Quality Music and Books Reviews: THE SIGN Henry Daniel Voss 1971

The Sign by Henry Daniel Voss (1971). The fifth of
five books that Voss calls "FLOODLIGHTS from God--
sent to RESTORE the TRUTH as God gave that TRUTH
in our Saviour and Captain, JESUS CHRIST," and
Five Books of Progressive Revelation of Truth.

The Sign
Henry Daniel Voss
Christ Unlimited, St. Petersburg FL
1971

This article/review contains Notes, Transcribed and Scanned Examples by Mary Katherine May of QualityMusicandBooks.com.

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I do not intend to demean the passionate believe Mr. Voss claimed to be a prophet, but rather attempt to explain his view which stands outside of mainstream Christian theology.

Henry Daniel Voss promoted himself as a prophet of God who carried the same authority as the Old Testament prophets, believing that the words he spoke and wrote were emphatically God’s message to the world in and around1970. The prophecies were directed by God first to Voss himself, second in particular to those who participated in the pentecostal theology of Divine Healing, and then after to the Christian public at large. The Sign is Voss’s fifth book of “Five Books of Progressive Revelation of Truth”. The author’s writing style includes a profuse amount of words and phrases typed in capital letters to lend what I will presume to be emphasis to his text.

I am somewhat uncertain of how to define the theme or premise for writing The Sign because of the author’s compositional style, which was rambling in nature with minimal definitive clarity. It may be that the only person to whom The Sign was or will be essentially understandable is the Henry Daniel Voss, because there is scant information about Henry Daniel Voss. I could find no documentation on the internet about his ministry training, Christ Unlimited Fellowship or Bible Way Baptist Church, or if there were those who believed his teaching, who they were.

The Sign: the substance or premise for the title as best as I can make out is one of two possibilities.

The Sign, according to Voss, was the one event during Jesus’ earthly life that pointed without a doubt to his divinity. According to Voss, the miracles Jesus enacted were not completely clear to people because of their temporal nature. The only clear and true sign of Christ’s divinity was the event of his transfiguration on a mountain, and then after (I am not sure of this) at his ascension to heaven which Voss states was Christ’s divine visible form prior to his ascension. That is, what was seen at the ascension was how Jesus now appears in Heaven, seated at the right hand of God.

The author explains quite ambiguously and a great many words how this relates to Christians bound to the earthly realm. Here are the two possibilities I believe are possible interpretations of his prophecy.

The first possibility is that Voss believed that a true Christian will manifest himself to the world with clear evidence of his relationship to Christ just as Christ appeared clearly in his supernatural form when transfigured. People would see and know immediately that the believer contained the same deified nature as Jesus Christ.

The second possibility is that Voss, by his emphatically stated authority as God’s messenger and prophet, believed with 100% conviction that true Christians who had received The Sign were transformed as Jesus had been on the mountain. That is, that their new divinity would be clear to those who saw them, that they would never die—or never die until reaching old age—which he qualifies with the statement, unless martyred. In other words, at a minimum, true and real Christians would receive a divine nature exactly as viewed by Peter, James, and John on the mountain when Jesus was transfigured.

Christians without this event in their lives remain at what Voss calls the Church Stage. Though he doesn’t understand why, I think he believed that somehow those in the Church Stage would still be saved but with great tribulation and subsequent death with bodily disintegration.

Biographical Information

The information I did find comes from genealogical websites: Henry Daniel Voss was one of three children born to Henry Daniel Voss (immigrant to the U.S.A. born 1852 in Vorden, Hanover, Germany) and Anna Elizabeth Koeber Voss (born 1856 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois to Charles Gottleib Koeber). Henry Jr.’s siblings were Nettie Louise Voss and Charles Frederick Voss.

Henry Daniel Voss (Jr.) was born in 1886, and married Eugenia (married surname unknown). They were to have birthed three children.

Transcriptions from the Book

I WILL NOT DIE AND RETURN TO DUST (This presentation is inside the front cover.)

I was born 11-15-1886. Until 12-12-61 I believed Satan’s lie that God has decreed that all men must die and return to dust—and that’s that. Then God spoke to me—even as he did to Enoch and Elijah that I was in line to be fully accepted for transformation of my physical body to a body like Christ’s glorious body—immortal and incorruptible. I shall FOLLOW Christ into LIFE—not follow Adam to death. The amazing Truth dawned on me that Christ died MY death. Why should I die again?

THEN GOD ORDAINED ME TO PROCLAIM TO YOU THAT GOD COMMANDS YOU TO LIVE TOTALLY (John 12:50)

I have written out in four books listed on inside back cover hereof God’s re-statement from the Bible in understandable language that men must top believing Satan’s lie which is death and begin believing Christ’s Truth which is LIFE—LIFE like Christ had when He was taken up from earth.

You have probably been deceived like I was. Have you believed that you have no choice but to die? Now it is your choice to LIVE and not die. Do not turn aside in unbelief. All I have written is re-statement of Truth as given by Christ—in His person. His life, His deeds, and His Word. He said,

"and everyone who lives (on me is implied here) and believes on me shall in no wise die forever.” (John 11:26)

I am choosing God’s best. Will you?

IS LIFE GETTING YOU DOWN?

Are you saying “Death is the only way out”? That is Satan’s life. Christ lived His way out. He said “FOLLOW ME.” He did not lay down and die. Neither must you do that.

These books are God’s secret of the ages—the most amazing books in a thousand years—the New Testament made plain.

The

The Servant of Jesus Christ

Henry Daniel Voss

Second Transcription

WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN (this is the preface)

In this volume the fact is developed from the Scriptures that God has given men an Absolute Sign which men can reach and know beyond the least doubt that they are being accepted of God to be in His favor forever. There is no realm known to man wherein there plan and goal is as in the realm of Christianity. Consequently there everything from rank atheism on the one hand to Real Truth on the other. Fakery has flourished here. Avarice has exploited every possible idea by which men can make other men believe they have the solution for men’s eternal well being. Many are so discouraged that bewilderment and confusion is everywhere apparent.

Yet men have an inborn yearning to live somewhere always and grasp hold of every hope placed before them—generally swallowing hook, line, and sinker of the first one they are acquainted with and then oppose other lines as spurious and of no value. Their own beliefs they generally call the “faith of our fathers”, or “the old paths”, or “the old time religion”, etc. And many try one thing then another until they fear that there is no way anyone can be sure of anything concerning their eternal destiny and their relationship to future possibilities and realities.

In this volume I will show every honest-hearted man of even a child’s intelligence that God has sent Christ to the earth to make certain and secure to every mana destiny which is shown right here on earth in a visible form and with an eternal indestructibility built into it so that nothing is left to chance or uncertainty. It is built upon a thesis that carries with it a built-in proof of its reality. As the writer I can say it is the most satisfying Truth ever to come to my attention. It is not from my mind. I could not have invented it. yet is is so simple and in itself so convincing that the most astounding thing about it all is that it hasn’t been discover by every man from the day of Christ even till this 1970.

Whosoever you are—from those who can merely read at all to those who have reached into the summits of human learning—I know I am giving you God’s Own Word and nothing else to lead and guide you to KNOW that God wants you to know all that He can make known to you of His undying LOVE for your happiness forever. This is an attempt to given every man a grown up sense of security in God which is like unto the absolute trust of an infant of one or two years of age as he nestles in mother’s arms to be put to sleep for the rest necessary to begin another day on the morrow.

As one wrote to me—whom I have never seen—God has revealed to me the most necessary secret of the ages. What I am telling you in this volume and have written in other books is from God for me and for you. As you read it let God speak to you. For my opinion would be of no value whatever. But what God has spoken will abide forever. Speaking only God’s Word Himself Jesus said that the earth which looks so durable and also the Heaven will pass away but that His Own Word will not pass away. Only Christ’s Word and such Word as is in line with His Word has been used in these books.

I know that I am just passing on His Word as He has given it to me. read it and you will know I speak nothing but TRUTH.

The servant of Jesus Christ,

HENRY DANIEL VOSS