Jesus Christ Is The Good Shepherd

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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Its sole purpose is to make the present-day Word of God .... accessible to all people. May this Word of God become a blessing to many people.

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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

4360 - Parable of the good shepherd....

5343 - God.... father....

5006 - Apostasy of the spiritual from God humanly represented....

7484 - Descent of Christ to earth....

7485 - Christmas....

5932 - Death on the cross....

8893 - Jesus Christ must be acknowledged by man....

5041 - Achieving beatitude - Free will.... Wolf amongst sheep....

2045 - ?resNotTranslated?

6447 - Hoarding the matter.... stimulating the opponent....

7215 - Allurements of the world and overcoming....

5038 - Work of satan.... "I am the good shepherd...."

5376 - I know Mine.... good shepherd....

5865 - Two different worlds.... voice of the good shepherd....

8330 - Call of the shepherd.... great spiritual need....

6845 - The good Shepherd ....

4692 - Remodeling the earth in a moment.... miracle of creation....

6418 - The path to the father's house.... God's guidance....

7060 - God's guidance.... will.... faith.... love....

7702 - John 14.... 'I will not leave you comfortless....'

4038 - Bread of heaven.... spiritual sun.... voice of the good shepherd....

4599 - "Keep My word.... come all ye to Me...."

4726 - 'My sheep know My voice....' Resistance....

6570 - 'My sheep recognise My voice....'

6760 - Hearing God's word indispensable.... (I do no evil....)

8048 - Grace of God‘s address....

6108 - Aim of God: eternal life.... free will....

6305 - Create and work for eternity....

6850 - Jesus Christ opens the gate to eternal life....

2561 - ?resNotTranslated?

3689 - Urgency and blessing of activity for the kingdom of God....

4295 - The good Shepherd .... ‘My Own recognise My voice .... ’

4304 - Triumphant church.... One flock and one shepherd....

6301 - The congregation of Jesus Christ....

7455 - Jesus, the good Shepherd....

Parable of the good shepherd ....

B.D. 4360 from July 2nd 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I want to give you a parable, and you should learn from this how I want My Word to be understood: My earthly children are like a flock of scattered sheep which an enemy's ill will had chased from the shepherd's view into all directions. And the shepherd, who loves his sheep, goes in search for them. He looks for them in the most hidden places, he scales mountains and clambers down gorges, he calls and cajoles and does not rest until his flock is rounded up again. He helps the lambs that lost their way and cannot return by themselves, he follows the long tracks where they already went too far, he takes the tired lambs and carries them back on his shoulders, he leaves none to their fate, to his enemy, who might rob him of it and add it to his own flock. Because he knows his sheep, and his sheep know him and follow his voice .... And the good shepherd's heart rejoices when he has found all his sheep again, when his full flock is in his stable, when every lost lamb has found its way home ....

You all are My sheep, you belong to My flock, which nevertheless has free run and therefore can also go astray if it strives for another goal but Me. The hostile shepherd is My adversary who tries to turn you away from Me. And he will often succeed .... My sheep stray from the path I take with My flock, they seek to scale the heights .... You humans seek honour and riches and for their sake leave the path. You fall into ravines and pits, vices and lusts capture you, step by step you descend into the abyss and can be grateful if you get caught by hedges and undergrowth .... if second thoughts arise in you which you don't ignore and are thus spared the deepest fall until your Saviour arrives.

Still others graze in strange pastures; they go astray and don't find their way back to their stable .... These are the people who thoughtlessly wander through earthly life, who are beneficiaries of actions which do not correspond to My will but give them great earthly advantage. They do not deem themselves bad, they are half-hearted, neither for nor against Me, they wander through the earthly valley oblivious of their earthly task, they have to be startled and chased back, so that they take refuge in My arms again Who, as a good shepherd, is ready to receive them at anytime.

I have to search for My lost lambs everywhere .... My call has to be heard everywhere and thus My voice has to sound time and again .... time and again I have to approach people in My Word and call them back into the Father's house. My Word is the call of the good shepherd, My Word is conveyed to human beings with love, My Word penetrates into all corners, wherever it finds entry into people's hearts. And anyone who does not follow My call will stray ever more or descend ever deeper .... And yet, the arm of the good shepherd will reach him one day, even if it takes ages .... Even the person who has resisted Me for a long time will return to Me one day .... one day he will tire of his wrong path and allow Me to lift him onto My shoulders, one day he, too, will willingly follow the good shepherd, the sound of His voice will entice him .... He will recognise it as the Father's voice and follow Me, and I will guide him into the Father's house and prepare a feast for joy for him of finding again what had been lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God .... father ....

B.D. 5343 from March 24th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I am your God and father .... Perhaps you will still acknowledge Me as God if you mentally deal with your origin and your being. Thus you can come to the conclusion through intellectual work that you acknowledge a creator and sustainer from eternity Who is the original source of strength for you and Whom you now call God. But I want to be recognized by you as father.... And this cannot be achieved through intellectual activity, this requires the activity of the spiritual spark in you, which .... as a divine part itself .... clarifies the right relationship with your creator of eternity for you, but which you first have to enter in order to recognize Me as father and yourselves as My children. A person who certainly acknowledges God but does not know the purpose and aim of his earthly existence will hardly know the connection between himself and God, and he will also not be able to intellectually establish a bond between himself and God .... For this is the activity of the spirit which, as a part of Me, pushes towards Me again, thus strives to come close to its father-spirit again, with which it indeed remains inseparably united but which also impels the soul it inhabits towards unification, because it, as an external being, lacks the bliss of unification with Me. Hence the union with Me is like the relationship of a child with its father, whereas the isolated being is only God's 'creature' and thus also regards God as a being distant from it. But I want to be united with My living creations, I want to accept them as My children in order to make them blissfully happy. I am indeed your God but I want to be your father. For you emerged from My love, not just from My power .... and love seeks constant contact because it wants to make happy .... But love is a free feeling which can never be forced .... For this reason I must first be recognizable to you humans as God, Whom you shall now learn to love and Who then returns your love as father. Then you will also feel this fatherly love, it will fill you with emotion and make you yearn ever more intimately for the father. As long as you only show reverence and obedience towards Me as your God I will not yet appear as your father, for I desire your love in order to then deal with My children in a fatherly way and make them happy with My love .... Then you will no longer stand isolated in creation, even though you are independent creatures, then you will have drawn Me to you through your love, and the connection between us can never be severed because it has always existed, you were just unaware of it as long as you only saw Me as God and creator, but Who is and will remain your father for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Apostasy of the spiritual from God humanly represented ....

B.D. 5006 from November 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You are children of love, you emerged from My strength of love and are constantly cared for and looked after by My never-ending love. My love for you is boundless and will never let you get lost forever. But My love also gave you free will as a characteristic of perfection, otherwise My love for you would have been limited if it had denied you something which belongs to perfection. Only free will makes you divine beings who, having originated from Me, also had to be like Me. But at the same time free will made you beings with the right of self-determination who could now do and leave what they wanted of their own accord and affirm or deny their affiliation with Me themselves. This free decision of will also had to be granted to people so that they could prove their perfection, which required unconditional connection to Me. A perfectly created being had not yet reached the highest degree, for it first had to acquire it by remaining perfect of its own free will, wherever it was able to descend. The spiritual being's former apostasy from Me can only be portrayed to you humans on earth in this way if you want to understand why the spiritual being fell, why it became sinful against Me. It misused its free will and turned away from Me because it thought itself so powerful and exalted that it did not believe itself to be dependent on My strength of love. It had to be offered the opportunity to decide for a different aim than for Me in order to make a free decision of will. And this opposite pole was the first being of light emanating from Me which made use of My strength flowing to it without measure by creating beings without number with My will well, because I did not withdraw the strength from it. Its will, however, aimed to increase its own strength against Me in order to be independent of Me. It did not want to acknowledge Me as what I was .... as the original source of strength which it drew and which enabled it to create and shape according to its own will. Hence its free will turned away from Me, and it also placed this counter will into the spiritual creations which had emerged from My strength through it. Thus you were indeed children of My love but also children of an evil will which was directed against Me. And thus you once separated from Me of your own free will without, however, being able to completely separate from Me, because I keep you by virtue of My greater than great love, which will also win you back again, which will not let you fall but always lift you up again from the abyss if you strive towards it of your own will. But My love has no end .... and it wins you irrevocably. However, you determine the time yourselves ....

(24.11.1950) because you have free will .... Free will characterizes you as My living creations, as independent beings, and according to this free will you create the respective state for yourselves without being prevented by Me. But because I love you and want to win you I shape your destiny such that you can lift the separation from Me if you use your will correctly, that you strive for unity with Me and thus also accept your original nature again, that you are My children again in truth who have now decided for Me of their own accord and reject My adversary. But I also want to win him, and if eternities pass over it .... He, too, was a child of My love, emerged from My elemental strength and endowed with all gifts which made him a perfect being. Therefore I will not let him get lost for eternity either, I also court him and let him feel My love again and again, yet his will is still rigidly turned away from Me, and since I also give him free rein it is still a work of exceedingly great patience and mercy to allow his will the freedom and yet influence him so that he voluntarily surrenders to Me. Yet even if it takes eternities My love will triumph over the one who is still devoid of all love. One day he, too, will recognize My love and long for it, because it alone causes bliss and because no being can separate itself from Me forever but ultimately strives for the union which will make it inexpressibly blissful ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Descent of Christ to earth ....

B.D. 7484 from December 23rd 1959, taken from Book No. 79

In the midst of sin I came to earth and My soul felt the torment of the impure sphere in which it took abode. For My soul came from the kingdom of light, it came from a sphere where everything was pure and bright and clear, where it was blissfully abundant, where it could create in freedom and strength according to its will .... it came down to earth where everything was dark, unfree and weak, however, (and) full of demons which sought to oppress My soul everywhere and at all times. For it was satan's kingdom into which I descended because I wanted to redeem people from their bondage, for they were bound by him and were under his control .... But I was free according to My soul and yet willingly submitted Myself to all laws to which people who lived on this earth were subordinated. And the reason for My descent was My overwhelming love for you humans who once had fallen away from Me and obstructed your path of return and therefore needed a saviour Who would make this path of return free for you again. My love for you was immense and did not diminish even when you once fell away from Me .... My love looked for a way out for you so that you could find your way back to Me, your God and creator from eternity .... My love for you was that of a father Who never ever wants His child to be separated from Him forever but tries everything to win it back again in the shortest possible time in order to induce it to return to the father's house. And this love also found a path and paved it Itself so that you, My living creations, could enter this path and walk it with the aim of reaching your God and creator, Who wants to be and remain your father forever. I Myself descended to this earth and took abode in the midst of My creatures who had become sinful in order to redeem them from their sin. I took abode in the midst of sin, for all people had become sinful, all people were beings who had once fallen away from Me, whom arrogance and lust for power had driven away from Me into the abyss, but from which they could no longer rise without help. Now I offered them My helping hand after My love had already been active to such an extent that they, embodied as a human being, only needed to take hold of My hand in order to be safely lifted up from the abyss to the height, to Me Myself, from Whom they had once distanced themselves of their own free will. I descended to earth, I took on a human form and lived as a human being in the midst of people, except that I was pure and constantly came into contact with sin, which tormented My soul unspeakably because I Myself was without sin. And these torments were indescribable .... but only to be understood by a pure, sinless human being, as there is rarely one on earth, for the original sin burdens every human being, but the human being Jesus was free from it, Whose cover sheltered Me Myself, Who wanted to accomplish the act of salvation in Him. And I could only shelter Myself in a pure sinless cover, for My divine fire of love would have consumed everything which could not withstand Me and My strength of love in purity and love .... But I shone through the human cover, and this happened through His preaching and miracles which were intended to testify to My divinity to people and made the mission of the man Jesus recognizable. For My soul remained pure and sinless, and thus My spirit was able to work and also show itself in all fullness externally, and the deity of the man Jesus could be recognized by every person who came close to Him. For I Myself, the eternal deity, worked through My spirit in Him and everything the man Jesus did I did in Him. But every sin would have made the working of My spirit in the form it happened impossible. Yet My fellow human beings' sins tormented Me unspeakably but also gave rise to My act of salvation, for this was intended to release people from the sin which satan had brought into the world and which had to be redeemed in order to redeem people from My adversary's power. For they themselves were too weak to free themselves from his power, because he has a right over the souls which once voluntarily followed him to the abyss. But I give them the strength to release themselves from him, which I previously acquired through My death on the cross and which I impart to you who desire to become free from him. I ransomed you from your lord through My death on the cross so that you can detach yourselves from him if you want to claim this sacrifice of Mine for yourselves, so that you want to turn away from him towards Me and cannot be prevented by him if only this is your free will to belong to Me for eternity. That is why I descended to earth, for humanity needed a saviour from its adversity. Humanity walked along in darkness and sin pressed them to the ground again and again, they were unable to rise without help. And now I have brought this help to people through My descent, through My sacrificial death, through the act of salvation which has been accomplished for all people who ever walk the earth. I lived in the midst of sin and finally took all sins upon My shoulders, I bore all your guilt of sin as a pure, sinless human being and thus went to the cross .... And I have thus redeemed the whole world from death, for everyone who only wants can be saved .... Anyone who only wants to can detach himself from My adversary, he can become free and enter bliss in light and strength, because I died for this on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Christmas ....

B.D. 7485 from December 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

All the angels in Heaven were jubilant and rejoiced when I descended to Earth in order to redeem humanity. They knew that their fallen brothers would forever have been irretrievably lost had I not taken pity upon them, had I not searched for and found a way which enabled them to return to Me .... And the thought of knowing that their fallen brothers were saved again, after an infinitely long time of anguish in bondage by the hostile power, made them very happy. I took pity on the human race which was incapable of releasing itself from this power, which was in dire need of help, which needed a Saviour to make

Amends for their immense guilt, Who would accomplish the act of atonement for the human race, being powerless to do so themselves .... And I sent My Son to earth .... I Myself descended to earth in order to redeem humanity and had to achieve this in a human form in which I Myself took abode in order to accomplish this act of Salvation because as 'God' I was unable to suffer, thus I would not have been able to remove the guilt which obstructed the path to heaven for people. For this reason the boy child Jesus came into the world, in whom sheltered a soul of light which subsequently prepared for Me the human abode as a place I could dwell in to be able to accomplish the act of Redemption for the human race.

All the angels in Heaven hailed Me when I entered the shell of the small boy child Jesus, when I humbled Myself to deepest lowliness and fully permeated the boy child Jesus with My divine spirit, so that many different miracles happened at the time of His birth. All events in nature and with the infant itself indicated the extraordinary mission which had to be accomplished by this infant, and the people around Him also recognised the light which shone forth from Him; they knew that this light came from above and shone brightly. And they thanked Me on their bended knees that I had sent them the Saviour Who was to release them from utmost adversity .... For those who were devoted to Me with love also felt their spiritual distress in the midst of the heartless world, which was My adversary's realm .... And in the midst of this sinful world I embodied Myself, I encountered sin and heartlessness and had to prove Myself as the human being Jesus in the midst of this world .... I had to stem My abundance of light and adapt My soul to the sphere it lived in .... in a manner of speaking I had to let go of the 'light' .... but I did not let go of the 'love' in Me .... This flared up extremely intensely for the suffering brothers who had fallen so low. And this love gave Me the strength I needed in order to be able to accomplish the act of Salvation as a human being .... Love made Me descend to earth, and love impelled Me to spiritualise My body completely, so that body, soul and spirit became as one and thus were able to completely unite with the divine love Which sheltered within Me, Which had chosen My body as an abode in order to suffer and die as a human being on behalf of the sinful human race; in order to remove its guilt and to open the gate into the kingdom of light again, which was and remained closed for all beings due to their apostasy from Me .... until the day of My crucifixion, of My great act of mercy, which opened the gates again and cleared the path into the Father's house .... to Me and to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Death on the cross ....

B.D. 5932 from April 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

An inconceivable work of mercy took place through My death on the cross, and this work of mercy was for the whole of humanity, for the people of the past, the present and the future .... I died for all people, I took upon Myself the burden of sin of all people, for all people come into the world burdened with original sin .... This original sin therefore moved Me to suffer and die for people because I wanted to atone for this original sin before the one against Whom it was directed .... because I wanted to make satisfaction for God's justice .... You humans are neither aware of the greatness of your guilt nor of the depth of My love which accomplished the work of redemption for you .... Yet no matter how My suffering is described to you, you cannot even begin to measure the extent of the suffering and pain I endured for you, because not only the body but even more My soul suffered, which shuddered at people's sinfulness, which was unable to defend itself when all the forces of hell were against it and did to it whatever evil they could do to it. For My soul was clear and pure, the distance between it and the dark people was enormous and it was in the midst of demonic spheres where nothing but satanic activity confronted it. My light- and love-filled soul looked into the deepest depths, and it shuddered before so much sin and darkness .... The body also suffered unspeakably, for whatever torments and humiliations people could think up they did to Me and still rejoiced in their despicable actions .... It was hell unleashed against Me, it was the most difficult battle a human being ever had to fight .... to remain victorious through the love that was meant for all these wretched people whom satan had in his grip and to whom I wanted to restore freedom .... I saw the overwhelming depravity of My tormentors and yet suffered and died for them too .... For I knew that they were only the henchmen of the one against whom I was fighting, I knew that satan himself was against Me and to defeat him was the purpose of My act of salvation, to liberate humanity from his power was the mission I had voluntarily taken on when I descended to earth; My love for people was exceedingly great and therefore I suffered many times over because My love was repaid in such a way that only hatred and heartlessness against Me spoke out of everything that was done to Me. Yet I wanted to suffer .... because I wanted to atone for people .... and consciously I took the difficult path to the cross, I drank the cup to the full .... I did not allow a charitable swoon that freed Me for a short time from suffering and torment .... I forced My body to endure until My hour had come .... For I wanted to suffer because no other work of salvation was possible for you humans than to absorb the effect of all sins and to burden My body and soul with what otherwise every human being would have had to bear himself, who would have collapsed under it .... I suffered for the whole of humanity and therefore had to suffer immeasurably because the guilt was immeasurably great. But you humans cannot imagine My suffering on the cross and the agony of dying on the cross, for you yourselves would collapse under the force of the impression if I only let you have a glimpse of those hours which preceded My death on the cross .... but one day you will be able to participate in it yourselves .... one day it will be revealed to you what I have done for you and why I did it .... And you will praise and glorify Me and be eternally grateful that I saved you from eternal death, that through My work of redemption I delivered you from the hands of the one who wanted the death of your soul .... And then My love will also be revealed to you, which is valid for you for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ must be acknowledged by man ....

B.D. 8893 from December 13th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

You have entered My love light circle as soon as I can address you, because then you open your heart to Me and are prepared to receive My love power. Once you closed yourselves to this ray of love light, and your nature was only defence of that, what made you happy until then without measure. You thereby lost all knowledge, which is now supplied to you again .... you became powerless and can now again receive strength in abundance .... all signs of regression were present in you, but now the path will lead you upwards .... Everything you were striving for was negative, but now you can only have a positive effect on all spiritual that is still imperfect, that walks the earth as a human being just like you .... You were endlessly far away from Me .... but now you come closer and closer to Me; the wide gulf is overcome, which separated us, because your will is turned towards Me again, as it was in the beginning. You are close to your aim, the complete unification with Me. But one thing is necessary for it that you acknowledge Me Myself again, that you see in Me the divine redeemer, who suffered for your former offence and died on the cross to make atonement for this offence. It would not be possible for you to establish this bond with Me if you were still under the burden of original sin, for then My adversary would still have you under his control, who would prevent any bond with Me if you did not turn to Jesus Christ, Who resisted him and overcame him .... if I Myself did not help you, Who I became 'human' in Jesus. Your ascent development as a human being can only take place if the guilt is forgiven first, otherwise it would not be possible for you to hear Me again as in the beginning, that you are introduced to pure truth by Me, that you increase in knowledge and thus are visibly in contact with Me .... And that is why it is the most important thing in earth life that man gets enlightenment why he has to acknowledge Jesus Christ, because only after that the ascent development can start, otherwise he leaves earth life again exactly the same way as he has entered it .... The sin of rebellion against Me has happened and cannot be deleted until He is acknowledged Who has paid the sin debt for you. So I cannot first give information to a man and teach him truthfully before he has not taken the way to the cross, before he has not handed over his sin debt to Him Who has paid it for him. But then it is also not difficult to ascend because he can again enter the love circle and therefore develop upwards; it will be easy for him because he will certainly not lack power because My word is the power, which he now receives. But it is not possible to go the same way without Jesus Christ, which leads up, because the original sin burdens him, and every ascent up will be prevented by My opponent, who then still has power over him, which he also truly uses. That is why also in the times of the end little spiritual success is to be recorded because faith in Jesus Christ is so rarely still to be found, and when also a man confesses Him, then this is only more form to not contradict, but in case of emergency he will make no public confession and easily give Him away. And still information must be given on the part of My word announcers to every man who is open for it that he at least takes the knowledge about Him over with Him into the kingdom on the other side because it can also then still lead to redemption out of darkness. As soon as a man therefore consciously establishes the deep, intimate union with Me, I can also instruct him and give him knowledge about everything, but then he is not to get tired to also impart the same to his fellowmen, which now certainly also only those will accept, who are not unwilling to let themselves be redeemed, who start the walk to the cross and whom I then can also help further, until they have also entered into the union with Me and come closer and closer to their perfection. Because it is faith in the work of redemption of Jesus Christ, which only opens the gate to the kingdom of light, because He has taken up the fight with him, who has all of you in his power and wants to keep you, but from whom Jesus Christ has bought the souls, and therefore only the own will still belongs to it, to also let himself be bought free. Seek to make clear to all the reason and meaning of the work of redemption, which you have taken note of from Me Myself, because no man is allowed to pass by this question, whose earth life is to be of success that he can enter into the kingdom of light and happiness ...._>Amen

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Achieving beatitude - Free will .... Wolf amongst sheep ....

B.D. 5041 from January 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I truly only have but one goal, to give you humans beatitude .... But your blessedness first and foremost necessitates that you should want it yourselves. Try to understand that this is not up to My will but solely up to your own free will.

And this will is also sought by My adversary, who does not want to let go of you but cannot hold on to you if you want Me. Thus you can understand that and why he afflicts those people who strive towards Me, whose will has in fact already chosen Me but whom he wants to regain. Beatitude is only possible in unity with Me, which will be achieved without fail once a person has made his decision in My favour. Anyone who desires Me is no longer at risk, but as long as he lives on earth he will be confronted by all kinds of temptations, because My adversary will not stop fighting until then, even if he is unsuccessful.

My adversary works with cunning and force indeed; nevertheless, his spirit is dark or he would recognise the futility of his endeavour. I want to give you beatitude .... and by directing your will towards Me you humans give Me the right yourselves to draw you towards Me. But Satan, realising that you are lost to him, will not give in because he underestimates the strength of My love, since he believes that he can still wrest from Me what nevertheless belongs to Me. His method is to cause confusion, to plant doubts into people’s hearts and thereby shake their faith in Me. Yet, again, only your will is the decisive factor. If it belongs to Me then you will soon recognise his deception and turn away from him. What was incomprehensible will become clear to you, and you will liberate yourselves from his power, he cannot hold on to you because you strive towards Me. Hence, anyone who wants Me will reach his goal indeed, irrespective of Satan’s raging during the last days before the end.

Admittedly, at times he will be difficult to detect, for he frequently sneaks in disguised and takes hold of the most fleeting thought that could serve his purpose. He works with much cunning and force and people, who are not fully instructed in the truth, are used by him as tools because error itself grants him the cover he needs to conduct his battle from there. Pure truth will not let him arise, since he will always be recognised by those who live in truth. However, even the slightest error will grant him access, and then he will cause utter confusion, like a wolf that breaks into a sheep pen generates fear and terror. Yet even then he will still be unable to cause harm if My sheep take flight to Me, to their shepherd, Who protects them from all danger. Thus, again, only the will is decisive, and as soon as it is turned towards Me, Satan has lost all power over a person. Thus you should know that you will always be on the right path when I Am your goal, that you can neither fall nor trip since I Am walking with you because I Myself want to help you gain beatitude. Therefore, do not fear any adverse power but trust only in Me, your God and Father of eternity, hand yourselves over to Me and strive towards Me .... Then your will shall belong to Me and truly, I shall not let you fall into My adversary’s hands, who wants to alienate you from Me. My love will seize you, and the strength of My love will also conquer him, since nothing can resist My love forever ....

Amen

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Hoarding the matter .... stimulating the opponent ....

B.D. 6447 from January 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

What My spirit imparts to people is to be regarded as truth alone .... And therefore all spiritual knowledge conveyed to you must correspond to this sole truth from Me, otherwise it originated from another whose endeavour is and will always remain to fight the truth and who also uses such means for this purpose which are intended to feign Me Myself as the source .... Whatever I give to people will only ever serve to attain maturity of soul, which was set as people's actual earthly aim .... because My love wants to help them become free from every material bondage in order to be able to enter the spiritual kingdom after death carefree. And every word which is conveyed to earth by Me Myself only ever has this one purpose, to instil maturity of soul into you. I will only ever admonish people to liberate themselves, and I will also give you the comprehensible reason for it, I will enlighten you as to what all matter actually is in essence and in what way the spiritualization of those takes place in an infinitely long time .... My concern will only ever be for your soul, the spiritual in material form .... The detachment from matter is such a significant act, it is an act of utmost importance, that never again will My word contain a suggestion to hoard matter .... to increase it and to enjoy its possession .... But all this stimulates My adversary .... and you may believe these words of Mine that My adversary has gained influence wherever these phenomena can be followed, that riches accumulate, that these riches are used to feast people's eyes, that these riches do not serve the purpose which alone is to be spoken of as a blessing of wealth: to relieve poor and needy people of their state of misery .... My adversary will always know how to prevent this, and by this you humans will also be able to recognize where My adversary rules, and you will also be able to be certain that no truth can be found there either, because My adversary will always fight against the truth, but especially in his territory, because he will also find his loyal followers there who are submissive to him. My word from above provides information about My adversary's activities in the last days before the end .... And he who belongs to My own also sees the signs of the end and only cares for his soul .... My adversary, however, does not want to accept this end and neither do all those like him .... And these are driven by him to make provisions for a time which will no longer be .... And people willingly follow his suggestions; they do not think about the near end but create and work and plan and build for times to come and thereby prove their walk in darkness and their lord to whom they have submitted themselves .... My word alone is truth, and this word announces to you that you humans are all facing the end .... If you believed these words of Mine you would not succumb to greed for material goods, you would only ever try to make the last days bearable for each other, you would be more mindful of people living in greatest need whom you could help .... And you would turn to the pure word of God and clearly recognize where My adversary is at work, then you would also no longer allow yourselves to be deceived by deceptive work, by webs of lies, you would obviously recognize the father of lies who wants to alienate you from the truth .... For you would also recognize how different the spiritual knowledge is which was offered to you from that which I Myself guide to earth. Yet as long as you yourselves are willing to be ever more firmly chained to matter you will also be blind in spirit, and so long will you also remain in its power .... You are facing the end and all your striving is in vain .... Therefore detach yourselves from matter before it is too late, lest it become your grave ....

Amen

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Allurements of the world and overcoming ....

B.D. 7215 from November 25th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

And if you crave the pleasures of this world, resist and remember that this is a temptation by My adversary who presents you with everything beautiful and appealing about this world in order to lure you out of the spiritual realm where you have already found a resting place. As long as you live on earth as a human being the world will not remain without impression on you, but this impression can be very weak but also still so strong that you fall prey to the attractions, that the temptations are such that you cannot resist them. And this will always be the case when you loosen your bond with the spiritual kingdom, which is the case with every person at times, even if he is of good will. And therefore I draw your attention to the fact that you should always pay attention when the world starts to tempt you .... that danger is approaching, that you will get close to the one who only wants to corrupt you. It is true that worldly temptations seem so harmless, and you can easily deceive yourselves with the words that they are only harmless pleasures which mean no danger for your spiritual well-being. At first this is also true, but the harmlessness soon gives way to serious danger, because the human being is not satisfied with small harmless pleasures and the temptations always become greater once he has given in and deceived himself. The step is not great from one road to another, from the narrow path to the broad one, which offers so many charms that a man can seldom pass by. That is why it is good not to let one's eyes wander to where the path branches off and always leads back to the wide road. But this road leads downwards, and for this very reason it directs the gaze to the joys and beauties on the side of the road, so that no one recognizes that the road is going downwards. But the narrow paths, which are less passable and have fewer charms, lead upwards. And if the human being always keeps his gaze turned upwards, he will not feel the unattractiveness, the difficulties and unevenness of the path, but will be carried over it by helpful guides, so that the ascent can also be covered effortlessly by the one who seriously strives upwards. And furthermore, it will not take long for you to enjoy or even toil on your path through life .... and all the joys and worldly pleasures do not outweigh what the human being forfeits as a result, what he forfeits for his life in the beyond, which he is irrevocably approaching. All of your earthly life is short, even if you are granted a great age according to your own understanding .... For eternity lets you recognize that it is only a moment in this eternity. And in this 'moment' you only have to make a small renunciation of earthly joys and pleasures for the sake of your soul .... And the whole of eternity will grant you blisses which are immeasurable. And My adversary and the enemy of your soul knows this, and he seeks to prevent it by enticing you .... he who will make you blissfully unhappy again for eternities in return if you are at his beck and call and don't resist his temptations. And where the desire for earthly pleasures and enjoyments is still strong he also succeeds in his art of seduction, he is successful and diverts the soul from the spiritual path if it has already taken it .... Therefore I warn you urgently: Do not let yourselves be beguiled by the world and its pleasures .... let it be said to you that these are My adversary's means to win you over, for the goods and joys which come from My kingdom, which I Myself offer you, are of a different kind .... They are spiritual goods which may not yet appear so valuable to you in your body, the immeasurable value of which you will only recognize in the spiritual kingdom, but then you will also be overjoyed that you possess them and don't make them up for the sake of worthless goods and pleasures. And even if your earthly life is poor in earthly pleasures, don't regret it, for you will be all the richer once you have arrived in the kingdom which is truly .... which not only has pseudo goods but gives you unlimited, imperishable bliss. Then you will rejoice, and this joy will be different from what you could feel on earth, for I Myself will prepare these joys for you, Who loves you as a father and wants to make My children eternally happy ....

Amen

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Work of satan .... "I am the good shepherd ...."

B.D. 5038 from January 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

I will give you a sign by which you will recognize Who speaks to you, a sign which is irrefutable so that you will also acknowledge My direct activity. Yet you must pay attention to everything you encounter, for I always work within the framework of the natural so that you will not be forced to believe but it should be easy for you to believe. It is My will that you firmly live in the conviction to receive the pure truth, therefore I want to help you where this faith is in danger, where doubts arise in your heart, where you become weak due to satan’s influence. He certainly has great power but it never extends to My own who have the safest protection against him in My love. Therefore, if you are Mine through your will and your attitude you no longer need to fear him, for he only has power over the undecided and his followers as long as they do not call to Me for help. If I did not want to protect My own against him, then My love would truly be small or My power would be weak. Look around you and notice how he works where the world is placed before Me, where the desire for matter is predominant, where there is no love .... Everywhere he is the ruler and confuses people's thinking. But where the striving towards Me is evident, where I am the aim, where matter is only disregarded and the human being strives to fulfil My will, that is My territory, and satan has lost his power there, although again and again he tries to break in like a wolf who wants to steal My sheep. but I am the good shepherd .... remember these My words .... I am the good shepherd .... Do you believe that I abandon My sheep to My enemy? Do you think that I watch him break into the sheepfold to cause confusion in My flock? Then I would not be a good shepherd and you would have to doubt My word .... Even the lost sheep I seek to win back, how much more will I protect those from the enemy who want to be Mine? The power of satan is certainly great, but greater than this is My love .... Hence a limit is also set to his power, which is why you, who desire My love, need not fear him. Through your desire you determine your lord to whom you want to belong; everything you desire and still belong to him also makes you his servant .... But if you strive for Me and My kingdom, then you are Mine and will remain Mine for all eternity, otherwise My love and My power would truly be limited if My own were not able to rely on it in every spiritual and earthly adversity. I am the good shepherd and lay down My life for My sheep .... Do not forget this word and you will always know that you are protected by Me and need not fear My adversary ....

Amen

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I know Mine .... good shepherd ....

B.D. 5376 from April 27th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I know My own, and My own know Me .... I am truly the good shepherd, Who does not hand over His sheep to the enemy, Who is concerned about the life of everyone, Who does everything to protect His flock from the incursion of the wolf, Who Himself lays down His life for His sheep .... Full of love My eye rests on all people, I want to lead all of them to their home stable, I want to protect all of them from the attacks of the enemy who wants to snatch them away from Me .... I want to make Myself known to all people, offer them My protection, care for them and preserve them. I want to give eternal life to all people ....

But now there is a time when almost no-one heeds My call any more; My flock has scattered, the enemy has driven into their midst and caused My sheep to lose their way, to move away from their shepherd, to climb to worldly heights, to lose their shepherd and no longer find their way back to Him .... They don't seek Him but always distance themselves more and more from Him, and even if My love calls them they no longer pay attention to My voice except for a few who recognized their good shepherd in Me and don't leave Me. But I will not let any of My sheep get lost. And so My call will sound with such strength that it must also be heard by those who are far away from Me .... And I will go after each one of My sheep and pave the way for him that leads back to Me, I will protectively place Myself before the fearful ones who fear the enemy so that no harm will come to them .... I will bend down to those who have fallen to lift them up, to pull them out of the abyss .... All will hear My call, for it will resound over the whole earth and indicate My nearness, so that everyone can turn to Me and will also be accepted by Me if only he wants to follow Me. I am the good shepherd, I certainly cannot prevent My enemy's activity but I can grant protection to everyone who stands behind Me, because the enemy cannot attack Me himself, but he can attack you as long as you don't adhere to Me, if you turn away from Me and go ways where he can pursue and reach you. My call of love does indeed follow you but it does not force you to turn back; you must follow it voluntarily, then the adversary will truly not be able to harm you, then you will be under safe protection and I will guide you safely to the homeland where I will never leave you again and you can live in blissful peace .... All you humans, pay attention to My call, for it will soon sound; turn back before it is too late, let your shepherd guide you and entrust yourselves to Me; do not leave the path I have taken but follow Me, then truly nothing of hostile power will be able to happen to you, for I Myself hold My hands protectively over you and you will reach the aim .... you will be able to enter your father's house .... you will live blissfully in eternity ....

Amen

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Two different worlds .... voice of the good shepherd ....

B.D. 5865 from January 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Earth and the spiritual kingdom are two different worlds, and the inhabitants of earth will rarely have understanding for that which penetrates to them from the spiritual kingdom in the form of the divine word, they will rarely have understanding for the spiritual knowledge which is imparted to them from the spiritual kingdom. Yet My word applies here: My sheep recognize My voice .... It is only a small flock whose shepherd I Myself am, it is only a small flock which can be counted as Mine .... there are only a few people who are in living contact with Me, in whom not only the mouth but also the heart speaks when they pray, there are only a few people who have a living faith, in whose life I come first and to whom I can also be a true father, whom I can bestow with gifts as My children which prove My love to them .... The majority of people are far from Me, and even if I speak to them they are not touched by My voice, they do not recognize in My words the voice of the good shepherd Who calls them to follow Him, they go their own ways .... They are only on earth and don't make contact with the spiritual kingdom from which they could draw great blessings for their soul. But just as the two worlds are different, the earth and the spiritual kingdom, so people are also different and belong to one of these two kingdoms .... And therefore My word will only ever be heard by those who hear the call of their shepherd, who are Mine, or by those who are still undecided as to which kingdom they should turn to .... they hear My call and feel it as a call to which they are attracted .... My call always and forever remains the same: Follow Me .... For there is only one path that leads to the aim, which all My sheep must take .... the path of love, and whoever takes this path belongs to My own, and this one follows his shepherd, Who truly leads him to the stable at home, Who does not hand him over to His enemy, Who protects him when the enemy will break into the flock to scatter them .... and this enemy will do everything to snatch My sheep away from Me, he will step as a disguised wolf in the midst of My sheep and likewise try to lure them in order to then rip them apart without pity and consign them to eternal death .... Yet My sheep recognize My voice and stay with the one they recognize as their good shepherd, and only the foreign sheep will allow themselves to be seduced by him, unless My luring call touches them more strongly and pushes them towards Me so that I take them into My flock and protect them from the enemy. My voice truly sounds loud and audible and My call penetrates everywhere so that no-one can say that they have never heard it. Yet only those of good will hear it and recognize it as the father's call of love to His children and follow Him .... And no matter how narrow the path, I will go ahead of them and lead My own safely and securely to the aim .... and everyone who hears My voice will follow Me if he counts as My own .... But it is not the voice of the world, but (it) sounds from the spiritual kingdom and therefore only touches My own who strive for that kingdom and its righteousness ....

Amen

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Call of the shepherd .... great spiritual need ....

B.D. 8330 from November 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

Only a few listen to My voice that sounds from above .... It is only a small flock that I can gather in the end and lead home into a better world .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... And that is why I still pursue each individual soul to the end and entice and call it to find its way back to Me .... As a good shepherd I seek to save all sheep that are in danger of falling, that have lost their way and can hardly manage the path alone. I will leave none of My sheep without help and do everything to free them from the clutches of My adversary who broke into My flock, drove them apart and wants to prevent them from finding their way back to their shepherd .... And anyone who heeds My calls and follows them will also be protected by My strong arm from these attacks. And therefore My voice will always and forever sound and everyone will be able to hear it, for since there is dense darkness they must first hear My call and follow it, then it will also soon become brighter, they will attain light and freedom, for I am truly a good shepherd Who has prepared a home for all His little sheep where they feel at ease .... I want to lead people to beatitude, I want them to find their way home into their father's house, and therefore I speak to them time and again from above. People need much help in the last days before the end because they are weak and constantly threatened by the enemy of their souls. Yet how few accept the help which their father of eternity wants to give them .... How few listen to Me and follow My words .... And no matter how unusually I appear, they pay no attention to it and force Me to use means which affect them painfully but which nevertheless can still be successful and therefore can also be regarded as proof of love on My part .... Then, too, only a few will find the path to Me, yet for the sake of these few I will leave no stone unturned, for they will be saved from the dreadful fate of a new banishment, and only I know what that means .... The spiritual adversity on earth is immense, and it is this that prompts Me to intervene, which is imminent for you humans. Believe these announcements of Mine and prepare yourselves by establishing contact with Me through thoughts or heartfelt prayer .... For as soon as you have established the bond with Me you can no longer get lost, even if your degree of maturity is still low, but you have acknowledged Me Myself and then you need no longer fear the fate of a new banishment .... and even if you lose your earthly life I can still accept you into the spiritual kingdom where you can still ascend. Then you will have followed your shepherd's call and returned to Him, and My adversary will have had to release you, for as soon as your free will acknowledges Me you will no longer reject Jesus Christ's act of salvation if it is truthfully explained and substantiated to you, and you will take the path to the cross, even if it only happens in the kingdom of the beyond, but redemption is nevertheless assured to you. Only call upon Me in great adversity when My voice sounds to you from above, which expresses itself through the forces of nature .... Call upon Me so that you will not be lost again for an infinitely long time. But before that I will guide My word wherever there is still a willing soul which recognises My voice as the 'voice of the father', and everything possible will happen to save souls from ruin who are only willing, who give up their resistance against Me and allow themselves to be taken hold of by Me and My love .... For I truly take no pleasure in prolonging My living creations' path of suffering, I only ever want to provide beatitude and help all My living creations to become blissfully happy. And therefore I only want people to experience My nature, which is love, wisdom and might .... that they trustingly turn to Me in every earthly or spiritual adversity so that they can prove their will to Me and I can help them .... And therefore I will speak to people until the end, I will not stop warning and admonishing them, I will call and entice My sheep, for I am truly a good shepherd Who will gather His small flock before the end comes ....

Amen

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The good Shepherd ....

B.D. 6845 from June 4th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The parable of the good Shepherd illustrates My relationship to you; it shows you that I confer My loving care on all My living creations and that all those who listen to My call belong to My flock which I protect from the adversary’s onslaughts. All of you need a Shepherd, a Guide, Who shows you the right ways, who escorts you and is always ready to shield you from all dangers, because during your earthly life you resemble dependent babes which constantly require protection. Like a flock of lambs you are scattered all over the place, frequently entering paths leading down into the abyss .... Sometimes you scale heights where you are at risk of falling very low indeed, you also often enter unknown regions and run the danger of getting caught and killed, occasionally you let yourselves be pushed away and separated from My flock and, were I not to keep a watchful eye on you, you would be lost. But I Am the good Shepherd Who even sacrifices His life for His sheep .... I will not allow anyone .... belonging to My small flock .... to be unlawfully abducted. I will not allow the wolf to break in and rob Me of My little sheep. And if one of My sheep goes astray I will coax and call so that it will find its way back into its stable. Only a good shepherd gives his life for his sheep, and My relationship with you is truly that of a good shepherd. You are incapable of understanding My love for you because, in your present state, you are still unaware, you can only follow My call and faithfully crowd around Me, you can only recognise My love for you from My call but you cannot grasp its depth, just as a little sheep can only feel that it finds refuge with its shepherd in every danger but is unaware of how much love the shepherd feels for his flock. I Am and remain the good Shepherd, and I feed My sheep a good pasture. I will give them what they need and I don’t want anything else but that they should feel My love and join Me ever more closely, so that the enemy cannot interfere with them and cause them harm. Nevertheless, My sheep can move freely, I guide them and coax and call but I do not keep them tied on a string, they are allowed to roam freely because I do not love constraint .... I do not want to hold on to My flock with force, instead, they shall feel their shepherd’s love and desire it and therefore follow Me in complete freedom when My call rings out .... And My call will ring out time after time, I will speak to people with all kindness, I will warn and admonish them, I will always help them when they are in danger, I will take account of their every weakness and fault and give them strength .... I will truly look after My flock like a good shepherd so that none of My sheep will die .... I will constantly let My voice ring out so that all those who once left Me will come back to Me again, who followed a deceptive voice but who shall return to Me again one day, in order to remain with Me and to experience My infinite love for all eternity.

Amen

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Remodeling the earth in a moment .... miracle of creation ....

B.D. 4692 from July 18th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

The act of remodeling the earth is incomprehensible to you humans because it does not proceed within the framework of lawfulness, as every earthly work of creation has so far emerged on the path of a slow upward development, but it will be the work of a moment apart from the destruction before, which affects all creations on the old earth and which, because it takes place before the eyes of the raptured and can also initially still be observed by the people succumbing to destruction, requires its time, as it is natural law. Hence people can observe the course of the work of destruction and therefore God does not work contrary to law, whereas the reshaping of the earth is an activity of God in the universe which is not visible to the human eye and therefore God does not need time but can let everything come into being in an instant which His strength of love and His wisdom wants to bring to pass.

The people brought to the new earth thus find a finished creation of immensely delightful versatility .... Creations which their eyes have never seen will astonish them, especially as they still remember the creations of the old earth and constantly draw comparisons. They will truly find themselves in paradise, standing in fullest harmony with their divine creator and father, cared for and guided by His love and instructed in everything that is foreign to them. People's relationship to each other will be like a large family and all will strive to gain the love of the heavenly father, to live for His pleasure and to be active in serving neighbourly love. They cannot estimate the duration of their absence from the old earth and their stay after their rapture, for the concept of time is taken away from them until their return to earth, which is why they also have no clue as to the period of time in which the new earth came into being. But they also know that nothing is impossible with God and therefore also consider a sudden creation to be probable, which is why their love and veneration for God always increases and their bliss increases when they look at the miracles which testify to God's love, wisdom and omnipotence and offer people a thousandfold compensation for the tribulation and suffering during the last time of the old earth's existence .... God certainly tests people severely but He also rewards their faithfulness, and blessed are those who experience the end on this earth as sheep of His flock .... blessed are those who must endure and endure the worst and in return exchange for the most beautiful, the paradise on the new earth with the constant presence of the father among His children .... blessed are those who persevere until the end, when God Himself will come in the clouds to fetch them into His kingdom, into the kingdom of peace, until He transfers them back to earth, which will truly reveal miracles no human being could dream of, because there is nothing on the old earth which could be cited as a comparison. Yet God's love knows no bounds and His creative will is inexhaustible and again and again brings about new works which surpass all past ones in order to make His children happy and to reward their faithfulness ....

Amen

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The path to the father's house .... God's guidance ....

B.D. 6418 from December 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

All of you are guided who want to walk by My hand, who entrust yourselves to My guidance .... I must always take your own will into account, I cannot push you against your will onto a path which you consciously avoid, which you avoid because it does not seem pleasant to you .... I can only quietly urge you on but immediately yield to your resistance if it is recognizable to Me. But anyone who entrusts himself to My guidance can walk his earthly path without worry .... it leads to the aim .... Therefore you should not look anxiously at the many obstacles and difficulties, you should only ever firmly hold on to My hand and you will be guided past all difficulties with the certainty which only My guidance can offer you .... Therefore, don't look anxiously into the future either, don't worry unnecessarily, leave all earthly concerns and only lift your eyes up to Me. For I am always there for you, I will also keep all adversity away from you if only you trust Me faithfully, if you behave like children towards your father, if you don't leave My side and leave all care for yourselves to Me. Your faith will banish all danger, for I will not disappoint your complete trust in My loving care .... You are indeed still surrounded by deepest darkness because you stand in the midst of a world of sin and unkindness. But the path I lead you is illuminated by a gentle glow, and where I am, where you walk next to Me, there will always be light, and thus you need not fear the darkness, you need only turn your gaze upwards from where bright light will always shine for you .... The deepest darkness surrounds you .... but the fact that you can walk the path of light by My hand should make you gratefully remember the great work of love and mercy which I accomplished for you humans in order to be able to lead you out of darkness into light .... I have prepared the path on earth which you can now take by My hand, in My discipleship, under My guidance. Before there was deepest darkness and no way out of this darkness .... But I prepared a path that leads from the depth to the height, from darkness to light .... And this path can only be taken under My guidance, i.e. the human being has to believe in Me in Jesus Christ, he has to acknowledge the act of salvation and Me Myself as the divine redeemer Who embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to help you rise from darkness into light .... So everyone who wants to walk the path upwards with Me must join Me in Jesus Christ .... Then he walks the same path that the man Jesus walked, which leads to the father, home to the father's house .... The path leading up will always require the company of Jesus Christ, because there is only one path, the path of Jesus' discipleship, and because this path alone is full of light and guarantees the right aim. But I will never let go of anyone who has once entrusted himself to Me, My hand will hold him so that he will not fall, My hand will support him if he is weak, and My hand will pull him back from the abyss which can open up to him if he is not careful, if he turns his eyes back to the world he had already detached himself from .... He who entrusts himself to Me and My guidance can walk his path calmly, he will not go astray .... You should not allow any weakness, any doubt, any worry to arise within you, for if you hand yourselves over to Me you will take refuge in the father's arms, Whose love will truly protect and look after you, Who will safely lead you heavenwards ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's guidance .... will .... faith .... love ....

B.D. 7060 from March 9th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Anyone who walks by My side can travel his earthly path with peace of mind, he need not fear anything because he is under My protection due to his voluntary affiliation with Me. Thus I must always be your guide, you may not travel the path alone so that you will not be joined by the other who does not want to protect you but only seduce you. Therefore it is not difficult to successfully travel the earthly path, because nothing else is necessary for this but that you entrust yourselves to Me, that you quite simply desire to be united with Me, for this desire will certainly be granted to you. I only let the earth as well as the whole of creation come into being for the purpose that you return to Me again, from Whom you once turned away. And as soon as you as human beings acknowledge Me as your God and creator and desire to be united with this God, I will also reveal Myself to you as father .... I will take you by the hand and lead you on the path to the father's house, for My joy is exceedingly great if you want to reach it as My children. But if you feel Me next to you then you will also hold a dialogue with Me, and you will follow all My instructions, you will pay attention to what I advise you, and you will increasingly recognize that My fatherly love cares for you, and you will safely and calmly travel your earthly path. But the worst thing for you humans is to walk alone, for you will not stay alone for long but only give My adversary the opportunity to approach you, who does not reveal himself to you as an enemy but makes you seemingly friendly offers which are very tempting and which you cannot well resist because they correspond even more to your nature. However, I cannot oust him as long as you do not call for Me. But the knowledge of Me, of a God of love, wisdom and might, will not remain hidden from all of you, you will all receive knowledge of Me .... But whether you seriously turn your will towards Me is up to you but it is always decisive for the success of earthly life. But you are also given a silent admonisher who warns you of My adversary and urges you towards Me .... And you must give in to this quiet urging within you and it will not be to your detriment. And once you have established the bond with Me you will not easily loosen it again, because I will hold you with a loving hand or again and again entice you like a good shepherd to follow Me. And every person who starts his day's work with thoughts of Me, every person who asks Me for My guidance and My blessing, can now also move in the world without worrying .... I will always walk by his side and make sure that he does not stumble, I will also give him strength to resist My adversary's temptations which approach him again and again .... for I truly guide the one who chooses Me as his leader. Yet again and again it has to be emphasized that this devotion to Me first requires faith in Me. And this faith does not only arise from the knowledge of Me but it requires a degree of love which only allows faith to come alive .... And because so many people lack love they also lack the right faith in a God Who wants to be a father to His living creations, Who also wants to guide them through earthly life as a loving father and in Whose guidance they can therefore entrust themselves. For this reason, despite the knowledge of a God, there are few ties between people and Me, and even if I often approach them unrecognized and offer Myself as their guide, they trust their own strength and wisdom and walk alone .... but are not averse to the other companion who tries to exploit their unbelief for himself and also succeeds. This is why the greatest evil in the world is unkindness, for even small deeds of unselfish neighbourly love would open up the human being's feelings and his thinking, and the human being's spirit, which is My share, would be able to express itself and urge him towards Me, in Whom he would then also be able to believe once he has kindled love within himself. Without love no human being's will will turn towards Me, and therefore there is also great spiritual hardship on earth, it is a struggle for existence which would be much easier if the human being allowed Me to take care of him and be a faithful helper and guide for him. Yet every person can kindle love within himself, every person can therefore also recognize Me and consciously turn his will towards Me and thus also desire My guidance .... But since earthly life is given to him for the purpose of testing his will, all coercion is also eliminated. Yet I try everything to encourage the human being to be lovingly active in order to win him over to faith in Me, for this faith will truly make his earthly life easier for him, he will .... once he has recognized Me .... also entrust himself to Me and will not want to walk without Me .... And now he will no longer walk his pilgrimage path alone, I will accompany him wherever he goes, and he will truly have a strong support in Me, he will be able to lean on Me in every adversity and danger, and the way home to the father's house will now be covered without fail because I Myself will guide him there ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

John 14 .... 'I will not leave you comfortless ....'

B.D. 7702 from September 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

I will not leave you comfortless .... I will look after you as a Father and provide you with the evidence of My Fatherly love .... It is not My will that you should go on living on earth without guidance, that you are defencelessly left to My adversary's mercy who will instantly approach you when he discovers that you are abandoned. I love you because you are My children who once emerged from Me and left the right path, albeit voluntarily, but I will nevertheless not withhold My love from them. And My Fatherly love will only endeavour that you return to your Father's house again .... For this reason I will assume your guidance, providing you do not obstinately oppose Me, that you willingly allow yourselves to be guided by Me. But in that case you will be under divine care and nothing can happen to you, you need not feel as orphans who are alone in the world and are therefore often in danger as well. It is My love that I gather My lambs so that they will not stray all over the place, that I coax and call them as a good Shepherd Who does not want to lose even one of his sheep. My sheep know the voice of their Shepherd, they follow Him and He will lead them home, He will protect His flock from the enemy, who approaches time and again in order to cause confusion and to scatter the little sheep wherever he can. Then My coaxing call will ring out because I won't abandon them to My enemy .... I will pursue those who have lost their way or are in danger of falling into the abyss .... For I do not want to lose any one of My sheep because I love them .... And thus no-one need be afraid of being abandoned, for I take care of everyone who suffers adversity, who is alone and depends on help .... I Am close to all who merely think of Me, who entrust themselves to Me in their distress .... And, like a good shepherd, I will treat all those who have distanced themselves from Me and who shall be guided back with coaxing calls of love to their origin .... 'I will not leave you comfortless ....' This is My promise to you, and thus you can confidently count on My protection, you can always avail yourselves of My help, for you know that there is One Who wants to be and remain your Father for all eternity .... And you should entrust yourselves to this Father, regardless of what troubles you. Then He will take you by your hand and safely guide you through all difficulties, He will give you strength to surmount all obstacles, He will even out your paths so that you will safely reach your goal, so that you will find Me and stay with Me forever. For all of you are My children who once left the Father's house but who shall return again and can only achieve this with My help .... They need not feel helpless, for as a loving Father I furnish My children with strength so that they will be able to travel the path to their true home .... so that they will return to Me, to their Father of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bread of heaven .... spiritual sun .... voice of the good shepherd ....

B.D. 4038 from May 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Don't neglect to offer your soul the nourishment which secures its eternal life, provide it abundantly with nourishment, don't slacken in your striving for perfection. Then you will also gain My pleasure, and My love will care for you and look after you, and you will lack nothing, physically and spiritually your needs will be covered, and you will stand in fullest truth, you will become knowledgeable and yet need no other teacher than Me, you will be able to come to Me with every question and I will never leave you without an answer. Therefore desire My word, for I make this a condition if you want to be satisfied with the bread of heaven, with the nourishment of the soul which is constantly at your disposal. Desire it, ask for it, and if it is offered to you, feast on it and constantly draw from the spring of life and you will receive strength and light .... All weakness will stay away from you and you will be full of wisdom .... And by this you will recognize that My gift is divine, you will recognize the value of My gift and you will be blessed that I take care of you in every spiritual adversity and also in every earthly distress. What I give to you is nothing new but the eternal truth, i.e., if it is to remain truth it must remain unchanged as it came forth from Me .... But human intellect changes much, it constantly seeks to improve. And since My gift makes every desire to improve unnecessary, it is understandable that only a change can be achieved which originates from Me as eternal truth. Thus it is also understandable that My word will not remain as it is and that it will always require purification if it is to be spread on earth as My word. And therefore I offer My word Myself again and again to those who hunger and thirst for the nourishment of the soul. And these will stand in truth, they will not need to fear receiving inadequate knowledge or misunderstanding it, because the transmission of pure truth is My will and My aim as long as people dwell on earth, because only truth can lead to eternal life and help the soul attain perfection .... And therefore I will always be a faithful companion to My servants on earth, I will guide them along paths where they meet people who hunger for My bread from heaven, who desire nourishment for their souls and whose life is an activity of love, which is why they also desire Me. I approach them Myself through My servants, I inform them about questions of the heart, I place the thoughts into their hearts so that they approach My servants for instruction, and then I Myself speak through them, and thus the hungry people receive the bread of heaven from Me Myself, the full truth, which is spiritual nourishment for their soul. And the soul will develop upwards, it cannot fall behind in its development if it receives the food from Me Myself, which I have blessed with My strength, which therefore can never remain ineffective. And where My servants can be diligently active bright light will soon illuminate the spiritual night and people will no longer be afraid of the darkness, for the morning has dawned for them which will soon be followed by the bright day where the sun's light breaks through and chases away all darkness. And once the spiritual sun has risen for people there will be no more night, then the light will shine eternally and signify an infinite benefit for the soul. For its original state was brightest light and the darkness a result of sin against Me, a result of arrogance and turning away from Me .... But now it is eternally united with Me in love, and therefore it must also be inexpressibly happy. Therefore do not let the soul go hungry on earth, give it what it urgently needs .... spiritual nourishment, food and drink from the heavens, give it My word by mustering the will to receive it directly or indirectly .... And the soul will partake of Me, of My word, if your will is turned towards Me .... don't let the most delicious things pass it by, don't let the living water flow away without refreshing yourselves with it, draw and drink from the spring of life and be satisfied with the word which My love offers you. And if you want to be especially thoughtful then practice being able to hear Me Myself, listen within and pay attention to your thoughts and I will speak to you, subtly and quietly, yet you will recognize My voice, the voice of the good shepherd Who calls His sheep because He does not want to lose any of them. As My children you will recognize the father’s voice, for anyone who approaches Me with profound love I will incline towards him with My fatherly love, and the child will feel My love and be happy in possession of the truth it receives from Me, and it will always come closer to Me through the truth and finally unite with the eternal truth .... it has reached its aim and will be blissfully happy forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"Keep My word .... come all ye to Me ...."

B.D. 4599 from March 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Adhere to My word and don't ponder and question whether it is to be understood differently than you feel in your heart. You can always draw comfort and strength from My word, and thus you need not live in fear and worry but can banish them at any time by letting Me speak to you. As the father of My children I know everything that moves them and presses them, and I stand by and wait until My children trustingly approach Me and ask Me for help. And I do not deny them what they ask for .... I have an answer ready for every anxious question, and I repeat what I said when I walked on earth: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened ...." Don't let yourselves be weighed down by worldly worries which will dissolve into nothing again by themselves, but only remember your soul which will always receive strength, to which the strength from Me is imparted through My word, which is why receiving My word is the most necessary thing for you which you must not neglect. And that is why I so often let hardship and suffering come upon you because I want you to withdraw the strength from My word so that your souls will be strengthened. I want you to maintain an everlasting connection with Me, that you don't put Me aside and let the world come to the fore. And if you are in danger I will approach you in the form of suffering and affliction. And then let Me speak to you .... And I will speak words to you which truly give you strength and comfort and shall be evidence of My presence, of My knowledge about your adversity and of My love. I only want you to come to Me of your own accord in order to feel your trust which makes Me happy, and I want to remind you of all My words which I spoke to people on earth who were in the same spiritual and earthly adversity. And you will recognize Me Myself in the word, because you recognize the divine origin through the gift of strength, and thus you will also be firm in your faith, which I want to help you achieve through My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'My sheep know My voice ....' Resistance ....

B.D. 4726 from August 28th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

The way you consider My Word is the way I consider you. For it is the Father's voice speaking to you which you have to know if you love Me, that is, if you keep My commandments. Anyone to whom My Word is made accessible will accept it if he loves Me, or he does not love Me if he rejects Me, that is, he does not fulfil My commandments, he does not live in love for God and his neighbour, otherwise he would recognise My Words as the Father's voice. Thus it will also be understandable to you that I bless those who accept Me in the Word yet withdraw My blessing from those who reject Me, for they will not be able to say that they acknowledge Me although they reject My Word .... My sheep know My voice .... and anyone who recognises it will also vouch for it, he will speak on behalf of My Word and not be afraid to pass it on. For what child would not give credence to the Words of the Father .... I came to My Own and they did not recognise Me .... And today I come to My children again, yet they pay less attention to My voice than ever because they do not have the right relationship of children to their Father, because they grant the world more rights and don't have much time for Me anymore. And yet they call themselves religious.

However, I don't acknowledge their faith because I don't notice any love in their hearts otherwise they would desire Me or My Word or attentively listen to the gentle sound of My voice wherever it can be perceived .... But I don't acknowledge anyone as My true child who suppresses My voice for the sake of the world, for although the Fatherly love embraces all His children it also wants to be reciprocated by them. Love Me and keep My commandments, then you will also feel that My Word is Fatherly, then no resistance will arise in you and you will joyfully profess Him to your fellow human beings and ensure the spreading of the Word .... However, if you lack love it will not affect you and you will reject it as a nuisance, which is evident within your heart and also in your conduct, and then you will also reject My love which comes to meet you in the Word and through the Word gives you the evidence that the Father speaks to His children and wants to be listened to by them .... Seriously examine yourselves as to whether you are children of the world or children of your Heavenly Father, and remember My Words: My sheep know My voice .... and don't be faithless, but believing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'My sheep recognise My voice ....'

B.D. 6570 from June 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The Words you receive from Me are spirit and life .... Therefore they must also speak to every person's spirit and give it life. He will feel the strength of My Word providing he opens his heart and allows Me to enter, providing he gratefully accepts the gift he is offered by Me Myself. And anyone who loves Me and who also offers love to his neighbour will always feel touched by My Word, because due to his love he will already have a connection with Me and will also recognise My voice as the voice of the Father Who wants to make His child happy. 'My sheep recognise My voice ....' And My voice will only ever be heard if I Myself Am able to speak to people .... You cannot describe the empty word as the 'voice of the Father' which can certainly be used by those people who do not allow Me to be present with them as yet, who are still spiritually unenlightened, who indeed claim to preach in My name but of whom I cannot as yet avail Myself in order to speak through them to all who listen to them. The recognition of My voice requires such a conscious connection with Me that I Myself will be able to speak .... And this bond must be established both by the preacher as well as by the listener of the Word .... Then the good shepherd Himself will coax His sheep and they will willingly follow .... My sheep recognise My voice .... Does this not presuppose that I speak to people time and again? I emphasise the fact that My sheep recognise My voice .... Hence I make a distinction with those who hear Me, for not all people can count themselves as My Own and therefore not all will recognise Me in the Word .... But I will always speak to My Own Myself so that My promise will come true: that they will hear and consequently also recognise My voice as evidence of the presence of the One to Whom they have surrendered. Hence with these Words I also referred to the fact that I will always and forever speak to you humans, that I did no mean the written Word alone which can also be devoid of spirit and life if I don't bring it to life Myself, if My spirit does not give it life.

However, I also knew that My Word would only be recognised as My direct communication if a life of love had resulted in the awakening of the spirit within the human being, and therefore I spoke about 'My Own', for love is the bond which unites Me with them and enables My direct working within them and for them. The Word can certainly be heard by everyone, but My voice requires My presence .... Thus I also assured you of My presence, and I provide the evidence of it by My voice .... And My Own will recognise it as the 'Father's voice'. But it is only a small flock which hears their shepherd's coaxing call and follows Him, there are only a few who listen to His voice, because people increasingly allow themselves more often to be deceived by fine words which resound loudly but lack all spirit and life. And those do not count to My Own, they do not share My spirit, they are without love and therefore they don't strive towards Me either. And if I speak to them they turn away from Me and go to places where My cleverly camouflaged adversary speaks, and they are satisfied with the empty shell from which they cannot derive any strength. But My Word is strength which will give life to all those who allow themselves to be addressed by Me Myself, who yearn for My voice and who, as My children, shall also experience the Father's love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hearing God's word indispensable .... (I do no evil ....)

B.D. 6760 from February 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

This, too, will become darkness for you if you close yourselves off to My words, if you believe you can do without My address .... if you thus go through earthly life without 'My word'. You are quickly ready with the declaration: "I do nothing wrong, I act justly and fulfil My duty ...." but you believe that you don't need more, you may believe in Me as your God and creator but you distance yourselves from Me, you don't ask for My word, and this is because My word tells you to do more than you are willing to do .... because My word demands loving activity from you but you refrain from it because self-love is still too great. Therefore, if you claim to believe in a God then you must also listen to what He demands of you. And if you don't listen to Him then your faith is just a dead faith, and your assurance of faith in Him is then just an expression, they are words without life which are of no use to you for beatitude. And you who speak like this should seriously consider that the day of your end can come suddenly, and you should give an account to yourselves as to how you will be able to survive then .... For deep down you have not yet lost your faith in Me, otherwise you would not make an effort to live righteously on earth either. But it is only very weak precisely because you lack the strengthening which is granted to you through My word. You are already living in darkness but you can still procure light for yourselves on earth if you are not malicious. For again and again My word will be brought to you, and once it can only reach your heart it will also touch you like a flow of strength, and then it can become light in you. You all have to let yourselves be addressed by Me if you want to travel your earthly path with a benefit for the kingdom of the beyond, and that means that you have to intimately unite with Me when My word is brought to you in any way .... that you thus want to hear something from Me Myself .... For listening to an empty proclamation of the word without the will to hear Me Myself cannot be called 'listening to My word', and you will not gain anything for your soul from it either. And therefore, My word can only be heard by the person who believes in Me and in this faith expects My address. But even a dead proclamation of the word can cause a person to establish the bond with Me himself, a formal act can become a living event, which is why it is always advisable to visit the places where My word is proclaimed, for as soon as something is only received by the intellect it can also find its way to the heart, which is indeed a matter of free will but can nevertheless be possible. And therefore every opportunity should also be used where a person can find Me. And thus it is always blessed work which is done by those who try to spread My word. It is the sowing of a good seed which may indeed fall on different soil but nevertheless a seed can also take root and sprout .... A person should never believe that such work is in vain, for to have opened up the possibility for a single soul to find Me through listening to My word is a rescue work of utmost significance. If only the human being's senses are directed towards Me, then the desire to be addressed by Me can also awaken in him one day .... But only My word will impart to the human being the strength he needs to mature on this earth. Anyone who constantly closes his ear, who refuses to listen to the proclaimers of My word, will increase the darkness around him and soon no longer be able to recognize any light, for he will oppose Me Myself Who wants to impart light and strength to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Grace of God‘s address ....

B.D. 8048 from November 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I can certainly convey My word to you humans but I cannot force you to accept it, for your will is free .... But always bear in mind that even My adversary cannot force you to oppose Me and My word .... Hence you yourselves decide, and therefore you will also have to answer for it one day if you ignore My gifts of grace, if you pass them by unimpressed and thus your earthly life is an idle activity which has not brought your soul the slightest success. It is the great grace which is still given to you in the last days that you can hear Me Myself, that you can receive strength directly from Me which comes to you in the form of My word .... And you should make use of this grace, you should listen to Me and then let your heart speak, and you will truly also become aware of the strength which flows to you from My love. Especially you humans who are not yet in contact with Me should not close yourselves off to My word, you should unprejudicedly move My word within yourselves and you will feel addressed as if by a good friend, you will be beneficially touched as long as you don't openly resist My word. And I also want to speak to you like a good friend, like a father Who only ever wants the best and wants to make His children happy .... I only want you to give up your inner resistance against Me, then every word of Mine will touch you like a loving address which will move you in your heart and which you cannot oppose .... Just listen to Me willingly and truly, you will not regret it, for My word conveys strength and light to you, and your soul will feel at ease when it is supplied with strength and light .... Therefore, again and again I will try to make My word accessible to you humans, because only My word is still able to change you if you have not yet taken the path to Me .... My word can be the good Shepherd's call to you, Who follows His sheep who have lost their way and are going astray .... My call can still reach them, even if they have strayed far from their Shepherd .... And they can follow Him and return in free will. For I must respect your free will and may not compulsorily influence you. But I can address you at any time, for you always determine yourselves whether My address reaches your heart .... You always determine yourselves whether you hear your father's call in it and turn to Him, because you feel His love in every word which touches you. And when you are struck by My ray of love, then don't close your hearts .... open them and let the light shine into you, and truly, you will thank Me eternally that My love followed you even when you still turned away from Me .... For you will now come to life, My strength of love will awaken you from death to life, and you will now no longer lose this life, for My word will now sound to you forever and ever, and forever and ever you will desire to be addressed by Me, and forever and ever I will fulfil your desire ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Aim of God: eternal life .... free will ....

B.D. 6108 from November 14th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

Giving you eternal life is the aim I have set for Myself from the very beginning .... For I want to shape you into beings which are active in eternal bliss, which therefore live and create in full possession of light and strength. My aim is for you to achieve this bliss .... And yet, you must carry out this transformation yourselves, which is the prerequisite for eternal life .... For although My power is unlimited I nevertheless cannot shape you like this out of My power, because it is not My aim to have will-less creatures close to Me, but I want to have children around Me who have freely attained perfection, whose bliss I can continually increase and in whose bliss I Myself also want to take pleasure .... Children of My love you shall become in free will .... This is My plan of salvation from eternity, which I will also pursue until I have reached My aim. But endless times will still pass until everything that has come forth from Me, everything created, will have reached perfection. However, since it is not My work alone but remains your own work, My love is always anxious to help you, to guide you onto the right path, to inform you of your task and to influence you in every way so that your will now carries out what results in your and also My beatitude. And this is only ever possible through My word, which clearly and understandably informs you of My will, the fulfilment of which is also equal to the fulfilment of your earthly task .... I, as your God and creator of eternity, constantly remain in contact with you, My living creations, through My word .... And My address also proves to you the one Who created you. My address is for My children who shall recognize their father in Me, who shall feel My love so that they learn to love Me and long for Me .... If I have achieved that they show love towards Me, then they will also strive towards Me, and then I will have won them for eternity .... For then they will also reach the degree of perfection which will let them become blissfully happy .... then they will shape their nature in free will towards love, and then I will have achieved My aim .... But I do not force a person to accept My word .... And that is why so many people still hold back from Me; they don't give Me the opportunity to let My love shine upon them; they turn away from every gracious opportunity; they flee the places where they could receive unmeasured if they were willing. These prolong the time of their distance from Me Myself, and I must respect their will .... Once, however, I safely reach My aim .... Yet to their own sorrow My creatures prolong the time of their wretchedness, for they are in a state of death, and only when they desire to live do they withdraw the life force from My word .... Only when they let Me Myself speak to them will they be permeated by My strength of love and begin to live .... But then they will also be blessed and remain blessed for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Create and work for eternity ....

B.D. 6305 from July 7th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is your task on earth to create and work for eternal life, and if you comply with this task your temporal fate will also be protected even though you will still have battles to cope with so as not to become tired in your striving for the spiritual goal. However, if you look upon Me as your Father and endeavour towards true childship you will also be in Fatherly care and your earthly life will have to progress such as the Father sees fit for His children. But its trust in the Father's love and care releases the child from all fear and worry, for it is full of confidence that its God and Creator, its Father of eternity, will direct everything just right .... And thus it can create and work for eternity, for it is full of love for Me which also expresses itself towards his fellow human being and thus carries out everything with a view to ascend, it strives towards Me fully consciously and lives a way of live in accordance with My will .... Every human being is given the opportunity to recognise his affiliation to Me because he is able to think about himself and his origin and this will mentally lead to realisation if he genuinely wants it. Thus every person can decide to work for eternal life, yet he is not compelled to do so .... Everyone can lay claim to My leadership and guidance, just as he can separate himself due to his own sense of strength and power, but then he will be isolated and far away, incapable of ascending .... but not striving for it either .... Then he will feel inwardly estranged from Me, he will not think of himself as My child nor look upon Me as the Father Who wants His child's love ....

And then he will not produce anything for eternal life but only ever see the world and its goods and desire them with all his senses. The burden of life will indeed weigh heavily upon him in the beginning because I want to guide his thoughts to Me, yet this burden will become increasingly lighter because someone else will take it from him and give him whatever he strives for .... but also claims his soul in return. Create and work for eternity and do not pay so much attention to earthly life but accept it with all its burdens and troubles, for they are truly only for your own good, just as everything that happens to you merely serves those of you in gaining perfection who dedicate yourselves to Me, who strive for unity with Me, for My presence .... who hand yourselves over to Me so that I can take care of you .... You have truly chosen the best part even though you lack earthly pleasures, yet you will be rewarded in My kingdom and receive so abundantly that you will want to share it again and also be able to do so for your own happiness. Do not forget that earthly life is only given to you so that you will find the entry into My kingdom .... but which you sincerely have to look for .... and not that you forget your task and get caught in the mire of the world, so that you won't succumb to My opponent's temptations to stay away from your true destination .... Be aware that an arduous path is the right path but that I Myself will always meet you on this path, that I will take over your guidance and safely lead you to your true home ....

Amen

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Jesus Christ opens the gate to eternal life ....

B.D. 6850 from June 12th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The gate into a life of light and glory is open to all of you who have found Jesus Christ; however, it remains closed to those who are still distant from Him and His act of Salvation. Therefore you all should seriously ask yourselves whether you have already taken the path to Him, to the cross; for His path on earth ended with His death on the cross, hence you will have to seek and find Him there, and that is where you must go if you want to participate in His act of Salvation. The goal of His life on earth was the cross, because the crucifixion was intended to bring redemption to you humans.

Thus you will find the divine Redeemer under the cross, which means that you will carry your guilt of sin, for which the human being Jesus died on the cross, to Him under the cross, that you will thereby prove your belief in His divine mission and so also reveal your will to be released from the guilt which separates you from Me, your God and Father of eternity .... In that case you acknowledge Me Myself Who accomplished the act of Salvation in the human being Jesus .... Your path must lead to the cross of Golgotha if you want to reach the gate into eternal life, for no other path leads to this gate. All of you should seriously question your attitude towards Jesus Christ .... However, with the exception of a few, you fail to do so, even if His Gospel is repeatedly proclaimed to you, even if His teaching of love is time and again presented to you and you continue to hear His name mentioned as that of the divine Redeemer .... You keep your ears closed and all Words bypass you like empty talk. You are barely touched by what you hear about Jesus Christ and His labour of love, it does not enter your hearts, it has not yet come alive in you and you have not yet spent any serious thought on what you have received so far. One day you will have to stop short at the gate to eternity, you will not find admittance, for you had not found salvation as yet because you did not take the path to the cross, His blood was unable to cleanse you and therefore you will arrive at the gate to eternity burdened by guilt. It is not enough to merely voice Jesus' name with your mouth in order to be released from your guilt .... You must approach Him yourselves, you must hand yourselves over to Him with childlike trust and in awareness of your fault and sincerely appeal to Him that He should accept you, that He might also have shed His blood for you, and you must faithfully wait for His forgiveness .... And the weight of your guilt will fall away, clearing the path to the light and opening for you the gate into eternal beatitude .... Jesus Christ Himself will escort you into His kingdom, but without Him you will never be able to go through this gate. If only you would believe that His name is everything, that calling upon His name with profound faith will lift you out of all the adversity which is the result of the sin which still weighs you down .... This is why I descended to earth in the human being Jesus, in order to relieve you of the immense burden of sin and I died on the cross in order to redeem the great guilt which makes all of you sigh while you live on earth .... I died on your behalf .... but you must want to belong to those for Whom I have died .... Hence you must also take the path to the cross, you must make contact with Jesus Christ Who concluded His life on earth on the cross .... Then He will walk with you and guide you into His kingdom which He promised to all those who believe in Him ....

Amen

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Urgency and blessing of activity for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 3689 from February 17th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

And everything you do for My glory, for the spreading of My teaching and the glorification of My name, will be blessed insofar as that it will not remain without impression on the still weak but not entirely hardened souls, and the smallest success signifies an escape of the souls from the enemy and a step closer to Me. And although you will mostly be rejected, although scorn and ridicule will be your share, individual souls will nevertheless find their way to Me, they will be lifted up by your strength of faith, they will strive to emulate you, they will take My word to heart which is conveyed to them through you, and they will also feel its strength in themselves, for I will help wherever I discover even the slightest will turned towards Me .... Your activity on earth will not be in vain, even if it seems so, for the word, which is planted as a seed in the seemingly dead soil, can take root in due course if the events, the earthly adversity, flow into the human being such that he no longer knows any other way out than to approach the one for help Who previously made Himself known to him in the word. And then your work was not in vain .... On My behalf you shall be active on earth in the last time before the end .... And when I give you, My servants, this commission you can also always be assured that I will not assign you any unsuccessful work, for the lord knows about the blessing of His servants' work and in His wisdom He does not let them carry out work which is without any success. You should not worry about it and believe that you work uselessly, for I Myself work through you and I truly still draw sheep to Myself, for My voice is recognized as that of the shepherd, even if only by a few; yet for the sake of the few I send you forth to bring them salvation, because every soul is exceedingly dear to Me and I would like to save it from another earthly journey through the whole of creation. Moreover, even the hardened ones shall still be given the opportunity to find Me, for as long as the earth exists it shall serve the spiritual's ascent development, thus the spiritual, which is embodied as a human being, must also be given the opportunity to find and recognize Me. In the end this can only happen through the transmission of My word, which is to be made accessible to them through you so that they cannot say that they have been unjustly condemned on the day of judgment. For only when they completely reject Me and declare war on Me and My servants will the hour have come when their measure is full and they are ripe for renewed banishment on the new earth. They must have reached the deepest depth of free will before I end their earthly course, before I reshape the earth itself in its creations because it no longer corresponds to its purpose .... And therefore your activity for My kingdom is absolutely necessary, for there must be people who announce to their fellow human beings on My behalf what is about to happen to earth, who speak what I put into their mouths so that every person can mentally deal with it and make use of what he hears. But I do not force the will .... But you shall be diligently active and I will bless you, I will be with you with My grace and strength until the end and introduce you into My kingdom, for a right servant is also worthy of his reward ....

Amen

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The good Shepherd .... ‘My Own recognise My voice .... ’

B.D. 4295 from May 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

I know My Own and My Own know Me .... And if I call them, they will abide by Me, for they recognise the voice of the Father Who loves them and Whom they want to obey. But soon My call will go out to you, My Own, and I tell you so in advance because you feel safe, because you do not believe that the end is near. However, I need you and therefore I inform you of the fact that you will soon hear My voice, the voice of the good shepherd, who calls His sheep .... I need faithful guards for My flock, leaders who will guide My Own upwards across stony paths and cliffs, who will constantly look after My Own and draw their attention to the near end. These guides and guards will receive the truth from Me directly and convey it to you, they will emerge from the ranks of My Own and impart My Word from above to people; they will be in direct contact with Me, thus they belong to My Own themselves, so when they hear the call, they will know that the hour of their work for Me and My kingdom has come. Then they will establish such heartfelt contact with Me that regression can no longer be possible for a soul which serves Me, that it will never be left without strength, that within a very short time it will be able to speak from Me Myself and then it will fulfil its mission on earth, which is its purpose and goal of earthly life. Then it will only work for Me and gladly spread and advocate My Word, because it will be fully convinced that I Myself speak to it and therefore attach utmost significance to every Word. And the human being will receive strength in abundance. All feeling of weakness will fall away, every spiritual gift will be fully utilised and employed, and his work amongst people will be successful and richly blessed. And this activity of yours will start shortly. I Am aware of your will and your weakness of faith, but I also know the change that will occur to you shortly, I know about the adversity and the suffering of the forthcoming time, but I also know your willingness of having faith and the strength of your faith. And, accordingly, I will provide you with strength and never leave you on your own, regardless of what might happen. Therefore, always abide by My Word, draw from it the strength with which I blessed it, become My children in truth who trustingly hand themselves over to the Father and believe that He will assuredly save you if you suffer adversity. For anyone who recognises My voice is My child and his life is My concern; anyone who believes in Me will also be able to hear My voice; yet anyone who questions the sound of My voice is not My child even if he believes that he is united with Me. The sheep recognise the voice of their shepherd and will follow him when he calls them. I, however, Am the good Shepherd who will not rest until He has found His sheep.

Amen

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Triumphant church .... One flock and one shepherd ....

B.D. 4304 from May 18th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Those of you who follow Me, who desire Me, shall be of like mind in your thinking, speaking and actions. Then you will form a strong congregation although it is small in numbers. Then My spirit will take effect in you and, being permeated by My spirit, you will be able to speak for Me and My kingdom. And your words will ignite, for you give evidence of them yourselves with your actions which express your thoughts and your will. Unity shall reign in My congregation because all are living in the same truth and all must be united with Me by love and therefore form a great soul which I call My church. I will always be present in this congregation, and when My Word is preached it is I Who speaks through the speaker. And this is the church against which even the gates of hell shall not prevail, for if I Am present in it Myself the adversary's activity will remain unsuccessful. This is the church which will triumph at the end of the days, for it embraces the flock whose shepherd I Am .... It will only be one flock and one shepherd. It will comprise people of all denominations who have liberated themselves from all external appearances and who, due to their eagerness of living to please Me, are in intimate contact with Me. And I will graze My sheep .... in evergreen pastures, where no cliffs, no thorns and no pits exist anymore, I will be in the midst of My Own in the paradise of the new earth, for then there will be no separation between us anymore, My sheep will not flee from Me any longer, they will not leave their shepherd, for they love Me and don't want to be without Me again.

You only have a little time left and should strive to enlarge your congregation, My true church, and therefore you should exemplify the right way of life to them, you shall give love and through love try to gain the children of the world who are oblivious of the strength of love .... give them much love, so that it will kindle the flame in their hearts, so that they will get to know the pleasure of giving and of happiness, so that they will join you and thus also seek to make contact with Me. Be a good example to them and try to motivate them into doing the same in order to test the strength of love and of faith. Show them the path to Me, draw their attention to the right relationship with Me, explain to them that they must see their Father in Me to Whom they must submit like children in order to be elevated to true children who shall come into the Father's inheritance. And even if you can only gain a few it will nevertheless be a great merit to you, since the good shepherd delights in every sheep that once was lost and comes back to him, and thus I will also bless everyone who helps Me to increase My congregation before the final end has come ....

Amen

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The congregation of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6301 from July 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is My will that My small congregation should firmly remain united, so that one supports the other spiritually and earthly .... All shall gather around the font of life and refresh themselves, they shall draw the strength from it which they will need more than ever the closer it gets to the end .... And the fact that the end is coming will be known and believed by everyone who allows himself to be permeated by My living water, for then he will have deeper insight and know why the end is approaching .... And it is My will that many people shall receive this knowledge, I want the elixir of life offered to all who cross your path .... And then it will be left to every person as to whether he wants to stay with you or turn away again from the source that My love has opened up for you .... Share the living water that flowed forth from My font with everyone .... Spread My Word which comes from above and is imparted to you .... and help to constantly increase the circle of those to whom I can impart strength through My Word because I know how urgently everyone will need this strength in the forthcoming time. Whatever can be done in order to spread My Gospel throughout the world shall be done by you, and I will bless everyone, for I alone know that ailing souls can still be saved by taking refuge in the healing font and recover through the delectable living water ....

All of you, who receive My Word directly or through My servants on earth, belong to My small flock which is protected by its shepherd .... You all belong to My church which I founded when I lived on earth .... You are all My apostles of the last days whom I send into the world with the instruction to proclaim My Gospel to people .... Know, that I Am with everyone of you who wants to work for Me and My kingdom .... know, that I will lead you to those whom you shall refresh in turn with nourishment and drink; know, that every person can render vineyard work who offers himself to Me for service .... But also believe that I need every one of you because a lot more work needs to be done until the end and because this work can only be undertaken by people who are willing to do My will, who thus accept instructions from Me Myself .... Believe, that I certainly know what will help erring souls in order to become enlightened and that I will always hand you the means which will beneficially affect them .... that I will always speak to them the right Words through you, on account of which My Words are imparted to you, so that I can address every person directly, and My Words can truly not fail to make an impression as long as their will is good and I still see an opportunity to save the human being .... Work together with combined strength and rest assured that I will stay within your midst, that I Myself invite people to come to the font of love and to allow themselves to become refreshed and invigorated .... Rest assured that I will bless every person's services for Me and My kingdom, spiritually and earthly, and therefore be diligently active in My vineyard, for the time of harvest has come and I need many reapers, because there is not much time left until the end ....

Amen

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Jesus, the good Shepherd ....

B.D. 7455 from November 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I will send people your way to whom you shall proclaim the Gospel, yet there will only ever be few who will listen to you and take your words to heart. It is just a small flock which will follow Me, their shepherd, and I will keep this small flock together and won't allow My sheep's pen to be broken into and My sheep stolen, for I Am a good shepherd, Who will sacrifice His life for His sheep. All of you who listen to My call as soon as it is voiced belong to My flock ....

And My call is always My Word by which I Myself speak to you from above .... My call is the coaxing call of a good shepherd Who does not want to lose even one small sheep from His flock, and Who speaks Words of love to you in order to hold on to you, in order to warn and admonish you so that you do not get entangled in the snares of the one who wants to steal you from Me. I will indeed let you have free will, and if you roam over wide pastures you will be able to go wherever you want but a good shepherd will follow his flock and look for those who have gone astray, who have left the right path and got stuck in ravines or on heights. A good shepherd will coax and call to let them find their way back to him, so that they will take refuge by pushing close to him and return home with him, where peace and tranquillity will await them at the end of the day and after the long walks through the pastures.

The characteristic of a good shepherd rests in the fact that he will not leave his sheep to their fate when the night sets in .... For so many a small sheep will go astray, it will digress from the right path and get stuck on the heights, it will venture into unfamiliar fields where it can be caught and killed, it will leave the path and lose its flock and the shepherd .... And then a good shepherd will follow and call until he has found it .... And joyfully he will bend down lifting the small sheep onto his arms in order to carry it back to the flock and drive them towards the home enclosure. And thus I, too, will follow all people who had left Me as their good shepherd, who are taking their own paths, who have gone astray in the world and intend to go up in the world .... They are all small sheep who have gone astray, who are particularly close to My heart and whom I dearly want to win back for Myself again, whom I would like to count as My Own and whom I therefore continue to coax and call with My Word, so that they will comply with it and lovingly approach Me again, from Whom they had distanced themselves. And therefore My Word will sound from above time and again, and whoever receives it shall pass it on in the world, for people urgently require My Word, My loving appeal which is intended to call them back home ....

And I truly know who will need My Word, and these are the ones I will send to you so that you will be able to carry out your vineyard work on them, so that you will be able to do labours of love for Me as the good shepherd and also be able to return the little sheep to Me again, which had left the flock and yet shall come back to Me once more because they will not be able to become blessed without Me.

There will not be many more who will be impressed by My Word, rather, most people will refuse to listen to you, for My flock has scattered and has been driven away by the enemy who unlawfully takes those who refuse to surrender of their own free will .... And yet the good shepherd's coaxing call shall sound time and again, for as soon as they voluntarily turn to Me once more I will also be able to fetch them back and lead them to their home enclosure.

Therefore you, too, shall coax and call when you spread My Gospel throughout the world. Tell people about the good shepherd Who is continually searching for His sheep and wants to place them under His faithful protection .... Tell people that a God of love exists Who is only waiting for them to come to Him in every adversity, Who, like a good shepherd, wants to lift every small sheep onto His arms, Who is offering refuge and protection to it in His presence, so that all human beings will be safe and secure with Him ....

Amen

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