1 Well, I have two questions here. The first question is… Brother Philippe, from times past, prophets were Jews, how does it come that an African like you is a prophet? And here is my answer on this subject: All the prophets were Hebrew because, firstly, Jesus Christ was to be sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, that’s why God only dealt with Jews and secondly, his first coming was for Jews and thus was it and his disciples and Apostles were Jews only; but for the second coming, it was for all the nations of the earth. That’s why He raises up messengers out of the four corners of the earth.
2 He had sent Martin Luther, John Wesley and Ulrich Zwingli to say it to the Europeans. He had sent William Branham to say it to the Americans and now, He has sent the prophet Kacou Philippe to say it to the Africans. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"]. And Africa has never been so stable and even the midnight Cry is also sounding in Angola through our Brother Hugo Zé.
3 Well, somebody wrote me saying, "Are you a major Prophet or a prophet amongst the ministries of Ephesians 4:11?And he said, If you say that you are an Ephesian prophet, there is no problem but if you say that you are a major Prophet like Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah… then you are a false prophet!" You see? I answered him saying, Listen to the Words I say! If they are those of an Ephesian-prophet then I am an Ephesian but if they are those of a major Prophet like Moses, Isaiah or Jeremiah then I am a prophet messenger like Moses, Isaiah or Jeremiah.
4 When I started preaching, then Emmanuel, a Branhamist pastor in Abobo said to Brother Christopher, "If he says that he is a major Prophet like Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah… then we disagree with him but if he says that he is a Ephesian-Prophet, we will invite him to come and preach here… ".
5 Now I come to another question: Brother Philippe, can we wear hairpieces like William Branham? I have been asked this question more than ten times. First, hairpieces and hair extensions, you can wear them if that is really necessary and I say it because William Branham wore a hairpiece. But if William Branham does not tell you that he has a hairpiece on, you will not know it. And I ask that it be done this way, with the consent of your pastor or in a case of health issue. It is just to serve as your hair, so that cannot be of different color or fall down to your shoulders, nor be plaited.
6 And in the same way, when I talk about secondhand clothes that you should not wear, I meant already-worn clothes. Amongst those secondhand clothes, there are already-worn clothes that are resold, those are those clothes you should not wear. I therefore did not mean clothes on sale, clothes never worn, even if they are secondhand clothes. I take the explanation again: Amongst those second-hand clothes are clothes and objects that have never been worn, things that perhaps could not be sold or are ends of series. You can wear them, it is not about them that I’m talking.
7 I come again to another question, Brother Philippe, my parents are obliging me to follow them in their church. And here is the answer: You must not go there but if they oblige you, go with the Spirit of the Message. And for example when it’s time to pray, raise your voice and say, "Oh Lord Jesus, God of Kacou Philippe, when I came here before, I used to live an ungodly life like the people of this church, I would do this and that but now I don’t do that anymore because You have sent your Holy Prophet Kacou Philippe… Oh Jesus Christ, they want me to come in this old church where a woman in menses can stand in the pulpit to preach before men" You see?
8 Preach to all those that are around you and if somebody listens to you and talks about it, ask him if it is normal for someone to listen to his neighbour’s prayer. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
9 From now on, the children of God know that the Bible is just a document of history and research. It is the gathering of the books of the history of the kings of Israel and the prophets that God had sent for the Salvation of the past generations. The Bible is a memorial and a testimony of what God had done in the past. It’s a museum and it’s said nowhere that Salvation is in it.
10 On the contrary, in John 5:39, Jesus said to your fathers the Pharisees, the mad people of his time "You search the Scriptures, for you think that in them you have Life eternal…" the Bible is a history book and somebody who searches through a history book, hoping to find eternal Life in it, it’s the lesson I learn from a mad person searching through the trash. [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
11 The word Bible means Library. It is a feminine-plural word like "annals". The sixty-six books of the Bible are archives; they are sixty-six documents of the Judaic and Christian civilisations museum! You see? The Bible is only useful for its prophetic side which says for example in Matthew 25:6 that in the middle of black Africa, there shall be a Cry!
12 Today, you accept that the voice crying in Isaiah 40:3 is John the Baptist as said by Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3… and you do not accept that I am the fulfilment of Matthew 25:6 because the tree did not grow in your garden? The tree grew in Ivory Coast but its branches and its roots are in all the countries of the earth. You reject me, and yet that’s what I am! [Ed: The congregation says, "Amen!"].
13 Now listen to this parable of the Kingdom of Heaven. An old woodcutter had only one son who was good at school, and that comforted and strengthened his father in the face of his hard labours as a woodcutter. One morning, the school director came and spoke to the pupils saying, "Dear pupils, school exams are coming soon and you can pass them without annals. But we’ve reckoned that with annals, you will have an idea of the tests that the generations before you had and you will be much more brilliant at the exam."
14 Then the director took a book and said to the pupils, "This book contains the annals of the exams and competitive exams. It’s the gathering of several books. And each book contains the tests of one precise year and its correction. For example, chapter 10 contains the tests of 1975 and its corrections. And the tests of 1975 are different from the tests of 1976 and the tests of 1976 are different from the tests of 1977…" And after the explanations of the director, the annals were given to the son of the woodcutter and to the other pupils.
15 But on the day of the exam, the son of the woodcutter refused to take the test of his time. He said, "If the tests that are in this book are authentic and permitted our seniors to pass their exam, why can’t I have the diploma directly if I solve them correctly"? And all the explanations could not bring the son of the woodcutter back to reason and his father was asked to take him to a psychiatrist. He that has ears to hear, let him hear!