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Revival movement in Sweden
28th June 1842
"Oh Lord! Is the revelation of the many children in Sweden, who were unanimously exhorted to repentance and testified that after three years the beast would rise with seven heads and ten horns, and that one head and two horns were already visible, to be believed? The poor world calls this miraculous phenomenon the preaching plague! Oh Lord! Forgive them, for they know not what they blaspheme!"
[1] I have already predicted it to you on many an occasion, and quite particularly in the course of the "twelve hours" well known to you, that I will let My light and My great mercy descend from the heavens in several places on earth. If it is now happening and will still happen more and more, here and there and soon such and soon so, what I have foretold to you, can this surprise you?
[2] What do the Swedish pure children preach when they are inspired by My Spirit? They preach true repentance! Who can think there that such is a disease of the body or even a work of Satan?
[3] Oh believe Me, and see the great people of the cities and what is their doing and their loose conduct – and you yourselves will say: "No, no! Satan never preaches such a gospel! But this one preaches only another one, after which the great people of the bad cities preferably live and weave!"
[4] But if you know that the one who in his heart truly confesses Christ in faith and particularly in love, is not against Christ, but for Him and therefore also for His eternal kingdom, then you will also recognize all the more easily and surely what Spirit drive and pulls these Swedish children to prophesy and preach!
[5] Is it not written then: "From the mouths of the little ones I have prepared Me praise?" Behold, this too belongs at all times to a great omen, when a judging great day of redemption is to come soon over the earth!
[6] But as to what concerns the "beast that ascends from the sea" again, and indeed for the last time – I think you will not need eyeglasses to see this clearly, if you look only a little at the activities and the conduct of the great whore-towns, and especially at the activities and conducts of a town that you well know, but which I still would not like and want to name to you!
[7] There the old "beast" thus mainly rises, as Cain has already seen it after his atrocity, in order to do it’s old business, and already has "two and a half heads and four and a half horns above the earth"! Therefore it is also necessary that everyone prepares himself through My grace so that he will not be devoured by the power and alleged force of the beast. For it will do great signs, no longer by fire, but all the more through the power of the tongue!
[8] But I tell you also on this occasion: The heavy cloud, however, is already rising from the heavens with more than equal steps, in which the lightning, which kills the beast forever, is contained!
[9] But what is the "mark of the beast" for it’s confessors? On the forehead – the worldly mind! But on the hand – the industry! By this the beast will be best recognized!
[10] But the testimony of the doctors is a screen for My cause! – Now you know everything that is necessary for you, observe it well! – Amen.
The "Grazer Newspaper" of August 20, 1842, No. 132: Stockholm, August 2, 1842., reported about this event: "On Sunday, July 10, over three thousand people from near
and far were gathered in Eksrote to hear these people preach. Several of the crowd tore their clothes off their bodies and the rings from their fingers and ears and trod on them with their feet, shouting that these precious objects were devil's jewels. A soldier collected a lot of gold rings in a basket, which were buried. The disease seems to have reached it’s peak, the government paper notes, and there is little that can be done about it with admonitions and warnings, even less with coercive measures". The "Austrian Observer" of November 7, 1842, brought the report of a Lutheran clergyman on the preaching addiction of children in Sweden, in which it says: "They preach against play, dance and arrogant life; they refer to the prophet Joel, 2nd chapter, 28th verse. They speak of the downfall of the world, admonish to repentance. In their visions, they see the agony of the damned. They also see a long communion table at which the blessed sit. They preach out of inner compulsion, and also where nobody listens to them, etc."