is the place the Lord had led them.
When he went back he told the brothers and they decided to invite the pastor of Bugiri Church for seven days
meetings. They all believed and were later baptized. The oneness preacher was asked to step aside and be taught.
When we visited Lufu Island we met Daniel, the oneness preacher and had wonderful fellowship. The next day, on
Sunday he attended our fellowship. The Lord has done strange things day after day so much that the entire village
reveres the believers. One witchdoctor who bewitched pregnant women had to move to another island as the
believers' prayers brought his work to naught.
On Saturday evening, a certain Muslim woman who was
possessed with evil spirits was brought where we were
staying. She told us that she was seeing scaring red faced
people and that she was in pain. We chased out all
unbelievers and prayed for her and on Sunday, she also
attended fellowship and her testimony really encouraged the
believers.
Left: with Bro Bon Wanyama of Funyula and Paul Mutumba
Below: with Bro Paul and Sunday Lawrence, both of Bugiri
Church
One thing we noted is that there is a great thirst for the truth
in these villages. There are various spirits; of prostitution,
witchcraft, gambling and all sorts of pleasures along the less
than three of the many beaches and islands to have a
message church established.
We began on Friday on “Discerning the Word Correctly”
explaining to them that the only way one can discern the
word correctly is to
know the only true God
(the spirit who had the thoughts that birthed the word ) and His Son (the
light who came out of the Spirit and manifested God - the LOGOS) When
God, the spirit sent His Son (John 17:3) He came down in the body of His
Son and the Son did as He was shown by His father. 1 Corinthians 2:10 – 16
says that it is only the spirit on a man that can understand the hidden
things of that man. God by giving birth to us by His spirit makes us able to
understand the hidden things.
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On Saturday we continued with the same thought but I tried to explain that the threefold purpose of the coming
of Jesus Christ was in essence God’s desire to have a perfect family. That having a desire to have a family He
created Adam and put Him in Eden and said it was not good that he stays alone. Through Adam and Eve God
started a model family through which He wanted to raise a pure seed of children of one father, to type His
spiritual family. God had already ordained His spiritual family with Him as the father, Jesus Christ as His first born
whom he planned to give a wife, who is the body of believers, and raise up children (sons and daughters –
individual believers) who are brothers and heirs with Jesus Christ.
On Sunday we concluded by looking at the laws of marriage that God put in His word to guard the chastity of the
woman who is a type of the church, and the verses of both the Old and
New Testament that enforce the purity of God’s seed. We finished by
briefly looking at John 8:30 – 47 to show that though the Jews in this
paragraph believed, their conduct proved they were Satan’s seed.
I believe that God has his children in the Islands and that Malindi could
be the door through which the message will spread to the islands in
Lake Victoria. They still have many questions on their minds to be
answered. I realized when I preached on marriage issues, one brother
confessed that the teachings were on him. We didn't have enough time to answer all his questions but we
promised that God willing we will visit again and answer more questions.
I wish to request all of you for any message materials that could help the believers in Malindi get established to
equip them for the enormous work of God ahead. □
Timely Topics
Who is the Antichrist?
By Pastor Malcolm Ferris
To answer this we have to ask – what is antichrist and where did antichrist begin?
The word antichrist comes from two words anti – and Christ – anti meaning in the simplest sense against,
and Christ meaning the anointing, the anointed or the anointer – depending upon the context in which it is
used. Christ is the manifestation of God’s Eternal Spirit in creation – so antichrist is the manifestation of
another spirit which seeks to replace this.
If we want to find the origin of these two spirits we need only turn to the beginning of the book – to the
story of Eden – where we find two trees – two sources of life – the tree of Life, which represents God’s
stream of life upon the earth – and the tree of death, which is the perversion of this life. This tree of death
(for that is what it is –a tree is known by its fruit – and the fruit of this tree is death) – this tree was not a
tree that bears life according to the original pattern – it is not kind after kind as decreed in Genesis 1:11.
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This tree is a mixture – good and evil – it is a hybrid and cannot produce a true expression of life – it produces
a lie that ends in death: eternal separation from God.
Sin did not begin in the garden – it started in heaven when Lucifer (an angel – a spirit being) rebelled against
God and deceived many of the inhabitants of heaven. Satan is the spirit that is behind this one called in the
bible the antichrist. His ambition is to establish himself on the earth as the god of this earth – instead of Christ
– in His place.
We can see this spirit first manifest in flesh in Cain – who tried to establish an alternative worship service in
the garden – but God refused his offering and warned him to offer in the approved manner, as Abel had done.
When he refused to obey God, or to listen to His advice, he was overcome of the spirit of the enemy and went
to convince Abel to offer his way, failing to convince him, he decided to remove the alternative so that his
way of worship would be all that was available.
He was rewarded for his murderous efforts by receiving a mark – this was the original mark of the beast – it
indicated the one whose lineage had come through a beast instead of a man (for the Serpent was a beast of the
field – cattle). Seven generations from Cain we find his ancestors were considering this mark as a sign of
divine protection – as sanction to kill and do as they pleased. And God became so grieved with humanity and
their wickedness upon the earth that he had to destroy them.
The next time we see this spirit rise to prominence is in Babel (the ancient roots of Babylon) where Nimrod
sought by a union of politics, religion and military power to unite the people to a one world government with
one unified approach to worship of God: the Tower of Babel. God’s response was to confuse their language
and scatter them – He labelled their efforts ‘confusion’.
What we see then, is three illicit unions in the first of the book, the seed or sowing chapter – that reflect a
similar pattern in Revelation, the harvest chapter. The first illicit union was between the woman and the
Serpent – and it causes death in the flesh – it was by the receiving of another spirit for life. And we find that
the spirit of antichrist came to the early church in much the same way – finding her – like Eve – espoused to
one husband: Christ – but before He could come to her – the antichrist spirit got in first through the deeds of
the Nicolaitans – which then became the doctrine of the Nicolaitans and led on to the teaching of Jezebel the
false prophetess. When the white horse of the antichrist rode forth – he was as a deceiver – pretending to be
Christ – the giver of life.
The second false union was that in the days of Noah –wherein the sons of God saw that the daughters of man
(Cain’s lineage) were fair and began to take wives – as many as they chose – marrying and divorcing and
polluting the pure bloodlines of Adam even further. In like manner the church united with the world through a
marriage of ecclesiastical and political (civil) powers, which resulted in the Caesar of Rome decreasing and
the power of the Pope replacing it upon the throne of Rome. The red horse that followed the white shows us
the bloodshed inflicted upon the saints to enforce this false union.
The third false union is found in the times of Nimrod – this was the
attempt of the church to become a universal and all powerful force.
We see this happened in the dark ages when the Roman Catholic
Church was in its heyday. As with the days of Babel – the church
was scattered through the reformation – resulting in many differing
denominations, and a confusion of tongues. The black horse which
followed the red, carrying the scales – the power to judge and to
charge church taxes, the church playing the part of a sovereign –
who has the power to tax its subjects. This Union was the corruption
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of the spirit of God’s creation.
The forth rider in the book of Revelation was a combination of the preceding three colours – the great trinity
of Satan – the antichrist (white rider), false prophet (red rider) and beast (black rider). And it is when Satan’s
power moves into this forth manifestation that his name is revealed: death – the tree of death that was in Eden.
We find that Hell follows quickly upon his heels and this is the final ride of this spirit – which ends in the
great battle of Armageddon. So what we see in the whole course of the Bible is the trail of two seeds – two
spirits – the spirit of God by the Word of God, and the spirit of Satan by the perversion of this Word. Cont…
This then is antichrist – any spirit that puts itself in the place of Christ or seeks to do so by adding to or taking
from the Word of God, by claiming the power and right to speak for God and to interpret His Word by another
spirit through another gospel in order to preach another Jesus – a twisted version of the truth. This is that spirit
of the original rebellion in heaven, for the battle that began in heaven was cast to the earth and has been raging
ever since. □
SHALOM NURSERY & PRIMARY SCHOOL
Uganda
Mission: to promote the knowledge and skills of the Youth and the VISION for a better and sustainable future.
Objectives:
1) To help the vulnerable children who are not able to pay for their fees and school requirements.
2) To help the female Christian children (MESSAGE BELIEVERS) to keep their HAIR long in order to stand for
the FAITH. (There is a rule in Uganda that all school children, both boys and girls, are to cut off their hair or
keep their hair 1 inch short.)
3) To help the HIV/AIDS victims, especially those who are orphans.
4) As a missionary and a pastor of a small church, to help raise funds for my missionary trips.
Shalom Nursery and Primary School started in February of 2012 with a population of 150 children and a teaching staff
of 10 teachers (minus the non -teaching staff). We are currently running with a population of 450 and 15 teachers.
The school is located in Busia, Uganda Western Division, in Solo C Village and has lasted for four years. So far it is one
of the good performing schools in the area.
My wife being a teacher she used to volunteer to teach and coach believers and neighbour’s children and when the
number grew bigger they all encouraged us to start a school. Since we did not have structures for classes and (below)
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dormitories we offered
our own house and turned it to a
school. At the moment we are
squeezed in one bed room while
the children are using all the
bedrooms, living room, dining
room and kitchen as dormitories.
Then we use the boy’s quarters
and temporal structures as
classes.
continued
Due to the good performance of
the school in the shortest time,
the school has attracted many
children from far and near, thus
forcing us to make it a Day and
Boarding School. But due to the
limited
accommodation and
classes we have turned away
many.
Now the School faces the
challenge of lack of enough
structures, such as dormitories,
beds, classes, latrines, chairs and
scholastic materials.
Since the school’s aim is to help
the vulnerable children it has
been a challenge to raise salary
payment for teachers because
most of the parents are
vulnerable/unable to afford even
the payment of fees and the
requirements, yet our rates are
the most minimal in the whole
town.
It is my humble prayer that God
may open the way and we get
funds so that we can support
and help put up some structures
to accommodate this big number
of children that are struggling for
a sustainable future.
May God bless you as the Lord
will touch your hearts is my
humble prayer.
Pastor Samuel Otaget
A Salute to Our Veterans and Ministries
Bro Dean Gilchrist
As a minister of a small church I am personally acquainted with some of the
struggles, conflicts and challenges that are constantly confronting the ministry
in this end time. Dealing with the many struggles and pressures that this evil
age has so vehemently imposed upon us is by no means a task for the
spiritually fainthearted, and this is especially so for the Pastors and Ministries
of this hour who are trying their best to be faithful in the furtherance of the
message in their local areas and abroad. These men of God are often
misunderstood, and from time to time endure criticism from within and
without. As well as having to fight their own personal battles like everyone
else, they must also look to and care for the people that God has entrusted to
their stewardship. Many of these shepherds of smaller groups have to also
support themselves financially and care for their own families, and do all this
in such a way as to be a Godly example that others may see and follow, this is
why they need our encouragement and not our criticism.
I truly believe that a Pastor must constantly remain humble and rely upon the
mercy and grace of God to lead him, and as well as this, he also needs our
support and encouragement, and this is why I would like to salute all the
Pastors and ministers of this message who are doing their best to serve God
and the people with a true and honest heart, and especially our veterans
pastors who have with relentless tenacity fought the fight and kept the faith
and have in many ways cleared the path before us so that we can all walk
easier.
I would especially like to acknowledge and salute one of our local New
Zealand ministries Brother Derrick Donaldson along with his dear wife, Sister
Barbara, for their tireless labours over the years. I remember the Auckland
conventions back in the late 80’s and 90’s with visiting speakers such as
Brother Ed Byskal from Cloverdale and Brother Vin Dayal from Trinidad, these
conventions and the ministry of the word that was preached at that time had
a great impact and influence on our country, many of us were ushered into a
greater revelation and a deeper walk with God at that time, these meetings
would not have been possible without the tireless labour of our Brother
Derrick Donaldson with the help of his fellowship.
We also owe much to the late Brother Reg Searle who bestowed much labour
in the early years when the message was first introduced in New Zealand,
many of us have benefited greatly from the tireless work of these men.
There are many others of our local New Zealand ministries that have played a
vital role in the plan of God and who have been faithful to their calling, we
salute you also, and we respect each one of you. We would like to encourage
the new generation of ministering brothers that are being raised up by God at
this time to embrace the challenge of this hour, and to continue this great
work until the victory is won.
My encouragement to the younger ministries (of which I am a part), is to keep
pressing the battle, as Brother Branham told us that the local Pastor is to be
the Ox of the team, he has to keep ploughing on regardless of
the battles and the disappointments, and so by the grace of
God this is what we will do until the final victory is won and we
are all gathered together with the Lord on that happy golden
shore. We salute you all – keep up the good work.
Bro Dean Gilchrist
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Young Forever
William Branham 60-0228
Sent in by Bro Harold Becket
Cape Town – South Africa
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many
sparrows. Matthew 10:29 – 31
That's the way we find everything in life; it changes. I've only found one thing that doesn't change; that's
God; He doesn't change. I found Him around thirty years ago. I was running from Him when I come to
Phoenix. But there's no need of running from Him; He knows where you are.... But He has never changed
and never failed to remain the same loving, sweet Saviour that I have--that I found.
The only thing in me, it just seems like He gets more dear to me each day as it goes by. Because I'm getting
just a little closer to Him. My life's running out, and I'm not the little boy I was a few years ago. But there's
one great hopes that I have, that someday to return back to that again, only with immortal life never to
die…. Some time ago .… I was combing what few hairs I had left. My wife said to me; she said, "Billy, you're
almost bald-headed." I said, "Yes, it was caused to start with from a barber putting carbolic acid on my hair;
it all come out and then it never did come back right." I said, "But, honey, I want to tell you; I haven't lost one
of them." She said, "Pray, tell me where they're at?" I said, "Well, I'll answer you if you'll answer me." She
said, "All right." I said, "Where were they before I got them? There were bound to be a substance
somewhere. And wherever they were before I received them, they are there waiting for me to come to
them." .... That is exactly right.
Not one hair of our head but what's numbered, God knows all about it. I sit out a while ago looking out to
Camelback Mountain and remembered as a little boy I rode a horse out there. From I used to work up here
above Wickenburg, went up with them to bring cattle down. And I often wondered how, if I could ever see a
time that I could ever be that seventeen, eighteen year old boy again, but God's Word teaches that I will be.
There's nothing that God loses; He'll raise it up again at the last day. He promised that; Jesus did. And then
we're... Knowing that this life no matter whatever happens in this life, all of our homes, our big city, our fine
nation, this fine state of …. Arizona …. will fade and go away someday. All of our homes in this valley will be
dust again. But our souls has immortality when we're borned again of the Spirit of God. God promised to
raise us up again at the last day through His Son Jesus Christ, and then we would be young forever. We'd
never have to be sick no more, never have no more heartaches or sorrows. And what a time that will be.
Tommy Osborn on William Branham
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