Redemption only with Jesus Christ

In The Word of God are texts published and offered which Bertha Dudde was permitted to prophetically receive and record. One promise of Jesus Christ was (John 14.21): ‘Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.’

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

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Who was Bertha Dudde?

Bertha Dudde wurde am 1. April 1891 als zweitälteste Tochter eines Kunstmalers in Liegnitz, Schlesien, geboren.

Bertha Dudde was born on 1. April 1891, as the second oldest daughter of a painter, in Liegnitz, Silesia. She became a dressmaker and began to receive pronouncements from God through the ‘Inner Word’ on 15. June 1937.

“In a clear dream I was moved to write down my thoughts after devout prayer. Understandably this often gave way to doubt and inner conflicts until I was convinced that I was, myself, by no means the initiator of these exquisitely gracious words; but instead it was the spirit within me, in other words, the love of the Heavenly Father was obviously responsible for them and introduced me to the truth”.

“I was given knowledge of the spiritual world which far exceeded my elementary school education. I received and receive this knowledge as a dictation in a state of complete consciousness; I write down everything I am told in shorthand, in order to then transfer it word for word to clean copy. The procedure does not take place in a state of compulsion, for example in a state of trance or ecstasy, but in an absolutely level-headed frame of mind. However, I have to want it to happen and then I can receive these dictations voluntarily; they are neither bound by time nor place.”

“Now I only have one wish, which is to be able to make these gifts of grace accessible to many more people and in accordance with the will of God Himself to be allowed to do much more work in His vineyard.”

(Quotations from an autobiography from 1959).

Bertha Dudde died on 18. September 1965 in Leverkusen, Germany.

Published by friends of the New Revelation, Hans-Willi Schmitz und Wilhelm Wegers

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Autobiography of Bertha Dudde

At the request of many friends Bertha Dudde wrote the following biography in 1953:

I have been writing messages received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Silesia, today's Poland. I had a normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent’s home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents continued, so did the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant - Mother a Catholic. We children were brought up in the Catholic faith but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that each child in later years was able to pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system although I respected the church. I could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to release himself from it. I was not spared from this either. But the question as to what is the Truth and where it is to be found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's Prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find His kingdom. This prayer was answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited for the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me until, in a strange dream I experienced something which later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a Te-Deum' to the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, …. did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then God Himself took away my doubts. He answered me and I acknowledged Him as our Father, in His Word. My faith grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of or read about, strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The Words came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily keep pace, writing line after line.

Now I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve God and do what His will wants me to do.

I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in every respect, foreign to me. It was only after years that I found confirmation of what I received when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; ‘The Great Gospel of John’ and ‘The Youth of Christ’. Then I understood that other people were also given the Word of the Lord, that God had spoken to His children at all times and that God will continue to do this in His endless love and mercy.

I found in Lorber's writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the Word that came to me, but in His love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in which the Father displays His exceedingly great goodness.

It became clear to me that my limited education due to lack of money, and my lack of time to read good books or visit performances, became my advantage. I was now able to concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from above without resistance. In my experience, an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too much bound to dogma to accept and embrace divine revelations without resistance.

Still, there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these divine teachings with increasing interest. Their interest not only concerns the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the messages I received, these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal errors whenever there is an opportunity. But everyone is free to take the Lord's Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's Word and does not act accordingly increases the distance between himself and the Father even more. When he does not follow the warning Words of love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also, in the same measure, lack in grace by disregarding God's commandment of love.

In God's grace people are led anew to the Gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For the merciful love of God seeks to save all who still can be saved before the turning point comes. And it will come. The end-time which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the Lord does not differentiate between His children. ‘Come ye all to Me’ sounds His call and blessed is he who hears His call and follows Him. God loves His children. He wants to make them all happy, even when they do not want to know Him.

Recorded November 22, 1953

Bertha Dudde

Bertha Dudde was permitted to leave her earthly shell on September 18, 1965 to return to the Father’s heavenly house.

Table of Contents

8789 - The knowledge of Jesus and His "work of redemption"....

5874 - Unredeemed souls.... recognition of Jesus Christ....

Original sin – the reason for Jesus’ work of redemption

5768 - Occasion and meaning of the work of redemption....

6973 - God's plan of Salvation.... Original sin.... Adam's fall.... Work of redemption....

5042a - Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin.... work of redemption....

5042b - Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin.... work of redemption....

The mission of Jesus Christ

8068 - The Eternal Light descended to Earth....

8131 - The passion of Jesus as a human being....

6221 - Life and death.... Jesus Christ - redeemer....

2072 - Work of redemption....

6809 - Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter....

God Himself, love, accomplished the work of redemption in Jesus Christ

5356 - Incarnation and redemptive work of Jesus....

8016 - Jesus Christ and His work of redemption....

8898 - God Himself accomplished the work of redemption....

The spiritual reason of the work of redemption

8303 - The act of Salvation and its spiritual reason....

8152 - The spiritual grounding of the work of redemption....

Recognizing the work of redemption

5540 - Why Jesus Christ and His work of redemption must be recognized....

7664 - Right attitude to the work of redemption....

8138 - The living faith in the work of redemption....

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

3787 - Confessing Jesus and the act of Salvation....

Graces of the work of redemption

2101 - Graces of the work of redemption....

3279 - Work of redemption.... suffering.... free will....

6521 - Benefiting from the graces of the work of redemption....

Recognize guil tand and ask for foregiveness

7959 - Conclusion of earthly progress only with Jesus Christ....

3335 - Guilt of sin.... forgiveness.... redemption.... cross of Christ....

7330 - There is no redemption of guilt without Jesus Christ....

9010 - Recognition and admission of guilt....

The will to redeem

7033 - Most important grace of the work of redemption: strengthening of the will....

1429 - The will to redeem.... affliction of the underworld....

3213a - Self-overcoming.... strengthened will.... Christ's act of salvation....

3213b - Self-overcoming.... strengthened will.... Christ's act of salvation....

Detachment from the opponent with the help of Jesus

8691 - The adversary's activity will not be prevented....

7519 - Victory over the adversary with Jesus Christ....

8548 - Detachment from the enemy.... feeding the truth....

6972 - Call of Jesus Christ in temptations and hardships through the adversary....

Redemption through love

3338 - Love work.... beginning redemption....

0867 - Redemption through love.... rebirth of the spirit.... overcoming death....

2378 - Only love redeems.... shaping of the heart....

3555 - Only love redeems on earth and in the hereafter....

No self-redemption – redemption only through Jesus Christ

5106 - Self-redemption.... only with Jesus Christ....

7904 - Self-salvation?.... Jesus‘ work of redemption....

6307 - Salvation only through Jesus Christ....

7385 - The most holy name of Jesus.... redemption....

Redemption from the form – gift of grace of the embodiment as a human being

6386 - Redemption of the hard matter....

5351 - Unleashing spiritual forces.... Eruptions.... Period of redemption....

3668 - Earthly activity - redemption process....

6318 - Release from form....

7464 - Using the time on earth to break free from the mould.... Jesus Christ....

Redeeming activity on earth

3960 - Redemptive work greatest act of neighbourly love....

5375 - God wants to work in man.... redeeming activity....

6422 - Readiness for redeemer work....

7789 - God as the "guardian" of truth?.... incorrect education....

7969 - The redeeming power of love....

Redeeming work of vineyard workers

5082 - Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

8184 - God's commission to the disciples of the end times.... Work of redemption....

5263 - Continuation of the work of redemption....

8412 - Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect....

Redeeming work for otherworldly souls

5878 - Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ....

6390 - Redeeming action on souls....

7396 - Redeemer work on souls beyond....

7839 - Directing the souls in the beyond to Jesus Christ....

Redemptive work through intercession

6351 - Power of intercession for the unredeemed....

7382 - Redeemer work in the afterlife....

6266 - No intercession in vain for souls beyond....

Participation of the beings of light in the work of redemption

3960 - Redemptive work greatest act of neighbourly love....

8720 - Light beings help vineyard workers....

7288 - Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep....

End of this redemption period

2564 - Redemption period comes to an end....

6432 - Redemption period with Jesus Christ....

Connection with Jesus Christ

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

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

5952 - "No one comes to the father except through Me...."

7649 - The redemptive work of Jesus was unique....

5375 - God wants to work in man.... redeeming activity....

6422 - Readiness for redeemer work....

7786 - The living witness to Jesus Christ....

7969 - The redeeming power of love....

5082 - Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

8184 - God's commission to the disciples of the end times.... Work of redemption....

5263 - Continuation of the work of redemption....

8412 - Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect....

5878 - Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ....

6390 - Redeeming action on souls....

7396 - Redeemer work on souls beyond....

7839 - Directing the souls in the beyond to Jesus Christ....

6351 - Power of intercession for the unredeemed....

7382 - Redeemer work in the afterlife....

6266 - No intercession in vain for souls beyond....

5811 - Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption....

8720 - Light beings help vineyard workers....

7288 - Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep....

2564 - Redemption period comes to an end....

6432 - Redemption period with Jesus Christ....

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

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

5952 - "No one comes to the father except through Me...."

7649 - The redemptive work of Jesus was unique....

The knowledge of Jesus and His "work of redemption" ....

B.D. 8789 from March 24th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Seldom only will a man penetrate into deepest spiritual knowledge as long as his soul still dwells in a material outer form, which is not yet completely spiritualized and will always form an obstacle for the radiating through of divine love power in strongest measure, as it goes out from God Himself, which could not be endured by the being before it has overcome all matter and is therefore completely free of it. And to the deepest knowledge belongs now once the mission of Jesus, the work of redemption and the becoming man of God in Him .... Insofar as people can be given information about it, this also happens, but it is only ever possible when God can address a person Himself through His spirit .... Nevertheless, even then it can only ever happen in a form which is comprehensible to the human being, it can only ever be explained to him in such a way as he is receptive to it, for divine wisdom surpasses human intellect and can again only be understood by the spirit in the human being because this is the divine part .... For this reason you will also understand that only 'working of the spirit' can guarantee truthful instruction, and that it then only ever depends on the individual person's degree of love or maturity as to how far he penetrates wisdom from God .... into a knowledge which is and will remain unfathomable to the intellect. Revelations through the spirit are only rarely received (accepted) and the reason for this is that men lack all knowledge about it that God reveals Himself again and again, and as long as such work of God is denied or disputed, the proof is already given that the spirit in man still sleeps, that it is hindered to work, that man has not yet established the intimate union with the father spirit from eternity and therefore also cannot be taught directly by him. But this bond is possible, and it produces the most glorious results by introducing people to extensive knowledge, by the spirit out of God answering every question for the human being, by solving every problem and thus 'introducing him to truth' .... And yet people also claim such an act of grace for themselves, which cannot have an effect on them because the prerequisites are not given for God to manifestly express Himself .... that He reveals Himself and guides truthful knowledge to earth. And it is always just a matter of seriously examining what kind of bond the man believes to have established with God .... And now only Jesus Christ's act of salvation and God's human manifestation in Him can be regarded as certain as touchstone, for these revelations are the most important thing for people to achieve their aim on earth: union with God .... And anyone who describes himself as a vessel of God to whom He reveals Himself but who cannot give an informative explanation about it or whose 'revelations' lack such knowledge should not consider himself a divine vessel which receives God's flow of love and grace in the form of His word. For only a bright light can radiate from God, and every recipient of light must be able to radiate it on again. But if a man has no 'light' to show, then he is also no divine vessel in which the spirit out of God can work .... The commandments of love are certainly the most important, because through the fulfilment of these a person can prepare himself as a divine vessel for His flow of love .... And every man knows about these commandments of love, and every man also has the possibility to fulfil them .... And everyone will always be blessed who seeks to stimulate his fellow human beings to love and therefore can also rescue his fellow human being from spiritual adversity, and every person will also be urged through the voice of conscience, which is likewise God's voice .... be urged to work in love .... But to be able to receive revelations, of deepest spiritual content, man himself must lead a love life, to awaken the spirit in him to life, and then the spirit out of God will also instruct him, who knows about everything, also about the deepest depths of wisdom, who hands out according to the degree of love and maturity of the receiver. And this one will also be introduced to the knowledge about God's human manifestation in Jesus and about Jesus Christ's work of redemption .... Only then is there also an obvious proof of divine work, because no-one can explain and substantiate the problem of redemption out of his intellect, but the intellect of a loving man will also possess the capacity of comprehension, because through love the spirit was already awakened in him, while a man without love will not muster a right understanding for it, rather will be defensive about it when he is given information intellectually. This is also the explanation why so little knowledge is to be found precisely about God's incarnation in Jesus and His great work of mercy, for such knowledge cannot be transmitted in a scholastic way but can only be conveyed to people by God's spirit and requires a suitable vessel which accepts it without contradiction and which has not been filled with wrong knowledge beforehand. and which is also able to comprehend a spiritual good, for which precisely the 'awakening of the spirit' is a prerequisite. Nevertheless, God will always guide pure truth to earth where it is only intimately desired. And where men themselves are no longer able to form themselves to divine vessels for this pure truth, there beings of light take pity on them and enter into an embodiment on earth to serve as mediators between God and men in a time where only pure truth, which starts from God, can still bring rescue to men in their trouble .... whatever will be more often before the end of an earth period, so that still quite many erring souls will be rescued before the end comes ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Unredeemed souls .... recognition of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5874 from February 10th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

Countless souls on earth are still unredeemed, that is, they have not yet attained the graces through Jesus Christ which set them free from the power of God's adversary. These people are still outside of those for whom Jesus Christ died on the cross, and they are therefore outside because they do not acknowledge Him as God's son and redeemer of the world, because they know nothing about the significance of the act of salvation, because Jesus Christ is no more to them than a historical person who is regarded as the founder of a religion which was made by human beings to be so .... They mention His name without any certainty that He is the saviour for every individual person from a pitiable state which the soul will only recognize at its demise. People all know Him .... Yet only a few believe in Him as the one Who has made a spiritual transformation on earth possible .... Who therefore may not be ignored by those who want a spiritual change, a spiritual progress .... who believe that they do not go through earthly life without a purpose .... These therefore must find their way to Jesus Christ, otherwise they will not fulfil the purpose on earth .... And the significance of the act of salvation can still be made understandable to them as long as they are willing to live earthly life in accordance with its purpose. They will not completely reject what is given to them as enlightenment, they will think about it and be more willing than people for whom earthly life is only an end in itself. These find no connection with Jesus Christ because they reject everything .... a life after death, a spiritual earthly task, a human being's weakness and deficiency due to the fall of man, a perfection to be achieved and thus also a helper Who makes this becoming perfect possible .... And for these people there is also no salvation, no ascent .... They will sink ever deeper into the abyss, into the hands of the one who, as God's adversary, will also work against Jesus Christ and His act of salvation with all means and who therefore deprives people of all light about it, who will do everything to prevent the knowledge about Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and to strengthen people's belief in earthly life as an end in itself. And he will also succeed, because these people only live in selfish love and therefore any illumination through the spirit is impossible .... whereas the former .... people who strive for perfection can also develop love within themselves and thereby mentally take paths which can lead to the right realization of the problem of Jesus Christ .... The divine mission of the man Jesus must be recognized and acknowledged so that the divine redeemer will also be called upon for help, so that the graces He acquired through His crucifixion will be given to the human being and he can make use of them .... And already the will to receive information about Jesus Christ, Who cannot be denied as a historical person, will not be accepted if it is not desired to be answered negatively .... will lead the human being one step further, because God gives light to every human being who desires light, and because everyone should find the path to Him, which, however, only goes via Jesus Christ ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Original sin – the reason for Jesus’ work of redemption

Occasion and meaning of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5768 from September 13th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

You should recognize Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world and then you will also confess Him before the world. But in order to be able to recognize Him you first have to know about your great guilt from which Jesus Christ redeemed you, otherwise His suffering and death on the cross is incomprehensible to you and Jesus is nothing more to you than a human being who lived a good and sinless life on earth and had to give his life for his ideas .... Only rarely does a human being seriously think about the meaning and purpose of his earthly existence, and he has no knowledge of the fact that his existence as a human being is the consequence of the great sin of the rebellion of originally created spirits against God, which once separated themselves from Him in arrogance and lust for power. It was an immense guilt that the spirits had burdened themselves with .... a debt that could not be repaid eternally if the individual were to pay it off, as God's justice requires. Throughout unthinkable times the being indeed atoned for part of its guilt in a bound state, yet God's mercy and love gives it the freedom again to give it the opportunity once more to confess Him, so that it can fulfil its original purpose again. Yet this removal of guilt is never enough, for its magnitude is immeasurable, and a being burdened by guilt would never be able to freely ascend to God, the guilt would always stand between God and the being, thus the aim God once set for His created being could never be reached. This original guilt was therefore a shackle for the being which it could never have loosened itself .... Consequently, it either had to be redeemed with God's help or remain eternally banished from the face of God, it would never be able to find the union with God which signifies beatitude for the being .... This hopeless state of the fallen spiritual being was also seen by the luminous spiritual world, and the love of all beings remaining with God followed the fallen brothers into the abyss. But a being from the kingdom of light offered itself to God for a mission to save the beings in the abyss .... It wanted to descend to them and make atonement for the sinfulness of the unhappy creatures in their place .... It wanted to sacrifice Itself, It wanted to pay with Its life what the beings owed to God .... This being of light offered Itself to God as a sacrifice and descended to earth in order to take on a human form and in this form to walk a sacrificial path as only love could walk .... And the man Jesus took the burden of sin of all humanity upon His shoulders and thus walked the path to the cross .... And God accepted the sacrifice because love brought it .... (9/13/1953) He allowed a human being to endure the greatest torments, that He suffered the death of a criminal on the cross and that His soul struggled with all the powers of darkness .... For He saw the love of this person Jesus or also .... He as the eternal love Himself was in the man Jesus, and this love wanted to take away humanity's guilt of sin. For through the love which the man Jesus brought to development in Himself He knew about the appalling fate of all people, and thus the man Jesus offered the sacrifice to God which caused the knowing soul of light to descend to earth .... The human being had gained the same knowledge on earth through love, and only His free will was decisive .... A human being sacrificed himself for his fellow human beings .... And the love dwelling in Him .... God Himself .... did not resist Him but was satisfied with this sacrifice of atonement and absolved the whole of humanity from the guilt of sin for the sake of this man Jesus ....

The fact that you humans live on earth is a consequence of your past sin of rebellion against God. However, your existence as a human being is a temporary state which should also be recognizable to you as a defective state, for you are weak creatures subject to natural law which certainly want to act freely but cannot do so without restrictions. You are therefore, as it were, bound, and this powerless, unfree state does not end with your physical death if you are not redeemed .... And Jesus Christ accomplished this act of salvation for you, yet it is always up to you whether you want to accept His act of mercy and grace .... And therefore it is up to every person's own will whether he will leave this earth redeemed in order to live a truly free life in strength and light, or whether he will take the shackle with him into the spiritual kingdom in order to spend eternities in wretchedness if he does not then make use of the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. You humans cannot and should not pass Jesus Christ by, and therefore the reason for and the significance of the act of salvation should also be made understandable to you, so that you will not be and remain ignorant, so that you can freely decide before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God's plan of Salvation .... Original sin .... Adam's fall .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 6973 from November 20th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

The work of redemption began with the emergence of the creations in the universe .... it began with binding the hardened spiritual substance in the form, thus with the shaping of material forms which at first were spiritual in substance themselves and then also sheltered spiritual substances within themselves which had already gone through a certain process of development. The spirits which once had deserted God had distanced themselves from Him to a point that God's strength was no longer able to touch them, therefore they became immobile and rigid, they became hardened in themselves. And during this time they belonged to God's adversary and would never have changed their situation. But it was God's plan to provide these hardened spirits with an opportunity to attain a state of splendour which surpassed their past beatitude by far .... God wanted to shape His 'living creations' into 'children' .... which, however, had to be achieved by the creature itself. Hence the created being, which had rebelled against God in free will and consequently fell abysmally low, had the opportunity to completely voluntarily ascend to maturity again in order to then be able to achieve the work of deification .... but it had to be lifted out of the abyss since it was no longer capable of ascending by itself due to its total lack of strength. And God provided this help for the fallen spirits by letting the creation arise, by shaping the hardened spiritual substance through His will into many different kinds of creations. And with these creations began the redemption or the return of the spirits to God.

Now the fallen spirits were guaranteed ascension up to a certain level, because divine will is the decisive factor in this plan of creation and the adversary has no influence whatsoever on the bound spiritual substances within the works of creation.

Even the continued ascent as a human being would have been guaranteed had the first human beings faithfully lived according to God's easy commandment and resisted the temptations by God's opponent .... for which the first human beings, Adam and Eve, certainly had the strength .... But since they were allowed to use their free will and let themselves be beguiled by the adversary, they failed and thereby made the work of redemption far more difficult for the whole of humanity than it should have been had they used their will correctly. Hence the people who followed were considerably weakened by this sin of the first human beings, they no longer had the strength which the former had at their disposal and to a certain extent carried the burden of this sin, so God's adversary had achieved a great deal:

He endangered the prospect of people .... the once fallen original spirits .... ever attaining the final goal of deification. And therefore God provided help for them again .... He sent His Son to earth, i.e., a supreme being of light started his process on earth in order to fulfil the conditions as a human being which the first people neglected to fulfil and which devastated them .... He thereby wanted to help them escape their state of weakness, He wanted to enable them again to reach the deification. It was the man Jesus in Whom the Divine Love Itself took abode .... the Father Who wanted to help His children liberate themselves form the adversary and to come back to Him .... He sent His Son to earth, a being Who likewise emerged from His creative strength and Who had to enter a human shell in order to first become a vessel for the eternal Spirit of God Who in this human form wanted to bring salvation to His living creations. But again the human being's free will remains decisive .... For now he first has to acknowledge the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ and accept His redeeming help if he wants to reach the goal of unification with God, of childship to God, which is a state of supreme perfection and beatitude. All fallen spirits are able to reach the highest pinnacle, because the act of Salvation by the man Jesus has demonstrated that a human being's will is able to offer resistance to his opponent and arch enemy, that love is the strength of resistance which everyone can kindle in himself .... and because every human being need only appeal to the divine Redeemer for help in order to then also emerge as a conqueror of death and attain the life which can only be found in unity with God .... and which also proves the release from God's adversary, who only ever endeavours to keep all created beings in the abyss, in the state of death. Hence 'redemption' means 'release' from the one who brought death into the world, redemption means accepting Jesus Christ's help, for without him the human being is weak as a result of the original sin and the sin of his ancestral parents, which were only atoned for by Jesus Christ's death on the cross ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 5042a from January 15th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

Your being as a human being is the result of sin. You had to take on a subordinate form, a form which is impermanent, which was therefore only created by Me for the duration of your stay in it and which will always remain transient because its substance is matter, something immature spiritual which requires an exceedingly long time in order to enliven a human body like your soul. This external form of yours is a burden, a fetter, which imposes constraints on the spiritual being sheltered in it, thus the state of the spiritual is not bliss. It is in a state of judgement, and this judgement is the result of sin, of the former rebellion against Me and the turning away from Me .... Sin is an offence against love. Love is something divinely sublime, it is the original substance of Myself, thus an offence against love is also an offence against Me which cannot go unpunished according to divine justice. The sin cannot be undone by My love but it has to be atoned for or My justice would not be satisfied .... This act of justice takes place through the banishment of the spiritual substance, which once resisted Me, in a material form, which always means a fetter for it. Hence this bondage is a consequence of sin, and thus all spiritual substances which are bound in the material creation up to the human being are under judgment. It is, as it were, atoning for the guilt it has incurred through the sin of its former rebellion against Me. The process of atonement, however, lasts an infinite amount of time and would not end with the last embodiment as a human being either, since the guilt is inconceivably great and the atonement could not be made in the short time of earthly life ....

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Embodiment as a human being consequence of sin .... work of redemption ....

B.D. 5042b from January 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

which this great guilt required. Thus an inconceivably great sacrifice of atonement had to be made, for according to divine justice satisfaction had to be made for Me; the sin had to be cancelled, so to speak, and an immense purchase price had to be paid for the freedom of the beings under ban. The guilt of sin had to be redeemed .... And this work was accomplished by the man Jesus for the whole of humanity .... You humans cannot measure the magnitude of this labour of love because you also lack all understanding for the magnitude of the guilt. All beings which still resist Me live in this guilt of sin, unconsciously in the bound state, consciously in the state of free will, as a human being, because the latter is also aware of his state of weakness, of his lack of strength and light, as long as he is still under the spell of sin. The fact that he usually does not want to admit this is proof of his lightlessness and also proof of his sinfulness, which does not always mean a sinful life on earth. The great sin of the former rebellion against Me is to blame for the banished state, and this great sin must first be redeemed before the being attains light and strength.

The man Jesus knew about the great hardship and the unspeakable misery in which the fallen spiritual being found itself; He also knew that it was impossible to atone for guilt during earthly life and that the being could not ascend in the spiritual kingdom either because the burden of sin always pulled it into the abyss and it could not defend itself against the forces from below. Jesus knew about the wretched state of the being who had become sinful through his own will, and He wanted to help him .... He wanted to take the immense guilt of sin upon Himself in order to bring him redemption. His love was superhumanly great that He accomplished a work which consisted of superhuman hardship and suffering. He brought Me a sacrifice of atonement. He redeemed all men from sin. But the free will of man is not eliminated .... The work of redemption must be acknowledged and claimed .... The human being must also carry his excessive guilt of sin to the divine redeemer's cross, he must recognize and confess himself before Him as a sinner, as a weak, inadequate human being who is and will remain bound if Jesus Christ does not have mercy on him and intercedes for him as a merciful mediator Who is willing to redeem his guilt, as soon as the human being believes in Him as redeemer, repentantly confesses his sinfulness to Him and asks for forgiveness of his guilt. Only the recognition and confession of one's guilt is the sign of faith in Jesus Christ. The human being must call to Him from the depths, he must implore Him for help in his spiritual need. He must entrust himself to Him, he must know and confess that he is in the depths and needs His help, he must stretch out his hands to Him and demand mercy from Him, then he will also recognize his guilt, his defective state, which is the result of the great sin, which was the cause of every human being's embodiment on earth, and in heartfelt prayer he must appeal to Jesus' support in order to ascend to Me, Who came to My children on earth Myself in the human being Jesus in order to redeem the immense guilt of sin .... And salvation will come to all who confess their sin, for by admitting their guilt they willingly detach themselves from the one who let them become guilty and request forgiveness, which will also be granted to them for the sake of Jesus Christ ....

Amen

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The mission of Jesus Christ

The Eternal Light descended to Earth ....

B.D. 8068 from December 25th 1961, taken from Book No. 85

I gave you what you needed in the darkness of night when I descended to Earth: a light, which should illuminate for you the path back to Me into your Father's house. Î sent My Son to earth, a soul of light, which shone brightly and took the path across the earth as a human being, which started its earthly path as the infant Jesus and ended on the cross, so that you humans would be able to attain bliss. A soul of light descended into My adversary's dark domain, and I embodied Myself in this soul of light, because the human being Jesus drew Me, the Eternal Love, to Himself with all His might, because He accepted Me Myself in His heart, which was full of love for Me and for His fellow human beings. A soul of light was sheltered in the infant Jesus which indeed gave up its light because it had to stay as the human being Jesus in the midst of human beings, but He was full of love as well and did not let go of this love but increased it within Himself .... so that He, with an abundance of strength of love, thus performed miracles and taught in all wisdom on earth. He was a human being, for the mission of Jesus, the man, consisted of showing His fellow human beings the path which leads back to Me, to the Father, and to walk this path ahead of them, to live a life of love Himself, which alone brings people close to Me again, as I Am Love Itself .... But this happened in lawful order, a human body was animated by a soul .... yet His soul was a soul of light. Nevertheless, as a human being it was as subjected to the same temptations as every other person. But since Jesus, the soul, was full of love, this love also gave it the strength to resist the temptations .... It had relinquished the light, that is, at the start of His life on earth Jesus, the human being, was without knowledge like every other person, but the love within Him very quickly illuminated His spirit, the love within Him soon emanated bright light so that Jesus recognised humanity's great adversity as well as its origin, which had been caused by the original sin of the human race .... Jesus constantly increased in wisdom and strength because love filled Him ever more, because He was in most intimate contact with Me and thus enabled My light of love to permeate Him completely .... And then He emanated light in turn, He instructed people with wisdom, He performed miracles by virtue of His power which was based on His great love ....

The man Jesus spiritualised Himself during His life on earth, because His love achieved that the body willingly submitted itself to the soul's wishes, because body and soul always had the same aim: to help people in their adversity, to take redemptive actions, spiritually and earthly .... He healed the sick since He also wanted to demonstrate the strength of love to people and first expressed this in a perceptible earthly way in order to win them over to Himself, so that they would accept His divine teaching of love and make an effort to follow Him on the path of love. But people were still subject to My adversary's power, who had no intention of setting them free and who weakened their will in every conceivable way .... And the man Jesus wanted to break this power, He wanted to defeat him with My strength .... for the love in Him was overwhelmingly powerful, and through this love He forced Me increasingly more to express My love, He drew Me, the 'Eternal Love' to Himself, and thus I was in Him and in this most heartfelt unity with Me the man Jesus accomplished the act of Salvation .... that is, as a human being He endured the greatest suffering and torment because the Love in Him .... I Myself .... gave Him the strength to accomplish this act of Salvation. Thus, He waged battle against My adversary as a human being, and through His death on the cross He achieved victory over him and over death .... That which previously had been impossible for people, to release themselves from his control, became possible for them after the act of Salvation .... The Saviour Who had descended to earth brought help to humanity in this immense adversity, yet this was only possible through 'love', and I Myself was this love .... The fact that 'Love' had chosen a human form for Itself was necessary on account of people, for they were meant to recognise Jesus as the One in Whom the Divine had manifested Itself in abundance, because I Myself was unable to be visible to people and therefore had to avail Myself of a human shell .... And that only a soul of light was able to offer this shell to Me is likewise understandable, because I would have been unable to take abode in an impure soul .... Besides, the human shell was meant to lead the way for people which I opened up to them in Jesus .... Consequently, as a human being He had to be of the same kind as every human being, otherwise people would have been unable to follow Him .... Yet, He Himself, the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, will always be at people's side as a Helper .... while the man Jesus only used the strength of love, but this permeated Him fully and completely, so that therefore 'love' accomplished the act which signified redemption from sin and death for humanity. Time and again I try to reveal this mystery to you humans, yet you will only be able to grasp its full depth when you have changed yourselves into love .... Then there will also be light in you, then the divine light of love will permeate you again as it was in the beginning and you will be very happy ....

Amen

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The passion of Jesus as a human being ....

B.D. 8131 from March 21st 1962, taken from Book No. 86

As Jesus, the human being, the passage across earth was also very difficult for Me, for My soul had descended from the kingdom of light to the depth .... it had entered a sphere which could only cause it torment, for it was the realm of Lucifer, the first-fallen spirit .... It was a realm of darkness, sin and death. And only the love blazing within Me made life bearable for Me, for this love recognized fellow human beings' appalling fate and sought to help them .... And every love which wants to help takes effect as strength, so that I thus had unusual strength at My disposal and was able to use it for the benefit of My fellow human beings .... I was pure and sinless and found Myself in the midst of sin .... And My soul suffered unspeakably because everything sinful also affected the body .... because weaknesses and cravings afflicted the body and the soul had to fight with them in order not to succumb to them. I was approached by great temptations, for Lucifer knew of My plan to release the beings which had fallen away from God from his control and to return them to the father again. And he truly tried and did everything by which he believed he could bring Me Myself to fall. He was a great challenge to Me in My struggle for the complete spiritualisation of My soul, which wanted to unite with divine love in order to be filled with strength to accomplish the act of salvation, which could only be acquired through love. It was probably the heaviest fate a human being has borne who walked across this earth .... For I also knew about My task when the unification with the father-spirit had taken place in Me .... I knew about the dreadful path of suffering I had to take, I knew about the path of the cross which My dying on the cross ended .... I knew everything beforehand and yet I walked this path consciously and of My own free will because My love was so great for suffering humanity, which would have been lost for eternity without My act of salvation .... For no human being was able to redeem even the grave sin of the former apostasy from God, because this apostasy took place in brightest realization of what the being had done .... It was not a sin out of weakness, it was a completely conscious rebellion against God against better knowledge .... Yet humanity took pity on Me, for I recognized all correlations and therefore also the impossibility of ever returning to the light again unless a work of love was accomplished through which the overwhelming guilt was redeemed .... If I as a human being had not gained this realization, which was the result of My great love, then I would not have been able to muster the will for this superhuman path of suffering either .... But only a sacrifice in a completely free will of love was accepted by the father as a work of atonement .... And so I consciously took the path to the cross, consciously took upon Myself an earthly lot that only the love in Me could endure .... And I endured to the end .... No human being can measure the suffering and torment a pure soul had to endure from above, but I constantly received strength because I remained in the most intimate bond with the father, because I requested His love and also received it without limitation .... And thus time and again the explanation is given to you that 'love' offered the sacrifice on the cross, that the 'love' which completely filled Me was the father-spirit Himself from eternity .... that He Himself redeemed the world from sin and death, with Whom I completely united Myself, because 'love' took abode in the human being Jesus, in a human shell which was able and willing to suffer, because the spirit of infinity was unable to suffer but He was able to completely radiate through a form and thus He Himself and the radiated form were now one .... The earthly walk as the man Jesus was exceedingly difficult, but it brought the 'man' Jesus full union with Me, it brought Him the deification of His soul .... And the man Jesus achieved the goal on earth which all people should reach: to unite with the father-spirit of eternity, which they are also able to do because they have help in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who takes the burden of the original sin from them when it is carried under the cross and Who then will also strengthen their will to achieve complete unification, the union with Me, the father-spirit of eternity .... For this is why the man Jesus died on the cross, so that people can now find redemption from sin and death ....

Amen

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Life and death .... Jesus Christ - redeemer ....

B.D. 6221 from March 28th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

The living has strength at his disposal, the dead lacks it .... Whether on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, these two states, life or death, are always the soul's lot, except that on earth 'life' is not understood to mean actual life, but people regard the life of their body alone as 'life' and they can nevertheless find themselves in the state of death because the soul .... the actual I .... is powerless and thus also enters the kingdom of the beyond powerless, where again only life or death is every soul's share .... For this reason Jesus died for people in order to prove to them through His resurrection that true life only begins after bodily death and that it is everyone's most important task on earth to acquire this life after death, because then he no longer needs to fear death, because his bodily death is only the transition of his ego to eternal life .... He has proven this to people through His resurrection and yet only believers are convinced of it, whereas worldly people will always doubt or deny Jesus' resurrection from death, and this because their souls are already in the sleep of death even though they still live on earth. If people would take a closer look at the terms 'life and death', they would realize what is actually meant by them .... they would then strive much more to acquire eternal life .... But for people 'death' only means 'being extinguished' .... And they fear that less .... And yet, 'death' is the most dreadful fate a person can imagine, because the soul retains the consciousness of its ego but is struck with complete lack of strength, yet the urge to live and the knowledge of a life in strength remain with it .... Such a death of the soul is truly to be feared, and its horror is so great that therefore the man Jesus died on the cross in order to eliminate this death from the world, which is part of all beingness which failed to strive for a 'life' on earth .... For because Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again from the grave after three days, it is now also possible for people to acquire eternal life on earth. He has conquered death .... He has abolished the horrors of death, He has made it possible that the soul's powerless state can be changed into a powerful one, because He helps all people who believe in Him and ask Him that their souls may also rise to eternal life .... For He has shown people how they can acquire the life of the soul which lasts forever .... He has shown people that love is the strength needed for eternal life, and He has promised His help to all those who want to follow Him .... He rose from the dead, and so too will the souls rise to life who, like Him, walk in love and therefore cannot die for eternity ....

Amen

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Work of redemption ....

B.D. 2072 from September 16th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

By submitting your will to the divine will you give up your spiritual resistance against God and you recognize and confess that you belong to Him. Thus the purpose and goal of earthly life is that you finally return to God and despise God's adversary. However, in order to recognize that you belong to God you must first be given the knowledge about Him and His activity as well as about the nature of God's adversary. You must learn to recognize the effect of the forces of both powers in order to then be able to decide in favour of one of the two powers. However, as soon as one power prevents you from recognizing the effect of the other power, you can no longer speak of a decision. But this is what the adversary is planning in order to increase his power. He takes action against God Himself, he tries to influence people's thinking in such a way that they doubt the eternal deity, that they are inclined to believe in a coincidental emergence of creation without the will and the unfolding of strength of a higher power. The ability to recognize God is therefore prevented; a power takes possession of you unlawfully; it takes what it fears to lose as soon as free will decides. This battle is unlawful and the effect on the human being is tremendously detrimental. Man would therefore be the one to suffer if God did not want to come to his aid. He must try to strengthen faith in Him and His strength to the same extent as the adversary wants to weaken it and awaken it where the latter has already undermined it .... And God does this in such a way that He chooses people who are firm in faith and have the will to serve Him .... that He gives them a task which signifies a counter-work for the adversary .... that He builds up what the latter destroys .... God allows these people to find contact with people who are in danger of succumbing to God's adversary. They now counter them with arguments which seem worthy of consideration to them, and through reflection people now come closer to the essence of the deity. The greatest danger has been removed that the eternal deity will be completely rejected. But now the adversary has another weapon, which he also uses without hesitation .... He touches the divinity of Jesus, he tries to take away people's faith in the saviour and thereby put them in a powerless state .... Man cannot grasp the significance of this endeavour as long as he does not understand the significance of the work of redemption ....

He will only come to a clear realization when the guilt of sin has been eradicated, for sin and darkness belong together, and brightness of spirit and purity of heart cannot be thought of without each other either. A being born of sin (which has arisen through the will of a power opposed to God) must first be purified before it is admitted to the light, i.e. to closeness to God. Purification of the heart, however, is equal to the forgiveness of the guilt of sin; the stain of guilt is removed from the being. However, this first requires full acceptance of the guilt, because only when a guilt is recognized as such does the will to be free of this guilt awaken. The latter is a redemption of the unfree, which requires immense willpower, since the human being cannot even measure the extent of his guilt, which the being has brought upon itself through the apostasy from God. And it would take endless times before a being had paid off its heavy debt to God; redemption would require (often infinite) endless times, for it is not the sins which the human being committed in earthly life which have to be atoned for, but the open rebellion against God was the actual sin. But this sin is immense, it cannot be grasped by the human mind. The incomprehensible magnitude of guilt moved Jesus Christ to His work of redemption .... In His love, the God-man Jesus recognized the pitiful state of humanity and wanted to take it upon Himself .... He wanted to suffer for people in order to spare them the great suffering of atoning for their debts .... He wanted to tolerate pain in order to reduce their pain. He wanted to restore people's fullest freedom of will, He wanted to redeem them from the agonizing state of a sinner before God .... And so Jesus Christ took the guilt of all people upon Himself and offered God the sacrifice on the cross as atonement .... He gave Himself out of love for humanity, which without this sacrifice the rebellion against God would never have been able to atone for this guilt of its former rebellion against God itself. Only when man is able to recognize God will he be able to appreciate the love that moved the God-man Jesus to lay down His life for people on earth .... He cannot grasp it on earth, but he should not reject the greatest work of love, even if he cannot yet appreciate its greatness ....

(16.9.1941) It was the work of the greatest love for fellow human beings .... No being before and after has taken such a sacrifice upon himself, no one has carried out such an act, which completely originated from free will, which he also could have averted by virtue of his will. Yet His love for His fellow human beings was so strong that He was in intimate union with God precisely through this love, Who is love Himself .... that the deity was able to take abode in Him in all its fullness without, however, consuming the human body, which is otherwise the consequence of the intimate union with God. But the body still wanted to suffer for the sake of sinful humanity .... He wanted to atone for this .... In His wisdom, which was the result of His deepest love, Jesus recognized the spiritual low of mankind and also knew of its consequences. However, this was so serious, so extremely painful, that He took pity on it and wanted to compensate for people's lack of love through His immense love. Only the will to help them in their greatest need determined His actions. He was driven by love, which was indeed divine, but the man Jesus took the suffering of the death on the cross upon Himself and drank the cup of suffering to the brim .... He suffered unspeakably and died an agonizing death .... His will was to bring redemption to mankind, to help it in the battle against evil, to free man from the guilt of sin of the former rebellion against God, for the sake of which He walked on earth .... Man is still bound by the will of the adversary, and his strength is too weak to be able to free himself from this bondage. Jesus wanted to increase this weak power through His work of redemption; He wanted to give people a weapon in the fight against this violence .... They were to counter it with the love of Jesus, so that it would let go of them and thus the path to the heights, to freedom, would not be so difficult for them. But the work of redemption and the divine redeemer Himself must also be recognized if the sacrifice of the death on the cross is not to be made in vain for the individual .... he must consciously place himself in the circle of those for whom Jesus Christ died on the cross, otherwise he has no share in the graces of the work of redemption ....

Amen

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Experiencing the work of redemption in the hereafter ....

B.D. 6809 from April 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 73

No matter how the suffering and agony of My crucifixion and My death on the cross are described to you, you cannot measure the work of mercy and love I have accomplished for you .... But one day you will also be allowed to witness it, one day you will be able to experience everything for yourselves in retrospect, and only then will My infinite love be revealed to you which motivated Me to accomplish this act of salvation. For as soon as you have reached a certain degree of light there will no longer be any concept of time for you, and thus you will also be able to experience the past as present .... And you will be overwhelmed by an event which no human mouth is capable of reproducing and which no human intellect would be able to grasp if it were also described to you correctly. For the sufferings and torments were immeasurable .... because I, although human, suffered unspeakably from the filth of sin, which contradicted My pure, divine nature .... As a human being I nevertheless harboured the fullness of the eternal deity within Myself, thus I could not at the same time grant access to the adversary, who, however, approached Me via My tormentors and therefore caused Me to defend Myself to the utmost, so that My body and soul had to suffer torments which you humans cannot comprehend because the contrast between immaculateness and sin is hardly comprehensible to you .... My body, however, was still earthly oriented, it felt all sufferings and torments in excess, the soul resisted its oppressors and multiplied the torments many times over, (suffered the torments even far more), for it looked into the deepest hell, it faced the greatest depravity, it saw into abysses which made it shudder, and all its fears and terrors were still transferred to the body, so that truly every other human being would not have had to suffer the death of the cross, because he would have already lost his earthly life under the hands of his tormentors .... Yet I also took pity on them, for I knew that they were under My adversary's control and thus were acting out against Me on his behalf. And therefore I wanted to take upon Myself the greatest measure of suffering, therefore I wanted to complete the act of salvation in order to also bring salvation to those, in order to also release those from his control .... What took place on the day of My crucifixion on earth takes place again and again in the spiritual kingdom, evident to all souls which stand in the light and again and again praise My love and mercy in view of the sacrifice of atonement for the whole of humanity .... But not that the process is constantly repeated, but that all spiritual beings full of light experience the past retrospectively as present .... that past, present and future are apparent to them at all times, because there is no longer any limitation for the being of light, thus also every concept of time is switched off .... Even if you humans on earth try to imagine the work of mercy of the man Jesus it will only ever be a weak comparison to what you will one day be able to experience yourselves .... For you can certainly visualize the external events but not the nameless suffering which Jesus' soul had to endure and which only becomes comprehensible when a soul stands in the light and knows about the horrors of darkness .... when it knows what it means to have to exchange the kingdom of light with the kingdom of darkness and to now be at the mercy of all demonic powers. The soul of the man Jesus came voluntarily from the kingdom of light and sought to compensate for all counter-influences with love .... But even this love could not prevent the adversary from taking possession of His body, from testing all the powers of hell on Him. And therefore He patiently took upon Himself even the most severe suffering: He took the path to the cross .... He endured abuse and maltreatment and forced His soul and body to endure until death on the cross. For the burden of humanity's sins was immeasurably great, and therefore the work of atonement also had to be immeasurably painful. I Myself was in the man Jesus, I Myself gave Him the strength but I did not determine His will, only that I, as love dwelling in Him, was the strength which enabled Him to carry out the sacrifice on the cross. And therefore the sacrifice on the cross is not to be judged as a human work but it was offered for you humans by Me Myself in Jesus Christ .... And therefore you will only be able to grasp the great significance and the immense suffering when you yourselves experience it in retrospect in the spiritual kingdom in order to then also praise and glorify the one Who redeemed you from sin and death ....

Amen

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God Himself, love, accomplished the work of redemption in Jesus Christ

Incarnation and redemptive work of Jesus ....

B.D. 5356 from April 8th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I came into the world to redeem people and to open the gate to eternity for them. I came as a human being as God's emissary and yet was God Himself in this human being; I gave a soul, a child of Mine, an external form in order to then indissolubly unite Myself with this soul and thus take abode as God in this external form. Yet only a few people recognized Who sheltered in this form; only a few people likewise established the connection with Me in their heart and were thereby also able to recognize Me in the human being Jesus, for love gave these few the light, love recognized eternal love and worshipped it.

And so also I died on the cross .... The human shell had to suffer death with all pain and agony. But eternal love made the sacrifice in this human being Jesus, eternal love took all torment and suffering upon itself, otherwise the sacrifice would not have been made voluntarily .... Love died for people on the cross, and thus it was I Myself Who suffered for you for the sake of the overwhelming guilt of sin which I wanted to redeem. I, as God, could have deleted this guilt, erased it from the book of retribution; I could have redeemed the guilt out of immense mercy; yet My perfection prevented Me from doing so, for justice is also part of My nature and this relentlessly demanded atonement for people's guilt of sin. All of you would have had to suffer unimaginably in order to pay off this great guilt and would never have been able to endure on earth what would have cleansed you from guilt. And therefore a soul of light, an angelic spirit called into existence by Me, offered Itself as a human being to atone for the great guilt and to make amends to Me. And He accomplished the work .... He accepted Me into His heart and thus drew on the strength of love to offer the greatest sacrifice of atonement a human being was ever capable of on earth. He was My son .... I His father .... But through love the complete fusion took place, He and I, we became one, for love filled Him such that everything spiritualized itself, that body, soul and spirit became one and could indissolubly unite with the father-spirit of eternity. As long as you humans cannot fathom love in its essence, God's incarnation will also appear incomprehensible to you, and only those who let love flare up into a bright flame will be able to solve this problem. Only this person can understand that eternal love manifested itself in a human being and thus enabled Him to sacrifice His life for people's sins in dreadful agony, for love gave Him strength, love was Me Myself .... I Myself descended to earth and saved humanity from deepest adversity .... Love redeemed the guilt of sin, but the human being Jesus made the atonement because eternal love could not suffer but help was to be brought to humanity and this help could only be provided by a human being who was full of love ....

Amen

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Jesus Christ and His work of redemption ....

B.D. 8016 from October 11th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Without Jesus Christ you cannot be saved .... For it concerns the redemption of the original sin which you cannot pay off yourselves, neither on earth nor in the kingdom of the beyond .... It is about the redemption of the great guilt of your former apostasy from Me, for which the man Jesus gave His life on the cross. Since you once stood in brightest realization, this apostasy was not the result of weakness or a darkened spirit but it happened consciously; it was a conscious rebellion against Me, who was rejected by you yourselves .... as the once fallen beings .... for only pure, selfless love could atone for this great guilt, and you yourselves had committed it .... The love of eternal love had to make atonement, it had to be a work of love and mercy of the greatest magnitude .... A being which was full of love had to take this great guilt upon Itself and then walk a sacrificial path with it which was so painful and bitter and ended with death on the cross. Only such an act of mercy, which was accomplished by the pure love of the man Jesus, could be accepted by Me as atonement for the great guilt of sin and free the path to Me again, from Whom you had once voluntarily separated yourselves. You had to voluntarily return to Me and would never have been able to do so because your will was weakened as a result of sin and thus also turned away from Me and My adversary, whom you voluntarily followed to the abyss, would not have released you. And from this adversary the man Jesus bought you free with His blood .... He paid the highest price .... He gave His life on the cross. I am talking about the act of the 'man' Jesus, Who was full of love, Whom love enabled to make this great sacrifice, Whom love in Himself gave Him the strength to suffer and die on the cross in unspeakable pain .... But the love which accomplished this work was I Myself .... This is a mystery which can never be properly revealed to you humans until you have penetrated the essence of love yourselves. For you keep hearing that I am love Itself but cannot understand its depth .... My fundamental substance is love, and I can only ever emanate love, and everything I have externalised from Myself as a work of creation is emanated strength of love, irrespective of whether they are self-aware beings or earthly material works of creation of all kinds .... And this strength of love ensures life, it also brings the apparently dead to life, that is, the immobile, hardened spiritual substance becomes mobile again through My illumination of love and stimulates it into activity. The beings which once fell away from Me had rejected My illumination of love and thus fell into a state of hardening where all activity was impossible for them. And even if I helped them to become active during their long process of ascent, their former original sin still prevents them from radiating more love .... The being remains lifeless to a certain extent if it does not receive My illumination of love, and it can only receive this illumination of love when it is aware of its former great guilt, when it asks Me in Jesus for forgiveness and then voluntarily opens itself to the flow of grace of My love which awakens it to life again, but which now lasts forever. For the state of life on earth is only a temporary one in which the human being shall acquire eternal life. Jesus' great love has redeemed the original sin through the act of mercy; an atonement has been made towards Me which I had to demand for the sake of justice. And this act of salvation must therefore be acknowledged by people because it was not accomplished by the man Jesus but I Myself was in the man Jesus and thus I accomplished the act of salvation and because I Myself will then also be acknowledged, Who was once refused recognition. You are not facing two beings but I and He are one .... the fleshly shell of the man Jesus contained Me in all its fullness, and I shone through this shell and let it exist so that I can be a visible God to you humans when you have entered the kingdom of light and bliss .... For the fact that you were unable to see Me was the reason for your apostasy from Me, and therefore I became visible to you, that is why I Myself put on a human being's garment and accomplished the act of salvation in this human being. And you must acknowledge this act of salvation if you want to find forgiveness from your original sin .... You must acknowledge Jesus as your God and creator, as your father from eternity, for He was intimately merged with Me through love, He was in Me and I in Him .... He and I are one, only that I became imaginable to you in Jesus, whereas otherwise you would never have been able to imagine Me, because My being is unlimited and therefore cannot be personified either ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

God Himself accomplished the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8898 from December 23rd 1964, taken from Book No. 93

When My human cover was to shelter the eternal deity, the hardship on earth had become so great that only God Himself could bring help to people, and this in such a way that He entered earth as a human being in order to wage a battle against the one who was to blame for the wretched state in which people found themselves .... And that man had to have all natural prerequisites, a soul from above had to embody itself in Him so that the eternal divinity found a stay in it without consuming this man with Its fullness of light and power. Because It had to work in a sphere, which corresponded to Its original nature; It could only stay in a vessel, which was sinless, but which on the other hand also had the ability to be able to suffer, because an enormous sin guilt had to be paid off to redeem mankind. And thus God Himself accomplished the act of salvation, for He was love Itself, Which now sheltered Itself in Me as the human shell and thus I walked the difficult path of the cross in order to help My fallen brothers .... There was only one solution, that an angel-spirit .... an unfallen being .... offered to take the earthly path in a human shell, that this angel spirit accomplished a work of greatest love, that He offered space to the eternal love Which now completely filled Him, so that love Itself made the sacrifice, that love Itself took the immense guilt upon Itself in order to make atonement for God's righteousness, which only God Himself as the eternal love could make, because otherwise it could not be eternally redeemed by sinful humanity itself. So as a human being I waged a battle against the one who held you captive .... I waged this battle with the weapon of love, against which My adversary is powerless .... I taught love, lived a life of love for people, proved to them the power of love and crowned this work with My death on the cross, which I innocently suffered and died on the cross in excruciating pain .... Only love could accomplish such a work, which therefore was in Me and gave Me as man the power for immeasurable suffering, but I suffered for My fallen brothers, I wanted to open the kingdom of light for them and also bring redemption from their guilt to those who had already departed before My death on the cross. Because a gate was closed to all of them, which I only opened through My work of redemption. But since love completely filled Me as man, since I so to speak became love myself, therefore only love was in Me, so I could also say of Myself that God was in Me, that I Myself had received the divinity and consequently every man, who saw Me, had to see the father, because I and the father became one. He became man, and I became God .... and will remain so until all eternity. Because God is love, and this filled the nature of the man Jesus completely, and since I wanted to be a visible God for men, I chose the cover of the man Jesus for this, which let itself be completely radiated through by Me and I now became a visible God in Him for every soul of light. For once the beings fell away from Me because they were not able to see Me, who in My original power and My original light could never be seen by the beings, which had come out of Me. But I have taken My creatures' desire into account .... I have become a visible God for you in Jesus, Whom you can now see face to face ...._>Amen

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The spiritual reason of the work of redemption

The act of Salvation and its spiritual reason ....

B.D. 8303 from October 19th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

Time and again explanations are given to you about the mission of the man Jesus on earth, especially since you received such inadequate information by those who deem themselves chosen to educate you but who did not penetrate into more profound knowledge themselves .... and are therefore not enlightened enough about the act of Salvation and its spiritual reason as to be capable of teaching their fellow human beings. And so people have never properly understood it and consequently don't know what immense significance the act of Salvation has for the whole of humanity .... They don't know that the entire purpose of earthly life will remain unfulfilled unless they take the path to the cross, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ. People are not aware of the fact that their existence as a human being on this earth was caused by the enormous original sin of the spirits' past apostasy from God .... that the whole earth as well as all creations in the universe were only the result of this original sin, and that the sole purpose of these creations rests in guiding the fallen spirits back to God again .... For disintegrated in countless minute particles they pass through the creations and thereby gradually travel the path towards God .... This is indeed an unspeakably agonising state for the spiritual being during its path of return, for it is not free and helpless, and although the dissolved spiritual beings are deprived of their sense of self-awareness the spiritual substance nevertheless feels the agonies of banishment in the works of creation, since prior to its apostasy from God it existed in complete freedom and any constraint is a state of torment for the spiritual being. However, the immense agonies of banishment in the form .... be they in the mineral and plant or the animal-world which it has to pass through .... . do not suffice to redeem this very guilt the spiritual beings had burdened upon themselves due to their rebellion against God, for the beings had been incredibly brightly enlightened, they knew about their origin and were constantly permeated by God's love Who thereby provided them with unimaginable bliss. And despite being conscious of their origin they rejected this strength of love and thereby became subject to darkness .... Hence this immense original sin could not be redeemed even with the greatest amount of pain in the banished state .... And therefore the fallen beings would eternally have been denied entry into the kingdom of light if the redemption of guilt had not been undertaken by a Being of light Which offered to achieve the act of atonement for love of the fallen brothers ....

This Being of light .... a non-fallen original spirit, Which had embodied Itself on earth in the human being Jesus .... wanted to achieve a unique act of compassion, for It descended from the light into the dark spheres of the spirits which had become sinful, It descended into the realm of God's adversary, of the first-fallen original spirit Lucifer, who kept his followers in bondage and demanded an extortionate purchase price for every single soul .... And this purchase price was paid by the human being Jesus by means of His act of Salvation, by means of an immeasurable process of suffering and torments which came to an end with His death on the cross .... Thus He redeemed the great original sin of the once fallen spirits as well as all people's sin of guilt on earth, which had been the consequences of their affiliation to God's opponent .... He accomplished a unique act of mercy and was only able to carry it out because He was full of love, because as a human being on earth He had shaped Himself such that the eternal Deity .... Love Itself .... was able to take abode in Him, so that It utterly permeated Him with strength of love and this Love subsequently also made the sacrifice .... which now has to be voluntarily accepted by every person in order to liberate himself from the adversary's control .... For the human being is the spiritual being which is returning to God through the works of creation, whose individual minute particles had gathered again and were allowed to embody themselves as soul within a human being, in order to then consciously travel the last distance of the path of return and also consciously accept Jesus Christ's help, as without it his effort to ascend will remain unsuccessful. No human being can and may avoid Jesus Christ, for there will be no liberation from the control of God's adversary without Him, Who conquered the adversary through His death on the cross and now wrests every soul from him which voluntarily takes the path to the cross, which prays to Jesus for forgiveness of its guilt and for help in order to return to the Father again. This knowledge about the significance of the act of Salvation must be conveyed to people, only then will they turn to Him of their own free will and with His help also reach their goal, they will return to their Father's house, to their God and Creator and then remain with Him forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The spiritual grounding of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8152 from April 16th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You would have sunk into the night of death without salvation if My love had not accomplished the work of mercy which redeemed you from sin and death. There was no other salvation left for you than that a work of atonement was accomplished for your past guilt of sin, so that you would become free again from an immeasurable guilt which would have kept you eternally in the night of death. And this atonement .... the redemptive work of Jesus Christ .... of such great significance that you humans cannot take note often enough that you also have to make use of this act of salvation for yourselves in order to become free from the dreadful guilt of your past apostasy from Me and to be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss again after your physical death. For this kingdom was closed to you .... And it remained closed until I Myself descended to earth in order to make atonement for you in the man Jesus, for your immense guilt which you could not have atoned for yourselves. No human being is aware of the greatness of that former guilt, and no human being can grasp the depth of the work of mercy which the man Jesus accomplished for His fallen brothers, in Whom I embodied Myself, which I needed a human form to receive Me .... otherwise My abiding amongst people would have been impossible, who would have passed away in view of the light and strength which My being emanates because it is perfect .... The man Jesus, Whose soul came to earth from the kingdom of light, offered Me this cover, i.e., He Himself completely received My being, which is love in itself, into Himself, and this love now made satisfaction for the guilt of sin of the whole of humanity .... As 'God' I would not have been able to suffer, but the 'human being' Jesus took upon Himself a measure of suffering which would have exceeded His human strength had it not been for the 'love' in Him which strengthened His external shell, i.e. which was the strength which enabled Him to accomplish His work .... Time and again it has to be presented to people that the descent of Jesus, My son, Whom I Myself sent to earth, had a profound spiritual reason, that not only one human being walked a path of suffering for earthly motives, on Whom fellow human beings took offence in their hatred because they suspected Him of earthly transgressions .... The suffering and pain the man Jesus endured in order to bring salvation to His fellow human beings from utmost spiritual adversity was of a completely different nature .... He, being completely pure and sinless, found Himself in the midst of the kingdom of sin, and His soul suffered immeasurable torment, for it recognized that the kingdom of darkness held people under its spell, that they themselves were too weak to ever be able to free themselves from the prince of darkness, and since the soul came to earth from the kingdom of light, the earth was a special torment for it which, however, it was unable to break through by virtue of its light for the sake of people's freedom of will .... People should come to the light within themselves by living in love .... And therefore He preached the commandments of love to them as a matter of priority; therefore He tried to enlighten people about the great spiritual adversity they were in .... But the great work of mercy, the dreadful suffering and hardship, which only ended with the death on the cross, had to be accomplished if the atonement for humanity's guilt of sin was to be made .... And the man Jesus saw this dreadful path of suffering before Himself and He walked it consciously .... because love was the driving force in Him, because I Myself was in Him, Who wanted to redeem humanity from sin and death. Time and again it shall be made clear to you humans that you should not pass by the divine redeemer Jesus Christ; you should believe that you are hopelessly lost if you don't accept His act of mercy, if you don't allow yourselves to be redeemed of your own free will, for the gate to the kingdom of light is and remains closed for every soul which is still burdened by its original sin, for which only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ was able to make atonement and therefore must also be appealed to so that its guilt, too, may be redeemed through His love and grace .... otherwise the soul will remain eternally burdened and will never be able to enter the kingdom of light and bliss .... Jesus' death on the cross is not just a human matter, it is of such immense significance for the whole of humanity of the past, the present and the future that you humans must time and again take a stand on Jesus' act of salvation, in Whose shell I Myself .... the eternal Deity .... manifested Myself, because I Myself wanted to redeem people from sin and death .... Do not pass by Him Who has united Himself with Me .... Do not pass by Jesus Christ, Who sheltered Me in Himself in order to redeem you, otherwise you would have sunk without salvation into sin and death ....

Amen

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Recognizing the work of redemption

Why Jesus Christ and His work of redemption must be recognized ....

B.D. 5540 from November 25th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The sinner is forgiven through Jesus Christ's death. The love of the human being Jesus took all the guilt of sin on earth upon Himself and atoned for it through His death. He paid the great debt with His blood, and every sinner can therefore receive redemption, provided he believes in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption .... Christ's sacrificial death was therefore offered for the whole of humanity, yet only a few participate in it, only a few consciously avail themselves of the blessings which the man Jesus acquired through His death. And therefore redemption, the release from all guilt of sin, is always an act of free will and must also remain so, the human being himself must want to become free through Him, otherwise he cannot reach God Who embodied Himself in Jesus Christ. Faith in God is only an empty phrase as long as it is not proven. Faith in God also results in the recognition of one's own relationship to God. Believing in God as the highest and most perfect being also reveals the great distance between oneself and God, and this distance must inevitably be reduced because it was not there in the beginning when the being was created perfectly by God .... And man recognizes himself as a 'creature' of God as soon as he pretends to believe in God .... And thus faith must result in the being striving towards God again, that it wants to enter into the relationship again in which it stood in the beginning. But it must also seek a reason in the distance between itself and God and thus come to the realization that it has created this distance itself through sin .... consequently want to become free from this guilt .... But since the guilt is enormous, because the sin was directed against God, the human being is not able to pay off this enormous guilt of sin in his short earthly lifetime. He has to accept help offered to him, help which the God-man Jesus wants to bring to him, Whom sinful humanity took pity on and Who therefore offered a sacrifice of atonement in His love for people in order to help them become free from guilt. Only through Jesus Christ, then, is freedom from all guilt possible ....

(25.11.1952) Therefore you had to pay off an enormous guilt because your past sin was directed against God Himself. God is love, and anyone who sins against love sins against God Himself, and he makes it virtually impossible for love to take care of him because it was previously rejected. Hence the path to God is simply an absurdity, because a being which voluntarily distances itself from God cannot reach God on this path .... understand this, you transgress against love and can therefore only find forgiveness if you acknowledge love and turn to it .... And therefore the man Jesus took this mission upon Himself to pay the tribute to eternal love, which proved His profound love for God and people to Himself .... Only through love could a guilt be redeemed which was directed against eternal love. For this reason, however, you humans cannot ignore Jesus Christ either, you cannot exclude Him, for you can only enable the return to God through love, but if you practice love you will also brightly and clearly recognize Jesus the man's merciful act of love and acknowledge Him as your saviour, because love unites with everything that is love, and Jesus Christ was embodied love and thus accepted God Himself into Himself, Whose fundamental substance is love .... And thus God's strength of love manifested itself in a human being, it took shape, as it were; the strength, which emanated into infinity, which is everywhere in the entire universe, the strength, which is to be addressed as God Himself, yet not visible to anyone as such, chose a form imaginable to human beings and radiated through it, so that God Himself was in the man Jesus, that He must be acknowledged as God, for His whole being was God because it was love, and only the external form was human as long as He dwelled on earth, until even after His crucifixion this form was permeated by God's light of love and therefore was able to ascend into heaven transfigured and spiritualized, yet only visible to those whose souls already possessed a certain degree of maturity to be able to behold divine-spirituality without having to perish from it themselves. Divine justice had been satisfied, divine love had been reconciled through Christ's crucifixion, yet without acknowledging Jesus and His act of salvation the human being remains irrevocably in sin, which separates him from God, and he can never become blissfully happy ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Right attitude to the work of redemption ....

B.D. 7664 from August 3rd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

Jesus' crucifixion was the act of atonement for the sins of all humanity. He took all humanity's sins upon Himself when He walked the path to the cross, for He suffered unspeakably both physically and spiritually because the guilt of sin He wanted to atone for was too great. It was the original sin of the spiritual beings' apostasy from God which people would never have been able to atone for themselves, and it was the sin which all people commit in earthly life .... Yet He offered the sacrifice on the cross in love in order to redeem people. No human being is aware of the magnitude of this act of mercy, and no human being can appreciate during earthly life what unheard-of grace it means that he can turn to Jesus Christ for forgiveness of his great guilt. For only this forgiveness opens the gate to the kingdom of light for him, because a being burdened by guilt can never enter that kingdom, because it would have to remain in the kingdom of darkness forever if it did not have this forgiveness through Jesus Christ .... And no human being can measure the torment and pain the man Jesus suffered for sinful humanity, which was only ended by the most bitter death on the cross .... No human being can measure the suffering and humiliation He took upon Himself out of love for His fellow human beings, whom He knew to be in deepest spiritual need .... He wanted to remove this great adversity from people, He wanted to smooth the path to the father for them, who were His fallen brothers, He wanted to redeem their guilt of sin because this required God's 'justice', that atonement was made for this guilt of sin. But people have to acknowledge His act of salvation .... they must want Him to die for them too, they themselves must confess their guilt before Him and ask Him for forgiveness .... This is all that is required of them in order to then also be released from their sinfulness, in order to be entitled to the spiritual kingdom again, where there is freedom and light and bliss .... Acknowledging Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, and taking the path to Him oneself .... is all that is required of people but which every person also has to do of his own free will in order to belong to the redeemed for whom He shed His blood .... The act of salvation has taken place for all people of the past, the present and the future .... But one's own free will is necessary for the human being himself to become free from his guilt of sin, otherwise the whole spiritual world would be redeemed abruptly and would also make a life on earth superfluous if there were only 'redeemed' souls after the death of the cross .... Free will is not eliminated for this redemption, and thus the human being himself must want Jesus to redeem him too through His death .... He has to want to belong to the redeemed and thus consciously ask Him for it. And all people should realize that they themselves must first have the right attitude towards Him, the divine redeemer .... they should believe in Him and unite with Him in thought, they should pray to Him that He may save them, that He may liberate them from sin and its consequences .... And therefore they must acknowledge Him. But then they will have a living faith and thus also the right attitude towards Him, and then they will also belong to those for whom His blood flowed on the cross. Without Him and His redemption, however, the human being will remain in darkness, he will remain in the kingdom which belongs to God's adversary, he will have no connection with God Who embodied Himself in Jesus, he will be outside of those for whom Jesus died on the cross. And then he cannot be saved from spiritual adversity either, then he will collapse under the burden of sin and be unable to rise again without help .... For only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ can free him from his guilt ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The living faith in the work of redemption ....

B.D. 8138 from March 29th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

You humans are required to have a living faith in Jesus Christ, the son of God, Who redeemed humanity from sin and death through His sacrificial death on the cross .... And to possess a living faith in Him also means to know about the reason for His act of salvation, about the immeasurably great guilt in which all people find themselves due to their past apostasy from God. Then the human being who acknowledges Him as God's son, in Whom I was able to embody Myself, will consciously carry his guilt under the cross, i.e. he will want to belong to those for whom Jesus died on the cross, for whom He laid down His life, for whom He shed His blood. Thus he will consciously confess Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, and consequently he will also acknowledge Me Myself, Who was in Him, Who manifested Myself in the man Jesus, because He was full of love and acknowledged Me Myself .... as the eternal love .... completely within Himself. But I speak of a living faith, for I am not satisfied with words which the mouth can say but of which the heart knows nothing. And living faith is only the result of love which has thus awakened it to life .... A person who endeavours to live in love will also have an inner bond with the one Who redeemed him from sin and death, he will devote himself to Him in this bond, he will want to belong to Him, even if he cannot intellectually assess the full depth of the greatest act of mercy a human being has accomplished on earth .... but he will know that without Jesus Christ he would be lost and doomed to eternal death .... He will know that he needs Him in order to become blessed and will want the divine redeemer's love to take hold of him, that His mercy will also include him in the circle of the redeemed .... He will hand over his burden of sin to Him and ask for His forgiveness. And it will be granted to him .... The stream of grace will never run dry, which is available to every human being, for Jesus acquired a treasure of grace for humanity through His agonising death on the cross .... And He paid with His blood the purchase price for all souls who once voluntarily followed the adversary into the abyss and were therefore his share .... And this means that the human being should only take refuge under the cross of his own free will and ask Jesus for forgiveness of his guilt and for help against the adversary .... And the latter has now lost his right to that person because his guilt has been redeemed, because Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross for all souls which long to return to Him again and were held captive by the adversary .... until His death on the cross .... Then the adversary's power was broken, but only ever for those people who wanted to escape from him and called upon Him for help. It was an exceedingly great work of love .... But love was in the man Jesus, and this love was I Myself .... Time and again I try to make this great work of mercy understandable to you humans, and time and again I Myself enlighten you about the correlations, about the occasion of Jesus' descent, about His earthly life and about your former grave sin of apostasy from Me .... Only when you know about the great guilt of sin you are burdened with as earthly people can you also understand the mission of the man Jesus, and only then can you consciously take a stand on the act of salvation as well as on Himself, Who sheltered Me in all fullness within Himself. You must also know about My fundamental nature, Which you may not imagine as a limited form, and you must know that this very nature chose a form for Itself and completely fulfilled it .... that therefore the man Jesus was this form and that the whole fullness of the Deity was in Him .... And when you understand this, then you also understand that and why you must acknowledge Him as redeemer of the world .... Only then will you understand the greatness of His sacrifice, that He walked the path of suffering as a human being and suffered death on the cross as a human being .... And then you will also glow with love for Him, you will give yourselves to Him and want to belong to Him for time and eternity .... And you will learn to understand the depth of His work of mercy more and more, the more love flares up in you too .... And then you can also be certain of the forgiveness of all guilt, for this is why He died as a human being on the cross, so that all guilt was redeemed .... that all people find redemption who want redemption themselves and ask Him for it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Jesus Christ must be acknowledged by man ....

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

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

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Confessing Jesus and the act of Salvation ....

B.D. 3787 from June 1st 1946, taken from Book No. 48

There is a great risk that people will abandon their faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Redeemer of the world, and yet people have to be subjected to this last test of faith, because it is decisive for eternity .... I Myself incarnated on this earth in Jesus Christ, I Myself accepted the crucifixion as a human being in order to open the gate into eternity for humanity .... But people lock this gate themselves, they do not accept My act of Salvation, they do not benefit from it. And therefore the gate will remain closed to them for eternity, a person who does not acknowledge Me cannot be acknowledged by Me to belong to Me either. He is not part of Me as long as he is still subject to My adversary’s influence, which remains in tact with those who do not acknowledge Me and My act of Salvation. Hence they separate themselves from Me and aspire towards the one whose will enslaved them and deprived them of all awareness. The end is near and with it the Last Judgment .... And once again I approach humanity as the Redeemer, I try to bring spiritual freedom, light and enlightenment to people and only want to be acknowledged in order to distribute the blessings of My act of Salvation to the souls, so that they will not perish when Judgment Day comes. I want to redeem them but they have to let themselves be redeemed of their own free will .... Thus they have to confess Me before the world as the One Whose strength and grace enables them to become blessed .... They have to believe that the Deity was in the man Jesus in all fullness, that His greater than great love motivated Him to suffer and die on behalf of His fellow human beings in order to avert eternal death from them, which is the irrevocable fate of everyone who does not believe in Him, who does not acknowledge His act of Salvation and does not claim the blessings He acquired through the crucifixion.

And people will have to confess this faith before the world, they will have to openly bear witness to the love of the God-man Jesus, because by making this testimony they stand by Me completely .... they will show the world that they are My children in truth who, raised by the love of the Father, also fulfil the Father’s will .... Thus this decision of faith has to be made, and it will be a difficult time for people who belong to Me and have to publicly acknowledge Me. But whoever has the will to do so also has the strength, which will be given to him in abundance, as I promised .... For I Myself Am with My Own, and My Own are those who strive towards Me, who aim to reach Me, Who call for Me in spirit and in truth, who live with love and endeavour to fulfil My will. And therefore they should not worry about the approaching battle of faith. It has to happen to people so that they seriously make up their mind about a problem which has found little attention so far .... They have to decide for or against Me, since anyone who acknowledges the Son also acknowledges the Father, and anyone who rejects the Son also rejects the Father. I, however, Am the One Who sacrificed Himself on behalf of humanity .... For I was in the human being Jesus in all fullness, I Myself descended to earth in order to redeem humanity from the sin of guilt and its consequences. Therefore, anyone who believes in Me cannot reject Jesus Christ, for He and I are One, and anyone who bears witness to Him bears witness to Me ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Graces of the work of redemption

Graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 2101 from October 7th 1941, taken from Book No. 30

These are the favours of the work of redemption, which Jesus Christ has acquired for men, that they are able to overcome their weakness of will, that they are no longer unable to resist the enemy of their soul, that power and favour flows to them unmeasured when they desire it, and that the slightest will towards God also lets them feel this power from God and that this is expressed in increased spiritual striving. The state of humanity before the redemption through Jesus Christ was pitiable .... it lacked any will to ascend, for people did not believe in life after death and only focussed on earthly advantages and physical comfort. They did believe in a God who could mould their earthly life according to His will, and so their pleas were only for the improvement of their earthly existence. No attention was paid to the soul and its moulding, and this resulted in a worldly-minded humanity to which spiritual striving was alien. This was the work of the adversary, who still had too much control over people's will, but who also drove them to be unkind to each other. For the sake of earthly well-being all means were right for people, and their thoughts and endeavours were evil and unloving. And at this time the lord descended to earth .... At this time lived the man Jesus, in Whose heart the desire for God was overwhelming and Whose goal in life was union with God .... Union with God was only possible in the most intimate love, and Jesus gave love to all people, He was inexhaustible in His love, and He took eternal love into Himself. Jesus saw people's weakness and that they lacked the will to do good .... He knew that only love could bring them salvation and He preached love to all people in order to snatch them from the power of the adversary. (But the will of the adversary was stronger and so he repeatedly forced the human will down).

By completely subordinating His will to God's will, by praying "Father, not My will but Yours be done ...." Jesus Christ made God's will His own, He surrendered His will to God and took away the adversary's power over His will, and thus through His death on the cross He broke the adversary's will and likewise took humanity, for whom He died, away from the adversary's will, for the man Jesus suffered death on the cross in order to thereby set people free from their tormentor. And God accepted the sacrifice, and He gives increased strength to every person who wants to avail himself of the grace of the work of redemption and likewise surrenders his will to God .... For anyone who follows Jesus will also have the desire to flee from the one who wants to bind him. But if he does not recognize Jesus Christ, he belongs to those who are still bound by the will of God's adversary. He still has power over them and their own will is not strong enough to escape this power. He will always bend under his will and can therefore never be free. Jesus made the sacrifice for people who were too weak on their own (themselves?) .... He opposed the will of the enemy with His strong will and the adversary could not withstand this will. For Jesus claimed the power from God, which flowed to Him through His intimate connection with God. And anyone who recognizes Jesus Christ as the divine redeemer will likewise be able to make use of God's strength, for this is the grace of the act of salvation, that the human being's will becomes strong in order to be able to resist .... that the human being receives the strength he needs to ascend. Jesus Christ has shown people the way that leads to the heights. This is also a grace, that man can take Him as an example so that he can live his life on earth according to His example .... in love and righteousness .... And anyone who is serious about following Jesus, who endeavours to shape his soul according to His example, who is constantly active in love, who patiently takes up his cross and only ever prays: "Father, Thy will be done ....", will be strong and will escape the enemy of his soul. For by recognizing Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, he has a right to the graces he has acquired from Him. The path upwards will become easy for him, he will never need to walk it without guidance, for the image of the saviour on the cross will always shine before him, and he knows that Jesus Christ died for him and that he has been spared immeasurable torment as a result. He knows that nothing will be too difficult for him because Jesus has given him strength through His death on the cross. He knows that his will will not waver when he asks Him for mercy, and he knows that the power of the adversary has diminished, that he can overcome him if he wants to, because the strength comes to him through his will. If this will is turned towards God, then the love of God takes hold of him and frees him completely from the power of the adversary. Before, however, man's will was so weak that he was not freed from that power. And Jesus took pity on this weakness of will .... He set His strong will against God's adversary and defeated him. And he who recognizes Jesus Christ will likewise defeat him because he consciously makes use of the blessings of the work of redemption ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Work of redemption .... suffering .... free will ....

B.D. 3279 from October 5th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The graces of the act of salvation are far too little utilized and therefore humanity has to suffer excessively as a result of the sins it now has to bear itself. Jesus Christ took humanity's guilt of sin upon Himself and thus also the consequences of sin .... the suffering with which people must atone and by which they shall be purified. If he now avails himself of the graces of the act of salvation, then he thus accepts the help which Jesus Christ assured him of, which He acquired for people through His death on the cross and which can be availed of by anyone who acknowledges Him and His act of salvation. This is a special grace, because according to divine justice every human being has to atone for his wrongdoing himself, but God was satisfied with the overwhelming love of a human being Who wanted to atone for people's sins with His death and accepted this sacrifice. People are now relieved of this atonement, sin is taken from them and also guilt .... thus also the consequence of sin .... suffering. But understandably only those people who, by acknowledging Christ and His work of redemption, place themselves in the circle of those for whom Jesus Christ died. He died for all, but he who does not acknowledge Him excludes himself; he rejects the grace .... the help .... He now also has to bear the guilt of sin alone, and thus he also has to accept suffering as a result of sin in order to atone for the first time and to change his mind through suffering, so that he will still turn to the divine redeemer, because without Him he cannot enter the kingdom of God. And thus only those people are redeemed who believe in Jesus Christ, for their sins are also forgiven. But people can never count on forgiveness of sins if they do not make use of the grace acquired through Christ's death because they do not acknowledge the divine redeemer, because they reject His act of salvation or are completely negative towards Him. For if the human being's free will were not decisive, i.e., if the act of salvation were effective on all people without distinction, so that the grace of it, the obvious help, would be granted to every human being, then all suffering would be unnecessary, then the world would already be redeemed from the hour Jesus Christ died on the cross, then all guilt of sin would be redeemed and this would mean spiritual ascent for the whole of humanity without exception. For sin would be eliminated from the world because Christ redeemed all people .... Free will, however, would have been overridden and thus becoming perfect would also have been made impossible .... But humanity is free to avail itself of the graces of the work of redemption through conscious acknowledgement and deepest faith in Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer. Through this acknowledgement the human being places himself under Christ's cross, he belongs to those for whom He died and whom He released from their weakness of will through His death on the cross and who can now strive upwards and are constantly supported with strength and grace which is available to them without measure. For Jesus Christ redeemed the human being from the powerless, completely weakened state which was the result of sin, He delivered him from the power of His adversary as soon as he avails himself of the grace of the act of salvation, as soon as he believes in Him and recommends himself to Him and His grace ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Benefiting from the graces of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 6521 from April 12th 1956, taken from Book No. 70

The blessings of the act of Salvation are available to you humans, and no-one is excluded from it who does not exclude himself by consciously denying or rejecting the act of Salvation, by not acknowledging Jesus Christ as God's Son and Redeemer of the world. So all of you can be saved through Him .... if this is your will. Salvation means living, being active in light and power .... Bliss is the state you were in before your apostasy from Me .... it is the state of perfection which, however, is now to be attained by you of your own free will, whereas in the original state you were created perfectly  .... i.e., you were placed out of Me as beings to be independent. The attainment of perfection in free will has only become possible through your fall into the abyss and therefore brings you unimagined bliss because you have overcome this abyss and worked your way up .... But there is still no excuse for the Fall, your former turning away from Me .... because you stood in such a bright light that the fall into the abyss should not have happened, and even then you could have decided in favour of Me of your own free will in order to stay with Me in eternal bliss .... For this reason, however, the path from the abyss, from an infinite distance back to Me again, is extremely arduous, because the sin against Me was immeasurably great .... but the final return to Me is associated with immeasurable bliss if you attain the childship to God .... the highest degree of perfection .... through your life on earth. And you can achieve this precisely through the redemptive work of the man Jesus, Who acquired a treasure of grace for you through His death on the cross, of which you may avail yourselves without restriction. I Myself came to your aid on your way back to Me because My love for you is endless and wanted to win you back again after ages of turning away from Me .... Yet as long as you do not recognise Me Myself in the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, the graces of the act of Salvation will also remain ineffective on you, you will not recognise them for what they are .... You will not avail yourselves of them and therefore remain powerless and in a lightless state out of which I would like to help you but cannot do so against your will. You must ask for these graces for Jesus' sake .... then you will acknowledge Him as the One in Whom I embodied, and then My help and your ascent and reaching of the goal will also be certain .... The human being alone, as a once fallen original spirit, is too weak because he is constantly held on by My adversary; if he turns to Me in Jesus Christ I can release him from the bondage and give him freedom, but without the call to Me I have to let My adversary have his right, since you once voluntarily followed him to the abyss and your will now also determines again whether you reach the height .... A rich treasure of grace is at your disposal .... Use it, avail yourselves of what the man Jesus acquired for you on the cross .... For He suffered and laid down His life to give you life .... He paid the debt which brought you death, a state of complete lightlessness and powerlessness .... And so you can now gain light and strength again if you accept His sacrifice, if you acknowledge Him and ask Him for help .... if you accept His grace, if you are willing to follow Him, Who has led the way upwards for you .... Then you too will attain eternal life and be filled with immeasurable bliss ....

Amen

Translation handled by Christian Taffertshofer

Recognize guil tand and ask for foregiveness

Conclusion of earthly progress only with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7959 from August 6th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You have come a long way already but the fact that you are still walking on earth is proof that you have not yet concluded your path of development .... with the exception of those who incarnated on earth for the purpose of a spiritual mission and whose souls had thus previously covered this progress of development and had found admission in the realm of light .... But I speak to you humans who are not yet perfect, who had once deserted Me and had to walk this long path of development so that you can now, at the human stage, voluntarily take the last test of will, the passing of which will ensure your entry into the realm of light. Hence you are not yet perfect but you have ascended from the deepest depths to the heights, if only by law of compulsion .... The depths had to release you because My will had intended this long path for you which pulled you away from My adversary's domination, or your ascent would have been impossible .... But now he has been given his right once again because you are still his property since you had previously followed him into the abyss voluntarily and this free will has not yet made the new decision: for him or for Me, Who longs for your return but will not force you if you willingly want to stay with him.

Thus, at the human stage, My adversary once again applies his power by influencing your will but he is unable to force it as you have to decide of your own accord which lord you will choose. However, I cannot stop him using all his persuasions to chain you to him .... I cannot stop him from using ploys to tempt you, only to keep your soul or to regain it if he has already lost it .... You now have to face him yourselves voluntarily and fight against him if you want to free yourselves from him. And you really need not fear his strength because you have a strong Helper by your side Whom you only need to ask to win the battle with Him: Jesus Christ, your Redeemer from sin and death .... Even though you, as a human being, have already overcome the deepest abyss, even though you, thanks to My help, have also come considerably closer to Me during the infinitely long period of development .... yet the burden of your original sin as a result of your desertion from Me, constantly pushes you down again and you would never be able to resist the will of My adversary if Jesus Christ would not help you, if He would not give you an intensified will which He Himself acquired for you by His death on the cross.

My adversary's power over you is too great that you could resist it with your own strength .... But you are guaranteed a supply of strength by just giving yourselves to Jesus Christ and requesting Him to take upon Himself the guilt of which you are not yet released and which therefore inescapably chains you to My adversary .... Jesus Christ, in Whom I manifested Myself, will now take on the guilt because, with His death on the cross, He paid the purchase price for all souls to the adversary who now has to release the souls, if they want it themselves .... And with His help you can conclude the path of your earthly life, with His help you can become free of all guilt and enter through the gate into the realm of light, which otherwise is closed to you, but which will be opened by Jesus Christ for all souls who have voluntarily decided to take the path to the cross to liberate themselves from the burden of sin. As a human being on earth you only have a short time at your disposal but it is sufficient to completely release yourselves from every form, however, this always depends on the human being's attitude towards the Divine Redeemer Jesus Christ .... because your former sin consisted of your rejection of Me and in the resistance of My strength of love .... In Jesus Christ, however, you shall know and acknowledge Me Myself, then you will also consciously accept My strength of love again and then nothing will stand in the way of your unity with Me .... Then the infinite long walk through the creations of earth and as earthly human being will have led to the right goal .... it will have resulted in your liberation and you will once again be candidates for My kingdom which will admit you and offer you blessings as it was in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Guilt of sin .... forgiveness .... redemption .... cross of Christ ....

B.D. 3335 from November 19th 1944, taken from Book No. 43

The graces of the work of redemption extend to all people who have faith in Jesus Christ. These are therefore also assured of the forgiveness of their sins as soon as they recognize them, repent and ask for forgiveness. For those who believe in Jesus Christ also know that they are sinful, otherwise they would not acknowledge His work of redemption. Consequently, they stand under the cross of Christ, they feel complicit in the suffering and death which Jesus took upon Himself, and they humbly bow before Him to ask for forgiveness of their guilt. But these people are constantly striving for their soul's maturity, and thus they will also take refuge under Christ's cross again and again if they are exposed to temptations in the battle of life or even succumb to them from time to time. For they know that they are weak and that therefore the danger of sinning is immense if they don't constantly pray for strength and call upon Jesus Christ to strengthen their will. They know that they can come to Him at any time; they also know that God is long-suffering and merciful, that He knows about His children's weaknesses and that He is always willing to forgive them if they have sinned and repentantly approach the cross of Christ. For the work of redemption was accomplished for all people and for all times .... His graces will always be effective on those who believe in Jesus Christ, and all guilt will be cast upon Him who took it upon Himself and atoned for it through the death of the cross. The work of mercy is so great that people are not able to grasp it .... Yet only those who unite with Him through faith can ever participate in it. And this is why the hardship on earth is overwhelming, indeed often unbearable, because humanity has lost this faith, because it does not flee to Him with its guilt of sin but is burdened itself and now also has to bear the burden. Their guilt cannot be paid off, it constantly grows and lies all the heavier on people who lack all faith in Jesus Christ. And it will become so great that the guilt will crush people, that they will collapse under it and no longer be able to rise, for they do not seek forgiveness of their guilt, and God's justice cannot redeem them if they do not desire His grace and accept to be redeemed from their guilt. A human being sacrificed Himself in supreme love and through His death offered an atonement to God which is sufficient for eternities that sinners find forgiveness before God for the sake of this sacrifice .... for He was the purest being, He was without any guilt, and therefore His sacrifice outweighed the sins of the whole of humanity. Yet His sacrifice of atonement has to be acknowledged by people, they have to be willing to accept the grace thereby gained or they will eternally be unable to be released from their guilt. Sin drags people down, Christ's death raises them up again .... Sin is the death of the soul, but under the cross of Christ it comes to life again .... Every person is sinful as long as he still walks on earth; but in faith in Jesus Christ and His work of redemption he finds forgiveness, he finds eternal life, which would be lost to him through sin. The forgiveness of the guilt of sin is therefore of utmost importance, it can only take place through Jesus Christ, it cannot be replaced by anything else, and therefore every person who lacks faith in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation will have to languish in sin. For even if he lives a life of strict self-restraint and purity on earth, the sin of his former rebellion against God, which was the reason for his life on earth in the first place, will still remain with him .... For this sin caused him to have a weakened will which is unable to offer resistance against the earthly temptations and temptations which make him sinful. For Jesus Christ offered His sacrifice in recognition of the profound hardship, in recognition of the weakness of will in which humanity finds itself due to its former sin .... And in order to redeem them from this He gave His life on the cross .... for He was full of love, and love seeks to bring help, love will always be redemptively active ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

There is no redemption of guilt without Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7330 from April 9th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

No person will succeed in detaching himself from My adversary by his own strength, everyone will need My support because he himself is powerless without the supply of strength from Me, but he can only receive it if he wants it himself, thus consciously requests it from Me. This is why it is so important in earthly life that the human being consciously confesses Me in Jesus Christ, this is why he must be required to take a stand himself on the problem of salvation, on God's human manifestation in Jesus, as well as on the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself .... For once he has to mentally decide for or against Him if he wants his earthly life to bring him the success for which he received it. And therefore he is repeatedly addressed by Me, every person is led to the cross, i.e. the cross is held before his eyes, and the impression this cross makes on him is decisive for his further fate in eternity. It is held up to many people, they look up and away from it again, because it does not touch them, and an opportunity to confess has passed .... But the cross will haunt him until his death, again and again it will flash before him in various forms, and he himself will also often have to walk a cross walk which, however, will only be of use to him when it leads him to the cross of Christ, for there the decision of his life will fall. And very many people believe that it is enough to believe in Me as 'God and creator', and the divine redeemer Jesus Christ has not yet become a decisive concept for them .... But then he himself will never be released from My adversary's bondage, for he has not yet made atonement for his original sin and will never be able to do so if he does not appeal to Jesus Christ for the redemption of his guilt. The human being has to take this path irrevocably, for only this path leads back to Me again, from Whom he once voluntarily distanced himself .... And if he believes that he can also reach the aim of his life without acknowledging Jesus Christ, if he believes that he has fulfilled his earthly task with only earthly activity, he will one day arrive in the kingdom of the beyond in bitter poverty, burdened by guilt and without strength, and even then he will not be released from his guilt until he has called to Jesus Christ for redemption .... He cannot become free without Him, he cannot return to Me without having acknowledged Him, for He and I are one .... in the shell of the man Jesus I Myself was, and I Myself redeemed you humans from sin and death, I Myself redeemed the guilt for you. And whoever acknowledges Him also acknowledges Me and will be accepted into My kingdom .... But anyone who passes Him by also passes Me by, and his fate will be darkness and torment for endless times again, until one day he will decide to call upon Jesus Christ so that his guilt can then also be forgiven ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Recognition and admission of guilt ....

B.D. 9010 from July 7th 1965, taken from Book No. 94

It is also of crucial importance for you humans that you recognise and profess your guilt in order to become free from it through Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, Who died for it on your behalf on the cross .... For the admission of the fact that you had become guilty must precede the will of allowing yourselves to be redeemed, because then you will consciously strive for returning to your Father's house. Sooner or later you will have to realise that you once sinned against God Himself and then also seriously desire to become released from this immense guilt, which forms the basis of your existence as human beings on earth. And if you then consciously carry this guilt under the cross, it will also be forgiven as well as all guilt you accumulated on earth when you were still without knowledge of the divine Redeemer's significance for the human race. However, a mere avowal with your mouth is not enough, mere conventional faith in Him is not sufficient, you must be completely conscious of what Jesus, the human being, had done for you, that He suffered and died on your behalf, on behalf of your guilt of sin, in order to offer the sacrifice of atonement to God, without which you would have been unable to enter the kingdom of light. Only then will it be a living faith and this alone is valued by God, your Father of eternity .... For only then will you also recognise your past guilt, and you will admit to your own fault and appeal for forgiveness .... This alone is the task you ought to fulfil on earth but which you will only accomplish when love has taken possession of you, for an entirely heartless person does not entertain such thoughts. He is unable to believe and thus his life is a standstill, he does not live up to the actual purpose of changing himself again into what he had been in the beginning, for he will enter the kingdom of the beyond burdened by his original sin and cannot be released from it until he finds Jesus Christ, Who will certainly approach Him over there but He will leave it up to his freedom of will as to whether or not he will accept Him ....

For this reason you are constantly given a light in regards to this, yet only rarely can open hearts and ears be found which are grateful for this light, the majority of people are unaware of any wrongdoing, they don't investigate the reason for their existence and live their lives indifferently, only desiring that which pleases their earthly body. They neither think deeply nor do they live a life of love of their own accord, otherwise they would gradually come to the right realisation .... And time flies .... It is getting ever shorter, for the end is close at hand .... God Himself can only make a small and disappearing proportion aware of the significance of the act of Salvation, for it is precisely the act of Salvation which is disputed almost everywhere in the world, and even where it is emphasised it is merely a matter of conventional faith which leaves much to be desired, where a redemption through Him is indeed spoken of but barely being made use of by consciously realising and confessing guilt, but only this can result in redemption. People don't know that they need to use their own will, they think that they need only profess with their mouth in order to receive forgiveness of sin, but this cannot be valued by God .... instead, the human being must completely consciously and of his own free will hand himself over to the divine Redeemer .... Only then can the act of Salvation take effect on him. However, as long people only accept the information with their ears without involvement of their heart, they cannot count on the redemption of their original sin. Consequently, the work of those who try to exert a living influence on their fellow human beings, by mainly admonishing them to love in order to enable their understanding of the great act of Salvation, will always be blessed. And all those capable of a living faith will be redeemed from their guilt, for love gives light which will shine ever more brightly because they had found redemption from their immense guilt. Yet all people must be clear of the fact that there is no path to God without Jesus Christ, since only One was able to redeem this immense guilt but He also wants to be consciously called upon for forgiveness in order to distribute unlimited bliss, for God and Jesus Christ are one .... The great secret precisely rests in the fact that you acknowledge God again in Jesus Christ, Whom you once denied your acknowledgment and thereby fell into the abyss .... This was your immense sin which made you guilty and which Jesus Christ redeemed for you ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The will to redeem

Most important grace of the work of redemption: strengthening of the will ....

B.D. 7033 from February 4th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

You always have an inexhaustible source of grace in Jesus Christ, who acquired grace for you without measure through His death on the cross. What you are not able to do because of your own weakness will be easy for you when you draw on the treasure of grace, to which everyone has access, from which everyone can supply himself as needed. So if you lack strength, earthly and also spiritually, the way to Jesus Christ is always open to you, to ask Him to strengthen your strength and to direct your will in such a way that you also utilize this strength according to His will. And His will is that you always remember His death on the cross, which He endured for you and your guilt of sin .... His will is that you follow Him in the guidance of your way of life, that you therefore make use of the graces of His work of redemption in order to be able to lead a life in love .... that you constantly ask Him for strengthening of your will and supply of strength to do justice to His divine will .... He has acquired graces without measure for all people through His death on the cross, but these graces must be requested, and therefore He Himself must be acknowledged as God's Son and redeemer of the world, in Whom the eternal love embodied Himself in order to help you people, to free you from your enemy, which you would not be able to do without the help of Jesus Christ, without His grant of grace. Because you are weak, lightless beings, for the sake of this weakness of yours God accomplished the work of mercy and thereby turned an abundance of grace towards you, which all people can claim. The adversary of God wants to keep you in weakness, and alone you are not able to break away from him .... But if you request the help of Jesus Christ, He can provide you with strength for the sake of His death on the cross, He can give you something; but you must ask for and gratefully accept this delicious gift if it is to become effective for you. For you cannot be redeemed abruptly if the will to become free from the fetters of the adversary does not awaken in you .... But your will will be stimulated again and again by receiving knowledge of Jesus' great work of love and mercy. By becoming aware of your own weakness very often, by being shown a way to master this weakness. This is also an undeserved grace of God, which you should take into account, because you cannot be led to Jesus Christ by force, you have to go the way by your own free will. But you will not regret it once you have been touched by the power of grace and your gaze and your desire turn to Him again and again, Who wants to and can help you as long as you are of the same will. The fountain of grace is inexhaustible, and who has only once addressed the request to Jesus Christ to help him, he will experience His help in so many ways, the currents of grace will touch him again and again, and his will will become stronger and stronger to let Jesus Christ redeem him from death and sin, from the jailer who held his soul captive for endless times. You humans are completely devoid of any power for eternities, but as humans you possess the power of life, which alone would not be enough to set you free from God's adversary. But this life force enables you to direct your thoughts and steps to Jesus Christ, and it also enables you to perform works of love according to His divine will. But you first need a strengthening of your will, which the opponent of God still keeps bound. And this strengthening of will is one of the most important graces of the work of redemption, and if you desire it you will receive it, and you will truly be able to fulfil your purpose of life on earth, but without the help of Jesus Christ you will remain weak and in bondage to God's adversary .... The graces of the work of redemption must be claimed, if man wants to become free from his power and return to Him from whom he once took his origin ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The will to redeem .... affliction of the underworld ....

B.D. 1429 from May 21st 1940, taken from Book No. 23

The will for spiritual redemption is the driving force of an orderly way of life according to God's will, for the human being who regocnizes his unfree state and desires to become free from it will also decide to oppose the power that keeps him bound. He will now consciously do that which does not correspond to the will of this power and, conversely, will again enter into a serving relationship with God. There is a very distinct clarity of thought in him, for the will for spiritual redemption attracts spiritual strength which now clarifies the human being's thinking and thus the path to liberation can be clearly shown to him. Meanwhile, all auxiliary forces of the evil power will likewise endeavour to prevent this striving upwards and use all means to do so, for everything that withdraws from them means a reduction, a dwindling of their power. Everything spiritual that wants to escape from them is now oppressed by beings of the underworld, and this oppression triggers a feeling of fear, doubt and inner distress. The purpose of the evil forces is that the human being should create a balance to lift his oppressed state through worldly thoughts and the fulfilment of worldly desires .... And then the enemy has won the game, for he now binds the human soul anew and it becomes increasingly difficult to break free from his control. However, if the earthly child sends its thoughts upwards in such adversity with the firm will to continue the fight against this power, the success is correspondingly greater, for the human being's will is honoured and strength and divine grace are imparted to him from a good spiritual side. The spiritual turning point in a person's earthly life is always the moment of the most intimate contact with God .... because this is also the moment when the good spiritual power comes into action. From the very beginning the human being no longer fights alone against his arch-enemy but can expect the greatest support if his will has turned towards God. Yet time and again the human being has to reckon with the adversary's hostilities who will place obstacles of all kinds in his path in order to hinder or impede his ascent. And this unmistakable influence of evil power must not let man's will to free himself slacken. He has the antidote at hand .... the fervent prayer to God for strength and grace .... For the father in heaven hears such a prayer, because love for Him and the will for union with Him lets the prayer rise up to Him .... for if the child asks the father, it can be assured of all help ....

Amen

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Self-overcoming .... strengthened will .... Christ's act of salvation ....

B.D. 3213a from August 4th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

A way of life according to the will of God requires great overcoming of oneself, thus a strong will. However, man cannot muster the strength of will on his own, since the will is often weakened to the point of complete lack of will due to the original sin through the former apostasy from God [here the sentence is changed in the manuscript as follows (sin of the former apostasy)]. Nevertheless, man can acquire the strength of will through heartfelt prayer to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer .... This is the simplest yet surest means to defy all dangers, to be able to resist and to overcome oneself. And the weakest will will become strong, for this is what Jesus Christ died for on the cross .... With His death He bought people a strengthened will, and everyone may request this strengthened will who believes in Him and His act of salvation. The former sin bore man's weakened will .... Jesus Christ took upon Himself the sins of the world and thus also the consequence of sin .... the weak will. He redeemed the guilt of those who acknowledge His sacrifice, and thus He restores to them the strengthened will by virtue of which they can now lead a way of life according to God's will. It is a grace which He acquired for people on the cross which people are unable to grasp, for what lies helpless and weak on the ground can rise up and now work on itself full of strength and power; His will is strong, and a strong will is able to do anything .... However, free will remains untouched, for the grace of the act of salvation is only granted to it if it expresses its will to ascend through heartfelt prayer to Jesus Christ. Weakness of will need not prevent him from striving towards God, it is just that the human being cannot muster the perseverance to do so. And therefore he should appeal for a strong will for the sake of Jesus Christ, and his appeal will be heard as soon as he acknowledges Jesus Christ. And then he will be able to wage the battle against the world, which is expressed in the overcoming of himself. He has to renounce everything that belongs to the world, what his body desires, he has to sacrifice, i.e. give to his neighbour, what makes him happy, he has to put himself aside and do kindness to his fellow human beings, and all this requires overcoming, it requires a strong will which puts all good intentions into action. But this strong will can be requested at any time, and this prayer will never go unanswered ....

Amen

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Self-overcoming .... strengthened will .... Christ's act of salvation ....

B.D. 3213b from August 6th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

Before Christ's crucifixion God's adversary had great power over the human being's will, and this power manifested itself in the fact that people were not able to live a life of love unless they were exceptionally intimately united with God. The temptations of the world were always too great and their will too weak to resist them. This is his weapon even now, that God's adversary seeks to weaken people's will through the pleasures of the world, and he is completely successful with those who trust in their own strength, who don't believe they need help from above, who don't believe in Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and therefore don't ask Him for His grace, for His help, which earns them increased will. Without Jesus Christ people are still completely under His control from which they are unable to release themselves unless they sincerely call upon God for help, but then they will also soon learn to recognize the significance of the act of salvation and Jesus Christ Himself as saviour of the whole of humanity, and then they will also consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation. The path of ascent will become easy for them, for where there is the will there is also the strength to accomplish .... But the weakened will only has the strength to do things which lead to the abyss, and this strength comes to it from below, i.e., it uses the vitality for bad deeds, and the strengthening of this vitality is supplied to it by God's adversary. Thus the weak-willed human being is not in union with God but with His adversary, and he cannot free himself from the latter's spell unless he appeals to God for help, which is granted to him as a grace of Jesus Christ's act of salvation. Consequently, the recognition of the act of salvation must be the first condition, otherwise the human being cannot avail himself of this grace. In faith in the act of salvation the human being can accomplish great things, for his will will experience a strengthening which enables him to do anything if he deeply believes, for the strength of will, which Jesus Christ possessed in abundance, communicates itself to him, he can liberate himself from the adversary's power, he can strive towards God without being pulled back by this power. And he reaches his aim even if numerous temptations make his striving more difficult, but he resists them because his will is strong and accordingly also the supply of strength which Jesus Christ acquired through His death on the cross for people who believe in Him and consciously avail themselves of the blessings of the act of salvation ....

Amen

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Detachment from the opponent with the help of Jesus

The adversary's activity will not be prevented ....

B.D. 8691 from December 3rd 1963, taken from Book No. 91

Though I Am Ruler indeed over heaven and earth and no being shall be capable of opposing Me, I do not contest My adversary's right within the domain which is his kingdom: the terrestrial world which harbours everything that still belongs to him and where he can exercise his influence when the developing spiritual essence has reached the human stage .... Then he will pursue this spiritual essence .... the human being .... in every way in order to prevent his development and to pull him down into the abyss again, from where he had worked his way up by means of an infinitely long process .... Then he is, in fact, lord over his world ....

And this explains why I allow so many disasters, why I don't intervene where the adversary's activities are so clearly apparent .... He has a right to you humans because you once followed him voluntarily into the abyss; and he also exercises his right in order to dominate you. But you can resist him since you possess free will. And you do not lack strength either, if only you would ask Me for it. But My adversary's activity will not be prevented by Me. For the physical world is his share .... even all matter, over which he has no control, is part of him because it harbours the fallen spiritual substance, which is only temporarily beyond his control due its constraint in matter. But as soon as it lives on earth as a human being he can exercise his power over it again without being hindered by Me .... And he truly makes full use of it ....

Yet in Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour, he has a very powerful opponent indeed .... And every human being can turn to Him in order to be liberated from the enemy of souls. For Jesus is stronger than he is, and He delivers every soul from his power which simply appeals to Him for it and with its prayer demonstrates its faith in Him and His act of Salvation, which thereby also acknowledges Myself, Who in Jesus Christ became a human being in order to redeem all fallen spirits. Thus the adversary's power on earth is great indeed, and yet in Jesus Christ he finds his Master .... And regardless of how much control he has over people, in Jesus Christ they nevertheless have a Redeemer and Saviour from his domination .... Thus the human being cannot expect that I, his God and Creator of eternity, will curtail My adversary's activity, or that I will prevent him from carrying out disgraceful actions, because I will not, by any means, remove his right to influence a person in order to hold on to him .... The human being himself, however, does not have to tolerate it, for he can always turn to Jesus Christ and ask for His help to be released from his prison guard, to become free from the power to which he, however, will succumb without the help of Jesus Christ.

How often do you humans say 'Why does God allow this? ....' I do not prevent My adversary's activity because you once accepted his domination and he is still your lord today if you don't want to free yourselves and approach Jesus Christ for salvation from him. But I also know what serves you and each individual soul best .... I know the nature of every individual soul, I know what it needs in order to mature fully, and even the dark world has to be of service to Me, for I also know how to direct the effects of the dark forces' actions such that they will be successful for people's souls who are willing to be released from his power and strive towards Me.

And this is always determined by the person's will, since this is free .... As long as the spiritual substance is still bound within the works of creation My adversary is unable to influence it; but in the human stage he has the right to do so because it involves the being's free decision which the adversary wants to win for himself. Hence he takes advantage of every opportunity, and the human being is at his mercy the further away he is from Me, the less often he establishes contact with Me, or: As long as he does not acknowledge Jesus Christ by seeking sanctuary with Him in his distress, he is at the mercy of the opposing power, which nevertheless is determined by his own free will.

I certainly have the power and can prevent anything, including the adversary's activities, but then the human being's life on earth would be in vain, where he has to freely choose between Me and him. But you humans should also understand that and why difficult tests are given to you, and why he often causes you extreme distress and I don't stop him, because you do not turn to Me for help and this is the real purpose of every adversity, which I therefore allow so that you will find your way to Me ....

Yet you can rest assured that I will not leave you on your own and will help you if you try to get away from him and trustingly flee to Me and thereby also acknowledge Me as your God and Father .... when you call upon Jesus for forgiveness of your guilt and for deliverance from the enemy, who also fights in order not to lose you .... Yet truly, My might is greater, and if you call upon Me in spirit and in truth you will indeed be released from him and your earthly life will not have been in vain ....

Amen

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Victory over the adversary with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7519 from February 10th 1960, taken from Book No. 79

Only with and through Jesus Christ can you become blessed .... As long as you still keep your distance from Him the gates into the kingdom of light are closed to you, and His adversary still keeps you under his control, because then you still belong to him voluntarily. Only when you direct your gaze to the cross can you become free from his control, for then you will also look towards Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross, and you will consciously enter the circle of those for whom the man Jesus gave His life in order to redeem them from his control. Then Jesus' blood, which is intended to wash you humans clean from sin, will not have flowed in vain, and then you will make use of the work of grace yourselves, you will acknowledge Jesus Christ as God's son and redeemer of the world, and thereby you will also acknowledge God Himself, Who embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to accomplish the work of redemption on earth. And therefore you must profess Him during your earthly life, you must not distance yourselves from Jesus Christ, you must live your life with Him, you must always be mindful of His crucifixion and appeal to Him that He may also have died for you in order to redeem you, for you must fully consciously acknowledge the act of salvation. You must know that you are lost without Him, that His adversary will not release you from his power as long as you do not stand behind the one Who defeated the adversary through His death on the cross. But as soon as you stand by His side you will also be victorious over the enemy of your souls .... You will possess the strength and also muster the will to set yourselves free and want to belong to Jesus Christ all the more intimately the more you devote yourselves to Him and the more willingly you make use of the blessings of the act of salvation. To go through earthly life with Him, with Jesus Christ, also means to have found redemption .... it means no longer being weakened and at the mercy of God's adversary, it means having found forgiveness of sins and safe protection against all temptations, for Jesus Christ will always stand by the human being and ward off the adversary if only His help is requested. Yet without Jesus Christ the human being is too weak to resist him, he lacks both the will and the strength to defend himself, and the adversary still has his full power over him. But Jesus has become victor .... He redeemed the souls from him with His blood and through His death acquired the strength for you, which you can now request from Him for the battle against the enemy of your souls. And you humans should all make use of this privilege, you should let Jesus Christ give you what He acquired for you, then you will also possess the strength to resist, Jesus Christ's fighter will always walk by your side and fight for you, and with Him you will gain victory over the one who kept you bound for eternities .... You will be able to release yourselves and powerfully resist him, for you now draw strength from your divine redeemer Jesus Christ, Who will provide you with it in abundance if only you call upon Him and appeal to Him for strength for the sake of His crucifixion. You will be strong and powerful with Him, yet you will have to remain weak and miserable without His help in the hands of your enemy, because you have no strength to resist yourselves and therefore need the help of Jesus Christ. Therefore request it at all times, escape the adversary's power by consciously turning to Jesus Christ and appeal for His protection, which He will surely and gladly grant you, Who died for you on the cross in order to redeem you ....

Amen

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Detachment from the enemy .... feeding the truth ....

B.D. 8548 from July 4th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

It is enough for you to know that I take care of you in every earthly and spiritual distress, that you are never lonely and abandoned or dependent on yourselves, if you just do not resist My loving care. And so I will also protect you at any time from attacks of My opponent when you let your will be known to stand close to Me. There is only one thing I demand of you: that you draw a line between Me and My adversary .... that you inwardly decide for Me or for him .... For he is and remains My adversary for eternities to come, and his aim can never also be Mine .... Therefore you must make this decision: to reject him and to acknowledge Me, and then you have passed your earth life test, and nothing more stands in the way of your return to Me. But as long as you now live on earth he will do everything to win you for himself, and therefore the everlasting temptations, which are to bring you down .... And his best weapon is to confuse your thinking, to put error before you and so to block the way to Me for you, which alone can be found through truth .... But likewise I will counteract and convey the pure truth to you, and now it is only up to you whether you accept My gifts or his .... If you are now already in contact with Jesus Christ that redemption has taken place in you, then you will also possess the strength to resist the adversary, then you will also recognize error as such and reject it .... But it will be difficult for all of you if your will is still weakened because you are not yet redeemed through Jesus Christ .... and then again and again you fall prey to My adversary .... Only the redemption through Him gives you the strength of will and then also the right success .... But of this you can be assured that your desire for Me, your will turned towards Me, will also soon earn you the redemption through Jesus, because I Myself can then provide you with power and this power now has an effect insofar as that you are now open-minded towards every enlightenment, which concerns Jesus and His work of redemption. If you want to go to Me, then you will also find Him, Who now shows you the right way to Me, home into your father house. And so that now your earth life brings you the last perfection, I give you a light .... I give you truthful knowledge so that you again attain the knowledge which you once possessed but had voluntarily given away. Only this knowledge will contribute to you living your earthly life consciously .... that you strive for an aim which you now recognize because you stand in the light. The truth will be given to you if you sincerely desire it ..... This applies to all men, in which way they also get supplied with truth .... But I always emphasize that My spirit guides you into all truth, that therefore My spirit also works when pure truth is supplied to man through My messengers, because only then they accept pure truth when My spirit can work in them .... And My spirit speaks to the heart, but the heart decides what it accepts or rejects. But if the intellect now switches itself on, then it can also make a wrong judgement, if man lets the intellectual thinking speak and then is not able to recognize pure truth as truth .... Understand this: A man can be supplied with My knowledge acquired through spirit work, but he himself prevents his spirit from the acceptance of that knowledge, because he first questions his intellect and this can also be worked on by My opponent .... so that the human being begins to doubt and opposes it with his intellectual thinking .... Then therefore My spirit's work is prevented and man hardly reaches the right knowledge because he does not devote himself fully believingly to Me and My work through the spirit .... I always have to present to you the condition for the attainment of pure truth, because truth is divine spiritual good, which is so valuable and therefore also has to be acquired under consideration of that condition .... because you once carelessly gave it away .... Who now earnestly longs for union with Me, he will also long for truth just as earnestly, because I am the eternal truth .... And this desire for truth is the most important condition, and it also presupposes that man frees himself from spiritual knowledge, which My adversary offered him as long as man still belonged to his following .... And whether he also took his knowledge out of the book of books .... it does not protect him from the fact that he has no understanding for the meaning of the word as long as his spirit is not yet awakened .... That is why his heart must completely empty itself and let itself be filled by Me Myself, then he will be able to receive truth guaranteed and no longer need to fear to walk along in darkness, but brightest light will now illuminate his way. For the stronger the desire for unification with Me is, the less resistance the human being will offer to the influx of spiritual knowledge, which flows to you humans as My spirit's working in the form of My word .... He will accept it fully convinced that it is truth and now also draw benefit from it for his soul; he will stand in the light, all spiritual darkness has fallen away from him .... he stands in brightest knowledge and is as happy as in the beginning ...._>Amen

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Call of Jesus Christ in temptations and hardships through the adversary ....

B.D. 6972 from November 19th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

When doubts creep into your hearts about the truthfulness of the divine word, when you fall into uncertainty, when it is necessary to stand up for it .... when the inner joy of working in the vineyard of the lord leaves you, then you know that you are severely harassed by God's adversary who takes advantage of every weak hour to make you incapable of your God-serving task. But you have support in Jesus Christ .... don't forget that .... If you call upon Him, He will confront the adversary and He will certainly push him back and not let your work for Him be endangered. But Jesus Christ demands one thing from you: that you completely hand yourselves over to Him, that you are willing to detach yourselves from the world and thus from your adversary, who is the lord of this world. You will understand this when you consider that the adversary still has a claim on you as long as you still take pleasure in the world, and that he can then also still exert his influence on you in the form of what your heart is still attached to. And you all still have an inclination towards this world, even if your thoughts are mainly directed towards the spiritual kingdom. But they still often stray, and God's adversary then uses this to work on you in his will in order to alienate you more and more from the spiritual kingdom. But devotion to Jesus Christ protects you from him and you will be able to resist every temptation .... For Jesus Christ is the victor over him, He has the power to push him away from you if you seriously want this. Jesus Christ is your redeemer from sin and death, He brings you salvation of the soul, He stands ready for your protection and leaves no-one in His adversary's hands who calls upon Him in the battle against him. But the adversary will also let up in his oppressions if you are at his beck and call, if you turn to him again through the desire for the world .... Then he will give you what you desire, and then you will be in serious danger of falling into his power again and turning away more and more from the spiritual kingdom. And thus only your serious will is necessary to be the property of your divine redeemer Jesus Christ. Then he will have to let go of you and you will be saved for time and eternity. These words are addressed to all people who are in physical and spiritual distress, for as soon as they endeavour to live a life according to God's will they are also exposed to constant temptations from the adversary, which are understandably particularly strong for those who have offered themselves to God for service. And so they are also often unusually harassed, but all have the one at their side Who is truly their protection and shield in every adversity. Only call upon Him in sincerity and hand yourselves over to Him will lead you out of all adversity and you will be freed from all kinds of temptations ....

Amen

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Redemption through love

Love work .... beginning redemption ....

B.D. 3338 from November 21st 1944, taken from Book No. 43

Every human being should contribute his share to salvation, and he can also do so if only he gives an example of a life of love. For by doing so he also encourages his fellow human beings to live a life of love as soon as love is shown to him at all times. Only love is redeeming, and only then can humanity be released from its spiritual and earthly distress if it decides to live a life of love. This will loosen the soul's cover, and at the same time the suffering on earth, which is often a means to stimulate the human being into a life of love, can also be alleviated. But people do not heed admonitions and warnings, they continue to remain unkind, their thoughts and actions are far removed from love, and thus they create an unbearable fate for themselves on earth, they are themselves the cause of suffering and misery directly through their unkindness and indirectly that they need a sharp antidote in order to change. But if the individual human being endeavours to live a life of love he will banish suffering for himself and his surroundings, for God will reduce it because He will come ever closer to him to the same extent as the human being practices love, because He will now keep suffering away from him or help him to bear it if it is necessary for the sake of his fellow human beings' souls. And every work of love attracts God, with every work of love the human being creates a weapon against suffering, he can now easily overcome it and thus increasingly recognizes the power of love. But above all, a life of love loosens the cover which still surrounds the soul .... And this is incipient redemption .... it makes itself able to receive God's radiation, His spirit, it gives life to the spirit within itself, the cover is broken which prevented a rapprochement between spirit and soul .... If a person lives a life of love for his fellow human beings, then the spiritual spark in him can connect with God's emanation, and where this can work, the spiritual spark in the soul of his fellow human being will also try to break through his cover by urging the person to do good works and trying to make himself heard .... Thus a good example will always inspire imitation, for this is the strength of love, the strength of the spirit which is awakened through love and which is constantly active and also seeks to make contact with the spiritual spark in the fellow human being. For the spiritual spark in the human being is part of God, and everything divine strives towards each other; but where the divine breaks through in the human being, there is also redemption .... The earth-bound soul becomes free, it casts off all shackles and comes closer to its original state again, the state of complete freedom .... And only love can bring this about .... Therefore, every human being should only practice love, to bless himself and his neighbour .... He should set a good example and know that he will not only break the soul's bonds but also reduce earthly suffering, but that increasing unkindness also means an increase in earthly suffering and that humanity will fall into an increasingly dark spiritual state from which nothing but love can redeem it ....

Amen

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Redemption through love .... rebirth of the spirit .... overcoming death ....

B.D. 0867 from April 16th 1939, taken from Book No. 17

Love for humanity moved the son of man to take suffering and the guilt of sin upon Himself .... Love for humanity is once again the motive for His extraordinary activity on earth. And love for one another shall likewise make you His co-workers, for only through love can you redeem yourselves and your fellow human beings .... The will to help each other is truly already an act, for you thereby confess yourselves before the lord as His servants, you, as it were, carry out the lord's will .... is to give love where it is needed .... The lord will bless your effort and not abandon you if you are in need of help. And thus love alone is salvation, for love is divine, and if you are active in love you free yourselves from the power of evil, you have escaped its control and found the lord .... for if you love you are one with Him .... He is with you in every work of love, for He is love Himself .... So make frequent use of His grace, which He promises you .... Love so that He enters your hearts and His nearness makes you infinitely happy .... Help each other who still live on earth .... give to the poor in spirit .... Do not let the hungry suffer where you can feed them with the bread of heaven .... Recognize the divine guidance in every event .... Willingly follow His guidance and only ever live in love, which is the epitome of all being. You will be able to book the most beautiful success if love drives you to alleviate people's suffering .... for then you will work with the lord Himself .... you will, as it were, take part in the lord's work of redemption, for you will willingly take the suffering of your fellow human beings upon your shoulders if you strive to reduce this suffering and become absorbed in love for each other. Let this be your endeavour, that you seek to do good to one another, that you never think of your neighbour in unkindness if he has to live in want and suffer, but that you sacrifice your own well-being if you can thereby free your neighbour from hardship. The lord's work of redemption was synonymous with the rebirth of the spirit .... through the divine work of redemption the spirit in the human being could be awakened to life, for this happens through love. He, Who overcame death through His great love, thus made love the awakener of all dead life .... He took away the sting of death .... he who lives in love can no longer fall prey to eternal death, and truly man finds eternal life through love ....

Amen

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Only love redeems .... shaping of the heart ....

B.D. 2378 from June 22nd 1942, taken from Book No. 32

It is only love that leads man upwards, and it is only through love that a transformation takes place in him that is necessary in order to move from the depths to the heights, to the light. Nothing else can redeem him, nothing else can replace love, and nothing else but love can lead him closer to God .... And even if a person lives his life on earth in fulfilment of duty and strict observation and fulfilment of the demands placed on him, nothing guarantees his progress but love alone. For this transforms the soul and makes it willing to open itself and give freedom to the spirit within. And the working of the spirit ensures the soul's higher development .... the maturing without which a life in eternity is inconceivable .... But love is God Himself .... So God must be in everything and with everything that man begins .... And the human being has completely accepted Him in himself if he lives in love, and then his life on earth must bring him perfection because God Himself is in him and can work according to His will. God and love are one, and therefore God can only be found through love, although He is sought intellectually. The knowledge of God and the belief in Him, that He exists, does not bring the human being closer to the eternal deity .... he will only consciously strive for Him through activity of love, then the serious will to come close to Him will be present and only then will the right realization follow, which is imparted to him by way of the heart .... And thus love is indispensable in order to be able to enter the kingdom of God .... Love overcomes everything, it remains victorious even in the most difficult battle, because the one who lives in love has God Himself at his side, Who is in him through the human being's activity of love. A person's degree of love determines when God, as love Himself, takes up residence in him. He can only dwell where love has accomplished such a transformation, where the human being has moulded himself according to God's will .... He must be humble, meek, peaceful and patient from the heart, and all this is brought about by love .... For he puts God and his fellow human beings before love for himself and will always think less of himself; he will demand nothing for himself but will always give .... he will not condemn, but understand and forgive .... he will not seek contention and will suppress all arrogance .... he will have understanding for the weaknesses of his fellow human beings and therefore practice patience. And thus his nature will change and mould itself in accordance with divine will. And God Himself can take abode in such a moulded soul .... Hence love will dwell in the human being in all its fullness, he will no longer be able to do anything else but be lovingly active because God Himself will now direct all his actions and thoughts, He Who is in him .... And where God is, there can be no depth, no darkness and no unfree state; where God is, there is light and freedom, where God is, there is peace and bliss .... love has redeemed man ....

amen

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Only love redeems on earth and in the hereafter ....

B.D. 3555 from September 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

Neither on earth nor in the beyond is spiritual ascent possible without loving activity, for love alone leads to God, love alone reduces the distance from the human being to God, and love alone brings about union with God. Therefore it is the greatest commandment on earth to be lovingly active, otherwise earthly life will be lived uselessly and the soul will enter the beyond at the same distance from God as it was before its embodiment as a human being. But earthly life is the last grace for the spiritual in the earthly world .... then life begins in eternity, in the spiritual kingdom, which can also be a state of death, a state of powerlessness which can never be called life. And now there is only one possibility again to ascend through loving activity .... but activity in weakness is impossible, and therefore the soul is in greatest adversity because it first has to accept strength in order to be able to work in love. And this acceptance of strength is again dependent on its will, which has to be directed towards loving activity for other souls. But a weak soul is extremely weak-willed if it does not have a completely God-opposing will and gives itself over to the forces of the underworld. And a weakened will is hardly able to strive for a change of situation for itself, even less does the soul think of the suffering souls and use its will correctly, i.e. it carries the will within itself to help them. Yet only this will to be lovingly active towards needy souls provides it with the strength which it can now use and thereby treads the path of ascent itself. Until the soul develops the will to love within itself its state will be desolate and hopeless, for only love alone brings redemption from its torment. And this is why the ascent in the beyond is far more difficult than on earth, and endless time can pass before the soul decides to work with love, whereas on earth the human being is in full possession of his vitality and the slightest occasion can impel him into an act of love, which he can therefore also carry out immediately because he is capable of it. The being's inability in the beyond is a state of utmost agony, for after earthly life the being feels it as a fetter which it cannot release. And since it passed away on earth without love it also does not know about its strength. It is now dependent on the help of other souls which try to persuade it to have the right will through suggestions, and on the prayer of people on earth that strength will be supplied to it which is meant for its weakened will. Redemption can never take place through other beings, the soul has to redeem itself through love .... This is divine law which can never be circumvented. And this is why God creates countless possibilities on earth which are intended to kindle love in the human being, so that he will now work and thereby mature his soul, so that he will not enter the beyond as a powerless being but is already a recipient of strength, i.e. he can enter eternity as a being of light himself, albeit with varying degrees of light strength, yet always able to work with his strength in love again on the suffering souls and constantly increase the degree of light. For love has to be practiced on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom, it is the binding agent between the souls and God, because God Himself is love and the being can only unite with Him if it has become love itself ....

Amen

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No self-redemption – redemption only through Jesus Christ

Self-redemption .... only with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5106 from April 18th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

No-one will be able to redeem himself by his own efforts, and yet it depends solely on his will whether earthly life brings a person complete redemption from the bound state which was the result of his past apostasy from God. Redemption therefore means liberation from the power of satan, who separated the spiritual beings from God, who let them become sinful and unhappy. It was impossible for the once fallen spiritual beings to achieve this redemption on their own until Jesus Christ descended to earth to accomplish this work as a human being. He stood up as an adversary against satan and defeated him, i.e. His will was so strong that He resisted him, that He developed love as God's part in Himself to such an extent that God's adversary became powerless, because love is strength from God.

Every person is able to kindle this love, thus every person could also redeem himself if he wanted to .... But precisely this will is weakened by the past sin, the human being is inferior to God's adversary and his own strength is not enough to liberate himself from him, because the will to love is too small as an inheritance from the one who is devoid of all love. But through Jesus Christ the human being has been enabled to increase his will to love as soon as he avails himself of the grace of the act of salvation, as soon as he has Him as His support, Who died for him on the cross and paid the purchase price for all souls to God's adversary with His blood .... The latter can now no longer keep him bound if the human being wants to free himself. Thus the redemption of the human being on earth is certainly a work of free will which, however, only becomes active in the right direction when Jesus Christ is called upon for help as the redeemer of humanity. Then the human being redeems himself, which he cannot do without Jesus Christ, since satan still has him in his power, whose power was only broken by Jesus, thus the human being has to stand behind Him in order to get out of satan’s power. Self-redemption without Jesus Christ is impossible, but with Him it can very well be achieved, but the human being first has to muster the will to set himself free, otherwise even the divine redeemer cannot accomplish the work of redemption in him, even though He died for all people on the cross. Yet no human being is prevented from making use of the blessings acquired by Him, which is why the whole of humanity also participates in Christ's act of salvation, but this does not mean that people will be redeemed against their will ....

(18. 4.1951) They can freely give themselves to Jesus Christ but also remain faithful to satan, who to a certain extent participated in the creation of the spiritual world because he drew the strength for it from God but used the strength according to his will and thus also placed willful resistance against God into the beings, from which Jesus Christ wants to redeem them through His greater than great love .... The act of salvation is accomplished for all, yet no being is forcibly redeemed but it must be of its own will to be redeemed through Jesus Christ's blood .... otherwise the act of salvation has been accomplished in vain for this being, because it still recognizes its lord in satan and has no desire to escape his power ....

Amen

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Self-salvation? .... Jesus‘ work of redemption ....

B.D. 7904 from May 29th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

No man can redeem himself, no man can become blessed by his own strength .... Consider that you are powerless when you enter the earth as a human being .... You are indeed given the vitality for your existence as a human being with which you can create and work according to your will. But in order to become blissfully happy you must be in possession of spiritual strength, and this is lacking in you who are still part of My adversary, who dragged you down into the abyss and, due to your past apostasy, rejected My strength of love, thus you became completely powerless. You were bound by My adversary and he did not let you go. Although I had already released you from his bondage when you were .... bound by Me.... through the creations of earth in order to slowly ascend again. But during your human existence he has control over you again insofar as he can influence your will, for you are still his share until you voluntarily approach Me. But for this you need spiritual strength which you do not yet possess. But the purpose of your earthly life is your release from him, the redemption from his control, from the fetters he had placed around you .... And because you therefore don't possess the strength to do so, you cannot redeem yourselves .... You need help, which only one can provide: Jesus Christ, the redeemer of the world .... In Him I Myself came to earth in order to accomplish the act of salvation for you, in order to redeem you from My adversary through My blood .... in order to acquire the strength for you which you need and which will be supplied to you if you acknowledge Me as the divine redeemer, if you want to avail yourselves of the blessings of the act of salvation. again and again I try to make the significance of the act of salvation clear to you; I try to make it understandable to you humans why you have to acknowledge Jesus Christ and His act of salvation and that it is not possible for you to become free from My adversary's power without Him, the divine redeemer .... that it is not possible for you to redeem yourselves.... that you need Me in order to become blissfully happy. You are unable to do so by your own strength, for you first have to acquire it, and therefore you have to muster the serious will to release yourselves from My adversary's power, and this will is weakened by your past apostasy from Me because you lack love .... You rejected the divine strength of love, you are without love yourselves, and love is the strength which would enable you .... Yet as long as you still belong to My adversary he will do everything to prevent you from working with love, and you do not have the strength to resist him .... You have to request strength from Jesus Christ and therefore also acknowledge Him as the one Who alone can redeem you from the enemy's power .... But then your redemption is also certain .... Then you will only ever use your available life force to work in love, you will receive strength and constantly increase it, and you will be able to resist My adversary, you will turn to Me, Whom you recognize and acknowledge in Jesus Christ, and his power is broken from the moment you entrust yourselves to the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, confess your guilt to Him and ask for His forgiveness .... For then you willingly turn to Me again, from Whom you once separated yourselves. And My strength of love can now radiate through you again, you will receive strength and now be active according to My will .... And your spiritual strength will grow, you will mature in your souls, you will strive for perfection on earth, and you will also be able to do so because you have become free from the power which kept you bound until Jesus Christ Himself loosened the chains and you can now live in spiritual freedom again. And then you will have attained true life, which you will not be able to lose again, for through Jesus Christ you have truly been redeemed from sin and death ...._>Amen

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Salvation only through Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6307 from July 9th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

It is not impossible for a person to release himself from the bondage which was his fate due to his past apostasy from Me, for through My death on the cross you can put yourselves in possession of strength which you completely lacked before, and you can resist what was impossible for you before. You humans do not understand the significance of My act of salvation, and words alone are not enough if you yourselves do not mentally deal with why this act of salvation was so necessary for you, why a human being had to die so that you became free, so that you could draw strength for your redemption .... You do not understand that I have only created an opportunity for you to reach the former height, to take the place again which you once voluntarily gave up .... You yourselves, in your imperfect state, cannot measure how you used to be, but you can achieve it again, to enter the original state .... precisely through My act of salvation, because I Myself atoned for the great offence against Me through My death on the cross by suffering unspeakably for you as a human being and dying an exceedingly painful death .... Admittedly, you still remain bound as long as you oppose the act of salvation, for as long as you don't accept a gift of grace offered to you by My love you are completely unable to liberate yourselves, you remain without strength and without light in the power of the one from whom I want to liberate you. But the strength can only be received from Me Myself, and therefore you must also acknowledge Me as the one Who brings you redemption from your sin and the ensuing death .... But as soon as you acknowledge the redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem the guilt of sin for you, it will be easy for you to free yourselves from My adversary, for now I can impart strength and grace to you in the richest measure .... You need not doubt for a moment that you will become free, for I have already purchased this deliverance for you through My blood, which I shed for you .... Thus My adversary can no longer hold you back if you want to break away from him. He has lost his power over you as soon as you turn to Me in Jesus Christ .... as soon as you place yourselves under My cross and thereby confess that you are and want to remain My own for eternity. This will can awaken in you because I died to strengthen your will, because I acquired for you what My adversary withholds from you .... strengthening of the will .... For the will alone decides whether you return to Me or want to remain with him as his appendage .... But in order for you to experience this strengthening of will, you must therefore make use of the treasure of grace acquired through My death on the cross .... Only from this source can you draw strength to resist, for only through Jesus' death was the fountain of grace opened and made accessible to you humans. And therefore Jesus must be acknowledged as God's Son and redeemer of the world, Who was only a cover for Me before people's eyes so that I Myself could accomplish the act of salvation for you humans .... For you were also My share, and My concern for the once fallen is tireless, so that it returns to Me again in free will .... For this reason your will had to be strengthened, for you would never have changed your will on your own and taken the path back to Me, for this was prevented by My adversary, under whose control you had been since your fall into the abyss and from whom I therefore redeemed you. You can all be released from him, yet only if you take the path to the cross and then commend yourselves to Me as your lord, Who will truly help you and give you the strength to finally release yourselves from the bondage of death ....

Amen

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The most holy name of Jesus .... redemption ....

B.D. 7385 from August 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

In Jesus lies all the salvation of the world, in Him all souls find redemption, in Him rests all bliss, all happiness for eternity .... In His name, therefore, you humans find deliverance from the adversary; whoever calls upon Him will be set free, no matter how much he is bound beforehand .... The name of Jesus is the strength which solves everything, to which nothing is impossible and which overcomes everything that opposes it. And you should call upon this name of Jesus when you feel oppressed by the evil spirit which wants to pull you into the depth .... And you will feel that you will be released from it, for Jesus comes to everyone who calls upon Him because He has the right to his soul as soon as it desires Him. He bought this right with His blood, with His death on the cross, with His torments and sufferings which were immeasurable and therefore also redeemed immeasurable guilt, so that your souls became free from this guilt and thus find redemption with Jesus Christ if only you surrender to Him and want to accept redemption from Him. Then the shackles will be broken which the adversary had imposed on you when he dragged you down into the abyss. Then he will have to release you and you will be able to escape his control, for your guilt of sin has been paid, Jesus Christ Himself has paid the purchase price for your souls, Jesus Christ Himself has accomplished the work of salvation for all people of the past, present and future .... And there is therefore a sure help out of every affliction of a spiritual nature by calling upon the name of Jesus in spirit and truth .... Then every evil spirit which continually tries to oppress you must give way; it must give way before the power of the one to Whom the soul belongs through the call and Who will now also free it from its oppressor. For he no longer has any right to the soul which calls for Jesus Christ .... Bear in mind that you only need to hand yourselves over to the one Who redeemed you from sin and death .... Who took all the pain upon Himself that a human being was only capable of bearing in order to pay the guilt of sin for you, in order to relieve you of the suffering and pain which was the result of this great guilt of sin and would have remained eternally had the man Jesus not accomplished this act of salvation out of love. Love for the oppressed people drove Him to this work, and love also hears every call today which comes to Him from a tormented heart, which begs Him for help against the enemy. He will comply with him, He will grant help and displace the enemy, He will only ever grant peace where previously there was unrest and fear, He will truly redeem the human being from his tormentor who desires redemption. For as long as the human being dwells on earth the enemy will not give up his endeavour to win him back if he believes him lost for himself, or to hold him fast if he has not yet found redemption through Jesus Christ. He always pursues the human being but in vain where the name of Jesus is held out to him, Whom he flees and releases his victim because he has recognized his overcomer in Jesus and cannot oppose Him. You only need to hold on to Jesus Christ in every adversity of the body and soul .... and all hardship will pass away, and joy and peace will return to the heart which calls out in spirit and in truth for the one Who redeemed people from sin and death ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redemption from the form – gift of grace of the embodiment as a human being

Redemption of the hard matter ....

B.D. 6386 from October 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

The spiritual that is at the beginning of development languishes for an inconceivably long time in hardest encasement because it cannot move into a loosened outer form until its resistance decreases, which takes an inconceivably long time. But one day a change of its outer form must also come for this spiritual substance .... And if you humans now consider that there are works of creation which have appeared unchanged for eternities, which seem indestructible to you from time immemorial and also for eternity to come, then you have to ask yourselves when a change can come for the spiritual substance bound in it if it is to follow the path of development which leads to embodiment as a human being like you .... The liberation from the hard form also comes for this spiritual being according to God's will .... For God Himself has determined the duration of the existence of such creations in the knowledge of the diminishing of resistance and thus also the end .... the dissolving of such creation .... foreseen since eternity. And therefore, at intervals determined by God, complete destructions of creations take place which cannot be dissolved in any other way than through violent eruptions .... which, however, can also be caused by people themselves who, in free will, undertake unlawful actions which result in violent eruptions. This free will is also included in God's plan of salvation, and God even allows such unlawful actions to serve the spiritual substance banished in form in its effect if He does not Himself naturally bring about a dissolution of such creations .... But such processes always serve the liberation of that which languishes in the hard form in order to give it an easier outer form where it must continue the path of development upwards. No human being imagines the immeasurable torments of the spiritual which this long imprisonment meant, and no human being believes that in the new creation spiritual substances will be bound again for an infinitely long time, which failed in the free state and instead of reaching ascent sank back into deepest darkness .... You humans all look at the creations without deeper thoughts as to what they really are .... that they harbour spiritual substances which were once fallen original spirits .... full of freedom and light .... and that these are now bound in deepest darkness but shall one day attain freedom and light again .... and that this course of development also irrevocably necessitates the temporary destruction of creations, but that you humans reject as implausible such references to an end of this earth .... Only someone who knows about the meaning and purpose of creation thinks about it, and the announced end is probable to him, but he does not get through with his views to his fellow human beings who lack this knowledge. But every human being should think and ask so that he can receive an answer mentally. And anyone who rejects a coming dissolution or destruction of this earth as 'not proving a God of love' .... only claims God's love for himself because he does not know that everything in creation originated from Him is spiritual like the human being .... that it has only not yet reached the degree in its development where it can embody itself as a human being .... but that it has to reach the degree by constantly changing its external form and serving in every form .... And this possibility is always given to the spiritual by God .... And even if eternities pass, the day will come one day for this spiritual being when it can escape from the solid form and move into a somewhat lighter one again. And God's eternal plan of salvation always foresees the day when the spiritual substance will be liberated from hard matter, the day when one redemption period ends and a new one begins .... For the spiritual's development progresses unceasingly because God's love constantly looks after everything that once emerged from Him .... until it returns to Him again in order to be able to be and remain blissfully happy in all freedom forever ....

Amen

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Unleashing spiritual forces .... Eruptions .... Period of redemption ....

B.D. 5351 from April 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

Unimaginable forces are at work to establish the old order which, at the end of a period of salvation, will be so impaired that the spirits' higher development will be totally out of the question. A condition in which everything that is bound in matter will strive upwards again must be created, and this condition will necessitate a total transformation of that which hitherto sheltered the spirits .... The old creations must be dissolved and replaced by new ones which will be used again in divine order, according to divine will, and thus also fulfil their task of helping the spirits to mature. Many forces are already at work to initiate the immense action ahead, for everything will proceed according to divine order, including the disintegration and transformation of the old earth's surface .... From time to time spiritual beings, with an abundance of power and strength, liberate the spirits which are still bound in the most solid matter; they loosen the chains which the spiritual substance would never be able to burst by itself, and, in a manner of speaking, clear the way leading upwards .... It may change its external shape, making it easier to dissolve, so that the higher development of the spiritual substance, which was bound for an infinitely long period of time and has finally eased its opposition to God, can start. Such a process of activating strength by the beings of light happens wherever eruptions occur; they loosen chains where, according to God's will, it is time to do so. These forces give freedom and bind at the same time, because the entirely free spirits would destroy everything in their urge to be active and, according to God's wise judgment, only partial destructions may occur, as long as the final act of disintegration does not take place, at which time everything will be transformed according to God's will. But, for the time being, visible destructions will only happen where people are given a sign of divine power and strength .... for the time being these eruptions shall simultaneously signify God's calls of admonition and caution for the living, so that they will seriously become aware of their own task in life and strive towards ascent. Yet such manifestations of strength by the spiritual world will follow in ever shorter intervals until an immense divine intervention causes such powerful changes, that every person should be able to recognise the One Who is Lord over Heaven and Earth, over life and death .... After that it will only be a short time until a work of destruction ensues whose final consequences will no longer be witnessed by the human race, only by those whom God will fetch to Himself because they believe in Him and love Him .... because they had recognised their task on earth and tried to do justice to it. Then a new period of redemption will start, for untold spirits will have entered the path of higher development, the old order will have been established again, and peace will reign on earth for a long time to come .... until one day Satan gains influence again and uses his power once more, because people themselves concede to it .... Nevertheless, a long time in bliss and peace will pass by, and countless spiritual beings will reach their goal .... to become free from all matter and to enter the spiritual kingdom, where light and bliss exist forever.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly activity - redemption process ....

B.D. 3668 from January 26th 1946, taken from Book No. 46

Nothing you see is without essence, for the whole of creation contains spiritual substances which are at the lowest point of their development and strive to ascend. And if you now consider that all creatures wrestle and long for redemption, you must be eternally grateful that you have already overcome what is still granted to that beingness, that you have covered the endless long path and now only stand before the last test of earthly life which can earn you complete release from the form. You are therefore constantly surrounded by opposing or struggling spirits which want to draw you back to themselves, but which you can also help upwards if you are willing to do so. Every change of form is progress for the spiritual, as long as the new form fulfils a serving purpose. And as soon as you eagerly contribute to the change of form, as soon as you create new forms, you yourselves offer the spiritual the opportunity for ascent development. Thus your activity on earth is a blessed one if it simultaneously favours the maturing of the beingness in matter. And the blessing will also be noticeable for the human being insofar as his own spiritual development progresses faster because his activity, even if earthly, is also a redeeming one in the spiritual sense. People who make such activities their life's task are therefore also active in a redeeming way, only their work has to be done willingly, not under compulsion without their own impulse, otherwise the beingness in matter can certainly progress upwards but not the person who carries out this activity. Every earthly work which helps the still immature spiritual in matter to serve favours the process of release of that which is bound in the works of creation, and the more diligently the human being carries out his earthly activity the more orderly the process of redemption takes place, and if love drives him to it, love for his fellow human beings or also for the unredeemed in creation, this will also become noticeable in an orderly earthly life, because then a peaceful work of building up but not hostile work of destruction is the result and this always corresponds to divine order. A destruction of matter without simultaneous transformation for the benefit of people certainly provides the spiritual with freedom for a short time but contrary to divine order, and that spiritual takes revenge for its interrupted course of development with God's permission .... it oppresses people and also other works of creation until it is bound again in a form which corresponds to its state of maturity. As long as divine order is disregarded the spiritual upward development on earth will not take its right course, and this will always result in spiritual and earthly chaos. The loving human being recognizes this and increases his earthly activity in order to compensate for what people's unkindness is to blame for. And as long as love and unkindness are in balance the state on earth will also be bearable; but as soon as unkindness prevails the love of others will no longer be able to prevent damage to the same extent as sins are committed .... And the disorder in earthly life grows immeasurably. The struggling spiritual substance in creation must be helped by people if it is to be able to redeem itself from its respective form as soon as it is itself willing to serve .... And every human activity which fulfils this purpose will be blessed and facilitate the ascent development of countless spiritual beings ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Release from form ....

B.D. 6318 from July 25th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You have already had to travel through countless forms and you are still not released from the form, for your soul .... the spiritual, which shall develop upwards .... is still enclosed in a material shell which signifies a shackle for it, for it cannot rise freely and light-heartedly into the spiritual kingdom. Yet it has already travelled an infinitely long path, and if you humans knew how short the last stretch of the path still is and how close an exceedingly glorious aim beckons you, you would only have this aim in mind and head towards it .... You are told again and again but you believe too little, and it is also not possible to give you the recollection of the past time of your development because then you would do everything driven by fear in order not to have to travel this path again. You have to strive towards the final aim without any knowledge, yet you are given knowledge of it in the form of teachings which you, however, can just as well reject as accept because no proof can be given to you. Only a few people accept such knowledge as truth, but these have a considerable advantage over those who don't believe and therefore live irresponsibly into the day .... For they don't need proof because they feel it within themselves, which is truth, and now also live on earth in accordance with the realization .... They overcome the last form, as it were, which only shelters their soul until the death of the body, in order to then be able to enter the spiritual kingdom completely carefree. People on earth already walk close to the border of the spiritual kingdom, it is no longer a long way to the aim, and the death of the body can be the end of an endlessly long time of development .... But the cycle can also start anew, the being can fall from the already reached height into the deepest depth .... the already considerably loosened outer form can condense again and there is no question of a 'release from form' for an infinitely long time .... because the time of grace in the last embodiment was not used .... But which human being believes this and draws the consequences from it? .... It is a matter of will which every person has to decide for himself; only knowledge can be presented to people, but the human being himself has to take a stand on it without coercion if he wants to draw an advantage from such knowledge .... However, this will be made easy for him if he does not resist, for then so much thought material will be brought to him that he will, as it were, be prompted by himself to think about his development, about his earthly task and about his aim .... What he does not seek himself will be brought to him and again and again his will will be influenced to think about it ..... Only the final decision has to be made by him, and this now requires a conscious life .... a life in accordance with that knowledge .... overcoming the last form through the intimate desire for freedom, for light and strength .... for God, through self-shaping to love .... Only through love does the spiritual redeem itself from the form which was only given to you because it lacked love .... But the power of love breaks every form and gives the spiritual eternal freedom ....

Amen

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Using the time on earth to break free from the mould .... Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7464 from November 27th 1959, taken from Book No. 79

The plan of redemption takes place according to a just order, every phase has to be passed through by the once fallen original spirit, and every phase has to be regarded as a time of probation for the spiritual being, which therefore cannot be arbitrarily omitted or skipped. And that is why redemption also requires a certain time which, however, can then be terminated in the stage as a human being or also be endlessly prolonged again, but which always required an endlessly long time before, until this embodiment as a human being once takes place. This time of pre-embodiment can indeed also be somewhat shortened when the beingness gives up its hard resistance and now ascends in lighter deformation, but this shortening of time is minimal in relation to the time where the being is still bound in hard form and is to free itself from it. Thus you humans lack the concept of estimation for this period of time, and you have to be content with the fact that you have already lived on this earth for endless times before you were allowed to experience the grace of embodiment as a human being .... And therefore you should value and appreciate this grace particularly highly and do everything in order to finally get rid of your last form, in order not to be begotten again into hard matter and to have to travel the agonizing path once more if you fail. You can truly speak of eternities, since you walk your path separated from God and are wretched, but you yourselves can put an end to this state, and therefore you are informed again and again of what your task on earth consists of: to redeem yourselves from a captivity which has already lasted for eternities .... You can do it, for many means of help are at your disposal, you need not have travelled the earthly path in vain, you have a completely certain guarantee for your redemption: the divine redeemer Jesus Christ Himself, Who ransomed you from captivity with His blood on the cross. Without His help you would truly be too weak to complete the work of redemption; but with Him you can do it, for He helps you to do so, He provides you with strength where you alone are too weak, He sets you free from your previous lord if only you have the will to let Him redeem you .... Then your earthly life can be completely finished, you can be released from all external forms and re-enter your true home as a pure spirit .... The endless time of your imprisonment has now come to an end because your will has proven itself, because it turned to the one Who alone can bring you salvation: to Jesus Christ, in Whom the eternal deity embodied Himself in order to redeem you, in order to redeem your guilt of sin, which resulted in this long distance from God .... But your earthly life is only short and therefore you must do everything in order to attain this redemption before the death of your body, so that you will not enter the kingdom of the beyond still bound, where your redemption will be far more difficult, because your free will applies there too, because you yourselves must want to find redemption through Jesus Christ. Don't let the time on earth pass without having seriously worked on your redemption, without having surrendered yourselves to the one Who alone can set you free from sin and death .... Remember the endless time you already had to cover and now make use of the gift of grace of embodiment as a human being by seeking the bond with Jesus Christ, Who died for you on the cross in order to end your eternity-long state of torment and to open up the kingdom of light for you, so that you can enter it after your earthly life and be blissfully happy again and remain as you were in the beginning ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeeming activity on earth

Redemptive work greatest act of neighbourly love ....

B.D. 3960 from January 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Redemptive work on earth is the greatest act of neighbourly love and therefore pleasing to God. This work applies both to a fellow human being's body as well as to his soul. For the more diligently the soul is worked upon, the more the body's adversity will abate. Redemptive work, however, is everything that helps the soul to gain freedom; everything that can serve its liberation from Satan's control and its further development, everything that assists its perfection. Anyone can accomplish this redemptive work and thereby practise extremely richly blessed neighbourly love, especially during the last days before the end when countless souls suffering spiritual adversity should be helped, because their souls will be hopelessly lost without help, given that they no longer have the strength to release themselves. If you humans bear in mind that a totally weak soul is in urgent need of help, then it should be your heartfelt decision to help, providing you feel a spark of love in yourselves, because the weakness of this soul is not a temporary condition but continues forever until it receives external help. Although in its human stage the soul is capable of releasing itself if it subordinates itself to God's will and keeps His commandments. Yet since it failed to do so it is devoid of all strength and can only be helped by fellow human beings, because its wrongly inclined will has made it impossible for God's direct action. Hence love is necessary in order to take part in the redemptive work on earth, and every person who practises this neighbourly love, will be blessed by God as this love is truly unselfish. Redemptive work can only be accomplished by those who deny themselves, who have overcome their inclination towards the world and who are therefore actually already labourers in the vineyard of the Lord, who offered to carry out work which does not result in earthly achievements but solely concerns a fellow human being's spiritual wellbeing. And this kind of neighbourly love must be successful, it will not remain ineffective, the work of helping a neighbour's soul will not be done in vain providing his will is not entirely opposed to God and thus also opposes his fellow human beings' efforts .... In that case his soul will be lost for eternity, for its spiritual adversity is too great to be remedied on earth during the short time which is still available for the redemption of people's souls. Then the soul's fate will be a renewed banishment, a process through the new creations on earth, which will last an infinitely long time again ....

Amen

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God wants to work in man .... redeeming activity ....

B.D. 5375 from April 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I always and constantly want to be able to work in you, I want to control your thoughts, I want you to start everything with Me, that you turn to Me for advice, that you are completely filled with love for Me and your neighbour and thus also aware of My presence in you .... I want you to live in Me and with Me .... Your task in earthly life is the connection with Me of your own free will, thus you fulfil your task if you constantly occupy yourselves with Me in thought, if you grant Me the right through your will to be constantly present to you. And your earthly life will be a blessed one, for then it will always be a living out of My word which conveys My will to you. Thus you, so to speak, place your own will under Mine, you work for Me and with Me, you consciously stand on My side .... you do not live in this world for nothing, which is meant to bring you the maturing of your soul. You reach your aim and have become Mine .... The separation between us has been abolished and can never happen again, because I will no longer let you go away from Me .... And anyone who once belongs to Me will only work for Me, he will redeem himself because this will has been placed in his heart as soon as he has submitted himself to My will. He also wants to lead his fellow human beings to the same aim, he wants to give the fallen children back their father, he wants to help them achieve the same beatitude, he wants to provide them with My presence and will speak for Me and My name from that moment on. And this is the working of My spirit in the person who is united with Me .... He is delighted to be admitted to redemptive activity and feels driven from within to intervene where it is necessary. For he himself has become knowledgeable through his bond with Me, and he also knows about his fellow human being's adversity which arises from his distance from Me and which he therefore wants to remedy by trying to bring it close to Me. And because his love for the unfortunate spiritual person drives him to help, his will to help is blessed, i.e. he will not be unsuccessful. Whatever he undertakes with the intention of bringing redeeming help will be blessed by Me, for love justifies everything and will never be without effect. Thus I certainly work through the spirit in the human being, yet the human being himself wants the same as I do .... he wants to lead to beatitude which such have not yet experienced, who are still immature or bound by the will of the one who is My adversary. And anyone who has once grasped the will to participate in the act of salvation will always be offered ample opportunity, for he is recognizable to all those who encounter him in spiritual adversity .... He will be recognized as a messenger of light by people on earth as well as by souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are of good will .... They will surround him and ask him, they will not let up in their desire to be allowed to partake of the blessings which this messenger of light distributes. But I will ensure that his light will shine ever brighter, that he will be recognized on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and that all who are still unredeemed will find access to him, so that they will be redeemed through the love of those in whom I Myself can work through My spirit ....

Amen

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Readiness for redeemer work ....

B.D. 6422 from December 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You already declare to Me your willingness to work for redemption by the fact that you take care of the souls which pass away in wretchedness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, for your will to help will start at the same time if you remember them with merciful love or commend them to Me .... Then I will also know that you are willing to help redeem these souls. An infinitely large amount of redemptive work would be done if people knew about the overwhelming hardship of all these souls which are still in the hands of their tormentor .... But this state of torment cannot obviously be shown to them because then they would be seized by horror and also become incapable of their own soul's work. Yet the mere thought that these souls are in distress should cause or stimulate people to help them, and this willingness to help would already have a beneficial effect. For these souls feel it when they are thought of with love .... You cannot imagine the effect of your thoughts, both in a good and in a bad direction .... And therefore your thoughts should always be filled with love, because then they will always exert a good influence on all people with whom you think .... And if your thoughts are predominantly of a spiritual nature they will also have a spiritual effect, and you can do nothing better than to always think of the souls' adversity and want to remedy it .... Every soul which is drawn into your circle of thoughts feels good thoughts as strengthening and as an occasion for a change of will. You cannot yet ascertain the effect on the souls in the beyond on earth, although you can certainly believe it ..... But you will be able to observe the effect on earthly people if you include them in your prayers because of their spiritual hardship, if you want to help them with love, if your will does not slacken to struggle for their souls .... if you do not exclude them from your thoughts but provide them with assistance until they have risen up and are now strong enough themselves to cover the path upwards .... Your thoughts are forces .... and if they are determined by love then they are also a weapon with which you can defeat the enemy of the souls and save the souls to whom your love applies .... He can only be defeated through love, for he cannot resist it. He flees and refrains from his sacrifice .... And now you will also understand how you can carry out redemptive work which can extend to people on earth as well as to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond .... Include them in your loving intercession, remember them with a merciful will to help, speak to them in your thoughts and let them feel the strength of your love .... Take care of all souls you know to be in need and approach Me with this love for these souls .... And I am gladly willing to give those souls the strength which your love wants to impart to them. Then you can always be co-workers with Me in a redeeming sense, then you will receive ever more strength yourselves, and then I can also have an extraordinary effect on the souls for which you appeal to Me for help. No prayer of yours is unsuccessful, and often only a small impulse is missing for the souls to find Me, and it can be triggered by your loving intercession .... Know that you can all help Me and that you are all welcome co-workers for Me if only you are willing to help with a loving heart, for there is great need, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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God as the "guardian" of truth? .... incorrect education ....

B.D. 7789 from January 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 81

Again and again you humans will misrepresent My word as long as you are not moved by the deepest desire for truth which protects you from error and untruth. But this desire for truth is inherent in very few people; most of them are indifferent towards spiritual possessions because earthly life still occupies them too much and because they have little interest in what happens to them after death. For the belief in a continuation of life after death is not very strong, even among those who call themselves Christian and belong to church organisations it is lacking .... They doubt it very much, if they do not even deny a "survival". And so they do not think of their later lot, nor do they seek enlightenment about it. And if they are given clarification they do not examine its origin but thoughtlessly accept or reject it because they lack the desire for truth .... And as long as My pure word is in danger of being deformed by people because they are driven to it by My adversary who fights against the truth. You humans must know about all correlations, you must know about the battle of darkness against light .... You must know that only truth will help you to attain perfection, that truth is spiritual nourishment for the soul which it needs in order to mature .... you must know that you can never find the right nourishment for your soul in error .... you must know that the basic condition for attaining the truth is precisely the desire for truth which is proof that you also desire Me Myself .... And you will only have the desire for Me in you again if you are willing to love. This is why a person who is willing to love will also recognize My word as truth and willingly accept it from Me .... And the rejection of My word will always also prove a loveless heart, and then My word is not protected from being distorted either, because then My adversary will make use of that person who also willingly listens to him and acts as the adversary demands .... And since love has grown cold amongst people the truth will also be lost, that is, error and lies will break through and be willingly accepted by people, whereas the truth will be resisted or misinterpreted by people's will, which always signifies a change of My word. For whether My word is conveyed to you directly or whether you receive it from the book of books, you must have the desire to be addressed by Me .... to receive spiritual knowledge which has originated from Me, because then it must also be truth .... you must desire the truth .... otherwise you cannot protect yourselves from wrong spiritual knowledge. Hence the view is erroneous that I Myself am the 'guardian of truth' and that you cannot be offered wrong spiritual knowledge by those who claim to be My representatives .... The human being has free will, and by virtue of it he can transform and shape every spiritual knowledge, no matter how pure it originated from Me .... And thus every individual can move in the truth as well as every individual can shape the truth of his own accord, according to his will, according to his maturity of soul and according to his attitude towards Me .... otherwise beatification would be the privilege of those who only ever accept what those 'representatives of God' impart to them because they believe that this spiritual knowledge is protected from all contamination by Me .... Every person is responsible for his spiritual knowledge himself, it is up to him whether he lives in truth, for the condition for this is that he desires the truth himself. But then he can also be certain that I will enlighten his thinking; then he will recognize My word as such, and then he will also know how to protect it and not allow any distortion of it, because he will recognize it immediately, because his spirit instructs him and this truly only conveys the truth from Me to him ...._>Amen

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The redeeming power of love ....

B.D. 7969 from August 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Every human being contributes to the redemption of the spiritual who lives in love, for he will also constantly radiate love to his surroundings, be it fellow human beings or also the spiritual which is still bound in form, which feels every irradiation of love beneficially and also matures because it gives up resistance, which love always achieves. For love is a power that does not remain without effect. Love awakens reciprocal love, and people and animals will gladly join those who radiate love ..... It can therefore also be deliberate missionary work .... that is, conscious vineyard work .... can only be carried out successfully if love is the impetus for it, otherwise the 'redeeming' of souls is called into question, because love alone has redeeming strength. People must recognize the spiritual hardship and want to remedy it; they must know that help must be brought to the souls which are still unredeemed, be it on earth or in the beyond, and love must impel them to carry out conscious redemptive work .... Then their work in the vineyard of the lord will also be blessed. But if a person lives in love, if his way of life is a continuous activity of love, then he unconsciously does redeeming work; he spiritualizes himself, thus all his spiritual substances, and places his soul into the state of maturity which is the purpose and aim of his earthly life .... But he also contributes towards the spiritual maturing of those who dwell in his surroundings, for they, too, cannot resist the irradiation of love in the long run if an open counteraction is not recognizable through people who are in bondage to God's adversary. But even these will withdraw because they are no match for the weapon of love .... Yet where love determines a person's way of life there can never be a relapse into the abyss, for love urges towards eternal love, love is the divine in the human being which can never remain without effect and this effect always signifies redemption of the immature spiritual, irrespective of whether it is on and in the human being himself or also in his surroundings, which also includes souls in the beyond which, attracted by the strength of love, stay close to him and likewise feel the flow of love as strength. A person who lives in love is recognizable to those souls through his light radiation, and he is therefore constantly surrounded by such souls who want to escape from darkness .... This will also makes the light of love effective, they receive strength which again helps them to also be active on other souls by also seeking to snatch them from darkness .... What they feel charitably they also want to impart to other souls who are in the same need .... And thus a redeemer's work is unconsciously done only through a life of love .... However, it is good if people know about this and also consciously want to participate in this redeemer's work by giving themselves to their God and father and appeal to Him for His blessing .... that they also offer themselves to Him to be active in His vineyard according to His will. And a life of love will also result in increased spiritual knowledge for the human being, his thinking will be guided correctly, the human being will take care of those who are still in the bonds of sin, who have little or no faith and whose hardship he can recognize. If he now consciously places himself at God's service that he is active as a proclaimer of the gospel, of the divine teaching of love, then God's blessing will also be assured to him, he will fulfil his earthly task, he will do successful work as a labourer in God's vineyard, and this success will always be in accordance with the degree of love which fills him, because love is the redeeming strength, because love also banishes the adversary who flees it, because it is divine emanation ....

Amen

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Redeeming work of vineyard workers

Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

B.D. 5082 from March 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The work you accomplish for Me and My kingdom always involves participating in Christ’s work of Redemption. It is a continuation of what Jesus, the man, started on earth, it involves the spreading of the Gospel on His instruction and leading people to Him, the divine Redeemer Himself, and therefore it is a return to Me, the origin of all that has been created. This participation in the redemption work is so important and so extremely beneficial because influencing people directly from above has become impossible. Hence mediators, who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom as well as with people on earth and are thus able to convey the spiritual knowledge from above to them, are required to spread the Gospel .... This is the task of those who want to serve Me, who place themselves at My disposal as co- workers and whom I therefore send into the world with the instruction ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations’, i.e., speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, inform them of Me and My direct working in all of you whom I send to cross your path .... Take your work seriously as there is not much time left. And I Myself will smooth your every way so as not to hinder your work, so that you will always have the opportunity to work on My instructions for the benefit of your fellow human beings. So far you can only do the groundwork, for the hour of your public activity has not come as yet. However, you should even do this preliminary work conscientiously and diligently, and you should always want to do it, then you will also have the strength and opportunity to work for Me. For many people are hungry and live in want, they thirst for nourishment for the soul, and I Myself direct all threads and convey the bread of heaven to those who desire it. I give in abundance .... Hence you, too, should strive to distribute the delectable gift to those who do not approach Me directly and need to be fed by you if I don’t want to let them perish. This is the redemptive work which, in a manner of speaking, makes you Jesus’ fellow labourers, His followers and His helpers, for countless souls suffer great adversity. Whatever you do in order to spread My Word will be blessed by Me and will result in copious reward, even if, from an earthly point of view, it is not obvious to you. You must more or less feel like My labourers who only accomplish the Lord’s will. But you will feel My will in your heart, and whatever your heart urges you to do, you should instantly comply with, for it is My voice which speaks to you, which impels you to work for Me and My kingdom. Do not fear earthly hardship or earthly disadvantage but always trust that I know your every worry and will remedy it at the right time. Anyone who works for Me is most reliably taken care of, it is just not obvious so that the work for Me is not done in a compulsory fashion but voluntarily instead if it is to be successful for eternity .... Someone who expects reward is not suitable for redemptive work which only requires profound love for Me and his fellow human being if it is to be effective. You don’t have much time left, therefore you should ever more eagerly fulfil My will, which will forever consist of carrying My Gospel into the world .... of instructing those who lack knowledge and enlightening those who are misguided. For only the truth will have a redemptive effect, and therefore you should spread the truth which I convey to you humans from above because I love you and want to deliver you from the bondage of darkness.

Amen

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God's commission to the disciples of the end times .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 8184 from May 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And on My behalf you should go out into the world .... to proclaim the gospel .... Thus was My commission to My disciples, whom I Myself instructed on earth, in everything they were to proclaim again to men .... And this is also My command to you today, My faithful servants, that you diligently carry out the work for Me and My kingdom and that you thus take care of the spreading of My gospel, which I Myself guide to earth .... For it is necessary that people are instructed in the truth, and it is necessary that they come to know about the mission of the man Jesus, about His act of salvation and about My human manifestation in Him .... An earth period comes to an end, and during this period I Myself descended in the man Jesus, in a soul of light which embodied itself on earth as a human being .... I Myself accomplished the work of salvation in order to redeem humanity from sin and death .... No long time has passed since I walked across earth as a human being .... and yet people have little or no knowledge anymore, Jesus' earthly life, which ended with His death on the cross, is a questionable event for them which they give little or no credence to. And they are completely ignorant of the significance of a unique act of mercy, and they are increasingly more doubtfully instructed, so that they also find it increasingly more difficult to believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... And therefore I send you, My last disciples, out again to win people for Jesus Christ, to make their faith easy when they are instructed in all truth .... I commission you again to go out, for He is truly their saviour from sin and death .... He must not be passed over, He must be acknowledged and asked for forgiveness of the guilt of sin which burdens every human being or he would not walk this earth. Whatever you, My faithful servants, can do in order to inform your fellow human beings of Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, you should do and not slacken in your vineyard work, and I will truly bless you for it, for people are in greatest spiritual hardship who do not take the path to Him if He has not granted them the forgiveness of their original guilt, which only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself, can bestow upon them .... Believe it, you My servants on earth, that you can still render Me great services yourselves if only you ensure that My word is conveyed to the world, which is directly conveyed to you by Me, for through this word I convey truthful knowledge to all of you which gives you a bright light and also opens up to you the understanding for Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, which was lost to people because they took notice of Him in a completely distorted form and therefore lost faith in Him and the act of salvation. For this reason I convey the pure truth to earth again and ensure that people receive information about the spiritual correlations so that they learn to believe again and take the path to Him, so that they go to the cross and carry their guilt of sin to the cross .... because otherwise they cannot find redemption and cannot enter the kingdom of light without the redemption of the original sin either .... For this reason I commission you again and again to bring light to people, to inform them of My working on you and of the truth which is thereby imparted to you humans .... And if they know the significance of the act of salvation for people's salvation, then the well-intentioned will nevertheless deal with Jesus in their thoughts and He Himself will then be able to influence them, i.e. I Myself will be able to intervene and give them ever brighter enlightenment .... But the first impetus has to come from you, because people, due to their unbelief, do not concern themselves much with Me or the divine redeemer Jesus Christ but can be stimulated by you into conversations of a spiritual nature. The people who serve Me as mediators, who help to spread My word, do an extremely beneficial work whose value they will only be able to assess in the kingdom of the beyond when they will be approached by the many souls who participate in the proclamation of My word, who were invisible to you and yet derived the greatest benefit from every kind of spiritual work, for whatever you do .... there will always be these souls around you who need food and drink for themselves and who can fetch the nourishment they need from you in order to mature .... For the divine redeemer Jesus Christ must also be proclaimed in the kingdom of the beyond so that the souls will find Him there if they did not find Him on earth and passed over into the spiritual kingdom burdened by their original sin. And the supply of truth is also necessary for them, for many of them were unable to find the divine redeemer on earth because no truthful image was developed for them and therefore they had no faith either. But the truth makes it easy for them to accept what they previously rejected .... And right faith can also come alive on earth through the supply of truth in people, for truth has strength within itself because it is from Me, and no being will ever be able to resist this strength, for it is love which touches all souls in the form of My word .... And to the strength of love all souls will once surrender, because love lets nothing be lost forever ....

Amen

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Continuation of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5263 from December 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

My work of redemption shall be continued by you who want to be My disciples in the last days on this earth. You shall be active in the same way as I was when I lived on earth, because the spiritual adversity had become so great that help had to come from heaven. But the help from above can only be provided by people again, it has to appear human and yet it is from above .... I will come to earth Myself again, yet in spirit, in the word, which you may hear because the will to love impels you to help your fellow human beings. It is heavenly help, it originates from Me Myself and yet it reaches people's ears like a purely earthly address and is therefore not compelling to believe, yet it is extremely effective for those who do not resist Me and My strength of love. You shall fulfil this task of conveying My word to fellow human beings, you shall proclaim the gospel in My stead, you shall help them to release themselves from spiritual bondage and work on earth in the same sense as I did, for only the imparting of the teaching of love, which I also only preached to people, can help them, although their own will must first become active in order to do what My teaching of love demands. You can only preach and lead by good example .... This is your sole task which you should fulfil faithfully and conscientiously, and thus you can always consider yourselves My co-workers, My representatives on earth, who only continue what I once started .... who will always find My support because they are active on My behalf and a lord will never leave His servants without assistance. Your fellow human beings need your help as long as they don't contact Me directly and receive from Me what you shall now give them .... My word, which can save them from all adversity. They are still in satan’s clutches and yet shall be released from them. I want to redeem them but this cannot happen by force. And therefore you should support Me in this work of redemption, you have to speak as human beings to human beings, you have to explain to them why they are bound and what the bondage consists of, you have to instruct them how they can free themselves and set a good example for them so that they will willingly follow you and thus live out My divine teaching of love, so that with My help they will now redeem themselves from satan’s power through you .... Your mission is important, so important that I keep recruiting labourers for My vineyard, that everyone is welcome to Me who wants to take part in the work of redemption, for only a short time is still at your disposal, My disciples of the last days; when this time is over it will be too late for all those who do not listen to you, who disregard your admonitions and warnings and resist Me, which is why their blindness cannot be taken away from them and they completely devote themselves to My adversary ....

A period of redemption is coming to an end and many people will suffer bodily and spiritual death, they will remain unredeemed and will have to languish in satan’s fetters for eternal times again despite My servants' diligent work on earth, for they cannot be redeemed against their will.

Amen

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Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect ....

B.D. 8412 from February 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Time and again I tell you that it is My will to convey My word to people wherever possible .... I have already assured you many times that I Myself direct your thoughts and also guide people to you who are open to My word. And you will feel every order in your heart and willingly comply with it. And again, your willingness determines the extent of your activity, and you need not fear that you will work in vain even if you cannot always ascertain success .... I alone know why and for what purpose I have given you this task to be constantly active in My vineyard, and I also know what great blessings will result from it, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. You must never forget that everything you receive, as well as every spiritual activity you carry out, signifies a redemption factor of utmost effect for the kingdom of the beyond .... You must bear in mind that the hardship in the kingdom of the beyond is very great, for the many immature souls which depart from earth urgently need help if they are to take the path of ascent, and this help can only be granted to them through constant instructions which they can accept if they want to and which will then also earn them a great blessing. The work of redemption has to be continued in the beyond if it has remained unsuccessful on earth, and My word also sounds for these souls which are poor in spiritual treasures and first have to be brought onto the right path. And you don't know what spiritual wealth you offer those souls and how eagerly the light is accepted by them .... You can quench their hunger and thirst because they are allowed to take in everything I offer you and because they can also follow your thoughts and thus every spiritual activity is a source for these souls to refresh themselves. Believe that these souls accept such gifts of grace far more gratefully than people on earth, but that those to whom you convey My word on earth are surrounded by souls again who participate in it, and thus you cannot measure the large circle which benefits from this work of salvation, but I know it, and therefore I also call upon you time and again to diligently work in the vineyard, and I also bless every one of My servants who willingly serve Me, who work for Me and My kingdom. But I will also still open many human hearts, and the circle will also widen on earth, for I will guide you along paths which are still completely unknown to you .... I will establish the strangest connections, I will connect threads which you don't suspect, for I know human hearts and know who longs for My address and is happy when he can hear it through you. And you will always be considered yourselves as it is helpful for your work of redemption, I will always supply you with the strength you need to be able to fulfil your task. I gave you the task to be diligently active because you can still work unhindered. But the time will come when you will be hindered and you will no longer be able to come forward so openly .... And then My word must already have spread, because then every individual can work in silence, and even if only the souls in the beyond will still benefit from it, there will also already be a gain, for the more souls there find redemption and ascend, the more help can be given again on the part of these souls on earth, for they will be eternally grateful that they have been helped and now want to help those who are in need again .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore, never believe that you are doing unsuccessful work but do whatever lies within your power and I Myself will bless every work ..... And only ever pay attention to your thoughts which move you after heartfelt prayer to Me, and whatever your heart urges you to do, carry it out, and it will be right before Me .... For I still want to win many souls before the end comes, and therefore every helper will also be dear to Me and always experience My protection and My blessing ....

Amen

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Redeeming work for otherworldly souls

Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5878 from February 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The door to the kingdom of light is open to everyone who chooses the path through Jesus Christ. Without Him, however, the kingdom of light is closed to you and you walk in darkness or in such poor twilight that you do not feel well and therefore are not blessed. Wherever Jesus Christ is preached you will be pointed to the right path, for He Himself has spoken the words: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

And again and again He will step into your path if you have once passed Him by without paying attention to Him .... Again and again He will point you to the truth, to His act of salvation, He will offer Himself as your guide on your earthly path of life, He will woo you with love and patience, He will not turn away from you unwillingly if you don't want to listen to Him .... He will follow you if you are in danger of straying into the abyss and then entice you again and call you to turn to Him and return, so that you enter the path which leads to the right aim, to eternal life. Only He is the gate through which you can enter beatitude, and if you reject Him on earth you will receive a dark kingdom on the other side, everything is shrouded in darkness, for the light which illuminates everything is missing .... Jesus Christ, from Whom the light proceeds .... But in this kingdom of darkness you must call for Him .... then you can also be redeemed from your torment, yet it is difficult for a soul which rejected Him on earth to call for Him of its own free will .... because it did not believe and this faith cannot be given to it in the beyond either. It is difficult for such souls because they are only weak in knowledge, because darkness confuses their thinking and often directs it wrongly .... because they possess too little light of their own which could now stimulate their will to call upon Him for salvation. The rejection of Jesus Christ on earth has an extremely painful effect in the beyond, for the soul lacks everything .... strength and light .... it cannot recognize and is too weak-willed to acquire knowledge. But the divine redeemer's mercy still sends help to such souls even then .... Even in this kingdom of darkness they are pointed to the cross of Christ, which expresses itself in such a way that suddenly a thought of Him appears to the soul like a flash of lightning, that suddenly a glimmer of light touches it in the form of the cross which, however, immediately goes out again but can nevertheless leave a glimmer of realization in the soul, that it reflects on Jesus Christ and promises itself redemption from Him .... that it calls upon Him in its thoughts and presents its adversity to Him .... that it thereby expresses its will to believe in Him, only that it needs help in order not to change its mind again. And then it will also receive help, then the darkness will imperceptibly subside, a slight twilight will let it recognize a path which it will now follow and which will lead it into ever brighter regions .... as long as it does not drop the thought of Jesus Christ .... which, however, immediately becomes dark again when it no longer remembers Him .... The soul must freely want to go out of itself to Jesus Christ, then every obstacle will recede before it, then a light will shine to it, which it will soon recognize as the Christ light that sent it the first thought of Him .... Faith in Jesus Christ is the gate that leads to blessedness .... And blessed is he who still on earth finds Him, the divine redeemer, Who Himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life .... Blessed is he who with this faith enters the kingdom of the beyond, for to him the gate opens to the kingdom of light, to eternal life ....

Amen

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Redeeming action on souls ....

B.D. 6390 from November 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You hear My word and are constantly admonished to pass it on, for an unspeakable amount depends on this activity, because passing it on again and again provides the opportunity for souls in the beyond to come and listen to what you work through aloud or mentally when you talk to your fellow human beings or write it down or when the recipient reads it .... For there is always mental work involved, and these thoughts can haunt the souls and derive the greatest benefit from them. You must never let spiritual knowledge lie idle, you must always work with it, for My word shall have an effect, for its impact is unlimited, countless souls can draw strength from it .... But they must be given the opportunity to do so, they must be able to hear it. Thus you must listen to it or read it yourselves, and always think of all those souls which need it in order to receive light and strength from it. These always stay where they hope for light, and they hurry towards every ray of light when such shine for them. Be a source of light for these souls so that they, too, can draw from My pool of love which I have opened up for you. Know that there are only a few people who can send out such a ray of light, because only a few deal with spiritual matters and know the truth, therefore you are constantly surrounded by light-hungry souls whom you must not disappoint that they wait with you in vain. Constantly think of their hardship which you can alleviate because you possess much of the living water which they lack .... Every day countless souls depart from earth and enter the spiritual kingdom, and for countless this new realm is dark so that they feel unhappy in their situation .... But you can radiate much light, and you should want to convey this to those souls and therefore always send a call into the darkness, you should offer them the light, only then will they become aware of you and come to you, because the call from you already touches them beneficially. You humans have to do what I Myself would like to do but which is denied to Me by these souls: offer them strength and light which they would rather accept from you than from Me, because they don't know Me and cannot be compelled by Me to accept it. They also have to come to you voluntarily, but they are still so closely connected to earth that they are again and again drawn back into those spheres, and if a light shines towards them there they crowd around this light and demand brightness. You can give them what they desire because you possess it in abundance, because I Myself constantly provide you with it .... And you should not keep anything for yourselves alone but only ever want to distribute it .... so that I can also provide you with more and more according to the law of eternity .... Always remember those souls who are in dark surroundings and let your light radiate into their area .... Bring My word close to them and thereby make it possible that I Myself can address them, and you are truly active in redemption, you make correct use of My gifts of grace, you are true proclaimers of My gospel, which not only has to be conveyed to people on this earth but also to all souls in the beyond who did not accept it on earth and yet shall also find the path to Me .... It is the world which you do not see but which nevertheless surrounds you .... They are indescribably needy souls who suffer hunger and thirst and for whom I have therefore also opened up the spring which shall refresh and fill them but which also has to be sought out voluntarily .... Call them to come to you when you proclaim My word .... Then I Myself can speak to them through you and My word will work as light and strength ....

Amen

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Redeemer work on souls beyond ....

B.D. 7396 from August 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Every contact with the spiritual world is beneficial if it is established with the will to do good, if the will to help is the impetus and if it happens under the invocation of Jesus' name that He may bless it. You must consider that there are no longer any earthly incentives for the inhabitants of the world of the beyond, that they are, as it were, deadened by the length of time they have already understood that they are no longer surrounded by earthly matter and that they therefore accept every spiritual stimulation like food they have needed for a long time. And so this is the effect of good bonds which you humans initiate from earth to the spiritual kingdom. If your conversations, your thoughts and your suggestions are of a spiritual nature then it is like an administration of food for these souls, for they are so empty and needy that they hunger and thirst and every spiritual presentation of the gospel's teachings means food for them for which they are extremely grateful. You cannot imagine such depleted souls in their poverty .... You don't know what kind of benefit you do for them by offering them food and drink, but this is only to be understood as a spiritual gift which you want to give to them in love in order to help them. Your intention to help first blesses this spiritual knowledge and turns it into nourishment for the souls, for your will then concerns the transmission of the gospel to those souls which have entered the kingdom of the beyond poor in spiritual knowledge and have to live in want there if they are not given the right nourishment. And you possess this nourishment and can therefore help the souls if only your will intends it. And if you now intimately unite with Jesus Christ so that He will give His blessing to your plan, then it will certainly be blessed and the souls will be able to fill themselves with the food you give them in His name. You who receive the pure word of God should work with this word .... you shall convey it to the people with whom you are brought together, but you shall also remember the souls who dwell in the kingdom of the beyond, by whom you are surrounded if only you call them in thought, and who will always accept the word if it is lovingly offered to them .... Consciously and unconsciously you can pass nourishment to these souls, for as soon as you only mentally occupy yourselves with spiritual knowledge, as soon as your thoughts dwell in spiritual territory, you are surrounded by souls which fetch spiritual nourishment from you, because the soul's will, in turn, determines the amount of spiritual knowledge it receives .... But they will always stay close to you and wait until you establish this spiritual bond, which will be a great blessing for them if only you remember them, if you want to help them yourselves .... if it is your will to carry out redemptive work wherever possible .... And therefore don't miss any opportunity to do so, gather together in Jesus' name and know that your willingness to help will be blessed at every hour, because great need exists in the kingdom of the beyond and because every soul is eternally grateful to you, which you lead out of darkness into the light of day, which finds Jesus Christ through you and is then also saved for all eternity ....

Amen

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Directing the souls in the beyond to Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7839 from March 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 82

Anyone who professes Me in the spiritual kingdom will be redeemed for all eternity .... As soon as the souls, which are still dwelling in darkness or twilight, are no longer opposed to My name when they are informed of My act of Salvation by disguised messengers of light or by the thoughts of loving people, the darkness will leave them .... the strength of My name alone will take effect in them and drive them to Me, they will start to look for Me and I will also allow Myself to be found .... But the soul's will is and shall always remain free, hence it might also take a long time before they accept Me, before people's intercession becomes effective or the messengers of light joining them in disguise are successful in bringing them the Gospel.

Yet the efforts to gain these souls will not cease, and therefore it is very beneficial if souls are consciously invited to join spiritual conversations relating to the act of Salvation, so that the souls will time and again be directed to Jesus Christ and voluntarily take the path to Me and ask Me for forgiveness of their guilt .... As long as they are not happy they will still be burdened by guilt, and their misery will be able to encourage them to strive for an improvement of their situation and think about themselves, about their life on earth and their relationship with Me, their God and Creator of eternity. It will already reduce the soul's will of resistance if it receives people's loving intercession, if it is kindly thought of and feels their willingness to help. This will also decrease its rejection of help which it is repeatedly offered in the realm of the beyond, and its surrender of opposition is the beginning of progress, for every inclination of such a soul is taken into account and it is bestowed with a small light, which makes it happy and increases its desire for it.

The souls in the beyond have to find Me if they have not found Me on earth already. And you humans can greatly contribute towards it by frequently thinking of souls which suffer adversity .... by only ever directing every soul coming into your mind to Me, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, Who alone can help it attain beatitude. Your loving thoughts of these souls are like sparks of light, which make them happy and which they always look out for and to whose origin they hurry. While on earth they had kept away from all spiritual instruction, they had only lived their earthly life and thus entered the spiritual kingdom devoid of all spiritual possessions after their death .... Now they first have to acquire spiritual possessions of their own free will, they should not offer any opposition if the Gospel of love is proclaimed to them, and they must also pass it on with love to those who, like themselves, would like to improve their situation.

However, as soon as you humans take care of these souls they will not be lost; your thoughts will always draw them to yourselves and they will also be able to accept what they hitherto had rejected .... and now experience it as a blessing because it is given to them by your love .... For love is a power which will not remain ineffective .... You should often remember the souls which still languish in darkness, which have not yet found their way to Me in Jesus; show them the way and inform them of the Gospel; and you will accomplish a richly blessed work of redemption that is most significant, especially during the last days, because many souls shall still detach themselves from the abyss, so that they will not fall prey to the new banishment when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Redemptive work through intercession

Power of intercession for the unredeemed ....

B.D. 6351 from September 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You don't know the power of intercession which is carried out with love .... You would contribute infinitely much so that the kingdom of light can be opened to the souls in the beyond, but just as you can also help people on earth to change their will through intercession, because it is like a gift of strength which always has to have a good effect. You are all able to help people of a lower degree of maturity if only you sincerely include them in your prayer, if your love wants to help them and you now turn to Me in prayer which is meant for their salvation .... Only a little more love is needed amongst you humans for your fellow human beings and there would truly be a higher degree of maturity amongst people .... But people who are already more in the light usually turn away from those who prove their affiliation to the adversary through their conduct, because they certainly detest evil but don't consider that they should help their fellow human being to get away from evil .... A deep love also takes hold of the wretched, and you should kindle this love in yourselves, you should know that My adversary's power is still very great and that he is these people's lord and master .... You should know that their strength is not sufficient and that they have therefore fallen prey to him because their will is wrongly directed .... But you should also bear in mind that all people are My creatures whose return I always strive for, and that I rejoice over every single being which finds its way back to Me .... For this reason you also help Me greatly if you take care of them in prayer .... when you see your brothers in these people who are still far away from Me and who are still languishing in utmost darkness .... You must try to imagine their souls as extremely pitiful, helpless creatures who are grateful for every assistance, for every gift of strength, yet in their darkness they don't know that they could procure this strength themselves through the call of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... This knowledge cannot necessarily be imparted to them, and they also reject it if you want to bring it to them .... but they will feel the influx of strength they receive as a result of your loving intercession .... a prayer you address to Me on behalf of others I evaluate as if it had ascended to Me from them myself .... for now I can work in the course of My eternal order .... I can now give something to the soul even though it has not requested it itself, although the soul is still left with the free will to make proper use of the strength which now flows towards it .... But a loving intercession also results in a change of will of the one to whom it applies, for it is a spiritual request which reaches My ear, which will always find fulfilment. For this reason I particularly urge all your loved ones, be it on earth or in the beyond, to bring help to them in spiritual adversity .... Remember all those of whom you know that they have not yet found the right path to Me, take care of all those in prayer who are still in the hands of My adversary .... wrestle them away from him through loving intercession, for your love now gives Me the right to a supply of strength which is otherwise not due to Me because I do not dispute My adversary's right, to which those souls have given themselves through their will .... My supply of strength, however, will only ever contribute towards changing the will, and your loving intercession gives those souls this strength. Loving intercession could truly bring about a great change on earth, yet you humans pay too little attention to those who are in spiritual hardship, for whom there is only loving support from you humans, so that they will be helped as long as they don't call upon the helper and saviour themselves .... which, however, My adversary prevents and can also prevent because people are in bondage to him. But through a prayer of love for these souls you call upon Me Myself for help, and for the sake of your love I am also willing to help .... Therefore, all of you make use of the power of intercession and be certain that you show both the souls as well as Myself an exceedingly great love which I will reward .... For I don't want to condemn but redeem, and thus you should also remember the unfortunate souls with love, not with hatred or contempt, for they are all only the victims of the one who is My adversary ....

Amen

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Redeemer work in the afterlife ....

B.D. 7382 from July 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Great is the joy of the souls who found salvation through you and your cooperation, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, for they were all in great hardship as long as they were apart from God, thus still bound in their guilt of sin to the adversary who oppressed them in every way and tried to prevent such souls from finding salvation. This is where the help of fellow human beings has to start, who carry out their work of salvation through intercession for the souls of the departed or through proclamation of the gospel among fellow human beings and again and again wrest new souls from the adversary and lead them to God. And as soon as a soul has found its way back to God, its greatest need has been remedied and it is blissfully happy about its redemption and now seeks to do the same work in turn .... to help the souls far away from God to find the path to God and thus to Himself. All this is certainly work which is not very recognizable to fellow human beings as beneficial activity because it only ever concerns the soul's well-being and is therefore outwardly regarded as of little use. And yet, it is one of the most important activities a person can do in earthly life because it saves the soul from eternal death, even though the body falls prey to physical death. But the soul's existence is assured in beatitude, for the soul cannot pass away, but the state it is in is decisive, for this can be beatitude or death. But if the soul is in the state of bliss, then it is in the state of life, which now has no end. And if the soul has been in the state of death for a long time in the kingdom of the beyond it is incomparably blissful for it when it has escaped this state and has attained life through your help, which is why you cannot do enough redeeming work through intercession for such souls if you want to help them attain life from death. This is a work of greatest mercy, a work of greatest neighbourly love, for such souls are dependent on your help through intercession and they will eternally thank you for it and in turn help the other wretched beings in the beyond in the same way. But without this intercession they are too weak to reach the light of their own will, and therefore the first help must be given to them through your love and the will to bring them help in their adversity. Every loving thought towards them has an effect as strength and will not fail to have an effect, they feel every loving thought to be beneficial, and it encourages them to approach you and listen to you if you mentally impart the gospel to them, which they now also accept because it is offered to them in love. Love redeems and brings the souls salvation from their adversity, which you include in your loving prayer so that they can escape the adversary's power ....

Amen

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No intercession in vain for souls beyond ....

B.D. 6266 from May 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will all experience that My love for you is unlimited and that I therefore do not leave anyone to his self-chosen fate but come to everyone's aid, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. I take care of every soul you commend to Me, for whom you pray, whom you want to help in spiritual adversity. I help wherever My help is requested because I love you all .... But you will only understand this when you enter the spiritual kingdom and all the souls come to meet you whom your prayer has delivered from their adversity .... Only then will you know that I have heard every call from you and that no request was directed to Me in vain .... But you shall already know this on earth from My mouth. I will tell you Myself that you can help every soul to whom you give love .... And I want to tell you because a great deal depends on it, because all these souls only need to behold a small ray of love from you in order to turn towards you, which then already signifies the beginning of redemption .... because they receive from you what they need for further ascent. If you knew what effective means are at your disposal .... you would have no other thought than to rescue souls from darkness. And they all thank you for it and always surround you so that you never do any spiritual work without their presence .... and you cannot imagine the effect of this, for a single ray of light ignites again and makes countless more souls receptive for My word .... That is why I already direct it down to earth, because nothing else extends its effect into the kingdom of the beyond and because it also has a transforming (influence) on the souls from the abyss .... (effect) .... I give but I receive far more in return, My creations find their way back to Me who kept themselves far away from Me, who feel your love as strength and now also turn to Me voluntarily because their hearts become soft and compliant through your love. And for the sake of your love My love can now also express itself in these souls, I can provide them with strength which they can use again to work in love on the souls which are still in darkness .... The work of redemption is so extensive that it can now be done on those unhappy souls of the deep, for a single soul has its appendage again, which will now, as it were, also be redeemed through your help, which is now before the end of the earth .... before the beginning of a new redemption period, is of utmost importance, for countless souls will still be saved from the fate of a new banishment, which would irrevocably befall them if they were still languishing in deepest darkness and had not been shown a path to ascent. I love all My living creations and don't want them to suffer for an infinitely long time, yet I keep My law of eternal order and therefore cannot unlawfully redeem the souls which still oppose Me. But your love can break this resistance and then My love can also become active .... Therefore I help all those you commend to Me, for whom you pray, and I release them from their adversity .... for My love never ends, My love includes all My living creations, My love wants them all to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Participation of the beings of light in the work of redemption

Redemptive work greatest act of neighbourly love ....

B.D. 3960 from January 24th 1947, taken from Book No. 49

Redemptive work on earth is the greatest act of neighbourly love and therefore pleasing to God. This work applies both to a fellow human being's body as well as to his soul. For the more diligently the soul is worked upon, the more the body's adversity will abate. Redemptive work, however, is everything that helps the soul to gain freedom; everything that can serve its liberation from Satan's control and its further development, everything that assists its perfection. Anyone can accomplish this redemptive work and thereby practise extremely richly blessed neighbourly love, especially during the last days before the end when countless souls suffering spiritual adversity should be helped, because their souls will be hopelessly lost without help, given that they no longer have the strength to release themselves. If you humans bear in mind that a totally weak soul is in urgent need of help, then it should be your heartfelt decision to help, providing you feel a spark of love in yourselves, because the weakness of this soul is not a temporary condition but continues forever until it receives external help. Although in its human stage the soul is capable of releasing itself if it subordinates itself to God's will and keeps His commandments. Yet since it failed to do so it is devoid of all strength and can only be helped by fellow human beings, because its wrongly inclined will has made it impossible for God's direct action. Hence love is necessary in order to take part in the redemptive work on earth, and every person who practises this neighbourly love, will be blessed by God as this love is truly unselfish. Redemptive work can only be accomplished by those who deny themselves, who have overcome their inclination towards the world and who are therefore actually already labourers in the vineyard of the Lord, who offered to carry out work which does not result in earthly achievements but solely concerns a fellow human being's spiritual wellbeing. And this kind of neighbourly love must be successful, it will not remain ineffective, the work of helping a neighbour's soul will not be done in vain providing his will is not entirely opposed to God and thus also opposes his fellow human beings' efforts .... In that case his soul will be lost for eternity, for its spiritual adversity is too great to be remedied on earth during the short time which is still available for the redemption of people's souls. Then the soul's fate will be a renewed banishment, a process through the new creations on earth, which will last an infinitely long time again ....

Amen

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Light beings help vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8720 from January 9th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Countless light beings have joined you to promote the fulfilment of the mission, which you have taken on, as every man serving Me eagerly and unselfishly can be sure of all spiritual help, because it is about a great work to supply men with that, what they lack and still is exceedingly necessary: truth, which goes out from Me directly. None of My servants is without spiritual protection, and that is why everyone can go through earth life completely carefree and be convinced of it that My light messengers protect him on all ways and always only let that come over him what serves him for his soul's salvation, because they act and work on you in My will. You can fully entrust yourselves to these light beings; you can submit all your secret worries to them, as you do it to Me Myself, because they are so intimately connected with Me that they also always only carry My will in them and therefore help you, as I Myself have promised you My protection and blessing, because you serve Me. A relationship of love exists between the inhabitants of the kingdom of light and those on earth who eagerly want to serve Me .... And the thoughts of the latter are always so guided that their work is successful .... that souls are still rescued, which are in great danger to get lost when the end comes. But if you, My servants on earth, could see how you are surrounded by beings of light, you would truly rejoice and exult and no longer imagine yourselves on earth .... But such bliss would impair your serving activity in My vineyard, you would not be able to put yourselves into the misery of fellow human beings to whom you are to bring spiritual help .... For this help can only be given by people, otherwise the beings of light could have a direct effect .... but which is not possible due to people's lower degree of maturity and their will, which is often turned away from God. You therefore have to do this work and establish contact with fellow human beings and try to change their attitude. You can certainly always rely on the help of the beings of light, but you yourselves must also remain clear and sober and must not be under a certain compulsion, but which every unusual experience would mean for you if you want to be suitable to work for Me and My kingdom. But as I Myself love every one of My vineyard workers, because he is active for Me in free will, so also the love of countless light beings belongs to you, who can appreciate the value of your activity and also know how necessary it is, and therefore do everything to support you. But I know if and when I can initiate you more closely into spiritual connections, and I also know if and when I can open the spiritual eyes for you that you can see the crowd of My messengers of light around you .... And that is why I also consider My light children differently, because every degree of love is different and also determines the kind of My revelation towards him. And I Myself also always determine the living conditions of every individual according to his work for Me and My kingdom. What can be possible with one excludes with the other, what I alone can justify, but is not to hinder you in your work for My kingdom. Every man needs a different environment, and every man is assigned his own field of activity; all men are different, with whom the individual comes into contact, and so every task is also to be solved differently. But every redeemer work carries its blessing in itself and is the actual mission of a man who is prepared to serve Me. And when one is given information about spiritual connections, then the other needs to know nothing about these, and still everyone can accomplish exactly the task, which I have set for him, because power is constantly supplied to him and spiritual helpers stand by his side, even if he does not see them .... For his will shall remain free .... The power, which every vineyard worker needs for his work, goes to him, because he is cared for in love by My messengers of light, but they will not openly make themselves known to him, so as not to confuse his thoughts and to divert them to unimportant problems, which once will solve themselves when it is time. But you can constantly be certain of My love and care, for anyone who serves Me is Mine, and I will never let him leave Me again for ever ...._>Amen

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Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep ....

B.D. 7288 from February 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

For all souls I shed My blood on the cross of Golgotha .... If this comes to the souls' attention in the darkness, then it is also a ray of hope for those souls, a blade to which they cling if they have the will to be delivered from their torment and to come out of their hardship which is becoming unbearable for them. For even in the deepest darkness light is sometimes brought in when messengers of light descend into the depths and inform the souls that the saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ also died for them on the cross .... Although these messengers of light come veiled, they appear to the souls of darkness as like souls who have come to their senses and consider a way out for themselves, who then remember Him of Whom they heard in the earthly world but in Whom they never believed .... And now eager debates are being conducted, mostly against Me Who accomplished the act of salvation in the man Jesus, for they are all still under My adversary's control who does not want to allow him to lose one of those souls. But the messengers of light are untouchable for him, and their arguments nevertheless again and again convince individuals who look for a way out and entrust themselves to those messengers who suggest guiding them, and then they will always be led to where bright light shines, where their knowledge is increased, and they now start to draw hope because they feel at ease in the circle of light but also know that they themselves first have to acquire the right to be allowed to stay in the area through their attitude. As long as they inwardly resist, they cannot yet be considered to have been released from the darkness, it will strike them again and again and again put them into great torment. Yet they do not forget the speeches of those messengers once they have taken part in them and responded to them, they nevertheless call them to them again and again through their thoughts, and their desire to be able to enter the circle of light again and to hear more of Jesus Christ, Who is also said to have redeemed them and thus can also release them from their torment, grows ever greater. This is the most important thing for the souls in darkness, that the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion is brought to them, if it was unknown to them so far. But usually only a small reference to Him will awaken their memory, providing the desire has already awakened in them to be redeemed from darkness. If they don't have this desire then all knowledge of My sacrifice on the cross is far away from them, then the messengers of light of love won't help either, then they are still completely under My adversary's control, and then much intercession is necessary to make these hardened souls think differently, for without Jesus Christ there is no salvation from darkness for them. In the last days before the end the light beings are constantly working for those souls in darkness who want to help them to leave the deepest depths before the end so that they will not fall prey to the state of new banishment, which even surpasses their present stay in terms of torment. And your prayer for these souls contributes a great deal that their hardship will diminish and they will open up when helpful beings make a suggestion to help them to freedom. The cross of Christ lets its light shine everywhere so that the souls will remember more and more what it is all about .... But only the being's free will makes it possible for the blessings of the act of salvation to pour over the souls, for free will must be willing to call upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ for salvation from the abyss. And the soul will only do so when it has received teachings which have awakened and strengthened its faith in My sacrifice on the cross, so that it now sincerely appeals to be redeemed by Jesus Christ from its torment, which torments the soul until this decision has matured in it to turn to Me in Jesus Christ itself .... But then it will be lifted up from darkness into light, i.e. it will no longer need to enter the dark places, it will be accepted into the circle of light seekers and be filled with light and in deepest gratitude lend a hand itself to help and save its brothers with whom it had to share the darkness .... And such a soul will also succeed in much redemptive work, for in its urge for love it will now eagerly endeavour to bring the gospel to those souls as well, to convince them of the loving and merciful work of the one Who shed His blood on the cross in order to save all souls from spiritual death ....

Amen

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End of this redemption period

Redemption period comes to an end ....

B.D. 2564 from November 28th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Humanity will experience ever greater hardship because the time given to the spiritual for redemption is pressing. An accelerated process of development must be possible, which is promoted by excessive suffering and misery. Time is drawing to a close and there are still countless people who have no spiritual aspirations whatsoever and therefore pass through earthly life completely uselessly. To a certain extent they must be urged by external circumstances to think seriously about earthly life, which they would never do if life passed them by in monotony and without suffering and hardship. As long as they do not make contact with the spiritual world through heartfelt prayer, through requesting spiritual strength, the spiritual success of their embodiment on earth is to be doubted, or earthly life would only have to be a continued labour of love, but then the human being is also unconsciously in contact with the spiritual world. The time of redemption of the spiritual is coming to an end .... Man cannot grasp what this means and yet he should be informed of it so that he understands the cause and purpose of the great adversity which God allows to come upon earth. This period of redemption has spanned an infinitely long time and time and again the spiritual was offered the opportunity to develop upwards. But God's wisdom also set a limit to this redemption period, but also increases the number and kind of development possibilities so that the still immature spiritual can come to final maturity before the redemption period has ended. And as long as the spiritual does not resist it can reach the last stage of development. But the will of this spiritual is weak and it fails if it is not influenced in a way that urges it to make its own decision. Earthly suffering is supposed to exert such an influence on the spiritual, and that is why God does not leave this last possibility untried in order to help the spiritual, which without such does not use the embodiment as man. Earth life passes, but with it also the possibility that the spiritual in man liberates itself. On earth it can still do this out of its own strength; but as soon as earthly life is over the spiritual, the soul, lacks strength and is in greatest danger to develop regressively, which results in eternities of being bound again. The greatest suffering on earth, on the other hand, can be called little, and therefore people should take it upon themselves because it is the only way to spare the soul the torments of the beyond, which are far greater and last for eternities, because it is more difficult to attain spiritual freedom in the beyond. For this is certain .... nothing comes upon humanity which is not founded in God's love and has God's wisdom as a prerequisite .... And that is why the coming immense suffering must also be regarded as a proof of God's love .... as a final means for the redemption of the spiritual, which is in danger of losing itself completely ....

Amen

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Redemption period with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6432 from December 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The hour of redemption draws near .... No long time will pass before the end is drawn under a period which could bring redemption and also brings redemption to those who have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, who have followed His call and walked the same path as He walked on earth .... For the people of this earthly period a special light of grace had poured forth, for in this last earthly period God Himself embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to redeem humanity .... to make it possible for the whole of humanity to be able to behold the eternal light again, from which the spiritual world had once voluntarily turned away and therefore its fate was and would have remained a profound darkness without the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. This earth period was so significant because it ended a hopeless state which had already lasted for an infinitely long time .... And the redemption of all spiritual beings which entered the stage of embodiment as human beings during this earth period would have been completely possible .... And yet this unheard-of bestowal of grace was not utilized, and again only a few reached their aim on earth .... to be able to end this life in the flesh with their souls fully matured in order to find acceptance in the kingdom of light. This would have been possible for all people, but because free will is decisive and this was not properly utilized, countless souls left this earth unredeemed .... although they all received knowledge of Jesus' act of salvation, of His crucifixion and His mission .... Yet they lacked faith, and even the knowledge of this greatest work of mercy ever accomplished on earth had no effect on people .... And so a redemption period which could have brought the greatest success now comes to an end .... and a new one begins again, so that all beings will be offered the opportunity again to make use of the blessings acquired through Jesus' death once more, for complete redemption can only take place with the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And you humans are now facing this turning point, you are facing the end of the old and the beginning of the new era of redemption, which therefore also signifies the end of this earth and the emergence of a new earth. There is still time for every single human being to turn to Jesus Christ with the request to help Him .... The knowledge of His work of redemption could still be used, even if faith in it is lacking .... But anyone who can only believe in the existence of this human being can occupy himself with this 'human being' in thought and have a mental dialogue with Him, so that this 'human being' will explain to him why He wanted to seal His ideas with a cross .... And he will get the answer because the divine redeemer grasps everyone who only enters into contact with Him. Intellectual knowledge alone is not of much use to him but it can help to initiate a purely intellectual mental argument which can end more or less successfully. This earth period was blessed with God's personal earth walk .... And much could have been achieved by people with good will, yet their will was not often directed upwards .... Only a small flock ever followed Him, and at the end of this period it will not be much bigger either. Therefore you can all expect the near end with certainty, you can indeed still enter the divine redeemer's following beforehand, you can join His small flock, for He will accept you until the last hour .... But the end of this earth has irrevocably come, and therefore you are required to make great haste and use all your strength, you are urgently advised to appeal for strength so that you will all reach the aim before the last day has come .... that you will profess Jesus Christ before it is too late ....

Amen

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Connection with Jesus Christ

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

Amen

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"No one comes to the father except through Me ...."

B.D. 5952 from May 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

No one comes to the father except through Me .... These words alone should make people realize the importance of acknowledging Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, and yet they have completely lost their impact, for humanity does not respect them, otherwise it would not so thoughtlessly reject Him Who calls Himself the bridge to the father .... The words of scripture are for most people only letters without spirit and life .... They speak them without being aware of their meaning, they completely disregard the lord's words and therefore do not find their way to the father either, because they do not believe in Him with the conviction which would result in heeding the divine word. No one comes to the father except through Me .... Yet people lack the will to reach the father, which is why they do not seek the path to Him either .... which is also why the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is of no significance to them. This attitude leads to downfall, to spiritual death .... Since they do not reach the father, they remain in the power of the one who is God's adversary, they remain in the depths because they do not desire to ascend. It is an exceedingly regrettable state that people do not show any striving upwards, that they do not think about their earthly task and that they are also indifferent to Christ's teaching, the gospel, that they do not accept any of His words as important and think about them .... that they cannot attain realization because they do not seek enlightenment, because they are completely indifferent to what God wants to convey to them through the scriptures and what the man Jesus, as God's spokesman, preached to people .... And no-one thinks of the fact that he only stays on earth in order to bring about the return to the father, and that he is constantly offered the opportunity to do so, which he rejects in his rigid mind because he does not believe. The distance between the human being and the father is great, yet one offers Himself for guidance, for mediation .... One has built the bridge which makes the path to the father passable, and this one offers His help to all people .... But He is not listened to, He is not heeded, if He wants to remind people of Himself .... Blind and deaf they pass Him by, although He calls out to them: "No one comes to the father except through Me ...." He says of Himself: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." Therefore, anyone who seeks truth and life must take the path via Jesus Christ, he must make use of His mediation, he must request strength from Him to be able to cover the earthly path with the success which is the purpose of life: to find union with the father which only ensures a life of bliss, a life which lasts forever. People do not know what fate they are facing through their indifference and unbelief, they do not know what they are forfeiting by not respecting the divine word, by not taking refuge in the one Who alone can save them from ruin .... They don't know and don't believe the words of those who know and want to help them. And even if the word sounds from above, they do not accept it, for they listen to another voice, to the voice of the world with which God's adversary addresses them and to which they willingly open their ears .... They seek not life but death .... they reject the one Who promises them life, and therefore they will remain in sin and death, because without Jesus Christ there is no redemption and no return to the father's house ....

Amen

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The redemptive work of Jesus was unique ....

B.D. 7649 from July 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

This was My love's greatest work that I died for you on the cross. My love is infinite and therefore always and forever applies to My living creations, even if they are still far away from Me. It also pursues the deeply sunk and helps it up again and again. And it will not rest until the work of return is completed. Yet the greatest love on My part would not have been able to accept you again if you had not first become free of your guilt of sin .... For even love cannot eliminate justice, and the guilt had to be redeemed first, atonement had to be made for it .... an atonement which the sinful creature was incapable of making, even if eternities had passed by .... This is why My love Itself redeemed the guilt by accomplishing the act of salvation, by suffering and dying on the cross for the sins of humanity. My Love Itself accomplished the work and embodied Itself for this purpose in a human being Who allowed this embodiment in Himself because His love for Me and His fellow human beings was so strong that He wanted to suffer and die for them .... I Myself, as the 'Eternal Love', was thus in Him, in the man Jesus, Who shed His blood for His brothers in order to redeem their great guilt of sin .... This was a unique act of salvation which can never be surpassed in its greatness before or since, for I truly chose the most bitter death because the magnitude of the guilt was immeasurable and required the greatest suffering and pain in order to establish compensation for this guilt towards justice .... For although Jesus' cover was human, yet Jesus' soul was from above, which also explains that it suffered far more in the kingdom of darkness than a person living in the midst of sin can imagine. But He wanted to suffer for His fallen brothers, and I accepted this sacrifice because the love in Him wanted to make it and because I never refuse love when it wants to express itself. For love is My primal element, and thus I found Myself in the man Jesus and sacrificed Myself for humanity. This act of mercy is so immense that it will also remain incomprehensible to you humans as long as you still live on earth, but one day you will recognize what has taken place in the spiritual kingdom through this act of salvation .... you will recognize it when you have entered that kingdom yourselves and when you are then allowed to experience the process of Jesus' crucifixion yourselves, which will then overwhelm you and make you sing praise and thanks .... And every mature soul will be allowed to experience it in the spiritual kingdom and only then recognize the love and grace which prevailed that I Myself walked across the earth in the man Jesus. For a bridge has now been built from people to Me which may be entered by every soul that wants to come to Me .... There is a path from the kingdom without light into the kingdom of light and bliss .... And this path could and can be taken by anyone who wants to reach Me in My kingdom. It is the path Jesus took and which you all only need to follow in order to be united with Me again. Thus the guilt of sin has been redeemed .... And this act of salvation was accomplished for all people of the past, the present and the future, everyone can find redemption who seriously strives towards the final aim, the union with Me, for he will find forgiveness of his guilt through Jesus Christ, Who laid down His life for him, Who paid the purchase price for all souls with His blood .... And every 'redeemed' soul will be allowed to experience the sacrifice on the cross itself .... But never will such a work of redemption be repeated .... For Jesus died for all people of the past, the present and the future, and this means that My love was satisfied with this work of mercy .... but that the human being himself must now also want his own redemption, otherwise Jesus died for him on the cross in vain .... Anyone who does not find his way to Jesus Christ will never accept redemption, for it can only be brought to him through Him .... anyone who rejects Jesus Christ also rejects Me, and he will never be able to unite with Me .... anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ will continue to be burdened with his great guilt of sin, and the gates to the kingdom of light will be closed to him .... (17.7.1960) And you humans of the present time live in the redemption period in which I Myself ascended to earth in Jesus in order to redeem your guilt, in order to accomplish the great work of mercy which is unique and will remain so for all eternity. Thus you were able to exploit the blessings of the act of salvation during your earthly life, and you still have the opportunity to do so if you are not yet redeemed, that is, if you have not yet approached Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins .... For you still have a short time left until the end. But you will inevitably have to seek and find Him during this time if you don't want to go astray for eternity, for there is no other redemption for you than that you acknowledge Him and thus Me Myself in Him, so that you will be released from your original sin through your will, which burdens every person who has not yet taken his path to Jesus Christ. And therefore My name will be preached with increased zeal throughout the world. Jesus Christ will be proclaimed throughout the world, and truly, every person who believes in Him and gives himself to Him in this faith will be allowed to experience the strength of His name .... Then he will live for eternity, even though he will lose his earthly life before the end. But faith in Jesus Christ protects him from destruction, for no-one can perish who acknowledges Him because He shed His blood for all people .... for the people of the past, the present and the future .... Let it be said to you that His work of redemption was a unique one, the like of which has never happened before and will never happen again .... For I Myself sacrificed Myself in the man Jesus on the cross, and My act of love truly had such an effect that the redemption of all humanity's guilt is guaranteed, no matter how great it was and is. But people have to want to be redeemed .... Against his will no human being will be forced to accept the blessings of My act of salvation .... against his will no human being's guilt of sin can be redeemed .... And therefore people cannot be spared the fate of a new banishment either who do not voluntarily place themselves under the cross of Christ, who do not accept Jesus Christ, who have no faith in Me and My greater than great love, which wants to help all people who are in spiritual hardship. I must let them go their way which, however, will certainly lead to the aim one day .... I leave them complete freedom, but how they use their freedom determines the state which awaits them as soon as the end of the earth has come. And the time and hour of this end has been determined since eternity, and it can no longer be stopped because divine order has to be restored, which no longer reigns on this earth. But I can only ever point out this end to you and admonish you to utmost soul work .... And this consists of increased activity of love .... And then you will also be able to recognize Jesus Christ as your saviour and redeemer, and you will take the path to the cross, and then you will also no longer be able to get lost ...._>Amen

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God wants to work in man .... redeeming activity ....

B.D. 5375 from April 26th 1952, taken from Book No. 59

I always and constantly want to be able to work in you, I want to control your thoughts, I want you to start everything with Me, that you turn to Me for advice, that you are completely filled with love for Me and your neighbour and thus also aware of My presence in you .... I want you to live in Me and with Me .... Your task in earthly life is the connection with Me of your own free will, thus you fulfil your task if you constantly occupy yourselves with Me in thought, if you grant Me the right through your will to be constantly present to you. And your earthly life will be a blessed one, for then it will always be a living out of My word which conveys My will to you. Thus you, so to speak, place your own will under Mine, you work for Me and with Me, you consciously stand on My side .... you do not live in this world for nothing, which is meant to bring you the maturing of your soul. You reach your aim and have become Mine .... The separation between us has been abolished and can never happen again, because I will no longer let you go away from Me .... And anyone who once belongs to Me will only work for Me, he will redeem himself because this will has been placed in his heart as soon as he has submitted himself to My will. He also wants to lead his fellow human beings to the same aim, he wants to give the fallen children back their father, he wants to help them achieve the same beatitude, he wants to provide them with My presence and will speak for Me and My name from that moment on. And this is the working of My spirit in the person who is united with Me .... He is delighted to be admitted to redemptive activity and feels driven from within to intervene where it is necessary. For he himself has become knowledgeable through his bond with Me, and he also knows about his fellow human being's adversity which arises from his distance from Me and which he therefore wants to remedy by trying to bring it close to Me. And because his love for the unfortunate spiritual person drives him to help, his will to help is blessed, i.e. he will not be unsuccessful. Whatever he undertakes with the intention of bringing redeeming help will be blessed by Me, for love justifies everything and will never be without effect. Thus I certainly work through the spirit in the human being, yet the human being himself wants the same as I do .... he wants to lead to beatitude which such have not yet experienced, who are still immature or bound by the will of the one who is My adversary. And anyone who has once grasped the will to participate in the act of salvation will always be offered ample opportunity, for he is recognizable to all those who encounter him in spiritual adversity .... He will be recognized as a messenger of light by people on earth as well as by souls in the kingdom of the beyond who are of good will .... They will surround him and ask him, they will not let up in their desire to be allowed to partake of the blessings which this messenger of light distributes. But I will ensure that his light will shine ever brighter, that he will be recognized on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and that all who are still unredeemed will find access to him, so that they will be redeemed through the love of those in whom I Myself can work through My spirit ....

Amen

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Readiness for redeemer work ....

B.D. 6422 from December 11th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You already declare to Me your willingness to work for redemption by the fact that you take care of the souls which pass away in wretchedness, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom, for your will to help will start at the same time if you remember them with merciful love or commend them to Me .... Then I will also know that you are willing to help redeem these souls. An infinitely large amount of redemptive work would be done if people knew about the overwhelming hardship of all these souls which are still in the hands of their tormentor .... But this state of torment cannot obviously be shown to them because then they would be seized by horror and also become incapable of their own soul's work. Yet the mere thought that these souls are in distress should cause or stimulate people to help them, and this willingness to help would already have a beneficial effect. For these souls feel it when they are thought of with love .... You cannot imagine the effect of your thoughts, both in a good and in a bad direction .... And therefore your thoughts should always be filled with love, because then they will always exert a good influence on all people with whom you think .... And if your thoughts are predominantly of a spiritual nature they will also have a spiritual effect, and you can do nothing better than to always think of the souls' adversity and want to remedy it .... Every soul which is drawn into your circle of thoughts feels good thoughts as strengthening and as an occasion for a change of will. You cannot yet ascertain the effect on the souls in the beyond on earth, although you can certainly believe it ..... But you will be able to observe the effect on earthly people if you include them in your prayers because of their spiritual hardship, if you want to help them with love, if your will does not slacken to struggle for their souls .... if you do not exclude them from your thoughts but provide them with assistance until they have risen up and are now strong enough themselves to cover the path upwards .... Your thoughts are forces .... and if they are determined by love then they are also a weapon with which you can defeat the enemy of the souls and save the souls to whom your love applies .... He can only be defeated through love, for he cannot resist it. He flees and refrains from his sacrifice .... And now you will also understand how you can carry out redemptive work which can extend to people on earth as well as to the souls in the kingdom of the beyond .... Include them in your loving intercession, remember them with a merciful will to help, speak to them in your thoughts and let them feel the strength of your love .... Take care of all souls you know to be in need and approach Me with this love for these souls .... And I am gladly willing to give those souls the strength which your love wants to impart to them. Then you can always be co-workers with Me in a redeeming sense, then you will receive ever more strength yourselves, and then I can also have an extraordinary effect on the souls for which you appeal to Me for help. No prayer of yours is unsuccessful, and often only a small impulse is missing for the souls to find Me, and it can be triggered by your loving intercession .... Know that you can all help Me and that you are all welcome co-workers for Me if only you are willing to help with a loving heart, for there is great need, both on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom ....

Amen

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The living witness to Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7786 from January 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 81

You shall bear witness to Me .... i.e., you shall proclaim Me in Jesus Christ. When I once sent My disciples out into the world to proclaim the gospel to people they were to mention My act of salvation, for all people were to learn about what the father's love has done for His children .... And therefore My first disciples were witnesses who had experienced My way of life, My path to the cross and My suffering and death and thus were also able to give living testimony of Me .... And thus My name and My teaching were carried out into the world .... The disciples, who were constantly close to Me, I was able to initiate into the deepest secrets, which they also understood after the outpouring of the spirit. And thus they were enabled to teach, to proclaim of Me and to testify of the work of mercy I had accomplished for humanity. If I had not been able to initiate these disciples into My plan of salvation, they would only have mentioned the work of a man .... But thus they recognized Me, and only this realization gave them the persuasiveness of their words, for they believed in Me and My mission as the human being Jesus, and I Myself was also able to strengthen their spirit and put the right words into their mouths so that their testimony of Me was a living one. For people should all learn to believe in Me as the divine redeemer Who redeemed the world from sin and death. But they also had to be truthfully instructed, which My disciples were well able to do, for they were taught by Me Myself, they were trained for the teaching ministry, for the task with which I sent them out into the world. The knowledge of Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself in order to redeem humanity's guilt of sin, must reach all people. And therefore I train disciples for Myself again and again who shall testify of Me and can do so vividly, because I Myself impart to them the knowledge of My life on earth, of the mission of the man Jesus and of the great significance of His act of salvation; for all people must find their way to Him if they want to enter the kingdom of light redeemed when their souls leave the body and the spiritual kingdom, which is their true home, accepts them again. Then the divine redeemer Himself can open the gates for them .... Then I Myself can accept My children into My kingdom again, which, however, is not possible without redemption through Jesus Christ. And thus it is your most important task to inform your fellow human beings of Jesus Christ as soon as you have received this knowledge from Me, as soon as I Myself have instructed you through My spirit about the significance of the act of salvation, about Jesus Christ, the son of God and redeemer of the world, in Whom I Myself accomplished the act of salvation .... Only he who possesses this knowledge himself can pass it on .... Only someone of living faith can testify to Me, for My spirit works in him and truly instructs him from within and gives him the ability to pass on his knowledge to his fellow human beings. And thus he can testify of Me in Jesus, Who died on the cross for the sins of humanity. And thus anyone who can speak of Me in a living way will also truly be able to demonstrate spiritual success, for he will find faith with his fellow human beings, for they will feel addressed by Me Myself, they will have understanding for the act of salvation and want to belong to those for whom I shed My blood on the cross. For they will not be dead speeches, they will go to the heart and lead to Him, to Jesus Christ, the divine redeemer, Who was only the shell for Me because I wanted to redeem the great guilt of sin, because I wanted to take the guilt upon Myself and atone for it .... and this could only happen in the shell of a human being. And thus you humans should take notice of your father's overwhelming love and never forget what He has done for you .... And you shall always bear witness to His act of salvation, because I Myself introduced you to this knowledge through My spirit, for you can give a living testimony, as My disciples were also able to do when they experienced Me Myself when I walked across the earth .... For only someone who has a living faith in Me can also give a living testimony, for his thinking is enlightened, he stands in knowledge, in light .... and can therefore also radiate light and make his fellow human beings happy with it ...._>Amen

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The redeeming power of love ....

B.D. 7969 from August 16th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

Every human being contributes to the redemption of the spiritual who lives in love, for he will also constantly radiate love to his surroundings, be it fellow human beings or also the spiritual which is still bound in form, which feels every irradiation of love beneficially and also matures because it gives up resistance, which love always achieves. For love is a power that does not remain without effect. Love awakens reciprocal love, and people and animals will gladly join those who radiate love ..... It can therefore also be deliberate missionary work .... that is, conscious vineyard work .... can only be carried out successfully if love is the impetus for it, otherwise the 'redeeming' of souls is called into question, because love alone has redeeming strength. People must recognize the spiritual hardship and want to remedy it; they must know that help must be brought to the souls which are still unredeemed, be it on earth or in the beyond, and love must impel them to carry out conscious redemptive work .... Then their work in the vineyard of the lord will also be blessed. But if a person lives in love, if his way of life is a continuous activity of love, then he unconsciously does redeeming work; he spiritualizes himself, thus all his spiritual substances, and places his soul into the state of maturity which is the purpose and aim of his earthly life .... But he also contributes towards the spiritual maturing of those who dwell in his surroundings, for they, too, cannot resist the irradiation of love in the long run if an open counteraction is not recognizable through people who are in bondage to God's adversary. But even these will withdraw because they are no match for the weapon of love .... Yet where love determines a person's way of life there can never be a relapse into the abyss, for love urges towards eternal love, love is the divine in the human being which can never remain without effect and this effect always signifies redemption of the immature spiritual, irrespective of whether it is on and in the human being himself or also in his surroundings, which also includes souls in the beyond which, attracted by the strength of love, stay close to him and likewise feel the flow of love as strength. A person who lives in love is recognizable to those souls through his light radiation, and he is therefore constantly surrounded by such souls who want to escape from darkness .... This will also makes the light of love effective, they receive strength which again helps them to also be active on other souls by also seeking to snatch them from darkness .... What they feel charitably they also want to impart to other souls who are in the same need .... And thus a redeemer's work is unconsciously done only through a life of love .... However, it is good if people know about this and also consciously want to participate in this redeemer's work by giving themselves to their God and father and appeal to Him for His blessing .... that they also offer themselves to Him to be active in His vineyard according to His will. And a life of love will also result in increased spiritual knowledge for the human being, his thinking will be guided correctly, the human being will take care of those who are still in the bonds of sin, who have little or no faith and whose hardship he can recognize. If he now consciously places himself at God's service that he is active as a proclaimer of the gospel, of the divine teaching of love, then God's blessing will also be assured to him, he will fulfil his earthly task, he will do successful work as a labourer in God's vineyard, and this success will always be in accordance with the degree of love which fills him, because love is the redeeming strength, because love also banishes the adversary who flees it, because it is divine emanation ....

Amen

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Fellow labourers in Christ’s work of Redemption .... ‘Go ye therefore, and teach .... ’

B.D. 5082 from March 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 57

The work you accomplish for Me and My kingdom always involves participating in Christ’s work of Redemption. It is a continuation of what Jesus, the man, started on earth, it involves the spreading of the Gospel on His instruction and leading people to Him, the divine Redeemer Himself, and therefore it is a return to Me, the origin of all that has been created. This participation in the redemption work is so important and so extremely beneficial because influencing people directly from above has become impossible. Hence mediators, who are in contact with the spiritual kingdom as well as with people on earth and are thus able to convey the spiritual knowledge from above to them, are required to spread the Gospel .... This is the task of those who want to serve Me, who place themselves at My disposal as co- workers and whom I therefore send into the world with the instruction ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations’, i.e., speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, inform them of Me and My direct working in all of you whom I send to cross your path .... Take your work seriously as there is not much time left. And I Myself will smooth your every way so as not to hinder your work, so that you will always have the opportunity to work on My instructions for the benefit of your fellow human beings. So far you can only do the groundwork, for the hour of your public activity has not come as yet. However, you should even do this preliminary work conscientiously and diligently, and you should always want to do it, then you will also have the strength and opportunity to work for Me. For many people are hungry and live in want, they thirst for nourishment for the soul, and I Myself direct all threads and convey the bread of heaven to those who desire it. I give in abundance .... Hence you, too, should strive to distribute the delectable gift to those who do not approach Me directly and need to be fed by you if I don’t want to let them perish. This is the redemptive work which, in a manner of speaking, makes you Jesus’ fellow labourers, His followers and His helpers, for countless souls suffer great adversity. Whatever you do in order to spread My Word will be blessed by Me and will result in copious reward, even if, from an earthly point of view, it is not obvious to you. You must more or less feel like My labourers who only accomplish the Lord’s will. But you will feel My will in your heart, and whatever your heart urges you to do, you should instantly comply with, for it is My voice which speaks to you, which impels you to work for Me and My kingdom. Do not fear earthly hardship or earthly disadvantage but always trust that I know your every worry and will remedy it at the right time. Anyone who works for Me is most reliably taken care of, it is just not obvious so that the work for Me is not done in a compulsory fashion but voluntarily instead if it is to be successful for eternity .... Someone who expects reward is not suitable for redemptive work which only requires profound love for Me and his fellow human being if it is to be effective. You don’t have much time left, therefore you should ever more eagerly fulfil My will, which will forever consist of carrying My Gospel into the world .... of instructing those who lack knowledge and enlightening those who are misguided. For only the truth will have a redemptive effect, and therefore you should spread the truth which I convey to you humans from above because I love you and want to deliver you from the bondage of darkness.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's commission to the disciples of the end times .... Work of redemption ....

B.D. 8184 from May 22nd 1962, taken from Book No. 86

And on My behalf you should go out into the world .... to proclaim the gospel .... Thus was My commission to My disciples, whom I Myself instructed on earth, in everything they were to proclaim again to men .... And this is also My command to you today, My faithful servants, that you diligently carry out the work for Me and My kingdom and that you thus take care of the spreading of My gospel, which I Myself guide to earth .... For it is necessary that people are instructed in the truth, and it is necessary that they come to know about the mission of the man Jesus, about His act of salvation and about My human manifestation in Him .... An earth period comes to an end, and during this period I Myself descended in the man Jesus, in a soul of light which embodied itself on earth as a human being .... I Myself accomplished the work of salvation in order to redeem humanity from sin and death .... No long time has passed since I walked across earth as a human being .... and yet people have little or no knowledge anymore, Jesus' earthly life, which ended with His death on the cross, is a questionable event for them which they give little or no credence to. And they are completely ignorant of the significance of a unique act of mercy, and they are increasingly more doubtfully instructed, so that they also find it increasingly more difficult to believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world .... And therefore I send you, My last disciples, out again to win people for Jesus Christ, to make their faith easy when they are instructed in all truth .... I commission you again to go out, for He is truly their saviour from sin and death .... He must not be passed over, He must be acknowledged and asked for forgiveness of the guilt of sin which burdens every human being or he would not walk this earth. Whatever you, My faithful servants, can do in order to inform your fellow human beings of Him, the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, you should do and not slacken in your vineyard work, and I will truly bless you for it, for people are in greatest spiritual hardship who do not take the path to Him if He has not granted them the forgiveness of their original guilt, which only the divine redeemer Jesus Christ, in Whom I embodied Myself, can bestow upon them .... Believe it, you My servants on earth, that you can still render Me great services yourselves if only you ensure that My word is conveyed to the world, which is directly conveyed to you by Me, for through this word I convey truthful knowledge to all of you which gives you a bright light and also opens up to you the understanding for Jesus Christ and His act of salvation, which was lost to people because they took notice of Him in a completely distorted form and therefore lost faith in Him and the act of salvation. For this reason I convey the pure truth to earth again and ensure that people receive information about the spiritual correlations so that they learn to believe again and take the path to Him, so that they go to the cross and carry their guilt of sin to the cross .... because otherwise they cannot find redemption and cannot enter the kingdom of light without the redemption of the original sin either .... For this reason I commission you again and again to bring light to people, to inform them of My working on you and of the truth which is thereby imparted to you humans .... And if they know the significance of the act of salvation for people's salvation, then the well-intentioned will nevertheless deal with Jesus in their thoughts and He Himself will then be able to influence them, i.e. I Myself will be able to intervene and give them ever brighter enlightenment .... But the first impetus has to come from you, because people, due to their unbelief, do not concern themselves much with Me or the divine redeemer Jesus Christ but can be stimulated by you into conversations of a spiritual nature. The people who serve Me as mediators, who help to spread My word, do an extremely beneficial work whose value they will only be able to assess in the kingdom of the beyond when they will be approached by the many souls who participate in the proclamation of My word, who were invisible to you and yet derived the greatest benefit from every kind of spiritual work, for whatever you do .... there will always be these souls around you who need food and drink for themselves and who can fetch the nourishment they need from you in order to mature .... For the divine redeemer Jesus Christ must also be proclaimed in the kingdom of the beyond so that the souls will find Him there if they did not find Him on earth and passed over into the spiritual kingdom burdened by their original sin. And the supply of truth is also necessary for them, for many of them were unable to find the divine redeemer on earth because no truthful image was developed for them and therefore they had no faith either. But the truth makes it easy for them to accept what they previously rejected .... And right faith can also come alive on earth through the supply of truth in people, for truth has strength within itself because it is from Me, and no being will ever be able to resist this strength, for it is love which touches all souls in the form of My word .... And to the strength of love all souls will once surrender, because love lets nothing be lost forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Continuation of the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5263 from December 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

My work of redemption shall be continued by you who want to be My disciples in the last days on this earth. You shall be active in the same way as I was when I lived on earth, because the spiritual adversity had become so great that help had to come from heaven. But the help from above can only be provided by people again, it has to appear human and yet it is from above .... I will come to earth Myself again, yet in spirit, in the word, which you may hear because the will to love impels you to help your fellow human beings. It is heavenly help, it originates from Me Myself and yet it reaches people's ears like a purely earthly address and is therefore not compelling to believe, yet it is extremely effective for those who do not resist Me and My strength of love. You shall fulfil this task of conveying My word to fellow human beings, you shall proclaim the gospel in My stead, you shall help them to release themselves from spiritual bondage and work on earth in the same sense as I did, for only the imparting of the teaching of love, which I also only preached to people, can help them, although their own will must first become active in order to do what My teaching of love demands. You can only preach and lead by good example .... This is your sole task which you should fulfil faithfully and conscientiously, and thus you can always consider yourselves My co-workers, My representatives on earth, who only continue what I once started .... who will always find My support because they are active on My behalf and a lord will never leave His servants without assistance. Your fellow human beings need your help as long as they don't contact Me directly and receive from Me what you shall now give them .... My word, which can save them from all adversity. They are still in satan’s clutches and yet shall be released from them. I want to redeem them but this cannot happen by force. And therefore you should support Me in this work of redemption, you have to speak as human beings to human beings, you have to explain to them why they are bound and what the bondage consists of, you have to instruct them how they can free themselves and set a good example for them so that they will willingly follow you and thus live out My divine teaching of love, so that with My help they will now redeem themselves from satan’s power through you .... Your mission is important, so important that I keep recruiting labourers for My vineyard, that everyone is welcome to Me who wants to take part in the work of redemption, for only a short time is still at your disposal, My disciples of the last days; when this time is over it will be too late for all those who do not listen to you, who disregard your admonitions and warnings and resist Me, which is why their blindness cannot be taken away from them and they completely devote themselves to My adversary ....

A period of redemption is coming to an end and many people will suffer bodily and spiritual death, they will remain unredeemed and will have to languish in satan’s fetters for eternal times again despite My servants' diligent work on earth, for they cannot be redeemed against their will.

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Every spiritual work has a redemptive effect ....

B.D. 8412 from February 15th 1963, taken from Book No. 88

Time and again I tell you that it is My will to convey My word to people wherever possible .... I have already assured you many times that I Myself direct your thoughts and also guide people to you who are open to My word. And you will feel every order in your heart and willingly comply with it. And again, your willingness determines the extent of your activity, and you need not fear that you will work in vain even if you cannot always ascertain success .... I alone know why and for what purpose I have given you this task to be constantly active in My vineyard, and I also know what great blessings will result from it, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. You must never forget that everything you receive, as well as every spiritual activity you carry out, signifies a redemption factor of utmost effect for the kingdom of the beyond .... You must bear in mind that the hardship in the kingdom of the beyond is very great, for the many immature souls which depart from earth urgently need help if they are to take the path of ascent, and this help can only be granted to them through constant instructions which they can accept if they want to and which will then also earn them a great blessing. The work of redemption has to be continued in the beyond if it has remained unsuccessful on earth, and My word also sounds for these souls which are poor in spiritual treasures and first have to be brought onto the right path. And you don't know what spiritual wealth you offer those souls and how eagerly the light is accepted by them .... You can quench their hunger and thirst because they are allowed to take in everything I offer you and because they can also follow your thoughts and thus every spiritual activity is a source for these souls to refresh themselves. Believe that these souls accept such gifts of grace far more gratefully than people on earth, but that those to whom you convey My word on earth are surrounded by souls again who participate in it, and thus you cannot measure the large circle which benefits from this work of salvation, but I know it, and therefore I also call upon you time and again to diligently work in the vineyard, and I also bless every one of My servants who willingly serve Me, who work for Me and My kingdom. But I will also still open many human hearts, and the circle will also widen on earth, for I will guide you along paths which are still completely unknown to you .... I will establish the strangest connections, I will connect threads which you don't suspect, for I know human hearts and know who longs for My address and is happy when he can hear it through you. And you will always be considered yourselves as it is helpful for your work of redemption, I will always supply you with the strength you need to be able to fulfil your task. I gave you the task to be diligently active because you can still work unhindered. But the time will come when you will be hindered and you will no longer be able to come forward so openly .... And then My word must already have spread, because then every individual can work in silence, and even if only the souls in the beyond will still benefit from it, there will also already be a gain, for the more souls there find redemption and ascend, the more help can be given again on the part of these souls on earth, for they will be eternally grateful that they have been helped and now want to help those who are in need again .... be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. Therefore, never believe that you are doing unsuccessful work but do whatever lies within your power and I Myself will bless every work ..... And only ever pay attention to your thoughts which move you after heartfelt prayer to Me, and whatever your heart urges you to do, carry it out, and it will be right before Me .... For I still want to win many souls before the end comes, and therefore every helper will also be dear to Me and always experience My protection and My blessing ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Door to the kingdom of light is Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 5878 from February 16th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

The door to the kingdom of light is open to everyone who chooses the path through Jesus Christ. Without Him, however, the kingdom of light is closed to you and you walk in darkness or in such poor twilight that you do not feel well and therefore are not blessed. Wherever Jesus Christ is preached you will be pointed to the right path, for He Himself has spoken the words: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...."

And again and again He will step into your path if you have once passed Him by without paying attention to Him .... Again and again He will point you to the truth, to His act of salvation, He will offer Himself as your guide on your earthly path of life, He will woo you with love and patience, He will not turn away from you unwillingly if you don't want to listen to Him .... He will follow you if you are in danger of straying into the abyss and then entice you again and call you to turn to Him and return, so that you enter the path which leads to the right aim, to eternal life. Only He is the gate through which you can enter beatitude, and if you reject Him on earth you will receive a dark kingdom on the other side, everything is shrouded in darkness, for the light which illuminates everything is missing .... Jesus Christ, from Whom the light proceeds .... But in this kingdom of darkness you must call for Him .... then you can also be redeemed from your torment, yet it is difficult for a soul which rejected Him on earth to call for Him of its own free will .... because it did not believe and this faith cannot be given to it in the beyond either. It is difficult for such souls because they are only weak in knowledge, because darkness confuses their thinking and often directs it wrongly .... because they possess too little light of their own which could now stimulate their will to call upon Him for salvation. The rejection of Jesus Christ on earth has an extremely painful effect in the beyond, for the soul lacks everything .... strength and light .... it cannot recognize and is too weak-willed to acquire knowledge. But the divine redeemer's mercy still sends help to such souls even then .... Even in this kingdom of darkness they are pointed to the cross of Christ, which expresses itself in such a way that suddenly a thought of Him appears to the soul like a flash of lightning, that suddenly a glimmer of light touches it in the form of the cross which, however, immediately goes out again but can nevertheless leave a glimmer of realization in the soul, that it reflects on Jesus Christ and promises itself redemption from Him .... that it calls upon Him in its thoughts and presents its adversity to Him .... that it thereby expresses its will to believe in Him, only that it needs help in order not to change its mind again. And then it will also receive help, then the darkness will imperceptibly subside, a slight twilight will let it recognize a path which it will now follow and which will lead it into ever brighter regions .... as long as it does not drop the thought of Jesus Christ .... which, however, immediately becomes dark again when it no longer remembers Him .... The soul must freely want to go out of itself to Jesus Christ, then every obstacle will recede before it, then a light will shine to it, which it will soon recognize as the Christ light that sent it the first thought of Him .... Faith in Jesus Christ is the gate that leads to blessedness .... And blessed is he who still on earth finds Him, the divine redeemer, Who Himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life .... Blessed is he who with this faith enters the kingdom of the beyond, for to him the gate opens to the kingdom of light, to eternal life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeeming action on souls ....

B.D. 6390 from November 2nd 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You hear My word and are constantly admonished to pass it on, for an unspeakable amount depends on this activity, because passing it on again and again provides the opportunity for souls in the beyond to come and listen to what you work through aloud or mentally when you talk to your fellow human beings or write it down or when the recipient reads it .... For there is always mental work involved, and these thoughts can haunt the souls and derive the greatest benefit from them. You must never let spiritual knowledge lie idle, you must always work with it, for My word shall have an effect, for its impact is unlimited, countless souls can draw strength from it .... But they must be given the opportunity to do so, they must be able to hear it. Thus you must listen to it or read it yourselves, and always think of all those souls which need it in order to receive light and strength from it. These always stay where they hope for light, and they hurry towards every ray of light when such shine for them. Be a source of light for these souls so that they, too, can draw from My pool of love which I have opened up for you. Know that there are only a few people who can send out such a ray of light, because only a few deal with spiritual matters and know the truth, therefore you are constantly surrounded by light-hungry souls whom you must not disappoint that they wait with you in vain. Constantly think of their hardship which you can alleviate because you possess much of the living water which they lack .... Every day countless souls depart from earth and enter the spiritual kingdom, and for countless this new realm is dark so that they feel unhappy in their situation .... But you can radiate much light, and you should want to convey this to those souls and therefore always send a call into the darkness, you should offer them the light, only then will they become aware of you and come to you, because the call from you already touches them beneficially. You humans have to do what I Myself would like to do but which is denied to Me by these souls: offer them strength and light which they would rather accept from you than from Me, because they don't know Me and cannot be compelled by Me to accept it. They also have to come to you voluntarily, but they are still so closely connected to earth that they are again and again drawn back into those spheres, and if a light shines towards them there they crowd around this light and demand brightness. You can give them what they desire because you possess it in abundance, because I Myself constantly provide you with it .... And you should not keep anything for yourselves alone but only ever want to distribute it .... so that I can also provide you with more and more according to the law of eternity .... Always remember those souls who are in dark surroundings and let your light radiate into their area .... Bring My word close to them and thereby make it possible that I Myself can address them, and you are truly active in redemption, you make correct use of My gifts of grace, you are true proclaimers of My gospel, which not only has to be conveyed to people on this earth but also to all souls in the beyond who did not accept it on earth and yet shall also find the path to Me .... It is the world which you do not see but which nevertheless surrounds you .... They are indescribably needy souls who suffer hunger and thirst and for whom I have therefore also opened up the spring which shall refresh and fill them but which also has to be sought out voluntarily .... Call them to come to you when you proclaim My word .... Then I Myself can speak to them through you and My word will work as light and strength ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work on souls beyond ....

B.D. 7396 from August 24th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Every contact with the spiritual world is beneficial if it is established with the will to do good, if the will to help is the impetus and if it happens under the invocation of Jesus' name that He may bless it. You must consider that there are no longer any earthly incentives for the inhabitants of the world of the beyond, that they are, as it were, deadened by the length of time they have already understood that they are no longer surrounded by earthly matter and that they therefore accept every spiritual stimulation like food they have needed for a long time. And so this is the effect of good bonds which you humans initiate from earth to the spiritual kingdom. If your conversations, your thoughts and your suggestions are of a spiritual nature then it is like an administration of food for these souls, for they are so empty and needy that they hunger and thirst and every spiritual presentation of the gospel's teachings means food for them for which they are extremely grateful. You cannot imagine such depleted souls in their poverty .... You don't know what kind of benefit you do for them by offering them food and drink, but this is only to be understood as a spiritual gift which you want to give to them in love in order to help them. Your intention to help first blesses this spiritual knowledge and turns it into nourishment for the souls, for your will then concerns the transmission of the gospel to those souls which have entered the kingdom of the beyond poor in spiritual knowledge and have to live in want there if they are not given the right nourishment. And you possess this nourishment and can therefore help the souls if only your will intends it. And if you now intimately unite with Jesus Christ so that He will give His blessing to your plan, then it will certainly be blessed and the souls will be able to fill themselves with the food you give them in His name. You who receive the pure word of God should work with this word .... you shall convey it to the people with whom you are brought together, but you shall also remember the souls who dwell in the kingdom of the beyond, by whom you are surrounded if only you call them in thought, and who will always accept the word if it is lovingly offered to them .... Consciously and unconsciously you can pass nourishment to these souls, for as soon as you only mentally occupy yourselves with spiritual knowledge, as soon as your thoughts dwell in spiritual territory, you are surrounded by souls which fetch spiritual nourishment from you, because the soul's will, in turn, determines the amount of spiritual knowledge it receives .... But they will always stay close to you and wait until you establish this spiritual bond, which will be a great blessing for them if only you remember them, if you want to help them yourselves .... if it is your will to carry out redemptive work wherever possible .... And therefore don't miss any opportunity to do so, gather together in Jesus' name and know that your willingness to help will be blessed at every hour, because great need exists in the kingdom of the beyond and because every soul is eternally grateful to you, which you lead out of darkness into the light of day, which finds Jesus Christ through you and is then also saved for all eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Directing the souls in the beyond to Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 7839 from March 2nd 1961, taken from Book No. 82

Anyone who professes Me in the spiritual kingdom will be redeemed for all eternity .... As soon as the souls, which are still dwelling in darkness or twilight, are no longer opposed to My name when they are informed of My act of Salvation by disguised messengers of light or by the thoughts of loving people, the darkness will leave them .... the strength of My name alone will take effect in them and drive them to Me, they will start to look for Me and I will also allow Myself to be found .... But the soul's will is and shall always remain free, hence it might also take a long time before they accept Me, before people's intercession becomes effective or the messengers of light joining them in disguise are successful in bringing them the Gospel.

Yet the efforts to gain these souls will not cease, and therefore it is very beneficial if souls are consciously invited to join spiritual conversations relating to the act of Salvation, so that the souls will time and again be directed to Jesus Christ and voluntarily take the path to Me and ask Me for forgiveness of their guilt .... As long as they are not happy they will still be burdened by guilt, and their misery will be able to encourage them to strive for an improvement of their situation and think about themselves, about their life on earth and their relationship with Me, their God and Creator of eternity. It will already reduce the soul's will of resistance if it receives people's loving intercession, if it is kindly thought of and feels their willingness to help. This will also decrease its rejection of help which it is repeatedly offered in the realm of the beyond, and its surrender of opposition is the beginning of progress, for every inclination of such a soul is taken into account and it is bestowed with a small light, which makes it happy and increases its desire for it.

The souls in the beyond have to find Me if they have not found Me on earth already. And you humans can greatly contribute towards it by frequently thinking of souls which suffer adversity .... by only ever directing every soul coming into your mind to Me, to the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ, Who alone can help it attain beatitude. Your loving thoughts of these souls are like sparks of light, which make them happy and which they always look out for and to whose origin they hurry. While on earth they had kept away from all spiritual instruction, they had only lived their earthly life and thus entered the spiritual kingdom devoid of all spiritual possessions after their death .... Now they first have to acquire spiritual possessions of their own free will, they should not offer any opposition if the Gospel of love is proclaimed to them, and they must also pass it on with love to those who, like themselves, would like to improve their situation.

However, as soon as you humans take care of these souls they will not be lost; your thoughts will always draw them to yourselves and they will also be able to accept what they hitherto had rejected .... and now experience it as a blessing because it is given to them by your love .... For love is a power which will not remain ineffective .... You should often remember the souls which still languish in darkness, which have not yet found their way to Me in Jesus; show them the way and inform them of the Gospel; and you will accomplish a richly blessed work of redemption that is most significant, especially during the last days, because many souls shall still detach themselves from the abyss, so that they will not fall prey to the new banishment when the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Power of intercession for the unredeemed ....

B.D. 6351 from September 10th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

You don't know the power of intercession which is carried out with love .... You would contribute infinitely much so that the kingdom of light can be opened to the souls in the beyond, but just as you can also help people on earth to change their will through intercession, because it is like a gift of strength which always has to have a good effect. You are all able to help people of a lower degree of maturity if only you sincerely include them in your prayer, if your love wants to help them and you now turn to Me in prayer which is meant for their salvation .... Only a little more love is needed amongst you humans for your fellow human beings and there would truly be a higher degree of maturity amongst people .... But people who are already more in the light usually turn away from those who prove their affiliation to the adversary through their conduct, because they certainly detest evil but don't consider that they should help their fellow human being to get away from evil .... A deep love also takes hold of the wretched, and you should kindle this love in yourselves, you should know that My adversary's power is still very great and that he is these people's lord and master .... You should know that their strength is not sufficient and that they have therefore fallen prey to him because their will is wrongly directed .... But you should also bear in mind that all people are My creatures whose return I always strive for, and that I rejoice over every single being which finds its way back to Me .... For this reason you also help Me greatly if you take care of them in prayer .... when you see your brothers in these people who are still far away from Me and who are still languishing in utmost darkness .... You must try to imagine their souls as extremely pitiful, helpless creatures who are grateful for every assistance, for every gift of strength, yet in their darkness they don't know that they could procure this strength themselves through the call of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... This knowledge cannot necessarily be imparted to them, and they also reject it if you want to bring it to them .... but they will feel the influx of strength they receive as a result of your loving intercession .... a prayer you address to Me on behalf of others I evaluate as if it had ascended to Me from them myself .... for now I can work in the course of My eternal order .... I can now give something to the soul even though it has not requested it itself, although the soul is still left with the free will to make proper use of the strength which now flows towards it .... But a loving intercession also results in a change of will of the one to whom it applies, for it is a spiritual request which reaches My ear, which will always find fulfilment. For this reason I particularly urge all your loved ones, be it on earth or in the beyond, to bring help to them in spiritual adversity .... Remember all those of whom you know that they have not yet found the right path to Me, take care of all those in prayer who are still in the hands of My adversary .... wrestle them away from him through loving intercession, for your love now gives Me the right to a supply of strength which is otherwise not due to Me because I do not dispute My adversary's right, to which those souls have given themselves through their will .... My supply of strength, however, will only ever contribute towards changing the will, and your loving intercession gives those souls this strength. Loving intercession could truly bring about a great change on earth, yet you humans pay too little attention to those who are in spiritual hardship, for whom there is only loving support from you humans, so that they will be helped as long as they don't call upon the helper and saviour themselves .... which, however, My adversary prevents and can also prevent because people are in bondage to him. But through a prayer of love for these souls you call upon Me Myself for help, and for the sake of your love I am also willing to help .... Therefore, all of you make use of the power of intercession and be certain that you show both the souls as well as Myself an exceedingly great love which I will reward .... For I don't want to condemn but redeem, and thus you should also remember the unfortunate souls with love, not with hatred or contempt, for they are all only the victims of the one who is My adversary ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Redeemer work in the afterlife ....

B.D. 7382 from July 15th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

Great is the joy of the souls who found salvation through you and your cooperation, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond, for they were all in great hardship as long as they were apart from God, thus still bound in their guilt of sin to the adversary who oppressed them in every way and tried to prevent such souls from finding salvation. This is where the help of fellow human beings has to start, who carry out their work of salvation through intercession for the souls of the departed or through proclamation of the gospel among fellow human beings and again and again wrest new souls from the adversary and lead them to God. And as soon as a soul has found its way back to God, its greatest need has been remedied and it is blissfully happy about its redemption and now seeks to do the same work in turn .... to help the souls far away from God to find the path to God and thus to Himself. All this is certainly work which is not very recognizable to fellow human beings as beneficial activity because it only ever concerns the soul's well-being and is therefore outwardly regarded as of little use. And yet, it is one of the most important activities a person can do in earthly life because it saves the soul from eternal death, even though the body falls prey to physical death. But the soul's existence is assured in beatitude, for the soul cannot pass away, but the state it is in is decisive, for this can be beatitude or death. But if the soul is in the state of bliss, then it is in the state of life, which now has no end. And if the soul has been in the state of death for a long time in the kingdom of the beyond it is incomparably blissful for it when it has escaped this state and has attained life through your help, which is why you cannot do enough redeeming work through intercession for such souls if you want to help them attain life from death. This is a work of greatest mercy, a work of greatest neighbourly love, for such souls are dependent on your help through intercession and they will eternally thank you for it and in turn help the other wretched beings in the beyond in the same way. But without this intercession they are too weak to reach the light of their own will, and therefore the first help must be given to them through your love and the will to bring them help in their adversity. Every loving thought towards them has an effect as strength and will not fail to have an effect, they feel every loving thought to be beneficial, and it encourages them to approach you and listen to you if you mentally impart the gospel to them, which they now also accept because it is offered to them in love. Love redeems and brings the souls salvation from their adversity, which you include in your loving prayer so that they can escape the adversary's power ....

Amen

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No intercession in vain for souls beyond ....

B.D. 6266 from May 26th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You will all experience that My love for you is unlimited and that I therefore do not leave anyone to his self-chosen fate but come to everyone's aid, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. I take care of every soul you commend to Me, for whom you pray, whom you want to help in spiritual adversity. I help wherever My help is requested because I love you all .... But you will only understand this when you enter the spiritual kingdom and all the souls come to meet you whom your prayer has delivered from their adversity .... Only then will you know that I have heard every call from you and that no request was directed to Me in vain .... But you shall already know this on earth from My mouth. I will tell you Myself that you can help every soul to whom you give love .... And I want to tell you because a great deal depends on it, because all these souls only need to behold a small ray of love from you in order to turn towards you, which then already signifies the beginning of redemption .... because they receive from you what they need for further ascent. If you knew what effective means are at your disposal .... you would have no other thought than to rescue souls from darkness. And they all thank you for it and always surround you so that you never do any spiritual work without their presence .... and you cannot imagine the effect of this, for a single ray of light ignites again and makes countless more souls receptive for My word .... That is why I already direct it down to earth, because nothing else extends its effect into the kingdom of the beyond and because it also has a transforming (influence) on the souls from the abyss .... (effect) .... I give but I receive far more in return, My creations find their way back to Me who kept themselves far away from Me, who feel your love as strength and now also turn to Me voluntarily because their hearts become soft and compliant through your love. And for the sake of your love My love can now also express itself in these souls, I can provide them with strength which they can use again to work in love on the souls which are still in darkness .... The work of redemption is so extensive that it can now be done on those unhappy souls of the deep, for a single soul has its appendage again, which will now, as it were, also be redeemed through your help, which is now before the end of the earth .... before the beginning of a new redemption period, is of utmost importance, for countless souls will still be saved from the fate of a new banishment, which would irrevocably befall them if they were still languishing in deepest darkness and had not been shown a path to ascent. I love all My living creations and don't want them to suffer for an infinitely long time, yet I keep My law of eternal order and therefore cannot unlawfully redeem the souls which still oppose Me. But your love can break this resistance and then My love can also become active .... Therefore I help all those you commend to Me, for whom you pray, and I release them from their adversity .... for My love never ends, My love includes all My living creations, My love wants them all to become blissfully happy ....

Amen

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Assistance of the light beings for the work of redemption ....

B.D. 5811 from November 24th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

All powers of heaven are subject to you if you need them to work for Me and My kingdom. For they will serve you because you want to serve Me, and they only carry out what they would do themselves if they were active on earth. Therefore, in every earthly adversity which hinders you from carrying out spiritual activity you can call upon them to help you or avert such adversity, and they will be willing and work in accordance with My will, for their work, too, only applies to the lost, their work, too, is the winning of souls for Me and My kingdom. Therefore, keep to those powers which only ever carry My will within themselves. Therefore, only ever entrust yourselves to the good, enlightened spiritual beings in contact with Me if you want to be of service to Me, and no opposing forces will be able to oppress you, for your will, which is directed towards Me, will always earn you the support of those beings which are now active in My will. All the powers of heaven are subject to you .... It is an immense joy in the kingdom of light about an earthly child which consciously places itself at My disposal to work for My kingdom, for now a connection has been created from the spiritual to the earthly world which immensely facilitates the work of redemption on the erring souls, thus, taking into account free will, makes it possible to influence people on earth from the kingdom of light .... And such a connection is protected and encouraged in every way, so that the human being who has offered himself for such work need never fear not being able to carry it out, for he need only request strength and help and it will always be granted to him .... For faithful servants I need very many, thus I will not let any of them be weakened but give him strength in abundance because he uses it for Me and My kingdom .... What is troubling you entrust to Me and believe that My beings of light also know about it and want to help when you call upon them .... Your work shall not suffer any delay in view of the urgency, in view of the approaching end, and therefore all forces shall work together if it is necessary to accomplish a work of salvation which will only be recognized in all its greatness and significance at the end of the earth where the spirits will be separated .... Nothing will be prevented or omitted on the part of the world of light which can still happen for the salvation of erring souls, and no human being will remain without its assistance, which itself pursues the same aim: To do redemption work. All are connected with each other, whether they take part in this work on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. And thus the beings of light are also of one spirit and one mind with Me .... to constantly help those on earth who want to be of service to Me. Therefore approach Me with every request and know that I will never leave you without help, and if you have entrusted yourselves to Me then also give My messengers and co-workers in the spiritual kingdom the right to assist you by handing yourselves over to them and their guidance, by calling upon them for support in spiritual as well as physical adversity. For it is their bliss to be allowed to give love, which they receive from Me in abundance .... It is their bliss to be allowed to work tirelessly for Me and to look after all people on earth who are loved by Me because they want to work for Me and My kingdom ....

Amen

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Light beings help vineyard workers ....

B.D. 8720 from January 9th 1964, taken from Book No. 92

Countless light beings have joined you to promote the fulfilment of the mission, which you have taken on, as every man serving Me eagerly and unselfishly can be sure of all spiritual help, because it is about a great work to supply men with that, what they lack and still is exceedingly necessary: truth, which goes out from Me directly. None of My servants is without spiritual protection, and that is why everyone can go through earth life completely carefree and be convinced of it that My light messengers protect him on all ways and always only let that come over him what serves him for his soul's salvation, because they act and work on you in My will. You can fully entrust yourselves to these light beings; you can submit all your secret worries to them, as you do it to Me Myself, because they are so intimately connected with Me that they also always only carry My will in them and therefore help you, as I Myself have promised you My protection and blessing, because you serve Me. A relationship of love exists between the inhabitants of the kingdom of light and those on earth who eagerly want to serve Me .... And the thoughts of the latter are always so guided that their work is successful .... that souls are still rescued, which are in great danger to get lost when the end comes. But if you, My servants on earth, could see how you are surrounded by beings of light, you would truly rejoice and exult and no longer imagine yourselves on earth .... But such bliss would impair your serving activity in My vineyard, you would not be able to put yourselves into the misery of fellow human beings to whom you are to bring spiritual help .... For this help can only be given by people, otherwise the beings of light could have a direct effect .... but which is not possible due to people's lower degree of maturity and their will, which is often turned away from God. You therefore have to do this work and establish contact with fellow human beings and try to change their attitude. You can certainly always rely on the help of the beings of light, but you yourselves must also remain clear and sober and must not be under a certain compulsion, but which every unusual experience would mean for you if you want to be suitable to work for Me and My kingdom. But as I Myself love every one of My vineyard workers, because he is active for Me in free will, so also the love of countless light beings belongs to you, who can appreciate the value of your activity and also know how necessary it is, and therefore do everything to support you. But I know if and when I can initiate you more closely into spiritual connections, and I also know if and when I can open the spiritual eyes for you that you can see the crowd of My messengers of light around you .... And that is why I also consider My light children differently, because every degree of love is different and also determines the kind of My revelation towards him. And I Myself also always determine the living conditions of every individual according to his work for Me and My kingdom. What can be possible with one excludes with the other, what I alone can justify, but is not to hinder you in your work for My kingdom. Every man needs a different environment, and every man is assigned his own field of activity; all men are different, with whom the individual comes into contact, and so every task is also to be solved differently. But every redeemer work carries its blessing in itself and is the actual mission of a man who is prepared to serve Me. And when one is given information about spiritual connections, then the other needs to know nothing about these, and still everyone can accomplish exactly the task, which I have set for him, because power is constantly supplied to him and spiritual helpers stand by his side, even if he does not see them .... For his will shall remain free .... The power, which every vineyard worker needs for his work, goes to him, because he is cared for in love by My messengers of light, but they will not openly make themselves known to him, so as not to confuse his thoughts and to divert them to unimportant problems, which once will solve themselves when it is time. But you can constantly be certain of My love and care, for anyone who serves Me is Mine, and I will never let him leave Me again for ever ...._>Amen

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Knowledge of sacrifice of the cross in the deep ....

B.D. 7288 from February 20th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

For all souls I shed My blood on the cross of Golgotha .... If this comes to the souls' attention in the darkness, then it is also a ray of hope for those souls, a blade to which they cling if they have the will to be delivered from their torment and to come out of their hardship which is becoming unbearable for them. For even in the deepest darkness light is sometimes brought in when messengers of light descend into the depths and inform the souls that the saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ also died for them on the cross .... Although these messengers of light come veiled, they appear to the souls of darkness as like souls who have come to their senses and consider a way out for themselves, who then remember Him of Whom they heard in the earthly world but in Whom they never believed .... And now eager debates are being conducted, mostly against Me Who accomplished the act of salvation in the man Jesus, for they are all still under My adversary's control who does not want to allow him to lose one of those souls. But the messengers of light are untouchable for him, and their arguments nevertheless again and again convince individuals who look for a way out and entrust themselves to those messengers who suggest guiding them, and then they will always be led to where bright light shines, where their knowledge is increased, and they now start to draw hope because they feel at ease in the circle of light but also know that they themselves first have to acquire the right to be allowed to stay in the area through their attitude. As long as they inwardly resist, they cannot yet be considered to have been released from the darkness, it will strike them again and again and again put them into great torment. Yet they do not forget the speeches of those messengers once they have taken part in them and responded to them, they nevertheless call them to them again and again through their thoughts, and their desire to be able to enter the circle of light again and to hear more of Jesus Christ, Who is also said to have redeemed them and thus can also release them from their torment, grows ever greater. This is the most important thing for the souls in darkness, that the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion is brought to them, if it was unknown to them so far. But usually only a small reference to Him will awaken their memory, providing the desire has already awakened in them to be redeemed from darkness. If they don't have this desire then all knowledge of My sacrifice on the cross is far away from them, then the messengers of light of love won't help either, then they are still completely under My adversary's control, and then much intercession is necessary to make these hardened souls think differently, for without Jesus Christ there is no salvation from darkness for them. In the last days before the end the light beings are constantly working for those souls in darkness who want to help them to leave the deepest depths before the end so that they will not fall prey to the state of new banishment, which even surpasses their present stay in terms of torment. And your prayer for these souls contributes a great deal that their hardship will diminish and they will open up when helpful beings make a suggestion to help them to freedom. The cross of Christ lets its light shine everywhere so that the souls will remember more and more what it is all about .... But only the being's free will makes it possible for the blessings of the act of salvation to pour over the souls, for free will must be willing to call upon Me Myself in Jesus Christ for salvation from the abyss. And the soul will only do so when it has received teachings which have awakened and strengthened its faith in My sacrifice on the cross, so that it now sincerely appeals to be redeemed by Jesus Christ from its torment, which torments the soul until this decision has matured in it to turn to Me in Jesus Christ itself .... But then it will be lifted up from darkness into light, i.e. it will no longer need to enter the dark places, it will be accepted into the circle of light seekers and be filled with light and in deepest gratitude lend a hand itself to help and save its brothers with whom it had to share the darkness .... And such a soul will also succeed in much redemptive work, for in its urge for love it will now eagerly endeavour to bring the gospel to those souls as well, to convince them of the loving and merciful work of the one Who shed His blood on the cross in order to save all souls from spiritual death ....

Amen

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Redemption period comes to an end ....

B.D. 2564 from November 28th 1942, taken from Book No. 33

Humanity will experience ever greater hardship because the time given to the spiritual for redemption is pressing. An accelerated process of development must be possible, which is promoted by excessive suffering and misery. Time is drawing to a close and there are still countless people who have no spiritual aspirations whatsoever and therefore pass through earthly life completely uselessly. To a certain extent they must be urged by external circumstances to think seriously about earthly life, which they would never do if life passed them by in monotony and without suffering and hardship. As long as they do not make contact with the spiritual world through heartfelt prayer, through requesting spiritual strength, the spiritual success of their embodiment on earth is to be doubted, or earthly life would only have to be a continued labour of love, but then the human being is also unconsciously in contact with the spiritual world. The time of redemption of the spiritual is coming to an end .... Man cannot grasp what this means and yet he should be informed of it so that he understands the cause and purpose of the great adversity which God allows to come upon earth. This period of redemption has spanned an infinitely long time and time and again the spiritual was offered the opportunity to develop upwards. But God's wisdom also set a limit to this redemption period, but also increases the number and kind of development possibilities so that the still immature spiritual can come to final maturity before the redemption period has ended. And as long as the spiritual does not resist it can reach the last stage of development. But the will of this spiritual is weak and it fails if it is not influenced in a way that urges it to make its own decision. Earthly suffering is supposed to exert such an influence on the spiritual, and that is why God does not leave this last possibility untried in order to help the spiritual, which without such does not use the embodiment as man. Earth life passes, but with it also the possibility that the spiritual in man liberates itself. On earth it can still do this out of its own strength; but as soon as earthly life is over the spiritual, the soul, lacks strength and is in greatest danger to develop regressively, which results in eternities of being bound again. The greatest suffering on earth, on the other hand, can be called little, and therefore people should take it upon themselves because it is the only way to spare the soul the torments of the beyond, which are far greater and last for eternities, because it is more difficult to attain spiritual freedom in the beyond. For this is certain .... nothing comes upon humanity which is not founded in God's love and has God's wisdom as a prerequisite .... And that is why the coming immense suffering must also be regarded as a proof of God's love .... as a final means for the redemption of the spiritual, which is in danger of losing itself completely ....

Amen

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Redemption period with Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 6432 from December 23rd 1955, taken from Book No. 69

The hour of redemption draws near .... No long time will pass before the end is drawn under a period which could bring redemption and also brings redemption to those who have joined the flock of Christ's fighters, who have followed His call and walked the same path as He walked on earth .... For the people of this earthly period a special light of grace had poured forth, for in this last earthly period God Himself embodied Himself in the man Jesus in order to redeem humanity .... to make it possible for the whole of humanity to be able to behold the eternal light again, from which the spiritual world had once voluntarily turned away and therefore its fate was and would have remained a profound darkness without the divine redeemer Jesus Christ. This earth period was so significant because it ended a hopeless state which had already lasted for an infinitely long time .... And the redemption of all spiritual beings which entered the stage of embodiment as human beings during this earth period would have been completely possible .... And yet this unheard-of bestowal of grace was not utilized, and again only a few reached their aim on earth .... to be able to end this life in the flesh with their souls fully matured in order to find acceptance in the kingdom of light. This would have been possible for all people, but because free will is decisive and this was not properly utilized, countless souls left this earth unredeemed .... although they all received knowledge of Jesus' act of salvation, of His crucifixion and His mission .... Yet they lacked faith, and even the knowledge of this greatest work of mercy ever accomplished on earth had no effect on people .... And so a redemption period which could have brought the greatest success now comes to an end .... and a new one begins again, so that all beings will be offered the opportunity again to make use of the blessings acquired through Jesus' death once more, for complete redemption can only take place with the help of the divine redeemer Jesus Christ .... And you humans are now facing this turning point, you are facing the end of the old and the beginning of the new era of redemption, which therefore also signifies the end of this earth and the emergence of a new earth. There is still time for every single human being to turn to Jesus Christ with the request to help Him .... The knowledge of His work of redemption could still be used, even if faith in it is lacking .... But anyone who can only believe in the existence of this human being can occupy himself with this 'human being' in thought and have a mental dialogue with Him, so that this 'human being' will explain to him why He wanted to seal His ideas with a cross .... And he will get the answer because the divine redeemer grasps everyone who only enters into contact with Him. Intellectual knowledge alone is not of much use to him but it can help to initiate a purely intellectual mental argument which can end more or less successfully. This earth period was blessed with God's personal earth walk .... And much could have been achieved by people with good will, yet their will was not often directed upwards .... Only a small flock ever followed Him, and at the end of this period it will not be much bigger either. Therefore you can all expect the near end with certainty, you can indeed still enter the divine redeemer's following beforehand, you can join His small flock, for He will accept you until the last hour .... But the end of this earth has irrevocably come, and therefore you are required to make great haste and use all your strength, you are urgently advised to appeal for strength so that you will all reach the aim before the last day has come .... that you will profess Jesus Christ before it is too late ....

Amen

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

Amen

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"No one comes to the father except through Me ...."

B.D. 5952 from May 9th 1954, taken from Book No. 64

No one comes to the father except through Me .... These words alone should make people realize the importance of acknowledging Jesus as the son of God and redeemer of the world, and yet they have completely lost their impact, for humanity does not respect them, otherwise it would not so thoughtlessly reject Him Who calls Himself the bridge to the father .... The words of scripture are for most people only letters without spirit and life .... They speak them without being aware of their meaning, they completely disregard the lord's words and therefore do not find their way to the father either, because they do not believe in Him with the conviction which would result in heeding the divine word. No one comes to the father except through Me .... Yet people lack the will to reach the father, which is why they do not seek the path to Him either .... which is also why the divine redeemer Jesus Christ is of no significance to them. This attitude leads to downfall, to spiritual death .... Since they do not reach the father, they remain in the power of the one who is God's adversary, they remain in the depths because they do not desire to ascend. It is an exceedingly regrettable state that people do not show any striving upwards, that they do not think about their earthly task and that they are also indifferent to Christ's teaching, the gospel, that they do not accept any of His words as important and think about them .... that they cannot attain realization because they do not seek enlightenment, because they are completely indifferent to what God wants to convey to them through the scriptures and what the man Jesus, as God's spokesman, preached to people .... And no-one thinks of the fact that he only stays on earth in order to bring about the return to the father, and that he is constantly offered the opportunity to do so, which he rejects in his rigid mind because he does not believe. The distance between the human being and the father is great, yet one offers Himself for guidance, for mediation .... One has built the bridge which makes the path to the father passable, and this one offers His help to all people .... But He is not listened to, He is not heeded, if He wants to remind people of Himself .... Blind and deaf they pass Him by, although He calls out to them: "No one comes to the father except through Me ...." He says of Himself: "I am the way, the truth and the life ...." Therefore, anyone who seeks truth and life must take the path via Jesus Christ, he must make use of His mediation, he must request strength from Him to be able to cover the earthly path with the success which is the purpose of life: to find union with the father which only ensures a life of bliss, a life which lasts forever. People do not know what fate they are facing through their indifference and unbelief, they do not know what they are forfeiting by not respecting the divine word, by not taking refuge in the one Who alone can save them from ruin .... They don't know and don't believe the words of those who know and want to help them. And even if the word sounds from above, they do not accept it, for they listen to another voice, to the voice of the world with which God's adversary addresses them and to which they willingly open their ears .... They seek not life but death .... they reject the one Who promises them life, and therefore they will remain in sin and death, because without Jesus Christ there is no redemption and no return to the father's house ....

Amen

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The redemptive work of Jesus was unique ....

B.D. 7649 from July 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

This was My love's greatest work that I died for you on the cross. My love is infinite and therefore always and forever applies to My living creations, even if they are still far away from Me. It also pursues the deeply sunk and helps it up again and again. And it will not rest until the work of return is completed. Yet the greatest love on My part would not have been able to accept you again if you had not first become free of your guilt of sin .... For even love cannot eliminate justice, and the guilt had to be redeemed first, atonement had to be made for it .... an atonement which the sinful creature was incapable of making, even if eternities had passed by .... This is why My love Itself redeemed the guilt by accomplishing the act of salvation, by suffering and dying on the cross for the sins of humanity. My Love Itself accomplished the work and embodied Itself for this purpose in a human being Who allowed this embodiment in Himself because His love for Me and His fellow human beings was so strong that He wanted to suffer and die for them .... I Myself, as the 'Eternal Love', was thus in Him, in the man Jesus, Who shed His blood for His brothers in order to redeem their great guilt of sin .... This was a unique act of salvation which can never be surpassed in its greatness before or since, for I truly chose the most bitter death because the magnitude of the guilt was immeasurable and required the greatest suffering and pain in order to establish compensation for this guilt towards justice .... For although Jesus' cover was human, yet Jesus' soul was from above, which also explains that it suffered far more in the kingdom of darkness than a person living in the midst of sin can imagine. But He wanted to suffer for His fallen brothers, and I accepted this sacrifice because the love in Him wanted to make it and because I never refuse love when it wants to express itself. For love is My primal element, and thus I found Myself in the man Jesus and sacrificed Myself for humanity. This act of mercy is so immense that it will also remain incomprehensible to you humans as long as you still live on earth, but one day you will recognize what has taken place in the spiritual kingdom through this act of salvation .... you will recognize it when you have entered that kingdom yourselves and when you are then allowed to experience the process of Jesus' crucifixion yourselves, which will then overwhelm you and make you sing praise and thanks .... And every mature soul will be allowed to experience it in the spiritual kingdom and only then recognize the love and grace which prevailed that I Myself walked across the earth in the man Jesus. For a bridge has now been built from people to Me which may be entered by every soul that wants to come to Me .... There is a path from the kingdom without light into the kingdom of light and bliss .... And this path could and can be taken by anyone who wants to reach Me in My kingdom. It is the path Jesus took and which you all only need to follow in order to be united with Me again. Thus the guilt of sin has been redeemed .... And this act of salvation was accomplished for all people of the past, the present and the future, everyone can find redemption who seriously strives towards the final aim, the union with Me, for he will find forgiveness of his guilt through Jesus Christ, Who laid down His life for him, Who paid the purchase price for all souls with His blood .... And every 'redeemed' soul will be allowed to experience the sacrifice on the cross itself .... But never will such a work of redemption be repeated .... For Jesus died for all people of the past, the present and the future, and this means that My love was satisfied with this work of mercy .... but that the human being himself must now also want his own redemption, otherwise Jesus died for him on the cross in vain .... Anyone who does not find his way to Jesus Christ will never accept redemption, for it can only be brought to him through Him .... anyone who rejects Jesus Christ also rejects Me, and he will never be able to unite with Me .... anyone who does not accept Jesus Christ will continue to be burdened with his great guilt of sin, and the gates to the kingdom of light will be closed to him .... (17.7.1960) And you humans of the present time live in the redemption period in which I Myself ascended to earth in Jesus in order to redeem your guilt, in order to accomplish the great work of mercy which is unique and will remain so for all eternity. Thus you were able to exploit the blessings of the act of salvation during your earthly life, and you still have the opportunity to do so if you are not yet redeemed, that is, if you have not yet approached Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins .... For you still have a short time left until the end. But you will inevitably have to seek and find Him during this time if you don't want to go astray for eternity, for there is no other redemption for you than that you acknowledge Him and thus Me Myself in Him, so that you will be released from your original sin through your will, which burdens every person who has not yet taken his path to Jesus Christ. And therefore My name will be preached with increased zeal throughout the world. Jesus Christ will be proclaimed throughout the world, and truly, every person who believes in Him and gives himself to Him in this faith will be allowed to experience the strength of His name .... Then he will live for eternity, even though he will lose his earthly life before the end. But faith in Jesus Christ protects him from destruction, for no-one can perish who acknowledges Him because He shed His blood for all people .... for the people of the past, the present and the future .... Let it be said to you that His work of redemption was a unique one, the like of which has never happened before and will never happen again .... For I Myself sacrificed Myself in the man Jesus on the cross, and My act of love truly had such an effect that the redemption of all humanity's guilt is guaranteed, no matter how great it was and is. But people have to want to be redeemed .... Against his will no human being will be forced to accept the blessings of My act of salvation .... against his will no human being's guilt of sin can be redeemed .... And therefore people cannot be spared the fate of a new banishment either who do not voluntarily place themselves under the cross of Christ, who do not accept Jesus Christ, who have no faith in Me and My greater than great love, which wants to help all people who are in spiritual hardship. I must let them go their way which, however, will certainly lead to the aim one day .... I leave them complete freedom, but how they use their freedom determines the state which awaits them as soon as the end of the earth has come. And the time and hour of this end has been determined since eternity, and it can no longer be stopped because divine order has to be restored, which no longer reigns on this earth. But I can only ever point out this end to you and admonish you to utmost soul work .... And this consists of increased activity of love .... And then you will also be able to recognize Jesus Christ as your saviour and redeemer, and you will take the path to the cross, and then you will also no longer be able to get lost ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers