Turning point – turning point of the world

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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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

Spiritual and earthly turning point

6936 - Statements by seers and prophets....

5567 - Impending turning point ....

The law of divine order is love

7775 - Love is the law of eternal order....

7270 - Law of divine order is love....

6150 - Law of eternity: love.... divine order....

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

God’s plan of salvation

8564 - Process of return....

7268 - God's plan of salvation always requires new creations....

7357 - God's eternal plan of salvation is being carried out....

The current behaviour of people under the influence of the enemy: spiritual chaos

2885 - Lie and error.... low point.... blossom or decline....

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

2810 - Hatred and its consequences....

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

Earthly chaos

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

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

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

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

Reasons for a spiritual and earthly turnaround

7581 - Spiritual low level necessitates upheaval of earth....

5718 - Spiritual low.... turnaround impossible.... end....

6864 - Earth is a place of perdition.... Devils....

Results of the spiritless behaviour: time of God’s intervention

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

3151 - Intervention by God....

7643 - Natural event and chaos....

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

Time of the battle of faith

3209 - Signs of the last days.... Battle of faith.... Chaos....

1526 - Spiritual turnaround.... fight against God....

3366 - New school of thought.... Human work....

1591 - Spiritual turning point.... Fight against Christ....

1748 - Spiritual change.... Professing Jesus Christ....

7778 - The adversary oversteps his authority....

Time of the end of the old earth: calling off the weak and separating the spirits

4613 - The weak will not experience the end....

5271 - Large numbers of deaths.... Recalling the weak.... Decision....

3617 - Spiritual turning point.... divorce of the spirits....

7139 - Divorce of the spirits....

Separating of the spirits also in the beyond

6258 - Redemption of souls from the deep before the end....

6399 - Turnaround.... redeeming the souls of the deep....

Return of Christ and the rapture

7944 - Coming in the clouds....

6681 - Rapture....

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

Time of the last judgement

4991 - Violation of eternal order.... fulfilment of predictions - last judgement....

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

4819 - Spiritual turn.... last judgment....

3519 - End of the world.... Judgment Day....

Transformation of the earth – turn of the world

4533 - Spiritual turning-point.... Total transformation of earth....

6759 - Justification of the destructions.... earthly and spiritual transformation....

7630 - The final work of destruction....

3708 - Spiritual turn....

5524 - World turn....

5807 - Turn of the world.... not world's end....

New banishment

4875 - Spiritual turning point is not a reversal but renewed banishment....

4688 - Devils of the end time.... beyond closed.... new banishment....

7121 - Isolation from God – new banishment....

Spiritual turnaround: renewal of the earth in divine order

5990 - Establishing divine order....

7027 - Reordering of all things creaturely....

7818 - Renewal of the earth and paradise....

7966 - Paradise state on new earth....

Spiritual and earthly turnaround

8188 - Spiritual and earthly turn....

7243 - Spiritual and earthly turn....

Ending of an earthly period

2807 - Spiritual turnaround....

7929 - Ending an earth period is imminent....

7935 - You humans are approaching the end....

Earth life task: transformation to love

3559 - Perfection.... divine order.... love....

5145 - Transforming from God's creature to God's child....

7298 - Serious reminder and indication of the end....

8019 - Change of nature into love with the help of Jesus Christ....

Spiritual turning point of the individual still on earth

7616 - Spiritual turn....

3223 - End time.... sign.... averting the judgement....

1791 - Spiritual turning point.... right attitude towards God....

Last decision of will for God

6654 - Individual's decision of will....

8699 - Final decision in the battle of faith....

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

Submission of the will to God’s will

8233 - Conscious turning of the will towards God....

7892 - Submitting one's will to God's will....

God’s help for the earthly path

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

7447 - Constant help from God....

8817 - God's mercy on the spiritual poverty of the world....

Utilizing the time of grace

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

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

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

3639 - Exploiting the end time.... soulwork....

6250 - Spiritual turning point.... The approach of night....

Spiritual and earthly turning point

Statements by seers and prophets ....

B.D. 6936 from October 5th 1957, taken from Book No. 74

Listen to what the spirit of God proclaims to you: the seers and prophets are chosen by Me Myself because they have to fulfil a great and important task .... informing people of the forthcoming Judgment of the world and admonishing them to prepare themselves for it. These seers and prophets don't use their own words but merely pass on what My spirit tells them. Thus, in a manner of speaking, you receive a direct proclamation from Me Myself, I merely have to use a mediator in order not to compel your thoughts and actions. You therefore can believe it but are not forced to do so. You will believe it if you acknowledge the gift of vision and prophesy in these mediators; you will reject it if you doubt their mission. But I want to make it easy for you to believe them, I will visibly emphasise their mission by allowing the announced events to happen which precede the Judgment .... I will make sure that these announcements will be spread, that many people can be informed of them and that they then will experience the evidence of it, because everything will happen as I predicted through seers and prophets. Although I warned people .... when I lived on earth .... to beware of false Christs and false prophets and pointed out that My adversary's emissaries will also wreak havoc, I now caution people once again not to get caught in his nets of lies and to believe his intrigues, for he is active and through remarkable accomplishments, through physical works of wonder, is trying to awaken in people the belief that the 'powers of heaven' are expressing themselves ....

But precisely his remarkable activity during the last days also gives rise to My countermeasure which consists of using methods that revive a weak faith again or let a lost faith arise anew. And this cannot happen in any other way than through pure truth, which comes forth from the source of truth but must reach you humans through mediators because you are unable to receive it directly yourselves.

And thus I present to people what lies ahead of them. And the people I have chosen to mediate between Myself and you humans can be acknowledged by you as genuine prophets whose words you should believe. I Am also prepared to demonstrate that they speak on My instruction and inform you of what is to come by very soon making the first announcements come true. For the most important task of these seers and prophets is the announcement of the end, which is of utmost importance for you humans and which you thus should await being prepared. And for this you are still granted a period of time which can suffice to save your souls from ruin.

And so I will not hesitate much longer, I will confirm My seers' and prophets' mission, I will let their proclamations be followed by action .... Prior to this .... before the end .... I will shake the earth and show Myself to all people through a natural event which time and again has been announced according to My will. For I gave them the instruction Myself, they only spoke as My instruments, as My representatives on earth who should admonish and warn people on My behalf. You must not deem yourselves safe from events which testify to a higher Power, you should dread them and believe that My Word is truth, that I Myself speak and have spoken to you through them and that you are therefore definitely approaching an extremely difficult time, if My grace will not call you back beforehand. You are facing the end of an era, and in this certainty you should live your life accordingly .... always in view of a sudden end which, however, need not be feared by anyone who consciously improves himself, who pays more attention to his soul than to his earthly body, for he will not lose anything but only gain ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Impending turning point ....

B.D. 5567 from December 31th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

You can announce a new era to all people, for you are facing a turning point .... And it is also My will that you, My servants on earth, will always mention this announcement of Mine, I want people to obtain the knowledge of it even if they do not want to believe it. Their thoughts shall be guided to the forthcoming event, to the time which will even strike an unbelieving person as abnormal. They shall learn about a vast change in their living conditions, a very clear reference to the end, which will follow soon afterwards. They shall learn of this change because it could revive their faith once it happens, if they follow world events and all the signs you foretold them will be clearly evident. A new time is approaching and I don’t announce it to you humans for no reason .... The path you are taking is still far away from Me; only rarely, if ever, do I play a part in your life. Nevertheless, I want you to come to Me, to call upon Me, to always let Me lead the way, and not live your life without Me .... This is why I call you time and again until you hear it so distinctly that you will heed My call .... For this reason My servants on earth shall inform people of what is awaiting them .... that everything will happen differently than they wish and hope for .... Soon the last phase before the end will start, soon the final battle of faith will erupt but it will be preceded by a powerful upheaval of the Earth which should make all people think and which will nevertheless only be recognised by a few as a final call of warning and admonition from above. You humans should believe that you will still have to travel a difficult path but, with My strength, it will be possible for you, therefore I want to offer you My strength in advance, even to those of you who do not believe in Me as yet .... Call upon Me in times of need and you will manifestly experience My help, but do not succumb to the forces of darkness, don’t curse and complain if you are painfully affected by that which will and must come without fail .... Think about it when a decision for or against Me is expected of you. Consider the fact that I can give and take but only ever give to you that which will benefit you for eternity. Don’t let yourselves be enticed by all kinds of worldly promises, you will lose everything again .... but what you acquire spiritually will remain with you and give you eternal pleasure. You are facing a change in the world .... you are approaching a turning point both in an earthly and spiritual way, you humans are at the centre of a momentous event; hold on to Me, your God and Father of eternity, and you will remain safe while everything around you will perish, for I Myself Am your strength and power, I Myself Am Lord over life and death .... Anyone who is with Me, who stands by My side, truly need not fear anything, for he will live in eternity.

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The law of divine order is love

Love is the law of eternal order ....

B.D. 7775 from December 17th 1960, taken from Book No. 81

You all have to submit yourselves to the law of eternal order if you want to reach your aim on earth, to become perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. And this law of order requires nothing more of you than that you live in love, that you shape your being into love again as it was in the beginning. Everything that violates love also violates My law of order, which only ever has love as its foundation because it was given by Me Myself as the eternal love. When love was eliminated the being also stepped out of order .... When the being rejected My illumination of love it stepped out of My flow of love and its whole state changed into disorder .... it contradicted the being I had made it out to be; it turned in on itself, it had overturned the order, and therefore it had become sinful .... for sin is everything that is directed against love. And since I Myself am love, the being therefore rebelled against Me Myself and became sinful. Yet it can enter the state of order at any time, it can completely submit itself to My will at any time, and then it also completely inserts itself into My divine order again .... My will, however, is that you humans ignite love in yourselves again, that you accept your original nature once more, that all divine characteristics revive in you which are unthinkable outside of My eternal order. You had reversed the divine in you in free will, you had overturned the order in which I placed all My created beings out of Me. And this means that you voluntarily gave up love, that you became loveless beings and thereby sinned against Me, Who is love. Your earthly life now constantly gives you the opportunity for your transformation into love, and you can insert yourselves into the law of order at any time if only you work in love. Then you will unite with Me again, for I am with you in every work of love, and where I am there also has to be order; if you let Me Myself be present with you, you also have to be in order .... because I can only dwell where there is love .... and where there is love the divine order is also observed. And then you will be again what you were from the beginning: divine beings full of light and strength, for everything divine is perfect, and everything divine has aligned itself with the father's nature, you have become perfect again, just as your father in heaven is perfect; you have returned to Him voluntarily, you have become My children, as was My aim from the beginning, who now create and work with Me and are eternally blissful ...._>Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Law of divine order is love ....

B.D. 7270 from January 30th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

This is the fulfilment of the law, that you live in love, for love is the law of eternal order, love is the only existing thing which no opposing will is able to overthrow .... love is the strength of God and thus the primal element which has its origin in God but which is also the primal being of God Himself. And thus the law of eternal order can only be fulfilled or maintained if love is the principle in which all beingness moves .... Without love the law of divine order will be overturned, without love there will be a lack of strength and light, without love there will be sin, i.e., every violation of the law of eternal order is a sin because it is directed against the original source of love, against God Himself, Who is eternal love. Nothing can find approval before God's eye that does not take place within the framework of the lawful order, which is love. Everything that opposes it must be wrong before God because it is based on unkindness and because unkindness opposes God's love, thus it is part of God's adversary whose nature is devoid of all love. Whatever you humans encounter in earthly life has to be tested for the degree of love which determines every event. Only that which is evident as 'activity of love' will stand before God, and where there is only the slightest lack of love God's eyes will turn away, since He cannot be pleased with sin. And you humans can easily judge whether an action, a speech or even a thought was caused by a degree of self-love or even unkindness, no matter how small it may be .... And therefore you will also know that you often play with sin, that you often violate the law of eternal order if you merely allow an unloving thought to arise within you and don't push it away when it arises within you. And likewise you are very quickly prepared to speak unkind words or to carry out an action which lacks love .... You move far more outside of divine order because you are not always filled with love, on the contrary, you easily let yourselves be carried away into unkind judgment or thinking. And it need not always be actions which do not meet with God's approval, but you humans should all pay more attention to your thoughts or words that they do not violate the law of divine order .... for divine order can only exist where love is the highest principle which fills the human being and determines his thoughts, speech and actions. You all still practice love far too little, you all do not yet recognize love as the most important thing which alone brings your maturing process to a successful conclusion. Only through love do you reintegrate yourselves into the law of divine order, and only then do you take on the being again which you were in the beginning and once gave away. But you have to become again what you were in the beginning, and therefore you have to accept your original being again, which is love in itself .... Only when you live in love again will you enter the divine order and fulfil the law .... you then join the eternal love again, there is no longer any separation, there is then also no state of imperfection but from then on you move in strength and light and freedom, because then you have become perfect, just as your father in heaven is perfect ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Law of eternity: love .... divine order ....

B.D. 6150 from December 31th 1954, taken from Book No. 66

There is an eternal law to which you must all submit if you want to be happy .... You can indeed deviate, you can also violate the law, but then you will also give up your bliss, then you will end up in a state where all harmony is annulled .... where you are unhappy. But the law of eternity is called: love .... And now you also know when you break the law .... when you sin against love. Where love is, there is order, harmony and perfection .... and therefore also bliss .... If love is disregarded then everything else will also be destroyed, other unlawful qualities will arise from unkindness, all of which only contribute towards creating a wretched state and giving birth to evil which constantly multiplies and thus excludes all harmony, which is a prerequisite for bliss .... A life against the law of divine order, a life against love, will have an effect in a chaotic state because it never has constructive but always destructive consequences .... until finally this state has reached a degree where these destructive effects become visible .... where therefore a forcible return to divine order takes place, otherwise a chaos which cannot be overlooked would make human life on earth impossible and thus the main purpose of creation .... the maturing of the spiritual in it .... could no longer be fulfilled. God, however, sets everything right .... He restores order as soon as the time has come when the limits are exceeded, since humanity lacks love and has therefore completely stepped out of the divine order. But such a re-establishment of divine order is extremely painful, it requires a hard hand that sets right what has been perverted .... and straightens what was crooked. And those who suffer will be the people who rise up in resistance, who prove themselves to be completely out of order through their lack of love .... These must pass through a purification fire which can still break their resistance before the rectifying act takes place .... or else they will be forced to comply with the eternal order through bondage which they can no longer resist .... Order must be restored for the sake of the redemption of the spiritual .... Love must reign on earth again, harmony and bliss must once more be guaranteed to the inhabitants of earth who subordinate themselves to the eternal law, who thus live in love and intimate union with God, Who is eternal love Himself .... Only the fulfilment of His law releases the spiritual from its bondage .... which, however, closes anew around the spiritual, which violates the law of love to such an extent as is evident before the end of a redemption period .... that spiritually and earthly only chaos can be spoken of, which one day will trigger complete destruction. Once again divine order will be established so that good can attain beatitude and evil will be banished .... For God is lord over heaven and earth, and to Him all that has come forth from Him must bow .... His will must be fulfilled, and His will is love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God’s plan of salvation

Process of return ....

B.D. 8564 from July 20th 1963, taken from Book No. 90

Nothing can be lost forever once it has arisen from Me and My strength .... It continues to exist because it is everlasting and will infallibly return to Me as the eternal source of strength, because this is based on My law of eternal order. However, the being which came forth from Me as a perfect and divine being was also able to voluntarily reverse its nature into the opposite, it was able to relinquish its perfection and shape itself into an anti-divine being .... And so it did and was not stopped by Me because I pursued a plan, because I had a goal in mind for all 'created' beings: that they would become My 'children' which I was unable to 'create', instead, they had to shape themselves into it of their own free will .... Thus I did not prevent their apostasy from Me but prepared a process of return for all once fallen beings: I reshaped the strength I once emanated as a being into all kinds of works of creation .... I dissolved the beings into countless minute particles, which animated the works of creation and thus the strength became active again according to My will .... that is, every work of creation had to fulfil its designated task as a matter of natural law, for I created nothing without reason and purpose .... Each work of creation had its function and thus My love and wisdom and might created an earthly world which sheltered all these fallen tiny particles of soul which gradually increased in maturity because they were intended to one day come together again as individual beings, and this is because they were intended to embody themselves in a human being as the once fallen original spirit in order to pass the final test of will: to voluntarily turn to Me again, just as it had once voluntarily turned away from Me .... And this infinitely long path of higher development signifies a path of service for the tiny particles dissolved from the original being .... in contrast to the fall, which was based on the being's arrogance and thirst for power .... The return can only take place by way of constant service which, admittedly, happens in the state of compulsion until sooner or later, in the state of a human being, the being shall voluntarily be of service, driven by love .... which then will guarantee its certain perfection on this earth. The path the once fallen being has to take until it can make its final decision in the state of free will as a human being is infinitely long .... This path is so excruciatingly painful that his past memory has been taken away from the human being because he should make a free decision and the knowledge of the agony and suffering in the bound state would enslave his freedom of wanting and thinking as a human being .... For fear would impel him into making the right decision, but this would be utterly worthless for the soul and its perfection ....

The human being should freely want to be of service for the sake of love and attaining maturity himself, this is why he lives on earth .... For the human being is the once fallen original spirit to whom My infinite love opens up all possibilities in order to become again what he had been in the beginning: a supremely perfect being but which has attained perfection of its own free will which I was unable to give to the being and thereby the 'created work' has become My image, My 'child' .... This is the goal had I set Myself from the start, which required an infinitely long path of development and which is to be understood as 'My eternal plan of Salvation' .... And now you humans know that you are these fallen spirits and have almost reached the goal of voluntarily uniting yourselves with Me which, in turn, means that you should change yourselves into love in order to be able to unite with Me, the eternal Love .... Now you know that your existence did not simply start as a human being but that you already existed for a very long time .... You know that you did not originate from Me in the state that cannot be called perfect, for as humans you have weaknesses and faults, you are not perfect creatures and therefore cannot have come forth from Me in this state, since I can only create something perfect .... And this knowledge should make you think and also lead to the realisation that your earthly life must have a purpose: to achieve the perfection again which was yours in the very beginning and which you voluntarily gave up .... Thus you also know your task which consists of changing into love, which is your fundamental element, for you are the same as I Am in your fundamental substance .... Admittedly, as a human being you are still far removed from perfection, nevertheless, you are and remain divine living creations which can never cease to exist anymore and whose perfection I will take care of time and again, who I will never let fall and who one day will very certainly reach the final goal of being and remaining intimately united with Me for all eternity .... The fact that you know little about it is only due to your weak degree of love, otherwise you would be fully enlightened and also close to perfection. Nevertheless, the knowledge of it is given to you by My side as long as you are merely willing to accept it .... as long as you merely desire to know the correlations concerning you, your God and Creator of eternity and the whole of Creation .... Then you really will be instructed in all truthfulness and also consciously travel your path on earth with the goal of final union with Me .... You will attain perfection and a life in beatitude which will last forever ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

God's plan of salvation always requires new creations ....

B.D. 7268 from January 29th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

New creations will still arise on this earth for eternities, and the upward development of the spiritual will continue, which is still bound in hard matter and other works of creation, for eternal times are already required by a once-fallen original spirit for this return from the deepest depth to the height, up to the stage where it may walk across earth embodied as a human being to pass its last test of will: for or against God, to Whom it once offered its resistance and therefore fell .... An infinite amount of fallen spirits still have to take this path, and it takes eternities for these spirits to remain far away from God in utmost wretchedness until they are even allowed to take this path of return .... until it becomes matter according to God's will and then slowly ascends in material creations. For this reason all matter is already a state of constraint which proves that God's love has taken care of the hardened spiritual substance in order to shape it according to His will, for it is then already seized by God's strength of love which enveloped it in order to give it a helpful purpose, irrespective of whether it is at the beginning of its development or has already progressed. All matter is hardened spiritual matter enveloped by God's strength of love, which has received its envelopment for the sake of a purpose. It is not always possible for you humans to recognize the purpose, but nothing in the whole of creation is without meaning and purpose, only it is often only known to God alone, because human thinking and conceptual ability is still limited. But only as human beings can the original spirits recognize themselves again as beings, because before they were not aware of themselves. And as long as the earth exists and harbours creations of the most diverse kind, countless original spirits are bound in it, all of which still have to gather and find themselves in order to one day be able to animate the form of a human being when those bound little particles have attained their appropriate maturity. And as long as there are creations in, on and above the earth there can be no end to this earth which serves as a maturing station for the fallen spirits. For this reason it is not possible to speak of a downfall of the earth if this is understood to mean a complete decay, a total dissolution of the earth's body, for the bound spiritual substances require shells and thus again and again new creations which offer them shelter depending on the state of maturity which the individual particles have already reached. One day the earth will indeed be a purely spiritual creation, yet eternities will pass until then, because a spiritual creation can only shelter mature spiritual beings and the countless creations on earth only ever prove how much unredeemed spiritual substance has taken abode in those creations. And this spiritual substance cannot jump over developmental phases at will, it has to ascend from the abyss according to natural law, in accordance with the divine order in which God's plan of salvation .... the return of the apostate to Him .... was conceived and is carried out. And this very plan of God's salvation requires eternities and it requires new creations again and again, otherwise the change of external forms could not take place, which is necessary again and again in order to give the spiritual the opportunity for serving activity through which the ascent development is guaranteed. The constant coming into being and passing away in nature is a process according to divine order, which takes place according to natural law .... Yet from time to time acts of violence also take place according to God's will in order to repeatedly dissolve hard matter and release the spiritual within, which is now to begin its course of development in lighter external forms .... and at the same time to capture and bind fallen spiritual again in hardest form. And the earth will still have to serve this task for eternities, it will certainly be transformed again and again but it will not be able to pass away, for an incomprehensibly long time is necessary for you humans until even the last spiritual substance will be embodied on this earth, which you can well describe with the word 'eternity'. And yet, you can also speak of a downfall of the earth, for what lies ahead of you signifies an end of your life for you humans, for nothing will remain alive, people and animals will lose their lives apart from the small flock of those who will be raptured in order to then become the tribe of the human race again on the newly formed earth which shall populate the new earth, as is God's will ....

Amen

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God's eternal plan of salvation is being carried out ....

B.D. 7357 from May 7th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

There is no spiritual change for the better on this earth, even if individuals will still attain realization and thus a spiritual change will occur for them in their earthly life. But the general public is far more on the path to the abyss, it is sinking instead of striving upwards, and these people will increase in number the closer it is to the end. Whatever is done to change their will, to proclaim the gospel to them or to bring the truth to them .... they reject everything and rather persecute those who want to help them rise from the depths to the light .... They are wholly in the hands of satan and do his will, who plunges them irrevocably into the deep, as is his plan .... And because these people are in the majority judgment will also have to pass over this earth, although everything will be done first to release the few from his chains who go into themselves and thus accomplish a spiritual change within themselves, for they will live forever even if they lose their physical life before the end of this earth, but their souls will enter the kingdom of light and beatitude. But whoever perseveres until the end will be blessed .... This promise will be fulfilled, for people who remain faithful to God even in the time of the most difficult faith struggle will be allowed to inhabit paradise on the new earth and will be blessed .... Then one can certainly speak of a spiritual turning point, for people will no longer be in battle with evil forces, there will be peace on earth and people will live together in love, in harmony and bliss, and no-one will need to fear their fellow human being as an enemy and adversary .... It is a completely different life than it is on earth now among people who are hostile towards each other and harm each other because love has completely grown cold .... And this state cannot remain like this, but it would no longer be changed on the part of people, but it can only experience a change through God's will by establishing the law of divine order again .... by separating the goats from the sheep, by banishing in matter that which is completely contrary to Him and by transferring those who remain faithful to a new earth .... by "making all things new", as He has promised. But anyone who still hopes for such a change on this earth is mistaken, for God's adversary has too much power over people who grant him this power themselves, and he also uses it because he knows that he does not have much time left .... Thus he will do everything in his power to further increase the confusion on earth; and people themselves will do nothing to counteract him, they will willingly go along with everything he urges them to do. And thus the spiritual darkness will grow ever greater, people's weakness to resist will constantly increase and satan's activity will likewise increase, and people's complete deterioration and apostasy from God will be the inevitable result, which will therefore be countered by God such that everything on earth will come to an end, that all creations will be dissolved and all spiritual substances will receive a new form again in accordance with their degree of maturity .... but the human being will likewise be incorporated into the material creation again in accordance with his maturity .... except for those who are raptured because they remain faithful to God until the end .... Whether you humans want to believe this or not .... it is God's plan of salvation which will be carried out according to His will and which will therefore also one day be carried out when the time is fulfilled .... And the fact that it will soon be fulfilled is proclaimed to you again and again through seers and prophets so that you cannot say that you knew nothing in order to be able to prepare yourselves for it. You reckon with the distant future .... but one day the future will also become the present, and one day you will have to reckon with the course of events according to the predictions .... And you should imagine this end as close as possible, and this will only be good for you .... For you stand before the end .... You are facing an earthly and spiritual turning point, and you do not have much time left .... Use it well, for you can still achieve much if only you are of good will ....

Amen

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The current behaviour of people under the influence of the enemy: spiritual chaos

Lie and error .... low point .... blossom or decline ....

B.D. 2885 from September 17th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

The spirit of lies rules the world, error is no longer recognized and the pure truth is opposed .... And this state of affairs must have dire consequences, for it is directed against God, Who is truth Himself. Everything untrue bears the stamp of God's adversary, everything untrue poisons people's thinking; its goal is not God but the world. And by this you also recognize the prince of this world, that he influences people in such a way that all striving is for the world and its pleasures. They are not spiritual goals which are pursued because people are misguided and have no real knowledge of their purpose on earth. Only the pure truth can enlighten them about this, yet they flee from it and cling to lies and error. And this is a state of darkness which cannot lead to spiritual blossoming .... If only people would consider that there is only one possibility for the progressive development of humanity .... for an increased spiritual state of maturity, which can replace the time of depression .... if they would accept the pure truth, which is offered to them from above, and now arrange their life accordingly; if they would live as God demands it and as He announces it to men through His word; if they would let themselves be introduced to a knowledge, which guarantees them a spiritual maturing, because it increases love for God and for the neighbour and because it stimulates the souls to eager work on themselves .... The pure truth is simple, clear and understandable and everyone can accept it, it can only result in spiritual blossoming. However, people resist it and cling with extreme tenacity to distorted teachings, which often lack profound meaning and do not reveal divine wisdom. This is why the spiritual state must constantly sink deeper, for people themselves do not prevent this, although they should see where these teachings have led and how low people have sunk. They should realize that only error could have brought this about, for pure truth will never produce such successes that humanity could move so far away from the light, from the state of knowledge. A time is to be expected when an even deeper spiritual decline will take place and a turnaround can only occur when the truth is accepted by people .... Only then is a spiritual blossoming possible .... As long as humanity believes itself to be living in truth and yet is still far removed from it, a constant decline is to be expected which will end in spiritual and earthly chaos where lies and error will prevail until God, as the eternal truth Himself, removes all power from His adversary and a new kingdom will arise where only truth reigns.

amen

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Hatred and its consequences ....

B.D. 2810 from July 12th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

The demon of hatred is poisoning the whole world .... And people enslave themselves to him. But hatred destroys, whereas love builds up, and the work of devastation on earth will happen on an ever increasing scale the more hatred rages amongst humanity. God's work of destruction will not end this hatred either, instead it will only make individual people here and there come to their senses, and they will subsequently realise by whom they allowed themselves to be dominated. And for the sake of these few will God manifest Himself and show His power and strength. The majority, however, will carry on living in hatred and keep trying to assert itself with means born of hatred and which inflame ever more hatred. For hatred is intensified unkindness, hatred is the most dreadful attribute because it has indescribably destructive consequences, not just in an earthly but also in a spiritual way. For it eradicates all noble impulses or puts them at great risk. The person who lives in hatred is flung to and fro by demons, his striving towards ascent is constantly in jeopardy because he will repeatedly be thrown back again as soon as he allows himself to be carried away by hatred, because he keeps handing himself over to the power of the one who only tries to convey hatred and unkindness to people. And his power over such a person is great. And it is even greater when the whole of the human race lives in hatred .... This has to signify a spiritual decline which will have alarming effects insofar as that people willingly implement what they are told to do by God's malicious opposing power .... that they will destroy all possessions in order to damage their fellow human beings. God's adversary is eager to release all spirits which were banished by God into creations. For this reason all his thoughts and intentions aim to destroy that which was created through God's will. But since his will and power cannot take hold of the works of creation, he seeks to force his will onto people .... He plants hatred into them and thereby impels them to implement what is impossible for him .... to destroy the creation .... Thus he uses the people enslaved by him as his henchmen, he places satanic thoughts in them, he stirs up hatred in them and thus drives them to cause immense damage to each other. People willingly carry out the impulses their soul's greatest enemy gives to them .... Their actions give rise to constantly renewed hatred and hatred produces ever new works of destruction .... Such a poisoned human race will progressively move towards its downfall, for it will hardly find the path back to loving activity ....

Amen

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earthly chaos

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

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

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

Amen

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Pollution of air - water - food ....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Target of the opponent: destruction ....

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Reasons for a spiritual and earthly turnaround

Spiritual low level necessitates upheaval of earth ....

B.D. 7581 from April 19th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

You will not experience a spiritual renaissance on this earth anymore. A low level has been reached which almost cannot be surpassed because people merely exist with worldly intentions. They do not consider a spiritual life nor do they ask themselves whether they are fulfilling their real earthly task, because they cannot recognise any other earthly task except serving their physical wellbeing and enjoying life to the fullest .... Only few people start their daily activity with spiritual thoughts, and only these few live their earthly life consciously .... They sense that the human being is not on earth merely for the sake of earthly life. They think about it, and since they are of good will they gradually come to understand the purpose of their earthly life. But there are only few of them, and a person will hardly ever succeed in guiding a fellow human being on the same path and convincing him of his true destiny. And thus one can speak of a low level spiritual which necessitates a change, which involves such a breakdown of creation that it inevitably has to result in an earthly and spiritual turning point.

There have been many times indeed when people lived without God, where much injustice happened and satanic activity was plainly evident. But this situation has gone too far, almost all people now lead a superficial life, they no longer think about it, they have no sense of responsibility, they grow up without faith or merely conform to conventional faith, which is entirely worthless for the development of the soul. And they are also swayed by error, by wrong thinking, they are far from the truth and cannot find it either because they are without love .... And the reason for humanity's ailment is that love has grown cold .... that people are no longer able to believe in a God and Creator, Who is love, wisdom and might in Himself and to Whom they will have to be accountable for their conduct one day .... They lack love and therefore also awareness, they are spiritually blind and walking towards the abyss. The end will come without fail because order has to be re-established if higher development, which is the purpose for people's life on earth, is to continue.

Whatever can be saved before the end shall be saved, because God's love will help wherever the smallest measure of will for good exists. However, it would be wrong to rely on people changing their attitude towards God and faith, it would be wrong to rely on a spiritual change that supposedly will take place on this earth. Because people grant God's adversary too much power and he truly is using it well. Hence one day his activity will have to come to an end, God will have to take his power from him, his era will have to be brought to an end, and that will also involve impounding his followers as well as himself so that his evil actions will be over for a long time. It will also necessitate a breakdown and transformation of the creations which shelter spiritual substances on earth, which in turn necessitate a new creation .... the formation of a new earth, so that spiritual development can continue .... And God knows when the time is right for this, He knows when humanity has reached its lowest level, when a transformation of earth and all its creation is necessary and, furthermore, He will keep to this time in accordance with His plan of eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual low .... turnaround impossible .... end ....

B.D. 5718 from July 7th 1953, taken from Book No. 62

There can be no more spiritual upswing on this earth because people have already devoted themselves too much to matter, that is, to that which the earthly world embodies, which is God's adversary and will remain so for eternal times. Before the expiry of an earthly period the spiritual low is clearly recognizable .... It is also obvious that people no longer change, precisely because matter holds them captive. Only the overcoming of matter ensures spiritual ascent, but the overcoming of matter necessitates a recognition of its unworthiness and this in turn necessitates a reflection on survival after death and on the human being's actual task on earth .... But people are no longer moved by such thoughts because they no longer have faith and because they do not live in love .... It is a simple explanation why the spiritual state is so low, why no change of it is to be expected either .... because people lack love, which would entail faith, realization and spiritual striving .... If people would change to love then no end of the redemption period would be necessary either, yet nothing can induce them to do so, neither their fellow human being's adversity and misery nor their own adversity changes their attitude, and they do not establish a bond with God because they do not believe in Him .... Thus a spiritual change cannot be expected on this earth, and only such a change would be able to stop the end of the earth, because then the earth would fulfil its task as a work of creation again, because then it would be a training station for the spiritual again, as is its purpose. But a spiritual turning point must occur, and if this is not possible on the old earth, an epoch of redemption must be ended and a new one begun. For people do not remain in this spiritual low but sink ever deeper. And this is prevented by God through a separation of spirits, a new banishment of those who have sunk deepest and through the emergence of a new earth with spiritually mature people who live again according to God's will .... with whom a new period of development begins, where the souls can reach the highest perfection. God's love and wisdom truly recognizes when the time for this has come, and God will never give up a soul which can still be saved. But when no more transformation is possible, then the time has also come and the scripture is fulfilled .... The end is coming and with it the day of judgment, the earth will pass away and a new one will arise, and the way to salvation will be opened for the deeply fallen again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Earth is a place of perdition .... Devils ....

B.D. 6864 from July 3rd 1957, taken from Book No. 73

The opposing prince will deploy all of his vassals in order to gain victory in the last battle on this earth and in their darkness these beings believe that they will win. Admittedly, he will be very successful with people on this earth the closer the Judgment comes, the last day of this earth .... Yet the apparent victory will be his assured loss, because those he believes himself to have won will be removed from his influence and banished into matter again in order to advance once more. And many of his vassals will also be banished into the hard form, since they will have descended so low that their spiritual substance solidifies, and thus the being forfeits its self-awareness again and, dissolved into individual tiny particles, must repeat the process across the earth again. Many of these lower beings will be incarnated on earth in the last days, and God allowed this to happen for they, too, should still have the opportunity to find redemption during their life on earth as a human being .... Yet with few exceptions these beings only use the opportunity to influence their fellow human beings in a negative sense, thus they admit openly and freely their affiliation to God's adversary, therefore they can also expect to suffer the same fate as he .... to be bound again for an infinitely long time. Such a being could truly find redemption, because it receives the knowledge of Jesus Christ on earth and would only have to surrender to Him to liberate itself from its present lord .... But in their heart of hearts they are wicked and wholly satanically minded .... And thus the opposing prince works with them and this truly successfully, insofar as he makes many people's return to God more difficult since their influence is far greater than that of the beings' of light which, on God's instructions, are likewise constantly working on earth, directly or indirectly. In view of the conditions in the last days many beings of light are also embodied on earth. This is because both masters fight for people's soul and both masters will also use all means at their disposal to gain influence over the souls ....

And thus the time of the end comes ever closer, and you humans will be put under ever increasing pressure by the adverse power, the activity of satanic forces will surface ever more obviously, and calm and peace can only be found rarely amongst people, for even those who look for peace will be unable to protect themselves from the influence of these forces .... However, they should not let themselves get carried away; they should humbly endure everything and only ever call upon God for His support .... They should entrust themselves to all good spirits to settle seemingly inevitable arguments, for these are the adversary's weapon to incite people against each other, to disrupt the peace. And he finds many people following suit, who through their conduct demonstrate that they belong to him, who do not resist being taken possession of by satanic forces and who then will also readily accomplish what the latter demand of them. And these will be atrocities which can only be hatched out in hell, so that true devils will inhabit the earth in the end and there will be no more space for the few good people who are faithful and loyal to God. Earth will have become a place of perdition and therefore will have to be cleansed again from this spawn of hell .... For it shall serve as a place to mature for the spiritual beings which are close to attaining perfection, and this is almost no longer possible anymore. Hence a forcible act of purification will have to take place, and that which the adversary believes himself to have gained will be removed from his control .... new creations will accept the spirits and the adversary along with his followers will be bound again .... And peace will reign on the new earth, which will truly arise as a paradise for all those who remained loyal to God ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Results of the spiritless behaviour: time of God’s intervention

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Intervention by God ....

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Natural event and chaos ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Only a short time of grace left ....

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time of the battle of faith

Signs of the last days .... Battle of faith .... Chaos ....

B.D. 3209 from August 2nd 1944, taken from Book No. 42

To specify (know?) the moment of spiritual change would not benefit humanity since the precise knowledge is an interference with free will, because at the approach of the predicted time the human being would feel obliged to change his way of life. But it is not God's will that people shall receive knowledge of the day and hour when He sits in judgment over them, they shall only know that the end is near and by the signs of the time become aware of this end. However, if devout human beings ask Him for clarification He will answer them in a manner that is helpful for the salvation of their soul ....

The Last Judgment is preceded by the last days, which last just a few months and are characterized by an exceptionally rigorous battle of faith. As soon as this battle of faith is carried out quite openly, as soon as all secrecy is ignored and all spiritual aspirations are bluntly and recklessly attacked, as soon as laws and decrees are endorsed which prohibit people's spiritual pursuits, as soon as all divine commandments are no longer observed, as soon as all believers are persecuted and have no more rights, the last days have entered into their final phase and the Last Judgment can be expected daily and hourly .... However, before this battle of faith flares up, humanity will find itself in a spiritual and worldly chaos; there will be noticeable regression in every respect. And this regression will be initiated by people who are dominated by Satan. He will show himself in earthly devastation and destruction, in heartless laws, in a God- opposing way of life, in civil disobedience and rebellion against the governing powers and in brutal oppression by the latter, in restriction of freedom and in evasion of law and justice.

These conditions will ensue after a huge earthly tremor, which takes place in accordance with God's will in order to terminate a conflict between nations that human will fails to end. For the people who are affected by this earthly tremor it will denote a change of their accustomed way of life, it will be a time of greatest deprivation and most difficult living conditions, and although this time will be favourable for the spreading of the divine Word it will not signify a revival of a worldly-clerical power. People will indeed eagerly strive to improve their earthly living conditions but these efforts will not be compatible with spiritual aspirations, with the belief in an Authority Which holds them to account and with the divine commandments that require love. And that is why everything that interferes with the return to the former good living standard comes under attack. Thus the battle of faith will start soon after the divine intervention which turns global affairs into a different direction. The events will follow each other quickly as they are hastened by people's low spirit, and this spiritual low shows itself in people's heartless actions, in their thinking, which shows extreme depravity and which prepares deeds that can only be called satanic. And thereby you can identify the moment in time when God's intervention can be anticipated. The global affairs themselves shall be a timetable to you, by the actions people are capable of doing you can see that they have totally distanced themselves from God and this clearly contradicts the opinion that this human race can still expect a spiritual renaissance.

The people who faithfully remain with God will indeed intensify their intimate relationship with Him, they will be in truth His church which will stand firm amid misery and affliction, but it is just a small group. The world, however, denies God, it is hostile towards all who support God, and this spiritual need signifies that the end is near .... Therefore pay attention to the signs of the time, pay attention to humanity's conduct, to their desertion of God and their preference of the world, when people are evidently influenced by Satan, when they are enslaved by him and do everything to disobey the divine commandments, when nothing is sacred to them any longer, neither the life of their fellow human beings nor their possessions; when lies triumph and the truth is treated with hostility you know that the end is not far. Then you can watch the events unfold as they are revealed to you, because it will all take place during the lifetime of a man who, in a manner of speaking, hastens the disintegration, who pays homage to the destructive principle, who is not constructively but destructively active. And this man's end is also the end of the world, i.e. the end of the world in its present form and the end of those people who presently inhabit the earth, which are separate from those who belong to God. And now you know that there is not much time, that you are not given a long period of time and that the end is upon you shortly. And for this reason you have to prepare yourselves, you have to live as if every day is your last because you don't know when you will be called back and whether you will live to see the end of the earth. If, however, you are needed as defenders of God during the time of battle before the end, God will also guide your thoughts correctly and you will know when the time has come .... the time of the divine intervention by means of unleashing the forces of nature, the time of the battle of faith and the time of the Last Judgment .... It is God's will that you make people aware, thus He will also enlighten your spirit and guide your thoughts in a manner that you understand correctly and only voice and reveal to your fellow human beings what you have understood properly ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turnaround .... fight against God ....

B.D. 1526 from July 17th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The heart's readiness for the divine word is so easy to establish if the human being remains in heartfelt prayer to the heavenly father and asks for His blessing. The slightest distraction from outside will put the otherwise willing earthly child into a state of inattention, but if his thoughts want to detach themselves, all that is needed is a heartfelt call to the father and his spirit will be strengthened so that he can unite with the father-spirit .... And thus the strength will flow to him unhindered.

The human being bears witness to divine activity if he tries to convey to his fellow human beings what he has received and thus speaks in the name of the lord. He can contribute unspeakably much to the glorification of the divine name if he does not shy away from mentioning the work and reign of the eternal deity on every occasion, for the world is without any knowledge of it since it no longer believes anything. And it will come that no one will dare to speak of God and His only begotten son Jesus Christ. The few who still believe will be ostracized and people will try to prevent them from spreading the spiritual wealth. No stone will be left unturned to eradicate the knowledge of divine truths. And no-one will dare to speak out against it, for they shy away from the violence of the powerful. And yet at this time we must work particularly diligently so that the teaching of Christ may be spread in secret. Whoever openly confesses the name of the lord will truly be of great merit before the father, for he will fight for the souls of his fellow human beings and also suffer for them if the father in heaven wills it. And now the formal will be separated from the living representative of Christ's teaching. For that which is form will not stand up to these decrees, and thus all form will be sacrificed, it will be easy to separate from it, and all that will remain is a building without substance and without inwardness. But whoever truly lives in Christ, his time has come, he joyfully joins the ranks of Christ's fighters. His spirit is free, so he does not fear the body's banishment; he speaks for Christ, because Christ Himself speaks through him; he is no longer timid, because he regocnizes God and the truth, so he does not fear the world and its rulers. And a great power emanates from him, which is felt by all who are of the same spirit. They will unite and form a coalition, and they will no longer suffer in a worldly way but will always see a commandment in the most eager work of the soul which they must fulfil, even if they are threatened with earthly punishments. And now many a seed will sprout, for humanity does not like the spiritless time, it becomes tired of worldly goings-on and is deprived of the word which testifies to God .... And so it seeks it and will receive it through the mouth of those whom the lord has taught and sent out into the midst of these starving people. And the word will ignite, it will immensely stimulate people whose desire for God is the reason that God comes to them in the word. And the battle for supremacy will break out .... The spiritual world will now fight against the disinherited. It will be commanded and forbidden, commanded by worldly power to obey its laws and forbidden everything God-willing and God-emphasizing. Two opponents are now fighting .... again the darkness fights against the light, but the light will shine and penetrate the darkness, and he will be blinded who in presumption tries to extinguish the light. And this is the spiritual turning point which will be experienced by those who regocnize the spiritual adversity of the present time and stand up for the spiritual well-being of their fellow human beings. For these are welcome to the lord as fighters. He is assembling His army and preparing it for battle .... they will fight with the sword of their mouth, for the lord blesses them and gives them strength and vigour to fight for His name ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

New school of thought .... Human work ....

B.D. 3366 from December 13th 1944, taken from Book No. 44

It will be the object of those who no longer recognise God, due to their heartless way of life, to coerce people into a completely new school of thought. They reject the old belief and will try to replace it with new teachings, their intention will be to confuse people’s thought by seeking to disprove everything and, through objections, will awaken their doubts in order to introduce them to the new school of thought, to recruit them for it with guile and force. Because they do not shy away from achieving their aim by unfair means, they will rigorously proceed against people who remain faithful to their old belief and honour those who do their will and promote the spreading of the new teaching. These teachings are the work of human beings, they incorporate neither wisdom nor love; the aim of these teachings is to de-spiritualise people, to make people get the wrong idea about the purpose of earthly life, they do not originate from the spiritual realm but deny all spiritual concepts and only accept worldly goals.

And these teachings are offered to people in such a way that no one may evade their influence, that daily life will more or less depend on the acceptance of these teachings so that people will have to make the serious decision to accept or reject them. This school of thought will find approval everywhere because it takes people’s worldly attitude into account which is the key factor for most people, because humanity is becoming increasingly materialistic and has completely turned away from the spiritual kingdom. They accept what they are given by people but do not recognise spiritual gifts as such, they laugh at or mock God’s Word and reject any truthful explanation. On the other hand, human structures and human ideas, which heartless people are trying to spread, meet the approval of most, and thus a school of thought will evolve which completely contradicts the pure truth. This is a school of thought which has nothing in common with Christ’s teaching since Christ’s teaching of love will be frowned upon. Since love is not taught first and foremost it will grow cold and wisdom, which is unthinkable without love, will also come to an end. People’s thoughts will be ever more misguided, fewer and fewer people will take refuge in God as the source of all wisdom and it won't be possible, therefore, to give the pure truth to them anymore either. Nor will the truth be recognised any longer while error will assert itself, since humanity will no longer be able to distinguish truth from error due to its heartlessness. And thus it will allow itself to be encouraged and descend ever deeper into a state of ignorance. There will be spiritual darkness for humanity and no one will want to see the light .... And for this reason the adversary will have an easy time .... The battle against faith will be carried out on all levels of society since unkindness dominates everywhere and prevents people’s perception. However, human work will not last .... It will disintegrate, like everything that is not of God, after it has triggered an enormous chaos, because these things do not survive for long and will therefore be eliminated by God Himself when the time for the end has come ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turning point .... Fight against Christ ....

B.D. 1591 from August 31th 1940, taken from Book No. 25

The age of spiritual decay has to give way to an age of spiritual renaissance, and humanity is now facing a spiritual turning point. Although it is not willing to consider this time to have come, all signs are already being prepared that indicate a new era. A battle against everything spiritual will start first, and the result of the battle will be that man shall deal more closely with problems which until then did not particularly affect him. As soon as one wants to take something from man, only then will it be noticed, and on that occasion, there will also be a fight for its possession. And so, the battle against Christ and His teaching shall now also take on forms that humanity does not consider possible. And two parties will be formed that fight against each other. One will want to destroy everything that bears witness to Jesus Christ, but will meet with fierce resistance from the few faithful followers of the Lord. These ...., which are outnumbered, shall unite and work in the spirit of God to bear witness to all of humanity of the power of the Word that is now to be dismissed. And the people who seek the truth will sensitively confess to those who carry Jesus Christ in their hearts, and the battle shall also be decided on that side and lead to victory. It is an unusual time which precedes the spiritual turning point, it is a time of struggle, hardship and despondency, and yet strength will come to all those who recognise God's love and wisdom, and this strength shall express itself such that they will not fear for their own lives as well as for the lives of their loved ones, and so, these will proclaim God's omnipotence, and anyone who opens his eyes, ears and heart shall already be spiritually accepted into that world, and only await the hour which will bring a powerful (forcible?) separation from everything earthly. Yet thousands upon thousands are losing all connection with God because they are being ensnared by the opposing side and, since they lack power of realisation, thoughtlessly reject and accept everything taught by those who reject the divine voice. And it will be a long time before humanity realises the error of its thoughts and actions, which are directed against Christ. But whatever the world begins to shake the power of God, it shall still experience the spiritual ascent, but unfortunately only when the love? (power?) of God will express itself visibly through His servants on earth. Then, even those who previously denied Him will recognise Him, and a new time will dawn, a time of spiritual working on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Sven Immecke

Spiritual change .... Professing Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 1748 from December 24th 1940, taken from Book No. 27

The world can expect an extraordinarily significant change of era. For good spiritual beings will descend to Earth and achieve a radical change of thinking by means of extraordinary events which correspond to God's will. The battle between the various schools of thought will be waged on an immense scale with the result that a separation of those who argue for and against God will take place. No particular signs will precede this time; the human being will merely be more frequently referred to supernatural things, he will effectively be motivated to think about it and thus be obliged to form an opinion about questions which are beyond earthly things. And then he will follow this or that school of thought and become a fighter for his point of view. And thus begins a new time, a time when on one side spiritual enlightenment and on the other side profound spiritual darkness will separate people from each other .... a time, when the spiritual striving of the former will clearly show itself in their attitude towards earthly possessions, which the purely worldly-minded person eagerly aims to increase but which will be despised by the others. And then humanity will go through a change of thought. The spiritual world will embody itself in God-inclined people who will be able to see brightly and clearly and endorse with utter conviction what the spiritual world is imparting to them.

However, they will have to fight for their spiritual freedom. Those who are in favour of God will be ostracised and subjected to constant threats, for the majority of people will be godless and have great power since they are being supported by the reigning authority. And yet, the virtuous spirits will win; they have great strength because they fight with the weapon of love. The new era is intended to result in spiritual progress, the soul shall derive substantial benefits from it, humanity shall become more open towards the truth and allow itself to be guided more by love; a conscious striving towards God shall characterise people who concede to the power of the spiritual forces; people shall enjoy a peaceful disposition despite external pressures and apparent obstacles, for they know that they are on the right path and therefore feel secure and well-protected under divine guard and thus pay less attention to the hostilities from the human side. They are strong in faith, confident in hope and powerful in love. And those who still doubt will lift themselves up on the latter, for the profound and living faith is more convincing than a lot of talking.

Jesus once struggled on earth for the souls and at that time, too, started a period of spiritual strive; in those days people also had to make a decision to profess or deny Christ. This time the question will be equally decisive as well. Then the human being will also have to decide as to whether he will acknowledge Jesus Christ and thus profess Him before the world or whether he will reject him. And the answer to this question will once again determine his higher development. For only someone who professes Him will derive a benefit from his earthly life for the soul. And the divine Word must be spread again; diligent disciples must once again distribute the Gospel throughout the world, and prior to this an incredible amount of work has to be done by instructing these disciples so that they will teach according to divine will. And the signs of the forthcoming new era can already be found in the fact that this divine teaching comes to people directly from above, that they are therefore given the teaching of Christ again as unspoilt as it was at the time of Jesus on earth, accompanied by miracles and extraordinary happenings, for there will also be miracles during the coming time which noticeably express the divine will, yet these miracles will only be understandable to those who have already experienced the working of the spirit within themselves and who therefore ever more intimately join Jesus Christ and profess Him before the whole world ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

The adversary oversteps his authority ....

B.D. 7778 from December 21st 1960, taken from Book No. 81

The adversary's activity will be stopped once the hour has come when I will judge the living and the dead .... One day this Judgment has to take place again, after all, everything has left its order and therefore the spiritual beings' higher development is no longer guaranteed. Humanity no longer resists My adversary's activity, it is completely enslaved by his will, and he abuses his will such that even My followers will find it difficult to remain with Me .... He oversteps his authority by trying to completely displace Me from people's memory and thus he will find many followers who implement his will: to wage open battle against faith. And you humans live on earth in order to choose between two lords, hence you must also know about both lords .... He, however, aims to prevent the knowledge about your God and Creator, he tries to deprive you of all faith and his method of force is to impel the earthly authorities to rigorously fight against faith and thus against My Own who profess My name before the world. And therefore he will not have much time left, for he will be bound on the Day of Judgment. If you humans are thus able to observe this beginning, if you see how the battle against faith will openly erupt then you can also consider with certainty that the last days of the end have come, for then he will overstep his authority and will inevitably be doomed to be judged. For he has great power and he misuses it .... But I will put a stop to him so that not all people will succumb to him, so that My Own will be able to remain faithful to Me until the very end. As yet you can still observe his activity and keep away from those who follow him; you, who want to be My Own, can still come together and strengthen and comfort each other, but once My adversary enters into the last battle on this earth you will have to withdraw, you will no longer be able to speak openly, because then you will be treated with hostility by the world and those who belong to the world ....

But then it will be important that you profess Me openly .... And you need not be frightened either, for My strength will flow to you so that you will be able to remain faithful to Me, so that you will cheerfully profess Me and manifest your strength even more .... I predicted this time to you and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed; you will find that you will encounter ever more opponents, that the hatred against those of you who proclaim My Word will become greater, and then you will be well advised to avoid the enemy, so that you will not deliberately expose yourselves to danger .... Then you should be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves .... but you should not betray Me .... But who else but Me would be able to give you strength, who else but Me could protect you and lead you out of all adversities again? My adversary will also be bound by Me when the time is fulfilled, and his activity will come to an end .... And you can rely on the fact that I Myself will take care of you when the time of the end has arrived, when you have to make your decision which lord you want to acknowledge. For he will be unable to topple those who want to be My Own, because I Myself will fight by their side and he is truly no match for My power. And he will be bound for an infinitely long time again along with his followers, so that an era of peace will start again for people who can no longer be harassed by him. However, this time of peace will on be on the new earth, because first order will have to be established again, first the spiritual beings will have to be 'judged' .... Only then will higher development continue, only then will there be peace again in heaven and on earth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time of the end of the old earth: calling off the weak and separating the spirits

The weak will not experience the end ....

B.D. 4613 from April 13th 1949, taken from Book No. 53

The weak will not experience the end .... I certainly know the nature of every individual person's soul; I know their will and their degree of maturity, which is also the extent of their strength of will in the last battle of faith. I know that this final acknowledgment of Me will require immense strength which only few people will be able to muster, and that it will necessitate an utterly living faith in order to stand firm and remain faithful to Me. For this reason the gates of paradise on the new earth will be opened to those who are faithful supporters and acknowledge Me, so that their demonstrated love for Me until the end will be rewarded.

But people of weak faith will not survive this last battle on earth. I shall avert the risk of their apostasy from Me so as not to let them fall into My adversary's hands and in order to give them the opportunity of continuing their development in the kingdom of the beyond which, after the end of this world, will no longer be possible for a very long time. They will not be able to cope with the demands and strains of the last days and will end their purely physical life before this time, for they will not oppose Me, but they will merely lack the profound, living faith which would enable them to be true advocates of Christ. And there will be many who will indeed choose Me, who will carry the faith in a God of love and wisdom within themselves, yet who will not increase it sufficiently to entrust themselves to Me without worry and appeal for My help. These souls will be taken from earth by Me or they would go astray for a very long time.

The strong, however, will remain faithful to Me until the end and will be raptured by Me before the destruction of the old earth. This process has to be plausible to you, and it should be equally understandable to you that the weak souls will not inhabit the paradise of the new earth, which can only bear spiritually mature human beings who permit My presence amongst them, as I have promised you. There has to be a separation of the goats from the sheep in the end. The old period of development will end with the banishment of the failed spiritual essence into solid matter, and a new era will start with a mature human generation, which will already find itself in a state of bliss on earth because it will have endured and have been sufficiently tested by Me on earth. This level of a soul's maturity allows for My presence amongst My children. But weak and still immature souls would not be able to endure My presence. Consequently, the new earth will not be a suitable abode for them; nevertheless, they will continue to ascend in the spiritual kingdom and, due to their prematurely finished life, will also enjoy privileges in the spiritual kingdom which will help their ascent. This is the separation of the spirits, which has always been proclaimed through Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Large numbers of deaths .... Recalling the weak .... Decision ....

B.D. 5271 from December 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

And it will come to pass as I have proclaimed .... A large number of deaths will happen prior to it, and you will look upon it as a coincidence, as an accident, you will accept any other explanation but the right one, that I Myself recall people in large numbers who would fail in the last battle on this earth, who are too weak to offer resistance and who nevertheless shall not fall into My adversary's hands either .... For I know the hearts of people and will never ever let anyone become a victim of ruin who still carries a small spark of love within himself and can still revive this spark, if not on earth then in the kingdom of the beyond, to where My love and mercy also reaches in order to bring help. It will come to pass as I have proclaimed. The scale of adversity and unhappiness will be such that everyone can recognise the time of the end if he wants to. But there will only be sorrow where My Own can be identified, for their sorrow will be caused by their fellow human beings in order to destroy My Own's belief in their God and Creator of eternity in Whom they see their Father and to Whom they want to remain faithful. My opponent works against Me and uses people belonging to him to accomplish most disgraceful actions against My Own .... He wants them to desert Me and thus proceeds by using brutal means against which My Own are barely capable of standing up to. Yet the strength of My love supports them, the strength of My love prevails, even if My Own outwardly suffer greatest adversity .... they remain firm and surmount everything that is hostile, because My strength enables them to do so. The time draws to a close ....

What does not seem believable to you today you will soon experience, there will be a momentous change in every respect which will adversely affect all people and demand of all people an attitude towards Me, the Creator and Provider of eternity. And this attitude can only consist of acknowledgment or rejection. That is the decision which will still have to be taken before the end. I will powerfully intrude into your thoughts and you can accept Me or reject Me .... yet the decision you then make will be for eternity .... And this is why My adversary's evil activity is being allowed, because he contributes towards the final decision for Me or for him .... he far exceeds his designated limits of authority, he presses My Own extraordinarily hard and gives to his followers in abundance .... earthly possessions, honour and fame, and therefore they would rather acknowledge him as their lord and renounce Me. Yet I will only allow those who are strong to experience the end, who are and will remain faithful to Me and constantly accept My strength of love. However, I will take care of the weak by recalling them before the end arrives, so that they will not fall into My adversary's hands and have to do penance for an infinitely long time. But those who are strong in doing evil will suffer death on the day of Judgment, for they, too, receive My grace often enough yet they take no notice of it and consciously join My opponent's camp, and thus they shall also share his fate when the end has come .... for everything will fulfil itself which was proclaimed through seers and prophets ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turning point .... divorce of the spirits ....

B.D. 3617 from December 1st 1945, taken from Book No. 46

A spiritual turning point has been decided in My eternal plan of salvation as soon as the spiritual development on earth comes to a complete standstill or experiences a decline due to the human being's free will, as a result of which the course of development is interrupted and continues again in a different form. This process will always signify a spiritual turning point, in that the more highly developed spiritual will now be placed into a state where it can work and create without being hindered by lower beings, where therefore in spiritual terms the struggle is weaker or completely eliminated, where the earth is only inhabited by the embodied beingness which belongs to Me, and thus the connection from earth to Me, to the spiritual kingdom, is always and constantly established, which signifies spiritual elevation. Such a turning point is also now imminent but still presupposes a hard battle in which spirits have to separate and decide. There is a great spiritual decline, which can be seen in the behaviour of humanity, in its unkindness of thought and action. The time has come when the decision in My eternal plan of salvation has to be carried out, because humanity itself causes the spiritual low, because it has completely distanced itself from Me and makes its upward development impossible. This state cannot last long because it completely contradicts My law of eternity which demands and favours constant ascent development. Therefore I have to separate the beingness which is willing and strives upwards from the beingness which more strongly develops its drive downwards and interrupts the course of upward development in free will. I must deprive it of every possibility of sinking even further back and bind it again in a new form adapted to its state of maturity, so that it strides upwards in a state of compulsion .... Hence a spiritual turning point occurs, a conclusion of an old and beginning of a new redemption epoch, a passing away of the old earth, i.e. of the creations on it, and the forming of a new earth with entirely new creations which again serve the bound spiritual's ascent development. My will separates people of a low degree of maturity from those who strive upwards and long for Me, so that they will live together in a time of deepest peace and most blissful harmony and learn to regard the earth as a spiritual school, as a means of education of high value for the spiritual which is still bound in form, so that they will find their beatitude in spiritual striving already on earth and no longer need to fear everything evil, lowly, because it is banished for a long time and does not find access to people. And this is a spiritual turning point which can only occur when a complete purification has taken place, which is certainly foreseen in My eternal plan of salvation but which also demands its time, so that every spiritual being is offered the opportunity to decide .... (to separate himself) from the opposing power of his own free will and to strive towards Me by using My strength. If this opportunity is disregarded, the spiritual being will inevitably belong to the one that is judged in the end, which is condemned to a new course of development through creation for the purpose of final redemption. And this spiritual turning point must also be an explanation to people in the last days for the great adversity, for the extraordinary working of My spirit and for the miracles at the end of days when I Myself will come in the clouds to fetch them home into the kingdom of peace, who remain faithful to Me even in the most difficult time because they recognize in Me their father from eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Divorce of the spirits ....

B.D. 7139 from June 4th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

Spirits must part even before the end comes .... There is still indecision among people, many have not yet made a decision, they do not know in which direction they should turn, they are unbelievers and yet still have the consciousness within themselves that they are too ignorant to be able to make a final judgement .... And even the believers doubt at times, in view of the life and goings-on of people in this world .... The right decision has not yet been made, but it must still be taken by everyone before the end, before the final sifting takes place, where everything is transferred to where it belongs according to its will. But this separation of spirits is already beginning to take place .... People are already permeated by My spirit, their faith is alive, their life is conscious, they strive towards the aim: intimate union with Me, Whom they have recognized alive in their heart .... And likewise, some people are completely enslaved by satan, they are subject to his will, they are devoted to him and completely under his influence .... They have no bond whatsoever with Me because they lack all faith in a God and creator and their thoughts only apply exclusively to matter. And the latter will constantly increase in number, and then the separation of spirits will also be obviously recognizable .... But it is about those who are still undecided, whom it still requires much vineyard work to win, so that the decision will become easy for them and it will take the right direction. My gospel of love has to be proclaimed to those who have not yet formed a firm judgment themselves, they only have to be informed that through a life of love they will also gain a clear faculty of judgment and then also make the right decision to accept or reject what they still lack the understanding for. Their eyes must be directed towards Me, Who is the God and creator of all people but Who also wants to be the father of His children .... And again and again the end must be announced to all people as imminent, for no one has much time left .... I will call many away beforehand whose faith is not strong enough to then be able to survive the final onslaught but whom I also don't want to let get lost .... For I know the nature of every individual soul, and thus I also know whether the kingdom of the beyond can still bring it an ascent before the end is here. And thus a clear separation of spirits will already be evident shortly before the end, for people's unbelief and satanic nature will take on frightening forms, and My own will have to stand up to those people, and only their bond with Me will give them the strength to do so. Spirits will be divided .... for it will be revealed on the day of judgment, and all spiritual substances belonging to the adversary will be put in chains at the same time .... so that it can no longer harm the one who belongs to Me, and now there will be peace in the paradise of the new earth .... And therefore you should not be surprised if more and more the satanic prevails among the people of this earth .... This, too, is already part of the separation of spirits, but the faith and love of My own shall still extract what they are able from My adversary; every still undecided person shall be remembered with a loving will to help, nothing shall be left undone which could help such people to enlightenment, so that they will also still join the camp of My own and separate themselves from those who are obviously in bondage to My adversary. For time is pressing, and sooner than you humans expect it the end will be here ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Separating of the spirits also in the beyond

Redemption of souls from the deep before the end ....

B.D. 6258 from May 15th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

Countless souls will still ascend from the abyss before this period of redemption comes to an end, because the world of light is constantly working on the spiritual being's redemption and because the haven of grace is inexhaustible and available to all who muster the slightest will to become free from their state. The act of new banishment in the creations of earth is certainly a change of its situation but no less agonizing, which is why all possibilities are still utilized to spare this spiritual being in the abyss this new banishment, to release it even before and to lead it towards a less agonizing state, in which it will then also certainly find the path to ascent. There is also turmoil in the depths, for there, too, spirits are divided .... The increasingly frequent flashes of light do not miss their effect. Divine love sends them ever more intensely into the abyss, and many souls feel their benefit and their resistance becomes ever weaker .... until they finally desire to expose themselves to the effect of that radiation of light, until they expect it more and more and follow it .... while others take refuge in darkness even more in order not to be touched by it .... This separation of spirits must also take place there before the last act takes place .... that the latter are banished into form again, so that one day the time of liberation can come for them too .... Countless souls, however, emerge from the depths, they accept the graces, they give up their resistance and submit to God's judgement .... they want to do what they refused to do until now: serve in humility and help where their help is needed .... They have been struck in the depths by sparks of love that have brought about this change of will .... And these sparks of love emanate from God but also from you humans on earth, for every helpful, merciful thought which applies to the souls of darkness, which are far away from all bliss and in an extremely pitiable state, is evident to these souls as a spark of light, and it does not remain without effect. Countless people on earth certainly fail in their decision of will and sink into immeasurable depths .... yet the redemption from the abyss is a compensation, for they accept what people on earth spurn .... they are saved through the means which people on earth reject .... They hunger for the word of God which gives them strength and beatitude, whereas people do not recognize it and therefore pass by a delectable gift which could likewise lead them to the light. The word, which emanates from God as direct radiation of love, does not remain without effect, for infinity receives it and it works as strength everywhere where it is not opposed .... And thus it also penetrates into the depths where 'love' has already done the preliminary work. The divine word now affects those souls with all its strength and brings about a change of will which also signifies a certain transformation of the sphere in which the souls are now allowed to dwell. Great spiritual upheavals are taking place on earth and also in the spiritual kingdom, and the time of grace has not yet expired which is granted to the souls for the final decision .... God's love constantly endeavours to bring redemption to all souls, and love can contribute much to this .... for every ray of love has a redeeming effect, and nothing can be lost that is touched by such a ray of love ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Turnaround .... redeeming the souls of the deep ....

B.D. 6399 from November 12th 1955, taken from Book No. 68

In the spiritual world the souls of light follow the events on earth with concern for you humans, for they see the darkness, they would like to bring you light but you don't accept it and walk towards ruin with closed eyes. But they also know about the events ahead of you, they know that the earth is in its final phase and they also know about the dreadful fate of those who do not first turn to their God and creator and cover the last stretch of the way together with Him. And that is why they eagerly endeavour to mentally influence people on earth to desire light in order to then be able to convey it to them. Nothing is left untried to spiritually direct people's thoughts .... For this reason people will also make themselves known from time to time who have an unusual effect, who clearly show a connection with the higher world, who also eagerly speak on behalf of this higher world and, as it were, prove themselves to be speaking organs of the kingdom which is 'not of this world' .... Again and again people will be able to observe such unusual activity and will now be stimulated in thought to desire information about it ..... A connection from the spiritual world to earth will become ever more credible for people who are thoughtful .... Yet indifferent people will also leave such phenomena or experiences untouched which they only smile at and dismiss .... But a messenger from above has also approached them so that they will not be able to say that they have remained without admonitions and warnings. The world of light tries everything on God's behalf, for the end is getting ever closer, yet there will no longer be much success with the people of this earth, which is why, on the other hand, the spiritual kingdom starts to work on the souls in order to fetch them from the abyss into the light .... in order to spur all souls to follow the light and to work on themselves in order to be able to enter the spheres of light from the kingdom of darkness or twilight .... For the end of the redemption epoch will also bring a change in the spiritual kingdom .... because a separation of spirits will take place everywhere .... Hell will spit out everything .... Everything satanic will again be banished into form and thus also the inhabitants of the deepest depths, who show no will to change, who are so hardened that all attempts at conversion remain unsuccessful, who avoid every opportunity to free themselves from darkness and always strive more towards the depths .... Countless souls will certainly still rise up because the world of light constantly works with love and patience, yet since free will is decisive this redemption will not be complete .... But one day the battle in the spiritual kingdom will also be over for a long time, when all spiritual things have been directed, i.e. when they have been transferred to where they belong according to their degree of love .... when the new creation has also taken in what is in 'hell' in order to give it the opportunity to ascend again. Then there will also be peace in the spiritual kingdom and the souls will strive upwards because they will only see and experience love on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom and will no longer be exposed to hostility from the prince of darkness .... Many souls will still be called away from earth before this end, all of them are offered the opportunity to ascend in the beyond but are also left with the freedom of their will so that they can also descend into the abyss through their own fault. But the work of redemption is carried out extremely eagerly on the part of the beings of light and also of people on earth who are faithful labourers in the vineyard of the lord. A turning point is coming, spiritually and earthly, and this turning point is already casting its shadows ahead .... On earth there will be a sharp division between those who are faithful to God and those who do not believe .... Unusual phenomena and events will make people pay attention and clear signs will prove the working of spiritual forces .... Yet no person will be forced to believe, only everyone of good will shall be helped. For the spiritual world knows the fate people on earth are facing and its love still seeks to save them before it is too late ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Return of Christ and the rapture

Coming in the clouds ....

B.D. 7944 from July 18th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

You all should know that I will return in the clouds .... that I will descend to earth in the same way as I once ascended to heaven .... that My Own will see Me in brilliance and glory, just as My disciples once saw Me, and that I will take My Own from earth because the day of the end has come .... Admittedly, prior to that I already descended to earth in the Word, for I Am the Word Myself, and have given you the promise that I will stay with you until the end of the world .... but My obvious appearance will not happen yet, for it will constitute the end of one and the beginning of a new earthly period ....

My coming in the clouds has to be understood literally, yet only few will see Me, for My flock is small and only My Own will be able to endure seeing Me, I will only be visible to My Own and allow them to behold My might and glory .... And this shall be your hope in hours of hardship and affliction by hostile powers to God .... for in the end everything will be hostile to God, the rulers and their followers, the people who take their side in the battle of faith. They all will take action against you, who want to remain loyal to Me and persevere to the end .... They will put you under great pressure and then you shall hope for My coming, for I will not leave you in distress of body and soul, I will save you and lift you to a place of peace, and your faith will be so strong that I will be able to show Myself when I come in the clouds in order to judge the living and the dead .... Then the great separation of the spirits will take place and My adversary will no longer have control over you .... For he and his adherents will be bound for a long time. Only few people sincerely believe that My return is imminent .... But the time is fulfilled and I no longer say: I will come when the time is fulfilled, but I say: the time is fulfilled .... You can only count on a very short time, on just a few days, compared to the long period of time that has passed since an 'end' was prophesied. You are living in the last days even if you refuse to believe it ....

My coming is soon about to happen to you .... Hence take care that you, too, belong to the chosen ones who will experience My coming while still in the flesh, who may behold Me in all My radiance and glory, whom I will lift to heaven just before the end .... Just want to belong to them and, truly, I will give you the strength to turn your will into action. Let Me speak to you time and again and always strive to accept My will and you will establish a connection with Me, you will join Me and also be counted as My Own whom I will rescue before the end happens. For it is certain that I will come Myself .... And you should also believe, without a shadow of doubt, that all of you with a living faith and who approach Me with love, will be able to behold Me, for My Word is truth and will come to pass.

People who deny 'My coming', who only want to understand and explain this arrival figuratively, are not yet as profoundly devoted as to be united with Me, but the immense earthly hardship before the end will still strengthen their faith if they are of good will. And they themselves will pray for My coming, because they will realise that only I can provide the rescue which they cannot expect from another side any longer .... You should believe that I will save you from utmost adversity and await the hour when My promise fulfils itself. And then My adversary will be defeated, yet with him also his many followers, who will be taken in by the earth again .... Therefore hope and persevere, for the hour of your deliverance will come, the day of separating the spirits will arrive .... There will be an earthly and spiritual change which you will experience and which has been constantly proclaimed to you in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Rapture ....

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Time of the last judgement

Violation of eternal order .... fulfilment of predictions - last judgement ....

B.D. 4991 from October 31th 1950, taken from Book No. 56

The end will come irrevocably and with it the last judgment .... For in My wisdom I recognized people's will from eternity and their behaviour which corresponds to this will but which does not show any upward striving. My law of eternity, however, demands a constant upward development, and all events on earth and in the entire universe are adapted to this law. If a constant infringement of My law of order is recognizable, then this will have the effect of restoring the old order, but in such a way that everything contrary to the law will pass away, thus also material creations which are not used according to the eternal order will dissolve in order to be incorporated into the order again in a different form. Thus people who have stepped out of order are also placed into the state which corresponds to My eternal order again, i.e. the spiritual substance in the human being takes on the external form which corresponds to its degree of maturity; thus it loses its existence as a human being and is banished again into an external form which had long since been overcome .... It is now undoubtedly certain that the human being completely misjudges his purpose of existence, that he only pays attention to his earthly life and no longer submits to My primal law of eternity, the law of love. The earth, which is only meant to serve as a maturing station for the spiritual substance, completely fails in its purpose and therefore can no longer continue to exist in its old form, because then it will move entirely contrary to law in the universe, in which all creations have their destiny assigned by Me and also comply with it. For the earth will now only be used to develop backwards, and thus its inhabitants will, so to speak, play into My adversary's hands. Only the will of the latter is still observed on earth, while My will remains unheeded or is totally disregarded. If people would turn, if they would make an effort to learn the truth and then turn to Me with the request for help to ascend, I would truly not destroy the earth but let people experience My greater than great love and mercy, I would neither let an end nor a last judgment come, for a good will and serious striving towards Me could achieve everything, even the lifting of an act which has been intended by Me since eternity. I would do it and only ever help you humans to reach the aim. But this will is no longer to be found with people, and therefore My plan of eternity has to come to pass, My announcements through seers and prophets, who foresaw the end, have to be fulfilled, precisely because they also foresaw where people are heading. And only My overwhelming patience has still saved the earth from this fate, because I still want to give all those the opportunity for a change of will whose hearts I recognize and to whom I want to be merciful. But the number of them will become smaller and smaller, and not long after that only two camps will be clearly recognizable, and the flock of My own will be so small that the end can already be recognized, for if only devils still animate the world it will have completely left its lawful order, just like the people on it, and there can only be an end to that which is visible to people as earthly creation, just as people themselves must be destroyed who misused their last maturing station and thus sinned again against the fundamental law of eternal order, against love .... This announcement will irrevocably come to pass, for people will no longer be of better will, they constantly strive downwards and also try to drag down everything turned towards Me. But I will prevent this, for I will let the earth arise anew again and people on it will live in order again, which is and remains the supreme law from eternity; they will live in love again and be My children in truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turn .... last judgment ....

B.D. 4819 from January 18th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

The world is facing a turning point, i.e. everything that is worldly on earth undergoes a total change in a material sense through a process of destruction, and only the spiritual endures and survives the process of the work of destruction and continues to work in a different form on a new work of creation. Thus the earth renews itself, it emerges from the work of destruction in a completely new form and is again inhabited by human beings who partly originate from the old earth and partly also emerge from this old stock in high spiritual maturity. It is the conclusion of a period of development which will take place in a short time. A period of redemption is coming to an end and a new one is beginning, but so fundamentally different from the old that one can speak of a turning point before which humanity stands, which is to be understood purely spiritually and also earthly. The spiritual low of humanity necessitates a dissolution and reshaping of everything that contains spiritual substances, so that no standstill or decline occurs in the upward development of the spiritual. The human being's will is always taken into account, i.e., he is allotted the lot which his will strives for. And since people are only matter-hunters in the last days, they themselves become what they desire .... hardest matter encloses their soul and no longer releases it, until again through God's will the spiritual is redeemed from hardest form, until it is mature to dwell in less hard deformation and now slowly develops upwards in the state of compulsion until it again enters the stage as a human being where it can finally redeem itself if it wants to. But the period of time of such a developmental period is so long that the human being cannot perceive an obvious end of creation in his short earthly life (time) and therefore does not want to acknowledge an end of a period, a spiritual turning point, and therefore does not take his spiritual development seriously either. And thus humanity also now does not want to believe that it is close to the end of an earth period, and it does not recognize the great danger which is lurking for it .... they don't know or don't want to believe that the earth will devour all those who are still closely connected to matter, so that they completely forget God about it. They don't want to believe it and will therefore be surprised when all signs point to the fact that the day is approaching, that the earth will experience its last days. For God will obviously still appear before then, and anyone who is not completely hardened will also recognize Him. But most people have to expect the fate which has been announced to them, that the earth will open up and devour what cannot exist in God's sight .... And a new earth will emerge which is inhabited by those who remain faithful to God and persevere in greatest adversity until the end because they believe in Him and in His word ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

End of the world .... Judgment Day ....

B.D. 3519 from August 22nd 1945, taken from Book No. 45

The end will come when no-one expects it .... It will be a time when God-rejecting people are enjoying life to the full while God's faithful are anxiously awaiting the coming of the Lord. The former, however, don't spend a single thought on the forthcoming end, they live for the moment without scruples or tempering their earthly pleasures, they indulge themselves, commit sins and are totally subject to Satan's influence. It will be a time when an apparent improvement of living conditions has been achieved, when earthly hardship has diminished for people complying with the demands of the ruling power, when only those people have to suffer who are excluded on account of their faith. And in the midst of this euphoria the Judgment will come .... surprising even God's faithful since nothing before will have given the impression that a change of their sad situation might occur. Humanity is rife with guilt of sin, it has completely detached itself from God and turned to His adversary, it has received his share on earth, earthly pleasures in abundance, and people's intentions and endeavours get increasingly worse and demonstrate themselves in their actions against the faithful, who are mercilessly bullied and helpless against their power and brutal aggression. They do a first class job for Satan and humanity is ready for destruction. And thus the end will come as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture .... It will be a horrendous day for people, the earth will split open, fires will break through the earth's crust and all elements will be in uproar .... And people trying to flee will break into indescribable panic, yet wherever they turn they will find the same everywhere, certain destruction ....

The end has come for all whose mind is turned away from God .... and the deliverance from greatest danger for His Own, who will be removed alive and thus escape physical death. God has already announced this time long in advance, yet no-one appreciates His predictions, and thus people will suddenly find themselves in a dreadful situation from which there is no escape. The destruction of the old earth has been decided since eternity, but when it will happen remains hidden from people, and thus they will experience it at a time when they believe themselves safe and masters of the world, when they try to get as much enjoyment as possible out of life, when they are totally captivated by the world and therefore exclude God from their thoughts.

And thus God reminds people of Himself .... He calls to account those who sin against Him because they refuse to acknowledge Him .... He sits in Judgment over humanity and separates people by lifting His Own into His kingdom and banishing the others once again .... by leaving them to lose their lives in an appalling way and imprisoning their souls once more, i.e. by constraining the soul's will so that it will have to take the path of development through the new creation again. This is a cruel act and yet one of divine justice, for people's sinfulness will have reached its climax. They are of service to Satan and have become sheer devils themselves; nothing else can be given to them but physical destruction and spiritual captivity so that God's faithful will be released from them and able to lead a life of peace and harmony on the new earth.

And although God is ever forgiving and patient while the sinfulness keeps growing .... the end will come without fail and at a time when it is least expected. For even the believers will be shocked, because everything worldly appears to prevail, because the increasing power of the world's representatives has rendered the faithful helpless and without rights. And thus the world appears stable and yet is so close to its destruction .... until the day comes, which God has determined since eternity, which no-one is able to predetermine and which, according to God's plan, will nevertheless bring the final disintegration of everything on earth. Only God knows the day, people shall always expect it and prepare themselves for it so that they will belong to those who will be taken away by God in advance, so that they will not belong to those who will be condemned on the Day of Judgment, as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Transformation of the earth – turn of the world

Spiritual turning-point .... Total transformation of earth ....

B.D. 4533 from January 6th 1949, taken from Book No. 52

You can take it for granted that the world is facing a change, spiritually as well as earthly. The earth itself is approaching a total transformation, a transformation of its surface as well as extensive internal changes, and, likewise, people need to prepare themselves for a process that will have spiritual repercussions because all life on earth, human and animal, will cease to exist as soon as the reshaping of earth is under way. Thus it stands to reason that the entire transformation will have a spiritual foundation, that a new school for the spirit will be created which, however, will first call for the destruction of the former. Earth cannot continue to exist the way it is at present if it is not to circle through the universe amid other creations and heavenly bodies devoid of all purpose .... Change has to take place, and this act of transformation will be experienced by people to whom God has given the grace to use the final opportunities for achieving maturity. For God has blessed the last days of this earth's existence by providing blessing upon blessing for people who could certainly reach full maturity by the last day. That the gifts of grace are ignored, that the majority of people do not welcome and thus do not accept them, is only proof that the last days have arrived.

Hence only few will be able to observe the final act of transformation because they accept God's will and therefore also know of His eternal plan of Salvation. They will not be harmed by the process of transformation as they will be raptured before the last act of destruction of the old earth. And thus the change will merely affect them such that they will change their environment for a kingdom of peace until they are returned to the entirely reshaped earth as root of the new human race. Until the last day, however, others will still have ample opportunity to change and thus save themselves too. For as soon as their spiritual transformation has taken place, as soon as the soul has returned to God, Whom they had adamantly resisted so far, the souls also become aspirants to the kingdom of the blessed and need no longer fear the destruction of the old earth. No creation on the old earth will survive nor will any human being continue to exist who was not lifted to heaven by God's love beforehand .... The complete destruction of the earth's surface as a whole will also result in the demise of every creature, and the transformation of any soul capable of change will have been achieved by the hour of the Last Judgment. Hence it depends on the human being's spiritual change whether he will survive the end of this earthly period and be permitted to re-inhabit the new earth as a child of God ....

All people will still be capable of change but only few will be willing, and thus the earth's process of transformation will take place, given that people's will shall no longer take the right direction and earth no longer fulfils its intended purpose. Earthly life is misused .... As a result, the whole of humanity faces a spiritual turning-point. However, it will not happen on the old earth and it will only consciously be experienced by a few people, whilst the majority of people will indeed enter an entirely different developmental stage, hence also be affected by the spiritual turning-point, but in a regressive sense .... they will lose their physical life and continue their existence in a completely different form .... 'Life' will have ceased to be and the state of 'death' will surround the spiritual essence because it will have failed as a human being, because it did not use its opportunity to change in order to redeem itself.

In the universe, however, the act of transformation will denote an entirely new period of redemption and the conclusion of an era which was extremely significant, because God Himself incarnated on earth in order to exemplify to humanity the change from a human into a divine being, which all people should accomplish. Earth, which carried His physical body, will now have to help the hardened spiritual substances, solid matter, to achieve redemption. Every living thing will have to experience a change of its external form; everything constrained in a form below the human level will have to be able to comply with the impetus for ascent. As a result of earth's total transformation this will indeed be possible since the love of the divine man Jesus also encompassed the as yet unredeemed spiritual substances which He also intended to help with His act of Salvation. When this period of redemption comes to an end it will also mean the end for all creations in, on and above the earth. Then a continuation of development in the creations of the new earth can commence for all spiritual substances which still need to be redeemed and which, depending on their will towards God, will animate the various forms until their final salvation ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Justification of the destructions .... earthly and spiritual transformation ....

B.D. 6759 from February 11th 1957, taken from Book No. 72

The spiritual turning point also necessitates an earthly turning point, i.e. a complete change of earthly circumstances, which must occur again through catastrophic events on this earth, through processes which also bring about the dissolution of earthly creations .... For a spiritual turning point can only occur when everything spiritual is correctly directed again, i.e. incorporated into the forms which correspond to its degree of maturity. It must therefore first be rid of the old forms in order to be able to obtain new forms. All creations must release the spiritual, and that means as much as complete destruction of the creations on this earth. It is not enough that a change only takes place in people, that therefore only people change spiritually, but it is about all spiritual, also about that which is still bound in solid matter, which also has to continue the path of its development one day. Moreover, it is also completely hopeless for people to strive for a spiritual change .... there is no longer any hope that they will ever attain the maturity on earth which earthly existence should bring to every human being and which can also be achieved .... This is why the destruction of the earth and its creations and thus also the termination of people's lives is no loss for them, for they can no longer lose anything but only gain because new opportunities for development are created for them .... Yet a limit has also been set for the banishment of the spiritual bound in hard matter .... The hour has also come for this spiritual substance when it can go its path of development on this earth liberated and bound in lighter external forms. And this time will also be observed .... For God's plan of salvation has been determined since eternity. And thus a spiritual turning point will also occur when the spiritual substance has been placed into the corresponding external forms .... when the old earth has been destroyed and a new earth has arisen with creations of all kinds, with living beings, people and animals, which now all live a harmonious, peaceful and blessed life on this new earth according to the spiritual substance's state of maturity. For the people who are allowed to inhabit this earth live according to God's will, which also means that they give all living creatures in the animal and plant world and also the still hard matter the opportunity to redeem itself through serving activity, thus the upward development of the spiritual now takes place in a short time .... that a completely changed state is on earth, thus one can rightly speak of a spiritual turning point. It is not only about the human soul .... you humans must consider this if destroying earthly creations and especially destroying the earth seems implausible to you .... The human being on this earth is completely failing in the last time, and through his failure he is also to a large extent hindering the still bound spiritual in its destiny .... A standstill has occurred which is not in accordance with divine order, and the time set for this earth with its creations has expired .... But the development of the spiritual continues .... It has to continue according to divine law, and therefore the work of destruction on earth and its creations has to proceed in the way God has recognized from eternity as beneficial for the spiritual substance which has to take its path across earth .... And thus His plan of salvation has also been determined since eternity, and it will be kept and carried out .... For all creatures also sigh for redemption. And everything that will still happen on earth will serve to initiate the spiritual turning point, and no-one will be able to stop the final events on this earth, because this material destruction is included in God's plan of salvation in order to also clear the way for the spiritual, which is still bound in solid form, in order to also create opportunities for it to ascend .... For all spiritual substances once emanated from Him and He wants to lead them back to Himself again .... For His love is for all beingness and He seeks to redeem it ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

The final work of destruction ....

B.D. 7630 from June 23rd 1960, taken from Book No. 80

The final work of destruction will be caused by people's own will, nevertheless, I shall not hamper this will .... firstly, because it is free and shall also have to justify itself, and secondly, because I based My plan of Salvation on this free will in a way that it will benefit the continued development of the spiritual beings .... I truly do not determine people's wrong inclinations and actions; I only let them have absolute freedom which they, however, misuse by interfering in the laws of nature, by experimenting with forces which they cannot fully control as yet and whose effects they therefore don't know. But it is their fault that they conduct experiments for the wrong reasons, that they are not motivated by thoughts of love to carry out their intentions .... And for this reason their guilt will have such terrible consequences .... For it will result in an act of destruction to which everything living in, on and above the earth will fall prey .... For although the planet as such will remain the entire surface of earth will nevertheless become changed, and that will also mean the destruction of all life and all works of creation on this earth which constrained spiritual substances. And thus, these spirits will receive their freedom for the time being, they will be able to escape from their form regardless of the degree of maturity they had reached. But they will not keep this freedom .... For they will have to continue their path of development and therefore will be placed into new forms. And in order to make it possible for the spiritual substances still bound in the creations to continue with their development I shall allow the wrong will of people who will cause this work of destruction, but the human race itself will perish as a result of this wrong will, for only My Own will survive the final destruction, and there will only be a few ....

The majority of people, however, are already so distant from Me that their spiritual fate is already decided, for they have reached the lowest point which excludes further development on this earth .... On account of their profane state they will give rise to the end of the old earth, and thus it will come to pass as people want it themselves: everything will be changed yet only in line with My eternal law of order .... People will indeed initiate it, yet I Myself will determine or direct the consequences according to My eternal plan of Salvation, which was based on people's wrong will so that all wrong thinking shall nevertheless still yield right results .... For I will direct the consequences according to My will, admittedly it doesn't correspond to people's will but it serves the spirits' continued development. And that is My plan, of which I inform you time and again so that each one of you can shape himself according to this plan while there is still time, for each one of you can still belong to those who will be saved at the end .... each person can still shape his nature such that he will belong to 'My Own' .... But he must believe and live a life of love, he must turn his will to Me, and I will accept him and grant him the strength to achieve the work of transformation on himself .... Then he need not fear the end either, regardless of how threatening world events seem to evolve .... I protect My Own in every adversity and danger, I help them in an earthly and spiritual way, for My Own shall become strong in faith and therefore noticeably experience My help .... And time and again I announce this to you humans so that you can prepare yourselves if only you are of good will to live in order to please Me .... For the end will come without fail because the time granted to you is over ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turn ....

B.D. 3708 from March 9th 1946, taken from Book No. 47

A spiritual upheaval, that is, a total change of people's spiritual state, also requires a total transformation of everything that is the carrier of the spiritual. This is to be understood in such a way that the visible creations must first release the spiritual so that it can reach higher maturity in a new form. Consequently, the spiritual embodied as a human being must also be released from its external form, for this spiritual is decisive for the spiritual state on earth, which has currently reached a low as never before in this period of development and which is therefore the cause of a total transformation of the earth. This regressed spiritual substance must first be brought into a form which corresponds to its maturity before the spiritual substance, now embodied as a human being, can move in an elevated spiritual state, before a spiritual turning point occurs in which the human being is closer to God and everything remote from God can no longer oppress him. Such a spiritual change therefore necessitates the destruction of visible creations and also the physical downfall of people, with the exception of those who have established contact with God through their faith and love and are therefore close to God and therefore need not fear another earthly life. These will experience the spiritual turning point, due to their elevated state of maturity they will witness the complete destruction of all living things on earth and the destruction of their external form and yet not be affected by it themselves. They will first go through the deepest depth of human mentality in order to then be led upwards through God's great love .... The previously lightless state on earth will give way to a state of brightest light, there will be a change of immense significance, a transformation of all thinking of the earth's inhabitants and the right relationship with God will be established first, which is why happiness and bliss will also be part of people on earth who will now start a new period of development in fullest harmony and loving activity. And this spiritual upheaval cannot take place until the spirits have first completely decided, until they themselves are clear about the direction of their will .... All half-heartedness must decide, it must be preceded by an open confession to God or His adversary, for God does not condemn what is not opposed to Him as a fundamental adversary .... He takes pity on every weakness of will and seeks to remedy it, He seeks to help the weak so that it will find the right path and tread it. But if the being has decided to rebel against God, then the hour of the end has also come, then the die has been cast which determines the spiritual being's fate for eternity. Then the day of judgement has come, the complete separation of the spirits and the complete destruction of that which holds spiritual things on earth. Then the time will have come which will be followed by the spiritual turning point .... a state on earth where the human being only carries God-oriented spiritual substances within himself, where he lives in love and intimate communion with God in peace and bliss, where he works and creates according to God's will .... and where all spiritual substances still bound in form strive upwards and continue their interrupted course of development, but where hard matter is the carrier of the spiritual substances embodied on the old earth as human beings, which now start their course of development through the creations of the new earth again and have to cover it under hard conditions in order to one day reach the free decision of will again .... And therefore you humans do not expect a spiritual change on this earth, for this has become impossible due to the all too far distance from God, which can only be reduced in the aforementioned way. You must familiarize yourselves with the thought of a complete dissolution and destruction of the creations visible to your eye, otherwise you will neither be able to muster understanding for the last judgment nor for the new earth and its paradisiacal state .... You must believe what is made known to you, otherwise you will not be able to expect the coming of the lord either, which can only appear possible to you in profound faith in God's omnipotence, love and justice, which would find no human explanation and therefore will only take place when the last day has come .... when it will be impossible for all unbelievers to continue living as human beings and the miracle of the lord's coming will no longer mean a compulsion to believe for the believer .... For everything is understandable to the spiritually awakened person, because God's love and omnipotence is the reason for everything that happens ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

World turn ....

B.D. 5524 from November 4th 1952, taken from Book No. 61

The turn of the world is imminent .... You humans do not know what this means, for a period of time is coming to an end which you do not believe possible. A new redemption period will begin under completely different conditions, an era will start which cannot be compared to the present one. A new world will arise, i.e., the earth will bear completely new creations, and people will be allowed to see these creations who still knew those of the old earth and enjoy God's miracles which testify to His infinite power and wisdom and His greater than great love. Humanity is approaching the end, for only a few will be allowed to experience and enliven the new earth. For it presupposes a state of maturity of its inhabitants, because life on the new earth will also take a completely different form, because people on it will be in contact with the kingdom of blessed spirits such that they will be allowed to communicate with each other, they will be instructed and therefore have a high level of knowledge, which only mature souls can endure, and therefore a high degree of development is a prerequisite which only few people on the old earth will reach until the end. The time is approaching its end .... And since people are only on a low level of realization they do not believe and grasp this and therefore do nothing to attain higher maturity .... They also partly expect that a better time will dawn, that people will change and thus a spiritual turning point will still occur on this earth, because such an end as is imminent does not seem credible to them .... They do not want to believe what will irrevocably come .... It is about spiritual upward development, not about an earthly ascent, which seems to be the most important thing to all people. But spiritual development is neglected and therefore makes life on this earth pointless .... Therefore it will come to an end, even though it seems inconceivable to people that this earth should pass away .... The state on earth has become intolerable, a darkness has spread over the earth which is almost impenetrable, the earth has become unsuitable as a schoolhouse of the spiritual and must therefore be changed so that its actual purpose will be fulfilled again. Where a tiny spark of light can still shine there is also a connection to the spiritual kingdom, and this connection will remain even if the earth passes away in its old form, i.e., this light will also be allowed to shine on the new earth, it will be taken over to the new earth because it already shone above the earth, as it were, and thus cannot be touched by its destruction .... People who seek intimate contact with God will survive the end of this earth, they will be raptured and brought to the paradise of the new earth because they will no longer be held back by the heaviness of earth but will find support in the spiritual kingdom during the last difficult days which still await the earth. These, then, will experience the spiritual turning point, but in a different form than people imagine .... Everything will be transformed, every work of creation will be dissolved and the spiritual bound in form will come to progressive development again in a new form on the new earth. Creations of the most glorious kind will delight the human eye and an indescribable rejoicing will sound from the lips of those who are honoured to see the new creations and compare them with the old ones on this earth. And come as it is proclaimed, the earth will pass away in its present form but it will arise anew and testify to God's wisdom, omnipotence and love to the human race which comes forth from the best of this earth, from those who recognize God, love Him and remain faithful to Him in the time of the most difficult battle of faith which will precede the last end .... You humans stand before the turning point of the world .... See to it that you experience it in the strength of faith and the light of knowledge .... See to it that you are among those who will be taken from this earth to bear witness to God's power and glory on the new earth .... Stretch out your hands to Him that He may save you from darkness, that He may fetch you to Himself into His kingdom, where He will again set you new tasks .... To glorify Him and His name, Who rules the world from eternity to eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Turn of the world .... not world's end ....

B.D. 5807 from November 17th 1953, taken from Book No. 63

The turning of the world does not mean the end of the world .... For My creations will still exist eternally until they have fulfilled their purpose of helping the spiritual beings in the abyss to ascend. Only then can we speak of the end of the world, when everything is spiritualized which these creations needed for perfection. But what lies ahead of you, what you can expect with all certainty, what I let you know through seers and prophets, is a turning point which can certainly be called the end for the inhabitants of earth but which, to put it more correctly, is a total change, a turning point of the existing and a complete transformation of earth's creation .... It is a change from one epoch into a new one .... which means an end of life for human beings as well as for every creature .... which is equal to the end of the world for human beings. The total transformation of the earth's surface with all creations is also at the same time an end of all development of an earthly material kind. Everything that could be thought of progress in the scientific field or human achievements, everything that has been achieved, falls prey to destruction, and all experiences lose their value because no-one can use or apply what was previously regarded as so important that all spiritual striving was forgotten. Nothing of all this will remain, none of it will be taken over to the new earth, even though it will be inhabited by people who have experienced and lived on the old earth .... for none of it will be of use on the new earth and none of it will be needed .... A completely new world will delight the small flock of the raptured, a world which in nothing resembles the old earth, which can rightly be called a changed earth. And the people of the new earth will now understand why there was talk of a turning point... which, however, is never to be understood as the end of the world. Earthly, then, this turning point is recognizable, but even more so spiritually .... The spiritual turning point is the cause and purpose of what is to come .... A spiritual state, as it exists before the end of the old earth, irrevocably entails a dissolution, because something spiritually dead also means the solidification of it and true life can only emerge from spiritual life .... Therefore a turning point must occur where life is no longer conceivable in the completely dead environment ....

It is obvious that the turning point can no longer take place on this earth,

(17.11.1953) for people are becoming more and more worldly, they are increasingly striving for material goods and their faith is becoming less and less, because love is growing cold in them. But love growing cold means hardened spiritual substance or also the rejection of My all-living strength of love .... and thus a motionless state, a complete lack of strength and therefore a freezing in inactivity .... What is still alive will then be doomed to death, but what is now still bound will attain freedom in order to now be able to strive upwards with the aim of final freedom. A turning point has come for the whole of earth's creation, everything spiritual changes its external form, and thus a general ascent is also assured then, because only the positive forces but not the negative forces can be effective, because the latter are bound and completely powerless .... and therefore spiritually only an ascent is possible everywhere ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

New banishment

Spiritual turning point is not a reversal but renewed banishment ....

B.D. 4875 from April 6th 1950, taken from Book No. 55

Development for the better is no longer possible on this earth, people will not even remain on the same level but descend constantly, they live beyond all bounds and distance themselves from Me to such an extent that they live their earthly life entirely without strength, hence it is totally pointless. And therefore a substantial change is intended to put an end to humanity's spiritual decline and to pave a new path which will lead to an ascent again. You humans are unaware of My plan of Salvation apart from the few to whom I reveal Myself. But you would be able to take notice of it were you at all interested in the issue as to what forms the basis of all events around you. Yet your questions are different, the questions you are concerned with only relate to earthly advantages, to ways and means of procuring a wealth of earthly goods. You only increase your knowledge in this field and ignore all spiritual matters. But therefore you will also be taken by surprise by the forthcoming events and will be unable to find an explanation if you intellectually search for it. However, the knowledge of My plan of Salvation would explain everything to you, the knowledge of My eternal plan of Salvation would let you look at everything from a different perspective, and it would awaken your sense of responsibility because your soul's fate after death is determined by your way of life. Then a small improvement could still be achieved, although only a few will take the explanation seriously which is offered to them by knowledgeable people. And therefore I will bring one period of development to a conclusion and let a new one begin.

This should certainly be looked upon as a spiritual turning point yet not as a reversal or a sudden advancement of the souls' development, instead it is far more a total failure on the one hand and the creation of new possibilities for development on the other. For that which failed during the old period of development will start its process of development again in the deepest abyss; hence it will not continue an interrupted process of purification. This is why the time before the end of this epoch is so extremely significant since it will, after all, shape the fate of countless souls as to whether they live or die. A continued existence of this earth would by no means benefit these souls, because they severed the bond with Me long ago, thus they are entirely without faith and in this state will not make use of the blessings either which could ensure their spiritual progress. Until the end every effort will still be made to save the individual souls, that is, to draw their attention to their purpose, yet they cannot be supported against their will and this will only strives to descend, it only applies to matter which shelters the lowest developed spiritual substances. And I always take the soul's will into account, it shall receive what it desires .... and therefore hard matter will become the external cover of that which had already reached the last stage of development on earth .... the souls of the furthest distanced living creations will be banished again in the creations of the new earth. And time and again this dreadful fate shall be presented to people, time and again they shall be given the information of My eternal plan of Salvation, because it is the time of the end when every person should become aware of the great responsibility he bears for his soul, because he can still use the last days for the salvation of his soul if he has the will to do so. He should know that an end will come and what this end means for his soul, he should know that there will be no postponement but that it will come true what seers and prophets have announced since the beginning of this epoch of Salvation, that the end will come without fail and with it the last Judgment, which will decide over life and death, over light and darkness, over reward and punishment .... over hell and damnation and paradise and beatitude ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Devils of the end time .... beyond closed .... new banishment ....

B.D. 4688 from July 12th 1949, taken from Book No. 54

You will continue your interrupted development in the beyond if you do not leave this earth as perfected devils, thus there is still the possibility that you will develop upwards. But your attitude is devilish if you are full of hatred and vengefulness towards your fellow human beings who strive towards God, who are therefore of good will, acknowledge God and seek to fulfil His will. If these people are persecuted merely because of their attitude then a truly diabolical attitude can be attributed to the persecutors, and then all mercy will cease because the spiritual substance in that person will harden and, due to his distance from God, will have to fall into that state which causes banishment in hardest matter. The souls of these people cannot enter the kingdom of the beyond, for there is no possibility of improvement for them, only an ever deeper descent into hell, into remoteness from God. And it is therefore an act of mercy that the spiritual is bound again in matter, because in the state of compulsion it slowly progresses upwards again, even if it takes an infinitely long time. The beyond, the spiritual kingdom, can certainly also receive countless souls which remain in a completely inactive state for eternities but which are still capable of change, which therefore have not yet reached the degree which necessitates a banishment in matter. They can certainly still sink to that degree, but as long as there is still a possibility of the opposite, the soul will not be placed into the state of compulsion either, but which will inevitably be the fate of people who have become devils after the downfall of the old earth. Therefore, what is still capable of change will still be called away before the end of the earth, and these souls can increase their deficient maturity after their death if they are willing to do so. And thus humanity will ultimately only consist of good and evil people, and the separation of spirits has already taken place, so to speak, before the Last Judgment will be. For the few people who are faithful to God will give rise to the divestment of people's true spirit .... They will be hostile and persecuted and will truly have to live among devils .... And there will be hell on earth .... The most brutal means will be used to make the godly fall away, satan will unleash all his power and cunning to overthrow God from the throne and exalt himself. And it will seem as if satan is victorious. The faithful will tremble and hope and in their deep faith find the strength to persevere. They hope for the coming of the lord and the miraculous salvation from greatest adversity. And God will not let their faith fail, He will come in the clouds when satan believes he has already won the victory. Then the spiritual kingdom will have closed its gates, for then there will only be living and dead people, people who are destined to live on the new earth, who also have eternal life in truth, and people who will be banished into the most solid matter, who will endure death from which they will only awaken to life after an infinitely long time ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Isolation from God – new banishment ....

B.D. 7121 from May 15th 1958, taken from Book No. 76

The fact that you humans no longer seek a connection with the spiritual kingdom is becoming increasingly noticeable, and thus you completely isolate yourselves from the one with Whom you should unite during your earthly life. And this isolation does not only mean a temporary distance from God but it determines your state again for an eternally long time, because this isolation carries you into a new banishment again in solid matter and thus the endless long course of development through all creations on earth. During earthly life the union with God could so easily be established, because again and again He steps into your path, because He reveals Himself to you in many ways. But you avoid Him, you turn away when you are asked to direct your gaze to the spiritual kingdom, to the one Who gave you life, Who wants to be recognized as your father from eternity .... You turn your eyes to the world and don't value everything spiritual. And you humans are in this spiritual low .... You don't pay attention to indications of the end and admonitions to change your way of life because you are captivated by the world; you don't believe in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and therefore don't call upon Him either to help you to fulfil your earthly task correctly .... Nor do you let yourselves be addressed by God Himself by desiring to hear His word. And if it is nevertheless brought to you it will fall on your ears and your souls will not derive any blessing from it. But the world gives you what you desire from it, and therefore you also remain faithful to the world to your detriment, for the world will pull you into the abyss because it is the realm of the one who does not want to release you but wants to ruin you. Nevertheless, you will be addressed by God until the end, and at any time it will be possible for the individual to turn to Him if only he has the serious will not to have lived earthly life in vain. And he will always be able to come to his senses again, which is why many things will still happen which will disturb people's peace of mind, many a person will still be approached by fate in a way which makes him apprehensive, and God will also obviously approach everyone and speak to him through adversity and illness, through misfortune and sorrow .... For He does not give up on any soul and still seeks to save it from the end. But the end is also irrevocably determined, and thus until that day there is, as it were, still a period of grace for those who have not yet found the path to God. And during this period of grace many people could still find Him, for the transience of the world and its goods will be so obviously shown to them that they could truly change their way of thinking and also change their way of life and turn their eyes towards the imperishable kingdom and its goods, for immense destructions will still take place during this time of which people would not have dreamed. But people's spiritual state at this time no longer tolerates consideration, and since God's love uses every means which still promises help, He will also not leave such means untried which can shake people's thinking, even though every individual's will remains free and therefore such events can also pass people by without effect. But every person prepares for himself the fate his soul will face .... Bliss or renewed banishment again for endless times ....

Amen

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Spiritual turnaround: renewal of the earth in divine order

Establishing divine order ....

B.D. 5990 from July 1st 1954, taken from Book No. 65

And I will purify the world, I will restore order, I will separate people from each other when the last day has come .... I want an earth to arise again where everything is in divine order, so that it may again serve the perfection of the spiritual, as is its destiny .... I want peace to reign one day, that paradise is opened up again to people who live in My will .... I want satan to have no more power over people and therefore I put him in chains, I strip him of all power and strength by also banishing his followers, without whom he is powerless for a long time. Although I was patient for a long time and did not stop him in his activity and rage against Me, one day the hour will come when I will put a stop to it and oppose it with My might and My will .... And then a new time will begin, a time of peace and order, a time of bliss and divine harmony for all people inhabiting the new earth .... and a time of rapid upward development for the spiritual bound in the creations. And during this time I Myself will obviously enter into contact with My own, I Myself will dwell amongst them and release increased bliss where the hearts beat towards Me in love .... Peace will dwell in people's hearts, peace will be amongst My own and nothing will be able to oppress them and rob them of their peace .... A new world will arise, full of light and love, where My love, power and glory will be revealed in every way .... The world has to be renewed, it has to be cleansed because in the end only sin and death rule it and thus it has become satan's abode, because all spiritual ascent on it has become impossible, which is against My order of eternity. A school of the spirit must be created again where it is possible for My earthly children to successfully complete their path of development. Human will has caused the greatest confusion and distorted everything, human will has disregarded My law of eternity and blindly raged to the detriment of every creature, to the detriment of the spiritual which is still bound .... And all this has to be put right if I want to come to the aid of this spiritual substance which is in a state of compulsion and for which people make further development difficult or completely impossible. A turning point must occur, a judging and reshaping .... The last judgement is inevitable, for it only serves as a blessing for humanity and the unredeemed spirit .... otherwise it could not reach its aim for ever .... otherwise all would be abandoned to the depths without salvation. There must be light where there is darkness, freedom where there are fetters and acts of violence .... Love must be able to rule where until now only hatred was expressed .... happiness and bliss must rejoice all who have hitherto lived under sin and oppression in the midst of a world of satanic beings .... For the time is fulfilled, deliverance from sin and death is coming ....

Amen

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Reordering of all things creaturely ....

B.D. 7027 from January 28th 1958, taken from Book No. 75

Many people take the path across the earth in vain because their eyes are only ever directed towards the preservation and satisfaction of their body, but never or only rarely towards the one Who gave them this life and with Whom they should seek the bond during their earthly existence. These people are in the majority, for before the end of an earth period the spiritual low is far greater than ever before. And at the same time this is a sign that a period of development is coming to an end, that people are approaching an end, that great upheavals are taking place, because this necessitates the divine law of eternity. To cover the earthly course in vain also makes the entire previous course of development unsuccessful, for the soul cannot be conceived in a human being again at will in order to repeat its earthly course, instead, it must cover the infinitely long course in the creations of the new earth again, as dissolved in countless substances, if it does not have the grace to be called away into the kingdom of the beyond before the end of earth, and there still use the short time span until the end for ascent .... The latter possibility exists but it presupposes the being's will just as on earth, and particularly hardened souls are not easy to teach in the kingdom of the beyond either and must then also expect the same fate, to be banished anew in the new creations of earth. Even if it seems to people that there is no divine justice in the face of the satanic activity in the earth, there is no justice in the world. in view of the satanic activity in the end times .... this justice will nevertheless emerge one day and lawful order will be restored as soon as the time has come. And people will approach this point in time themselves the less they think about their actual task of earthly life, the more they only live a purely earthly life and thus their earthly existence completely misses its purpose. Then God Himself will put a stop to it, then He will judge according to law and justice .... A correctly conducted earthly way of life will always reveal the intimate bond with God, and people's thoughts will predominantly concern themselves with the spiritual kingdom, with life after death and with the soul's state of maturity, even though these people also stand in the midst of the world .... But once they have recognized the actual purpose of life they will also pursue the aim, and their effort will not be in vain, for God Himself is with such people Who will also make it easy for them to reach the aim. But only a few remember Him in such a way that they would like to join Him .... Only a few live a spiritual life in addition to their earthly life .... And that is why the hardship is so great, that is why we have to speak of a spiritual low which necessitates an end, a 'rearranging' of all creatures and a 'judging' of the spiritual bound in them. The turning point is inevitable and it will have spiritual as well as earthly effects because everything is out of order, because the earth is no longer used according to its actual purpose, because people only live a parasitic life on it .... because they only use the earth's creations and its products for the benefit of their body but at the same time do not think of their soul, for whose development the earth was created as a maturing station. And thus the life of people and all creatures on earth will come to an end and a new earth will be created on which the spiritual can again continue its course of development in a new form or start anew, which is now no longer possible on the old earth. Divine love, wisdom and power will express themselves, they will bring everything back into the right order and end a state where God's adversary was unusually active .... However, he was only able to work unhindered because people themselves gave him the right to do so. For the human being's will alone promotes or hinders the development of his soul .... depending on whether this will turns towards God or His adversary. Yet one day the hour will come when God's will will stop the adversary's activity .... when He will judge according to law and justice .... when a new life will begin for those people who carry Him in their hearts, who have given themselves to Him for time and eternity ....

Amen

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Renewal of the earth and paradise ....

B.D. 7818 from February 6th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

And the world will have to renew itself, i.e., the earth will bear completely new creations in which everything spiritual is testified to in the righteous order; and people will also live again in the order which underlies everything created by Me .... A new earth will replace the old one, because the latter no longer serves the purpose of being a training station for the spiritual .... And thus a new time will dawn, it will be a turning point spiritually and earthly, a redemption period will be broken off and a new one will begin which will bring much of the fallen spiritual back to Me again .... And this renewal of the earth has to take place, otherwise a standstill, if not a great decline in development is to occur, which is only ever time-consuming for this unfree spiritual substance, which one day shall find its complete redemption from the form. You don't want to believe that you humans of the present time are in this significant time of transformation, for this is an event which has not yet taken place on this earth, i.e. in the period of time which encompasses this last period of redemption, although many phases of development have already preceded it but which you cannot determine in time because this is not necessary for your spiritual development. But you are now facing the end of such an earth period, and you will also still experience unusual signs and things so that you could truly believe in an end of this earth. But as soon as you increase your spiritual knowledge, as soon as you make it possible through your will that you receive spiritual instructions which guarantee you the truth, it will not seem impossible to you that the earth is about to be renewed, because then you will be initiated into My eternal plan of salvation, because then you will grasp the correlations and learn to understand Me and My rule and activity, which is determined by love and wisdom and therefore cannot be anything but good. And you will also realize that people's spiritual low can almost no longer be surpassed and that this already necessitates a change so that a time of upward development will follow again, so that My living creations' return into the father's house is guaranteed. For the earth has a task to help the once fallen creatures to become children of God. And it will fulfil this task again in its new state where everything will be in just order again and where people will also recognize and love Me again and be blissfully happy. For the people on the new earth have proven themselves in their last test and their souls are already in a state of maturity which opens up beatitudes for them, and therefore they can be transferred to the new earth as the stock of the new generation and be teachers again for those who come after them and who are therefore also devoted to Me in love and will achieve their full spiritualization very quickly because satan is bound and can no longer oppress them ..... because the love in them is so strong that the souls mature through this love and need no tempter because they are completely devoted to Me. Hence they need not be tested in their direction of will but have already passed the test because they are conceived in pure, selfless love in My will .... And the new earth will truly be a paradise because everything moves in divine order, because I Myself can be in the midst of My own and because My adversary is bound again for an infinitely long time .... until he, too, will once rise again when the time has come for him to fight for human souls again ...._>Amen

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Paradise state on new earth ....

B.D. 7966 from August 13th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

I want to establish a new kingdom, a kingdom where I alone rule, where My adversary is eliminated for a long time, where there is peace and order again, where only love rules and thus I Myself can be with people because their state of love allows it and because they have passed their test of faith and will and now belong to Me for time and eternity. And in this kingdom there will be order again for a long time, for love is the fundamental principle of divine order, and where love reigns everything will also take place in accordance with My will .... And thus the spiritual substances, which are still bound in form, will also develop more quickly, because they feel love around them and therefore also give up their resistance more quickly in order to reach the final transformation as a human being. And this kingdom will therefore be on the new earth when My work of transformation has taken place, when all creations of the old earth have been dissolved and changed into new creations through My will, when the paradise of the new earth has been created and will receive My own who have endured until the end. The process of the destruction of the old earth will still be apparent to them because I want them to proclaim My might and glory to their descendants, and because they themselves shall then be blessed by being transferred to the new earth as the reward for all suffering they previously had to endure for the sake of their faith. And they will forget all suffering and hardship in view of the splendour and glory which will shine towards them on the new earth in all works of creation .... And I Myself will be in the midst of My own because their great love allows this .... A new period of redemption begins, for much of the spiritual is still unredeemed and still bound in those creations .... And even if people are no longer under the spell of evil, the following human generations will nevertheless also have to pass their test of will on earth, only My adversary cannot have an effect on them as long as love is highly developed in people, thus as long as their hearts beat towards Me in the divine redeemer Jesus Christ and therefore they do not sin either but are redeemed from their original sin through Jesus Christ .... And love is exceedingly strong in people who will animate the new earth in the beginning, and it will burn ever more fiercely towards Me because I Myself can delight them with My presence and will instruct them at all times through My messengers of light with whom people will have direct contact and therefore also be exceedingly blissful. Earth's paradise is ushering in a new time, for the spiritual and earthly turning point has been accomplished .... And it will be a time of peace where there will be no enmity, neither with human beings nor with the animal world. Everything will live in harmony with each other and hardship and misery will be eliminated, there will be no illness, and even death will only be a painless transition into the spiritual kingdom; the soul will only change its abode, yet without suffering and fear, for it has lived a life in and with God and will now enter My kingdom, it will discard its earthly body in order to be able to dwell freely and exhilarated wherever it wants .... But always in the kingdom of light and bliss .... And this blissful time lies ahead of you, and all of you can be candidates and belong to My own who are allowed to inhabit paradise on earth, only you have to stand firm in the last battle of faith, you have to persevere until the end .... And truly, your lot in the paradise of the new earth will be a glorious one, for I Myself am with those who remain faithful to Me, and My nearness is your bliss ....

Amen

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Spiritual and earthly turnaround

Spiritual and earthly turn ....

B.D. 8188 from May 30th 1962, taken from Book No. 86

The turning point has come, which must occur when humanity has reached a spiritual low that can no longer be surpassed .... But this turning point is to be understood spiritually and earthly .... A spiritual change has to be created, the development of the spiritual from the abyss to the ascent can no longer continue; everything has left divine order and this order first has to be restored so that earth can fulfil its task as a maturing station for the spiritual. And this requires a spiritual and an earthly transformation, for the earth is no longer up to this task, the earth has already been made so unfit by human will to help people and animals to mature because their creations are prevented from being of service, because the works of creation are prematurely destroyed and the spiritual particles cannot mature in order to be admitted to the next deformation .... And therefore a total destruction and transformation of the earth's surface will dissolve all existing works of creation on, in and above the earth and all spiritual substances bound therein will receive new deformations again, so that their maturing will continue according to law again and one day this spiritual substance will also reach the goal that it can embody itself as a human being and cover the last phase on this earth towards its spiritual perfection. And thus people living on earth will also have to expect a premature end to their earthly life, for they, too, are affected by the work of transformation, for people, too, no longer use the time on earth for their spiritual maturing but leave their souls completely unattended, and thus this life as a human being is unsuccessful and therefore has to be ended .... But this end can become the human being's greatest sorrow if he has done nothing to help him mature before the last day has come .... For there are only two possibilities left: that he will recognize his God and creator and turn to Him .... that he will seek to unite with Him and then live a blissful life after the end of the old earth on the paradise of the new earth .... which only those people will be able to enter who profess God when this confession will be demanded of them .... But he can also belong to those who do not persevere in the last battle of faith on this earth, and then God's grace and mercy can still call him before the end so that he does not completely fall into the hands of My adversary and still has the opportunity to turn to God in the kingdom of the beyond, and with the help of his friends in the beyond he can still take the path to heaven .... And then he can still praise and glorify God, Who is merciful to him and has saved him from the terrible fate of the new banishment which people have to expect who completely resist Him and have completely surrendered to God's adversary .... who do not believe in a God and creator Who is lord over heaven and earth, over life and death .... over the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness .... and Who also carries out His plan of salvation, which He has decreed since eternity .... Therefore He will not stop trying to bring the spiritual to maturity, which is still bound in all creations and which has to go the path to the end in order to one day return to the One from Whom it originated .... This turning point is close at hand, the earth will still have to go through much tribulation .... so that people will still come to their senses, so that they will think about the purpose for which they walk the earth .... And a change will take place spiritually and earthly, and it will cast its shadows ahead, for the tribulation on this earth will be felt by all people, everyone will be affected, and much suffering will come upon people who can still be purified by it and find God if they are of good will .... But God will carry out His plan of salvation as He has already decided since eternity .... For His wisdom foresaw the course of development people would take, and He also included people's will in His plan because this alone is decisive and God always respects people's will so that it is also possible for them to achieve perfection on earth .... Yet it is certain that this plan will also be fulfilled, as God's wisdom has decided, and people should not count on a change for the better still taking place amongst people, for their spiritual state is so low that there is truly no other solution than for God's love and omnipotence to have a balancing effect where human will fails and tries to thwart all of God's plans of salvation because it is still in bondage to the one who is God's enemy and adversary and will remain so for eternities ....

Amen

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Spiritual and earthly turn ....

B.D. 7243 from January 1st 1959, taken from Book No. 76

You humans need never fear a change as long as you make an effort to live in accordance with My will, for then everything will come upon you as it is good for your soul, and I will also remember your earthly hardship and take mercy on you. For I do know which path every individual person takes, I also know which tests he still has to pass and which means I still have to use in order to help him progress spiritually. But I will no longer need to use such means which are so painful for him because I know his attitude which is meant for Me and because his will strives to reach Me. But a turning point lies ahead of you all, earthly and spiritual .... And it will involve much disaster, much suffering and many trials which cannot pass people by without affecting every individual. But they need not hit every individual hard but can be passed powerfully and still bring much blessing to the one who only sees My guidance in everything and devotedly submits to My will. And even if you still seem to enjoy great tranquillity, the turning point will come as surely as one day follows the next, because the day of the end is coming ever closer and by then much will still have happened which shall disturb your tranquillity and make you reflect on yourselves. Such a turning point will take place earthly and spiritually, earthly there will be much unrest and upheaval of the traditional .... and spiritually there will be an ever-increasing lack of faith, a battle of darkness against the light, an anti-christian approach against schools of thought .... the battle against faith will be waged everywhere, sometimes even under the guise of piety, of an earnest desire for truth .... only to eradicate the old and replace faith with a modern doctrine of wisdom, which, however, proves, aims at and achieves complete darkening of the spirit. The time has come when the divine redeemer Jesus Christ will be challenged by those who seem to want what is right and yet are welcome servants to My adversary when it comes to taking action against Jesus Christ and His teaching and to portraying everything connected with the person of Jesus as a legend .... And therefore the time will soon come when the adversary's activity will come to an end, for as soon as the existence of Jesus Christ is denied, as soon as people are deprived of the opportunity to freely take a stand on Him as the son of God and redeemer of the world, the hour of the end of My adversary's activity will also have come and he will be put in chains again so that he will be unable to work against Me. And it can already be clearly seen how far he has taken hold of people who are without faith themselves and therefore good to use for his shameful plans. With full consent they join his arguments and doubt or deny Jesus' existence on earth in order not to have to decide for the divine redeemer and thus for Me in Him .... themselves. These people, too, are facing a spiritual turning point as long as they still lack the inner conviction to reject or acknowledge Jesus, but the possibilities are also open to all to make the right decision, all could come to the right realization with good will for truth and justice. But where this is lacking there is no clarity or deepest darkness is regarded as light and people remain in deluded thinking. But anyone who stands in the light of truth, who has already found the path to Me, need not fear this time of spiritual change either .... He will always brightly and clearly recognize the path he has to take himself, and he will also walk it unswervingly because he sees Me Myself at the aim and therefore also pursues the aim without looking backwards. And My messengers of light will come to meet him and help him where the path is steep and arduous, so that he will safely reach the aim, so that he will return to Me, to his father's house ....

Amen

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Ending of an earthly period

Spiritual turnaround ....

B.D. 2807 from July 10th 1943, taken from Book No. 37

When humanity is facing a spiritual turning point, this is always a time of tremendous earthly upheaval, which spiritually and earthly only leads to chaos that ultimately ends in complete destruction. For a spiritual transformation of humanity can no longer be expected when humanity has reached such a state of chaos that it is no longer able to recognize God. This is why God has to bring about a complete transformation, which can therefore be called a spiritual turning point, because now an old period of time comes to an end and a new one begins, i.e. one period of development replaces the other. However, people believe in a spiritual turning point within humanity in the current period of development .... Yet it is completely hopeless that humanity, which is so distant from God, will strive towards God again of its own accord, since it is devoid of all love and thus no longer recognizes God either. Consequently, an upward development of these people can no longer be expected, they will not remain on the same level of development either but will only develop regressively, and this will inevitably lead to complete spiritual as well as earthly decline. An unimaginable chaos is therefore the consequence of this and ultimately a divine intervention, a dissolving of that which can no longer achieve higher development. The old earth must be changed and with it also the spiritual bound in form, which has failed in the last test of earthly life .... A spiritual turning point must occur, an end must be put to the disinherited state and a separation must take place between those who strive towards God and those who are completely disinherited, so that the former will not fall prey to the latter. This point in time is no longer far away because the increasing lack of love of men attracts them themselves, and when the thinking man recognizes the lack of love it will also be understandable to him that God has to distance himself more and more from men because his nature is love. And since love is the original substance of creation, it must perish as soon as God withdraws His love from it. The few people whose hearts are not yet completely cold are still holding back this event, but no spiritual blossoming is to be expected and consequently also no long duration until the end of this disembodied world. The spiritual turning point is the reshaping of the old earth into the new earth, the spiritual turning point is the departure of the disinherited people and the time of deepest peace, which then follows the time of tribulation on the old earth on the new earth. However, the spiritual turning point can only come after the human race of the present time, which is completely disinherited, has been swept away and can no longer oppress the few people who recognize and confess God, for there is now a human race on earth, which is intimately united with God, which serves Him and lets love be the first law, which fulfils His will and does not offend against the divine order, which therefore leads a life of peace and bliss, which is constructively active and knows no suffering and tribulation .... It is a time that is completely different from the time before .... But this time of spiritual change can never ever be granted to the people of the old earth, for they will never ever ascend after they have sunk so far spiritually that all love has grown cold amongst them. There is no spiritual blossoming amongst those people who are neither moved by adversity nor tribulation to think differently and turn towards God .... There is only a constant regression which results in spiritual and earthly chaos which can only be ended by the complete destruction of everything that harbours immature spirituality. However, humanity can no longer be given much time because it will not remain on the same low level but will allow itself to drift further and further into the abyss, and the consequence of this must be an inevitable catastrophe, for the ever increasing distance from God itself determines the hour of destruction because it signifies an increasing lack of love and this a withdrawal of the divine strength of love, without which nothing can exist .... And the behaviour of degenerated humanity also reveals its spiritual low .... And it can be seen from this that the time is drawing ever closer which signifies the end of humanity .... The end time has dawned and it will not last much longer because the time limit God has given to the spiritual for redemption has expired .... The end of a redemption period has come and the dawn of a new redemption period signifies the time of the spiritual turning point ....

amen

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Ending an earth period is imminent ....

B.D. 7929 from June 27th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

The time set for your redemption will be observed, and this means that a period of redemption will also come to an end, that a new era will begin according to the plan of eternity .... As I saw it as necessary and successful for your soul, for the development of the whole of humanity, this plan has been determined, for the spiritual low requires a new order, it requires an intervention on My part, a turning point which is only a blessing, which serves the spiritual upward development. And since eternity I have also known the time when humanity has reached this spiritual low which necessitates a change, and I will also keep to this time and carry out My plan of salvation, after all, My love and My wisdom always determine My rule and activity in the entire universe .... And thus the end of one redemption period will take place and a new one will begin again, because the process of development has to continue unstoppably, because no standstill can occur on My part and because I want to prevent an even deeper sinking of the spiritual substance which lives on earth as a human being. It is therefore certain that an epoch of development will come to an end .... It will be a spiritual turning point which, however, will also have an earthly effect, for since that which is still bound in form shall also become free and take on new forms, this will also necessitate a dissolution and reshaping of the earth's creations, so that a total reshaping of the entire earth's surface is to be expected, which will end the old period of redemption and signify the beginning of a new era of development. What has been predetermined since eternity will also come to pass on the day which has been set for it .... but the exact knowledge of the day remains hidden from you humans because it would not be helpful for the salvation of your souls if you knew about it .... But it is no longer far away .... whether you believe it or not .... the time has expired and My plan of salvation from eternity will be carried out according to My will .... The fact that you humans of the present time are destined to experience this end also has its reason, for your resistance against Me was strong and did not allow for an earlier embodiment as a human being .... But again, the same period of time was set for you since you had to end your course of development .... It is also possible for you to finish it successfully; it is still possible for all of you to find your way to Me before the end, if only you give up your resistance and turn to Me again, from Whom you once turned away in free will to your own harm .... You are still dwelling on earth; don't let the time pass by unused, for I pour out My blessings on you in abundance and truly help you in every way, because I alone know what it means for you if you fail and have to take the infinitely long path of development once again through the creations of the new earth .... Reckon with the fact that the end is very near and prepare yourselves for this end .... And truly, it will only be a blessing for you if you turn to Me and appeal for My strength and help .... You can still achieve much in a short time, you can be rid of your last form and attain full spiritual freedom .... You only need to want that you do not travel your earthly path as a human being in vain .... You only need to call upon Me, your God and father from eternity, for help and you will find Jesus .... to Him Who alone can and will redeem you. Do not let this admonition fall on your ears, take it into your hearts with the utmost seriousness and think about it .... and act before it is too late .... For no one shall be lost, I still want to help everyone before the end comes .... But it will come irrevocably, for the time has been fulfilled, the period of time has expired which was granted to the spiritual, which was to be completed in this redemption period, and a new one will begin, as and when it is intended in My plan of salvation from eternity ....

Amen

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You humans are approaching the end ....

B.D. 7935 from July 5th 1961, taken from Book No. 83

A period of Salvation comes to an end, for the time is fulfilled .... My plan of Salvation has been predetermined for eternity and will be carried out as decided by My love and wisdom. However, you humans cannot judge what the conclusion of an epoch of Salvation means, for you will never be able to envisage that a transformation on this earth will take place which will destroy all creatures, in which all living beings, all life, will be dissolved and wiped out .... As no parallel has ever been experienced by humanity before, it does not believe that the earth is approaching its end. You humans are facing inconceivable happenings but you will not attach the right significance to any of them since you are ignorant of the seriousness of your situation .... You are approaching the end .... What you see around yourselves, what exists and can be perceived by you, will cease to exist .... Everything will be destroyed, and even you yourselves will fall prey to this destruction if you do not belong to My Own, whom My power and My will shall lead away, as I have proclaimed .... whom I will lift up to heaven before the eyes of their fellow human beings because they belong to Me and I can and want to transfer them to the new earth once the work of transformation has taken place. The time is fulfilled .... For the duration of every period of Salvation is limited, even if it is so infinitely long that you humans no longer know its beginning and thus also deem an end impossible .... The fact that you now have to experience this end is only based on your own will, on your soul's past and present opposition towards Me, otherwise it would be unable to go astray, that is, it would not have to fear the banishment into matter, into the creations of the new earth.

Only your resistance determines your destiny, your fate after the end of this earth, for as soon as you abandon it you will turn to Me and then you will also belong to My Own, whom I want to save before the end arrives. Everything related to an 'end of the old earth' is incomprehensible to those of you who have no spiritual bond whatsoever, and you will never believe that the time has come when every individual person has to make a decision for life or death .... You will have to make the decision; no-one can be spared from it. And you should not assume that you are safe, that the end of this 'creation work earth' is yet to take a long time .... The end will come sooner than you think .... precisely because the time is fulfilled. And I Myself Am steadfast in My Nature, I Am steadfast in My reign and activity, and I Am steadfast in My Word. And so, what I have told you must also come to pass, that My plan will be implemented when the time has come .... And the fact that it has come can be seen by the many signs which I brought to your attention, which I pointed out every time I mentioned the end of this earth .... He who has ears to hear, let him hear .... He who has eyes to see, let him see .... But you humans do not want to hear and see. And thus I cannot reveal Myself more plainly in order to compel you into believing. But My warnings will not stop until the day has come. And blessed are those who believe My Word, who live their life in accordance with this belief and unite themselves with Me in love and trust .... For they will be saved for time and eternity, I will take care of them in every earthly and spiritual adversity, and never again will they have to fear an end because I will remove them before the hour of horror and will indeed allow them to observe the process of destruction, but only in order to let them recognise My might and magnificence and to testify to them on the new earth, where all suffering will be over and where they will be allowed to experience the happiness of paradise. The time is fulfilled, and it will come to pass as it has been proclaimed, for My Word is and forever will remain truth ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Earth life task: transformation to love

Perfection .... divine order .... love ....

B.D. 3559 from September 26th 1945, taken from Book No. 45

What has shaped itself into love is one with God .... And since the union with God is the human being's aim on earth and the aim of all spiritual substances in the beyond, the working of love on earth as well as in the beyond has to be divine law which has to be complied with. But where this law is contravened the distance from God is great, and it can only be reduced by the being itself by placing it under the law of love. God's love also expresses itself in unchanging order, and the spiritual being which is lovingly active will always remain in this order. If the law is overturned, this will also result in a state of disorder, chaos and finally decay. This can be observed on earth in times when people's thinking has become loveless, as well as in the spiritual kingdom where disorder also has an effect on the state of the souls which dwell in darkness. The essence of love must be recognized in order to understand that without love nothing perfect can be, nothing harmonious and nothing happy. God is love, and what wants to enter into association with God must likewise be love, otherwise it does not move in the order which was the basis of the created from the beginning, for what arose from God's love could not show anything imperfect, and perfection is synonymous with perfect order. And thus the life of the human being on earth as well as that of the soul in the beyond must follow its course according to perfect order, then it will also be guided by unselfish love, it will have love activity as its fundamental principle, and thus the being will approach the original state, it will shape itself into love again and can unite with God Who is love in Himself. Divine origin can only be recognized in loving activity, then the strength from God, which is the original substance of all creation, is predominant, whereas a loveless life reveals a will turned away from God, the origin of which was from God's adversary. His endeavour is and will eternally remain the dissolution of order, thus a separation from God of that which has come forth from God, which means complete disorder and imperfection. Therefore, where love is disregarded, where disorder and chaos prevail, there the regime of the one who opposes God is also recognizable .... There the affiliation to him is proven whose will used the strength from God to work against God. And there the union with God can never take place, because beings without love could never bear the presence of God, because they have completely stepped out of divine order, because they don't bow down to the law of eternity, which demands perfection and acknowledgement of the law giver, otherwise it will be banished into the utmost distance as being contrary to God. God's love is unchanging, and thus His law is also unchanging, which has its foundation in love. And everything unkind will remain separated from God until it has shaped itself into love again. Only then can the union take place with the original ground of love .... with God ....

Amen

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Transforming from God's creature to God's child ....

B.D. 5145 from June 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I want to draw you humans to Myself, I want to make real children out of you who have so far only been My creatures. Do you know what this means that you, being imperfect, are to be transformed into divine beings so that you can take up the father's inheritance and create and work with Me in the same will for your own bliss? .... Do you know that this is a work for which I certainly help you in constant love and willingness but which you must accomplish yourselves through your will? This is a work which does not require My omnipotence but your own participation, otherwise you could certainly become spiritually elevated beings but not My children who, as My image, have to be like Me in everything, who have to deify themselves and therefore had to cover an extremely long course of development in order to prove this transformation of the living creation into the father's child in earthly life as a human being. But such a divinization does not happen in any other way than through love .... There is no other means, no other way than to kindle the fire of love in earthly life and thereby melt away everything that is still ungodly and still separates the creature from Me .... All realization, all knowledge and all faith without love is dead and without success for the human being's spiritual development, for a deification of the soul cannot take place through it, and love cannot be replaced by intellectual wisdom or traditional faith .... Love alone makes you gods, for it is My nature, and thus My image has to be love like Me. But love can also be inherent in the most primitive thinker and will lead far faster to the aim than the most highly developed intellect which is not paired with love. Therefore, science is not one step ahead where spiritual development is concerned, for the human being only has the final knowledge, the knowledge of spiritual truth, when he is instructed by the spirit as a result of a life of love, whereas a true 'child of God' does not need this wisdom on earth in order to reach his aim, yet upon his entry into the spiritual kingdom he is in fullest knowledge in a flash. For love alone shapes the human being into My right child, but wisdom only emerges from love and will then also only address the human being as wisdom, whereas before the human being can indeed possess a wealth of knowledge which his intellect has gained and yet not be permeated by this knowledge as long as his spirit cannot work in him. Every person's serious endeavour should be to attain childship to God, for My child will lack nothing for eternity, My child is so close to My heart that I constantly feed it with My strength of love, that I provide it with everything it needs both physically and spiritually. I take part in all its thoughts and feelings and continuously draw it to Me, I turn its gaze upwards and protect it from the enemy's attacks. I follow its every step and make sure that it does not go astray, because through its love it has become Mine for eternity .... Although My living creation also emerged from My hand, a true child is nevertheless much closer to Me, for its love is what indissolubly chains it to Me, whereas My living creation no longer knows this love, indeed, for this reason it has to travel the infinitely long earthly path in order to shape itself into love again for the purpose of closest union with Me. In your earthly life you humans shall fulfil this great task, you shall practice love until your being has become love itself in order to then rightfully be able to face Me as a child which calls its father and is heard by Him. And then He will also grant all requests, for He will not let His child call in vain. Then you will be so close to the father's heart that He Himself will be in you, that He will fill you with His strength of love and you will feel the divinity within yourselves, that you will already be able to work on earth as true children, that you will be permeated by light and strength, i.e. that you will also radiate much love and wisdom to your fellow human beings and the union with the father will be easily recognizable. Then you can also successfully serve Me as My children on earth, for then you will only do what is also your spiritual work in the beyond .... you proclaim My gospel to fellow human beings who are of good will and will lead many to eternal life ....

Amen

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Serious reminder and indication of the end ....

B.D. 7298 from March 4th 1959, taken from Book No. 77

The turn of the world is still preceded by much misery, for people still have to be severely touched beforehand because they go along in the frenzy of worldly pleasure and make no effort to prepare themselves for the near end, for their own end as well as for the end of the earth, which is immensely significant for every single human being. It is no longer a long time but people do not believe it and work and create as if they still had eternally long times ahead of them where they or their descendants can reap the fruits of their labour .... But no one will attain the blessing of what he tries to build with effort and sacrifice. Everything will take the course of the earthly, it will fall prey to destruction, in whatever way that may happen. Even the coming natural disaster can deprive you of all earthly possessions, insofar as you humans have your dwelling place in the area of this natural occurrence. But even those who will survive it unscathed will no longer have a long life span, and their possessions will also face ruin, for the end will follow not long after, and nothing will be spared from this end .... And if you humans seriously think about it, then your effort and work should not be in proportion to the benefit of what you create for yourselves, because you yourselves don't know how long you will be beneficiaries, on the other hand you know exactly that once the death of your body is certain. Although you don't want to believe that actual life will only begin after that .... But you should nevertheless reckon with it and prepare yourselves, and you will truly do well and gain far more than earthly possessions can mean to you. The time ahead of you cannot be called a time of rest, every single one of you will be affected by all kinds of strokes of fate so that you will not sink into rest, which for you is equal to the rest of death, for you should be and remain vigilant and again and again be reminded of the upheaval you have to expect. You should not attach your heart to earthly matter, again and again you should think of death, and therefore you will also experience much around you with your fellow human beings if it does not concern you yourselves which should and will make you think if you are of serious and good will to cover the path across earth in God's will and to fulfil your purpose of earthly life. Then you will be addressed by Him again and again, for He wants to help you to still reach the right goal before the end comes; He wants to assist you in the battle against the world and in the work you should do on your soul during the short time you still have left until the end. And the coming time cannot be a time of rest for people but they have to be stirred up again and again and kept in restlessness and worry so that they will not slacken but again and again think of their own death, which can quickly befall anyone. What happens is not by chance; it is all based on God's will, Who in turn intervenes according to the will of the human being where it is necessary. And He will still often intervene in a painful way, for the human being's soul shall not be lost but still arise to life as long as it still lives on earth. But every human being's hour of death can already be the next day, the human being himself does not know it, but he should reckon with it and do everything to be so prepared that he gladly and joyfully gives up earthly life in order to exchange it for a joyful and free existence in the spiritual kingdom. The time is serious and no-one should take it lightly, everyone should work on himself and his soul and put earthly worries aside, for everything will work itself out for the person of good will as soon as he puts the spiritual goal before his earthly endeavours, but he will never be blessed who only desires the world and creates without ceasing for this world .... He will lose everything and also himself, for his soul will return into the darkness from which it should rise ....

Amen

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Change of nature into love with the help of Jesus Christ ....

B.D. 8019 from October 15th 1961, taken from Book No. 84

Your path of earthly life as a human being is the last short phase of your process of development from the deepest abyss into higher spheres .... But whether it will lead to completion is determined by you in your human state where free will has been returned to you, which you must use correctly in order to attain final perfection. Hence you bear great responsibility since you decide your fate for an infinitely long time of constraint again or for life in eternity .... With a correctly inclined will you can become free of every external form when you leave your earthly body; but you can also enter the hardest external form once more if you abuse your freedom of will, if you don't make full use of your life on earth, if you don't accomplish the transformation of your nature which must become love again, as it was in the beginning ....

This transformation of your nature into love is the only purpose for your life on earth as a human being and it is possible for you to achieve this work of transformation because I will truly help you in every way .... For I long for My living creations to return to Me as 'children' and will truly do everything within My power to enable them to reach their goal .... but I will not enslave their will .... They must return to Me of their own free will, just as they once left Me and thereby plunged into the abyss. I take all weaknesses and faults into account, I help where you humans are too weak on your own; I reveal Myself to you so that you will learn to recognise and love Me; I shower you with an unlimited measure of grace which you need only make use of in order to enable you to become victorious in earthly life .... For you must wage battle against My adversary who refuses to let go of you but who likewise cannot determine your free will if it turns away from him .... You must fight against all instincts and cravings which still cling to your soul .... you must firmly want to move forward and to successfully complete your path of earthly life .... You must long for Me and, truly, I will come to meet you and draw you close to Me and never let you go again. For I love you and yearn for your return to Me ....

You need never fear that you will lack the strength for your perfection, because One acquired it for you through His death on the cross .... Jesus Christ, Who redeemed you from sin and death .... And this One wants to bestow the blessings of His act of Salvation upon you and is waiting for you merely to request them, to also want Him to have redeemed your guilt of sin, and for you to appeal to Him to strengthen your will in order to accomplish the transformation work into love on earth .... As soon as you turn to Him you also acknowledge Me again and your return to Me will be assured, your return into your Father's house which you once left voluntarily ....

You can truly reach the final goal during your short life on earth if only you acknowledge Jesus Christ as Redeemer of the world, Who sheltered Me Myself in all abundance .... Through this acknowledgement and the plea for forgiveness of your guilt, your original sin of apostasy from Me will be redeemed .... because the human being Jesus died on the cross in order to atone for the great guilt with His blood for the sake of justice ....

You would never have been able to remove this guilt and make

Amends for it yourselves, this is why I Myself died in the human being Jesus on the cross, because only love was able to absolve such guilt, which Jesus, the man, mustered for His suffering brothers and which so permeated Him that He took all suffering and pain upon Himself .... But I Myself was this Love .... And therefore the path to Me was cleared for you humans again, so that you can return into your Father's house; I can accept you again as My children because your guilt has been redeemed by Jesus if you acknowledge Him and thus Me in Him, for He and I are one .... Anyone who calls upon Him, calls upon Me, and anyone who may behold Him one day will behold Me face to face ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Spiritual turning point of the individual still on earth

Spiritual turn ....

B.D. 7616 from June 5th 1960, taken from Book No. 80

The spiritual turning point can soon be expected but no longer on this earth. Individual souls can certainly still be saved, they can be induced to leave My adversary's camp and cross over into My camp, but they will only ever be a few for whose sake I will also delay the end, even though the spiritual low has already occurred which justifies the end of the old earth. But I have fixed the day and therefore I will not accomplish the work of transformation of the old earth an hour earlier than it has been planned since eternity .... And with the end of the old earth a new time also dawns .... Then the spiritual turning point will have occurred and everything will again move in the righteous order which corresponds to My law. And all people will then also be spirit-filled, for the inhabitants of the new earth will then be in a state of maturity that My spirit can constantly overflow into their hearts. They live in and with Me, I Myself can instruct them, I can speak to them, I am in the midst of My children and all live a right and righteous life in paradise on the new earth .... This spiritual turning point is imminent .... Even if I still delay, but the time has approached, and the time limit is only short until the appointed day. But you still have a time limit, and you should make good use of it, for no matter how short it is, every individual can still achieve spiritual progress, and every individual can prepare himself to belong to those who may live the paradisiacal life on the new earth, as I have promised you. You should know that every day you work with love will bring you unimagined wealth; you should know that I accept everyone who calls upon Me and also grant him the strength to accomplish the work of transformation in himself .... And you should believe that you are close to the end of the old earth, that the day will come sooner than you think. And according to these words you should now live, i.e. shape your being into love, and you will have done everything and can then look forward to the end with great peace of mind .... Just let love flare up in you and know that you thereby unite with Me and that you can never ever get lost in your connection with Me. Make the spiritual change in yourselves before the end, turn back on the path you are now walking on .... if you have not yet taken the spiritual path. Let yourselves be called by Me and reminded to remember the end, and then eagerly start working on your soul .... Connect yourselves with Me in thought and don't sever this bond, for then you will be saved, even if the end comes suddenly and unexpectedly, if you are called away beforehand or even if you still experience the day itself .... But then you can no longer get lost, you will have taken the path home into the father's house, and you will reach your aim on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond if you have to leave earth first. But change yourselves and your nature into love .... I urgently call upon you who have not yet seriously thought about your purpose on earth, who walk your earthly path without Me and are therefore in greatest danger of losing yourselves completely to My adversary. There is still a short period of time, words of love still sound to you again and again which admonish and warn you .... But it will soon be over, and then irrevocable judgment will come, irrevocable the last day will come and the responsibility for each one of you. For I restore the order which is law from eternity, and that also means the end of the old earth, the end of a redemption period and the beginning of a new one .... It means an earthly and a spiritual turning point .... a new earth and a new heaven will arise, as it is proclaimed in word and scripture ...._>Amen

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End time .... sign .... averting the judgement ....

B.D. 3223 from August 16th 1944, taken from Book No. 42

The turn of time will be marked by world events, as it is written. But the spiritual condition (of man) is the cause of everything that happens. Earthly events are only the effect of the spiritual decline, i.e., the spiritual low determines all events which take place on earth because all people have to be the ones to suffer in order to achieve a still possible improvement of their spiritual nature. And you have to recognize the spiritual low from the hardship and affliction on earth, from the atrocities which are caused by people, from the immense destructions which also express human will, and thus you have to make sure that it is first remedied before you can expect earthly events and circumstances to take a tolerable form for you. Suffering can only subside if every individual person strives to steer his life in a God-pleasing direction, if he endeavours to work on himself and his soul and is willing to lead a life of love. Only then will the earthly tribulation subside and an improvement will occur. The last days have begun and will not last much longer, a spiritual blossoming on this earth can no longer be expected, for humanity does not recognize the low it is living in and therefore does not change either. And yet, the individual should make an effort to save himself and his soul before the end has come. The individual can certainly carry out this spiritual change, he need only want to increase his knowledge and fulfil his purpose of earthly life, he need only not completely oppose God by being accessible to the instructions imparted to him by God's messengers, and he will be richly blessed, for God's help is assured to anyone who thinks correctly and only has the will to come to Him. And that is why God has repeatedly pointed to the end time through seers and prophets, He has drawn people's attention to the signs so that the individual will become perceptive, recognize the truth of what is written and now also take to heart everything that is imparted to him through God's love. For everyone is responsible for himself; and even if the whole world corrupts and perishes, the individual can save himself from it, he can escape the inevitable judgment because he can determine himself, because he can take the path to God as soon as his will impels him to do so. And his will is free .... he can just as well turn towards God as he can turn away from Him .... And this is why the human being should recognize the great danger his soul is in by the signs of the end time if it does not change before the end has come. For this reason God does not specify an exact time so that the human being will immediately start the work of transformation; for this reason he will be afflicted by suffering and affliction so that he will become thoughtful and can now be offered the opportunity to attain realization. For only the thinking person can be instructed, otherwise every instruction will only sound in the ear ....

Only a short time will pass until the end, yet this time can still be well utilized if the human being is seriously willing to reach his aim. He can progress very quickly, he can make use of the increased blessings of the end time and thereby mature in a far shorter time, however, he must strive diligently and put his spiritual development before all earthly striving. He has to work on himself as if he would be called away from earth every day; he has to entrust himself to all good forces and allow himself to be guided by them, so to speak; he has to be devoted to God with heartfelt love and extraordinarily loving towards his neighbour. Then he will also be able to avert the judgment for himself insofar as he will belong to the chosen ones who will be raptured before the end of the world. Countless people will be made aware of their wrong way of life, they will be informed of the approaching end but they will not pay attention to the information and the end will come as a surprise to them, for they pay no attention to the signs of the times, they are only earthly-minded and not accessible to spiritual instruction. Consequently, they are also not concerned about their salvation because they deny life after death. And it is these who bring about the end, who are so spiritually backward that one can rather speak of a retrogression than of a standstill, and who therefore give immediate cause for a transformation of earth. For since they do not establish any spiritual connection with good forces they are open to the work of evil forces whose aim is to remove such souls from God. And these forces are successful, for all people's thoughts and aspirations are only the increase of earthly possessions, the well-being of the body and worldly joys and pleasures. And therefore this earth ceases to exist in its present form, and although people themselves are not directly involved in its destruction they are nevertheless the cause of it, because their way of life completely contradicts God's will and therefore the time has come which brings an end to their life ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning point .... right attitude towards God ....

B.D. 1791 from January 28th 1941, taken from Book No. 27

The upheaval that will take place both spiritually and earthly is so enormous that we can speak of a turning point in time. The attitude of the whole of humanity towards God has brought it about that a divine intervention can now be expected. There is the necessity of a free decision of men; they must come into such trouble that they are forced to approach a higher being for help, provided they still have a little faith in this highest being in them. And now it will be decided who still has enough faith to take refuge in a higher power .... The right attitude towards God is the only decisive factor in life on earth. And humanity is now in the greatest danger because its attitude towards God is tantamount to rejection. Only something that touches them exceptionally can make them find the right attitude towards Him. And this will always be a turning point in the life of the individual when he spiritually awakens, i.e. when he comes into closer contact with the eternal deity through conscious reflection on infinity and its creator or by calling upon the highest God-being for help. God-willed is the right relationship with Him established of his own accord, that the human being seeks and struggles for realization, that he tries to come close to his creator. However, where the human being's own impulse is lacking, God wants to come to his aid by directing his destiny such that he needs help and is then prompted to turn to Him for help, so that the connection between the human being and God is also established, even if only as a result of an emergency situation. However, the human being's thoughts are always directed into other directions, and this alone is a spiritual turning point, for the human being effectively distances himself from earthly things and pays more attention to the unfathomable .... he ponders the meaning and purpose of existence, he gains a different view of his life and yet his thoughts wander into the realm of the eternal. And now it will again be decisive to what extent earthly hardship stimulates people to love each other .... spiritual realization will be correspondingly important, for anyone who shows love to his fellow human being will also receive God's love and draw him to Himself. And that is why earthly adversity must always result in a certain change of thinking, because it can only be remedied through loving activity. And this is the last means God can use in order to educate humanity to love, thus enabling it to progress spiritually ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Last decision of will for God

Individual's decision of will ....

B.D. 6654 from September 26th 1956, taken from Book No. 71

It is every individual person's task to still reach the last aim on earth, but it is only fulfilled by a few. Every human being stands isolated in creation, even though he has contact with his fellow human beings; but everyone has to pursue his development of ascent for himself, he can only find loving support, but his own will is always a prerequisite. And this will is what earthly life is about .... The will can indeed be stimulated in many ways to take a certain direction but it cannot be forcibly determined to do so .... And it can often be influenced and yet it decides differently, and it renders all influences ineffective. But the decision of will alone is what matters in earthly life, which every human being has to make for himself. Hence there are two aims which the human being on earth can strive for .... the world, earthly matter, the goods which are transient, or the spiritual kingdom, which also reveals itself to people on earth but, because it is not visible or tangible, is mostly overlooked. Both aims are known to people, it is just that the spiritual aim is very often unbelievable to people, even though they are presented with knowledge about it .... Therefore the choice is not easy when it concerns visible and invisible goods for which the human being should decide. And he usually chooses what is visible and tangible to him and completely ignores the other aim. But his will is free .... There is therefore only one possibility to disparage in his eyes the goods that appear desirable to him .... to present them as pseudo-goods without value, as impermanent and illusory .... on the other hand, to emphasize the spiritual goods as solely valuable and permanent. Man cannot be forced to think rightly, but it is possible for him to do so .... And just as little can he be forced to think wrongly .... He is free to do both, he has to make the decision all by himself, because this decision also determines his later life in the spiritual kingdom. And therefore he is approached by the most diverse experiences which are all suitable to guide his thinking into the right direction, but opposing influences are not left out either .... And the human being is often forced to make decisions which he has to make himself. And now only his innermost attitude towards God is decisive .... If the human being only has a little faith in a God and creator then he will also feel that he belongs to Him and make the right decision .... But if he lacks this faith, then God's adversary will have the upper hand and the human being will decide in his favour. Only faith in God must be present, then the right decision is certain. But precisely this faith is not often present because humanity is on a low spiritual level, thus it is still in bondage to God's adversary who would like to stifle all realization, all knowledge of a God of eternity in people. Yet God constantly ensures that this knowledge is conveyed to people, and anyone of good will also knows that he is united with a power Which gave him life. And his will will also certainly turn to this power .... It is possible for every human being to come to this realization that a 'higher power' rules the world and that he himself is dependent on this power. But not every human being accepts this realization. There are many who close their minds to every reasonable explanation, who do not want to be subject to a power and who can therefore easily be ruled by God's adversary .... But their will is free .... And thus every individual person's decision remains a matter of free will, and eternal life depends on this decision .... the earthly or the spiritual world will dominate thinking, i.e., God or His adversary has an influence on the human being but the human being himself determines his lord .... And thus it will certainly also be possible for the human being to reach the final aim if only his will is correctly directed .... to God, Who will then also provide him with strength which, however, he will lack if he allows himself to be controlled by God's adversary ....

Amen

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Final decision in the battle of faith ....

B.D. 8699 from December 14th 1963, taken from Book No. 91

You, who belong to My church founded by Me Myself, who stand in living faith and make an effort to lead a life in love, you will also be able to pass the last faith struggle; you will hold out until the end, because you draw power out of your walk of life, which however will be lacking to those who are only christians according to form and who certainly also can belong to a church, but who do not show the landmarks of My church: the work of the spirit in man. Because My right followers are mentally completely differently aligned like the followers of that church, who certainly also received knowledge through their education or through teachings, but who just only heard with the ears, but the heart remained untouched by it and that is why they also have taken no stand on the spiritual material offered to them. But the followers of My church are such men who live in love and through it reach a living faith, who inwardly occupy themselves with spiritual thought material and whose thoughts were just clarified through love in them, so that they move in truth and that is why also their souls will be strong and powerful when the last faith struggle is waged. Only this last faith struggle will bring the separation, only in the last faith struggle it will emerge who is alive, because the form christians will give away their faith without hesitation, because in reality they have possessed none, were only outwardly members of an organisation, but which disintegrates in itself when it will be about the last decision .... This can only ever be presented to you humans that you should seriously take a stand on the thought material which you receive in the traditional way .... you should just once seriously think about whether and what you can really believe or whether you are just followers without your own judgment .... It is important that you think about it because in the coming faith struggle it will prove, and you will quickly fall away and give up all faith in a God and creator, and that will be your ruin. But if you think about it before, then you can still search for truth; you can use other spiritual material for comparison and make some decision. Just do not go through your life completely indifferently, and seek to stimulate yourselves to love work, because the more you ignite love in you, the sooner you come to the recognition, why you walk over earth. You will always have opportunities to carry out works of love, and do you always comply with your inner urge, do you listen to the voice of conscience in you, then you always approach more and more the church, which I founded Myself on earth, even if you belong to an organisation founded by men, which is only then of value for you when you obey the teaching, which every church or school of thought represents: that you fulfil the love commandments first .... Then you can always feel to belong to My church, because then also soon your faith will become a living one, and your thinking will clarify itself, because then the spirit in you is awakened to life through love. Again and again I call upon you to become members of My church by attaining a living faith through love, as Peter had it .... Such faith is like a rock, it will not be able to be shaken, no matter how fierce the onslaught against it may be. It is My strength which keeps the person strong who lets faith come alive in him .... And only those will be able to stand in the faith struggle, only those will endure the tribulations and persevere until the end because they are strengthened by the power of faith and defy all attacks .... And ask yourselves once how far you would be able to withstand if the decision for or against Me were seriously demanded of you .... if you were to give up your faith in Me in Jesus and were threatened with the harshest punishments .... Then only a strong, living faith can give you the certainty that I am stronger than every earthly ruler, than every man who belongs to My adversary. Then you will fear no-one in this world and hand yourselves over to Me in complete trust, and I will protect you. I Myself will come in the clouds and take you away when the hour has come, and you will be victorious and be able to enjoy the fruits of your faith on the new earth .... For through your living faith you are so intimately united with Me that I can truly also dwell among you, because your intimate love for Me allows this .... And through your faith you will become blessed ...._>Amen

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

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

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

Amen

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Submission of the will to God’s will

Conscious turning of the will towards God ....

B.D. 8233 from August 4th 1962, taken from Book No. 87

I give you what you need for your pilgrimage on this earth, so that you can cover it successfully and your soul can reach maturity. For I alone know what its nature is and what you need for its perfection. Nevertheless, your free will cannot be ignored, and thus it has to accept and make use of My grace. The fact that you humans possess free will is very often doubted because the human being himself is unable to shape his earthly life according to his will and therefore denies the freedom of will. And time and again it has to be explained to you that your will is not forcibly influenced, even if the possibility of execution is not present, yet you will always determine your will and thinking yourselves, and the innermost will and thinking cannot be prescribed to you from any side. And you must answer for this willing and thinking. And if this will is seriously directed towards Me and the attainment of your soul's maturity then you can also be certain that you will achieve it, and then you will also accept My gifts of grace and use them correctly, and your perfection will be assured. How your earthly life will turn out is certainly determined by My will, Who recognizes which situation in life will result in the greatest success for you. And I will always intervene in your earthly life according to your direction of will, in the realization that help must be brought to you if you are inclined to take the wrong path .... But there is a very certain way for you to safely ascend: if you completely subordinate your will to Mine, if you therefore acknowledge Me Myself as the power Which brought you into being and are willing to completely subordinate yourselves to this power, if you completely surrender your own free will to Me and then can no longer think and want differently than it is My will, and then your life's destiny will also move on a calmer course. But then you will also accept My gifts of grace and know that they will only be a blessing for you. You will want Me to feed and water you with the bread of heaven, with the water of life, for you desire the right food and the right drink because you still feel ill and weak as long as you don't receive the right nourishment for your soul from Me. And if your will no longer resists it you will let yourselves be illuminated by Me again as you once were, and a light will ignite in you, you will gain knowledge, your spiritual poverty will disappear, you will gather spiritual possessions and your soul will become strong and healthy, because the right physician will give it the right medicine and thus you will have to mature and fulfil the purpose on earth .... You receive My word and will now also become doers of My word and not just remain hearers .... you will endeavour to live a life of love according to My will, for My word announces My will to you, and as soon as you completely hand yourselves over to Me you also completely enter into My will .... You will again insert yourselves into My law of order, you make the principle of love your own, and you now accomplish the change of being .... you become what you were from the beginning and return to Me as My children in free will .... And thus your purpose of existence as a human being truly only consists of giving Me your will, of inwardly professing Me, of distancing yourselves from My adversary who also wants to gain your will for himself during your earthly existence .... But it is entirely up to you who you choose, he cannot force you and I will not force you .... you must choose for yourselves the lord to whom you want to belong .... Time and again I can only try to influence you through life situations or strokes of fate to take the path to the One from Whom you once originated, and I truly help you time and again to learn to think correctly, I send My messengers of light towards you who also try to influence your will without, however, forcing it .... Only the voluntary return to Me will earn you eternal life in eternity, and the purpose of your earthly existence is solely the turning of your will towards Me .... And therefore I will also reveal Myself to you humans time and again in the most diverse ways, for as soon as you recognize a God and creator above you Who called you into being, you will also give up your inner resistance which kept you separated from Me for an infinitely long time .... For then I will already be able to illuminate you with My strength of love so that you will now also recognize Me as father and come to Me like children, because you are inwardly urged to unite with Me in order to stay with Me forever, in order to live in bliss ....

Amen

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Submitting one's will to God's will ....

B.D. 7892 from May 13th 1961, taken from Book No. 82

I require your complete submission to My will. For as soon as you become completely absorbed in My will, you will not be able to think and feel any differently than My will intends, and then you will live in such as way that pleases Me. Thus you must give yourselves to Me, you must accept everything from Me as inflicted upon you or bestowed upon you, you must recognise My hand in everything you experience and know that everything has its meaning and purpose, that everything belongs to your path of destiny which aims to achieve your maturity and is based on My love and wisdom. Then you will no longer grumble and complain, you will humbly give in and allow yourselves to be guided like a child by the Father Who cannot handle you in any other way than good and loving and to Whom you can therefore also entrust yourselves in every adversity of body and soul. In the past your will turned away from Me .... if you now voluntarily submit your will to Mine again, your return will have been accomplished and you will only need to shape yourselves in earthly life such that your union with Me can take place, and this necessitates a heart full of love uniting itself with the Eternal Love in order to complete the final return as a child to the Father. However, submitting your will to Mine also guarantees every conceivable help on My part to achieve this unification with Me, because I Myself very much want you, My living creations, to return to Me as children to your Father. And since I let everything .... the whole of Creation .... arise for the sake of this return, I will always be willing to further this .... thus I will respond to your every expression of will, and this truly in a richly blessed way, if it applies to Me. Then you will also always recognise My will in yourselves, you will do what is helpful for your soul; you will work at improving yourselves and avoid all sinful longings, you will fight all temptations by the enemy of your soul and prevail, because your heartfelt devotion to Me will provide you with strength from Me. Then your life on earth will truly not be a waste of time, because you will recognise its meaning and purpose and thus fulfil your task on earth of attaining spiritual maturity. Nevertheless, you will have to struggle until the end of your life on earth, because My adversary will not give up on you so easily, since he will still believe that he can win you back, and thus he will not stop harassing you .... However, a will which is inclined towards Me also guarantees you influx of strength, for I will not let My child fall into My adversary's hands again once it has turned away from him and taken refuge in Me because it had recognised Me as its God and Father of eternity. Therefore you need not be afraid that I might ever abandon you, don't be scared of the moments of weakness you will experience time and again .... I Myself watch over you and protect you from regressing into the abyss, I will not allow the adversary to gain power over you, I will always walk by your side, even if you don't see Me .... in order to protect you and to safeguard you from all harm which threatens you from My adversary's side. He cannot hurt you anymore as soon as you have found your way back to Me, which is demonstrated by your will being inclined towards Me .... For then your earthly life will only be spiritually oriented, you will deliberately detach yourselves from that which belongs to My adversary, even if you are still living within the field of your earthly duties and have to prove yourselves in them .... From then on you will receive all your strength from Me which will tie you to Me ever more firmly .... And because you will have returned to Me voluntarily and he will not have been able to force your will, My adversary will have lost his claim on you. This is why no-one can go astray if he believes in Me and strives towards Me in thought or through kind-hearted activity, which always presupposes the will for Me and testifies to the passed test of will on earth .... Complete dedication to Me also includes submission to My will, and then you will belong to Me and I will never ever let go of you ....

Amen

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God’s help for the earthly path

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

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Constant help from God ....

B.D. 7447 from November 5th 1959, taken from Book No. 78

From Me all means are at your disposal to be able to become blessed .... From Me there is no restriction of grace, no adherence to My radiance of love, there is no resetting of My creatures and also no diminution of My love .... You can receive everything from Me in the richest measure if only you want it yourselves, if you willingly and joyfully gratefully accept all My gifts of grace and work with them. And you could already achieve the highest perfection on earth if only you always set Me Myself as your aim, which you strive for, and if your will only ever remained directed towards Me, that you conform to Me as long as you live on earth. Hence it is only a matter of striving spiritually, of trying to reach Me, of recognizing your own imperfection and always striving to reach perfection .... of trying to change your nature in order to bring your nature into line with Mine again, as it was in the beginning. And My infinite love, which wants nothing more than for you to achieve this alignment again, guarantees that you will be able to do so. For it promises you undreamed-of glories in the spiritual kingdom after the death of your body. And since I Myself want your perfection I will truly provide you with all the means to achieve it. And thus you will be carried, as it were, and you need only apply no resistance, you need only do everything you feel inwardly urged to do, because this is My gentle voice which wants to advise and help you. If, however, you offer inner resistance by overhearing the voice within you or act against this voice, then your transformation into love will still take a long time .... But then you yourselves will always determine the state you are in, because from My side only that happens which lets you mature, which brings you upwards in your spiritual development. And now the love within you is decisive, which you show to Me Myself and, as proof of this love, also to your neighbour. Where love has ignited in the heart the human being will also gladly follow the instructions which are sent to him from My side .... where love is, My love will also be felt beneficially and reciprocate the love which the human being is allowed to feel again and again on the part of his God and father .... Where love is present there is also no lack of strength to tackle the soul's work of transformation, and where love is present I Myself am present and help where the human being's will is too weak. I will never make your course of development more difficult, even if it sometimes seems as if I have placed obstacles in your path .... I know what is best for your soul, and I am always willing to help it in spiritual adversity. And earthly hardship is sometimes only there to remedy spiritual hardship, earthly hardship shall lead the human being closer to the father's heart, because everything is successful which prompts the human being into a heartfelt bond with Me. I constantly draw My child to Me out of pure love, but I cannot do more than its love for Me can bear .... And if My love were to shine upon the human being with all its strength, then the fire of My love would burn the child as long as its soul has not reached the degree of maturity that it can also endure the strongest fire of love without perishing .... But it can reach this state, and I truly do everything as father in order to be able to make My child endlessly happy for once, and it will also receive all help from Me in order to lead it to that happiness and beatitude which is granted to it for all eternity ....

Amen

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God's mercy on the spiritual poverty of the world ....

B.D. 8817 from June 22nd 1964, taken from Book No. 93

Where My eye looks there I see the downfall, with exception of the few who believe in Me and whose senses are spiritually directed. But the majority no longer has faith in Me, why also earth life is useless and therefore has to be broken off, what I already saw from eternity and therefore could also determine the end. You men can no longer expect a spiritual ascent, and no matter whether always only few turn towards Me, but measured by the immense number of the rest, it is only a small part of those who stand firm in faith in Me and will pass the last faith struggle. And all who believe in My love, wisdom and omnipotence, who let Me speak to them .... All those whom I can instruct directly or through My messengers will receive strength from Me to endure the final battle. Yet My mercy applies to all others, for no matter what I undertake I will not succeed in persuading people to believe in Me, for people's 'wisdom' is too high, they do not recognize Me and place their worldly wisdom ahead of the believers' knowledge, they do not recognize anything which opposes this worldly wisdom. And My adversary has his accomplices everywhere who try to negate everything that is supplied to them as truth, who guide their intellect such that it will not accept anything that corresponds to truth. Through densest error men go there, but they also do not desire truth, and that is why it also cannot be offered to them .... The earth has stopped to serve its purpose, and that is why it must experience a total upheaval, which ends with the new banishment of men, who oppose Me, who fail in their last earth life test and are so far away from Me that they must again put back the course through material creation. And before that I will still fetch into the kingdom on the other side, who are not yet completely lost to Me, who are certainly weak in faith, who would not get through the last faith struggle. I still prove Myself to them as a benevolent God Who does not demand the last test of them because they would not pass it, but Who nevertheless gives them the opportunity in the beyond to still find Me there in Jesus Christ, Who alone can redeem their guilt of sin .... But to you men, who believe in Me, I will always send deeper revelations to you, because the time becomes more and more difficult, the opponent becomes more and more intrusive, and you truly need proofs of My love and favour; your faith is to be strengthened, and you are to experience unusual things and therefore recognize Me more and more clearly, so that it is easy for you to have a firm faith, which now will also withstand all challenges of the opponent. But whatever will come, you do not need to be afraid because provided with My power also the most difficult will become easy for you, but then you will exchange your earth life for life in paradise of the new earth, which is given to you to stay after the reshaping of the old earth, and you will receive the reward for the loyal holding out in the last faith struggle. But still seek to win; still seek to announce the gospel; still seek to supply Me with all who let themselves be won for Me and My word, because every soul will thank you, which you supply to Me, and every soul will be spared the fate of the new banishment, which is accessible to truth out of Me and then will also be overjoyed to have found the father in Me, who cares about every soul ....

Amen

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Utilizing the time of grace

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

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

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

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

Amen

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Gathering strength ahead of the chaos ....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Exploiting the end time .... soulwork ....

B.D. 3639 from December 28th 1945, taken from Book No. 46

Your earthly life will only last a short time, and thus you must use every day and every hour for the perfection of your souls, for when the hour of the end has come you will be judged according to your soul's work on earth. You, who will lose your earthly life before the last end, are not given much more time, and therefore you will constantly be reminded of this so that you don't become lukewarm in your soul's work .... You can still make great spiritual progress in a short time if you pay attention to the great hardship around you, if you are willing to help and try to alleviate the hardship with unselfish neighbourly love. You can establish an ever more intimate connection with your father of eternity and thereby receive an abundance of grace so that you can mature in a short time and need not fear your physical end. This is why God constantly speaks through His instruments on earth, He announces the end to people, He announces His intervention through the forces of nature, always pointing out to people that they have to reckon with an early demise in order to give them the opportunity to be diligently active and to take care of their spiritual welfare .... And the day is no longer far away .... The knowledgeable should be exceedingly diligent and put spiritual welfare before all earthly concerns. But God Himself instructs the ignorant through adversity by trying to bring Himself close to them again and again, by wanting to motivate people to call upon Him and thus to come to the realization of their weakness, and again and again He sends His messengers towards them to inform them of the forthcoming end. No-one will remain unwarned and unadmonished, everyone will be informed of what is coming in a different way so that they can seriously think about their souls and mature. But whoever leaves this time unused has to expect a hard fate in the beyond and must make up for what he missed on earth, which can take an infinitely long time. Earthly life will not last much longer, for the end is also imminent .... And consider this, you who still cling too much to earthly things, who strive to gain earthly goods and have few spiritual goods to show for yourselves .... Consider that you will have to give up everything in the end and that only spiritual goods make up your wealth, and therefore seek to increase these, earnestly strive for perfection, for wisdom from God, and thereby secure eternal life for yourselves if you have to give up earthly life when and as God has decreed since eternity ....

Amen

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Spiritual turning point .... The approach of night ....

B.D. 6250 from May 5th 1955, taken from Book No. 67

You humans cannot expect a spiritual revival on this earth anymore, for all forces of hell have been let loose which work on My adversary's instructions and truly have immense influence over people, because due to the extent of their own lack of spirituality they don't recognise who is controlling them. A spiritual turning point can no longer take place anymore, yet individual people can still be led onto the right path, individual people will still accomplish a change in themselves, and for the sake of these individuals everything will still be done before the end arrives. However, it will be strikingly obvious how rapidly humanity slides down, how increasingly deeper it descends into darkness and shuns the light .... it will be obvious how brutally the light of truth will be fought against, how much the unbelief comes to the fore, how far away from God people live yet pay homage to My adversary .... And therefore there can be no delay anymore because there is no further prospect that a change will ever take place unless I accomplish this change Myself .... but in a way which is unwanted by humanity .... by putting an end to everything and creating a new beginning .... The time span until the end is exceedingly short yet no-one knows the day, and therefore everyone strives half-heartedly, even My believers don't imagine it to be forthcoming so soon as to diligently work for their souls .... But I keep telling you time and again: You will be approaching it shortly .... I must reiterate this call over and over, I must incite you to be extremely active, I must also ask My servants to do their work ever more eagerly, because it is important and can still save individual people from ruin when the end arrives, which I announced on and on .... Although the events in the world will have to take their natural course, and this also places My Own into a certain state of calm, yet time and again I say to you: The end will arrive suddenly .... the day will dawn unexpectedly and end differently than usual .... it will be followed by an everlasting night and the light of day will only shine again for the few who are and will remain My Own despite the testing hostilities and pursuits by My adversary .... Admittedly, you still have to face the time of the battle of faith yet even this will only last for a short period of time, because it will be extremely fiercely waged, so that the day of My coming to earth will be precipitated by people themselves .... Events will very quickly follow each other and yet appear to people as completely natural occurrences which deserve no special merit .... hence they will not want to associate these events with the shortly approaching end ....

For this reason it will also take My Own by surprise, for I will come like a thief in the night .... because no-one will think of it if the announced event still appears to be far away. If only you humans believed that your attention is merely drawn to it so that you can prepare yourselves .... Your remorse will be painful, for all of you still do far too little for the salvation of your soul. Earthly life was not given to you as an end in itself, and every day could be utilised such that you could attain an incredible abundance of light which will provide you with incomparable beatitude in the spiritual kingdom .... and one day you will realise this and sorrowfully remember the insufficiently used time on earth. But at the time of the end no-one believes or understands it, the prevailing low spiritual level can almost not be thought worse anymore, for you humans are unable to see that which is open before My eyes, you humans must believe what cannot be proven to you, and this also includes the termination of this earthly period, which is of great spiritual significance. You must, if you don't want to believe or think yourselves unable to believe, make an effort to live a life of unselfish love, and then you will feel within yourselves that you are approaching a completely different era .... And you will not go astray, for I take pity on all those who don't entirely belong to My adversary and help them to progress further in the kingdom of the beyond, if their earthly life comes to an end before the Last Judgment .... An extremely dark night is approaching, the day soon comes to an end but as yet there is still light .... you are still able to use the light of the day and ignite a light within yourselves which will never be extinguished again .... And then you need not fear the approaching night ....

But woe to you if you are sluggish .... if you believe that the day will never end .... Woe to you if you live from day to day without considering your soul .... And to those of you who don't fear death because you believe that you will cease to exist .... I say that you will experience death with all its terrors and that you will be unable to escape these terrors .... Then you will no longer be able to discard your life for you cannot cease to exist, you will continue to live even in the state of death, you will have to suffer agonies which you cannot get away from .... For spiritual death is far worse than the death of the body, which can also be your admission into a blissful life .... Listen to My call from above, let yourselves be warned and admonished .... Don't be indifferent and let these Words pass your ears unheeded but vividly imagine the hardship which will await you if you don't give credence to My Words .... You will constantly be able to observe the signs of the end, yet everything will happen so naturally that you certainly could believe but don't have to. Nevertheless, your beatitude depends on your belief, for only the believer will prepare himself, he will remember Me and stay in contact with Me, even when the work of disintegration has begun. For time has run out and in keeping with divine order, what has been determined in My eternal plan of Salvation will come to pass. The earth will be transformed and with it all living creations, so that all spiritual substances will be engendered into those forms again in which they belong according to their degree of maturity .... The divine order will be restored again, because there is no other way to guarantee the spirits' higher development, yet the goal of My love is only ever this higher development which intends to bring you, My living creations, closer to Me again ....

Amen

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna