God’s work in the end times

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

4400 - God's love.... radiance.... God’s word....

7866 - People need the truth....

The influence of the opponent on human behavior

6801 - Satan's and the demons' activity during the last days....

8615 - Wrong portrayal of God.... Error....

4916 - Defence of the divine word sign of the end....

2445 - Heartlessness.... The world's battle against the teaching of love....

3603 - Satan knows he doesn't have long time.... devil in the end time....

6948 - Overestimating material goods....

6855 - Pollution of air - water - food....

3300 - Destruction of works of creation and its consequences....

3793 - Course of world events according to the development....

Reasons for God’s intervention in world affairs

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

3361 - Spiritual need.... great earthly sorrow.... prayer....

2785 - Destruction by human will....

3760 - Transience of the earthly.... Distress before the end.....

6518 - Last resort to save before the end....

8656 - God carries out his plan of Salvation....

The intervention of God

2543 - Gift of foresight.... intervention of God....

8379 - 'The powers of heaven shall be shaken....'

8781 - Cosmic changes....

3143 - God's intervention.... The end of the struggle....

3371 - End of the battle.... Spatial separation....

2568 - Divine intervention....

2296 - Divine intervention.... destruction of property....

2901 - Cruelty.... end times.... last judgment....

The consequences of the natural events

7052 - Serious warning about God's intervention and consequences....

4441 - Extent of the work of destruction....

7643 - Natural event and chaos....

8619 - Chaos after the intervention....

3753 - Most difficult time of hardship before the end....

6762 - World event.... Chaos.... Antichrist....

Extraordinary help after the natrural event

7331 - God's exceptional help after the natural disaster....

7049 - Satanic activity.... Countermeasure by embodied beings of light....

6554 - Jesus' forerunner....

The work of Satan in the battle of faith and God’s counteraction through His followers

8734 - Emergence of the Antichrist....

4069 - Doubting God’s existence in the end time....

3958 - Satan's raging during the last days.... Apostasy from faith....

5382 - Rage of satan at the end....

7074 - Unbelief before the end.... Satan's activity....

8847 - Faithlessness in the end time.... confess....

3569 - Battle of faith.... The coming of the Lord....

Jesus’ coming in the clouds and the rapture of the steadfast in faith

3707 - Coming in the clouds.... Last days....

4531 - Coming in the clouds.... Rapture.... End....

6681 - Rapture....

7687 - End and Rapture.... Paradise of the new earth....

New banishment and transformation of the earth

6638 - The concept of 'hell'.... Renewed banishment.... God's infinite love....

8430 - New banishment inevitable for the adversary's followers....

3204 - Total change earthly and spiritually....

4719 - Dissolution of the old earth and resurrection in the moment....

6052 - Last Judgment.... Act of love and righteousness....

3625 - The end is determined by people themselves.... Low level....

God’s means of grace in the end time

3164 - God's means in the end times....

6831 - What are 'means of grace'?....

God’s means of grace – working love and prayer

2750 - Means of grace love and prayer....

6687 - Active in love signs of God's presence....

6321 - Means of grace.... Prayer....

8040 - Bonding with God.... thoughts.... prayer.... work of love....

4495 - Spiritual power supply through prayer and love work....

3750 - Strength and grace in the last days....

7253 - Right use of the life force: working in love....

8249 - Request for God's grace, power and blessing....

3285 - Prayer and deeds of love are weapons against temptations....

7123 - Increased activity of the adversary in the end time....

7631 - The work of satan.... Help through Jesus Christ....

4564 - Stream of grace in the last days before the end....

God’s means of grace – His word and His predictions

7537 - Increased supply of grace before the end....

7652 - Offering the word is special grace....

8494 - Gift of grace before the end.... Jesus Christ....

5367 - God's Word, an inconceivable grace in the last days....

4386 - Power of the word before the end.... need....

6835 - Tireless reminder and warning of the end....

6665 - God's tools in the end time.... false prophets....

7908 - The end time justifies the gifts of grace....

God’s means of grace - suffering

3346 - Warning of the end.... spiritual decline....

3753 - Most difficult time of hardship before the end....

4288 - Increased suffering in the end time.... God's love....

5159 - Notice to the near end.... judgment day....

3135 - Blessings of the last days.... Death before the event.... The beyond....

4459 - Hard struggle and suffering before the end.... safest help God’s word....

God’s means of grace – power of faith and work of the spirit in man

5457 - Wave of awakenings during the last days....

4634 - Power of faith.... obvious help.... last means of grace....

7534 - Work of the spirit in man....

3517 - God's work in man.... power....

5935 - Power of the spirit in the end time....

5284 - Apparently spirit work before the end....

3480 - Willpower of the servants of God.... mission....

4785 - Followers of Jesus.... spreading His teaching.... working of the spirit....

4848 - The work of God's servants in the last days....

3727 - Working miracles in the last days....

5142 - Working miracles in the end time.... false christs and prophets....

6587 - Prophetic gift.... A spiritual gift which demands action....

7032 - The gift of healing the sick....

7407 - Promise of God's protection in the end time....

8434 - Assurance of protection against confusion and hostility....

Use of the time of grace

4527 - Use of grace.... free will.... strengthening of the will....

4962 - Taking advantage of the time of grace before the end....

5729 - Utilizing the time of grace before the end....

God’s help in the need of the end time

6340 - Means of grace.... Walking with God....

7626 - Increased work of God in the end time....

8024 - Work of God and the adversary in the last days....

4354 - Leadership of God.... demons in the end time....

4549 - Spreading error in the end time.... God's counteraction....

5289 - Unusual aids in the end time....

4080 - God's love and mercy in the last time before the end....

7041 - God's merciful help to the end....

5020 - Devils in the end time.... protection of God....

3340 - Shortening the end time....

4600 - Keep My word!.... remember the end!....

6524 - Earthly work and toil before the end....

8549 - Gathering strength ahead of the chaos....

God's love .... radiance .... God’s word ....

B.D. 4400 from August 9th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You are children of My love who got lost to Me, who became unfaithful to Me and thereby gave up their right of childship. And as a result you have fallen into adversity, adversity which shall drive you to Me again. For you have to do without My love and cannot be blissfully happy without My love because you have lost your strength and power and are therefore weak, miserable creatures in need of strength. But I love you nevertheless and want to make you My children again, I want to win you back so that My fatherly love can take effect on you. And I will not deviate from My plan, even if eternal times should pass over it, for My love for you is exceedingly great and cannot eternally decrease. This has to be said before the following so that you understand the situations a person sometimes has to get into in order to return to Me completely again .... My love was spurned by the being which was the product of My love, and consequently I could no longer transfer strength to the being. But without the transfer of strength it lacks all realization, it is without wisdom, without knowledge, and consequently cannot carry out any right activity, and thus it cannot redeem itself either. And it would be eternally banished from My proximity because it would not be able to bear My light radiation .... (9.8.1948) Everything that contributes to My emanation of love having an effect on the being is determined by destiny, i.e. the human being's whole course of life unfolds in such a way that My guidance is always evident, that the human being, if he wants to, can therefore recognize the guiding strength which proves My existence to him. Now it can certainly be assumed that the individual's life takes place according to law, that the individual events and circumstances of the human being repeat themselves naturally and approach the individual in a certain order, that therefore an intervention and guidance of a deity can be doubted or that it is a thought developed by the human being himself that a controller of the universe is involved. And therefore another sign has to be offered to the human being from Me so that every doubt is stifled. Such a sign or speaking evidence of My existence is My word through which I reveal Myself to the human being, which cannot be denied. This sign reveals a being capable of thinking, which expresses Itself to Its creatures. Once the connection of a creature with its creator is obvious to the former, then the individual's fate in life cannot be regarded as coincidence either, then a planned unwinding of the individual's life must be far more credible, otherwise all order could be overturned, for where My spirit and My will do not prevail everything will fall into chaos, and thus people would also soon distance themselves from all regularity and sink into chaos in a short time, there would be no ups and downs of life's destiny but only a perpetual downward drift, nothing would dissolve and change but only worsen, whereas I, as the controller of destiny, will again and again take care that the human being, after a low, will also reach bright heights again and will always be able to recognize Me Myself again, especially when he listens to My word and compares it to his earthly course of life, which will then become explainable to him in connection with My word and prove My guiding fatherly hand .... I want to win you humans back as children of My love, you shall recognize My love for you, love Me again and strive towards Me of your own free will .... And therefore you must have the opportunity to recognize Me and My working, which can only ever happen in daily life but which only affects you when it does not pass you by monotonously but also brings you inner shocks of all kinds. Then you look for a guide and entrust yourselves to Him. Then you seek Me and I let Myself be found .... And thus I regain what was once lost in order to never let it fall again, because it is closely united with Me and will never voluntarily separate from Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People need the truth ....

B.D. 7866 from April 8th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

The transmission of the pure gospel to earth has become urgently necessary, and therefore I chose an instrument for Myself which is active in My will, because it completely subordinates its will to Mine and serves Me as a suitable vessel into which I can let My flow of love flow .... For My flow of love is 'My word' .... It is My gospel which I proclaim again in all purity as I did on earth .... but which has not been preserved so purely and therefore always needs correction from My side if you humans want to speak of 'My word' .... You church Christians do not want to believe that the pure word of God is no longer offered to you. You undoubtedly accept everything as 'My word' but serious reflection would reveal many contradictions, you would certainly not recognize Me Myself in this word which has been distorted by people, so that you have long since ceased to live in truth and are therefore also in danger of not reaching the aim which has been set for you in earthly life, because only truth guarantees you this aim. But again and again I therefore want to convey the pure truth to you, and you need only accept it in order to safely take the path of ascent, the aim of which is Me Myself, with Whom you should unite .... And thus I offer you the truth Myself which will enable you to attain beatitude. And you humans should listen to what is conveyed to you through an instrument chosen by Me Myself, what is brought to you as My true gospel, so that you will walk the path of truth. If I call upon you to do so, I nevertheless want you to examine everything, that you don't accept anything thoughtlessly, for it shall become your own spiritual knowledge, and this requires a serious opinion, an examination in the will to only accept the right spiritual knowledge which corresponds to the truth. And then your thinking will truly also be enlightened, you will feel what you are allowed to accept, for the truth will beneficially touch your soul, whereas every error leaves the soul unimpressed, i.e., it will not result in spiritual progress for you. For you can truly believe that I want to convey the truth to you and that this is also possible if I find a heart which is willing to serve, which completely submits to Me and My will, which desires the truth itself and allows My spirit to work within itself. For it is the end time and it has become urgently necessary that the pure truth is presented to people .... It has become urgently necessary that I Myself take care of those who desire the truth, it has become urgently necessary that the many errors are denounced which are also spread where people believe they are 'serving Me' .... Although every person could recognize for himself the errors which have crept in where truth is allegedly proclaimed .... For as soon as people lived in accordance with My divine commandment of love they would also be of enlightened spirit, i.e. their thinking would be correctly directed and they would reject all misguided teachings; yet they pay too little attention to My commandments of love and therefore do not realize that they are being wrongly guided. And therefore they have to hear My divine teaching of love anew, they have to be given the gospel anew which only ever contains this teaching of love, because love is everything .... because without love the human being cannot live in truth and because without love he can never reach his final aim: the union with Me, Who am eternal love Itself .... And thus don't be surprised when I address you humans and send you My disciples again .... don't be surprised when I convey 'My word' to you in all purity, for this word is necessary if it is to become light in you, because only truth is light which originates from Me and leads back to Me again .... because only truth shows you the right path which leads to light and beatitude ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The influence of the opponent on human behavior

Satan's and the demons' activity during the last days ....

B.D. 6801 from April 8th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

All demons will be unleashed during the last days of the end; hell will spat out its most evil spirits and the prince of darkness will transfer his thoughts onto them to act destructively amongst people on earth. And you humans will be living in the midst of his domain and will be in constant danger of being devoured by hell and its forces .... But they cannot compel you .... as yet it is still up to you to let them be victorious or to defend yourselves against their onslaughts and you will truly not be at their mercy because the good spiritual world will also stand by your side, it will merely wait for your call in order to be able to help you. All hell will have broken loose and God's adversary will know that he won't have much time left and will really make every possible use of this final time of his. And many hellish forces will take possession of people if they don't resist them, if they themselves delight in the conduct by the evil world. The demons will try to take control of their own kind, they will take possession of their body and then commit truly evil things, and that alone is a sure sign of the end .... For only too often they will have an easy game, people will follow their suggestions only too willingly and scrupulously accomplish what the former demand of them. The prince of darkness will have truly gained great power over people, and therefore his activity will become ever more obvious, after all, he believes himself able to win the final battle against God. Consequently he will not leave any stone unturned in order to incite people against God, he will not even shy away from assailing those who want to work for God, he will use his accomplices to cause them grief with the intention to destroy their faith in God and he will try to extinguish any light coming forth from God .... His arrogance will know no bounds and thus he will exalt himself above God to an extent that it will result in a speedy end to his activity.

However, people will be drawn into this battle and should prove themselves therein. For they will not be without knowledge about God's love and power and will be able to call upon Him for protection and help in every adversity, which then will definitely be granted to them. Thus no human being will need to be afraid of this coming adversity and pressure on part of the dark world, because the path to God is open for everyone and no person can be prevented from taking it. The demonic activity is also easily distinguishable by every individual and would be able to make them think. And, thus, these forces will fight in vain wherever people are of good will, because they are on God's side and the world of light will form a wall around them. You humans should indeed be careful and always on your guard but you need not be fearful, for your resolve will banish the danger or defend against it .... And therefore the direction of your will depends entirely on you. Every look you take into the adversary's realm is noticed by his vassals who constantly entice you ever deeper into their domain. This is why great care is required but all those who have the serious will to resist them are also guaranteed to receive strength. You can certainly be tempted but not be forced .... Nevertheless it will be and remain a fight for those of you who want to remain faithful to God, which will last until the end. You will be able to survive it and emerge victorious, for you can expect as much protection and help from God's side as His adversary can gain influence over you, and you decide for yourselves to whom you concede more right. However, the activity of hell and its forces will be recognisable everywhere, and people more than ever will give way and hand themselves over to them. And therefore the time will come when God Himself will put a stop to His adversary's activity and put him and his followers into chains, so that there will be peace again amongst people of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Wrong portrayal of God .... Error ....

B.D. 8615 from September 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Many misconceptions are widespread in the world and people do nothing in order to gain the pure truth, they are indifferent towards everything which is, after all, the most important thing in earthly life: to inform themselves about the spiritual kingdom, about their God and Creator and His will .... And even though I mentally influence them time and again, the truth cannot penetrate the error since, due to the misconception, I cannot be recognised as a supremely perfect Being, and I Am usually portrayed to people as a punishing Judge, as a God of wrath, who merely has vengeance in store for everyone because they are sinful. As a result, they don't strive for such a God either and a distance remains between Me and the human race which should, in fact, be reduced in earthly life and finally completely disappear. And everything I send upon the human race through providence to make them think and turn to Me is more likely to be regarded as evidence that no God exists, for they are unable to reconcile a God of love with the fact that people must suffer. They are unable to recognise Him because they are instructed entirely wrongly, because they don't know the reason for their human existence and the purpose of their life on earth as human beings. They could certainly be taught correctly but they won't accept anything because they still harbour an inner resistance against Me as long as they don't practise love .... Love, however, has grown cold, people are governed by selfish love and therefore by the one who instilled this love in them, who is and will continue to be My adversary for an infinitely long time. Consequently, only error will come forth from him, whereas I will convey the truth to people .... Yet the human being always determines for himself as to whether he accepts error or truth .... neither My adversary nor I will exert force on him. But because of the human being's immature nature My adversary will be far more successful, particularly during the last days before the end, when error will dominate and the truth will only be accepted by a few people. For many schools of thoughts and ecclesiastical organisations openly endorse the error as truth .... whilst the followers of the truth will only be those people whose will is seriously inclined towards their God and Creator and who, as a result of this will, enter into contact with Me and receive the truth from Me Myself. As long as people still doubt My greater than great love, wisdom and might, they will not know the truth as yet.

Thus, misguided teachings originate from My adversary and he will always portray My nature in a distorted way in order to prevent people from loving Me .... He will describe Me to people as a being which must be feared, and they will never strive for and hand themselves over to such a being. But all I want is My living creations' love, therefore I must convey the pure truth to them, in which they can also recognise Me as a supremely perfect Being Whom they will then love in return. Error leads people into completely wrong thinking .... For it is a most blatant error if they are told that I demand practices and rituals from them, that they can thereby acquire beatitude, because people are never assessed by Me according to their fulfilment of earthly decreed commandments, instead, only love is of value before My eyes. And this love, which I Myself taught when I lived on earth, is certainly taught as well but it is not emphasised as so important, or those who believe that they live according to My will would practise it more. For countless people conscientiously comply with their religious duties and yet live a life without love .... This should make all of you think, the fact that these people are subject to great misconception against which the truth can hardly prevail, for they will not let go of their error which they could, however, recognise as error if they first fulfilled the commandments of love, for then they would become enlightened, because love would kindle a light in them. However, were these commandments of Mine fulfilled first and foremost, there would truly not be so much misery in the world, as can be recognised by every person, no hatred and enmity would exist between nations, it would be calm and peaceful, because this is the result of a life of love .... Instead, the whole world is in turmoil and clearly controlled by Satan which, in turn, is the evidence that the error is spread throughout the whole world and that the truth finds little acceptance with people, for the error is officially acknowledged and endorsed as truth .... Only love alone incorporates truth, everything else which is endorsed as being important yet does not include love can only be error, because it comes from My adversary who will always keep people from loving activity so that they will not recognise the truth, so that they will be unable to recognise Me Myself and offer Me love, which simultaneously signifies their release from him. Believe it, you humans, that spiritual darkness is spread across you, that your thinking was led astray, and accept the pure truth when it is offered to you by My messengers, as they impart spiritual knowledge to you which originated from Me Myself and which will kindle a bright light in you, because in the truth you will recognise Me and My nature and the love, which unites you with Me again, will flare up in you. Just test everything that is given to you as truth as to whether it will stimulate you to be lovingly active, and accept that .... But don't waste your time with external practices and rituals which cannot be regarded as loving activity and which are therefore also completely worthless for your soul, for I take no notice of such conduct, I only take notice of what love impels you to do, for this alone benefits your soul for eternity .... Just contemplate the state of the world, how all of people's intentions and thoughts are purely concerned with earthly possessions. But the only purpose for your existence on earth is to prepare yourselves for the spiritual kingdom .... Hence your thinking must be going in the wrong direction, and this is My adversary's doing. And therefore, as long as you live wrongly, your thinking is misguided; you are far removed from the truth .... consequently, I will try to convey the truth to you time and again .... and blessed it he who accepts it when it is offered to him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Defence of the divine word sign of the end ....

B.D. 4916 from June 17th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The most unmistakable sign of the approaching end is people's lack of openness towards My word, which is offered to them in purest form. For everything divine is pulled down or rejected as soon as the human being stands in opposition to it, as soon as he is inclined towards devilish forces, which is why he neither recognizes a deity nor feels beneficially touched by what emanates from this deity. A person addicted to the adversary cannot feel My love because he rejects it; and therefore this person cannot recognize My word as a gift of grace from a benevolent, perfect being. And if you look around you in the world, if you lovingly offer them My gift of grace, the all-round rejection of My word will have to give you pause for thought, for you can only conclude from it people's spiritual state who, in their distance from God, no longer recognize anything that comes from Me. But such a spiritual state causes an end to that which was originally intended to bring people into a high degree of maturity .... it causes the dissolution of earth, which was created by Me as a maturing station for the spiritual and now no longer fulfils its purpose. Anyone who is attentive must notice an obvious flattening amongst humanity, a complete lack of interest in questions concerning eternity, the outcome and aim of the human being and the rule and activity of a creator. Only rarely do such questions move a person, and it is only these few who live according to their destiny and thus now also recognize and strive towards Me. But the majority will become unwilling if only such questions are mentioned, and the closer the end comes the more obvious people's wrong attitude towards Me, their God and creator of eternity, as well as their love for that which belongs to the world, thus is part of My adversary. And people will increasingly succumb to his desire and influence, their way of life will increasingly contradict My will, and unkindness and hatred will prevail where love for the neighbour is to be practiced. The enmity on the part of My adversary's followers against the few who want to belong to Me and do not comply with their desire will become ever greater. Believing people will never be hostile towards each other but they will stick together the closer the end is because they will be strongly harassed by the followers of the world who are under the adversary's influence and want to tear Me out of their hearts. Don't be deceived by your environment which wants to win you over under a false mask .... Offer them My word and you will recognize their true spirit, for where I Myself confront them in the form of My word they rebel against Me, thus they reject Me .... they ridicule and blaspheme you who follow Me and stand up for Me and My word. And then you will also know that the time of the end has come, for satan will proceed against you with all cunning and power by trying to oust Me from your hearts in order to win his game. But anyone who has My word will recognize his false game and be of a watchful heart; he will draw the strength to resist from My word, whereas My adversary will certainly also provide his followers with strength but only ever to commit evil deeds in order to ruin them for ever .... until I Myself put an end to his doings and put him in fetters .... until the last day has come and with it the last judgement ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Heartlessness .... The world's battle against the teaching of love ....

B.D. 2445 from August 10th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Humanity's conduct cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Christ, for this requires actions of love, people's relationships with each other should be like that of brothers. But at the present time all people face each other with hostility, outwardly often united yet in their hearts only ever bearing their own advantage in mind and regarding their fellow human being as an opponent, because they either feel harmed or disadvantaged by him. The human race is completely devoid of love and therefore also opposed to Christianity, opposed to the divine teaching of love, which it no longer wants to comply with. For it requires effort to practise love, it requires a separation from material things, a shelving of one's own wishes and cravings; it signifies a sacrifice of that which is dear to a person .... Selfish love must be fought against; the human being must educate himself to become modest to enable him to help his fellow human being by giving to him what he gives up. This sacrifice can only be made out of love and therefore love must be practised .... Yet only rarely will a person make this sacrifice for his fellow human beings .... Each person only thinks of himself, this is why he finds the teaching of Christ inconvenient and supports people's intentions to eradicate it .... Where heartlessness exists, the battle against the divine teaching of love will be waged without hesitation. And this heartlessness is widespread throughout the world, people outdo each other with brutalities they inflict upon their fellow human beings, and thus the whole world can be held responsible for the immense world event which purely arose from humanity's heartlessness and which results in ever greater cruelty and must therefore be described as the activity of hell, as the activity of demonic forces. And yet, people do not recognise their low spiritual level. They only look at the purely external consequences of the world event and not at the spiritual state of those whose great heartlessness also incites their fellow human beings to act with unkindness. And as long as this deplorable state of affairs is not recognised, it cannot be remedied either; as long as the human being does not recognise heartlessness as the greatest evil he will not make any effort to live a life of love, i.e., he will not treat his fellow human being with kindness .... And neither will he approve of Christ's teaching, he will reject it, because his compliance with it will not gain him any earthly advantage. However, he will also act accordingly .... love will be pushed aside again and only result in greater heartlessness .... One person will endeavour to destroy the other without inhibition, he will no longer be able to distinguish between right and wrong and thus exceed himself in bitterness and cruelty, and all love will grow cold, lowering the spiritual level to the extreme, and a world without love cannot survive, it is doomed to destruction and with it everything which does not strive to redeem itself through love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satan knows he doesn't have long time .... devil in the end time ....

B.D. 3603 from November 15th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

The gates of hell open wider as the end draws nearer .... All the forces of darkness unfold and assail people, and the prince of the underworld has great power. He sees himself at the end of his time and still seeks to exploit it in every way. And people in their weakness of will do not stop him, but they are willing servants whom he determines to act contrary to God in order to separate them from God forever. The prince of the underworld knows that he does not have much time left .... His power will be irrevocably broken when the end of this earth has come .... And by the raging of satan it can be seen that the end is no longer far away. The most cruel events are becoming more frequent, deeds are being carried out which no-one previously thought possible, people will shy away from nothing and they themselves no longer recognize the depths they are in, the depths they have been drawn into by a power which is outside of all divine order, which is completely devoid of love and which also stifles every spark of love in people's hearts, which spills every little flame which still glows in secret. It is a time of boundless hatred and the most blatant lack of love, people no longer live like brothers amongst each other but they are hostile to each other in every way, and only a few stick together and do not allow themselves to be spiritually raped, i.e. they defend themselves against satan’s assaults and take refuge in God, asking Him for help against the enemy of their souls. And love is not yet suffocated in them, and their actions correspond to God's commandments, and therefore they will be particularly harassed by the enemy of their souls in the last days, namely by their fellow human beings who carry out the will of the one who wants to corrupt them .... Hell has opened its gates .... Countless devils pass through and come close to earth, spreading their poisonous breath on it and using it according to their lord's will. And they are willingly accepted, people themselves give them room to manoeuvre, they not only tolerate them in their vicinity but they voluntarily tread off the ground for them in which they can spread evil seed and completely poison it .... they open their hearts and do not resist those who seek to corrupt them. And if a servant of the lord comes to warn people against those forces of the underworld, to admonish them to close the doors and only allow the God of love to enter, they will be turned away from the door unheeded, their words will be disregarded and the prince of the underworld will be victorious. And this alone through the will of the people, who are free and can determine over themselves .... And the end draws ever nearer. God's language will still be heard urgently before but will also only receive little attention because people are already too much under the spell of him who seeks to draw them down into the kingdom of darkness. And the light which at the same time shines brightly from above down to earth will not be heeded .... And therefore there is no longer any stopping, the redemption period will come to an end in order to be replaced by a new era; satan will be bound and deprived of all strength and with him all spiritual beings which are in bondage to him, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Overestimating material goods ....

B.D. 6948 from October 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You seek to gain from life everything it offers you; you strive for the goods of this world with all your senses, you increase your possessions and eagerly collect earthly treasures. You do not even think about how worthless all that you desire is .... You do not think about what matter is in the first place and in what relationship you already stand to it. Material goods should indeed serve you, you can make them serve you, but you must not let yourselves be dominated by them .... And this is what you do when your thoughts and aspirations are exclusively directed towards the acquisition of material goods. Then you have already become the slave of matter or also the slave of him whose domain is the material world. For all matter is spiritual that once fell away from God, which hardened itself through its resistance to God and is now forced by God's will into a serving function in order to emerge again from the hardened state .... But the human being was once the same which, after an infinitely long time, worked its way up again through involuntary service, that it was allowed to shed the material coverings and has now regained freedom again to a certain extent in order to now also become free from its last material cover through a right relationship with God and also towards matter, which it has therefore overcome. He should help matter to serve, but he must not let himself be dominated by it. But the behaviour of people proves the latter .... The addiction to matter has become excessive, people only live with this aim in mind, that is, to acquire what the world offers them, and the joy of possession is an open devotion to that from which their earthly task is to detach themselves. For he who desires the world with its goods has no desire for the kingdom that is not of this world. For anyone who desires the world remembers little or nothing of his God and creator, he is not in the right relationship with Him, he is not the 'child' who seeks his 'father' .... He still has much fellowship with the one who is lord of the material world and strives to return to him, from whose power God had already helped him so far through his walk through creation that it is easy for him to completely detach himself from him on earth. But man can never accomplish this release if he does not first free himself from the desire for these material goods. Only when he learns to despise them, when he no longer attaches more value to them than that they serve him according to divine order, only when spiritual goods are worth striving for can he accept the latter and thus accomplish the change from this world to the spiritual kingdom, and only then will he succeed in complete detachment from the lord of this world. And everyone could do this if only he would consider the worthlessness of earthly goods, if only he would think about the value of even the most desirable things in this world at the hour of his death, which he cannot determine himself but which can be granted to him on any day. Man lives and therefore thinks only of life, but not of death, which is insecure for him .... and he shakes off every thought of it unwillingly .... And yet he knows that he cannot take anything into the kingdom of the beyond that he has acquired in earthly life .... Yet he allows himself to be dominated by the thought of making his earthly life as beautiful as possible, and again and again he is influenced by God's adversary in this sense, so that his greed for material goods will always increase because one tries to outdo the other and no-one thinks of how poor he really is and in what hardship he will cross over into the spiritual kingdom when his hour has come. But no human being can acquire earthly and spiritual goods together. Only he will be richly blessed at the end of his earthly life who has become master of the goods of this world, who has only sought to gather spiritual treasures that will last for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Pollution of air - water - food ....

B.D. 6855 from June 23rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Every human being may expect from you what you expect from him. You should give justice to everyone just as you demand the same from them. You should not apply different sets of standards and believe that you have greater rights than your fellow human being in those instances where you are beneficiaries of what has freely been bestowed upon you by Me .... what you have not acquired yourselves but what is at the disposal of all people equally .... meaning those spiritual and earthly riches which My love and My creative will always place at your disposal.

This includes all gifts which you receive from My hand .... which you cannot produce yourselves, which are present without your involvement and which contribute towards your continued existence .... which are necessary for your natural life and which may not be taken away from any human being if his life should not be endangered. These are the life preserving elements to which every human being is entitled and which may not be taken away from him by other people or the offence against My eternal order has far reaching consequences which not only affects the guilty people but also the creations and can even result in their termination.

You will understand this by merely asking yourselves what elements of life you require and imagine their diversity .... when you experience air and water and their composites and effect on yourselves, which give the human being complete health but which can also result in illness and destruction of the body's organs when, due to human will, contamination of air and water occurs that causes incalculable damage .... And the sinfulness of people already shows itself in the fact that they are not afraid to pollute these particularly important life preserving elements such that it brings about life threatening damage to their fellow human beings .... And just as every human being holds his own life dear he sins when he reduces his fellow human being's most essential necessities of life, when he plays a part in jeopardizing the life of other people .... In addition, 'endangering life' also includes when the soil, which produces nourishment for human and animal life, becomes deprived of its natural quality; when, by the use of artificial agents, the designated land for cultivation takes on a different quality, the products of which now also contain substances that are by no means beneficial for the human body. Human beings are interfering with natural law, what's more, they want to improve, that is, they portray My creations as imperfect, they want to increase the soil's yield and are using the wrong methods for that .... since they need only ask for My blessing to achieve truly blessed harvests as well ....

Another sin in this respect is the harvesting of fruit before it has ripened .... when, because of greed and materialistic thought, harvesting takes place in advance of the natural process of ripening and when, as a result, the human body is forced to fight against as yet immature substances .... which is not a merely physical but also a spiritual matter which is frequently unknown to you. But all this is integral to the disregard of My law of eternal order. The human being damages his fellow human, he does not treat him fairly and he contributes towards the steady increase of chaos on earth because only an earthly life lived within lawful order can have the right effect for body and soul.

Every human being has the right to have the order of nature upheld because I made creation for the whole of humanity and not just for one human being. Every person requires clean air, clean water and good food for his physical life and no human being is entitled to cause harm to another that he wouldn't want to be caused to himself.

But during the last period before the end there is no more consideration for the life of other people, all kinds of unscrupulous experiments take place, and always just because of ambition, greed or hunger for power, which endangers all healthy life. Thus he who wants to destroy all living creations to release the constrained spirit within in the mistaken assumption that it will then belong to him again, is triumphant .... All people who act in opposition to divine order have handed themselves over to him, they follow his suggestions and ignore My commandments which require love and justice ....

Everyone just thinks of himself and his own advantage, and the fate of other people leaves him untouched. The life of his fellow human being is no longer sacred to him, otherwise it couldn't come to what is to be expected with certainty: that the life of all human beings will be gambled with because the divine laws of nature will be overthrown .... because one day the elements will forcefully break through. Human beings themselves will be the cause of this because they sin against divine order, against My commandment to love God and their fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Destruction of works of creation and its consequences ....

B.D. 3300 from October 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Everything visible to your eyes testifies to God’s love, it was created to help the fallen substance, to elevate it from its sunken state again, and therefore every work of creation should be seen as an emanation of divine love and be respected and valued accordingly. None of God’s creations may be wilfully destroyed, for then its function, its intended purpose, will be prevented. And neither may human work be destroyed which also has a function .... the function to be helpful. For every work of creation that originated from God’s will was given this function, otherwise it could not result in higher development of the substance. And human creations are also assessed in relation to their function .... As long as they have the task of being useful, as long as they somehow serve other people or even other creations, they contribute towards the development of the substance and fulfil their purpose.

To destroy such creations results in the interruption of the spirit’s progress of development and can never be justified before God .... as in fact all destruction of matter has to be motivated by love to be justifiable before God .... Consequently, if destruction takes place for the purpose of producing objects which are helpful to people, which serve a useful purpose, the destruction is justified for the love of other people. However, any other destruction is sacrilege .... sacrilege against other people and against God, Whose power created things which truly have another purpose than to fall victim to the human will of destruction .... And this sacrilege avenges itself badly ....

When the driving force of hatred and unkindness between people destroys matter then people also have to pay for it .... materially, because they lose things that had fulfilled a useful purpose, as well as spiritually, and the latter in a particularly painful way .... Because spirit has been freed against its will and before its time, and this spirit disturbs all substances in its environment but especially the human being by permanently appearing before his soul’s eyes, that is, by constantly occupying his thoughts with the lost objects. This is extremely harmful to the soul since it inhibits its development. It is held back from spiritual aspiration, its senses are constantly directed towards material things and therefore the creations can quietly torment a human being when they are unavailable to him, when they fall prey to the human will of destruction.

Every work of creation by God, or by a human being who just wants to work constructively, should be respected. The destructive principle denotes the actions of God’s opponent .... And at this moment in time he is raging in the world .... He induces people to God-opposing behaviour against His creations, he has awakened the destructive urge in people because they lack love and no longer understand the meaning and purpose of creation. And this shall result in serious consequences. God will counteract the human work of destruction, which is the influence of the evil power, with a far greater work of destruction but which is entirely warranted in God’ love ....

He shall liberate the spirit which is willing to walk the way of service on earth from endless long captivity .... He shall release the solid matter so that the human destructive will is stopped and human beings learn to see earthly creations for what they are: means for development as long as they can exercise their useful function. This divine destructive action will affect people even far more seriously; however, this is necessary so that they return to the right way of thinking, that they respect and appreciate every work of creation, that they understand its function and once again occupy themselves constructively. Because this and only this is divine order: that everything in existence shall progress and that every human work of creation shall also be a guarantee for the development of spirit as long as it fulfils its useful purpose, as long as the human will to be of help has produced it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Course of world events according to the development ....

B.D. 3793 from June 7th 1946, taken from Book No. 48

World events are also taking their course in accordance with spiritual development, and thus chaos will also become ever greater because humanity is constantly regressing in its development. For it is increasingly moving away from the pole of love and striving towards the opposite pole, which is completely devoid of love. And this has to have an earthly effect in complete confusion, in complete disorder and therefore in an unbearable existence for people, in earthly hardship, in lack of realisation, error, wrong thinking and acting and finally in complete downfall, because nothing can exist forever in such disorder. And thus humanity is drifting towards its spiritual and physical downfall, and that is the end .... Where an upward development is still taking place the state of disorder will not be found to the same extent, yet the life of the individual is also adapted to the general state on earth, it is only more bearable because he keeps faith with God and makes use of His help. From a worldly point of view, however, one event follows the other, always corresponding to people's degree of development, and since this development therefore proceeds regressively, ever greater heartlessness follows one another, i.e., earthly measures and decrees conjure up ever more disaster for people, the suffering and hardship becomes ever greater, for humanity lives without God and can therefore only carry out those plans which God's adversary submits to it. And therefore, no worldly improvement can be expected, for where an improvement is striven for love must prevail, but this has grown cold and unkindness only gives birth to things which are contrary to God. And where an improvement is evident, it is only at the expense of fellow human beings, who are plunged into increased distress as a result. Satan's activities in the last days are openly visible and recognisable to anyone who wants to recognise .... And the time is drawing ever closer when his power will be broken for a long time. Before that, however, God grants him complete freedom, for people's will is inclined towards him and increases his power on earth himself. And only those people who strive towards God in free will can withdraw from his power because they are permeated by God's strength and clearly recognise the working of God's opposing power. Yet through world events all people can also recognise the one who is without love, and with serious will they can free themselves from him .... For God has placed the law of love in everyone's heart and given people the intellect to clearly recognise when this divine law is being sinned against ....

And therefore He also allows the great world events to unfold such that they can open people's eyes if they want to see .... And it is up to them to decide for themselves whether to profess good or bad .... to carry out works of love or deeds of unkindness. His earthly life will also move more or less in order and the degree of his realisation will be accordingly. And even the final end will not come as a surprise to him if he pays attention to the signs and world events, which will take their course in accordance with humanity's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Reasons for God’s intervention in world affairs

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual need .... great earthly sorrow .... prayer ....

B.D. 3361 from December 9th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

There is great spiritual hardship on earth and My love is unable to banish it, for people's will resists My help. It is an unparalleled chaos and yet humanity cannot find its way back to Me because it has already distanced itself too far and no longer recognizes Me. It has no faith, it lives without love and therefore also without recognizing the truth. People live and yet are spiritually dead, they use their intellect and will wrongly, they ponder and research, they think and act but without consulting Me, they are completely ignorant of My will because they don't listen to My word when I bring it to them. They don't let themselves be taught by Me but listen to those who are ignorant themselves; they are incapable of hearing My voice themselves because they lack love and their spirit remains unawakened. And yet, they believe to stand in truth or they are satisfied with what they were commanded out of tradition. And I cannot bring them help because they do not accept it. And the hardship will increase, people will no longer know where to turn and they will lack all strength to endure the coming difficult time. For the spiritual hardship can only be remedied through physical hardship, through earthly tribulation and suffering of an extraordinary kind .... the latter is intended to make them turn to Me in search of help so that I can assist them, yet I have to possess their will first .... The will, however, will only become compliant when the human being no longer has any earthly hope, when he realizes that there is no way out for him and that he is hopelessly lost unless help comes to him from above .... Faith must be born out of this adversity .... when everything around the human being breaks down, when only life is desirable to him; then he calls to the one Who gave him life .... then he gives up all resistance and bows before the lord and creator, and then he prays .... And this is how far I have to lead people, in spite of My love .... precisely because I love them .... I must intensify the hardship if they cannot be won any other way, I must keep Myself hidden from them beforehand so that I can then reveal Myself to them .... I must let them sink if they do not take hold of My hand which wants to bring them salvation .... I must seemingly act mercilessly because they do not submit to My love. And yet, My love is constantly active and concerned about their salvation. And therefore I always send My messengers to those who are in spiritual hardship, who want to escape the chaos and are unable to do so on their own. For they are too weak because they don't believe and therefore don't ask for strength either. But they have to gain faith themselves by letting their intellect become active and thinking in striving for the pure truth .... Then I will reveal Myself to them and they will also recognize Me as soon as they show Me love, which they demonstrate through unselfish neighbourly love .... For I have mercy on everyone who is of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Transience of the earthly .... Distress before the end .....

B.D. 3760 from May 4th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Everything earthly is transient .... But why do you attach so much value to the transient while you disregard the imperishable, your soul? Although the immortality of the soul cannot be proven to you, you can recognise the transience of all earthly things with every day and hour, and from this realisation adjust your striving to be less earthly. And the less you now desire earthly things, the more insightful you will become with regard to the soul and its goal and purpose. This is why the transience of earthly things will be brought so closely before your eyes in order to free you from the cravings for them, so that the life of the soul will then receive more attention and you will attain realisation. It is true that the body constantly has its needs as long as it lives, and these must be taken into account by the human being fulfilling his earthly task, by fulfilling the duties which earthly life demands of him, by constantly being active. Yet he should come to the realisation that earthly life was given to him in order to achieve a goal on earth and try to fathom this goal .... He should not seek it in earthly wealth, which is why the transience of this is constantly brought to his attention. Anyone who is serious about fathoming his purpose in life will soon come to the right realisation, for God gave him the intellect for this purpose, the ability to think about himself and everything he can see around him. And the serious will to find the right enlightenment about this will also ensure his success, he will think correctly and truly and recognise the life of the soul, which is immortal, as the most important thing and strive for it on earth so that he acquires eternal life for the soul. The realisation of the vanity of earthly possessions must dissuade him from striving too eagerly for them, but faith in the soul's continued life must spur him on to strive most eagerly for spiritual possessions. And that is the purpose of the coming great destruction through God's will, which is still ahead of people, so that they seriously reflect on their soul and are ever more clearly made aware of the futility of striving for earthly possessions. These are still valued far too highly despite the great earthly hardship, and as long as the soul is in danger of being completely secularised God resorts to painful means in order to help them .... He takes everything from people because they are not willing to give it up voluntarily, because they put it before the soul's needs and thus completely disregard the purpose of their earthly life. It is a last admonition and warning, a last means before the end, which is certainly very painful but can be all the more salutary if the human being wants to understand God's language and takes it to heart. The time until the end is only short but can still be very valuable for the soul as soon as the human being puts earthly worries to one side and diligently cares for the soul by now seriously striving for spiritual possessions, for possessions which are everlasting and give life to the soul in the spiritual kingdom once it departs from this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Last resort to save before the end ....

B.D. 6518 from April 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Your existence on this earth will not last much longer. You humans will no longer be able to enjoy many more days, for the destiny of the individual will come true, as will that of all humans .... Earthly existence will come to an end in not much longer time .... And this must also be an explanation for unusual events, for experiences of a peculiar kind and above all for obvious grants of grace which affect the individual person, which are intended to promote spiritual maturity or to facilitate the path to spirituality for completely earthly-minded people. The short period until the end necessitates unusual activity on the part of God and the world of light, for love seeks to help and save before it is too late. People cannot be spoken to directly, therefore they will be spoken to by fate, and they could easily pay attention to this address and follow it .... Time and again people will be able to make contact with God because He will constantly influence them in a way which, although very painful, will clearly show them the path to Him which they can now take but do not have to take. And it will be clearly revealed whether a grain of faith still lies hidden in the human being, which will now push forward, or whether a God is no longer thought of .... Every human being will somehow be touched and pushed to self-contemplation, which can only ever be achieved by strokes of fate which they, as human beings, cannot cope with. And again, hearts will harden even more and in a completely faithless manner deny everything divine-spiritual, but some will also awaken to life .... Every individual will be touched, but only a few successfully. Often such an obvious activity or intervention of spiritual forces will be recognisable so that people could easily find faith in God, yet their eyes are directed only in a worldly manner and therefore they will not accept anything other than worldly things, they do not want a bond with the spiritual kingdom and reject everything that could stimulate them into a change of will. And thus the end approaches with frightening haste .... And it will surprise everyone but find only a few prepared .... But people do not believe what is announced to them, they do not know what lies ahead and cannot be forced to think differently. But all of you should not be surprised that many things will still happen in the time to come which you now still consider impossible .... You should not be surprised that death will still stretch out its hand to many people in your surroundings because you should still be set thinking. Accidents and severe strokes of fate will increase and snatch people from the midst of life, and many of you will be affected by them or will have to take an interest in the fate of fellow human beings .... But everything shall only serve to shake you up, to lead you to self-contemplation, to unite with the One Who alone holds your destiny in His hands. If this is achieved then every adversity will have been a blessing, however painful it was for the individual, but you must always bear in mind that you do not have much time left, that the end will soon have come for all of you and that you should experience this end in a spiritually awakened state, that you at least have established the bond with God, that you can pray to Him in spirit and truth .... God wants to achieve nothing else, He aims at nothing else through the strokes of fate which will affect you humans in abundance because you are still far away from Him Who, however, wants to draw you to Himself .... The end is coming, and before this end He still wants to save all people who do not oppose Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

God carries out his plan of Salvation ....

B.D. 8656 from October 26th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You will never be able to prevent Me from implementing My eternal plan of Salvation. I have indeed said that you will be able to avert much from yourselves through heartfelt prayer, but My plan of Salvation is based on humanity's will which I recognised from the start and thus was also able to appoint the appropriate times when the great transformations will take place, and I will indeed adhere to these times. Due to his heartfelt prayer I can certainly avert occurrences from every individual person, I can guide every individual in a way that he will not be affected by the events which I allow to befall people if I want to achieve My purpose: to continue the process of return, which has come to a standstill .... Yet I have always predicted exceptional events to you, and these predictions will indeed fulfil themselves since they must fulfil themselves if the divine order is to be restored again. And I have truly known throughout eternity at what point the divine order will no longer be observed and have therefore always been able to refer to this time and mention the substantial upheavals which will irrevocably occur according to My announcements. But people will never believe these announcements undisputedly, for what is prophesied to them as shortly forthcoming surpasses human notions ....

They will certainly be able to recognise the course of world events, that a change will have to happen because people have reached the lowest point, as is clearly evidenced in their self-indulgence and an excessive craving for a good living standard, earthly commodities, honour and power .... Thus they would be able to recognise by the signs of the time that these announcements have a certain justification, which they ought to take seriously and then live their own life accordingly. But their unbelief is already too great for people to listen to such indications. They unreservedly live a purely earthly life and reject all thoughts of drastic change. And this is why humanity will be taken by surprise by a catastrophic natural event on a scale which has never been experienced on earth before, which will end many people's lives and lead to unprecedented chaos of huge proportions and mean immense misery for people. This is a last warning sign and shall therefore be constantly proclaimed to people .... My messengers shall draw people's attention to it so that they will recognise the truth when this event takes place, so that they will make good use of the last days before the soon-following end for the maturity of their souls. Admittedly, they will find little or no belief, and yet I keep instructing My messengers time and again to speak up wherever possible. People don't want to be disturbed in their lives of pleasure but they will get a sudden shock, and the forthcoming event can mean the end for any individual person, and he will be not be able to take his material possessions across with him. And this is what he shall always bear in mind, for even if he is usually not willing to believe he nevertheless knows that he cannot prolong his physical life by even one day because the hour of his death is predetermined, and he knows that one day his end will come and that this can happen at any day, that he will have to leave everything behind which amounts to the purpose of his life. And therefore he should not value earthly goods so highly but procure himself possessions for eternity .... And he would only be acting intelligently, whereas a purely earthly life is no sign of prudence but only attests to confused thinking ....

My plan of eternity, however, will be carried out and the day I have set for Myself will be adhered to, because the human generation no longer fulfils its earthly task and will therefore be devoured by the earth with the exception of those who have recognised Me, who believe in Me and remain loyal to Me until the end .... For the earth must continue to serve its purpose as a place of education for the spiritual substances which are on the path of return to Me .... And this is why the great work of transformation cannot be omitted and everything has come to pass as I always predicted, because I don't leave people without warning and offer everyone still enough opportunities to find Me and seek union with Me in faith and love. And truly, these shall still be saved before the end .... I will call them back earlier so that they will not run the risk of descending completely but they can still mature in the beyond .... Or I will remove them from the earth at the end and take them to a place of peace because they are intended to populate the new earth again as the root of the new human generation .... You humans should believe what I announce to you time and again, for there is not much time left, and everyone of good will can still be saved, so that he will not meet the dreadful fate of a new banishment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The intervention of God

Gift of foresight .... intervention of God ....

B.D. 2543 from November 9th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

The living connection with God will never bring untruth to the human being and therefore every utterance of the divine spirit can be believed. The gift of foresight is also a manifestation of the divine spirit, so this must also be recognized as truth. The closer the connection with God is established, the more clearly a person will be able to predict the events of the future, and he himself will have no doubt that these predictions will be fulfilled. God's plan has been fixed since eternity and every event is the result of people's will applied correctly or incorrectly. And that is why the things of the future are also clearly visible to the spirit in man, and he is able to make it known to man through the soul if he has the order to do so from God. Both the dream and the inner voice become conscious to the human being so that he can convey the event to his fellow human beings. But only a few people recognize in it an announcement of the coming event. And the foresighted person is rarely recognized, i.e. his announcements are rarely believed. People should be made aware of this so that they can prepare themselves so that events do not take them by surprise. He wants to give them the opportunity to organize their life so that they can surrender it at any time if it is God's will. And so He presents them with the possibility of an end so that they seriously tackle the work on their soul. This is the purpose of the announcements, thus only love for people determines God to announce through a willing person what His wisdom has decided since eternity. And thus He announces to them that He will intervene in the chaos of devastation in a short time, that He will take care of people who are on the brink of destruction, who will be put to severe hardship by human will and who deem their end to have come .... And God will prove to the world that His will is stronger, that He can render people's will ineffective and that He will intervene if humanity is in danger of completely succumbing to demonic influence. He will reveal Himself because they no longer pay attention to Him and therefore He announces Himself to humanity in advance so that they will recognize Him .... And this time is no longer far away .... A wrestling of nations is approaching its end, but in a different way than people expect. For God's will is decisive and His intervention puts an end to the battle, which takes on ever more destructive forms and therefore requires God's intervention ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

'The powers of heaven shall be shaken ....'

B.D. 8379 from January 13th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

I also foretold you that by the signs of the time you will recognise that the end is near .... And these signs will be so obvious that you will no longer need to doubt and know the hour you live in .... For the powers of heaven shall be shaken, you will be able to detect cosmic changes, natural phenomena which should make you think; they will be observable and even the lawful order of nature seems to have been revoked .... and yet this, too, is governed by divine law, for everything that will happen and take place is based on My will. Yet only the truth of what was proclaimed by seers and prophets and what I foretold you Myself about the end shall be revealed to you humans. For everything will become disorderly during the last days so as to make you humans take notice .... Since you no longer accept any faith in a God and Creator, since you think that My works of creation are subject to your influence, since you consider yourselves powerful and extraordinarily knowledgeable, you will also have to be given evidence to the contrary, you will have to recognise your powerlessness in view of phenomena which cannot be stopped or changed by you at will .... Furthermore, you must recognise that such predictions, which you cannot deny, have already existed for a long time and that the time has finally come when it will be fulfilled what is written and what is repeatedly proclaimed to people through My Word .... Yet people will even regard the cosmic changes to be the consequences of their own activities and consider themselves as masters with the ability to cause such cosmic changes, and thus they will deny God with absolute conviction. For My adversary's activity in the last days intends to dethrone Me and therefore he will be bound again ....

But there will also always be people who are aware of the time and speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom to the world, to those who are entirely without faith .... For they know that the last hour will soon strike, they also consider the cosmic changes as evidence because I predicted them Myself when I lived on earth. 'The powers of heaven shall be shaken ....' this Word, too, has a spiritual meaning which you humans are as yet unable to grasp .... Everything that comes forth from Me, that is based on My will, is alive, and since My strength, which always generates life, will express itself every rigid form will be brought to life .... In the last days before the end My strength will flow out abundantly, everything will become less dense everywhere, that is, the sun of My spirit will penetrate the darkness of night which enshrouds the whole of the earth .... The sun of My spirit will flare brightly and its radiance will give life to everything, it will awaken what is sleeping and give life to the hitherto dead as it is struck by this beam .... Thus the powers of heaven will express themselves which you humans are incapable of stopping .... But in the end My Power will also express itself in a purely natural sense which no-one will be able to explain, for I predicted unusual signs before the end, and these will happen in such a way that humankind will be able to observe the events in nature with horror since they cannot prevent them with their own countermeasures .... Instead they will even contribute by releasing forces whose effects have not been ascertained as yet and which therefore result in all-destroying consequences and accelerate the final end which, admittedly, is intended in My eternal plan of Salvation because I have always known people's will and therefore based My plan of Salvation on it .... but which nevertheless will be carried out by people themselves who believe themselves able to surpass Me and who are visibly under the adversary's influence whose devastating effect will then become apparent ....

It will happen as it is proclaimed, and anyone who pays attention can already recognise the signs of the time .... anyone who pays attention also realises that My Word is truth, which is conveyed from above to people as a greater than great gift of grace for anyone who wants to accept this gift .... For at no time ever have I left humanity without forewarning when it was faced by events which I had to send over people as soon as they were at risk of utterly losing themselves to My adversary .... My judgments have always been preceded by warnings and admonitions, for I always wanted to offer people the opportunity to come to their senses and make use of the short time they had left so that their souls' could emerge unscathed from all such judgments. Yet these admonitions and warnings were never allowed to compel belief, and this is why My present proclamations will also find little credence no matter how clearly the signs can be observed .... People try to explain everything in a way that is more to their liking, and this is why the end will take them by surprise, for the time is fulfilled, the end is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Cosmic changes ....

B.D. 8781 from March 16th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

This is an unusual event which I announce to you .... you will think that you are mistaken yet time and again experience the same .... earthly tremors which are not caused by eruptions but always occur when the earth stands in a certain constellation to the stars .... so that the tremors can be anticipated on a regular basis and will not fail to happen. They will be barely perceptible and hence disturb few people, yet investigations by scientists will give rise to apprehensions of the worst kind. Furthermore, as the phenomena intensify they will also unsettle indifferent people once they realise the threat to earth from other heavenly bodies because, having left their path, the latter are moving towards earth and, time and again, form a constellation which triggers these very effects.

In view of the approaching end people shall still be aroused from their calm, they shall remember their Creator and think about their own transience and the fact that they have no guarantee of passing into complete oblivion after their physical death; they have to be reminded of the end of their lives and also of the fate which will await them if they believe in the continuation of their soul's life. The last days will exhibit so much that is contrary to nature, given that people's activities and thoughts are already unnatural and result in consequences of the worst kind .... People undertake explorations of the universe presumptuously and beyond their authority .... They disregard natural laws and, yet, their actions and intentions will not be prevented; the repercussions, however, will rebound on them. Nevertheless, the end is moving ever closer, and if people are yet to be helped by taking stock of themselves and becoming aware of their great responsibility then an unusual activity on God's part will also have to be shown to them, even though it is still up to their own free will to take notice of it and adjust accordingly.

And such unusual activity will be experienced by humanity in the forthcoming time. It will not be caused by people but take place in the cosmos, in a region which is entirely subject to the Creator Himself, which is now seemingly sliding into lawlessness, and yet even this event is integral to the plan of returning the spirits, since it is capable of leading to a change in many people because it is too extraordinary .... but without compelling them to believe, for the unbelieving person will not even take the trouble to find an explanation since he lives utterly irresponsibly.

And people's spiritual state in the last days has already sunk so low that even extraordinary natural events would not make them believe, consequently even these methods can still be used for the benefit of undecided people who need strong motives to seriously reflect on it and aim their will into the right direction. For whatever can still be done in order to keep the souls from the fate of a new banishment will be done by God, Who loves humanity and does not want them to go astray .... But every time He manifests Himself in the manner it was announced there will be fatalities, otherwise people would not allow themselves to be impressed and mutually accuse each other of self-deception .... For the effects will vary from place to place, and it will take scientists a certain length of time before they succeed in finding the right explanation, but then the signs will repeat themselves with ever increasing frequency and provide people with the evidence that something is happening in the cosmos which they cannot counteract themselves.

And thus they will also be subject to the periodically recurring consequences until, finally, the huge natural event will take place which will demonstrate God's might and greatness to people who believe in Him and who will also be protected in every adversity. Yet, although people are repeatedly informed of an approaching end, although the preceding natural disasters are repeatedly pointed out to them .... they won't believe nor change their way of life in the slightest, they will do nothing to prepare themselves, they live in the world and love it, and look at the world as their God .... And therefore they will remain attached to matter when the end has come .... Yet everything has been determined in the divine plan of Salvation and nothing will come to pass that has not already been taken into account since eternity ....

And thus even this unnatural event will take place according to divine will, and the day for this has also been predetermined and will be upheld .... Nevertheless, you shall be informed in advance so that your faith may be strengthened, because everything will come to pass as was said before and because you will recognise the truth of what is conveyed to you from above ever more .... For you ought to establish a connection between God and the world, with your fellow human beings who live without faith or thought .... Admittedly, you will only be able to speak about it after the initial occurrences have taken place since prior to that no-one will want to listen to you .... you will only find open ears and hearts after a tremor has happened which will make people wonder and only then should you speak, and then it will depend on people's willingness as to what benefits they will draw from these events ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's intervention .... The end of the struggle ....

B.D. 3143 from June 1st 1944, taken from Book No. 41

The more the world becomes entangled in error the more it distances itself from God and the more heartless are the actions and thoughts of people who are worldly minded. And the increased unkindness also propels people into actions which surpass all previous happenings, and so people induce God's intervention themselves. People no longer realise that what they are doing is wrong. Global affairs will be steered into a direction for which no earthly solution can be found anymore, people's thinking is wrong and far removed from the truth, goodness will be persecuted and evil respected, and thus divine order will be revoked which is bound to result in a complete decline. And so the day which puts an end to the chaos comes ever closer, for the situation is so disastrous for humanity that God has set an end to it. And this end is approaching, the end of people raging against each other, the end of the war between nations which could never find God's approval because it is a battle for power which is not based on noble motives. People's hatred and heartlessness have given rise to it, yet they learn nothing in this battle, they have become more heartless than ever and their hate has deepened and manages to achieve such disgraceful deeds that they cannot be surpassed. And God will put a stop to this activity in a way that He shall thereby be recognised .... He will send a dreadful tribulation upon humankind which cannot be averted by their own will. He will terrify them and let them feel their own impotence because the elements of nature will be unleashed, leaving people defenceless and at their mercy.

And this day will not be long in coming. It will arrive so suddenly and unexpectedly that it will cause sheer horror, it will only take hours and yet be of such drastic significance that everything will have changed afterwards and people will only gradually become aware of the disaster when they have realised the full extent of the divine intervention. For God wants to reveal Himself with His intervention, He wants to show them that He Himself will bring about the end because people cannot find an end, because they would rather tear each other apart than give in and bring the indescribable adversity to a close. And this is why the end will be different from how people imagine it, God will demonstrate His power and remove the weapons from the hands of the earthly rulers, He will decide, and the outcome of the war between the nations will disappoint those people who wanted to achieve with violence what they were not entitled to and who therefore shall recognise their helplessness. For it is God Who ultimately determines world events, even if human will thinks that it directs them. And God's wisdom also recognises the most effective means for people and uses it in order to control the chaos which is the result of heartlessness and therefore has to lead to the downfall if God Himself will not put an end to it.

And the period of war will be followed by a new time of conflict which, however, will not erupt for the sake of worldly power but for spiritual supremacy, because the end is near and this spiritual battle will still have to be fought, the battle which concerns the faith in Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer and His teaching ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

End of the battle .... Spatial separation ....

B.D. 3371 from December 17th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

You will be informed of everything that is beneficial for you if you let yourselves be taught by Me and thus pay heed to My voice which gently yet perceptibly speaks to you within yourselves .... Your opinion about the forthcoming sequence of world events is extraordinarily misguided if you believe that one of the opposing powers will emerge victoriously from the struggle, for My will has decided otherwise, given that not the physical well-being but the salvation of souls shall be promoted and this necessitates a complete change of their lives which can only take place once all earthly plans have become null and void and humanity is faced by an extraordinary event which will shock their way of thinking. A normal conclusion to the struggle between nations would not entail a change in their usual life, besides, none of the quarrelling powers are innocent and thus none of the powers are legitimately entitled to victory. Hence I will thwart people's plans, irrespective of which outcome they assume .... I will invalidate everyone's expectations and provide a solution which no-one expects and which is not welcome by anyone either, for I will end the battle such that it cannot be continued even if people were willing to do so. For I will spatially separate the fighting parties from each other, I will let natural obstacles arise which cannot so easily be overcome. And thus I will deprive people of every possibility to continue fighting each other.

And so the battle of the nations against each other will be brought to a halt, it will not be a decision, it will not be the defeat of one power but humanity will realise that its power has reached its limit and that the divine Power has to be acknowledged, which is only too distinctly recognisable in this outcome. I will bring about the end and yet severely punish the guilty parties in doing so, for they will realise that they were misled in their certainty of victory, they find themselves weakened and unsuccessful and are confronted by great misery and immense poverty. And this end was announced by Me a long time ago, so that the truth of My Word would thereby be demonstrated to you who still doubt it. I will put a stop to it when people's cruelty has reached its peak, so that the world will realise that there is a God in heaven Who punishes the sin which so evidently comes to light .... so that it will realise that it is not people but I Myself who determines the outcome .... and this in a different way than people expect. And the hour is not far away .... Hence I reveal Myself to those who believe in My intervention and know My intention, whom I instruct to draw people's attention to it and whom I send as prophets amongst humanity. For it shall be warned in advance because I will never let such an event come upon people without informing them of it, so that they will sincerely consider their souls' and prepare themselves. For no-one knows who will be affected .... My intervention will claim countless victims wherever it happens ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Divine intervention ....

B.D. 2568 from December 1st 1942, taken from Book No. 33

When the day has come the lord Himself will intervene in the chaos of devastation, which will take on ever worse proportions due to human will. And this intervention will bring about that a wrestling of nations will come to an end, indeed against the will of men to whom this end seems to be little successful. The world is caught up in error, it believes that it can determine the earthly development itself and does not consider the will of the power Which rules everything in heaven and on earth. It does not consider that It will express Itself in due course, i.e. that It will oppose people's will if the latter completely acts against divine will. As soon as the most powerful will is no longer recognized and heeded, He expresses Himself, and this in a way which has a sensitive effect on people, i.e. which directs their earthly life into other directions and destroys all earthly plans and hopes. Humanity must be reminded again that it is powerless in the face of the creator of heaven and earth, that His will alone governs and that humanity's unloving behaviour will result in just punishment. People stop at nothing and seek to destroy each other. This completely contradicts man's destiny to lead a life of love on earth .... Divine justice now intervenes in human will by striking humanity with the same thing that its will has turned into action .... by giving free rein to the elements of nature and allowing them to accomplish a work of destruction of far greater magnitude in order to show people a higher will.

Because people have lost all faith in a higher power. And because they fear no power over them, they unscrupulously resort to the most unloving means in order to create their supposed right. They misuse their free will, which was given to them for labour of love, for redemption from the bonds of the one who is devoid of all love. But they serve him, they carry out his will, in a manner of speaking they give themselves to him as representatives on earth, they are in bondage to him and he controls them completely, and thus he uses them to destroy that which God allowed to come into being .... to destroy creations of all kinds. God gave every thing its destiny, but God's adversary drives the people who are in bondage to him to destroy these creations prematurely so that they cannot fulfil their destiny. And people willingly carry it out, they outdo each other in unkindness and fear no power which could call them to account. Mankind is disillusioned, it is so far away from God that only a violent intervention can guide its thinking differently, and so it calls upon this divine intervention itself. God, in His goodness and gentleness, does not yet allow it to be a judgement, for He has mercy on humanity, which is deeply shackled .... He does not want to destroy, but to bring help, and His wisdom chooses the only means that may be very painful, but can still bring success. He shows Himself in His might and strength, He speaks with an iron voice, He expresses Himself so powerfully that the human being is forced to reflect, yet God does not force the human being's will and therefore only a small part will recognize Him in this natural event because it wants to recognize Him .... But God's adversary takes possession of the others, they serve him and are lost for eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divine intervention .... destruction of property ....

B.D. 2296 from April 10th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

The meaning and purpose of life on earth is the final liberation of the soul from the form. God asks nothing impossible of His creatures, and if He has given man this task for the duration of his earthly life, then He also provides him with all the means to be able to fulfil this task. And yet people fail and let the time and the favours of their embodiment pass by unused. And this lack of will moves God to an intervention of immense significance. He destroys that which prevents people from fulfilling their actual destiny. This is the earthly possession which holds people's thoughts and will so captive that they do not fulfil their earthly task. Earthly possessions need not be a hindrance in any way if they are properly utilized on earth. On the contrary, it can still help the soul to become free if it overcomes the desire for it and uses its earthly possessions in the service of neighbourly love. Then the soul has conquered the greatest resistance on earth, i.e. it has freed itself from it because it has overcome matter. But if the possession still increases the desire for it, it is a shackle for the soul that prevents any liberation. In earthly terms, what God has decided in His wisdom is a work of destruction of immense proportions and robs people of their anxiously defended possessions. It therefore frees him from a shackle, and now the ascent upwards could be easier for the soul as soon as it derives the right benefit from this divine mission if it recognizes the transience of it and now turns its attention to the goods which are imperishable, therefore have eternal value. The will of man now decides, and man is responsible for his will. What was robbed from him earthly can be replaced a thousandfold if he resigns himself to the divine will and desires spiritual gifts as compensation. In view of the great misery that the divine intervention entails, many a person will come to realize that the earthly good should not be striven for and only serves the human being to test his will. But at the moment people are completely devoted to matter, and the work of destruction will hit them all the harder, and their thoughts and endeavours will be to regain the possessions. And so this divine intervention will be followed by a time which will obviously characterize people's spiritual state. With increased willpower they will try to shape earthly life again in such a way that it corresponds to the body and its comfort, and the shackles of the soul cannot loosen and release the soul. Only a few will go into themselves and follow the divine voice which sounds to them admonishingly and warningly and stimulates them to think about the actual purpose of life on earth. For the sake of these few, God allows the great suffering to come upon people, which could help everyone out of the misery of their souls. But man's will is free and he can decide according to his own choice ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cruelty .... end times .... last judgment ....

B.D. 2901 from September 28th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

A time of unusual events will keep people in constant turmoil because now the time of the most difficult battle is dawning and the harbingers of the end times are making themselves felt. As it has been proclaimed before, so it will be fulfilled. The chaos will become ever greater, the earthly hardship will increase, people will lose all hope, a tribulation will set in and the spiritual low will sink ever further because people will become ever more unloving and harm themselves in every way. Selfish love will prevail and only one's own advantage will be considered in every action, and the hardship will become ever greater as a result. And events will come thick and fast, things will happen that no one thought possible before .... satan will rage amongst humanity and try to corrupt it, and people will offer their hand to the greatest abominations, they will stop at nothing out of self-interest and animalistic desires, they will take revenge in a way which is inhuman and they will have no inhibitions whatsoever. And this is the time when great demands are made on people's sense of justice, when they have to decide for right or wrong, when they should draw sharp boundaries, when the divine commandments are transgressed ...., when they should therefore not tolerate what violates these commandments, i.e. they must not approve of it by remaining silent or even consenting to it. It is the time when divine intervention is unavoidable in order to put an end to blatant unkindness, for this degenerates into the worst cruelty. What has never happened on earth before will now take place and the events will follow each other in quick succession because there is not much time left until the end. But this is terrible .... And that is why God first still shakes people's hearts and tries to make them think, and thus He allows them to participate in the fate of the whole of humanity. He will not prevent people from tearing each other apart, and the world will experience things that are unimaginable in their magnitude and cruelty. For it is the time of the end and this time of horror can only be surpassed by the last judgment which, however, will not come upon the earth on the part of human beings but is merely an act of divine justice in order to put an end to the nameless injustices ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The consequences of the natural events

Serious warning about God's intervention and consequences ....

B.D. 7052 from March 1st 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Only a short time separates you from the day when My voice will so forcefully resound that it cannot be ignored by anyone .... You will not live in normal circumstances for much longer. But then there will be chaos and you humans will be faced by the immense task of making yours and your fellow human beings' lives more tolerable, to gain control of the chaos by helping in extraordinary ways and create bearable conditions again with the minimum means at your disposal. For those of you who live in the regions which will be hit by a natural disaster of inconceivable proportions will lose everything. You humans will not and cannot believe this as yet because a natural event like this has never been experienced before .... But the subsequent end of this earth still requires such an intervention on My part because I want to address humanity just once more in order to bring it to its senses, in order to still save those who are of good will. And nobody will be able to ignore this language, but whether they will open their hearts and ears will still be up to them. For even then most people will turn away from Me, they will remain in the isolation they had previously entered due to their unbelief, and they will look for and find all kinds of explanations for this event apart from the correct one being that I want to speak to them, that a God wants to reveal Himself and address them in order to bring them to their senses, in order to motivate them into contacting Him in greatest adversity and danger.

Countless people will lose their lives and the survivors will be faced by vast devastation, there will be such overwhelming adversity that only firm faith in Me and My help will be able to banish it which, however, only few people will possess. Earthly things which seem unattainable will nevertheless be possible with My help, and I will often work wonders where true believers trust in Me and My help. But the earth has to suffer an upheaval and human hearts, too, must be extraordinarily touched in order to help their neighbour in these hard times, and wherever this unselfish love, this will to help other people, expresses itself an obvious improvement of the situation will also take place. My forceful intervention only serves the purpose that people should put their 'ego' aside for a change and practise unselfish neighbourly love .... Then I will also be able to resolve their hardship, then I will be able to provide them with the bare essentials, and I will truly take care of those who reveal this unselfishness. Never before have such harsh conditions been experienced but I have to speak as distinctly as that so that everyone can recognise Me in My might, and anyone who pays attention to the extraordinary help which could not humanly be expected will also be able to recognise My love. Anyone who merely establishes or strengthens a heartfelt bond with Me can always also be assured of My help, yet people without faith will be in serious trouble. They will try to help themselves and often at the expense of their fellow human beings .... but they will not derive any benefit from it, neither earthly nor spiritually ....

Not much time will pass until this disastrous event takes place but you humans are being made aware of it and that, in itself, is already an incredible grace, for then you will also know Whom you must contact, Who can help you in extreme adversity and danger .... This is why I announce this event time and again, and anyone who listens should appeal for a firm faith, for strength and vigour, in order to remain steadfast. In that case he will indeed take the path to Me, Who alone can help him in this adversity .... And he will not need to fear anything, for I will take care of My Own, no matter how .... And anyone belongs to My Own who believes in Me, who prays to Me, who thus unites with Me and therefore can always be assured of My protection and My help .... And they have the task of referring their fellow human beings to Me so that they, too, will take the path to Me when the hour comes which will decide the weal and woe of all people ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Extent of the work of destruction ....

B.D. 4441 from September 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The extent of the act of destruction as a result of God's will is as yet inconceivable to you humans, for it will surpass anything that has ever happened before. Countries and oceans will change, rivers will burst their banks and thus scenes will be created which make people believe that they have been transported into other regions, which in itself will cause indescribable chaos because people will no longer be able to find each other. They will restlessly wander about until strong-minded people try to establish order and take care of the weak. The adversity will be so great that it can only be endured by love, and where one will actively help the other relief and help will soon be felt, which will clearly be granted to them from above. Thus, anyone who turns to God and calls upon Him in his heart will receive help, for God will then so clearly demonstrate His love and omnipotence that those of little faith will find it easy to gain a firm belief, and this time is a time of grace for the unbeliever, when he can still easily change himself in view of the occurrences which are based on the strength of faith. These occurrences will provide food for thought to everyone, yet only someone willing to believe will derive benefit from it, whereas the others will only ever speak of coincidences and face the immense adversity embittered, rejecting a Creator or condemning His actions. The magnitude of the disaster cannot bring them to their senses, they will try to find a natural explanation for everything and entirely reject spiritual correlations. They also remain hard and insensitive towards their fellow human beings' experiences and won't shy away from improving their own situation at the expense of people who are too weak to defend themselves.

There will be hardship wherever God has spoken and He will speak wherever the spiritual adversity is greatest, so that the survivors will receive a warning signal which will enable them to utilise the time until the end, and to also bring the people of the unaffected countries to their senses in view of the disaster which is too immense to be ignored. For the whole of humanity will be gripped by fear that the natural disaster might repeat itself and result in complete destruction of the earth. This will in fact happen but not immediately after the natural disaster. All the same, this fear is beneficial for many people since the thought of a sudden end and a life after death will come alive in many of them and can result in a change of lifestyle. The world will helpfully want to intervene yet won't be able to help as much as is needed. Nevertheless, every human being who is willing to love and help will be blessed by God, for the immense adversity will come upon people so that they will soften their hearts and do justice to their actual task of being lovingly active on earth in order to attain psychological maturity. As long as people only provide for themselves they are selfish and won't progress spiritually. But their fellow human beings' hardship can awaken their kind-hearted activity, and then they will comply with God's will and thus their earthly task .... And then even the most severe hardship will be a blessing and will fulfil its purpose ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

Chaos after the intervention ....

B.D. 8619 from September 17th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

I keep telling you time and again that you will experience an incredible chaos due to My intervention .... The forces of nature will get completely out of control leaving you unable to think; only My Own will be able to pray to Me, although these will only be desperate prayers by sending short, pleading thoughts to Me, but I will hear them and protect them from the worst. Yet everything will become disorderly and people will be thrown into bitter states of adversity .... And this will already signify the end for many because they will lose their life although it is not yet the end of this world.

However, before the final end I will still try to rescue what will allow itself to be rescued .... I want to reveal Myself to those of weak faith so that they will call upon Me in their need and receive obvious help, so that their faith will be strengthened and they will still be helpful to Me when the earth's last phase begins. And I assure you that it will almost be too much for the individual and only One will be able to give you strength and send you help if you call upon this One in dire need ....

But you humans cannot be spared this intervention, for it is a last attempt to save the souls who are still without or of little faith. When they see no other way out people can nevertheless still remember their God and Creator .... a Power above them Which alone is able to help. Once the huge natural disaster is over, the adversity will not end and the chaos will constantly increase. And then it will show where there is still a living faith, for this alone will master all adversity ....

Anyone with a living faith will completely entrust himself to Me and truly, I will not let his faith be destroyed. Time and again he will be helped, and he will also try to lead his fellow human beings into faith, and depending on their will and personal inclination to help they, too, will receive help, for the desperate situation will motivate actions of love and thus will have fulfilled its purpose of awakening neighbourly love which, again, guarantees that I will give people My love and the strength to deal with their situation.

You, who belong to Me and want to fulfil My will and be of service to Me, truly need not fear this time of adversity, for your constant bond with Me assures you My protection and a great extent of strength. Besides, I will also need you again to spread My Gospel of love, which will then be extremely necessary, for once again people will display their nature and only a few will be helpful and assist their fellow human beings and they, too, will be helped time and again, of which they can be certain .... But, on the whole, ever greater selfish love will surface, and people will ruthlessly take what does not belong to them in order to improve their living conditions .... The aggressive person will prevail and want to ruin the weak. And this will particularly characterise this time of hardship and reveal that humanity is ready for its downfall. Nevertheless, My Own shall always rely on the fact that I know of their difficulties and will also remedy them for, truly, everything is possible for Me, and I will also take care of your earthly lives and provide the most remarkable help so that your faith will become ever more alive, and with the power of faith you will prevail over everything and yet cannot be overcome by your enemies ....

You may well believe that this time is approaching; after all, I Am still using all means of help to win over souls who are not yet entirely enslaved by My adversary .... I also want to reveal Myself in My love and power to them as soon as their faith is a living one, for conventional faith will be completely abandoned since it is not a convinced faith, which remains steadfast during such earthly hardship. And all those who previously had revelled in an excess of earthly possessions will be bitterly affected by this hardship as the transience of earthly possessions is visibly brought home to them. And the effect depends on their souls' maturity, they will either take refuge with God and appeal to Him for help or try using their own strength to succeed at the expense of their neighbour, because they lack love or they would take the path to Me.

This time of adversity will make great demands on you humans, nevertheless you will survive it with My help .... Therefore ask for it, and also appeal to Me in advance for the strength to be able to endure once the chaos starts. For you will be able to achieve much in unity with Me but you will remain weak and helpless if you rely on your own strength and presume not to need divine help .... For I Myself will be with everyone who calls upon Me in his adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Most difficult time of hardship before the end ....

B.D. 3753 from April 27th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

You, who are now living on earth, have to pass the most difficult tests and endure the greatest suffering because the end is near and you do not have enough time for a slow maturing of your souls. The earthly burden will appear almost insufferable to you, and that shall be your proof that the last days have arrived. For severe hardship will always come to an end, but for the rest of your life you will have to languish with the burden of the most difficult living conditions, because the last work of your soul’s development has to be implemented for your salvation. But it is a brief period of time which, in spite of the harshest conditions, will in fact be bearable for My Own, whom I will care for in the most obvious way. Thus do not get disheartened by this prediction but trustingly raise your eyes to Me, Who looks into your hearts, Who recognises your will and Who will help everyone who is worthy of My help, who humbly calls to Me for help and prays to Me in spirit and in truth. However, those of you who are of weak faith or totally unbelieving should accept being instructed about the cause and purpose of the hardship and believe that you are approaching the end. And depending on your faith you will be helped. But in view of the end I cannot take the rod from you or else it would take even more immature souls by surprise, since due to hardship a few will still find their way back to Me.

And where an apparent improvement of living conditions becomes evident the activity of the opposing force manifests itself .... and that, too, shall be your proof, because My help will express itself differently even though I will take care of My Own earthly and spiritually too, so that their worst suffering is alleviated, but I will always provide them with inner strength and a firm faith and thereby enable them to endure a difficult earthly life. Whereas My adversary will provide people with material possessions and incite them to commit unkind actions, so that you will always recognise the origin of the supply of strength when you closely inspect the behaviour of people. Expect no improvement in living conditions since one hardship will give way to another because the end is near. Therefore prepare yourselves for the end, do not work in an earthly manner but a spiritual one .... serve each other where needed and thereby make the hard time endurable, because its purpose is to motivate you into loving actions which will bring you ever closer to Me. Don’t think of yourselves but think of your fellow human being’s distress .... Be helpful and willing to give .... There is not much time and thus it is especially hard, but it can also be exceedingly blessed if you heed My admonitions, if you listen to My Word and try to live by it. The end will come and with it the Last Judgment .... the decision which signifies salvation for My Own but also new banishment for My adversary. And therefore make sure that you belong to My Own, let the hard times be a lesson to you which will guide you to Me, listen to My messengers who instruct you and inform you of My will, who will also always be able to explain the cause and purpose of suffering to you, and it will not be without success for your souls .... And one day you will thank Me that I granted you this last time of grace and through hardship and misery sought to win you over for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

World event .... Chaos .... Antichrist ....

B.D. 6762 from February 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

There will be indescribable chaos after I have spoken through the forces of nature, since for as long as the earth has existed nothing of this kind has ever been experienced by humanity. Fear and terror will render people incapable of thinking and doing anything, for their fear that this happening will repeat itself will leave them unable to give a hand in order to help and to rescue where it is still possible to help. Only a few will realise what has happened because it will have been revealed to them before and the truth of My Words will be evident to them .... Hence they will also enlighten their fellow human beings with complete conviction but, once again, only be listened to by a few, because people will accept anything but not that a divine plan of Salvation would be carried out in this way. Nevertheless, this time must be used well and at the same time people should also be informed of the forthcoming end .... That which has taken place cosmically cannot be denied by them and the fact that it had been announced in advance may still make individual people thoughtful. However, the will to live, the personal instinct for preservation, will nevertheless prevail, and people will do whatever it takes to get the earthly adversity, which was triggered by the natural disaster, under control. And again, the degree of love will be the crucial factor, people's willingness to help their neighbour, whether or how their own circumstances will improve, for I will help all those who care for their fellow human beings' hardship too .... Yet many will have to struggle hard if they trust in their own strength .... or they will clearly be helped from below if they rigorously proceed at the expense of their fellow human beings. Earthly hardship will be as immense as the chaos that was caused by inconceivable destruction ....

Then countless people will forfeit their faith in a God and Creator because they were sorely affected .... But their faith was a mere formality, it did not stand firm to a serious test .... However, I proclaim this event in advance so that you humans persevere, so that you know that it is My plan, that I Am also Lord over natural forces and that it therefore will also be an easy matter for Me to help those people again who appeal to Me for help .... I wouldn't have to announce anything to you in advance, I could suddenly intervene and surprise all people. Yet then no-one would want to believe in Me either. But I want you to recognise Me, and you will be able to recognise Me if everything comes to pass such as it has been proclaimed. Then you will know that nothing can happen on this earth without My will, and then you will be able to incline My will towards you by handing yourselves over to Me with complete faith and pray to Me for protection .... Hence this is why I transmit to you the information of what is to come, this is why I initiate you into My plan of Salvation, and this is why I constantly ask you, My servants, to pass your knowledge on to your fellow human beings as well, for your bond with Me will be your most assured protection, regardless of what happens ....

And then the one will become evident who will be My opponent in the last days, who will seize the reins because the immense hardship will make it easy for him and he will subsequently also issue instructions which will clearly prove that he belongs to Satan. And he will find many followers and give unscrupulous orders, he will also want to snatch those of little faith from Me, yet he will meet with resistance from My side too, for I furnish My Own with great strength and the worse the adversity will seem to get the stronger will be My Own, because they will feel Me and My presence and thus will fearlessly communicate what My spirit instructs them to say .... However, all this will have to precede the end, just as it has been proclaimed, because every single soul will still have to be fought for and the great adversity will still push those people towards Me who still call upon Me at the last moment and thereby escape the fate of a renewed banishment ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Extraordinary help after the natrural event

God's exceptional help after the natural disaster ....

B.D. 7331 from April 10th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

There will be indescribable chaos amongst people after I have spoken through the forces of nature, for they all will fear that the event might repeat itself and thus live restlessly and afraid amid the ruins caused by the elements of nature and yet due to My will, which had expressed itself therein. People will have to go through an appalling time, a time which was hardly ever experienced by people inhabiting this earth.

Yet it is the time of the end when everything takes place to an exceptional extent in order to still awaken people. But again, even the natural disaster will only make a few people think, whereas the majority of people will indignantly dismiss every belief in a God and Creator Who allows such destructions to happen as can be seen by everyone. Yet no-one considers his own behaviour or how he should behave before God, before Me, to Whom they had merely paid lip-service without, however, having a living faith in Me or having made contact with Me .... And only a few will then turn to Me in their great distress, but these few will also visibly get a taste of My help, I will so obviously support them that it will strengthen their faith in a Power Which holds their destiny in the palm of Its hand. Everything only happens in order to let people find the bond with Me but only ever a few will derive a blessing from the forthcoming event, for humanity is already too enslaved by My adversary to turn to Me and appeal for My help. And therefore I cannot reveal Myself to them either, but I will most certainly do so with those who subsequently take refuge with Me in their adversity. The severity of suffering will let many pray more sincerely which makes the fulfilment of their prayers much easier for Me, because their belief in a God capable of help is evident and because they will then so beseech Me that I will truly come to help them in their distress. And then My servants will have ample opportunity to convey My Word to the people, who will so hungrily accept it as will rarely be found. The disbelievers, however, will be filled by even more hatred than before towards the preachers of My Word as well as towards those who visibly experience My help .... But they will not allow themselves to be converted, instead their unkindness will merely testify to their affiliation with My adversary and will clearly resist Me and My love, which also wants to win them over but cannot get through to them.

There will be much adversity and yet, it will not be hopeless, because I can always be approached in prayer with a request to improve matters and because I will grant a true prayer in order to reveal Myself to those who are not entirely enslaved by My adversary. But it has to be left up to people to call upon Me, and therefore everything has to happen within a natural framework, yet easily perceptible to people who still harbour a glimmer of faith and to whom I will reveal Myself so that their faith will not be lost but gain in strength and intensity. The occasion is ahead of you and cannot be prevented by you since you yourselves don't endeavour to make the effort to change your ways and since, due to your disposition and activities, you will bring the time to fruition .... because you yourselves will hasten the end as a result of your attitude and because the time is fulfilled which you were granted for the maturing of your souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satanic activity .... Countermeasure by embodied beings of light ....

B.D. 7049 from February 26th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Hell has opened its gates and its inhabitants are causing havoc on earth, partly embodied as human beings, partly by spiritually influencing people's thoughts or repressing the soul's own will and taking possession of the body .... And this is why Satan's activity will openly manifest itself in the last days, since due to the fact that people lack the strength of love, against which he is helpless, they will be unable to offer him sufficient resistance. But people will also receive help from God's side providing they are willing to accept it. Notable activity can also be detected from His side, and to the same extent as the powers of the dark worlds manifest themselves and markedly oppress people, the forces of light are also at work and likewise support people mentally, but also in physical embodiment come to help people, who live as human beings amongst people and thus impart the flow of strength from God to them and thus serve as mediators between God and people, Who wants to help them in their battle against Satan. This therefore explains that these sources of light can be encountered all over earth but that they are not recognised as such by people who have to be regarded as followers of the adversary. In the last days it is almost impossible for God to speak through a human being whose soul has taken the process through the creations .... It would therefore be almost impossible for Him to make contact with people if souls of light would not offer themselves to live on earth in order to help people who are not yet entirely controlled by the opponent ....

All people should in fact shape themselves to become vessels for the divine Spirit in order to hear the Father's voice, and it would certainly be possible if people lived a life of love in accordance with God's will. But they are far from it, they are dominated by selfish love, thereby having given God's adversary power over them, which he uses to destroy them. But there are also many weak, still undecided people who have not yet been taken in by him completely, and for their sake a large number of beings of light come down to earth, and God Himself speaks through these beings of light to the former. And this is an incredible grace, it is like a countermeasure, which can still save many souls from the adversary if they open themselves to this grace and allow themselves to be addressed by God. But even such evidence of grace will not forcibly affect people, it will be up to each individual person whether he wants to let himself be addressed or whether he wants to close his ears and heart when he encounters a bearer of light.

Earth is fraught with satanic spirit because the price of hell has taken his vassals to earth which now try to impose their evil inclinations onto people. And they are succeeding to an alarming extent. And thus the spirits oppose each other .... whether they are embodied as human beings or try to influence them spiritually .... The kingdom of light and the realm of darkness have come to earth, and the spiritual battle takes place on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. The beings of light will fight for God and His kingdom with a weapon which is given to them by God Himself: with the pure truth, which can emanate its light everywhere .... And anyone moving within this sphere of light will also receive the strength to resist the forces of darkness .... Their weapons, however, are the commodities of this world. And they incite people to ever greater greed for earthly-material values, to sensual pleasures, to thirst for power, and thereby increasingly darken the spirit of those captivated by them.

And thus light fights against darkness, good against evil, truth against lie .... the beings from above fight against the inhabitants of hell .... but the former with the strength from God while the latter receive their strength from Satan. Yet it is up to people who will win the battle. Even so, they are not left helpless at the mercy of their souls' enemy, they will always have helpers by their side as soon as the thought or the will is emerging in them to become free from evil power. Irrespective how bad the activity and raging of God's adversary is in the last days, no human being needs to succumb to it, for God's help is assured for everyone who doesn't want to submit to the adversary .... And this is why God Himself through His beings of light is influencing people, who have joined him voluntarily, to establish contact between the world of darkness and the world of light. Consequently, increasingly more messengers of light will appear amongst people, God will address people ever more urgently, and His activity will become more evident the more the raging of God's enemy can be recognised. For the battle between Him and the adversary will last until the end, until his power is broken, until he and his followers will be bound and a new time of peace will begin when he can no longer pester people and the spiritual battle has come to an end for the time being. And then there will be peace on earth and people will be in constant union with God, with the beings of light which will stay amongst them and continue to instruct them as they have done before, so that people will also hear God's voice directly and thus will live a blissful life in the paradise of the new earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus' forerunner ....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The work of Satan in the battle of faith and God’s counteraction through His followers

Emergence of the Antichrist ....

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubting God’s existence in the end time ....

B.D. 4069 from June 25th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

It requires an exceptionally keen intellect to scientifically prove that God’s existence can be doubted or denied. And the attempt will be made to solve this biggest problem by scientific means .... the question: Does God exist? .... That humanity is deliberating this most important question is also a sign of the end time, but far more in a negative sense, since people are willing to partake in this controversial issue and its line of argument because their faith, if it exists at all, is very weak and the slightest reason suffices to shake it ....

Does God exist? ....

No question is more important, and providing it is asked seriously by seeking people I Am prepared to enlighten them so that the seeker will be truly satisfied with the knowledge he receives and which he now also confidently upholds. However, if the question is not raised by seekers but by people who think they know better, who only accept the answer which suits them, and who do not want to prove that I Am but that I Am not, they will never arrive at a truthful result, in spite of sound evidence. They already belong to the opposing power which wants to take over the reign itself and push Me aside .... And this is the beginning of the end, because according to the law of eternity I will strip My adversary of his power as soon as he oversteps his legitimate limit, which will be the case when he attempts to displace Me entirely from people’s thoughts ....

The battle for Me will be harsh, impressive words intend to convince My Own that they are chasing after a figment of imagination, all religious dogmas and doctrines will be pulled to pieces and not entirely steadfast people will gradually suffer defeat, because the adversary knows how to use his words effectively. And since the majority of people lack knowledge, since they are spiritually blind themselves, they cannot detect the adversary’s inaccuracy, but they cannot look for and find the truth within themselves either. And they will falter and fall if they do not join Me in the last hour, if they do not (in the last hour) ask Me for clarification which I very gladly grant to anyone who asks, providing he is of good will and wants what is right and truthful. But anyone who trusts in himself, who wants to solve this most important problem intellectually as well, will get lost in the darkness because he is chasing a deceptive light, he believes the convincing words of worldly scholars and admires their keen intellect and conclusions, and he will abandon Me .... and condemn himself ....

And because I know of this conflict since eternity, because I want to help the weak as well as those who are looking for Me, I Am bringing them the truth in advance. And anyone who applies this truth, who becomes worthy to receive it and voluntarily aspires for it will outshine the keen intellect of worldly scholars, he will become knowledgeable, he will receive the ability to reason, his spirit will become enlightened, and nothing will be able to take away his faith, his conviction, because he is taught by Me Myself and has the evidence that I Am and that I want to win all My living creations for eternity .... And he will remain loyal to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Satan's raging during the last days .... Apostasy from faith ....

B.D. 3958 from January 20th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

During the end time the number of unbelievers will increase and almost threaten to overwhelm the small flock of believers. And, with the apostasy from faith, Satan's raging will also become progressively more evident, for people will lose their last sense of responsibility towards a righteous Judge because they don't believe in Him. This is why God will noticeably manifest Himself in order to first strengthen the faith of His Own so that they will not waver in the face of the unbeliever's ungodliness and their worldly accomplishments. But He also wants to give them the opportunity of taking stock of themselves, and thus he so obviously takes care of His Own that even an atheist would be able to recognise God's strength and, with even the tiniest effort, regain his lost faith. God will perform many signs and miracles through His instruments on Earth .... Hence His servants on earth will apparently accomplish extraordinary things, yet it is God Who will be expressing Himself through them, Who will manifest Himself and even visibly dwell among His Own as a sign that the end is near, yet He will only be recognised by those who love Him with all their heart and keep His commandments .... who have shaped themselves into love on earth and work exceedingly diligently for His kingdom. They will also possess extraordinary strength, because God Himself will be able to take abode in their hearts and permeate them with His strength of love. The unbelievers will be able to convince themselves of this strength, they will have to admit that a higher Power is at work, providing they are willing to think about the extraordinary phenomena which the last days before the end entail. However, they are far too worldly minded and pay no attention to the former; they despise and pursue the believers and inflict serious difficulties and hardship on them through which only God's obvious support helps them to persevere. For God's working among His Own will be so evident that they will firmly unite and offer resistance to all worldly onslaughts; stronger in faith than ever they will completely hand themselves over to God and His guidance, so that they will neither fear earthly adversity nor death and therefore also find it easier to bear the pressures of the last days. Where God has manifested Himself once no target will exist for God's adversary anymore, for their faith can no longer be shaken. And God will be close to His Own, just as He has promised .... He will provide them with comfort and strength; He will educate them and promise His impending arrival, He will impel them into increased activity of love, for His presence, whether in an earthly or spiritual sense, will fill them with love for Him and their fellow human beings and therefore also with strength .... But the time of the end will necessitate God's evident working for this, too, will contribute towards the separation of the spirits. It will provide those who are still half-hearted and undecided with the opportunity to decide which camp they want to belong to, since they will still be given a final impetus for this. They will be able to convince themselves of the strength of faith which will master even the greatest earthly adversity and thereby change their attitude towards God by establishing the right relationship with Him. Where God visibly manifests Himself there will be peace and hope despite all the misery, and since the believers' fate is an extraordinarily difficult one, this will surprise the unbelievers. Anyone who pays attention to His Word, who listens to His servants on earth, will change his will and then every willing soul will be seized and helped by God in His love and mercy and will be saved from eternal darkness .... He will revive their hitherto weak faith and give them strength to persevere until the end, until He will come in the clouds and fetch the flock of His devout followers to Himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Rage of satan at the end ....

B.D. 5382 from May 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Satan will rage incomparably at the end of days because he knows that his time is over. He believes that he will still win the victory in the short time left because all signs among people speak in his favour. He has the majority in his power and this determines him to take action against Me with open sights. He openly attacks Me, he does not shy away from acting against Me with brutality, he uses means which alone characterize him as an enemy of souls, for he seeks to exert coercion by driving the body into extreme adversity so that the soul will succumb to his pressure. The adversity will be overwhelming and fill the weakly believing people with doubt .... Yet it shall not make you waver, and therefore you will also experience such visible strengthening and comfort from My side, you will experience things which will make you rejoice and be glad even in greatest earthly adversity .... You will be allowed to see Me Myself and also be able to speak to Me. You will feel My presence in many ways, which will never remain without impression on you and enable you to resist all challenges by My adversary and earthly power. You will certainly have to struggle, yet the battle will not depress you but revive your strength, for you know that you are fighting for a holy cause and this knowledge has become a conviction in you, your faith is firm and can no longer be shaken. And if I tell you this, then you may confidently expect what is to come and always be certain of My help. I still require great soul work from you on those who are weaker than you, and therefore I predict all this so that you will not become fickle when all earthly signs are recognizable, when earthly power brutally acts against the believers, when it also begins to look threatening for yourselves .... All this must come, for these are My adversary's weapons which he has sharpened .... Yet you need not fear Me as long as you acknowledge Me as your commander, as long as you allow yourselves to be protected by Me through your will to belong to Me eternally and not to deny My name. The power of the enemy of your soul fails due to this will of yours, and he will be defeated by you even if he pushes it to the limit. For I Myself come and capture him when there is utmost danger, but I will not let you fall into his hands who believe in Me and want to be faithful to Me. The time is near when all this will happen, and it cannot be urged upon you urgently enough to gather strength for these days of adversity, to maintain the connection with Me and to fetch the strength from My word, which you can receive unmeasured if only you want it. And don't forget that I am always there for you, no matter how often you call Me, but don't forget that I also want to be called .... For I am constantly willing to help and give, yet My gifts shall also be desired in order to be able to be of true help to you .... With giant strides it is coming to an end .... Make full use of the short time and you will easily be able to fight the last battle on this earth if only you make use of My strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unbelief before the end .... Satan's activity ....

B.D. 7074 from March 27th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Humanity will perish in its ungodliness, although it is visibly supported by My adversary, hence gaining earthly power and wealth, knowledge and fame. For it is and will remain worldly profit which is not permanent, which keeps the souls in utter poverty and destitution and returns them to the same painful state of fate again that they had to suffer for an infinitely long time. People want to deny a God and Creator, convinced of their own strength and intelligence they attribute every earthly success to their own intellect and work and yet are merely controlled by the one who wants to displace Me from people's hearts and mind. They don't believe in a God nor do they believe in Satan's existence, nevertheless, they are in his power. And when the time comes when all faith will dwindle because people are only influenced in this godless direction, the moment will also have come when the adversary's activity will be stopped .... Everything points to the fact that My adversary rules the world, that he impels people to use their energy purely for earthly goals, that he pushes everything of a divinely-spiritual nature so far away that people won't make an effort to reach it .... He works on them directly or indirectly, he either openly fights against the faith or he showers people so abundantly with earthly possessions that they detach themselves from Me of their own accord so as not to be deprived of their earthly pleasures, instinctively realising that both together cannot be granted to them. They abandon Me without a second thought, for the world is too enticing and alluring that they cannot resist the temptation. It will also remain a futile undertaking trying to teach people otherwise, since such admonishing voices will be drowned out by the opposing side, because they will be silenced .... if not in another way then by force .... The poisonous seed is already being scattered on the still empty ground, that is, the children are already being given a completely wrong idea about the purpose of their existence, and each tender little plant which turns to the light anyway will be stifled .... the poisonous seed will render it incapable of living. The human being is already guided into wrong thinking as a child and, with the use of clever words, My adversary understands how to gain credibility. And where his cunning is not enough he will use force, for he is in charge of the ruling powers which assert themselves where no firm foundation of faith was built, which will subsequently also stand up to all onslaughts.

However, I also speak a language which is loud enough that it cannot be ignored .... at first in the form of all kinds of tragic events which should show every person the transience of earthly happiness and worldly possessions. And I will speak more distinctly still but will only be successful with those who have not fallen prey to My adversary as yet. Untold people will end their life on earth in this godless state, engulfed by impenetrable darkness which is inconceivable for you humans. But it was created by themselves, it is the inevitable result of their unbelief in a God and Creator; it is the fate awaiting the souls of all people who submit to My adversary and don't try to remove their separation from Me. It is their own fault, for every person with a serious will for truth is capable of deliberating .... no-one is forced to adopt his fellow human being's or the ruling powers' opinion, because every person's thoughts are free and he can also use his intelligence. If he does so with the desire for truth and justice, he will also be granted correct thinking by Me and he will find the truth within himself. Therefore I will always influence people's thinking through unexpected strokes of fate which no-one will be able to defend himself against, for I will not yet give up the fight for each individual soul. As long as a person lives on earth I will also create opportunities for him to attain the right realisation but I will not use force .... just as My adversary cannot forcibly achieve a turning away from Me, even if the earthly authorities take coercive measures .... For I only pay attention to the human being's will, his inner attitude towards Me. And every thought inclined towards Me will receive strength and help the soul to detach itself from My adversary. Yet success will not be great in terms of numbers, but every single soul which does not descend into the deepest abyss again is a gain for Me .... And therefore My love will do whatever it takes in order to still save those before the end which are not yet entirely in My adversary's hands, in order to restore their faith in a God and Creator of eternity Who wants to give His living creations a life in freedom, strength and light again which they possessed in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Faithlessness in the end time .... confess ....

B.D. 8847 from August 29th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

The great hardship you are in results from the fact that you find it difficult to establish a deep inner bond with Me, that you do not respect your God and creator, apart from a few for whom I have become their purpose in life. And I will also take care of these few; I will remember them and reward them their loyalty. And they will be led through all dangers because that a time is coming where all of you are in danger, that is certain. And your own (right) attitude towards Me will then also secure you My protection. I Myself will then be your guide, to whom you are then to devote yourselves trustingly, so that you do not fall a victim to the counter power. Because there will still be a great struggle for you on the part of My opponent, who wants to cause all to follow him, but to whom you then are also to offer resistance. And you can only then bring this about when you join Me more than ever, when you turn your will towards Me very obviously, so that he cannot approach you, and when you loudly confess Me before the world. Then he has lost you for eternity, you have become My confessors, you have fulfilled the last task on this earth .... and used yourselves for Me and My kingdom .... And this task still lies ahead of you, to confess Me openly before the world .... It will demand strong courage from you but you will also muster it because you know about the pure truth, because it was given to you so clearly and plausibly through My greater than great love and for the sake of the pure truth you will also represent it before the world .... And you will experience how easily your fellow human beings give away their faith because this faith will be torn to pieces for them and because they then recognize the decrepitude of that what up to now seemed untouchable to them .... except for the few who advocate it out of fanaticism but do not have the inner conviction that it is the pure truth .... And so My opponent will succeed in attacking the faith, he will succeed in convincing the intellectually minded to break away from their faith, because these do not let the spirit speak in them, which well would like to instruct them differently. And if a spirit-awakened man does not have access to that one that he succeeds to cause him to other thinking, then he unhesitatingly gives away everything what he possessed, and also the little what he still could represent as truth. Nevertheless My light will assert itself; it will shine brightly out into the world, and who possesses this light, he also stands firm in faith; he stands up convinced for the spiritual good, which he has received out of My hand, and he will also still win few, who now seriously consider what is demanded of them and what is now right .... And the ones who are Mine are only to let their light shine out; they are to miss no opportunity to light a light in the hearts of the willing; they are to know that they can still bring salvation to many who will then also pass the last fight when they are in possession of the pure truth out of Me .... For I speak to you incessantly so that the number of those increases who come into the direct blessing of My word. For these will withstand all oppressions of My adversary; they will fetch power for confessing out of My word itself, and the inner conviction that they stand in truth lets them speak fearlessly and offer defiance to all onslaughts. And so the small flock of My loyal ones will assert themselves until the end; they will hope for help in greatest trouble, and I will not let them down, because they have supplied Me with the proof, so that I now can transfer them into the paradise of the new earth .... They have remained loyal to Me and have truly earned a fate in bliss which the new earth will prepare for them. But it is only a small flock, which I can fetch home into My kingdom; they are only few, measured by the immense number of the faithless, who no longer have the possibility to enter the kingdom on the other side, because this keeps its gates closed. The lack of faith has taken on such forms that a banishment in matter can no longer be avoided, that they all again have to go the course through the creations of the new earth and that there is no mercy for these because they behaved as real devils towards My loyal ones in the times of the end. And so then also the lot will be given to them .... the new banishment again for endless long time ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Battle of faith .... The coming of the Lord ....

B.D. 3569 from October 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Anyone professing the church of Christ will be treated by the world with hostility and his fate on earth will be difficult, albeit only for a short time, for as soon as the adversity seems beyond endurance, God will rescue His Own and all adversity will end. And God always points out the end to the believers, so that they will bear up against the external onslaught, so that they will faithfully persevere until God delivers them. He will inform them long in advance how Satan will rage and He will promise His Own His protection, so that they recognise the truth of His Word and remain firm in their resistance. If the believers therefore recognise the truth of the divine Word by the progression of world events, by the progression of the battle of faith and the earthly ruling powers' brutal disposition, they will defend His Word even more eagerly, because it will deepen their faith to such an extent that human measures will no longer be able to shake it. And they will receive strength from God, according to their will and their faith, and thus endure the difficult time, for God will not let those down who want to remain faithful to Him unless He still recalls someone into His realm before the end of this earth, if his physical end has come in accordance with divine purpose. However, He needs staunch representatives of the church of Christ during the last days, so that the separation of the spirits can take place. He requires people who proclaim His Word and preach Christ's doctrine of love to the unbelievers, and this without fear and inhibition, so that the unbelievers shall recognise the strength of faith and be shaken up from their spiritual lethargy once more, so that they will still be able to change their mind in the last hour and take the path to Christ, Who alone can bring them salvation, Who alone can redeem them by strengthening their will to liberate themselves from evil and to strive towards God. The fact that the strength of faith is visibly pointed out to the unbelievers are the final means of grace; even so, very little use is made of them because humanity is entangled in Satan's web of lies, because it pays excessive homage to the world and sees its goal of life in exuberant pleasure. And therefore the end will soon happen to you .... and you can recognise this by the fact that faith is being fought against in a way which can truly be called satanic. Then the followers of Christ should unite and together wait for the Lord's help and His coming, for every day and every hour could be the last one, because earthly adversity will become so severe that it will necessitate God's immediate appearance, so that the promises will come true which God gave to people through His Word .... that He will deliver His Own from utmost adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Jesus’ coming in the clouds and the rapture of the steadfast in faith

Coming in the clouds .... Last days ....

B.D. 3707 from March 8th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

My coming in the clouds will be preceded by a time of the most awful suffering ever seen on earth, as proclaimed in Word and Scripture. I will constantly draw people’s attention to this and have done so ever since the start of this era in order to strongly advise those who are not walking the right path to change their mind. For the sake of these humans I used to occasionally let plagues come upon earth to remind them of the approaching end so that they seriously consider their souls and change themselves. But the last days had not yet arrived, the period of redemption had not yet reached the time chosen by Me in accordance with My plan of eternity. The earth was not yet ready for the last work of destruction, neither were people’s souls ready for their total downfall, i.e. for their banishment into the creations of a new earth .... But My prophecies would always fulfil themselves in times of greatest spiritual hardship .... when increased affliction and misery came upon earth, so that during each time of such hardship the approaching end had to be dreaded. And it was My intention that the precise time of the last days should always remain hidden from people .... Such times of need were also more or less successful for the people involved as they found their way back to Me and entered into a different relationship with Me than before. But they became ever more persistent, and their distance, their opposition, from Me grew ever larger ....

And thus the time has arrived when no description, no admonition and warning will have an effect, when humanity remains unimpressed even in the light of utmost worldly suffering, i.e. when the latter does not lead to people recognising Me and entering into the right relationship with Me .... Their will remains opposed to Me, they are purely earthly minded and do not strive for any kind of spiritual progress. No adversity, irrespective of how harsh it is, will be able to change people’s thoughts, and thus the time of the end has irrevocably come, as I have known since eternity .... The earth has ceased to be a place of spiritual education for its inhabiting humanity, and as a result it will be dissolved and its creations totally reshaped, so that a new period of redemption can begin .... And thus enormous suffering will come upon earth, so that the last people can still gather who recognise My voice therein. And even My Own will have to experience this suffering, although extraordinarily strengthened by Me but also affected by it so that they longingly anticipate My coming, which I always and forever proclaimed for the end of this earth. And when the hardship gets unbearable, when the believers find themselves in greatest distress and see no earthly way of rescue, I will come Myself ....

And there will be rejoicing amongst My Own when they see Me in all glory, but for their physical eyes still veiled by clouds which soften the intensity of My light, so that My Own, who still belong to the earth, will be able to endure Me. They will be triumphant and shout for joy because My Word has come true .... But the immense hardship, which I have announced time and again through My seers and prophets, through My servants on earth, will have strengthened their faith. Because everything will come to pass as I have foretold, and thus they will wait for My coming in the clouds with complete confidence .... And yet I will arrive suddenly and unexpected even for My Own .... For I will shorten the days of suffering because they will become intolerable and I do not want My Own to grow faint-hearted in view of the immense difficulties. And thus I will take them into My realm at the right time, and then the end will come .... Because My Word is truth and will come to pass, and the time of the last days has arrived ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Coming in the clouds .... Rapture .... End ....

B.D. 4531 from January 4th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

And I will come to you to carry you into My kingdom .... Remember this promise during your hours of distress and wait for Me and My help, firmly believe that I will come as your Saviour when the adversity becomes insufferable. And don't be afraid, for I Am stronger than the one who wants to ruin you. You should know that it would be easy for Me to destroy him; yet nothing would be achieved by this for his many followers would continue his work if they were not destroyed as well. This, however, is not acceptable, for that which came forth from My creative spirit will continue to exist forever, it cannot cease to exist because it is everlasting strength from Me. Nevertheless, I will rescue you from his power by banishing him and all those who are enslaved by him. You, however, will be led into the kingdom of peace where you will live as if you were in paradise, until I return you to the new earth which you then shall populate according to My will. No-one will believe this promise, this prophesy, for when I come in the clouds I will repeal the natural laws by lifting you up to Me in the flesh before your fellow human beings' eyes who succumbed to My adversary. They will effectively experience something unnatural, which they currently don't want to believe in.

But you, who are My Own, you know that nothing is impossible for Me, and therefore you also know that I can stop or revoke natural laws if it benefits My eternal plan of Salvation, thus you also know that there will be an end and that you are living in the last days before the end. Consequently you do not doubt this proclamation either, which I imparted to humanity at the beginning of this period of Salvation. You consider it possible, and you should firmly believe it, so that you subsequently will be able to survive the difficult time, always thinking and hoping for my assured help and My coming from above. Regardless of what evil people will do to you, don't take offence, for they will receive their punishment which will be bitter indeed. They will see you being lifted up before their eyes while death is lurking around them and they will be unable to escape in any direction; they will be devoured by the earth and be granted a wretched fate on the new earth. You, however, will receive your just compensation, all hardship will have come to an end, you will live in freedom and with joy on the new earth amid a paradise, amid love and in direct contact with Me, Who will often stay amongst the people who have become love. And this is the end which was predicted by seers and prophets time and again, which was announced ever since the beginning of this epoch of Salvation so that humanity will believe. Yet no-one takes these predictions seriously, nevertheless, the day will come when all this will happen and the last Judgment will occur, as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Rapture ....

B.D. 6681 from October 30th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

Time and again you will receive clarification through My Word concerning spiritual problems which you are unable to work out by yourselves .... where My spirit has to intervene if your thinking is to be correct, thus correspond to the truth. Only truth has a beneficial effect, the soul cannot derive any advantage from misguided thinking, instead it will even thicken its surrounding layer because misguided thinking does not originate from Me but from My adversary. Yet people are not always capable of accepting the pure truth unveiled, like children they sometimes have to be taught by way of images and parables which, however, nevertheless entirely correspond to the truth. And wherever this is the case My adversary likewise seeks to intrude and distort these images and parables to prevent people from thinking correctly. And thus it necessitates enlightenment through the spirit in order to provide a correct explanation or to enable someone to understand what was offered to people in a veiled form, what seers and prophets predicted on My instructions. Humanity's spiritual state demanded such veiled portrayal, because the unveiled truth would have seemed utterly implausible to those who had not recognised people's spiritual development as their purpose on earth and therefore My written Word .... the Book of the Fathers .... would also have been completely discarded, since the events at the end, had they been portrayed unveiled, would not have found belief and thus given rise to total rejection of My Word. I have always prevented an unveiled description of the final events but always provided explanations if they were needed. But as a result there are also various opinions represented amongst people and everyone endorses his own according to his spiritual state, yet only an 'enlightened spirit' will think correctly and be able to 'unveil' the 'veiled' truth!

The end is near .... and only a few people will be able to observe the developments at the end, because they shall inform the coming human generation on the new earth of My Power and Glory, of the conclusion of the old and the beginning of a new period of Salvation. These few, however, will be lifted away by Me from earth as soon as the end has come. But when this happens much wailing and lamenting will arise on earth, for this 'process of rapture' will be seen by all people on earth and triggers .... because it is beyond natural law .... immense terror, for then the people staying behind will know that they will become victims of destruction. These people will not see My coming in the clouds because I cannot be visible to those who adhere to My adversary .... Only My Own will be able to see Me and, full of joy and praise, stretch out their arms towards Me .... And I will lift them up to Me before their fellow human beings' eyes. And just a few will cry out to Me in intense distress, not driven by fear but in sudden realisation and utter remorse .... I know them and address them time and again, they merely need a profound shock in order to surrender their resistance and hand themselves over in their hearts .... And these are the people who will 'arise from their graves' in order to also be taken away from the earth, because I know their hearts, they call upon Jesus Christ with profound faith in Him and His help and thus they will find redemption from sin and death. And the graves will still release many .... Dead people who will arise into life .... People who will be more impressed by the final events on this earth than they care to admit, where only the lid will have to be pushed aside from the grave, which will be achieved by the tremors at the end .... But what will still happens before that can yet contribute towards the awakening of dead souls, for hell will spew out its most evil demons .... And elevated beings will descend from the kingdom of light and the struggle for people's souls will be plain and observable by My Own, who will then experience the exposure of what had previously only been announced to them in a veiled form ....

Amen

And the scales will suddenly fall from the eyes of My Own, for then they will understand what hitherto had remained concealed to them but what the spiritually awakened person essentially understood. But since people are particularly strongly attached to matter in the end, the knowledge about My 'plan of Salvation' for redeeming the souls will also be little known .... And this alone is the key to all revelations which were given to people in a veiled form. People are unaware of individual periods of Salvation even if they believe in a justification, a last Judgment, and in an end of the world. And according to this knowledge they try to interpret the revelations which relate to this end. And the more intellectually they do so, the more confused become their results. My spirit, however, reveals to them in most simple terms the signs as well as the happenings at the end .... And the rapture of My Own will be the last process taking place on this earth before its destruction, before the complete change of this earth's external shape, which will wipe out all life on it. It is not as if there will still be a long time afterwards in which people can discuss this happening .... for this would undeniably signify compulsory faith for those left behind, no human being would then be able to close their mind to the realisation of a living God and be forced to believe in Him. Yet I don't use such means in order to gain this faith, consequently the end will come as soon as I fetch My Own from this earth. The horror of this will coincide with the horror of certain death facing those who are left behind, for the earth will open up and flames burst through, people will feel paralysed and incapable of thinking apart from the few which only need a small incentive to recognise Me and call upon Me in utmost need .... But they are known to Me and therefore I will have mercy upon them and their souls will not have to share the agonising fate of the others ....

Whatever will come to pass, it was only possible to give people an illustrative prediction, for they would never have understood it as long as My eternal plan of Salvation could not be explained to them. And people's low spiritual state did not allow for this .... My Word, however, has always been preached to people, and My Word urged them to be lovingly active. Complying with My Word, complying with My commandment of love would have guided you humans into realisation and thus also into the knowledge of My plan of Salvation. In that case they would have understood the symbolic descriptions, which certainly were understood by those whose life of love had resulted in spiritual enlightenment. Yet the nearer it gets to the end the more people's thinking will become confused and the more mysterious are the images which their intellect is now trying to decipher. People should only ever try to keep to what I Myself told them while I lived on earth .... They should accept My Words and live accordingly, and they would be surprised to realise that they are becoming enlightened, that they fully understand everything which so far had been ambiguous to them .... for then My spirit can work in them and kindle a bright light for them. However, anyone who believes himself capable of gaining realisation through eager studies yet neglects to live according to My will, will never attain realisation. He will lose himself in ever more erroneous thinking and no matter what he believes himself to have discovered .... he will have to discard it again and find no illumination within himself. Only My commandments of love and their fulfilment ensure your correct thinking, and in that case every Word, every prediction and every indication about the end will be understandable to you, for then you will be enlightened by My spirit, which never errs and always guides you into truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

End and Rapture .... Paradise of the new earth ....

B.D. 7687 from September 1st 1960, taken from Book No. 81

A blissful fate in the paradise of the new earth is awaiting those of you who will stand firm during the last battle of faith, who will remain faithful to Me until the end. It will certainly still be a difficult time for you but you will be able to prevail, for you will receive an exceptional flow of strength from Me, you will be so evidently taken care of by Me and My love that you will patiently accept all difficulties and profess Me and My name before the world. You and your strength of faith will also lift those of your fellow human beings' who are still of weak faith. They will recognise My might and strength if only a person has living faith in Me. But you should not stay with Me for the sake of reward, instead your love for Me should motivate you to resist all hostilities by the adversary. And you will indeed possess this love in view of the distinct help, the love, which I Myself will prove to you .... Then burning love for Me will arise in you and nothing will be able to frighten you anymore, nothing will be able to separate you from Me, Who is and wants to remain your Father, Who wants to transfer you as His children into the paradise of the new earth .... and Who therefore will help you until the very end. And I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own .... This promise shall be your comfort when you look at the chaos around you, when you are subjected to persecutions which originate from My adversary and affect all those who believe in Me. Don't let yourselves be misled by the promises of those who don't want to acknowledge Me .... don't let yourselves be deceived by their apparent good living standard and don't desire it yourselves, for My adversary and his followers will not be able to enjoy it for long .... Everything will cease to exist on the Day of Judgment, and only you will survive this day and be allowed to enter the kingdom of peace when I will carry you away before their very eyes.

And so that you will remain strong in your resistance, so that you will remain loyal to Me until the end, I will fortify you in every adversity of body and soul .... And I will also visibly come to you, if your strength of faith and your love allows for it .... I will provide you with such remarkable strength and comfort that you will be firm enough to resist and that you will also live through the short time without incurring the slightest damage to your body and soul .... For My power is truly great enough to protect you in every adversity and danger. Therefore, if you are unusually put under pressure for the sake of your belief you can count daily on My coming .... Then you will know that the Day of Judgment is not far away anymore, and then wait in love and patience, for I have promised My help to you and I will rescue you from all distress. You don't know how close you are to the end and the day and hour will remain a secret to you as well; but pay attention to the signs which proclaim the end to you .... and you will realise that you are living in the twelfth hour and that time flies. This is why you should make use of it to the best of your ability and always remain in contact with Me so that you will constantly receive strength and increase your strength of faith and your love for Me .... I will truly save you from destruction if only you have the will to belong to Me, therefore I will also give you the strength to prevail until the end or I will recall you before, so that you will not fall prey to My adversary in your weakness .... For as soon as your will applies to Me I shall no longer leave you to My adversary but take hold of you and draw you up to Me .... Yet blessed is he who experiences the end, who will remain loyal to Me and profess Me before the world .... I want to endow him with the delights of paradise, I want to transfer him onto the new earth when the Day of Judgment has come .... and all adversity and suffering will be over for him, he will live in peace and beatitude and I Myself will be with My Own, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New banishment and transformation of the earth

The concept of 'hell' .... Renewed banishment .... God's infinite love ....

B.D. 6638 from September 7th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Even the most depraved living creation is a child of My love. Therefore it also has My unabated care to return to Me one day, even though it will have to travel a far longer path in order to bring itself into line with Me and My fundamental nature. But I will not let it fall, and whatever can be done on My part will be done by Me in order to help the creature to recognise and change itself. However, the distance is often so vast that the opposing force has greater influence and My illumination of love remains ineffective. For this reason it may also take eternities until it comes a little closer to Me but I will never abandon it .... However, when we talk about hell this relates to an accumulation of such depraved living creations in the beyond, which had already passed through earthly life with negative results and which continued to descend ever further in the beyond because they submitted themselves to My adversary anew .... Therefore, before a renewed banishment of the creations on earth takes place, which always signifies the beginning of a new era of Salvation, these adherents of Satan move within spheres where they can indulge in their most evil passions, where they inflict all kinds of evil deeds on each other and where constant fighting and arguing prevail and where they always try to draw weaker beings into their domain .... hence where they, on instructions of My adversary, act such that they will sink ever deeper. These places have no boundaries; hell is, in a manner of speaking, wherever such deeply fallen beings congregate, where they rage against each other .... on account of which one can also speak of on earth of hell and of states of hell when evil-minded people are hostile towards each other and wreak all kinds of havoc. All these beings are nevertheless My living creations on whom I take pity and whom I would like to release from their sin and their bondage to My adversary, for they are still wholly under the influence of the one who rose up against Me and who also incited all of his created beings to revolt against Me so that they, too, apostatised and became wretched.

But they had also been My children because they emerged from My strength which permeated My adversary without limitation and which enabled him to create these beings in the first place. Therefore My love also belongs to these beings no matter how deep they have sunk .... which will now also explain to you humans why a new creation of earth will have to take place. For I Am just as concerned about these unhappy creatures in the deepest abyss as I Am about the people on earth .... I also want to prepare a path again for those which have already languished under My adversary's control for an infinitely long time; I want to wrest them away from him and constrain them once more in solid matter so that their path will go upwards again, so that the immense resistance they still offer Me will slowly wane .... My love for those having descended remains unchanged and will never diminish either, but there is no other way to demonstrate My love than through a renewed banishment into earthly creations, there is no other way to achieve success or their return, therefore it follows that a transformation of earth is necessary, as I always and forever proclaimed to you. Only love determines My every activity and reign throughout the universe, even if you humans are unable to detect love therein .... Sooner or later you will understand My plan of Salvation and give thanks and sing your praises to the One Who also guided you out of darkness and death, Who wants to give happiness to all beings which emerged from Him .... and Who, with invariable love, also considers those which require His love most urgently because His adversary is keeping them enslaved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New banishment inevitable for the adversary's followers ....

B.D. 8430 from March 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

My eyes rest full of pity on the degenerated human race which is controlled by My adversary and unwilling to pull itself away from him. It has willingly surrendered to him and thereby denies Me the right to intervene effectively, for I will not proceed against My adversary's will, since you want to belong to him yourselves. Yet he keeps drawing you ever further down, he is preparing your downfall, for you will fall back to the depths from which you started your process of development across earth and had to pass through all creations in order to one day finally exist as a human being. And now the same fate will be granted to you, since this is what you want and you are doing nothing to escape from his power. And even though this information is presented to you, you don't want to believe it, and there is almost no other way left to change your thinking unless the tremendous affliction, which will befall the entire earth before the end, can still achieve it. As long as you are able to think there is still the possibility that you will spend some thought on yourselves, that you will consider the death of your body and wonder what will happen afterwards .... Yet by and large you will dismiss such thoughts, you don't believe in anything at all and assume that you will cease to exist when your body dies.

But you are hugely mistaken and will have to pay heavily for this mistake, however, you refuse to accept a truthful explanation and cannot be forcibly influenced either. And faced by a serious crisis you just revolt against the power which inflicts this on you, for as soon as you are in serious trouble you gladly blame someone else for it, even if you yourselves deny a God and Creator .... Yet you cannot stop misfortunes and have no option but to acknowledge a power which is stronger than you are .... Consequently, such strokes of fate and extraordinarily severe adversity are the only means left which could still change your way of thinking, and I have to use them in view of the end and considering the fate, which I would like to avert from you .... Don't feel sorry for people who suddenly have to depart from this life, for they will still be able to find some light in the beyond, if they are not already completely enslaved by My adversary and then also sink into the abyss in order to be banished into matter yet again .... But woe to those who will experience the end without having changed their conduct of life, their thinking and their unbelief .... They cannot be saved anymore, and even the greatest mercy on My part, My infinite love for all My living creations, will be unable to avert the fate of a new banishment for them, because it is the only option for the soul to attain perfection one day when, after an infinitely long time, it lives on earth as a human being again and consciously travels the path to Me in order to become liberated from every form.

And this new banishment amounts to a deed of love on My part, because I will seize this soul from My adversary's power and subordinate it to My will again. And as a human being it will only be able to release itself from him if it consciously calls upon Jesus Christ to be redeemed .... And since people on earth no longer believe in Him and appeal to Him for help, they cannot be released from the adversary's control either, and he invariably will pull them down into his domain .... Yet you humans have free will and thus are just as able to direct it towards the divine Redeemer as to him .... and you would be saved for eternity .... Since you don't do so you will consequently also have to accept the results of your opposing will towards Me.

But time and again I will impart the relevant information to you, I will speak to every one of you through the voice of conscience, and I will make him realise the fleeting nature of all worldly pleasures and commodities, I will let him personally experience suffering and adversity .... And finally I will speak to him through the elements of nature .... Yet I will not force his will, and therefore he only has to blame himself for the fate he is approaching .... I would like to bestow him with unlimited happiness .... He himself, however, chooses the state of wretchedness, the state of utter torment and of being constrained. And thus he will receive what he desires, for his inclination toward earthly matter will result in his own banishment into hardest matter again. For although I have every power at My disposal, I will not forcibly influence the will of a self-aware being or I would be in breach of My law of order, which will never be possible .... Yet I will speak to people until the end, and anyone who pays attention to My Words will be saved from the fate of a new banishment, and he will thank Me eternally that My love pursued him until he changed himself ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Total change earthly and spiritually ....

B.D. 3204 from July 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Extensive changes are at hand in the physical as well as in the spiritual realm .... because the unavoidable spiritual upheaval also calls for a total earthly change in every way. This first occurs in the creations of nature which have to be completely transformed since their present structure is no longer adequate for the spirit’s process of maturity. The spiritual substance which is now striving towards higher development has to travel the path of development in a shorter time than before and needs different forms to serve, although in a condition of constraint. And this change of nature drastically affects the human generation which lives on earth before its transformation. The preceding time will lack all order, there is a complete disintegration process even in respect to worldly issues; people will violate the divine order, they will carry out an extremely strong destructive will, there will be unsurpassed chaos and people will be entirely earthly minded except for a few who consciously pray for and receive divine mercy. And since an offence against the divine order ultimately has to result in destruction, it is obvious that everything in existence has to be, if not destroyed, at least transformed to restore order, which is absolutely essential for the development of the spiritual substances.

The creations of nature change in accordance with God’ will .... the human spirit, which previously had completely separated itself from God, will take these creations as their abode; and since the new period of redemption has a shorter duration than the previous one, the new creations will be of a completely different consistency than those of the old earth .... They will be somewhat harder and thus more compelling which is a far more agonising condition for the constrained spirit than any previous earthly progress has been. Thus the God-opposing will is intended to be shattered within a shorter period of time in order to liberate it for continuation of its evolutionary progress in other creations. As a result, the whole process of transformation also signifies a complete spiritual change.

The time will come when no opposing power can prevent the souls’ ascent because they have resisted temptations and trials and no longer require them. They have the degree of maturity which, in unity with God, has become a recipient of light and strength. They live a blessed and peaceful existence which is in fact eternal life, but experienced on earth because they will start a new human generation, which is necessary for the higher development of the immature spiritual substances in creation, i.e. they have to fulfil earthly tasks to help the still struggling spiritual substances to ascend. Thus it is a heavenly paradise on earth, and blessed is the person who is permitted to experience this peaceful state as an inhabitant of the new earth. It will be a time of calm, of peace, because the battle between light and darkness has temporarily ceased, darkness being the furthest distance from God and light being the closest proximity to Him. The furthest away from God is banished and requires a period of time for its redemption which ensures a peaceful spiritual life for those who are closest to God, which will be unimaginably beautiful for the human beings who survive the end of the old earth, because they had remained faithful to God during the previous extremely difficult time of battle and can now exchange the chaotic condition for a state of profound peace and divine order.

God’s spirit will govern them, His love will look after them, He Himself will stay as Father with His children audibly as well as visibly, and after the conclusion of the old era, which ends with the Last Judgment, a new period of redemption will begin .... And this Last Judgment amounts to the disintegration of everything on this earth .... solid matter, plant and animal life as well as the human generation shall experience a total change, as God’s love and wisdom has ordained and His omnipotence will bring about .... so that the God-opposing spirit will give up its resistance and change ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dissolution of the old earth and resurrection in the moment ....

B.D. 4719 from August 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 54

To dissolve the earth into its original components means a transferring back of the spiritual into the former lowest and most imperfect state, should the dissolution proceed in the same backwards sequence .... But a sudden dissolution means a becoming free of the bound spiritual out of form, therefore an unbound state for the spiritual, which however is not yet ripe for a free working. Thus the spiritual would misuse its freedom, it would let off steam and be active in a sense contrary to God, because it has not yet recognized God but is still subject to His adversary, to whom the destructive principle is inherent, who does not favour any construction and no meaningful upward development. Consequently, imperfect spiritual substances that have become free must soon be bound again in a form if the divine order is to be maintained and a chaotic state is to be avoided in the spiritual world as well. A reversion of the spiritual in the form of a downward development of the earth is impossible from God's point of view because His principle is always only construction and progress, since love determines all His rule and activity. If an unlawful dissolution of matter takes place through human will, God will soon give the released spiritual substance another form in which the upward development will continue. If an act of destruction takes place from God, through His will and His power, then this is not to be regarded as a decline of works of creation but a violent act of liberation again for the purpose of a new shaping of the bound spiritual, whose will of service is evident to God and which He now also takes into account. Even the last work of destruction on this earth, which is staged by human will, is in God's eternal counsel the cause of a mighty process of transformation for the entire spiritual, which is bound in the creations of the earth. The cause of the work of destruction is human will, but the effect of it is God's will, which is why the downfall of the old earth is also fixed in God's eternal plan of salvation, because all spirits, including the devils, are serviceable to Him, even if against their will. For God's adversary seeks to prevent any upward development, he seeks to tear back again that which has already come closer to God and to make it apostate from God and to plunge it into the depths. But God's plans and His power prevent what he is striving for .... It now emerges from all this that the new earth with its creations does not need a time of development, since spiritual substances in every stage, in every degree of maturity, are released through the downfall of the old earth and this released spiritual substance can therefore also soon take on the new forms which God assigns to it and which it also has to take on if a battle is not to break out between the spiritual substance, which would throw it far back again because it automatically pushes towards the one Whose will gave it life .... Thus the new emergence of the earth will not take a long time, a retrogression of the earth will not be the cause of the end, as is often wrongly assumed, just as no slow development of the new creation is necessary either. God will let a new earth come into being at the moment with all conceivable creations which testify to His creative will, His wisdom and His greater than great love and give evidence of His power and glory. And therefore people of this earth will be allowed to see the new miracle of creation, as well as they will remain faithful to God at the end of this earth period and will be raptured as a flock of the elect with a living body. They will be brought to the new earth and form the tribe of the new generation and will be allowed to experience miracles upon miracles, for they dwell in paradise in blissful communion with the light-filled spiritual and yet possess the memory of the old earth and the downfall ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last Judgment .... Act of love and righteousness ....

B.D. 6052 from September 15th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It is not just My righteousness alone which demands a recompense and therefore imposes the last Judgment upon the human race .... it is far more determined by My love which foresees its inevitable descent into the abyss and wants to put a stop to it. For even if the earth remained in its old form, even if I delayed the Judgment .... it would only damage people's souls which would not benefit thereby but enter into a darkness that would be impenetrable for an infinitely long time. The last Judgment on this earth is an act of love by Me too .... in My eyes this act is people's only salvation if I don't want to leave them entirely at the mercy of their destiny, i.e., to My adversary. It is, in the true sense of the word, a rescue mission which one day you will certainly understand but at your present low spiritual level do not appreciate. The last Judgment and the disintegration of this earth are, in fact, far more determined by My love than by My righteousness .... although this also will have to emerge so as to establish order again, since this is totally disrespected and has to lead to greatest chaos. The individual person can certainly still restore his own order again; he can still become aware of his task and his purpose and strive to live accordingly .... and the last Judgment will not affect him so much that he would have to dread it; for him, too, the last Judgment will only be a demonstration of love because he will be transferred into another life .... be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... a life which will make him happy. And in order to still achieve this with individual people I make it known time and again what the earth and its inhabitants will have to expect .... and good for him who takes these indications seriously and rearranges his life; good for him who will make the effort to live in divine order .... For he will also understand My last rescue operation and regard it as an act of love, since as a result of his life he will also gain the understanding for all events which will take place due to My will and My might.

Only I know the result of an utterly godless way of life, and this is why I must intervene, because My love wants to rescue everyone or provide them with the possibility to free themselves from Satan's control, which can only happen if I bind him Myself .... by putting an end to his activity .... The fact that innumerable people will lose their lives when the last Judgment on earth occurs may well seem cruel to you humans; but it is only an enforced interruption of that which will inevitably lead to death .... so that the souls will at least have the possibility to come back to life again one day .... while it is Satan's goal to keep you forever in his possession. My love, therefore, is the reason for the end of this earth and the destruction of all created beings thereon, and My righteousness will then place the spiritual substances into external forms which correspond to their conduct on earth .... I will put everything right again .... in accordance with My eternal order and will give all spiritual beings the external form they deserve. Only when you humans know the meaning and purpose of earthly life and your task will you find My reign and activity comprehensible, for there is more at stake than your physical life, it concerns the whole of eternity, it concerns the life of the soul for which spiritual death is the most appalling state. And I want to protect it from this death and therefore have to use means which make you doubt My love and yet are only based on My love. I cannot force you into another way of life, I can only admonish and warn you through My Word, which comes as a direct address to earth, and thus all people are being addressed by Me through the mouth of a servant devoted to Me .... I can only draw your attention to the consequences of a wrong way of life and with Words of love try to entice you to enter the right path .... If, however, all these reproaches are in vain, My sentencing Fatherly hand will have to intervene in order to protect you from the worst .... For order must be restored again on earth, so that it will become a place of education for the spiritual beings once more, so that the souls can fully mature according to their destination ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The end is determined by people themselves .... Low level ....

B.D. 3625 from December 12th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

My eternal decision included the end, and thus it will come without fail when people's low spiritual level demands it .... The end will therefore be preceded by a time when people distance themselves from Me of their own free will, so that I can no longer influence them with My strength of love because they will prevent it themselves. But where My strength of love stops, i.e. where it is no longer able to affect the spirit, that is where life .... activity .... will also come to an end. The spiritual being will descend into a state of solidification. This will be the result of insufficient strength, to which it will have shut itself off. The human being as such will still be in possession of vital energy, but since he will be using it in a completely wrong way during the last days, since he, instead of striving towards Me, will strive away from Me completely of his own free will, I will also have to take his vital energy away from him, which will therefore signify the physical end of countless spiritual beings which are embodied as human beings on earth and which, deprived of their final form of development, will subsequently completely solidify again, thus descend into weakness and darkness, until My love gives them a form once again in which their process of development can start anew. The spiritual being cannot live, thus be active, without an influx of strength, yet this strength will not flow to it against its will while it is in a state of free will. At the start of its incarnation as a human being the latter is certainly weak-willed, or his will is still undecided, and he can use the vital energy he is granted as a gift of grace in any way .... But once people have reached the lowest point when they no longer make use of this vital energy in order to attain spiritual strength, when they consciously resist the influx of strength from Me, I will also withdraw the energy of life from them .... They will have to repeat the process of development once more, which starts again with an utterly weak state in the most solid form, in hard matter, the overcoming of which takes an infinitely long time again .... I would like to spare the spiritual beings this long captivity, and therefore all conceivable means will be used by My love beforehand, yet people are beyond learning ....

If My servants explain their spiritual hardship to them, if they are reminded of the serious consequences of their unbelief , if their attention is drawn to the shortly approaching end, they close their ears. They don't believe in My eternal plan of Salvation, they don't believe in Me and My never-ending love and thus they precipitate the end themselves .... They not only remain on their low spiritual level but continue to descend ever further .... Their own will hastens the dissolution of that which shelters spirits, just as their own will lets the human being return to that which his soul had already overcome long before .... It is not My but people's own will which determines the end, yet I have foreseen this will for eternity and thus will constrain it once again because freedom of will is being misused. Anyone who has My Word knows about My love, he knows about My plan of Salvation to redeem the souls and he also foresees the end, for he recognises the spiritual hardship. Yet anyone who does not recognise this hardship is not imbued by My love, he is still in spiritual darkness and can hardly step out from this into the light of day. For he needs My Word to do so, the light which illuminates him and enriches his knowledge .... And he will understand the physical adversity of the time, which is caused by the immense spiritual hardship. Anyone who has My Word will expect the end with profound faith, for everything will come to pass as I proclaimed in Word and Scripture. Therefore, pay attention to My Word when it is imparted to you through My messengers .... pay attention to the Word which is conveyed to you from above, which guarantees you the absolute truth which originates from Me, the Giver of truth, and which I impart to you with all My love, so that you will find the path to Me through the Word, so that you will not be lost to My kingdom, so that you need not go through the process of development again, which would mean indescribable agony for your souls .... Pay attention to the Word so that you will belong to My Own, who will be spared at the end in order to enter the kingdom of peace, as I have promised ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s means of grace in the end time

God's means in the end times ....

B.D. 3164 from June 20th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

God uses the most effective means to win souls during the last days because His love still wants to bring salvation to the weak. Yet people are so far removed from faith that they try to explain even extraordinary working naturally rather than believing in God's strength, and therefore they will also pay little attention to the miracles in the last days, which are likewise only means to revive or strengthen faith. People of the last days are completely secularized, they don't believe in life after death, in a power Which holds them accountable and thus also not in an extraordinary manifestation of this power, they don't believe in the power of prayer, in a connection with the spiritual kingdom, and therefore they cannot be made aware of the last judgment either since they will only mock and reject such references. They believe to be completely enlightened and reject every spiritual conversation, which is why they also know nothing of the phenomena of the last days which are now taking place before their eyes and yet remain without impression. Yet even among these people there are those who have no opinion of their own and are, as it were, followers, and God remembers them and tries to draw their attention to them through all kinds of misfortunes. He informs them of His will through His word and makes them think about the events which move the whole world and clearly reveal the divine will. For if they are given indications of the end times from several sides they will pay attention to their arrival and they will not completely close their ears when God's will is made known to them. There are only a few of them, and yet God also courts these few, for He tries to win every soul in order to spare it a repeated walk on earth. The means God still uses as the last appear so unloving and cruel that it is difficult to present them to people as God's proof of love, and yet they can only be explained by God's great love .... For as soon as the end is imminent there is no more opportunity to mature on this earth, and the fate of souls which cannot be taught and which sin against the eternal deity anew through their will is such an extremely agonizing and merciful one that every saved soul is eternally grateful to its creator for the means His love has used. He sends His messengers to the weak, He tries to persuade the hardened to give up their resistance against Him through extraordinary suffering, and He tries to make the decision easy for those who are still undecided by providing proof through faithful people that faith carries strength within itself .... by letting them accomplish extraordinary things by calling upon His name and by bringing Himself close to people, revealing Himself to them in the word and announcing the end to them. He woos His living creations with all love, which are in danger of completely falling away from Him, and He uses every conceivable means, but He does not force them to comply with His ideas but leaves them complete freedom. Yet they will also have to bear the responsibility if they push away the loving hand which wants to seize them time and again before the end ....

amen

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What are 'means of grace'? ....

B.D. 6831 from May 15th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

In the last days before the end I will pour out My blessings in abundance. I will use all means of help just to awaken you to life before the end because I know what spiritual death involves for you when the end has come. You yourselves take no measures to bring your soul to life and completely blindly walk towards the abyss from which I, however, want to pull you back in order to spare you an even more dreadful fate. But since your free will has to be left to you I can only ever try to influence this will to change the direction of your goal yourselves, to turn around before it is too late. And therefore all means which intend to favourably influence your will are blessings .... gifts which you certainly don't deserve because you are still resisting Me, but which My love nevertheless gives to you because I take pity on your deluded state. And the abundance of My grace will pour itself out over you humans the more the end approaches. Every person will be placed into situations where his own strength, his earthly abilities, won't suffice to cope with them; every person will be urged by providence to take refuge in Me. I will not bypass anyone without knocking at the door of his heart. However, given that his will is always decisive My gifts of grace will rarely be noticed because the human being's thoughts vastly digress from Me and I will not force him to think differently. Daily life, however, provides people with so many indications that all people's bodies will die, and even if the individual person is not affected himself his fellow human being's fate should nevertheless cause him to think about his own death and influence his will to comply with his actual purpose of life beforehand .... Then he will also try to discover it, in which case he will already have used one blessing for his benefit ....

But what do people understand as 'blessings'? They often believe that they only need to use external means in order to gain a wealth of grace .... They don't realise that gifts of grace are offerings which only need to be used in order to help a person to ascend. They call ecclesiastical customs and traditions 'means of grace' which help them achieve beatitude and ignore My gifts of grace given copiously by My love and leave them unused .... as long as they do not seriously strive towards changing their nature and thereby also demonstrate that their will is directed towards Me. For the work of improving yourselves has to be done or a change of nature cannot take place. And it is My will that you should still achieve this before the end, that you should seriously decide to want to live a life of love, I only want that you , who live without love, won't continue on the path you have travelled so far .... All My means of grace, adversity and misery, disease and worry, all kinds of misfortunes and other harsh strokes of fate always only serve the purpose of making you realise your own weakness and to deliberately look for the bond with Me in order to then establish it through kind-hearted activity .... Then the means of grace will not have been without success, then they will have been used by you and then you will not have to fear the end either, because your path will no longer lead to the abyss but you will strive towards the right goal, to Me Myself, Who can only be reached through love. However, what you so often describe as means of grace is worthless as long as it does not motivate you to live a life of love. But love will be kindled in you as soon as you try to unite with Me .... And this is why My loving care only relates to your change of will, which is still held captive by the world, by My adversary .... If you are able to direct this will to Me then I will also have reached the goal, and you will have escaped the great danger of being devoured by the abyss in the end .... And everything that will still come upon you humans shall only bring about your change of will, so that it will turn away from My adversary and towards Me .... Then you will be saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s means of grace – working love and prayer

Means of grace love and prayer ....

B.D. 2750 from May 23rd 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

This is the most effective means of grace, that the human being practices love, for an activity of love provides him with immeasurable strength, and the strength from God is a grace which inevitably leads towards perfection. If the human being practices love he also strives for union with God, Who is love in Himself, and everything that calls for God will be seized by Him and given His grace. Man must give something if he wants to receive .... he must give love if he wants to receive love from God again. And God's grace is proof of His love, which is available to all people if only they want to receive. And they manifest their will through works of love, which then also secures them an abundance of grace. Another means of grace is prayer, which in turn expresses the will towards God .... which testifies to his helplessness, his weakness, in which the human being turns to God for His support, for strength or grace .... Whoever sincerely calls upon God for His help for his earthly way of life, whoever entrusts himself to Him in all his weakness, the father in heaven mercifully and full of love draws him to His heart, He provides for him, He supplies him with strength so that he can fulfil God's will, He constantly remains with him with His grace, and thus his life will also be a labour of love, because the strength from God stimulates love, because the strength from God is His emanation of love, which again impels to love. Love and prayer are the most effective means of grace which make a person's earthly path of life easier and ensure complete success for his soul. For God Himself is with those who live in love and take refuge in prayer, who are therefore in closest contact with Him and whom He will therefore never leave without help because they belong to Him, because they long for Him and have therefore found their way back to Him from Whom they originated. However, God also considers those people with His grace who are still distant from Him by constantly leading them to opportunities where they can acquire grace by constantly giving them the opportunity to take refuge in Him or to work in love .... However, He does not force people to do so, but leaves it up to them whether or not they should make use of the grace that flows to them. God's love and grace wants to encompass all people, yet the human will has to declare itself willing to utilize it, otherwise God's grace cannot flow to it, even though it is available to it unmeasured. People who have no connection with God through loving activity or conscious prayer do not feel God's grace so noticeably either, for what comes from God can only be felt in the heart; the strength from God only ever impels the heart to become lovingly active, only then does the life force come into action so that the human being carries out what his heart impels him to do. And thus all grace is the means to inner spiritual perfection .... Grace is an aid for the ascent of souls and is therefore only felt by those who desire to ascend .... The others, however, do not pay attention to it, they ignore it when the voice of the heart speaks to them and would like to impel them to work with love .... therefore, when God's grace wants to flow towards them, they close themselves off to it and do not utilize it, consequently it cannot become effective in them. But a person cannot reach spiritual perfection without God's grace, and therefore his spiritual degree of maturity remains low as long as he does not make use of God's grace .... as long as he does not ask for God's favour and acquire God's grace through eager loving activity. For these are the most effective means of grace, which inevitably lead man to the heights, which guarantee his perfection ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Active in love signs of God's presence ....

B.D. 6687 from November 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

The inner urge to be active in love is the surest sign that I Myself am present to you, for 'love' impels you and I Myself am love .... And I will constantly impel you to be active in love if you allow My presence within you, if you first unite with Me in prayer and thereby call Me to you .... And then you cannot but feel love, for you will be illuminated by My strength of love, you will be constantly urged by Me Myself to work with love. What a delicious assurance it is for you to know Me Myself present to you .... And therefore you will now also understand that unkindness also means being distant from God, that I cannot be where love has grown cold amongst people and that therefore little hardship is alleviated because people lack this inner urge to be lovingly active. And yet, this activity of love is the purpose of your earthly existence, for it means the transformation of your being or reshaping into what you were in the beginning. Every day of your earthly life is lived in vain which does not bring you one step closer to Me through love, for the purpose of earthly life is the approach to Me, the complete union with Me, which can only take place through love. And anyone who has kindled love within himself, who has kindled it into bright embers, can say with certainty that he has found Me, for where love is I Myself must be, because I am love, and where I Myself am present it is also possible to speak of the return to Me, which is the purpose and aim of earthly life. What bliss could people prepare for themselves already on earth where it is possible for them to completely unite with their God and creator, their father of eternity, through love? You only need to ask Me to come to you, to accept you .... and truly, this request would not remain unfulfilled for it is the purpose of life .... it is the conscious change of will towards Me from Whom you once turned away .... And as soon as you express this will to Me through your prayer, I take hold of you .... Your call attracts Me and lets Me be present to you, because this call also only comes from a loving heart .... And if My illumination of love touches your heart because it no longer offers any resistance, your heart will also ignite and then you will feel inwardly urged to be active in love, for then I Myself can be in you and My activity will always be love. And therefore the loving human being will also have inner peace, for it is I Myself Who smoothes all paths, Who always stands by your side, Who now takes care of you, to Whom you can safely hand yourselves over and in Whom you can trust that He will guide you safely and unharmed through earthly life .... You humans can all ignite the spark of love I have placed in you and let it flare up into a bright flame. And from that moment on you will all feel that I Myself am present to you, and then you can also be free from every anxious worry, for then you will have found the father and you will also walk the rest of your earthly path by the father's hand. But no human being can expect to be able to win Me Myself without prayer and without loving activity, for I keep Myself away from those who don't remember Me and whose actions only ever betray unkindness, for he is still full of opposition to Me, his nature has not yet changed, he is still a follower of My adversary who is devoid of all love .... But everyone has the opportunity to recognize Me and to change his nature into love, for I Myself step into every person's path, although I am not recognized by him, but I do not lack admonitions and warnings, I also illuminate the hearts of those people .... to kindle the spark of love in them with My warmth of love. But everyone must also allow the effect of love in his free will, he must give up his resistance against Me. Then I will also come to him and will not let up inwardly stimulating him into loving activity until he completely gives himself to Me and I have won him for ever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Means of grace .... Prayer ....

B.D. 6321 from July 29th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You humans make too little use of the blessings which flow to you. For I constantly approach you with gifts of grace, I offer them to you but you walk past them .... Why don't you call upon Me when you are in trouble .... why don't you use the prayer .... and why do you keep My Word unheeded which is conveyed to you from above through My servants on earth? .... You should believe that all adversity is merely a means I use in order to help you .... thus a grace from Me. You should believe that even the prayer is an unmerited grace, that I listen to you when you speak to Me, and that My Word is the most valuable gift of grace because it signifies the greatest help for you if you listen to what I have to say to you and to what helps you attain everlasting bliss .... Every means I use in order to help you from the abyss to the light is a gift of grace for you, because your negative attitude towards Me does not merit that My love permanently cares for you .... During the last days gifts of grace truly flow to you in abundance and no-one needs to go without, everyone can take as much as he likes, and he only needs to want to be helped in spiritual adversity and he will certainly receive help. Yet no gift of grace works without your willingness to make use of it .... Therefore I cannot change you, instead you must do this yourselves, your resolve must strive for spiritual progress and helpful steps will become visible everywhere which you can use in order to climb up. But you humans have a wrong concept of the word 'grace' .... You believe that these 'means' can already give you possession of strength and maturity of soul, you believe that formal traditions are 'means of grace' and are unaware of the actual meaning of grace ....

I love all people, even those who are still distant from Me, and I want to help all people to reach higher spheres .... This is why My care first concerns those who are entirely without contact to Me .... so that they will first of all speak to Me .... And therefore I will bring them into situations in which they should call upon Me in their adversity and suffering .... because this call will have a beneficial effect. Thus My love constantly creates new means in order to turn My apostatised living creations back to Me. And all means which are suitable to establish the bond between the human being and Me are means of grace, because they are undeserved gifts. And as soon as a person takes refuge in prayer he is asking for My grace, and then he will receive it without limit .... I will so evidently manifest Myself in his life that he will be able to gain a convinced faith, for through his prayer he has demonstrated his willingness to make use of My blessings, in which case they can also abundantly flow to him and be effective .... which always requires the person's free will .... And during the last days everyone can find the path to Me providing he wants to .... during the last days all people will be so evidently referred to their God and Creator, to a Guide and Helper .... And everyone can turn to this God and Helper of his own accord .... Every person can make contact with Me directly and derive incredible benefit from it .... yet he must be willing to do so, otherwise all gifts of grace remain ineffective and then the person will be hopelessly lost when the last day has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Bonding with God .... thoughts .... prayer .... work of love ....

B.D. 8040 from November 14th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Make contact with Me and I will truly no longer leave you out, I will no longer leave your side, I will guide you to your aim because then I will possess your will which is for Me .... I only want you to turn your thoughts to Him Who created you .... I only want you not to walk thoughtlessly through earthly life and only pay attention to the earthly world .... I want your thoughts to occasionally wander into the kingdom which you cannot see and which cannot be proven to you but which nevertheless exists and is everlasting, whereas the earthly world is a transient kingdom of which you cannot take possession forever. And since you know that you will have to die, that your life in this world will not last forever, you should also think about what will happen to you afterwards, and you should ask yourselves whether you yourselves will also perish completely or whether it will be possible for your actual self to become a living being .... for your soul .... there is a continuation of existence. If you seriously ask this question I will also answer it by giving your thoughts a direction which corresponds to the truth .... For I want to bless every spiritual thought if it is not negatively directed, because I want you to think correctly. But you can also establish the bond with Me through loving activity, even if you don't consciously acknowledge Me as yet, if your faith in a God Who wants to be your father is still weak or completely lacking .... As soon as you live a life of love your resistance will become weaker and weaker if spiritual knowledge is imparted to you which gives you knowledge of Me, your God and creator, Who seeks contact with you .... Love is the bond which joins us together; love is the light which illuminates your thinking; and love is the strength to be able to live a life according to My will .... And the latter means working in love again, which will inevitably awaken a living faith in you in Me, your God and creator of eternity. Your earthly life will never be an idle one if you unite with Me through thoughts, in prayer or through loving activity. For you shall only establish the bond with Me and you will be saved for time and eternity. For it was you yourselves who loosened this bond with Me and broke it off through your own will ..... But you are unhappy as long as you keep your distance from Me .... But I want your bliss and thus also your return to Me, I want you to unite with Me again .... and then you will also have escaped My adversary's power, for the will towards Me makes you free from him .... The serious will towards Me also soon earns you a light, and in this light you now also consciously walk the path which leads back into your father's house. However, anyone who refrains from any bond with Me, who only sees and desires the earthly world, his life will be an idle one, and he will stand on the same level at the end of his earthly life as he stood on at the beginning of his embodiment as a human being .... And there is a great danger that he will not take the path of ascent in the kingdom of the beyond either but will always sink more and more into the abyss and be banished into matter again when a period of redemption comes to an end and the 'judgment' comes .... where all spiritual substances will be transferred to where they belong according to their state of maturity .... I want to save all of you humans from this last 'judgment', I want to help you to find the path to Me before the end, and I will truly still do everything to inspire your hearts to love, to prompt you to earnest prayer to Me or to turn your thoughts towards the one Who gave you life .... I only want you to remember Me, to call upon Me so that I can take you by the hand, so that I can guide you until the end of your life .... Just seek to establish the bond with Me and truly, you will be saved for time and eternity. But don't live thoughtlessly into the day, for you only have a very short period of grace left which you should make use of for your soul's salvation .... I don't want to lose you, but you have free will .... Direct it correctly and turn it towards Me, and truly, it will only be a blessing for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual power supply through prayer and love work ....

B.D. 4495 from November 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Spiritual strength is necessary if the human being wants to free himself from the state which is a bound state as a result of the past apostasy from Me. This spiritual strength is available to everyone but it has to be requested through prayer or acquired through loving activity. Thus the human being's will must always have become active in order to make contact with Me. The human being can indeed accomplish works of love without conscious striving towards Me, without the intellect being involved, whereas the intellect is also active in prayer, which indeed produces a prayer without the involvement of the heart, which does not reach My ear, but in connection with the heart will always achieve what the human being asks for. Hence a call for the supply of strength, for My help, which comes from the heart, will always result in the supply of strength, and a person who is capable of intimately, i.e. in spirit and in truth, will inwardly feel urged to be lovingly active, for this is already My answer, proof of My spiritual strength flowing to him, that love awakens in him towards Me and also towards his fellow human beings and lets him carry out works of unselfish neighbourly love which earn him increased strength, and thus he can now redeem himself .... He breaks the shackle which has held his soul captive until now, it becomes free and now ceaselessly strives upwards, it pushes towards the spiritual kingdom, its true home .... it escapes the state of bondage, and it will use its will at all times according to My will because it has given up its resistance against Me. A thought turned towards Me can already earn you humans the strength to want what is right and to do what is right .... which is why you truly don't have to accomplish anything difficult in order to initiate the release from the bound state, it is only ever your will to establish the connection with Me in your heart, yet you have to muster this yourselves or you will act under compulsion, which cannot earn you success. Ask for strength and you will receive, for if you want to mature spiritually you will not make a wrong request. I help you to achieve the aim of becoming free from every form, to become free from the bonds of satan in order to be able to enter the original state again, to work and create as light, powerful beings in all freedom for your own happiness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Strength and grace in the last days ....

B.D. 3750 from April 23rd 1946, taken from Book No. 47

From now on it will depend on My supply of strength and grace as to whether you master your earthly life, whether you are able to endure all difficulties which you have to take upon yourselves for the salvation of your souls. But My strength and grace can only flow to you if you are willing to accept both, and thus you have to unite with Me through prayer and actions of love. This is My constant admonition, My constant instruction, which I send to the immature soul in order to draw it closer to Me, in order to provide it with the opportunity to mature fully, which will eternally remain the same. Only the relationship with Me can accomplish this, and if you humans establish this relationship with Me voluntarily without having been forced by hardship, your earthly life will also be an easy one, you can be spared much distress, the intention of which is to encourage you to develop the right relationship with Me. You will always require strength and grace for your souls to progress even if the body does not need an extraordinary amount of strength, because the soul’s attainment of maturity is the human being’s objective on earth which he can only achieve with My strength and grace.

But if people completely ignore this goal they will have to suffer severe physical distress in order to remember the One, Who has might, strength and love in abundance, in order to appeal to Him for help. Then strength and grace will be able to flow to them, and then the soul will also be out of danger. But extreme hardship is necessary during the last days because people have distanced themselves from the source of strength ever more, there is a wide gap between them and Myself, grace and strength is no longer requested and humanity ignores love .... People no longer shape themselves into recipients of My gifts of grace, and strength and grace cannot forcefully be given to them against their will. First they have to establish contact with Me in order to receive what they lack in an earthly and spiritually sense but nevertheless desperately need. And since I respect their free will but, on the other hand, do not want to leave them in their wretched spiritual state I approach them in the form of severe earthly hardship. I come closer to them to make it easier for them to establish the right kind of relationship with Me and to call upon Me, as the Giver of strength and grace, for help.

And thus, in the last days the hardship will become unbearable for all people who are distant from Me but who are not yet completely controlled by My adversary. Because they can still be saved and immense hardship is intended to achieve this. But do not get annoyed with Me, do not doubt My love and do not lose faith in Me in view of this adversity .... you, who are enlightened, should also enlighten your fellow human beings to the fact that nothing happens on earth without meaning and purpose and that even the greatest suffering can have a healing effect if the human being wants it himself. You could never survive without My supply of strength and grace, you will be physically destroyed too if you do not recognise the hardship as My warning call, for you cannot do anything by yourselves. Hence you need to use the source of strength which is at everyone’s disposal, you need to draw from it, you have to want to be considered by the Giver of strength, and consequently you have to contact Him mentally and ask Him for it, or open yourselves through deeds of love so that My strength and grace can flow to you unimpeded .... Then earthly and spiritual hardship will be over, then you will still be able to reach your given goal in the short time before the end, and then the hardship will not have been in vain. And you will thank Me, your Father of eternity Who, by way of hardship, has saved you from an infinitely long captivity, Who, by way of hardship, has helped you to become free ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Right use of the life force: working in love ....

B.D. 7253 from January 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

Every day places new demands on you, and again and again you need strength to be able to meet these demands. And as long as your vitality is still at your disposal you will also be able to fulfil your earthly as well as spiritual task. For even the only earthly used vitality can earn you spiritual strength if your earthly activity consists of works of love. But once you have gained spiritual strength you need no longer worry about being able to fulfil your task, for through the supply of spiritual strength you will always be more stimulated into loving activity, and thus you will accomplish the change of nature for the purpose of which you live on earth. Thus not much is actually demanded of you humans other than the change from selfish love to unselfish neighbourly love. But nevertheless you need strength for this, because love is strength, and if you have not yet ignited it in yourselves you are devoid of all strength. But selfish love is not strength, on the contrary, it still robs you of strength, for it will always demand your life force for the highest achievement in order to be able to do justice to itself; selfish love demands everything for itself, and thus it also only abuses the life force for the benefit of the body, because only that is helpful to the soul which works itself out as unselfish love .... Hence, if a person uses his vitality for loving service his soul will derive the greatest benefit from it, the person will receive much spiritual strength and this, in turn, will irrevocably bring the soul to maturity, for a person who is of service with love will never refrain from this activity, the works of love will increase, the supply of spiritual strength will impel him to work with love and bring ever greater maturity to his soul. And it is such love which the human being should kindle in himself and let flare up into a bright flame, for it is divine love, whereas selfish love is an inheritance from God's adversary and therefore will not make him happy either. For although the human being strives to gain all advantages for himself and will also mostly receive them through the adversary's support, he is and remains a weak being which has no light of realization and no strength to recognize and strive for the true purpose of earthly life .... He will depart from this earth in this powerless and lightless state and enter the kingdom of the beyond in exactly the same way, whereas the loving human being already acquires light and strength on earth and enters the spiritual kingdom in a garment of light, thus he need not fear darkness or weakness because he has gathered much spiritual strength on earth, because he has used his vitality correctly to work with love. Love is strength, but without love there can be no strength either, only lightlessness and powerlessness. You humans need all strength, and if you want to fulfil your earthly task and are still powerless, then appeal to God for the supply of strength to work with love, and He will guide your senses correctly so that you make good use of your vitality and thereby acquire spiritual strength. But don't believe that you will always be left with the strength you currently still possess .... Even vitality is a gift which will be taken from you again when the hour of departure from this earth has come. Therefore make sure that you will have plenty of strength at your disposal then, that you will have gathered spiritual possessions so that you can enter the spiritual kingdom full of light and strength and then also be eternally blissful ....

Amen

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Request for God's grace, power and blessing ....

B.D. 8249 from August 23rd 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Only ever request My grace, My strength of love and My blessing .... And you will truly cover your earthly path with success, for then you will walk by My hand, you will use the measure of grace I pour out upon you, you will let My flow of love flow into your hearts and I will look after you on all your paths .... you enjoy My protection, and like a father I will protect My children from all hostile influence .... because you want Me to take care of you, otherwise you would not approach Me for grace, strength of love and blessing. You thereby prove to Me your will turned towards Me, your desire to enter into intimate contact with Me again, and thus you are on the path of return to Me. And you reach your goal, the final union with Me. You consciously profess Me and have thus also passed your test of will for the purpose of which you go across earth. But you will only appeal to Me for grace, strength and My blessing if love has been kindled in you, for love urges you to love, and without love you would have completely different goals than Me, your God and father .... Without love you would still belong to the world, which is My adversary's kingdom, for then there is perverse love in you, the inclination towards matter. You desire that which you have long since overcome, and then you are in a terrible state, for the time on earth passes quickly and if it has not brought you the transformation of your selfish love into unselfish, divine love, then your earthly course was in vain and you sink back into the darkness from which you had worked your way up through agony and toil until your existence as a human being .... But therefore I rejoice in every person who seeks Me of his own accord, who longs for My grace, My strength and My blessing .... and truly, I will grant him all these in abundance. The human being needs much strength and support for his pilgrimage on this earth, for he is still weak and constantly exposed to temptations by My adversary who wants to prevent him from reaching the height .... And an ascent is also impossible for him by his own strength, yet he has a spark of My divine love within himself, and he only needs to ignite it and his strength will increase, he will be able to resist My adversary, for love is strength, it is My divine influx which he can constantly increase if only he practices love, if he performs works of love and thus unites himself ever more with Me, Who is love, and he now also increases in strength .... This is why his prayer for strength and grace is so extremely valuable, for it is a spiritual request which I will never let go unfulfilled and which you will receive in abundance, and you will always make use of My influx of strength of love and grace to work with love, because the strength which emanates from Me and now fills your hearts constantly drives you to do so. And you should also recognize everything that daily life brings you as a means of grace which helps you to become blissfully happy ..... But above all, avail yourselves of the grace of My word, for truly, My word will impart everything to you, because it is a direct emanation of love on My part and has to fill every person with strength who receives My word and moves it in his heart .... This is the greatest gift of grace I can offer to My living creations on earth, to people, because they can become My children through My word, because they are in intimate bond with Me as soon as My word sounds to them, and because they hear the father's voice Who wants to impart everything to His children .... comfort, strength and extensive knowledge through which they learn to recognize and love their God and father and thus love urges love and then the unification can also take place, which is the purpose and goal of their earthly life. "Ask and it will be given to you ...." Always remember this promise of Mine and prayerfully request everything you lack from Me: strength and grace and My blessing .... for this will never be addressed to Me in vain ....

Amen

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Prayer and deeds of love are weapons against temptations ....

B.D. 3285 from October 8th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

You can easily fall prey to the power of evil if you slow down in prayer and deeds of love. For he is lying in wait for every weakness in order to make you fall; he is using every opportunity to make you sinful, and he will certainly succeed if you lack the strength which you gain through prayer and deeds of love. You should therefore never allow yourselves to feel safe, for the enemy of your souls will also come to you in the disguise of a friend, he will try to win you over to have an easy game with you. And if you don't pay attention you will recognise him too late and will no longer be able to protect yourselves from his cunning and deceit. Prayer, however, will protect you from his power, for then you are establishing a connection with God, you are building an invincible barrier against evil.

This connection with God will equally be established through unselfish activities of love, which will give you the strength from God directly and then you will no longer need to fear the opponent. And this contact with God through prayer and deeds of love should never be disregarded, even if a person apparently is in no need of strength. For the enemy of souls will not easily give up his shameful plans, and what he cannot achieve today he will try tomorrow, until the constant temptations have weakened the person and he surrenders with almost no resistance, if the strength from God is not flowing to Him. But the human being can send a heartfelt prayer to God at any time, and this will always be granted, for God will not leave a human soul to his adversary just like that, for He is likewise struggling for every soul, trying to win it over for Himself. Consequently, there will be no shortage of strength from Him, providing the will of the person accepts it. But if the person has a weak will of resistance, then the adversary will have won his game.

And the Lord cautions you not to let him gain power over you, not to hand yourselves over to him through unkind actions and not to forget to make contact with God through prayer, for then you will make your earthly life more difficult for yourselves, because you will constantly have to defend yourselves and lack the strength to do so .... Life is an endless struggle, for the light is constantly fighting against the darkness, and in order to defeat the darkness the human being requires divine help, divine strength, which he will receive in abundance through prayer and actions of love. And this is why you should always be on your guard, for Satan's game of deceit is dangerous, and he will be victorious if the human being slackens in striving to ascend. Therefore, be vigilant and remain in prayer, and God's adversary will always meet with resistance, for then you will have God Himself as your most loyal protection, Who will never ever surrender you to the enemy of your souls ....

Amen

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Increased activity of the adversary in the end time ....

B.D. 7123 from May 17th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

I am always ready to take over your protection if you ask Me for it. I know that again and again you are exposed to oppression and are often unable to offer resistance due to your weakness. But neither can I turn them away from you before you approach Me for help, because My adversary also has the right to exert his influence on you. And thus it is always up to you yourselves whether you receive help or My adversary gains power over you. He makes every effort to bring you down, for he sees it when a soul threatens to be lost to him. And then he will use all means to win you back. And this will always mean hours or days of inner struggles and spiritual hardship for you. But if you call upon Me he will have to leave you .... Don't forget that you have a very certain effective means to push him away from you if only you speak My name in devotion, if you give yourselves to Me in Jesus, so that I may now be your protection against him. He is and remains My adversary but he also knows that he is powerless against Me, that I only allow him freedom if you don't resist him yourselves, because then it is his right to practice his art of seduction on you, for once you followed him voluntarily and until you voluntarily try to escape from him I cannot deprive him of his right. But you may also request My grace and love at any time, you are not defencelessly at his mercy if only you remember Me and want to resist him. In the last days before the end his rage is particularly noticeable, for he will cause confusion amongst people everywhere, he will ignite discord and strife, he will touch every individual where he is sensitive .... And he will make use of those who are loyal followers of him. And this will have the effect that people will be hostile towards each other, that everyone will only strive for his own advantages and not be afraid to deceive his neighbour, every individual will have to struggle with the adversities of daily life behind which My adversary always lies, who wants to rob people of their inner peace in order to make them receptive to his influence. He truly knows his business in the end time but nevertheless you humans need not become discouraged, for you can escape his influence if only you muster the will to call upon Me for help in every physical and spiritual adversity. Then you need not fear defeat, then you will be strong enough to resist him because I will provide you with strength and help you to become victors over him. But no human being will be able to go through earthly life without a fight, for you take your earthly path for this purpose in order to ascend from the abyss, and every ascent requires strength and overcoming .... But the ascent can be easy for you if you entrust yourselves to My protection and My help, if you constantly request and draw strength from Me, which will then also let you easily overcome all obstacles and always lead you closer to the aim .... For anyone who asks for Me will also certainly unite with Me, and then the aim for the purpose of which he walks on earth will also have been reached ....

Amen

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The work of satan .... Help through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7631 from June 24th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

In the epoch when God walked across earth in Jesus Satan raged particularly fiercely amongst people, for since Jesus' crucifixion many souls have been lost to him and he still hopes to win them back because he wants to arrogate to himself dominion over everything and thus also over the spirit world which had emerged from his will and God's strength. And he also believes he can win back those who have already found union with God because he believes he can once again exert his influence on these beings as he did in the beginning with the apostasy of the spirits. And that is why his rage is particularly strong in the last days on earth, that is why he uses all conceivable means to assert himself and to snatch human souls from God which have already turned to Him of their own free will. But his degree of realisation is so low that he does not realize the impossibility of his plan, for he is blinded in spirit and will never attain enlightened realisation as long as he is still active as God's adversary, as long as he has not returned to the father's house himself. But this is why people also have to expect unusual grants of grace in order to be able to withstand his onslaught. And God, in His love for the unredeemed, will help him until the end so that people can resist him if they are willing to do so. But you humans can certainly reckon with the fact that a hard battle will still take place before the end, for the adversary's time has not yet expired where he can work, because he is entitled to also fight for the souls which once followed him into the abyss. And therefore you humans should also know about the process in the kingdom of the spirits which explains your existence as a human being on earth .... you should know that increased demands will be placed on you in the last days but that you will also be able to liberate yourselves completely from its control and that your freedom is therefore well worth the struggle, for freedom will then also guarantee you light and strength and bliss .... You should know why the last days will be so difficult for you humans and what causes underlie this phenomenon .... And you should resist because thereby you will attain beatitude in the spiritual kingdom or in the paradise of the new earth, where you will be compensated for all hardship and tribulations you still have to endure until the end of the old earth. But you always have protection and a shield, a helper in greatest need .... you have Jesus Christ, to Whom you need only call when danger threatens you .... Who will never leave you without help, Who will never ignore your prayer to Him .... Who will always stand by you because you now call upon God Himself in Jesus Christ, Who redeemed you from sin and death .... He walked across the earth, He opposed God's adversary with His resistance, He redeemed the guilt of sin for you, He paid the purchase price for all of you with His blood, and thus you are free from your adversary if you want this and take refuge in Jesus Christ, thus acknowledge His act of salvation. Then he may rage as much as he likes and use all his arts of seduction .... he will not be successful with you who hold on to Jesus Christ, for you will be able to receive grace without measure, your will and your love will be strengthened and you will be able to free yourselves from the chains which God's adversary once threw over you .... Jesus Christ Himself will set you free if only you have the will to follow Him. And you will receive strength until the end in order to be able to persevere, for the strength from God is certain to all who are His and want to remain for all eternity ...._>Amen

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Stream of grace in the last days before the end ....

B.D. 4564 from February 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

An earthly life rich in grace can bring you to the highest level of perfection, and therefore every person shall open himself to the influx of grace in the last days, which will flow exceedingly abundantly in order to compensate for the short earthly time people are still granted until the end. I Myself will approach all people in various ways and offer them My gift of grace. The more distant they are from Me, the more often they will be given indications from above; the less they direct their senses spiritually, the more often they will be offered the opportunity to contact messengers from the spiritual kingdom; the strangest coincidences will cooperate in order to also inform them of supersensible activity, and the threads which originate from the spiritual kingdom will be guided everywhere. Every person will be able to establish contact with spiritually awakened people, and no one will be able to say that he has remained without knowledge. All those whose way of life is not right will receive warnings and admonitions, and I will especially take care of those who are misguided but not opposed to Me. And what gentle admonitions and advice cannot achieve, adversity and suffering will still bring about where My adversary is not already completely ruler. I woo every soul and know every person's innermost disposition, I help and lift the fallen from the depths, I try to guide it upwards and am always and constantly ready to distribute My blessings which are expressed in the form of My word, in spiritual and earthly help and which everyone can request and use if he only wants. You humans can still reach a high degree of maturity if you make contact with the spiritual kingdom, if you request the influx of My grace and allow yourselves to be considered by Me and all beings of light who look after you and stand by your side, as soon as you call upon them to help you on the path of ascent. The time until the end is only short, and therefore your earthly life will be rich in inner struggles, in adversity and suffering of all kinds, because you should raise your eyes to Me so that I can let Myself be found. As soon as you establish contact with Me in prayer or in thought you will open yourselves to the influx of grace and then you need no longer fear the end, then you will also recognize Me in suffering, you will believe in Me and no longer turn your thoughts away from Me; then grace will already have taken effect on you and you will consciously strive towards Me. As soon as you include Me in your thoughts you will already be on the path upwards and you will no longer sink back because I will hold you. And you will long for My word .... Then you will no longer be in danger, for My word is the greatest means of grace which never remains without effect. The greater your desire for My word the further you will progress in your development, for the desire for My word is equal to the desire for Me Myself and also results in unification with Me, which is the aim of your earthly life. The end time will still bring much suffering and affliction, but also consider this as a means of grace of inconceivable value .... endure everything and come to Me in every adversity, then you will be able to achieve the greatest success, and the short earthly life will result in the maturity of your soul so that you need not fear the end ....

Amen

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God’s means of grace – His word and His predictions

Increased supply of grace before the end ....

B.D. 7537 from March 2nd 1960, taken from Book No. 79

In the end time the measure of grace poured out on you increases because the demands on you are also excessive and because My adversary uses all his might to pull you down into the abyss. You humans are weak and in need of a great supply of grace, you are irrevocably lost if you don't receive help, you are dependent on an unusual supply of grace which, however, will also be granted to you because I love you and want to save you from ruin. For this reason you will repeatedly experience unusual help in the last days; although you will often not want to see it as 'help' because you humans are often severely affected by all kinds of strokes of fate; but these, too, are to be regarded as means of grace, because you and your fellow human beings will be clearly informed of the transience of all earthly things and thereby also receive an indication of your actual destiny .... Thus you will be made aware of yourselves and your task on earth. Everything that stimulates you to spiritual striving is to be regarded as a means of grace .... But the greatest and most significant means of grace is the transmission of My word from on high .... In the last days faith has become so weak that even the book of the fathers is no longer particularly respected, that people no longer take My word from it, that they only read it according to the letter but do not value it as My address. Therefore I have to address them differently, I have to convey My word to people on earth again through messengers, through servants devoted to Me .... I must seek the opportunity to speak to people as a father speaks to his children. A bond must be established from the spiritual kingdom to earth .... People's attention must be drawn to an unusual activity on the part of the spiritual world. How the individual person receives it depends on himself, on his will to do good and on his willingness .... But it is an overwhelming grace that I Myself address you in the last days and announce to you everything that is to come, that I initiate you into My eternal plan of salvation, that I enlighten you about all correlations, that I give you a testimony about Myself and My nature, about My infinite love for you and about My eternal plan, through which I want to win you back again, you who once got lost to Me. This knowledge, which I convey to you through My word from above, is a very special gift of grace through which you can still be saved from ruin in the last hour if only you listen to Me, if only you open your ear and heart to hear My voice. And the closer it gets to the end the more abundantly I will distribute My gifts of grace, and again and again it will be possible for you humans to recognize Me Myself in every event which affects you .... And only someone with a completely closed heart will not make use of the blessings which are so abundantly offered to him. But anyone of good will can make use of them .... And anyone who immerses himself in My word, which is conveyed to you humans from above, thus also evaluates the gifts of grace, and he will feel it in his soul that he receives strength and will be able to survive the time of the end without danger. He will always be able to draw strength from My word, which is blessed with My strength. For people are weak and I want to help them in the coming time so that they will withstand all demands, so that they will also endure the coming battle of faith, so that they will persevere until the end ....

Amen

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Offering the word is special grace ....

B.D. 7652 from July 22nd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

The presentation of My word will only ever mean an unusual reception of grace for you if you accept it in your heart and live it out, i.e. if you are not only listeners but doers of My word. When I speak to you and you let My words go to your heart, when they don't just ring in your ears but leave a deep impression on you, then you will also make an effort to live according to these words of Mine, and then you will enter into My will .... and you will be saved for eternity. My word is the most effective means of grace .... you need only let yourselves be addressed by Me and you will not remain unaffected by it if only your will is good .... and your will is good if it desires Me.

(22.7.1960) Your will is good if you are of a righteous mind .... Then you can only ever experience blessings from My word, for then you will also receive the strength which strengthens your will at the same time as the word. And if it is now turned towards Me I can take hold of you and draw you to Me .... As long as you walk across earth as a human being streams of grace flow to you because I know that you are too weak and need My support, because I know that without My gifts of grace you would never be able to cover the path to ascent. And My love for you expresses itself in the bestowal of grace. I use the most diverse means to help you, and all these means are graces, they are gifts of My love which you have not earned but which My love does not withhold from you. All these means are effective if you pay attention to them, for they can cause you to change your will, they can show you the path to Me. But no means is as effective as My word .... When I address you directly then you receive the strength from Me directly, and this draws you to Me again .... My strength strengthens your will and at the same time makes you able to fulfil My will revealed to you .... Thus you not only remain hearers of My word but you live out My word .... provided that you listen to Me without any inner resistance when I speak to you. My word is only ineffective in the face of resistance, but where the resistance is broken .... and you consciously turn your will towards Me .... the strength with which I have blessed My word is effective. And then you will have to progress in your development, then you will have to ascend because I constantly draw you through My word. For My word is the nourishment of your soul .... I speak to your soul with My word and it will soon recognize the father's voice and submit itself to His will. And the father will always address His child as necessary, for the father knows His child, He knows its faults and shortcomings, He knows its will, and He now tries everything to win back His child for eternity .... And My word always achieves this. For My word is radiance of love from Me which touches every person who opens himself, who thus listens when I speak to him, who does not let My word fall on his ear. You cannot be offered a substitute for My word, for no other gift of grace equals My word, because this gift of grace requires a bond with Me which consists of turning the will towards Me. Only then will you humans be able to hear the 'father's voice', otherwise My word will only remain empty letters which you do not understand, which do not touch your heart. Only by turning to Me will you establish this bond which will result in the influx of strength from Me when you expect My address, which will then certainly be granted to you. And you humans can be certain that I speak to everyone who opens his ear to My address, who wants Me to speak to him and who therefore will also feel the strength of My word when it sounds to him. Then he will exploit a means of grace of unheard-of significance, for as soon as I can address him .... directly or through My messengers .... he is in direct contact with Me, and then he can no longer fall, then he must irrevocably take the path to ascent, and then he will also irrevocably reach the aim .... to the final union with Me ...._>Amen

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Gift of grace before the end .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8494 from May 12th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

I will pour out an abundance of grace in the last days before the end, for people are in need of it; they require much support in order to still be able to cover the last stretch of their earthly path successfully. And many people will even have to be guided onto the right path first and they, too, will require help for this, for they are still on the path into the abyss and have to be called back and guided correctly. Every means used by Me before the end is a means of grace, for people themselves do nothing to prevent it, they travel their earthly path indifferently and therefore don't deserve any help, since they still rather resist than accept help. Yet I love all My living creations and don't want even one of them to go astray .... I don't want them to languish in a wretched state for an infinitely long time again .... And this is why I will temper justice with mercy .... I will leave no stone unturned to save them before the end. And I also know what will help every individual person; I know what is suitable to guide him onto the right path. And this is what I will use without, however, compelling the human being's will, for he has to make a free decision. But it will be made easy for him, for the means of grace will be brought to him so visibly that he will also be able to recognise them as such.

Time and again the human being's attention is pointed to the spiritual kingdom .... Time and again he is approached by death in some form or other, he experiences it in his surroundings by having to let go of people who are very dear to him, and he hears of various kinds of death. He will always be reminded of his own fleeting nature and can then reflect on thoughts about what comes after death .... His thoughts will be directed towards the spiritual kingdom, since they often also follow the deceased and thus give rise to such questions as: Where are they now? Have they completely ceased to be? Or is there a prospect of meeting again? .... And then time and again spirit guides, to whose protection people are entrusted, will intervene by trying to influence them and giving them an explanation .... They make it possible for such people to receive knowledge of My Word, which is directly transmitted to earth, or they let them come across books which will offer them clarification, they do everything to direct their thoughts to the kingdom which is their true home and which they will enter when they pass away from this world .... And the departed, too, exert an influence from the beyond by constantly entering their thoughts which, to a certain extent, will establish a connection from the spiritual to the physical world. My measure of grace is inexhaustible and everyone would be able to take advantage of it, if only they were willing to do so.

That is why I let My Word be heard, for whoever hears and accepts it will truly make use of the greatest gift of grace which certainly will also bring him the right result, which will help his soul to mature and let him reach his goal while he is still on earth, so that he will find Me and enter into union with Me, which then will also assure his perfection .... For it is important that the human being establishes his bond with Me before his soul leaves the body, before the hour of departure from this earth has come .... As soon as he has recognised and acknowledged Me he will not get lost, for then he will take the path to the cross, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, he will recognise Me in Him and thus will also have taken the path to Me. And then he will have been saved from the adversary for good, for Jesus Christ will deliver him from his bondage; Jesus has taken his guilt upon Himself and opened for him the path to the Father .... Jesus and I are one .... To realise this is the guarantee of return for the once fallen spirits to Me, and for that reason I will always provide people with the information through My Word, that is why My Word is the greatest and most effective gift of grace which I can still offer humanity before the end, and blessed is he who accepts it, for he will truly not go astray anymore .... There is not much time left, and the battle for the souls is fiercely waged on part of the darkness .... But I, too, Am fighting for you, My living creations, and I will help you, so that you, who will settle this battle, will make the right decision, so that you will take the path to Jesus Christ, in Whom I became a human being Myself in order to redeem you .... Make use of this immensely merciful act of Redemption through Jesus Christ and, truly, you will be victorious and delivered from the one who wants to destroy you ....

Amen

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God's Word, an inconceivable grace in the last days ....

B.D. 5367 from April 17th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You humans are truly offered an immense grace if My Word from above is passed on to you, for this Word is an inconceivably valuable means of help during the spiritual adversity of the last days, because it gives you the pure truth from Me through which you can attain beatitude if you accept it in your heart and live your life accordingly. My Word will always have an exceptional effect if it is consciously desired and received, yet even if it is made available to people who did not directly request it they will instinctively feel the strength of My Word by just paying a little attention and thereby opening their heart. My Word will affect them like a speech from another world to which they pay attention because they suspect something extraordinary and don't want to close their mind to it. They could gain infinitely much from it; they could receive a measure of grace which would result in their spiritual maturity within a short period of time. Yet generally they will be distracted by the world again and then carelessly bypass a gift of grace without having gained any benefit for their soul.

Oh, if only you humans would believe that I have spoken to you Myself if My Word was passed on to you, so that you would listen to My Words and then make use of the little time you have left to live on this earth .... so that you would still seriously consider the life of your soul after the death of the body! I cannot help you in your adversity other than through an obvious gift of grace, you yourselves have to accept this gift and utilise it to the best of your ability. Then you will also be able to work for your fellow human beings' benefit, then you will be able to impart to them the same things you have received through My love, Which speaks to you through My messengers, you will be able to enlighten them just as I have enlightened you, and you will be able to give them the same instructions and make them aware of the working of My spirit .... You yourselves will derive rich benefits from this because My blessings, and those of your fellow human beings who found the truth through you, will follow you. During the chaos of the last days many people will still be grateful to you if you instruct them in My name .... And for this teaching ministry I Am now preparing you, My chosen few .... For you believe My Words, yet you, too, will be seized by doubt as you follow world events and wonder why I remain silent while the world continues to sin without inhibition and is not prevented from above. I will manifest Myself without fail and call people to order with a voice of thunder ....

And precisely for this reason I will still offer you humans an abundance of blessings in advance, which could provide you with a degree of maturity that would enable you to safely expect and survive the end. Yet you barely take notice of My gift of grace, and only few recognise it for what it is, a final call of loving admonition to the children of this earth who are facing their last decision .... I will constantly send My Word to earth so that you, who are My Own, will recognise that I Am not withdrawing but watching over all of you. And I will always come to you in Word and Scripture and on the last day in My full glory, when My Own will require comfort and strength and help which only I Myself can bring to them. Then everything I had announced before so that you shall become strong in faith will be fulfilled, and those who remain faithful to Me until the end, who believed My Words and used My gift of grace correctly, will be admitted into the kingdom of peace. For the end will mean the beginning of a new life for them, a life in peace and bliss in the paradise of the new earth, which I had promised to all who believe in Me, who love Me and who keep My commandments .... The last day on this earth will be the first day in beatitude, for I will come Myself to fetch My Own when their lives are in danger on this earth ....

Amen

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Power of the word before the end .... need ....

B.D. 4386 from July 25th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Drink from the source of life, refresh yourselves with the bread of heaven and thus receive the strength from Me which you will urgently need in the coming time. For it is a great action with which I initiate the last phase on this earth, it is something so powerful that you must be full of resilience if you want to remain in control of the situation. I have set the time since eternity .... it is fulfilled .... Humanity has reached the spiritual low which causes the end of this earth, and therefore I prepare you to experience this end in a state of soul which corresponds to My will and ensures your entry into the kingdom of light. I want to protect the few people who strive towards Me from spiritual decline, I don't want them to succumb to the hardship of the time, that they doubt Me and completely lose their faith due to the great adversity if they have no explanation for it. For no human being would be blessed if I did not want to stay in contact with them through My word and impart to them the knowledge about what is about to happen. For unbelief is far greater, and despite My enlightening word it is already difficult for the believers to stand firm in the coming time. Yet My word will give you strength at all times, you will constantly find the support in My word which gives you stability when adversity weighs heavily upon you. My word will be spiritual nourishment for you, and through My word you will also know that you will be helped in every earthly and spiritual adversity. And I want to keep you in this confidence until the end .... Whatever may come, it will all pass quickly, it will be a time full of excitement that you will no longer have an earthly estimate of time, and if you only ever keep to My word and constantly draw strength from it, the end time will not cause you any spiritual damage but you will mature and with increasing maturity of soul feel the earthly adversity less and less until the end is there, which will bring you earthly and spiritual salvation. I only ever admonish you to maintain the connection with Me if you don't want to become weak. For all strength emanates from Me, in Me you will find a faithful helper, a support Who cannot abandon you, to Whom you can entrust yourselves without hesitation and Who alone can reduce and avert your adversity and also does so if you faithfully appeal to Him for it. And as soon as you let Me speak to you, as soon as you listen to My voice within you or receive My word in another way, you will be filled with strength and feel My presence, for I Myself am with you in the word, and where I am every adversity will be bearable. But I will remain with you until the end, as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Tireless reminder and warning of the end ....

B.D. 6835 from May 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 73

Only a short time separates you from the great event which will take place as My direct influence in order to send you the last great warning before the end. It can only ever be pointed out to you but you cannot be forced to believe it, but one day you will bitterly regret not having believed these predictions, for it depends on whether and how you use the short time for your souls. For this event will cost countless sacrifices, and none of you knows whether he himself will also be a victim, and then his soul will enter the kingdom of the beyond completely unprepared, and yet it could have achieved great spiritual progress .... (5/21/1957) You have travelled a long path before you were allowed to stay on this earth as a human being for the purpose of the test of will, the passing of which will earn you a glorious life in the spiritual kingdom in light and freedom .... Now during this time, which precedes the last end, only a few people are intent on fulfilling their actual purpose of earthly life, and once they have passed earthly life then the course of development on earth is irrevocably completed. A completely different phase of development begins in the spiritual kingdom when a person's passing away occurs even before the last destruction. And this can still be a blessing for the human being that the soul still comes to realization and strives upwards, for which it is also given every help in the spiritual kingdom. But when the hour of the end has come, then a period of development is completely finished, then there is no longer a possibility for the immature soul to make up for what it has missed in the kingdom of the beyond, then the gates into this kingdom are closed for a long time and a thorough purification takes place, both in the earthly as well as in the spiritual world. For people who failed in their earthly lifetime, the long course of development beforehand has been in vain .... They do not attain freedom, but the earthly-material shells of the soul harden .... It begins a new course of development in solid matter, it takes upon itself the dreadful sufferings and torments of being bound, it goes through the creations of the new earth again in its individual substances .... It falls back into endless depths and yet was shortly before the end of its course of development .... You humans should seriously try to imagine this, then you will also understand why I constantly and with untiring patience send you warnings and admonitions. I want to protect you from this fate of a new banishment and only ever admonish you to work on your soul to such an extent that you may still enter the spiritual kingdom first. I know about the countless souls who are approaching this fate but whose will remains completely free until the end and can still change in the last hour. I also know about the many people of weak faith whom I therefore also want to address, and I try to bring all of them to their senses through My last great intervention before the end. And all of them shall experience that not long afterwards the end will also come, as it is proclaimed .... Especially the predictions through seers and prophets are still means of grace of special value, but they have to be used in free will. And I help everyone to strengthen their will precisely through My coming intervention, which is only a confirmation for them that the end will not be long in coming either .... And those who do not yet believe can still come to faith. You don't know how beneficial the belief in an end can be for you humans, but I cannot give you such clear evidence that your faith would be under compulsion. Yet I speak to you again and again, and I will speak to you until the last day in order to merely achieve a turning of your thoughts towards Me .... For then the greatest danger will be averted, then I will still be able to call you away beforehand and spare your soul the repeated earthly progress through the creations .... even though it will then also have to struggle hard in the kingdom of the beyond in order to ascend, yet it will receive help in every way in order to attain beatitude one day after all ....

Amen

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God's tools in the end time .... false prophets ....

B.D. 6665 from October 10th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Whatever contributes to the redemption of the still unredeemed spiritual will still be used before the end of this redemption period has come. For every possibility will be utilized because the unredeemed is approaching a difficult fate and God's love would like to protect it from it, but the being's free will must also make use of these graces granted to it. And thus new prophets, servants of God, keep appearing in the last days who speak on His behalf and point to the near end. And all these messengers have unusual power .... be it in the way they speak, in their healing or prayer power or in their seer-like ability, so that people's attention is drawn to them and now, as it were, every individual is also addressed by God Himself, albeit through a human being .... For the latter only ever presents himself as an 'instrument of the lord' .... And so even the weakest faith can be strengthened, even unbelieving people can be made thoughtful .... Such a reference can fall on good ground because unusual phenomena accompany it, which nevertheless do not compel people, but are rather put down by most people as 'false prophethood' as 'dazzling works' .... mostly by those who are under an anti-truth influence, who only want to accept what they themselves represent, and who also deny a 'near end', i.e. do not want to believe. And thus God's activity will become visible everywhere, yet only recognized by His own, by those who have a living faith and therefore also recognize the hour in which humanity lives .... Nothing will remain untried which can still result in the smallest success, because it is of utmost importance to what degree the individual human being will be affected by the end, because a low degree of maturity already spares him the fate of a new banishment and because God's love and mercy still wants to achieve this, because He alone knows what it means to have to start the whole process of development from the beginning again, and because He also knows how much endless time is required in order to then be allowed to dwell on earth again as a human being in the stage of free will in order to pass the final test of will. And signs and wonders will happen .... even on the part of satan, who knows how to use the last time for himself in the most unthinkable way and often appears under the guise of piety and tries to deceive people .... But you humans will always be able to distinguish the right light from the dazzling light if you only pay attention to what aim is being striven for and in what guise a 'prophet' appears .... You only need to pay attention to whether unselfish love characterizes them. For those who speak and work in the name of God on the adversary's behalf also pursue earthly aims, they are not concerned about the souls' salvation but pursue worldly aims, whereas the 'messengers of God' only ever warn and admonish people and mention the approaching end with the advice to turn their thoughts towards God. And their constant activity is to proclaim the word of God, to highlight the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, and therefore they will also perform miracles in Jesus' name, because this, too, is an unusual grace of the last days, that Jesus Christ reveals Himself, that the strength of His name is proven to people .... that He Himself thus works amongst people who believe in Him and testify for Him. And these people will never be able to be portrayed as false christs and false prophets, but they will certainly also be misjudged by those who lead a sham christianity .... who can be called dead christians, even though they also speak the word of God .... For anyone who has a living faith also has the ability to judge, and he will always profess these prophets of the last days who are still active on God's behalf in order to save the last souls from ruin .... for they spread light, and in the light all who belong to God and want to serve Him until the end will also come together ....

Amen

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The end time justifies the gifts of grace ....

B.D. 7908 from June 3rd 1961, taken from Book No. 82

It is an unmerited act of grace that you humans may hear the Word from above, for in the time shortly before the end the human race will have reached a spiritual low level which will necessitate a disintegration of the earthly creation, a transformation and new embodiment of all still constrained spiritual substances as well as the souls which presently live on earth as human beings and, for the most part, are failing in their test of earthly life. People therefore don't strive towards unity with Me of their own accord, they keep their distance from Me and, in their rejection, are not worthy of being spoken to by Me .... It is therefore an extraordinary grace that I nevertheless lean down and speak to people, that I also allow My Word to be given to those who keep away from Me. Hence I forget about their state of unworthiness, I pursue those people who turn away from Me precisely because the time of the end has come and because this end signifies a renewed banishment into matter for many human souls which I would still like to avert while there is still time .... I call and coax, I let My light ray of love shine in all places, I touch people's hearts with this ray purely in order to make them come to their senses, accept and ponder My Words in their hearts and then live their lives accordingly .... I just don't want them to go astray for an infinitely long time again .... And this great risk exists, for only a few people have a living faith in Me which will protect them from the downfall when the hour of the end has come. For this reason My love grants you this final gift of grace, even though you do not deserve it .... And you need only not reject it when My servants want to convey My Word to you .... Listen to them and reflect without inner resistance on what I say to you .... Then you will also be able to gain faith in your God and Creator which will not be a blind faith .... And soon you will feel My love in you as well, because you will not dismiss the impression of thoughts coming to you because you will sense that they correspond to the truth. Simply let go of your inner resistance and you will be saved for time and eternity.

Listen to Me .... and the strength of My Word will take effect in you, because My Word will illuminate you with divine strength of love .... You won't hear empty human words when My messengers bring My gifts of grace to you .... Human words are easily discarded, but the Words of God exert an influence, provided that the human being does not fight this influence. Therefore I do not expect anything else of you than to listen to Me when I come to you Myself in the Words conveyed to you by My messengers .... I do not ask for anything other than that you do not turn away in indignation, but to think about it for once .... And I will truly help you to recognise the truth of My Word, your heart will feel addressed by Me and your thoughts will gradually turn towards Me, your resistance will grow weaker and the strength of My Word will begin to take effect in you. Simply surrender your resistance and, truly, I Myself will look after every individual person and convey to him Words of love and grace, Words of support and comfort, Words of wisdom, according to his soul's need so that it will recognise Me Myself in the Words brought to people by My messengers. For verily, I say to you: it is the time of the end .... And time and again My love and mercy approaches you anew and wants to protect you from the fate of a renewed banishment when the end has come .... And therefore I will still shower you with My gifts of grace and will still try to gain anyone whose heart is not yet entirely hardened for Me and My kingdom  .... I will try to reveal Myself to him as the most loving God and Father of eternity and he will truly be affected by the ray of My love. He will be able to recognise My Word as the Father's voice Who wants to help His child, Who wants to protect it from the abyss, Who still wants to save it before the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s means of grace - suffering

Warning of the end .... spiritual decline ....

B.D. 3346 from November 26th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Humanity is unmistakably heading towards spiritual decline, for it is only pursuing an earthly aim .... the improvement of physical life, earthly circumstances and the increase of earthly possessions. But all this is contrary to the actual purpose, for the human being's purpose is to overcome earthly desires and only strive towards spiritual aims, thus to develop spiritually upwards. But if the spiritual decline is obviously recognizable, the last means must still be used to stop it or to hold individual people back from it. And therefore the earth experiences an excessive amount of suffering from which people should derive their benefit .... to refrain from earthly desires and cravings and instead strive spiritually. As soon as suffering fulfils this purpose it has not been imposed on people in vain, and the blessing of suffering cannot be denied. For only now does the human being pursue his aim, and only now does the soul mature, i.e., it seeks union with God and shapes itself according to His will .... Yet only a small part of humanity will consciously strive for this union with God and develop upwards despite spiritual decline. The majority of people, however, are not open-minded, and they also reject every instruction as to how they can reach the aim and what aim is set for the individual. But God still gives him the opportunity to change until the last end, and He often enough shows him the transience of earthly possessions, so that the thinking person now lets his thoughts wander into the spiritual kingdom and can also receive an answer from it. And many people will stand apart from their possessions and learn to value earthly goods less, and every detachment from them chains them more to the spiritual kingdom, which now begins to offer them a substitute as soon as they are given meagrely by fate and their earthly wealth falls prey to destruction. Then a new phase of earthly life also begins for the human being .... he has reached the crossroads and has decided on the right direction, he strives towards truth and with it towards the eternal deity, Which now confronts him everywhere, even if previously still unrecognized. Then his soul will be saved from spiritual downfall, for every striving towards God will be successful and protect the human being from spiritual decay, and the end will not take him unawares ....

(26.11.1944) For the end is imminent .... And therefore it is far more important to make provisions for his soul than to want to shape earthly life in his favour. Earthly life should only be used for spiritual striving, for working on one's soul, spiritual relationships should be cultivated, spiritual conversations should be held and the hardship of erring souls should be remembered, everyone should try to change himself into love and thus live as if every day were the last. The connection with the spiritual world should be maintained, i.e. thoughts should always be directed into the spiritual kingdom in a searching and questioning way, from where the answer will also be mentally conveyed to him .... All precautions should be taken for a speedy passing away, however, only with regard to the spiritual afterlife, but not for the world, for it will not exist much longer and any concern for the body's well-being or for earthly possessions is useless .... For it is coming to an end .... Whether the end is to be expected quickly or less quickly is irrelevant, for every day is important and therefore should not be taken lightly, no-one should put off until tomorrow what he can already do today, for he does not know whether he will still experience the end which is imminent. And therefore God admonishes and warns you long beforehand so that the end does not take you by surprise, so that you are not completely unprepared for it and have to fear it. For God wants to save you, He wants to protect you from another earthly life, He wants to help you so that you will not belong to those who will be condemned in the end, who will become completely unkind and therefore belong to satan. For this reason He sends His messengers to you beforehand and informs you of what awaits you; He does not leave you unwarned, He speaks to you through His messengers again and again and admonishes you to remember your soul, He shows you how transient earthly possessions are and thereby helps you to detach yourselves from matter. He brings His word close to you and thereby enlightens you about sin and its consequences, about the consequences of wrong will and a life without love .... But He also informs you of the blessing of a rightly used will, of your final aim and the joys of eternal life .... He wants to draw you over into the spiritual kingdom where there is light and bliss and therefore imparts the knowledge to you through His word. But it is up to you whether you evaluate His loving care for you and change yourselves into love .... Yet the end will come irrevocably, and blessed is he who prepares himself, who leaves the world and only strives to attain the spiritual kingdom .... For he will not need to fear the end because he will continue his life in eternity in light and bliss ....

Amen

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Most difficult time of hardship before the end ....

B.D. 3753 from April 27th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

You, who are now living on earth, have to pass the most difficult tests and endure the greatest suffering because the end is near and you do not have enough time for a slow maturing of your souls. The earthly burden will appear almost insufferable to you, and that shall be your proof that the last days have arrived. For severe hardship will always come to an end, but for the rest of your life you will have to languish with the burden of the most difficult living conditions, because the last work of your soul’s development has to be implemented for your salvation. But it is a brief period of time which, in spite of the harshest conditions, will in fact be bearable for My Own, whom I will care for in the most obvious way. Thus do not get disheartened by this prediction but trustingly raise your eyes to Me, Who looks into your hearts, Who recognises your will and Who will help everyone who is worthy of My help, who humbly calls to Me for help and prays to Me in spirit and in truth. However, those of you who are of weak faith or totally unbelieving should accept being instructed about the cause and purpose of the hardship and believe that you are approaching the end. And depending on your faith you will be helped. But in view of the end I cannot take the rod from you or else it would take even more immature souls by surprise, since due to hardship a few will still find their way back to Me.

And where an apparent improvement of living conditions becomes evident the activity of the opposing force manifests itself .... and that, too, shall be your proof, because My help will express itself differently even though I will take care of My Own earthly and spiritually too, so that their worst suffering is alleviated, but I will always provide them with inner strength and a firm faith and thereby enable them to endure a difficult earthly life. Whereas My adversary will provide people with material possessions and incite them to commit unkind actions, so that you will always recognise the origin of the supply of strength when you closely inspect the behaviour of people. Expect no improvement in living conditions since one hardship will give way to another because the end is near. Therefore prepare yourselves for the end, do not work in an earthly manner but a spiritual one .... serve each other where needed and thereby make the hard time endurable, because its purpose is to motivate you into loving actions which will bring you ever closer to Me. Don’t think of yourselves but think of your fellow human being’s distress .... Be helpful and willing to give .... There is not much time and thus it is especially hard, but it can also be exceedingly blessed if you heed My admonitions, if you listen to My Word and try to live by it. The end will come and with it the Last Judgment .... the decision which signifies salvation for My Own but also new banishment for My adversary. And therefore make sure that you belong to My Own, let the hard times be a lesson to you which will guide you to Me, listen to My messengers who instruct you and inform you of My will, who will also always be able to explain the cause and purpose of suffering to you, and it will not be without success for your souls .... And one day you will thank Me that I granted you this last time of grace and through hardship and misery sought to win you over for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Increased suffering in the end time .... God's love ....

B.D. 4288 from April 28th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

Whatever may come over you, do not doubt My love for you and My power. Know that everything is necessary, both for you, who are active as My co-workers on earth in the last days before the end, as well as for the people who are distant from Me and shall still be won over for the spiritual kingdom. The fact that you, who want to belong to Me, will also be affected by the suffering cannot be avoided, yet again and again I give you the assurance that you will not remain without My help and My protection, that even the most difficult will be bearable for you if you remain intimately united with Me. The time of the great tribulation has dawned, which it is written will usher in the last days, and every individual will have to feel it; only those who belong to My adversary will remain unaffected and enjoy earthly prosperity. But don't let yourselves be distracted by this, My love belongs to you who have to suffer, I provide for you differently than with earthly goods, I give you spiritual wealth, although I also take care of your earthly worries. You will not need to starve, I will provide your soul and body with nourishment, thus you need not worry about their preservation. And yet, you will have to fight and need great strength which I will always supply to you through My word. The more intimately you desire My word and accept it in your heart the easier you will go through earthly life, even if it is outwardly difficult for you. The time of tribulation has dawned .... Remember this when you believe you can no longer endure life, remember that the end is near and that a time of adversity must inevitably precede it, because I have foretold it and My word must come true and because the souls which have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary can no longer be saved otherwise. And remember that the time until the end is only short and therefore has to bring increased suffering in order to accelerate the maturing, so that you will be in a state at the end that I can take you to Me, that you can see Me when I want to make Myself visible to you coming in the clouds. Remember that this vision requires a degree of maturity which can only be achieved through loving activity and suffering, but that I can also make the latter bearable for you if only you believe. Let your faith become stronger and you can thereby reduce your own suffering, for then you will achieve what you ask for, because I have given you the promise: "Ask and it shall be given you, knock and it shall be opened to you ...."

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Notice to the near end .... judgment day ....

B.D. 5159 from June 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You shall all experience My grace and in the last days be clearly informed of the end by being able to perceive many changes around you, the passing away of earthly possessions, the sudden passing away of fellow human beings who are torn from the midst of life, strange changes in nature and all in accordance with ancient prophecies which I always and constantly sent to people through seers and prophets in order to draw their attention to this last time. You humans will all be prompted to think and the question will be put to you as to what fate you yourselves are facing. Earthly and spiritually you will be troubled, for earthly events will frighten you and also give rise to spiritual thoughts, because you humans unconsciously feel that your order is very poor. All earthly events would not frighten you if you had established spiritual order, but you look for a substitute for the spiritual in the earthly, and since the former now seems uncertain to you, your thoughts are nevertheless directed towards the question: How will I survive when everything is over? .... And this question shall arise in you, this is why I allow so much adversity to befall people, for you don't have much time left but still enough if you seriously want to change. All the strokes of fate that still affect you before the end are means of grace, even if you don't want to accept them as such, but they can still bring you to your senses how miserable you are in the event of a sudden recall from this world .... Pay attention to all events around you, keep your eyes and ears open and prove to yourselves that there is still a spark of responsibility in you; don't be indifferent, look into yourselves and quietly reflect on your intrinsic value if you are to justify yourselves before Me on the last day. For the last day is for everyone the day of his body's death, which is closer to all of you than you realize and will befall some of you even more quickly, for much still lies ahead for all of you. You cannot prevent the death of the body when your hour has come, yet you can stop the death of the soul, indeed, you can give the soul true life which lasts forever, which can never be taken away from you once it has awakened to the life of the spirit. That is why I so often hold bodily death before your eyes, that is why you so often see it around you; you see everything pass away that was worthwhile to you and gave you joy, you see dear people pass away from where no return can be expected. I let you see all this so that you become thoughtful about your own ego, so that you give yourselves an account of what you have to record in order to secure eternal life for yourselves when the body passes away and nothing remains on earth. And if you think about it and only listen a little to the voice within you, you will have made use of a means of grace, for I cannot help you in any other way. Everything that comes from Me must look as if it comes from within you, only then will you accept it. You will still often have cause to think about it, and you should always remember that the last time brings extraordinary phenomena with it, so that all those who still have a good will can achieve in a short time what they otherwise have a lot of time at their disposal for. But the end is approaching with rapid steps and I still want to win many before the end comes. For this reason My grace is constantly distributed to you, anyone who recognizes it and makes use of the means of grace will not be lost on Judgment Day, even if it comes suddenly or only at the end. He will not need to fear it because My grace has saved him from spiritual death ....

Amen

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Blessings of the last days .... Death before the event .... The beyond ....

B.D. 3135 from May 28th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

God will be merciful to those who still recognise their wrongdoing in time and distance themselves from it, but He will inflict severe punishment without mercy on those who are unyieldingly cruel, who have no compassion even for their fellow human beings and thus pass judgment on themselves through their unkindness. And the approaching time will testify of people’s depravity, the most unimaginable means intended for destruction will be devised; and people will not hesitate to use these means to accomplish their plans, and humanity’s despair will increase. The leaders, as well as their followers who agreed and supported their plans, will be held responsible for everything. For God is just and He passes judgment according to thoughts, words and deeds .... Nothing is hidden from Him; He looks into the human heart and every genuine emotion determines the amount of mercy at its disposal, that it is granted to him when the end has come .... For the end will come without fail .... It will be accelerated by people’s behaviour and thus an era will come to an end that would not result in a better human generation even if God extended His patience and offered humanity many more opportunities to change themselves. But they no longer make use of them and thus God will put an end to earthly life ....

This period of development was particularly gracious for humanity and could have sufficed completely for its salvation. Although God will support people until the end with remarkable gifts of grace they will be mostly ignored, just as everything in relation to God or the benefit of their own souls will generally not be taken notice of. Thus a longer stay on this earth would be inappropriate, that is, it will only benefit the body but not the immortal soul. Therefore the soul’s earthly opportunity will be taken away, but it still has the assurance for further development in the beyond if it does not reject God’s Word in the beyond too, and only if it loses its physical life before the Last Judgment, before the end of this earth, and is accepted into the realm of the beyond. Death before this event is even an exceptional mercy for the human being if he has not made his decision on earth. Afterwards in the beyond he will still find ample opportunity to be helpful and serve with love and in so doing continue his interrupted development, indeed he can even start it if he does not refuse to listen to helpful souls. In that case he can regress even further and return into most solid matter, after which he has to repeat the long earthly path before he can embody himself as a human being again. Thus God still has many blessings available before He destroys the old earth but He will not force people’s will, and depending on how they accept His mercy they will derive benefit for their souls .... they will remain empty and incapable on earth as well as in the beyond if they ignore and reject all blessings, or they will rapidly achieve higher development by readily allowing every gift of grace to take effect on themselves and thereby receive much more strength. For God is exceedingly gracious and merciful but also just, and He will give to people according to their will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hard struggle and suffering before the end .... safest help God’s word ....

B.D. 4459 from October 13th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You children of My love still have to hold out for a short time until you are released from the form. It is a difficult battle you still have to endure, yet it will not be too difficult for you because I am constantly close to you and grant you support at all times. Yet for your own sake you still have to go through suffering so that you will be purified and no longer need to fear the last judgment. Yet again and again I give you the assurance that you will only stay on this earth for a short time, that every day is still a gift in which you can gain much if you surrender to everything difficult that comes upon you. It will pass by .... and one day you will look up to Me full of gratitude, Who, through suffering, has placed you in the degree of being allowed to look at Me, Who, through suffering, helps your soul to mature more quickly, because time is only short until the end. You are all My children, I certainly see your suffering but I also know about the necessity of it, and thus the suffering is only love for you again, and you should always gratefully accept it from My hand, for nothing comes upon you which I don't know or deem good and beneficial for you. Yet you are never abandoned by Me, even if it seems as if I don't hear your prayer .... Every call from the heart reaches My ear, and I am always ready to help, only it is not always immediately recognizable to you .... The gift of grace from above .... My word .... will always be a safe aid for you if you think you are weak or completely despondent .... Turn to Me in prayer and then accept the answer by receiving My word, and peace will come over you and My strength will flow over you so that you will be able to bear everything I send upon you. You don't need to suffer, for My word is full compensation for everything you lack, which makes you miserable. Every suffering and every worry disappears if you read My word and let it penetrate your hearts. For I Myself am My word, and can you really feel suffering when I am near you? Prove your faith and heed My advice, let Me speak to you and nothing will touch you, no suffering will oppress you as soon as you make contact with Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s means of grace – power of faith and work of the spirit in man

Wave of awakenings during the last days ....

B.D. 5457 from August 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A large wave of spiritual awakenings is moving across the earth, for the end is near and during the last days many souls shall still be won for the spiritual kingdom. The love of God is infinite and helps wherever people are without strength because they live without love. God's outpouring of grace flows constantly to people, and where a heart merely opens to receive this flow of grace God's strength becomes evident and the human being testifies to Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Redeemer of the world .... For that reason God's Word is proclaimed everywhere, but it can only take effect on people if it is preached by someone filled by the spirit of God, who will give life to the Words and therefore also affect the listeners. And during the last days such preachers filled by the spirit of God will arise ever more, and thus they will have been awakened .... The Lord of Heaven and Earth reveals Himself in every way, he speaks through the mouths of many people, yet only if a spiritual awakening has preceded. But then the spirit within the person will impel him to be eagerly active on behalf of God and His kingdom .... But God's adversary also works to the same extent, and his endeavour is the same: to let people speak on his behalf so that darkness will be spread and that God shall lose his power. The human race lives in confused thinking, it no longer has the gift of discernment, it accepts and rejects entirely arbitrarily, for it is incapable of recognising truth as truth and error as error. And this inability is used by God's opponent by trying to intersperse the truth with errors .... Where divine revelations are conveyed to earth, where the spirit of God can work in a person, that is where the pure truth exists, and this will also be protected by the One Who wants to reveal Himself through it. The adversary can only exert his influence where the desire for truth is not predominant, where therefore God, the eternal Truth Himself, does not assume first place or where still earthbound thoughts emerge, so that the spirit of God has no unrestricted reign in the person .... Then it recedes and the hostile power gains influence over a person's thoughts although he believes himself to be instructed by the spirit of God. In that case, however, one cannot speak of a spiritual awakening either, the will might have been present yet he failed to do what is necessary in order to give life to the spirit within himself .... Many people want to hear God speaking and God is also lovingly inclined towards those who desire to hear His Word. Yet whether they will be able to hear His voice depends on the shape of the soul, which is the spiritual ear for God's voice. But the will to hear God's Word can also inspire the intellect to form divine Words, which is not to be condemned since the human will does not think anything anti-divine .... Nevertheless, it is not God's Word which is delivered by the human intellect .... On the other hand, however, a person can deeply desire God's Word and, filled by this desire, hear Him without being aware that it is God Himself Who speaks through Him .... In that case, he is unconsciously of service to the Lord as someone who is spiritually awakened .... and he speaks the truth, because his desire for it is, at the same time, also a desire for God, which He always grants ....

The awakenings during the last days before the end will particularly emerge where the proclamation of the Gospel is felt as an inner need. That is where the spirit in the person is already working, and then it will clearly express itself insofar as that an unusual talent will come to light, yet only during his service for God and His kingdom. Then a person without any special oratory gift will be able to make good speeches, a person without any special previous knowledge will be able to offer informative clarifications; he will have fluent answers to questions about spiritual things .... The spirit of God will visibly take effect, the person will belong to those who are awakened, who vividly stand up for the Word of God because they will be inwardly impelled by the spirit which continually strives towards the Father-Spirit, which always reveals the divine will to the person and urges him to implement it. This kind of awakening will particularly emerge in congregations where the desire to hear God's Word predominates, and where God therefore speaks to the congregation through a person .... And the congregation will listen to this person, because the working of God in him will be obvious. But he will speak in his own words, nothing abnormal will come to light, even though he will show talents which he otherwise does not possess. Yet he will not speak in a psychic state, he will not speak automatically, hence he will not be forced to speak such that his mouth forms words uninfluenced by his intellect .... Such proclaiming can also take place but it is not to be regarded as an awakening of the spirit, it is more likely the taking possession of the human will by a being which wants to express itself. In the right kind of awakening the spirit illuminates the human being's intellect at the same time, it corrects his thinking, thereby enabling the person to speak spiritedly to his listeners, not like an automaton, which brings forth one word after another and betrays a strange power speaking through him .... If this power is evil it can cause tremendous damage; if it is good, the spiritual results can also be good yet they must never be judged to be the same as the working of God's spirit in a person, which is such a bright illumination of divine strength of love that it is recognisable through increased knowledge and great diligence for God and His kingdom. Hence this applies to the proclamation of the divine Gospel in the congregation, which needs to be paid special attention to during the time of the end. But the spirit of God can also express itself in solitude, it can educate an individual person and impart knowledge to him for a purpose .... Then the spirit of God within a person has equally been awakened through the person himself. And this kind of awakening is also associated with a mission .... the knowledge which is subsequently received by the person shall be passed on, for the Gospel shall be spread in all purity with divine support .... God Himself takes care of people who received the Gospel in a spoilt form and who therefore no longer have the right kind of faith; he will, however, give it back to them by imparting the pure truth to them. To these spiritually enlightened people is God speaking directly, they hear His speech within themselves like clear mental Words, they receive impressive instructions with the purpose of passing them on to people .... Thus God speaks through these people, yet again not in a way that the human being serves God in the form of a speaker but that he, after having received the divine Word, has to activate his own will to pass the divine Word on. This working of the spirit is insofar significant as that it establishes a foundation again, so that people can be introduced to the fundamental truth, so that God Himself can instruct the human race and thereby every doubt can be refuted, every error exposed and every wrong interpretation corrected .... so that the pure Gospel can therefore be proclaimed by God Himself, received through a person in whom His spirit can be active, and recorded by his will to be of service to God and to people. Spiritually awakened people will always serve God with enthusiasm and conviction, and that in different ways .... Thus the spirit of God is always active in them, which guides their thinking and intentions correctly, which provides them with unusual strength to seriously work for the kingdom of God .... And such awakenings will happen frequently during the last days, yet where this is possible the spirit of God manifests itself unusually, because His love and wisdom recognise what is beneficial for the salvation of the human race. He knows His servants and assigns to them the work they are capable of doing. He works in public like in solitude; according to His wise Judgment He appoints positions to those who are capable of administering them well .... And thus the tasks he gives to His servants are different; yet they all work for His kingdom and are of service to Him, and the work of every individual person will be blessed ....

Amen

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Power of faith .... obvious help .... last means of grace ....

B.D. 4634 from May 10th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The might and power of God will visibly manifest itself in those who are strong in faith and pray to God for help in great need. What seems impossible will become possible; what is humanly impossible will be accomplished by people through the power of faith in an almighty God and creator of heaven and earth. And no prayer will be in vain if it is sent up to Him in spirit and in truth and in firm, unshakeable faith; and where this faith can be found every adversity will also be bearable because it will be averted through precisely this faith. Every person who feels like a child of God and trustingly raises his hands to Him will feel the father's love. Now that God's activity, His love and His omnipotence are so clearly recognizable, the weak believers will be strengthened and the unbelievers will become suspicious, and this is a last means of grace for those who do not want to believe. A serious admonition approaches them once more, proof that a God lives to Whom they can also commend themselves and Who will draw close to them with equal love if they acknowledge Him as father and humbly bow before Him. The strength of faith can give everyone food for thought, for God's help is too obvious to be denied because things happen which go beyond the scope of the natural .... God will help all who sincerely appeal to Him for such faith, who do not slacken in their struggle for it and who are of good will. For these are His own who long for Him and whose striving only applies to unification with God, which will lead to the aim. The miracles will also take place in them which are based on the strength of faith, which testify to God's overwhelming love for His own and also revive the faith in His coming in the clouds, from which they now draw the strength again for the last battle on this earth. Their profound faith will endure everything because they are fully convinced that God will come and fetch His own into His kingdom when the adversity becomes unbearable. And God will not let such faith be put to shame ....

Amen

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Work of the spirit in man ....

B.D. 7534 from February 28th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

My spirit shall work in you, My strength shall become powerful in you .... for then I will work with you and you will work with Me .... And no matter how weak you feel as a human being, My spirit gives you strength and power which has a spiritual effect, My spirit fills your soul and guides it to perfection. And once you are filled by My spirit your physical weakness will also disappear, then you will receive strength from Me and you will be able to master everything and also meet earthly requirements. For then you will be closely united with Me and have unlimited strength at your disposal. But you must believe and in this convinced faith seek My bond, then no limits will be set for you, you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to, you will succeed in everything, for you will no longer undertake anything without Me. But which of you humans possesses this strong faith that he unconditionally hands himself over to Me in order to be able to work united with Me according to his will? You all do not yet have this faith which can move mountains. And therefore you are fainthearted and despondent .... But you should make an effort to allow My spirit to work in you, you should request My strength and make use of it, because it will be given to you without restriction as soon as you request it to work with love. And then you will also learn to believe when My strength visibly proves itself to you .... My spirit will guide you and you will think and want correctly and then also request strength from Me where you need it. I want you to be filled with My spirit, but you must also want the same or the working of My spirit will be impossible .... You only have to approach Me with convinced faith that I Myself will make you happy with My presence, then My spirit will also have to become active in you, for wherever I am I express Myself through the spirit. Just believe and want Me to be with you, and I will truly comply with this will and never leave you again. And then My spirit will work in you and My strength will flow through you and your soul will mature as long as it still lives on earth. But if My spirit is working in you then it will also instruct you from within, it will make you feel what you should or should not do, it will convey right thoughts to you, it will reveal knowledge to you, and it will also kindle love in you for your God and father of eternity, for My spirit in you is My share which draws you into love for Me Myself because it remains eternally inseparably united with Me. And thus it also has to impart strength to the person who allows it to work, for he has to live in love or the working of the spirit would be impossible. And a life of love irrevocably earns him a supply of strength from Me, Who is eternal love Itself. This is why the working of the spirit is always connected with the supply of strength, or also: My spirit is strength which gives itself to everyone who lives in love .... This person will be brightly enlightened and his soul will also be able to do the work on itself full of strength .... And the human being will become aware of this supply of strength as soon as he establishes the heartfelt bond with Me, and then he will also consciously use it to work in love .... And then I will be in him and he will be in Me .... And then he will work united with Me with My strength ....

Amen

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God's work in man .... power ....

B.D. 3517 from August 19th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The human being must be willing to give everything if he wants to fully and completely accept God's strength, if he wants to let it flow into him in all its fullness and thereby be able to achieve supernatural things. Anyone who gives everything away, who has completely detached his heart from earthly goods, from the world and its attractions, has overcome self-love and his love can only be the right kind, love for his neighbour and thus for God, and he will always and constantly be active in loving activity, he will thereby enter into closest contact with God and be able to receive His emanation of strength directly. For there is no longer any obstacle, his will is turned towards God and his actions correspond to God's will .... To detach oneself from the world means to unite with God .... but this separation must first have taken place before the human being opens himself without resistance to the supply of strength from God .... The will to do so must be proven through action, for the will to unite can also exist in people who are still lukewarm and turned towards the world, but it first has to be implemented through serious overcoming of that which appears earthly desirable to the human being. But then he will receive more than he has given, for the emanation of strength from God will make him infinitely more happy, he will master earthly life in full possession of the strength from God but first lead a spiritual life and have treasures at his disposal which will give his life rich content, which he will never want to miss again and which will stimulate him to constant activity in love. He will call knowledge his own which has its origin in God and is therefore purest truth; he will stand high in knowledge and this will make him free and happy. He will no longer know any weakness, no fear and anxiety, for the strength from God will never ever let such arise, and his constant endeavour will be to fulfil God's will, to serve Him and to help his neighbour to the same beatitude on earth which is granted to him. But the strength from God will also enable him to accomplish things which are extraordinary and beyond the strength of a human being .... his will will attain such strength that he will be able to do everything by believing in God's strength working in him .... If there is no longer an obstacle within himself for the influx of God's strength, there are also no limits to its working, for it is now God Who works in him, and the human being's will will now also be God's will if the union with God has taken place. Uninterrupted unselfish activity of love and the complete abandonment of earthly desires earns the human being unity with God on earth, and then God's love will also manifestly work in the human being and provide him with spiritual possessions unmeasured .... with the attention of the divine word, which, as God's direct emanation, is the greatest source of strength, from which he can now strengthen and refresh himself ....

(19.8.1945) God Himself works in him .... and man must now be powerful and mighty .... His will will only carry out what God's will is, and God's will will become a deed through a person who stands in the power of God. But to fellow human beings it appears supernatural because they don't feel God's strength within themselves and also have no understanding for its working. But if they themselves would overcome earthly matter, if they would likewise detach themselves from it, the same things would be possible for them and the process of extraordinary working through people would be explainable, because light flows to the human being at the same time as strength, the knowledge of spiritual working. Light and strength are one, and therefore nothing appears supernatural to the knowing human being, but only as an increased degree of spiritual progress. He knows that everything imperfect is powerless and lightless, but that power and light are part of him who seriously strives for perfection and develops upwards step by step. And therefore the knowing human being will also lose all fear of the world because he knows that he is in intimate contact with God and can make use of His strength at any time, and thus he is immune to the attacks of the world until the hour which God's will has set for his physical end. And therefore he fears no-one but is able to instil fear in fellow human beings who are ignorant of his strength and power. As a conqueror of matter every fetter of matter also falls from him, he stands in spiritual freedom, and that also means power over matter, because this is subject to God's will, which is expressed in the human being who is permeated by strength. God works in him .... and the human being's state must be bliss .... to be able to fully surrender to God's activity and to be constantly active according to His will .... He will only use his will to work in love in order to point people to God's love, which bestows a precious gift upon the human being who unites with Him, who overcomes matter and thus allows the strength from God to flow into him unhindered through continued activity in love .... He will point people to the strength of love which now expresses itself in an obvious way, he will initiate them into the strength and power of the divine word which educates to love and is a signpost to God .... He will present their earthly task to people and try to motivate them to likewise detach themselves from matter, which is worthless and transient, so that they can receive spiritual goods .... so that God's strength also expresses itself in them .... so that God Himself can work in them ....

Amen

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Power of the spirit in the end time ....

B.D. 5935 from April 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

All of you who believe shall experience the strength of the spirit, for the end is approaching. You will still need much strength during this time and therefore I will obviously grant you My help because you believe and so that your fellow human beings' faith will also be strengthened, so that they will offer resistance to My adversary's onslaught. All of you who live in the last days will have to endure much adversity and hardship because the battle between light and darkness is fierce and will have a tangible effect on you humans. For hell with its powers devises everything possible to make My followers fall away from Me .... it devises everything possible to incite people against each other and to disregard the commandments of love, and it requires much strength and faith to remain faithful to Me in these last days and only ever look upwards from where help will come, as I have promised. And during this time you will all visibly experience My presence, My spirit's travail will touch you, and you will join Me more and more and finally only live your life in closest union with Me and yet also stand in the blessing of this union .... You will be able to work in My name through My spirit, and this means that you need not fear the time ahead of you because you will be able to face everything difficult with the strength of your faith and thus nothing need be impossible for you, nothing need be insurmountable for you. My spirit will work in and through you .... Where a believing circle meets I will also manifestly appear, in that a person filled by My spirit will hear My instructions within himself and will also feel My strength within himself which will then let him carry out what My spirit announces to him. And you will urgently need such strengthening and comforting, for you will be despondent in view of the events and unable to find help elsewhere, for you, My believers, will be ostracized for the sake of your faith. And yet, this time must come so that what is written will come true, that all who believe in Me will be in distress .... But I will help you, and as soon as you have firm, unshakeable faith this time will also pass you by like a difficult dream, because you will be able to banish the adversity yourselves by virtue of your faith. Therefore only seek to attain profound faith .... live in love so that your faith will be strengthened and let yourselves be filled with My spirit .... for it is powerful and if it works in you, you will live and never lose your life again ....

Amen

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Apparently spirit work before the end ....

B.D. 5284 from December 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I am obviously working on My children and they shall experience one sign after another so that they learn to believe so firmly and unshakably that they believe everything to be possible. My spirit is constantly active in them to order and enliven and to shape the human being according to My will .... It is indeed My spirit which works in these children of Mine, yet they themselves must first have made the working of My spirit possible through their will .... Thus it is not possible to speak of an arbitrary treasure of grace which I pour out on a person, even though everything that concerns him is grace. The working of My spirit is only possible when the inner willingness to receive grace and the fullest devotion to Me has taken place, unless an unusual act of grace takes place in a person who is destined for a significant task which shall be recognizable to all people. But then prerequisites are also given which you humans do not know about but which have determined Me to choose precisely this person for an extraordinary mission. Then I will, so to speak, have an effect on him Myself. But if the working of My spirit in you has been permitted by yourselves, then My divine strength is constantly active in you, and then your earthly life is a constant revelation of Myself. You will recognize Me in everything, you will experience My help, My presence, My constant care for you and thereby join Me so intimately that only My will fills you, that you cannot live other than according to My will. Then I will have become a concept of reality for you and will also remain so for ever .... You live in Me and with Me; and I live in and with you .... You will receive the certainty of being counted among My own as soon as My spirit is manifestly active in you, as soon as you are filled with My grace and feel Me Myself in you .... as soon as you feel the happiness of love which only a work of unselfish neighbourly love can give you. Then I will already be within you and My spirit will come to life in you, My spirit will already have a decisive effect on your thoughts and intentions, then you will already be walking by My hand because My spirit will guide you. Then you need only look around you with a spiritual eye, then you need only pay attention to all processes which relate to your spiritual life, and a new kingdom will take shape in you, you can call it a new life which you now lead but which can only be pursued spiritually, which is only recognizable to fellow human beings insofar as it changes the nature of the human being in whom My spirit is working .... Yet what is only faintly recognizable outwardly becomes all the more noticeable inwardly .... It changes the person completely, for the working of My spirit is never without success. It obviously manifests itself through My permission when I exceptionally want to strengthen the human being's faith which, however, is not forced, because then only the strength of a right faith manifests itself, which the fellow human being can still deny or explain as human willpower but which can signify strengthening to a weak believer and make him strong himself. But My own are saved, for where My spirit is active the counter-spirit no longer has any influence, for they belong to Me and remain My own forever ....

Amen

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Willpower of the servants of God .... mission ....

B.D. 3480 from May 14th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Anyone who has the word, i.e. who is able to hear the voice of God within himself, must also have the strength of will to spread God’s word, and he will also fulfil his destiny as soon as his mission begins. Then the spirit of God will impel him into constant activity and he will not resist either, because he has already offered himself to God for service before and this was the prerequisite for receiving the direct divine word. And the actual mission will begin when the battle against faith is obvious, when it is no longer waged secretly but people are openly attacked before the world who have faith in God, in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, and also confess it before the world. Then every servant of God will feel called by God and he will do what the inner voice dictates .... confess and fight for God and try to win fellow human beings for the faith .... Then the strength of his will will become evident, for nothing will deter him or hold him back from his task which God has given him and which he is always willing to fulfil. Every servant called by God has the firm will to serve Him with all his strength, and God directs them to the right field of work where he can develop the strength and work for the blessing of people who are of good will. But it will be a difficult task because the enemy of the souls is too powerful and uses all means to render God's servants harmless. But the word is constantly sent to them and through the word also the strength to resist .... because with the word God Himself is with those who desire it and receive it with a believing heart, who let it come alive through their will and their works. Anyone who has the word also lives in love and therefore also constantly receives strength from God, Who is love Himself and comes closer to the human being with every work of love. And therefore the word will always be the greatest provider of strength, after all, it has come directly from the spiritual kingdom to earth and, as spiritual strength itself at the same time, is extremely effective .... It will lift people up, it will make them confident and strong in faith. And thus God's servants will also powerfully and fearlessly profess their faith before the world, they will try to spread the divine word and speak openly, they will not fear the world and carry out their mission as it is God's will, for they are called to do so by Himself. They will not lack the will to work for Him and will always receive the strength to carry out their will. Every path is marked out for them, for as soon as they submit their will to God of their own accord God's will also works in them, which expresses itself in all actions, speeches and thoughts. Where the spirit of God can work, the divine will must determine the person's life on earth, for the spirit of God only works where the person's own will has been sacrificed to God beforehand. This is why a servant of God's path of life is in accordance with his spiritual task, and he need not anxiously worry because it has to be covered according to God's will, and the human being himself is unable to change anything, even if his human thinking strives for change. But since God's will is active in the human being who wants to be of service to God, he will also never slacken and neglect his earthly task, for the spirit from God impels him to work for Him. The spirit from God will constantly express itself and manifest itself in the word which is constantly conveyed to the human being, which he is always and constantly able to hear if only he listens within, in conscious contact with God. And he will seek this connection because his heart drives him to do so .... the love for God and his neighbour .... which urges him to seek closeness to God .... which again and again drives him to prayer, to dialogue with God, the most loving father of His children, Whom happiness is already prepared on earth by serving Him. And God answers him, His fatherly love fulfils every request, and thus he hears His voice, and especially when he is called to proclaim God's will to his fellow human beings .... To spread God’s word in the world. These will never be weak-willed, for they are permeated by God's strength which is repeatedly conveyed to them through the word which is directly conveyed to earth from the spiritual kingdom so that people can become blessed who keep to His word in the last days, who accept it and thereby receive strength to endure until the end ....

Amen

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Followers of Jesus .... spreading His teaching .... working of the spirit ....

B.D. 4785 from November 21st 1949, taken from Book No. 54

In My name you should be active .... What I have done on earth you should also do, always leading Me and My activity, My teaching of love, so that you identify yourselves as My successors or also fulfil the lord's command as servants. Then you will work in My name for the kingdom of God, you will continue the work of redemption which I have started by giving your fellow human beings the means and ways to redeem themselves. This is a beautiful service you render Me if you, like Me, preach love to your fellow human beings, if you impart My teaching to them, which is given to you purely and unadulterated for this purpose. I Myself train you for this, I give you what you should pass on to your fellow human beings .... I instruct you so that you may spread the gospel throughout the world. I ask nothing of you but that you do what I have done .... live in love and thereby kindle the light of wisdom in yourselves; then you will be able to let this light shine and illuminate the darkness which is spread across the earth. Warn and admonish your fellow human beings and announce the near end to them, just as I have also announced the judgment to people. Then you will be My right servants, My supports in the end time, then you will be faithful workers in the vineyard of the lord. The time of your work will only be short, which will only begin in its full extent when I have revealed Myself to people through the elements of nature. But even before that you should be diligently active and do the preparatory work which will condition your work later. You should familiarize yourselves with My word such that you become living representatives of it, you should let yourselves be taught by Me and be My eager pupils. You should make an effort to follow Me in your way of life, you should serve Me with your heart and mouth, that is, let Me speak through you so that My will will be made known to people. You should receive the pure truth and also represent it, i.e. take action against error which is corrupting for people and prevents them from becoming blessed. And everything you are to do you learn through My word .... Therefore be grateful that you may receive My word, that I speak to you directly or through messengers, that I accept you as co-workers and instruct you on the work you should do for Me and My kingdom. Love shall drive you to activity, yet I will help you as I have promised you, and your reward one day will truly be no less ....

Amen

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The work of God's servants in the last days ....

B.D. 4848 from February 28th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

You will know when your time has come, when you have to step forward to proclaim My Word to all those who need help. For your heart will tell you, you will feel inwardly urged to speak about My extraordinary working affecting you externally and internally, about My Word and the approaching end, in order to help your fellow human beings who take the wrong paths and therefore believe that they will perish in the earthly adversity. And I will support you in every way .... you will feel that I Am with you Myself when you speak for Me and My kingdom, for My name. You will be very busy because you are happy doing your work and, despite the surrounding adversity, will barely be affected by it. For My working on My servants on earth will be obvious, every person will be able to recognise what blessings the contact with Me entail if he merely opens his eyes and is seriously minded and does not deliberately oppose Me. I want to be your companion wherever you go; I want to guide you to where you are urgently needed. You will only be able to work for a short time and so you should use the time in order to offer God's kingdom to many people. For then a different kind of adversity will follow .... Oppression and brutal measures will be used by the earthly authorities against all those who inwardly carry the faith in Me, the faith in Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation. Then everyone who had previously listened will be able to make a choice, and this decision will come easy to him if he has accepted My Word he received from you in his heart. In that case he can be counted as one of the flock of My Own, he will likewise fight on My behalf, if not openly then nevertheless through professing Me and My name before the world. Much seed must still be sown and steps should be taken so that the field is well prepared to receive the seed. This is why much work must still be done beforehand, for which I will take you into My service and guide you on your paths such that you will also be able to accomplish it if you are willing. I need you and therefore will place you in a position where you can be of service to Me. I will smooth your every path, I will place you where you can successfully work for Me, I will prepare you for your teaching activity and provide you with the strength for it, I will take care of you so that you can devote yourselves to the service of God's kingdom without being burdened by earthly worry. I will speak to you through your heart when the time has come for you to take up your teaching mission. Whatever you do for Me and My kingdom must be done by you of your own free will, and therefore you must enjoy it, that is, you must be so permeated by your task that you, impelled from within, will fulfil it out of love of Me and your neighbour. You must be so permeated by My Word that you also want to pass it on to your fellow human beings and especially when the time of adversity comes, which I have always and forever announced to you. Then people will only be lifted up by My Word and then your time will have come for which I Am preparing you. Then you will feel My directive in your heart and diligently accomplish what I require of you. Then you will be actively involved as My endtime disciples in the redemption of erring souls out of love of Me and your fellow human beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Working miracles in the last days ....

B.D. 3727 from March 27th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

And you will be able to work miracles in My name. For the power and strength of My name shall be revealed at the end of days. This is no longer a compulsion of faith towards the unbelieving world, for people who turn away from Me try to explain everything to themselves naturally, but My believers do not lack realisation and thus they know that nothing is impossible as soon as it is carried out with My power and with submission to My will. The last days require great signs so that My working will come to light, so that the last ones, the weak in spirit, will still find Me and thereby receive strength, so that their decision will be right .... And My servants on earth will have extraordinary strength at their disposal and be able to use it towards the weak and sick, towards those in need of spiritual and physical help who are not entirely without faith. For My adversary also works in such a way that he expresses himself through false prophets, that he gives strength to people who are enslaved by him to likewise accomplish things which seem supernatural in order to invalidate the true miracles which I work through My spirit and thus turn the believers away from Me. Yet My supply of strength is of a different kind, it does not depend on a person's strength of will but on his strength of faith, it is rooted in profound faith in Me and My support, and a person's love will bring it about, whereas an overly strong will without faith in Me will allow itself to be influenced by My adversary and he will then carry out My adversary's will, which is never motivated by love and never awakens love. Therefore, direct your attention to whether the miracles you see are works of love performed on suffering fellow human beings in need or whether they are works for the increase of earthly possessions .... whether they are purely materialistic works which do not express any love for fellow human beings. For if the purpose of a miracle is earthly splendour and advantage then it is not wanted by Me and has no effect .... But so it liberates a person from physical or spiritual hardship then I Am at work Myself and work through My servants on earth to whom I bestow increased strength in order to reveal Myself through them. And My servants will feel it when they are prompted by Me to perform miraculous deeds .... They will not intellectually carry out something but suddenly be impelled from within to speak and act as soon as My strength flows through them through My will. Then they will not oppose Me but want the same, because I will announce this to them through My spirit and then they will speak and act as My organs, they will carry out My will, only visible to their fellow human beings through the person of the servant on earth, for the time of the end requires extraordinary activity so that I Myself, My power and strength and love, will become manifest .... so that the believers will rise up and the weak will still find Me in the last hour before the final end comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Working miracles in the end time .... false christs and prophets ....

B.D. 5142 from June 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You should only use My strength of life which is always at your disposal and nothing will be insurmountable for you. Yet only through a life of love can you acquire this strength of love .... after which it is now also understandable to you when a person is capable of healing illnesses and other extraordinary activity, providing these abilities are not favoured from below, which, however, is obviously recognizable in the person's way of life. My strength of love can be used for unheard-of activity, yet only by people who are so intimately united with Me through faith and love that My strength can flow into them unhindered. The human being himself draws the boundaries, he stems My flow of love if his relationship with Me is not the right one, indeed, he can even receive strength from below if his way of life completely contradicts My will. But a person who accomplishes unusual things can rarely conceal the direction of his love .... As long as it still applies to the world it is not My strength which enables him to work. But anyone who is devoted to Me also radiates something divine to his fellow human beings, and his unusual strength indicates his intimate connection with Me, which is always recognizable. The higher a person's love, the stronger his faith and thus he consciously works with My strength. Hence love and faith must be present first if divine activity is to be acknowledged, and true faith and love cannot be feigned or denied, which is why they always help to arrive at the right judgment if the origin of the strength is to be examined. In the last days before the end such tests will often be necessary, for forces from above and below will express themselves, signs and miracles will happen, for My adversary will also try to gain faith and endow his followers with great strength. Then it will become apparent that only love gives light and produces the right ability to judge, that works with divine strength can only be carried out by those who remain firm in their faith in Me, the living God and their redeemer, and that all work by people with an adversarial attitude towards God also happens through God-adversarial forces, that it is false Christs and false prophets who work miracles on satan’s behalf.

I draw your attention, My faithful, to the fact that much will happen in the last days which appears unusual and therefore supernatural, but I also give you explanations about it so that you will be able to distinguish a real miracle with My strength from My adversary's deceptive works which are performed, because people who fall prey to him enjoy unusual willpower and physical strength and thereby astonish their fellow human beings, for just as I Myself work in those who love Me and thus have accepted Me into their hearts, so he also works on people of his spirit when the end is near. He can make use of their body form as soon as they have sold their soul to him, and then the human being will act as he wants. But "by their fruits ye shall know them." All that is done in the way of supernatural things only serves to increase power and to increase earthly goods. The world, of which he is the ruler, falls at the feet of those who are equipped with his power .... My kingdom, however, is not of this world .... and My disciples of the last days, My messengers of love through whom I work and to whom I bestow supernatural strength, only proclaim the spiritual kingdom, they teach love and confirm their gospel through signs and wonders which prove Me Myself, the divine teacher, on Whose behalf they speak and in Whose name they heal the sick and work miracles. They will be persecuted by those but in their adversity they will be saved by Me Myself, for one day the good and the bad, the love and the hatred will be revealed .... where no-one can hide from Me, where I will judge the living and the dead, the prince of darkness and his followers, where My power and glory will be revealed to My own who remain faithful to Me until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Prophetic gift .... A spiritual gift which demands action ....

B.D. 6587 from July 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The prophetic gift is indeed a gift of the spirit too, nevertheless it is not a happiness-inducing state for a person because God only bestows this gift on someone with the purpose of drawing his fellow human beings´ attention to forthcoming judgments and their consequences and to seriously admonish and warn them .... For it only ever concerns people's spiritual welfare, their salvation of soul, which they ought to gain but often neglect due to lethargy and take paths which lead to disaster. However, all wrong thinking and every bad deed affects the soul and a life in opposition to divine order will always result in degeneration .... And according to law every sin will, sooner or later, have an unfavourable effect and thus the whole of humanity's sinfully darkened state will also have such effects and result in judgments which intend to restore divine order again .... People do not consider this in their blindness, hence their attention has to be drawn to it and they must be reprimanded to change their way of life .... The consequences of their wrong attitude have to be made clear to them and thus they must receive warnings .... And the task of seers and prophets is to announce forthcoming judgments, to predict to people all that which will come to pass according to divine will and what they themselves can only know as a result of spiritual enlightenment, as a result of foreseeing the future but which only refers to humanity's spiritual development, or as a result of God's revelations which they hear through the inner voice. To announce such events to people is not a happiness-inducing mission but a very necessary one, for which a person requires God's commission and subsequently must also comply with it if he wants to be of service to God and help his fellow human beings for the salvation of their souls. God will not let any judgment come upon humanity without informing them first so that they will still have time to change themselves ....

For this reason many seers and prophets will still arise during the last days who clearly see the approach of the coming Judgment before their spiritual eyes and who feel committed to inform their fellow human beings of what is awaiting them. They know that they will have to speak about it because they realise that it was shown to them for the sake of those who will have to fear such judgment. And although he will not be listened to gladly he will nevertheless not fail to loudly proclaim what he knows in order to warn and admonish people. He himself derives no benefit at all from this gift, he is merely an instrument in the hands of God Who avails Himself of him in order to still influence people without forcing their will, Who is able to speak through him to people Himself so that they will all still be able to prepare themselves if they are of good will. However, the prophets of the end time will find little credence with people and yet they will keep proclaiming what they know. The will often be ridiculed as false prophets or be treated with hostility, for God's adversary will appear at the same time but he proclaims to people the opposite. He offers them hope for progress, he promises people a glorious time and a change for the better .... And he tries to benefit from it himself .... False prophets are not unselfish, they can be recognised by the fact that they allow themselves to be paid for their service, and they speak from their intellect. However, God's spirit can only work in people who are utterly devoted to God and want to serve Him unselfishly .... Therefore you humans are able to assess every prophet yourselves, for a genuine prophet has the salvation of people's souls at heart and only warns and admonishes them to bear the events in mind which he is meant to proclaim according to God's will. And you ought to listen to them, for they speak on God's instructions and in view of the near end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The gift of healing the sick ....

B.D. 7032 from February 3rd 1958, taken from Book No. 75

I bestow the gift of healing the sick on those who are strong in faith and love .... I can only work through these because I won't act in opposition to My law of order. This is why only few people are permeated by the sanctifying strength that flows forth from Me and brings full recovery to the sick person .... It is therefore understandable that profoundly devout healers will proclaim Me and My name because they are spiritually awakened and thus know the significance of My act of Salvation and therefore also very passionately try to inform their fellow human beings of it. Consequently, only a true confessor and proclaimer of My name will have curative strength, which is a fact you humans must always bear in mind, because apparent healings are also performed which are not carried out through My strength but are often My adversary's activity. Healings of the sick have to take place in My name, then one can speak of a 'spiritual gift', of an extremely firm strength of faith and of My direct working in the human being, which is precisely what these profoundly devout healers bring about.

And again I say to you that a certain degree of faith must be present in the sick person too, that he must not reject Me but be faithfully willing to submit himself to My working .... Then his recovery will strengthen his faith and also motivate still unbelieving people to adopt a different attitude towards religious doctrines, although he, too, can only achieve a living faith by living a life of love .... Thus one cannot speak of compulsory faith, only of an enforced change of his thinking so that he will have to intellectually deal with something which he had previously ignored. But he can only attain the right faith as a result of a change through selfless neighbourly love.

However, anyone who has faith will be tremendously strengthened by the fact that he recognises God's might .... And in view of the near end I will often still reveal Myself wherever the prerequisite exists that a person completely hands himself over to Me and enables the strength of My spirit to permeate him, that he professes Me and My name before the world and thus uses the strength flowing through him for the benefit of his fellow human beings to heal all kinds of illnesses and afflictions. This first and foremost requires a living faith gained through love, and people can consider themselves fortunate if such a profoundly faithful brother is within their midst who, to a certain extent, is a mediator between Myself and them, who directly receives My strength and passes it on again to his suffering brothers and sisters, to whom he also proclaims Me and My act of Salvation with complete conviction. He is a true fighter for Christ, he is a suitable labourer in My vineyard and qualified to bring about revivals in the last days which will lead people to Me in Jesus Christ, and thus renders redemptive work for which I will bless him. For bright lights will have to shine in this darkened world so that people will be able to see ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Promise of God's protection in the end time ....

B.D. 7407 from September 12th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

I want to take all of you into My protection when the great adversity will befall you humans. I will visibly let all those who want to be Mine, who have already sought and found contact with Me, all those who sincerely pray to Me and call upon Me for help, and they shall experience everything without fear and worry, always in the firm certainty that I Myself am with them and will lead them through all adversity. For only this certainty will make it possible for them to speak for Me, to preach the gospel to their fellow human beings, thus to speak on My behalf, because many more people shall be won over for Me, for eternal life. In this time of adversity your tongues will be loosened, you will be impelled to speak by My spirit and you will be able to spread much blessing, for people will listen to you because they are in great distress and hope for some kind of help. This can hardly be brought to them from the human side, rather, fellow human beings will still contribute towards increasing the hardship who seek to enrich themselves without any scruples and know no inhibitions out of their conscience. But I can help My own, and I will help them so that they can also get through this difficult time and help those around them themselves. I only require strong faith from you, and therefore I already prepare you for this time by letting you get into hardship which will be remedied again and again, and this so obviously that you have to believe in a father in heaven Who loves you and is also ready to help at any time. Your faith shall be strengthened .... Don't forget that this is an aim for the sake of which you will repeatedly fall into adversity .... But again and again you will be led out because I want to show you that a father in heaven knows about all your worries and can and will remedy them in due time .... You all do not know what lies ahead of you .... But I know, and I do not want to lose you as My children .... I want you to hold on to Me ever more firmly and finally be so intimately united with Me that you no longer start anything without Me, that you constantly feel Me beside you and in this presence of Mine are also truly protected from every danger .... For I need you as My co-workers in the last days before the end, I need you to bear witness to Me and My fatherly love, to proclaim the gospel of love and to bring people to Me who are still on the sidelines and whom I nevertheless don't want to lose again for a long time. I need good speakers to whom I can put My word into their mouths when the time comes when it becomes necessary to proclaim Me and the approaching end. I need servants in My vineyard, messengers who spread My pure word, who will then also speak according to My will. And these need not fear, although a great adversity will pass over the earth .... they will be sustained by My fatherly love, they will always find help, whatever it may be, and whether humanly speaking there can be no help .... My power and love is great and always remembers those who want to be Mine and will also remain so for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assurance of protection against confusion and hostility ....

B.D. 8434 from March 9th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

Anyone who has made it his task to be redemptively active in the last days will time and again be faced with difficulties on the part of My adversary because he will use all means to prevent humanity from being brought light in the dark night which is spread across the earth. Therefore it will also be extremely difficult to convey the pure truth .... My Word, which is beamed to you humans from above .... from above to you humans, because it will be prevented from all sides, for people don't know how far they have already fallen prey to My adversary if they reject this Word and resist its distribution. But it is a glaring phenomenon in the last days when My adversary's activity shall be exposed and he himself uses all means to prevent this, and the more time progresses the more obvious this battle of darkness against light will become, and a confusion of human thinking will be recognisable which truly can already be regarded as spiritual chaos .... For even well-intentioned people will find it difficult to make the right decision. Yet the ray which descends upon them from above has the brightest luminosity, and it will beneficially touch the hearts of those who only desire truth, righteous thinking, the Word of God, the right nourishment for their souls ..... And these will not be deceived, no matter how My adversary tries to run against the wall of your faith .... For I Myself am with those who serve Me fully consciously and can be called My last disciples, whom I instruct Myself again and instruct them to go out into the world .... i.e. to spread My Word, which I Myself convey to earth because people need the truth. And they can also be certain of My protection and guidance .... I will always let everything come to them in such a way as to be useful for their task, which they should and can fulfil with My help. And they will be able to see for themselves by their inner peace that I am with them, for I give this to all who fulfil My will .... so that you can also see from it whether your actions are blessed, whether they correspond to My will .... For I have promised you My peace so that you will recognize Me Myself and My presence, for where I Myself am My peace must also fill you, and there the possibility is also given to convey the pure truth to earth, which likewise proves My presence to you. Whatever approaches you, accept it as wanted or permitted by Me .... Thus always pay attention to your inner feeling and you will accept what is right and reject everything wrong, even if My adversary tries to disown you .... You can always be certain of My protection, and this mainly consists of the fact that I correct your thinking, that I protect you from all confusion which My adversary wants to cause in you. Anyone who serves Me can also know that he is protected, and the adversary will not be able to harm him much, but time and again he will try to intrude in order to undermine the pure truth .... However, strong faith in Me and My love is your strongest self-protection, for I will truly not let such faith be destroyed, and you can stand up for the spiritual knowledge you receive without worry and pass it on as purest truth, no counter-objection will shake your faith, and then you will also be the right servants for Me through whom I can work Myself in the last days before the end. The battle against the darkness will not become easier, the prince of darkness will cause more and more confusion, he will attack you, and false christs and false prophets will arise who will persecute you .... You will have to reckon with public hostility and persecution but you need not be without My protection, for I know how necessary your work is for Me and My kingdom, whoever is able to do it .... You should only give Me your whole will, the work in My vineyard should be the most important and most urgent thing for you and everything else should take a back seat .... And you should also consider everything as My will by which you are prevented from still being of service to the world .... I know the means I have to use in order to win you completely for Myself, and therefore I shut you off from the world, you who want to be spiritually, by receiving My word from Me, because every worldly thought can be an obstacle and because there is not much time left until the end and during this time I still want to help all people to recognize correctly .... So don't be afraid of My adversary and his activity, for you will experience My loving care until the end, you who serve Me of your own free will, you who are willing to carry the gospel out as My last disciples ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Use of the time of grace

Use of grace .... free will .... strengthening of the will ....

B.D. 4527 from December 29th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

Nothing will be withheld from you that will benefit your soul. And since truth is the soul's greatest supporter it will always and constantly be conveyed to you if you are willing to accept it. This is therefore the prerequisite that you want to progress in your development, that you therefore desire to stand in truth. The will is yours, it is free and is not influenced by Me in any way, however, it is supported in every way if it takes the right direction. Everything I give to you, everything that contributes towards the advancement of your soul's maturity, is a gift from Me which I, as the eternal love, offer to that which, having once fallen away from Me, has not yet voluntarily returned to Me. They are gifts of grace which you humans do not deserve but which My love bestows upon you in order to win you over. Nevertheless, all gifts of grace are ineffective if your will is directed towards Me, for only the will subordinated to Me turns grace into a real means of help, only if your will strives towards Me of its own accord can the graces become effective for you. It therefore only depends on you whether you travel the path of ascent, whether you reach Me as your aim, whether you become perfect and thus blessed .... It is your will which determines this, which is not touched by Me in its freedom. Yet I will strengthen this will if you ask for it, but then it will already be turned towards Me or you would not pray to Me. The will is your .... and the will determines the measure of grace which is used by you, yet an unlimited measure of grace is at your disposal from Me. Therefore, anyone who believes that he can achieve his beatitude on his own must be confronted by the fact that all use of strength certainly originates from Me, that it is therefore certainly My strength which works in him, but that he can and must request this strength himself before it can take effect in him, and this always first requires the will turned towards Me, which is not determined or directed by Me but has to be directed by yourselves. Thus your beatification can never be determined by Me, even though I have known about your will since eternity. For if you seriously think about it, Christ's act of salvation would be completely pointless, which was merely accomplished for the sake of the weakened will, which was intended to provide help where the human being alone was too weak to use his will properly in order to become free from the form. You humans can certainly do nothing without My grace, for your entire earthly life is only a gift of grace from Me .... But since it concerns the soul's free ascent development during earthly life I make everything dependent on your free will, which I have given to you so that you can become perfect, otherwise I would only have directed spirits and then the whole of creation would not be necessary if My will determined the beings to become blessed. My word must always be an enlightenment for you, which is always given to you in a way that is understandable to you and which always conveys the pure truth to you, so that you will be guided correctly in your thinking and therefore also in the direction of your will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Taking advantage of the time of grace before the end ....

B.D. 4962 from September 3rd 1950, taken from Book No. 56

There is still a time of grace, for the end is not yet here .... The human being still has the opportunity to take the right path which leads upwards, and My means of grace are still at his disposal so that he can reach his aim. The human being is still free to do whatever he wants for the salvation of his soul. He can still strive upwards, he will be helped in every way if his will is directed upwards .... There is still a time of grace .... But soon it will be over, and then what has been determined since eternity will irrevocably happen, then that beingness will be bound in matter again, which at present still walks on earth as a human being. It cannot be made clear to you humans how immensely significant this is, and I can only influence you through warnings and admonitions, but you don't believe them much. And again and again I would like to call out to you: Use the time of grace, listen to My words which are conveyed to you through seers and prophets, that the time until the end is only short. Recognize My love in the fact that I repeatedly send you admonishers and warnings because I want to save you from the fate of a renewed banishment in My works of creation. Use the time of grace in which you can still change according to My will. As long as this earth still exists you can also appeal to My love and grace, to My patience and mercy, and you will never make a wrong request if you pray for your spiritual well-being and request My support. I grant it to you in abundance, yet I take pity on your state and your dreadful fate if you fail and persist in your resistance against Me until the end. It is still the time of grace when I will use all means which can still help you if you do not resist Me. Isolated little lights still shine which can illuminate the darkness of your path if you do not extinguish them yourselves. Again and again guides still step into your path, messengers from Me, who offer you their guidance on My behalf so that you will not go astray towards the abyss. I am constantly ready with My grace to help those who call out to Me in adversity or stand undecided at a crossroads; yet the time of grace will soon come to an end, and where each individual soul will stand on the last day, there it will have to stay for endless times through .... in light or in darkness .... Then My love and mercy will give way to justice. Then the gates of the spiritual kingdom close for those who did not use My time of grace .... Then the soul that has apostatized from Me must inevitably take the path that I wanted to spare it, the path through creation for the purpose of slowly returning to Me .... it must travel the path of ascent once again in greatest agony of being bound, because it did not heed My admonitions and warnings, because it did not avail itself of My grace, because it spurned My love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Utilizing the time of grace before the end ....

B.D. 5729 from July 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 62

You cannot delay the end anymore, for the time is fulfilled which God determined from the start in the knowledge of your will, since this strives relentlessly downwards and needs to be constrained anew. Every individual person can still shape himself such that he will not belong to those who will fall prey to a renewed banishment and also influence his fellow human beings so that they will be protected from the worst judgment. The time is fulfilled .... it means that the day of the end, the day when the material creations on this earth will be disintegrated, can be expected at any hour, even if no time has been given to you humans, because this knowledge would only result in utter confusion but be of no benefit to anyone. Yet it will happen as you were told .... and the last days will pass by in what seems like an instant, for they are only the end of that which was predicted to you long before .... The days of Judgment are already here and everyone can see it if he looks around with open eyes, yet what only concerns individual people at the moment will extend to all people, suffering, distress, mortal fear, adversity and despair .... Everyone will experience it, for the forces of hell are let loose, they rage and provoke wherever something can still be destroyed and they always find willing people whom they can use to cause all kinds of damage. However, everyone is able to apply for help from God, every person has virtuous spiritual forces by his side which he only needs to call upon to protect him from danger of body and soul .... Anyone who entrusts himself to God and His messengers of light can very confidently anticipate the end.

The time you humans were given for your souls' maturation is fulfilled and the day of the end has been determined from the very beginning. But you don't know when it will happen and can therefore even now still tackle the work of improving your soul, for every hour you turn your thoughts upwards is beneficial for you, since you establish the connection with the spiritual world from whence you originate .... Just try to detach your thoughts from the world, don't let yourselves be controlled by the world and its possessions so as not to allow matter to become your fate for an infinitely long time to come .... Let your thoughts wander into a higher sphere and try to ascend to it. You will be able to do so because countless spiritual forces offer support to you, because they will carry you if you request them to do so. You can overcome the world if only you seriously want to. Use every day you are still given as an extraordinary gift of grace but bear in mind that every day can also be the last one for you and that only a very short time separates you from the end of this earth. For the end is not only granted to individual people but to the whole human race, because the law of eternal order is coming to pass and this law has existed for eternity. What you humans regard as a delay is part of the plan of eternity and can only be assessed as a delay insofar as that people already have reached the low spiritual level before the time which results in a disintegration of Earth .... However, God is merciful and will not pass Judgment ahead of the time .... In His love He still seeks to save people and distributes remarkable gifts of grace which are intended to contribute towards the redemption, but He will not change the Day of Judgment and announces it ever more admonishingly and warningly .... Yet He meets with little belief and the end draws ever closer .... And despite all predictions by His seers and prophets it will take humanity by surprise. And he who believes will be blessed, only he who believes will prepare himself even if he does not know the hour of the Lord's coming .... but he expects his coming and perseveres until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s help in the need of the end time

Means of grace .... Walking with God ....

B.D. 6340 from August 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

As yet it is still a time of grace .... I still try to persuade you humans by various means to turn around or to lead you into perfection .... only your will must not be entirely in opposition to Mine. If you humans rebel against Me, against your destiny and everything that is still intended to benefit your soul, then My means of grace will be ineffective, and then your life will also be at risk .... the life of the soul .... for then it will succumb to spiritual death. You humans ought to fit in with My will, you ought to realise that you are powerless by yourselves and passively surrender to the One Who rules over heaven and earth .... Only through such passive devotion will you improve your earthly life .... and then also allow the means of grace take effect and achieve progress for your soul .... It is the time of the end and therefore a time of great adversity because I still want to help people turn around or achieve perfection .... It truly would not be love on My part were I to leave you to your destiny and thus provide you with an unrestrained, carefree earthly life without misery and tribulation, for then your souls would definitely go astray, since the inner drive for ascent is only present in very few people .... I must support you because I love you, but I can only grant My support in a way which I regard as a blessing for your soul .... by being strict with you in order to bring you to your senses, since you are close to the end and haste is essential ....

Yet every person can improve his earthly fate himself by walking his earthly path in unison with Me, by joining Me more closely and thereby making every downfall impossible .... And then I will also guide him such that his earthly life will be more bearable .... For then he will no longer need harsh means of help because I will have won him over for Myself .... Yet as long as the human being still resists Me he only feels the burden and not My help .... However, My love also applies to him and tries to win him over, only it uses different means which are nevertheless means of grace, because they only intend to achieve My living creations' return to Me .... But how insignificant are these sufferings and adversities compared to the torments of a renewed banishment into solid matter .... which, however, will irrevocably happen to you humans if you don't bow down to My will in these last days before the end .... Through suffering and adversities I want to achieve nothing other than your return to Me, Who can and will help you at all times ....

You labour and are heavily laden .... Yet you know One Who calls you to Himself .... Follow His call 'Come unto Me, all ye that labour, and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest ....' And there is nothing I will not give you if only it benefits your soul. Join the group of My children, don't keep apart in wilfulness or defiance but come to Me as well, you who are still distant from Me, and relinquish your resistance. For travelling the path with Me is truly easier and more pleasant since I will guide you such that you will effortlessly reach your goal .... but My path leads away from the world .... For My kingdom is not of this world .... yet it is your true home which will receive you when you have to leave the earth one day .... Only a short stretch of the path is still ahead of you but it is enough for you to reach the right goal .... But if you hand yourselves over to Me and My guidance without resistance you will not regret that you followed the One Who is the Father of all of you, Who wants to guide His children to eternal beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Increased work of God in the end time ....

B.D. 7626 from June 19th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

At a time when God's adversary is in control it is particularly understandable that God Himself comes to people's aid because otherwise you would succumb to him, even if you are of good will. For His power is great in the last days before the end, for He knows that He does not have much time left and fights with all means to achieve victory because He believes that He can overthrow God and wants to rise above Him. This is why God's activity is extraordinary and people can confidently live through this last time without having to suffer damage to their souls, because God will pour out grace in equal measure and everyone who does not want to fall into the adversary's hands will feel this influx of grace. The adversary cannot oppose the human being's will; and if he turns to God, the human being himself already repels the adversary, and he also has the strength to do so because God knows every person's will and then also provides him with the strength to resist the adversary. Therefore, the human being does not need to fear the increased activity of God's adversary if he only wants to belong to God himself ..... For the adversary has no power over this person. And he will also recognize that God's love constantly surrounds him, for the bestowals of grace will be obvious to him, he will feel God's hand and take hold of it and allow himself to be guided by Him .... And truly, the nearness of God will displace the enemy, and God will be close to everyone who wants to take hold of His hand .... Yet the adversary will reap great rewards among the children of the world, for it will become easy for him to deprive those of their faith in God, and then he will also have control over people who no longer have any protection and have mercilessly fallen prey to him. There is great spiritual hardship amongst people because they cling to the world and do not turn their thoughts to God so that He can take hold of them, so that He can snatch them from the hands of the enemy. But God's adversary has the same right to wrestle for people's souls, yet it is up to the human being himself whether God or His adversary wins the battle, for the human being himself can choose his Lord whom he wants to follow. And God therefore reveals Himself to people in many ways so that He can be recognized if the human being wants to recognize Him .... But the will is free. And thus the direct supply of His word, God's most obvious evidence of grace, can be a very clear revelation of God for one person, whereas it leaves the other completely untouched because his will is still completely turned away from God. But it is an extremely effective means of grace that the human being can learn to recognize and love God, and it is truly a clear counteraction, it is an activity against the raging of God's adversary, which becomes clearly recognisable in the last days before the end. For God comes to the aid of all people in this time because they alone are too weak to resist it .... God helps people to recognize him when he disguises himself and appears as an angel of light in order to seduce people .... God does not leave them without help in their spiritual adversity, for He wants you to become blessed, He wants you to be victorious in the battle of faith on earth .... He wants you to find Him and then also be eternally saved ...._>Amen

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Work of God and the adversary in the last days ....

B.D. 8024 from October 23rd 1961, taken from Book No. 84

I don't want to lose you to My adversary, and therefore you should only take the path to Me and appeal to Me for protection and help so that you thereby grant Me the right to push him away from you, which, however, I will not do if you still belong to his entourage yourselves, if you don't yet have the will to detach yourselves from him. For he still has a right to you as long as you don't resist him, as long as you still acknowledge him as your lord. But he will have lost his right to you immediately if your will is directed towards Me, if you therefore call upon Me for protection and help. And then he will still try to influence you under the cover of piety, he will use cunning and trickery in order not to lose you to Me, but all efforts on his part will be unsuccessful if you desire to become free from him yourselves. His activity in the last days will go so far that he will try to extinguish all light which could show people the path to Me .... he will try to weaken My word, he will try to prevent the bearers of light from fulfilling their tasks, he will cause unrest and confusion wherever he can in order to undermine faith in Me, in order to prevent people from looking for and finding their God and father. And his means are truly satanic, for he disguises himself well and often succeeds in causing confusion where a firm bond with Me has not already brought enlightenment of spirit and he and his activity are recognized. He also knows that he does not have much time left, and he still expects much success in the short time. But anyone who consciously renounces him also enjoys My protection and will not fall into his hands because I prevent this by virtue of My love and My power. Yet I cannot give you humans any supernatural evidence of My might and power so as not to force your faith, which shall apply to Me in complete freedom .... You shall believe in Me and My being, which is love, wisdom and power in itself .... And this faith also secures you My help, My guidance and your release from him .... And My love truly does everything to make it easy for you to gain faith in Me. For where My adversary's activity appears so obviously I will also take special care of people without, however, necessarily influencing your faith. Yet again and again I touch your hearts, I reveal Myself to you in the most diverse ways .... I speak to you fatefully, (23.10.1961) I try to influence you mentally, I bring you together with people who are in contact with Me, who in conversations testify to Me and My might, to My love and wisdom .... I will always find a way to make you take a stand for Me, and I will make it easy for you to gain faith in Me, because I Myself want you to believe in Me as a perfect being Who created you out of His love .... I want to provide you with evidence of My existence just as My adversary tries to destroy your faith in Me .... And you are truly not defencelessly exposed to his violence .... the measure of My grace which I will still pour out on you in the last days is unlimited, you just have to make use of it yourselves, you have to take advantage of the grace with which I bestow upon you abundantly, and then you will no longer need to fear My adversary either, who is repelled by My presence and to whom My presence in you is also recognizable if you consciously hand yourselves over to Me and appeal to Me for My protection. My adversary will cause much harm in the last days and yet people themselves give him the right to do so because they don't defend themselves and don't take refuge in Me. And they would do so if they believed in a God of love, wisdom and might. But they lack faith and that is why the adversary has such great power and uses it in a frightening way. And again and again he will storm against strong walls of faith which, however, will withstand him, behind which My own will find safe shelter and also grant protection to those who are still weak in faith, who will then grow stronger in their faith and thus also testify to My love, wisdom and power ....

Amen

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Leadership of God .... demons in the end time ....

B.D. 4354 from June 26th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

All steps are in vain if you don't let Me walk beside you so that I will guide you correctly and you won't take the wrong path. A perpetual battle of the demons for your soul takes place and thus they stand enticingly by the path, seductively they try to distract you so that you no longer pay attention to the path and imperceptibly take a wrong path which leads you far away from the aim. If you let Me walk beside you, the demons will not dare to approach you, the abundance of light emanating from Me will blind them, they will retreat and let you pass by unmolested. Bear this in mind that you are constantly surrounded by forces which do not want you well, but that you need not fear them under My protection, for then they are powerless and you are stronger than they are. In the end time they rage particularly fiercely and do not even stop at the spiritually striving person, for the light which radiates from you, if you seek or spread the truth, irritates and outrages them so that they try to extinguish it and therefore harass you severely. But you are safe with Me, for I guide you in such a way that you reach your aim by a short path. But the path is more arduous, it is not even and bordered by landscapes which edify your eyes, the earthly path is a hard pilgrimage path, and although it is lovely to look at, danger lurks behind the beauty. But with Me you pay no attention to toil and hardship, you do not look around you but only above you, you look forward where your eyes behold glorious things which you seek to reach. And therefore you must not set off on your path alone but constantly call upon Me for My guidance, you must always walk in My company, then the earthly path will be easy for you, the hostile powers will not be able to harass you so much, even though they repeatedly try to determine you, to dismiss Me and to continue walking alone. Your will must be strong and remain so, then you will be victors .... your will must be My will, then I will strengthen it and hold you if you are in danger of falling. The demons' battle for your soul will intensify the closer it gets to the end, but you will also stand firmer in your faith in Me and meet every temptation with resistance, and the power the enemy uses against you will be ever less, for the light of My presence will shine ever brighter and the dark powers will sense ever more clearly that they are confronted by the lord of creation, Whom they cannot force. And they will flee you the closer the end comes .... Then your strength of faith will be so profound that nothing will be able to deter you or make you apostate, for then you will know that I Myself will come to you in a visible way and lift you up, as I have promised you ....

Amen

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Spreading error in the end time .... God's counteraction ....

B.D. 4549 from January 25th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Error will always break through more easily than truth, because it is more appealing to people, i.e. it takes into account people's state of imperfection. Truth will only satisfy those people who have the inner drive to ascend, who are therefore no longer turned towards the world and its stimuli and also deal with the demands which are not so pleasing to the body, if truth demands this. And yet the truth will triumph .... For all who cling to error will perish, while truth also guarantees eternal life. (26.1.1949) For truth is divine and will continue to exist for all eternity, but the fact that error will spread everywhere in the last days to such an extent that truth will only prevail to a vanishingly small extent is the reason why God Himself, as the eternal truth, embodies Himself again in the spirit of people who want to serve Him as bearers of truth. For the few people who are still open to the truth need special care so that they will not suffer harm in the midst of an environment which is touched by influences from the kingdom of darkness. They need increased strength, they need direct instruction from the kingdom of light. And therefore God gives them extraordinary consideration and sends His word to them in a way which is indeed extraordinary but which could also be explained naturally for people's sake, so that they will not be forced to believe. God Himself instructs people in truth through the mouth of a servant who places Himself at their disposal, so that purest truth is guaranteed and all error is excluded. But the belief that what is offered is truth has to be won by the human being himself, otherwise even the deepest truth will remain ineffective. The examination as to whether God speaks through that person can certainly be carried out by every conscientious and truth-desiring person, for the divine teaching of love will underlie every word and this will never ever use a countervailing power to push people away from God. Everything that has God as its aim, everything that testifies to God's love, that teaches love and promotes perfection, is divine, thus it originated from God Himself, and the standard can be applied to it at any time. And therefore everyone can undertake such an examination, for if he is of serious will he will feel the divine in his heart, because what originates from God works as strength in the heart of the person who desires God and thus also the pure truth. Anyone who is willing to do so is capable of testing, for he tests with the support of God Who gives everyone the power of realization so that the truth will break through and displace error, so that the flock of His own in the last days will have a strong support in the knowledge that God Himself dwells on earth in the spirit of those who are willing to serve Him ....

Amen

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Unusual aids in the end time ....

B.D. 5289 from January 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 58

Unusual means of help have to be given to you in the last days before the end, for you cannot banish the spiritual adversity by your own strength because you lack the most important thing .... love, which is strength in itself .... You are weak, powerless creatures as far as your spiritual state is concerned, even though you assert yourselves in the world and believe yourselves capable of great deeds. I measure with a different yardstick, I don't see how you humans assert yourselves in the world but how far you have penetrated My kingdom, how far that kingdom is in you. And there you completely fail, you humans have little or no connection with Me. My kingdom is alien to you, you do not desire it and therefore cannot occupy it either. Yet as long as you still live on earth you will also be helped by Me to attain the aim which is the purpose of your earthly life .... to attain a degree of spiritual maturity which gives you the right to enter My kingdom of light after your death, thus to take possession of the kingdom which is 'not of this world ....' I am always ready to help where I only feel the slightest desire, where you call for a saviour Who will lead you out of spiritual adversity. And because there is not much time left, because it is becoming increasingly more difficult for the beings of light to take possession of your thoughts, because the danger is also constantly increasing for you to completely fall into the hands of the one who wants to ruin you .... in short, because the spiritual hardship is increasing more and more I come to your extraordinary assistance, and you could be fully convinced of the working of your creator and father of eternity if only you would pay attention to the events around you, which are all intended to make you think, so that you could then also believe what I ask you to believe. Anyone who looks upwards will also recognize My unusual activity with you humans; but anyone who only ever looks at the world will see nothing but coincidences which are unable to convince him. Yet I can be recognized wherever I express Myself, I influence human hearts inwardly and outwardly, yet always without coercion, for the inner voice, although it is an unmistakable sign of My working on you humans, can just as easily be ignored. And thus external phenomena, natural events or other changes in creation can only be justified purely naturally, and every connection with Me is denied. And these people can no longer be won over, their thoughts and intentions cannot be changed and they will irrevocably face a dreadful fate; whereas anyone who thinks about himself and pays attention to what is happening around him is still offered the opportunity to change and escape the dreadful fate. I will meet every willing person and help him so that he will not belong to those who will be condemned when the end has come, when I will judge the living and the dead ....

Amen

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God's love and mercy in the last time before the end ....

B.D. 4080 from July 8th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

God's great love and mercy will evidently become apparent in the last days before the end when the believers will live in hardest tribulation. It will be a time of most bitter hardship for people who want to remain faithful to Him, for the adversary will take drastic measures against anyone who stands up for his faith and for Jesus Christ and His teaching. The measures taken to enforce faithlessness will be of such severity that people will offer little resistance and almost without exception profess themselves against God. But those who know the truth, who live in love and therefore also in the right knowledge of God, who call upon Jesus Christ as redeemer for His help, will also recognise in the measures the one who is announced as the Antichrist for the last time before the end. And for this reason, they will stand all the firmer and wait full of confidence for God's help and His coming, and they will not be disappointed either. God's great love will be revealed to them, for He is close to them at all times, so that even the unbelievers would be able to recognise Him if they were not of bad will and therefore completely under the sway of Satan. Yet anyone who is still weak and not completely apostate will still be seized by God's mercy, and he will be offered many proofs of divine activity so that it will be made easy for him to believe and to withstand all threats from the world. Only good will must not be lacking, then God's hand will reach out to him even in the last hour. It is difficult to predict to people what will happen in this time, because Satan continues to work out new plans and outdoes himself with cruelties, inhuman decrees and shameful actions against the believers. The believers' fate is apparently unbearable and yet they will draw so much strength from God that they will be able to endure all oppression and not to feel the hardship as much because their gaze is directed heavenwards and the world and earthly things no longer tempt them. Moreover, they hear the voice of the Lord .... they know that He shortens the days, for His promise has given them comfort, and thus they every day expect to be delivered from earthly adversity .... And yet the last day still comes as a surprise even to them; it will come when there is no longer any possibility of winning souls, and this will be the case very quickly, for the separation will soon be completed, the courage of people's conviction is only slight, and the decision for or against God will be demanded in a short time, and therefore it will also be the prelude to the end, for the tribulation to which the believers are now subject calls for God's help, otherwise the small flock of His Own would also be overcome by weakness and God would never allow this to happen again .... And thus He will come as Saviour in utmost adversity and take His Own to Himself .... And then comes the Judgment as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

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God's merciful help to the end ....

B.D. 7041 from February 12th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

And there will be many of you who do not partake of the gifts of grace which I so abundantly bestow upon people. And My will will not force them to change their thinking either, but I will have to put them through hard schools if I still want to achieve a small success that they are not completely darkened in spirit at the end of their life, be it their own death or the end of this earth, where no human being will remain alive .... unless he belongs to Me fully .... For even those who experience the end of the earth and for whom a small light still shines at the last will be granted the grace that they will still be accepted by Me, that they will not fall prey to the new banishment, even though they cannot enliven the new earth, because this requires a certain degree of maturity which those souls have not yet reached. But they are no longer in complete darkness and can therefore still be accepted into the spiritual kingdom beforehand, because a relapse into the abyss is then excluded .... And I still try to kindle this small light in many people, and therefore I let them go through great suffering and hardship which, however, can spare them the agony of the new banishment if they thereby turn their gaze to Me, if they make use of this last grace for their souls. Until the last hour people still have the opportunity to call upon Me, and I will accept them as soon as they have recognized Me and approach Me for help. For I cannot and will not use coercion, but I take pity on people who have fallen into darkness and don't want to see the light which shines for them .... However, completely darkened souls can no longer be accepted into the kingdom of the beyond in the end, because this kingdom will then also keep its gates closed, because everything satanic is banished from the spiritual kingdom, because it will be dissolved again for the purpose of a new banishment and has to take the path of development across earth once more. But the souls which already possess a glimmer of light will now also strive upwards and hand themselves over to the beings of light for the purpose of further development, who are extremely happy to take over their care. At present, however, the earth harbours far more people of darkened spirit than those who strive towards the light .... And this is also evident from the fact that they don't accept My word from above because they don't recognize it as the voice of the father Who speaks to them in love and wisdom. Where there is only a little light the illuminating power of My divine light of love will be noticed and felt, but where there is deepest darkness people are blind and cannot see anything. But those people take pity on Me and I use all possible means to open their eyes before the end. Yet these means are painful, they are often such that they are hardly recognized as divine aids unless an awakened spirit knows about My plan of salvation, about what is coming and about the dreadful fate these people are facing. And if only a crack of their eyes can be opened then they will turn of their own accord to where they see a ray of light and the work of salvation will have succeeded. What from a human point of view is the greatest misfortune and the most bitter suffering, from a spiritual point of view can be the occasion for the path to unspeakable bliss .... For the former does not last forever .... But life after death has no end, and one day the soul will be extremely grateful if this life is a blissful one for it, if it has escaped the new banishment and become free of its material bondage .... Yet accepting My gifts of grace, listening to My word and obeying it could save countless people from great suffering, for anyone who makes use of this grace will come to the light, to the knowledge of Me, and he need never fear the darkness again, nor the end, which will only release him from an earthly burden .... regardless of whether I still call him away first or whether he is destined for paradise as a blissful inhabitant of the new earth .... The existence of all of you on earth will only last a short time and a great measure of grace will only flow to you for a short time. But the earth will also still have to endure unspeakable suffering .... All people who don't want to accept My word will still be addressed by Me, for I want to win over all people, I don't want to lose any human being to darkness. But every person's will remains free ....

Amen

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Devils in the end time .... protection of God ....

B.D. 5020 from December 13th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

You can live in a world of devils and still be closely united with Me. I want to give you this comfort so that you will not become weak in the last days which precede the end. For during this time you, who are Mine, will be surrounded by devils who will harass you greatly for the sake of faith. And if you mention My name to them you will stir them up and you will have to suffer much from their malice, because they will attack everything that stands by Me. And yet, this is precisely your strongest weapon, your strongest protection, that you remain faithful to Me .... Then you let Me always be present with you and no-one can harm you if I am with you. Thus I also dwell in the midst of devils but in the hearts of those who belong to Me, who love Me and believe in Me, in My love and omnipotence, who are therefore convinced that I will save them from all adversity, that I am also lord over all evil .... You will be closely united with Me and your longing will grow from day to day, and this desire for Me will inevitably draw Me to you. Therefore you need not fear, even in greatest earthly adversity .... For everything is possible for Me, I can save you from greatest danger and am also victor over those. The world will hate and persecute you. But I love you and will protect you until your hour has come when you will enter My kingdom. And I tell you for your comfort that your faith will also grow stronger the more it is shaken, because those who earnestly strive towards Me experience a strengthening of faith from Me Myself and their spiritual attitude towards Me takes on a form which is a true child's relationship, and thus their trust in Me is also very great, so that they only fear little earthly adversity because they are fully convinced that I will save them. I will not leave you if you do not leave Me .... But you, who are Mine, can no longer leave Me because My love draws you. This is why I am constantly present to you and always will be, and especially when hell opens up and takes action against you. Then I will fight by your side and victory will be ours ....

Amen

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Shortening the end time ....

B.D. 3340 from November 22nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Great is the number of those who oppose Me, who have no spiritual connection, i.e. who only move their thoughts in earthly orbits and therefore don't listen to the messengers of heaven so that their thoughts could be directed towards the eternal aim, and these offer a welcome field of attack for My adversary .... For they give ear to the whisperings of his powers. And thus he wins them over for his camp and appoints them to fight against Me. I will still take care of them until they proclaim profound enmity to Me. Where I still know a weak soul I give it the opportunity to come to knowledge, and I don't cease to woo these souls, I bring My word close to it, I let My messengers step into its path, and I use every opportunity as soon as it is not completely averse to Me to change its thinking. But such souls are in the majority and they will dwell and rage under the influence of My adversary to the horror of My children. And the number increases daily, for the undecided also still fall away, who are not yet in the depth of faith and who live lukewarm and sluggishly, even though they are still devoted to Me according to the word, yet in their heart they are still far from Me and therefore cannot resist the temptations either. The world will tempt them more than their happiness, and thus they surrender Me when they are confronted with the decision. And it is only a small group who remain faithful to Me until the end. For their sake I will shorten the time, for even if the tribulation becomes increasingly stronger it will not move any of My adversaries to give up their enmity against Me and come into My camp. And therefore the time shall be shortened for My Own sake so that they will not become weak and fall prey to the enemy of the souls, so that their suffering will not last longer than is necessary for the completion of the last event on this earth. And I will stand by them in the great adversity and strengthen them through My presence, I will dwell amongst them visibly and invisibly, and they will feel My nearness and remain strong until I come and deliver them from their adversity. And then it will be the end for every creature, for only My own will be preserved, while everything else will perish, i.e. be banished anew in the creations of the new earth for the purpose of their spiritual ascent, so that even that which has apostatized to Me will find its way to Me, albeit after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

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Keep My word! .... remember the end! ....

B.D. 4600 from March 29th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The probationary period will soon be over for each one of you, for it is coming to an end. You will begin to lull yourselves into security again, and this is dangerous for your soul which turns to the world again as soon as it believes itself to have escaped the impending disaster. And into this security the call will sound: Remember the end .... Then suddenly people will remember My admonitions and warnings when world events prove My announcements with surprising clarity. And now you have to prepare yourselves for the end with increased will, pay all attention to your soul's life and, through increased activity of love for your neighbour, gain the strength to resist the earthly battle. Whatever you tackle, be it spiritual or earthly work, you must first intimately unite with Me in order to be able to carry out the work, otherwise you will be too weak in view of the great adversity among people which paralyses all strength if I don't assist you and give you strength. Keep to My word, I call to you more urgently than ever: Keep to My word, consider that My word is the emanation of Myself, Who placed My strength of love into this form in order to give you an effective means which you can use at any time when you are in need .... My emanation of strength must truly be unsurpassable in its effectiveness. You need only try it out and immerse yourselves in My word if earthly suffering weighs you down. Then a heavenly calm will come over you and you will leave everything to Me in the firm confidence that I will help you .... And I will help you .... I will direct your thoughts and always guide you along the paths which will enable you to reach your aim, be it spiritually or earthly, for I will also take care of you earthly in the coming time. Keep to My word and don't let any doubts arise in you, for undoubted faith will let you become master over all opposition, undoubted faith will be victorious, for undoubted faith will let you become aware of My presence and all fear will disappear in you, because where I am there can be no defeat and because everything will be surmountable for you if I stand by your side with My love and My strength ....

Amen

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Earthly work and toil before the end ....

B.D. 6524 from April 17th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

Everything points to the end .... And no matter how hard you humans try to increase earthly prosperity, no matter how hard you work at building up earthly-material works, you only create for a short duration and nothing of what you created will last for long. For the time has come when an end is put to the earth with all its creations and all its inhabitants. And even if you humans want to dispute it again and again, even if your will and your thinking resist accepting it as truth .... You cannot destroy My plan, and as it has been determined since eternity, so everything will also come to pass. Nevertheless, I will not keep you humans from your work if only you do not allow this to become the purpose of your life but first think of your soul so that you do not make it suffer privations as a result of too eager material activity. For the day of the end is secret to you, you can still do much service for your fellow human beings; as soon as you ask for My blessing for this, every earthly activity can have a spiritual effect. Moreover, you can also help the still bound spiritual to be of service, and the more obvious the possibility of service becomes in the works you create, the more blessing will rest on it, because everything spiritual shall still mature before the end has come .... Yet in many cases people only use all their strength to increase mammon and make themselves its slaves, then they are obviously working for My adversary and on his behalf, then neither love nor the will to help fellow human beings is apparent, it is rather a case of taking advantage of fellow human beings and also often endangering their lives .... You humans should certainly not give yourselves over to idleness, you certainly should use your vitality and not let it lie idle, but you should always think of your actual purpose of life first, then nothing you undertake will become a danger for you .... But the end will come irrevocably .... Therefore, in everything you do, remember this serious admonition and warning of Mine, and do not chain yourselves too strongly to matter but seek to detach yourselves from it, even if you still have to work in the world .... Your innermost attitude will always be decisive as to whether you become master over matter or let yourselves be ruled by it. Considering the forthcoming end you should always give account to yourselves and practise strict self-criticism, you should not live as if everything will continue but always consider the imminent end .... but nevertheless be active. For if love determines your actions and thoughts, then all works which you make arise will be blessed by Me .... But where love is lacking, where purely earthly planning and activity takes place, My adversary's places will be erected, even if it is apparently intended to serve people's salvation .... Bear in mind that I can only bless what serves noble purposes and that I Myself am not deceived .... For only then can matter still mature, and the short period until the end can offer the spiritual substances contained in it an opportunity to take abode on the new earth in lighter external forms and to progress more quickly in their development. My plan has been fixed since eternity .... You, too, can plan, yet you should adapt to My will as far as possible and thus, as it were, still support everything spiritual and free yourselves from the desire for the world and its goods .... Then everything you undertake will be blessed, and the short period until the end will be used in My will ....

Amen

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Gathering strength ahead of the chaos ....

B.D. 8549 from July 5th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Keep drawing strength from My Word for you will need this fortification in the forthcoming time and should gather strength now, since you will be unable to collect your thoughts in prayer when My long-announced intervention takes place .... Whatever is decided by My wisdom and love will also be implemented, and every prediction which I sent to you so that the event will not take you unawares without warning will be fulfilled ....

You shall always remember it and try to set your heart free from all earthly longings .... You shall try to let go of matter, for one day you will have to give it up, and the less your heart clings to it the easier will be your loss, the less you will be burdened by My intervention .... Again and again I tell you to prepare yourselves for this period of unprecedented chaos when only your heartfelt bond with Me will give you the support to do justice to all demands. For anyone not directly affected by the disaster by losing his life will then have to lead a difficult existence, because there will be no ordered living conditions and you will be burdened by earthly adversities which you will be unable to handle on your own, without My help.

Time and again you shall accept My Word in your hearts and draw strength from it, you shall gain such strong faith from My direct Word that nothing will be able to unsettle you in the forthcoming time, so that you will completely rely on Me and only ever wait for My help .... And believe that I will help you .... that just the heartfelt bond has to be established with Me which, however, can only be achieved by a person who is completely dedicated to Me and who will merely recognise the fulfilment of My predictions in the huge disaster and thus will even more devotedly wait for My help, which indeed will be granted to him. Then I will carry out the seemingly impossible on those who place their complete trust in Me.

And every human being should get used to the idea that the orderliness surrounding him will not continue, he shall believe that the earth will be affected by an unimaginably huge tremor, and that countless people will fall victim to a natural disaster .... the survivors, however, will experience extremely difficult living condition which require much strength and confidence in My help in order to cope with them. Then it will become evident where neighbourly love is being practised, for only there will My help be evident as well .... And anyone who is just anxiously concerned about himself and his well-being will also have to labour by himself and yet be unable to master his situation .... For you humans must learn that love is strength and that you will be able to achieve much if your actions are motivated by neighbourly love.

Time and again I refer to the time when great chaos will befall you caused by a huge natural disaster .... because I still want to give you humans a last sign of the Power Which is in charge of you .... But you, who receive My Word directly or given to you through My messengers, you shall constantly listen to My admonition, engross yourselves as often as possible in My Word and your strength will grow, even at times of extreme adversity you will not lose the connection with Me and then you will also always be certain of My help, for I manifestly want to help My Own to strengthen their faith as well as that of their fellow human beings so that they will establish and never again abandon the living bond with Me.

And don't count on being spared, don't believe that other, distant regions will be affected .... This disaster will be far-reaching and involve a large area, even though it will not affect the whole earth .... Consequently, the immense adversity will not pass anywhere without a trace, which you will only understand after the occurrence has happened, when My voice resounds in the world and you realise the dreadful effects .... the full extent of which will take a long time again to be assessed.

As yet you are still living in peace and are unable to imagine such chaos .... But I draw your attention to the fact that everything will come to pass what was announced in advance, I only want to influence you insofar as that you should do everything that will give you the strength to endure .... For I will not abandon you, who have submitted yourselves to Me and want to belong to Me .... And I will always provide you with strength .... Let Me talk to you time and again and draw strength from My Word and truly, you will be able to find Me even in utter suffering, and I will always be ready to help, I will always stand by your side and through you also bring help to those whom you lovingly try to take care of ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna