Chapter 26 — The Calling of the Gentiles as Children of God

DTT.01_026,01 At these words the chief priest grew angry and said, “Boy, who gave you the right to threaten us and the Temple? Did we make the rules by which we must now act? Wise as many of your earlier speeches were, these words are unwise! Do you not know that a tree does not fall at a single stroke, and that it is futile to try to change what cannot be changed? Change the people if you can! The Jewish people are a very old tree, no longer to be bent like a young hazel sapling.

DTT.01_026,02 “We do not wish to doubt that God has given you a higher calling. But that does not entitle you to trample underfoot the old institutions that come from Moses, even if additions required by the times have since been made, or to compare us, their stewards, to ravening wolves in sheepskins. We have torn no one to pieces. When we punished those who blasphemed against God and the Temple, and the adulterers, we did only what Moses commanded. Can you say we acted unjustly and against God’s ordinances?

DTT.01_026,03 “When you speak to us, weigh your words more carefully. If you find something wrong with us or the Temple, tell us in kind, childlike words and we shall see what can be done. You will get nowhere with us by threats!”

DTT.01_026,04 I said, “No one has ever achieved anything with people of your kind, whether by gentle or by sharp words. So you will remain as you are until the end of the world. Grace will therefore be taken from you and given to the Gentiles.

DTT.01_026,05 “Look across the great sea to the continent of Europe. It is inhabited entirely by Gentiles, and a Jew goes there only very rarely. There grace from heaven will be transplanted!

DTT.01_026,06 “In seventy years or so people will look for Jerusalem and the Temple and will no longer find where the city and Temple stood. Then they will say, ‘What does the old site matter? Let us take the next suitable place, build a Temple of Solomon there and arrange it as it was before!’

DTT.01_026,07 “Yes, that is what they will say and do. But as soon as they begin work on the Temple a mighty fire will shoot up from the earth, and the builders and their materials will fare very badly.

DTT.01_026,08 “Soon after several such failed attempts, mighty Gentile peoples from the east and south will invade this land and lay it waste. You will be scattered over the whole earth and persecuted from one end of it to the other.

DTT.01_026,09 “This will happen because you wilfully departed from God’s old ordinances, put your own worldly human rules in their place and fattened yourselves on the great profits you made by administering them.

DTT.01_026,10 “Read the Temple’s chronicle and its secret accounts for yourselves. From the days of the prophets onward you will find things that would make the hair of anyone with the least human sense of justice stand on end as high as the peak of Lebanon!

DTT.01_026,11 “Every priest and prophet who earnestly set out to clear the house of Jehovah of those hateful human rules and restore the purely divine ones has been stoned.

DTT.01_026,12 “How long is it since the chief priest Zacharias was strangled by, I say, your own hands while offering a sacrifice in purity in the Temple?

DTT.01_026,13 “The people, who esteemed and loved Zacharias, loudly demanded to know what had happened to the man of God when another chief priest was appointed in his place.

DTT.01_026,14 “Then you lied to the people with outrageous audacity. With a show of reverence you said that Zacharias had been praying for all the people in the Holy of Holies when the angel of the Lord appeared to him again, his face shining brighter than the midday sun.

DTT.01_026,15 “You said that the angel had told the astonished man of God, ‘O faithful servant of the Lord! Your earthly day’s work is done, and you have been found righteous before God. Therefore leave this earth now and follow me as you are, body and soul, like Enoch and Elijah, to the throne of almighty God in heaven, where a great reward awaits you!’

DTT.01_026,16 “Then, you said, Zacharias looked towards heaven with eyes already glorified and at once vanished from the Temple and from the earth in the angel’s arms.

DTT.01_026,17 “You put a white stone on the supposed spot inscribed, ‘The glorification of Zacharias, the man of God!’ Thus you cleared yourselves in the people’s eyes and joined them in honouring him with psalms of every kind, when in fact you had fallen upon him like murderous robbers as he knelt praying and strangled him.

DTT.01_026,18 “What happened to Zacharias happened to many prophets and true high priests in the order of Aaron. Afterwards, for the sake of the people, you erected splendid monuments to them and have shown them every honour to this hour.

DTT.01_026,19 “Say if it was otherwise! You are silent and dumb with fear now that I have exposed this before you. In your position you think yourselves safe from the arm of worldly justice. Alas, it cannot reach you, for there is no witness against you except Me. But I need no arm of worldly justice to deal with you, nor shall I lay a hand on you to punish you Myself. If you persist in your perversity, what I told you earlier will befall you. I have spoken. Now you speak!”

DTT.01_026,20 The judge looked grim and said to Me, “If You wish, I shall make short work of these sham servants of God. Your testimony is quite enough for me!”

DTT.01_026,21 I said, “Let it be. There is more than enough power in My will to destroy them in an instant. But neither you, nor the people, nor I would gain anything by it. It is enough that we have brought a little twilight into their deep night. A sudden daylight would blind them all the more, and with them the entire Jewish people. That is what would happen if you exacted the severest penalty for their many gross sins. They will entangle themselves in the nets they have laid and perish in them.

DTT.01_026,22 “Every human being on earth has a measure set for good and for evil. So does every institution and every people. When a people and its land are full of what is divinely good, they begin to overflow with blessing. But if a people and its land become full of evil, a strict judgement comes upon them without fail. The people have played out their wicked part and the land is turned into a wilderness, as will happen to this land before long.

DTT.01_026,23 “Whoever can and will grasp it, let them grasp it. The time is near when wicked people will be told from the rooftops whose spirit they are children of, and their deeds will be read on their foreheads. From the school where I drew what I know, many disciples of My love will one day draw knowledge too. Then they will know what I know and do what I do. The time has not yet fully come. When it does, you will hear and will be able to act accordingly.

DTT.01_026,24 “I have spoken. If anyone has more to say, let them speak, for I shall be among you only a little longer. Those who think they have lost Me will soon reach Jerusalem and find Me here!”