My voice will sound from above!

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

4034 - Announcements through seers and prophets....

4760 - Evidence of announcements.... reference to a play....

God’s will

6214 - God's will: principle of love....

6618 - God's will.... man-made commandments....

2507 - God's will.... Commandments.... Peace and order.... Consequences....

Influence of the adversary on the will of man

1580 - Influence by the prince of lies on people's thinking....

2204 - Satan’s work of deception.... Mask.... Matter....

3369 - Striving of the adversary of God to alienate people from Him....

5535 - Satan's activity....

6080 - The adversary's influence of will.... Destructions....

6971 - Target of the opponent: destruction....

7315 - The adversary's temptations by means of worldly enticements....

5861 - False Christs and false prophets....

6443 - Work of dark forces....

Spiritual decline

1495 - spiritual flattening of the present....spiritual turning point....

1808 - Spiritual distress.... sense of responsibility.... harsh reminders....

2774 - Regression.... spiritual and earthly decay....

4390 - Spiritual decline.... Signs of the end....

Misunderstood charity

0985 - Works of charity.... without love.... in compulsion....

2287 - Divine spark of love.... right and wrong love....

3310 - Love.... wrong.... divine.... from human to human....

4131 - Justice.... Equal rights.... Mutual love....

4574 - Assessment of duties according to degree of love....

4868 - Neighbourly love....

3915 - Need of the fellow human being drive to the activity of love....

The behavior of the people of the present time – justification for God’s intervention

3599 - Divine order.... disorder - chaos human will....

6030 - People's indifference requires harder blows....

1066 - Atheism.... Divine intervention....

0400 - Leaving the mother church....

4431 - Reference to spiritual convulsion (Rome?).... right church of Christ....

5173 - Faithless humanity.... The end is near....

0712 - Warning against false judgement.... unkindness of the peoples....

8423 - Unkindness causes lightlessness and transformation of the earth....

8712 - Spiritual low level.... Lovelessness.... Selfish love....

1621 - Sense of justice....

2185 - Just thinking.... educational resources....

2535 - Battle .... Works of destruction .... Against God’s will ....

1607 - Dead and living matter.... Work of destruction.... Catastrophes....

2785 - Destruction by human will....

4853 - Prevalence of sin....

4853 - Prevalence of sin....

Necessity of God’s intervention

1525 - Divine justice....

1088 - Necessity of divine intervention....

1594 - Coming time of suffering.... Purpose of the announcement....

1759 - World catastrophe....

1887 - Spiritual and earthly explanation of the world catastrophe....

1960 - Demonic activity.... Necessity of divine intervention....

2424 - Anti-God forces.... intervention of God....

2437 - Indications of natural event.... Jesus’ reference on earth....

God’s intervention through cosmic events and the raging forces of nature

8033 - A forthcoming natural event....

2197 - Disaster and hardship after....

2839 - Suffering and tribulations through divine intervention....

3520 - Powerlessness of the strong against natural disaster....

3251 - Chaos.... battle of faith....

5775 - Servants of satan....

Truth of the prophecies

3741 - Fulfilment of the predictions.... Proof for unbelievers....

3786 - The great tribulation gives proof of the truth of the divine word....

8027 - Fulfilment of prophecy as proof of truth....

God’s protection and help

7643 - Natural event and chaos....

6355 - Purpose of need: bonding with God....

5496 - Unusual gift of strength in the time of need through God's Word....

Assurance of God’s help in times of need…. admonitions to prepare for the end

3776 - Announcement of the catastrophe....

3817 - God's intervention.... Last stage before the end....

4765 - Reference to the end and admonition to care for soul....

5383 - Serious admonition.... The final phase of the earth....

6970 - Calm before the storm.... Illusion of peace....

5397 - Serious wake-up call....

3413 - Man's will.... God's will.... assurance....

6143 - Call to Jesus Christ is salvation.... God's word....

Announcements through seers and prophets ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Evidence of announcements .... reference to a play ....

B.D. 4760 from October 17th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Time will bring you the evidence that you can believe My words which announced what is coming and that you can therefore also accept as truth what I teach you through the transmission of My word. Time will further confirm to you that error is to be sought where truth is to be represented, for it will be obvious that I am giving you a sign .... My working will appear so clearly that there can be no doubt as to what I condemn and what I bless. I will visibly protect My own while I will destroy that which is hostile towards Me. There will only be a short time left until the world experiences a spectacle which proves Me and My Working, for it draws everyone's attention to Me because the eyes of the world are directed to where I will speak to people's horror and visibly protect My own. You will experience that an error will be uncovered, that a throne will collapse which seemed secure. I have announced it to you, but you do not want to believe it .... and so it will surprise you, and then you should only pay attention to what you will hear, for it will give you information about many things. I want to speak to people who cannot be taught otherwise, I want to make My will known to them, albeit in a painful way because it will greatly shake their faith, yet it can be exceedingly good for their souls, for thereby they can attain the truth which they need for maturity of soul. But pomp and splendour will not earn them the truth, pomp and splendour will pass away, for what I send to people destroys the external, and only he who possesses the core will be unable to rob himself of faith. He will certainly see everything external deteriorate but only call upon Me in his heart, and I will help him at all times so that people will recognize how I bless the good will of those who see their father in Me and therefore only fulfil My will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s will

God's will: principle of love ....

B.D. 6214 from March 17th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Only that corresponds to My will which reveals the principle of love .... And thus you have a precise characteristic of My will: Your thoughts, intentions and actions must be based on love for Me and your neighbour .... you must only ever want to help and make people happy and never combine your actions with selfish thoughts. For selfishness is self-love, a perverse love which you may only cherish in your heart to a very small extent .... to a degree that ensures the preservation of your body as long as it has the task to fulfil .... to be the carrier of your soul .... What you therefore need to make the body suitable for this task is the measure of love for yourselves granted to you. But you yourselves are free to increase or decrease the degree of self-love, and the latter will always mean a plus for your soul which you will only recognize when you reap the fruits of what you have sown on earth .... For what the body desired on earth for itself it has to give away .... what it denied itself in order to help its neighbour the soul finds again in the kingdom of the beyond as wealth with which it can now work, which makes it blissfully happy .... So I will not force you in earthly life, I will not hinder you in your thinking, wanting or acting .... you can cover your earthly path at your own discretion, but "what you sow you will also reap ...." And you will always know about My will which only ever requires loving activity from you which, however, you have to practice voluntarily if it is to serve your soul's perfection. And if the heart is willing to love, if the human being has fought against selfish love as far as possible, then he will do of his own accord what corresponds to My will .... He will no longer do it in order to merely fulfil My commandments, but out of the innermost urge of his heart he will think and act according to My will .... It will inwardly urge him to give and make happy, for then he already carries My spirit of love within himself, he has changed his initially love-poor nature, his heart embraces everything that surrounds him with its love .... And thus he also radiates love to his fellow human beings and can also cause them to change their nature according to his example .... Love is divine, it is My primal element, and it therefore has to deify everything that is seized by it and let it become My image. A heart which now allows itself to be seized by Me Myself, which ignites love within itself and now unites with Me, must irrevocably approach the original state again, for it deifies itself and again assumes all characteristics and abilities it once possessed when it was externalized by Me as an emanation of love in all perfection .... Love alone restores this original state, because love deifies the being and because love causes the union with Me which results in an overflow of light and strength in abundance .... This is why My will can never ever have anything else as its aim than to always cause you humans to do deeds which reveal the love principle in you .... This is why My will can only ever be the fulfilment of My commandments which teach you love for Me and your neighbour, and this is why you must all know about this will of Mine .... For this reason My word is repeatedly brought to you humans which informs you of My will .... And only he who fulfils My commandments of love will be blissfully happy, for he can only return to Me when he has become the love again which he was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will .... man-made commandments ....

B.D. 6618 from August 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

What God asks of you is nothing unrealizable but can be done very easily by you if only you have the will to respect God's will. For then you will receive the strength to carry out what He asks of you. Your original nature was love, for you emerged from the original strength, from divine love. If you are now devoid of all love, then it is due to your own will which turned away from God and thereby also rejected His illumination of love, thus you rejected it .... But if you turn to Him again in free will then you also open yourselves to His illumination of love and receive it in the form of strength which you now also use in God's will .... for works of love .... because the divine strength of love is an inner impetus for you to likewise be active according to your fundamental nature. And that is all God requires of you: that you voluntarily turn to Him again and are now also able to shape yourselves into love again. God requires this of all His living creations, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, because without such a transformation into love the being can never find the union with God which alone makes it happy. Earthly life has now been given to you humans for this purpose, and at the same time He also guides His gospel to you .... the knowledge of God's will and of your earthly task. He makes the divine teaching of love accessible to you in order to first stimulate your thinking, which shall then determine your will. Therefore, anyone who turns his will towards God will also find it easy to acquire the kingdom of heaven, thus to be placed into the state of beatitude which necessitates the fulfilment of divine will. However, anyone whose will is still determined by God's opposite pole, because the human being himself grants him the right to do so, will have to make great efforts to detach himself from this power, and he will also hardly decide to do deeds of love because he is completely without strength due to his willful turning away from God, which also means that he rejects every gift of strength and expresses this in unloving thoughts and actions. A change in love on earth is all God requires of you humans, for it only applies to the transformation of your wrong will and being to what you originally were. Only that which can lead to this change of nature, only that which promotes a life of love in unselfishness, can be regarded as God's will. But you humans have arbitrarily given yourselves commandments and thereby pushed the divine commandments, which only demand love for God and your neighbour, into the background, because the commandments issued by you are more respected than those given by God Himself and which alone lead to beatitude. If you want to be obedient, you now have to deal with .... with a ballast which does not bring you much beatitude, which is rather a great danger for you if you forget the divine commandments of love. And again and again you must therefore be enlightened, again and again the divine teaching of love and its effect on your soul must be presented to you. And you must know that you will not get any further if you ignore these commandments of love .... and no matter how eagerly you try to fulfil what you are commanded by people, what, moreover, is presented to you as 'God's will' .... Only the works of love determine your fate in eternity, and these are not difficult for those who also receive strength from God through their devotion to Him .... As soon as your thoughts, your will, is directed towards God, the spark of love in you will also become a flame, and you will be urged from within to work with love .... And so that you turn your will towards God, He reveals Himself to you in many ways, in creation, in your earthly fate and through His word .... And every person who is of good will can recognize Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's will .... Commandments .... Peace and order .... Consequences ....

B.D. 2507 from October 12th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

It is God's will that you should live in peace with each other, that you help each other with love and bear your suffering together. If you live up to His will, your life will be a peaceful and blessed one, suffering and sorrow will remain at bay, for then your way of life will benefit your soul .... You will practice neighbourly love and thereby prove your love for God to Him, and your conduct will be pleasing to God. But how do you relate to each other at the moment? .... You are fighting each other, you are damaging your neighbours, and heartlessness has reached highest perfection. Hence you must suffer, you must endure much adversity which shall teach you to bear the suffering together and to help each other. The will of God must be complied with; otherwise the human being violates divine law. The life of a person who adapts himself to divine will can only be a peaceful one, just as everything on earth will be harmonious and peaceful if people accept God's will as their own. But as soon as a person opposes this divine will, a certain disorder will prevail in his life which is not pleasant for him, for the human being testifies to his wrong will by acting in opposition to divine will. Compliance with divine will, order and peace are cause and effect, but likewise suffering, grief, discord and earthly chaos will be the consequences of acting in opposition to divine will .... Therefore God gave His commandments so that people should know God's will. He provided certain guidelines for people's way of life on earth, according to which the human being shall conduct his life, and He also informed people of the results if a life does not correspond to these guidelines. The divine commandments were given to benefit people so that he who lives up to them may receive eternal life. Non-compliance, however, will result in the soul's death. Divine will must be observed because, as long as the human being or his soul opposes this will, he still testifies to his apostasy from God, he is still opposed to God. Consequently, his life on earth must be an unpleasant state of affairs for him so that it will impel him into changing his will, so that he joins God, Whom he previously had not recognised. For this reason earthly suffering is unavoidably necessary for someone who ignores God's will or utterly opposes Him. God only requires the human being's will to subordinate itself to divine will, so that the human being will do what God, through His commandments, expects him to do, then he will fulfil God's will, and then he will be granted a life of harmony and peace for the soul among the chaos and confusion of the world that was caused by unkindness.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Influence of the adversary on the will of man

Influence by the prince of lies on people's thinking ....

B.D. 1580 from August 24th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

Look at humanity's conduct. It is dominated by the spirit of lies and this is causing indescribable confusion. Human thinking will distance itself ever further from the truth, for the human being mentally accepts the lie and has no way of recognising it as such, and thus the person's emotional life will be led astray as well. It is therefore understandable that the layer around the human soul continues to thicken, thus the person distances himself more and more from the truth since the spirit in him cannot express itself, i.e. the soul is incapable of receiving spiritual truths. As soon as a person's thinking takes the wrong direction the voice of the spirit gradually subsides until, in the end, it is no longer heard. The result is a human race which lives in complete ignorance, which strives towards completely different goals than they were originally supposed to achieve. Hence, earthly life is entirely unsuccessful, because as long as the human being lives in error he turns to the power from which he should separate himself. The God-opposing power subsequently makes use of this inclined will and determines the being to commit God-opposing actions in order to destroy all ties and to subjugate the being completely. And this state among mankind can now clearly be recognised .... Earthly life is lived totally independently from God, people only rarely think of the One from Whom everything emerged .... or every thought relating to spiritual matters is anxiously kept secret. God is no longer publicly professed, providing He is at all thought of. All these are visible signs of powers which are hostile to God, for their influence grows stronger the weaker the human being becomes. And since the human being keeps distancing himself ever further from the eternal Deity, his strength to resist the evil influence grows constantly weaker. Instead, he receives the strength from the God-opposing power which supports him in all earthly undertakings. Thus earthly success is always guaranteed through this said strength and the earthly success, in turn, contributes towards a complete separation from God, for the human being no longer needs divine strength, consequently he no longer calls upon God either but denies Him .... And it is the adversary's intention to alienate the human being completely from thoughts of God, for then he will have absolute control over him. He has become a victor over the being which had the choice to whom it wanted to concede victory.

It has chosen God's adversary and thus walked its earthly path in an entirely wrong direction ....

Yet God will not let these beings fall .... He will provide them with the evidence that everything earthly worth striving for is also subject to His power .... that He can destroy it if it corresponds to His will. He by no means haphazardly destroys what the human being deems desirable, but this work of destruction will, from a spiritual point of view, also be of greatest advantage for countless entities. Yet people who do not recognise its profound significance will be sorely affected by it, for they will lose everything which, until now, signified their whole life. And once again they are facing the decision .... to strive for the same again or to recognise the transience of it and to gather everlasting possessions for themselves. For at the moment of destruction the adversary loses power, and if the person recognises the impotence of the latter the possibility is given that he might recognise a different Lord above himself and turn to Him. Earthly possession is the share of the evil power for it contains unredeemed spiritual substances, and the human being should not desire what was his place of abode for an infinitely long time before .... he should not strive towards something which took him endless times to overcome .... And thus the obvious worthlessness of it has to be proven to him, so that he will turn away from it and towards that which will come after him, after his life on earth. He must relinquish earthly matter and desire spiritual things, then he will also overcome the final form and liberate himself from every chain. However, spiritual things continue to exist and therefore belong in the realm of truth .... Worldly things, however, are transient, thus they belong to the realm of darkness, to untruth, for it only shelters immature spiritual substance which did not recognise the truth and therefore were banished. Consequently, the human being can never know the truth as long as he desires earthly goods and, precisely because of this desire, concedes power to the prince of lies. And as long as he strives for earthly possessions he will be dominated by the lie, and his thinking has to be misguided, for the prince of lies tries to influence the person's thoughts first and to completely distance him from the truth. Therefore, the state of people is extremely alarming and can only be remedied if God Himself breaks the adversary's power by destroying earthly possessions ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satan’s work of deception .... Mask .... Matter ....

B.D. 2204 from January 6th 1942, taken from Book No. 31

It is Satan’s work of deception when something is portrayed to people as a rescue mission but which, in reality, is a work of utmost heartlessness .... when people believe a most bitter injustice to be right .... when noble motives are feigned which are based on low and selfish thoughts. Satan will use words of love to appeal to people, and he will be very successful since, due to their heartlessness, people have become unable to recognise the foul play of Satan, who wants to lure them into ruin. He will always use means which appear to be good and noble. He will never fight under his true banner but always conceal his true character behind the mask of good. And therefore it is particularly important to stay alert so that people, who always want to do what is right, will not become victims of this pretence. The human being should never judge by outward appearances. Word and action have to correspond, and where love is truly shown the work of God’s adversary need not be feared. Satan, however, will never do a good deed since it is his goal to fight everything good and noble, consequently he tries to incite people into harming each other.

But God will never be a passive observer where His adversary is deluding people’s thinking in order to keep the souls from the pure truth. And thus, where God’s adversary is actively spreading error under the cover of love and humanitarianism, God is at the same time providing information about the true nature of the one who is now presiding over humanity. God will still leave him in full authority for a while, which he will use extensively, but the time for his destructive action on earth is limited because the true face of Satan shall be revealed and his actions exposed. Anyone whose will is turned towards God will recognise Satan’s work of deception and turn away from him in disgust; however, many will allow themselves to be deceived by him and they will find it difficult to see through the intrigues of evil powers.

But as a warning you all should know that every promise of earthly advantages suggests the work of evil forces .... that good forces will never be involved in an endeavour which is to serve the improvement of earthly life, for this would result in the aspiration for matter which, however, should be overcome in earthly life .... But this is what God’s adversary aims to achieve first and foremost .... to enslave people with matter, to motivate their desire for it in order to once again bring them under his control. And thus the activity of Satan is revealed by his attempt to increase what the human being should gladly surrender ....

Amen

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Striving of the adversary of God to alienate people from Him ....

B.D. 3369 from December 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Spiritual development is so extremely important in earthly life and yet is mostly disregarded, and this is the work of God's adversary whose endeavour is to prevent people as much as possible from thinking about their actual purpose in life. Only active reflection leads people to the aim, it brings them to recognize their task in a short time. But as soon as the demands of the world approach him in such a way that they fully occupy his thinking, God's adversary will have achieved his aim of dissuading him from every spiritual thought, and then the human being will not do the slightest for his soul because he is not aware of its hardship. For in order to work on his soul he has to know that it is in a defective state, he has to imagine the cause of it, he also has to know about the consequences and recognize the former in a wrong earthly living .... Only then will he strive to change himself and thus tackle the work on his soul. But God's adversary tries to prevent all this by placing earthly life in the foreground and using every opportunity to entice the human being with what belongs to the world. And the human being all too willingly accepts worldly temptations, he allows himself to be lured and follows him by striving for the pleasures and goods of the world, by allowing himself to be completely captivated by the world. A person who still enjoys the world will never seriously think about the meaning and purpose of his earthly life, he will never care for his inner life but only ever pay attention to the external; he will enjoy life to the fullest and not miss any opportunity to help the body to enjoy itself while he will not think about his soul at all, and therefore he can never develop ascendancy as soon as he pays too much attention to the world, for it is part of him who wants to ruin the soul, who believes he can diminish God's might and strength and therefore also seeks to distance the human being from God. And humanity willingly follows him, it does not resist, it does not refuse but does everything God's adversary demands, and he believes himself to be over-strong in his power. People's will itself increases this power, the human being hands himself over to God's opposing power where he should offer resistance and can do so if he raises his thoughts to God and requests the strength from Him. For often enough it is held up to him what he should do and what he should refrain from doing, often enough his own task in life is presented to him and he is stimulated to think about it .... If he does not do so, it is his fault, for God truly does not lack opportunities where the human being can come to recognize his purpose in life. If he lets these opportunities pass he will have to answer for them, just as, conversely, he will receive grace upon grace if he strives to fulfil his task in life of his own accord and raises his thoughts to God. For God takes hold of every outstretched hand which appeals to Him, but just as He never forces the human being's will to incline towards Him if he strives towards His adversary ....

Amen

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Satan's activity ....

B.D. 5535 from November 16th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The demon from the underworld tries to slip in everywhere in order to spread hatred and instigate confusion, and he uses every available opportunity offered to him. He stirs up trouble between people, he sows discord and strife, he uses lies and thus deprives people of the peace they need in order to find God .... For he, who is God's adversary, wants to prevent this. And his influence may be powerful if people are not on their guard and instantly turn to God once they notice his approach. One thought upwards is already enough in order to offer him resistance, because his power will be broken where God's power is made use of. He detests it when a soul is at peace and tries to interfere with it because then all other attacks are easier and successful for him. You humans have no idea how hostile he is towards you, how he hates everything that strives towards God and that he will never tire in order to make you fall .... He is incapable of achieving anything as long as you live in love, this is why he tries to stifle the love in you first, he tries to inwardly agitate you and to spread poison, to awaken degrading thoughts about your fellow human beings and keeps stirring where his thought has been kindled in you .... He is dangerous in his heartlessness, his hatred causes immense harm, and you must always be on your guard and nip the first unkind feelings in the bud by calling upon Jesus Christ to release you from his control. He fears this call and therefore tries to confuse every clear thought in you .... everything that makes you restless and nervous in the world is his influence in order to confound your thoughts, because then he will find good ground for his evil seed. You humans should always bear in mind that the battle between light and darkness happens all the time and that this battle is waged in order to gain you. If you therefore consciously take God's side, the adversary will lose .... yet on your own your strength you will fail, because he will be stronger than you if you don't make use of God's strength through your call for help. Don't allow yourselves to be disturbed by fellow human beings, by events, by thoughts or experiences .... Deal with every restless thought by sending an appeal to God and peace will return to you, for then you will be able to resist every temptation, because your peace in God is a weapon you can use in order to displace the adversary. Take refuge in the One Who is stronger than all tempters together. Offer God's adversary no reason to triumph over you .... but always remember that, on your own, you are too weak to offer resistance but that you can achieve anything with God, Who will let no call go unheeded ....

Amen

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The adversary's influence of will .... Destructions ....

B.D. 6080 from October 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

It should suffice you to know that everything in My Creation proceeds according to My will .... Thus My adversary will not be able to affect Creation in some form or other, because he is only able to affect the spiritual being in possession of free will .... the human being .... but then he once again aims to influence the latter so that the human being himself will try to change works of creation in My adversary's favour. Thus, whatever the human being is able to accomplish may always be according to My will, but it may also correspond to My adversary's will, because the human being is influenced from both sides .... However, anything that lies outside the human being's sphere of authority can never be implemented by My adversary, it has to be entirely ascribed to My activity, because My adversary has lost all power over Creation, over the spiritual substance which is still bound. But precisely because of this, My adversary will exert all his influence to make people compliant into becoming destructively active, because this will release the bound spirits, which he believes he may take possession of again. This, too, will be impossible for him .... nevertheless, the released spiritual substance has an unfavourable effect on everything surrounding it because it has 'left the order' and therefore also creates disorder in its environment .... thus it can disrupt an existing natural law. So, indirectly it is indeed My adversary's work, yet always through the human will .... whilst My will alone is sufficient to re-establish the order and to work creatively and constructively in the whole of the universe. This, My adversary's impotence, will cause him to devise plans of a truly satanic nature .... by motivating people to destroy the globe .... yet with a view of different goals which impels them into intense activity.

Incapable of accomplishing destruction himself he will cleverly disguise it as a worthwhile utilisation of unfamiliar energies .... And he will find enough people on this earth to comply with his will and who therefore also receive strength from him for all kinds of discoveries and results. Although the subsequent natural disasters will only affect the creations which arose through My will, they nevertheless cannot be classed as a direct expression of Satan, but they will always be disruptions of order which were caused by human will even though they will be of immense significance in the spirits' phase of development .... both of those who have free will and those who are still in a bound state, for their course of development will be interrupted and thus will require My counteraction so that the disrupted order will be restored again .... so that the interrupted development can continue to proceed. My adversary's plan will certainly fail, for he will not regain the released spirits, yet he will have won the people who will have become enslaved by him .... the souls which were already further advanced .... but he will lose every entitlement over them through the forthcoming renewed banishment. My adversary's influence on the human being's free will is immense, yet he has no control over any created being apart from the human being .... He cannot implement anything once a person's will refuses to surrender to him .... And everything which is inaccessible to a human being, which human will cannot influence, is always My reign and activity in the universe and never My adversary's expression of power, who is stripped of all authority, but he will do whatever it takes to make the human will compliant in order to implement his plan through him .... and cause your downfall ....

Amen

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Target of the opponent: destruction ....

B.D. 6971 from November 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Countless worlds have already come into being through My will, and countless worlds will still arise .... For the work of the spiritual's return requires them, because all once-fallen spiritual has to be integrated into the process of activity again if it wants to come close to Me again. And every single world gives this spiritual substance the opportunity to become active, even if My will is decisive for the time being and assigns it the activity which slowly helps the fallen spirits to ascend again. All worlds only serve the one purpose of returning the once fallen spiritual substance, and all worlds are therefore governed by My will, they are subject to My law of order, they testify to My love, My wisdom and My might. Nevertheless, their original substance is spiritual substance which has fallen away from Me, thus it still belongs to My adversary, but at the moment of the creation of these worlds I withdrew the power over this spiritual substance, otherwise it would forever no longer be able to ascend from the abyss to the height .... My adversary, however, knows about the endless number of those who followed him into the abyss, and this knowledge strengthens his adversarial attitude towards Me, it strengthens his belief that he will one day be able to dethrone Me, and it strengthens his hatred because I have wrested a large part of his following from him which, bound in the works of creation, has taken the path of return. And therefore he does not cease to exert his destructive influence, that is, to work towards destroying as many works of creation as possible in the belief that he can then release the bound from them and take possession of them again himself .... It is not possible for him to destroy those works of creation because he has no power over them. But he exerts his destructive influence at the time when that spiritual substance has reached the final stage where it is in possession of free will again, which My adversary has the right to influence, because the once fallen spiritual substance shall now freely decide for Me or for My adversary. And at this time he not only seeks to regain the human being himself but through him he also seeks to seize the still bound spiritual by trying to determine him to destroy creations which My love let arise in order to help the spiritual to return to Me. The adversary's domain is the earth inhabited by people, and in this domain he works in a truly satanic way. People are the target of his activity, for he can only exert his influence on them, for he has no access to the other works of creation, to the countless worlds in the universe. But he believes that he can still find access to those worlds, but he will never succeed. But he also transfers his confused thinking to people .... He also tries to persuade them that they can take possession of other worlds, and he also finds servants in bondage to him who adopt these thoughts and strive for the same as he. He also confuses their thinking and lets them make the most unbelievable attempts to break through previous barriers in order to explore worlds which are inaccessible to them. The adversary makes them believe that he can break down these barriers, and he is also listened to when he drives people into completely pointless research. For all such research is not aimed at spiritual development and can therefore never correspond to My will. And they will have an even less destructive effect on works of creation which I let arise outside of earth .... precisely because neither My adversary nor the human being possess the right of rulership over those creations, because My will also guarantees the existence of every work of creation until I Myself deem the time to have come when its purpose is fulfilled and it can be dissolved again into pure spiritual substance .... (18.11.1957) However, the adversary's efforts will take on an increasingly more threatening form the closer the end is. He drives people to attempts which even accelerate an end of this earth .... These experiments take place on earth and have an effect on earth itself. Although people's aim is the spheres outside of this earth, what they will achieve is obvious evidence of satanic influence, for the living conditions on earth will change, harmful air changes will be created for people and animals against their will; and the earth itself will become a source of fire which will one day also claim its victims .... For the destruction of this earth is My adversary's main aim .... And since people are already strongly addicted to him he will also succeed, yet without bringing him the slightest advantage. For he does not win back his followers but loses them all the more surely .... His aim is the destruction of the creations I let come into being for the purpose of returning the spiritual. And he will achieve much through people on this earth but he will never be able to destroy the other worlds created by Me because he lacks the power to do so himself and is only allowed to influence the spirits if they live on earth as human beings. And thus you can gather from this that the adversary will not be able to take possession of the universe either .... and thus neither will the people who devise such plans and believe they can control areas in space by virtue of their intelligence .... They can certainly make attempts and keep expanding their attempts but they will inevitably come to death when they step out of the realm of this earth. Yet this is also My adversary's purpose, that no creative authority will be recognized anymore, that people will deem themselves capable of investigating every law of nature and that the distance between people and Me will constantly increase .... He will achieve much but he will not be able to intervene in My plan of creation and salvation. He will only cause hopeless confusion in the thinking of all those who are already in his power and blindly follow his instructions .... until finally his activity takes on such forms that people themselves put the globe in danger, that they experiment without a second thought and .... since I am completely eliminated from their thoughts .... trigger an all-destroying catastrophe which means the end of this earth and every living creature on it. Before that I will give people a serious warning which alone could make them realize the absurdity of their plan: I will send them a warning from outer space, I will bring the earth into a danger which will be triggered without human influence .... I will let a celestial body step out of its orbit which you humans will not be able to resist, which you are powerlessly at its mercy .... in order to show you that it is I alone Who rules the world and all creations moving within it. And thereby you could still come to an understanding and give up your plan. But you are already too much a slave to My adversary, and thus the end will come as it is proclaimed .... The earth will ignite and people themselves will be the cause of it because they follow the one who wants to destroy and ruin everything ....

Amen

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The adversary's temptations by means of worldly enticements ....

B.D. 7315 from March 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

If you are craving the world and its pleasures then you will know that you are approached by the tempter who wants to win you over again for the world which you endeavour to escape from. The realm of earthly joy and pleasure is his domain and he truly governs it in a way that many people fall prey to it, for they all crave earthly and physical joys and pleasures and they will all get what they want if they pay homage to the world and accept all enticements he presents before their eyes. He cannot beguile people by any other means than through the world, for once they have chosen the spiritual kingdom they will truly not comply with his will and turn their thoughts towards him .... In that case, however, he will come to meet them through the world and its attractions and a person must be very strong-willed indeed in order to resist the temptations .... Therefore, take note that when you seek to gain worldly pleasures you are at risk of succumbing to his artful temptations and forearm yourselves to resist him. Turn your attention towards the spiritual world again with increased vigour; hold yourselves to account as to what extent you bear up against such temptations, which you can be certain to be the adversary's work who wants to turn you against God and His kingdom and therefore will not shy away from using any means to achieve this goal. Admittedly, he will not be able to achieve much with a serious aspirant apart from the fact that the human being fulfils the requirements of life he has to fulfil, since he lives in the midst of the world and should prove himself in it. Nevertheless, the decisive factor remains the feeling of the heart, for it shall not allow itself to be captivated by desiring earthly joys and pleasures, since it depends on the heart's desire as to how far the human being will distance himself from the spiritual kingdom and return to the earthly world again. The temptations by God's adversary will not stop, he will also fight for the souls he is in danger of losing until the end, he will not let up until the end from pushing the spiritual kingdom aside in favour of the material world, and thus the soul must remain determined and resist. And the more progress it has made in its striving, the easier it can defend itself and the lesser will be the risk of complying with his will again, for the spiritual kingdom will also captivate the soul and not let go of it again, if its will is inclined towards God and thus no longer belongs to the adversary but releases itself increasingly more from him .... Then the human being will no longer be affected by temptations, the world will have lost its attraction and only the spiritual kingdom will be desirable for him, the unity with God will be the soul's only and highest goal and it will certainly attain this goal ....

Amen

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False Christs and false prophets ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Work of dark forces ....

B.D. 6443 from January 4th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

It is a frightening work of the evil forces in the last time before the end. The prince of darkness constantly urges them on to cause confusion, and given the darkness of spirit in which people live at this time they also succeed all too well, for they are heard and people believe, and whether it is the thickest errors and lies which are presented to them .... they accept it as truth and become ever darker in their spirit. Yet every person could most lightfully recognize it for what it is if only he would approach Me Myself for enlightenment if something appears doubtful to him .... But people's spiritual arrogance is already so great that they don't consider it necessary to ask this question .... but are convinced of the sincerity of those who administer the deepest error to them. People's lack of knowledge is increasing more and more instead of being remedied .... but I have foretold you that many false prophets and false Christs will rise from the dead, that they will perform miracles for you which My adversary performs .... I have admonished you not to believe them .... However, you humans must not reject everyone as a false prophet but you must seriously examine them as to their authenticity, you must believe that true prophets will also arise who want to help you achieve your salvation .... You must not accept everyone but also not reject everyone who presents himself to you as a prophet, as being in My service, in the last time before the end .... But you have certain characteristics of a genuine prophet, that he walks along inconspicuously and proclaims My word to you, that he points you to the end, that he gives to you in complete unselfishness what he receives from Me directly .... as I Myself did when I lived on earth. My emissaries will not appear in dazzle and splendour, My emissaries will not walk amongst you humans differently as I Myself did, and never ever will I hide behind high and highest ranks, never ever will I reveal Myself through such people who stand at the highest pinnacle of worldly organizations, for these are not the right successors of Me, Who Myself, completely destitute and simple, felt drawn towards those who were poor and weak and in need .... I would certainly also be able to appear there if the 'true succession' of those would be proven to Me by the fact that they themselves rejected all external ostentation .... if their work would proceed in silence and a clear distance from traditional customs would be recognizable .... if they listened to the voice of their spirit and allowed themselves to be guided .... to be a loving father to the poor and weak, to the needy, to alleviate hardship and to truly walk the path of discipleship by standing up for the pure truth, which a spirit-filled person now also clearly recognizes in himself .... But My adversary prevents this and therefore deceives them, which causes them to sink even deeper into spiritual darkness .... My adversary has great power before the end but he would not be able to use it where he finds resistance: the closest bond with Me through unselfish activity of love. Yet such would express itself differently, for it does not show itself outwardly, it does not emerge, it does not support a power which is about to collapse, for a spirit enlightened by love also clearly recognizes people's spiritual low and its cause .... And a person whose spirit is enlightened cannot profess untruth but campaigns against it .... Don't let yourselves be beguiled and ask Me for clarification if you doubt, but don't thoughtlessly accept what My adversary presents to you in order to darken your spirit even more. Where bright light shines there is truth, there I reveal Myself and there My prophets will arise who warn and admonish you and who again and again denounce My adversary's activities .... But the truth, the light, is not to be found in the gears of the world .... and worldly is everything that sends out its dazzling light, which has no luminosity .... But where light shines, there I Myself appear, there is truth, there is My spirit, and this also brightly illuminates the doings of satan ....

Amen

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Spiritual decline

spiritual flattening of the present ....spiritual turning point ....

B.D. 1495 from June 28th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

The spiritual flattening of the present time requires extremely sharp measures to remedy it. And it is therefore intended that unusual phenomena will increase, which have the purpose of establishing a mental connection with knowing powers through questions which are directed towards infinity and the great riddle of the Godhead. These phenomena will always fall outside the framework of everyday life, certain laws of nature will seem to be overturned, things will happen that give rise to different opinions, and humanity's thoughts will be forcibly directed towards them and it will endeavour to find the most natural explanation of things. The more willing a person is to regocnize and confess God, the closer he will be to the truth and soon correctly grasp this phenomenon as an indication of the coming time and the beginning of a spiritual turning point. However, a person who does not have the slightest connection with God will hardly regocnize this. His intellect will look for another explanation but will not come to the right conclusion. In his view, all spiritual immersion is a point of view that has been overcome and he believes that the time has come that signifies the end of all spiritual endeavour. He seeks to explain everything objectively and intellectually, and what is inexplicable to him is presented as an unexplored force of nature. And now the necessity of a divine mission arises, which shatters such wrong thinking, i.e. changes it completely. However, this cannot be achieved by force either, and therefore these programmes must again be conditioned in the force of nature. They must again leave the human being free to decide, for the forced change of thinking would not be of value to the human being. He who now endeavours to judge fairly will find it easier to regocnize, for he has the will to work. And the extraordinary programmes will result in great hardship, and the hardship should in turn force the human being into true perception, it should eliminate all untruthful thinking, for it is precisely in hardship that the human being is prompted to abandon all pretence and all untruth and only strive for the pure truth. And then only right thinking is possible, then the events can still bring in unimaginable benefit, which only the soul regocnizes. Then these programmes will not have passed him by unsuccessfully, provided they have changed the human being's thinking and turned it towards the eternal divine ....

Amen

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Spiritual distress .... sense of responsibility .... harsh reminders ....

B.D. 1808 from February 18th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

How irresponsible people act towards their souls when they close themselves off to the right realization and reject all help sent to them. Every admonition and warning is in vain, they attach too little importance to their lives and also have no sense of responsibility. And yet God, in His longsuffering and patience, repeatedly endeavours to educate them to think correctly, but they do not recognize this. And the more stubbornly they close themselves to His word, the thicker the soul's covering becomes, and it takes very strong shocks for this covering to burst and the soul to become free. The spiritual distress is far greater than the individual person is able to recognize. Only rarely is a believer present where several are gathered, and this believer is ridiculed where he should be heard .... Only rarely does the divine word penetrate people's hearts, for the world wants to hear something else, it wants to be entertained in a worldly way, it wants to be distracted and enjoy earthly speeches, it does not want any teachings or references to the death of the body; it only wants to live, i.e. to utilize and enjoy earthly life. And the divine words are an obstacle to this, they inhibit the urge for earthly life, they inhibit the ecstasy of joy and curtail earthly enjoyment. The more limited people are, the more difficult it is to explain the divine activity to them, for then they have no understanding for spiritual experiences, and they now try to compensate for the lack of understanding with an increased desire for the world, for they perceive what is incomprehensible to them only as pressure and burden and want to escape this by paying homage to the world all the more. And without the will to recognize the truth it cannot be offered to them, and if it is offered to them then they do not understand it because they do not have the will to do so and the desire for God is only weakly developed in them. And therefore God must send them other admonishers who will silence all desire for worldly pleasures in them. He has to touch them harder because they do not pay attention to light touches, because they do not sense God's closeness when He makes Himself known to them. And so an ever harder lot will be imposed on humanity and it will have to languish under the pressure and find no compensation in the world and its supposed pleasures. Life will be so hard to bear that true comfort will only be found with God .... in His word, which promises His love and mercy to everyone who turns to Him and surrenders the world ....

Amen

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Regression .... spiritual and earthly decay ....

B.D. 2774 from June 14th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

The fact that humanity has regressed is evident from the fact that it takes no offence at the extent of unkindness which characterizes the present time. Hardly that it even takes notice of it, because as long as people are not affected themselves they only take cursory notice, but never take an open stand against it. And this does not testify to love for fellow human beings, on the contrary, it is proof of a regression which needs no other evidence. Love should be striven for on earth and precisely the opposite is the case .... people outdo each other in cruelty, which can soon no longer be surpassed. And if this state is not to extend to the whole of humanity, then God Himself must put a stop to it before everything is destroyed by unkindness. And this period of time will soon come when the old will fall. The earthly destructions, i.e. the destructions caused by human will, bear witness to people's disinherited state, and it is difficult to believe that these people could still convert, for they have already fallen too deeply into the adversary's nets. Only deep prayer to God provides these souls with the necessary strength, and with good will they can still free themselves in the last hour. And in this time of need God sends out His messengers to strengthen the souls, who convey the word of God to people, admonish them time and again to love and show them the consequences of the right as well as the wrong way of life. As long as they have not yet completely fallen prey to the adversary, they will heed this word, which can also be conveyed to them mentally. They will learn to detest their fellow human beings' lack of love, they will endeavour to cultivate love themselves and thereby also be educated to become knowledgeable creatures .... for God needs servants on earth and the flock of His fighters is truly not large .... And yet God allows people's destructions, He allows them to suffer unspeakably, to have all possessions destroyed or taken away from them, because these destructions will have an indescribable effect and are a better means of education than the divine word is if it is not received with a heart willing to love. For man respects such destructions, but not always the divine word. For even the unkindness of people can still be used by God as a means of education, so that they abhor the behaviour of their fellow human beings and endeavour to live differently themselves, and this is already a step towards improvement. Only one thing can still save people from spiritual decline, that they recognize themselves in the mirror of humanity's great injustice, that they seriously strive for a change and direct their thoughts towards the actual purpose on earth and towards their end .... that they think of life after death and commend themselves to their creator by recognizing their own weakness .... Then God will have mercy on them and guide them through the confusion of time, He will give them all help and make them receptive for His word, which will be offered to them time and again during the last days so that they will gain realization. For there is only a short time of grace left which has to be utilized. Yet only a few will find the path to God, for heartlessness has taken over and this is the surest sign of the end, of spiritual and earthly decline ....

Amen

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Spiritual decline .... Signs of the end ....

B.D. 4390 from July 30th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Spiritual decline is increasingly more noticeable and this alone ought to explain to you the earthly adversity, for the latter is the only means which could wake people up and prompt them into changing their way of thinking. People only strive towards acquiring earthly possessions and allow themselves to be controlled by matter rather than the other way round so that they would win in their battle against matter. Hence I constantly bring the foolishness of their endeavours home to them by showing them the transience of earthly things. Yet less significant happenings are to no avail, the individual person won´t change his thinking and ignores the life of his soul, for he only takes his earthly existence into account and has completely lost faith in an afterlife. Humanity is descending ever further, faith is becoming increasingly more superficial and a bond with Me, their God and Creator of eternity, ever more seldom. And this will become particularly evident in a short time. The day of a complete change in living conditions, the day when everything will experience a transformation, is coming ever closer because My will is clearly moving into action. People will be unable to protect anything unless I protect it for them, and they will be defenseless in the face of My might and experience serious difficulties.

But blessed is the difficulty if it only has an earthly effect on a person, if his soul is not in jeopardy .... if the person has faith .... Then he need not fear this earthly tribulation, then he will only be able to gain despite his earthly losses. But this will be the start of a trying time for unbelievers, for their loss of earthly possessions will cause them indescribable suffering and they will have to give up all hope of regaining them. Spiritual possessions will be no substitute for them, for they don´t strive for but reject them when they are offered to them. But this suffering has to befall earth, it is inevitable and only the prelude to the final event, to the complete destruction of the old earth which will be experienced by all of you if I don´t end your life prematurely because I consider it favorable for your soul. The believer will see and recognise all signs of the end, the unbeliever will pass them by, he will only take notice of the earthly hardship and its effect on earthly life and increasingly turn away from God. And thus, there will soon be a separation between spiritually aspiring and utterly worldly-minded people and this, too, will be so obvious that the spiritually awakened person will recognise the last days by this alone. The end is approaching with giant steps and you will experience the end ....

Amen

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Misunderstood charity

Works of charity .... without love .... in compulsion ....

B.D. 0985 from June 28th 1939, taken from Book No. 19

Caring for the general welfare should be left to those who have been assigned too narrow a sphere of activity for the duration of their earthly life. The lord has wisely given everyone the task they are able to fulfil. And everyone has the opportunity to work for the greater good. One person has more, another less opportunity to take the burdens of his neighbour on his shoulders .... and the more he endeavours to do so, the greater blessing he can expect for himself and the more the power of love will be strengthened in him and the will to love will be aroused. Only by serving will a person be able to reach the heights .... distribute in love to his neighbour what is at his own disposal and stand up for the need of man so that it may be alleviated and remedied .... but always driven by love for fellow human beings .... And this will result in rich blessings and man himself will never need to live in want if he always gives of what he has .... He should also never anxiously consider whether the gifts could diminish his possessions .... whoever gives much will receive far more, for the lord likewise shares His gifts undiminished from the one who endeavours to alleviate the need of his fellow human being out of love for Him. For "whatever you do to the least of My brothers, you have done to Me." And now consider how much nobler a person acts who shares his possessions with the poor than someone who lives in well-organized circumstances but demands all the gifts he wants to distribute from the general public. Well-organized charity is like a weak oil lamp .... it does not fulfil its purpose .... It shines only insignificantly and spreads no light .... And so such works of neighbourly love, which however lack love, will have no redeeming effect .... Gifts are indeed offered to people, but the heart does not speak .... The giver does not sacrifice, but is forced to give his tribute, and so the power of love is not conveyed to the receiver. As it were, what is given to the other is taken from the one. An action is mechanized and made into a thoughtless fulfilment of duty, which should be born in the love of the heart and awaken love .... And these works are dead works before God .... He cannot look at what is born under compulsion and can never be an active labour of love. It is the most marvellous thing in life to share one's goods with the one who is likewise a creature of God .... to share every gift that the father in heaven has sent to man in His love .... to share of his own free will because his heart drives him to do so. But what is made a human being's task on earth is worthless. The human being certainly fulfils this task, but only because he has to, not of his own accord, and such works of neighbourly love cannot be valued by the heavenly father, Who only looks at the heart and the degree of love in which the gifts are offered ....

Amen

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Divine spark of love .... right and wrong love ....

B.D. 2287 from April 2nd 1942, taken from Book No. 32

The divine spark in man is love. God has placed love in every human being's heart and has now given him a task on earth .... to let this divine spark of love flare up into a bright flame which then consumes everything around it. Love is therefore inherent in all people, but to which things this love turns is up to the person, i.e. the human will determines the goal of his desires, i.e. the object of his love. Spiritual desire and earthly desires characterize right love, i.e. love that is pleasing to God, and wrong love. For love is the desire for union. If something is brought to a person and he seeks to possess it, then love has already been kindled in him. And both will be brought to him so that man can decide. Earthly goods and temptations of the world are offered to him, but spiritual goods are also made available to him so that the love in man can now decide which object it takes as its goal. And love grows accordingly. The desire for union thus gives earthly life its content in the first place, for the human being now strives for possession of .... spiritual or earthly, depending on whether faith and the desire for God are strong in him. Love will therefore be the driving force behind all actions and thoughts. Worldly love is the same as unkindness, because worldly love excludes love for God, worldly love only strives for its own possessions and never turns to its neighbour .... Self-love, however, is the opposite of neighbourly love, so this love expresses itself in unkindness towards fellow human beings. For every human being will love himself, even though his thoughts and actions towards his fellow human being must be called unloving. Initially, two desires will fight within a person, and then it is important which desire within a person gives in to. If the love for the good is predominant in him, then he will soon overcome the desires for the world, for the good has its origin in God, consequently the human being strives towards God and therefore his love turns towards Him. And this love expresses itself in love for his neighbour, and it will flare up into a bright flame. But wrong love will have transient possessions as its goal; it will therefore also be unstable, it will always discover new things which it desires, and this wrong love will turn people away from God and lead them towards his adversary. The divine spark in the human soul will then not be nourished but rather suffocated in impure instincts .... pure love is replaced by a desire that is likewise regarded as love, but with the difference that its goal is not God but his adversary, so that we can speak of a perverse love. But this wrong love is now the characteristic of the spiritual low of mankind. For he who has God as his goal, thus seeks to unite with Him, loves God and is close to Him, thus spiritually more mature than those who are distant from God due to their wrong love for the world. For spiritual maturity can only be achieved through union with God, and anyone who strives for this is in the right state of love, he has ignited the divine spark of love within himself and tries to mould himself into love ....

Amen

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Love .... wrong .... divine .... from human to human ....

B.D. 3310 from October 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

No request goes unheard at the ear of the heavenly father, which rises up to Him from the deepest heart. And every thought of God gives strength and grace .... For His love is constantly with those who struggle for inner peace, who want to belong to Him and have to struggle and fight against the challenges of the world. But strength will be sent to them if it is needed .... God has placed love in the human being's heart, He has made him capable of this feeling, which is no longer earthly but divine if it takes the right direction. Love is the desire for unity, and this desire can be for the still immature spiritual, for matter or other pleasures of the world which pull down, which do not ennoble but degrade the soul, and then it is a wrong love which is to be fought for the soul's sake. This love is not divine, for a divine love strives for the luminous height, it strives for union with mature spiritual beings, it only seeks to make happy but never earthly possessions. Right love can also apply to all things, but only in the redemptive sense that it wants to help where help is needed. Right love can also awaken from person to person, if the giving, wanting to please principle always prevails, even if the person feels his own happiness in it, because right love must please because it is divine. The desire for union must also characterize right love, only this union can take place physically or also spiritually. A merely physical union can mean a danger for right love if the person is not strong enough and the giving love changes into a demanding one. Spiritual love, on the other hand, is and remains divine and will never be able to pull a person down, for this love is a merging of souls, a union for the increase of spiritual strength .... This love is God-willed, for it promotes the soul, because both desire is directed upwards and they now also travel the path together. Yet physical love must always be sacrificed to this spiritual love, i.e. the desire of the body must be overcome, the human being must only want to give but never want to possess; he must be willing to sacrifice if he can help the other person with it, he must fight a battle with himself so that his love will remain a true, divine love, so that it will remain a purely spiritual one which lifts up to the ascent. Unselfish neighbourly love always demonstrates the right love, and as long as two people's love for each other consists of unselfish service it is divine and blessed by God .... For He created people for each other, He brought them together so that they should ascend together, and He will bless every covenant which has pure, redeeming, divine love as its basis .... But they must protect this love as the most sacred good, so that it remains pure and divine until the end of life ....

Amen

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Justice .... Equal rights .... Mutual love ....

B.D. 4131 from September 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Even the sense of justice is subject to a law. It can certainly be increased many times over, nevertheless, in cases relating to equal rights it has to be limited. For it always has to be taken into consideration that both giving as well as taking are first subject to the commandment of love. Giving is determined by love, insofar that love has to be the driving force of giving, and thus every gift has to awaken love in the recipient. For love is the fundamental substance of everything that is visible to the human being, just as it must incessantly flow to all works of creation if they are to continue to exist. Consequently, it requires the strength of love if the offering is to awaken love in return and increase the strength in itself. Giving is the evidence of love, but the receiving can take place without love, in which case it will remain appropriately ineffective unless the recipient is voluntarily partaking of the spiritual gifts from above which lead upwards again. Earthly gifts can only have an earthly effect, that is, the giving part has to take into account that his gift will indeed be accepted yet not valued differently than a matter of fact and therefore awakens little or no love in return, which would be classed as a spiritual failure. In that case, only the giver's will is of importance but not the act itself. The degree of love which urges a person to give is always the decisive factor, this is why giving cannot be generalised, since the degree of love is not always and towards all people the same; rather, the human being has to exercise firm self-criticism, otherwise he will regard actions as deeds of love which are merely the results of education or habits and thus lack the driving force of love for a another person. The latter conduct of people is doubtlessly commendable and therefore should not stop; nevertheless, every act carried out by love has eternal value, because it results in the soul's higher maturity. Actions of love increase humanity's spiritual state on earth, actions of justice can certainly go hand in hand with love yet are generally only driven by the feeling of formal thoughtfulness, which can be automatically carried out without the heart being involved and therefore does not follow the person as a deed of love into eternity.

Just thinking and just conduct is expected of people, for the contrary has detrimental effects on fellow human beings and is therefore unkindness; it is a violation of the commandment of love. Consequently, just thinking and just conduct can be regarded as the fulfilment of the commandment of love .... But justice should not always be understood as equal rights .... because a demand for absolute equality cannot always and by all people be made .... For even here, laws apply which are subject to divine will. The human being should certainly take care not to value himself too highly either way, thus he should not lay claim to more than he is willing to give, he should give to another person what he himself deems desirable, yet this will has to remain free, it must not be forcibly aimed in one direction which, however, is the case when the reason for giving is an acquired formality that a person complies with. Hence you should seriously examine which feeling prompts you to put your will to give into practise. Don't be satisfied with a correct act which lacks all warmth but follow the urging of your heart, then you will be governed by love and every thought, intention and action will be good. However, in cases of emergency you should act fairly, when not just one person relies on your help but when it is needed everywhere. Don't deny it to one person while you give it to the other but make an effort to distribute and judge fairly. Give pleasure where you can and don't try to keep an anxious limit, for this stifles love, it does not awaken mutual love, and where love is lacking there is no spiritual progress, even if you have effectively created earthly order, yet divine order must be fulfilled first, and according to divine law love comes first. Where it is observed all other good qualities will follow, and this includes justice as well ....

Amen

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Assessment of duties according to degree of love ....

B.D. 4574 from February 27th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

You should use all your energy to attain everlasting riches, that is, everything you think and do should be based on helpful neighbourly love, then the salvation of your soul would be assured for eternity. My demand may seem impossible to achieve to you and, yet, I don't expect too much from you, nothing that cannot be done. However, consider the fact that your daily fulfilment of duty can be understood differently, that you can do your duty without the slightest feeling of love for your neighbour, thus you are of service to him as a matter of duty, but that you can also carry out every action by being inwardly impelled through love and that these actions, although they are also daily duties, are assessed differently by Me and raise your maturity of soul. Love is everything, it values every action. Consequently, a person can be ever so dutiful due to his correct nature, yet without love they will only be actions of the body which I only reward in a worldly sense but which do not gain him spiritual wealth, for this entirely depends on the degree of love with which these duties are being accomplished. Thus you could gain so much more if you used all your energy of life for active neighbourly love, so that everything you do is motivated by the will to help where your help is needed. The actions you have to perform, where your free will is therefore excluded, are merely actions for the world, although they can also incorporate a spiritual character .... hence, duties that are demanded are indeed acts of neighbourly love but are, since they are dutifully performed, valued in a purely worldly sense by Me, because the love of the heart is absent. I pay attention to the heart and won't be deceived by pious words or expressions, I know how far the heart is involved; but I bless everyone who complies with human demands purely because he is willing to help, who carries out every work of duty with inner joy to help his neighbour and who therefore also turns his duties into a voluntary activity and thereby utilises his energy of life which will result in abundant rewards in eternity. For he truly gathers spiritual possessions on earth and will not enter the spiritual kingdom poverty stricken, but, full of strength, he will also be able to work over there wherever his love impels him, whereas even the most hard-working person on earth will stand at the gate of death without strength and in a poor state because he only worked for the world, because helpful neighbourly love never impelled him to be active on earth but he only ever fulfilled his worldly obligations, admittedly by diligently fulfilling his duty but only because he had to and not voluntarily. This is why the same activity and the same amount of work can lead to entirely different success .... it can be purely remunerated in a worldly sense but also lead to everlasting rewards, and you should aim for the latter, so that your life on earth is not a waste of time, for you will never be able to catch up in the beyond on what you neglected to do on earth ....

Amen

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Neighbourly love ....

B.D. 4868 from March 29th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

What you do to the least of My brothers, you do unto Me, and thereby you demonstrate your love for Me and for your neighbour. For a deed of neighbourly love also testifies to your love for Me and will enrich you far more than you have given up. And who is your neighbour? Every needy human being who approaches you with a request for help is your neighbour, regardless of whether he voices it or whether it remains unspoken. For you will recognise yourselves when your help is needed and appropriate as soon as the spark of love in you flares up and you are affected by your fellow human being's adversity. Yet you can live in abundance and accomplish a deed of neighbourly love without sacrificing anything, but it will not be regarded as such if you lack love, if you help in order to dispose of an irritating petitioner or to shine before your fellow human beings. So many motives can prompt a person to render help, yet I only value a deed of merciful neighbourly love impelled by your heart. And you will experience the fact that, when love grows cold in people's hearts, help for other people will only occur due to organisation and deeds of love will effectively become routine, which certainly can alleviate people's adversity but which cannot be classed as deeds of neighbourly love, as the fulfilment of My commandment of love, and which therefore cannot have any redeeming effect either. The right hand should not know what the left hand is doing .... it should be a quiet giving; yet material gifts alone cannot be described as deeds of neighbourly love. Every other help, every kind look and every caring word can be valued as a deed of love if it comes from the heart. People's spiritual and psychological adversity is often even greater than their earthly adversity, there you should actively help by giving encouragement and comfort in suffering, by lifting people up spiritually, by conveying My Word and leading them back to faith, where it is necessary. All this is part of the commandment of neighbourly love, and I only expect a soft and compassionate heart for you to be able to fulfil My commandment of love for Me and your neighbour and also awaken love in your neighbour's heart, who thereby can be guided on the right path and you will have acquired a double reward. However, you should not help for the sake of reward but only for love of Me, then all your deeds will be blessed ....

Amen

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Need of the fellow human being drive to the activity of love ....

B.D. 3915 from October 26th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

This should be your constant motivation to work with love, that you see your fellow human being's need and that your heart is touched by it, so that the flame of love lights up in you and you have the desire to also glow through your fellow human being's heart, so that his need is alleviated spiritually and earthly. For what you do not do out of love is worthless for your upward development. You have to do good deeds for your neighbour without expecting a reward, only driven by the feeling of wanting to help and to reduce the hardship. Anyone who performs works of neighbourly love for the sake of reward is still too much in self-love and his soul has not yet recognized the purpose of life .... to shape itself into love. Anyone who is active in love for the sake of reward has already received his earthly reward and cannot expect a spiritual reward. But anyone who practices love driven by his heart does so without thinking of reward, even if the spiritual reward is certain to him; and this is true love which only gives without wanting to receive and which nevertheless receives more than it gives. And this is why great adversity has to sweep the earth in order to kindle true love in people's hearts, who are often too indolent to kindle the smouldering spark within themselves so that it becomes a bright flame. Much suffering and hardship could be alleviated on earth through right love activity, and the spiritual ascent would be assured for the souls. But people mostly pass by their fellow human being's misery carelessly, and thus there is no upward development but rather standstill and decline, and the earthly hardship becomes ever greater as a result. The spark of the divine spirit rests in every human being, and thus every human being is also created capable of love, yet if he lets the noblest part of himself wither away, only a distorted image of what was once perfect as God's creation will remain. For if the created being lacks love there is no longer anything of divinity in it, but the slightest emotion about the fellow human being's fate ignites the divine spark of love, and the being is saved for eternity if it pursues its innermost feeling and thus helpfully bestows its love upon its fellow human being. The small spark can become a bright flame, and the flame will merge with the eternal fire .... the human being changes into love, as is his destiny on earth. And if the great earthly adversity achieves this, it is of immeasurable value for the souls which still lack love, and it will be recognized as a great grace from God one day when earthly life has been successfully completed. Anyone who gives with love will never have to fear that he will spend himself, for he will be rewarded for his gift, both temporally and eternally; anyone who shares the little he possesses with someone poorer will not have to fear any hardship himself, for God shares with him and His gift is truly a thousand times more valuable .... He who gives with a loving heart will awaken love in return, and you do not know what that means, that love will increase in itself. Yet you snatch from satan what he already believes to possess, you restore to life what was dead, you direct strength where it is lacking and thereby exercise the greatest mercy on the soul of his fellow human being, who is now also capable and willing to love and does good for the sake of good. And if you understand this, you will also understand the great earthly adversity, you will see it as God's sending and endure it with surrender into His will, you will try to control it through loving activity and, as it were, also be active in redemption in the last days, for only love is the remedy, only love gives you freedom, strength and light ....

Amen

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The behavior of the people of the present time – justification for God’s intervention

Divine order .... disorder - chaos human will ....

B.D. 3599 from November 11th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

And it is divine law that in the course of time of a redemption epoch everything develops upwards until the last stage, which the spiritual embodies as a human being. Consequently, in all preliminary stages there can be no disorder, no chaos and no destruction due to divine will, but everything unfolds in a regularity, both the coming into being and the passing away of the works of creation as such as well as the activity of the living beings on earth, which have not yet reached the last stage where the being can act in free will and therefore also disregard divine law, which, however, always means disorder, chaos and disintegration. But as soon as the divine law is circumvented, as soon as the divine order is overturned, an ascent development is switched off. And that is why the embodiment as a human being is often a standstill or decline of the upward development, because now no longer the will of God but the will of the human being himself is determining. Yet the human being's free will also belongs to divine law, for the lack of freedom of the human will would also be a deficiency at the same time which would overturn divine order .... If there is chaos on earth, if there is decay, then human will has always been active and caused it. Such chaos can never be regarded as God's work, because all destruction interrupts the spiritual's course of development in the previous stages. It is different, however, when the destruction of divine creations is the result of natural disasters, i.e. the result of a process which is not set in motion by human beings but which takes place completely independently of human will. Then these destructions are not to be regarded spiritually as destructions but as a transformation and renewal of creations which again serve the spiritual for upward development. Before the eyes of men it is indeed a work of destruction but it also has its reason in the will of man, i.e., that the spiritual standstill of man's decline makes such a process necessary in order to change the will of them. What God does is always based on His love and never contradicts divine order, yet if people too obviously overturn this order God comes up trumps by proving to them the weakness of their own will, which cannot stop what God sends upon people. The purpose of His seeming work of destruction is that the human being adapts to the divine order again, that he learns to recognize that only that which takes place in divine lawfulness and is followed by the human being is good, and that every act of contravention prevents upward development, thus life as a human being remains unsuccessful as a result .... Only that which moves in divine order ascends, and therefore God's law must inevitably be fulfilled, the human being must adapt himself to it, heed it and thus fully and completely insert himself into the law of order, and that of his own free will. Then he will also ascend upwards, and at the end of his life on earth he can leave his form in order to enter the spiritual kingdom as a free powerful spiritual being, because he has fully subordinated himself to divine law and this now signifies an activity in the spiritual kingdom in God-like will .... an activity in love and bliss ....

Amen

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People's indifference requires harder blows ....

B.D. 6030 from August 21st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

How hopeless is the state of countless people on earth because they do nothing to bring their souls to maturity. Their thoughts are only ever earthly directed and they never rise to the heights. They never enter the spiritual realm, they never ask themselves why they stay on earth. And they avoid every conversation about it because they don't want to know anything but what seems to be beneficial to their physical life. And this is how most people on earth are despite the eager work of God's servants to shake them out of their wrong thinking. The word of God is directed everywhere, calls of admonition and warning sound everywhere, yet people close their ears because the sound from the world touches them more strongly and they follow it willingly .... The strongest world events hardly touch them any more, the sudden death of people is no reason for them to think about the transience of the earthly .... They hear it and pass it over .... Catastrophes of the greatest magnitude do not disturb them as long as they themselves are not affected by them, and the distress of their fellow human beings hardly touches their hearts so that their will to help would be stimulated .... And this is a dreadful and desolate state because it affects them spiritually .... because people's souls are in utmost darkness and can hardly reach the light as long as people feel satisfied by earthly goods and pleasures .... Satan truly has power on this earth, for people themselves have given it to him. Every thought only applies to the attainment of worldly aims, and from morning till night they create for their bodies which, however, perish. And whether death also reaps a rich harvest in their surroundings .... only a few are touched by it because they are affected. And thus people can no longer be frightened by anything and moved to a change of will because everything bounces off them and leaves no impression. Therefore, events must storm ever more sorrowfully against humanity .... ever more clearly must the indications of the transitoriness of life and possessions be given .... ever more violent the elements of nature must step out of their order, so that human hearts become frightened and ask for the purpose and causes of what throws the world into turmoil. And God will also allow such things, He will send signs to people .... But whether they pay attention to them is up to them. He wants to save, yet He will not appoint anyone to change His will .... but again and again He will speak a clear language which everyone can understand. The earth is approaching its end, and the knowledge of this will also be spread throughout the world .... And those who pay attention to the signs will not close their minds to this indication .... they will believe and prepare themselves .... But where there is darkness even the signs and indications are of no use, and people will meet bodily and spiritual death through their own fault ....

Amen

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Atheism .... Divine intervention ....

B.D. 1066 from August 22nd 1939, taken from Book No. 20

The divine Creator must rightfully address the extent of people's lack of concern in respect of spiritual matters, since the whole of life on earth is pointless and useless if the soul leaves its earthly shell in the same state as it had received it. And such a wasted life is an abomination before the Lord, for the Lord gave people this life for improving their soul and not for a thoughtless way of life and the chasing after earthly pleasures. Woe to those who do not recognise their task on earth .... Countless obstacles will be placed into their path, so that they will run into them and be forced to investigate where all this is coming from. Such an obstacle is occasionally able to cause a complete change of thinking and to resolve the carelessness and indifference towards all spiritual matters. And therefore God's will always intervenes where spiritual ruin is foreseeable. If the human soul's downfall is looming, drastic experiences must weigh the mind down if the soul's fall into the abyss is to be prevented at the last minute. The distinctly visible continuous spiritual decline is the best evidence of this. Does anyone ever even associate the smallest event with God? Does anyone ever give honour to God and thank Him when daily life proceeds smoothly? .... Does the human being not experience new miracles around and above him every day, do these constant experiences ever make him think of his Creator? .... And how often does God's grace guide a person through adversity and danger .... and he accepts it as a matter of course when he should, in fact, praise and glorify God without end. Only a devout disposition recognises the Lord's guidance in everything .... only a faithful child places all its trust in the divine Creator and Redeemer .... Yet the human race barely knows faith, and it is so removed from spiritual experience that the God of love wants to help people in their spiritual adversity. And thus the day has come that the flood of divine love once again pours itself upon humanity, for faith in God as Ruler of heaven and earth shall arise anew through signs of a miraculous nature .... The spirit of a kind-hearted person will brightly and clearly recognise God's activity and he will instruct and help his neighbour to learn to interpret the signs correctly as well. You humans will come into possession of spiritual values; even so, you will look outwardly and unless you make an effort to listen to the inner voice, all Words will be in vain and thus the signs must talk instead on behalf of God's wisdom and might .... And you will experience many of those .... they will all point to above, for you do not recognise human influence therein; instead, they solely show the Lord's will and purpose. And this time is near and thus the time of spiritual adversity can be over for everyone who pays attention to these signs and draws on it for the benefit his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Leaving the mother church ....

B.D. 0400 from May 5th 1938, taken from Book No. 9

The biggest foolishness in life takes place when people withdraw from the church they belong to. The circumstances the clergy find themselves in nowadays are not easy .... they do everything possible to help the church keep its sheep and yet one after the other isolates itself and often no longer finds its way back .... It is then exceptionally difficult to influence the souls of such deserters even though this is and indeed should be every clergyman’s task. Now the Lord puts the gift of teaching into the hands of His chosen servants .... not to push the clergy out of office but to help them, so that people outside the church also receive the blessing of God’s Word. But who listens to and accepts the Word ....

It is indescribably difficult for someone having voluntarily separated himself from the church to submit to God’s commandments .... It is not as if he did not have the opportunity to walk the right path .... If his heart dictates what is pleasing to the Lord and he follows this voice he will very soon reach a level which can lead him to much further ascent .... but usually people who have separated from their mother church are not at all interested in purely spiritual matters. They deny everything and are therefore in an extremely unsafe position by delivering themselves to evil powers, since they give up all support which the church had still provided to them and are far more likely to become entirely unbelieving, and their whole direction of thought only applies to the present .... but they deny life after death, which is generally the reason why they have separated from their previous belief. If these people are confronted by great hardship one day they won’t know where to turn .... then they will look for their God and don’t know where to look for Him ....

The clergy will never again be able to keep up the old discipline, it has lost the strength which makes the task of the messengers of God’s Word easier, because they themselves often lack true profound faith as well .... They cannot any longer support with holy eagerness what they are teaching, and thus one thing explains the other. God’s Word has to come to life in the messenger .... anyone speaking to the people has to be permeated by true love for the Saviour. Then every word flowing from his mouth will be spoken by the Lord Himself .... then every word will also enter into the human beings’ hearts, and the small flock of people on earth which follows the Saviour and is willing to serve Him, will unite ever more closely. But anyone leaving the mother church surrenders himself to divine grace if he does not voluntarily bring himself in his heart to accept the divine doctrine .... Such struggle of heart is of immense value at the present time if you do not want to perish. The soil is being prepared wherever a community congregates to hear God’s Word, and if a person’s love is active as well the earthly child will soon feel the blessing of God’s Word by being able to penetrate the divine teaching ever more and by receiving the right understanding for God’s Word.

And thus the foundation of faith is laid in such a community, and if a faithful, God-serving shepherd is in charge of this community the Lord’s Words will soon take root in the hearts of the believers, and they will be correctly guided onto the path of ascent. Therefore remain faithful to your mother church and don’t leave it, for every church can give you the foundation for your own progress of ascent if you don’t just listen with your ears but also with your hearts to what your Heavenly Father is telling you through His servants. Therefore, when you hear God’s Word you should know that the Lord Himself is speaking to you .... you should know that everyone who serves the Lord has been chosen to proclaim the Word, that one day there shall be a great harvest .... and respect all workers in the vineyard of the Lord .... Any person proclaiming His Word has been given the task and strength by Him .... thus listen to him and the blessing of God’s Word will always come over you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reference to spiritual convulsion (Rome?) .... right church of Christ ....

B.D. 4431 from September 10th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You humans on earth have to expect a great spiritual shock, for I want to show you that My arm also reaches where you believe to have built on solid foundations. I want to disturb you from your complacent rest so that you will become agitated and seriously ask yourselves what I intend and want to tell you through this visible sign of My displeasure with your building, which seems to you to be extremely good and sublime. In the last days I need workers who are diligently active for Me and My kingdom; I need servants who have a living faith and make the working of My spirit in them possible through a life of love according to My will. I need good shepherds for My sheep and thus eager representatives of My word, which is to be conveyed to people in all purity and which I therefore convey to My servants on earth by direct means so that it can be conveyed to people unadulterated. And this is the work of My servants, the labourers in My vineyard, for the time of harvest has come, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture. And thus I obviously work outside of those who believe to be My representatives on earth, and I Myself have chosen My right representatives who, however, do not recognize the former as My emissaries and therefore do not want to accept My word. And therefore it is necessary for Me to manifest Myself through an external sign so that people will become suspicious and reflective ....

(12.9.1948) For it is of urgent necessity that people think about the worthlessness of what people have built if it does not correspond to My will. They should think about the form in which I want to see My will fulfilled, what is of rightful value before Me and what alone is advantageous for the soul for eternity. They should abandon preconceived opinions, traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge which is of no value because it is characterized by externalities which cover the core and make it unrecognizable. It has to be clarified what the characteristics of the church are which I Myself founded on earth, it has to be illuminated from earthly teachings which are to be considered erroneous because they make the affiliation to My church dependent on the affiliation to a certain denomination, which never corresponds to My will. Everything that is organized is the work of human beings, for My church is only a purely spiritual building, it has its foundation in thinking and striving, in wanting and acting according to My will and will never be outwardly recognizable in any other way than in active loving activity and the resulting recognition and understanding of everything I demand of you humans to believe, which I submit to you and convey to you as spiritual knowledge mentally or through the inner word .... The visible working of My spirit in the human being .... enlightened thinking and convinced faith .... is the sure characteristic of the church which I Myself founded, but which is more likely to be found outside a church organisation, although it can also make people happy within such an organization, as long as they understand the core .... My christian doctrine of love .... of everything else, but then they will also realize how little value any ceremony as well as the entire worldly-style structure is for the soul's development, indeed, it is often even a hindrance, because profound inner immersion and striving for heartfelt union with Me is impeded by externalities which captivate people's eyes and senses ....

The human being who has recognized the happiness that lies in the intimate bond with Me, who has found his way into the spiritual kingdom and entered into mental contact with its inhabitants, will never again take pleasure in actions which are obviously carried out. He will turn his back on them because he recognizes and feels them as not wanted by Me. And this is to be recorded as spiritual progress which I want to help all people to achieve by directing everyone's eyes to an event which clearly reveals My hand .... I will lower a doubt into their hearts which they shall deal with if they are of good will and seek the truth. I will shake the foundation, and good for him who recognizes the language of God in it ..... He will gain if he gives, for he receives precious gifts and exchanges worthless goods for them; he joins My church, which can only be understood purely spiritually ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faithless humanity .... The end is near ....

B.D. 5173 from July 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Each day takes you closer to the end. Time passes quickly, yet the human race is not aware of what each day still means for people, what they could still acquire and how soon the time they are still granted until the end will be over. The human race does not consider the end and thus lives without worry or only worries about earthly things. Humanity is blind and does nothing to open its eyes; it is alive and approaches death even though it is meant to acquire eternal life while it still lives on earth. And yet, nothing else can be done than to proclaim to it the near end through seers and prophets, only the Gospel can be conveyed to it, and anyone who believes in it will be saved .... However, people live without faith; although they don't always openly reject what is presented to them by God, by Christ, by the beyond, they nevertheless don't possess the right faith, the inner conviction of it, and thus their belief is worthless. But if you humans don't want to go astray you must gain this faith. For without faith you will neither call upon God nor appeal for gifts of grace so as to be able to become suitable for the afterlife. Without faith you won't establish the connection with Jesus Christ, Who alone is the path to eternal life .... without faith you won't live your earthly life consciously with a spiritual goal, instead you will live purely an earthly life which achieves nothing for eternal life. Faith has to come alive in you or become convinced faith, if it is merely conventional belief .... Hence you must listen to what God's messengers proclaim to you; you should not instantly reject what you are preached but make an effort to think about it ....

If your will is good you won't find it difficult to believe, in that case you will already be consciously considering the end. You will take the possibility into account; you will try to change, for that is the effect of true faith .... If your will is good .... for good will also always develops the love within itself, because a good will always arises from a good heart.

And love helps you to gain a convinced faith. For this reason good and helpful people are more likely to believe in the end, for this belief arises from love and is constantly nourished by love. Just try to gain the right kind of faith, a living faith, which impels you to work at improving your soul .... And once you have gained it you will also confer it on your fellow human beings, for there is great hardship amongst humanity, precisely because you lack the right faith in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer, in eternal life in the spiritual kingdom. This concept is unreal to people, at best they merely profess it with their mouth while their heart is unaware of it; but then the human being lacks the knowledge and strength to transform himself, subsequently, earthly life comes to an end without having led to the goal, without having attained the maturity which assures him eternal life. And the end is coming ever closer .... Anyone who remains without faith is approaching a dreadful end, a fate which would horrify him if he knew of it. God's messengers, the servants He chose Himself, proclaim it to people and draw their attention to the near end. Listen to them if they come to you, and think about what they say .... and take the possibility into account that they have told you the truth. Then you will strive towards changing yourselves, the earthly world will no longer seem so important to you and you will take better care of your soul; then you will not have to fear the near end either, for it will only be a transition for you into a new life which will make you increasingly happier because it can never be taken from you again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Warning against false judgement .... unkindness of the peoples ....

B.D. 0712 from December 15th 1938, taken from Book No. 15

Behold, My children, in your weak spirit you do not yet have the appreciation for what is right and true and therefore only have to rely on My word alone, which will guide you correctly and protect you from all error if only you strive to fulfil My will. To be able to understand everything correctly requires far more, yet I will already show you the path which will lead you to the right realization. Yet if your inner voice warns you, follow it, the surest guarantee for truth is often hidden in your feelings, and if you only desire the truth you will not easily take the path of error. And thus you need not fear, for I will protect you so that you will not fall prey to lies and error. However, always pay attention to My word. Where you hear it you are on the right path .... yet do not fall into the error of wanting to extend your judgement to areas of knowledge which are distant to you and not yet explained. Everything will be offered to you at the right time and in such a form that you can absorb it and are convinced of its truth. However, try to avoid all criticism so that you do not reject something that could be of use to you one day. You must place unlimited trust in the lord of heaven and earth, only then will you also be worthy of receiving unlimitedly, and then the scales will fall from your eyes and you will learn to understand everything that previously seemed incomprehensible to you. But also keep your sense of justice .... that is suggested to you. By condemning, you can inflict great injustice on people, and a mild judgement will always be a blessing for you, whereas hatred and revenge will only result in evil. As the creator of heaven and earth, I can never agree with what is happening in the world .... I cannot approve when people are full of unkindness towards one another .... I cannot approve of the hatred and enmity of nations and even less can I give My approval if people's behaviour has such an effect that hardship, misery and sorrow are the consequences .... and the sooner people come to realize their wrong actions the sooner they can expect My help .... But I will never give My support to wrongful, deterrent actions .... and the less love people have for each other, the less love they can expect from Me, I can only reveal Myself where I find loving hearts, but where feelings of hatred and revenge have the upper hand, I keep Myself at bay. People often prove themselves best when they are in misery together and yet try to alleviate this misery for each other. I take abode there, but where people endeavour to inflict wounds instead of healing them, I cannot dwell there but am far away from people who do not live in love. And so only ever adhere to what you receive as a principle from above: to cultivate love towards every person .... Every person should be equal to you; you should not treat anyone with contempt and do the same kindness to everyone, then your father in heaven will repay you in kind, and His love for you will never cease for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unkindness causes lightlessness and transformation of the earth ....

B.D. 8423 from February 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Don't be shocked by apparent contradictions, for what I give you is pure truth, it can only be difficult for you to grasp at times because spiritual truths cannot be understood with the intellect but only with the spirit. And as soon as your degree of maturity increases, your spirit will also become more and more enlightened and you will be receptive to deeper knowledge. Therefore try to attain this increased degree of maturity, for you will always be able to do so, because this only necessitates increased activity of love, as a result of which contact with Me will take place ever more often and I Myself will then also be able to directly influence your spirit through My presence. The fact that the number of the spiritually awakened is only small compared to those who live in spiritual darkness need not surprise you, for precisely the activity of love is extremely neglected; every person thinks of himself first, self-love is unusually great and compassion for the neighbour, for his hardship and suffering, is almost completely stifled .... And selfish love can never awaken the spirit within itself, however, it is always welcome to the adversary who sees his advantage in the darkness of spirit and also uses it for himself, who will constantly fuel selfish love and prevent people from being unselfishly active. And this is why error is so widespread that it is almost impossible to convey the pure truth to people because they don't recognize it and therefore don't want to accept it either. And even if I give you the order to let the light radiate which I Myself have kindled in you, this light will nevertheless only break through again where the working of love is not switched off, where self-love is fought against .... Brightest light could shine everywhere if people would fulfil My will, if they would observe My commandments of love, for this light is guaranteed through a life of love alone, and people would brightly and clearly recognize their earthly task and also comply with it. But it is the human being's free will how he attunes himself to My commandments of love, how he attunes himself to Me Myself and My will. And this free will is also the reason for the great work of transformation which concerns the earth, for since love constantly decreases there is no longer any ascending development for people, and the present earth fails in its purpose and therefore has to be totally transformed in order to release the spiritual substances still bound in the works of creation for this upward course of development ..... whereby people, who thus failed in their earthly life, fall back again through their own fault into a state which had long since been considered overcome for the soul .... but free will itself decides this fate, for free will could also turn towards the light but has chosen darkness .... and the being's will is also complied with .... In what bright light would you be able to walk and explain everything to yourselves which you see, which surrounds you as a work of creation, and how happy would you be that the secrets would be revealed to you and you would learn to recognize your God and father Himself in His nature, in His love, wisdom and might ....? Then you would also overcome every gulf which still separates you, because love is the bridge to Me and love is also the prerequisite for the bright spiritual state, for the light in which you may walk. But instead you flee the light, you feel comfortable in the darkness and don't dispel it but are rather willing to extinguish even the light which can only dimly shine for you, for as long as you yourselves are unloving you are still under the power of the prince of darkness, yet you don't recognize his activity and follow him, whatever he demands of you. He will always reinforce your selfish love and therefore the transformation into love cannot take place, just as the enlightenment of your spiritual state is not possible where love is missing. Conversely, however, it is possible for a loving person to make himself suitable for the reception of deepest spiritual knowledge. For the bond with the spiritual spark in the human being with the father-spirit of eternity is established through love, and then I can let My divine light of love radiate into a person in all abundance, and the spirit will then express itself in him and inform him of knowledge which the intellect can never fathom. And the higher the degree of love the deeper the human being will penetrate into areas which are closed to the intellect, and much will be revealed to him which only I Myself can ever convey to people, Who is the eternal truth and also reserves the distribution of truth for Myself, because I know people's hearts and also know who is mature for spiritual wealth which is everlasting, who works with it according to My will and who therefore serves Me as a bearer of light in the time of the end when the earth is shrouded in dense darkness .... For only light can enliven, but darkness is and remains a state of wretchedness which only the human being's own will can change ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual low level .... Lovelessness .... Selfish love ....

B.D. 8712 from December 31th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

The greatest evidence of humanity's spiritual low level is lovelessness, which is evident amongst people everywhere. Selfish love has steadily increased and hardly anyone is practicing neighbourly love anymore, hence there also has to be a profane state on earth, a state of activity by evil forces, where God's adversary always has the upper hand and people are his willing subjects. The spiritual darkness is getting increasingly worse, rays of light are only seldom recognisable and even frequently feigned by deceptive lights without strength of radiance .... Judging by people's degree of love the time of the end has clearly arrived ....

An obvious decline can be detected, people are firmly attached to matter, they only value their body and its comfort, earthly success and an increase of earthly commodities. They do not believe the fact that their souls are suffering extreme hardship since they do not believe in the soul's life after death, indeed, they frequently even deny having a soul. They cannot be forced into a different mode of thinking, their free will has to be respected, but accordingly they also prepare their own fate after their death.

And anyone who observes what is happening in the world, in his immediate neighbourhood, also knows that this state cannot continue forever because it is getting worse from day to day, because people's greed for matter continues to grow, because no spiritual aspiration can be noticed and because every situation will eventually come to an end if it does not correspond to divine order.

People no longer serve each other, everyone wants to rule instead and be served at the same time, everyone wants from the other what he enjoys but no-one is willing to do the same in return .... There is no love, people's hearts are hardened, and there are only ever a few people willing to help in times of need .... And this is the small flock, for once the will to love becomes active it will establish the bond with Eternal Love. And This will not leave a person again, who voluntarily performs labours of love.

You humans do not know the blessings of loving deeds .... you do not know how much easier you could travel your earthly path if only you would practice love and thereby receive consistently more for your soul, but also receive what you need for earthly life. But heartless humanity lacks this knowledge, everyone just looks after himself, and everyone tries to get whatever he can out of life and forgets that his hour of death is unknown to him, that he can pass away at any time and take nothing he owns into the beyond, but that he will arrive bare and miserable on the other side. For he has nothing to show for his soul which he had starved in earthly life but which is all he has left now and which enters the spiritual kingdom in desperate poverty. And this heartless state of people cannot result in the slightest spiritual progress. However, since the soul only lives on earth as a human being for the purpose of maturing, but this purpose is not fulfilled, a powerful intervention by God has to take place, a sharp reprimand and reminder, so that a few people will reconsider the purpose of their earthly life and change themselves before the earth's last stage begins which will not last long until the end.

People take no notice of God's gentle voice through strokes of fate, disasters and all kinds of accidents, through the Word of God from above, and thus they have to be spoken to with a louder voice, and blessed, who wants to hear God's voice and takes it to heart, for even then there will be many people who don't want to recognise Him when he speaks to them through the elements of nature with tremendous strength .... They, too, will not be forced but able to make a decision of free will, nevertheless they will be spared the worst, the recurrent banishment into hard matter, if they still find and take the path to God, if they still acknowledge Him and call upon Him for mercy ....

But then the end will have come, for the earth will no longer fulfil its purpose, it will no longer be used by the souls as a place to mature, it will merely be utilized for the body, and everyone will elevate himself to a ruler of the world and cause the greatest destructions himself in the belief to control all laws of nature and thus also to experiment with impunity, which then will lead to the final destruction of earth.

But this is what people themselves want, and thus it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture: a new heaven and a new earth will arise and divine order will be re-established, so that the return of the souls to God can continue, as it is intended in His eternal plan of Salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Sense of justice ....

B.D. 1621 from September 19th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

People live in the belief that they are serving a good cause when they campaign for the complete destruction of a people that they believe is causing harm to other peoples. This view lacks any justification and goes against all justice. People only ever see what they want to see and they fail to seriously examine the extent to which public opinion corresponds to the truth before passing judgement. It is an unbelievably cruel principle to want to destroy what people no longer like, and thus all measures serving destruction are directed against fellow human beings, against beings which were likewise created by God and live through the embodiment on earth for the sake of their spiritual development. And beings, which are supposed to serve each other in love, move against each other for mutual destruction. This is so dreadful and characterizes the spiritual low of humanity, which does not recognize the great injustice and is only intent on bringing the greatest destruction upon its fellow human beings. People lack a sense of justice, their thinking is far removed from justice. What is useful for earthly well-being, what increases power and possessions is considered right, and every strong person believes he is right towards the weak. But people have completely lost the ability to think justly; they are no longer able to form their own judgement as to where the actual injustice is to be found, to what extent people themselves are guilty of the harm that befalls them .... They only let their hatred and unkindness speak, want to retaliate and indulge their lust for revenge and are now carrying out acts that go against all human feeling. People rage against each other, they outdo each other in cruelty and strive for mutual destruction. And yet the attacker is even more to be condemned than the attacked, who has to defend himself and therefore resorts to the same means. It is a work of destruction led by satan himself, for he drives hatred and unkindness to frightening heights, it is a raging against each other that kills all human feeling .... It is no longer people fighting against people, but deeply sunk spiritual beings against just such beings, and thousands and thousands of people have to suffer and end their lives through cruelty. But God avenges the injustice of man .... He condemns the rage against each other, He condemns the way of fighting, and His judgement is truly just .... It will strike the guilty when the time has come. He will make known to all the world who has brought about the terrible misery and He will brand them so that the world will recognize their conduct in disgust, so that people will think justly and learn to regard all fellow human beings as equally creatures of God, so that they will abhor injustice and endeavour to make amends for what they have sinned ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Just thinking .... educational resources ....

B.D. 2185 from December 14th 1941, taken from Book No. 31

A clear sense of right and justice characterizes people who still have God in their hearts. They abhor evil and suffer from the unkindness of people towards one another. However, the demon's activity is evident in the fact that only a few have a righteous mindset, that every evil deed is condoned by others as soon as they derive an earthly advantage from it. And therefore God cannot leave such deeds unpunished and the people who give their consent to them must also suffer, even if they do not carry out the evil deeds. For the will is already sinful if it turns to unkindness. And this sinful will results in great suffering, as people have to feel in themselves what they inflict on their fellow human beings. Every evil thought is an acknowledgement of evil power, and a humanity that has thus become unloving only carries out the will of the one who fights against love. If humanity is to free itself from its power, it must first recognize the injustice .... and it will only do so when it is affected itself, i.e. when it suffers .... And so God takes their lives just as they take the lives of their fellow human beings .... God destroys what is dear to them, just as they do not shy away from destroying what is their fellow human being's property .... God lets them go through sickness and misery because they have no compassion for the suffering and misery of their fellow human beings. However, He does not just want to punish them but to guide them into the right way of thinking; He wants them to recognize their wrongs and try to make up for what they are guilty of. He wants to educate them to love; He wants them to help and support each other in their adversity; He wants to make their hearts capable of love so that they can mould themselves according to His will. For people who persist in lack of love will perish in body and soul. And even if an entire people is in danger, God will save this people by opposing the evil power, thus by stopping the activity of the evil forces, by stopping them Himself through His intervention, which ends great suffering, just as He, however, also brings painful suffering upon people who have not recognized God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle .... Works of destruction .... Against God’s will ....

B.D. 2535 from November 3rd 1942, taken from Book No. 33

A world of battle will smother love and this signifies the spiritual breakdown of that world. For where love is present there is also peace. Combatants, however, shelter the spark of hatred in their chest and hatred wants to destroy and inflicts countless wounds to the opponent. But since every work of destruction entails the devastation of the divine creation and is therefore a violation of the Creator’s will, God will never be able to sanction such works of destruction, and thus the battle will never correspond to divine will .... unless a battle is waged against blatant heartlessness, for a righteous cause which will be a blessing for the world. Hence, love for one’s neighbour must be the driving force for a battle. Without it people would have to endure suffering through no fault of their own, which a responsible ruler’s sense of justice wants to stop happening. In that case a war is justified, and God will lead him to victory for the sake of these suffering people. Every evil deed will result in evil deeds time and again, and thus a battle evoked without justification will give rise to countless evil deeds again. Once the heartlessness has reached its climax, humanity will be ready for its downfall, for humanity’s conduct is not only directed against their fellow human beings but also against God, by destroying God’s creations. Apart from the dreadful earthly consequences every act of destruction also has inconceivable spiritual results which affect the human race itself. Every work of destruction interferes with divine will insofar as that it destroys the divine order, thus it callously destroys the works which God’s wisdom and love had created, which must therefore understandably have a direct effect on the perpetrators themselves. God is righteous and His punishment will come upon the guilty, and guilty are those people whose actions only ever express heartlessness. Love will never be able to prevail among people who fight each other and aim to cause damage in order to render the other incapable of fighting .... Everything came forth from God’s love; consequently, love was the divine creative power. Lack of love must therefore signify the ruin of what God’s love created .... And thus the heartlessness is directed against God. It is something that God can never approve of and therefore He cannot support a battle which will drive heartlessness to perfection. God is love .... and anything that lacks love is part of God’s adversary.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dead and living matter .... Work of destruction .... Catastrophes ....

B.D. 1607 from September 11th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The spiritual in matter longs for its liberation, for it feels the surrounding as a burden and oppression .... It was created in freedom, and therefore any constraint in form is a painful state, from which it desires to escape, but cannot do so arbitrarily. Therefore, it fulfills the task assigned to it in order to escape the respective form. It must now either serve or remain in the form for unimaginable times; there is no other way for the spiritual. Originally, the spiritual is still full of resistance against God and refuses to serve, i.e., to engage in serving activity. It remains inactive, and this inactivity brings it endless periods of being bound. The spiritual cannot be freed from the fixed form until it decides to serve, but only then is the possibility given for ever faster changes in its outer form, for the will to serve has now been stirred by the prospect of ultimate liberation from any form. Everything spiritual in activity is therefore living, while everything in inactivity is dead matter, although the term "dead" means something different from "lifeless." "Dead" means being inactive in a bound state, while "living" means having a certain freedom to engage in activity. Dead matter, therefore, still contains very immature spiritual, that is, spiritual substance that is distant from God, rebelling, which must endure millennia of suffering and agony of being bound before it decides to become active, i.e., feels the will to approach God .... Once this will is awakened, the spiritual is freed from its banishment by God's will .... It becomes free and now seeks other embodiments in order to completely liberate itself, and to end state of compulsion one day. This liberation of the spiritual from the solid form can only take place in such a way that God commands the outer shell to loosen, i.e., the formerly solid form must somehow be dissolved or destroyed in order to release the spiritual within it, and this process always means the destruction of matter, which can now take place through human hands or through God's will .... through elemental forces .... However, the divine will is always a prerequisite, otherwise, the spiritual will be prematurely freed, and .... as it is not yet ripe for the next outer form, it will cause trouble and urge the already more mature spiritual to act quicker. This, in turn, leads to inexplicable phenomena in nature, in plant and animal life, which disturb the spiritual that is already in the stage of free will, meaning it has already entered the final phase of development on Earth, but has misused its free will by prematurely freeing the immature spiritual from its form through destructive actions that do not align with God's will. Everything that is sin, i.e., directed against the divine order, brings the just punishment with it, and thus, human beings themselves will have to bear the consequences of the dreadful destructive work brought about by human hands .... These are unforeseen catastrophes, the entirely natural result of what human hatred and lack of love bring about; and so, the world is heading towards an event that is unimaginable in its dimensions and consequences, for God does not allow interference with His creation without punishment. While He does not prevent the free will of humans, He can never allow the spiritual in its development to be hindered by pure revenge and destruction unleashed by humans. For it is solely God's matter to take on the office of avenger .... To Him alone shall all guilt be entrusted, so that He may render the just judgment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Destruction by human will ....

B.D. 2785 from June 24th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

A general despondency will take hold of people in view of the destruction wrought by human will. A time will dawn when no-one will be certain of keeping their possessions anymore, and this, too, is a sign of the end time that people will be seriously admonished to despise the world's possessions, to only strive for spiritual possessions and to prepare themselves for the end which is so close at hand for everyone. It will be an anxious time and people will almost no longer have the will to shape their lives differently because they will recognize the frailty of everything they undertake and life will seem unbearable to them. Yet in view of the approaching end this state of suffering is necessary for people who can only thereby still come to the realization that earthly life is not the main purpose of existence. Every creature will feel the battle in the last days, for it will also have an effect on the animal and plant world and ever faster deformations will be the result. And people, too, will have to end their earthly careers prematurely, partly through the work of destruction that human will allows to be carried out and partly through divine intervention, which will also claim numerous human lives. But all these sacrifices shall again help the survivors to realize, the latter shall become aware of how quickly death can end life so that they think of their souls and of life after death. People must be made aware of death because otherwise they will value earthly life as such too highly and thereby be in danger of forgetting their actual purpose of earthly life. And this requires extremely painful experiences, for people pass by suffering and misery without feeling unless it is exceptionally great and overwhelming. People are not yet able to distinguish right from wrong, they only have their own advantage in mind and approve of everything that brings them such. And they do not consider their neighbour and his need. And so the adversary has won God's game by not yet being recognized in his worst deeds, but instead finds approval and leniency. However, until a person realizes that he is guided by evil forces, until he abhors their activity, he will not find the right path. And this is why injustice has to be brought so close to him, he has to experience for himself what unkindness brings about and he has to change through his own suffering, he has to turn away from humanity's behaviour which is under satan's influence .... And he will only do so when he recognizes the futility of earthly goods, which only kindle desires and vices that lead to the greatest crimes. For it is only earthly goods for the sake of which people inflict the greatest suffering on themselves .... It will not be long before everything is left to decay, and this short time will still have to be a time of unspeakable suffering for humanity because it is far from preparing itself and thus thinks too little of life after death. But God uses all means to direct their thoughts towards it, and thus He allows what human will strives for in order to still save people by showing them the transience of earthly possessions and bodily life and thereby wants to guide them into realizing ....

amen

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Prevalence of sin ....

B.D. 4853 from March 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Sin will prevail and people will live in lust and sin without a sense of responsibility, for satan rules the world and people are in bondage to him. And they willingly follow his whisperings, weakly and without resistance they succumb to his temptations, they fulfil the body's desires and have nothing in abhorrence, sin entices them and thus people sink into their mire. It is coming to an end .... Anyone who pays attention to people's behaviour also knows what hour has struck, that the earth is ripe for destruction and that people forget their purpose of life on earth and thus stand before the abyss. Satan has them completely under his control and they no longer offer him any resistance, they acknowledge him as their lord and do what he demands of them. In sin people will suffocate, in sin they will perish, for in the midst of the enjoyment of life they will find their end, as it is written .... And so I call out to people: One day you will all have to answer for your thoughts and actions and words; you will all be judged according to your will and your works. Do not fall into sin, keep yourselves pure and detest evil, so that sin does not become your ruin, so that it does not drag you into the abyss. Do not dull the admonisher within you, listen to the voice of conscience which warns you against every bad thought and every bad action. Pay attention to its voice and follow it, do not easily ignore sin but remember Him who will judge you one day, who is just and punishes every sin because it demands atonement. Do not let yourselves be tempted by the attractions of the world, and do not fulfil your body's every desire, for it tempts you to sin. Keep yourselves pure and remember that you cannot stand before My eyes if you fall into sin and do not detest it. Free yourselves from satan, who tempts you if you do not resist him. Sin has great power over you and therefore you should beware of it, for you thereby commit yourselves to My adversary and distance yourselves from Me, and this means eternal ruin for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prevalence of sin ....

B.D. 4853 from March 7th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Sin will prevail and people will live in lust and sin without a sense of responsibility, for satan rules the world and people are in bondage to him. And they willingly follow his whisperings, weakly and without resistance they succumb to his temptations, they fulfil the body's desires and have nothing in abhorrence, sin entices them and thus people sink into their mire. It is coming to an end .... Anyone who pays attention to people's behaviour also knows what hour has struck, that the earth is ripe for destruction and that people forget their purpose of life on earth and thus stand before the abyss. Satan has them completely under his control and they no longer offer him any resistance, they acknowledge him as their lord and do what he demands of them. In sin people will suffocate, in sin they will perish, for in the midst of the enjoyment of life they will find their end, as it is written .... And so I call out to people: One day you will all have to answer for your thoughts and actions and words; you will all be judged according to your will and your works. Do not fall into sin, keep yourselves pure and detest evil, so that sin does not become your ruin, so that it does not drag you into the abyss. Do not dull the admonisher within you, listen to the voice of conscience which warns you against every bad thought and every bad action. Pay attention to its voice and follow it, do not easily ignore sin but remember Him who will judge you one day, who is just and punishes every sin because it demands atonement. Do not let yourselves be tempted by the attractions of the world, and do not fulfil your body's every desire, for it tempts you to sin. Keep yourselves pure and remember that you cannot stand before My eyes if you fall into sin and do not detest it. Free yourselves from satan, who tempts you if you do not resist him. Sin has great power over you and therefore you should beware of it, for you thereby commit yourselves to My adversary and distance yourselves from Me, and this means eternal ruin for you ....

Amen

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Necessity of God’s intervention

Divine justice ....

B.D. 1525 from July 17th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

Do not challenge divine justice. The lord of heaven and earth is infinitely long-suffering, patient and merciful. He sees the behaviour of His earthly children, and it does not meet with His approval at all, and yet He still gives them time to change, for His love for His creatures is boundless. However, His sense of justice is just as strong. He cannot give eternal life to those who live against His will. He must do justice to all His creatures. And time and again He tries to guide them onto the right path, time and again He postpones the time of judgement .... He uses every good human impulse to show people the error of their way of life, and His love is constantly expressed towards those who do not regocnize Him. He also tries to awaken in them an understanding for spiritual life, He tries to help them in the most natural way in order to restore their faith, He sends His messengers to them so that they shall stimulate their thoughts into activity, and this in a spiritual sense, so that they take care of their souls. Yet even His patience will come to an end one day and His justice will now have to express itself. For He will not allow Him to be mocked and His gifts to be disregarded from above. He then has to deal harshly with people who want to deny His existence, He has to prove to them that He is .... For He cannot allow humanity to reject all His love and completely exclude Him from life. People are greatly mistaken and yet they do not consider that they lack the power of knowledge .... that they are without discernment in spiritual matters. However, they are not afraid to judge, they criticize God's transmissions, they believe that they have to suffer unjustly and therefore adopt an attitude towards the eternal deity which they are not entitled to. And God still looks down on erring people with love and kindness. But the hour will come when divine wrath will be revealed. The hour will come when all arrogance will be shaken, when the arm of God will be all too clearly recognizable and people who still blaspheme Him today will be seized with horror. And there are an incredible number of them .... They all rejected the saving hand, so they must feel the punishing hand, and good for those who now regocnize the hand of God and bow to His wrath .... God cannot leave unpunished those who go against Him. His love and goodness are indeed infinite, but so is His righteousness, and this causes Him to make Himself evident and to destroy everything that has rejected His love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Necessity of divine intervention ....

B.D. 1088 from September 10th 1939, taken from Book No. 20

All the world will be informed and all the world will feel the hand of the lord, for it is His will that a change should take place and that humanity should turn more towards the spiritual and not completely fall flat in the age of materialism. And anyone who pays attention to the things which are to bring about this change will also regocnize how infinitely necessary the intervention of the eternal deity is .... he will have to admit that only a violent intervention can still bring about a transformation of humanity and that the time for this has also come, for no matter how sorrowfully the events on earth burden people, they will not find their way back to a deep faith in their creator and saviour through them either, for they are secularized to the utmost. A small circle may well feel the hand of the lord and find their way back to Him, yet this does not remedy the general spiritual state, on the contrary, they increasingly deny a deity Who guides and directs everything on earth. And all efforts to spare people the most painful events are in vain .... And so the earth will open up and humanity will be shaken and wobbled elsewhere .... and the father in heaven will stretch out His hand towards His children so that they may seize him who regocnizes Him in deepest adversity, and people's suffering will exceed everything that has happened so far .... for previously people themselves were the originators of their tribulations and were also able to remove them themselves, but here even the most powerful person on earth will be powerless, every person will regocnize his powerlessness in the face of this event and only one path will remain for him to save himself .... the supplication to God .... And all stubbornness and self-importance will be an obstacle to this path .... Only he who small and humbly desires help will find fulfilment, but often only in a spiritual way. But man's life on earth is not the epitome of bliss .... Whoever loses this life and gains his eternal life has sacrificed far less than he receives .... And God's judgement is infinitely wise and just .... It is not anger or revenge that causes Him to intervene but His infinite love and mercy, for He regocnizes best the unspeakable danger and adversity that spiritually threatens man and must be averted in time. And you should neither quarrel nor be angry if you want to make use of God's goodness. Trustingly take refuge under His protection and not a hair on your head will be harmed in this time of adversity. And when the night descends upon you in an oppressive manner, know that you are close to it and pray that the lord will spare you, and He will stand by His own and avert the calamity .... And submit yourselves to His will, for He truly knows better what is good for each one of you, and so let Him rule Who loves His living creations on earth with all His heart .... And everything He allows to happen on earth only has its explanation in this love .... He wants to save the souls standing on the edge of the abyss from eternal ruin ....

Amen

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Coming time of suffering .... Purpose of the announcement ....

B.D. 1594 from September 2nd 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The state of suffering on earth is still increasing and people can expect immense misery, hardship and sorrow. And it must be so, for without this man will not find his way to God. A time will come that is as difficult as people have never experienced before; all hope will fade, all courage will sink and the heaviest pressure will weigh on humanity, caused by unspeakable suffering, illnesses and tribulations of every kind. And yet, all this will be bearable in firm faith in God, for where a person does not walk alone but has made God his confidant, God shall always be present, and man will not be weighed down by the adversity and will not feel the great suffering. Yet only a few will draw strength and comfort from God, only a few will find strength in the divine Word and only a few will be spared by trusting in God's help through His will .... For faith has been lost, it is a time of complete apostasy from God. And therefore, the Lord knocks once again on the hearts of His earthly children, He makes Himself known through His Word and announces to them the difficult time and the battle on earth, and He shall accept all those who come to Him in this adversity and ask for His help. He takes care of His children's adversity Himself by using every conceivable means in order to announce the coming time to people as a time of horror and misery. He does not want people to meet fate unprepared, He wants them to unite with Him beforehand in order to be able to avert the great suffering from them. He wants to win His living creations for Himself but shall not grant the adversary power over them. And therefore, He announces the difficult time beforehand and instructs those who want to hear His Word. He is full of kindness and gentleness and only wants to speak to His children with love. Yet they do not hear the kind and loving words, and thus He has to show His might so that people will fear Him and then learn to love Him, He has to reveal Himself to them as the Lord of Creation so that they will recognise Him as Ruler and ask for His love. Yet where people believe in Him, there is no need for proof of His power, for love has already awakened in them, and love fulfils what God requires .... God's love is unchanging, it will always and constantly apply to His children who are in danger of losing themselves .... And this love wrestles for your souls, it seeks to make itself known, and anyone who lives with love himself, will also recognise divine love. He will recognise the loving guidance through all horrors and suffering of the forthcoming time, and he will trustingly abandon himself to the Eternal Love, and await this time without fear and trepidation. And the Lord shall remember them when the time has come. He shall guide them carefully through it, He shall let all adversity pass them by, He shall strengthen and comfort them where they are anxious and fearful, and He will reveal Himself in times of greatest need .... For the Father in Heaven knows His own and He has promised them His protection, that all suffering will be taken away from them if they raise their hands to Him in supplication. The human being only has to believe in God's love, kindness and mercy .... And he must lead a righteous life .... He must always strive for good and avoid evil, he must persevere in fervent prayer and expect God's help with full faith. Then he will emerge from the time of tribulation unscathed in body and soul, for God is close to all those who recognise Him, love Him and childlike trustingly hand themselves over to Him and ask for His mercy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

World catastrophe ....

B.D. 1759 from December 31th 1940, taken from Book No. 27

A world-shattering natural disaster will replace the horrors of war, and humanity will have to endure far greater hardship than it has had to endure so far. And this has been determined for eternity for the sake of the salvation of countless souls. The further humanity distances itself from God, the closer this event is, and only the infinite patience and long-suffering of God gives a period of grace (?) in which unspeakable suffering will still oppress people in order to turn them towards God before the event, so that He can then grant them succour. And hell will be unleashed on earth during this time, and unimaginable misery will befall people, and there will be no end to the lamentations, for the forces from the underworld will poison people's minds in such a way that they will rage and mercilessly attack each other. And the lord God sees humanity's behaviour and abhors it .... And He puts a stop to it in a way that clearly reveals His will to those who want to recognize it. He will send the same upon people what they inflict on each other and it will no longer depend on human will to determine the end of what now fills the world with horror. It will have to accept it and will not be able to avert it, and an adversity will come upon earth which people will find unbearable. And yet they will have to bear it, they will clearly feel the hand of God and will not be able to rebel, and only resignation to their fate can make this easier ....

Amen

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Spiritual and earthly explanation of the world catastrophe ....

B.D. 1887 from April 13th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

As insignificant as it may seem to you humans that changes are taking place in nature, this is nevertheless of utmost importance, for these are the signs of great events. Every process must have both a spiritual as well as an earthly explanation, i.e., what takes place in spiritual life must also be able to be explained logically in earthly terms and again have its foundation in purely natural processes .... Thus the release of the spiritual from the solid form must be connected with a natural phenomenon that is understandable to people, and this natural phenomenon must again be able to be explained in earthly (human) terms .... and this for the purpose that man is not forced to accept the event, which takes place for the sake of the spiritual beings, as a divine mission. An extraordinary process for which no explanation could be found would force people to believe, and such a belief is not desired by God. But where man can give himself an explanation, he is not so easily inclined to see a divine mission in a natural disaster. If he does so nevertheless, then his faith is completely free and therefore right before God. Now the great world catastrophe is preceded by innumerable signs, but only a small part is heeded by the believers, and so the world is still in for great surprises. The spiritual explanation of a world catastrophe is easy to understand for the believer. But he must also accept it without it being proven to him. The earthly explanation, however, will also be understandable to unbelieving people because they have the opportunity to test it. And so in the near future the phenomena will increase which announce a violent change of the earth's surface. The deviations from the laws of nature are still small, but divine decree also cancels the law of nature when it appears necessary. Every event has its destiny, and so many natural phenomena trigger a sudden catastrophe, which takes place by divine will within the framework of the natural, precisely in order not to force people to believe. When the interior of the earth begins to stir, this is always preceded by certain displacements of the earth's surface. The earth will therefore show increased masses of water in places, which seek an outlet and cannot find it anywhere. Consequently, they push upwards and create an outlet for themselves with elemental force. This is the prelude to the coming catastrophe, which is purely natural ....

Amen

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Demonic activity .... Necessity of divine intervention ....

B.D. 1960 from June 19th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

Just a little while longer and you will remember the Words I spoke on earth that the world will become chaotic in every respect. Soon you will realise where heartlessness between people will lead to. If you still harbour a spark of love within yourselves you will recognise the opponent's power, who incites everyone to conflict with each other. His activity is demonic, and as a result people also behave demonically in their unkindness. And thus I will intervene and by means of apparent disorder nevertheless restore order again, so that humanity's real purpose is made clear to them. When people in their delusion destroy everything, such an act of destruction from above is absolutely necessary so that the injustice will be clearly revealed and humanity will recognise it as such.

And there will be acute distress, and in this distress people's pleading prayers will rise up to the Father in heaven, which is the purpose of My intervention, so that people will look for Me, so that they will remember Me again and take refuge in Me.

For there is no other way left to achieve this, only the harshest adversity will make them take the path to Me, and only the harshest adversity will yet be capable of changing humanity. But My spirit will be with all those who are loyal to Me. They will recognise Me in everything that is happening and faithfully await My help .... And they will speak on My behalf and try to explain to their fellow human beings the error of their lives and refer them to Me. And then, depending on their attitude towards Me, I will also take care of their hearts, and wherever a devout thought rises up to Me I will send comfort and help. I will bestow My love upon all those who recognise their wrong and thus call to Me appealingly. For I love My living creations and only want to save them from greatest danger .... from a danger which will far exceed the earthly suffering they will encounter. And I will permeate all those with My spirit who are willing to be of service to Me, so that they will be able to comply with their task and not waver in their faith when the time of affliction arrives ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Anti-God forces .... intervention of God ....

B.D. 2424 from July 28th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

The forces opposing God are extraordinarily active in poisoning people's thinking and distracting them from God, from recognizing the truth, and this is the cause of the war of annihilation which they wage against each other. They shy away from nothing and have no qualms whatsoever about handing themselves over to these forces by participating in or even agreeing to this war of annihilation, and they are completely taken over by these forces and what they ask people to do they willingly carry out. And so the evil power itself works through the people who hand themselves over to it through their way of life, through their attitude and their actions. This is synonymous with spiritual decline, with the uselessness of life on earth .... with the death of the soul .... And the adversary wins soul after soul as soon as he wins people for his shameful plans, and he utilizes their inclination towards matter, their greed for earthly possessions in such a way that they completely fall prey to him, that they only strive for earthly possessions and lose their souls for their sake, that they sell their souls in order to enrich themselves with transient, worthless possessions .... And this is the time when God puts a stop to the adversary's activity .... What people do not shy away from, He makes them urgently aware of by now affecting them Himself, by seemingly favouring the work of the one who strives for destruction. However, He wrings the power out of His adversary's hands .... It is now no longer up to people to carry out the work of destruction as before, but God Himself intervenes destructively by virtue of His will and His power .... And people cannot resist His will, they cannot stop Him and must powerlessly submit to God Himself taking the reins and world events now taking their course in accordance with His divine will. What people themselves previously carried out will now happen without their co-operation and cannot be ended by human will either but will have to be endured by them until God Himself ends it. And now the adversary's activity and the divine power will become apparent. Anyone who recognizes the latter in the event is not yet completely lost, even though he will be severely affected, for anyone who tries to find the explanation for every event in God and His will will now also live his earthly life accordingly and use it for the benefit of his soul. But he who does not recognize the arm of God in it will only see the earthly decay, he will only look at the earthly destruction with a worldly eye, and he can no longer be offered spiritual salvation. He is still completely captivated by matter and only looks at all worldly events from the point of view of the loser or the winner. He has fallen prey to evil power and the demon has taken possession of him and his soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Indications of natural event .... Jesus’ reference on earth ....

B.D. 2437 from August 5th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

It is not coincidence that increased indications in nature suggest an eruption of the elements, for God sends these signs in advance in order to prepare people for an exceptional natural event which will suddenly and unexpectedly take people by surprise and result in inconceivable misery. People are meant to associate these indications with His Word, for Jesus Christ already mentioned this time when He lived on earth, because He wanted to point out to people the eventual consequences of their way of life. This time is now approaching; people should heed the signs which announce the event .... They should not ignore anything that deviates from the framework of natural law. God announces Himself, that is, His intervention in the existing world order, it is not His will that people should experience anything unprepared which should and can advance them spiritually if the correlation of all happenings is explained to them. For this reason God constantly refers to the forthcoming time and informs people that the time has come which necessitates divine intervention. Then it is left up to every individual person himself what he makes of this warning .... If he believes, he will adjust his life accordingly, he will make contact with God and humbly entrust his destiny to Him .... They will not be in as much danger as those people who lack all faith in an intervention. The latter will not prepare themselves either, instead, all references and admonitions will bypass their ears unheeded. And the natural event will be dreadful for them.

For profound faith gives a person the confidence that they are protected by God in every danger; yet an unbeliever will have nothing to hold on to if he does not recognise a Lord above Himself at the last minute and commends himself to His mercy. God sends His messengers long before the event already in order to stimulate humanity’s thinking, and these indications can be recognised by everyone who wants to recognise them. They will give rise to thought because they don’t just occur once but repeat themselves often and at regular intervals, so that they will have to be noticed by everyone. But every person usually devises his own explanation and this depending on his attitude towards God. As soon as he associates these phenomena with God’s will, he pays attention to them and thereby benefits, since he prepares himself for the time ahead, which is of great advantage for his soul. What God has proclaimed in Word and Scripture will irrevocably come to pass, only the point in time is unknown to people .... For this reason they should pay attention to the signs which God had mentioned. And thus they will know that the earth will be facing severe tremors which will cause incredible suffering to the human race .... Then it is up to every person to shape himself such that he can brace himself for the coming time .... He should persevere and appeal for strong faith so as not to weaken in view of the work of destruction which is in store for humanity. And God will take care of every person who pays attention to His Word and consciously expects the divine intervention ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s intervention through cosmic events and the raging forces of nature

A forthcoming natural event ....

B.D. 8033 from November 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

In the foreseeable future you will experience the truth of My Word, for I will express Myself through the forces of nature, as I have constantly forewarned .... And you will not be able to ignore My voice, for it will resound powerfully and throw the world into chaos .... Although the region of the event will indeed be limited it will still be of such enormous proportions that everyone will be alarmed once he is informed of it .... For, at first, all communications to the affected areas will be cut off .... An eerie silence will engulf the disaster zone because all contact is lost until the first horror has passed. And then the world will be informed of what has happened, before it receives the news of the disastrous details.

However, people have to be sharply spoken to by Me because they refuse to listen to My gentle voice, because they don't believe My Word which is sent from above and conveyed to them by My messengers. Hence, I have to express Myself such that My voice cannot be ignored .... And I have to send a judgment on humanity to which many people will fall victim but who may nevertheless receive My love and grace due to their untimely death. And thus you shall recognise the truth of My Word and activate your will, for even after the disaster you can still make a free decision since I force no one to turn to Me .... Yet the appalling natural event can contribute towards people finding their way to Me, because the adversity is extreme and there is no obvious rescue from any side. But what appears to be impossible is possible to Me .... And if a person remembers this and calls upon Me in spirit and in truth he may also experience miraculous help .... I will so manifestly reveal Myself to him, that he will recognise the might and also the love of his God and Creator and then turn to Me in profound faith and humble submission.

Anything that can still bring souls back to Me will be done by Me, but I also know how difficult it is to win them over and therefore extraordinary means of deliverance have to be used, which seem cruel to you humans and yet are only an activity of love on My part in order to save the very souls whose state is known to Me. I don't want to let them fall into My adversary's hands, who will provide them with a far worse fate than the greatest earthly suffering could ever manage .... Believe Me, no matter what happens, no matter what is permitted by Me, I Am only ever motivated by My love .... I watch over every person's fate, no one is too unimportant or too immature for Me, I care for all of you who are presently living on earth as human beings, because I want to help you reach final perfection on earth, because I want to protect you from the fate of a new banishment and only ever want you to turn your thoughts to Me, so that you will escape the final downfall .... to be placed once more into the creations of the new earth.

And irrespective of how disastrous My intervention is for the people of the affected regions .... it is justified by My love for you, for from a spiritual point of view it is just a rescue mission and not an act of condemnation .... Your earthly loss is irrelevant compared to the gain which your souls can achieve .... And if you have to lose your life then you may also depend on My mercy, which provides you with the opportunity in the kingdom of the beyond to become enlightened and to ascend .... For on earth you would, with certainty, have fallen prey to My adversary, and from this I want to protect those of you whom I recognise as still being capable of change. For there is only a short time left before the end, and this end will come soon afterwards. Yet, prior to this I still want to give you a sign, a final admonition and warning which, although it will painfully intervene in untold people's lives, shall strengthen the faith in My Word, so that they can prepare themselves for the end, which will not take long to follow ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Disaster and hardship after ....

B.D. 2197 from December 29th 1941, taken from Book No. 31

The greatest suffering still lies ahead of humanity if it does not find its way to God. At a time when the divine creator is so little remembered that He is not called upon even in the most bitter adversity, the events which bring sorrow and affliction upon people are increasing in order to turn their hearts towards the eternal deity after all. And yet, even this will not be enough for people to seek contact with God .... And thus He will approach people in a different way, for without God they will be lost forever. The day of horror is approaching and the suffering will be immense, for in the night of terror people will lose all connection with each other and no-one will know whether he has become a victim of the catastrophe which will trigger fear and horror and from which no-one will be able to escape. And then the need will teach people to pray, they will fear for their loved ones or for their own lives and find no earthly help, and the only thing left for them will be the path to God, and in view of their approaching end they will also find this path. And God will stand by anyone who calls upon Him in distress as soon as this call comes from the bottom of his heart and God recognizes a change of will in the person. For God does not want to destroy completely and yet wants to have an educational effect on the whole of humanity, as it can no longer be helped otherwise. However, people cannot yet imagine the hardship that will follow this catastrophe because everything will lie fallow and only the greatest willingness to serve will be able to create a state again that is bearable for people. However, only a few people will want to serve and therefore the need will be unspeakably great, as humanity is blinded and does not recognize the meaning and purpose of a catastrophe to which countless people will fall victim. And yet there is no other way to lead people back to faith in God, yet God is forgiving and His infinite love still postpones the day so that people will find Him beforehand and avert the greatest suffering from themselves through the strength of faith, for God will protect those who have faith and give them His love and mercy .... He will stand by them in adversity and His will will protect them even in the greatest danger ....

Amen

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Suffering and tribulations through divine intervention ....

B.D. 2839 from August 6th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

For many people the suffering and tribulations only begin with the divine intervention, for they had previously remained untouched by it and ignored all admonitions. The adversity of their fellow human beings did not bring about a change in their thinking and therefore they themselves must now suffer hardship which is, as it were, the last resort for their salvation .... And that is why those countries will now be affected which have so far been spared severe suffering and yet are not blameless for the world events which have brought unspeakable suffering upon people. Many people pass by the hardship of their fellow human beings harshly and unfeelingly and it is these who have to endure the suffering themselves, which their will approved of when it came upon their fellow human beings because they saw their enemy in the latter. And what people inflict on their fellow human beings now falls back on them a thousand fold .... And they now have to atone in this way, except that human will cannot put an end to the misery, for it is not human powers which now express themselves but divine will itself is at work and hits people at their most vulnerable point .... He takes all possessions from people, He makes them poor and weak and completely dependent on His grace. And in this adversity people should learn to recognize that they are unable to do anything by their own strength, they should learn to understand that God is just and that He sensitively punishes people who have transgressed against Him and His commandments, but that He also protects those who are closely connected to Him even though they are surrounded by people who no longer care much about God. And many will still come to their senses and compare their own fate with that of those people whose downfall was destined by human beings. What God is now sending upon people is so powerful and sorrowful that every thinking person would have to recognize a higher will in it and reflect on himself. But again he will only think of himself; he will not see the general misery but only look at himself and his fate. And so charity will be practiced little, everyone will only strive to improve his own lot and again he will pass by the misery of his fellow human being .... And God, Who knows everyone's will, therefore sends such great suffering upon people in order to change this will, to make them soft and compassionate and to let them seek refuge in Him, Who alone can turn their fate around for the better.

amen

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Powerlessness of the strong against natural disaster ....

B.D. 3520 from August 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The mighty strength on earth will not be able to do anything against the raging of the forces of nature, if God will speak through them. He will be small and weak and will have to endure the natural disaster, for one is stronger than he .... Who lord is over heaven and earth .... Whose strength will be recognizable and no human being will be able to oppose Him and put a stop to nature's raging. For it only obeys God's will, but where the will of God Himself is at work and upsets the elements of nature in order to prove His strength and power, there He also determines the end and the course of an event which is inconceivable in its extent and its effect. But people should learn to recognize Him, they should sense a higher power to which they are at the mercy and contact it through recognition and silent supplication for help. Furthermore, they should learn to recognize how small and weak the human being is in comparison to Him, even if great power is attributed to him on earth, even if his power appears unlimited on earth. Before God even the most powerful is small and lowly, and He can destroy his power in an instant. On the other hand, the weakest person on earth can be powerful if he uses the strength from God and works with it .... Then he can act in God's will and even command nature and it will obey him. For then the human being's will will be subject to God's will, and then God Himself, to Whom everything is subject, heaven and earth and all elements, will be active .... Yet these will appear small and lowly on earth, for their strength lies in faith and love, in a childlike mind which always and constantly seeks contact with the father from eternity .... Their strength lies in humility of heart, which never seeks to present anything on earth but walks quietly and humbly and thus never wants to be considered rulers before fellow human beings. But he who is strong and powerful on earth seeks to rule the world but lacks spiritual strength. And therefore he will have to recognize his powerlessness when God's voice sounds from above, and as a weak human being he will fear the forces of nature because he sees himself at their mercy without salvation. And thus he could also gain faith in a higher power, which he would have to recognize above him. But mostly his arrogant nature prevents him from submitting. He does not want to cede his power, he wants to rule and determine. And that is why he must feel his powerlessness, so that in the last hour he will realize and submit. Then the difficult hours will also become a blessing for him, even if he loses his physical life, as soon as he still submits himself in the face of death to the one Who created him and Who lets His voice be heard for his sake in order to win him for eternity ....

Amen

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Chaos .... battle of faith ....

B.D. 3251 from September 11th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

And it will come as it is written .... A spiritual change is imminent but only after a state of extreme confusion, earthly and spiritual perplexity, clearly recognizable satanic activity and utmost earthly and spiritual hardship. For all this must precede so that a new spiritual life will emerge from it, which will now be led by those who assert themselves in these end time, who place spiritual life above earthly life and do not allow themselves to be determined to fall away from God. They will experience the new time, the spiritual transformation and thus also the transformation of the old earth, and God's greatness will become apparent to them, His wisdom, omnipotence and love. The eternal deity is apparently far away from the human race in the last days, but in truth it is closer than ever, for He courts every human soul, and that is why all the suffering on earth is necessary, because it is the last means of winning them. And suffering is also a sign of God's love, Who knocks at the individual's heart in order to make Himself audible to him. And when the last time has come there will be no end to suffering and affliction, so that the human being will close himself off from the pleasures of the world, so that he will turn his thoughts towards eternity, so that he will learn to despise the earth and only recognize its spiritual purpose. And then an unspeakably sad process will take place, carried out on the faithful who faithfully stand by God .... This will signify a final onslaught against the faith, a disenfranchisement will be introduced which shall expel all believers from the circle of the general public; a time of unspeakable suffering will come for these believers, yet it will only appear so to fellow human beings, for the believers themselves do not feel the suffering to the extent it appears, since the strength of God will assist them and make them able to bear the fate imposed upon them. Depending on the depth of faith is also the depth of suffering, which indeed appears unbearable in the eyes of the world but is not such a great burden for the believer that he is unable to bear it. But the world tries to celebrate triumphs, people will be more materialistic than ever, they will chase after worldly pleasures, they will unscrupulously take what seems desirable to them without consideration for their fellow human beings, and they will heap injustice upon injustice, sin upon sin and offend against the divine commandments because they no longer acknowledge God and testify to this in the openly waged battle against the believers. And it is only a small flock that lives scattered amongst people who recognize the near end and eagerly await it. For they know that the end also brings with it the coming of the lord and faithfully wait for Him Who shall bring them salvation from deepest adversity. And God blesses their profound faith by revealing Himself to them wherever the adversity is great and people need strengthening. He is with them at all times, for every believing thought calls upon Him. Yet He still remains invisible, He only appears visibly in individual cases until the hour has come when He raptures His own, when He lifts them up in a living body before the work of destruction on earth takes place. And then the great earthly adversity will be over, for the believers can no longer be harassed if they take possession of the new earth again in order to start a new redemption period as the tribe of the new human race. For all evil has been banished and thus rendered harmless ....

Amen

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Servants of satan ....

B.D. 5775 from September 25th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

How abysmally low are men who no longer hold the lives of their fellow men sacred .... who mercilessly set themselves up as judges over their brethren and judge arbitrarily, depriving them of freedom and harming them in body and soul .... They are willing servants of satan, devilish in mind, devoid of love, unjust in thought and action .... They are truly people who have become devils, who no longer deserve mercy and who must therefore be put out of harm's way when the time comes .... God's adversary makes use of them and they willingly do what he urges them to do .... There is no more love amongst people and even less justice, everyone only seeks his own advantages and forces them upon himself at the expense of his fellow human beings .... And these are no longer isolated cases but the whole of humanity is moving in this direction, even if not always obviously, but mentally many people are also sinning who do not detest or condemn what is obviously the work of satan. The world has become accustomed to outrages that cry out to heaven .... It tolerates instead of opposing, it does not help where help is needed .... And the number of devils grows with every day, and their evil deeds increase .... But the time will come when everyone will have to answer to God, when no one will be able to hide from Him and when all evil deeds will be revealed .... People no longer believe in a God, they do not believe in a judge before whom they must answer, and they do not believe in retribution .... Yet they will have to pay their debt in pennies and nickels, nothing will be forgiven, every wrong will demand its atonement, and the freedom they abused will be transformed into a captivity which they will have to endure for eternities, because otherwise their guilt cannot be redeemed, because otherwise they cannot attain correction. Only the deeply sunk will have to endure such torment, yet before the end of this earth people will have reached the deepest depth, and apart from the small flock of God-faithful people the earth will only have devils left, representatives of him who rages on earth because he knows that he doesn't have much time left .... He is already unmistakably active now, for he drives people to cruelty, to lies and intrigue, he puts people into greatest distress who are not at his beck and call .... Satan has embodied himself in his helpers and abettors. And the world is full of sin .... The time of tribulation has begun, ushering in the end, and it will proceed as proclaimed in word and scripture .... The persecution of those will begin who are not willing to serve Him, who want to remain faithful to God and therefore have to endure a time of struggle which is directed against God Himself .... But then the end will also be here, then the time will be fulfilled and satan's activity will come to an end .... Then the day of judgement will come when accountability will be demanded, when God's justice will balance everything out, when everyone will receive what he deserves ....

Amen

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Truth of the prophecies

Fulfilment of the predictions .... Proof for unbelievers ....

B.D. 3741 from April 11th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Not one of My predictions will remain unfulfilled, for the present adversity, which is of a greater spiritual nature than a physical one, calls for it. And if you observe humanity's conduct, if you inspect people's thoughts and intentions more closely you will also realise the urgency of a change in all ways of life, for this alone makes it possible for people to change .... And this is why you can count on a speedy change, for the time has expired, the present adversity has remained unsuccessful, and thus only a greater tribulation can offer a last opportunity, and this will irrevocably happen due to My will. For I will reveal Myself and can be recognised by anyone of good will. What human will, human hatred and heartlessness have so far accomplished will still be surpassed by My will, it will also cause annihilation and destruction of the earthly possessions you still believe yourselves to own. People will have to reach such a low point that they will have to call upon Me for help if they are still to be saved before the end. They must realise that any earthly hope will be in vain, and only then will a few take an interest in spiritual matters, and for the sake of these few I will use the last means before the arrival of the end. Yet the period of time following My final rescue mission will be difficult for everyone, believers and unbelievers alike, except that the believers will constantly receive strength from Me in order to persevere. Many people's faith will start to waver if they don't have a living faith. And that is My intention, so that it will even awaken a dead faith or it will be of no value in eternity. I want to help the unbelievers and those of weak faith with My voice, which will resound loudly and perceptibly. Yet it will cause great apostasy from Me, the final storm will shake down many unsuitable fruit .... But this shall not deter Me from sending the storm across the earth. Anyone who stands firm will prove his worth for eternity.

Consequently, don't doubt My Word, wait for the day which will arrive with certainty and make use of every day until then, for you can still gain much if you diligently work .... at improving your soul. Every day of misery can yield spiritual success for you if only you remember Me, if you understand that nothing can happen without My will or My permission. And calmly cast all your worries upon Me and I will help you carry what I impose on you for the sake of your souls. Time will fly by in a flash, but regardless of how difficult it is for you, it is a blessing, because you can achieve far greater spiritual progress than during a longer and calmer time, which lets you become half-hearted and lethargic and will not lead you closer to the final objective. Therefore, wait patiently for the fulfilment of My predictions, don't expect an end to the adversity through My intervention but only a change of it, for your souls are not yet mature enough to live in total peace on this earth, you must fight and gain a strong faith, only then will I be able to remove your misery, only then will you be able to experience a time of peace on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. Yet time and again bear in mind that My Word is truth, that I will not divert by one iota from what I proclaimed a long time ago and that you will witness it yourselves, that you will experience what I proclaim so that you can stand up for My Word before the world. For My last intervention shall be proof for those who so far did not believe My Word, whom I still want to win over for Myself and to whom I will clearly reveal Myself through the natural event .... so that they will believe in My might and in My working through you .... And thus I proclaim to you again that the day will come suddenly and unexpectedly, it will take the place of great earthly adversity yet bring new adversity of a different kind .... However, if you believe in the fact that I Am only motivated by love for you to let you go through suffering then it will also be bearable for you, for sooner or later the end will come along with salvation for all of those who believe in Me and hand themselves over to Me, for all of those who profess Me before the world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The great tribulation gives proof of the truth of the divine word ....

B.D. 3786 from May 31th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

The path to the eternal home is thorny and arduous, especially in the last days before the end. But it is all the shorter the more difficult it is to pass. The end is near and all obstacles will pile up in front of you once again, yet after overcoming them you will be able to walk freely and enter the spiritual kingdom where all hardship has come to an end. And if you seriously think about it, your difficult earthly existence must first give you the certainty that the end is near, for I have predicted to you since the beginning of this redemption period the hardship and tribulation you will experience before the end, that you will have to live through a time of adversity on earth as it has never been before, and from this you can already recognise the truth of My Word, for the suffering and hardship around you is immense and will become even greater. But I call out to My own: Be patient and wait for My help .... What is inevitable, what I have proclaimed long before, must fulfil itself for the suffering of countless people and to strengthen the faith of My own. The time of great tribulation has dawned and anyone who remembers My Word knows that the last hour will soon have come. And he will bear witness to Me and My Word, which is truth and will remain so for all eternity. And no matter how great the adversity is, it must be proof for you of the truth of My Word and strengthen your faith, it must be of comfort to you, for with this prediction I also gave you the promise that I would shorten the days for the sake of the chosen ones .... They will pass quickly, but the adversity must first weigh heavily on you so that you realise that the end is near ....You must never hope for improvement, but you must humbly accept the adversity and join Me the more it presses you, then it will be worth more to you than the owning of earthly possessions, which are without meaning and cannot follow you into eternity. ‘Come to Me, you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ....’ Keep this promise, believe and trust in Me and all adversity will be bearable for you. Trustingly place your fate in My hand and it will guide you until the end of your life .... No matter how stony the path may be, it leads upwards and at its end I wait for you .... In the end the heavenly dwellings in your Father's house await you, where no suffering will oppress you, where there is no hardship, where there is eternal peace and bliss, where your eyes will behold splendours of which no human heart can imagine. Believe in My Word, and even in the great adversity you can always recognise the confirmation of My Word, for I have announced it to you, and it has to be fulfilled as My Word as soon as the end is near. Therefore only prepare yourselves for the end, let go of all earthly worries, no longer create and work for the earth but only for the spiritual kingdom, constantly make use of My strength and grace, remain in constant prayer, that is, in constant contact with Me through thoughts and deeds of love .... and you will not need to take a single step without Me, you will have Me by your side as your constant guide, no matter how thorny the path may be, it will lead you towards the right goal .... it leads to the Father's house, it leads to Me, Who is your most loving Father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Fulfilment of prophecy as proof of truth ....

B.D. 8027 from October 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

There is irrefutable proof of the truth of My proclamations from above, for you will very soon experience My voice sounding loud and mighty, as I have predicted to you for a long time. I have to decide on an unusual revelation so that it will be easy for those of good will to believe, for in the last days everything will be done on My adversary's part to undermine the faith in Me as a God of love, wisdom and power. From his side I am portrayed as a God of wrath, as a strict judge, as a being which lacks love and is therefore not perfect. And people's love for Me is diminished by such portrayals, people are given such a distorted image of My nature that they find it difficult to love such a being .... But I woo your love and therefore reveal Myself to you in direct form, I speak to you and inform you of My nature in all truthfulness .... You can still doubt that it is My direct address to you .... Yet you will perceive it as truth if only you want to be instructed in truth. And I will prove Myself to you, after all, even this proof is not yet a compulsion of faith but only a help for the one who is of good will .... What I predicted to you will come to pass very soon, and then you will obviously recognize the power of your God and creator, Who also created you .... You will now know that everything else is truth which I Myself have made known to you through My word .... And then you will also take the path to Me .... You will call upon the being for protection and support, Which so obviously reveals Itself to you, Which proves Its existence to you through Its address and Which thus wants to win you over for Itself. For you humans have to acknowledge Me if your earthly life is not to have been an idle existence .... And you acknowledge Me when you pray to Me in spirit and in truth, when you call upon Me for help in a hardship which you cannot remedy on your own. Everything that still happens or is permitted by Me is only based on My love, on My will to help you, to induce you to recognize Me and thus to conclude your infinitely long process of development from the abyss to the ascent with the success that you have found your way back to Me again, you who once voluntarily separated yourselves from Me .... And because there is not much time left and My adversary uses all arts to keep your souls in the abyss, My influence is also so obvious that you can truly find your way to Me if this is your will .... And therefore I will very soon provide you with the evidence that you stand in the unusual grace of being addressed by Me Myself .... because My prophecies come true which precede the last end, which was also predicted to you through My direct address. I don't demand anything unusual from you, I take the weakness of your faith into account, I know that it is far more difficult to attain a living faith in the last days; yet whatever can still happen on My part to facilitate your return to Me will also happen, for I love you, My living creations, and I don't want you to get lost again for an infinitely long time .... I want to help you so that you may still finish your course of development in this period, so that the path through earthly creation is completed for you .... that you find your way to Me, that you acknowledge Me and long for and strive for unification with Me .... And I truly want to make it easy for you to believe in a God and creator Who wants to be your father and therefore expects the love of a child from you in order to be able to take you to His heart again, in order to be able to transfer you back to where you dwelled in the beginning .... in order to make you happy again with His love for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s protection and help

Natural event and chaos ....

B.D. 7643 from July 8th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

There will be unprecedented chaos after My intervention during which you will have to prove yourselves. Yet regardless of what will happen, you can always count on My help. Life will be bearable for you if you live it with Me, if you keep hold of My hand and walk every step with Me .... But the fact that there will be chaos is certain, even if it seems incredible to you at this moment in time, even if you cannot imagine its nature and magnitude. For it is the time of the end, it is My very last wake-up call, you will still have to experience the final great upheaval so that those of you humans who still walk different paths take the path to Me .... so that you still make good use of the short time which will then still be granted to you before the end. The chaos after My intervention through natural forces will be indescribable and you will need much strength in order to persevere. However, you can always appeal to Me for this strength, you can make sure to receive it through kind-hearted activity, you will never be helplessly left to your fate if only you are willing to help your fellow human beings and ask for My help to do so. I let this natural disaster befall you for the sake of your spiritual hardship, it is intended to make you think about the value of earthly life if it is lived in a purely worldly way.

For you will lose all possessions, you will be forced into situations in which you will need a lot of help and will only be able to find this help with Me, for earthly assistance will be impossible. But I can and will help you as soon as you call upon Me in spirit and in truth, as soon as you merely send sincerely pleading thoughts up to Me to take care of you in your adversity. And the less selfish your prayers are the more you will experience My help. And then I will expect of My Own to speak on My behalf and also to refer their fellow human beings to Me, to try and strengthen their faith in My infinite Fatherly love and thus to work for Me and My kingdom, for then they will find receptive ears and hearts, although the majority of people will not listen to them .... But it is necessary to still win the few people for whose sake I let the disaster come upon earth. For every single soul is important to Me, I don't want a single soul to go astray if it can still be saved, and I will also enable My servants to speak fluently so that they can be successful labourers in My vineyard. You must all gather much strength in advance because the hardship will be severe, but I assure you that you will be able to prevail if only you hold on to Me, and I will imbue every person with strength who thinks of Me in hours of greatest adversity .... With faith and trust in My help you will all be strong and conquer all earthly adversity. For you should only take the path to Me .... That is the sole purpose of My intervention, so that you do not go astray again for an infinitely long time when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Purpose of need: bonding with God ....

B.D. 6355 from September 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Whatever adversity you humans find yourselves in .... I am always ready to help if you appeal to Me for it .... I don't close My ear to a call which is sent up to Me from a believing heart, and I also take care of all those who commend themselves to Me. But every adversity also has a purpose .... to drive people towards Me who still keep away from Me, who have not yet found a close bond with Me, who have forgotten Me in the world's turmoil, even though they don't completely reject Me. I will also cast My nets after them and then hardship will have to bring it about that they push towards Me .... And I will not let them perish, I will help them. People can pass on all their worries to Me, they can come to Me with all their worries and needs, trustingly present everything to Me and ask Me to arrange everything for them .... and wonderfully they will be helped .... But how few believe this and entrust themselves to Me with complete faith .... And My arm cannot intervene to save where the adversity has not yet fulfilled its purpose, and I have to watch how heavily people carry their cross and can only ever offer Myself to them as a cross-bearer .... but not take the burden from them against their will .... otherwise it will have been completely pointless and people will remain in the same spiritual hardship even if they have been relieved of their earthly adversity. Believe My words that I am only waiting for your call, that everything is possible for Me and that I love you .... And if you believe this, take refuge in Me in every adversity of body or soul, Who alone can and will remedy it because I love you .... Bury every doubt, for it only prevents My love from becoming effective in you. Believe .... and you will attain everything from Me .... but then also maintain the connection with Me, for this alone is the purpose of every adversity, so that you will find Me and want to stay with Me, so that you will take the path to the father and never depart from Him .... For earthly adversity comes upon you for the sake of your spiritual hardship, and spiritual adversity consists of distance from Me, of dead faith, otherwise you would go to the one Who alone can and wants to help you. Let faith come alive in you and don't doubt My love and My might for a moment .... and you will be guided through every adversity, I Myself will deliver you from it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unusual gift of strength in the time of need through God's Word ....

B.D. 5496 from September 28th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Open all your hearts when My word touches you and know that it is an unusual gift of favour which My love still gives to you before the end. Know that it is a gift of strength which will enable you to survive the forthcoming time unscathed in your soul, where you will find it difficult to resist the forces of darkness. You are facing the end, but no-one needs to fear the death of the body as soon as only the soul is willing to enter the kingdom of the beyond, and I want to make this willingness possible for you through the giving of My Word, for as soon as you receive clarification about your task on earth, as soon as your actual purpose becomes clear to you and you are of good will, you will also lose your fear of the death of the body because you are certain that you cannot die according to your soul and that your soul will one day enjoy eternal life. I give you light and strength as well as enlightenment, the means to reach your goal, I give you spiritual strength, which you may request and receive without measure. Open your hearts so My Word touches you .... For it will give you strength in abundance. Life will soon be over for every one of you humans, except for the few whom I call away on the last day, whom I fetch into a realm of peace, whom I have chosen as the tribe of the new generation .... But all others can no longer count on a long life, and blessed are those whom I recall from earth before the last day, for they are not condemned to banishment on the new earth .... Yet there will still be unspeakable hardship before the end comes .... But I want to make this adversity bearable for everyone and therefore give you humans what helps and gives you strength .... My Word. Open your hearts so it touches you and you will feel that it is a gift of love from your Father in Heaven, and every earthly adversity will seem small to you as soon as you are united with Me by listening to My Word. And don't sever this connection with Me, cling firmly to My hand, live according to My will, obey My commandments of love for Me and your neighbour, call upon Me in every adversity of body and soul, always let Me be present to you through constant activity of love .... Obey what My Word tells you to do and then also accept the promises .... know that I fully stand by My Word and will give you whatever you ask of Me .... For you shall approach the end with your soul strengthened, you shall turn your eyes upwards from where He will come Who announces Himself to you through His Word. Much hardship will come upon earth but also much grace and blessing will be granted to those who open themselves, who want to receive a strengthening agent from the Father's hand and who therefore need not fear the end because they are able to persevere even if hell and its inhabitants will attack the confessors of My name .... For I Myself Am and will remain with you who want to be Mine and I will protect you against all attacks by My adversary. For I Myself will come to you in the Word, and therefore you should open your hearts, you should hear My knocking if I desire to enter, for I will bring you a good gift, My Word, which will give you light and strength so that your soul will not suffer any harm ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Assurance of God’s help in times of need…. admonitions to prepare for the end

Announcement of the catastrophe ....

B.D. 3776 from May 20th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

I convey a proclamation to you which is extremely important. You must prepare yourselves for the forthcoming turn of events, for soon I will visibly appear. The time given to you is coming to an end and My Word will fulfil itself, to the joy of a few and the horror of many people who have recognised and shall again recognise Me when I express Myself and demonstrate My will and My power. You are at the final stage in order to then take a path full of deprivations and tribulation, for this is needed for people who shall experience My power in order to reach out and grasp My helping hand. My last teaching method seems to be relentless and cruel to people and yet it is only based on My love, for countless souls will go astray without this final means and I still want to gain a few by using it. Recognise My love in the fact that I have announced and persistently continue to announce the forthcoming event to you in order to make you believe, if you don't want to believe it beforehand ....

You will all have to experience fearful hours and the survivors must endure most difficult conditions which seem insufferable to them. Yet I promise My strength and help to all who call upon Me in spirit and in truth. I will not take notice of lip prayers but only of the call that rises up to Me from the bottom of your heart .... This will be granted, and every adversity will be lessened and thus become tolerable for people who believe in Me .... News will reach you about worldly plans and measures yet they shall be shattered by My will, you will hear about new danger but should know that a different danger is approaching and that you need not fear the former and should only direct your attention to Me and My kingdom and that you must join Me ever more closely in order to receive more strength for the hours of greatest need .... I say this to you because My love wants to prepare you for that which is inevitable and will happen according to My eternal plan, because you still require much strength and have to receive it through a sincere will, heartfelt prayer and activity of love. Only take care of your souls and let go of all earthly worries, come to Me in every adversity and difficulty so that you will never distance yourselves from Me, so that you will constantly stay in contact with Me and then also feel My presence when I speak to you humans from above with a voice of thunder .... so that you will not be afraid of Me but appeal to Me as your Father of eternity for His protection, which He will surely grant you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's intervention .... Last stage before the end ....

B.D. 3817 from July 5th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

The gravity of life approaches you humans far too clearly that you could not recognise the time of the end. Yet it has to come as it is written so that My Word shall be fulfilled. It may be incomprehensible to you that I allow such suffering, that I do not intervene where the unkindness of fellow human beings clearly comes to light, yet the cup has to be drunk to the brim and one day you will realise that only My love was decisive in order to help your souls which do not want to recognise which hour has struck for them. You only have a short time left until the end of your days and if you were spoiled on earth your souls would be lost. But I still want to win them for Myself and therefore shall not intervene until the time is completed according to the plan of eternity. And it is drawing to a close .... And I obviously announce Myself within a very short time, I Myself shall speak with a voice of thunder, once again warning and admonishing people, and giving them proof that human will and human power will break against My will. I appear so suddenly that all worldly plans and measures come to nothing in an instant. And you can rely on this Word of Mine, and if only you take the necessary steps to put your souls into a state that you need not fear the day when I shall manifest Myself through the forces of nature, you can await the day without worry .... it will set you free either way .... it will bring about different earthly circumstances for the survivors or liberate the soul from its physical shell .... And therefore, make sure that your soul will truly become free by first detaching yourselves from everything you hold dear on earth, by only considering your soul and thus preparing yourselves for a speedy physical end. Soon, the cup of unkindness will be full and I will put a stop to it. Soon you will hear that the nations are preparing for a new battle and then you can expect My judgement every day .... For then the time will be fulfilled which I have determined from eternity, then the earth will enter the last stage before the end .... where My own will have to prove themselves, where they will have to confess Me before the world .... where My grace and My strength will obviously appear, where Satan will rage in the worst way and where I Myself will be in the midst of My own in spirit in order to guide them through all hardship and danger .... And then comes the judgement .... the end of this earth in its present form and the end of countless people who are far away from Me and will therefore be banished anew for the purpose of their former redemption .... And everything will come as I have said, for My Word is and remains truth for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Reference to the end and admonition to care for soul ....

B.D. 4765 from October 26th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

Everything points to the end .... Look around you and don't allow yourselves to be deceived into believing that you will ascend earthly and that you have overcome the time of adversity. It is only just beginning and what you will experience will surpass all previous ones. Pay attention to the signs of the times and compare them with what I have announced to you. You don't want to believe that the last time has come and therefore you don't pay attention to My announcements. And yet you will not be spared but be witnesses to the truth of My word. Only you would gain far more if you believe and recognize My obvious working. You will gain much for your souls, for then your faith will strengthen and also help you to endure the difficult time. The day will approach which I have determined since eternity. But I don't want to let you experience this day without warning, and therefore I come to you again and again in the word and draw your attention to the enormous change in your situation in life. You cannot benefit from anything earthly, you cannot make provisions, you cannot flee and bring yourselves and your possessions to safety either .... you can only take care of your soul so that it will experience this day prepared. Then you will be safe in My fatherly heart despite all adversity and I will also support you earthly. Therefore do not strive to create earthly improvements for yourselves in the short time you still have left, for nothing will remain for you but what I grant you and what falls to you as soon as you are only Mine through your will. Do not increase your earthly goods, but only the wealth of your soul .... Give food and drink for it and thereby make it strong and mature for what is to come. For even if the time from Me to the end is short, it will still make the greatest demands and you shall be able to meet them through strong faith. Pay attention to the signs of the times and recognize that the end is near .... And do everything in order to be able to expect the end with composure and trust in Me, prepare yourselves by only thinking of your souls, seek heartfelt contact with Me, your creator and father of eternity, so that you will remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Serious admonition .... The final phase of the earth ....

B.D. 5383 from May 6th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Your well-ordered life will only last a little while longer in order to then be plunged into a chaos which you cannot escape with your own strength. For then the earth will enter its final phase, it will be approaching its end .... This prediction has to be taken very seriously, since it is intended to make you aware that your time, too, is coming to an end, that you don't have a long lifespan left and many will even have to brace themselves to be suddenly recalled before. Every day you are still alive is a gift you should value, for every good deed you do in one day will increase your strength, which you will sorely need to make use of in the coming time. However, anyone who thoughtlessly lives without love and faith will be completely without strength or hand himself over to the one who will certainly provide him with strength but will not protect him from the end, from the last Judgment, from the renewed banishment in solid matter. Don't sell your soul for a price which will truly not make up for the hardship the soul has yet to go through when its earthly life comes to an end .... I cannot admonish you often and seriously enough about this, because I want to prepare a blissful fate for you. Yet you humans don't believe what I repeatedly let seers and prophets proclaim to you .... you don't believe it and I cannot force you to believe. You are truly worldly-minded and incredibly distant from being spiritual, you are completely immersed in matter and this matter will overwhelm you, it will completely imprison you again because you don't want to let go of it as long as you have the strength to hold on.

Try to imagine just for once imprisonment in hardest matter and being unable to free yourselves from it. The thought would give you tremendous strength to avoid this fate, yet you lack belief in it and I cannot give you this belief, you will have to acquire it for yourselves through a life of love .... Then the whole context will become clear to you and also the significance of your earthly life as a human being .... And you would be alarmed as to how much you deviate from the task given to you for the time of your existence on earth .... Do good works, force yourselves to do so, learn to do without for the sake of your fellow human being, alleviate suffering and hardship, comfort and refresh those who are sick and weak, lend a merciful hand wherever you see misery .... you won't just do it for others but also for yourselves, for your soul will come alive and every good deed will gain you spiritual enlightenment .... you will attain spiritual vision and recognise My great love where you still see today the merciless reign of a power which only wants to torture you on earth .... Listen to My repeated call of warning and admonition and don't let it bypass your ears unheeded, let go of your desire for material things, only consider the salvation of your soul and don't worry, for I will also take care of you in an earthly sense if only you seriously take care of your soul, which is in utmost danger because the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Calm before the storm .... Illusion of peace ....

B.D. 6970 from November 16th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

And even if it seems to you as if you are approaching a period of peace, you should not let yourselves be deceived .... it is only the calm before the storm and sooner than you think there will be changes in the face of those who speak of peace but start to throw the torch amongst the nations of this earth. The lull is dangerous for you because you get drowsy and in this state only value your earthly existence .... Therefore, I will continue to disturb people from their tranquillity in order to keep them awake. And thus much more will happen still, time and again people's attention will be drawn to accidents and disasters of all kinds. In addition to the apparent progress and earthly prosperity people will also have to take part in such events where human strength does not suffice to avoid them. They should learn to realise that no-one is safe from such blows of fate, no matter how secure his earthly life appears to be.

Do not be fooled by the world situation which seems to calm down, for they are all deceptive machinations, and you might get a rude awakening if you trust this calm and ignore every caution that points to the end. The change will come suddenly, and then you all should be prepared and thus believe that the turning point will come. You will be able to observe many signs of the last days, but at the same time My adversary will throw sand into your eyes too .... For he does not want you to believe in an end, to take serious stock of yourselves and change. For this reason he also influences his servants to make people believe that they are approaching a new, glorious future in peace and joy. And he succeeds, for people will always rather believe what they can observe themselves than what is proclaimed to them from the spiritual kingdom. In any case, they rather want to believe in a beautiful and happy future for themselves in an earthly sense than in an end of this earth.

But I will not stop warning and cautioning you, for it does not merely concern the few years of your earthly life but it concerns eternity .... And My admonitions will become increasingly more urgent the more an evident 'calm' spreads across the earth .... the more people accept a seemingly peaceful existence and forget their good intentions, which they might perhaps have already taken due to the constant references to the approaching end. By using the world My adversary will once more extend his tentacles to people, and it requires a strong faith not to fall prey to his power.

For this reason I will draw your attention time and again to what still awaits you .... Don't let yourselves be deceived .... My Word is truth and will come to pass, and My Word tells you of an approaching end, which is preceded by a distinct intervention by Me, a natural disaster on an huge scale .... And this catastrophe will surprise the believers of peace, and even then they could still turn around and take the short path until the end in constant striving for perfection ....

But this catastrophe will cost untold human lives .... And how do you know whether you are not amongst them? Whether it is not already too late for you, who live indifferently and with future hope and allowed yourselves to be dazzled by the prince of this world? Therefore you should always remember My Word when you hear about people's sudden death, about misfortunes and all kinds of human suffering. I thereby want to remind you all of a sudden end, I want to turn your attention to the Power Which can destroy everything you fabricate, and Which can ruin all your plans .... Unite yourselves more with this Power .... find the path to Me, entrust yourselves to Me and appeal to Me for right guidance, for protection and mercy, and believe that there is only peace in unity with Me .... that you will be deceived when earthly peace is promised to you. For humanity no longer lives such that it can have a peaceful earthly existence, it no longer strives for spiritual development and therefore has also lost the right to live on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Serious wake-up call ....

B.D. 5397 from May 22nd 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You don't have much time left .... Time and again I have to say this to you for you don't take My Words seriously, you are living in the midst of the world and cannot believe that everything around you will cease to exist one day and that only that will remain which is everlasting .... your soul. Time and again I want to admonish you to seriously envisage what kind of state your soul will then be in. Time and again I want to warn you against focussing your every thought and intention on acquiring earthly goods, on improving your earthly situation .... it is a futile effort, for you will not keep anything when your time has come, the time when you will either be recalled or when everything around you disintegrates. You really should believe that you are wasting your energy, that you work for nothing, that it is merely temporary prosperity which might still provide you with a few comfortable days of life but which is unfavourable for the soul if you don't consider it first and diligently aim to gain spiritual possessions. You may certainly enjoy a good living standard if you use your earthly possessions correctly, if you share them with those suffering poverty and hardship, if you manage your possessions beneficially, if you regard them as having been received from Me and show your gratitude by practicing active neighbourly love, by alleviating hardship in an earthly and spiritual way and thereby live an exemplary life for your fellow human beings and motivate them to also live a life of love .... Then earthly prosperity will have positive consequences, then your soul will not have to starve, then you are considering your soul first and need not be afraid of the forthcoming events .... But woe to those who only pay attention to their physical life .... it will be taken from them and the poverty they suffer in the spiritual kingdom will be a dreadful burden to them ....

Believe that you are facing immense events, believe that you are only granted a little time longer, make every effort to attain spiritual possessions before it is too late .... Everything you acquire of an earthly nature will be lost to you; take care that you will possess spiritual goods; I seriously admonish you so that you cannot say that you were not informed of that which is irrevocably granted to you .... Don't turn a deaf ear to My advice and warning, they are My loving calls which come to you through a human mouth and intend to protect you from a dreadful fate and which I will repeat in a different way for those earthly children who are unwilling to listen and believe .... My admonishing wake-up call will very soon resound so forcefully that it will make you tremble. I want to speak to you once more through the forces of nature and call to you from above: Wake up, you sleepers .... pluck up courage and stop being feeble .... don't look for worldly pleasures and everything of a transient nature; try to gain My kingdom and consider your true Self .... consider your soul, whose fate in eternity is prepared by yourselves .... Once again I Am telling you: Shortly after this final wake-up call the last Judgment will follow and the disintegration of Earth and the end of everything that lives on it will take place .... That is why you humans are in such great danger, because you don't want to recognise and believe that your end has come or you would yet prepare yourselves and pay no further attention to the world and its commodities .... The time I have granted to you is over and until the very end I will still try to save souls, hence My love constantly calls to people to take stock of themselves, to do penance and to turn back, for I don't want them to go astray .... I only want them to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Man's will .... God's will .... assurance ....

B.D. 3413 from January 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

I intervene in world events at the right time, and I steer them in other directions. But before My will goes into action I give human will free rein to the extreme. I allow what people want to carry out in order to then tangibly instruct them, since gentle instruction completely misses its purpose because people close their ears when they are confronted with the ruinousness of their actions. Thus I do not hinder their will if they resort to means which every right-thinking person must abhor; neither do I hinder the great adversity their will conjures up; nor do I deprive them of the vitality they use to carry out deeds which are worthy of condemnation, but I let them do as they see fit. However, a limit has been set for them which they cannot cross .... And one day their will will not be able to do anything because My will is stronger .... You, My believers, should not indulge in heavy thoughts, you should live every day full of confidence and only ever strive towards My nearness through unselfish activity of love; you should help where your help is needed and thereby make your heart receptive for the strength of love which flows over to you from Me when you need it. For demands will be made of you and in order to be able to fulfil them you must receive grace and strength from Me. Whatever may come is My work, My will and your destiny, which will shape itself as your state of maturity requires. People still rage and everyone tries to increase his strength through unkindness, and this is ruin, for I have to prove their lack of strength to them .... But before that I still bring Myself to their remembrance by letting people get into an adversity that they should call to Me .... Their souls shall seek Me, they shall not call upon Me with their mouths but from the bottom of their hearts they shall appeal to Me for help. Everywhere is hardship and misery, and yet suffering is unable to transform people .... They remain unloving and domineering, and they forcibly seek their supposed right. And where they do not find this, they proceed with brutal means of struggle .... And I allow this .... But the end I determine Myself. I come at the right time and let My voice be heard. And therefore do not be afraid but faithfully wait for My help if it appears as if you are in serious danger .... My father’s eye watches over you who remain united with Me in prayer and loving activity .... I let nothing approach you which could endanger you, and I am constantly with you if you call upon Me. And this is certain, that the hours of adversity will come to an end through Me before you, My believers, are affected by it .... For I have promised you My protection .... But My word is truth and will remain truth forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call to Jesus Christ is salvation .... God's word ....

B.D. 6143 from December 23rd 1954, taken from Book No. 66

No other help can be sent to you from above than My word which warns and admonishes you and points you to the right path and to the one from Whom salvation originates, Who wants to set you free from adversity and suffering but requires your will to do so .... I can only ever call you to come to Me, to Jesus Christ, your saviour and redeemer from every adversity .... I will always listen to your call if you pray to Me in Jesus Christ, for My promise is: Whatever you ask the father in My name He will give you .... And therefore I send you My word so that you will come to realization through the word, so that it will become easy for you to believe in Me as the redeemer of the world, Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ, in order to be able to enter into visible contact with you to accomplish the act of salvation on earth for you. I cannot help you other than through My word .... and you establish the voluntary connection with Me when you receive or listen to My word, and then I can also help you in earthly adversity .... as I have promised you .... But as long as people are completely detached from Me, as long as they don't believe and only have earthly interests, I cannot approach them in the word, and as long as they don't request My help I have to refuse them My help either .... And therefore there is much hardship and misery on earth, for it is obvious that the world is dominated by the adversary .... It is obvious that people can no longer be made to think other than through adversity, and thus they cannot be spared it until they unite with Me, until they accept My word and thereby come to realize why they have to suffer on earth .... I can and always want to help, yet you must approach Me for this and prove to Me through your call to Me that you believe in Me and acknowledge Me as your lord. Then I will also always be ready to help, then the earthly and spiritual adversity will be remedied, for the latter is the cause of the earthly adversity which you feel painfully, whereas you cannot measure the spiritual adversity humanity is experiencing in the last days before the end .... Therefore don't be surprised if you still have to endure much suffering .... don't be surprised but try to remedy it by sincerely joining Me and requesting strength and help in Jesus' name, which will then also be given to you as I have promised you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers