Spreading God’s word in the end time

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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Please take special notice of the fact that God’s Words addressed to us are non-denominational. The contents of the publication by no means intends to attract members of any Christian religious affiliation nor to recruit members into any other religious affiliation.

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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Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on.

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

8867 - Exceeding grace of God is His address....

3395 - Dissemination of spiritual knowledge....

8908 - Task....

The intervention of God

3493 - Turn.... God's intervention....

6746 - Cosmic processes....

8002 - God's language through the elements of nature....

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

Vineyard work after the intervention of God

3314 - Spiritual hunger.... short time of freedom of faith....

5525 - Proclaiming the gospel in times of need....

2394 - Unshakeable faith.... preparation for the time to come....

2880 - Reminder to inform people of the battle of faith....

The battle of faith

3516 - Faith struggle last phase of the end time....

3556 - Faith in Jesus Christ.... struggle....

7574 - Time of the faith battle....

Persecution of vineyard workers in the battle of faith

1950 - Measures against the Christian faith....

6538 - Battle of faith.... Hostilities.... Antichrist....

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

„Be wise as the serpents and gentle a the doves!“

3712 - Prudence and gentleness....

6425 - Warning against rash action and speech....

„You should not cast pearls before the sows!“

5633 - Love acknowledges Jesus Christ.... lovelessness rejects Him....

6212 - The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world"....

7730 - Spiritual superiority is not spiritual arrogance....

Submission of the will to God’s will

1777 - Instrument of God.... mission.... work of God....

5127 - Vineyard work.... subordinating the will....

5632 - Surrendering the will to God....

Spreading the word in humility and patience

2879 - Forbearance and humility....

4988 - Patience with fellow human beings who do not strive spiritually....

6431 - Humility and arrogance.... able servants....

7678 - Admonition to humility....

Offering the word in love

5434 - Remain with love, then you will remain in God....

4502 - Presenting the divine word in love.... success assured....

5584 - Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard....

7857 - Charity.... following Jesus.... truth....

8850 - Free will must accept the truth....

Dangers of word dissemination - work of the adversary

6332 - Satanic activity in the end time....

6495 - The adversary tries to prevent the recognition of the Deity....

6783 - Misguided overzealousness....

7714 - False spirits.... False prophets....

8365 - The adversary's onslaughts in the last days....

7599 - Admonition for all vineyard labourers ....

Power requirement in the end time

3616 - Request from power.... humility - grace....

6164 - Only connection to God gives strength in the coming time....

7197 - Power transmission through Jesus Christ....

8186 - Requirement of power in the end time....

Power from God’s word

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

5128 - Strengthening the will.... receiving power through the word....

1852 - Power of the divine word.... fight against Christ....

5560 - Compulsory state.... free will decision....

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

Power of the divine spirit

5281 - Power of the spirit shortly before the end....

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

5629 - Retreat into silence.... time of need....

Power of faith in the end time

3444 - Strong faith.... tool of God....

6265 - Strength of faith needed in the final battle....

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

8848 - Strength of faith.... Nourishing the believers....

God needs powerful fighters

2407 - Messengers of God.... powerful fighters....

3383 - Warriors of God....

7806 - Joint action at the time of the battle of faith....

Fearless and convinced proclamation of the divine word

2048 - Fearless proclamation of the divine word.... extraordinary power....

2213 - father's words.... Fearless Fighters....

7275 - Convincingly spreading the truth.... right doctrine....

5527 - Convinced confess in the struggle of faith....

Courageous and open confession of Jesus Christ

2392 - Law and justice.... courageous advocacy and commitment....

3551 - Last decision.... confess before the world....

6056 - Open confession of the divine name....

6619 - Justification before a court.... Public testimony....

Enduring suffering

2369 - End of the time of grace.... greatest suffering....

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

5426 - Great suffering in the last days....

Trust in God’s help

1944 - Faith and trust in God's help.... end of suffering....

4632 - Trust in God's help.... love and protect for His servants....

6437 - Trust in divine guidance....

3703 - Call upon God's help is indispensable in the last days....

Help from God and the angels in the vineyard work

4376 - God's care for His servants....

8952 - God's support in the vineyard work....

7957 - Cosmos.... Moon....

7440 - The angels' protection in the battle of faith....

7080 - Embodied beings of light.... Jesus' disciples during His time on earth....

7225 - 'I will shorten your days....'

Presence of God – „I will put the words in your mouth“

4880 - Importance of work for the kingdom of God....

6559 - Correct proclamation of the Word.... God’s presence....

4920 - "I will put the words in your mouth...."

8061 - "He who listens to you, listens to Me Myself...."

Making the most of the short time until the end

3917 - Short deadline to the end for the sake of weak souls....

4030 - Surprisingly fast coming of the world judgment....

6028 - Create and work.... nightfall....

Urgend vineyard work

4174 - Call to work.... The mission of God’s servants....

6215 - Urgent vineyard work....

8892 - The day of the end will be adhered to....

8363 - "I am with you all the days.... "

Exceeding grace of God is His address ....

B.D. 8867 from October 13th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

The grace to hear Myself is so immeasurably great that you are not able to grasp it. I Myself, your God and father, incline towards you humans and address you .... The highest spirit of infinity, the creator of all that is .... the controller of all events .... Who rules on earth as well as in heaven .... Who created the whole universe .... Who speaks to you men, who are the original spirits fallen away from Him, and He therefore speaks to you to cause your return to Him .... He does not give you up in eternity, and whether you still remain in the distance from Him for eternities .... My love towards you is boundless, and that is why it does not rest before it has not succeeded in the work of return, before the last fallen away spiritual has not been redeemed, before also the lost son has not returned into the father - house .... But that you men can establish this connection with Me, that is the greatest miracle .... that I Myself incline towards you and hold dialogue with you, who are still far away from your perfection! I speak to all of you and make My will known to you, which only consists of you changing yourselves back to what you were in the beginning. And you all can hear Me when you listen to the vessel .... the person whom I have chosen to be able to address you all. I only require of you that you open your hearts to Me, that not only your ear hears the words but the heart can hear Me .... and that you now also comply with it, that you now comply with My will and live such that you change yourselves .... that you transform the selfish love in you into pure, unselfish love and thereby come close to your perfection. It is an unusual gift of favour, which I offer to each of you, and one day you will bitterly regret it, if you completely pass it by. Because there is no longer much time left for you until the end, and not to have made use of the last great favour will throw you far back, and in the end the new banishment will again be your lot. And I want to spare you that, that is why you are also to lend your ear to those who bring you My messages, who I have appointed to send you admonitions and warnings and who have the right from Me to be allowed to call themselves My messengers, whom I always and constantly instruct and who are to do the same to you so that you also learn about My will and seek to fulfil it. In which trouble you are, that you do not know, because the world cannot offer you what your soul demands. It can only hinder you to satisfy the soul's desire. And the soul is in great spiritual trouble, because earth life is soon over, and the soul was not respected. Its state in the kingdom of the beyond is therefore miserable; it stands naked and bare at the gate to the hereafter and has nothing to show of spiritual goods .... And I want to remedy this great spiritual misery and address all of you. But since you possess free will I cannot persuade you to accept it, but you should always bear in mind the fact that you are in possession of a great grace when your God and father Himself addresses you, and that one day you will have to answer for yourselves whether you have made use of this grace .... For once you must accomplish the transformation to perfection, and if you do not achieve it in this earthly life, then you run the risk of having to go through matter once more .... But this is so dreadful that I use all means to move you to this change before, so that the fate of new banishment does not hit you when the end has come ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Dissemination of spiritual knowledge ....

B.D. 3395 from January 6th 1945, taken from Book No. 44

Through the grace of inner enlightenment knowledge opens up to the human being which enables him to make great spiritual progress in a short time if he uses it correctly, i.e. contributes to the spreading of pure truth. For the human being is only introduced to spiritual knowledge for this purpose. Only when truth is spread amongst people will it have a beneficial effect, for if only the individual person knew about it he would not derive any particular benefit from it because he cannot utilize it, for knowledge is only ever of value when it can be applied, that is, when it can be conveyed to a fellow human being. The person who cannot communicate, who closes his spiritual knowledge within himself, is no better off than a person who has no spiritual knowledge, for the former's possessions are dead goods which lie completely idle and thus lose their value. Spiritual knowledge, however, should help to recognize the eternal deity. Anyone who has recognized God himself also tries to teach his fellow human beings this knowledge, because he knows that striving towards God is the purpose of earthly life. If he does not impart this knowledge to people, then he has not yet recognized God himself, then he has indeed received the knowledge intellectually but not with his heart, and then it does not have a beneficial effect on him either. This applies to the person who receives knowledge but does not pass it on. But anyone who is enlightened by God's spirit will also use his knowledge, for his love for his fellow human being impels him to communicate with him and thus to spread the truth from God, for he knows that he will thereby lead souls to God who, having recognized Him, will also strive for Him with their heart .... Thus truth leads to God and therefore it should be spread on earth. The human being can indeed be negligent but then the knowledge he has gained will not fulfil him, then he will not have received it with his heart but only with his intellect, but then God's spirit, which only turns what he has heard into spiritual knowledge, will not have been active in him either. Therefore, the human being who receives spiritual knowledge must be active in love so that he will be taught by the spirit of God, i.e. that knowledge will first be made accessible to him through the divine spirit, even though it is imparted to him by the knowing fellow human being. A life of love is absolutely necessary if the pure truth is to be spread. Both the giver and the receiver must be in love if they want to derive the right benefit for their souls from the truth .... if they want to recognize God and strive towards Him .... Then they will be urged from within to share themselves, then they will only accept the knowledge themselves in the desire to be able to distribute it, and then they will also be able to use the knowledge according to God's will, and they can also be given through the divine spirit in the richest measure, for then they will work for the kingdom of God .... they seek to lead people to God through truth, and they are now restlessly active because the knowledge makes them happy themselves and impels them to also make their fellow human beings happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task ....

B.D. 8908 from January 9th 1965, taken from Book No. 93

You still have to accomplish an important task before My intervention occurs, on account of which you will be placed into entirely different circumstances which will make your work for My kingdom more difficult. Yet, prior to this, souls which do not oppose My Word shall still be reached .... they shall learn what is about to happen to humanity even if they doubt it .... the huge event will very soon convince them that you have told the truth. Therefore make it known it to everyone, inform them of this intervention which is coming ever closer and will affect everyone, although the affected country will still remain hidden to you .... I appeal to you to tell all people, to whom you take My Word, about the indication of the immense natural disaster .... It will be necessary for all of them to think about it for once, to feel directly spoken to and, depending on their attitude, be able to draw comfort and strength in the forthcoming time of need. Wherever My Word is proclaimed people shall be informed of it, people everywhere shall be told what is about to happen to them, even if they find it difficult to believe ....

But when the said event takes place, which will come from above .... from the cosmos, which therefore will not have been caused by human will, then they will also believe in the closely following end. For I want to speak to people just once more through this disaster, I want to awaken them from their sleep of death and direct their eyes towards Me, towards the One Whom they can reach through heartfelt prayer .... I want to speak with a loud voice because they pay no attention to My gentle Words .... But I will also take care of those who then still find Me .... And even if they fall victim to the disaster, yet their souls will be saved if they still call upon Me and acknowledge Me as the Power to Which they are subject and have to bow down to. I call on all of you to mention My Words and not to fear that you might worry people, for it is of no avail if they walk blindly into the disaster, which will then take them by surprise and they will be unable to find an explanation for it .... If, however, you tell them in advance what I intend to achieve by it .... if you announce it as certain, then some of them will feel affected by it and .... even if they don't believe it .... will not forget about it. And then they will already know that it is an event which was sent by My will over humanity, and they will know that My Word is truth and thus also believe in the end .... Every attempt has to be made to lead people to believe. And this huge natural disaster, too, can still awaken faith in people who are otherwise no longer approachable and whom I nevertheless still want to win over for Me, even if it is in connection with a great calamity.

However, you are facing the danger of renewed banishment, and if I can still pull souls away from it they will be eternally grateful to Me, for the fate of renewed banishment is far more horrendous .... it will last for eternities, whereas the natural disaster will be over within a night; and although it will be followed by enormous misery every one of you will nevertheless be able to change it into a bearable situation, if only you muster faith in Me. For I Am Lord over life and death, I can also give to you what you need .... just as I can take from you what you are unwilling to surrender voluntarily. And therefore, don't fail to inform your fellow human beings about the forthcoming event, for no one shall say that he didn't know of it .... Only, people will not believe that they are so close to the end, otherwise they would also be able to gather from the Scriptures that a catastrophic event will befall humanity .... But they believe that the time has not yet come when what is written will be fulfilled .... Yet one day the future will become the present, one day the announcements will come true, and this time is close at hand ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The intervention of God

Turn .... God's intervention ....

B.D. 3493 from July 20th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The fact that a turnaround will occur in a short time is My will, which is decisive in the entire universe. My plan has been determined since eternity, for I have known since eternity about the spiritual state of the people of this earth in the last days before the end. And My plan is now inexorably unfolding, which is considered in all wisdom and guided by My love. I foresaw humanity's complete decline, I saw its striving away from Me and its instinctiveness towards My adversary. And therefore I put an end to humanity which fully consciously wants to distance itself from Me and turn towards My adversary. And now the time has come and My love takes the last resort to point people to the end, to still pull them back in the last hour from the abyss towards which they are striving. I try to win them over through love and suffering, I gently admonish them, and where these gentle admonitions are of no avail I try to influence people through suffering because they last Me and I want to prevent their complete downfall. Yet there is little success to be recorded and time is approaching its final end .... And thus a redemption period comes to an end, the conclusion of which signifies a complete dissolution of that which is visible to the human eye .... a passing away of the earth in its outer form and of all living beings on the earth's surface .... But before that I once again point to the last event by allowing local changes to take place on a large scale in order to make the last end visible to people, and I grant them another time of grace which they can use for change if they allow themselves to be impressed by that event which is to clearly prove My might to them. I want to reveal Myself to people once more, admittedly in the most painful way, yet only such a means can still be successful ....

I want to show people that they are not only exposed to human will which has a destructive and devastating effect but that they have to fear the will of a higher power which no one can stop. Through this I want to direct their mind to this higher power so that they will enter into contact with it through prayer. I want them to call upon Me in adversity in order to make My presence perceptible to them through My help, in order to persuade them to believe in Me .... If this last resort fails there will be no more salvation for people's souls on this earth and they will inevitably have to take the path through creation again, from which My love would like to protect them .... And thus this last resort, although it appears cruel, is a work of My love and mercy which, however, will only be recognized as such by a few. I have to plunge humanity into greater suffering because the suffering before does not bring about a change of will; I have to burden them further, I have to let them get into living conditions which hardly seem bearable in order to induce them to call upon the one Who can and wants to help them carry them but Who also wants to be acknowledged in order to approach people with help. And therefore know that I will express Myself powerfully and mightily, know that nothing can stop My intervention anymore, for only the will of people turned towards Me is able to do so, but this will is further away from Me than ever. And because My adversary seeks to increase his power and finds no resistance from people I will obviously show Myself and speak from above with a brazen voice so that it will not be difficult for anyone who is willing to recognize Me .... And whoever calls upon Me will be helped in spiritual as well as physical adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cosmic processes ....

B.D. 6746 from January 25th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

It should be obvious to all of you what an important period of time you are living in, for the events around you and everywhere on earth are extraordinary, and everyone who pays attention should also become thoughtful and look for an explanation. It is the time of the end which will always reveal more unusual signs, as it is written. For God wants people to pay attention, to become aware of the seriousness of the time .... He wants thoughts of an end to arise in every person, that worldly people will also recognize a climax in world events which can almost no longer be exceeded, and that the prospects of a natural solution will become ever smaller. For only then will they become alarming. And thus the restlessness among people will also increase, the 'unusual' often makes them realize their powerlessness, they feel threatened without being able to find a remedy, and they feel too weak to resist .... But only a few people evaluate this last time spiritually, and that alone can give them back their inner peace, for then they know they are under the protection of Him Who commands everything and Who can also direct and turn world events. Therefore it is of utmost importance to keep pointing people to Him, Who becomes ever stranger to them the closer the end is. And God will support such indications by also allowing cosmic events to emerge which are not subject to human influence, so that people will now direct their gaze into other than earthly spheres, so that they will recognize even more clearly their own powerlessness as well as their dependence on a higher power. For whatever unscrupulous plans people try to carry out, whatever misguided thinking causes harm, all this takes a back seat to inevitable cosmic events which no human will can stop or redirect .... Then another change can take place in people's thinking when they see themselves at the mercy of forces against which they are powerless .... And such an event is about to happen to humanity, and it will only fulfil what was proclaimed long before, what was spiritually seen and therefore repeatedly pointed out by seers and prophets who spoke on God's behalf in order to announce the signs of the end to people. What you humans .... if you believe it .... in the far future will soon become a present event for you, because one day what has been predicted by God's will will come true. But no human being will be forced to believe in it, and everything will happen in such a way that the unbelieving human being will find an explanation for it which has nothing to do with divine intervention, with predestination or spiritual explanations .... Man can recognize a God in these events but he is not forced to do so .... But then the last means has also been used which could still cause a person to change his thinking, and anyone who persists in his rejection is evil .... For his fate is the new banishment in the creations of the new earth .... It is a tremendous event which will still affect you humans before the end, it is an event the extent of which you cannot overlook because a process is taking place in the cosmos which has not yet been experienced by people on this earth .... And it will take many people from this earth, and those who remain behind will now have to get used to completely different circumstances but will also be able to do so as soon as they believe and request strength from God. And no-one will be able to insure himself against this disaster beforehand unless he fully believes and places himself under God's protection, which will then also be granted to him so that everything will be for his good, whatever happens. Again and again this event is announced to you, again and again you humans are informed of an intervention by God which will manifest itself through a natural event of the greatest magnitude .... But you humans don't want to believe it and therefore it will also surprise you unprepared, yet it has been planned since the beginning, for it initiates the last phase on this earth, for the end will follow this event in a short time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's language through the elements of nature ....

B.D. 8002 from September 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

I expect of you, My servants, total commitment to Me and My kingdom, for people's spiritual hardship necessitates it. Only a short time separates you from the very last end, and whatever can be done for the salvation of the souls shall still be done, for the earth will assimilate everything again which had failed as a human being, and this is an appalling fate which I would like to avert from every individual person. But you yourselves make the final decision in free will. I Myself cannot do anything but admonish and warn you by constantly speaking to you, and everyone who supports Me in this respect will be blessed by Me. And thus the near end should always be mentioned and also the fact that prior to it I will clearly express Myself once more through a powerful natural event .... for it will be My last warning when I speak through the elements of nature to people who didn't want to listen to My Word .... This language cannot be ignored, for people will be horrified when they are confronted by an inconceivably extensive natural disaster that will leave no-one unaffected insofar as the news will reach wherever people live, so that every individual can draw his own conclusions, so that every individual can feel personally addressed by it because the same event can also affect his country and even himself .... This is because people will have to fear a repetition and therefore they all have to brace themselves for a sudden demise. Much suffering and misery will still afflict the earth and yet it is only a means I apply due to love in order to save the souls from ruin, from the appalling fate of a new banishment on this earth.

However, the people affected by the natural disaster, the people who fall prey to it, are not cruelly left at the mercy of their destiny .... Due to their prematurely concluded earthly life they will be granted gifts of grace in the beyond .... They will still have the opportunity to ascend further; they will have the opportunity in the beyond to reach the light which they disregarded on earth .... They won't have to fear the new banishment .... unless they are so obstinate that they will descend into the abyss again as true devils, that they are incorrigible and thus would not have changed on earth for the better either had they stayed alive. And even the effect of the natural disaster on people will differ, for again people will turn to Me in their fear and due to their received help also remain loyal to Me, but equally a strong noticeable apostasy from Me will come to the fore because people won't accept a 'God of love' Who allowed such a work of destruction to take place .... since their dark spiritual state cannot find any other explanation for this occurrence. But a clear voice like that has to resound from above, whether it is recognised as My voice or not, for the end is approaching with giant strides, and even though only a few souls will find their way to Me in their distress it will nevertheless be a gain that they no longer have to take the long process through the creations of the earth again but can enter the kingdom of the beyond where they can also achieve progress which would have been doubtful for them on earth .... and in all probability would have led them into the abyss, or they would have endeavoured towards the abyss.

And I have to impart all this to you, My servants. For you should be forearmed, you should learn to look at all happenings around you only from this point of view, and you should completely give yourselves to Me and as My instruments be always active in My will .... You should let go of all earthly thoughts, hand over your every worry to Me .... even the smallest .... you should become completely absorbed in your vineyard work yet always pay attention to My inner instructions. For overzealousness only causes harm, because wisdom promotes success and wisdom will always be conveyed to you if you totally enter into My will, if you are only the executors of My will. And I know that you, My servants, take your task seriously, and therefore you constantly receive these instructions which you feel in your heart as My loving Words and which you therefore will also comply with for the benefit of your fellow human beings. Oh, if people only knew what awaits them .... Yet they don't believe it when it is proclaimed to them through the mouth of My prophets .... and they cannot be compelled into believing. Nevertheless, the day comes ever closer which will cause a complete change of living conditions .... and blessed is he who will call upon Me in extreme adversity, for I will hear him and grant his request, and he will never ever go astray ....

Amen

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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

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Vineyard work after the intervention of God

Spiritual hunger .... short time of freedom of faith ....

B.D. 3314 from November 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Spiritual hunger will set in when people no longer consider earthly life worth living, and then the time will have come when God's servants will be able to work successfully. And then every opportunity must be used to bring people closer to the kingdom of God, to proclaim God’s word to them and to inform them of His will. Their faith in God has to be awakened or strengthened, and they have to be urged to pray, to make contact with God Who can only then distribute His strength which they need for their development. And God's servants will be willingly listened to at first, for the world appears transient to people and their desire is temporary for things which are permanent. And people will be of lively spirit and eagerly receive the word of God. But this willingness will only last a short time and therefore it is to be evaluated in every way. And everywhere the love of God is to be mentioned; everywhere men are to be pointed to their earth tasks; they are to be stimulated to love work, so that they soon feel the blessing and the power of it. They are to be made aware of the fact that they have to prove themselves in the coming faith struggle if they want to acquire eternal life. And thus they are to work diligently for the kingdom of God, for very soon this free state of faith will be put to an end by measures and decrees which will prevent or completely make impossible all spiritual courtship, all spiritual activity. And from this time on humanity will be in greatest danger, i.e. it can also avert this danger from itself if it complies with the desire of the worldly authorities. Then it has nothing to fear from them, but it sells its soul, and this is imperishable .... But the soul of man senses it and fears and dreads the coming time. And therefore it is also particularly open-minded because it unconsciously feels that the word of God secures its existence in happiness and that it is the only source of strength from which it can strengthen itself in times of adversity. And every endeavour which is not meant for the attainment of His sanctified word has thereby become invalid. For the divine word alone gives people the necessary strength to withstand all measures which are directed against faith and thus against God ....

Man's desire for the food of heaven will be great, but only in those who recognize God in the divine intervention, in the unleashing of the forces of nature, who see this process as a visible sign from God that He condemns man's behaviour and wants to lead them onto a different path. They will raise their hearts to God and desire His word because it gives them comfort and strength, enlightenment and incentive, because only now will they recognize the connection between everything that is happening in the world and the spiritual state of people. And these shall be given the bread of heaven, even though it is a somewhat heavy fare at first for those who are still weak in faith. Nevertheless it helps them according to their will upwards. And so that this will is trained, that it keeps good and evil apart and decides in favour of what is right, the lord's labourers are to be constantly active, and they are not to let themselves be discouraged when they encounter resistance, and they are to walk on undeterred, offering the bread of heaven to their neighbour and handing out food and drink wherever the needy wait for nourishment. For the time of this free activity is short .... Satan works with great haste and spares no means to oust God .... Therefore the battle against this free activity begins shortly afterwards. And the measures are of drastic importance, after all, they are intended to stop all spiritual striving and to change people's thinking from the bottom up .... And now he who eagerly received the word of God will prove himself, for he will no longer want to miss the heavenly food, he will no longer be able to exist without God's comforts and strength; he will stand firm because he will desire ever more and also receive what will give him strength to resist everything hostile to his soul. The more diligently the labourers of the lord are active in the time of need, the more successful their work for the kingdom of God will be. For once they have been able to offer the word of God with conviction, it will also take root and can no longer be eradicated from the hearts of those who are willing to receive it. And once the seed has fallen on fertile soil it will also blossom, grow and flourish and bear good fruit .... And therefore God needs numerous labourers, He needs people on earth who voluntarily place themselves into His service, who allow themselves to be instructed by Him and are now constantly active in order to make use of every time and opportunity where they can successfully work for people's salvation of soul, where they give people what they urgently need through the supply of the divine word .... light and strength .... realisation and firm will to resist when the time of decision has come ....

Amen

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Proclaiming the gospel in times of need ....

B.D. 5525 from November 5th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

And when you see the hardship around you, which will increase the closer the end is, then eagerly fulfil your ministry to proclaim My gospel, to give comfort and courage to your fellow human beings and to awaken the living faith in them. For as soon as they have faith they will also become masters of adversity, as soon as they have faith they will be helped .... But first preach love to them, for this alone leads to faith, and living faith is a strength which overcomes everything. The adversity will approach all people, albeit in different ways, for I want to rouse all people from their state of inactivity, I want them to awaken from their sleep of death and recognize what lies ahead of them. Everyone will be touched by My hand which wants to save him, and only those who have completely fallen prey to My adversary, who have hopelessly turned towards him, will be left out by Me, for standing under My adversary's influence they will remain completely untouched by My warning voice which they could hear everywhere if they opened their ear. Yet many are still undecided as to whom they should turn to. I still want to win them with your help. But those who are then still too weak and in danger of the adversary gaining power over them, I will call them away in order to stop their complete fall into the abyss .... Whatever you humans will experience, they are all means to save the lost person .... And you should vigorously help and work for Me and My kingdom .... You, too, will need much strength, and you can draw it at any time if only you turn to Me in faith, if you let My word speak to you, if you are willing to serve Me .... For I need you in the last days before the end, and I will truly not let you become weak and powerless as long as you want to participate in work which is extremely important and necessary in the coming time. Therefore, only see the confirmation of My word in the adversity around you and believe that you are always assured of My help where it is necessary to carry out a work of salvation for which I only have a few helpers. There is only a short time left until the end and much shall still be achieved in this short time, which is why I have to help with unusually harsh means in order to still save those who are of good will, in order to save them from an infinitely long stay in the abyss, but which is the lot of those who resist Me and are in bondage to My adversary ....

Amen

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Unshakeable faith .... preparation for the time to come ....

B.D. 2394 from July 4th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

True faith does not ask for proof and yet remains unshakeable, for the voice of the heart tells it that it is not mistaken, and thus it needs no proof. And such faith will not waver, no matter how much the adversary shakes it .... Man will neither doubt nor allow himself to be deprived of one iota of what faith teaches him. On the contrary, he will strengthen his fellow human beings in their still weak faith and stand up with full conviction for what he has recognized as divine truth. And this is how faith should be when all the forces of the underworld unfold their activities and fight against faith. Then they shall find strong resistance in those believers who are faithful to the lord. And this resistance will break them, i.e. the believers will be victorious. The lord points to that time with the words: "He who believes in Me will have eternal life ....", they will overcome death, they will be stronger than the opposing power, for they believe in the one Who has given them this promise, they believe in Jesus Christ, the son of God and saviour of the world. Consequently, He also stands by them in every earthly and spiritual adversity, for this is how He rewards the love and faith of His living creations who recognize Him as their creator. He fills them with His love and with His (grace) power, and this is able to make man deeply faithful, thus man comes through his deep faith to the love of God and through this again to power and grace. That is why the blessing of true faith should be preached to people, for they will need it in the coming times. And blessed are those who then have the right faith, for they will not fear the world but will be convinced of the divine might and strength and love and therefore always know one Who will take care of them in every adversity and Who will stand by them in the battle which will break out for the sake of faith .... a battle which is of utmost importance, which will be waged with all means and demand countless sacrifices in spiritual as well as earthly terms. And God Himself is preparing this battle of faith .... He first strengthens the people who profess their love and loyalty to Him, He announces the time to them and informs them of the signs which precede the battle of faith ....

(4.7.1942) For it is His will that the believers prepare themselves for this time and ask and wrestle for strong faith .... He therefore gives them strength through His word. He brings Himself so close to them that they feel Him and their faith is thereby strengthened. And His spirit floods them and gives them the realization that everything happens for the sake of people and that what comes must also be endured because it is inevitable. The will to believe must be present, then the human being need not fear that he might ever lack strength if this strength of faith is required. For then God is with every individual who calls upon Him and brings him help in his adversity. But a convinced faith is not fearful and despondent, but courageous and strong .... A person may send his thoughts to God in prayer and trust, but he does not doubt that he will be helped, for he knows that he is protected by the promise of Christ: "He who believes in Me will have eternal life ...." The believer, however, does not value earthly life highly and only strives for eternal life. And he is certain of all earthly help from God, because he places his life and his fate in God's hands. A true faith is also able to give much strength to his fellow human beings, for it is a testimony to the fact that man overcomes everything more easily and therefore an incentive for those to emulate him ....

amen

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Reminder to inform people of the battle of faith ....

B.D. 2880 from September 13th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

There will be a great desire for spiritual nourishment as soon as the earth’s upheaval has taken place but it will merely be temporary; motivated by the serious hardship people are at first willing recipients and God’s Word shall provide them with comfort and strength. They will certainly recognise it as the Word of God, they will be faithful, but only for a short period of time. Because the world and its demands become more important again and they forget their hardship, thus they also forget Him Who allowed this hardship to happen. Their thoughts and aspirations only seek to re-establish the old life-style and they find it inconvenient to observe the commandments presented to them by the Word of God. Consequently people agree with the actions against the faith and its followers and only a small group will hold on to the Word; only a few people will stand firm against all confrontations and remain loyal to God and the faith. And yet the earlier desire shall be fulfilled to the utmost extent; God’s Word shall be offered to human beings wherever possible so that many people will receive knowledge of it, since during the subsequent battle of faith everyone will once again be divinely reminded of it. The believers will be full of strength and accomplish extraordinary deeds, and find the strength for this entirely in their profound faith ....

And even disbelievers will be able to recognise the power of faith because they had been introduced to the teachings of Christ beforehand and much becomes clear to them as they witness the proof of what they had been told. God leaves no option unused, He leaves no stone unturned, and wherever people can yet be helped He will help them, providing they are willing. And God will instruct many servants to speak in accordance with His will where it concerns the spreading of His teachings and to inform people of the forthcoming event. The battle of faith is unavoidable and will be conducted as never before. And the stronger people adhere to their faith the more brutal the adversary will proceed to annihilate it completely. But the believers have great strength too and can endure much, because God Himself will give them strength, because He strengthens them with His Word and because He will always be with those who defend Him and the faith before the world. You should tell people of this in advance, you should inform them of the coming battle of faith, you should tell them about the strength of faith and the strength of the believers whose leader in the battle against the world is Jesus Christ Himself .... And many from the opponent’s side will join, many will become faithful in view of the things which take place .... For God Himself will work through His servants on earth in order to save what will not entirely oppose Him ....

Amen

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The battle of faith

Faith struggle last phase of the end time ....

B.D. 3516 from August 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The adversary of God works his field with success. He rots out what is good and scatters bad seed, and the weeds overgrow every other plant. And when the time of harvest has come, only a few good fruits will be gathered, and all the weeds will be burned up. How often has God mentioned this time and pointed out the power of satan against mankind. How often has He announced the signs under which satan's work will be successful, to warn people, to admonish them to be wary of his snares. But these predictions remain unheeded, just as his power over people does not make them aware of the danger they are in. They willingly surrender to his influence and willingly carry out what he demands of them .... loveless actions which suffocate all good feeling in them, which make them ripe for ruin. It is the time of the end, which lasts until the spirits have parted .... until even the lukewarm and undecided have decided for above or below. For this separation of spirits must still take place. Countless people still have to clarify which spirit they want to adhere to, for in many people there is still no clarity about this .... they are blind in spirit, they speak God's name and believe themselves to belong to Him although their thoughts and actions completely contradict His commandments .... while some still struggle for realization, they start to detest evil and can still find the path to truth and life if they distance themselves from the pleasures of the world, if they seriously consider their souls. And the end time must still bring about this final separation, and that is why it will be a time of horror, a time when all instincts will come to fruition, good and bad, but the latter in predominance, so that the good will have a hard time to assert itself. The door will be opened to all vices and desires, and the world will find more and more followers through whom God's adversary will lure with success. Yet God also calls His own, and anyone who hears His voice will also follow it because he recognizes it as the father's voice. And He gives His own great strength to resist, He strengthens the weak, He helps the weak believers so that they are able to firmly believe, He entices and calls the undecided and shows them the right path, and He takes care of all people who seriously strive to be good and to resist the evil forces which oppress them. And the separation of spirits will take place .... the contrast between good and bad, between God-fearing and God-averse people, will become increasingly clearer, for open enmity will set in; the bad will take action against the people who adhere to God and seek to destroy them. And then the last time will have come, the end time will have entered the last phase when the battle will begin against the believers. Then God's activity will visibly appear so that His own will survive this time, so that they will emerge victorious from the last battle which will end with the coming of the lord in the clouds, when He will fetch His own home into His kingdom and hold court over the earth .... to save those who believe in Him and to bind the followers of His adversary, whom He will also bind for a long time ....

Amen

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Faith in Jesus Christ .... struggle ....

B.D. 3556 from September 23rd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world will be severely tested, but it will remain, it will not be able to be eradicated despite all the efforts of the world .... It will be championed by the small flock of the faithful full of courage and determination, for Jesus Christ Himself gives them the strength to represent His name and His teaching, to confess Him before the world. Without Jesus Christ there is no salvation, for the power of hell is too great and gains control over people who are not helped by an even greater power, by Jesus Christ, Who, as a true child of God on earth, took upon Himself the death of the cross in order to break the power of evil. Only through Him can the human being find salvation from the shackles of those, and only he who believes in Him can be redeemed, only he who believes in Him calls upon Him for help, for the strengthening of his will, and he is able to wrest himself from God's power of the adversary. And therefore God will never allow faith in Jesus Christ to be lost, to be eradicated by human will which is only the executor of satanic will. And as soon as faith is in serious danger of being sacrificed by people for the sake of the world, God will break the power of satan Himself, for he fights against Him with inadmissible means .... he seeks to withhold the knowledge of God, His love and His act of salvation from people, and thus this is a constraint of the human being's free will who has to know about both works in order to be able to make a decision. And therefore the end will come as soon as serious action is taken against faith. Therefore this last battle will mean a severe test for the believers, yet they will remain victorious because Jesus Christ Himself fights with them, because He imparts strength to all who want to be faithful to Him, who take refuge in Him and entrust themselves to Him in profound faith to find salvation with Him. In confessing the name of Jesus and His teaching of love, the human being decides and finally renounces His opposition. But to do so he has to muster a strength of will which he will never have on his own; yet if he confesses the divine redeemer before the world his will is already strengthened by Him, Who died on the cross in order to redeem people from their weakness of will, in order to buy them a strong will with His blood. And no-one need fear not being able to pass the final battle, for as soon as he believes in Jesus Christ and wants to fight for His name he belongs to the small flock whose courage to confess will grow the more difficult the earthly adversity approaches him, for this is God's working in him, that the power of the spirit overcomes him, which again can only be effective in faith in Jesus Christ, which lifts him above all earthly hardship, makes him strong and able to defy the world and its demands, which lets him fight the last battle with success and brings him the final victory. And faith will remain until the end of the world, and Jesus Christ will be preached again on the new earth as the son of God and redeemer of the world .......

Amen

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Time of the faith battle ....

B.D. 7574 from April 12th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You are still allowed to carry out vineyard work unhindered but the time will come when you who want to serve Me will be persecuted, when they will try to prevent your work, when they will be hostile towards everything that is considered work for Me and My kingdom. And then you will have to assert yourselves insofar as that you courageously confess Me and My name before the world. Then you shall indeed be as gentle as the deaf and as clever as serpents, you shall be cautious but nevertheless proclaim My teaching and again and again make My will known to people, about which I instruct you humans through My word .... You should not fear people who cannot harm your soul, and you should exercise your office into which I have appointed you. And this includes the spreading of My word, which will be important and necessary until the last day, because people can still be saved from ruin. And therefore I also keep urgently admonishing you to do as much vineyard work as possible before this time comes .... You should already cultivate the fields beforehand and provide them abundantly with seed so that the seed has already sprouted and can now also bear its fruit. For the battle against faith is coming, the battle against everything spiritual, the battle against everyone who still believes in Me in Jesus Christ .... For they want to eradicate this faith. This is the last battle, the last work of My adversary who still believes that he will be able to overthrow Me before his time is up .... who will then exceed the limits of his authority when he will take action against Me Myself, when he will try to deprive people of the knowledge about their God and creator and thus also make your free decision impossible. Then the time will come when he will be banished again, when he will be put in chains and completely deprived of his power for a long time. And you, My faithful, you should know this when the battle against faith will begin, and you should not fear people who can indeed kill your body but not your soul .... And you should know that I will then fight by your side, that I will be your commander and that the battle will always be victorious for you. For the battle of faith will not last long because I shorten the days for the sake of My own so that they will not fall prey to the adversary. You, who want to serve Me, you will build a wall around yourselves through strong faith, which I will strengthen again and again anew, for I Myself will be with My own in spirit and sometimes also visibly when the adversity requires it. And you will be exceptionally strengthened so that you can persevere until the end. For I will not leave My own in adversity, I will obviously support them and make them capable of resistance so that they will loudly confess before the world to whom they belong and through their courage of confession also win souls from the enemy camp .... For I wrestle for every single soul so that it will still find Me before the end and be eternally saved. The time until the end is still short and yet much work can still be done in My vineyard before you humans enter the last phase which the battle of faith means for you .... Then you can expect My coming every day, you can hope that I will come soon and I will not disappoint you .... I will fetch you away from the old earth when the day of judgment has come ...._>Amen

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Persecution of vineyard workers in the battle of faith

Measures against the Christian faith ....

B.D. 1950 from June 12th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

Anyone who entrusts himself to the Lord Jesus Christ in the ensuing time need not fear abandonment when confronted by difficulties. The adversary's power has indeed never had a more destructive influence upon believers than will be the case now. Incredibly harsh measures will be taken which intend that the human being should abandon the Christian faith, that he should deny Jesus Christ and adhere to a new course which represents completely different fundamental teachings to those of Jesus Christ. And much will be accomplished by these measures, many people will lose the knowledge of Him if they do not courageously stand firm against those who deem themselves mighty. There is One Who is much mightier and those who trust in Him need not worry. The Lord will give them everything, they will be knowledgeable and wise and speak, where necessary, with full conviction on behalf of their Lord and Saviour, they will be able to counter every contention; because the spirit of those who fight for Christ is awake and will manifest itself in the hour of need. Even if everything earthly seems to disappear, the Word of God, which He Himself gave to people on earth, will continue without fail. For God says 'My Word shall not pass away in all eternity ....'

On account of this Word a fierce battle will commence, but this battle is not related to world events .... It is a battle which merely concerns the acknowledgement of Jesus Christ. This battle will indeed claim sacrifices, but anyone who wants to be strengthened by divine grace will also receive the strength to willingly endure even those sacrifices. He will readily speak on behalf of Jesus Christ and will no longer fear but undauntedly face events. And the Lord needs people who sacrifice themselves for Him and are always prepared to do God's will, because it is a critical time and requires full commitment. It brings events which can only be endured with faith in Jesus Christ but which also enable the human being's soul to mature fully and bring him the greatest reward, because only the devout human being will unite with the divine spirit which will teach him and provide him with strength through God's Word .... and repeatedly exhort him to remain faithful to the Lord and Redeemer ....the Divine Saviour .... when the world opposes Him and wants to remove Him from the hearts of human beings ....

Amen

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Battle of faith .... Hostilities .... Antichrist ....

B.D. 6538 from May 3rd 1956, taken from Book No. 70

I want to bless you so that you will be My firm supporters when the edifice of faith which, for My Own, is the essence of the church of Christ, is being shaken .... when they shake what I have erected Myself and what I keep teaching people time and again through My Word. The time is approaching when not only the representatives of misguided teachings will treat you with hostility, but when all faith per se is intended to be rooted out, regardless of whether it is misguided or corresponds to the truth, because then My adversary will be determined to use his sharpest weapon: to displace all knowledge and belief in Me and My act of Salvation and replace it with materialistic points of view and plans. And this will be the dawning of a period which you as yet consider impossible, for My adversary will embody himself within a worldly ruler and start his work so cunningly that at first he will only be recognised by few people as to who he really is ....

And so he will win many over who will subsequently follow and obey him blindly as he inconspicuously changes his plans .... For in the beginning he will only proceed against individual denominations and will be supported in this by others who will be only too willing to help him when it concerns removing their opponents. And this is why you will at first believe that you are only subject to hostilities by those who only fight the pure truth because they are representatives of errors and lies themselves. And then you will have to be careful as not to endanger yourselves deliberately. Not long afterwards they will be treated with the same hostility, and then the Antichrist's activity becomes obvious .... And even then he will still be followed by many, because they will already be under his control and he will have an easy game with them. Not much time will pass anymore before the first signs become apparent .... The battle of faith will not start with an act of violence, for My adversary will proceed cunningly and even deceive many believers, who will consequently follow him and, at a later time, become his welcome servants. Yet he will be unable to deceive you, who are spiritually awake, for I will open your eyes and guide your thoughts into the right direction .... For then it will be time to arm yourselves for the final battle, which will be waged with inconceivable brutality. But I will bless you .... I will be with you Myself and leave no one defending Me and My name without protection. For this battle will be decisive since it will, after all, separate the sheep from the goats and be the work of My adversary which will condemn him .... As soon as he fights Me Myself, as soon as he wants to stop the distribution of knowledge about Me and My act of Salvation he will have passed his own judgment, he will be bound and deprived of his every power without fail.

But a clear separation must nevertheless take place, because far too many people are still neither fish nor fowl .... because far too many deem themselves devout and first have to pass this test and regretfully fail because they are not living in truth, because they have little love and therefore can neither receive nor recognise the truth for what it is .... This is why you, My servants, still have to be incredibly active, for then many opportunities will still present themselves where you can enlighten those who then .... beset by doubts .... will be incapable of discernment and desire advice. And you will indeed succeed in helping those who are weak of faith into becoming strong believers; you will succeed in drawing a few over into your camp, you will be able to give them clear and intelligible information and present Me as a loving God and Father Who only requires firm faith in order to also be able to help them in utmost adversity and to grant them the strength to persevere until the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Antichrist .... Brutal laws ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

„Be wise as the serpents and gentle a the doves!“

Prudence and gentleness ....

B.D. 3712 from March 13th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Be prudent and gentle .... and you will be very successful if you want to work for Me and My kingdom .... And if you want to give My Word to people you have to pass it on just as I have given it to you, you have to offer it with love .... Love, however, is always the same; it expresses itself in gentleness and patience, in willingness to bestow happiness, in selfless giving. Thus, anyone who offers My Word has to feel the inner aspiration to make other people happy and do so with a joyful heart, and if he urges the other person it has to be in a most gentle manner, he must want to bestow happiness with an innermost sincerity. If he then is eager, his eagerness is commendable, but not if he meets with resistance and prevails and then uses harsh words which are not helpful to My cause. He always has to consider himself My representative and thus always display a loving nature too, and if fervour takes hold of him it has to be a righteous one which does not apply to other people but to falsehood and error, which he fights against and thus seeks to eliminate. The results of satanic work should and can be the object of utter disgust and contempt and also need to be denounced accordingly, but the Gospel from the heavens has to be given to people with gentleness and love or it will be ineffective. And thus you have to carry out your work with utmost prudence even when other people's spiritual state disgusts you, when their resistance tests your patience considerably. For what you proclaim is taught by love, hence love also has to express itself, and the bearer's loving nature has to be seen. Even so, you should speak on behalf of Me and My teaching with all firmness or the task I require you to do would not be work. You have to work diligently everywhere and with every human being .... You have to encourage them to act kindly and portray this as the only true service to God which is pleasing to Me and results in blessings and grace from above. My Word only teaches love, and when you encourage other people accordingly you are already spreading My Word .... Whether the human being's faithfulness to the offered Word results in a contact with Me entirely depends on his will, but a teaching given with gentleness is not without effect, it is more likely to impress than overzealous upholding of spiritual values which is not yet comprehensible to the other person because he has no love. Gentleness and prudence are important factors when spreading My teaching of love ....

However, if another person's arrogant spirit confronts you then you know that My adversary's spirit speaks through him .... which certainly calls for stronger words .... but in that case I Myself will put the words into your mouth, providing you quietly call upon Me for help to deal with people who carry this spirit in themselves. Because they have to be treated quite differently, they need to be disturbed from their arrogant contentment and guided into another way of thinking. And gentle speech will be of no use to them. But you will clearly know in your heart if or when there is still a possibility to change such people, and if you work for Me and My kingdom in association with Me you will also be enlightened by My spirit, who will put the words into your mouth enabling you to speak without hesitation as prompted by your heart. Prudence and gentleness and sincere prayer to Me will definitely lead to success, because then I will bless your work for My kingdom on this earth and in eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Warning against rash action and speech ....

B.D. 6425 from December 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

My grace sends you admonitions and warnings because you possess My love and because you should be made aware of dangers which directly threaten you if you are not careful .... There are certainly always guards around you ready to defend you, nevertheless, you must also know yourselves that you would be at the mercy of the elements of blind vengefulness without this protection which is provided on My behalf .... And therefore you should only ever remain in contact with Me, for then I will also be with you because your thoughts will attract Me, and then all forces which want to harm you will be powerless. Hell rages and its forces also win people over for their plans, therefore you must not offer them a handhold, which can easily happen through thoughtless words which a righteous anger lets you speak .... always be gentle as doves but wise as serpents! .... Whoever fights for My kingdom, whoever fights for the truth, will also be attacked by the opponents of truth, and these are in the service of My adversary who impels them to make false accusations, so that you will have to defend yourselves against lies and falsehood. But then remember My admonition, remember that you are surrounded by My fighters and then turn to them to protect you, and also turn your thoughts to Me so that My light of love will fall between you and your enemies and push them back .... Everywhere My adversary will try to harm you because he realizes that he is losing strength through you .... because he seeks to stop your work for Me and My kingdom and because he will stop at no means to achieve the aim .... to extinguish My light .... And people are in bondage to him, they hate the truth just as much because they themselves feel more comfortable in darkness .... They therefore willingly help him when it is necessary to take action against you .... And therefore human action will be taken against you, and then you must be on your guard and not do anything rash .... Then you only have to entrust yourselves to My protection with complete faith, you only have to strengthen your bond with the world of light, for then they will take up the battle against the forces of the underworld on My behalf, but they can only do so if you don't detach yourselves from them and take up arms against your enemies on your own authority, for you yourselves are not strong enough and you would be defeated without the support of My fighters, without My help .... But you need not fear anything as long as you unite with Me in spirit .... in prayer .... And I only warn you so that you are attentive and immediately recognize the danger when it is approaching .... For the adversary has devised a ruse, but you will recognize it if you remember My warning .... For I always have to take your free will into account, therefore I cannot intervene and place My fighters at your side until you appeal to Me for help or hand yourselves over to all good forces so that they may protect you .... Yet My adversary will have to give way to them, and they will repel every attack aimed at you because you are active for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

„You should not cast pearls before the sows!“

Love acknowledges Jesus Christ .... lovelessness rejects Him ....

B.D. 5633 from March 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 62

As the redeemer of humanity I am easily recognizable to those who live a life of love, whereas unloving people will always reject and fight Me because they do not understand what the act of salvation is all about, because they also do not understand the human being's development, the ascent from a stage of imperfection to perfection. For My death on the cross is closely connected with it, it was not only an act of human error by those who put Me on the cross, but it was an act of liberation of incomprehensible significance which can only be understood by people in whom My spirit can express itself. A person's life of love only gives the spirit within him the opportunity to express himself, thus to guide his thinking correctly, so that a problem is now revealed to him brightly and clearly which the human being will never be able to solve without love. This is why the rejection of Jesus Christ, the lack of faith, the final battle against the believers is also understandable, because love is no longer amongst people and therefore I Myself am no longer recognized in Jesus Christ and the act of salvation of the man Jesus has become completely meaningless for these people. Only love can and will recognize Me. And yet, unloving people must also be pointed to Jesus Christ .... His teaching of love has to be proclaimed to them, they must not yet be completely abandoned because their hearts are also capable of love and the willingness to love should be stimulated in them. And even the intellectual approach to the problem of God's incarnation in Jesus Christ and His crucifixion can be successful and should therefore not be disregarded, so that the human being cannot say that he has remained completely uninstructed about it, for every human being will find himself in a situation where there is a loud knocking at the door of his heart, where I Myself announce Myself and ask to be let in .... And one or the other can still open the door in remembrance of the teachings imparted to him. Full understanding cannot be expected from unloving people, yet every person once lets light radiate onto the surroundings and in such softer heart emotions can make inside (inner) concessions which can bring him a small step forward, which is why no person should be abandoned as long as he still lives on this earth .... And again, you should not cast pearls before swine .... You shall not offer My word, which testifies to the saviour Jesus Christ, to those who are obviously satan's servants .... Then withdraw, for open unkindness prevents all understanding, because the will is also openly directed against Me. You should turn your backs on them, for every further word would be pointless and only gives them opportunities to attack Me and you. But you should instruct those of weak will, and if you proclaim the gospel to them in love it can also kindle love in them, and they can feel addressed and listen to your words. For this reason it will also not be difficult for My adversaries in the last days, in the time of the last battle of faith, to eradicate faith in Jesus Christ, because where love is missing there is also no faith in Him, but this only has to hasten the end, the day when the separation of spirits takes place .... And then the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will be victorious over the one who is against Him .... Then truth will triumph, light over darkness .... love over hate .... And blessed will be those who through love knew Me, who believed in Jesus Christ and through Him attained eternal life ....

Amen

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The gospel is to be spread "in the whole world" ....

B.D. 6212 from March 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

My gospel shall be spread to all nations, the work of the divine redeemer shall be proclaimed to all, and everyone shall be pointed to His teaching of love so that they will follow Him by also living a life of love as He did on earth. And all of you can contribute to the spreading of this divine message that there is redemption from sin and death. For as soon as you yourselves stand up for Jesus Christ .... as soon as you prove yourselves to be true christians you already bear witness to Jesus' act of salvation, which has already brought about your redemption, because your way of life is now in accordance with the will of Him Whom you confess .... because you are alive and no longer a slave to sin and death. Speeches alone do not reveal a living christianity, but a person's conduct reveals which lord he has joined. When I walked on earth I sent My disciples out into the world .... I gave them the command: "Go and teach all nations ...." but at the same time I said: "Wherever they do not receive you after you have given them the greeting of peace, there shake off the dust from your feet and go on walking .... For you should not throw the pearls to the sows ...." And you would preach My gospel to deaf ears if you wanted to speak everywhere despite rejection and counteraction, for there My adversary still has power over people which he uses to withhold the truth from them. But anyone who is permeated by My spirit will always and everywhere proclaim Me and My name, for the spirit within him impels him to offer his fellow human beings the same which makes him happy, and therefore he will not remain silent wherever he is heard .... And living christianity will also always have a stimulating effect on fellow human beings so that they themselves will feel the strength of the one Who is represented before the world .... so that they, too, will feel drawn to the redeemer and desire to be accepted by Him as well .... My gospel shall be proclaimed to all people .... yet you alone cannot fulfil this task, I Myself must guide it to places where it would be impossible for you if you wanted to take over the proclamation of My word alone .... And this transmission also takes place through messengers of light who are embodied on earth for the purpose of this very mission in order to proclaim Me and My act of salvation to people so that they will also attain beatitude. These messengers of light are also My disciples whom I send out into the world, for they, too, have received My teaching of love from Me and can therefore faithfully teach on My behalf according to the people's state of maturity in their environment .... And the fact that I can convey My word, the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and the knowledge of My teaching of love to people in direct speech is something you, who have been taught by Me yourselves and are still being taught, will now not doubt either .... My spirit works always and everywhere .... and if My kingdom were only built on the few pillars .... truly the gospel could not be proclaimed in the 'whole world' and My word could not be fulfilled for eternity .... But you humans cannot overlook and measure My rule and activity on earth and in the spiritual kingdom .... But all My creatures are cared for by Me out of full love and every opportunity is made available to them to acquire eternal life .... I approach all people and knock at their heart's door .... I convey My word everywhere, albeit often in different ways, but I make sure that all people receive knowledge of what Jesus Christ has done for sinful humanity .... I make sure that everyone is informed of My will to fulfil the commandments of love .... And where this will of Mine is observed, there My light of love can also radiate profound knowledge, there My gospel is heard which bears witness to Me ....

Amen

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Spiritual superiority is not spiritual arrogance ....

B.D. 7730 from October 23rd 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Spiritual superiority should not be confused with spiritual arrogance .... If I guide a person into the truth, if he is taught by My Word in order to be a suitable teacher again for his fellow human beings, then he may also confidently endorse his knowledge because it originates from Me, and then he can also rest assured that he will have received the pure truth and that this truth has to be rated higher than human knowledge, which was merely intellectually acquired and which, without the working of My spirit, is no guarantee for truth. Hence, one can never speak of spiritual arrogance where it concerns advocating the truth from Me, which the person receives from Me directly. Then any restraint would be wrong if the opportunity presents itself to inform people of My spiritual knowledge. You just should not 'cast your pearls before swine ....', i.e., you should not speak where you clearly recognise My adversary's spirit, because the truth will not be recognised there as such and every conversation will be in vain. But anyone who is taught by My spirit shall also mention the working of My spirit and frankly and determinedly stand up for My Word. He will certainly be able to do so, for as soon as he speaks on behalf of Me and My kingdom I Myself make use of him and speak through him, and then you really won't be able to say that an arrogant spirit speaks through him.

Once a person has been guided into truth by Me he will also be enlightened himself, he will recognise all correlations and able to speak about them. And if he is sure of the truth of his knowledge because he was taught 'through the spirit' then he will also be self-confident and able to refute wrong opinions or provide good clarifications, in which case he can't be called 'arrogant', rather, his spiritual superiority should be recognised and acknowledged; the truth he imparts must impress the listener and also give him the inner conviction that it is I Myself Who speaks to him through a human mouth. And since I know My light bearers' will I can also distribute the gifts of the spirit such that they will be valued .... For this reason I choose My own servants and give them the task to pass on the pure truth .... And anyone with good intentions will recognise the truth and gratefully accept it .... anyone with good intentions will be brought together with the bearers of truth so that he, too, shall be guided into truth, depending on his will. And you should always remember that I only give My grace unto the humble .... That an arrogantly spirited person would never ever be able to receive a gift of grace from Me because only a profoundly humble heart is receptive for it or you would have to discard everything said to you .... but after serious examination you won't be able to do that. Spiritual superiority is only the complete certainty of knowing the truth, and I expect this from My bearers of light, or they would be unable to confidently uphold the truth from Me towards their fellow human beings .... It is necessary for light to be brought to people who live in spiritual darkness ; it is necessary to illuminate the path of ascent for them, for you humans will not go forward on dark paths but you will continue to strive towards the abyss. For this reason I will repeatedly convey light to you, and blessed is he who accepts it .... blessed, who takes the path which will be shown to him in the light of truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Submission of the will to God’s will

Instrument of God .... mission .... work of God ....

B.D. 1777 from January 18th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

Those who feel called to work for the lord are subject to spiritual guidance. They are looked after and guided and directed in all love. For if they declare their willingness to be of service on earth, they must be constantly instructed in order to be able to fulfil their ministry. They have a mission to fulfil and this consists first of all in passing on the wisdom that is passed on to them. But then they must also be prepared at all times to allow themselves to be used as the lord's instrument without resistance; if the lord wants to work through them, they must completely surrender to Him, give up their will and thus carry out the divine will and thereby allow God's work to become evident to the world. For God's immense love seeks to win over the followers of the world and seeks a way to their hearts. And a believing earthly child must now form the bridge, since God cannot reveal Himself to them in such a way that He is recognized by them. A will devoted to God is immediately seized by spiritual beings who are responsible for the care of worldly people. They use every opportunity to come to their aid and can achieve great success with the help of this willing earthly child. But they now have to be careful to first transfer their strength to the willing human being so that he can then pass on earthly what was previously imparted to him supernaturally. This is why the spiritual beings are concerned with the perpetual training of those who offer their service to God. They try to make them understand that only continued work in itself results in that state in which God can work through the human being. God can only take possession of a person's will when he has turned to Him of his own accord .... However, he will only completely submit himself to Him when nothing ties him to the earthly world anymore. Thus the human being must first sever all ties to it; he must voluntarily give up everything that could prevent him from uniting with God; he must give incessantly, for only in giving does he receive, because God Himself unites Himself ever more intimately with him. And if he has thus become love, if God can enter his heart, He can now also work in and through this person. He can now cause him to accomplish things which cannot be carried out earthly, for the human being then no longer does this of his own accord but God Himself is the performer. God now works through the earthly child and makes His greatness known to those whom He wants to win for Himself. And thus heaven and earth unite, i.e., the highest beings from the kingdom of light take care of enslaved humanity and try to bring light to it, and for this purpose they make use of a human being whose will is completely absorbed by divine will and is therefore well suited to serve as God's instrument. However, he must be deeply devout and recognize God as the highest, most loving and wisest being so that God's love, wisdom and omnipotence can express itself through this earthly child and guide humanity towards realization ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Vineyard work .... subordinating the will ....

B.D. 5127 from May 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The vineyard work is so versatile that all who are willing to do so can enter My service, for I assign the activity to everyone according to his ability, and everyone will be able to carry it out, although great eagerness to work is required. Yet there are only a few who are willing to work for Me, and their degree of maturity is so different that not everyone can do the same work and that I therefore train servants for Myself in order to be able to distribute the work such that it is successful for Me and My kingdom. The vineyard work has become extremely urgent, for the time of harvest is approaching and therefore I still need many servants who want to serve Me with love. But where will I find such? Serving Me is not particularly appealing to the people of this world, for apparently there is no advantage to be gained from it; moreover, this work also requires tremendous self-conquest .... The human being must serve, i.e. put his own will aside and let the lord's will alone prevail .... I make this demand of everyone who wants to work as My servant in My vineyard. He must completely submit himself to Me and only do what I demand of him. Yet people are self-willed and cannot subordinate themselves, and therefore they are also not suitable for a service which requires complete devotion of will. For only one works, and He is I, because I alone know what is good and right .... Therefore My servants must submit themselves to Me and only ever carry out My will. I don't want them to work arbitrarily without having obtained My instruction, I want them to listen to what I tell them and then eagerly work according to My will. Thus I want to instruct them first, only then shall they appear in My name and carry out vineyard work, i.e. work the field, the human hearts, to receive the good seed, My divine word, so that the harvest will be rich and I can praise My servants if they have brought Me a great harvest. Whoever wants to work for Me shall accept the instructions from Me, thus open his heart and ear so that I can speak to him. But anyone who tackles the work without being instructed by Me will not have much success, for he does not work for Me but for himself .... He only works for the sake of the reward he is given, and this will be meagre and only paid for the time on earth .... So he probably also volunteered for vineyard work but did not wait to see whether I would employ him as suitable for it. He worked because every job pays its wages, yet not out of love and loyalty to the lord, Whom he serves. And I do not value this work as work for Me and My kingdom. I certainly pay the wages, i.e. I maintain My servant as long as he works for Me, but beyond that he no longer deserves anything, for his wages are gone because he only thought of himself, but I need servants who want to serve Me out of love for Me and their neighbour, who carefully look after My vineyard and don't allow anything to get lost in it, who therefore are and will remain faithful servants to Me for all eternity. Anyone who wants to work for Me must completely submit to Me and only be the executor of My will, I must be able to take possession of him and work through him without finding resistance. Then he will be My hand which becomes active, then he will work in My stead, then he will be My right representative and work in the vineyard according to My will. And then he will also have much success, he will increase My kingdom, he will win many souls for Me and his activity will be blessed ....

Amen

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Surrendering the will to God ....

B.D. 5632 from March 21st 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Offer yourselves as a sacrifice to the Lord, passively hand yourselves over to Him .... desire that His will shall also be yours, that you no longer feel any kind of resistance in you, that you are totally devoted to Him .... This complete surrender of your will to God's will assures right thinking, right wanting and right doing .... But as soon as you harbour the slightest resistance you also divert, if only imperceptibly, from that which is God's will, because this very resistance creates the foundation where God's adversary can be active. It is thus an act of greatest effort if the human being is to relinquish his own will and completely subordinate himself to divine will .... which, however, will always be easily achievable the more love becomes active in a person, for to be lovingly active is already coming into close contact with the eternal Love, it is unifying-oneself with It and thus simultaneously abandoning one's own will. This is why someone who lives a life of love no longer opposes God, it draws him to God, he humbly gives himself to the One Who created him, he knows no resistance, no disobedience to God, he only ever endeavours to comply with Him.

In that case he has no will of his own any longer because he is permeated by the love of God, Whose will now works in him, since through love the spiritual unity has taken place. Thus love is the most certain feeling that the human being lives within God's will .... and that is why you need only ever be mindful about practising love .... whatever you do should only be determined by love, your heart should be soft and tolerant, gentle and whole-heartedly humble, and helpful towards every human being .... In every human being you should see your neighbour, your brother, because you are all children of one Father; you should let neither anger nor bitterness arise in you, but know that everything will approach you as is beneficial for your change, for your perfection. What is wicked in your environment shall become good through you, your love shall be the weapon you use against your enemies. You should never fight evil with evil but do good to those who do not mean you well. Then your bond with the eternal Love will become ever firmer, then you live within God's will, then His will has also become yours, then you have offered yourselves as a sacrifice by voluntarily having surrendered your resistance and acknowledged Him as your Lord, as your God and Father of eternity, to Whom you gave yourselves completely ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spreading the word in humility and patience

Forbearance and humility ....

B.D. 2879 from September 12th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

Greatest forbearance and humility is required to be able to receive My love and grace, to be taught by Me Myself .... in order to be able to hear My word in the heart .... People who want to work for Me on earth should be patient and humble, for in this way they testify to their love for Me, that they are full of love for their fellow human beings and do not look down on them in arrogance, who are likewise My living creations. And only then can I Myself work through them because I Myself am extremely patient and because I walked the path on earth in profound humility on which you are supposed to follow Me .... Thus, like Me, you must make an effort to be patient and approach your fellow human beings with humility of heart. You must, as it were, woo their love in order to win them over for yourselves, you must regard them as friends who are misguided and therefore patiently try to instruct them where possible. You must remain humble and not exalt yourselves in heart over them as they walk in error .... But you must always remember that you are to stand up for the truth. Once you have recognized the truth and received it directly from Me you must hold on to it, and you must not allow yourselves to be intimidated by counter-talk. Mindful of My love, you must try to convey to your fellow human beings what you have recognized as beneficial for the soul, for then you will also practice love .... And if you remain faithful to your conviction, if you do not bow down to error, you can nevertheless remain humble in heart. But no one can demand the surrender of your conviction in order to test your humility .... no one can deny your forbearance if you want to help the truth to its right again and again. But where this truth is not accepted, where the spiritual resistance is too great, do not try to force anything .... The truth must speak for itself, and the truth also speaks for itself as soon as the human being examines the truth with a serious will .... And therefore humility of heart is again necessary, the deep bowing of the creature before the creator and the prayer for help, which again testifies to humility .... then he will also be seized by My grace and he will recognize .... I give My grace to the humble, and only the humble attain the truth. Yet the truth also obliges you to defend it. Humility towards Me therefore need not be violated, even if the bearer of truth does not bow down to his fellow human being who walks in error .... However, you should always and constantly practice patience and always imagine My earthly path, which required excessive patience and immense love. Be gentle and patient and you will also be successful with those who initially oppose you .... For gentleness and patience are signs of love, and love is strength. And love conquers all opposition because no power can withstand it ....

amen

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Patience with fellow human beings who do not strive spiritually ....

B.D. 4988 from October 25th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

Be patient .... Many a soul takes its path through life in secret opposition to Me but does not openly express its rejection and therefore first has to be urged to make an open decision. But love is and remains the only path to realization, and therefore no soul can find its way to Me which does not have love within itself. And thus you need not be surprised if a person lacks understanding for the divine word who is not permeated by love for Me and his neighbour, because he also lacks wisdom, the knowledge about the strength of love, which increases ever more the less the human being is a slave to matter.

(25.10.1950) I certainly often approach people to urge them onto the path of love, yet I respect free will at all times, and you should do the same .... always show love to each other but leave your fellow human being free to decide, for often the will to convince is precisely what determines him to reject. Anyone who has no inner connection with Me or with the spiritual kingdom through good actions or good thoughts will never be able to hear the voice from there either. For good is only that which is done completely selflessly, where no calculation or earthly advantage is striven for. The goodness of the heart inevitably leads to Me and also recognizes the father's voice, but where the intellect only examines, the judgement is not very satisfactory. Nevertheless, I say again and again: Be patient with your fellow human beings whom you cannot convince of My word. So much escapes them that you have to show them love again and again, that you should bear their faults and weaknesses with forbearance .... But persevere on your path .... Through love you gain much strength, and although strength cannot be transferred to a fellow human being at will it nevertheless enables you to do unusual deeds spiritually and earthly. And thus you must influence those by your example who are not yet as far advanced as you, and you will achieve much. Even where you are hindered in the execution of your will, your will will be valued by Me and earn you spiritual progress. But your destiny is predetermined for all of you, and truly, you can mature on earth if you don't fail of will yourselves. And precisely where you overcome resistance you will mature most quickly and one day sing praise and thanks to Me for the many opportunities I have offered you for the purpose of maturing. The will towards Me alone is decisive for the soul's degree of maturity it achieves on earth. And this will is so often tempted because the adversary does not slacken in his effort to wrest souls from Me which have already decided in favour of Me. But where the will is good, victory will also not fail to come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Humility and arrogance .... able servants ....

B.D. 6431 from December 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 69

To all My servants and handmaidens I address the same admonition not to slacken in their work for Me and My kingdom .... For if every servant brings back just one soul to Me he has accomplished a work of redemption for which I will truly reward him richly, for what this one soul is able to accomplish again is beyond your knowledge because you cannot measure the work every soul does when it stands in the light .... In recent times I awaken people again and again who, through their way of life and their spiritual abilities, make themselves suitable for work in My vineyard .... but they must then also fulfil their task in utmost humility and submission under My will, they must not feel privileged and now do vineyard work in awareness of their own value, because then they already make themselves unfit, because My flow of grace will then be restrained, which first requires humility in order to be able to flow unhindered .... And people are all still exposed to My adversary's temptations, who precisely stirs up the arrogance which is his true nature. And thus this danger is particularly great where the heart does not humbly surrender to Me so that I fill it with My grace. Many people are certainly willing to work in the vineyard but they are not suitable for it as long as they still have the desire to stand out and be regarded as 'gifted'. Yet only the deeply humble person is a suitable servant for Me, a maid .... who is willing to serve. For this reason I have few co-workers on earth who want nothing more than to work helpfully on earth, who recognize the great spiritual hardship and want to save their fellow human beings from it .... who don't think of themselves but only ever think of others who lack light and who therefore want to let their light shine for others .... the light which My infinite love was able to kindle in them because they have this will to help within themselves. And such people are only rare, but I bless the few and help them so that they can fulfil their earthly task. For they are My pillars in the last days before the end, they are the servants I always use where it is necessary .... They are the mediators who work in My stead but through whom I Myself can cultivate the fields, through whom I Myself address human hearts and take care of their maturing. And everyone will be assigned his area where he shall be active .... everyone will be able to work in his small circle and always be certain of My support, for I am pleased with every willing person who supports My kingdom, who supports My name, who passes on to his fellow human beings what he has received from Me Myself .... but who only serves Me and not other lords. For My adversary will often try to intrude and want to win the servants for himself .... And he prefers to do this by whispering what makes people arrogant .... and that he thereby endangers the vineyard work. And therefore beware of that lord, lest he cause confusion in you; remain devoted to Me in profound humility and do not desire recognition, do not desire the approval of the world, and only enjoy the successes which you can exert on human souls .... Only take pleasure in the fact that you succeed in touching the souls and withdraw ever more from the world the more eagerly you want to be active in My vineyard. If you have helped a soul to emerge from darkness into light then you will certainly receive My reward, but this should also be enough for you .... yet on the worldly side you should not demand any recognition and only ever remember that you are unable to do anything without My grace, but that you only receive it as long as your heart approaches Me in deepest humility, asking for My love and grace .... But then you will also be suitable servants for Me and do Me welcome redeeming work .... And I will bless you eternally ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Admonition to humility ....

B.D. 7678 from August 20th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

Recognize your weaknesses and try to counteract them by humbly submitting yourselves to Me and asking for My grace, for help in spiritual adversity. For I will be close to the least if he .... as the least of one .... serves his fellow human being and helps him to his soul's salvation. The great will not always be the chosen ones but only true humility will secure a person's calling, and therefore only a few people are chosen, although many are called to it .... i.e. many people only needed to find their way into true humility in order to then also be chosen by Me. But all people still have too much need for recognition, they want to stand out from their fellow human beings, they want to be noticed and thus, as it were, to stand out, and this already impairs true humility which results in the receipt of unmeasured grace. But I leave every person his will, only you should learn to recognize what is advantageous and what is evil for you. As long as a person deems himself small and unworthy he will speak to Me in spirit and in truth if he seeks prayer contact with Me. And then My spirit can also flow into him, then I can bestow graces upon him without restriction. But if a person is noticed by his fellow human beings due to his ability to hear My voice within himself, his humility can easily change and give way to complacency, which is always a danger for the human being. And therefore you should always examine yourselves as to what moves you to communicate to your fellow human beings, you should know that every self-satisfied thought can grant My adversary shelter and that you then prevent Me Myself from dwelling within you and addressing you .... And you should be critical of yourselves .... if you want to serve Me in truth. For wherever you stay you must always pray to Me in your 'quiet chamber' and appeal to Me for My spirit. And can you withdraw into your closet when you are in the midst of the world? When you are surrounded by people who are not all of the same mind and often only expect sensations? You should not forget for a moment that I hear the voice of a child who turns to Me in thought and also answer it .... but that I remain mute when an unfaithful feeling reveals the complacency of a person who indeed prays to Me but not in spirit and in truth .... First purify yourselves from this feeling and you will appear small and humble before Me and not try to attract the attention of the world around you. And thus you can believe that I am indeed among you when two or three are gathered in My name .... but that you have no guarantee of My presence where complacency, arrogance or spiritual arrogance deny Me presence and the door is now open to the adversary, who will indeed also present himself in the garment of light of an angel but will not give you words of truth and life .... humility of heart is the best test, for I give My grace to the humble .... And you all have to test yourselves as to whether you have shaped yourselves into the right humility when you ask Me for My word. Then you will also be able to be certain of My working, then you will be addressed by Me and receive strength and light according to your request ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Offering the word in love

Remain with love, then you will remain in God ....

B.D. 5434 from July 10th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

Remain in perpetual contact with Eternal Love by being incessantly active with love and you will always be flooded with strength and be able to work for the blessing of your fellow human beings. To whom God gives an office, He also gives the strength to administer it, yet the supply of strength is dependent on a person's degree of love. But also the allocation of an office has the love work of man as basic condition, from which it is therefore to be seen that love may not be switched off, that love is the first and shall always remain. And therefore you should first endeavour to increase your degree of love, you should take care of your fellow human being's adversity, you should help him spiritually and earthly, you should comfort the sad, lift up the despondent, strengthen the weak, you should do everything that helps to reduce suffering and, with loving, kind encouragement, help your fellow human being to endure suffering, who will be lifted up by your love, thus always feel the strength of love. Only in this way will you maintain the connection with eternal love, only in this way can it fill you more and more and radiate its spirit upon you, only in this way will you also be permeated by the strength which enables you to carry out the work in the Lord's vineyard until your hour has come when God calls you to work in the spiritual kingdom. As long as you live on earth you can increase the degree of love yourselves, for you are not lacking vitality which you should use to work with love. In the spiritual kingdom, if you are not yet mature, you lack the strength to do so, and therefore your fate is very difficult; on earth, however, you have complete freedom and can act as you please, for the strength to do so is at your disposal. Use it well, that is, only do good, do not waste your vitality on evil deeds and do not let it be unused for one day you will bitterly regret not having used your strength to do what is right and pleasing to God .... And remember that you draw God Himself to you as soon as you practise love, for in every work of love lies God Himself .... God is love, and therefore you should live with love so that you live in God, the Eternal Love .... But then God Himself will also be in you and fill you with His strength, which can manifest itself physically and spiritually but will always help you to ascend. For if you are physically filled with strength you will likewise use it to work with love, because God Himself is now active in you, because He impels you to give love .... to radiate what is within you. And your union with God will be indissoluble, for that is the strength of divine love, that it chains everything to itself with irresistible power that is filled by it, that therefore man can never ever separate himself from eternal love when he has once united with it, when his nature has changed to love. Then he has become perfect and no longer needs the school of the spirit on earth, then he will be called away by eternal love and now be allowed to dwell in its proximity, constantly permeated by its strength and be unspeakably happy, for now he can work in God's will, with His light and His strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Presenting the divine word in love .... success assured ....

B.D. 4502 from December 3rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

It is truly not insignificant in which way My word is given to you, for the degree of love in which My word is offered is often decisive as to whether you accept or reject it. Everything that is handed out should be given with love, otherwise it does not speak to the heart but has to be accepted by the heart. A person filled with love gives in such a way that he awakens counter-love, and this is of utmost importance when My word is presented, because then full understanding is guaranteed as well as love is involved which brings about the awakening of the spirit. Without love My word remains dead and without understanding, it is spoken but has no strength because then it is just empty sound without life. If the human being wants to make his fellow human being happy, then love for his neighbour is already predominant, and what he then hands out penetrates the heart, is accepted there and, depending on his own will to love, felt as a valuable gift, as a gift of love. Where the giver's love is recognizable, the will to reject will be weaker, for then the word will already emanate a strength to the recipient which he cannot and will not close himself off to. Therefore, the representatives of My teaching must be willing and active in love in order to be suitable for receiving My word from above and to make My word with its strength accessible to their fellow human beings, because the mere transmission of the external word remains without impression, thus it can very easily be something formal, a professional preaching of My teaching without life and thus also without spiritual success. Then My word is without strength because it is only heard with the ears but does not penetrate the heart. For only the soul feels the power, and that in the state of loving feeling and its response. Impulses which the human being as such hardly notices can cause the soul greatest happiness and not be felt by the body, and if the soul now hears My word in such a loving feeling it stands in the midst of the emanation of strength whose source I am .... If it is not willing to love itself and My word is offered to it in love, then the strength will also penetrate it and it will let itself be permeated by it without resistance .... The degree of love of the receiver and the giver greatly influences the effect of My word, and therefore attention must be paid to the fact that the spreading of My teaching must never take place through coercion or violent measures, but My true representatives must be patient, gentle, loving and yet eager if they want to be successful and be faithful servants to Me on earth. It is not enough that My word is only read out or brought to people's ears with fixed phrases. It has to come alive if the preacher wants to help his fellow human beings with compassionate love, if he wants to guide them into truth and thereby into the right knowledge of Myself, and if his love opens the door of the listeners' hearts. Then My word will be received by people, it will be perceived as divine, as truth and accepted, because its strength benefits the soul which recognizes the divine origin and feels drawn to Me through My word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Salvation of erring souls is the work of the servants in the vineyard ....

B.D. 5584 from January 23rd 1953, taken from Book No. 61

You should work with great zeal for the salvation of erring souls. The need is great and the souls need you, for they cannot find the path to Me on their own. People are always led into your path who are without faith and live into the day without thinking that they have to fulfil a task on earth. To inform these people of their task in life on earth, to lovingly point them to their creator and father of eternity, before Whom they will one day have to answer, to present Me to them as loving and merciful but also just and thus to lead them to faith, that is the work you should do if you want to serve Me as servants in My vineyard. What you therefore do to lead these people to knowledge is right before My eyes and is valued as redemptive work. Every person who believes in Me and wants to be of service to Me can accomplish such redemptive work by trying to transfer his own faith to his fellow human being, which already banishes the greatest spiritual adversity, which consists of blatant unbelief. But if you want to do more for Me and My kingdom, you should proclaim the gospel to people in My name .... that is, when you receive the commission from Me Myself .... And this commission will be given to you when you possess the ability to teach in My name .... For proclaiming the gospel means introducing people to the truth, to impart spiritual knowledge to them which completely corresponds to the truth and which you therefore only possess yourselves when you are taught by Me Myself. If you now feel an urge within yourselves to proclaim Me to your fellow human beings, only in order to help their souls attain bliss, then this urge, too, is a gentle sign from Me, a place for you where you can successfully work on your fellow human beings' souls. Then speak without shyness as it comes into your mind, for then you are driven by My spirit, and then the words are put into your mouth, then you can only speak as it is pleasing to Me, and then your words will not fail to make an impression, because you are urged by the spirit of love which wants to express itself through you, and then you will be doing redemptive work, for all people who accept your teachings and work accordingly will release themselves from their bondage, they will believe and then also find the right path to Me .... Everything you show to your fellow human beings with the will to love has a beneficial effect on them, and if you are now seized by the spirit of love yourselves, all your endeavours will be an emanation of love which will continue to work as strength, thus it will bring spiritual advantage again to those to whom you turn your love. Anyone with an open mind will recognize the spiritual and earthly hardship all around him and will want to help because he will also recognize why these people are in need, because he will recognize that it is unbelief which has caused their earthly hardship. He wants to bring them a ray of hope, he wants to introduce them to something hitherto unknown to them when I Myself am brought close to them as a being Which is supremely perfect, loving, wise and powerful. And as soon as you make it your business to bring Me close to your fellow human beings, to help them to believe in Me, you are redemptively active and faithful labourers in My vineyard to whom I want to assign an ever increasing field of work, because the adversity is great and much work is still to be done until the end .... For people have lost their faith, they live in the world and their souls have also anchored themselves in the world, that it requires great effort to liberate them and to show them the path which leads to their true home and which they have to take in order to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Charity .... following Jesus .... truth ....

B.D. 7857 from March 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

O take My way of life as an example for all of you and follow Me .... Live a life of love, practice patience and gentleness towards your neighbour, be peaceable and merciful and only ever strive to win your fellow human being's love, for then you will also encourage him to take you as an example and to live a life of love according to My will. Only love can help you to become blissfully happy, and therefore you must change your nature .... You must overcome selfish love, you must merge into love for your neighbour, your whole will and thinking must be borne by love .... you must not think of your neighbour in spitefulness, you must not harm him, you must not make yourselves judges over him, you must also patiently bear his weaknesses and only ever lovingly help him onto the right path so that he also recognizes himself and endeavours to change his nature .... And My blessing will rest on all will and actions, you will now follow Me in truth, Who was full of love and always ready to help. Therefore, whatever you undertake must always be determined by love .... you must always ask yourselves how I would act in your place? And your heart will always give you the answer that you only ever let love rule and don't give room to any ignoble thoughts in your heart. But you should also always remain in truth and not let your neighbour walk in error either, you should help him to recognize his error because it cannot result in blessing. Therefore, what you recognize as error you should lovingly present to your neighbour and leave it up to him whether he comes to Me with it and asks Me Myself for right thinking, for clarification. I Myself have promised you that I will not leave you in error if you seriously desire the truth, and I will also always fulfil My promises and give you light where it is still dark in you. But then also expect the answer in your heart when you ask Me questions from your heart .... Let yourselves be addressed by Me Myself and you will also hear a clear answer within yourselves .... It is My will that you enter into a heartfelt bond with Me yourselves, that you come to Me yourselves, so that you hear My address within yourselves and then also prove yourselves how you relate to Me. And I will always give you the opportunity to do so when you are moved by thoughts which you alone are not able to judge properly .... And then you should come to Me and ask Me .... and I will instruct you correctly so that you will feel clarity within yourselves and no longer question but act according to My will, because I put this will into your heart as an answer. And so you should all act yourselves who want to belong to Me .... you should also try to influence your neighbour if you want to be lovingly active towards him and protect him from error or wrongdoing. You only ever need the father, and just as I worked on earth with love, only ever taught love and gave love, so your earthly path should only ever be determined by love, then you will truly be true followers of Me, then you will work for the benefit of your fellow human beings, then you will truly be redeemingly active on earth ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Free will must accept the truth ....

B.D. 8850 from September 6th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

You can endorse everything I say to you before the world; for it needs the truth, with error and lies it will never find the path to Me. You humans might wonder why I allowed the error to become so widespread and I can only ever respond with the same answer, that your free will alone is the crucial factor as to whether or not you live in truth or in error. The fact that large congregations formed which continuously advocated their misguided opinions is also only based on their founder's free will, and the fact that untold people followed him again without forming their own opinion, without thinking about the responsibility of their attitude, must likewise be based on their free will .... Free will may neither be infringed upon by Me nor My adversary, yet My adversary has a far greater number of followers, because people don't think but leave this to the leaders whom they follow blindly. Yet they alone will not have to bear the responsibility for all their followers will also be accountable, and only the degree of love each person carries will decide which fate they will have to endure one day. And wherever it may be, time and again I will send a spark of light which can ignite again. My spirit will become effective everywhere, because people will also repeatedly attain a high degree of love again which will subsequently also offer Me the opportunity to reveal Myself, so that the pure truth can be conveyed to people over and over again. But who will accept it? Every person who portrays Me to his fellow human beings differently than they imagine Me to be is rejected, and therefore it is rarely possible to convey the truth to them. And no matter how clearly and unmistakably My Word is given to them .... people reject it .... because they are influenced by My adversary, who will always fight against the truth and has great power due to the fact that only a very few live a life of love according to My will and thus are no longer exposed to his interventions. And that is where My Word .... the pure truth .... will be accepted, they will recognise it as truth without their will being compelled .... But since the truth is offered to everyone, those people who did not accept it will have to accept responsibility for that, for they could just as easily have believed My Words as they did with error, because they possess free will.

And thus you, who want to serve Me, need only ever confront them with the pure truth, and every single person will have to form an opinion of it. If he is seriously interested in the pure truth he will reflect on it, and then he will no longer be unreceptive to My revelations. This is why the spreading of My doctrine is the most important thing for which I require you as servants in My vineyard, for love must pass it on, it must be offered with love, and thus it will also appeal to every person who likewise practices love and therefore is receptive to the truth. This battle between light and darkness will continue until the end, the adversary will become increasingly more powerful because people's free will allows it .... But I will also convey the truth to earth until the end, and this will highlight his activity and expose him, but it will only ever be obvious to those who are open-minded for the pure truth, whereas the others will hold on to their error and defend him. Even so, every soul you save from My adversary's trap is won for eternity. And the fact that in the kingdom of the beyond only that person is enlightened who knows the truth should impel you into increased vineyard work .... Consequently, anyone who does not let go of his error here, will take it along into eternity and be unable to attain bliss until he abandons his erroneous thinking. And again, it only depends on his degree of love whether realisation will come to him with lightening speed on entering the spiritual realm, so that he will let go of the error .... Therefore never forget to put the commandment of love first .... never forget to encourage people to live a life of love if they care about their souls' salvation .... Then a person will already have quiet doubts about his hitherto advocated truth. And then it will also be easier to bring him the truth, he will accept it without opposition and yet without infringing against his free will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dangers of word dissemination - work of the adversary

Satanic activity in the end time ....

B.D. 6332 from August 13th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is the time of the end .... You humans don't know what this means in spiritual terms, for there is an uproar in the whole universe in the spiritual world which I know about and also let the world of light take note of so that they protect the inhabitants of earth against the onslaught of dark spirits .... The dark forces feel that a new era is beginning for them too, that their unfortunate activity is coming to an end, that they are once again being bound in a fetter from which they cannot free themselves. And that is why they rage to an increased extent, driven by their lord who, in his delusion, believes that he will gain power over all creations and their inhabitants even before .... Whatever intrigues can be devised will be carried out by him and his followers and a confusion will be caused which is unparalleled. And you humans are the target of these dark forces .... you are constantly surrounded by dangers and don't suspect it, yet you would be frightened if you could take a look and see which grimacing figures crowd around you and try to poison you with their slobber (breath). It is the time of the end, which is feared by these creatures as torment, which is why their goings-on become increasingly more annoying and you humans need increased protection in order not to be at their mercy. But they cannot reach My own because they always unite with Me and stand in the ray of My sun of love, which they flee .... Yet they will also leave no stone unturned in order to spread a shadow over My ray of love .... especially when My own are not mindful, when they recklessly place themselves in danger .... when they take pleasure in dazzling lights which are pretended to them by those forces, when they cannot free themselves from worldly desire and thereby offer those forces a handhold to approach them .... The tempter lurks everywhere and is not recognized .... and he works with cunning and trickery. But he can be recognized by My own, for he will always betray himself, even if he hides under a cloak. He will shy away from nothing, he speaks after people's mouths if he expects to be successful as a result .... And this is the great danger which threatens you humans in the end time: that you suspect an angel of light where darkness comes to you in a mask .... But I stand by you who want to know what is right and do what is right .... I will not let you fall prey to him who wants to corrupt you, I let My light shine at the right time. Yet I cannot yet deny him his activity because they are his last attempts which therefore surpass everything in wickedness because he knows that he has not much time left. They are his last efforts to wrest power from Me, for his spiritual blindness becomes ever deeper the more he rages against Me. And you are in the midst of this battle and often do not recognize it. My beings of light, however, protect you on My behalf, you who are and want to remain Mine, and they lead you out of this last battle victoriously.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The adversary tries to prevent the recognition of the Deity ....

B.D. 6495 from March 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

Only for as long as you have not recognised Me correctly will you still resist Me. And My adversary constantly tries to prevent this recognition of Me .... Therefore he will also do whatever he can to keep My revelations away from you; he will not shy away from any means to suppress whatever might make Me and My nature clear to you, whatever would, as enlightenment, inform you of My infinitely profound love for you. I will irrevocably win you over for Myself as soon as you have recognised Me .... And it is precisely this recognition of Myself which countless beings of light would like to convey to you, what every one of My revelations aims to achieve and what My adversary tries to prevent with all his power. And thus it explains the fact that My Word, which is imparted to you from Me directly, is doubted or invalidated as much as possible .... This is so very natural during the end time, for My adversary wants to gain as much as possible for himself, and thus his work starts where he fears losing the souls. Clear realisation about Me and My nature, about My love, omnipotence and wisdom would make him lose his followers very quickly, but precisely this clear realisation is lacking in people. This is why the battle between light and darkness is so fierce during the last days before the end .... And it will be particularly felt by My servants on earth, to whom I can reveal Myself, for that is where he works zealously and often with success. The confusion of thoughts is his plan, lies and deception are his weapon, and what he cannot win openly he will try to gain through cunning .... My Own cannot understand that the light from above does not penetrate the darkness which people are living in .... But the light cannot be transferred to people who don't desire it; and every desire gets stifled My adversary as soon as it arises .... without people defending themselves. This is why their blindness is their own fault, for they don't want to have their eyes opened, to find out about My greater than great love, to attain the right image of Me ....

And yet, My revelations cannot be forcibly conveyed to them, although they could all take possession of them. And since you now know who tries to prevent it, those of you who receive My Word must be particularly on your guard and don't allow yourselves to be disconcerted by his counter activity .... He will do everything in his power to prevent your acceptance as well as the distribution of My Word, because he would like to extinguish the light which exposes him and his activity, and he will use cunning and trickery and only meet with resistance in profound faith and love for Me, which makes his activity ineffective. You are under My protection, consequently, he will be unable to pressurise you directly but he will use those who can be more easily influenced to take action against you or to attempt to undermine everything you endorse as truth to people. Always remember that you are approaching the end, remember that these are the last days for him and that he will use this time with every available power, that he rages because he knows that he does not have much time left .... Therefore, unite with Me ever more firmly and serve Me with dedication and eager love, and you will always be able to triumph over him, with My revelations you will also be able to grant light to all those who resist him; you will kindle in them love for Me and guide them into correct realisation. And they are lost to him, I will have won them over for Me, and My love will never ever surrender them again or let them fall back into the abyss .... they have become and will remain My Own for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Misguided overzealousness ....

B.D. 6783 from March 13th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

The size of field you shall cultivate will always correspond to your will to be active and your suitability .... It may be very large if you wholly support this cause, and it may only be a small area, depending on your will and your eagerness to serve, for I do not exert any pressure or coercion, I give as you desire .... But often My vineyard labourers expect too much of themselves insofar as that they take on tasks beyond their abilities for which I have not appointed them .... that they want to arbitrarily handle areas due to a certain ambition somewhat ambitiously, with the intention of distinguishing themselves. In that case they will cause more damage than blessing, for due to their ambition they leave My sphere and this signifies a welcome opportunity for My adversary to give his instructions, which are also frequently listened to. And this is a danger which threatens every vineyard labourer who does not strictly adhere to My instructions, who is impelled by overzealousness because he has lost his inner humility .... because he wants to achieve much but does not want to help many. It is just a fine difference but all My vineyards labourers should sincerely check what motives impel them to work in My vineyard. They should not fail to approach Me in silent prayer for My instructions and then always carry out what impels them from within. But they should not engage in tasks which I have not allocated to them and which therefore must be more described as worldly work although they apparently pursue spiritual goals .... You humans have no idea what methods My adversary works with and how easily he can draw you into his nets of lies; but you need not fall prey to him as long as you submit yourselves to Me with profound humility and desire only to be guided by Me. But I will not entrust you with work in an area as long as you are not proficient in this area. If, however, you enter it without My instruction then you will be influenced by the opposition, because he knows your weakness of wanting to distinguish yourselves. And then he will serve you according to your wishes ....

People have often taken this path before, they had been willing to serve Me but didn't want to work in a small circle, instead they looked for an area of activity which enabled them to become more publicly known without, however, having received My instructions to do so .... And then they often carried out tasks without realising who had prompted them to do so .... And thus it was possible that initially good servants became unsuitable for the work in My vineyard because too many worldly instincts still laid dormant in them which came to the fore and justified their misguided overzealousness .... On the other hand, however, not everyone wanting to be of service to Me needs to fear this danger if they regard Me Myself as higher, if they also entrust their weaknesses and imperfections to Me and pray to Me for protection from their own failure and always wait for My instructions before they embark on a task. Temptations certainly approach all My servants as well, because each one still has weaknesses and imperfections to show which he knows and tries to take advantage of. But the human being's close bond with Me protects him from falling prey to him .... whereas the bond with the world weakens a person's resistance and puts him subsequently at risk of succumbing to him. Therefore you should always look within, do not pay too much attention to global affairs but more to the spiritual development in the world, in your surroundings and in yourselves .... Then you will also diligently render detailed work, you will work at improving yourselves, you will always helpfully stand by your fellow human beings' side, you will provide them with the spiritual nourishment they are lacking .... And this field of activity will be as large as you are capable of working on. However, you should not venture further afield if you don't want to work for the one who is My and your adversary ....

Amen

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False spirits .... False prophets ....

B.D. 7714 from September 29th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

I have chosen you as My servants because I foresaw that your inner will is good and also strong so that you will assert yourselves where it concerns endorsing the truth. For much is offered to people as truth and yet it did not originate from Me .... And if My servant therefore recognises this he must not remain silent but speak up, he must confront this error with the pure truth .... then he must show that he is My representative on earth and that he is in My service. Thus he must profess My name before the world, he must wholeheartedly support what he has received from Me Myself because I had chosen him to work for Me as an apostle in the last days. And whoever has been placed by Me into this office will also receive the strength from Me to speak in My name .... And he will work like an apostle of truth and expose My adversary, who has also chosen his instruments in order to cause confusion within My ranks. And therefore hear what My spirit proclaims to you: the time until the end is but short yet the day of the end has been predetermined for eternity .... And wherever you humans will be, you shall all be informed of this forthcoming end, because I will still send very obvious signs to follow which can be observed everywhere and which will also occupy people's thoughts. However, precisely these signs will provoke the most conflicting opinions because then My adversary's activity will start to emerge which confuses people's thoughts, for one person will no longer understand the other, everyone will pursue different goals which he will be unable to relinquish, and only a few will be spiritually awake and come to the right conclusions .... And then many false prophets will appear ....

And this is what I want to caution you of, do not believe every spirit which wants to talk to you and especially not those which deny the end, which cannot believe that an end of this earth is reconcilable with My love .... And then be careful and sincerely pray to receive the truth. Do not believe every spirit which tries to express itself through people who willingly accept it, and counter every such teaching with My pure Word which sounds from above because you humans shall live in truth .... For only through truth can you reach the goal. And there are many spirits amongst you which do not speak on My instructions, but you can identify them by the fact that they argue the end, that they object to the revelations proclaiming a near end and that they meet the messengers with hostility. The time is fulfilled, and especially during the last days many false prophets will yet arise and try to invalidate the pure truth from Me. And they will perform extraordinary feats to make you believe in them, but it is not My spirit which speaks through them, it is not My strength which works in them .... they are adverse forces which rage everywhere and, being followers of My adversary, are also endowed with strength because they are enslaved by him and affect people of this earth in his will. And then you, who want to serve Me, shall loyally stand by your Lord, you shall defend the truth, you shall not let yourselves be misled, for you know that you speak in My name, and you will also receive the strength from Me, for then I Myself will speak through you. And thus, where My pure Gospel is proclaimed that is where the end of this earth will also be announced and that people are quickly approaching this end and therefore should prepare themselves for it. And where your speeches meet with resistance that is where you will also clearly recognise My adversary's activity, and you shall separate yourselves from them and not preach together, for they are not My representatives but Satan's emissaries, who is particularly active wherever the light establishes itself .... And he will not succeed in extinguishing the light, for I Myself emanate it down to earth and illuminate the hearts of My Own so that they will clearly realise that they are being addressed by the Father, Who is the light of eternity ....

Amen

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The adversary's onslaughts in the last days ....

B.D. 8365 from December 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

You still will have to prove yourselves many times, for My adversary will attack you wherever possible .... And he will sow strife, he will incite people against each other, he will do everything to make you feel uneasy in order to bring you to fall, and you will always have to appeal for the strength to resist his temptations .... And therefore you should at all times take refuge in Me before he is able to attack you, you should daily and hourly appeal for My protection, so that I can stand by your side and repel him. The battle against him will continue until the end, for he will not hand you over to Me, your God and Father of eternity, without a fight. But I, too, have a claim on you, hence you need only turn to Me and I will always stand by you, because I love you and want to keep your souls' enemy at bay to prevent you from falling during the temptation .... Wherever My adversary recognises spiritual aspiration he works particularly rigorously and seeks to stop it .... Then you will have to prove yourselves and seriously resist him, you must not offer him any targets by allowing yourselves to get carried away by impatience, irritation or unkindness, for then it will become increasingly more difficult to get away from him, although I Am always willing to help. But then your thoughts will not find the way to Me as quickly .... And only your heartfelt bond with Me will protect you from his onslaughts and temptations. And as long as he is still able to unsettle you into becoming impatient and enraged you will also be weak and he will make use of his power ....

This is why you should constantly work on your soul and try to relinquish all faults, and you only ever should appeal to Me for the necessary strength and, truly, just your will alone will give you strength and you will emerge victoriously .... His activity is so obvious in the last days before the end, he tolerates no peace, no harmony, no unity amongst people, he only ever intends to disturb, and it is up to you yourselves whether he will be successful, for just a call upon Jesus, your Saviour and Redeemer, will strengthen you and you will be able to resist .... For Jesus defeated him with His death on the cross, and if you call upon Me in Jesus he has to release you .... However, especially during such temptations you often forget to remember the Saviour and Redeemer, for the adversary's work consists of confusing your thoughts so that you react to his onslaughts and try to humanly assert yourselves where only I Am able to help because you don't have enough strength ....

Hence you shall prove yourselves in every temptation, that is, you shall take the path to Me in Jesus, for then he will have to withdraw, because My strength is truly greater than he is and because I will not leave anyone in distress who takes refuge in Me. Yet by yourselves, of your own strength, you are unable to do anything but with My strength achieve everything, and thus time and again I will give you strength provided you request it from Me, for then your thoughts aim towards Me and I will be able to assert My claim and protect you in every adversity and danger .... Don't forget this, for he will still provoke you many times, he will still often push himself between you and Me, and you will still often be in danger of succumbing to his temptations .... Just one call to Me in spirit and in truth is enough and I will push him away from you, I will not leave you to him but always help you in every spiritual crisis ....

Amen

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Admonition for all vineyard labourers ....

B.D. 7599 from May 14th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

The waves of unrest trying to take hold of you, My servants on earth, will keep rising, and you will go through all kinds of problems and yet, you must remain faithful to Me in all problems of body and soul .... Always remember that you are living at the time of the end .... And this endtime will still bring you a great many surprises of various kinds. But one thing is certain, you should faithfully keep to My revelations, to My Word, which comes to you from above. For even in this respect My adversary will try to cause much confusion by aiming to intersperse the truth with serious errors, and he will be successful because people often lack the spirit of discernment .... because they often lack an awakened spirit. However, they can pray for the gift of discernment, for I will truly not let a person live in error who sincerely desires the truth. And I will certainly convey to you the knowledge you need in order to successfully accomplish your vineyard work for Me and My kingdom .... for this reason it is not necessary for you to adopt unfamiliar spiritual knowledge you have not received from Me. But you should pay attention to what happens around you, to what is going on in this world and to people’s actions, because thereby you will recognise the activity of the one who is raging during the last days because he knows that he does not have much time left. And thus I tell you time and time again that you should leave the control and guidance to Me, because I know where and in which way a person who is willing to work for Me is a faithful labourer .... And I will truly assign his work to him, he will not need to search for the work he should do for Me. However, it is My adversary’s activity to keep confusing people’s thoughts, to rush and irritate them, to deprive them of their inner calm, to turn people against each other and to destroy all good relations .... My adversary also exerts his influence by diverting people’s eyes from purely spiritual processes and directing them towards the machinations of immature spirits which avail themselves of ensnared people in order to cause trouble .... Follow your path steadfastly, be willing to serve Me as faithful servants and always wait for where I will deploy you for your service .... And I will guide you .... but do not act independently, instead, let Me arrange everything, because I know the success or failure, I also know My adversary’s activity and can only ever advise you to turn to Me, to hand yourselves over to Me and not to act overzealously, because all agitation is My adversary’s work, but you can only find inner calm in Me. If you let Me be your guide and constant companion, everything will work itself out in such a way that you need only follow your inner urging and you will be acting in a righteous and good way before Me and thus serve Me in truth as My labourers in My vineyard. But do not allow yourselves to be influenced by strange forces. And you will always have to fear a strange force if you lose your inner calm. Everything requires its time, and even the activity of evil forces is permitted by Me so that the extent of people’s resistance to them can be tested. When the time is right I will confront them with My strength and then you, My servants, will know that you are working and acting for Me. And therefore there is only one thing to do: trustingly hand yourselves over to Me and appeal for My guidance, then you will be called to service which could be a success for Me .... You should not tackle things of your own accord without having received instructions from Me .... but you should at all times be ready to serve Me, then you will be guided such that you can accomplish your vineyard work well, that you can save souls from their final downfall .... that you therefore will be diligent labourers for Me during the last days before the end.

Amen

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Power requirement in the end time

Request from power .... humility - grace ....

B.D. 3616 from November 30th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Don't rely too much on your own strength but humbly pray for strength and grace from God so that you can fulfil your earthly task. Recognize the hardship of the time, recognize the low state of the souls and know that people lack strength and grace from above or they would never reach this deep degree of maturity of their souls. For with God's strength the human being inevitably progresses upwards. But anyone who trusts too much in his own strength does not notice that he is completely powerless to develop spiritually, for he only uses the vitality he constantly has at his disposal for as long as he lives on earth for his earthly life. But he lacks spiritual strength if he does not request it from God, which requires profound humility and realization of his weakness. God comes to the aid of the weak and humble, He strengthens him and lifts him up to Himself. But he who believes himself to be strong does not stretch out his hands in supplication, he does not see the father’s hand stretching out to him, but he goes his way alone, he believes to reach the aim alone and without help. But the aim is not God, the aim is not light, but his path leads into darkness, because the eternal light does not illuminate him, because the light cannot shine where it is not desired. Serious desire, however, is only expressed through humble prayer, and only when man recognizes his inadequacy does he become small and humble .... but if he feels great and strong he exalts himself, he does not recognize himself, he is unaware of his powerless state, which is the result of the former rebellion against God. The state of ignorance, however, is also a spiritual low, which requires great earthly hardship in order to be remedied. For through earthly adversity the human being often learns to recognize his lack of strength, through earthly adversity he becomes small and humble, and then he finds the path to God to Whom he humbly submits himself in prayer for help .... If earthly adversity achieves this, it will have been a blessing, and the human being will thank God in eternity that He so visibly made him aware of his own weakness in order to induce him to pray humbly. For only the grace flowing towards him brings about his ascent development, but this is only accessible to the one who humbly asks for it, thus opens himself up to it through prayer. For without the supply of spiritual strength the human being will never reach ascent, no matter how powerful he may be on earth .... The soul will remain weak and incapable of developing if it does not receive help from above. However, help can only be given to the person asking for help, otherwise he would be forced to develop upwards, which is against God's order and thus could never result in anything perfect. And until people recognize this, until they lie on the ground and stretch out their hands to God, to their father of eternity, the influx of divine strength and grace cannot touch them, and the earthly adversity cannot be alleviated either. People can be powerful if they avail themselves of the strength from God, which is at their unlimited disposal .... yet they prefer to go their own way; they believe to possess strength themselves and to be able to master all obstacles in life. And this is the inheritance of the one who thought he could defeat God, who also thought himself strong enough to deprive God of strength and overthrow Him. And as long as the human being still carries this inheritance within himself, as long as he does not recognize that all strength must first flow to him from the eternal source of strength, he will be weak despite his awareness of strength and will not be able to force anything. And only the state of complete helplessness must bring him to his senses so that he turns to the source of strength, the source of strength from eternity, requesting and expecting help from there. Only then will his path go upwards, only then will he distance himself from the one who believes himself to be powerful and yet is completely subject to the will of the one Who is strength in Himself and distributes it alone according to His discretion ....

Amen

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Only connection to God gives strength in the coming time ....

B.D. 6164 from January 14th 1955, taken from Book No. 66

Ever more closely you will have to cleave to Me, for ever more mightily My might and My will will express itself the closer it is to the end .... The whole world will be thrown into turmoil, albeit everywhere by other events .... and it could be that everything that happens makes people take refuge with Me, they could seek comfort and help from Me and through the bond with Me bear everything more easily or reduce all effects .... Yet not everyone seeks the bond with Me, for there is a lack of faith in the power which alone can help and in the love which wants to help .... But I am the protection and shield in all adversity for anyone who intimately joins Me .... and his fate is in My hand .... Whoever closes himself to Me no longer needs to worry from that moment on, for I will take over all his worries .... And many will be pushed towards Me because they get into severe distress, partly due to human-satanic influence, but partly also due to accidents, due to disasters of all kinds, due to fate-related experiences which cause people to become anxious and find their way to Me .... Yet far more people remain unimpressed by all happenings and hardship which I only allow to come upon them in order to change people's attitude. They are only eager to make up for the damage caused as quickly as possible without observing My commandment of love .... At their fellow human beings' expense they rebuild everything My will took from them, for they don't believe in Me and My might and self-love fills their whole being. They will never want to recognize the hand of a God in every experience, rather, they will deny Me, they will not acknowledge a creative God because the all too visible destruction of creations seems to be proof of this to them. They erect a great gulf .... The distance from them to Me is infinitely far, they are still in My adversary's realm who confuses all their senses and thoughts and does not let them come to recognize the truth. Only those who unite with Me in their heart also recognize My eternal plan of salvation, and everything that comes over people in the last days is understandable to them. They stick to Me and will truly not be abandoned by Me, I will hear every call that comes from an anxious heart and I will distribute strength so that My own will not feel too heavy what has to come upon earth for the sake of their fellow human beings .... And it will become evident in them what a deep faith is capable of and what it achieves .... Again and again they will find a way out, again and again they will have the strength to master everything .... For I will not leave them as soon as they intimately unite with Me .... And they will feel My presence and confess Me before their fellow human beings when this confession is demanded of them ....

Amen

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Power transmission through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7197 from October 30th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You are still wearing the earthly garment, and that also means struggle, darkness and weakness, for only when you have taken off the earthly garment can you speak of freedom .... as soon as you have overcome, i.e. have emerged victorious from the battle. This is why life will remain a battle for you until the end, only you can request more or less strength from Me, which you will also receive for the sake of Jesus Christ. And thus you know that you can procure strength and power yourselves if only you intimately call upon Him, Who died as a human being on the cross for you in order to acquire the grace of strength. In Him I Myself came to earth, and in Him I Myself accomplished the act of salvation .... Hence you ask Me Myself for strength and will therefore never need to fail in the battle against darkness. Therefore you need not be afraid, no matter how great your discouragement may be. If you call upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ, the enemy of your soul will be pushed away from you, for he is the one who wants to instil fear in you, who wants to turn you away from Me in order to keep control over you himself. Therefore you have to fight against him, but this battle can already be victoriously fought by calling upon Me in spirit and in truth .... You only need to think of Me sincerely, you only need to unite with Me sincerely and present your inner hardship to Me, so that you feel weak and appeal to Me for strength .... And all weakness will fall away from you, for you can no longer feel weak in My presence, and you draw My presence precisely through this heartfelt call in spirit and in truth. And even if it is only a thought it will not fail to have an effect, and soon the feeling of weakness will give way to inner calm and security because My presence does not allow anything oppressive, because victory is certain in every battle which is fought together with Me. And as long as you have to fight I want you to call upon Me as a fellow fighter .... but then every fear will be unnecessary, every weakness will be remedied and you will emerge victorious, for I Myself truly fight with you victoriously against the enemy ....

Amen

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Requirement of power in the end time ....

B.D. 8186 from May 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And in these last days you will have to make special use of My gifts of grace, for you are weak and need much strength which, however, I will constantly let flow to you if only you want to accept it, if only you accept it from My hands as an extraordinary gift of My love which wants to help you because you are in great need. I know about every individual person's weakness and his inability to cope with the demands made on him out of his own strength; yet with My strength he will succeed in mastering even the most difficult situation, for if he makes use of My strength then all weakness will have left him, then he will have the strength to overcome everything and emerge victoriously from all adversity. But he will come into adversity where he sometimes needs strength and shall request it, because I will not leave him without help if only he sincerely appeals to Me for the granting of strength .... In the end time it will often be difficult to keep faith in My help and to trustingly come to Me in every adversity, for the end time belongs to My adversary and he truly makes good use of it by letting people get into all kinds of distress where they shall become hopeless because he wants them not to find the path to Me. But if they take the path to Me they will also be assured of all kinds of help, for I will not leave anyone in adversity of body or soul who trustingly turns to Me and appeals to Me for the supply of strength to remedy all hardship with My help .... My adversary wants to prevent this, and therefore he will press you more and more and also let you fall into states of weakness where you believe that you cannot get out of it anymore, and then you will become despondent and discouraged. But you should always be certain that you, as My servants, can turn to your father at any time, Who will always provide you with everything you need for body and soul. For it is precisely as labourers in His vineyard that the adversary wants to make you unfit, because then the redeemer's work will suffer a loss, which he only strives to achieve in order not to lose any of his followers. And always remember this and resist him by taking your path to Me from where help always comes to you. And I will truly reward you for your loyalty and perseverance, and you will visibly experience My help, you will feel that I Myself am present to you and bless you, My servants, every hour you are active for Me. And it shall be a spiritual and earthly blessing for you if only you trustingly submit your needs to Me, for who else could remedy them if not I, your God and father of eternity, Who is unsurpassable in His love, wisdom and might? .... And I will always prove this love, wisdom and power of Mine to you so that your faith will be strengthened and you will no longer fear any oppression from My adversary? .... What seems impossible I want to make possible, and where human strength comes to an end My strength only begins to work. And thus I reward you for your loyalty and devotion to Me if only you always serve Me according to My will, if you don't let your vineyard work be held back by the one who is My adversary and who opposes Me with his resistance and also wants to transfer it to you in order to prevent you from receiving and distributing light to people whom he has plunged into darkness and who need a light from Me in order to find their way back to Me again .... But he shall not succeed in this, for I know that your will is strong and that you want to serve Me with your love, and such labours of love will truly not be unsuccessful and he will lose followers, but I will gain souls and they will be saved from the abyss to which My adversary wants to push people because he has no love in him but only hatred .... But love is stronger than hatred, and love will triumph ....

Amen

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Power from God’s word

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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Strengthening the will .... receiving power through the word ....

B.D. 5128 from May 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

You will always need strengthening so that you can offer resistance to the one who tries to pull you down into the depths .... Your will is weakened and can only be strengthened by Me, and you should consciously request this, then you will also be able to withstand all temptations of body and soul. The adversary works with cunning and force and you are no match for his power as long as you are on your own. Then you will certainly be defeated; yet you can defend yourselves, you can triumph over satan if you obtain strength from above, if you appeal to Me for strength and receive it through My word .... Make an attempt, go into silence in the soul's distress and immerse yourselves in My word with faithful trust in Me, then you will experience My direct working in yourselves .... You will be flooded with strength and lose all fear. Then you will have become master over satan and he will no longer be able to harm you. You often have to strengthen yourselves through My word, for it is the right food and the right drink for the soul which then exerts the right influence on the body, so that the human being feels strengthened mentally and physically, so that all restlessness falls away from him, thus he is spiritually and physically strengthened through My strength.

You, who are in possession of My word from above, have no reason to complain about lack of strength, you are direct recipients of the strength from above, because My word is blessed with My strength and there need not be any lack of strength for you if only you immerse yourselves in My word and thus intimately unite with Me and thus the strength can flow over to you. My word is the spiritual emanation of My eternal love and therefore can only have a life-awakening effect; furthermore, My word is the evidence of My presence, thus this evidence must also make you strong in faith that you can overrule all resistance, that you are able to banish the one who wants to tempt you .... You will always be stronger than your tempter as long as you let My word's strength take effect in you, as long as you immerse yourselves in My word by believing in My presence and thus let Me speak to you directly .... , then all weakness will pass away, then you will be strengthened by the strength from Me which is received by you with the word and lets you become a strong being which is able to offer all resistance and withstand all temptation. For I am with you with My word and every evil power gives way to Me, including the one who is My adversary and thus your enemy and who wants to win you over by exploiting your weakness so that you will fall. But I support you, and if you hold on to Me you will never sink, no matter how shaky the ground you stand on may be ....

Amen

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Power of the divine word .... fight against Christ ....

B.D. 1852 from March 18th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

The power of the divine word will penetrate when the battle against Christ is waged with all means. People are still allowed a certain freedom of thought, but the world will want to subjugate this too by preventing any spiritual direction that affirms Jesus Christ as the saviour of the world, i.e. by deliberately withholding all knowledge about it from people. And this leads to an obvious battle that can only be fought with the sword of the mouth. Anyone who courageously and unhesitatingly pronounces the name of Jesus and stands up for Him, even if he is in danger of losing his life, will be full of the spirit. And then it will be shown that the divine word truly has great power. It will be received with true hunger where it is proclaimed to people .... those who hear it will feel the power in themselves and it will truly do them good, for a person is in want unless God Himself takes care of him and sends him feasting and refreshment. The pure word of God, reproduced by people who have received it directly from Him, will resound so convincingly and effectively to those who carry Jesus Christ in their hearts and yet are not able to separate themselves completely from the world. They will come to clarity of thought when the divine word is preached to them, for God has endowed this word with His strength so that anyone who willingly hears it and accepts it into his heart will be permeated by this strength and will only take sides with this word in the future. And then it will become apparent that nothing of it can be refuted, that everything that will be conveyed to humanity through the bearers of this word can be accepted unconditionally. The followers of Christ cannot emerge victorious from this battle without the word of God, and indeed the spiritual superiority will be there where the pure truth, the light from the heavens, is taught. Nothing will be able to refute the bearers of this divine truth, they will uncover every ambiguity, illuminate every error and denounce every untruth, and even if they are persecuted by the representatives of God's opposing power, they will find each other and work together, and no power on earth will be able to withstand them, for God Himself is with the fighters, and the victory will truly be where the truth .... the gift of God .... is recognized, preserved as the most sacred good and publicly represented before the world ....

Amen

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Compulsory state .... free will decision ....

B.D. 5560 from December 19th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

Through endless times you moved in a bound state, you were deprived of all freedom of will, you were subject to divine law and had to act as God wanted, as it had to happen according to natural law in order to comply with His plan of eternity. You were not free .... because your soul was bound in its individual substances in the works of creation, the whole of creation is, so to speak, the shackle which held your soul captive, the whole of creation is the bound spiritual substance which is still in God-opposing will and therefore cannot expect freedom until it itself weakens in this resistance against God. But one day the time will have come for all bound spiritual beings when they will no longer be in a state of compulsion, when they will be granted a certain degree of freedom, when they will be able to think, want and act as self-conscious individual beings without being prevented from doing so; one day the time will have come when they will have regained free will and can now use this free will without hindrance. But then there is a great danger that free will will be used wrongly .... that resistance against God will rise up in the being again so strongly that it will turn away from God again instead of striving towards Him. The walk in bound will through the whole of creation was a consequence of turning away from God, it was a consequence of the resistance once given to God. But once this course is finished, and then freedom of will is given to the being again, because it is to prove the abandonment of its resistance against God freely out of itself in order to then be able to approach unimagined beatitudes. But if the freedom of will is abused, if a turning away from God is carried out again or the resistance is maintained, then there is only one way out for this being .... to walk through creation again in a state of compulsion, so that the resistance will finally be broken .... Every being has to give up its free decision of will once, namely in the stage as a human being, since it is endowed with intellect and, through God's great love, is also given the knowledge of what the rightly directed will consists of. If it fails during this time of earthly life, God will nevertheless not abandon the spiritual being, yet since He cannot compulsorily direct it according to His will, since He cannot compulsorily guide the being back to perfection because this contradicts His law of eternal order, because something that is divine and should become divine again can never be thought of without free will, again and again He creates new opportunities for it to reach its aim, yet always within the framework of legality .... which also includes a repetitive course through creation which keeps the beingness bound until its resistance decreases, which will certainly be achieved because God's adversary is deprived of that influence on the bound beingness .... He has no power over the spiritual, which is bound in creation, and that is why it also ascends with certainty .... But a free decision of will requires that the opposing power can also influence the being, and that is why in earthly life the human being is exposed to afflictions from his side; but at the same time great means of grace are at his disposal so that he can truly make a right decision. Hence every person bears full responsibility for his will, for God does everything in His love to make the decision easy for him. He will also be given knowledge about his earthly task, certainly in different ways but always in such a way that he can take a stand on it himself ....

(19.12.1952) He can think about it, but he can also refrain from it, but then he cannot excuse himself with not having known anything about his earthly task, for only the slightest desire for it will be granted to him. The human being will never be deprived of something which can contribute to a favourable decision of will, but neither will he ever be coerced. After the infinitely long course before in the state of compulsion the time of earthly life can be called exceedingly short, and yet it is enough for the human being to be able to decide in the right direction, to return to God, Whom he now recognizes as his father of eternity, or to sink back and turn to God's adversary again of his own free will .... And for the latter it is still a mercy if he is called away prematurely so that God's adversary does not completely take control of him. Then the soul can still come to realization in the beyond and free itself from the shackles of this power through God's great love and mercy. But anyone who still does not accept the redeeming help and sinks ever deeper will have his will bound again and will have to take the renewed path through creation, and this will continue until the soul finally takes the right path, until it once decides in free will as a human being for the father of eternity from Whom it once took its origin ....

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

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Power of the divine spirit

Power of the spirit shortly before the end ....

B.D. 5281 from December 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The power of the spirit will burst forth with all-conquering might. Then My own will bear witness to Me and My glory, but also to people's sin and darkness, who would certainly like to conceal it but who will see it ruthlessly exposed by the spirit from My own. My spirit will become effective to such an extent that even the opponents will take notice of the unusual activity by the servants of light. But this will only cause an increased will to defend themselves, for satan impels them to work against My own. The light and the darkness are obviously fighting each other, and this is the sign of the end, that the battle will no longer be waged in secret but in public and that it is considered good and right that the faith in Me is declared a battle. Then My adversary believes he has won his game .... Then the battle will flare up so fiercely that the world of light will also intervene and an incessant influx of strength from the spiritual kingdom will be recognizable, for My own will no longer be timid or afraid of the threats and decrees on the part of earthly power, they will be so filled with the strength of My spirit that they will testify vividly with a power of persuasion which will fill all people with astonishment and also still change a few in the last hour. For I am no longer a distant God to My own, I have truly become a father to My own, to Whom they trustingly cast their hearts, Whom they childishly call upon for help and Whom they confess before the world in every hour with unshakeable faith and courage. My spirit will work so obviously and the strength of My spirit will flood My own that they will remain steadfast and lose all fear and timidity in the joyful certainty of My coming. And I will come to them, visibly or tangibly, and strengthen, comfort and encourage them, I will be with them and give ever new signs of My presence, because the final battle of faith requires great strength from My own and this strength can only be exceptionally supplied to them through Me Myself. Then signs and miracles will happen as proclaimed, yet the strength of My spirit will bring them about, for in the last days these miracles will no longer signify compulsory faith, only strengthening for My own and judgment for My adversaries who will not be changed in their thinking and striving even by such evidence of My divine influence, who fully consciously hand themselves over to satan for the sake of earthly possessions, who take action against My own in order to serve him .... And they will receive their reward .... they will have to share the fate of the one who is My adversary, who will be bound on the day of judgment when I fetch My own to Me into My kingdom ....

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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Retreat into silence .... time of need ....

B.D. 5629 from March 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Often dwell on spiritual thoughts, withdraw into silence, commune with your father of eternity and thus establish the connection with the spiritual world so that its radiations can touch you, so that you are open-hearted .... and there is no resistance in you against the flow of grace from above. God's strength of love cannot take effect on you as long as you close yourselves off, thus your will must be ready to receive the strength from God. You have to practice this conscious opening very often and you will happily perceive a spiritual strengthening, you will no longer have the feeling of being alone, then you will establish a relationship with the spiritual world which will give you a certain security compared to the earthly world. Don't let the earthly world gain control over you, but always put the spiritual world before it .... i.e., let God Himself always be present to you through conscious desire for Him .... Only in this way can you mature your soul, for then you will do everything consciously, you will seek to live according to the divine will in everything .... You have directed all your senses spiritually .... In the coming time you will need this attitude very much, for the world will give you a hard time, you will need a lot of strength and will only ever be able to receive it through living contact with God, with the world, which supports you in your striving upwards. And it will become increasingly more difficult for you to only direct your senses spiritually .... Therefore practice diligently beforehand, don't live a purely worldly life for a single day, again and again withdraw into silence, use every opportunity to send your thoughts upwards, and even if you only let a short call arise from your heart .... it will be heard, and the beings of light will not leave you alone if you request support from them .... Strive to secure God's presence for yourselves .... remain in love .... and trust in Him that He will straighten what is crooked, that He will heal those who are sick, and believe that He is stronger than everything you fear, that which threatens you .... Trust in Him and give yourselves to Him as your own .... And He will truly not leave you .... Begin and end each day with Him, and He will be your constant companion, He will lead you out of all trouble ....

Amen

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Power of faith in the end time

Strong faith .... tool of God ....

B.D. 3444 from February 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 44

You will still often find yourselves in adversity but you need never despair, for if you don't abandon Me I will never abandon you either. There is still no standstill but a constant decline, for people do not find their way to Me except for a few who recognize Me and are united with Me. And to these I call: Bear the adversity of the time for the sake of others who do not yet know that their souls are in danger. Because of them the adversity which also affects you and makes you despondent cannot yet be ended. But you always have a helper by your side and every disaster will pass you by if you believe and take refuge in Me in your adversity. And I will guide you through all dangers, but you must stand firm and remain strong in faith, for you shall be an example to others, a support on which they can lift themselves up when they are pressed to the ground by suffering. Stay strong and be My helpers on earth, for I need you to prove the strength of faith to your fellow human beings, to point them to Me, to teach them to raise their hands to Me in supplication and to approach Me for help. You should instruct them in My stead, because I cannot speak to them Myself in order not to force them into faith .... You shall speak for Me, and you can only do so if you are profoundly devout yourselves and don't let anything make you waver in your faith. You will always have the opportunity to work for Me, you will always encounter needy, desperate people whom you can help onto the right path .... and whom you should draw to Me and My working, to My love which, for the sake of erring souls, lets great adversity come upon people .... They shall become believers through you, they shall recognize by your calmness and inner peace what strength lies in the right faith, and they shall seek to gain this faith .... But you must first be strong in faith yourselves or you will not be able to stand up for it with conviction. And therefore persevere in prayer for the strength of faith, take refuge in Me in every adversity of body and soul and recognize My help if I avert the adversity from you .... I want to make strong instruments out of you for the coming time, and thus I must place you in situations where you are to prove your faith in Me .... where you intimately pray to Me and visibly find an answer .... For I need you, I need people on earth who are so deeply permeated by their faith in Me that they no longer shy away from any danger, that they feel Me as present everywhere and cannot be shaken by anything. For they shall fight for Me in the coming time, and this requires courage and strength which they can only gain through profound faith. You humans don't know what you are capable of through profound faith .... how mighty and powerful you can be if this faith is inherent in you .... And therefore no earthly adversity shall frighten you, for your faith can banish it at any time .... Ask Me and wait for My help in the firm confidence that I will help you, and let go of all worries, for I will take care of you if you entrust yourselves to Me with complete faith. For if you carry Me in your heart through your will, which is for Me, you are My children, and I will not abandon them forever .... and I will protect them in every adversity of body and soul ....

Amen

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Strength of faith needed in the final battle ....

B.D. 6265 from May 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will often still experience My visible help so that your faith will become strong and be able to withstand all oppositions which will come your way in the last days before the end .... You will often be so pressed that without firm faith you would surrender without resistance. Yet your faith in My help will let you courageously face everything .... you will not fear or doubt, for you know My eternal plan of salvation and therefore also know that everything has to happen as I have planned it and that nothing happens without My will or My permission .... You therefore also know that you are under My protection, that nothing can happen to you as long as you trust Me .... and you trust Me because you firmly and unshakably believe .... Therefore your faith shall still be strengthened, which will also happen through frequent visible help on My part .... For you, who are devoted to Me, you belong to the army of My fighters which I am training for the last battle on this earth .... And My fighters will fight courageously for Me and My kingdom. They will draw strength from Me, they will faithfully speak My name and be immune to all attacks on the part of My adversary. And because I need you I will also allow you to suffer, and you should always remember this when the world rises up against you. For it will do so because your light shines too brightly, because it reveals what My adversary prefers to keep hidden .... because he fears being exposed and therefore incites his followers to take action against you with all severity .... He tries everything to elevate himself to the throne and therefore does not shy away from declaring war on Me Himself .... thus to eradicate all faith in Me and My act of salvation. Yet he will not succeed because I have an army in you which resists, which cannot be defeated and which, through faith, has courage and strength against which the enemy fights in vain. Therefore you will never ask for My help in vain, I will always be ready to help you in every adversity .... therefore only ever turn to Me trustingly, whatever it may be .... I will help you to strengthen your faith so that it can no longer be shaken by anything .... The world will attack you shamelessly, for it does not shy away from false suspicions, and My adversary's activities will be revealed .... Yet all this is only to prove to you the truth of My word, all this is to prove to you how near the end is, because everything will happen as I have foretold it to you, that the gates of hell will open and all who are of good will and belong to Me will be harassed by diabolical forces .... but I stand beside you protecting you and the shield of faith covers you against all enemy attacks .... until the day will come when I will come forth with My power and glory .... when I will save you and put in chains the one who is My adversary and who wants to overthrow Me and whom I will defeat and bind for a long time ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

Amen

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Strength of faith .... Nourishing the believers ....

B.D. 8848 from August 30th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

Believe Me that you will still have to suffer hard times which will discourage you if you don’t have an unwavering faith, a faith of such intensity that you can contact Me at any time and take complete strength from this relationship, that you can endure whatever happens to you in the knowledge that I know of it and will not give you more than you can bear. Because then it is essential that you prove yourselves by requesting strength from Me in order to resist those who will take action against you with the intention of stopping you and your work for Me .... But then you will also triumphantly succeed, since they too are open to instructions, you can inform them about the purpose and goal of earthly life. You will be able to make them understand the meaning of their existence on this earth and a few will listen to you, thus you will have gained those already, because I Myself will support you. During this time many things will still happen that will make them think, and world events will not pass them by without leaving an impression either ....

But the achievement of your strong faith will not go unnoticed by those who will treat you with hostility, and anyone who is not yet completely committed to Satan will be impressed by the strength of faith. The effect of a strong faith will be clearly evident to them when they confiscate every necessity of life from you and then have to witness that you live in spite of it, that you don’t suffer poverty and that even the laws of nature can’t harm you, that you are not nourished by people yet nevertheless live, that you receive the strength from above, which you need only request in your prayer .... And this strength of faith has to be requested by you now, because if this faith is not strong enough you will hardly use the opportunity to pray sincerely and with complete trust at the time of hardship. Thus make use of this time and constantly pray for the strengthening of your faith, for assistance during the time when you will be scared and can hardly think of yourselves .... Then it will suffice to send a brief thought to Me, a call from the heart, and I Myself will be with you and protect My own during all hardship and danger .... Because this is what I promised you and now promise you again, that you who labour and are heavily burdened should come unto Me ....

And you will have to suffer a lot of hardship but it should not alarm you, because your helper is ready at all times to protect you, and people will not be able to harm you as long as you are in close contact with Me. And it is certain that you will remain close to Me because everything will take on such dimensions that only One can help you .... And you will take the path to the One because you are already in such close contact with Me that you cannot forget Me anymore .... And for the sake of My Own I will shorten the time since, beyond doubt, the world will be full of devils and every one of them will try to kill you .... But in the same way My angels will surround you and protect you from them .... Because My might will finally triumph over My adversary and his followers, and your time of suffering will be over, you will be allowed to experience the new earth, and all hardship will have come to an end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God needs powerful fighters

Messengers of God .... powerful fighters ....

B.D. 2407 from July 13th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Every one of God's messengers, i.e. every person who offers himself to work for Him and is now entrusted with a task by God, must first of all make himself worthy of the supply of grace which this task requires through loving activity. Thus the will to serve God must also be put into practice insofar as the person himself lives his life in a way that is pleasing to God. He must then live in love, and he thereby draws closer to God, which he now tangibly feels as increased strength to work for Him. In order to fulfil his task of spreading the word of God among people, he must be undaunted and courageous in the face of his enemies. He must fearlessly represent the divine mission, i.e. he must not feel hindered by human regulations, but must first fulfil God's demand as soon as these run counter to human regulations. The strength to do so then comes directly to him. For the battle of faith requires counteraction, a commitment to faith and standing firm in the face of the demands of those who want to eliminate faith from the world, which will never be possible without the power of God. But those whom God chooses as His fighters will never lack strength. They will not fear the world and will therefore fulfil the divine requirements .... They will speak where necessary and try to make their error clear to people, they will stand up for the faith with conviction and also want to pass it on to their fellow human beings because they constantly want to give, because they recognize the spiritual need of those who live without faith and want to bring salvation to them. They do not fear worldly measures because they recognize another more powerful lord above them to Whom everything is subject .... because they strive to fulfil His mission and are therefore also certain of His protection because they feel safe in His protection .... They serve God and not the world, and thus God will also give them what they need and what the world cannot give them .... the power of the spirit .... He sends them His word, which outweighs all earthly treasures .... His word, which is His direct emanation and therefore imperishable .... And from this word the messenger of God can now constantly draw strength, he will never need to despair if he receives the strength from God directly, if the divine word imparts it to him and shapes him into a powerful fighter for God. God needs such fighters so that He can speak to people through them .... He needs people through whom He Himself can work, who therefore only fear God and not people, who are powerless in the face of God ....

amen

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Warriors of God ....

B.D. 3383 from December 29th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

Powerfully and courageously you shall represent My word before the world, you shall fear no-one and not allow any weakness to arise in you, for I am always with you and no harm can come to you if I don't allow it to happen .... And I need you, therefore I will not allow people to approach you and seriously endanger your life. For I need labourers who will be active for Me in the coming time. It is the last opportunity to promote My kingdom, it is the last opportunity for the erring souls to find their way to Me with your help, and therefore I will not let those be harassed and endangered who want to come to the aid of their fellow human beings, who proclaim My word amongst them, who stand up for My name and through whom I Myself can speak to people. I need you, you My servants on earth, and therefore I am also constantly with you for your protection. You don't take a single step alone, I accompany you on all paths, I direct your steps to those who need your help, I take part in your destiny which I shape Myself and which therefore approaches you according to your destiny. And I bless your work which is meant for your fellow human beings' salvation .... Thus you can pursue your spiritual and earthly work without worry, you need not fear any attack which could render you incapable of it, and you will always have unusual strength at your disposal if only you want to receive it .... And it will not be long before your mission begins, that you will have to openly advertise My kingdom .... Your work is still possible in secret and in smaller circles, yet the adversity of the time requires an open commitment to faith, to My word .... to My teaching of love, which would be in danger of being eliminated if people's will were able to carry it out. And then your will has to be strong and daring, then you have to speak fearlessly as your heart dictates, for then I am the one Who speaks through you, and then I want to use you as My instruments and also protect you until your mission is completed. Then My will will be active in you because your will is subject to Me. And do you believe that I let My fighters be defeated by the enemy? Do you believe that I leave only one of you to My enemy? Whoever fights by My side will be covered by My shield and no weapon will be able to injure him, he will neither be overcome by strength nor by deceit, he will receive My strength and advance step by step, for I fight beside him and overcome the enemy. And for this coming battle I will form My fighters beforehand ....

Only weapons of love will be used in My ranks, victories will be won with the sword of the mouth, My shield of faith will catch all arrows which shall injure My fighters, and none of them will fall as long as he fights in My ranks, for I have power over all, and even My adversary's army must obey Me if I insist. But I leave everyone his freedom, yet anyone who fights with Me no longer has to fear an opponent because My power will destroy those who oppose Me. And I will not let My own fall into his hands, even if the enemy is outnumbered. For great strength emanates from Me and those who dwell near Me will be filled with this strength, and now they will use their weapons, they will speak and thus fight with the sword of their mouth, and I will put every word into their mouths so that it will not remain without impression .... I will instruct everyone what to say so that the adversary's will will be broken and that those who are imbued with the strength of My word spoken through you will also defect to Me from his camp and step under My banners again to fight against evil. And I will be with you visibly and invisibly and always strengthen you if you go against the enemy and fight for Me ....

Amen

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Joint action at the time of the battle of faith ....

B.D. 7806 from January 24th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

And a spiritual community will form which is active in My will when the time of the battle of faith has come .... People will come together who are of the same spirit, whose will is turned towards Me and who will also confess Me before the world. For these receive strength from Me and cannot help but proclaim My name because they are fully permeated by My spirit, because their faith is a living one, full of power and full of strength. Therefore this time of the battle of faith need not give you, who want to be Mine, cause for fear and worry, for you will be stronger than them, you will not fear them but your courage of confession will increase because the more eagerly you stand up for Me and My kingdom the more strength will come to you. And you will recognize each other, for love will bring you together, I Myself will direct your paths and guide you so that you will find the way to each other, and you will transfer the strength within you to the other, a holy fire will glow through you, for you know what is at stake, you also know that the end is near and that My coming is also to be expected soon. And this will strengthen your courage so that you will joyfully confess that you belong to Me, that you would also be willing to lay down your life if I demanded it of you. But I want to grant you My protection because I need you, because many weak souls shall still be lifted up by you, because you shall proclaim Me as your divine redeemer, Whom all people need if they want to become blessed. For My adversary wants to eradicate this faith from people, that is his last aim on this earth which he strives for and tries to achieve by brutal means. And therefore you should stand up for Jesus Christ, you should loudly confess His name before the world .... And you will also be able to do so, for anyone of living faith is also strong and fearless in the face of the world, anyone of living faith also has knowledge and can therefore also make the right decision, for he knows what hour has come .... He knows that the time will come when My adversary will be bound again because he openly opposes the faith in God in Jesus Christ and thereby exceeds his authority. And therefore you humans should strive to attain a living faith, you should live a life of love which alone gives birth to living faith, and you should awaken the spiritual spark in you to life through love, which will then also give you a bright light so that you will recognize and living faith will then also be the result of recognition .... Prepare yourselves for this time, for it requires great strength from you. And therefore also request this strength beforehand, for I will bless everyone who only has the will to belong to Me and to remain Mine forever .... He will truly then also receive the strength from Me to endure until the end, and he will joyfully confess My name before the world .... And he will belong to those who experience the end and whom I will rapture so that he may experience the joys of paradise on the new earth, for then all struggle will come to an end, there will be peace on earth and harmony and bliss ...._>Amen

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Fearless and convinced proclamation of the divine word

Fearless proclamation of the divine word .... extraordinary power ....

B.D. 2048 from August 29th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

It is God's will that no other power should be feared when it comes to proclaiming His word to people. Times will come when this will be strictly forbidden; times will come when the gospel will only be passed on in silence and secrecy because people fear earthly power and are therefore timid and fearful. People should also work in silence. But if they offer themselves to God for service, then they should also recognize God as the only lord and serve Him in such a way that they speak loudly and fearlessly and proclaim His word. Only then will they be the true champions of Christ and win souls for Him from the adversary. The commandment to love one's neighbour is the greatest, and fighting for the souls of fellow human beings is true love for them. This will be a time of struggle that calls for courageous fighters who are devoted to God, for the world will proceed mercilessly and spare no means of violence in order to bend the will of those who follow Christ and confess Him before the world. But God's grace will be effective to the same extent, supernatural strength will flow through those in conflict, they will patiently accept what is imposed on them, and the more intimately they unite with God, the less they will feel the earthly hardship or scourging of the body. For in this time everyone who gives himself to God will be blessed and he will be able to accomplish things that are beyond earthly possibility. And trust in God's help will banish all fear and worry, and the person will be able to speak and answer without considering his words. For it is not he who now speaks .... God uses the servants who are devoted to Him and works through them .... He drives the will of those to act and speak as it is His will. Whatever may come, God stands by you who are to proclaim His word. He gives you His strength, He makes you knowledgeable, He guides your every step, and whether apparent earthly violence threatens to destroy you .... nothing can happen to you against God's will. He has given you a great task, and as long as you endeavour to fulfil your task, you are working in His pay. And He is the lord of heaven and earth, He is the most powerful one to Whom everything is subject, He can destroy in an instant what opposes Him, and if He does not do so then love for all His living creations determines Him to do so, for He does not destroy what is of Him but He tries to win it back forever. And for this He needs people who fearlessly stand up to those who are devoted to the hostile power. The word of God should be proclaimed loudly, it should not be suppressed or only offered in small circles, but the world should hear it and recognize what strong faith can do. It should recognize that there is a power that is stronger than earthly power and that man is inviolable if he entrusts himself to this power. For the world will experience things which may well be enough to persuade people to believe as long as their will is good and they strive for the truth ....

Amen

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father's words .... Fearless Fighters ....

B.D. 2213 from January 16th 1942, taken from Book No. 31

He Who is love in Himself gives you the following proclamation: To be active in My kingdom is a task which requires courage and determination, for working for Me will result in the world's hostility. Whoever now has the will to fulfil this task in order to help humanity will truly not need to fear that he will ever lack strength. And I will strengthen him and let him find spiritual superiority if he is exposed to such hostilities. And then he will act courageously and powerfully, he will not timidly consider the consequences of his resistance but he will know that he fulfils My will, and this certainty will make him calm and confident of victory. Every thought that touches Me unites him with Me, and where I Am present there is truly no defeat to be feared. I only want that My presence is remembered with faith, that man takes refuge in Me when danger threatens him. For every thought calls Me and I Am immediately ready to help My child because it remembers Me. And I will truly not leave anyone in need and distress who wants to serve Me and needs My strength and support .... And if the call now goes out to you to make mention of My working then no counter-speech shall hold you back, then confess freely and openly that you are active for Me and do not be afraid .... but believe that I am close to you and put every word into your mouth and that you therefore cannot speak falsely but express what I want to say to people through you. I have to make use of a willing person who completely submits to My will; I cannot speak to them directly because people have become too unbelieving and do not make contact with Me. I also have to consider the inhabitants of earth in an earthly way, that is, I cannot approach them spiritually and thus cannot offer them anything spiritual either .... But if a person is willing to listen to Me then I can impart My strength to him so that he will then carry out what I instruct him to do .... that he will speak what I want to speak to people .... that he will act as I would act if I Myself were in their midst. Whoever is therefore willing to work for Me, I will give him My strength in abundance and he will freely and without hesitation proclaim that he is in My pay. For I need courageous fighters who are so fearless that the world will take notice .... I need fighters who unite and are not frightened by the actions of worldly rulers. I will send an army of My angels to meet them if the battle threatens to become tough, and one of My fighters will never be defencelessly at the mercy of the adversary. After all, I Myself am with him and My strength is truly invincible and My love for those who stand up for Me and fight for My name is immense. And whatever may come, I know everything and everything has to happen as I deem it to be good and beneficial for the souls .... I still try to save many souls and for this I make use of those who offer their services to Me of their own free will, for I can only use them as My instruments. And I reward their devotion with My love .... I let My strength overflow into them and take away all anxiety .... I give them a courageous heart .... I place in this heart the confidence that I am always near, and fearlessly they will now speak and confess Me before all the world ....

Amen

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Convincingly spreading the truth .... right doctrine ....

B.D. 7275 from February 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

You, who have come into possession of the truth yourselves, shall stand up for the truth .... And the fact that you live in truth is guaranteed to you by your receipt of My word, which originates from Me Myself as the eternal truth. Hence you can be certain that you are offered truth, and therefore you can also pass this truth on from Me with the same certainty, you can impart it to your fellow human beings without hesitation and also advocate with all conviction that you only spread purest truth. You will not lack this inner conviction as soon as you take your work for Me and My kingdom seriously, for at the same time as My word you also receive the power of judgment, at the same time as the truth you also receive the gift of recognizing the truth, and therefore you can also vividly represent this word of Mine because you know that you are instructed by Me Myself, Who alone can offer you the truth. But it is also necessary that the truth is spread because it alone gives light and because the earth is in deepest darkness, i.e. people have taken possession of error and lies and cannot release themselves from this darkness unless the path is illuminated for them .... which is only ever possible through the light of truth. In the last days the spiritual darkness will become ever more dense, people will be blind in spirit, they will not recognize anything and not know about the correlations, they will also not know about the one Who can guide them to the light, Who wants to lead them to the eternal light, to the brightest realization of truth from Me. And therefore My word shall be brought to them through you who receive it directly from Me .... Again and again you should open yourselves to receive My word, you should pass it on in such a way that it will not be changed and thus the pure truth will be distorted again, as very often happens on the part of people. You should teach and let yourselves be taught, for only he who has a right teaching material himself will pass it on and bring blessings. And therefore you should not work with knowledge which you have received elsewhere but only pay attention to My instructions and proclaim My words to fellow human beings who desire them. You cannot open yourselves up to Me often enough so that I can let My spirit flow into you .... My gift of grace, My word, cannot be offered to you often enough, for the light in you shall increase, it shall shine ever brighter, and this is only possible if your heart lets light shine into it again and again, if the flame flares up ever brighter and finally can completely illuminate the heart .... But then it will also be easy to spread and advocate the truth, then the human being will speak with utmost conviction what was conveyed to him by Me Myself. And as a living representative of My word he will also be successful with his fellow human beings, for they will be able to hear Me Myself, albeit through the mouth of My servant who speaks to them. Only the light of truth can make people happy, whereas every knowledge which lacks pure truth remains misunderstood and will not bring light. But humanity languishes in darkness, the soul cannot mature without truth, it cannot find the right path if everything around it is darkened, and it cannot recognize the cross of Christ either, which is only recognizable to the one who walks in truth, whereas it remains an empty sign without meaning and purpose to the others because they do not recognize the meaning and purpose of the cross. The truth must first provide enlightenment, the truth must first illuminate the incomprehensible sacrifice which the divine redeemer made for humanity. And for this reason alone the truth must be spread, because the cross of Christ cannot be ignored by the one who wants to become blessed. But a person will not go to the cross of Christ who does not know its deepest meaning and who has never been given proper light about the man Jesus, in Whom I Myself offered the sacrifice on the cross for all people. I Myself make such obvious contact with you humans that I speak to you in order to enable you to receive truth and clarity about that sacrifice on the cross, in order to illuminate the path for you on which you can ascend to the height, to beatitude, if you walk this path in accordance with My word, which leads out of the darkness of night into the light of day but which is only taken if the human being accepts the truth which is offered to him by Me in an unusual way. And you, My disciples of the end time, should zealously advocate this truth and know that you are thereby fulfilling a task which is equal to the task of My first disciples whom I 'sent out into all the world' ..... Guide all people back to the pure truth and know that it alone is the light which leads out of darkness and makes them eternally blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Convinced confess in the struggle of faith ....

B.D. 5527 from November 7th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

If you want to be true confessors of My name you must also have deeply penetrated My teaching of love; you must know that love is the first and most important thing, that love wants to be practiced in order to then also gain the strength to stand up for Me and My teaching. For only love recognizes Me, only through love does the human being gain the conviction that I am God and redeemer, only through love does faith come alive, and this living faith will then stand up for Me without fear. The confession of My name will be the crowning of the battle of faith before the end of this earth, and this confession is also your victory .... But who can confess Me with conviction before the world? Not only will your confession with your mouth be demanded but this confession will cause you great earthly adversity and tribulation, you will have to sacrifice much if you want to remain faithful to Me, for conditions will be imposed on you, sacrifices will be demanded of you which only someone who has accepted Me into his heart, who is so intimately united with Me through love that he feels My presence and this presence also gives him the strength and certainty to represent Me before the world even at the loss of everything he earthly possesses. This is a great test of faith which only few will pass, for the adversity in the last days is great and only those who are firm in faith and serve with love will not pay attention to it but firmly trust in the lord's help. But then I will also obviously dwell amongst people who want to prove loyalty to Me and yet are weak in view of the inhuman action against the rightful confessors of My name. And then the weak one will also be permeated by My strength, for I recognize his will and therefore help him in every spiritual and earthly adversity. I will always and constantly be amongst My own if they mention My name in faith, but I will also be visible to their earthly eyes where faith and adversity dictate it, for I want to help My own and will not let them fall into the hands of their enemies without protection. Many who still believe to be good christians and representatives of My teaching will lose the courage to confess, for they are threatened by the measures of earthly power and are not firm enough to resist because they are not strengthened by love, because they only intellectually observe the course of events but are not inwardly united with Me. And in this adversity, which becomes ever greater, I descend to earth with great splendour and glory .... to help My own now, to snatch them away from their oppressors and reward them for their faithfulness by leading them to a place of peace and bliss .... If the battle of faith will flare up so fiercely that people will be forced to take a stand, My coming is to be expected every day. For I have given you the promise that I will shorten the days for the sake of the elect, to shorten their suffering and to give them the reward for the faithfulness they have shown to Me and My word .... I come to redeem you from all evil ....

Amen

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Courageous and open confession of Jesus Christ

Law and justice .... courageous advocacy and commitment ....

B.D. 2392 from July 2nd 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Absolute determination is required of those who stand up for law and justice. They should openly confess their innermost feelings and not be afraid of the judgement of the world; they should abandon all timidity when it comes to awakening a sense of justice in their fellow human beings. Mankind is afraid to speak the truth openly and usually agrees with the judgement of those who are powerful and respected. It distances itself from its own judgement as soon as it deviates from that of the former. And this is an admission of weakness, a lack of self-confidence and a sign of discouragement. But God needs fighters who face their opponent without hesitation to fight .... who think justly themselves and therefore also presuppose a sense of justice in their fellow human beings so that they can speak freely and openly .... For only through such can He Himself speak to people, otherwise man would have to speak against his feelings if he were to agree with the opinions of others who deviate from righteous thinking. God also demands full commitment to His teaching from man, and this teaching places love as the first commandment as the condition for a right way of life. But where this commandment is disregarded, justice and righteousness cannot be practiced, because this is also based on the love of one's fellow human beings. He who lacks love seeks only his own advantage and excludes righteous behaviour and thinking. And his behaviour must be denounced in order to educate him to be just. Consequently, his faults and weaknesses must be fearlessly held up to him so that he may learn to recognize himself and make an effort to live a righteous life. But if his injustice is tolerated without objection or even approved of, he will be strengthened in his wrong view and can never come to the right realization. If, however, a person wants to serve God, he places every word, every action and every thought at His disposal and asks for God's guidance and strength, and then he will be able to speak uninhibitedly and fearlessly stand up for what he recognizes in his heart as truth, as righteous before God .... he will try to influence his fellow human being to agree with his opinion, he will educate him to clear judgement and instil in him a sense of right and justice so that he, too, can stand up for it wherever it is appropriate ....

amen

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Last decision .... confess before the world ....

B.D. 3551 from September 17th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

And thus your will will have to decide before the end, and you will only be left with the choice between Me and My adversary, for now I demand a clear decision and will not be satisfied with the appearance of faith but the human being must openly profess Me, and only the profound believer will be able to do this who, fully convinced of My support, does not fear the world and courageously stands up for Me. But the lukewarm and sham believers will fall away and turn to My adversary's camp, and more and more of My own will separate themselves from the great crowd of satan's followers. For since there is not much time left the separation has to take place and this will mean a time of most bitter adversity for the believers who, however, are in knowledge and therefore also expect the end and My coming with great anticipation, who therefore persevere until the end and become blessed. Every person is still free to contact Me, to examine what spiritual knowledge is offered to them and to approach the truth with good will. But the time will not be used until people are forced to make a decision and throw away all faith without hesitation because they have never seriously taken a stand on it inwardly and therefore declare the spiritual as worthless and turn more than ever to the world which promises them everything if they profess the world and drop their faith. And they only think of their bodily life but not of the life of the soul, and thus they sell themselves to the opposing power which only strives for this aim of separating people from Me. And thus it will become increasingly more obvious how few people carry Me in their hearts, and the end is already evident from this alone, for the earth cannot continue to exist where My supply of strength is no longer received, for the human being's will prevents this as soon as he no longer believes in Me. Hence the earth will also cease to be what it has been until now .... it will be temporarily relieved of its purpose by My will, it will be changed in its external form in order to serve the development of the spiritual again in a new form, as soon as the separation of spirits has finally taken place. And you, My believers, should take note of the fact that I proclaim everything to you beforehand so that you will not waver in faith .... that you should not fear adversity because you are under My protection and have to endure everything for My sake, for I will reward you a thousand fold if you persevere and remain faithful to Me. No matter what the world wants to offer you, everything is transient and your life will only last a short time; but what I offer you is permanent and will make you happy for all eternity. And if you are now forced to make an open decision, then don't become fearful and of little faith, for I have foretold all this to you in order to make you strong in faith and to prove the truth of My word to you, so that you draw strength from it in the last days. And I always promise you My protection and My help, thus you can confidently hand yourselves over to My guidance and with convinced faith hope for My coming, which will deliver you from greatest adversity .... For I will not forsake My own forever ....

Amen

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Open confession of the divine name ....

B.D. 6056 from September 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

My name must be openly known before the world .... Only then will you prove that you are My disciples, that you belong to My own who also remain faithful to Me until the end .... You will learn to understand why I have demanded this of you when you recognize the distance of all people from Me, when you can observe people's anxiousness to outwardly conceal their attitude, to want to deceive their fellow human beings about their right relationship to God as the redeemer of the world .... My name will seldom be mentioned among them, they will avoid every conversation which has Me as its content .... and they will want to lie to themselves that their inner attitude is enough, that I am satisfied when people acknowledge Me inwardly .... And I know about this weakness and lukewarmness of people and therefore demand an open confession for Me .... I demand a clear decision for Me and My name which is obvious to all fellow human beings, otherwise My adversary will have the vote .... I also know that it will not be easy for My believers, that it requires courage to confess Me aloud, and yet the human being can only achieve victory when he musters this courage, when he is not afraid of those who can indeed kill the body but not the soul .... Only then will he also feel the strength which lies in speaking and confessing My name, and only then will he belong to My own against whom My adversary is now completely powerless. For he fears My name and therefore wants to silence it in the world. And that is why he works people against Me, that is why he incites them against My followers, that is why he proceeds openly and covertly against all who want to remain faithful to Me. For this reason the confession of My name in the last days will require great faith and trust in Me, but it will also be possible, for I will provide My own with the strength that they will confess Me unashamedly to all people, that they will testify to Me and My working, that they will openly confess Me as redeemer of people, Who must be acknowledged by everyone who wants to become blissfully happy .... They will be ridiculed, they will have to suffer for the sake of My name, yet nothing will affect them because they receive My strength in the same measure as they need it. And therefore they will be able to resist all temptations, to make them fall away from the faith .... to apostasy from Me .... from Me. They will remain steadfast and as a reward for it also belong to those who will see Me coming on the last day ....

Amen

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Justification before a court .... Public testimony ....

B.D. 6619 from August 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

Step forward, My servants, when it concerns defending Me and My teaching, for you will be pushed into situations when you publicly have to acknowledge Me. The circumstances surrounding the act of Salvation will be more and more publicly discussed .... The life of the man Jesus and His earthly fate, His humiliating end, will certainly be deemed possible, but a divine mission of this human being will never be acknowledged, and therefore the belief in Him as humanity's Redeemer will be rejected and ridiculed in every respect in order to establish a matter-of-fact and non-religious way of thinking in people. And that is the time when you shall come forward .... And anyone permeated by My spirit won't be able to help himself but to take a stand on behalf of Me and My name, since his inner conviction will let him speak and counteract eagerly and also try to convince his fellow human beings. Hence I prepare suitable instruments for Myself, hence I convey to them the truth and with it also the power of perception, for then it will become necessary that they come forward with their knowledge in order to fight the opponents with the sword of their mouth. Wherever Jesus Christ is demeaned, wherever His mission is doubted and this doubt is openly voiced, you, My representatives on earth, shall recognise and accomplish your task .... You are able to do so because you are informed of My plan of Salvation, because all correlations are clear to you and because you firmly and confidently believe in Him, Who has delivered you from bondage .... Only confident objections such as you are able to voice due to your knowledge can silence your opponents or make them think .... And even if you do not succeed in convincing these opponents you will nevertheless still gain a few people who were affected by it and start to think.

Then you will have to speak boldly and without hesitation, for I will put the words into your mouth and the obvious wisdom of your words will astonish those who are not yet entirely under My adversary's control. Admittedly, your opponents will scorn and ridicule you, yet for the sake of My name you will have to accept this, as it has often been foretold that you will be judged because you are My representatives on earth. This time will come as certainly as one day will follow the other .... Even if it seems to you at the moment as if the number of avowers is constantly growing .... it concerns the living testimony of Jesus Christ which My adversary seeks to prevent ever more .... His influence is such that people will combine everything .... even religious life .... with the world, that they themselves will finally turn it into something secular but rarely, if ever, establish heartfelt contact with Me, depending on how much influence he is able to exert on the individual person.

Only rarely can true, living Christian faith be recognised, which consists of people cultivating love between each other, of living in the spirit of My divine teaching of love, of their every thought and action being determined by love and thus also being My will. And this is why affirmation before the world becomes ever more necessary, because everyone is anxiously trying to hide their inner attitude if it is good, that is, directed towards Me, whereas campaigns against Me and My teachings are openly coming to the fore. People will always frankly admit their rejection of My Word and Myself, yet fearfully try to conceal their walking in unity with Me. And fellow human beings, still being weak, are unable to get the strength they need and shall also receive by people who eagerly acknowledge Me .... This is why I demand that you will manifestly stand up for Me and My kingdom when this declaration is demanded of you .... For you will only be able to counteract and undermine My adversary's influence by publicly testifying about Me. Anyone who honestly confesses Me before the world will be able to do so due to his inner conviction, and he will be successful with his fellow human beings and strengthen their faith ....

But as soon as fearful silence is kept, those of little faith will not find the courage to admit to their faith either. The outspoken declaration, however, will release all inhibitions and take away fear, for I Myself will give you strength in abundance if you openly want to bear witness to Me. And then you will also confidently face those who sit in judgment over you. Admittedly, they will spit poison and bile at you but it will hardly touch you, for then the strength of faith and the strength of the Word, with which I Myself will address them through you, will demonstrate themselves .... They will be unable to answer and merely try to pursue you with helpless fury but be unable to get anywhere against My might and strength. But anyone anxiously trying to hide his attitude towards Me will grow increasing weaker, for I will be unable to support him until he acknowledges Me. Hence I keep admonishing you and time and again remind you of My Words 'Whosoever shall confess Me before the world, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven ....' Remember this when the time comes that you have to make this decision, and remember that it will not be to your disadvantage, because I alone can give and take, and that you therefore shall first consider My will, My demands, before you comply with the requirements of earthly powers .... if they are aimed against Me and My name .... Confidently bear whatever threatens you if you want to remain faithful to Me, for I can and will avert everything from you if you openly acknowledge Me, and then My might and glory will reveal itself .... Then you will find out what the strength of faith is capable of doing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Enduring suffering

End of the time of grace .... greatest suffering ....

B.D. 2369 from June 15th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

The time of grace will soon be over and humanity's mind will not change. People become more and more unloving and fall deeper and deeper into satan's trap nets so that they tear each other apart and are devoid of all love. And God uses every means to snatch them from this spiritual low .... He takes away their earthly possessions in order to detach them from matter, and He tries to make them think through all kinds of tribulation. He puts them in situations where they should turn to Him for help; yet every means fails and the spiritual state is not remedied. And the time is not far off when God's rod of chastisement will hit people, for the time of grace is approaching its end. And that is why the earth still has to endure unspeakably severe suffering because this suffering is a favour as soon as it does not pass the human being without a trace and brings salvation to the soul. Yet the human being's will cannot be forced, and if the suffering does not let him find the right path there will no longer be salvation for him and he will belong to those who will feel the lord's power on the day of judgment and thus be found to be unfit. And people cannot grasp what this decision means. They cannot imagine that their soul will again have to endure a state of unspeakable agony for thousands of years. But God, Who knows this, will leave no stone unturned in order to spare them this fate, but He cannot forcibly turn the will of man towards good. But the coming adversity will be so great that the natural feeling will be awakened in every human being to help his fellow human being if he has not completely renounced all love. If he is still capable of love, even if only to the smallest degree, then he will awaken in the face of this adversity and also act lovingly. However, anyone who still passes by this adversity without being willing to help has extinguished every spark of love and there is no longer any possibility of ascent for him. They are so distant from God that they are outside of God's emanation of love, which therefore means the same as that the spiritual substance hardens again into hardest matter .... And now the change on earth begins anew in greatest agony of being bound .... If the unspeakable suffering comes over the earth beforehand, then this is still an act of God's mercy because He wants to spare the souls the unimaginable suffering of another earthly change. But it is not recognized as such, rather the suffering is a cause for increased rejection of God because people, in their blindness, do not recognize the spiritual connection. Yet enough information is given about it and therefore the lord raises up prophets and lets everything be announced to them in advance, He does not let the time approach without indications, He constantly sends admonitions to people and informs them of the meaning and purpose of the earthly change .... Yet they close their ears and reject the divine gift of grace without hesitation, and therefore there is no longer any salvation for these people, no way to keep them away from the abyss if they do not listen to the final admonitions and warnings. They can only ever be made aware that the spiritual low is the cause of the coming suffering and that this must first be remedied before the suffering can be stopped by God. Anyone who remembers these admonitions and warnings when the last time of grace dawns, the time of the most painful life on earth .... will still be able to avert the worst from himself in the last hour through God's call; he will not belong to those who are condemned to endure a state of utter helplessness and unimaginable torment for eternities ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

Great suffering in the last days ....

B.D. 5426 from July 1st 1952, taken from Book No. 60

You have to take the path of suffering in the last days before the end because you all only have a short time left and your development is to be furthered in every way. Anyone who works on himself with all dedication, with all fervour, out of love for Me, will also find the horrors of the last days bearable, for I will grant him extraordinary strength and he shall finish his path of life in safety, in strength of faith, without suffering any damage to his soul. But how many go along indifferently and neither remember the end nor their spiritual immaturity. Nevertheless, I do not want to let them get lost and therefore much suffering will approach these people in order to give them the opportunity to purify themselves and to reach a certain degree of maturity so that they will find entrance into the spiritual kingdom when their earthly life is over. But they will hardly reach the strength of faith that is necessary for a life in the paradise of the new earth. And that is why I still call many people away beforehand, and because of them the great adversity will also come upon earth because I do not want them to get lost but they are in danger of becoming worldly without suffering and of falling prey to My adversary .... Prepare yourselves for great suffering on earth and know that I cannot spare you from it because without it you are in greatest danger of losing yourselves to My adversary. You, who want to serve Me, shall be made aware of this and you should also announce the suffering to your fellow human beings, for one day they will realise that you have spoken the truth, even if they don't believe you at first or are displeased by your predictions. Yet it will come as I have proclaimed to you .... and you yourselves better see to it that you strengthen your faith, that you are firmly convinced of My help in every situation in life .... Then even the coming suffering need not frighten you, for if you have Me everything will be bearable for you, no matter what may come upon you .... And the time will not be long, for I will shorten the days for the sake of My chosen ones so that they will stand firm and remain faithful to Me even in greatest adversity, Whom they have recognised as a Father Who does not abandon His children in adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Trust in God’s help

Faith and trust in God's help .... end of suffering ....

B.D. 1944 from June 8th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

Whatever earthly life may bring you, never forget Him Who is your father from eternity, Who loves you dearly, you who are His children and Who therefore wants to help you attain eternal bliss. How incomparably blissful the thought must be for you that you are always cared for by this love .... that God's eye watches over you and that His arm protects you from all hostile force. And if you are full of faith and entrust all your sufferings to Him, He will also take them from you and lead you through every danger, for His love does not want you to suffer. But if you do not reach your goal by other means, He will use the last resort, suffering, to help you. For a life of happiness and joy on earth means spiritual decline for you. But whatever comes, faith in His help will banish every disaster that tries to approach you from outside. You can face every trial fearlessly if you are a believer, and the adversary cannot test himself on a deeply believing person. Consequently, suffering is no longer necessary for him and so it will be taken away from him if he prays earnestly for it. And God knows about all people's hardship, God knows about every individual soul's maturity, He knows about their earthly suffering and He will send active help when it is necessary. You just have to constantly try to establish contact with Him, you have to seek contact with Him in prayer, then you will also feel the power of prayer. You will be granted inner peace and then you will confidently hand over your earthly suffering to the father in heaven and all suffering will be transformed into joy, for your faith alone has helped you. The father knows all the sorrows of His children. But He also wants the children to approach Him for help, He wants them to flee to Him in all adversity in order to then be able to give all His love to these children so that they will recognize Him, so that they will long for Him, and then He will give His help in abundance to those who believe in Him, who love Him and confidently expect His help in faith in His infinite love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trust in God's help .... love and protect for His servants ....

B.D. 4632 from May 9th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

Oh all of you who are so of little faith and despondent, throw yourselves upon the heart of the divine saviour and redeemer so that He will lift you up and give you comfort and strength, and you will receive in abundance what you ask for. Let yourselves be considered by His love, see in Him your father from eternity and approach Him as His children, leave behind everything that belongs to the world when you go to Him and ask Him to take up residence in your heart, to fill it and remove everything that hinders His stay with you. And He will hear your supplication, He will make you happy with His presence, He will draw you to His heart and protect you from falling, He will stand by you in all temptations of body and soul, He will never let you be oppressed again if you commend yourselves to Him and His grace. Don't worry about earthly things but only worry about your spiritual well-being, only consider your spiritual development important, and if God needs you for the work in His kingdom then don't let yourselves be held back and follow His call, for then you will come ever closer to Him and your life will be secured spiritually and earthly. You should banish all worry from your heart, for it is only a lack of trust in the one Who loves you from eternity and truly will not let you perish. What seems to be a worry to you is only a test of your faith, and if you pass it all earthly worries will fall away and you will realize how thoughtful your father in heaven is of His children and how He respects all needs and provides for them when necessary. For His love belongs to you who want to serve Him according to His will. He will not abandon you but constantly be around you, He will help you in every adversity so that you will remain faithful to Him until the end, which will come as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Trust in divine guidance ....

B.D. 6437 from December 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 69

I guide all of you who want to serve Me, and you will never go your ways alone but by My hand, because you took it voluntarily, because you chose Me as your guide of your own accord. And My guidance will always be such that it will serve you to attain maturity of soul but also the vineyard work you want to do, for I know where and how you can use your strength appropriately because I also know about your will to be faithful servants to Me. And believe Me, you will always know yourselves what you should do, because I speak to you all Myself through the heart .... Just trust Me fully that I will give you the right instructions when the time comes, but don't anticipate .... For I will bring everything to you in such a way that you will take it for granted, so that you will then also have the certain feeling that you are acting correctly, for this is My voice in you .... Consider: You want to serve Me .... Is it then not also self-evident that your father of the house also gives you the right instructions for your service? I will never let the strength of a servant who offers himself to Me for service lie idle, because I need all of you and assign to everyone the work he can best do .... As long as you ask and are uncertain, the order has not yet been given to you by Me, for you will feel it clearly and without doubt in your heart and also fulfil it without hesitation .... Let Me take care of you, let Me think for you, and only ever grasp Me by the hand which guides you, so that you safely direct your steps to where I want to take you .... And if I have assigned an unusual task to you, even then everything will approach you in such a way that nothing unusual can be recognized .... For I don't want to determine your will, but if you subordinate it to Mine then you will always want the same as Me, and your thoughts and actions will therefore also be right .... But as long as you still doubt or question, it is not My voice which inwardly gives you the order. Then intimately unite with Me and wait until you have complete clarity, which I will certainly give to you if only you are willing to serve Me. And you will be amazed how everything works itself out and how confidently you are now able to judge. The adversity of the time requires all your commitment, and I call you, My servants on earth, to industrious vineyard work, but I also assign everyone the field of activity he is capable of cultivating. I am the master of the house and My will shall apply to My servants .... because you humans yourselves cannot overlook where and how your strength can best be utilized. And therefore you should always submit yourselves to Me and My instructions .... But then you need never fear to do a wrong job. Open your heart and ear to Me yourselves through your will .... And I will speak to you in such a way that you will understand Me even if you cannot hear My word audibly .... You will feel what I want from you, and therefore you only need to pay attention to your feelings, to the inner voice which urges you or holds you back .... For as soon as you sincerely ask Me for clarification I will truly answer you and you will feel what you have to do or refrain from doing .... so you can at any time carelessly leave yourselves to the guidance of your father in heaven .... He knows the paths you should take for your own and your fellow human beings' salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Call upon God's help is indispensable in the last days ....

B.D. 3703 from March 3rd 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Henceforth you shall always have to request My help in earthly as well as in spiritual hardship if you don’t want to succumb in your struggle for existence. Admittedly, you can also emerge victoriously without appealing for My help, but in that case you are already under the influence of My adversary who is giving you strength to overcome but claims your souls in exchange for payment. To be fortified by this strength in future will cause you immense damage since you will lose yourselves in the kingdom of darkness for an eternity, you will trade this short time of strength with an eternity of weakness during which you will have to suffer enormously due to your failure not to have asked for My help. The approaching time is only endurable with My support, with My contribution of strength and thus without danger for your souls. And yet it is up to you whether you want to call upon Me. The severe hardship should prompt you but I Myself won’t compel you to do so, by way of hardship I only want to encourage you to contact Me, since otherwise I cannot transmit strength to you. Life will be difficult and painful for each and everyone who does not carry Me in his heart ....

But you will find relief when you turn to Me for help. My love shall help you endure, it helps every person who faithfully trusts in Me, because the severe hardship has to affect humanity for its own sake, as the last resort to win them over to Me and My kingdom. I want to make their hearts receptive to My Word, and thus the severe hardship will still accomplish My aim, namely that they hunger for a Word of comfort, for an explanation of their adversity, and that they then seriously consider My Word in their hearts and with good will can recognise Me. For there are many misguided souls who have missed the right path, who shall be led back by My Word, which reveals to them the truth in its fullness. Although the suffering will also close many hearts to My Word and they cannot be opened by force, but blessed be the one who endures without approaching My adversary for help in terms of unkindness towards other people and bad thoughts and speech, because he will be apparently helped by him and provided with all manner of support to win him over completely. Don’t try to improve your earthly life with renewed unkindness, accept your fate patiently and humbly, and come to Me .... I shall always help you if only you request My help, if only you find the way to Me and humbly bow before Me and entrust yourselves to My mercy.

I will never send a sincerely pleading person away without help, you all have to acquire this trust if the severe hardship is to be endurable for you. You can always be certain of My loving care when you deliver yourselves to Me, when you acknowledge Me and thus do not exclude Me from your thoughts .... But anyone who fails to do so is in dire psychological difficulty which only his own will can lessen. Time is short and shall become ever more apparent as the end time because Satan works visibly, he impels human beings into actions of most blatant cruelty, which always results in earthly hardship and suffering, and he poisons people’s thoughts where he does not meet resistance with a will that is turned towards Me. And human beings should beware because now the last test of earthly life needs to be won; they should open their eyes to the signs of the time, to the conduct of human beings who are clearly ruled from below, and also observe the work from above .... they should listen to My Word’s messengers who can give comprehensive clarification about meaning and purpose of the final severe hardship and about the eternal plan of Salvation, which has to take its course as it is destined and My wisdom has deemed appropriate since eternity .... They should pay heed to their warnings and reminders, and the arduous time will pass by everyone endurably who is of good will and calls upon Me in need ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Help from God and the angels in the vineyard work

God's care for His servants ....

B.D. 4376 from July 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 51

You will travel the path by My hand until the end and no worry need oppress you if only you believe. You have entered My service, consequently I also take over all care for you, both earthly and spiritually. I possess your will to become Mine, thus you are not compulsorily determined by Me to want, think and act, yet I direct this will, which you have placed under My control yourselves, to think, want and act correctly. Thus you will always do what is beneficial for your salvation and you can confidently drop every worry which still applies to your earthly life. I determine your further life, I arrange it according to your mission for Me, for you still have a great deal of work to do, and so that you can accomplish it I will take special care of you, so that your earthly path will not be too arduous, so that you can happily and cheerfully carry out the work for Me and My kingdom. And thus you need not worry about the way you should spread My word, I already walk the paths with you where you are compelled to speak, and you need not do anything else but follow the inner urge, that is, to speak if you feel impelled to do so from within or to remain silent if you feel moved to do so. It is always My voice which tells you to do something or not to do something, and you should only ever follow the inner urge, then it will also be right how you act, then I can work in you and do it because you want to fulfil My will, and thus I place My will into your heart.

(15.7.1948) I want to help you achieve inner peace so that you can carry out your work for Me undisturbed, because it is unspeakably important in the coming time. Consider this and believe that I want to give you inner peace for the sake of your work and that therefore all worry is superfluous. What you need, you will receive; what is withheld from you, you don't need, for I know the benefit and harm of all things for your soul and truly give to you as it is beneficial. Whoever wants to follow Me, let him take up his cross .... so don't let your little cross you believe you have to carry be pressed down either, burden Me with even the smallest load if you need help, I am always willing to take it off your shoulders, but be diligent in your work for Me and My kingdom. As you measure out, so shall it be measured out to you, therefore give spiritual gifts to your fellow human beings so that their souls need not go hungry, and show them much love so that they will imitate your example and thus be won over for My kingdom .... and you will receive the same .... What you hand out spiritually and earthly will be repaid to you a thousand fold, earthly you will not need to live in want and spiritually you will be provided for in abundance. And thus you can go your earthly path without worry until the end has come, which is imminent for all of you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's support in the vineyard work ....

B.D. 8952 from March 12th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

You will be guided the ways where you are to bring My gospel, and it is nothing without meaning and purpose what you also undertake .... Because I know the hearts, which are still to be addressed, and who still opens himself for My gift of favour, he will also reach the destination, to the union with Me still on earth. But you know yourselves that not many will listen to you anymore because the earthly world still holds them captive. Nevertheless, you should not refrain from trying, for individuals can be found everywhere who will listen to you and who will be impressed by the spiritual knowledge you offer them. Because also their souls desire a feeding, and they feel your words beneficently, because I also know exactly when they are receptive for it, and I therefore speak to them Myself through you. Always just pursue your vineyard work; do not become despondent when you seem to have no success, because I know to direct all thoughts; I know about the possibilities, which you do not know, but which are decisive that they feel touched by My word. Always consider that already a small hint is enough to help them to believe in a God, who takes care of all men in love, who wants to rescue them from the abyss and who therefore speaks to you. Consider that you have the possibility to give them proof .... Try to make it clear to them in all love that they only need to call upon Me in spirit and in truth in order to be able to expect help from Me in every adversity of body and soul .... But leave the decision up to them .... And you have done what you could do, for every man's heart must of itself take the way to Me .... This is the task of the disciples of the end-times, which they are to fulfil loyally and conscientiously, that they are active in My name, that they carry the gospel out into the world, that they emphasize love towards God and towards the neighbour as most important, the fulfilment of which then also guarantees an eternal life in happiness. You all no longer have much time, and your activity therefore becomes more and more urgent; you are not allowed to become lukewarm and indifferent, because you have offered yourselves to Me as mediators, who address men instead of Me, but whom I also need, because I cannot address men Myself, and you are to fulfil this task dutifully. But rarely only will a servant, who has offered himself to Me for service, put this task on hold; rarely only will he slacken in the spreading of truth, because again and again this truth is sent to him from above and he therefore recognizes the urgency, because as soon as I Myself can have an effect in him, he has also completely surrendered himself to Me will-wise, and he is guided by Me all ways, as I see it as beneficial. And the near end dictates that every servant uses all his strength to still contribute to the salvation of souls, what is possible for him. But you can be sure of My support .... I want to fill each one of you with strength; I always want to give you a hint when you are to address a person and bring him My word .... service for Me will always be an inner need for you, you will take pleasure in it and not feel it to be a burden, for all those who serve Me are My children who are also assured of their father's blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Cosmos .... Moon ....

B.D. 7957 from August 4th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Even the slightest lack of clarity has a negative effect, for it causes doubt in a person and darkens the light which should illuminate his heart. Nevertheless, an influx of light will always occur when the heart opens itself to accept its rays. Where lack of clarity exists, an explanation needs to be given, for I do not want a person who wants to think correctly to get confused. But neither do I want error to be spread where only serving the truth is wanted .... Yet need any of you worry about this when I instruct your Myself and you only pass on what I Myself Am telling you? .... The fact that you yourselves cannot intellectually grasp everything need not alarm you, for as long as you are not perfect as yet, your thinking will still be limited and unable to reconcile your previous convictions with the explanations I give to you, if they concern areas which science believes to have disclosed. However, even science cannot deny the fact that many still unexplored things exist in the cosmos .... And what it believes to have explored lacks proof, for the evidence it produced is wrong .... This also includes the calculations they made about the distance and the relationship of the Moon's position to Earth .... and it is difficult to give a right explanation to those of you humans who have acquired the knowledge you believe you can prove .... By merely considering the constant rotation of Earth around its own axis, you will have to realise that the Moon is indeed a satellite of Earth but nevertheless an entirely independent star from Earth, which circles within the region of the same Sun as the Earth, thus it also receives continually light from it .... The Earth is neither able to stop this flow of light nor to restrict it .... Yet the inhabitants of earth can more or less see the Moon, according to the position of Earth, which it occupies during its rotation around itself .... The illumination of light takes place in lawful order, and the stars also take their orbit in lawful order .... Therefore the same events occur in intervals, the same natural cycle of day and night .... But you humans should not forget that everything is in motion, that nothing stands still in the whole universe and that these movements also happen according to law and yet the stars which appear to be constant in the sky can be observed by you humans .... which might, purely physically, make a constant rotation of Earth debatable. And yet the Earth rotates around itself, but it will remain an eternal mystery which you human will never be able to solve .... You can certainly always assume and believe to produce proof, but this proof will never be right .... on account of which you will never succeed in taking possession of other stars whose laws are entirely different to those on Earth and which therefore also exclude the possibility that you humans can 'live' there, after all, the living conditions differ on each heavenly body and are only suitable for the beings living there and correspond to their spiritual state .... Every law is known to Me alone as well as to all spirits of light who receive this knowledge from Me .... But you humans will only know everything when you have entered the kingdom of light and your thinking is no longer limited ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The angels' protection in the battle of faith ....

B.D. 7440 from October 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

And countless angels will stand by your side during your final battle on earth. You don't have to be afraid when this battle erupts, for you will receive strength and be able to offer the resistance which is demanded of you in this fight .... You will remain faithful to Me, because inwardly you will be so permeated by strength that in no way will you fall prey to your enemies' onslaughts, because I know that your will applies to Me, and given that I will send My angels to protect you, you will feel this protection most evidently. The battle will not be an easy one, since it will be waged brutally and with fanatical zeal on the adversary's side, but you will not feel it as such because you will be filled with the spirit once actions are taken against all people who devoutly follow Me and also openly profess Me in Jesus Christ. And this courage of conviction will increase, and every new avowal will fill you with new strength, for then I will clearly reveal Myself through My spirit, which will fill everyone who professes Me before the world. And they will also know what time it is and will expect My coming daily .... And this will continue to give them the strength to endure and to ignore the difficulties. Time and again they will receive help from My side and My angels will shield them against all attacks by the enemy. And as long as they stand by your side you will not be in danger, for they only ever fulfil My will and are happy to be of service to Me and to you. Soon the time will come when the Antichrist will show himself .... And you have no idea which side he will come from and you will all be surprised. But then the signs will be so obvious that you will no longer be mistaken, you will distinctly recognise him and be able to prepare yourselves against his activity. Yet prior to this I will still speak from above, you just should know that this will not be the end of your mission as yet, that you will live through this time and then also receive the strength to stand firm in the last battle on this earth.

Everyone will feel whom I speak to through these lines, but I Am with all of you who want to serve Me, for I need you in the last days of the battle of faith, in the time when the last decision has to be made .... I need all of you to enlighten your fellow human beings as to what I expect of them .... that they should stand firm and not be afraid, if only they want to belong to Me and to fulfil My will. And when they hear you they will also take courage and offer resistance, which subsequently will render the adversary incapable of proceeding against these believers .... He will have to let go of them because My angels will form a protective wall around all those who want to be and remain My Own. But the battle will erupt and not just against single believers, but it will be aimed against all spiritual striving. However, only those with a living faith, who belong to the church founded by Me, will emerge triumphantly, for they will fight under My banner, led by and protected by a host of invisible warriors who are of service to Me and to righteousness .... until the day has come when I will fetch My Own and liberate them from utmost adversity and distress .... until the day of Judgment comes which will follow soon afterwards and put an end to every earthly and spiritual battle ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Embodied beings of light .... Jesus' disciples during His time on earth ....

B.D. 7080 from April 1st 1958, taken from Book No. 75

You, too, belong to those who, as My true disciples, shall proclaim the Gospel of love in the last days, who gathered around Me while I lived on earth and to whom I gave the promise that they will be permitted to serve Me at the time of My return. Only when you hear these Words will you understand the importance of the mission I assign to you .... I can only use people who are enthusiastically committed to their work in their willingness to be of service and love for Me. Such conscientiousness can no longer be found among people of this earth .... thus I had to send you to earth but I could not let you keep the recollection of your past activity. You must travel the earthly path like all other people, in awareness of your human weaknesses and struggling for a strong faith .... However, My spirit can work through you ....

You are able to receive the truth from above and understand it .... and therefore you can also spread it throughout the world, as was your task in the past. I Am giving you this hint of your origin because you shall realise from this that you will only administer that office for a short time which you also administer in the spiritual kingdom, and that this office is an extremely significant one, for what I previously started .... to pave the path back into the Father's house .... you shall once again firmly impress upon people and also show them the way before the end arrives, before a period of a completely new order follows. You have always been willing to inform people of Me and My act of Salvation on My behalf. But during the last days before the end it is particularly necessary for people to remember Me, for I alone Am their salvation, I alone can pull them back from the abyss that they are approaching in their blindness .... However, they must acknowledge Me, just as they did when I lived on earth they must call to Me 'Lord, help Me ....' But people walk along without knowledge, for whatever they know about Me and My act of Salvation is merely a myth for them .... For this reason you must proclaim Me in the world with utter conviction. And since you, as human beings, are no different, even though you have come from the kingdom of light, you must first receive through My spirit the true knowledge about Me and My act of Salvation so that you will be able to stand up for Me with conviction ....

Your soul allows for the working of the spirit in you .... a process which is only rarely demonstrated by present-day people and who therefore also find it difficult to believe in. And because your task is so important I have educated you again as in the past .... i.e. your human nature had to accept heavenly wisdom first in order to be subsequently able to preach among humanity again, as you did in the past. In those days the number of My disciples was large and many offered themselves to take this path across earth in the last days before the end in view of the immense spiritual adversity which urgently requires help .... But every light soul on earth also had to voluntarily acquire the degree of love again which allows for the 'working of the spirit' .... This person's struggle is no less strenuous than that of any other person, it is just that the soul will always have the will and the connection with Me and therefore live a life of love, which then will also guarantee the working of the spirit. This makes it possible to convey My Word to earth again, I Myself will once again be able to preach the Gospel of love to everyone who will not close his ears and heart .... You have become My forerunners again, you only carry My Gospel throughout the world, you do not speak your own words but allow Me Myself to speak through you, just as it was your mission after My ascension when you became receiving vessels for Me Myself which enabled Me Myself to be with you in spirit. And so I will always be present to people until the end of the world .... For without Me no-one will attain beatitude, without Me the path into the Father's house cannot be found, without Me humanity will live in guilt and sin and you will take the downward path. Yet My Own will eagerly participate in the redemptive work, My Own will place themselves at My disposal wherever I will need them .... And all those of you who want to serve Me belong to My Own and will indeed be able to accomplish your work successfully, for you will only ever work on My behalf .... and if the Lord assigns an office to you, He will also give you the strength to administer it .... He Himself will be with you with His strength and His blessing and, once your mission is over, will fetch you again into His kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

'I will shorten your days ....'

B.D. 7225 from December 9th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The time still granted to you until the end gets ever shorter according to My promise 'And except that those days should be shortened, there should be no flesh saved: but for the sake of My Own those days shall be shortened ....' so that they will not be forced to go down on their knees before him who remains My enemy and opponent until the end. For he will still cause you serious problems and you will still need much strength in order to resist him. And yet you need not fear this time regardless of the menacing actions he will take against you. He will not reach his goal, for I will protect My Own from falling into his hands. However, they themselves will thank Me for every day without his influence, just as they will also be eternally grateful to Me once I put an end to his activity and put him into chains once again .... The time until the end will seem like a dream to you, that's how soon it will pass .... certainly often alarming yet then shadowy-like again because a host of spiritual beings of light will surround and protect you and direct everything in a way that it will be bearable for you. Nevertheless, great caution has to be taken for he is utterly evil-minded because the end is approaching. What you don't consider possible will still happen due to his influence, for many people in the world are willingly at his service and therefore will also turn against you due to his stimulus.

However, don't fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul .... Don't fear any danger at all because I Am with you and assure you My protection. And regardless of what will happen you will be able to endure because I will give you the strength, because I will make sure that it will not affect you too harshly, that you will persevere and emerge victoriously from the battle against him. But it will remain a battle, I keep telling you time and again so that you will not distance yourselves from Me but join Me ever more and in My proximity remain unassailable for the enemy. And anyone who joins Me so closely that he will always feel My presence need no longer fear anything, for due to the strength he receives from Me he will be superior to him .... The time is approaching the end .... And the days will fly by ever more rapidly, which you will also become ever more conscious of .... but then you will also know that you belong to My Own, for Whom I will shorten the days for your own sakes. Let yourselves be addressed by Me ever more frequently, don't become half-hearted and sluggish in your work for Me and My kingdom, for you will draw much strength from it, you will receive as you give, and a lot more spiritual nourishment needs to be given so that it will flow to everyone who desires it and accepts it through My Word. This is why you, My labourers in My vineyard on earth, should be constantly working and always know that not much time will be left .... You should take the Words seriously 'I will shorten the days for the sake of My elect ....'The end will arrive sooner than you think, and you should all fortify yourselves for the time prior to it and commend yourselves to Me and My protection. And the end will come like a thief in the night .... and I will fetch those whom I do not find asleep away from Satan's place, and all their suffering will be over for them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Presence of God – „I will put the words in your mouth“

Importance of work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 4880 from April 16th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

A sign will be given to you from above when your actual activity is to begin, for you are still only doing the preliminary work of putting yourselves into a state of knowledge and also communicating your knowledge to those who, like you, want to actively participate in the spreading of truth, who are hungry for truth themselves and struggle for it. But your actual activity extends to the giving of the word, which is given to you from above, to all people who step into your path after the great shock they had to experience for the sake of their souls. I will once again sound a great warning cry, and this will be the last before the end .... All who are asleep shall awaken .... but whether they send their eyes upwards or continue to walk along with their eyes averted is up to each individual, yet in the last stretch of their only short life you shall meet them and call out to them that they should walk the path of light and not sink any further into darkness. You should proclaim the gospel to them, yet in its purest form, so that they will not be offended by it, as is now the case due to the many false teachings which are presented to people as the teaching of Christ. You should help them to find the right path, you should lovingly explain to them the cause and purpose of all sorrowful events, you should point them to Me so that they seek contact with Me and take care of all those who are in spiritual hardship, who don't want to believe or cannot believe .... You should speak to them and I will assist you, I will put the words into your mouth so that they will not miss their effect. This work is so immensely important that I will make you suitable for it and also give you the full understanding of what you should do or not do, where you should speak or remain silent and whom you should particularly take care of, because I know the hearts of all those I lead to you. This time still lies ahead of you and I am training you for this work, therefore you will be active in silence for the time being, you will be able to speak in small circles in order to still recruit workers for Me, because I cannot have enough of them in the coming time, for the time of your activity will only be short. And therefore the work shall be tackled with all diligence so that the short time will be fully utilized for the salvation of the erring and the lukewarm, for the salvation of the unbelievers who can attain faith again if only they are of good will. I will call you Myself when your hour has come and you will gladly and joyfully follow My call .... But then no longer worry about earthly things, for every earthly worry is invalid in view of what I send upon people. Then only spiritual work will be of value and importance, for you cannot secure anything earthly; only what I want will remain with you, and that without any worry on your part. Don't look back but only forward, give up everything voluntarily, for I will provide you with everything you need if you are active for Me. But I will bless you and your work for Me and My kingdom .... I will pour out My grace so that hearts will awaken and become receptive to My word .... so that all souls who want to be saved by Me will still be saved ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Correct proclamation of the Word .... God’s presence ....

B.D. 6559 from May 31th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The work for Me and My kingdom has to be carried out diligently since time is pressing and many shall still be won before the end .... And world events also contribute to the fact that people could become reflective and listen to My Gospel, providing a living sermon is given by those who are spiritually awake. In fact, only such people can be successful during the last days, lifeless preachers are more likely to achieve a reduction in faith than an awakening of their listeners .... Because they do not even preach on My behalf, but they have anointed themselves as ‘servants of the Lord’, which they cannot be as long as My spirit does not work in them, as long as they have not let My spirit awaken them, which, however, demands a life of love. Only the evidence of life can produce life again ....

And My Word has to be given to people as a living sermon in order to revive them, it has to be offered to them such that they feel the strength of the Word and thus feel motivated to comply with it. They have to feel addressed by Me Myself and this is only possible if I Myself can speak to them through the mouth of an awakened servant .... And this is incomprehensible and unknown to those who pretend to be My representatives on earth and yet proclaim a rigidly lifeless Gospel to people .... who merely use the words which I once spoke to the people, but which are thoroughly without life because they are without the spirit which will bring them to life first. Only a few of them speak effectively when they live a true life of love and by doing so also achieve illumination of thought .... And if these people allowed themselves to be wholly embraced by Me they too could become true representatives of My teaching on earth .... But they have problems finding the path to Me, which must lead directly from the heart to Me, and not through an elaborately devised structure which they call ‘church’ ....

You humans don’t want to hear the truth, but once you have sincerely and trustingly taken this direct path to Me you will never need to regret it .... Yet I can only give this advice to those who have abundant love, because only then can I speak to them, because then My spirit will descend and then they can also be My true representatives .... There is a lot of work still to be done, and I keep urging this vineyard labour to be done, time and again I seek to attract labourers willing to serve Me faithfully .... And I will also tell them what qualities are required by those who are needed to work in this vineyard .... They must have a living faith which was brought alive by love. For I Myself have to be able to work in them otherwise their work will be in vain .... Speaking My Words is of no avail if the life reviving strength does not flow from them at the same time, and life can only be given by God, Who is life Himself .... Thus every messenger of My Gospel has to allow and enable Me to speak through him Myself.

He has to unite with Me so sincerely though love so that I will then be present in him and speak through him when he opens his mouth to preach My Word .... He should not assume that My presence is a matter of course if he merely uses My Words which, without My spirit, are just empty letters .... He has to ask for My spirit beforehand by consciously uniting with Me and then facilitating My presence through unselfish works of love .... And an inconceivable blessing will emanate to all who listen to him, because then they will hear Me Myself and can be touched by the strength of My Word so that they come alive themselves .... And then they will no longer be in danger of getting lost, because whatever has become alive on this earth cannot lose its life again .... whatever has escaped death has escaped the one who had once subjected it to death .... But then it will live forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I will put the words in your mouth ...."

B.D. 4920 from June 24th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

What is given to you in the hour, that speak .... and do not fear those who call you to account, for they will have no power against you as long as I stand beside you, as long as I speak through you, and truly as they need. I will put the words in your mouth .... so you don't need to think about the meaning of your speech because you are only the mouthpiece through which I make Myself known to those who are against you. It will not be long before all those who fight for Me and My kingdom will be called to account, when they will be pressured to abandon their faith and deny Me. And you will experience the apostasy from Me on a daily basis because the earthly reward entices people and they betray Me for it. They will no longer profess Me, they will become apostates because they have long since been alienated from Me in their hearts. And then sharp action will also be taken against My own, against the small circle of true believers who want to remain steadfast. And then the strength of faith will become evident, for those who now turn to Me in their heart for help will become unshakeable in their faith and all fear of worldly power will disappear, they will speak for Me and constantly feel My nearness, and thus they will also speak freely of themselves, and yet it is I Who speaks and gives them the strength for open resistance. Anyone who works for Me in this time will be fought against, but anyone who is fought against has Me by his side as a fighter, for I know about everything that is still kept hidden, thus I also know who is in need for the sake of My name and come as a faithful helper in every adversity. And now My spirit's working will obviously appear, for My servants on earth possess knowledge that every worldly-wise person will be struck and the way it is presented will make him wonder. For I hear every objection, every question, every doubt and give the right answer. And without any preparation My servants will be able to explain the problems which wise people want to raise. Yet they are not the ones who speak but I Myself give speech and answer, and truly, no opponent is a match for Me. This time will come very quickly, for My adversary rises above Me and uses the last resort .... he seeks to destroy all faith and influences the earthly rulers to make decrees which are directed against the believers, which therefore signify a battle against all those who still adhere to Me. And this battle will not last long, it will be waged with all fierceness, and I Myself will lead My own to the final conflict from which they will emerge victorious, because I can never ever be defeated ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

"He who listens to you, listens to Me Myself ...."

B.D. 8061 from December 12th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

You are given the task of spreading My word .... And you truly render Me blessed services when you act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address Myself but who shall nevertheless hear My word so that it will touch their hearts and they will listen to My voice. My word sounds down to earth from above .... I descend to you Myself, as it were, and speak to you. But there are only ever a few who hear Me, to whom I can speak directly and who also recognize My address as the father's voice .... Yet My word shall resound everywhere, and for this I need you, for you find access to your fellow human beings, and what you convey to them they also accept while they .... to be able to hear My direct address .... would have to consciously open themselves to Me and My illumination of love and do not do so of their own accord. Hence you should serve as mediators, you should make it possible for Me to speak through your mouth, you should make it possible for them to read My word which then will truly not fail to have an effect. And thus many people can be addressed by Me if you take your task seriously, if you only ever make sure that people can take notice of My unusual gift of grace, which can have a great effect if only one person is of good will. How often do they not find what fully satisfies their hearts in church congregations…. they are and remain empty, for they lack My word's strength which, however, My pure word from above vouches for. As soon as I Myself can speak to a person he will also noticeably feel the strength of the word, and he will happily accept it and no longer want to miss it .... Only ever carry My word out into the world .... Be diligent in your work in My vineyard and it will bring you and your fellow human beings the greatest blessing. Admittedly, most people know about Me as God and creator, they also know about My will .... But this knowledge is no longer alive for them, it was imparted to them when they were not yet capable of judgment themselves, it was brought up in them but has lost the inner spirit, or also: the spirit has not yet come alive, and everything they know about Me and My will is only dead knowledge which does not and has not found an echo in them and is therefore worthless .... And this knowledge shall come alive in them through you, it shall have an effect as strength, it shall stimulate people into activity on their souls; it shall contribute towards them seriously seeking contact with Me and that they now consciously fulfil their purpose of earthly life .... They must be informed of their earthly life task, of its outcome and its aim .... And therefore I call you again and again to diligent vineyard work .... Do not fail to convey My word wherever an opportunity presents itself .... Always remember that a soul can be regained for My kingdom, that the souls are in great spiritual need, which are completely distant from Me, which have not yet established contact with the One Who created them .... Bring My word to all I lead you into the path, for I know it who needs it, who has the maturity to let it come alive in him .... For not long anymore and My voice will resound audibly and then all those who have received My word within themselves, who have gained knowledge of Me and My working on you, of My love for all My creatures and My willingness to help those who appeal to Me in greatest adversity, will also possess exceedingly great strength. Still scatter much of the seed so that it takes root and still brings forth abundant fruit .... And be faithful servants to Me, for I need you all the more the closer the end is .... For I wrestle for every soul to find the way to Me before the end is there .... And I Myself will open the doors for you through which you shall enter in order to offer people the gifts of your lord to bring them the gospel .... And whoever listens to you listens to Me Myself, and he will truly not be lost ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Making the most of the short time until the end

Short deadline to the end for the sake of weak souls ....

B.D. 3917 from October 28th 1946, taken from Book No. 49

The fact that you are still given a short period of time until the end is due to My greater than great love, which still wants to create opportunities for you to save your souls from eternal damnation, i.e. from renewed banishment in hardest matter for an infinitely long period of time. But people are unteachable in their delusion, they don't believe in the end and therefore don't arrange their lives accordingly either. However, individual souls are still weak, their will has not yet finally decided, they have not yet completely fallen prey to satan, even though they do not consciously and seriously strive towards Me. And because of these souls I do not depart from the appointed time of dissolution, even though humanity has long since reached the spiritual low which results in such a total dissolution. I hold fast to the time which has been determined since eternity, and therefore you still have to expect a short time of grace which, although it is earthly extraordinarily difficult for you to bear, can still bring salvation to isolated souls as it considerably increases the state of maturity of those who are Mine and have to live through this difficult time. Yet for their sake the days will be shortened, as I have promised .... For when the end time has entered the final phase there is almost no hope left to still win souls, and then My followers shall experience the truth of My word .... they will hardly become aware of the time, so quickly will the days pass until I Myself come to fetch them into My kingdom .... for in this time the spiritual in the human being will have decided for or against Me .... In this last phase the devils will obviously stand opposite My own and the number of the latter will be small but the number of people who are true devils in human form will be overwhelming. And then comes the end .... And therefore still make extensive use of this short period of time for your own soul as well as for the souls of fellow human beings who urgently need enlightenment, to whom My will shall be made known and to whom you therefore have to bring My word, who shall be admonished and warned so that they cannot say that they remained completely ignorant. Use the time and work for Me wherever the opportunity is offered to you. For I Myself will lead the people to you whom you should help spiritually and earthly, I Myself will guide you and show you where a needy person is who needs you spiritually and earthly. For I have mercy on every single soul and want to help it and save it from eternal damnation. And if you only see unkindness, hatred and injustice around you, then know that weak souls dwell in the midst of the devils, who must be helped if they are not to fall prey to their power. And take care of these weak souls, show them neighbourly love, impart My word to them and thus give them the only powerful means to become strong and to save themselves from the darkness of night into the light of day. But the day is irrevocably drawing to a close and the night will come from which no soul will be able to save itself .... It is already late in the evening but the brightness is still sufficient to let lost souls recognize the right path which leads them to the aim where My messengers and guides stand who grant support to all who are of good will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Surprisingly fast coming of the world judgment ....

B.D. 4030 from April 26th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

The last judgment will also come surprisingly quickly for My own, for although they know that the end is near they don't reckon with the extremely short period of time humanity will still have until then. You humans are only granted a frighteningly short period of time on this earth, for the last phase has already begun and will not last long. And what is still happening now are already the harbingers, and every day shortens the period because the last day has been fixed for eternity. But you, who know about My plan, you must not get a wrong idea about the time that still remains for you until the end. For you must impress upon those whom you are to instruct the near end, and therefore you yourselves must firmly and undoubtedly believe that not much time remains for all of you. And thus I repeatedly give you indications that the time will shortly be up and that you yourselves will experience it, even though it still seems impossible to you now. Very quickly the events will follow each other which draw near the end, i.e., the spiritual low will soon be reached and evident to all who direct their gaze spiritually. And as I have spoken through the forces of nature, the final battle will also soon begin, the battle against Me, which will result in the binding of satan. And thus you, My believers, will know for certain that the last hour will soon have come when this final battle begins, but then your work for My kingdom will be most urgently needed, although you should already diligently work the fields of human hearts beforehand. For the last judgment will come sooner than you think .... And anyone who is still in doubt should let himself be instructed by Me that My word is truth and that I have always informed you of it, that I do not offer this word of Mine to people in a veiled form but that it is to be understood literally, because I want you, who want to serve Me, to be properly informed in order to be able to represent to your fellow human beings with conviction what you teach in My name. The time has expired and the day is irrevocably determined .... But I call out to you: Assume with certainty that you will experience the day yourselves and also proclaim to your fellow human beings that they will be witnesses of the mighty work of destruction at the end of this redemption period. And exhort them to a righteous way of life so that the last day will not be a judgement but a redemption for them ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Create and work .... nightfall ....

B.D. 6028 from August 19th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

The day is drawing to a close. There are only a few minutes left until night falls, and you should make good use of these few minutes, you should work as long as you can, because the light of day still shines for you. For when night has come, you will no longer be able to work because you lack light and strength to do so. I urgently admonish you to be mindful of the fact that you will not have much time left to create and work and that you should therefore work diligently and conscientiously in order to acquire My kingdom, in order to find a blissful place where there will be no more night for ever .... where bright light shines and you need never fear the night again. But anyone who does not do this work will not be illuminated by the morning sun; he will sink into the night and again need an infinitely long time until he once again comes into the light of day. These are serious words that I speak to you .... Words full of love and concern for you, who are free to decide whether they want to strive for the light-filled day or disregard these words of Mine and let earthly life pass by unthinkingly unused .... They do not fear the night because it is still day for them and they do not believe in an endless night coming .... And I therefore warn you urgently against this indifference .... I hold the words before you: Create and work while it is still day, for the night is coming when you will no longer be able to work .... You do not know the night I speak of, yet you have to expect it, you have to fear its darkness and its terrors, and yet you can still avert it from you if you believe My words and make use of the short time when it is still day by earnestly asking Me to save you from this night .... by being ready for the work you only do for your soul, for yourselves and for your eternal life .... You constantly work for earthly life, and no work is too much for you if it is a matter of creating a feeling of well-being for your body .... But work for your soul and make use of the light of day for it .... Use all your vitality to live according to My will .... in love for Me and for your neighbour .... Then you will create and work with success, then the deepest night can descend upon the earth and all who did not seek to escape the darkness .... You will experience a morning full of light .... a new day will dawn for you in the most radiant light .... you will dwell in My kingdom and forever escape the night of death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Urgend vineyard work

Call to work .... The mission of God’s servants ....

B.D. 4174 from November 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

How you will hear My call to work for Me and My kingdom depends on each of My servants' state of maturity on earth, because I need many labourers in My vineyard and everyone who is ready will be given the task he can meet in accordance with his ability, which again depends on his soul's maturity. One person will feel an inner urge to speak about spiritual things, to attract people to Me and lead his fellow human beings into faith, he will be called by Me through an inner desire. I will effectively place this task into his feeling and he will accept this feeling and comply with the inner desire.

Another person will hear the inner voice; he will follow an inwardly prompted train of thought. He will be unable to detach himself from ideas which will motivate him so much that he will have to discuss them, and I will bring him into contact with people to whom he can talk about his thoughts and enter into spiritual conversations which inspire the fellow human being to dwell on it, and thus he will likewise be invited to My kingdom.

But I will also make Myself audibly heard to My servants, whose particularly advanced state of maturity allows for it. I will tell them clearly and understandably how they should work for Me, where they should go and what they should teach. And they will have a very special mission .... they will, encouraged by My spirit within themselves, preach My Word where My adversary is openly active .... where misguided teachings are spread by people who also call themselves My servants but who have not yet received the pure truth from Me because they refuse to accept it.

This mission requires a special ability .... it requires the gift of oratory, which My servant need not have but which will be given to him during his time of working for Me because he will have attained a certain degree of maturity allowing the working of My spirit through him. But at the same time the person has to intellectually grasp what he, prompted by My spirit, is saying. He has to be able to cope with hostile attacks and disprove any contention of My Word. Although he indeed merely has the task to spread My Word, the pure truth from Me, he will also have to speak freely since debates will arise which make intellectual activity indispensable. Furthermore, the comprehensively informed challengers have to acknowledge My servant's spiritual superiority if they are to pay attention to what they will be told, as they will argue about important and profound problems which can only be handled by an awakened and spiritually enlightened human being with Me Myself as a teacher, and therefore also presents himself confidently and is not afraid to contradict those who pride themselves in being intelligent and knowledgeable.

These servants will receive a special call; they will audibly hear My voice within themselves so that they will be completely certain of My will and then totally subordinate themselves to it. If they win one of these teachers over for Me and My doctrine, for the absolute truth, which they can only receive from Me Myself through you, it will be a great spiritual success because he, in turn, will then likewise campaign for the truth again and teach a larger circle, and thereby make My Word available to many people in its purest form and for the benefit of everyone.

Anyone ordained for this mission can call himself a servant of God with full conviction because he will speak on My behalf, he will only do My will, he will be guided by Me and take every step in My company, he will only be My mouthpiece so that I can manifest Myself to people without infringing their freedom of faith or will. For this reason I need such servants devoted to Me during the last days before the end because work has to be done everywhere and constantly in order to make My pure Word accessible to people, which is blessed with My strength but which also comes directly from Me and is sent to earth in order to liberate people from misconceptions ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Urgent vineyard work ....

B.D. 6215 from March 18th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

There is still much work to be done in My vineyard, for it is still necessary to bring much fruit to maturity before the end and to bring it into the sheds before the end comes .... It is arduous work because the time is extremely unfavourable for sowing and for the seed to emerge .... because it is late seedlings that are still to be brought to maturity and there is not much time left for this. And this short time is used too much by people in a wrong sense, therefore you should be eagerly active as My servants and make the work on the souls of the world your concern, which .... precisely because they belong to the world .... are difficult to work on and often only have little time because their earthly life will soon end. You cannot overlook the many fallow fields, which are the hearts of men .... But I can and therefore know that a great many servants are needed who shall work diligently .... in order to still achieve an abundant harvest before the end. I overlook the earthly and the spiritual kingdom, and I tell you that no work is done in vain, that all your efforts are blessed and that one day you will be happy about the success, for although your work on earth seems almost unsuccessful in the last days, the value of every spiritual activity will be fully recognized and utilized in the spiritual kingdom .... indeed only ever by willing souls, yet every willing soul will then continue the work of redemption with the souls surrounding it, and then a seed you have scattered will already have sprouted and spread .... But if no willing labourers are active on earth for Me, much ground remains fallow which could still have brought forth fruit .... And you should always remind yourselves that even the smallest success is valued, that a single soul which finds light on earth crosses over as a being of light and brings light to countless souls in darkness again .... And every person can contribute to this, every person who belongs to Me has the opportunity to influence a fellow human being if he does so with love, and his effort will not remain without success, because even apparent resistance can be abandoned in the hours of adversity which still lie ahead of you humans. Sow the precious seed you receive from Me .... and even if it does not immediately sprout .... it has strength within itself and will one day break through .... perhaps already on earth, but certainly in the beyond, when the soul remembers your words .... Then only a slight push will be necessary and My word will take effect in it. And even if countless souls sink into the abyss when the last day has come .... there will also be souls which don't need to share their fate, which have already broken through the darkness, which strive towards the light as tiny little plants. And for the sake of these souls I command you, for you shall bring My word to them .... You should try to make their hearts receptive and able to receive the seed .... for My word, and you should always bear in mind that My word contains the strength and that this strength will never be lost .... It often only expresses itself in the kingdom of the beyond .... And therefore you do not only work for people's earthly time but often the seed only comes into being in the beyond, yet the soul is redeemed who brought it My word, provided it did not entirely belong to My adversary on earth. Much work still has to be done, and again and again I call you to work, because the end is near and therefore everyone is needed who wants to help redeem erring souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The day of the end will be adhered to ....

B.D. 8892 from December 10th 1964, taken from Book No. 93

All those who work for Me are under My guaranteed protection, yet the work must constantly be done because you cannot work freely for much longer. Your task consists of informing your fellow human beings of the gift of grace which is at the disposal of those who want to take advantage of it .... who feel affected by My Word and want to be addressed by Me as well. I cannot perceptibly speak to them because people are not prepared for the reception of My Word. But I can speak to them through you and provide them with clarification about their purpose of life on earth. This is where you should speak to them where it is appropriate .... yet wherever you are not welcome shake the dust off your feet and move on. You only have a short time at your disposal, as you will soon be prevented and only able to work in seclusion, yet every person who has made use of the gift of grace beforehand will also know that he is protected by Me and will calmly bear the approaching time. But you, My servants, can still acquire many spiritual treasures for yourselves, for your activity is highly valued since it concerns, after all, the redemption of straying souls which you should save from the fate of a renewed banishment. For this reason you should also know that you are being guided, nothing will arbitrarily approach you, everything is predetermined by Me so that you will only take action in accordance with My will. For the end is coming closer with giant strides .... And it will take all of you by surprise, for the day I designated for the end of this earth will be adhered to. And regardless of whether people want to doubt it .... regardless of how much homage they pay to the world .... they will have to forego everything and only their state of soul will decide their future fate. This is why people should strive to improve their soul's state and this necessitates My Word which informs them of My will. By merely mustering the slightest determination of living according to My will they will also receive the strength to do so and also draw this from My Word. Then their state of maturity will already be ensured, for their will being inclined towards Me is the passed test of will, which is the purpose and goal of earthly existence. So as soon as you, My servants, are able to stimulate your fellow human beings into believing in Me, as soon as you can persuade them to practise unselfish neighbourly love in order to awaken this faith in Me to life, you will actually have carried out true vineyard work and your reward in the spiritual kingdom will not fail to materialise .... I will still send souls to cross your path which require your vineyard work, which are willing to accept the Word I offer them through you and which will also become capable of living up to it. And so you are spreading the light which enlightens you, which can never ever be extinguished again and which will make all of you infinitely happy but which you must not put it under a bushel, i.e. so that it will not serve the purpose of being spread, for which I convey it to earth. All those of you who offered your service to Me are also called to distribute My Word, even if My adversary wants to prevent you from doing so .... He is unable to counteract My Word as soon as you want to do this work ....For My Word is light and emanates light and he takes flight from the light because it is My emanation .... Hence he will never be able to extinguish the light from above as long as you are faithfully devoted to Me. But he will put you under pressure to do his will and then you must resist him and always be aware of the fact that you want to be of service to Me, then he will withdraw because he cannot break this will of yours. And thus, I will lovingly seize every person who wants to be of service to Me and guide him through all impediments. For he will have openly declared his position and will therefore also experience My obvious care. For you are My endtime disciples through whom I still want to take effect until the very last hour ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

"I am with you all the days .... "

B.D. 8363 from December 26th 1962, taken from Book No. 88

"I am with you always, even to the end .... "You are never abandoned, even if you are burdened with earthly hardship, for there is always one Who is ready to help you .... I always walk beside you as soon as you only allow My presence, as soon as you consciously request My guidance. Hence you yourselves determine whether I can stay with you, for as soon as inner resistance is still put up against Me I withdraw, i.e. you will then not be able to feel My love either, even if it never gives up on you .... But I have promised you that I will remain with you until the end. And you can truly believe this promise, because every word that flows out of My mouth is truth .... But if I am with you, you need not fear any disaster either, for I can avert it and also want to avert it if you unite with Me through prayer and activity of love. Thus you, who want to belong to My own, are constantly under My care .... And I constantly give you proof of this by speaking to you as a father speaks to his children .... I admonish and warn you, I make My will known to you and inform you about My nature so that love for Me will ignite in you which then also guarantees My constant presence .... But you will experience what it means to be present to you in the coming time when it will storm and roar around you, when you will have to go through a time of tribulation because it has to come for the sake of the whole of humanity if individual people are still to be saved from ruin .... You, who are Mine, will certainly constantly experience My protection and My help, but the magnitude of the adversity will also demand a strong faith from you, otherwise you will not be able to withstand the tribulations you are exposed to by My adversary and in which you shall prove yourselves .... You need not fear this time of adversity, for as soon as you commend yourselves to Me, as soon as you call upon Me, I will always be present to you, for I promised you this when I Myself walked across the earth .... Only allow this presence of Mine to be with you by asking for it, by not allowing yourselves to be captured by the world, which will approach you overpoweringly with its temptations .... But you would make a bad exchange, for it is transient, just as everything that is around you will very soon fall prey to destruction, as it is announced through word and scripture .... And what people possess they will lose and stand poor and naked on the day of judgment. But you can always know yourselves to be safe in My protection, and your possessions will truly be imperishable; they will secure your entrance into the kingdom of light if you depart before the end of this earth .... or enter a life in the paradise of the new earth, which you will then enter with great wealth and can now work in bliss. And then you will be allowed to experience Me Myself, then My promise will obviously come true, for 'I will stay with you ....‘ because you show Me the love which makes My presence with you humans possible .... Always remember these words of Mine and don't be afraid whatever may come, for I have foretold to you that a time of tribulation will pass over the earth which heralds the near end and which also has to be endured by My own .... but the strength to do so will be supplied to you at any time .... And you should acquire much strength beforehand, you should always open yourselves to Me and allow My presence in you so that your faith will become unshakeable and you will no longer let go of My hand which guides you and lovingly leads you through all adversity .... And if you do not leave Me out of your thoughts I will not leave you either, I will fill you with extraordinary strength in every hour so that you will feel My presence and constantly give Me more love which will unite you ever more intimately with Me .... for one redemption period will be concluded and a new one will begin, as I have predicted from the beginning of this period through seers and prophets .... And everything will come to pass, for My word is truth .... And this word of Mine you can hear until the end, for I remain with you, and My presence is proven by My address to you who desire to hear Me, who want to be and remain Mine for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers