New Revelation recieved by Bertha Dudde

Proclamations No. 1443 - 1519

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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God accessible to all people.

Between 1937 and 1965 Bertha Dudde was permitted to receive and record 9030 individual proclamations on a daily basis.

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‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me .... and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him ....’ John 14, 21

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

1456 - Omnipotence of divine love.... World events....

1459 - Love between one person and another....

1464 - The spirit of heartlessness.... Divine intervention....

1468 - Bondage of the soul.... Intercession in love helps to redeem....

1469 - Perfect spiritual order.... Disorder....

1470 - Awakening faith.... Deep unshakable faith....

1471 - The Doctrine of Christ.... Inwardness.... Loosening - Binding....

1472 - Exploring the God Being God's Will.... Seek and ye shall find....

1473 - The raging elements of nature....

1474 - Imperishability of the divine word....

1475 - Doubts about the truthfulness of individual announcements....

1482 - Forgiveness of sins.... Infallibility.... Routine actions....

1504 - Concern for the souls' salvation.... Utterly unselfish neighbourly love....

1505 - Spiritual marriage to God....

1511 - 'Draw strength from My Word....' Prediction....

1514 - Infallibility.... Ecclesiastical commandments....

1516 - ‘You are Peter, the rock....’

1517 - ‘Go and teach all nations....’

Omnipotence of divine love .... World events ....

B.D. 1456 from June 6th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Record the following: You humans have the wrong idea about the omnipotence of divine love. You use different guidelines to evaluate events which signify both suffering as well as joy for people. You only see the effects in an earthly respect but cannot even remotely imagine the spiritual effect of the necessity on one hand as well as the consequences on the other hand. You always base your judgment on human feelings, and this even makes the love of God seem cruel to you. Yet you are not aware of the agonising state which will await the souls one day were I to protect them from all suffering on earth and seemingly only bestow My love upon them. This love of Mine is so great that I want to spare My living creations the suffering in the beyond and thus let them suffer before in a state in which they do not feel this suffering so much.

And yet, you do not recognise My love and crave to quarrel with Me. You live in a world where sensual pleasure provides you with a certain amount of satisfaction, yet in the world of the beyond you will, if you are enlightened, strive for the union with Me. Nevertheless, you first must detach yourselves from all matter in order to be able to unite with Me. But you are still very far from it, for you are still too captivated by matter and this to an extent that you still regard it as enticing. And thus I forcibly destroy what stands in your way to far greater happiness. I want to shorten your path on earth which you still have to travel in the body, I want you to learn to despise matter which is only an obstacle for you .... and you don't recognise My love .... you are still too strong-willed and don't succumb to divine will, which truly only considers you such as is helpful for your soul .... Always and in every instance try to imagine that My greater than great love is the motive for what I send or allow to happen to you, and you will learn to think differently. It truly gives Me no pleasure to watch My living creations suffer and thus I try to avert greater suffering from them .... You only ought to learn to look at world events around you from this perspective, which should be seen more as evidence of My love for you than an act of cruelty. Resist the thoughts which make you doubt My love, because it is only My love which makes Me act in a way that you appear to be the sufferers.

By yourselves you are too weak and don't desire enough strength which would help you overcome matter, and thus I take care of your difficulty and remove the obstacle from the path of your higher development. I take all earthly possessions away from you precisely because this physical hardship makes you take refuge in Me and thus look for heartfelt contact with Me, and then My infinite love will take hold of you .... and My infinite love will help you prevail. However, until you have entrusted yourselves to Me the loss of your earthly possessions will be painful to you, and thus you are still in an enslaved state, you are still too attached to matter, and you still don't recognise Me and My love sufficiently. And you are even inclined to wanting to deny Me altogether, because you look at all happenings from an earthly point of view and fail to consider to what extent the spiritual necessity exists so as not to let you perish. The danger of your spiritual downfall requires My intervention in a way that you doubt My love .... But I only have your spiritual well-being at heart, and every happening is intended to bring you this spiritual happiness. Therefore you should confidently submit yourselves to My guidance and humbly and obediently accept your fate from My hand and it will be a blessing for you, and one day you will thank Me that I have thereby averted from you far greater suffering in the beyond ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Love between one person and another ....

B.D. 1459 from June 7th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

What you human beings call love is a feeling of togetherness which God wants and therefore need not be denied before Him. God Himself has planted this feeling into your heart in order to make you happy as well as to bring Himself closer to you, because deeply felt affection for another human being must simultaneously be love for God, since the former is God’s living creation after all and thus not only is the living creation the object of this deep affection but also the Creator Himself. Hence you show the Eternal Creator the same love which you give to His living creation. However, this love should be giving and not desirous, or the desire should be the same as love ....

God created His living beings for mutual happiness, one should serve the other, hence give to him what he considers to be desirable himself, and if he asks for love from him he should also give love. This is what the Lord wants, Who would like to give His love to His beings in the same way and therefore also requests to be loved by them. If the human being only looks for worldly advantage his love will not be true since it will arise from selfishness which is not of divine origin. In that case the adversary will have placed the feeling into your heart to weaken your will and to take notice of your body’s desire. Then everyone will try to take but not to give. And then love will have no beneficial effect either. Because it is the love for the world, the love of the senses .... it is not a feeling wanted by God but the way of the adversary to make you fall. Then you will erroneously give the instinct, which dominates you, the name of love, but instead it is desire and selfishness and not unselfish love which is gladdening.

Those who originated from God should find one another again and jointly strive towards God in order to support and guide each other on the path of ascent. And this love should express itself in the longing for each other, the human being should experience the other person’s presence as God’s most delectable gift with radiant happiness, his heart, full of gratitude, should praise the Creator, Who will send him a ray of His light of love. And their mutual love should give rise to good thoughts and cause good actions. This love is entirely in accordance with God’s will, it causes happiness and elation .... it does not demand but gives .... it is from God and leads back to God .... it knows no boundaries and will continue to exist for eternity. For if it is of God it cannot be restrained, it will always and forever mean happiness and joy and remain unchanged since it is something spiritual which emanates from God, which does not affect the body but the human being’s soul and thus it will not be felt by the body but by the soul. Love is the strength which benefits the unification of the spiritual beings and therefore meets with God’s complete approval ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The spirit of heartlessness .... Divine intervention ....

B.D. 1464 from June 9th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The spirit of heartlessness rules the earth and its inhabitants, and the opponent has become victorious over countless beings whose lives are devoid of all love. And countless people are thus driven into the chaos he has caused and which became feasible precisely because of this heartlessness, which aroused inconceivable hatred and discord amongst people. People have lost all common sense for they are guided by the spirit of darkness, and this also keeps people's thinking enslaved or distorts it such that they no longer know what they are doing. Humanity has indeed rarely subordinated itself to the opponent's will so thoroughly as is the case now, and therefore the countermeasure will have to be exceptionally harsh too, if a higher spiritual state is to develop and people's present-day spiritual delusion remedied again. And so this spiritual hardship requires divine intervention, and divine love and wisdom are aimed at using an event for the sake of removing this hardship which, admittedly, makes humanity doubt divine love and wisdom but which is nevertheless the only option left to save people from certain ruin.

People remain irredeemable; they cannot be persuaded in any other way to accept the faith and they comply even less with the commandment of love for God and their neighbour .... And then again, the human being has to acquire the right way of thinking if he is to be spared the adversity of the approaching time and his earthly life left to him. For the divine intervention will befall people with elemental force, no one will be prepared for it who has not united himself with God beforehand. And there will be a panic which only God Himself can avert again if He is sincerely called upon to do so. Yet people will lack the faith in God. For even those who live with faith and love will be stricken by anxious doubts since they, too, will very clearly hear God's voice. Their spirit will certainly take refuge in God, yet their soul will fearfully and with dismay await the events which are yet to come. They will barely be able to comfort their fellow human beings and will have to struggle for faith themselves, yet God will support them so that they shall not waver in their faith. But those who don't recognise God will look for rescue on earth and find no help.

They have to change their thinking or become victims of the elements which are instructed by God, the Lord Himself, to serve Him. There will be indescribable confusion, since only the most extreme adversity can still bring about a change in hardened sinners .... only the fear of losing their earthly life will make people soft and submissive and willing to pray. However, without prayer no gift of help can come from above, for only prayer provides the certain guarantee that God Himself will take care of His earthly children and release them from all anguish. And the hour will seem awfully long to people who see everything they found desirable up to now fall prey to destruction. And yet, people cannot be spared this hour since all of God's love and kindness has been rejected and there is no other possible way out of the spiritual adversity. Again and again God's forbearance has postponed this event, but finally His prophesy shall be fulfilled .... For the time has come when extreme weakness of will and unbelief can only provoke this catastrophe. The time is near which the Lord has announced through His Word when He lived on earth and referred people to this time of apostasy from God. For His Word is eternal truth and will come to pass, down to the very last letter ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bondage of the soul .... Intercession in love helps to redeem ....

B.D. 1468 from June 12th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The soul of man is irresponsibly acted when it is kept in a certain bondage, i.e., when it is hindered in its higher development. And this is then the case when the will of man exclusively turns towards the earthly, when therefore this will is weakened by the adversary and therefore the soul is no longer able to express itself freely and unbound. But this unfreedom of the will is again its own fault; it is the result of self-conceit, which prevents man to turn to God in prayer for power, therefore, in short, a result of earth life without prayer. Because man has been allotted free will at the beginning of his earth assignment, which could cause him both to good as well as to evil. But he is also allowed to make use of prayer. He is free at any time to ask for help, and when he uses this prayer, also the power to resist becomes greater; therefore the will is truly free and not bound through the power of the adversary.

The man who is without prayer will always be able to muster less power of resistance; he therefore hands himself over to the power, which wants to harm him, and the result of it is that his soul gets into a completely unfree state, that it is held on to earth, that it always does and wants what it is told to do by bad power. It is in a bondage from which it can free itself with difficulty when it also now still does not use prayer because it has also lost the knowledge about the favour of prayer; it is completely without help and exposed to the influence of evil because it can no longer use its will in the right way. And such a wrongly directed will can only still be effectively counteracted through love; when a loving being on earth or also in the hereafter comes to the help of such a forced soul and therefore sends up prayer to God instead of it, the fetters of that soul will loosen; it will suddenly feel the power of resistance in it and willingly hand itself over to better powers, and this can cause a change of its thinking and wanting, which is expressed in a changed walk of life. Souls, which alone can no longer find their way back to God, must receive a supply of will power through intercession in love, if they are not to be lost without salvation, because they cannot be compelled to other thinking and wanting. And this intercession is a weapon, which effectively fights the adversary. Because it cancels his exclusive power over the soul. The soul feels the loosening of its fetters, and the will now also becomes active in it to completely escape from this power. It certainly feels weak, but desires help, which can now be offered to it, because the desire for help is an unconscious prayer, which also finds hearing, by the light beings wanting to help it now direct the thoughts so that man now also consciously makes use of prayer and so increases the power to resist, therefore can free himself out of the state of bondage. So the love of fellowman can contribute enormously much to the redemption of an erring soul when it takes the completely weakened will into account and for its part now lets the will become active to help that soul. The power of a prayer for the soul of man is immense and the only means to redeem it from the power of the adversary .... .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Perfect spiritual order .... Disorder ....

B.D. 1469 from June 13th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

All imperfect spirit causes some disorder in the world because all order is perfected spirit, it behaves in accordance with divine will, and God’s will is order and perfection. The disorderly condition can never be something divine, therefore, the beings who are in God’s ordained state .... that is, who are within divine order, must carry the divine will within themselves, that is, they have to live in accordance with God’s will first if they want to come closer to God. Immaturity, however, aspires towards God’s opposite goal, it conforms to the will of the one who wants to destroy all divine order. However, this disorder can only be evoked when the imperfect spirit is in possession of free will, that is, when it is embodied in a human being, since prior to that divine will determines every activity of the being and therefore this activity has to be orderly too .... which is expressed throughout the entire work of creation which exists in God’s ordained order and cannot arbitrarily be transformed by a God-opposing will. Earthly life, however, is at the mercy of the human being .... And thus the human being creates his own state of order or disorder, all depending on the attitude of his free will. A life in closeness to God with the surrender of one’s own will must understandably proceed orderly, it must completely correspond to divine will. The human being obviously cannot violate God’s will as long as he subordinates himself to it. Consequently his conduct also has to be in line with God’s ordained order, he can’t help himself but aspire to what God wants ....

Hence, whatever is directed against this order has to collapse as a result, as it signifies disorder. All order incorporates within itself the guarantee of continuation whilst it is in the greatest interest of the representative of disorder, the adversary, to destroy everything, and for that reason he provokes an enormous disorder. It is now also understandable that human thought becomes completely chaotic when it expresses itself in some destructive form or another during earthly life. The impulse of preservation will always be divine, the impulse of destruction always satanic. Whoever complies with the inner urge to destroy, consciously submits his will to God’s adversary who wants to annihilate God’s work of creation and who uses the immature spirit to triumph against God. He besets the spirit, he tries to weaken the human being’s will to act in a God-opposing manner, i.e. to disregard and attempt to destroy what God in His wisdom has created. And this is contrary to divine order. Everything in existence serves to mature the imperfect spirit. Every desire to destroy any kind of creation interferes with God’s will, Who gave all spirit a certain length of time and will only release it from its form when the spirit within the form has matured, i.e. when it has become capable to live through the next stage of embodiment within God’s ordained order.

A being which is prematurely disturbed in the process of higher development wants to escape its form or take its abode in an external form that is unsuitable for its state of mind and this, since it lacks the necessary maturity, would be the start of an unimaginable disorder which would have horrifying consequences on earth as well in the entire universe. Because everything would be at the mercy of the immature, God-opposing spirit. There would be an open contest against God which would rage against all divine wisdom if God didn’t prevent it. For that reason, i.e. to maintain divine order, the will of the immature being prior to incarnation as a human being is constrained, whereas the danger in earthly life is that the opposing will results in an unparalleled chaos, a confusion of human thought which can cause the most incredible disorder.

And all virtuous spirits fight this disorder because God Himself uses no coercive measure as hindrance and allows the immature spirit complete freedom of will, nevertheless, it will always be a sin to oppose God’s will. The being violates divine law .... which in itself is order .... when it enjoys changing this order into disorder. Because it then subordinates itself to the will of the adversary who longs to destroy everything that God has created .... He will not succeed, nevertheless merely the determination to do so is the greatest offence against God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, it is rebellion against God and therefore results in the most dire consequences. The spirit who rages against Him cannot enjoy freedom as long as it defies divine will and divine order. As long as it refuses to fit into God’s ordained order it is not free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Awakening faith .... Deep unshakable faith ....

B.D. 1470 from June 13th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Every faith makes demands on man, and when he fulfils these demands, he acknowledges faith, i.e., he positions himself affirmatively to it. He is therefore believing when he complies with the demands, but rejects faith when he ignores the demands. Who now believes in God, will also make it his business to fulfil what God demands of him, provided he also loves the being, which is for him the concept of God. But faith and love are inseparably connected with each other because to believe in God means to also recognize him as a being, which is the epitome of deepest love, highest power perfection and unimaginable wisdom. And man must love something so perfect, and he will also do out of this love everything what God demands of him. Therefore faith is the first prerequisite for a successful earth life. And without faith man can never record even the smallest success for his soul. Because only faith in God lets man recognize his origin, and the awareness to have started from exactly this divinity lets him again strive for unification with it. And this striving for the union with God is the actual purpose of earth life .... Without faith however man is not prepared for any spiritual work. He does not open his heart to spiritual power, which wants to be helpful to him, because he does not affirm such power at all. But again faith cannot be awakened in man compulsorily, but he is to adjust himself out of free, inner conviction affirmatively to him. And so God can only indirectly come to the aid of man by him stimulating his thoughts and man now asks himself questions about things inexplicable to him. When man does not want to recognize his exit out of God, another explanation of his existence will satisfy him just as little, so that he now sends this question into infinity, from where it will now also be answered for him. Different thoughts will now flow to him, and again it depends on his will, to which thoughts he gives .... ear. Faith must slowly become alive in him. But this again depends on whether man is lovingly active. Man can, also without being believing, unconsciously strive towards good, and such a man will also undoubtedly find to faith. An unloving man on the other hand will never ever give access to such thoughts, which lead to faith. Unkindness always results in greater darkening of the spirit, and man is still so far from the right faith. The firmness and depth of faith is again a gift of favour from God, which is then imparted to the believing earth child when it intimately asks for it, because through a deep, unshakable faith unimaginable powers are at the disposal of man, and such a measure of favour must be consciously asked for before the love of God imparts it to the earth child. Therefore man must already be believing, i.e. recognize God and want to fulfil his demands and then declare his readiness to accept for extraordinary supply of favour. He must do more than is demanded of him. He must stand in fullest conviction that no thing is impossible for God, and now put .... this faith into action to do what is the will of God, regardless of his human powerlessness .... he must desire the power out of God to supply unbelieving men with the proof of the existence of a God being, which is full of love, wisdom and omnipotence .... .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Doctrine of Christ .... Inwardness .... Loosening - Binding ....

B.D. 1471 from June 14th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The teaching of Christ is a structure, which is only based on inwardness and lacks all outwardness. Therefore only that can always be considered teaching of Christ what has such an effect that the nature of man shapes itself according to the will of God. The outer form on the other hand does not contribute to the change of the nature; it leaves the inside untouched. When Jesus instructed his own in his teaching, he gave them no regulations or instructions in which outwardly recognizable form they were to spread these his teachings among men. He therefore did not make the following of the teachings dependent on externals, but the divine word was only to be taught, accepted and followed purely and simply .... .There were also no hints given about a building, which was to remain in existence powerfully and mightily for eternal times. Jesus only illustrated the activity of the disciples and their followers who wanted to serve God by giving Peter the power of the keys to loose or bind according to his knowledge. He thereby called him to stand up for his divine teachings and to spread them there where men were willing to receive them, but to deny them to those who were still too much held captive by the spirit of the world because these did not recognize what was offered to them. And therefore Jesus made the spreading of his teaching dependent on the will of men .... to receive what you bind will also be bound in heaven .... what you loosen will also be loosened in heaven .... . These words are only the confirmation of it that the Lord on earth instructed his disciples to spread his divine word, and so the disciples recognized men as being willing to receive the divine word, to introduce them to the divine love teaching, the obeying of which earns complete release from the banishing form. But where the readiness to receive the divine word is lacking and this is only accepted as empty sound, the act of becoming free cannot occur, and therefore the same banished state will be the lot of him in the hereafter, who does not believe the word of his servants on earth. But his servants on earth are, who spread the teaching of Christ on earth among men without all externals, only in the endeavour to serve the Lord God and to help mankind. These his servants will therefore be able to be active redeeming because they strive .... for nothing more than the redemption of men out of the banished state. But they will also recognize that men will not be eternally liberated when they do not accept this inner teaching of Christ and live according to it. They will also enter the hereafter in the banished state. The teaching of Christ is something so deeply inward that it cannot be replaced through forms and externals, and therefore he will also remain bound who keeps form and externals, but remains untouched inwardly and therefore does not follow the teaching of Christ according to the will of God. Everything divine lifts you up, everything human pulls you down .... The teaching, which Jesus imparted to his own on earth, was divine and must therefore also lead to redemption out of the deep. But when the work of men disfigures this pure teaching, when more respect is paid to the work of men, the teaching will lose power, because only the pure divine is powerful, and this power has a redeeming effect, while everything human weakens the will of man and this explains the bondage, as long as man just accepts the teaching of Christ in a form, which deviates from what the Lord himself has taught on earth. The Lord has mentioned to His disciples whose nature was .... full of inwardness and there will also continue to be His disciples on earth who form themselves inwardly according to His will .... because they will become enlightenment to recognize the pure teaching of Christ and to spread it according to the will of God .... .

Amen

(This translation was created by an „artificial intelligence“ using the original documents ‘Word of God’ received through the ‘Inner Word’ by Bertha Dudde.)

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exploring the God Being God's Will .... Seek and ye shall find ....

B.D. 1472 from June 15th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Every thought, which is meant for the God-being, will lead up. Nothing is arbitrary when man's spirit is concerned with God, but then the will has become active to strive up. The will must be used before; the thoughts must be directed towards the all-dominating power of a being, which is still incomprehensible to man. Therefore the will must become active to grasp this incomprehensible, and he must send his spirit for this into regions where enlightenment becomes available to him about the questions, which occupy him. But the desire for it will be differently strong, and this is the explanation why also the wanting to penetrate into deepest truth produces the most different successes .... why therefore the results of those wanting to know God are not always the same. Many a man is content to know that there is an eternal divinity, while others seek to fathom it and desire nothing more than to get fullest enlightenment about this problem. These will also get enlightenment because every demanding thought will be fulfilled by the light beings, which stand in knowledge and therefore are allowed to instruct man through mental transmissions of their knowledge. The more therefore man seeks truth the more detailed it will be offered to him, but without enlightenment the heavenly father never leaves his earth child desiring light. To recognize the eternal divinity in its highest perfection, the state of greatest maturity belongs, which the being on earth does not reach, however such is given to man desiring light, so that his spiritual state becomes more mature and it is therefore possible for him to find understanding for all divine work. And so he is therefore slowly introduced into the knowledge about God .... love in him towards this God .... being love but is power .... and so the power now goes to him to be able to solve deeper and deeper problems about the eternal divinity. To a certain extent he is given the ability to recognize that what is the origin of all life .... "Seek and ye shall find .... " God himself gives us the promise that every search for truth will be successful .... "knock and it shall be opened .... unto you" we must desire truth to be able to receive it because God opens his ear to every voice which penetrates up to him out of the deep and gives to man what he asks for in spiritual relationship. God wants that the thoughts of men are meant for him; he wants that light becomes for them in the darkness of spirit; therefore he will also guide men so that they come closer to this light. He has given men the ability to think about the most different problems; he will therefore leave no question unanswered, which is meant for his divine nature. Because light and truth is what earth beings lack, but God, as eternal truth, wants to spread light everywhere, and he just wants to see the desire awakened in man for exactly this light. Then it flows to him in all fullness .... .He himself speaks to the earth child standing in the desire for truth and enlightens it; he makes himself known; he helps the weak earth being by him seeking to explain everything to him comprehensibly and therefore his spirit is opened to the reception of deepest divine truth. He gives man the power to grasp divine wisdom; he thereby increases the desire, and man is introduced into the knowledge about divine being, as far as it is beneficial for earth time, because God wants that men recognize him; he wants that they seek to investigate him; he wants that men desire pure truth, then he imparts all wisdom to them .... .

Amen

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The raging elements of nature ....

B.D. 1473 from June 15th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The magnitude of the Almighty will become apparent at a time when the elements of nature rage and cause indescribable damage. Then the hour will have come when people's spiritual decline becomes visible for nothing will remind them of God, nothing will move them to pray, for they will have lost their belief in a God and thus will not call upon Him in their need. Hence humanity cannot stay on earth any longer, for it fails to consider its actual purpose of earthly life and only contributes towards destroying the faith of the few people who are not yet entirely estranged from God, causing them to abandon God as well. God's love, however, will prevent the latter from being harmed and will therefore forcibly terminate the lives of those who threaten to endanger the souls.

And there will be great distress when the raging of the elements begins. It will be like a storm which threatens to destroy everything; people will be unable to defend themselves against it for they are like fragile stalks which get bent by the gales .... They will want to flee yet be unable to escape the elements, without God's help their resistance will be too feeble, yet a heartfelt call to God will restrain the power of the elements, and anyone who entrusts himself to God in his peril will be saved. But God will be very close to you during this disaster, He will affect everyone's thoughts and for the last time offer you His hand so that you may take hold of it and let yourselves be saved .... Yet He cannot force your will, you must voluntarily acknowledge Him and desire His help. There is no other way to lead humanity out of spiritual darkness into the light other than through an event caused by natural forces which create such turmoil in people that no one can escape it. Confronted by these natural elements they will have to recognise their helplessness; they will have to lose all other help so that they realise the end of their physical life, only then will there be a slight prospect that they will remember the Lord Who is entitled to all power and Who controls heaven and earth.

God's living creations separated themselves from Him and have remained separate from God for an infinitely long time, yet a moment of extreme crisis and danger can bridge this separation. The soul can return to God, and as a result will even thank God for the indescribable suffering which brought it to its senses. Yet this moment when the soul directs its will towards God cannot be forcibly induced by God in spite of greatest love. God's love has tried everything to bring salvation to the souls and point them to the path of ascent. Yet people's will was strong and God cannot break this will but only affect the human being such that he changes his will himself and turns it towards God. This natural event is thus the final attempt to influence the human will in the most favourable way. But this natural event will also be so powerful that His Own will need great strength in order to remain firm in faith; and everyone who pleadingly sends his thoughts up to God will also be given this strength, for the Father knows the adversity of His children and will lovingly support them if they are in danger of wavering. For His kingdom on earth shall remain, and extensive work will have to be carried out in order to proclaim the divine kingdom to those who had found God and desire His Word. And this is the time the Lord is thinking of by making His Word accessible to people already .... the seed shall fall unto good ground and yield rich fruit on the field which the Lord first wants to purge from all weeds ....

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Imperishability of the divine word ....

B.D. 1474 from June 16th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Hear what the spirit from God wants to announce to you: Worlds will pass away, but the word of God will not pass away until all eternity. Because the word is divine truth, and truth remains. And so God again speaks to men, the necessity is given to announce the will of the creator to his creatures. But God wants to give men the last possibility to reflect; he wants to give men, to whom it is difficult to believe, a quiet suggestion to deal with the thought of him; he wants to make himself known to them in another way and help men to also find to God outside of tradition and to unite with him deeper and more intimately. This transmission of the divine word is an extraordinary grant of favour, caused by the great misery of the time, by the great distance from God. Unimaginable suffering means being separated from God, if man has decided earth life and enters the hereafter; and to avert these sufferings from the soul, God enters into such obvious connection with men and lets his word go to them, which is a proof of his infinite love towards men staying in deepest darkness. And still also this love is not quite recognized. Only few men receive the divine word as what it is; only few feel the great love of God in this word and now let this love have an effect on their souls. But most do not recognize it and consequently are also not touched by the power, which flows out of this word. And they will always and constantly deny because the adversary kindles the will to reject and mentally likewise has an effect on such men and illuminates everything refuting and denying. And therefore an enormous resistance opposes man receiving the divine word, which requires an indomitable will to break. But the will towards God helps to overcome everything; the will towards God is power because God himself shares such with him who desires him himself. And so the divine word will never be endangered as long as the will of man is turned towards God, and it is therefore impossible to want to destroy a word received so wonderfully, if this is striven for. Because this would be a beginning against the strongest power, which still let such work come into being through your will. The divine word must again be received by a willing earth child to give power to those who need such power out of God. Because the coming time brings severe trials over men in which only the divine word is comfort and power. The Lord wants to help all good on earth so that it does not feel the hardness so painfully and also does not waver in faith in God. When at the same time with the divine threat of punishment also the supply of power out of God is assured to men and it is up to every man to make use of this power, it is again up to the will of man to make the coming suffering bearable for himself when he pays attention to the proof of divine love and takes refuge devotedly in the protection of the divine saviour. His life is in God's hand, and it will be just as imperishable as the divine word, which goes to men, who are of good will .... .

Amen

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Doubts about the truthfulness of individual announcements ....

B.D. 1475 from June 16th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Who entrusts himself to me, to his soul I give peace, and I direct his mind that he recognizes me and my guidance .... .

It is of greatest importance to know that all spiritual gifts form themselves according to the will of God and that no own thought activity is the cause of the transcripts, which appear unclear or incomprehensible. Everything what is written down has its justification for it and is always adapted to the spiritual maturity of men to whom these writings are once to be a rennet. It is indeed apparently the own thinking that is the cause for different announcements, however these are already based on an intention or a connection, which men do not quite recognize now. These proclamations can be accepted as truth without hesitation, because just the ignorance in some areas let such come about. God knows the purpose of every scripture and gives it as it will be needed one day. The strangest doubts arise in man and again and again cause doubts about the truthfulness of the transmissions from above, and still they are completely groundless because an army of spirits on the other side watches over the work and does not allow that erring beings intrude and enforce truth with error. Consequently it is impossible that announcements can contain other than truth. It is furthermore impossible that the thoughts of man are sometimes arbitrarily active against divine will, and it is therefore impossible that a being standing in wrong thinking can take part in the mental transfer to earth man. However the receiving man must always and constantly be vigilant, and therefore he is again and again stimulated to brood about such problems, which have the appearance of error. Because man deals more thoroughly with such questions, which still do not appear to be quite clarified to him, and mentally the enlightenment will come to him, so that he no longer opposes doubts to the received announcements and therefore has enriched his knowledge, so that he can refute every counter-reflection in this respect .... .

Amen

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Forgiveness of sins .... Infallibility .... Routine actions ....

B.D. 1482 from June 20th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The alleged act of forgiveness of sins is only the symbol of what the Lord taught on earth. It is not at all necessary to fulfil a formality because the forgiveness of sin depends entirely on how guilty the human being feels before God and on confessing this to Him in heartfelt prayer by appealing for His mercy and forgiveness of his guilt. Formality is once again only a danger to the soul because an act will be mechanised which is, or should be, far too intimate to be made outwardly identifiable. The act of public confession of sins can lead to superficiality, in as much as the person more or less follows a routine act without being so internally united with God that he has a need to confess his guilt of sin to Him. Everything you do for the sake of your soul’s salvation should be alive, and a ceremony like that can easily result in a lifeless act because not all people are infused by God at the same time in order to reveal themselves to Him in all their weakness and guilt of sin. But this is a prerequisite for the forgiveness of sin, all external acts are mere symbols of what corresponds to God’s will but not the accomplishment of divine will.

When the spirit of God draws your attention to the danger you place yourselves in, you should not oppose it but be grateful to your Heavenly Father with all your heart for guiding you correctly, because you waste a lot of strength by fulfilling external formalities, which you should use for your inner progress. A heartfelt thought of devoted love will bring you infinitely more blessings than the eager fulfilment of ecclesiastical commandments, which were given to people without God’s approval. The representatives of these teachings once again took refuge behind a humanly evolved doctrine about the infallibility of the head of the Church in regards to spiritual laws.

Everything given to people from above is purest truth; however, through His messages from above, God is only expressing His will but He will never want to control or use coercive measures to make people obey. Because this would be in complete contradiction to divine love and wisdom’s emanated law of the beings’ voluntary deliverance. A humanly decreed commandment is an interference with divine ordinances .... commandments which impel people to commit actions, although officially their own will is prerequisite, will never be considered right by God. The human being’s will cannot routinely carry out its activity, in that case it is no longer free but already bound by the will of the person who, as a result of such commandments, allocates a specific time for people to perform their duty.

This is an immense human error which threatens to stifle the developing delicate seed of inner longing for God, unless a human being’s loving actions become particularly dynamic and spiritual enlightenment suddenly makes him realise God’s true will. Only then will he be able to liberate himself from a teaching which, due to human contribution, already deviates considerably from the teaching given to people by Jesus Himself on earth. The human being usually strives to fulfil his obligation, and this is the greatest danger for the soul .... For it does not consciously strive for perfection since it is effectively given a plan which it aims to implement, and by following the groundwork done by other people it is neglecting its own psychological task but is convinced that it is living a life which is pleasing to God, the Lord ....

Amen

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Concern for the souls' salvation .... Utterly unselfish neighbourly love ....

B.D. 1504 from July 5th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Every undisturbed hour should be used to work for the benefit of the human race .... Spiritual wellbeing should take precedence over earthly interests, because there is no time to lose. The demon likewise makes use of every opportunity to spiritually damage the human race, and so the opposing power must constantly be at work in order to prevent his actions; good spiritual forces must unite in their work against this power, and thus neither indifference nor carelessness may arise, which would only serve the adversary's purpose. For then he will only intensify his activity, he will also weaken people's determination and wear them out if they do not diligently work against him .... What's more, it is a transgression against the commandment of neighbourly love if people slacken in the battle for the salvation of souls which are in need of help. It should be your greatest concern to help those who are approaching their spiritual downfall. Don't leave them in their spiritual darkness and turn away from them indifferently, for they need your help. They are weak and no longer able to release themselves from the power of the opponent. In their dark and lightless surroundings they do not recognise their soul's adversity and therefore do not desire light. Even so, you should make an effort to kindle a small light and bring these poor souls a tiny glimmer of it, so that they will take notice and pay attention to your activity. You should leave no stone unturned in changing their indifference of spiritual knowledge into interest; you should show their thoughts the right path, your should educate them and beseech them to remember their soul and to understand the meaning of life; you should try to persuade them to have faith in Jesus Christ and explain that a life of love on earth is far more beneficial than only to live for selfish love, for the fulfilment of earthly wishes. You should not withhold anything from them which made you find the path of ascent; you should acquaint them with the teaching of Jesus Christ and the fact that they can only ascend through kind-hearted service. You should do everything possible which can guide these souls out of the spiritual night into the light of day. Then you will be kind-heartedly active in the truest sense of the word. This is the most unselfish neighbourly love because it only applies to a fellow human being's salvation of soul. This task requires infinite love and patience, for it is very difficult to persuade the beings in darkness to accept the Word of God; they will staunchly resist it, because the opponent himself is your strongest adversary and incites people's will into most powerful resistance. Nevertheless, a person's love can be victorious if these souls are tirelessly and patiently fought for with these very means of love .... Not the external person but the soul needs to be paid attention to, which is in a pitiful state and can no longer muster the strength to release itself from the opponent's shackles. Hence the love of an enlightened person, that is, someone who knows the truth, will recognise the adversity of such souls and not slacken in his effort for them. He will try to help them through heartfelt prayer, he will present this soul's hardship to the Father in Heaven and appeal to Him for strength to accomplish the redemptive work, if his own strength is not sufficient and the person's will begins to tire before the soul has been won over for eternal life. Therefore you should constantly be active with love, and give all your love to your fellow human beings' souls which suffer adversity. Don't let yourselves be depressed by failures but always desire the strength from God, then you will be able to solve the most difficult tasks, you will snatch the souls from the opponent and lead them to the heavenly Father, and these souls will be grateful to you for all eternity ....

Amen

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Spiritual marriage to God ....

B.D. 1505 from July 5th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The spirit's union with the Father-Spirit is the most sacred act a person's life on earth can result in, for nothing more beautiful can happen to him. However, only a few people will attain perfection on earth, which is the prerequisite for marriage to the Lord. Hence a person must have become pure love and denounce all earthly pleasures, then divine Love Itself will fulfil his yearning, which cannot be compared to earthly happiness nor can it be physically felt to the same extent as spiritually. An earthly environment also requires earthly feelings .... Marriage to God, however, is a spiritual process which can only be felt spiritually, it only manifests itself in an earthly way such that the human being is no longer quite as suitable for earthly life and constantly dwells in higher spheres. Consequently, this spiritual marriage will rarely take place as long as the human being still has to fulfil his earthly task, because this prevents the merger for obvious reasons. It keeps the person on earth and constantly draws the spirit back to earth and its duties. On the other hand, however, the person's will is the decisive factor, and thus someone firmly determined to attain God can reach his goal as well and still do justice to his earthly task, providing he requests the spiritual strength he is entitled to and uses it to deal with the earthly work, thus providing the earthly child with time and peace to send the spirit entirely unimpeded into higher spheres where it can unite with the divine Father-Spirit. The process of unification may demonstrate itself in various ways, because every person feels differently, therefore that which is given to a human being as supreme happiness must also be perceptible in different ways. Spiritual marriage can gain the person the audible Word, that is, the moment when the voice within the heart sounds as clearly and as audibly as a small bell is the moment of spiritual union with God. And this voice triggers an inexpressibly blissful sensation, for God's love will have taken complete hold of the earthly child and will draw it to Himself. But the union may also take place without any visible evidence .... so that the living creation, being aglow with love for the Lord, will feel seized by divine Fatherly love and be blissfully happy, yet this is physically not perceptible, instead, it merely expresses itself in the ability of spiritual vision. This is a very happy state for the earthly child but often makes it incapable of complying with earthly requirements which, however, leaves it unaffected, since it feels that its physical end is close. Spiritual marriage to God is almost always the sign of an imminent passing away from the world, but it will only be understandable to those who are also spiritually striving, whereas a purely earthly inclined person will merely pass an incredulous and unfriendly judgment, because his intellect is incapable of grasping a purely spiritual process ....

Amen

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'Draw strength from My Word ....' Prediction ....

B.D. 1511 from July 9th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

You should all draw strength from this Word of Mine. Consider that I Am coming down to you Myself in order to grant you support in your battle of life .... realise the fact that I will not leave My Own without comfort and strength if they are in need of it. Don't be content with only using My strength once, but want it all the time and it will flow to you in abundance. And thus I want to inform you yet again that you will be in desperate need of this strength, because the hour is not far-off which will deprive you of all sense of security, the hour which should bring you close to Me if only you would think of Me in your adversity. Then you will definitely raise your hands to Me in prayer and appeal for My help, and it will be granted to those who respond to My call, which you can only perceive in your heart. You will feel My presence, you will realise the gravity of the situation you are in, and that will make you take refuge in Me.

Remain faithfully devoted to Me in this adversity and it will pass you by. And draw strength and comfort from this Word of Mine in advance .... Accept Me in your hearts beforehand, lessen your resistance to Me by consciously handing your will over to Me, and don't doubt but believe, for this faith will keep the immense adversity at bay even if you are in the midst of the event. For the sake of the world My omnipotence has to be clearly recognisable to everyone, for the sake of the world this major event will come upon you, revealing to you My will and My omnipotence. And its effect can only be eased with those who believe and trustingly confide their hardship in Me, for My will controls life and death, and My will lets people suffer if it is necessary or spares them if they hand themselves over to Me.

And My will shall also shape happenings such that events shall only mildly affect My Own who are loyally devoted to Me. For it has to befall humankind in order to lead them back to Me, as far as it is still possible and the souls are not yet entirely hardened and deluded. I Am concerned about these souls and therefore use the last means, which appears to be cruel and yet offers the only prospect for their salvation. In order to make this hour bearable for My Own I give them comfort and strength through My Word in advance. Anyone who allows himself to be influenced by it will not fear the occasion. He knows about My love and care and puts his complete trust in Me .... he will not anxiously await the day but be fully confident of being led through all horrors. For I know My Own and My Own know Me ....

Amen

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Infallibility .... Ecclesiastical commandments ....

B.D. 1514 from July 11th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

You place too much significance on the infallibility of the head of your church, and yet you are hugely misguided. It was not God’s will that His church should be arbitrarily formed by people and in accordance with people’s will. Everything right and proper to maintain and spread His teaching was given by Jesus Christ Himself on earth to his disciples. He made the distribution of His teaching conditional on the individual’s will to accept it or not. His gave precise guidelines which applied to everyone who wanted to accept His teaching. These consist of the promises which were made on condition that people comply with the requirements of the Lord’s teachings.

He always respected the free will of the human being. The human being should make his decision voluntarily and without external pressure and thus fulfil God’s will. And to these people He promised eternal life .... Thus He only requires faith in Him and His Word when He says ‘I Am the way, the truth and the life .... I Am the means, the law and the fulfilment .... anyone who believes in Me will have eternal live ....’ His love wants to give something unimaginably wonderful .... eternal life. And for this He only requires people’s faith and their will. However, it is not His will to burden humanity, who is already living in a constrained state on earth, with new sins .... The restraints of someone who truly believes in Jesus and His Word will be loosened, however, someone who does not believe is already punished enough by his constrained state because he has to remain in it for an eternity. Anyone who disregards the Ten Commandments given to people by God Himself, anyone who defies them, commits a sin, i.e. he disobeys God Who is love, because he disobeys the commandment of love. He does nothing to liberate himself from his state, instead he does everything to make it worse. Fulfilling these commandments is the only means of release, while infringing against them is the very opposite.

The dogma of infallibility, however, became a new lawgiver for people in as much as the God-given Ten Commandments were increased by several more, so that the new ecclesiastical commandments more or less were added to God’s commandments and failure to comply with these laws was considered to be as sinful as acting in opposition to the God-given commandments. And this error has an appalling effect. Because people now burden themselves with entirely irrelevant yet duty-bound actions which are quite unrelated to the commandment of love for God and their neighbour. And now they only focus their whole attention on keeping these ecclesiastical commandments and on releasing themselves from presumed sins .... Thus the sum total of their soul’s task consists of complying with commandments decreed by people or to do penance for the guilt of the alleged infringement. And the soul’s dreadful bondage, which can only be resolved by love, is ignored by them ....

If these commandments had been necessary, truly, the Lord Himself would have given and preached the fulfilment of these to His disciples on earth first .... Thus people tried to improve Christ’s teaching arbitrarily and did not hesitate to give themselves divine approval for it. By deeming themselves to be enlightened by the Holy Spirit while still in a state far removed from it, they now decreed laws which could not be in accordance with God’s will. These laws considerably reduced people’s sense of responsibility for the God-given commandments due to the fact that the newly decreed commandments were now given the greatest attention, to an extent that humanity now observes them purely automatically and believes that it follows Christ’s teaching when it fulfils its imposed duty.

The truly enlightened human being is chosen by God to put a stop to this deplorable state of affairs, i.e. to reveal it. However, God can never have enlightened those who had decreed or approved such commandments. The infallibility of the head of the church is a distorted image of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Anyone inspired by the Holy Spirit will always have recognised the error of this set of laws but worldly-ecclesiastical power prevented them from correcting this momentous error. For these commandments did not come forth from the spirit of love .... Lawmakers had little interest in reducing the work for the struggling souls to achieve their final release. Rather, their motive for establishing these commandments was a craving for increased power and the will to lead people into a certain state of dependence, since at the same time the failure to observe the commandments was deemed to be a grave sin. True servants of God have always recognised this deplorable state and have wanted to confront it but the teaching of infallibility of the head of church is already too deep-rooted that it could be easily removed. And only someone looking for pure truth and asking God Himself for the truth and the spirit of inner enlightenment will be able to liberate himself from it ....

Amen

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‘You are Peter, the rock ....’

B.D. 1516 from July 11th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

Some gladness in receiving the following message is a prerequisite: the living faith is the rock upon which Jesus wanted to see His church built .... a faith so profound and steadfast like that experienced by Peter while the Lord was close to him. Thus Peter was an example for anyone who wanted to belong to the church of Christ. Because without this faith the teaching of Christ, i.e. His Gospel, could not be received .... Only faith affirms Jesus Christ and accepts Him as the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... If people were to accept what the disciples were spreading across the world they first had to believe in a God of love, goodness and compassion, in a God of omnipotence and wisdom, in a God of justice .... Only then could His teachings penetrate them as divine will, hence profound faith was a prerequisite. All His disciples were profoundly faithful, and therefore they accepted His teachings very quickly and endeavoured to do justice to the divine will which He had revealed to them. And by doing so they penetrated the knowledge of divine truth ever more, and this also developed their ability to teach in accordance with God’s will which would never have been possible if they had lacked faith. Thus the Lord says ‘upon you I will build My church ....’ And His church is the community of those who want to follow Jesus Christ; His church is the small community of those who firmly and steadfastly believe everything the Lord has said and done on earth; who, for the sake of this faith, make an effort to fulfil God’s commandments, who desire eternal life and thus live earthly life in accordance with God’s will .... The church is a community of believers ....

And when people are profoundly faithful no power in hell could ever disturb this faith and exercise control over such utterly devout people who only seek God and acknowledge Him as their Lord and Creator. Profound faith in God will always overcome the power of the adversary, because anyone who lives in faith also lives in love, and love is the adversary’s harshest opponent. Hence nothing is more understandable than the Lord using the most devout of His disciples as an example, that He makes firm faith a prerequisite of belonging to His church .... that therefore Peter exemplified this faith and that Jesus Christ wants to count all those to His church who are also profoundly devout .... It is so easy to understand these words, and how are they understood by the world ....

Amen

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‘Go and teach all nations ....’

B.D. 1517 from July 12th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The adversary’s greatest deception consists of clouding a person’s thoughts and making them comply with his plans.

If, however, the person humbly asks for the divine spirit, his thoughts will be right and he will clearly recognise the meaning of these Words. He will also recognise that the will to dominate had to disable the working of the divine spirit, that his thinking was misguided and therefore a false doctrine had to develop, which seriously distorted the divine Word. And God did not stop the human being, He did not interfere with the person’s free will .... He had taught the Gospel to His disciples and instructed them to pass it on by saying ‘Go and teach all nations.’ .... His disciples’ profound faith was the guarantee for the working of the Holy Spirit, and hence the disciples could not teach anything but the truth. Thus the assurance of truth for a teaching servant of God will always be found in his profound, thus living, faith ....

He will be a true follower of Peter and the church which Jesus Christ Himself founded but which was not ever supposed to represent a worldly power, instead it was meant to be spread only spiritually throughout all the nations on earth.

God has never given people the task to establish an institution on earth and then, within the context of humanly decreed commandments, to also include the pure divine teachings yet more or less demanding the compulsory fulfilment of the commandments, which is in opposition to divine will. The human being should accept Christ’s teachings within himself and endeavour to carry out God’s will with complete freedom of will. This doctrine should be offered to people by truly devout teachers wanting to serve God, who are then enlightened accordingly by God’s spirit when they proclaim this teaching.

However, the spirit of God can never express itself where a structure of worldly power has evolved and where the reinforcement of this power has been the sole purpose for the many regulations and commandments which were supposedly decreed with the help of the Holy Spirit, thus leading to the creation of the doctrine of the church leaders’ infallibility. The Holy Spirit is constantly at work to disprove these misguided teachings and to offer people clarification, but time and again human will is strong enough to reject the pure truth and to adhere to misguided teachings. And the human being’s will cannot be compelled to accept the truth, nor can it be compelled to acknowledge God as the giver of the knowledge which is presented to him as truth. It has to be up to himself to recognise the truth; however, much help for this is at his disposal .... Anyone with just a small desire for truth will be guided to it, and anyone willing, i.e. anyone seriously interested in walking the right path on earth, can at any time in his prayer ask for the strength of insight ....

Amen

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