You are about not long before!

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

Resons for an intervention of God

8908 - Task....

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

4020 - Doubting God's Revelations.... Elements of nature....

Reasons for God’s intervention: spiritual need

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

6476 - Spiritual decline due to error and falsehood....

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

Faithlessness

5381 - Great need through faithlessness....

3738 - God's intervention on account of unbelievers....

Egoism

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

2223 - Selfishness.... God's intervention is the last resort....

Lovelessness

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

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

Immorality

1551 - Nuisances.... Fornication.... Faithlessness....

2461 - Immorality.... Unwritten laws....

Overexploitation of the earth – premature destruction

5151 - Reason of natural destructions....

1408 - Premature destruction.... release of the spiritual....

3178 - Premature destruction of the form....

1888 - Decline of vegetation.... Storms - Tempests....

Addiction to matter – love for the world

5504 - Reason for the spiritual decline Addiction to matter....

7219 - Transience of the earthly.... disasters - misfortunes....

8542 - Earthly flourishing.... Swift decline....

8104 - Reason for the catastrophe....

People’s indifference

6296 - Sluggish thinking....

3497 - Indifference.... divine intervention....

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

Religious decline

2742 - Religious organizations.... transience....

2521 - Notice of an event.... Spiritual transformation.... (Rome?)

6034 - Dead faith becomes apparent in times of need....

6407 - Divisions before the end....

Overturning the divine order

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

6786 - Disorder - decay - chaos - destruction.... structure....

Ending a redemption period

4523 - Signs of the end....

5278 - End of the period of Salvation.... God's plan of Salvation....

Devilish attitude of people – world fire

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

3185 - Wrong will.... intervention of God....

4001 - Prediction.... Apparent burying of the hatchet.... Last phase....

Necessity of divine intervention

1088 - Necessity of divine intervention....

2173 - God's intervention necessary for the mature and undeveloped spiritual....

Procedure of the intervention

4493 - Death of a worldly ruler.... Turn of events....

8406 - Language of God by cosmic events....

7421 - Revelation 16, 18.... Star....

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

3151 - Intervention by God....

4155 - Disappointment of the people - improvement.... divine intervention....

4940 - Prediction of the natural disaster.... Dead stretches of land....

5879 - The raging of natural forces....

3737 - Most difficult conditions of life after the disaster....

Need and suffering – God’s grace and love

2312 - Times of need - times of grace....

4117 - Much suffering - Much grace....

2033 - Catastrophe.... Fulfilment of the Scriptures.... God's love for humanity....

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

6686 - Fateful earth run.... terrible happenings....

Soon fulfillment of the event

5678a - Fulfilment of predictions.... Preceding disaster....

5678b - Fulfilment of predictions.... Preceding disaster....

8949 - Confirmation of the prophesies....

Making the most of the short time – you are about not long before

6408 - Exhortation to make good use of life on earth....

7207 - Only a short time of grace left....

2532 - Mind and body seek to win the soul....

God’s help in time of need

1743 - Hint on the upcoming event.... God’s protection....

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

7371 - Assurance of God's help in time of need....

Draw strength from God’s word!

1493 - Divine intervention.... detonation....

6998 - Listening to the word.... using the gifts of grace....

5225 - Power of the divine word in times of need....

Work in love!

2747 - Exhortation to love.... need of the time....

6342 - Distress should inspire love....

7593 - Right use of vitality....

Task of the vineyard workers

8269 - Strokes of fate.... disasters.... misfortunes....

3713 - Admonition to work for God.... Catastrophe....

5149 - Short time of elevated work for the kingdom of God....

4513 - Assurance of protection at time of great need.... act of destruction....

3669 - Soon fulfilment of the announcement....

8493 - Completion is also possible in a short time....

7921 - Disaster (nature)....

8922 - Announcing the end again - natural history....

3180 - Intimate connection with God necessary....

3998 - Exhortation to spread the proclamations.... near end....

Resons for an intervention of God

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Doubting God's Revelations .... Elements of nature ....

B.D. 4020 from April 9th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

You so urgently need to receive My Word and yet hardly ever believe it .... You constantly allow yourselves to be beset by doubts as to whether My servants convey the truth to you. You reject that which seems unacceptable to you and which is nevertheless inevitable according to eternal decree. I introduce you, whose spirit is awakened, into My plan of Salvation so that you shall recognise the time of the end and can also draw your fellow human beings' attention to the end. I indicate the signs to you and ever since the start of this period of Salvation have also predicted the consequences of the low spiritual level in order to give you the opportunity to prepare yourselves so that the end will be a blissful one for you.

Yet My announcements are not taken seriously, thus I keep revealing Myself time and again, and not just through the Word which comes forth from Me and testifies of Me, but I also want to be recognisable to those who won't give credence to My Word, who do not let themselves be instructed through My servants on earth and who therefore also view my predictions with utter disbelief. I want to approach them in a different way, I want to reveal Myself to them as Lord of Creation Whom no human will can bear up against .... I want to confront them with the Power which human will cannot break or defeat .... I want to talk to them in a language which is loud and clear, I want to speak with a voice of thunder and the elements of nature will obey Me and testify to Me. And this will be the last Word of admonition I speak in order to then let events take their course until the end. And this last expression of My might and strength will be a blessing for all of humanity, yet it will only be effective for a small number of people, since anyone who does not acknowledge Me will see nothing unusual in the huge natural disaster but merely look at it as an act of nature even if he agrees that he has no control over this act. And yet, I will not deviate from My plan of eternity and will continue to announce time and again that I will reveal Myself through a natural disaster of an extent which the world has never before experienced. Why will I do this?

Time is pressing towards the end, people live life half-heartedly and are lethargic .... they don't realise the gravity of the time and shall therefore be woken up, I Myself want to approach them, for in their acute physical distress when they are facing death the thought of the Creator will nevertheless arise and a few will still find and take the path to Me .... And for the sake of these few what is proclaimed in Word and Scripture will be fulfilled. Countless people will indeed lose their lives and enter the kingdom of the beyond in an imperfect state, yet I will be a merciful Judge to them and value the last sacrifice they offer Me with their early death by providing them with the greatest opportunities to achieve maturity in the spiritual kingdom and granting them support in every way. Nevertheless, I will speak through nature without fail, and all of you will bear witness to it and be able to convince yourselves of the truth of My Word which comes pure and plain from above, because it is My will that you shall not experience something so powerful that it would have to shock everyone's way of thinking if they just have a little faith in a Creator and Preserver of heaven and earth. But anyone who is united with Me should not doubt My Word, for I express Myself through My servants on earth and want My Word to be passed on and accepted as pure truth and all doubt to be banished from the hearts of My Own, because I Myself speak to you and will never allow My Word to be passed on interspersed with error to people of good will .... who want to be of service to Me and are therefore hired by Me as labourers in My vineyard during the last days before the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reasons for God’s intervention: spiritual need

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual decline due to error and falsehood ....

B.D. 6476 from February 15th 1956, taken from Book No. 69

If only you humans would understand that the blame for people's spiritual decline rests in error and falsehood, that only truth can lead towards ascent .... You are unaware of the fact that error and falsehood are Satan's web of lies which intend to entangle you and that he only ever tries to prevent you from receiving the truth .... Pure truth is a life-giving drink, in contrast to untruth, which is poisoned water that leads to your death. Am I to give you life, as I promised, then I must also convey the truth to you, I must draw your attention to the impending harm your acceptance of error and falsehood will cause .... of misguided teachings which contradict the truth .... And I must warn you of the risk of being taken in by these misguided teaching. You humans will never be able to heal your soul if you constantly provide it with poisoned water, hence, its state will become increasingly worse, and it is Satan's sole intention that you will no longer be able to lift yourselves up, that you will be too weak to strive upwards and he can assuredly keep you in the abyss. Therefore I will always be anxious to offer you the elixir of life, to convey the truth to you which, since it originates from Me, will always affect you with its full strength and pull you up to Me. People don't recognise the danger and therefore don't try to release themselves from misguided mental knowledge, from teachings which contradict the truth from Me .... They sip the poisonous drink ever more greedily because, on account of their imperfect state, they prefer it to the life-giving water of pure truth. However, as long as their thinking is still misguided they are also incapable of feeling the benefit of light .... As long as they still hold on to the wrong image as presented to them by My adversary, they cannot recognise Me properly as yet, because both My love as well as My wisdom and omnipotence will seem doubtful to everyone who does not know the truth. As long as people remain unaware of the truth they will come across contradictions, whereas the pure truth rules out every inconsistency.

People rarely think the same and the many various opinions should prove to you that you are still very far removed from the truth. For all points of views come together in the truth and then people will adhere to the truth with conviction. No peace, no harmony, no clarity exists amongst people anymore, every person thinks differently, and My adversary plays a part in all of this because he confuses people's thinking. And as long as a person is not inspired by the serious wish to only know the truth he will also find an excellent breeding ground for his seeds .... Only a person desiring the truth can protect himself from his influence, from his poisonous touch .... However, most people flirt with their own mental knowledge, with the information they received and no longer want to let go of but which not always came from the source which guarantees pure truth. And thus ever more errors can be conveyed to them by My adversary, because they don't resist it .... Yet it will also prevent them from reaching the pinnacle, for this peak can only ever be reached through the truth and never through error, through deliberate untruthfulness. But you humans should know about the danger that the adversary wants to keep you down and always tries to obscure the path towards ascent for you .... You must also know that he still exerts great influence on you as long as your close bond with Me and your sincere desire for truth does not deny him this influence .... You can defend yourselves against him but you must also want to do so .... You must desire nothing else but the pure truth and in this desire appeal to Me for protection from error, from misguided thinking, from My adversary's influence .... And this serious desire is your most assured protection, it is the guarantee that the truth will be conveyed to you, that you will then most brightly realise what contradicts this truth from Me .... For as soon as you desire the truth you desire Me, and I will truly not deny Myself to you because I want to give you life and not death .... and because life can only be gained through truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Faithlessness

Great need through faithlessness ....

B.D. 5381 from May 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

You are truly in dire straits if you don't believe in a creator of heaven and earth, in a God and father of eternity, a righteous judge Who controls all of infinity, Who also created you and therefore also wants to be acknowledged by you humans. Without faith in Him you live a useless life, for you do not fulfil your purpose in life, you completely isolate yourselves, whereas you should make an effort to find unity with the one Who created you. And what you do on earth of your own free will will also be your fate one day .... You will walk in isolation, perhaps for eternities, where no-one will help you to find your way out of adversity because you don't want to, because in your ignorance you don't know a path which will lead you out of your loneliness. You cannot measure the adversity on earth but it will be your fate, for without faith in God you will not seek Him, you will not desire Him Who alone can save you. Faith in God changes your thinking and your will, faith in God drives you to Him, and only then can you receive strength from Him and fulfil your earthly task. Without faith in God your thinking and will is only directed towards where earthly goods can be gained, for then you know nothing better than what the body demands, you are enslaved by matter, you are servants of him who, to a certain extent, sees in matter that which belongs to him and also wants to keep that which seeks to detach itself from matter. You are at his will, whom you indeed also do not want to acknowledge but nevertheless serve him, who then also pays you the reward .... eternal bondage .... from which you will find your way out with difficulty, from which only God's love can release you, but this requires your will again, which, however, first requires faith in a God and father. You are in great distress and don't recognize it as long as you stay on earth. But one day you will recognize it, and then it will be unspeakably difficult to remedy it, and you will need much help and then you will have to look for loving beings who are willing to help you. And be happy if you find such, if loving intercession is given to you which can lead you out of the adversity. Blessed are you when a loving being succeeds in bringing you to your senses when you change your thinking, on earth or in the spiritual kingdom .... But before that you will be in dire need and have to bear the suffering you have caused yourselves. Again and again God comes to meet you and tries to make Himself known to you, yet you pay no attention to Him .... God offers you His love but you reject it, God sends messengers to you who are to instruct you in His name .... you do not receive them, and all the effort of these messengers is in vain .... And therefore God will manifest Himself in an unusual way, He will reveal Himself through the forces of nature, He will speak to people with a language which must be heard and will give many food for thought .... For He will take pity on humanity which is facing a fate that is extremely difficult and sorrowful. And His love wants to bring help to people before it is too late .... He wants to awaken faith and thereby avert the fate from them which, however, will inevitably be theirs if they remain stubborn and don't want to acknowledge Him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's intervention on account of unbelievers ....

B.D. 3738 from April 7th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

Anyone who does not want to accept the Gospel which I send to people through you should not try to force it upon him, for if his free will does not become active, if he does not have the inner will to live in pure truth, My Word will also fail to have an effect, and it sounds no different than any other spoken Word and is therefore also without strength. Where the will for truth is lacking little success can be recorded, yet the great earthly adversity can awaken this will, just as, on the other hand, it can also cause a person to completely deny Me. And there will always be a battle between those who strive towards the truth and those who reject the truth, and the latter will outnumber the former. For My adversary is constantly intent on extinguishing all light, and he will work particularly fiercely where there is a source of light and his activity will clearly come to light. People themselves could certainly make his activity impossible through their resistance, but they would have to draw the strength to do so from My Word if they wanted to offer resistance, yet they cannot muster this will. What is offered to people by Me is very much bright and clear and recognisable as truth to anyone who seriously examines it. But a lack of will to examine and compliance with the whispers of My adversary also makes the human being's thinking weak and incapable of judgement. And the working of My spirit is not recognised because it does not want to be recognised. The will to reject My Word is stronger than the will to examine it. And then every word is in vain for you, then only the last possibility remains to break this strong opposing will .... by Me appearing to you Myself in the previously announced way .... If this last resort fails to work then people can never again be guided into the truth and then the path to bliss will also be closed to them, for their will is free and I do not force it. Yet I shall irrevocably use the last resort, for My Word is truth and I also want to prove the truth of My Word to the unbelievers. Yet this proof will be very painful and will end the lives of countless people on earth whose souls will then have to continue the spiritual battle in the beyond with greater or lesser difficulty. And if the will of the individual is not completely hardened and turned away from Me, this last intervention by Me can still bring about a change of will. And therefore I also carry it out because every single soul is dear to Me and I want to save it from destruction, because I still want to give every single soul the opportunity to detach itself from the opposing power and to recognise Me and My working in My intervention. For this realisation is the beginning of the change, which the soul can then continue on earth or in the beyond with faster success because its resistance is broken and it can accept My supply of strength if it desires it. The hardened will of many people requires a hard school, and for their sake I shall express Myself as soon as the hour has come which I have determined since eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Egoism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Selfishness .... God's intervention is the last resort ....

B.D. 2223 from January 29th 1942, taken from Book No. 31

In their inconceivable selfishness humanity will destroy itself if God does not use an effective countermeasure in order to reduce this selfishness. The human being only thinks about himself and the fate of his fellow human beings generally leaves him unaffected. His thinking and behaviour is accordingly only ever calculating to obtain the greatest possible advantage for himself, which spiritually has a tremendously detrimental effect. Hence every day spent striving for earthly advantages is lived in vain. And at the present time only a small number of people in the world keep their spiritual progress in mind. But they do not indifferently ignore their fellow human beings' adversity. Instead, they try to alleviate it where possible and make sacrifices themselves, for they consider other people's hardship more than their own hardship. And it is for their sake that God still hesitates to apply the last resort, because His love would like to spare people unspeakable suffering where it is possible to persuade them into actions of love without suffering.

God's intervention, however, will result in great suffering, for precisely this suffering is intended to change people's hearts, in view of their neighbour's misery and adversity they are supposed to forget their own hardship, thus fighting their selfish love and only ever striving to alleviate their fellow human beings' misery. Only then will their earthly life be spiritually successful for them. Yet regrettably, especially now people have extremely distinct earthly desires, they crave for the commodities of this earth. Every thought only relates to the question of how they can attain them. As a result they take no notice of world events and even less of the signs which announce the working of God. They don't pay any attention to the happenings which accompany the spiritual decline. They don't see the infringements which are already deemed acceptable, nor do they pay attention to the wrong concepts of 'right' and 'justice', and therefore they don't object to the spirit of the times either, the opposition to everything relating to religion .... rather, they consider everything to be right, which can clearly be traced to the opponent's influence.

And this is why God asserts His influence, that is, He so evidently counteracts this spiritual shallowness that it can be seen by those who want to see. For He assumes all power .... He renders people powerless; He lets them feel that they, by themselves, are incapable of preventing God's intervention, that they will have to endure it without being able to change it in the slightest. And then they will only be able to change their character if they are willing to do so. They will be provided with endless opportunities to kindle the spark of love within themselves, to feed it into a flame and then become appropriately active with love .... If they don't make use of this last possibility they cannot be helped on earth anymore; for those whose selfishness is too extensive will not be able to recognise their real function even then, they will fear for their life and their possessions and, if possible, try to replace what they have lost. In that case God's intervention will have been in vain for them, then they will have to bear the consequences of their unspiritual state, since this is what they want, for they cannot be forcibly released from their selfishness ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Lovelessness

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Immorality

Nuisances .... Fornication .... Faithlessness ....

B.D. 1551 from August 3rd 1940, taken from Book No. 25

You live in a world of nuisances, and you must take great care that it does not destroy you. You pay no attention to the false spirit around you, which wears the mask of the righteous and which can be your undoing if God does not grant you protection. Covetousness is rampant among mankind, there is a nameless immorality in all classes, and the spirit of purity is driven out, it finds no place where it can settle to work through man. And there is no help for mankind unless it helps itself and seeks to fight its lust once and for all. For man must also work on himself, and he must not indulge in any laxity if he does not want to cause unimaginable damage to his soul. The more faithlessness takes over, the less man respects the divine laws .... Life has become so self-evident to him that he does not consider it possible that it could be taken away from him, and he now seeks to savour this life and distances himself more and more from God. Earthly life, which was given to him for his union with God, for his complete liberation and for consciously working on his soul, is only then worth living when it is utilised. Yet as long as the earthly incentive is still effective the work on the soul can hardly be tackled, for this world no longer has anything in the way of earthly successes for a spiritual striving earthly child .... But earthly successes are certainly worth striving for a detached human being, yet not for a person permeated by the divine spirit ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Immorality .... Unwritten laws ....

B.D. 2461 from August 30th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

General immorality accompanies the time of people's unkindness and the fact that people no longer show any consideration towards their fellow human being's feelings and thus no longer exert any kind of self-restraint is also a sign of spiritual deterioration. And a generation without manners and without meaningful morality is heading for disaster .... Admittedly, people find this incomprehensible, since they consider decency a mere human addition and that the times justify giving full expression to all instincts. And their points of view are encouraged by the completely wrong opinion that moral laws merely prevent people from enjoying life and therefore must be abolished. No nation will ever survive if it does not want to accept any laws as a guiding principle which give people moral stability so that they will live their life within the framework of a certain social order .... These are unwritten laws which people have nevertheless accepted until now, because they have all recognised both the necessity as well as the blessings of such laws and, for the sake of human order, have submitted to them without argument .... These laws are increasingly more forgotten or they are knowingly discarded by people because they prevent them from living up to their sensuality. This clearly shows a decline of spiritual development, for the more sensual a person is, the less he strives towards God; he desires the world, that is, everything that gives pleasure to the body, and for the sake of the body disposes of all consideration towards his fellow human beings. As a result, the human being falls prey to spiritual forces which had lived a life of uninhibited pleasure on earth, which indulged their cravings and thus had led a sinful life. These spiritual forces exert tremendous influence on these people and use them such that the human being pays less and less attention to the unwritten laws, that he unreservedly indulges himself in an easy way of life and that no limits exist for him than the fulfilment of his lust. This attitude towards worldly pleasures will never be conducive to spiritual development, for anything the body demands will always disadvantage the soul. Besides, spiritual aspiration will be laughed at and ridiculed, and this without all inhibition, because people will have lost all sense of decency and good manners .... Hence, the individual person's point of view will not be respected either but will be deemed hostile and therefore be discarded, often in the most shameless fashion. For immorality and spiritual deterioration go hand in hand. People indeed speak about being enlightened and, yet, they are less enlightened than ever before .... They speak of spiritual advancement and, yet, they remain far behind, for they don't understand it as the progress of the soul, instead, they only mean a wrong way of thinking, which they nevertheless find worth striving for. They try to construct a new morality for themselves which aids and abets an easy way of life and intend to portray it as ideal. And thus new laws will come into being and old laws will be revoked, and humanity will change accordingly and lose every guideline for a virtuous, God-pleasing life which is intended to improve the human being's soul ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Overexploitation of the earth – premature destruction

Reason of natural destructions ....

B.D. 5151 from June 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The world, i.e. the earthly creation, is in constant progressive development, for nothing that God has created remains in a state of rest, i.e. constantly on the same level, but it will only fulfil its actual purpose through perpetual change. This process of change need not always be apparent, i.e., it can take place so slowly that the human being perceives little or no change, but it can also take place so suddenly and on such an enormous scale that entire creations are destroyed and reshaped and this again does not come to the human being's awareness because he himself hardly survives such a process. Nevertheless, such upheavals belong to the process of development of the entire spiritual, which has to be temporarily disturbed out of an inactivity into which it falls as a result of its resistance against God. All creations come forth from the hand of God for a specific purpose, for the maturing of the spiritual, which is bound in these works of creation. According to the law of eternity, creation therefore fulfils its purpose because the spiritual performs the activity in it in the law of compulsion which helps it to mature. But the human being, the embodied spiritual in the state of free will, can misuse his external form, which was given to him for the same purpose, by disregarding his spiritual task, and furthermore he can also prevent the creations, which hold the still undeveloped spiritual, from fulfilling their purpose through premature destruction out of bad motives, by using it for a God-opposing purpose, by preventing it from being of service, and thus he can, so to speak, misuse the works of creation intended for the maturing of the spiritual, whereby the spiritual gets into turmoil and seeks to burst its covering, which is expressed in destructions which are natural, thus not directly caused by human will. For the still bound spiritual can resist human will because it is not consistently God-resisting and wants the spiritual upward development itself, so to speak. Then the raging against the divine order has a destructive effect of its own accord, just as, conversely, building up and further development require acting according to divine law, in divine order.

And thus it is self-evident that entire works of creation can also dissolve if the divine order is violated to such an extent that the actual purpose is no longer fulfilled on the part of people who are only allowed to animate and use earthly creation for the purpose of ascent development. If the creations, which come into being especially for human beings in order to enable their maturation, are only used or misused by them for other purposes, then this means a danger insofar as the spiritual in it revolts because it feels the unlawful and sees its own development threatened. Thus, the destruction of creations on a large scale by God's will is often an act of help for the spiritual bound in it, which is hindered in its development by human will that is wrongly directed and yet wants to come into its own. In addition, new creations are also to be regarded as the beginning of a new redemption epoch, for hard matter again harbours the spiritual within itself, which is forced to take a course of development through the whole of creation because it failed in free will in the previous period. It had to be deprived of its free will again and now walks the path of law again in bound will .... it has to serve because it did not want to recognize its destiny as a human being and sinned against the law of eternal order .... This is why the same principle underlies every new creation: a serving according to divine destiny in the state of compulsion and likewise in the state of free will .... The principle of love must always prevail if the upward development of the spiritual is to proceed and the structure is to be recognized .... But where this is sinned against, decay and disorder and finally complete dissolution is the result ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Premature destruction .... release of the spiritual ....

B.D. 1408 from May 3rd 1940, taken from Book No. 23

A boundless confusion of thought allows the evils, which are based on greed and lust for power, to get out of hand. And the commandment of love is completely disregarded. The demon has seized the world, everything is greedy for possessions and does not shy away from cunning and trickery in order to attain them. Man does not pursue honest endeavours .... there is nothing righteous before God, and God can never give His blessing to what the world strives for. For the world only strives for earthly power, prosperity and possessions. And all this is part of evil, and therefore man only uses the means of evil, such as violence, lies, hypocrisy and deceit .... But God's will is to serve one another in love, not to demand or force anything, but to ask and give .... People should live side by side in peace and use their earthly existence to care for their souls. But how can the soul be thought of if man lives only to gain earthly good? He uses all his strength to increase matter, which he is supposed to overcome, and deprives the soul of this strength, which it needs for higher development. The soul's immense hardship is further increased by the unlawful possession of earthly possessions if they are acquired unlawfully. For the spiritual in that matter rebels against the souls which take possession of it unlawfully. For the spiritual senses all injustice and its indignation oppresses the human being's soul, as it were, even if it does not clearly realize this. In addition, immature spiritual substance, which was released during violent destruction that was not willed by God, will join this outraged spiritual substance in matter and thus also burden the soul. Therefore, illegally appropriated goods will never bring blessings to those who disregarded the divine commandment of love and sinned against it out of self-interest and greed. God has given every work of creation its time in order to bring the spiritual within it to maturity. All measures on the part of man, which aim at a violent premature destruction of it for selfish reasons, are to be condemned, because they result in a release of the spiritual in an immature state, which has a damaging effect on man, provided God does not protect his own from the influence of it. This influence will make itself felt after a certain period of time until the immature spiritual substance is banished again in a new external form and this offers it the opportunity to mature again. But the soul of the one who has caused such an interruption through unkindness will one day have to atone for it severely, for its development is inhibited and often even completely called into question. The time on earth is not used by it for higher development but merely to increase the earthly .... to increase that which has held it in thrall through endless times .... The soul does not redeem itself from it, but desires it anew, and this is its spiritual decline ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Premature destruction of the form ....

B.D. 3178 from July 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

The passing away of a form does not mean its end but only a change, a change of that which is visible, thus a new cover of that which is invisible and needs a visible outer form. And this change is always a progress, it is the sign of a solved task, of the fulfillment of an activity assigned to the visible, which the spiritual has carried out in it. And therefore the spiritual substance will welcome the passing away of the external form, it will willingly relinquish every old external form, because every new shell is a stage of higher development, a step towards perfection which earns it freedom, the release from matter, which signifies compulsion for the spiritual substance. But the period of a stay in every form is fixed by God, and only the pausing of this period brings the spiritual the maturity it needs to enliven the next outer form. But if this time of development is interrupted, which can only happen through the will of man, then the spiritual is disturbed in its course of development, it is illegally prevented from maturing, and although it willingly flees from every form when it has overcome it, the violent interruption of its development is no redemption, but the spiritual is outraged that it is determined completely against its will by human will to leave its old cover, without having reached the degree of maturity, which is the condition to enliven the next form. It is now to a certain extent in freedom, and it cannot use this freedom because it lacks strength, which the spiritual only receives in the last stage as man and only then can carry out what it wants itself. In the preliminary stages, however, it only has enough strength to carry out the activity assigned to it in the specific shell. But if the cover has been unlawfully destroyed then it can only express itself by joining the spiritual in another form, that it therefore as it were drives the spiritual in it to increased activity, which is also temporarily not denied to it by God, until it is again bound in a new outer form and allowed to new activity. The maturing of the spiritual is favored by the frequent change of its outer form, but never by violent destruction, which rather delays the maturing and thereby prolongs the course of development. The divine order will thereby be overturned, which will never remain without disadvantage, and indeed, people themselves will feel the consequences of this, but they will not account to themselves that they themselves are the originators of every miserable situation in life which is connected with the creation of nature. For the prematurely released spirits oppress such creations of nature, and these in turn become extraordinarily active, which leads to complications within the works of creation which are more or less severe depending on the unlawful destruction of that which God allowed to arise for the purpose of the maturing of the spirits. For even if the passing away of any form corresponds to divine natural law, the duration of that form may not be arbitrarily shortened unless such destruction is carried out with the intention of creating new opportunities for maturation by giving the spiritual substance increased opportunity to be of service, and this destruction and transformation of the old form is an act of unselfish neighbourly love, i.e. it is carried out for the benefit of fellow human beings.

Such a dissolving or destruction of the old form also corresponds to God's will and one can no longer speak of a premature release of the spiritual. For new external forms arise through the will of man, which are not purposeless, and the spiritual in it is confronted with new tasks, through which the development progresses. The spiritual is therefore indestructible, but not visible to man; but the visible can certainly dissolve and the old form disintegrate, but it is also power of God, which does not pass away, but is only withdrawn temporarily, until the will of God has again reshaped it to another form visible to man. Time and again new acts of creation are the reason for God's love in order to help the spiritual substance reach perfection, and a perpetual becoming and passing away is the visible sign of a constant upward development until the spiritual substance is allowed to enliven the last form, the human body, which can earn it its final release if its free will uses it correctly, thus it voluntarily fulfils its serving earthly task, for which it is offered ample opportunity ....

amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Decline of vegetation .... Storms - Tempests ....

B.D. 1888 from April 14th 1941, taken from Book No. 28

It is by no means by chance that the earth's surface vegetation has changed as far as it involves stretches of land where human will and activity played a determining part. This particularly applies to forests or tree plantations which have fallen prey to human destructive will, which will not remain without influence on the climate as well as the condition of the soil.

Such deforestation represents a great danger to humanity if it takes place before its time, that is, before the spiritual substances in the plant creations have sufficiently matured to animate the next form. For these prematurely released spiritual substances don't leave the place of their interrupted stay without claiming appropriate compensation by pestering the spiritual substances in their vicinity and, in their unconstrained state, frequently express themselves undesirably, from which they are not prevented by God either. Thus people in those areas will have to suffer extraordinary storms and devastations which will also severely impair the growth of the entire plant world. But where there is very little vegetation other disorders also manifest themselves. The water conditions leave much to be desired, that is, the absence of a constant supply of water turns the earth's soil into sand. And thus such stretches of land can become barren and desolate, and although people believe they have no influence over it they are nevertheless the actual cause of whole stretches of land becoming barren and excessively dry.

The danger is now that this will not be recognised and that people will thoughtlessly sacrifice constantly more areas of land to their greed for profit, for this is usually the reason why whole areas waste away. If the human being destroys creations for the sake of earthly gain it is a deliberate acknowledgment of the evil power. For the sake of money and monetary value he interferes with the divine plan of creation which gave everything its function and not least of all the whole world of plants on the earth's surface. But such interference also has to have an appropriate effect, albeit these consequences are not so immediately recognisable but require a certain length of time.

Storms and tempests will alarmingly increase, floods will make plant cultivation difficult, and this will result in a decline of vegetation and simultaneously restrict the spiritual opportunities of development for the substances which want to take abode in the plant world corresponding to their degree of maturity and are thus prevented from doing so, which will result in constantly new storms and tempests ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Addiction to matter – love for the world

Reason for the spiritual decline Addiction to matter ....

B.D. 5504 from October 11th 1952, taken from Book No. 60

A major cause of people's spiritual decline is the ever-increasing addiction to matter. It is like a disease which has overtaken people, which leads to death, it is like an ever tightening shackle which threatens people's lives, for it is not earthly but spiritual life, the life of the soul, which is in danger. For the overwhelming desire for matter finds fulfillment, just as it is always the human being's own will, that determines the state of the soul. Hard matter will one day be its fate, which man so eagerly strives for. It cannot be made comprehensible to man that the desire for matter, for earthly possession, means a step backwards, for he strives for something which he had long since overcome, which meant a hard imprisonment for his soul, which was felt as lack of freedom and therefore as agony by the soul and every redemption from it, every progress in the bound state brought relief to the spiritual. And now, the human being strives for that from which his soul has fled, because it was a shackle. Everything earthly material only serves the body, but the soul, only then when it is overcome, when it stimulates the love of man to activity, to giving, to expressing oneself out of love for the neighbor. Then matter can also be useful for the life of the soul, but it must always be a detachment from it, not a desire for it in self-interest. As long as earthly goods are desired, the desire for spiritual goods does not exist or only to a very small extent, but the soul cannot take anything earthly with it into the spiritual kingdom, but certainly spiritual goods, which alone prepare a blissful state for it. If only people would consider that the next day can already end their earthly life, and that they would therefore make provisions for their stay in the spiritual kingdom .... if only they would consider that all earthly possessions are worthless to them and that what lives on in the spiritual kingdom passes over in utmost poverty, which is the human being's own fault on earth, and which he could easily have averted by collecting spiritual treasures on earth .... .... if he would consider that earthly life, even if it lasts a long time, is only a moment compared to eternity, but that the soul has to suffer from what the human being missed on earth .... Yet, he can only be reminded time and again of the idleness of his life, he can only be admonished time and again to think ahead and not to waste all his earthly energy on possessions, which are and remain completely worthless. He is in possession of free will and intellect, and can therefore only be instructed, but not forced to live his life in such a way that his soul will enter the spiritual kingdom in a healthy and powerful way .... This is why people will time and again be deprived of what they so ardently desire on earth, the transience of earthly possessions will time and again be brought to their attention, and blessed are those who realize that their purpose of earthly life is different from striving for earthly possessions; blessed are those who reflect and gather spiritual treasures, blessed are those who create and work for the salvation of the soul, for they will be rich and happy in the spiritual kingdom, and will now be able to create and work, because their wealth is imperishable ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Transience of the earthly .... disasters - misfortunes ....

B.D. 7219 from December 1st 1958, taken from Book No. 76

You constantly receive admonitions from above to prepare yourselves for the end, to be concerned about your soul's salvation and to put earthly interests aside, because there is only one thing that is important: your soul's life after the death of the body. The transitoriness of earthly things, the transitoriness of yourselves as far as your earthly body is concerned, is something so certainly to be expected, and yet you humans reckon so little with it, otherwise you would not undauntedly chase after earthly goods. Yet you neglect to care for your souls just as unflinchingly and will bitterly regret it one day. And therefore you humans yourselves are the reason why the transience of earthly things obviously has to be shown to you, why the sudden end through death should so clearly startle people so that they also think of their own end. And therefore you also have the explanation for the many disasters and accidents, for again and again it has to be shown to you how nonsensical it is to only strive for earthly pleasures or earthly possessions which can become void from one day to the next, and how death can also befall you yourselves on any day and then nothing remains but a miserable, wasted soul which is exceedingly pitiful in its adversity. But now it has caused the hardship itself, for on earth all its thinking, wanting and feeling was only directed towards what makes the body comfortable, but the human being did not think about what the soul needs .... thus the soul itself .... and therefore the 'real I' enters the kingdom of the beyond in greatest distress. Whatever admonitions and warnings people receive from above are not heeded .... And this causes God to take ever more severe measures which are intended to prove to people the transience of all earthly things. And this will also explain the coming sorrowful events where the destruction of earthly possessions and many human lives will take place through the forces of nature .... always only for the purpose that people wake up from their dream state, which is only their life on earth. Admittedly, the consequences of this will also be that people will again try to acquire what they have lost with increased eagerness, but some will also awaken and realize that there are also spiritual possessions to be gained which are everlasting, and they will now turn their attention to these possessions. For God tries everything to still save souls from the end, but just as He again and again leaves every human being the freedom of will to determine himself and his fate .... But a terrible darkness will befall the majority of humanity, for where not even the smallest light could be kindled there is little hope that the human being will change until the end, and his fate will be deepest darkness, his fate will be a new banishment into matter, which the human being regarded as the only desirable thing on earth and which will therefore also be his abode for endless times again. Admonitions and warnings will still sound until the end but no human being can be forced to heed them, and therefore everyone's will is self-determining .... but accordingly also his fate on the day of judgement ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earthly flourishing .... Swift decline ....

B.D. 8542 from June 28th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

From a worldly point of view you are able to observe continuous thriving, for people strive overzealously for earthly improvements and prosperity, all their thoughts and intentions are purely earthly minded and they seem to bring everything under control to better their living conditions. And yet, from a spiritual point of view, it is a constant decline, for people keep moving away from God, they lose their faith in Him and therefore also every connection, and that means that God's adversary takes complete possession of them, that he is most successful with those people who only pay attention to his domain and are therefore also enslaved by him .... People's goals are earthly prosperity, honour and fame, spiritual goals are unknown to them, and neither do they feel the bleakness and emptiness in their hearts because these are completely filled by earthly thoughts and earthly plans .... And only rarely can their experiences unsettle or change their present thinking .... only rarely will people get tired of their earthly activity and look for another goal to support .... Then destiny must come down hard on them and people's thinking must be forcibly turned into a different direction .... when they themselves are incapable of averting this fate and thus will also have to fight .... Then they might dwell on the futility of their earthly life .... they will recognise a higher Power above themselves which is stronger than their will to live and makes people aware of their own weakness. But every severe stroke of fate is only a means to shake people out of their tranquil earthly existence .... This is a means I use in order to achieve a change of attitude, which is indeed possible when they, through suffering or illness or other difficult situations, have to recognise the futility of their earthly endeavours and start to reflect on their own inadequacy and weakness to have control over such strokes, that they are dependent on a higher Power. Only then might their thinking change, and then they will also strive for another goal than the one they had before .... And there will only ever be a few who turn their way of life around, who will be able to detach themselves from the world and its possessions and then no longer allow themselves to be deceived by worldly flourishing and achievements.

Nevertheless, worldly accomplishments will become increasingly more amazing, for it is a sign of the end that ever greater plans will be pursued and also undertaken which, however, will more and more divert from that which God demands from people and which is of value for eternity .... Wherever earthly matter is given priority that is where God's adversary is involved, for people who only chase after material goods and only make plans to improve their prosperity already belong to him. And these people will also be willing servants to him, they will get ever more enchained by matter and therefore also determine their later fate themselves .... For even if you humans can observe constant thriving and steady progress around you .... you will only be able to enjoy it for a short time, for soon everything will fall prey to destruction and you will lose all earthly acquired possessions .... because God Himself wants to prove to you the fleeting nature of all that which occupies your thoughts and yet is completely worthless .... Therefore you, who are already on the right path, should not let yourselves be deceived .... Don't let your thoughts be misled by believing that the earth can still count on a long existence in view of the fact that so many human plans are being accomplished, which denote worldly progress and a high living standard .... Everything progresses in a worldly way, sooner than you think it will come to an end and people will experience living conditions which you cannot possibly imagine .... For a divine intervention through the forces of nature will give rise to a complete change to which people will have to resign themselves and will only be able to do so if they are in close contact with God and pray for strength, which they then will certainly receive, so that all those will surely be helped who find and take the path to Him .... Only then will you humans realise the transience of earthly matter, and good for him who draws the right conclusions from this realisation, who will be able to detach himself from worldly things and only seeks to gain spiritual wealth .... He can always expect God's blessing and support, he will hand himself over to Him and be guided through all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Reason for the catastrophe ....

B.D. 8104 from February 17th 1962, taken from Book No. 85

In the last days before the end I will pour a large measure of grace upon humanity .... For I know of their weakness, of their spiritual darkness and their inclination toward the earthly world, their craving for earthly possessions, honour and fame .... I know that they are held captive by My adversary and in their weakness they are incapable of releasing themselves from his power. And I try to help people in various ways since everyone requires support in his spiritual hardship. And I also know what each person needs and therefore consider everyone according to his attitude towards life itself or towards Me. For I want to win every single person for Myself.

But people don't know that My adversary keeps them imprisoned when they desire earthly possessions, since they are oblivious to the true purpose of their earthly existence. Consequently they don't try to escape his control either. And people who cling to material possessions with heart and mind have to be helped by Me in a special way which, however, is not recognised by them as help .... I have to deprive them of their belongings, I have to let them get into situations where they learn to recognise the fleeting nature of all earthly things, I must make them realise their own vulnerability so that they will remember Me in their helplessness and consciously approach Me for help .... For I want them to find Me, Whom they have not found in the world and will also struggle to find .... This is a manifestation of Myself which affects people painfully but they cannot be aroused from their indifference in any other way ....

And yet, even this manifestation is a blessing in the last days, for a heartfelt prayer to Me and its fulfilment can direct the human being towards Me so that he will not leave Me again, so that he will ask for My guidance from that moment on and hand himself over to Me .... And then I will have won him over and saved him from the adversary, who will have lost his power over him. You humans will only ever see the destruction in every kind of natural disaster and make thoughtless judgments as long as you are not affected by them yourselves .... Yet nothing happens without My will or permission, and you should always bear this in mind when you hear about unexpected events threatening people's life and property, when people are powerless and only able to help according to their meagre strength .... But I know every individual person's will and also the possibility of leading erring souls onto the right path to Me .... And truly, I will take care of every individual who prays to Me in spirit and in truth and appeals for My help .... And the time of the end will justify such events which human will is unable to prevent if they were destined by My will .... You humans will often still be subject to the fury of natural forces and only rarely recognise therein My loving care for those whose souls are at risk .... I only want to help you release yourselves from My adversary which initially happens when you send a heartfelt appeal to Me and thus acknowledge Me as your God and Creator .... and then recognise the transience of things which still belong to My adversary. Try to let go of your desire for earthly matter, for all sorts of possessions .... For you will always receive whatever you need when you join Me and recognise your real earthly task and aim to comply with it ....

But don't let yourselves be shackled by My adversary who so temptingly portrays worldly goods to you that I have to intervene Myself by showing you that you can lose them at any time if this is My will. These interventions are painful but they can be a blessing for you .... And the One Who takes away from you can also always give to you. And He will help anyone in distress if he hands himself over to Him in complete faith and appeals for His help .... But always recognise My will in every natural event, for My will is truly determined by love and wisdom and thus everything is a blessing for you as long as you find the right attitude towards Me and realise the true purpose of earthly life .... then you will come ever closer to Me and know that everything I allow to befall humanity is a gift of grace .... For it is the time of the end ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

People’s indifference

Sluggish thinking ....

B.D. 6296 from June 27th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The more captivated a person is by the world the more indifferent he is to the truth, the less he desires it, and he thoughtlessly either accepts .... or rejects everything that is presented to him as truth .... For his heart has no desire to know the truth. And once again you can therefore recognise that the world is a great danger for you soul, because without truth you do not live expediently, you have no idea about the meaning and purpose of your earthly life because you don't receive the right explanation, consequently you don't live consciously either but always chase after earthly possessions although you know that they are transient, that you cannot take anything along with you once your earthly life is over .... But neither do you believe in a continuation of life after death .... and again because you don't care, because you don't want to know anything about it and on account of this very indifference you can never reach the inner conviction that your life is not over after the death of your body .... God's servants on earth would find far more acceptance if the desire for truth were present in fellow human beings, yet everything else is more interesting to them than that which is most important: to gain the right knowledge and to then live their earthly lives accordingly. This is why everything which increases people's indifference has to be condemned .... it has to be condemned when they are taught that they need not spend any thought on what they are demanded to believe .... that they may only accept what they are offered by a specific side, and that they are relieved from every responsibility as long as they trust and subordinate themselves to God's alleged representatives. All such teachings contribute towards tempting the human being into sluggish thinking; they contribute towards allowing other people to do the thinking for him and not to feel responsible themselves ....And if the thinking of such a person is not changed through acts of love he will remain ignorant and caught up in error for the rest of his life .... However, only truth leads to God .... Hence, he will continue to be very far removed from God when he departs from earth. If people had a greater desire for truth, the spiritual darkness among them would truly not be so immense, for their thinking would be guided into the right direction because of a desire for truth .... And a correctly thinking person will then also live according to God's will and thereby come ever closer to Him .... But people only want to increase their knowledge regarding earthly things, because spiritual knowledge does not result in earthly success, but through earthly knowledge they can improve their physical well-being and therefore remain unreceptive to anything else, even if it is offered to them as a special gift of grace .... And therefore, Earth will remain shrouded in darkness, for light only establishes itself where it is desired but never where its illumination is rejected ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Indifference .... divine intervention ....

B.D. 3497 from July 25th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

An inconceivable indifference towards all things spiritual has taken hold of people and a state has arisen where it is difficult for God's servants to find a hearing in order to spread the word of God. People are completely taken captive by their concern for earthly life and all contact with the spiritual world through thoughts which apply to God or their souls has ceased, so that it is also impossible for the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom to have a mental effect on people. And thus they distance themselves ever more from the actual aim, they become more materialistic than ever and are on the path to complete spiritual standstill with the danger of decline until the near end. People's will is weakened and they do not resort to the only means to strengthen it through invocation of Jesus Christ, through heartfelt prayer for strength and power. A thought coming from the heart to the divine redeemer, a supplication for help spiritually and earthly, would earn people the increased will. Yet they do not acknowledge Jesus Christ or they are indifferent towards the redemption problem if they do not reject Him directly. And therefore they also lack all strength for spiritual striving because they lack the serious will for it. But if the word of God is to become effective in them then the human being's will must have become active first, and thus the human being must pay attention to the one who imparts the word of God to him. God's servants, however, are more likely to encounter resistance if they want to make themselves heard .... They are listened to unwillingly, ridiculed or brusquely rejected .... There is no field for the lord's labourers, and the seed falls on stony ground. Human admonitions and warnings are of no avail, the word of God proclaimed by the mouth of man is not accepted. And thus God has to express Himself and speak with a voice which the human ear has to hear even against its will .... People's rejection requires this if God does not want them to perish and sink into complete spiritual night. They no longer voluntarily accept spiritual indications, and thus they must forcibly send their thoughts into the spiritual kingdom, even though it is still left to their will whether they want to dwell in it or escape from it as soon as God has spoken. The fact that God will express Himself has been determined since eternity, so that people will still be offered a last opportunity to awaken from their apathy and to direct their thoughts upwards, because God's intervention is too obvious .... because His voice will sound mightily, because He will express Himself through the forces of nature and people will experience a spectacle full of horror which will make God's power recognizable to them, if they are not completely obdurate and in bondage to God's adversary. For God, in His love, uses all means to still win people's souls before the end, yet He does not curtail the freedom of will. And anyone who remembers the divine redeemer in the hours of earthly adversity and despair, who approaches Him in supplication, will receive the strength to believe, and the divine intervention will not pass him by without leaving a trace, he will recognize God by it and change His will. He will not lack the strength to carry out what he vowed to God in hours of utmost adversity .... he will be faithful to Him from hour to hour .... And blessed is he who recognizes God before it is too late. He is still granted a short time of grace which he can use until the end, for this is near ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

People's indifference requires harder blows ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Religious decline

Religious organizations .... transience ....

B.D. 2742 from May 16th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

The complete disintegration of religious organizations will not be long in coming. People are already too far removed from spiritual aspirations for religious organizations to still mean much to them, and if the latter are to be dissolved by earthly measures they will not resist them but will support these measures by tacitly tolerating them. Only those people will rebel who, even if they can be called believers, are not yet inward enough to recognize that spiritual higher development is not dependent on human institutions. For they are still too attached to outward appearances, to traditional actions, which for them are the epitome of religious feeling. They have not yet penetrated deeply enough into spiritual knowledge, otherwise they would remain untouched by those measures that can destroy the outer shell, but never the inner core. For the latter can mature far more easily without the shell, which is in any case only the work of man and does not greatly favour higher spiritual development. The many organizations have not been able to bring about any great spiritual successes, for humanity has become more and more de-spiritualized, despite these human institutions, so even the elimination of these will not mean a decline in spiritual development. On the other hand, it will become clear to what extent the individual now takes it upon himself to strive spiritually, for only this has real value before God. People should be made to believe in a loving, wise and omnipotent creator and His expression of will, the divine commandments, should be proclaimed to them .... And this truly does not require the kind of organizations that have been created by human beings. These teachings can always and everywhere be proclaimed to people as soon as a person is knowledgeable and wants to pass on his knowledge in love to his fellow human being. However, if people are completely inaccessible to such teachings, then they will fade from their ears, just as, conversely, a willing person is receptive and will always endeavour to follow the teachings. Mankind of the present time, however, is turning away from everything spiritual, not least because these worldly-church organizations do not appeal to them, because they see in them only the work of man and the core remains closed to them, which would justify these institutions. Too much value is placed on the outward appearance, and consequently one seeks to destroy that which displeases man. Everything will fall victim to earthly measures, even the endeavours to spread the truth will be stopped, which is a sign of a de-spiritualized humanity which no longer wants to accept anything that lies outside of the earthly. And yet God allows all these human encroachments as, on the other hand, they are suitable to make people think. And this will be successful with those who were still too lukewarm and external and are now forced to take a stand. The followers are still without their own opinion, but then they have to stand up for themselves, they have to clarify their relationship to God standing outside the organization, they have to seek the connection with God themselves, and their way of life has to correspond to God's will, which is sufficiently known to every human being and which they only have to fulfil in order to also feel connected to God and to belong to His church, which is not to be understood worldly but spiritually. People will have to expect great changes because the time of decision is drawing ever closer and everything that God has proclaimed in word and writing must first be fulfilled .... "not one stone will be left upon another ....", nothing that exists will remain because people created it and human work is transient ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Notice of an event .... Spiritual transformation .... (Rome?)

B.D. 2521 from October 22nd 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Those of you who are not yet living in truth will have to surrender much of your spiritual wealth because the time will come when you shall witness the collapse of much that you had deemed indestructible. You will realise that human work will not last even if it had managed to survive for a long time. You will find it inconceivable that divine providence will initiate a work of destruction which simultaneously will denote a major spiritual change and strongly disturb the thoughts of people who believe themselves to know the truth. And you won't be able to find any other explanation than God's unmistakable demonstration that you are misguided. This mistake is already too deep-rooted in you that you could liberate yourselves from it and therefore God wants to help you .... He wants to show you that everything has to yield to His will, including that which has survived for thousands of years. God gave human beings free will, subsequently He had to withdraw His will where human will opposed it. Thus he did not prevent the structure of an establishment which did not correspond to His will. However, His will was secretly respected and observed, unnoticed by the world and therefore little known, yet resisting hostile interference. But humanity was pleased with this structural work which asserted itself with much pomp and splendour and which found many followers. But one day even this work will come to an end and this end will happen in full view of all people ....

A building deemed indestructible will tremble and result in an event which will claim many victims in every sense. God's intervention will shock people's thoughts. But God wants to prove to people that all human creations deteriorate and that everything which comes from God directly will continue. He wants to inform people that they are misguided, He wants to make them receptive for the pure truth. And in view of the disastrous change many people will stop and think, they will question the credibility of their previous teachings because the breakdown has robbed them of all faith. And this event is not far away, the whole world will be involved and, if they are faithful, recognise an obvious sign sent by God to the people on earth for the salvation of their souls ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Dead faith becomes apparent in times of need ....

B.D. 6034 from August 26th 1954, taken from Book No. 65

It will soon become clear to you how weak the faith of those is who only profess Me in name, who live without love. They will take offence at the events which are badly affecting people, and they will begin to doubt Me .... of a being Which is supposed to be exceedingly powerful and wise and does not protect people from the elements of nature and from the arbitrariness of satanic people .... They only possess a dead faith, a formal faith which completely fails in times of adversity. And therefore they also have no anchor to hold on to, and now the lack of love proves itself, which soon causes this faith to be completely lost .... now the truth proves itself that only love awakens faith to life, but that a living faith also guarantees full understanding for everything that happens, because love also kindles the light of realization in the human being and he now also knows about the correlations, about cause and effect and above all about the near end. And if your fellow human beings confess their doubts about God to you, then point out to them why they cannot firmly believe in Me and My ever-ready help .... Seriously remind them of My commandment of love, which I gave to people as the first and most important commandment because I want to bring their faith to such strength that it will endure all adversity without wavering .... because I want to convey understanding to people, because I want to kindle the light of knowledge in them, but without love such is not possible. Nevertheless, people should make a clear decision in the coming adversity .... they should become aware of their weak faith and then either try to strengthen this faith .... which they can certainly succeed in doing if they let their heart rather than their intellect speak .... or they completely turn away from Me, that they deny Me and turn to My adversary, that they further increase their fellow human beings' hardship through their own unkind actions .... but then they will also have to face the fate of the one who is My adversary and who does everything in his power to push people away from Me. The coming events will be tests of faith for all people .... My own will also be afraid and anxiously call out to Me; but they will call out because they believe in Me. And I will stand by them because of their faith .... But those who no longer have the certainty within themselves that I am and that I can help them and therefore do not approach Me for help either, these will openly deny Me, and thus the hitherto dead faith will be revealed .... It will become obvious how little and how rarely a living faith is striven for despite fine words, despite churches and preachers .... It will all turn out to be empty shells that do not contain a core. And it will prove where this church is that I founded on earth .... where the believers are to be found who have a strong faith like Peter .... The rock of faith is the sole emblem of My church, which nothing can shake .... And this faith will have to prove itself in times to come ....

Amen

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Divisions before the end ....

B.D. 6407 from November 21st 1955, taken from Book No. 68

This, too, is a sign of the approaching end, that divisions will arise everywhere, that parties will also form amongst My own and each one will believe that it alone can think and act correctly .... But then My spirit will no longer be decisive, for where My spirit is active there will be full agreement, where My spirit is active the thinking and willing will be the same .... But where divisions arise My Spirit has withdrawn because it has been made impossible for it to work .... For as long as you humans stand in the midst of the world you will have to fight against the world so that I will have unhindered access into your heart, so that My spirit can become effective in you. But as soon as you humans deny it working, the light in you will be extinguished, and in the darkness you will bump into each other everywhere, you will no longer walk the same path together which was illuminated by My spirit, but each one will take a different path, thinking in the darkness that it is the right one .... It is a great danger when different opinions prevail within those who want to be Mine, for then you must always fear that an unspirit has caused confusion, because My spirit urges all sheep towards their shepherd .... but the wolf drives them apart in order to scatter the flock .... remember this parable seriously .... Every division betrays the influence of the evil spirit, which creeps into the united flock like a wolf in sheep's clothing .... And once again My own will gather where their shepherd is, for he will lure all strayed ones to himself again, but My sheep will never join other shepherds unless they are under the control of the one who seeks to snatch My sheep away from Me. And in the last days he will obviously betray his work .... But he will only ever be able to slip in where he can influence people through the world. He will not find access where the bond with Me is so intimate because My spirit is at work there and his activity is brightly illuminated. But every desire of the world is an obstacle for My spirit to express itself, and then My adversary will have an easy game .... then he will know how to confuse people's thoughts very skilfully, yet he will also let everyone believe that his 'spirit' will instruct him, and therefore everyone will hold on to his views, no-one will seriously condemn himself, everyone will believe that he is guided by the spirit within himself and eagerly advocate even the greatest error as truth .... My spirit cannot be where different opinions are .... For My spirit will only ever teach the truth which always and forever remains the same .... It is the time of the end when My adversary's influence on you humans becomes ever more apparent .... But you can protect yourselves against his influence if you join Me ever more closely, if you turn away from everything that still belongs to him. And you know that the world with all its attractions and pleasures is his kingdom. So turn away from the world and only turn your senses and thoughts to Me .... Only desire to hear Me and to be safe in My arms. Do not associate any other desires with it, but strive in all seriousness for the kingdom which is not of this world .... Then the enemy of your soul will not be able to approach you, for then you will be filled by My spirit and you will recognize the one who harms you, who only wants to confuse your senses, and you will not give him the opportunity to approach you ....

Amen

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Overturning the divine order

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

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

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

Amen

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Disorder - decay - chaos - destruction .... structure ....

B.D. 6786 from March 18th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

He who rules the world truly also has the power to rebuild what previously had to be destroyed because it no longer corresponded to His will .... For God has His laws which have to be fulfilled, and where His laws are acted against there is no order .... where there is no order there is decay and decline, there is chaos which completely contradicts divine will. And this also means a dissolution, a destruction of that which is outside of divine order, be it human beings or other living beings or also creations which can no longer fulfil their purpose because they are prevented from doing so by human beings. Partial destruction, however, would no longer suffice, for even hard matter begins to revolt because the spiritual in it wants to free itself .... Partial destructions could therefore also not correspond to the eternal plan of salvation because all earthly creations have fulfilled their previous tasks, because a time limit was set for them from the beginning which has now passed .... because one day the day of liberation, the day of the transformation of its outer shell, must also come for the spiritual bound in hard matter. And thus God's power first expresses itself in a work of destruction of unimaginable magnitude, and then people's lack of understanding continues this work of destruction through presumptuous experiments, through truly satanic attempts .... Therefore not hindered by God, because He neither imposes a restriction on His adversary nor on people's will and because He is also mindful of that spiritual which is now to begin its course of development again in new creations .... For He is lord of heaven and earth .... And if He Himself destroys or allows to be destroyed what has arisen for the purpose of the spiritual's upward development through His strength and His will, He will also, by virtue of His power, build up a new work of creation again, to which He again assigns its purpose in wisdom and love .... He is a God of strength, He is a God of justice, He is a God of love and wisdom, and He will truly restore the order which is and remains eternal law .... For a world without divine order is the realm of God's adversary, who rages in it because he has gained dominion over everything spiritual .... But such a world cannot remain, otherwise it would also be hopeless for the spiritual to ever escape its power. The earthly creation, however, was only created for the purpose of liberation from its power .... But if there is no longer a possibility for this, the destruction of those creations is only a work of God's mercy, Who now also lets His will of love become active again and a new creation arise which again meets all requirements in order to promote the spiritual's course of development. What is destroyed is no longer suitable for His plan of salvation, but what arises anew will also support the divine plan of salvation again. But something new can only ever emerge when the old has been completely destroyed .... whereby destruction only means the destruction of the shell which was only a shackle for the spiritual substance but offered it no opportunities to serve its purpose accordingly. And the day is coming when the power of God will show itself but only few people will become aware of it .... The day is coming when satan will transfer his diabolical plans to people who are willing tools for him .... The day is coming when he will carry out his last work on this earth through people who are in bondage to him .... Then every work of creation on this earth will burst, nothing belonging to this earth will remain undissolved; but everything will be seized again by God's wisdom, love and power and reshaped .... A new earth will arise, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture .... And this earth will be in divine order and thus also able to serve the spiritual in every form again, so that it will ascend. And the power and glory of God will be demonstrated to those who will be brought to this new earth, who were raptured before the last work of destruction because they stood firm until the end and remained in divine order ....

Amen

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Ending a redemption period

Signs of the end ....

B.D. 4523 from December 24th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

The signs which precede the final end are unmistakable yet only of significance to someone who looks at them from a spiritual point of view, because they take place within the framework of natural law and will therefore only be recognised as the previously announced indications of the end if people themselves believe in an end, thus if they are inclined to associate everything that is created with the Creator and all happenings with His will. Consequently, they find it easy to believe in God's reign and activity, they also know that nothing happens by itself but that everything is governed by God's will. But then they also know that the Book of the Fathers has to be believed, which had announced an end ever since the beginning of the epoch of Salvation. These predictions were confirmed and repeated by Jesus Christ Who effectively brought one stage of this epoch to an end and started a new one, but always with reference to the end, to the conclusion of a long period of Salvation, which is now coming to conclusion. To ensure that this period of Salvation will be successful for the souls He Himself accomplished the act of Salvation, thereby enabling them to quickly mature into spiritual beings which no longer required a material earth.

However, the act of Salvation was not made sufficient use of. Hence the earth can not yet be excluded as a place of redemption for the spirits, it merely needs to arise reshaped again if the redemption of the constrained spirits is to progress .... Thus, first it will have to be destroyed and dissolved in order to let something new emerge from it. The fact that this developmental phase is limited is understandable, for God has always granted the souls a specific length of time to release themselves from the form, which is tied to His laws of eternal order. This time has now ended and as a result the signs must show themselves too, for God will never leave people without warning or admonition, so that they can still make full use of the last days for their souls. Even the longest period of Salvation will end one day .... Yet only the believer will deem this to be true, and this is why only the believer will recognise and pay attention to the last signs .... he will know that he is living in the last days and that he seriously has to consider his soul ....

Amen

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End of the period of Salvation .... God's plan of Salvation ....

B.D. 5278 from December 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I have set a goal for you and granted you humans a period of time in which you certainly could have reached this goal. And even now it is still possible for you to attain this goal if you genuinely wanted to do so. Yet the limit given to you has passed, only a short time separates you from the end, and anyone who hasn't reached the goal by then will have squandered his spiritual life, he will have forfeited it because he didn't want to live, and his fate will be death .... One period of Salvation comes to an end and a new one begins; yet the spiritual essence which is presently embodied on earth as a human being has definitely reached the end, and if it fails it must start the cycle of evolution once again, so that My law of eternal order shall be fulfilled. The deadline has expired, you are just minutes away from the hour when the old earth will be destroyed, when its creations will be disintegrated in order to arise anew, in order to provide again new opportunities for the development of the still immature spiritual beings. And although I repeatedly inform you of this hour .... it bypasses your ears without leaving any impression, you don't believe it .... Yet your unbelief will not deter My eternal plan, it just induces Me to send you ever more distinct signs to make a near end seem credible to you.

Your unbelief causes Me to inflict extremely painful wounds on you in order to make you consider what your life is about and how you have used it. You cannot be spared hours of adversity and misery since they can, after all, still contribute towards leading you to the goal, which you really can still reach if you have the serious will to do so. I will noticeably help you and give you strength, yet your heart must appeal to Me for help to demonstrate your will. I can and will do anything to make you happy yet I cannot change My eternal plan of Salvation, it has to be carried out in accordance with the law of eternal order and within the preordained time, which is now coming to an end. Humanity's spiritual state had already reached its lowest point some time ago which necessitated the end of the earth, yet I still wait for the sake of the few who are weak and undecided, as I can still win them over before the end of the deadline. But then all options will have been exhausted, then everyone will have to accept the consequences of their attitude towards Me, and Judgment will categorically take place, and everyone will receive the fate he deserves .... eternal bliss or damnation .... life in paradise on the new earth or renewed banishment into the creations for an infinitely long time again ....

Amen

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Devilish attitude of people – world fire

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

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

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

Amen

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Wrong will .... intervention of God ....

B.D. 3185 from July 10th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

God does not command the will of men, but He puts a stop to their deeds if He deems it necessary. And therefore people are active in a way which completely contradicts divine order. And they are not prevented from doing so by God, so that they shall realize for themselves where it leads to if they do not submit their thoughts and actions to God. And what they do, they do out of themselves, without connection with God, in the feeling of their own strength and the conviction of right thinking, when they use their strength to act against the weak. This is a thinking and acting which does not correspond to the commandments of love for God and neighbour, and consequently the human being violates the divine order. His freedom of will will not be curtailed, his actions will not be prevented, so that the human being himself will recognize by the consequences that he has erred, so that he will change his thinking of his own accord and submit to the commandment of love for God and his neighbour. And therefore the will can develop uninhibitedly, it can initiate deeds which border on the satanic without being gagged by God, it can express itself in the wrong direction and achieve devastating effects without God forcibly guiding this will into the right path. However, God sets a limit to the procedure, namely when He Himself is completely ignored, i.e. when people only work with God's counter-power, when they listen to it and thus overturn the divine order, which is the preservation of all created things or dissolution for the purpose of serving activity. Then God will put a stop to it, in accordance with the depravity which humanity's actions prove. But then people who are not guilty, who recognize God and strive to live in His order, will also be most painfully affected. But it is understandable to them that God intervenes and that He lets His power become apparent. They humbly accept everything imposed on them for the sake of their fellow human beings, who must be visibly and tangibly affected if they are to change of their own free will. Nevertheless, free will remains with people if God does not take their earthly life away from them. They must let their will become active of their own accord, and happy is he who then uses this will correctly, who uses it for works of neighbourly love, who observes divine order and seeks contact with God, for God's intervention has become a blessing for his soul. But every indication of this is in vain where people are already so hardened that they only think of themselves and their well-being and therefore abuse their strength. Their will is unbending, the human being is not accessible to any idea and therefore does not shy away from any deed, even though it undeniably betrays satan’s influence. People will be capable of actions which endanger their fellow human being's soul and body, and therefore God will express Himself by not binding their will but by preventing the effect of their will .... by opposing His will to people's will and this signifies a work of destruction of dreadful proportions. For His love and justice will not tolerate that the weak perish and the strong seize what is not his due. His love also does not tolerate that people's souls are enslaved and that they are in danger of losing themselves to the lords of the underworld. And therefore He lets His voice be heard and calls people to come to their senses and strive towards Him, so that they refrain from their plan to destroy everything that is weak and to raise themselves above them ....

Amen

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Prediction .... Apparent burying of the hatchet .... Last phase ....

B.D. 4001 from March 17th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

World affairs are determined by higher laws, even though human will plays a large part in it. The eternal Lawgiver Himself directs and rules everything and His eternal plan takes the consequences of human will into account. And thus the hatchet will apparently be buried but the fire is not yet extinguished, it continues to smoulder, only to suddenly flare into a mighty blaze with devastating effects.

And it will come to pass what was foretold by the voice of the spirit. A new chapter of life is dawning for humanity, and good for those who do not regard earthly life too highly, good for those who have recognised the world of appearances and are not its slaves; good for those who know the meaning and purpose of life, who have set themselves a higher goal than the mere fulfilment of worldly lusts and pleasures .... They will take up the struggle for existence which the ensuing time entails .... They will be and remain victorious.

Humanity will enter into a new phase, a difficult struggle will arise for the individual, he will have to endure severe worldly adversities and will spiritually survive the greatest battle, the final conflict of faith, which will precede the last days. This will irrevocably come to pass as it is told, because time has run out, and the spiritual low level dictates a halt. Judgment day will stop the development of all spiritual substance on earth in order to enable its continuation on the new earth.

Humanity will soon enter this last phase, and the well-informed, the spiritually knowledgeable person will recognise its beginning by the progress of world events. Because world events first have to take their course, the fire has to be aroused anew for hardship to reach its highest pitch in order to justify God's intervention .... in order for God Himself to rebuke the fighters by seizing their weapons from their hands and causing an immense disaster to come upon all, so that all people will turn their eyes towards the nations where God has clearly spoken. Because He will identify Himself, He will speak a language which can be understood by everyone who wants to understand. He will also reveal Himself to the believers, He will be with people in spirit, He will be working with them and give strength to those who are full of faith. For they will need His presence, they will need His help, because the time of hardship will affect them too and the fight against all believers will intensify as the end draws near.

The last phase will only be of brief duration but it will be a great burden to people and only bearable with God's help. Yet everyone who lives in and with God, who loves Him and keeps His commandments, will survive the battle because he will never be alone. He will sense God's presence and always be able to draw strength from His Word, which He, in His love, will convey to the people so that they remain faithful to God and persevere to the end ....

Amen

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Necessity of divine intervention

Necessity of divine intervention ....

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

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

Amen

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God's intervention necessary for the mature and undeveloped spiritual ....

B.D. 2173 from December 3rd 1941, taken from Book No. 31

In His infinite love God has decided to stop humanity's spiritual decline and for this purpose He makes use of people's wrong will, i.e. what people do under the adversary's influence allows God to become the cause of unspeakable suffering and bitter adversity in order to influence people's spiritual state. Humanity can no longer find its way back to God and is in great danger of being completely dominated by the adversary. And this determines God to intervene on His part, which has extremely serious consequences on earth but can be beneficial for humanity in a spiritual respect. Where there is suffering, God's love is always expressed, even if this is incomprehensible to people. Earth is supposed to be the educational centre of the spirit, and it is, as long as the earthly experience helps to bring the soul to the degree of maturity it needs for life in eternity. But people can also remain completely spiritually unimpressed by earthly experiences, and this is the case if they have no faith in life after death, if they only regard earthly life as an end in itself and completely neglect the work on the soul. Then their earthly life has been lived in vain and this unused time on earth can never be made up for or compensated for, and the consequences of such an earthly life are so serious that God has mercy on these souls and wants to help them before it is too late. And His assistance is seemingly a work of cruelty and yet determined by His greater than great love since eternity. God seemingly destroys in order to save. He lets happen what people regard as a work of destruction but which in reality aims at a spiritual development, a spiritual progress, which indeed depends on the free will of man .... but is certain for countless beings who are still undeveloped, i.e. who are at the beginning of their earthly career. For they are thereby given the opportunity for higher development and therefore joyfully welcome God's intervention, as they will be redeemed from endless captivity in the solid form. God's love wants to help all beings, both those still in the beginning of development as well as the already more mature spiritual beings, which are in greatest danger of not passing their test of earthly life. And that is why the coming event is inevitable, however sorrowful it may be, for there is still the possibility that people will come to realize and be saved from eternal downfall. For God's love struggles for every soul as long as it remains on earth so that it will be spared unspeakable suffering in the beyond ....

Amen

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Procedure of the intervention

Death of a worldly ruler .... Turn of events ....

B.D. 4493 from November 23rd 1948, taken from Book No. 52

When you hear of the death of a worldly ruler you have arrived at the point you can call the beginning of the end. Then the world will turn into a place of fire, flames will blaze high, unbridled hatred will rage and humanity will be gripped by horror as it sees no escape from the inevitable peril.

And then I will urge you to speak, for whilst everything is in uproar great calm will take hold of you as you clearly realise that the time of My appearance is drawing near, and thus you proclaim it to those who will listen to you. People see themselves surrounded by enemies on all fronts and are therefore without hope for a peaceful solution. Hence those without faith in the only One Who can help will suffer immense fear.

Consequently they will only focus on world events .... People will anxiously attempt to provide for themselves as they see the approach of great earthly hardship; they will anxiously try to secure worldly goods and prepare for escape even though it seems hopeless to them. Only the faithful remain calm, and then I will use these to encourage their distraught fellow human beings who despair in their unbelief. I attempt to bring Myself close to them once more, I let My servants talk to them and through them I Myself speak words of love and encouragement. I warn them against escape and not just to consider their physical well being; I demonstrate the futility of their intentions and admonish them to persevere and put their fate in My hands; and thus everything takes it course ....

The fire is kindled and people will not extinguish it anymore, I will put it out Myself by opposing it with other elements, by confronting those Myself who want to tear each other apart .... And My voice will sound from above .... The earth will experience a natural disaster which will tear the fighters apart; they will be faced by a power which neither can match .... The process will only take hours but it will create a completely new situation in the world, totally changed conditions and an initially uncontrollable chaos, utmost earthly hardship and unspeakable grief and adversity amongst people.

Yet you all must endure this, for the end is approaching and many opportunities for purification still need to be created since all people have a shorter lifespan now and need to mature in the shortest possible time .... The end is near and as soon as this point is reached you also can, without doubt, soon expect the last day and the Last Judgment, so that may be fulfilled what has been proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

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Language of God by cosmic events ....

B.D. 8406 from February 8th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

You should always remember, that you can’t reach anything by your own strength, when it is about to avert disaster from you, that threatens you by unleashed forces of nature ....And even if you also have a great deal of vitality, so that you believe to master your earthly life .... you are completely powerless to events or forces, which are produced by the forces of nature ....you are at their mercy and you can only dam up their violence by having strong faith in Me and heartfelt prayer. And yet it seems impossible to you, that you selves will be affected by natural disasters, although you constantly get knowledge from those, that occur on the earth. But they don’t touch you much, as long as you are not affected from it. You will not accept something as truth, because it is not pleasant to you, but you will experience it, and then those will be blessed, who believe in a God and creator, whom is given all power in heaven and on earth, for he will call Him for help, which can not be given him by a human hand. And if you are still so richly blessed on earth, whether you are equal physically to all requirements, you will recognize your weakness and lack of strength in the face of impending disaster, that will come upon you. Because this is the last way, the last warning call before the end, which will bring you to your senses .... which applies especially to those, who go their way in thoughtlessness and lukewarmness and did not find a right attitude towards Me, their God and creator. I want to respond those people with a loud voice by the elements of nature, who do not respect My silent speech. I must try to make them thinking the other way by cosmic events, because teachings by My word are rarely adopted by them, and they don’t give credence to these. And so the earth will be afflicted by a natural disaster of such immense extent, that you people can’t believe, because nothing of that kind in the past is conscious to you .... But also that I have announced to you a long time before, but you always put everything in the far future, but once will become the present .... Countless people will lose their life, but these will have yet the possibility in the spiritual realm to develop upward. But the survivors is also available only a short time, which, however, would fully suffice, to ripen yet, if it is utilized right. Always again I must you people announce this natural event, that you can be prepared, that you believe it .... and that the unbelievers get to know a proof of the truth of My word, as they have through you acquired knowledge of what is imminent to the people on earth .... Never I have brought a court upon the earth without having people advised of such before .... And it will be a court for many people, who depart this life completely without faith and now must be responsible and must take the lot on themselves, which they themselves have created on earth. All of you would be shocked, if you would know, how short you are in front of that .... But you will never be given an exact time, because that would not beneficial to you .... But when I can speak directly to you and send on My word, then you truly can give faith to My words and accept everything as truth, even if it appears purely rationally not acceptable or not credible to you. Nevertheless deal with such thoughts, and this will only be a blessing. That’s why I let you people take insights into My eternal plan of salvation, so that you may understand it, that and why a total transformation of this earth is imminent to you, because it’s not just about you people, but also to the spiritual still bound in the creation, which shall get free and will continue its development .... And then you will understand also, that I let you people sound a last warning call by an immense natural disaster, so you do not get lost and must take again the lot of the new banishment upon you .... Because I’m still trying every means before the end, that could mean the aid for the people, who have not yet completely become addicted to My adversary .... But My eternal plan of salvation is set, and it comes true, when time has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Revelation 16, 18 .... Star ....

B.D. 7421 from October 3rd 1959, taken from Book No. 78

A violent quake will shake the earth .... spiritually as well as physically the earth will be faced by a tremor the likes of which will never before have been experienced by people since the start of this epoch .... But this is predicted because it is the beginning of the end that will follow not long afterwards. There is not much time left and your attention will ever more urgently be drawn to it, because you should still make use of every day by helping your soul to mature, for time flies and you are approaching the very end with giant strides. And then a long night for all those who did not take advantage of the day in order to work for the salvation of the soul will follow. For only a few will survive this last end and be allowed to occupy the new earth, only a few will stand firm in the last battle on this earth. The signs of the end will be presented to you humans time and again, and the last powerful sign will be the great quake ..... You have already been told how it will come about: a star will leave its orbit and with gigantic speed head for the earth .... And the fact that you are still uninformed of it is due to the great distance this star will still have to cover before it comes into the field of view of those who will detect it. But then the anxiety will be great, for everyone will realise the danger in which the planet 'earth' is in but no-one will be able to do anything in order to ward off the danger .... And now that you know of it you should make especially good use of this last brief period of time, for none of you know whether you will survive the event, none of you know which part of the earth will be particularly affected and no-one should count on being spared, for it is God's last great wake-up call before the end which He will resound in order to find belief in this very end and still convert a few who are not yet entirely enslaved by the adversary.

Do not consider these predictions lightly, do not let yourselves be misled by the apparent work of progress which you can observe in the world, but understand that the shadows of destruction are already emerging, that not much time will elapse until you receive knowledge of the approaching disaster in the form of a star which will be hurled from its orbit, because it is God's will that the earth shall be stricken by a tremor which shall and will be able to save people who are of good will. There will really not be a lack of signs of the near end, but this last sign will have enormous consequences and many people will lose their lives in the process .... And no-one will be able to turn a deaf ear, for it will be too powerful as not to affect all people. Only the results will differ, for people will either partly revive their weak faith and hand themselves over to God again, but partly even lose their weak faith as well and completely turn to the adversary, which will be expressed by an increased pursuit of material possessions, mostly by dishonest means. And there will be great hardship amongst people .... And that is when the right strength of faith will prove itself, which will signify help for every person who faithfully entrusts himself to God. For He will help all those who want to be His Own, who even in their greatest affliction remember the One Who alone will be able to help them. And this will be the start of the time when real vineyard work must still be carried out in order to help all those who are still weak in spirit and who shall experience a strengthening of their faith. For it will be followed by the time of the last battle of faith which will still require a final decision by the believers, yet anyone who perseveres until the end will become blessed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intervention by God ....

B.D. 3151 from June 7th 1944, taken from Book No. 41

The incomprehensible is about to happen .... God Himself will speak to people in a way which will generate fear and horror. This time will soon be here, for humanity can no longer expect consideration seeing that it is completely devoid of love. It will start the ball rolling itself, it will give rise to the intervention itself, for it constantly violates God's commandments, the commandment of love for God and one's neighbour. And it scrupulously carries out satanic actions which are bound to lead to ruin if God does not intervene and thereby still save souls who find their way to Him in adversity. And this is the sign of the time which God proclaimed long in advance, that the end of the preceding bitterly fierce battle will be determined by God because He wants to reveal Himself and His power. He Himself will terminate the conflict, yet differently than people expect .... Through His intervention, which consequently is of decisive importance for the whole world, He will steer worldly events in a different direction. People will have to realise that they are powerless and that a higher Power conducts global affairs. And they will have to bow to this Power .... The adversity, which human will had already made almost unbearable for many people, will be severe; yet then they will have to struggle with tribulations sent to them by God Himself and cannot revolt against them because they cannot hold anyone responsible for it.

Yet people's conduct prior to this cannot be called human anymore, and thus God will reveal His might to them .... Where people previously wanted to demonstrate their power and brutally proceeded against their fellow human beings, that is where God will show Himself in His actions, and compared to Him all are weak and defenceless and their shameful rage will fall back onto those who mercilessly only want to cause destruction simply because they feel powerful. No-one can possibly imagine the ensuing chaos once people's unbridled feelings of hatred and vengeance break through, and this destructive will signifies the disintegration of that which God the Lord created before it has reached its goal. People of the present time are typified by their constant will of destruction which is a sign that they are enslaved by the power which tries to obliterate everything in order to prevent the souls from drawing closer to God. People are not aware that the violent destruction of created things, be they human, animal or solid matter, has terrible consequences, how the immature spiritual substances within rage and wreak havoc and what turmoil this signifies in the spiritual kingdom. They pester and detrimentally affect people's souls and even the believers feel their influence and become disheartened and discouraged. A mighty will must therefore put an end to it for the sake of the spiritual beings which endeavour to approach God and are supposed to be diverted by God's adversary through his compliant servants on earth.

And this is why God's voice will resound immediately after the implementation of a plan which will exceed every atrocity ever devised by people. There is only a little time left, first a horrifying event has to take place for the whole world to pay attention to in order to hear God's voice even more clearly. Many victims will yet have to fall prey, i.e., they will have to sacrifice their lives for a dishonest cause so that those people in need of coming to their senses will pay heed, for they all contribute towards the chaos and thus are also partly to blame if they don't realise the injustice and stop supporting it. The divine voice always and forever admonishes and warns, it points out wrong-doing to everyone yet it also demands to be heeded or else it will resound with a voice of thunder to everyone's horror and pass judgment according to law and justice.

For the blame rests with everyone and only those can be acquitted who detest humanity's behaviour and want to belong to God, for they recognise the injustice and fear and know that the wrath of God will strike the evil-doers .... And the hour will come suddenly and unexpectedly, for it is the last great blessing before the end, so that anyone will still be converted who doesn't live carelessly and recognises God in the natural disaster, which is inevitable in accordance with God's will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Disappointment of the people - improvement .... divine intervention ....

B.D. 4155 from October 29th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

A great disappointment will be experienced by those people who hope for an improvement of the situation in life and do all kinds of work with the prospect of a better time. They believe they can reshape their lives through human hands and human will, they believe in an advancement in every respect, they carry out all work which amounts to provision for the long term, they are exceedingly hard-working in unimportant things, but they leave the most important thing unattended .... to make provision for the life beyond. Their thoughts constantly revolve around earthly duties, earthly pleasures, earthly prosperity. But they are completely indifferent to spiritual life, and thus it is understandable that they strive away from God even though they talk about His name, for the world's charms are stronger and the world is part of the one who works against God and wants to displace Him. And since they concede more rights to God's adversary through their desire, what they desire will also be granted to them, yet he will also take possession of their soul and a release from his control requires a strength of will which earthly-minded people cannot muster. For these people the disappointment will be overwhelming if the earth is afflicted by divine will, if the natural disaster destroys all their hopes and places them into extremely meagre living conditions which contradict all their plans and hopes. It will be a bitter time for all worldly-minded people which they can hardly bear, for now they realise the impossibility of a better way of life and are incapable of any constructive work. They grumble and complain and reject a creator and sustainer of all things, for they are unable to recognise God in this adversity which has occurred through the work of destruction. They will not accept a spiritual explanation of the coming time, for their worldly attitude deprives them of all ability to make a right assessment and therefore they will be completely at a loss in the face of the newly created situation until God has mercy upon them and either takes them from earth or gives them a renewed opportunity to take note of His word in order to be able to change seriously, if they muster the will to do so. Nevertheless, it is the only possibility, for the inclination towards the world is too great to be discarded if God had not simultaneously combined this work of destruction with an action of help in order to give them the opportunity to detach themselves from matter. For this must first be overcome if the human being wants to be saved, if he wants to get to know his actual task on earth and strive to fulfil it. Divine intervention through nature is the last means of help to turn to spiritual striving in free will and to learn to overcome the earth with its charms.

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Prediction of the natural disaster .... Dead stretches of land ....

B.D. 4940 from July 21st 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The last end will be preceded by an enormous event which is bound to make all people think who survive it. It will be an indication of the end, a small scale destruction compared to the final work of destruction of this earth, yet of such an extent as never experienced by humanity since the earth came into existence. It is a natural happening which will throw all affected people or those who hear about it into turmoil, for the consequences of the incident are too vast as to go unnoticed. So-called dead stretches of land will form which exhibit no life whatsoever because the vapours of the earth smother all life in these areas. An obvious influence by natural forces will be recognisable so that this phenomenon cannot be traced back to human activity because I want to reveal Myself through this happening in order to make the near end credible to people, which seers and prophets are constantly proclaiming on My instructions. People are faced by renewed suffering and yet cannot be spared this suffering as long as they still pay tribute to the world and only take notice of Me in passing. They must look for Me so that I can let Myself be found, which can only be accomplished by an event which can no longer be explained with people's activity. They must sense that a higher power is behind it and entrust themselves to this power in their earthly adversity. But in order to do so they must also be at the mercy of this power in order to take refuge in it of their own accord. They must physically be without help in order to noticeably feel the help from above ....

And for this reason a violent storm will arise which will uproot and lift everything off the ground; the earth will split open and from above and below people will find themselves at the mercy of the elements which they will be unable to fight as they will not have enough strength; an unbearable heat will, in fact, have already rendered people incapable and lethargic beforehand and so they will watch the first signs in nature without interest until they recognise their grim situation and then they will almost brutally fight for their life which they fear to lose. And I will help all those in their adversity who are of good will; I will provide them with realisation so that they can recognise My reign and activity in all happenings and as a result of this insight also instruct their fellow human beings and encourage them to turn to Me, and they will preach to them about My love, wisdom and omnipotence so that they will call upon Me when they are in danger. I want to be their Leader, and those who believe in Me and want to serve Me shall be saved during all hardship of the last days before the end. For shortly after this event follows the destruction of the old earth, as it is written. Yet people shall not experience this destruction unprepared, hence I will cast a shadow beforehand .... a final indication which should be given credence, so that people will not walk into eternal ruin, so that they will be able to save themselves if only they use their will correctly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The raging of natural forces ....

B.D. 5879 from February 17th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

You will hear My voice loudly and powerfully, and all of you who don't want to comply with My gentle call will be terrified when it resounds, when the raging of the natural forces reminds you of Me, Whom you have constantly opposed and Whom you nevertheless have to acknowledge in view of the expression of the elements of nature. Admittedly, you won't accept that there is a relationship between this and your activities in the world .... Yet only the latter prompts Me to express Myself visibly, for your activities demonstrate that you don't acknowledge Me as your God and Creator to Whom you will have to be answerable one day. You don't believe it and therefore don't live your earthly life according to My will .... And that is why My voice will resound, so that you will consider Me and change, so that you will recognise Me and accept My will as your own .... I speak to you, admonishing you at first gently and full of love to turn around .... in order to then raise My voice increasingly until it worries and frightens you because you will then fear for your lives. And many will lose their earthly life, yet if they still find Me in the last hour their physical death will be no loss for them .... it is merely a blessing, for they were in danger of descending completely, and then I can recall them the instant they recognise Me Myself, the instant of the awakening of faith, which facilitates the entry into the kingdom of the beyond and is the beginning of the soul's path of ascent.

I want to make Myself distinctly recognisable through the fury of nature .... Where human will is active faith in Me is only rarely to be expected, but where people are hopelessly exposed to the natural elements they are more inclined to remember their Creator and call upon Him .... And there is still hope that souls will be saved from the darkness of unbelief, that they acknowledge Me and then allow themselves to be guided by Me on earth as well as in the kingdom of the beyond. What earthly happenings cannot achieve can still be accomplished by a natural disaster on a huge scale .... that the God and Creator of eternity will be remembered and that a human being's heart will establish the connection with Him by way of sincerely appealing to Him for salvation from utmost adversity. And what is apparently an enormous work of destruction can signify a rescue mission for many souls which thereby escape eternal ruin and awaken to life, even if they suffer physical death. I will do whatever it takes to save those who still close their ears to My gentle and loving Words and whom I nevertheless don't want to let fall .... I want to call to them with a loud voice again and blessed are those who then will remember Me, blessed are those from whose hearts I have not yet been completely displaced and who call upon Me before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Most difficult conditions of life after the disaster ....

B.D. 3737 from April 6th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

In the foreseeable future you will live in different circumstances and have to change your way of life completely if you want to meet the requirements of the new, very difficult conditions and be able to endure them. This change is unavoidable because the last days are entering into their final phase, which is tantamount to a most difficult struggle for existence in order to achieve fastest spiritual advancement. Because the end is near and what this huge earthly hardship cannot achieve now cannot be achieved afterwards on this earth either. But anyone whose life is spared following My last forceful intervention can, with good will, also adjust spiritually, he can associate all events with the eternal Creator’s will and derive the greatest benefit for his soul from his attitude. Only entirely unbelieving people shall reject this correlation and try to master their earthly life with their own strength yet using their willpower wrongly, not in accordance with divine will. And they will succeed because they are supported by the God-opposing power.

However, the believers can also overcome the most difficult conditions with God’s strength, which they themselves can, in fact, feel but which does not express itself in an externally noticeable manner, in that the human being is surrounded by earthly possessions. Instead of this he will find inner strength to endure even the most difficult circumstances in life. Earthly hardship will be immense and not be easily rectified by normal means because the vast destruction, by divine will, will naturally result in massive chaos and make excessive demands on everyone’s strength. And then every individual will have to draw on God’s strength if he wants to survive the worst time. But this is at his disposal in abundance. And therefore God always instructs His servants to point to the forthcoming events, to inform people of the approaching disaster so that they can contact the strength-giving power in advance, Which excludes no one who desires strength. Human beings are not yet able to imagine such an intervention by God and thus dismiss what they find difficult to believe in. And yet they should mentally consider it so that they won’t face the event entirely unprepared when the day arrives. Because it will irrevocably come and surprise everyone including the believers, and it will result in enormous changes .... And blessed is he who changes his thought, who corrects his attitude towards God, who finds his way to Him in times of greatest need .... Because that day shall be a blessing for him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Need and suffering – God’s grace and love

Times of need - times of grace ....

B.D. 2312 from April 24th 1942, taken from Book No. 32

Times of adversity are also times of grace, for God in His love constantly endeavours to bring salvation to people and uses all means to make Himself known to them so that they will find Him and be saved from death and ruin .... .... every suffering is a mercy because it is a means God uses to change people's thinking. God knocks on people's hearts, He brings Himself close to them and waits for them to call upon Him, to let Him into their hearts so that He can then continue to work with His grace and love. For God's love never ceases, it is not limited like human love, it is without end and is eternally only for His living creations, which are of Him and shall return to Him for their own happiness. The fact that people do not recognize this love is only the result of their state of being far from God, which blinds them to the divine. God takes this state into account and considers people accordingly, but He never leaves them without help, and everything He sends over them in order to lead them towards Himself are favours offered to them by His love in order to win them back forever. And as long as the human being has not become completely hardened and loveless, these favours are not ineffective either. But they must always leave the human being's free will untouched, i.e., all coercion must be eliminated, the human being must be free to want to let the grace have an effect on him, his will must not be determined in any way to lead a different way of life, otherwise the being would be unfree and this would eliminate the soul's higher development. And this is why suffering is tremendously beneficial, because it often causes the human being to turn to God of his own accord and thus utilize a grace which God's love offers him ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Much suffering - Much grace ....

B.D. 4117 from September 7th 1947, taken from Book No. 50

Excessive suffering is an exceptional grace, even if you find this incomprehensible; for My love does not want to let you humans slide into the delirium of the world and confronts some of you with hours of starkest adversity in order to bring you back to your senses, or the soul would remain empty-handed and not progress in its spiritual development. Suffering must always be considered as a means to render the human being helpless and make him aware of his weakness, and as soon as the suffering has contributed towards the fact that the soul turns to Me, that it appeals to Me for help and humbly entrusts itself to Me, it is a great blessing and should therefore be viewed as a gift of grace. For suffering leads to Me, whereas the joys of the world as well as all earthly pleasures will achieve the opposite. Suffering motivates people to pray, without prayer it is impossible to make contact with Me. Without prayer you cannot be given the gift of grace, because prayer expresses the will and the longing for Me and thus enables Me to meet the human being and, as fulfilment of his prayer, give to him what he needs.

If, however, the human being is spared suffering, the body will continue to reject the spirit when it wants to communicate with the soul in order to give the person the right guidance and instruction. But it is absolutely essential for spiritual progress, for reaching a high degree of maturity, that the soul be instructed by the spirit and that the soul will thus unite with the spirit. For this purpose I must absolutely grant help to the soul with My strength and therefore must first be asked for it, because the human being's will is decisive and suffering impels its decision. Suffering can also harden a human heart, in which case the person will drift away and no longer strive for ascent, and then there is no other means that would be more successful. But as a rule suffering leads to Me, generally a human being perfects himself through suffering and then it has fulfilled its purpose. Subsequently, you should be grateful for it and also acknowledge it as a grace; for earthly suffering is not a permanent condition and extremely beneficial, providing you want to mature. Then you will be eternally thankful to Me, and in the state of realisation earthly life will be easier for you to understand and you will also be able to cope during the time of great need, for then you will not live your life alone but with Me, because you will open yourselves to Me in prayer and thus receive strength which you, in turn, can use after your own will and with certainty will use for your spiritual ascent, as you are destined to do ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Catastrophe .... Fulfilment of the Scriptures .... God's love for humanity ....

B.D. 2033 from August 17th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

Only a few people turn their attention to the signs of the time, yet these few know that the time has come which Jesus revealed, for it is coming to pass as it is written, and they realise that every period of time has been preordained for eternity .... There is no doubt that that a terrible catastrophe is about to befall earth .... God's love is infinite and so is His mercy, and whatever will come upon earth is only based on His love. For without this happening humanity would be doomed. God knows of the many misguided people, of their wrong will, of their heartlessness; He knows that humankind is in a state far removed from God, and He takes pity on their spiritual hardship. He has no other objective but to change this pitiable state of humanity, to remedy it, to save people from utmost distress. And He foresaw humanity's adversity and, during the time He lived on earth, announced what His love and mercy would bestow upon people in order to save them. Yet humanity cannot and does not want to believe, for it no longer recognises God, it laughs and scoffs instead of taking stock of itself and continues on the path which is leading to disaster. And the hour will come when the extent of adversity will be immense, when the elements of nature will rage such that people will be incapable of thinking and taking actions, yet there is no other possibility for people to recognise their weakness; there is no way which could persuade humankind to turn to God without such suffering, and if it is not to go entirely astray it must accept this event which has been predetermined for eternity and will come to pass as the Lord proclaimed ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Fateful earth run .... terrible happenings ....

B.D. 6686 from November 8th 1956, taken from Book No. 72

However your earthly life may turn out, it is determined by My will .... And this shall always be your comfort and give you hope that you will be faithfully guided through all dangers of body and soul. Everyone has to travel his earthly path according to My eternal plan, for I know and have known since eternity what every person's will is like, and his earthly path, his 'destiny', is determined according to this will. Yet everyone can move in complete freedom of will and make use of everything that comes upon him to mature his soul or even leave it completely unnoticed .... But everyone also bears the consequences of his life on earth himself. Anyone who voluntarily entrusts himself to Me and My care need not fear failure, for My love will constantly draw him upwards. And only in this way will you have to evaluate or pay attention to everything the coming time will bring you. Everything will be for the best for you who have found Me, who want to be Mine and strive to reach the aim for the purpose of which you are allowed to live on earth .... For I truly take care of your fate, after all, I want you to attain life which lasts forever, and that you can dwell in bliss in My vicinity if you surrender this earthly life and leave your soul to the earthly body .... I Myself want to win you, thus I will also do everything that contributes towards this. But much will still happen on earth which seems incomprehensible to you as long as you only look at it with earthly eyes .... But it cannot remain undone because there is no longer any delay of the end .... because the time until the end is so short that it requires the use of means which I certainly recognize as beneficial but which often make you doubt the 'love of a God'. And yet, it is love, for you humans don't know the danger you are in and one day you will sincerely thank Me for having found your way to Me in this great adversity and allowed Me to save you from falling into the abyss, from being banished again from the creations of earth. One day you will thank Me but it will still be incomprehensible to you because you don't know God's love and mercy, because you are unable to recognize it in the events which will still cause turmoil among all people. But if you could see the profound darkness which is spread across the earth and if you could look into the depths of the beyond to see how the dark forces constantly radiate their influence on the inhabitants of earth and how willingly they obey them .... you would truly want to put an end to the activity of these beings yourselves and help to release the individual souls from their control .... And therefore I have to use means of force which disempower their activity, I have to do everything in order to only induce people to call to Me for help .... because then the danger will also be averted, because then the soul will safely escape the power of those forces, even if it means the human being's death .... What does the body and its fate mean if the soul is saved, if it can emerge from it in order to be guided into the beyond by beings willing to help, where countless hands willing to help will stretch out towards it again and help it upwards .... Hell rages, satan rages and the world experiences terrible things .... But you, who are Mine, you know about My love, which is meant for every single soul .... And you should firmly build on and trust in this love which embraces all of you, My living creations, for it will not let you get lost, it will protect you spiritually and physically, as My wisdom has recognized as beneficial for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Soon fulfillment of the event

Fulfilment of predictions .... Preceding disaster ....

B.D. 5678a from May 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

The time is fulfilled, everything points to the end .... yet only the people who strive towards Me can see the signs, for their eyes are turned heavenwards, and thus they also receive enlightenment from above and don't doubt that now will come to pass what seers and prophets have foretold on My instructions. What seems self-evident to them is completely implausible to the worldly person, they look at things with different eyes than those who only see the world and therefore also only live for the world and its pleasures, and whose spirit will grow progressively darker the closer it gets to the end. And for all these people an event will still happen before the end which certainly could change their thoughts, which could make them stop and think, if only they had a little good will! I still want to reveal Myself in advance, although even then they still won't have to recognise Me .... Once again they shall lose that which they greedily aspire to, their earthly possessions shall be destroyed and taken away from them again, yet by a power which they cannot hold accountable for it .... I want to manifest Myself through the elements of nature in order to save them .... Where there is still a spark of faith in a person there is also an opportunity for salvation, for he can still turn his thoughts to Me in the last hour and call upon Me for help .... and even if he loses his mortal life .... this call will be heard and his faith will be rewarded to him in the kingdom of the beyond, where he will find help .... I only want to see an acknowledging thought and My hand will extend itself to everyone, in order to demonstrate Myself to him at last. I truly make it easy for you to believe in Me if only you would put it to the test by calling upon Me in spirit and in truth. And therefore I will make a final attempt to save them, to save those who have not yet entirely fallen prey to My adversary.

I will let the earth tremble and every hope of earthly rescue vanish .... And where no help is possible anymore I alone can still provide rescue, for nothing is impossible for Me .... And anyone who, in utmost crisis, remembers his childlike faith, who makes this final attempt to call upon Me, will truly not regret it .... He will be saved for time and eternity, since losing his earthly life will then only be a blessing if the soul still ascends in the spiritual kingdom. Although the forces of nature are not always regarded as an expression of My power and strength, yet mortal fear occasionally gives rise to different thoughts than the human being would otherwise have, he can recognise Me in an instant and therefore also call upon Me for help. Yet this never applies to the word which is merely voiced by the mouth, if the heart is not involved .... The time is fulfilled, but prior to this will come to pass what I proclaimed to you and repeatedly proclaim again .... an unusual natural event, which is intended to remind you of the end that will follow soon afterwards. I constantly admonish and caution you to take notice of My Words, and I draw your attention to the signs of the time, yet I cannot force you to accept My Words as truth .... however, commit them to your memory, so that they will remind you of the One Who speaks to you and Who truly only wants what is best for you, Who wants to rescue you from the abyss towards which those of you, who are completely devoid of faith, are heading ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Fulfilment of predictions .... Preceding disaster ....

B.D. 5678b from May 18th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

Hence the last Judgment is preceded by a serious admonition, an indication of the near end and at the same time the evidence of it, because My proclamation fulfils itself and thus you human can equally assuredly expect the end, which not long afterwards is intended to come upon this earth and its inhabitants. Humanity's fate is an irrevocably deep abyss, regardless of whether they stay alive for just a short or a very long time, for they are in a completely dark spiritual state and do nothing of their own accord in order to remedy it. This is why I will have to disturb their tranquillity .... Something has to happen which is so inconceivable to them, which horrifies them and makes their bodily death clear to them .... Only death scares unbelieving people and thus I will bring death home to them, yet only with the intention of motivating them into calling upon Me in greatest fear, Who alone can keep them alive when earthly rescue no longer seems possible. Such a call can still result in the person's salvation .... such a call can bring him closer to Me again if it arises from the heart and then surely will also be granted by Me. People have no idea of the event with which I want to remind them of My existence again ....

All elements will rage against each other, it will be as if all hell was let loose against people, and there will be no escape for them .... until I Myself command the elements and end the hour of dread and terror .... Nothing is impossible for Me, and this belief in My omnipotence, love and wisdom will truly have a miraculous effect in these fearful hours. For My Own will emerge unharmed from this experience, openly praising My grace and strength and My love .... And those who found Me in their adversity will join them in their praises, they will support their fellow human beings by helping and comforting them in realisation of the strength of faith, which they want to pass on to them as well. I have announced this event in advance and time and again will refer you humans to it .... Learn to believe and call upon Me if you thus recognise Me, and then also believe that My last proclamation will fulfil itself, that the end will come and with it the last Judgment .... And make use of this last time of grace, catch up on what you have neglected, don't let the last day arrive and find yourselves unprepared, for then there will be no more salvation for those who have as yet not found Me .... then people will remain in sin and be destroyed because they ignored My admonitions and warnings and thus will be unable to find mercy once the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Confirmation of the prophesies ....

B.D. 8949 from March 6th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

Don't let yourselves to be misled, even if the truth of My messages from above is doubted .... It will not take long until you receive the confirmation of that which I constantly announce to you. Yet it is difficult to persuade people who are still too attached to the world and its commodities to accept them, but then the events will affect them even more, for they will have to relinquish everything and be thankful that they were still allowed to keep their life. It will be indeed be a time of severe trials for all people who will be affected by the natural disaster, yet everyone who turns to Me with complete faith will visibly receive My help. This is why you should not miss any opportunity to draw your fellow human beings' attention to My intervention, which, however, will also stop an appalling earthly event, and which will clearly show that this adversity is not inflicted on you by people but that I Myself determine the distress which every individual shall have to bear, and which will certainly not be any less grievous yet will have to be regarded as the action of a higher Power which no human being can fight with his own strength. And then you humans will have to decide as to whether you want to acknowledge such a Power or whether you still deny it even then .... and this alone will determine your future fate. For then you will be helped by a power which will totally enslave you .... You will treat you fellow human beings in a ruthless manner and obtain everything you need at their expense in order to continue living your old way of life .... And yet he will not release you from his control anymore ....

However, anyone who is profoundly faithful will not be abandoned, I Myself will give him the necessary strength to persevere, because his love for his fellow human beings is evident and .... the measure he will use .... will also be the measure he will receive, for nothing is impossible for Me. And they will miraculously experience My help and humbly accept their situation. And the fact that it will come to pass is already specified in the Scriptures and has been proclaimed by seers and prophets time and again. But there is no-one left any longer who so firmly believes this that he will unreservedly commit himself to it, and even the recipients of My Word experience moments when they feel slight doubts creeping up on them. Yet they will be repeatedly instructed by Me to reveal themselves to their fellow human beings, and they certainly faithfully accomplish their work in My vineyard. For the one thing they are convinced of is that the time of the end has arrived, and therefore they also consider that My intervention will be possible .... especially since it is also confirmed in the Scriptures that 'there will be an earthquake so mighty, such as has not been seen since men were upon the earth.' And thus all the prophesies will come true because My Word is truth and must fulfil itself, only the day and hour has not been made known to you humans. And this is why you always postpone the event into the distant future without considering that one day the future will be the present and, thus, one day those people who happen to live at that time will be affected .... Let it be said to all of you that the time granted to you on earth is only short, and therefore do not doubt My Word which I transmit to earth because I don't want you to remain ignorant of the events ahead of you, because you still have time to change if you sincerely wanted to do so .... but that you can also irrevocably fall into the opponent's hands again and be bound with him so that you will have to cover the process through earthly creation once more .... You cannot be warned of this often enough because it is a bitter fate that you will have to bear again. Nevertheless, it cannot be avoided, for everything must be judged again and lawful order be re-established, so that the spiritual substances which are still bound in the form can also be helped to travel the path of return to Me one day in the state of self-awareness .... which therefore requires a total transformation of the earth's surface ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Making the most of the short time – you are about not long before

Exhortation to make good use of life on earth ....

B.D. 6408 from November 22nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Your earthly life as a human being is but a moment compared to the infinitely long time you already had to live through in the creations of earth, even though you were not fully aware of it. But as a human being you live a conscious life and yet of such short duration that it would truly be possible for you to pass the battle for the purpose of which you live on earth .... You had to suffer for an inconceivably long time before because you were bound, without strength and without freedom .... This long time has been an uninterrupted state of torment for you, which you will realize one day .... But as a human being you live in a certain freedom, and you also possess vitality in order to acquire final freedom. Thus you are, as it were, able to create complete freedom for yourselves and only need a correctly directed will to do so. The time on earth is only short, and precisely for this reason you should also muster the will to gain the greatest success from this short time on earth. For only what comes afterwards is the right life for you, but it can be exceedingly glorious and also just as painful .... Nothing too difficult is truly demanded of you humans and you could therefore pass your test of will .... And yet, most people fail because their desire for beatitude concerns wrong aims, because they already want to achieve earthly things which, however, can only be given to them in the spiritual kingdom .... They strive for wrong goods even though they know that they will perish with the death of their body .... They use the short time of earthly life wrongly, although they are taught about their actual purpose of earthly life and about the effects of a wrongly directed will and a wrong way of life. They only allow their free will, which was given to them after an infinitely long time of bondage, to be active in an earthly direction, even though they are constantly admonished and warned by God through His word, through His messengers, who want to help people to attain the right aim .... No matter how short the time on earth is .... people cannot and will not put themselves off until the time afterwards when they could reap a rich harvest if they had cultivated their land well during their earthly life .... But they want to enjoy beforehand, and thus they are content with fruits which bring them death instead of eternal life .... You humans are truly only granted a very short time to test your will, and you could pass the test if only you would earnestly turn to Jesus Christ that He may strengthen and rightly direct your will .... Such a request would truly not be in vain if only it were spoken in the heart so that it can reach His ear .... For every man who wills it becomes free through Him, through Jesus Christ, Who died for it on the cross .... He has promised you an eternal 'life', a life in power and glory, in freedom and light .... Believe His promise and turn to Him when you become weak and the world threatens to dominate you .... Call upon Him for help where your strength is insufficient to resist. For this is the battle you have to fight on earth, that you renounce what the world offers you in order to one day be allowed to occupy the kingdom which offers you imperishable goods and which lasts forever. Believe that it is possible for you to survive this battle on earth if only you call upon Jesus Christ for His support, if you hand yourselves over to Him Who has overcome death .... He will surely lead you to life, for He Himself is the way, the truth and the life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Only a short time of grace left ....

B.D. 7207 from November 14th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Every day takes you closer to the end .... And no matter how busily you create and work for your earthly well-being, your concern will be futile, for you will be unable to enjoy the benefits of your efforts, everything you think you can buy will be taken from you again and you will only have few possessions to take with you into the spiritual kingdom when everything is over, because you will only keep the spiritual goods which your soul acquired on earth. But regardless of how often this is said to you, you don't believe in an approaching end and your efforts to attain the possession of this world increase every day and render you incapable of working at improving your soul. Yet were you able to foresee that you only have a short time of grace left, you would be alarmed at how close you are to the end .... But earthly life moves on every day, one day goes by like the other, and this is precisely what makes you question predictions of this nature .... However, from one day to the next everything will change, suddenly you will be confronted by events which will completely disrupt every individual person's life, all of you will be pulled out of your usual composure and be faced with great dangers, you will have to defer your earthly work and plans because you will simply no longer be capable of dealing with them in view of the imminent dangers caused by human will .... For nations will rise up against each other and it will only take something minor to burst into flames which will threaten to destroy everything. And then people will forget even more what their actual earthly task consists of .... But neither will they be able to continue with their work and activity, but instead only try to save themselves and their belongings, thus only consider their physical life and comfort but never their souls. And they will have to recognise that they are powerless in the face of all events which threaten to befall them. They will appeal to people's common sense and good will but to no avail ....

On the human side everything will take its dreaded course, but the divine side will intervene and thereby shatter human plans; nevertheless, people will not be spared what they had anxiously feared: They will suffer the loss of all that which keeps their hearts imprisoned, they will lose everything and will be able to learn to recognise the power of God in a natural event of incredible magnitude .... For the Scriptures will fulfil themselves .... And you human are on the verge of this whether you want to believe it or not. You carelessly only ever create and work for your physical needs and will lose everything .... But you do not care to satisfy the needs of your souls .... For then you will need not fear anything even in this forthcoming time, because then you will be taken care of by the One Whom you have already accepted, otherwise you would not want to consider your soul. For this reason the forthcoming event will be mentioned to you time and again, time and again His Words will sound as an admonition and warning, and time and again the foolishness and pointlessness of your earthly striving will be brought home to you. You only need to listen to it and arrange your life accordingly, and you would be able to face the coming events calmly and without worry .... Don't be too delighted about the apparent calm and the prosperity in an earthly sense, don't stifle your conscience with earthly pleasures .... They are only illusions which will quickly fade away, for you humans will watch powerlessly as everything comes upon you and be unable to defend yourselves from it .... But is has been announced to you often enough, giving you enough time to consider it and change yourselves. The fact that you fail to do so will have a dreadful effect on you, for God's plan is irrevocably fixed and, as soon as the time has come, it will be implemented, as it has been determined since the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Mind and body seek to win the soul ....

B.D. 2532 from November 1st 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Spirit and body have one thing in common, that they want to possess the soul, that they seek to mould it, but in different ways. The body tries to mould the soul according to the world because the world itself seems to be the only thing worth striving for and therefore it tries to transfer its desire to the soul. The spirit, on the other hand, has a different desirable goal; it wants to occupy the spiritual realm and seeks to mould the soul according to this realm; it therefore seeks to shape it in a different way .... according to the divine will. Thus the divine will is opposed to the desire of the body .... The body strives for matter, whereas the spirit is completely removed from matter .... Its will and endeavours are only aimed at aligning itself with the eternal divinity, it only knows one desire, the union with God and the eternally light-filled state. Thus it also tries to determine the soul to join its desire, it tries to induce it to the same will, it draws the soul to itself, so to speak, and thus detaches it from the world, which for the body means giving up its desires, thus overcoming matter, the world, which is the opposite of the spiritual world. If the spirit succeeds in winning the soul for the spiritual kingdom, then the soul has passed its test of earthly life, for this means a turning of the will towards God and a turning away from the one who is lord of the world. The body still belongs to this world but if it joins the desire of the soul, thus willingly yields, if it wants to unite with the spirit, the spiritual substances, of which the body consists, are also ripe for the next moulding, and they cover the course of development in form considerably faster because they have given up their resistance. The spirit in man has overcome the body, and the body has declared itself defeated .... The body has left the soul to the spirit, thus the spirit has taken complete possession of the soul, the soul has united with the spirit. And now all thinking, feeling and willing is only determined by the spirit, and it must therefore be right, for the spirit is part of God and it will always determine the soul to do and think that which corresponds to God's will. And this is the state the soul should strive for .... in union with the spirit towards God and strive for union with Him in order to seek and find eternal bliss in the contemplation of God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God’s help in time of need

Hint on the upcoming event .... God’s protection ....

B.D. 1743 from December 18th 1940, taken from Book No. 27

In view of the difficult time, that is in store for the people, The Lord sends following pronouncement: Go into yourself and do not reject the admonitions of The Lord. The weakest will, to follow these, will already be blessed by Him, for it brings strength to you, to endure, what comes over you. Consider, that you have no other help in the great distress than God The Lord. Seek Him still before and ask Him for mercy, so that then He can stand by you, but do not let be spoken the warnings in the wind. Because the help can only given to you, if you ask for. Who imagines himself so strong, that he does not believe to need God’s help, whose spirit will be confused recognizing his appalling situation. But this man, who feels weak and implores to God, will surmount the severity, because he will be given the strength by God. Therefore hear the divine voice itself: Who pays attention to My words, who will need nothing to frighten, because I Myself am with him. And who possesses My word, can see everything to fall into ruin around himself, he himself will be admist the decay, watched over by My love. Because the elements will stop before Him, the storm will change and reduce its strength, the earth will make itself feel only softly swaying, and the life of those will not be at risk, who connect themselves with Him, that’s to say, who do not completely decline My word. And that is the sign of the truth of My word, that the one is out of danger, who lets speak My word to him, who only brings a little faith to My activity. Because so, as I come down now in word to you, who want to hear Me, so then I Myself will be near you and will protect you with My strong arm against the all-destroyed power of the elements, that ever do only My will and therefore will be banished there, where the children of earth live, who devoted to Me. Who only approves of Me in the heart, whose spirit I will direct to recognition, and his dedication to Me will also be his salvation. He will call on Me in the distress and so I can be with him. And therefore do not fear, but believe only .... Do not let your neighbour without warning, because that is true charity, that you draw his attention on what is coming and put it to his heart, that he should also turn to Me in the distress, to get My help. Because I only want your faith in Me, I want you to lift up your hands to Me, that you call for Me in distress, and that you ask Me already for mercy before, so that I recognize your will. And I will instruct all My angels, to keep away the heaviest suffering, because it is enough for My will, and you are surrounded by a rampart of beings, who serve to Me, and if it will also romp around you and over you, no hair of yourselves will be bent, because My love keeps watching over you and My protective hand passes you through all dangers ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Unusual aids in the end time ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assurance of God's help in time of need ....

B.D. 7371 from May 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

None of you need fear the end as well as the time of adversity which precedes the end, for it is entirely up to you how you attune yourselves to Me .... in order to then be allowed to experience help whenever you need it. It will be a difficult time for all people who go through earthly life without strength from Me. And these will be people who have no bond with Me, even if they are earthly well off and seemingly in possession of great physical strength. But as soon as they lack strength from Me the last time in particular will affect them particularly hard and almost overwhelm them, for earthly much vitality will be demanded of them in order to meet all requirements, and spiritually they will not take refuge in Me, the source of strength from eternity, where they truly could receive unlimited strength to accomplish their task in life. In contrast, the battle of life will be considerably easier for My own, who will certainly also be confronted by the same demands but due to their close bond with Me are also in possession of strength and everything will only seem half as difficult to them as it is felt by their unbelieving fellow human beings. But the time of adversity is irrevocably coming .... It also has to come for the sake of the few undecided ones, so that they will also find the path to Me. And to have found this very path means to also belong to My own when the time is fulfilled:... No matter whether the individual's earthly path comes to an end or the general end will follow .... anyone who belongs to My own need not fear anything, he will also be carried over the most difficult time, he will emerge victorious, and no matter how difficult the battles seem which the adversary and his vassals will wage against people .... or also: which the antichrist will wage against the believers in order to wrest them from Me before the end. But anyone who has once drawn strength from Me will turn to Me again and again for the supply of strength, and he will never be left without strength either, for he belongs to My own whom I truly help in the days of adversity, in the last days before the end. And then every thought of Me will already provide you with strength, for I will no longer let My own be snatched from My hand, I will watch over them and lead them through the last battle to victory Myself, as I have promised: "He who endures until the end shall be blessed ...." Only ever rely on My word, on My promises, which always mean help for you in every earthly and spiritual adversity. I will not abandon My own, and anyone who has already entered into a bond with Me, who calls upon Me because earthly or spiritual hardship frightens him, can count himself among My own .... I will not leave him without help and therefore he need not fear the coming time, I will always walk by his side and guide him through all adversity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Draw strength from God’s word!

Divine intervention .... detonation ....

B.D. 1493 from June 27th 1940, taken from Book No. 24

There will be one powerful detonation after another in the space of a few hours, and this will happen early in the morning and continue until the next morning, and people will fear for their lives and their possessions.

They will be headless and without any support, for they will not heed the repeated admonitions that come to them beforehand; they will be paralyzed by the work of destruction that they never thought possible. It is an incomparable chaos which that voice from on high calls forth. However, great work must first be done. Serious dangers, which seriously threaten earthly life, must be brought home to people in order to give them even small indications of its transience. A temporary change in living conditions must also cause people to reflect on how impermanent earthly life and everything connected with it is .... And then, if possible, the word of God must be made accessible to him so that he is now able to regocnize the connection between everything earthly and the divine will, if he wants to. Only then will he pay attention to the signs and begin to take a stand on them, i.e. he will decide in favour of or against God. If it is now possible for him to detach his heart from earthly possessions and to regocnize a higher purpose in his life, then the visible intervention of God will be visible proof of the justification of his innermost feelings .... to regocnize earthly possessions as worthless, but to strive for the knowledge of divine truth and a deep faith as the only desirable things. And this realization allows him to face the great divine mission calmly, so to speak. The soul regocnizes the necessity of it and accepts it humbly and calmly. And now it will become apparent how deeply the divine word has penetrated and what strength the human being is prepared to draw from it. The most important thing is that the human being establishes a certain connection with God, that he allows God Himself and His strength to have an effect on him by accepting the divine word and that he now moulds himself according to this word. If man would hear the word of God and live according to it beforehand, such a violent intervention would not be necessary, but this is the only means to move people to accept the word of God. God regocnizes people's spiritual state and uses the last resort in His love so that humanity is not completely lost, which is inevitably the case without God's word. Many a person will want to rebel, he will try to preserve his life with all his might, he will not want to bow down and never acknowledge a higher power, yet he will also regocnize his powerlessness, and good for him if he still acknowledges a lord above him in the last hour and hands himself and his life over to Him .... if he, too, allows himself to be seized by divine love by pleadingly stretching out his hands .... For God truly does not allow anything to come upon people without purpose, and He will help everyone who regocnizes the divine lord in this mission and submits himself to Him and His will ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Listening to the word .... using the gifts of grace ....

B.D. 6998 from December 21st 1957, taken from Book No. 74

You should not close yourselves off to the gifts of grace from above, for if you don't make use of them you will find it difficult to resist the world and its temptations because you lack the strength to do so, which you can repeatedly receive from My word. Don't believe that it doesn't matter whether I speak to you or not .... nor believe that you can receive strength elsewhere in order to be able to fulfil your earthly task, for this earthly task consists of overcoming the world .... matter .... and to mature spiritually, for which you absolutely need strength, because it is extremely difficult for a being which is still under My adversary's control to become free from him. And only I can give you this strength, for the adversary takes it from you and keeps you weak in order to prevent a return to Me. But I am always ready to supply you with strength in the form of My word. And since you humans only rarely accept it where it is offered to you, since you lack the faith that I Myself want to address you through those proclaimers, I have let further springs spring up in My love where the living water now flows towards you in all purity, where you may refresh yourselves and constantly draw strength from the water of life. And you should not pass by these springs but interrupt your walk and receive strength and reinforcement and only then continue on your way .... And then you will take every obstacle lightly, you will become overcomers and it will no longer be difficult for you to renounce the material world and its pleasures because you will exchange something else for it which will satisfy you far more than the goods of this world .... And it shall not annoy you when that which still belongs to the world is fatefully taken from you, when you are forced to make sacrifices, when obviously the world's pleasures are withdrawn from you, for then I only provide you with hidden help to detach yourselves, and I quietly urge you to where My word sounds, where a spring has opened, and I offer you something else for the loss you have suffered. It is by no means then a bitter fate which has affected you but a grace which you should only accept gratefully, for one day you will recognize it that only My love was active, even though it made you become fainthearted at first .... (21.12.1957) But once you have feasted on My word then your thinking will also clear up, the confusion into which you seem to have got will clear up, for one benefit of this greatest gift of grace, My word from above, also has a noticeable effect: you can explain all events around you, you know that they are only means to release you from the world and its dangers, you know that they are no coincidence but determined by Me and My will in order to help you. For as long as you humans regard earthly life itself as the purpose of your existence you will live wrongly, and then it will only serve no purpose .... But if you learn to recognize that it is only the means to an end, that you should wage the final battle in earthly life against everything that belongs to My adversary in order to come closer to Me, then you will also evaluate it as a gift of grace; and you can only come to this realization if you let yourselves be taught by Me through My word, either directly or through My messengers who receive My word from Me. Thus, first of all it concerns the knowledge which can grant you a certain realization if you willingly accept it. And this willing acceptance is 'acceptance of a gift of grace' .... If you now think about it and try to live your earthly life accordingly, this is 'using the gifts of grace' .... And it will certainly bring you success that you will mature in earthly life. For now you will also receive strength because you are willing .... It is solely a matter of your will, it is a matter of how your will adjusts itself when you are offered gifts of grace from Me .... But he has to decide freely, and therefore the human being can only ever be admonished and warned, the 'word of God' can be presented to him again and again, but none of My gifts of grace is compulsory, and therefore it is so significant how the human being decides on earth .... Yet he will also be helped in every way so that the decision will be easy for him and that he will make the right decision, for My love constantly seeks to save and to draw the souls upwards from the abyss into the kingdom of light, into My kingdom where there is eternal peace and bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Power of the divine word in times of need ....

B.D. 5225 from October 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Strengthen yourselves again and again with My word .... You receive unusual strength through it, you use a grace of such great effect if you move My word in your heart, if you therefore immerse yourselves in it and let Me Myself speak to you .... It is a gift from the spiritual kingdom which therefore also only has spiritual influence, i.e. it is only felt by the soul as a gift of grace. And yet you will feel its strength as an increased willingness to love, as spiritual progress, as increased striving for perfection .... My word comes from the spiritual kingdom and also guides you back into the spiritual kingdom from which you once took your origin. And therefore you can only gain if you listen to Me, as soon as you accept My word with your heart and make an effort to put what you hear into practice. Then your soul will spiritualize itself, it will, as it were, be raptured from earth and enter into contact with the kingdom, which alone is real and everlasting and whose inhabitants are beings of highest spiritual maturity who are constantly willing to give and distribute what makes them happy themselves .... Light and strength .... My word, which they receive from Me themselves and which they want to pass on out of love. As often as you immerse yourselves in My word the source of strength opens up and flows over to you, and therefore you can constantly draw from it, and the source will never run dry, My word will never lose its effectiveness. And if you are in distress My word is the surest help, for you establish contact with Me as soon as you read or hear My word, and in contact with Me you receive the strength from Me which lets your faith come alive, and you will be helped through strong faith. You will always be able to draw strength from My word, yet you test it far too little and make use of My gift of grace, you let My word take effect on you far too little because your faith is still weak. Therefore I can only keep pointing you to My flow of love which constantly flows to you. Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, I will refresh you .... let all of you be strengthened and invigorated by Me, accept what My love offers you, then you will be free from all suffering and hardship .... always abide by My word and your soul will be strengthened by its power ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work in love!

Exhortation to love .... need of the time ....

B.D. 2747 from May 20th 1943, taken from Book No. 34/35/36

This is the commandment of the hour, that you give love to each other, for the suffering on earth will be so great that you can only reduce it if you help each other, if you make love the guiding principle of your life. The less you think of yourselves, the more you put aside your self-love, the sooner you will be able to banish suffering, for when you are in love you no longer need it for your development and God can take it away from you. People's hearts are hardened, they no longer take an interest in their fellow human being's fate, they pass it by untouched and their souls suffer from too much self-love which, however, is a spiritual regression .... As long as the soul was still in bound will it had to serve and could thereby develop itself upwards, so that free will was now given to it in the last embodiment on earth. It should use this free will again to serve .... it should serve out of love and thereby redeem itself .... For the previous state of compulsion could not earn it the final liberation, even if it brought it considerably closer to the goal. But now it has the opportunity to get rid of its shackles if it moulds itself into love, if it serves out of its own drive, if this drive is love for its fellow human beings .... But love has grown cold among people .... And that is why a constant battle is their lot, a battle on a large and small scale .... a battle of unkindness against each other. Everyone only seeks his own advantage, everyone only seeks to satisfy his ego, and this also results in complete ignorance, a lack of faith, because the human being can only recognize when he is in love. He is in a chaos of thoughts and cannot find a way out of it, he does not know what he should and can believe, he has no power of judgement and therefore he rejects everything that is demanded of him to believe because his selfish love makes him incapable of recognizing the truth. And this is a state of extreme danger which entails unspeakable suffering and misery, because this alone can change a person, because it can educate him to love if he is not completely hardened in his mind and he only allows himself to become even more embittered. The desire for the world and its goods is the cause of wrong love in man, of self-love that disregards the welfare of his fellow man. Where this desire is overcome, self-love also diminishes .... the human being renounces his earthly possessions in order to give them to his fellow human being, and his state becomes freer and lighter. For it is not difficult for him to believe as soon as he only practices love. And the great misery on earth can only be banished through love, it can also be reduced for the individual if he is active in love, because God alone determines through His will what is granted to the individual. The human being, who unconsciously makes contact with God through activity in love, is no longer defencelessly exposed to those who have indirectly caused the suffering. God Himself takes care of him, and He turns the suffering to good when it has fulfilled its purpose .... that it has educated to love activity and changed man's wrong life to eager, unselfish labour of love. Look within yourselves and recognize the need of the time .... Know that only unkindness is the cause of all suffering, and that you can only remedy the latter if you change yourselves .... For without love you cannot redeem yourselves, without love you cannot be saved .... God as eternal love can only be close to you when you yourselves become love and eternal bliss is only conceivable in closeness to God when His love seizes you and can make you happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distress should inspire love ....

B.D. 6342 from August 31th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

Everything helps you to perfection that stimulates love activity .... There must, therefore, of necessity, be miserable situations in life which cause the fellow human being to intervene in a helping way .... There must be need and misery, sorrow and suffering, so that serving neighbourly love can be practiced .... One must need the other, so that man can develop upwards through serving neighbourly love. Serving in love is the fundamental law which must be fulfilled if the human being wants to perfect himself. The human being first has to be educated to love on earth, because his actual nature is without love as a result of his past apostasy from God .... but the divine father's love has lowered a spark of love into every human being, which is now to be ignited in free will and kindled into a great fire of love .... But the human being's will first has to be stimulated, which therefore happens through the neighbour's adversity, which is meant to compassion him and cause him to work in love .... There is no compulsion whatsoever, the human being himself must feel touched by his fellow human being's adversity, and he must want to provide help of his own free will, which strengthens the inner fire of love and constantly seeks new nourishment .... In order for his own heart to be touched by his fellow human being's adversity, he will often be placed in the same situation in order to experience the adversity himself, and as soon as help is given to him, reciprocal love for the helper will also awaken in him .... Where there is love, there can be no need .... Unkindness, however, causes hardship .... Although love will never be practiced on earth to such an extent that the adversity could be completely remedied, because people's fundamental nature is precisely poor in love, if not entirely devoid of love, and the earthly life as a human being only serves the one purpose of educating people to love, because only love can reshape the being back to its original nature .... into the image of God .... Nevertheless, people could also create an easier earthly life for themselves by working with love .... through constant service in love .... because then they would also have much strength at their disposal to master everything now .... But every adversity serves you to perfection as long as it stimulates your activity of love. Wanting to help already proves the divine principle of love, then the human being has stepped out of the spell of the one who, devoid of all love, only wants your downfall .... You humans will all bless the adversity which prompted you to work with love, which gave rise to the ignition of the spark of love in you, and one day you will regret every missed opportunity which could have meant progress for you .... Only servant love will help you to ascend, and you would only rarely practice it if you did not see hardship around you and thereby felt addressed .... But you will not be forcibly influenced, only through your own adversity and help will the benefit of timely help be proven to you. And from this you will also see that adversity and suffering are also means of grace, that they have to be so that the human being will practice helpful neighbourly love, for the spark of love in you needs nourishment so that it can flare up into highest embers .... And only a bright flame of light connects with the original light of eternity .... which is the purpose and aim of your earthly life, that you unite with eternal love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right use of vitality ....

B.D. 7593 from May 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Every day you are allowed to experience as a human being on this earth is a grace for you, for every day can still help your soul to mature, which will then earn it a degree of light in the kingdom of the beyond which it could only achieve on earth. Every day is a grace for you which you cannot value highly enough. For as long as you still possess vitality you can also work with love and thus gather spiritual riches which will follow you into eternity .... At the moment of death this vitality is extinguished and you stand there powerless, even if you wanted to work with love .... if you have not acquired spiritual strength through loving activity on earth. As long as you live on earth you should enjoy your vitality because you can use it to create spiritual possessions for yourselves, because you can use it to work with love and thus accomplish your change of nature for the purpose of which you are on earth. Admittedly, you can also let your will become active in the wrong direction by using all your vitality exclusively to create comfort for your body, and then you will have left the grace of being human unused, which you will bitterly regret one day when you have attained realization in the spiritual kingdom .... But as soon as you make good use of your lifetime, as soon as you take every opportunity to work with love, your spiritual wealth will constantly grow and your soul will purify itself, which love and suffering can achieve. This is why days of suffering can also be a blessing for you, for the more the soul can purify itself on earth the more permeable it will be to light when it enters the spiritual kingdom and the higher its degree of maturity, which determines its fate in eternity. For this reason you should also humbly accept suffering days and regard them as a gift of grace from God, for it is far easier to attain a certain degree of soul maturity on earth than it will be in the kingdom of the beyond, even though an ascent is still possible then but it requires far more strength than on earth. And then the soul has to acquire this strength through loving activity first, but it usually cannot muster the will to do so and has to rely on people's intercession or help from the beings of light .... And no matter how much your earthly life burdens you, no matter how difficult it seems to you to bear .... you can always request God's help, you can only turn to Jesus Christ at any time to help you carry your cross or to provide you with strength so that you are able to carry the cross yourselves. But you still possess the strength of life which enables you to increase your strength yourselves when you carry out works of love. For love is strength, and you will always receive more strength the more you practice love. And you will also be able to overcome difficult days and mature your soul through every day which brought you love and suffering. It will be able to enter the kingdom of the beyond purified and will have gained a great advantage over the souls of people who only thought of their physical comfort and went through earthly life without any complaints. And the soul will also thank its God and father for the suffering which earned it that advantage .... It will be allowed to enjoy the light and be blissfully happy in strength and freedom, it will possess riches with which it can work for its own and other souls' happiness who are still in poverty and torment in a state which requires help .... And they will be blessed to be able to help those souls because their need is unspeakably great ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Task of the vineyard workers

Strokes of fate .... disasters .... misfortunes ....

B.D. 8269 from September 10th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Hear My voice which will always sound to you from above because it is necessary for the father to speak to His children .... I have mercy on humanity because the end is near and it will mostly pass away without knowing what is ahead of it if it does not establish the bond with Me first. Yet people are so distant from Me, their God and creator, that they do not establish any spiritual bond whatsoever, that they only pay attention to the earthly world, which is My adversary's kingdom .... And they are not to be instructed either, for My adversary has confused their thinking and he has also hardened their hearts so that they only love themselves but feel no love for their neighbour who is in need .... Every person is only concerned about increasing his earthly goods and creating a sense of well-being for his earthly body .... Yet very few think of their souls, and therefore there is such great spiritual hardship on earth which time and again causes Me to speak to My living creations in the form of harsh strokes of fate, disasters and accidents of all kinds, for which you humans cannot really understand, that they are permissions from a loving God Who only wants to bring His living creations to their senses, Who addresses them in this way because they don't listen to His word from above. And therefore the earthly adversity will increase, the time of tribulation will befall people, which can serve to make people change their minds and take the path to Me. How easily they could find it if only they paid attention to My word which sounds to them from above, which is conveyed to them through My messengers. The transmission of My word is the most effective means, but its acceptance requires their free will, and I do not force it. This is why you, My servants, are very necessary for this last rescue mission of Mine, and I bless every work you do for Me ..... For it is a dreadful fate that awaits those who have not taken the path back to Me before the end. I know this and therefore still take from earth those who have not completely fallen prey to My adversary, so that they will still attain a clear light in the kingdom of the beyond and then be able to strive upwards. And that is why time and again you will hear of deaths in great numbers, and then you should always know that My great mercy has called these people from earth so that they will not completely fall prey to My adversary. The fact that good people will also be affected is truly not a disaster for them, for they can contribute to showing the others the way in the kingdom of the beyond. Their love can bring many blessings in the beyond, and they themselves will also be able to increase their degree of maturity through their redemptive work, which is their need in view of the many poor, sick and weak souls who suddenly found death and are without light .... Time is drawing to a close and every day must be evaluated for the redemption of erring souls. And what better thing can you, My servants on earth, do than to let Me speak to people through you? What better can you do than to spread My word and also make it accessible to those who are still in the world and find it difficult to detach themselves from it? Your constant bond with Me gives Me the opportunity to address many people, and the strength of My word will bring about a change of will in those who have not yet completely fallen prey to My adversary, and then they will also be saved from the abyss they are now approaching .... The fact that hardship will also increase has been announced to you time and again, but you should also have the right explanation for this, that only love for the creations which are still apostate to Me will cause Me to do so, even if you doubt it and sometimes cannot believe it when you receive news of great disastrous strokes of fate which affect people all over the world .... If they contribute to people being so touched by them that the will to help is expressed in them, that love is kindled in them, then these strokes of fate will also be a blessing if you consider that these people will escape a new banishment which will bring them endless times of torment and bondage again .... For I only ever want to help people become blissfully happy, and I will do everything so that they will still complete their course of development on this earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Admonition to work for God .... Catastrophe ....

B.D. 3713 from March 14th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

You will clearly and perceptively hear the inner voice which will call you to work for My kingdom when the hour of your action for Me has come. Then you should not hesitate but follow the voice and let Me take you to those whom you are to teach in My name. The immense adversity will be the best spokesman on My behalf, for it will, if only temporarily, open hearts for Me and you will be listened to more readily than ever before. People were left without inner resistance by the previous huge natural event which had deprived them of everything that was dear to them. The task you must diligently comply with in order to first provide spiritual help for your fellow human beings is to explain to them the immense adversity by portraying it as My final means of help in order to prevent their souls' total descent. In an earthly way I will guide your thoughts such that you will be able to ease the physical hardship as well and will give to everyone according to his faith. Therefore, you should try to awaken or strengthen your fellow human beings' faith in Me, in My love and omnipotence, so that they can partake in the blessings of a strong faith and be helped with their earthly hardship. For One can and always will help .... you must just believe in Him .... And where earthly strength fails My strength will set in if this is My will, and with My strength you can cope with all situations in life and with My help will also be led through the forthcoming harsh conditions. And thus you, My servants on earth, must purely concentrate on your teaching ministry, on your spiritual activity, on your fellow human beings' souls which are in urgent need of help. You must try to direct their will towards Me by proclaiming Me as a God of love to Whom they must turn in order to receive the strength of love from Him as well. People will suffer so much adversity that they will take hold of any life line, that they will therefore listen more willingly than ever and be grateful to find an explanation for the work of destruction which is facing the survivors and whose souls I still want to gain for Myself. Therefore, each one of you, My servants, should work within your circle, for you all will have ample opportunity to speak on My behalf and to mention My directly conveyed Word from heaven to earth. Make use of your time of activity, because you will find open hearts which are receptive for what you have to offer impelled by My spirit .... And I Myself will be able to work through you, I will be able to speak to people, and wherever merely the slightest will exists your labour will be successful, the souls will turn to Me which I Myself can then take care of according to their will and their faith. It will not be long until I will noticeably manifest Myself in the repeatedly announced natural disaster .... I will come suddenly and unexpectedly, for even if My Own take it into account every day .... they, too, will be taken by surprise when the first signs become apparent. Nevertheless, regardless of how distressing it will be, I recognise its urgent necessity and will not divert from it under any circumstances. And thus you must all prepare yourselves for it by accepting Me and My Word in your heart wherever and whenever possible so that you will have an abundance of strength when you are surrounded by great adversity and fear, so that you can grant comfort and strength to all who are close to you, who are led to you by My will so that you will proclaim My Word to them for their souls' salvation. Prepare yourselves for this mission, for it will require all your strength and will, yet if you possess firm faith yourselves, you will, fearlessly and without worry, be wise guides and advisors for your fellow human beings and for the benefit of everyone be able to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Short time of elevated work for the kingdom of God ....

B.D. 5149 from June 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Only a short time left, then a busy activity for Me and My kingdom will start, and all those who have a living faith and thus also have contact with Me will feel urged to work for Me because My spirit impels them in recognition of the extremely short time span which still remains until the last end of this earth. These people will clearly recognize Me in world events, that is, they will know that the end is approaching and that all signs point to it, and they want to transfer this knowledge to their fellow human beings because it urges them from within to communicate with them. They have, so to speak, evidence for the truth of My word and also want to convince fellow human beings of it, which is why the number of My representatives in the last days before the end will always increase and increase. And everyone will speak as his spirit gives him, for the will to speak for Me and My kingdom and to let fellow human beings find the living faith causes My spirit to become active in them, so that they thus, driven by the spirit, speak out what is of service to fellow human beings ....

This time still lies ahead of you, yet it will arrive sooner than you think, for everything I have announced through seers and prophets will come to pass, thus also that the apostasy from faith will be great and therefore the earth will experience a shaking which is suitable to lead many back to faith again. Moreover, great earthly adversity will make people receptive for explanations and words of comfort, and My proclaimers will therefore find understanding everywhere in the first time after My intervention through the forces of nature, for their words give people clarity and comfort and therefore they are receptive to instructive speeches and good encouragement .... But only for a short time do you have freedom of speech .... Very quickly an earthly power will emerge which dislikes your spiritual work and proclaims enmity towards you. And all spreading of My word will be suppressed .... But then it will turn out where the truth is which comes forth from God as the eternal truth. For only there will the enemy find resistance, whereas otherwise people will submit to the measures, deny Me and declare war on My own. You humans first have to come this far before it becomes clear which camp you belong to, for whom you decide, for Me or My adversary who will drag you into the abyss. And then I will need many disciples, people of strong faith with much love in their hearts who are faithfully devoted to Me and want to help their fellow human beings. For these alone are able to stand firm and be successfully active in the last battle of faith on this earth. And My spirit will announce to them what they should do and say, for My spirit will first guide them into truth which they shall then pass on to those who are still weak in faith but of good will. And I will bless their work, for they faithfully serve Me until the end, they are My disciples whom I will send amongst people again so that everyone who wants to be helped will still be helped ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Assurance of protection at time of great need .... act of destruction ....

B.D. 4513 from December 15th 1948, taken from Book No. 52

You have My word that I will not leave you in distress .... If now the hour will come when everything will falter around you and certain death will be in front of your eyes, remember My words and do not be afraid .... Then I will hold My hand protectively over you and will not let any harm come to you. Then trust in Me, Who alone can help you, Who also commands the elements of nature to spare you who want to serve Me. And you will live even if death will reap abundantly around you, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture. For you are to bear witness to the truth of My word, you are to speak afterwards so that what I offer you from above will continue from mouth to mouth. You are to give strength and comfort to the survivors, you are to enlighten the unbelievers and make them aware of God's will, which is made known to them through you. You are to instruct the doubters and warn people who deny Me, who don't want to acknowledge Me, you are to point all people to the last judgment, to the day which means an end on this earth for all people, good and evil. I need you for this work and therefore also protect your life, and if I give you this assurance you can look forward to what is to come completely carefree, for I will always help you if you are in need and also always give you strength to endure earthly tribulations which you still have to take upon yourselves for the sake of your soul's maturity. You will not live in order much longer, you will only have a short time left to care for and build up your earthly life .... Then the day will come which will destroy everything again which you have laboriously built up for yourselves .... the day which will bring such enormous changes that you would no longer wish to live if you did not know about everything. Then strong demands will be made on your faith .... Then you will have to prove how far you have penetrated spiritual knowledge, the truth, for this alone will give you strength, whereas anyone who does not know the truth will despair, for he will lose all faith in a God of love and omnipotence, for My reign and activity is incomprehensible to him. You should enlighten them and inform them of My plan of salvation, of their earthly task and their destiny. You should point out to them the near end and inform them of your knowledge about it and your mission. And blessed are those who believe you, who take your teachings to heart and turn to Me .... The day is near, therefore be eager in your activity for Me and My kingdom, make use of every hour and bear in mind that only the spiritual endures, but the earthly perishes and therefore should not be taken seriously. For there is only one thing you need to do to protect your soul from harm, I will protect the body or release your soul from its cover when its time has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Soon fulfilment of the announcement ....

B.D. 3669 from January 27th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

You, My faithful servants on earth, you don't have much time left until your work for Me and My kingdom, for the hour is near which will create a different sphere of activity for you than before. I only give humanity a short period of time to reflect in order to then speak through the elements of nature Myself .... to give it a sign from above that My might and My will shall be recognized. No longer worry about futile earthly things but only strive for your work, for your mission, which you have entrusted to Me. It will soon begin and I tell you this beforehand so that you should still use every day diligently, so that you receive strength and power through My word in order to be able to withstand what is coming, which will also greatly shake your peace. But do not fear, for My eye watches over every one of My servants because I need him in the coming time. A storm will pass over the earth of inconceivable violence and will uproot what is not established as the first sign of My might and power .... And then you will know that the day is approaching, then detach yourselves from everything that is dear to you and wait for My call. Share in your fellow human beings' adversity and loudly proclaim to them what I have announced to you before, that I Myself will speak through the forces of nature, that I Myself want to manifest Myself through this .... speak and don't be afraid, for I Myself am with you and speak the last words of admonition to people through you. And when the day draws to a close, draw strength from My word again and do not fear .... And I will jiggle and shake the earth, and good for him who recognizes My hand, My will, in it, who lets My language go to his heart and calls upon Me for help. His soul has found the path to Me and is not lost, even though he has to give up his earthly life. For the hour of death has come for countless people, as I have proclaimed before. And afterwards you will start your mission which requires all your strength and will but which you can also accomplish if you unite with Me and thus let Me Myself work through you. And so know that you don't have much time left and that every day is still valuable for you to receive strength and light from My word. Bear this in mind and put your spiritual work before your earthly work .... For the latter will be obsolete, but the former will be important, if I have spoken from above .... Recognize Me in My word and believe .... do not become weak in faith, so that you doubt the truth of My word, but expect the fulfilment of My announcement from the start, for I will not delay much longer, because it is necessary for humanity that I manifestly express Myself .... And if you want to serve Me, be ready, for I will call you when the time comes ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Completion is also possible in a short time ....

B.D. 8493 from May 11th 1963, taken from Book No. 89

And however you may be constituted .... you all still have the opportunity to perfect yourselves on this earth as long as you seriously strive for it. The firm will to fulfil your earthly task will also motivate you to pray heartily that I will grant you strength to do so, and truly, you will not address this request to Me in vain .... You will receive strength in great measure and My grace will pour out upon you and you will feel urged to work with love .... And then your transformation of being will begin and you will come ever closer to Me in order to unite with Me one day .... But this firm will must first be present, and it can be stimulated by all kinds of causes .... Strokes of fate can also lead you to think differently than before, you can be prompted by fellow human beings to think about the meaning and purpose of life, you can be driven by your fellow human beings' adversity to unselfish neighbourly love, and all this can rightly direct your will to come to Me and establish the bond with Me, and then you will already be seized by Me and receive all help to reach your goal. This is why you should not always regard difficult times as misfortune, for they can bring about a change in your thinking more quickly, and you can make spiritual progress in a short time, always in accordance with your will to love, which can be stimulated in times of adversity and now the change of your nature back to love can take place. And truly, you can achieve the same success in a short time which other people can achieve in a far longer time if they go through earthly life more indifferently, certainly making an effort to always live and think right and righteously but lacking the strength which an activity of love earns them. Their maturing process requires far more time, whereas such maturing can also come about in a very short time if the human being's will seriously strives for it. But it always has to be the drive from within, not the prospect of reward, because then the works of love can no longer be called unselfish. Yet every person who has the serious will to perfect himself will also have enough opportunities for love work .... And the bond with Me will thereby become ever more intimate, his soul will feel where it came from and that the spiritual kingdom is its true home, and it will consciously strive towards this kingdom, it will detach itself from the world, and with the turning away from the earthly world the desire for the spiritual kingdom will also become stronger, and all danger of being linked to the earthly world again will be over, it will have safely escaped the new banishment and therefore need no longer fear the end either .... For this reason all this shall also be held up to people time and again, through you, My servants, they shall gain knowledge about themselves and the meaning and purpose of their earthly existence. You can only impart the knowledge to them, for they have to muster the faith in it themselves .... But if they remain without any knowledge then only a life of love can put them into the state that they will be mentally taught by the beings of light, and then they will also travel their earthly path in accordance with My will, for love imparts the knowledge to them. However, since love has grown cold amongst people the knowledge has to be conveyed to them from outside, which can happen truthfully through you since you receive it directly from Me. And such true knowledge can also have the effect that the human being will mentally take a stand on it and thereby turn his will towards Me and seriously seek the bond with Me. And where there is only the slightest prospect that a person will still change, every possibility to achieve this change will also be exhausted .... and all of you who want to be of service to Me can contribute to this, because through you fellow human beings' thinking can be directed into the spiritual realm, which is necessary first, because no-one in the world can attain this realisation that he should strive towards the spiritual kingdom in order to fulfil the meaning and purpose of earthly life. As the human being now attunes himself to knowledge which is conveyed to them by you, he is free to .... But you should undauntedly do your work in My vineyard and I will support you in every way, for time is approaching its end and it shall still be well used for the salvation of erring souls which only see the world and therefore are also in danger of falling prey to this world, i.e. to matter. Yet the possibility of a soul's transformation still exists until the end, because I pursue it with My love until the end and it only needs to give up its resistance in order to be seized by Me, and then it will be saved for time and eternity ....

Amen

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Disaster (nature) ....

B.D. 7921 from June 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Whatever you will encounter in the last time .... is wanted or permitted by Me because it is conducive to your soul's salvation. For everything is planned in My eternal plan and nothing happens arbitrarily .... Thus you know that you are supported by Me and My love, because My love and wisdom is always decisive and therefore you can completely trust Me to guide everything through correctly, that I protectively spread My hands over you and help you in every adversity of body and soul. But don't waver in your faith .... I call out to you again and again that firm unshakeable faith in Me and My love will carry you over everything and that you can therefore look forward to what is to come without fear .... for I will obviously appear as I have proclaimed .... I will express Myself through the forces of nature and you will irrevocably approach this event because the time has come when people shall still receive a last hint of the forthcoming end .... where they shall recognize a power above themselves Which wants to express Itself in this natural event in order to cause you humans to turn towards this power and thus establish the connection with Me. But you humans cannot determine this time (this time cannot be determined for you humans) .... you can only believe that not much time will pass until I speak to you from above with a voice which you can no longer ignore .... But whether you want to acknowledge it as My voice is up to you, for even this natural event is not 'compelling to believe' .... And even then many people will still not want to recognize and acknowledge Me Myself, nor can they be given any other signs of My existence and My will, for I will never forcibly influence their faith and will, I will never forcibly break their resistance which they still oppose Me by denying everything concerning a higher being and the connection with this higher being .... But they shall recognize that it is not human will which is the cause of this unusual natural event .... they should realize that they themselves are completely powerless and therefore at the mercy of the forces of nature if they don't turn to Me with a heartfelt call for help, which then also proves their faith in Me. For this call must come from the heart or I will not be able to hear it .... You humans are close to it and you yourselves cannot avert this event, for it will come as a surprise even though it was announced to you a long time before .... It will also be inexplicable for the rational scientist, for things will happen which have never been observed before and which no-one will be able to explain. Yet the fact that I have predicted this to you shall be proof of My love as well as of the truth of My word which is sent to you from above .... It shall be proof to you that I also have the power to protect you, for you shall have living faith in Me, Who only lets everything come upon you in order to win you for eternity. For your hearts .... which belong to My own .... will rejoice and exult over the truth of what you receive out of My love and grace .... For you will know that One is with you, and you will give yourselves to this One with complete trust .... Nothing will frighten you any longer, for you know that you are united with Me and under My protection. And you should also still point to My coming wherever possible, for precisely the knowledge of this will be a great support for everyone when the day dawns which will bring a disaster upon people which, earthly speaking, is unimaginable .... For the earth will be tremendously shaken .... Everything will be thrown into disarray and no rescue can be hoped for from any earthly side. Only I will be able to help you, and I will also do so if you call upon Me, if you raise your hands to Me so that I will take hold of them and rescue you from utmost adversity .... And you should not believe that a long time will still separate you from that event .... It is close to you and there are only short hours of grace left to you which you should make good use of because you don't know the number of them .... Again and again I admonish and warn you, for My plan of salvation will be carried out as My love and wisdom recognized it to be right and successful .... And nothing can determine Me to deviate from it, because the time is fulfilled and because I truly know what still serves you, what can save you from ruin ....

Amen

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Announcing the end again - natural history ....

B.D. 8922 from January 31th 1965, taken from Book No. 93

I will always address you because without My supply of power you could not exist in the time of the end because this is so close to you that you would be frightened when you would know the day and the hour. But this must remain hidden to you to not make you unable to live, but I again and again point out to you that you still make good use of the time for your soul, that you do not live along without all knowledge. You certainly also only have to believe it, and worldly men will not be able to muster this faith, but also they are to experience it and also be pointed to a sudden recall through disasters taking place more and more often. Because it remains the same for every man whether he already loses his life before or still experiences the hour of the end .... his life is ended, and as his soul is constituted, so is also his lot in eternity .... only that the person who already loses his life beforehand is spared the faith struggle, which still makes great demands on people's steadfastness if they are to confess Me before the world .... And the possibility still remains for them to come to recognition in the spiritual kingdom, to let themselves be taught by willing redeeming powers in the hereafter and then not to sink into deepest darkness. But this fate has to be expected by those who walk along completely without faith, who do not think of a power, to which they owe earth life, and who therefore completely surrender to the earthly world, therefore are members of My adversary and will be bound with him on the day of judgement .... And there will be very many of them because the world, i.e. the people who inhabit this earth, will become ever more degenerate .... And the greatest evil is that self-love is so predominant that they no longer respect their neighbour, that their hearts are hardened, that everyone wants to rule and declare war on his fellow human being, that therefore My adversary is very clearly recognizable by their nature. That is why also the end has come where I have to restore the whole earth to a right station of education for the spiritual, which again has to start the walk over earth to once again reach the stage as man. Because eternal times this process will still last, and again and again the opponent will be able to unfold his power when men will again be afflicted with matter, but what now will not be the case for a long time. Because men of the new earth are so devoted to Me in love that I mean everything for them and so also My opponent will have no power over these men .... That you now stand in this time, you do not want to believe, and that is why I will once again sound My voice, which you all will have to hear .... I will give you a visible sign of My power, which you doubt, who do not want to acknowledge Me as your God and creator .... And this sign will not be long in coming but it will be so powerful that you would have to recognize Me by it .... I announce it to all of you that you will get into completely changed living conditions overnight where only the one can help you when you call upon Him for help in your trouble .... And this event precedes the last judgement, but it also already means the end for many men, who will be victims of the natural disaster .... as I have already announced it often. But their fate is not yet the worst, for the kingdom on the other side is still open to them, where they are offered the opportunity to make up for what they have neglected, so that they need not share the fate of those who will be banished into matter at the end .... This event is still the last appeal to the unbelievers that they still think of the power, which stands above them, which gave them life and which also now can help them when they call on Me. But this intervention is irrevocably followed by the end, which will not be long in coming. And then no more mercy is to be expected because I have to leave the spiritual that is completely opposed to Me to My opponent who has a right to it. He will indeed not be able to keep it because I bind it again into matter for its own sake; I withdraw it from his power and make him himself incapable of all influence so that he is therefore bound for a long time. Whether you believe this or not .... No long time passes anymore, and you will experience it .... And therefore make sure that you belong to My own, whom I will protect from his influence .... who will endure until the end .... until I come to take them ...._>Amen

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Intimate connection with God necessary ....

B.D. 3180 from July 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

You all have to comply with the commandment of the hour, and this is: intimately unite with God, for only with Him will you be able to assert yourselves in the world. It is more urgent than ever that you seek Him, that you approach Him and appeal for His grace and blessing, for the adversity will be great and no one will be able to help you but the one Who rules over heaven and earth. And therefore you should unite yourselves with Him, and that with all eagerness, for it is not much longer that you will need extraordinary strength. And then you will no longer be able to muster the will to approach Him when everything around you threatens to collapse. Therefore call upon Him beforehand and ask Him to increase your strength, to take all weakness from you, to have mercy on you and not let you fall in the temptations which will threaten every believer on the part of the earthly world. The heartfelt prayer beforehand will be answered as long as it only applies to spiritual well-being, and people need not fear that God will not take care of their worries and hardships .... He will show Himself to those who need strength as soon as they have already been in closest contact with God, for He rewards their love .... They are His children whom He will gently lead out of all dangers. And therefore believe in Him, believe in His might and in His love which looks after you uninterruptedly, and believe that He directs everything such that it is good for you, even if you don't recognize this straight away. If you vividly imagine God's love, wisdom and omnipotence, a deep inner peace will enter your heart, for then you will also know that nothing can come over you unless it helps the soul to mature. And no matter how it comes about, it is God's will to which you should submit yourselves so that you will no longer oppose God but, in deep, true filial love, appeal to Him for His support, which He will truly not deny you ....

Amen

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Exhortation to spread the proclamations .... near end ....

B.D. 3998 from March 13th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Pay attention to the announcements which point to the near end, for they are a special gift of grace, even though their content touches you terribly. The last words of admonition are a proof of God's love Who still wants to help you shortly before the end so that you will be protected from spiritual ruin. And they will become ever louder, the admonitions will sound ever more urgent, for humanity is in greatest danger. Yet faith in the truth of the announcements is lacking and therefore they will not be taken seriously, the divine voice will not be recognized and the admonitions will fade away in people's ears and leave no deeper impression. The seer and prophet are not respected, people's attention is directed towards earthly goods, the care for the soul is omitted and divine love remains unrecognized; people are content with the world of appearances and do not strive for the spiritual world which alone is valuable and enduring. And God cannot express Himself more obviously than through the elements of nature .... for these are inaccessible to people's will, consequently only a power Which is exceedingly powerful can subdue them. And this being will reveal itself when the hour has come, which has been set since eternity .... And God always and constantly points this out so that they will also get to know the giver by the truth of the manifestations and now submit themselves to Him. For many who have taken notice of these gifts will have great grace to remain alive, and these will have the evidence of truth and now eagerly stand up for it. And therefore these announcements shall be spread, they shall be made accessible to all who cross the path of the one Who received them from above, they shall be spoken of unabashedly, for this is why God reveals Himself through the voice of the spirit, so that His will is made known to people, and this is why He announces His plan of eternity to people, so that they will benefit from the knowledge .... so that they will work on themselves while there is still time. And time is short .... Believe this and live as if tomorrow is the last day for you. And don't let God speak to you in vain, listen to His voice and believe that He Himself wants to admonish and warn you in love and concern for your souls. He does not want to let you experience the day unprepared when an inconceivably great natural disaster will take you by surprise and bring a change of life for you humans which you cannot imagine. He will express Himself, and everyone who is of good will will be able to recognize Him. Again and again He will make Himself heard and point you to that day which will be followed in a not too long time by the last end, the day of judgement and the complete downfall of everything on earth. And those who survive the day of natural disaster can speak of an extraordinary grace, for it will now be easy for them to believe because everything will come to pass as it is predicted. Therefore this event should be eagerly mentioned, the announcements should always be spread with the indication that there is not much time left, that the care for the souls is extremely important and that earthly things should remain unnoticed as far as possible because they are void, for all possessions will be taken away from people who cling to earthly things, so that they will recognize the worthlessness of matter and the will of God Who can give and take and does so as it is beneficial for the human being's soul, which He wants to save from eternal ruin ....

Amen

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