Predictions – The Battle Against Jesus Christ

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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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

4034 - Announcements through seers and prophets....

5861 - False Christs and false prophets....

7243 - Spiritual and earthly turn....

The acts of the Antichrist

3672 - Antichrist.... End....

4029 - Antichrist - A saviour?.... Anti-spiritual activism....

4429 - Antichrist.... Brutal laws....

5606 - The Antichrist's influence before the end....

8734 - Emergence of the Antichrist....

The battle of faith - Fight against all mental attitudes

3947 - Unification of different schools of thought during the battle of faith....

4768 - Collapse of ecclesiastical organisations.... True church....

The battle of faith - Fight against Jesus Christ and His warriors

1526 - ?resNotTranslated?

1762 - Battle against Christ’s teachings.... Persecution of those who confess Him....

1804 - ?resNotTranslated?

2146 - ?resNotTranslated?

3678 - Christ problem....

8618 - Faith in Jesus Christ is in danger, therefore revelations....

Decision of faith in religious war

0754 - 3 years test of faith.... Christianity....

2365 - ?resNotTranslated?

3184 - God permits the battle of faith....

3209 - Signs of the last days.... Battle of faith.... Chaos....

6300 - Last decision of faith....

Strengthen the believers in the battle of faith by the forerunner of Jesus

6554 - Jesus' forerunner....

8231 - Christ's Forerunner....

9007 - Jesus' forerunner....

Fighter of Christ in the battle of faith - Confess Jesus Christ

0629 - ?resNotTranslated?

3261 - End battle with or without Jesus Christ....

5126 - Need of the last time.... many will still be recalled....

5719 - Strength of faith.... Antichrist.... Counteraction....

6617 - Confessing before the world....

8742 - Strong pillar of the church founded by God....

5654 - Day of Salvation or Day of Judgment?....

5309 - "I am the way, the truth and the life...."

Announcements through seers and prophets ....

B.D. 4034 from May 2nd 1947, taken from Book No. 49

What I proclaim to you humans through seers and prophets must be taken seriously .... Such is My will, and if you want to comply with My will then you should not half-heartedly and indifferently accept what My love gives to you. But you are indifferent if you indeed listen to My Word yet fail to arrange your life in line with My predictions, if you do not seriously strive for a change in your character and fulfil My commandment of love. With My announcements I want to warn you not to waste your life, I want to admonish you to still make use of the time remaining to you until the end, I want to stimulate your spiritual aspiration and guide all your thoughts so that you fully mature while you still live on earth. But if you do not take My Word, My prophesies, seriously, you will let all these instructions pass your ears by unheeded and My admonitions and cautions will have been futile. And when the hour comes that you are called away you will only be able to claim a poor testimony, for you will have failed on earth by not taking hold of My loving Fatherly hand when it was offered to you. If you have a spiritual guardian you must also unconditionally entrust yourselves to him for he will surely guide you in the right direction. But now, during the time of the end, I Myself want to be your Leader and Guardian, and if you only grant Me a little trust you truly need no longer take care of yourselves, neither bodily nor spiritually, for I Myself will take care of you, you only have to make sure that you constantly accept strength from Me which guarantees you the path towards ascent. And you can only receive this strength in the form of My Word. So if I give you the knowledge about the forthcoming event it is a very great blessing for you, for then you will have the opportunity to gain My affection with your right way of life, to such an extent that I will never leave you again, that I will take hold of you and pull you up to the pinnacle.

However, I now make it a matter of specific urgency, because you don't have much more time left to change your souls. And this is why I come close to and call you with every revelation, with every proclamation, and if you recognise the Father's voice you will also respond to it, like little lost sheep you will pay attention to the voice of the good shepherd, you will follow His call and it will be to your greatest advantage. But anyone who does not take notice of My voice will hardly find contact with Me, and once the hour of the end has come he will be weak and not turn his eyes heavenwards because he will still be far too earthbound. And this is what I want to avert from you, I want to help you and therefore repeatedly send to you My Word from above and with it also the reason for My Word, so that you take it ever more seriously, so that you listen to and read it whenever the opportunity presents itself. Believe My Word, believe that you won't have much time left until the end, so that you very seriously start your psychological task, so that you still receive many blessings from it, for the time is gravely serious and it is urgently necessary for you to try to imagine that the end will take you by surprise and you will not have time anymore for your actual earthly task. Listen to Me and believe My Word and it will always and forever fill you with strength, I Myself will be able to take care of you as soon as you look for Me in thought. And you will be able to master all difficulties because it is My will that much strength shall be sent to those who keep their faith in My might and love, and I will help them to progress spiritually ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

False Christs and false prophets ....

B.D. 5861 from January 24th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

And I keep telling you: The signs and miracles from My adversary’s as well as from My servants’ side on earth will increase, for many false Christs and prophets will arise on behalf of the prince of darkness in order to refute the teachings of My rightful servants .... in order to cast doubt on their miracles and prophesies and to plunge people into ever greater darkness .... Yet the false prophets’ miracles will only aim to increase earthly power and wealth, they will not perform deeds of love. Works will develop which are claimed to have been accomplished with supernatural strength, although they can only be described as an accumulation of material goods, thus they also betray the one who is lord over matter .... True miracles, however, are works of compassion for suffering and frail humanity .... True miracles are obvious effects of strength from above .... And true miracles can only be performed by those who work as rightful messengers of My Word on earth, who profess Me and My name before the world and try to awaken and revive the belief in Me .... Those who proclaim to people in My name what is about to happen to them are indeed true prophets. And I have chosen them because they combine the proclamation of the Word with evidence of the strength of faith in order to make people aware which strength and which spirit works through My representatives .... For many false prophets will arise in the end and try to confuse people by performing miracles .... My adversary will use the same methods, and he will find it easy to mislead people because he does not announce a decline but only ever promises earthly good living standards and earthly progress.

And his miracles consist of emphasising this earthly progress, since his miracles are humanly fascinating material developments and because his prophesy is a future of affluence, honour and earthly success, a world of economic development and earthly perfection. Every such prophesy receives attention, thereby diverting humanity’s attention ever further from what is genuine and true, which is proclaimed to them by My representatives on earth .... that people are approaching the end, that no amount of material possessions can save them from the downfall they will indisputably approach if they do not believe My Words but rather believe those who are influenced by the prince of darkness .... who indeed also perform miracles with his strength .... who are powerful on earth because they subjected themselves to him, but whose works can always be recognised .... For they do not express love, no help for needy fellow human beings can be recognised therein, even though they also use My Words, even though they hide behind My name in order to be accepted as true prophets .... Where love does not prevail My spirit cannot be found, and neither will there be miracles performed nor prophetic Words spoken, but My adversary’s activity will be clearly noticeable who, in the last days, will try anything to disperse My small flock and gain it for himself .... The time of the end has come, therefore take notice of everything I tell you so that you will learn to differentiate between genuine and false, between light and works of deception, between truth and untruth .... so that you will not fall into the hands of the one who wants to corrupt you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual and earthly turn ....

B.D. 7243 from January 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 76

You humans need never fear a change as long as you make an effort to live in accordance with My will, for then everything will come upon you as it is good for your soul, and I will also remember your earthly hardship and take mercy on you. For I do know which path every individual person takes, I also know which tests he still has to pass and which means I still have to use in order to help him progress spiritually. But I will no longer need to use such means which are so painful for him because I know his attitude which is meant for Me and because his will strives to reach Me. But a turning point lies ahead of you all, earthly and spiritual .... And it will involve much disaster, much suffering and many trials which cannot pass people by without affecting every individual. But they need not hit every individual hard but can be passed powerfully and still bring much blessing to the one who only sees My guidance in everything and devotedly submits to My will. And even if you still seem to enjoy great tranquillity, the turning point will come as surely as one day follows the next, because the day of the end is coming ever closer and by then much will still have happened which shall disturb your tranquillity and make you reflect on yourselves. Such a turning point will take place earthly and spiritually, earthly there will be much unrest and upheaval of the traditional .... and spiritually there will be an ever-increasing lack of faith, a battle of darkness against the light, an anti-christian approach against schools of thought .... the battle against faith will be waged everywhere, sometimes even under the guise of piety, of an earnest desire for truth .... only to eradicate the old and replace faith with a modern doctrine of wisdom, which, however, proves, aims at and achieves complete darkening of the spirit. The time has come when the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will be challenged by those who seem to want what is right and yet are welcome servants to My adversary when it comes to taking action against Jesus Christ and His teaching and to portraying everything connected with the person of Jesus as a legend .... And therefore the time will soon come when the adversary's activity will come to an end, for as soon as the existence of Jesus Christ is denied, as soon as people are deprived of the opportunity to freely take a stand on Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, the hour of the end of My adversary's activity will also have come and he will be put in chains again so that he will be unable to work against Me. And it can already be clearly seen how far he has taken hold of people who are without faith themselves and therefore good to use for his shameful plans. With full consent they join his arguments and doubt or deny Jesus' existence on earth in order not to have to decide for the divine redeemer and thus for Me in Him .... themselves. These people, too, are facing a spiritual turning point as long as they still lack the inner conviction to reject or acknowledge Jesus, but the possibilities are also open to all to make the right decision, all could come to the right realization with good will for truth and justice. But where this is lacking there is no clarity or deepest darkness is regarded as light and people remain in deluded thinking. But anyone who stands in the light of truth, who has already found the path to Me, need not fear this time of spiritual change either .... He will always brightly and clearly recognize the path he has to take himself, and he will also walk it unswervingly because he sees Me Myself at the aim and therefore also pursues the aim without looking backwards. And My messengers of light will come to meet him and help him where the path is steep and arduous, so that he will safely reach the aim, so that he will return to Me, to his father's house ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The acts of the Antichrist

Antichrist .... End ....

B.D. 3672 from January 31th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The spirit of the Antichrist has been in the world since Jesus Christ accomplished of His act of Salvation. He has constantly attempted to undermine His act, he has always and forever fought Jesus' followers, he has always and forever driven people into heartlessness, thus he has actively opposed Christ's will and teaching on earth, partly by means of spiritually confusing people's thoughts and partly, in human appearance, clothed in a gown of knowledge and intelligence. The teaching of Jesus Christ was opposed by a human teaching at all times which aimed to weaken it, thus it was antichristian, and this has always been Satan's work, the work of forces from below which intended to cause people's desertion from God or to obstruct their way to Him. And this antichristian activity is steadily on the increase and will be blatantly self-evident before the end .... Satan himself will be active on earth in human form, the Antichrist in person, whose activity will be extremely ominous for the whole of the human race. For he will initiate laws which aim to eradicate spiritually-minded thoughts, which will prevent all spiritual endeavour and intend to entirely secularize people. And this will be the last work of the one who fights against God, for he will be transgressing the limit of his authority, which is relentlessly punished by God .... The change of worldly events will be rapid, extensive worldly changes will occur in short succession and a ruling power will come to the fore by wanting to direct the state of affairs of all nations and, instead of order, will cause utter disorder. For his regulations will first and foremost apply to the suppression of all faith. He will find many supporters on earth, and that will be the sign for the End. For people won't resist it but will almost unanimously profess and celebrate him as a hero and victor whose goal they acknowledge and consequently also support.

And this will be the start of the most difficult time for believers. It will seem incomprehensible to them what is going on in the world, it will seem incomprehensible to them that God's love and patience allow His most sacred name to be slandered and ridiculed and Jesus Christ's followers to be ostracized and pursued in a most brutal way. Yet they penetrate the truth of the divine Word ever more, which has predicted all this, and thus they also faithfully commit themselves to God's guidance. The Antichrist rages in a most frightening way, he dazzles people by the actions he implements with support of strength from below .... Satan himself works through him as the opposing spirit of the One Who works in the living creations of love and faith, in people, who love God above all else and firmly believe in Him and thus have to suffer great adversities due to God's opponent. People will pay homage to him, they will erect altars, they will proclaim him as the Messiah bringing salvation to them, for he will achieve feats which will impress people, yet they will not be works of love but mere activities of arrogance and craving for power. He will work as a human being, try to explain his strength as human strength and oppose and deny everything that is divine, that points to and testifies of God. And his willpower will be rock hard .... He will give orders, and anyone resisting his command will be destroyed by him .... He will seek to prohibit all teachings of Christ, all knowledge of Him and His act of Salvation, he will try to drag everything through the mud and regally reward those who assist him in his quest against Christ, just as he, full of hatred, will also take actions against His followers ....

The Antichrist's stature will be recognisable by its external good looks, by his physical strength .... for Satan conceals himself so as not to be recognised for who he is. And his extraordinary abilities will draw humanity's attention to him, there will be no end of admiration. He will reside on earth in external splendour and grandeur, in contrast to Jesus Christ Who lived inconspicuously amongst his brothers, devoid of all earthly possessions with a love-filled heart for his fellow human beings. But the Antichrist's heart will be callous and unemotional towards all worldly hardship and yet humanity will jubilantly applaud him, blinded by his external brilliance and strength. He will appear suddenly and unexpected at a time of utmost earthly adversity and, with strong hands, promise relief, seize power and authority without meeting any resistance, because people only pay attention to the harsh conditions on earth and ignore this hero's spirit, who will want to distinguish himself and, with the help of like-minded people, elevate himself as a ruler. And then the end will be near .... For the resulting battle of faith will be the prelude to the entire work of destruction of earth .... It will only last a short time but with such intensity that it will require an extremely strong faith as not to succumb.

Yet once again God Himself will confront His adversary .... For He is in spirit amongst those who fight on His behalf, and the Antichrist runs in vain against the bastion of faith .... And he will fall from his throne into the mire of damnation .... His government will not last long but will cause unspeakable misery amongst the whole of humanity which will predominantly support him and abandon all faith in God, which will believe his earthly implementations and will thus finally also share the damnation, for it will be subject to God's adversary and therefore also share his fate. And this will be the End .... Jesus Christ will remain victorious and His church will continue to exist for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Antichrist - A saviour? .... Anti-spiritual activism ....

B.D. 4029 from April 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The spirit of the Antichrist is such that he will approach people in the disguise of a saviour although his will utterly opposes God in as much as he does not acknowledge a God of love, just as he, in fact, will reject all spirituality as supernatural and therefore unverifiable, thus non-existent. Even the nature of Christ will be so unfamiliar to him that he will be unable to believe in His act of Salvation and His mission on earth, and thus he will try to portray Him as a mere figment of imagination, making every effort to displace this illusion from people's hearts. His own nature is not the same as Christ's, and therefore it is understandable that he will regard and fight Him as a spiritual enemy.

The forthcoming Antichrist's personality will exceed the natural framework; he will be an extraordinarily gifted human being whose particular strength rests in his worldly self-confidence, in his conduct with those who are responsible for the well-being of the nation. And therefore he will be successful, he will be granted his aspired supreme control, it will be assumed that extensive reforms for the benefit of the general public can be expected through him. Everyone will accept him; he will exploit this superiority for all kinds of measures. But he will especially intervene against the supernatural spirit, against all religious groups as well as churches or spiritual movements which are based on Jesus Christ and His teaching, because he will depict neighbourly love as a state of weakness which has to be fought at all costs. And anyone who joins his endeavours is also regarded as an antichrist; he is considered God-opposing and will prove to be unkind to his neighbour and thus also live in spiritual blindness, since he belongs to Satan's realm. But as ruler over many the Antichrist will cause tremendous chaos with his measures, which will be devoid of all human kindness and only designed to bring hatred and discord amongst humanity, to stifle love and to descend it into utmost spiritual hardship. And then God's countermeasures will become of utmost importance, which will be explained by God's obvious activity through His servants on earth, because He, too, has to be recognisable on earth to those who belong to His side. He has to manifest Himself equally extraordinarily so that He cannot be rejected but has to be acknowledged by people who are willing to walk the right path, who either consciously or unconsciously approach the Creator of heaven and earth by asking for His help in times of spiritual suffering. And then the struggle between good and evil will become particularly intense, since the last hour is moving ever closer and the parting of the spirits has to take place by Judgment Day ....

This separation can only occur when people are seriously confronted by the choice to either acknowledge or deny God. This question will force their decision and in order to bring it about, the adversary will emerge openly by influencing his representatives on earth to take and enforce measures which exhibit hostile thinking towards God. And thus the last battle on earth will begin .... the battle of faith, the battle against Christ, with the result that people will finally decide for or against Him. And then comes the Judgment .... because they will turn for or against God of their own free will, and this free will they have to answer for. This conflict is inevitable as it distinctly highlights the Antichrist's nature, and all of humanity will then be able to assess the thoughts and actions of the one who appears in the disguise of a saviour in order to realise his shameful plans; who openly fights against God and therefore will be banished into the earth again for a long time, from where he cannot release himself until he is once again helped by people whose wrong love for matter will loosen Satan's chains. But it will never be possible to displace Jesus Christ, He will remain victorious on Judgment Day, and His teaching will fill all hearts. His followers will take it along at their rapture, and thus it will also be held in high esteem as spiritual knowledge on the new earth, it will be exemplified and people will live in utmost realisation and become aglow with the most profound love for God. And God's adversary will never be able to displace it because all power will have been taken from him for a long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Antichrist .... Brutal laws ....

B.D. 4429 from September 7th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

A visible power will control you which will refuse to acknowledge an invisible Power .... And this power will provoke your last test of faith, for it will be fighting against Me and will also want to educate you into becoming My adversaries. And this is why you will require your entire strength of faith in order to resist it. Many will bow down under the sceptre of the ruler promising them golden mountains but will demand the surrender of all faith in return, of all spiritual knowledge, the acknowledgement of his power and sovereignty and the denial of an eternal Creator, of a loving and righteous God, Who will call people to account one day for their will, thoughts and actions. And thus he will oppose Me, and although the last battle will not last long it will be very difficult for My believers because they will be placed under inhuman pressure which will make professing Christ incredibly difficult for them. Yet the knowledge of the pure truth, My obvious help and the hope of My coming and life in paradise on the new earth will give you the strength to persevere and to defy every onslaught on part of the worldly authority. You have My Word that I will not let you remain in adversity, you can be firmly convinced of that. I know My Own and will support every one of them if only they rely on Me, if only they believe in Me. But the one who will come will dazzle people with his intellectual sharpness, his comprehensive knowledge, with his easy-going conduct towards other rulers, and they all will grant him the right of organisational activities with the ultimate goal of displacing all spiritual schools of thought.

For he will try to portray spiritual striving as the wrongly applied energy of life, which should be used for the construction and improvement of earthly requirements. And he will find followers everywhere, who will acknowledge him and likewise proceed against all spiritual work. And thus My servants on earth will have a difficult time. At first the intention will be to take all means which enable you to be spiritually active away from you, but you will also be individually persecuted and will have to give account to the earthly authorities about your convictions and activities. Furthermore, you will also be plunged into earthly hardship as a result of laws which seem, and indeed are, extraordinarily hard and brutal for the believer if I was not going to manifestly stand by you and sustain you by spiritual means. And you will feel My obvious help, you will sense that I Am with you and know the hardship of every individual person which I will remedy when the time is right. The Antichrist will come and with him all the signs of the approaching end. For as soon as the battle of faith commences you can be certain that the end will not be long in coming, because the battle of faith will be waged with such severity and so brutally that I Myself will have to come in order to rescue My Own from deepest distress and lift them up into the realm of peace .... And then the last Judgment will happen and My adversary's power will be broken for a long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The Antichrist's influence before the end ....

B.D. 5606 from February 19th 1953, taken from Book No. 61

The influence of the Antichrist will also hasten the end, for then the hardship of My Own will reach its highest peak and necessitates My coming in order to put an end to this adversity. My adversary's only objective is to dethrone Me and put himself onto the throne, that is, to completely destroy people's faith in a God and Creator of eternity in order to be esteemed higher himself, in order to be venerated and feared like God .... He does not want to own people's love, only their submission, he wants to control everything and thus be supreme ruler. As long as people still have faith, as long as they acknowledge a Power above themselves to Which they will have to give account one day they will not yield to the one who demands something from them that is God-opposing .... And therefore the adversary will proceed against this Power by trying to eradicate the belief in Me, and this by brutal means which will make it difficult for My Own to remain faithful to Me .... Yet the strength to persevere will be provided to them by Me in abundance. I will so visibly reveal Myself to them that their faith will become increasingly stronger, that they will accept all detriment in the realisation that I alone can give and take and will truly repay what is inflicted upon them on earth.

The Antichrist's endeavour is to stamp out the Christian teaching .... to prevent all knowledge about Jesus Christ as Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... He openly declares war on Me .... And that is his end .... My adversary will embody himself in a person who is totally enslaved by him, i.e., he completely owns his soul and at first deceives people with all kinds of proceedings and favours which will guarantee him the support of large crowds .... And his speeches and activities will be a mask which conceals the most evil frame of mind .... He will be a master in knowing how to hide arrogance, lies and greed for profit, yet his lack of love will soon expose him, that is, only in the eyes of My Own, for towards his followers he feigns sympathy for all suffering which he, however, does not try to alleviate but only contributes towards increasing these afflictions. The believer will recognise him, for he badly has to suffer under his rule, yet anyone who complies with him, who openly renounces Me, will be treated by him like a friend and be worldly honoured and respected. And so there will soon emerge two parties .... the majority will follow him and only a small flock will remain faithful to Me in their attitude and actions. And these will constantly be at risk, because My adversary urges people to cause them harm wherever possible. The Antichrist will reward such actions against My Own in order to even make the last believers, who still offer resistance to him, desert Me.

This will be the start of a time of bitter distress for My Own and yet it will be bearable because they will be allowed to receive an exceptional gift of grace .... because I will show Myself where people are in danger of weakening .... I know each individual person's will and attitude towards Me, and I will truly not let My adversary gain the upper hand over his soul. Besides, the end is near and My believers are faithfully devoted to Me in their hearts, therefore I can show Myself to them beyond the law in order to grant them strength. And many people will get to see Me, and then no power on earth will be able to destroy their faith in Me .... Then they will also joyfully give up their life if I require it. But I will put an end to My adversary's cruel game .... When he believes himself to have won I will come in the clouds and judge the living and the dead .... I will fetch My Own before I accomplish the act of destruction of the earth and all its inhabitants. Prior to this the adversity will be immense, yet My love will save you and My might will place into chains the one who opposes Me, because his time is complete ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Emergence of the Antichrist ....

B.D. 8734 from January 24th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Not much time will pass before My adversary assumes his last dominion on this earth. But prior to this I will still speak with a voice of thunder, so that a few may still find their way to Me in utmost adversity, who then will remain faithful to Me because My obvious help enabled them to recognise Me and who therefore will not let go of their faith in Me again. Yet there will only be a few and therefore My adversary will wield great power, for the extensive natural disaster will cause people such severe hardship that they will join anyone who promises his help to end their misery. And one person will do so, he will win everyone over for himself who has not handed himself over to Me, for My Own will keep away from him, being mindful of My admonitions and warnings that the great battle of faith is about to happen, which will be incited by My adversary. Worldly people, however, will cheer him, for he will know how to dazzle them, and he will accomplish things which will make them inclined to believe in a supernatural power .... And precisely the fact that all unbelievers accept him as ruler and saviour from their earthly hardship proves that My adversary himself is involved, that he, as My adversary, avails himself of an earthly shell in order to be able to have a free hand. And you, who belong to My Own, will ask yourselves why I put up with this dominion of his and won't bring him down .... It is his last great campaign on this earth which will also bring about the ultimate end, he will instigate the flare up of the last battle in which you will have to prove yourselves, because it is the last decision before I come Myself to save My Own.

The earlier natural disaster had evoked a greater will to live in people, and anyone who had survived will try to acquire worldly goods again by any means, to attain earthly prosperity, and this striving will be supported by My adversary, who thus will find a huge number of followers. And he indeed knows how to deceive people about his true nature, they will see in him someone endowed with extraordinary strength, whom they unreservedly trust and give the right to issue instructions which they blindly obey .... And he will have so many supporters that the small flock of devout people, who recognise him and his true colours, will be unable to defend themselves from his attacks, but precisely because of this they will recognise him, that he wants to eradicate people's faith in Jesus Christ, that he wants to occupy the highest throne himself and have people worship him .... And so they will, because he will achieve true works of wonder with his remaining power. And you will know him when he appears, but first the world will be plunged into fear by the magnitude of a natural disaster .... through which I will reveal Myself to people ....

And directly afterwards he will appear and promise help and improvement from this enormous chaos. He will find many followers because people are ready for their downfall or they would recognise him and appeal to Me for protection from him and his machinations .... Not much time will pass before he appears, who at first will emerge under the cover of piety and yet very soon divulge his true nature. People, however, will be easily deluded and he will have a simple game with them .... They effortlessly relinquish their faith in a God because they were hard hit by the natural event and are willing to place My greatest enemy and opponent onto the highest throne, who embodies himself and his characteristics in a human being in order to set the final course of action on this earth in motion: to wage open battle against Me and My Own, against all faith and all justice .... For only his supporters will be provided by him with the means to live, whilst My Own will be threatened with death .... yet he shall find His Lord in Me as soon as his time is up, and for the sake of My Own I will shorten this time .... I Myself will come to save them from greatest adversity and his dominion will end; he, together with his followers, will be bound again for a long time .... And a new era of peace and harmony will start again .... where love shall reign and My adversary's activity will be prevented .... as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The battle of faith - Fight against all mental attitudes

Unification of different schools of thought during the battle of faith ....

B.D. 3947 from December 29th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

The various schools of thought will, due to their deviation from each other, always quietly fight each other in as much as each will try to lay claim to the truth and will therefore not want to accept the other. Yet, in the last days, they will all walk together, provided Jesus Christ's teaching is their basic principle and they confess His name. Then, all other differences will disappear into the background because every spiritual aspiration will be fought and every spiritual aspirant will therefore seek to meet other people of like mind. Thus, the teaching of Christ will emerge from every school of thought and their followers will belong to God's parish, to His church, which He Himself founded .... They will belong to this church because of their faith in Jesus Christ in spite of belonging to different schools of thought. Each one will discard external practices and customs and only pursue the inner connection with Jesus Christ, and each one will foster love, teach love and practise love.

The battle against all schools of thought will be carried out particularly brutally so that half-hearted people of little faith will fall away if they do not have a profoundly living faith because they will not be able to offer resistance, they will falter under the burden imposed on them by the world. The cause of their failure will rest in the error which can be found in every school of thought, when serious action against them forces them to think about it. Any person who lives within truth due to his loving actions and correct instruction by God's chosen servants will also muster the strength of faith and not waver during any hardship, because the truth will give him strength as well as perception. Thus, he will know of the approaching end and the salvation from utmost adversity by God Himself. However, he will not be able to find this perception through misguided teachings and his faith will falter and desert him when he is confronted by the serious choice to either confess Jesus Christ before the world or to deny Him. Then the person, whose works of love have made him receptive to God's truth, will be strong, he will offer resistance and need not fear any worldly measures because he will expect God's help which he will receive whenever his body or soul experiences hardship.

Then the church of Christ will only be small and followers of every school of thought will seek refuge in it, and every hatchet will be buried just as all outward appearances and ceremonial actions will fall by the wayside in view of the immense persecution which all followers will have to fear. For the individual's psychological development it is also beneficial for him to only take notice of the core, to recognise the Christian teaching of love as the core and thus his faith will be strengthened the more he abides by this teaching. The group of believers will get smaller, it will only be a small flock but they will live in the truth, in the right knowledge, and they will survive the hardest trials of the last days and emerge as victors, because the church of Christ will be victorious and embrace all who live in love and faith, who acknowledge Him before the world and are filled by His spirit as a result of their continuous actions of love .... The defenders of Christ will join together from all schools of thought and face up to their last battle, and God Himself will be their commander-in-chief. God Himself will protect them, the shield of faith will cover them and make them invincible .... they will fight in the name of Christ and victory will be on their side ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Collapse of ecclesiastical organisations .... True church ....

B.D. 4768 from October 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

The last days will be preceded by a time when My Word and everything referring to Me as Creator and Provider will come under attack. People will intend to destroy the faith in a Deity, which thus will signify an open battle against everything of a spiritual nature. Ecclesiastical organisations and their supporters will be affected most, because measures will be taken against every externally identifiable representative of My kingdom and My teaching. As a result, I will awaken messengers of My Word outside of these organisations, who are called by Me to spread My teaching, for they are in possession of the full truth and therefore also suitable teachers for their fellow human beings in the last days. For it will be necessary during the last days before the end to strengthen people's faith or to awaken it, because only then will they start to think about the reliability of teachings which were passed down to them through tradition. And they will realise that I Am not with those who only associate with Me through the church, who believe themselves privileged due to their affiliation to a particular church ....

Indeed, I love each one of My children, but if a child does not fulfil the Father's will by not using its bestowed gift of intellect and thereby activates its intellect and heart in order to know when it is doing My will, to recognise when false prophets pretend to be My messengers, the child will distance itself from Me and only find its way back to Me with difficulty. They, too, constantly receive My Word from Me, I constantly approach them by trying to give them the information directly, that is, by sending them My messengers to enlighten them, yet they do not accept instructions and can therefore no longer be excused if they stray onto a wrong path. However, once people lose their church due to My adversary's actions, only people who are truly devout and so intimately connected to Me that I can always be close to them, will not falter. They will not be affected by the harsh measures and brutal laws, for they know where to find the true church of Christ and will merely defend My Word with ever increasing eagerness, even though they will not be safe from the pursuits of those who fight against everything that is related to faith.

All of you, however, will still have to make your decision, and only your inner conviction that you know the truth, which is proven to you by the Word I conveyed to you Myself, will then give you the strength to offer resistance. Then you, and all those who listen to you and want to serve Me, will use all their power of persuasion, and nothing will disturb them, for then they will know that they only need to wait a short time until they will be happy. They will know that everything external can certainly waver but not the church which Jesus Christ founded on earth .... the true church, which cannot be overcome by the gates of hell. Nevertheless, untold people will lose their faith, they will find it incomprehensible that I will not protect the church they regard as 'founded by God', and they do not call themselves to account as to whether or not they are members of the church founded by Me, because they are not allowed to think about it.

And thus, something that people regard as invincible will fall apart. It will collapse like a house of cards because it is a human structure that cannot last. Yet My Own will not be overcome, they will have the strength of faith that offers resistance because it finds My support. They will receive the strength from Me because they firmly believe in Me and therefore belong to My church which cannot be overpowered by the gates of hell. However, it will be a difficult time to which I will refer again and again in order to remind you, who belong to Me, to prepare yourselves, to constantly accept strength by receiving My Word and through deeds of love .... The time of battle is close at hand and then you must be forearmed .... you have to stand firm when those who hold on to an external belief fail, who deem themselves living in truth without ever contemplating what they are expected to believe. They will waver and fall away, but you should stand firm and provide the evidence that an inner, living relationship also results in a living faith which will provide you with the strength to endure to the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The battle of faith - Fight against Jesus Christ and His warriors

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Battle against Christ’s teachings .... Persecution of those who confess Him ....

B.D. 1762 from January 2nd 1941, taken from Book No. 27

It is indisputably better to confess before the world to belong to the church of Christ than to be subject to the adversary’s will and to deny Christ. For whoever is powerful in the world has nevertheless no power to stop what God will send against him. Whoever denies Christ, denies God, even if he mentions His name as proof of his faith .... For if he is profoundly faithful he will also recognise the Deity of Christ, because then he has love and love affirms Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Saviour of the world. This insight is the result of profound faith. However, unbelief prevents the human being from recognising the Deity of Jesus. Therefore, where Jesus Christ is rejected there is evidence of the human beings’ unbelief and such people belong to the world which openly opposes Jesus Christ. And the world will demand to reject Him completely, it wants His name no longer mentioned, it wants to erase all memory of Him and raise subsequent generations in ignorance; it wants to destroy everything that refers to Him and thereby suppress the knowledge of Him and His works. And thus the battle erupts ....

Those who follow Him will defend His name, confess Him to the world and readily speak on His behalf and of His teachings .... They will be pursued and yet patiently endure persecution for His name’s sake, they will receive strength from above and the more they are attacked the more eagerly they will proclaim His teachings. God’s power will visibly be with them, his love protects them and the mighty of the world will have to realise that their power is futile. They will have to acknowledge a greater power Whose work is evident. They become outraged and now strive to impose their will by any means and for that reason they shall be punished by God’s hand .... For when human beings arrogantly want to fight against God Himself they are completely controlled by the adversary and then God will put an end to this .... Hence the time will come when laws upon laws are endorsed and people will be placed into a position to choose for or against Christ .... The supporters of the world will let go of Him for mere rewards; they will gain earthly advantages and sell their soul. And many will give up what should be their holiest possession .... the divine Redeemer and Saviour of the world .... Yet those who suffer persecution for His name’s sake will be blessed a thousand-fold because He Himself will approach them and lead them into battle and victory will be where He Himself is in command. And even if it seems as if the enemies’ intentions might succeed, the battle only lasts a short time, but those who fight for the name of Jesus will be victorious ....

Amen

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Christ problem ....

B.D. 3678 from February 6th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

The people of this earth fail at the Christ problem in the last time before the end. And that is because they themselves are devoid of all love and therefore cannot and will not recognize the greatest love. And since the teaching of Christ completely contradicts their desires and their behaviour, it is being attacked as an obstacle to the work of reconstruction which they intend to undertake after the work of destruction which the natural catastrophe has accomplished. They see Christian doctrine as a stumbling block to the execution of their plans, and therefore they declare war on Christ. Complete ignorance and a diabolical attitude are the driving forces of this battle, through which they also want to deprive the knowing followers of Christ of their last support for the sake of earthly goods. For every disposal contradicts the divine commandment of love. People will be forced into a way of thinking which will completely shape them into devils if they don't defend themselves and take refuge in the one Who alone can grant them help against satan and his servants on earth .... to Christ, Who again presents Himself to them for battle .... Christ is not acknowledged, for people try to eradicate everything divine on earth, but they neither recognize Christ as divine nor as redeemer of humanity, and therefore He is openly belittled, His name is mocked and ridiculed and His followers are harassed in the worst way. And more necessary than ever is His confession to the world .... For He alone imparts strength to people if they acknowledge His act of salvation, He alone has power over satan and He alone strengthens people to resist; without Him, however, the human being is powerlessly exposed to satan’s power, without Him he is in firm chains from which he cannot free himself. And that is why the bearers of truth are given particularly clear information about the problem of Christ, so that they can inform all who desire information about it. It is explained to people that only love constitutes the divinity of Jesus' humanity, that through love every human being shapes himself into a divine being, into a child of God, and that through love every human being achieves extraordinary abilities, because love in itself is a strength which has eternal love as its starting point and is effective in every human being who has become love .... so that people will now also understand that they must never ever reject Christ and His teaching if they don't want to go down into the kingdom of darkness, where weakness and eternal darkness of the souls is the lot. Every battle against Christ as the bringer of the teaching of love and thus the divine guide to strength and light will therefore result in the most severe and painful consequences if it is not passed, if the fighter does not take Christ's side, where he can never be defeated. And whatever is demanded of people in the last days .... who walk with Christ and stand up for Him and His teaching will have extraordinary strength to defy all worldly demands .... But those who deny Him, who as satan’s servants help him to eradicate Christ and His teaching, will be judged, for their devilish attitude cannot find mercy with God on the day of judgment. Ignorance is no excuse because every person is given sufficient opportunity to think about Christ and His act of salvation, about His mission and His teaching of love on earth, and it will not be difficult for anyone willing to find understanding for a problem which only remains a problem as long as the human being does not concern himself with it. Anyone who lives in love knows what strength love is, and he also knows that the God-man Jesus only possessed the extraordinary strength because His nature was pure love .... And if people are not to fall prey to the prince of the underworld completely without strength they must acquire strength through love .... they must follow Jesus Christ, they must acknowledge Him and His teaching, they must keep His commandments which only require love, and they will remain victorious over all powers of the underworld, for they contend with Jesus Christ, Who is and will remain invincible for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faith in Jesus Christ is in danger, therefore revelations ....

B.D. 8618 from September 16th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer of the world will dwindle ever more, for everything will be done on the part of the adversary to place doubt and rejection into people's hearts .... and since no direct evidence can be produced, only faith in Him will ever have to be strong so that people will not succumb and completely exclude Him from their thoughts, which, however, signifies great spiritual darkness with the danger of falling back into the abyss. But this is the plan of the adversary so that he does not lose his following, which only Jesus Christ can wrest from him through His death on the cross when man believes in this His work of redemption. That is why the most unbelievable assertions are made, which all amount to denying an existence of Jesus completely or to put Him down as man like every other man, to call all His miracles until His resurrection from the dead a lie or legend and therefore to deny the whole work of redemption and to make it ineffective. And the adversary finds many receptive ears for his work of lies, who are all too willing to believe him because they do not want to believe in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... but just as he also shakes the faith of those who are indifferent and not fully convinced of the teachings concerning Jesus Christ .... And even these easily separate themselves from their former views .... and only he who earnestly seeks the truth can have his faith strengthened again, for it will be clearly given into his thoughts what the redemptive work of Jesus Christ is about, or he will gain exact knowledge through My word, because this is the most important reason for the transmission of My word to earth, that people will be truthfully informed about the act of salvation so that they will take the path to the cross and fulfil their most important task on earth, to seek forgiveness of their original sin from Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Because you men can only then speak of success in earth life when you become free of your original sin in this, and that alone only requires the acknowledgement of Jesus and the intimate request to Him for forgiveness of all sin. Then your existence as man was truly not in vain, then the aim has been reached by you, which however can never be reached without Jesus Christ. Redemption through Jesus Christ means complete solution and becoming free from the enemy of your soul, who then has lost all power over you men. But that he wants to prevent this with all means (in every way) is understandable, and that is why he also reaches for all imaginable plans (means) to take all faith in Jesus Christ from men. And since men in the last time before the end are also completely without love, they also possess no living faith, which would withstand the onslaught of the opponent, but they voluntarily also give up their weak faith; they accept erroneous teachings without hesitation to also shake off all responsibility, because they then also hardly believe in a God, Who once demands account from them for their walk of life. But My counteraction will now also take effect to a greater extent, and what cannot be made credible to people through evidence will be proven through the 'working of My spirit', and clear knowledge will be given to people as a result, and Jesus' act of salvation will also be truthfully explained and substantiated. These clarifications of Mine give such an understandable picture of the mission of the man Jesus that this human being comes to a convinced faith who is only serious about standing in truth .... And whether it is only few, but these also represent their knowledge, and the opponent will no longer be able to shake their faith. For they need no evidence, because the evidence alone is the 'working of the spirit', which also only became possible through Jesus' death on the cross and which only ever imparts pure truth to the human being and explains all spiritual correlations, so that the human being can no longer doubt .... But he has free will, and he can withdraw himself from the influence of My adversary, but as he also can be at his will and closes himself to pure truth. And the adversary's activity will become ever more apparent until he will finally also want to eliminate Me Myself and also want to deprive people of their faith in a God and creator, in a power which stands and works above all things .... And then his hour has also come, then he exceeds his authority and thereby ends even the time of his work on this earth .... Then he will be bound again for a long time, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decision of faith in religious war

3 years test of faith .... Christianity ....

B.D. 0754 from January 24th 1939, taken from Book No. 16

Every task involves a certain commitment and the earthly child should always vigorously strive to meet this and not allow mediocrity to creep in since a work such as this demands great dedication and is too vast to be likened to daily routine work. And thus you are advised to give all your will and devotion to this work that it should not suffer any loss on account of trivialities. And now begin:

It will take three complete years for Christianity as a whole to pass its test of faith, to either become strong within itself or to completely abandon its faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour of the world .... And during these three years a clear separation will be distinctly noticeable because the world and its followers endeavour to achieve a total separation from faith, whilst the others unite ever more firmly and devote themselves ever more deeply to their Saviour and Redeemer. The latter flock will be much smaller indeed and for this reason great hardship must still afflict the world to save what is not yet completely bound by Satan. The large community of those who deny the Lord are approaching a dreadful time. The Lord is without mercy when His Words and advice are no longer heeded and are ridiculed and laughed at. It is of vital importance to realise that time after time the Lord seeks to approach the human being with love and kindness and that He meets ever more hardened hearts .... that His intention always concerns the return of His fallen children and is not understood, thus leaving only one way to soften their hearts, and all clemency and mercy would be in vain, as these are ignored. Human beings can only return to their Creator by way of much grief and distress, even then it has to come from the heart because the Lord takes no notice of empty prayers, and after that there will be another separation which can yet deceive the ignorant in the final hour. A heartfelt sigh towards the Father of infinity suffices to deliver a child from gravest peril .... But those who are not praying in spirit and in truth will call in vain as their call cannot be heard; and thus there will not be many who acknowledge their relationship with the Father in the last hour, but for the few it will truly be a blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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God permits the battle of faith ....

B.D. 3184 from July 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

People will experience serious psychological conflicts as a result of worldly laws, and this time is not far away. They will be required to openly declare their faith, and God allows this to happen because it is necessary that people should give serious thought to the question of their salvation which they had disregarded so far. He allows them to be put under pressure by the earthly power, to experience serious difficulties due to their faith, so that they have to make a clear decision regarding their belief. He allows every human being his freedom, that is, God will not force anyone to acknowledge Him if he is not warned by his inner voice to remain loyal to God and thus feels the inner urge to confess Him before the world. God will indeed allow this inner voice and observer to speak where there is still doubt and the human being is weak-willed. He will help all those who are hitherto undecided, He will send them devout people and through them touch their hearts, He will come close to everyone in His Word, in suffering and in need; He will reveal Himself to them, and with the good intention to recognise God and to fulfil His will a human being will also know how he should decide, because then the beings of light, who care for him, will also guide his thoughts right. But many people will discard what should be their most precious possession .... their faith in Jesus Christ as the divine Saviour ....

They will choose the world without hesitation and cause serious distress to their souls. And God cautions them in advance by confronting them Himself through His servants .... by teaching them to know the strength of faith and thus giving them remarkable evidence which can result in faith if they are not entirely opposed to God. And for that reason He will allow the battle against the faith, He will allow it to assume shapes which indicate the depravity of people because He Himself wants to speak during this time in order to save those people who need a convincing reason to believe. Therefore He will not prevent the earthly power when it openly advances against people who confess God. And then people are forced to make a decision, and this decision is vitally important for the souls as it will determine the soul’s fate in eternity, whether it will awaken to life or to death after it departs from this earth. To help people make the right decision God will try beforehand to make them understand, He will try to influence them through His earthly and spiritual servants who will help them if they are uncertain what they should do. But He will not force their will and therefore it is necessary that people are compelled by earthly means to make a decision in order that the freedom of their actions is guaranteed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Signs of the last days .... Battle of faith .... Chaos ....

B.D. 3209 from August 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

To specify (know?) the moment of spiritual change would not benefit humanity since the precise knowledge is an interference with free will, because at the approach of the predicted time the human being would feel obliged to change his way of life. But it is not God's will that people shall receive knowledge of the day and hour when He sits in judgment over them, they shall only know that the end is near and by the signs of the time become aware of this end. However, if devout human beings ask Him for clarification He will answer them in a manner that is helpful for the salvation of their soul ....

The Last Judgment is preceded by the last days, which last just a few months and are characterized by an exceptionally rigorous battle of faith. As soon as this battle of faith is carried out quite openly, as soon as all secrecy is ignored and all spiritual aspirations are bluntly and recklessly attacked, as soon as laws and decrees are endorsed which prohibit people's spiritual pursuits, as soon as all divine commandments are no longer observed, as soon as all believers are persecuted and have no more rights, the last days have entered into their final phase and the Last Judgment can be expected daily and hourly .... However, before this battle of faith flares up, humanity will find itself in a spiritual and worldly chaos; there will be noticeable regression in every respect. And this regression will be initiated by people who are dominated by Satan. He will show himself in earthly devastation and destruction, in heartless laws, in a God- opposing way of life, in civil disobedience and rebellion against the governing powers and in brutal oppression by the latter, in restriction of freedom and in evasion of law and justice.

These conditions will ensue after a huge earthly tremor, which takes place in accordance with God's will in order to terminate a conflict between nations that human will fails to end. For the people who are affected by this earthly tremor it will denote a change of their accustomed way of life, it will be a time of greatest deprivation and most difficult living conditions, and although this time will be favourable for the spreading of the divine Word it will not signify a revival of a worldly-clerical power. People will indeed eagerly strive to improve their earthly living conditions but these efforts will not be compatible with spiritual aspirations, with the belief in an Authority Which holds them to account and with the divine commandments that require love. And that is why everything that interferes with the return to the former good living standard comes under attack. Thus the battle of faith will start soon after the divine intervention which turns global affairs into a different direction. The events will follow each other quickly as they are hastened by people's low spirit, and this spiritual low shows itself in people's heartless actions, in their thinking, which shows extreme depravity and which prepares deeds that can only be called satanic. And thereby you can identify the moment in time when God's intervention can be anticipated. The global affairs themselves shall be a timetable to you, by the actions people are capable of doing you can see that they have totally distanced themselves from God and this clearly contradicts the opinion that this human race can still expect a spiritual renaissance.

The people who faithfully remain with God will indeed intensify their intimate relationship with Him, they will be in truth His church which will stand firm amid misery and affliction, but it is just a small group. The world, however, denies God, it is hostile towards all who support God, and this spiritual need signifies that the end is near .... Therefore pay attention to the signs of the time, pay attention to humanity's conduct, to their desertion of God and their preference of the world, when people are evidently influenced by Satan, when they are enslaved by him and do everything to disobey the divine commandments, when nothing is sacred to them any longer, neither the life of their fellow human beings nor their possessions; when lies triumph and the truth is treated with hostility you know that the end is not far. Then you can watch the events unfold as they are revealed to you, because it will all take place during the lifetime of a man who, in a manner of speaking, hastens the disintegration, who pays homage to the destructive principle, who is not constructively but destructively active. And this man's end is also the end of the world, i.e. the end of the world in its present form and the end of those people who presently inhabit the earth, which are separate from those who belong to God. And now you know that there is not much time, that you are not given a long period of time and that the end is upon you shortly. And for this reason you have to prepare yourselves, you have to live as if every day is your last because you don't know when you will be called back and whether you will live to see the end of the earth. If, however, you are needed as defenders of God during the time of battle before the end, God will also guide your thoughts correctly and you will know when the time has come .... the time of the divine intervention by means of unleashing the forces of nature, the time of the battle of faith and the time of the Last Judgment .... It is God's will that you make people aware, thus He will also enlighten your spirit and guide your thoughts in a manner that you understand correctly and only voice and reveal to your fellow human beings what you have understood properly ....

Amen

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Last decision of faith ....

B.D. 6300 from July 1st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You will be faced with the decision to confess Me or to deny Me, and this will be the prelude to a battle of faith such as has never been fought before. For it is My adversary's last work that he will try to completely oust Me from people's hearts because he believes he can overthrow Me in order to then take over the reign himself. And since this battle is waged using the most brutal means of coercion, since it is not a free decision of will which in no way uses threats or promises as weapons, this is an overstepping of My adversary's authority .... it is an open action against Me with which My adversary pronounces his own judgement: that he will be bound so that he can no longer exert any influence on people .... But for people it is doubly difficult .... not only that this decision affects those who are not yet quite clear within themselves or to whom the denial of Myself means nothing more .... but also those people who stand by Me and want to fully confess Me will be put into a difficult situation by coercive measures, so that they will truly have to endure a difficult inner battle in order to be able to prove their loyalty to Me, for they will have to completely end earthly life, even if it is still left to them physically .... They will have to give up everything they own and will live a meagre existence as disenfranchised and outlaws .... And this is the time of which it is written: "I shorten the days, lest the elect yet falter ...." They will only need to suffer for a very short time and will be so extraordinarily strengthened by Me during this time that they will not regret their decision but will inwardly rejoice and exult in the certainty of My love, power and glory .... And they faithfully await the day of their salvation .... Only those who consciously close their eyes to the world and only await My coming will be overcomers and able to enter the paradise of the new earth .... And I know My own, I know who is capable of surviving this time of terror for the believers and withstanding satan's last rage on this earth .... Nevertheless, I draw all people's attention to this, for the weak can still educate themselves into strength of faith, because only firm will is necessary in order to also receive the strength to confess My name before the world. Anyone who still maintains too strong a bond with the world, who still stands in the midst of the world and is unable to detach himself from it, will succumb to the measures which are enacted in order to break My own's will .... And he can consider himself blessed if I snatch him from the midst of life and spare him the fall into the abyss .... But this decision has to be demanded first, so that satan can also finish his game, so that he exposes himself, that his action is open battle against Me Myself .... For limits are set for him which he may not transgress but which he does not observe and therefore he will be put in chains anew. But afterwards humanity will also enter a state of peace and bliss on the new earth, for it can no longer be displaced by the enemy of its souls .... And thus a period of redemption will come to an end and a new one will begin again, as it has been intended since eternity .... Much is demanded of you humans during the time of this battle of faith, but it also brings the highest rewards to those who pass it .... And you humans can pass it if only you firmly and intimately unite with Me beforehand, if you have the earnest will to become and remain My own for all eternity .... Then I will never ever let you fall into his hands, then I will supply you with strength and also be with you Myself in greatest adversity .... And those who need unusual strength will be able to see Me, and they will stand firm until the day dawns when I Myself come to save My own and fetch them into a kingdom of peace .... when the time is fulfilled and the end of this earth has come ....

Amen

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Strengthen the believers in the battle of faith by the forerunner of Jesus

Jesus' forerunner ....

B.D. 6554 from May 25th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The higher development of the soul is the human being's task on earth .... Yet only few are aware of it, only few question the purpose and goal of their existence .... The majority only strive for prosperity, for everything that provides the body with a sense of well-being. But all people have the gift of intellect, all people would be able to question themselves about the purpose and goal of earthly life, and all people would also receive an answer .... for it is the first step of ascent. However, since people think no further than their death, since they seldom believe in their soul's life after death, the question of their earthly welfare is more important to them and they consider their earthly activity and work a priority .... They lack faith .... for even if they had just a little faith they would not find inner peace regardless of their earthly comfort .... The more the end approaches the less faith can be found amongst people ....

This is why unusually devout people will arise in the last days who can also carry out unusual feats and draw people's attention to themselves, for God will truly still try everything so as to help those who just require such unusual stimulation in order to become aware of the purpose of their lives. These people are beings of light who are embodied on earth for the purpose of a mission, who want to remedy people's adversity and therefore live on earth in the flesh without realising their origin. Their strong bond with God which they, however, establish voluntarily as human beings just like all their fellow humans would be able to do, gives them extraordinary strength .... For they have a loving nature and thus their belief is so alive that it expresses itself in unusual activity .... by proclaiming Jesus Christ with a living faith and in practical help of body and soul in His name .... On account of such people many can still come to believe, for they clearly demonstrate a strength which cannot be explained in an earthly way. People shall be helped to find faith and simultaneously shown the path to God for which, in view of the entirely incredulous human race, unusual means must be used which nevertheless will not force them to believe.

More and more awakened people will prove their strength of faith the nearer it is to the end .... Until a bright light begins to shine .... Until someone appears who announces the imminent arrival of the Lord and prepares the way for Him again .... His light will shine brightly in all directions .... For his appearance will soon become known, and although he will be a source of strength and comfort to many people, the majority will nevertheless meet him with hostility since they belong to God's adversary and on his instruction take action against everything of a divinely-spiritual nature and particularly persecute those who speak in Jesus' name and proclaim the near end .... Yet precisely because God's adversary will proceed with extraordinary brutality during the last battle on this earth, the extraordinary light will be sent to earth .... once again a spirit of light will embody itself on this earth as it is written .... Once again he will precede the Lord and proclaim His coming, and once again he will make himself known as a 'voice in the wilderness' .... And he will know who he is yet unassumingly live his earthly life, which will also be sealed with his death again.

But all people faithful to God will draw strength from him and time and again be lifted up when the adversity of the time seems to knock them down .... For he speaks on God's instructions .... God Himself speaks through him to people. They will also realise the important mission of Jesus Christ's forerunner and therefore fully consciously expect the Lord's arrival and won't doubt that they will be delivered from greatest distress. By the time the former appears the time will have come which has been constantly announced by seers and prophets, for when he comes the adversary's activity, which affects the believers so extraordinarily, will be so obvious that they will also need extraordinary help .... For he will let his light shine, sending its rays far and wide .... People everywhere will hear about him and the believers will know who hides behind this light, and thus they will also know which hour has struck. Yet despite hostility and a ban on speaking Jesus Christ's forerunner will continue steadfastly along his course .... He speaks on God's instructions and recognises no other Lord than the One he serves .... And his speeches will ignite hearts; they will strengthen the weak to muster the courage to die for their belief ....

However, every human life rests in God's hand .... He alone knows when the hour of deliverance will strike, when His coming to earth and the removal of His Own will take place .... And His forerunner, too, knows his end but even his death will still be a service to his Lord .... For he will bring the work of glorification to completion, as a result of his death God's might and glory will be revealed .... For only One rules over life and death and this One will prove Himself as Lord, as victor over His adversary when the last day comes .... He will give life to those who believe in Him .... and all who are enslaved by His adversary will fall prey to death ....

Amen

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Christ's Forerunner ....

B.D. 8231 from August 2nd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

My Own will recognise him, the voice in the wilderness, who will announce My appearance as I predicted .... For his light will radiate brightly and his speech will be powerful .... And he will not shy away from strongly criticising the authorities in his speeches, because I will send him to earth in order to fulfil his final mission by preaching about the end of this earth and announcing My coming on the day of Judgment .... Those who belong to Me will be strongly affected by the strength of his words, and they will realise that it won't be long before I Myself arrive in order to deliver them from their adversity. But before that you humans will time and again come to the wrong conclusion and assume to recognise him in many people .... However, I say to you 'You won't need to ask but will know that it is he whom I have sent ahead of Me ....' For when he appears My adversary will already be at work embodied in a ruler who proceeds against all spiritual aspirations, against faith, and through his accomplices will also badly pester My Own to desert Me and acknowledge him instead ....

Then you will be able to see the beginning of the battle of faith already and therefore receive incredible comfort through My forerunner, for then you will also know that the end is not far away .... For his mission on earth will not last long, just as the Antichrist will be easily recognisable, who will not be granted a long lifespan either .... The forerunner will come and reinforce your faith, he will testify to Me and announce My coming with such powerful words that My Own will draw strength from his words and thus endure until the end, for I Myself will help them in their distress which this last battle of faith entails .... The voice in the wilderness will not let himself be restrained and will quite openly condemn the people who treat My Own with hostility .... He will denounce their actions as detestable and always enjoy My protection when they attack him, until his hour also comes, for once again he will pay for his mission with his death, and that, too, shall not frighten you who are My Own, but only strengthen your belief that you know the truth, that you can expect everything to happen as I have told you through My spirit.

A period of time nears its completion which was given to you humans for your release from the form, yet I will help you until the last day to find the right faith in Me, and the 'forerunner', too, will be sent so as to strengthen your faith .... Anyone who wants to recognise him will recognise him .... Anyone who rejects his word is plainly My adversary's follower and will also reject Me. Yet the light from above which will shine so very brightly cannot be overlooked, his powerful word cannot be ignored, and his life and activity on earth during the last days will be so evidently recognisable as 'divine' activity, that everyone will be able to recognise him and no longer needs to question whether it is him. And My adversary will want to work in the same manner again by trying to cause confusion and suggest to his followers that he can be seen here and there, and thus it requires a close bond with Me in order to distinguish properly and to think correctly .... This is why I repeatedly let you know that he will only make his appearance when My adversary has also prepared the right external form for himself, in which he will then work to the horror of the believers, for he has great power at his disposal and will employ it to wage a relentless battle of faith ....

And then the one who is sent by Me will make his appearance, and he will publicly denounce the former and not be afraid of him, and thereby you will recognise him, for he will use the strength at his disposal in My name, he will also heal the sick and perform miracles and thus be even more fiercely attacked by the authorities who try to kill him and achieve his violent death .... Yet the light he distributes amongst My Own will give them extraordinary strength, and they will await My coming with confidence and wait until the end .... for they know that My Word fulfils itself and that everything will come to pass as I let it be proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus' forerunner ....

B.D. 9007 from July 3rd 1965, taken from Book No. 94

The fact that so many people believe that they are an incarnation of the voice in the wilderness is also a sign of spiritual confusion, for it is certain that he will be a great speaker but until his appearance he will not know what task was assigned to him and that he will speak with a powerful voice in order to announce Me and My imminent arrival at the end of the days .... Once again he will precede Me and be met with hostility by all those who don't want to hear anything about the end, who will ridicule and mock him because the things he proclaims seem incredible to them, and thus he will be regarded as a fantasist. And he will come at the same time as the Antichrist incites the eruption of the battle of faith. Then he will fiercely criticise him and My Own will turn to him for strength and comfort, for he will only be active for a short time on earth. Yet he will make good use of this time in order to convey My Word to all who accept it, and My opponents will trail him intending to call him to account, but time and again he will evade them until his hour has come when he will sacrifice his life for Me again ....

And you were told several times already that he himself has no idea about his mission and that it will dawn on him so suddenly that he can be recognised by everyone .... And then he will know why he was granted such a powerful voice, why he must announce Me, for then he will know that the end has come when I will appear in the clouds in order to fetch My Own .... Then the Antichrist will try everything in order to capture him, for he particularly condemns the Antichrist and discloses his every misdeed, denouncing him publicly without hesitation, and thus he will be persecuted by the Antichrist's followers ....

Yet he will comfort those who have to suffer under his rule. He will draw their attention to My coming and everyone will believe him because My Word makes them feel as if I have spoken to them Myself .... His words will have a soothing effect on you, who fearfully and anxiously await the things to come .... you will draw fresh strength from his words and time and again feel invigorated by them because he demonstrates that your Father has spoken to you Himself and that you thus can believe My Words which refer you to My imminent coming in the clouds. And thus you will also observe all warnings and admonitions from him, for he will also be in spirit with those whom I make known to him as belonging to Me .... He will have the ability to be close to you even if his body is elsewhere, for I will pass on your heartfelt call to Me for help, and he will be willing to help. That is why I say: You will recognise him when he begins his mission, but don't expect him quite yet, for My intervention has to take place before his appearance .... But then time will fly, because for the sake of My Own I will shorten the days so that My adversary will not succeed in making them fall, for there will be severe adversity and thus I will also send you powerful spirits of light to protect you in every earthly and spiritual crisis. Yet when this voice of Mine in the wilderness has to sacrifice his life you can expect My coming every day, then I will come and take you into a kingdom of peace and all tribulation will have come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fighter of Christ in the battle of faith - Confess Jesus Christ

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End battle with or without Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 3261 from September 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The believing christian, i.e., the person who lives on earth in full faith in the divine redeemer and His work, will feel great relief in the coming battle of faith, for the graces of the act of salvation will obviously flow to him .... the strength of will and thus also the strength to overcome the adversary, which can be described as everything that is carried out in the battle of faith as measures against the believers. Faith in Christ is the strongest weapon, and the fear of the enemy will be far away from anyone who deeply and firmly believes in Him. For His protection and love surrounds His own, the people who are faithful to Him and take all adversities upon themselves for the sake of His name. And He will also help them in earthly adversity and distress, He will supply them with what they need for their body. He will give them the strength to persevere, He will supply them with His word directly or through intermediaries, and He will also protect the recipients of the word and grant them the gift of speech which will always and everywhere smooth the way for them if earthly power calls them to account. And daily and hourly He will be ready with His help and guide them through all dangers of the body and soul .... But those who lack faith in Christ will be much troubled by the battle of faith. These are people who are not entirely distant from God, who certainly believe in a higher power to which they will one day have to answer, who also acknowledge this power by being afraid to deny God, but who have no connection with Christ, who doubt His act of salvation, who therefore deny Christ as redeemer of the world and son of God .... these will experience severe hardship if they have to make a decision, for they will lack the strength to endure everything that is done against the believers. And their distress of soul will increase if they see the strength of the christians' faith and yet cannot believe in Jesus Christ with conviction until they have penetrated the knowledge of the significance of the act of salvation. And therefore the believers in Christ will have the task of instructing and lovingly helping them to believe in Jesus Christ. And therefore, through the word of God from above people will again and again be guided into the right realization, and as soon as they have the will to help their fellow human beings they will also be given the gift to be able to speak when the adversity of the time and of people requires it. For faith in Jesus Christ cannot be eliminated in the end time .... He alone gives people the strength to persevere and fearlessly take up the fight. Yet these fighters of Christ will not be defeated despite the adversary's great power, for Jesus Christ Himself leads His army and He truly provides it with the best weapons which guarantee complete victory, even though the flock of His fighters is small and severely antagonized by the adversary. But anyone who enters this battle without Jesus Christ will be in danger of being overthrown, he will not be able to resist and maintain the little faith in God he possesses .... he will become fickle due to the hardship of life which the profound believer has to take upon himself. And in the end he will fall away, for he is powerless as soon as he does not make use of the grace of the act of salvation. But in order to do so he has to be able to believe in Him, he has to unite with Jesus Christ in full faith and appeal to Him for strength and grace for the sake of His merciful love .... It will be a difficult battle for the believers but never hopeless, for where God contends there is victory .... but God and Christ are one .... And you humans, who are instructed by God Himself, are to help your fellow human beings attain this faith, this knowledge, so that it will be easy for you to enlighten those who are still profoundly ignorant. This is your mission to which God has called you and which you should always and constantly carry out so that the final battle will also be successful for many people who still lack profound faith .... For God has mercy on every soul which does not resist Him, and therefore He sends His messengers to meet it so that it will be helped ....

Amen

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Need of the last time .... many will still be recalled ....

B.D. 5126 from May 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You only have a short time left for salvation, and if you do not make full use of it, you will be destined for a dreadful fate .... But I take care of the weak and undecided and help them to escape this adversity. Many souls will still leave their bodies before the last end comes because they would be incapable of offering resistance in the last battle of faith and yet shall not sink into the abyss either, i.e. they shall not belong to those who offer Me harsh resistance. I will still undertake a great cleansing action beforehand where many more souls will be purified or rendered harmless for further activity in order to prevent their complete apostasy, because I recognize their state of soul and do not spoil what is still suitable for improvement in the beyond. The time is only short and will be very difficult for all people except those who have devoted themselves to My adversary and are earthly supported by him in every way because they sold their souls to him. Yet I point out this time of adversity to you, and when it comes you should remember these announcements and draw strength and courage from them, because at the same time I also promise you safe protection and salvation who want to belong to Me. People can only kill your body, they can only harm you earthly but they cannot harm your soul, and if I also promise you protection for your bodily life, if I assure you of My help in every adversity, then you can expect what is coming without worry, you can let all events approach you with firm confidence .... I will always find a way out, even if no earthly help seems possible. For I am the lord over life and death, I am the lord over creation and over the kingdom of light and also of darkness .... Nothing can happen without My will and My permission; but what happens is only for your and your fellow human beings' salvation. It is still quiet and you humans don't believe that you are facing great events; you humans don't want to believe that completely different living conditions will arise and that you will have to muster much strength and trust in order to meet all demands made on you by hostile forces on My part. But it will come to pass as it is written .... The great tribulation will pass over the earth and you will realize that you live in the end time where you will have to prove yourselves. But you will always find one Who is willing to help you. And if you believe in this one and appeal to Him with a childlike heart you will emerge from every danger unscathed, for I will come when the adversity is greatest and save you .... And all adversity will come to an end, for now the final separation of spirits will take place. And thus you will no longer be able to be afflicted and live a blissful life in paradise on the new earth ....

Amen

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Strength of faith .... Antichrist .... Counteraction ....

B.D. 5719 from July 9th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Intensive counteractions will have to be carried out when the Antichrist starts his last work of curtailing all spiritual aspirations, when he visibly works against God by trying to eradicate every Christian belief and thus his anti-Christian attitude becomes clearly evident. Then all forces of heaven and earth will have to be mobilised, for this will be the start of the most difficult battle the Christian community has ever experienced .... Then the last battle of faith will commence, which is the beginning of the end and which will be waged with ruthlessness and brutality, because Satan himself will rise against God in order to bring Him down and elevate himself to His throne. But then all servants of God on earth will also be greatly supported by the world of light, for then diligent work has to be done in order to refute the enemy's offensives, in order to proclaim Jesus Christ and to confess Him before the world .... Then the secrecy will be over and it will be revealed who believes in and loves God, who is strong enough to acknowledge Jesus Christ as his only Lord and does not fear the orders of the opposing power .... Then every proclaimer of the divine teaching of love will be blessed twice over, for then his work will be urgently required .... he will proclaim God with conviction, Who is supposed to be renounced, he will fight on His behalf and not fear those who threaten him with death .... Such work can only be carried out by someone who has gained realisation, who knows about everything including the signs of the end and who therefore cannot help but speak up on behalf of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, because he has been seized by His love and grace and feels His activity and because this provides him with the strength to achieve anything, including openly confessing his faith, which will result in a most bitter earthly fate. He disregards the difficulties because he has become knowledgeable and no longer fears anything in this world .... because he has recognised the right Lord and also gladly gives up his life for him.

The counterwork demanded of God's fighters is to offer clarification where doubts exist, to persuade the souls to hand themselves over to Jesus Christ, Who is every soul's Redeemer and Saviour and Who will also deliver them from the earthly adversity and distress when the end has come .... Their work consists of spreading the recognised truth and of courageously confronting slanderers and blasphemers, representatives of misguided teachings and all those who are hostile-minded towards Christ's teaching .... Their task consists of spreading light because people are enshrouded by the darkest spiritual night. And even then there will still be people who are undecided which way to turn, and to present the true nature of God to them is likewise part of the work for the kingdom of God, for the pure truth can and will not fail to have an effect on a truth-desiring heart, and this applies to the few who are undecided, who will have to be treated particularly kindly in order to come over into your camp and to become your friends instead of your enemies .... The weapons used by the Antichrist in the last battle of faith will be devoid of all love, however, you, too, shall eagerly fight, but with the weapon of love .... you should try to impart to them that which you possess yourselves, which you received from God .... His Word, which will affect everyone according to His will. Anyone who truly desires light will become enlightened, and anyone who possesses light will also know how to conduct himself in the days when God's adversary rages and tries to seize all souls for himself. The battle will indeed be very unfair, for you will only be a small flock but your enemies will be large crowds .... Yet you will truly have more strength, for you receive it from God directly, and this strength can defeat your worst enemies. With your strong faith you will also be able to give evidence of Me and My might to the enemy .... and can thereby ruin the finely laid plans of God's adversary, for the strength of faith obviously testifies to God, the strength of faith can still defeat your enemies before the end so that they voluntarily let themselves be taken prisoners by you. They can come over into your camp and be saved forever ....

Amen

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Confessing before the world ....

B.D. 6617 from August 9th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

If you stand up for My name before the world you openly testify for Me and My kingdom, you confess Me as My followers and thus consciously place yourselves on My side. And then you will have fully and completely fulfilled your earthly task, you will have become Mine of your own free will, you will have accomplished the separation from My adversary, the path of return to Me will have ended, even if your perfection has not yet been achieved on earth, but a relapse into the abyss is eternally no longer possible, for the kingdom of light has already received you and the light can no longer be eternally obscured. Whoever has found Me will now no longer let go of Me, just as I will not let go of him because he now belongs to Me .... The open confession of faith in Me has taken all right from My adversary, for the decision has now been made as to which lord you have chosen, and he can no longer do anything against your will. And thus you now also know how highly this decision of faith, which you all still have to make, is to be valued, and you recognize from it that it is necessary for humanity to experience a time of faith struggle which forces it to make an open decision. For there are many people who are not yet clear themselves as to whether and what they believe, who only then seriously take a stand on the doctrines of faith and struggle through to confess or reject when they are completely without faith. For spiritual questions are discussed less and less, and rarely are they the content of conversations or serious debates .... And therefore people will then have to deal with such questions when a clear decision for or against Me is demanded of them. Many will be anxious, many will be determined to reject Me, but My name will also be joyfully known by those who have always been in contact with Me, who have recognized Me and My guidance during their earthly life and who feel My presence so strongly that they testify loudly and joyfully and profess Me. All fear will be far from them and they will still recognize in it a sign of the approaching end that people will be required to confess their faith. And thus they also know that My coming is near, and in this certainty they will also remain steadfast in the face of all threats because they believe in My might and strength, in My love and in the truth of My word, which was conveyed to them and which they may also constantly receive until the end. And as fearful as the weak believers will be, so courageous and steadfast are those because they draw strength from My word, because they are certain of My presence and therefore know no fear and worry in My presence. Neither earthly promises nor threats can deter them or make them waver, for they do not fear for their lives and no longer pay attention to earthly goods, for they had already tasted spiritual goods and thus no longer desire the world. But for the sake of their fellow human beings they have to be drawn into this battle so that the weak can still lift themselves up by them, so that the strength of faith will be revealed in My own. As soon as you humans confess Me before the world you are Mine and are now also under My protection, and I truly have the best in store for you, but you need not worry about what could be best for you .... I will consider you in such a way that you will be blissfully happy, regardless of whether on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But I demand the open decision from people, I am not content with the inner acknowledgement of Myself if the outward appearance remains that the person is not My follower .... I demand a testimony for Me and My name even before the world .... For only then will you believe in Me alive, and only then will you experience the blessings of such faith .... My promise will be fulfilled that I, too, will confess you before the father as you confessed Me before the world, so that you will return to the father again as children, from Whom you once wanted to separate and also did so willingly because you denied Me your acknowledgement .... which you must therefore now testify to before all the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strong pillar of the church founded by God ....

B.D. 8742 from February 2nd 1964, taken from Book No. 92

I will give you the strength to stand up for Me and My kingdom with conviction when you are called to account and have to justify yourselves to people who attack you .... Then you need not think about what you should say, for I will put the words into your mouth and they will be of convincing strength. And even though people will attack you they will nevertheless also be forced to think about what you say, and again it only depends on the will whether they allow themselves to be inwardly convinced or reject the thoughts, for which responsibility will also be demanded of them one day .... Who takes up the fight against the enemy, by whose side I will fight Myself and always prevent that he takes damage bodily and spiritually, because My hand truly reaches far, and it can push everything away from you .... But that the fight will flare up against all believers, against Mine, who loyally hold to Me, is certain, because it will bring the last separation .... because it is still the last opportunity for the weak in faith, who can fetch power and strength at your faith and still can change over into the camp of Mine. Because obviously My work will be recognizable in you .... I will guide you through all adversities, I will shield you from the adversary and his vassals, for until the end you must still be strong pillars of faith for Me, pillars of My church, which I Myself founded on earth .... until the end you must bear witness to a living faith and an intimate bond with Me, which will also have an external effect, so that no earthly adversity will touch My own, for I Myself will sustain them, and often in a supernatural way; for truly everything is possible for Me .... Who let the whole of creation come into being, He will also be able to preserve His own when their fellow human beings will deprive them of everything and they cannot resist human force .... Then My power and strength and My love will become obvious, which turns everything to you what you need. For it will only take a short time until I Myself put an end to My adversary's shameful goings-on, until I give all those their deserved reward who work for My adversary and do not shy away from any shameful act. And you will also have to openly make a confession for Me and My name, and then you are not allowed to become weak or be afraid, because I give you the power to resist, so that you confess Me with joy before the world, because you are completely filled with My spirit and now speak with fullest conviction on My behalf. Before this time does not approach you, the end is also not yet there, but the faith struggle will conclude with that end .... Because I Myself will come to rescue Mine out of great trouble because no measures are too shameful for My opponent to dethrone Me Myself out of the hearts of men. And that is why I Myself put a stop to him .... I will come in the clouds and fetch My own into a kingdom of peace and bliss .... I will not prevent men from all kinds of experiments whereby they endanger the existence of earth .... I Myself will let them feel the consequence .... either still call them off shortly before the end .... which is still to be regarded as a special favour I bestow on those who have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary .... or as members of My adversary put them in fetters with him so that they are banished anew in the creations of earth and therefore can no longer cause any harm among the inhabitants of the new earth and these will therefore live a life in peace and bliss as reward for their loyalty which they have kept to Me until the end of this earth .... You will not yet be able to imagine the disaster by which the earth will be affected by the last faith struggle, but it will irrevocably take place, it is after all the last most shameful work of My adversary, which he still wants to carry out in the belief to dethrone Me completely and to be able to assert himself .... And this plan also seals his fate, after all his open fight against Me is expressed by it, out of which I will emerge as victor, by Me taking all power from him for a long time and through this also men on the new earth are safe from his work and a return to Me is possible to a great extent, because men have already taken their passed test of will on this earth and also the still following generations will live in love and in living faith in Me, so that I Myself can dwell among them for all their happiness. And with this prospect of the peaceful and joyful life on the new earth you are also to approach the time of the faith struggle armed; you are to know that the power will be at your disposal, which you need for resistance and passing of the faith struggle, and you are to always just be prepared to serve Me, to help fellowmen to a strong faith and to supply truth to all, which they willingly accept from you .... You are to serve Me until the end, so that anyone who allows himself to be saved and returns to Me before the end comes will still be saved ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Day of Salvation or Day of Judgment? ....

B.D. 5654 from April 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The day of Salvation is not far away anymore, but will it mean salvation for all human beings? Will it not be a day of Judgment when, instead of being released, they will be banished again in the solid form? And therefore the day can be yearned for but also be dreaded, yet those who would have to fear it don't believe in it and are therefore irretrievably lost because they don't do anything in order to avert this renewed banishment from themselves. This day will only be a true salvation for a few people, but they have suffered prior to it already, whereas the others don't know suffering and therefore do not long for a Redeemer either. And yet He will come and redeem those who believe in Him .... A very difficult time is approaching all believers, but then they should not forget the promise that 'I will come again to judge the living and the dead .... ' The time of hardship shall also be evidence of the truth of My Word to them and they shall believe even more firmly in My coming on the last day, in their deliverance from utmost adversity. It will truly be a day of Salvation for My Own who are tempted to doubt the truth of My Word in view of the disbelievers' good living standards .... Yet for the sake of the chosen few the days shall be shortened .... I will fortify My Own until the day has come, and it will come sooner than expected ....

The state of the world will seem so peaceful that no-one will believe in an end; for under the authority of the Antichrist the waves of unrest apparently calm down and an earthly progress can be recognised which makes people become ever more ungodly, ever more heartless, and only My Own recognise thereby the hour on the world clock. For only they will have to go hungry and suffer while the rest of humanity will indulge itself and try to find satisfaction in the euphoria of the world. No-one will suspect how close the end is when the Antichrist starts his world dominion. He will instigate the end, he will achieve spiritual chaos, he will cause the battle of faith to erupt and will more or less cause the separation of the spirits, for under his regime the confession will be demanded for Me and My name and thus the final decision will also be made, which still has to take place before the end .... However, as soon as this decision of faith is demanded of you, My faithful followers, you can also brace yourselves for My second coming, for with the ever increasing adversity you will also experience the fulfilment of My predictions concerning the end .... You can expect the end every day and yet, it will come suddenly and unexpected .... But then those for whom this day will bring redemption will be blissfully happy, and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth by those who will be devoured by the earth, who will be engendered into solid matter again .... You, who believe in Me, trust My Words that you will be delivered from hours of extreme tribulation, that I will come and fetch you and that you therefore should fear nothing on earth, for Mine is the strength and the power and the glory ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

B.D. 5309 from February 3rd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

"I am the way, the truth and the life ...." From Me comes the truth, I show you the right path through the truth, and this leads to life, to eternal bliss .... There is no second way but through truth, there is no second life apart from Me, and there is only one Who can promise you life .... Who purchased it for you on the cross. I lived and fought for the truth, and I died an agonizing death for the only truth, so that every one of you humans can recognize it as soon as he believes in Me. My path is easy to follow for anyone of good will .... I have preceded you on it .... it is the path of love which infallibly also leads to the recognition of truth. Since I only preached love I constantly showed you the path; since I Myself lived out the teaching I was also able to proclaim the pure truth, for everything in Me was light and bright, I knew everything and was therefore also able to impart the right knowledge to you. But you can only receive the truth from Me because it originates from Me and therefore also leads back to Me again. Anyone who wants to possess the truth has to request it from Me, Who am the eternal truth Myself .... Without Me you will remain in spiritual darkness and take the wrong path, a path which leads downwards ....

You humans know that I have an adversary who wants to destroy where I build, who wants to extinguish the light, who wants to spread darkness over people so that they cannot recognize Me. This adversary tries everything to obfuscate the path to Me, to eternal life, so that it shall not be found .... And this adversary is an enemy of the truth, just as he is an enemy of Me .... For the truth reveals his plans, his activity and his detestable nature. Consequently, he takes action against the truth and his efforts will always be directed towards making Me Myself unrecognizable to people. He will work against Me wherever he can. Thus he is the antichrist who will stop at nothing to push people away from Me. The antichrist first works against the truth .... From this it follows that the pure truth will always be fought against .... that the representatives of the pure truth will be attacked, whereas the servants of the antichrist will be recognized as proclaimers of truth and masses will stand behind them, where the bearers of truth will only be isolated because action will constantly be taken against them. The path to truth is narrow, and it is only trodden by a few .... The masses of people walk on broad paths, and this alone shall be a sign to you who leads these masses .... Anyone who wants to follow Me on the narrow path of truth will not have many followers, for most shy away from the arduous path. But I Myself lead the way and I Myself am love, and anyone who follows Me must also have love within himself, and then the path will appear bright and clear to him and he will walk it unconcerned about the hardship, for his aim is Me and eternal life .... Do not seek the truth where the masses are .... I Myself walked My path on earth and was always surrounded by only a few, while most people rejected Me because I brought them the truth and it was unpleasant for them, because My adversary stood behind the masses and worked against the truth and only ever fights against it where he can. But anyone who stands in the truth recognizes his activity and it will never deter him .... For as soon as he follows Me he takes the right path and will live for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers