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Satan's power ….

B.D. 5136 from May 25th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The one who wants to ruin you only has great power if you grant him this power yourselves, for if you resist him and turn to Me, you will receive the flow of My light of love which will completely disable him. For he is unable to endure love. And one day, when his time has come, love will conquer him too. Satan truly constantly endeavours to captivate, to eternally dominate, everything that had emerged through his will but nevertheless with My strength. And therefore he will put extreme pressure on those he fears to lose, who get away from him of their own free will, who strive towards Me in order to be forever united with Me. He will spare no means to influence these souls, he will cause confusion wherever possible. He will always be present where My Own congregate, he will try to enter their thoughts in order to transfer his will onto them, even though he realises that he has lost control over these souls.

Nevertheless, he opposes Me as an enemy, for his immense ambition deludes him into believing that his power cannot be broken. He indeed recognises love as the weapon that will injure him and therefore he takes flight where it confronts him and stirs up unkindness at the first opportunity. He feels his power waning and yet will not let himself be conquered. For this reason his activity is usually instantly recognisable, because his method is always such that it will cause enmity between people who like each other, so that confusion arises where clarity used to be; and the fault is always due to people themselves that their minor unkindness lends Satan a finger and he tries to take the whole hand, that is, he spurs people into ever greater heartlessness. He has great power but only where it is granted to him …. because you humans do not use the weapon against him which will render him powerless …. because you do not practice love sufficiently …. because your selfish love is still predominant, which offers him a welcome opportunity. You do not recognise him when he crosses you path, you are short-sighted and you consider him your friend and trust him. He is not your friend as long as he is still My adversary …. and he remains My adversary as long as he is without love. He has to be feared as long as you are without love yourselves, for in that case you belong to him and are still very distant from Me. But if your spark of love has been kindled in you then you will loosen the bond yourselves, then you will change your Lord, you will unite with Me and then he will have lost all power over you.

Therefore you, who became My Own due to your will which strives towards Me and rejects him, need not fear him. Then he cannot harm you anymore, yet you can still help him by gathering glowing embers onto his head, by extending your love even to those who are hostile to you, by responding to evil with love, because then he will have to recognise that you have deified yourselves, that you stand above him in brightest light and immeasurable strength. For when a being surpasses him he will feel its power and he will also set it mentally free, i.e. it will no longer be pressurised by him, because in unity with Me it is unattainable for him. All people are able to travel the path to the Father’s heart, and the restraints which keep them bound can be loosened by all people with love, which is the means of release and unification at the same time, which turns you into My children, who will eternally experience the Father’s reciprocated love and therefore be eternally happy ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Joy and suffering serve to perfection ….

B.D. 5137 from May 27th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Recognize the father’s love in everything, in joy as well as in suffering, and also thank Him for the latter, for it serves you for future joys in the spiritual kingdom. Whatever happens to you in earthly life serves your soul’s perfection, and often it is precisely the difficulties of life which promote its maturity, because joys very easily lead to a turning away from spiritual striving. But the father’s love also wants to make His children happy, which is why He also provides joy if the soul is not threatened by it. But the spiritual development of the human being is always the cause of joy and suffering. And people’s destinies are so different because of their spiritual development, but this should never cast doubt on the father’s love, for earthly life is only short compared to eternity, and an earthly life, no matter how difficult, will be amply rewarded in eternity if it has enabled the human being to mature on earth. But the latter is the human being’s free will, not inevitably determined by fate. What helps you to mature spiritually first has to be evaluated by your will, and therefore suffering and joy can contribute to beatitude, since both can be endured earthly but have a beneficial effect spiritually. Whatever directs the thoughts to the heavenly father has been successful for the soul and demands thanks from you humans because His love gives to you as your soul requires. But if it draws you away from the spiritual and drives you towards the world again, then God’s blessings will be wrongly evaluated, yet always in free will. The father sends you joy and sorrow because His wisdom recognizes what is helpful to you and His love always applies to your eternal fate …. whatever comes upon you …. The father’s love prepares it for you, and therefore you should gratefully accept everything from His hand which helped you to attain spiritual maturity, and you will experience His love because it helped you to attain perfection ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

The servants whom the lord still late engaged …. God’s word …. truth ….

B.D. 5138 from May 28th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The word comes to you in divine purity …. and you experience the lord’s unusual grace every day …. You are taught by Himself, Who draws close to you in fatherly love and seeks to draw all you humans up to Himself. You are the servants in His vineyard whom He still instructed late in the evening that they should serve Him, for you humans are approaching the end, the last hour of the day has come and there is not much time left to work for His kingdom. And therefore you will also be able to understand that His infinite love will always be more anxiously active for you the closer it is to the end, for He wants to protect you from the downfall, He wants to protect you from an exceedingly hard fate, from the new banishment into matter on the new earth. You humans would not be able to measure His working or you would bow down in deepest love and humility before Him, Who has been the father of all of you since eternity. You walk along as if blind and yet you should become sighted so that you recognize the right path which leads upwards. And He wants to remedy this blindness by sending His word to you from above so that it illuminates your earthly path as a bright light, as a ray of light which you should follow and which inevitably leads to Him from Whom the light has emanated since eternity. And this divine word of His is incontestable because it contains the strength within itself, because it is eternal truth which can never ever be refuted by enemies of truth such that it would no longer be recognizable as truth to a person striving towards God. The divine word speaks for itself, but only for the one who wants to hear God Himself, thus desires the eternal truth …. And to desire truth means to humbly surrender to God and open oneself to His light of love, thus to ask the giver of truth Himself for it and to faithfully accept His answer, which He will never deny the truth-hungry children. But anyone who wants to serve Him in the last days and participate in the work of redemption for suffering humanity must first stand in the truth himself, because he should teach and spread it as his most important mission. But then God, as the eternal truth, will also instruct him Himself …. He will instruct His servant where and how he should carry out his vineyard work, otherwise He could never demand good work from those who are to be His servants in the last days before the end. And you humans can fully believe them, for they are merely the mediators between God and you, because He wants to convey the pure truth to all of you so that you will become blessed …. For truth originates from God and also leads back to God again ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Stepping out of the eternal order requires the dissolution of creation ….

B.D. 5139 from May 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You humans have to introduce a completely new order of life, for you have deviated so far from the law of eternal order that not only a small change in your way of life is required but you have to seriously consider yourselves and voluntarily bow down again to the law I have given you …. under the law of love, without which no order can exist. Ask yourselves to what extent you fulfil this law and your answer will not be very satisfactory. But then nothing can last, because without love everything is anti-divine and necessitates a dissolution of the created, which in this anti-divine state has stepped out of the eternal order and has entered a sloping path which inevitably leads to the depth. Only that which moves in My order from eternity can be constant …. But your being is all the more called into question the more obviously you violate the eternal order. And even if the ground you stand on appears to be firm because you feel earthly secure and believe to have power, it will shake, and that very soon …. You must change yourselves completely so that you stand spiritually on solid ground which is unshakeable. Love must permeate you, then, by fulfilling the law, you will also assimilate yourselves to Me as the lawgiver, Who, out of love, has also ordered everything according to law and love therefore necessitates the highest order. How much happier you humans would already live on earth if you wanted to fulfil My law of love …. harmonious, peaceful thinking, constantly helpful actions and happy coexistence with your fellow human beings would already make your life on earth blissful, precisely because you subject yourselves to the eternal law of order which is based on My love. Yet precisely the opposite characterizes your unlawful attitude, and this inevitably leads to ruin. For love builds up, unkindness tears down …. Love is a guarantee for constant existence, unkindness results in transience until entering into the eternal order proves a change which the spirit has to accomplish if it wants to live in eternity. Therefore, leaving the eternal order must result in dreadful things because it also means a complete removal from Me and therefore irrevocably the hardening of spiritual substance …. and, because My law of order can never be eliminated, earthly creations must be dissolved in order to banish this hardened spiritual substance into new creations again …. Either a complete change of humanity has to take place shortly or a change of creation, so that the eternal order is restored in which you humans absolutely have to live if you want to reach your aim, the union with Me and an eternal life ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Teachability …. spiritual work …. love …. truth ….

B.D. 5140 from May 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Heaven is open to all of you who want to serve Me. And My spirit shines down upon you and brings clarity into your thinking if you are willing to recognize the pure truth. You only have to fulfil My commandment of love or My spirit cannot work in you, which guides you into all truth …. And now understand that it is only love which makes you suitable to work for Me and My kingdom. Anyone who has love will have comprehensive knowledge which also corresponds to the truth, for anyone who has love has Me and I will truly offer him nothing but truth if he desires it. But I can only use truthful people again as servants on earth, because their work consists of instructing their fellow human beings, of spreading My divine word which comes from above …. Therefore they must also be given the right knowledge according to their vineyard work. And this is decisive when a person can consider himself taught by Me, whether he is called by Me Myself for his service, whether he has been commissioned by Me Myself to spread My word, whether I Myself have recognized him as suitable for this activity and prepare him for this mission Myself.

The work for Me and My kingdom is a matter of free will and I do not reject anyone who thus wants to serve Me. But he has to wait for the calling, for I truly know best which abilities he possesses and assign him the place where he can utilize his abilities. Yet it is not always the teaching activity which My servants on earth are meant to carry out, for instructing fellow human beings is extraordinarily responsible and requires more than intellectual study, which can also be proven by such people who are completely unsuitable for teaching activity because they have not yet gained the right knowledge which only My spirit can impart to you humans …. i.e., I Myself must be able to work in you if you want to be guaranteed to stand in truth. However, I bless every work for Me and My kingdom where the will to serve Me and help the neighbour is the sole driving force. And I enlighten the thinking of those who spread My word, which they have penetrated intellectually. For I recognize and bless all good will. And if a person, desiring to hear My word, is instructed by those then I will also give him correct knowledge, because I only ever value the will and desire for Me and will never allow them to be wrongly instructed if they desire the truth. But those who are in direct contact with Me and now hear Me in the word will never be able to think wrongly because My spirit flows over them and gives light and clarity. And again and again My spirit will admonish you humans to love, for wisdom also emerges from love, and to be wise means to know the pure truth and to have knowledge of all things as far as the human being is receptive to it. And every person can gain Me through love. This is why love is more important than even the most serious thinking about unsolved problems, for love solves them by itself, for it is the light which radiates wisdom and which can never be replaced by human explanations or intellectual research. I Myself am love, and if you are united with Me through love you must also have the right knowledge and then you can believe without doubt what I communicate to you as the eternal love, because I am also the eternal truth ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Unjustified objection, being destined to be evil ….

B.D. 5141 from May 31th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Whatever will serve you as a blessing shall be given to you by Me, but whatever delays your spiritual development is not My will but the will of the one who wants to separate you from Me. Even so, I allow it to happen so as not to take people’s freedom of will and belief away, and also to motivate you to test what comes forth from which spirit. Everything can be beneficial to you, for even evil can serve your development in so far as you learn to recognise and despise it and thus make a choice for good or evil, which also necessitates the knowledge of both. Yet evil does not originate from Me but from My opposing power, which thus also influences the human being’s will in order to gain him. The human being, however, makes his own decision.

Where My adversary finds approval it cannot be said that it is My activity on the human being, because the human being is not forced into actions and thoughts but approves them voluntarily and because he has the ability to differentiate between good and evil. This is why he is responsible for the direction of his will, and therefore he also creates his own fate in eternity. And no-one will be able to say that I didn’t approach him, the destiny of every person’s life provides him with ample opportunities which enable him to recognise a guiding and determining Might Which reveals Itself to him. If he ignores these opportunities or if he agrees to regress then he is abusing his free will and thus uses it in the wrong direction. He hands himself over to My adversary’s power without having been forced by him. Hence it is an unjustified objection that the person, having been unfavourably influenced, was unable to do anything but to act evil and that this bad influence compelled him to be evil by providence …. The destiny of a person is always shaped such that opportunities for higher development prevail if he is of good will …. The human being need not fail if he himself does not want to fail …. For he is at all times at liberty to appeal to Me for help, which will always be granted to him …. And every sorrow, every stroke of fate shall encourage him to make this appeal, then the human being will never be at risk to fall, for I Am only waiting for his thoughts to turn to Me in order to seize and hold him to prevent his fall. The prayer to Me is the defence against the one who intends to harm him. The prayer to Me provides strength and fortifies the person in every temptation. The human being stands between two powers and has to choose one of the two. Both will understandably affect him and try to win influence over him. This is why I allow My adversary’s activity, yet I do not leave the human being defenceless to his power, but through adversity and other strokes of fate I try to encourage him to call for Me, because only when his will has made a decision for Me will I be able to intervene with My might and love.

He must turn to Me in absolute freedom of will, and if he doesn’t do so voluntarily I have to prompt him through all kinds of serious difficulties which, however, can only ever further his soul’s salvation and are therefore permitted by Me. But evil is caused by the human being himself by allowing himself to be controlled by the one who has turned loved into the opposite and who therefore will always act evil and unkindly and thereby can easily be recognised. But I will not stop him, for his activity also aims to achieve the decision of will …. But blessed are they who let themselves be driven to Me, who realise his intrigues and want to escape from him …. I will seize them and draw them up to Me, for they have used their will correctly and passed their test of earthly life ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Working miracles in the end time …. false christs and prophets ….

B.D. 5142 from June 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You should only use My strength of life which is always at your disposal and nothing will be insurmountable for you. Yet only through a life of love can you acquire this strength of love …. after which it is now also understandable to you when a person is capable of healing illnesses and other extraordinary activity, providing these abilities are not favoured from below, which, however, is obviously recognizable in the person’s way of life. My strength of love can be used for unheard-of activity, yet only by people who are so intimately united with Me through faith and love that My strength can flow into them unhindered. The human being himself draws the boundaries, he stems My flow of love if his relationship with Me is not the right one, indeed, he can even receive strength from below if his way of life completely contradicts My will. But a person who accomplishes unusual things can rarely conceal the direction of his love …. As long as it still applies to the world it is not My strength which enables him to work. But anyone who is devoted to Me also radiates something divine to his fellow human beings, and his unusual strength indicates his intimate connection with Me, which is always recognizable. The higher a person’s love, the stronger his faith and thus he consciously works with My strength. Hence love and faith must be present first if divine activity is to be acknowledged, and true faith and love cannot be feigned or denied, which is why they always help to arrive at the right judgment if the origin of the strength is to be examined. In the last days before the end such tests will often be necessary, for forces from above and below will express themselves, signs and miracles will happen, for My adversary will also try to gain faith and endow his followers with great strength. Then it will become apparent that only love gives light and produces the right ability to judge, that works with divine strength can only be carried out by those who remain firm in their faith in Me, the living God and their redeemer, and that all work by people with an adversarial attitude towards God also happens through God-adversarial forces, that it is false Christs and false prophets who work miracles on satan’s behalf.

I draw your attention, My faithful, to the fact that much will happen in the last days which appears unusual and therefore supernatural, but I also give you explanations about it so that you will be able to distinguish a real miracle with My strength from My adversary’s deceptive works which are performed, because people who fall prey to him enjoy unusual willpower and physical strength and thereby astonish their fellow human beings, for just as I Myself work in those who love Me and thus have accepted Me into their hearts, so he also works on people of his spirit when the end is near. He can make use of their body form as soon as they have sold their soul to him, and then the human being will act as he wants. But “by their fruits ye shall know them.” All that is done in the way of supernatural things only serves to increase power and to increase earthly goods. The world, of which he is the ruler, falls at the feet of those who are equipped with his power …. My kingdom, however, is not of this world …. and My disciples of the last days, My messengers of love through whom I work and to whom I bestow supernatural strength, only proclaim the spiritual kingdom, they teach love and confirm their gospel through signs and wonders which prove Me Myself, the divine teacher, on Whose behalf they speak and in Whose name they heal the sick and work miracles. They will be persecuted by those but in their adversity they will be saved by Me Myself, for one day the good and the bad, the love and the hatred will be revealed …. where no-one can hide from Me, where I will judge the living and the dead, the prince of darkness and his followers, where My power and glory will be revealed to My own who remain faithful to Me until the end ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Hostilities …. Working in secret …. Greater activity ….

B.D. 5143 from June 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

As yet you are only opposed by a few people, however, the time will come when your will be attacked by many, when there will only be a small number of you compared to the many who will fight you, some of whom will also call themselves believers but who will treat you with hostility for the sake of a true and living faith, for the sake of the obvious signs of the working of the spirit, which will turn them against you. As yet you have a small circle of supporters who are touched by My Word and consider it in their heart and acknowledge it; however, the time will come when you will even be separated from them, when everyone will have to rely on himself and realise that he is surrounded by enemies who want to destroy his faith in Me and My teaching. Then the fruits of the fact that they had been nourished by Me Myself with My Word and accepted the nourishment with complete faith will come to light. For they will stand firm against all the challenges of the world and will always find like-minded people again with whom they can exchange ideas and thereby strengthen their faith. Yet all of you will be prevented from being openly active, you will have no opportunity to spread My Word publicly. Nevertheless, I will strengthen everyone who longs for Me and My Word …. The hostilities against you will increase alarmingly and yet will fail to shake your inner determination, for then My spirit will also clearly manifest itself and My Word will come alive in each one of you …. External hostilities will be unable to make you inwardly waver because I will protect everyone who wants to remain faithful to Me. I recognise this will and will always give him the strength he needs in order to remain steadfast. Prior to this, however, there will be a time which you can certainly use well for the distribution of My Gospel, and I want to draw your attention to this so that you will not let it pass by unused. For you will be able to talk everywhere without fear of being banned; you will also have the talent for talking and often come across the opportunity when you will be listened to and find understanding, when your vineyard work will not be in vain. Then you should be very busy indeed and not put off what you can do …. you shall preach love and draw people´s attention to the end …. They will remember a lot once the final time of battle begins, the final battle of faith, and even if you are prevented from spreading My Word …. the seed you have sown will take root and grow and, during the last days before the end, also bear fruit. And you will continue your activity in secret, for your own and your fellow human beings´ blessing, because I will bless all your spiritual work until the end of this earth and one day in eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

Development is a matter of free will and not God's arbitrary use of power ….

B.D. 5144 from June 4th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The divine spark in the human being is his signpost on this earth, for it impels the human being to do what is good and cautions him against evil actions and thoughts …. yet only gently so that it can, but need not be, heard and felt because it does not push itself into the forefront, instead, it expects a person to listen within in order to be perceived. Therefore it first requires the person’s will again in order to become aware of the gentle voice within. Therefore the will comes first and all other blessings take effect accordingly, which also includes the manifestation of the divine spark in the human being. The will, however, is free, it is not forcibly influenced neither from above nor from below …. neither God nor His adversary determine the resolve of a person, yet according to his free will they exert their influence. This needs to be particularly mentioned because it entirely changes the eternal Deity’s image, Which is love in Itself, when it is taught that the direction of will is determined by God, when it is taught that the human being cannot use his will freely but that the direction of this will depends on God’s grace and mercy. The fact that the human being is offered the opportunity to test his will and to prove his God-inclined will at all is definitely an act of divine grace and mercy, yet of what use would the human being’s life on earth be if his will were curtailed and his development on earth were entirely God’s work, that is, if its success or failure were determined by Him …. A teaching like that gives rise to doubt in God’s wisdom and love and therefore can never correspond to truth. The human being undeniably always carries the admonisher within, God’s mercy is always recognisable, for this gentle voice is a gift of grace too, a helpful means to impel the human being to where he should land according to God’s will …. yet it is left entirely up to him how he uses the gift of grace, otherwise the admonisher within the heart would sound so loudly and perceptibly that it would have to be heard and the person would subsequently forcibly act as is demanded of him.

The human being has free will …. that is of greatest significance for his spiritual development and can never be denied; nevertheless, words can be misunderstood or misinterpreted if the necessary understanding is lacking regarding the human being’s actual task on earth and which goal he ought to attain. Anyone who knows this also instantly recognises the error of a doctrine, even if it is advocated as being of divine origin. God’s love and wisdom must always be emphasised, everything must demonstrate God’s love and wisdom, and where this can be doubted the divine origin is missing from a teaching, for God, Who wants to be loved, does not present Himself such that He must be feared …. A God, Who courts His living creations’ love in order to make them eternally happy with His love, will not present Himself as a God of wrath and tyranny and nip all love for Him in the bud. Try to find the right meaning and don’t judge according to the letter, for the letter kills but the spirit gives life. But where the spirit of God is at work all veils are lifted and every person filled by God’s spirit will also understand His Word ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Heidi Hanna

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

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

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

Distribution of the proclamations is very much desired. Only complete and unaltered proclamations must be passed on. (Also see B.D. No 8899)

State of souls after death …. light – twilight – darkness ….

B.D. 5146 from June 8th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Nothing remains hidden, everything will be revealed on the last day …. Consider, you humans, that you will have to answer to God’s judgment seat when you enter the kingdom of the beyond, when your soul has left your body, when your last day has come. And the eternal judge decides your fate in eternity, the eternal judge gives every soul what it has earned and truly judges according to justice. And blessed are those who are surrounded by a glow of light, who can show deeds of love which cover them in a ray of light which makes their degree of maturity recognizable …. blessed are those who sought the truth and thereby betrayed their striving towards God; blessed are those who endeavoured to fulfil God’s will, who stand in the right relationship as children with the heavenly father and are therefore accepted by Him and taken into His kingdom …. But what darkness surrounds the souls which are devoid of all love. These, too, are widely recognizable, for they stand before God’s judgment seat grey and lightless, in greatest poverty, and their darkness characterizes their loveless life, their unbelief and their affiliation to satan, and they turn away from God and seek to flee from Him. They don’t recognize Him but they fear the one Who wants to judge them for their deeds, and it becomes increasingly darker in them and around them, and an exceedingly meagre and charmless region takes them in where they feel unhappy and rebel against their fate which, however, has justly affected them.

And again souls stand in light twilight, they are unable to recognize anything, yet they are not tormented by extreme darkness, yet they lack light. They long for it and cannot find their way in their surroundings, although every now and then a slight twilight plays around them, which they push towards in their distress …. These souls have not been bad, but they have been careless on earth and have neglected to provide themselves with a bright, shining garment through deeds of love; they lived thoughtlessly, did nothing bad, but also nothing good. Their faith was dead and they did not think of their souls and now arrive miserably in the spiritual kingdom, fearing darkness and wanting to escape from it by anxiously striving towards the light, while the souls of darkness flee the light, although darkness is also torment for them. But they cannot tolerate light in their state until they have changed their will. Every soul is considered according to law and justice …. for no soul can conceal its nature, because the whole way of life lies openly and clearly before God’s eye and the spiritual kingdom does not allow any concealment of the actual nature, because all of the human being’s deeds on earth create the state of light or darkness itself and therefore every soul is recognizable and also where it belongs. Have mercy on the souls which are still in twilight, for a loving prayer from you can already bring about a change for them, for this signifies a flash of light, it signifies a small grant of strength and the right guidance of their will, and only the love of people or beings of light brings them salvation from their unhappy situation, which they feel unusually hard and would like to improve. The souls of darkness also need your help, but in their obduracy they often reject such help. Yet unceasing intercession for such a soul will not remain without success, for it is like a flow of strength which touches these souls and which they feel beneficially. But you humans don’t know in which kingdom you should look for your loved ones, and therefore you do well to remember everyone with love, even those who are still imprisoned by the kingdom of darkness …. You should diligently intercede, you should remember all your loved ones who have passed away, you should know that they all still need much strength and sincerely thank you for such an influx of strength which a prayer of love means for them. Through this you will remain in constant contact with the people who were close to you and will also experience their concern for you as soon as they have awakened from their spiritual lethargy, as soon as they have understood that they have to and can make up for much in the kingdom of the beyond, where love is also the only means of salvation and the souls willing to help can advance in order to leave the kingdom of darkness and twilight into the kingdom of light …. You humans, help them, for they need your help because they are too weak-willed on their own and God’s love and justice can only give them such abundance of light they have acquired through their way of life on earth. But you can give them light as soon as you remember those in need with a loving heart and want to help them ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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God’s word from above sufficient for mission ….

B.D. 5147 from June 9th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Expect nothing from the world and its representatives …. For they offer you nothing but that which is the world’s portion. Trustingly pray to Me and feel safe in My grace …. There is a fierce battle for your souls in the last days before the end, and this battle affects you in many ways. The dark power will always try to prevent you from spiritual striving, from spreading My gospel, My word, which is conveyed to you from above, for because it is the truth it will also always experience hostility and you yourselves will be in the midst of hostile activity. But the enemy cannot achieve anything as long as your will is turned towards Me, as long as you want to serve Me. For according to your will is also the supply of strength and My everlasting care for you. Your mission is too powerful for Me to allow it to be endangered by hostile activity, and even if it seems as if the opposing force has superior power …. it will not defeat you, but you will grow stronger in faith through My obvious help and support. And thus I want to draw your attention again and again to the fact that My word, which comes to you from above, is sufficient for you to be able to fulfil this mission of yours …. For if I Myself am your teacher you will truly be instructed such that you can be true instruments for Me and give light to your fellow human beings where it is necessary. If you are taught by Me Myself there will be no gap in your knowledge, for I truly know best what knowledge is helpful for you humans to attain maturity of soul, I know what and about what you should speak and prepare you well for your teaching ministry, for everyone will be placed according to his ability where he can successfully work for Me and My kingdom. What you need to know will be made accessible to you in the teachings from above; what is not given to you by Me is not necessary for the fulfilment of your task, for where the heart is pushed back by the intellect the success is slight, if not entirely doubtful …. I need representatives on earth who put a heart full of love into their words, who speak out of their feelings and don’t use their intellect first when it comes to proclaiming My teaching of love …. Although the intellect should not be switched off and the words spoken by My right representatives on earth should also be able to be accepted by the intellect, but the heart should convey them, i.e. they should sound alive and resound vividly in the fellow human being’s heart …. That which My servants receive from Me are words of love, given by the eternal love Itself to the human being whom love enables to receive again. And these words should also be passed on in love, in the inner urge to thereby help the fellow human being in his spiritual development. Then the heart is first involved in handing out what the intellect also has to acknowledge when the gift is examined with a heart full of love. And thus the light will always shine in all its strength where I Myself have kindled it, and this light will not lose its glow, but it can only be strengthened by ever brighter flaring love which increases My spirit’s working and truly makes the human being knowledgeable and able to work for Me and My kingdom and to participate in the work of salvation as My disciple in the last days. For this one possesses My word in all purity as it originates from Me, and the strength of My word will become evident as soon as the last great adversity sets in and people will be dependent on the supply of this word of Mine. For I know the time you are approaching and what you lack …. And therefore I Myself distribute the bread of heaven, and blessed is he who feasts on it …. blessed is he who seeks to satisfy his hunger with it …. for it will give him strength to endure until the end ….

Amen

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Jesus …. Becoming of creatures into children ….

B.D. 5148 from June 11th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Represent Me and My name before the world, so I will represent you one day in eternity, before God, the almighty creator of heaven and earth, from Whom all creatures came forth, to whom He gave independent life again.

Thus I, the man Jesus, was also an independent being created by Him, both in body and soul. I came forth from the eternal elementary power in order to pass a test of strength in independent existence, which aimed at complete divinization, in order to finally merge with the elementary power again and as such be able to create and shape, to rule over innumerable originally created spirits, over innumerable worlds and all their inhabitants. As Jesus, the human being, I passed this test of strength development, for I used all the abilities a nascent child of God has received through infinite fatherly love for its earthly life and directed the immeasurable flow of strength from God to Me …. I Myself destined eternal love for this disposal because I desired it with the whole strength of love of My heart and eternal love could not resist Me because It gives Itself to every human being who desires It …. As a human being I spoke the words: “No one comes to the father except through Me ….” I promised you humans to appeal to the father on your behalf to confess yourselves if you confess Me and My name before the world. For I knew that I would achieve the final aim on earth, the deification of Myself, on earth and that then, as being in union with the eternal deity, I would also be able to give you what you ask for in My name, i.e. by invoking Me …. For My father and I are one …. The fire of eternal love has consumed everything that still stood in the way of a complete union. Body and soul had spiritualized themselves during My life on earth and had become the same substance as the eternal and infinite spirit of love from Whom everything emerged. As the human being Jesus He worked in Me and I worked out of Him and with Him …. but what worked was His spirit, the eternal, inscrutable spirit of love, Which is unlimited, Which therefore was not bound in any form either, Which controlled all of infinity, Which was strength and light, love and will and Which expressed Itself in the creation of countless spiritual beings ….

I, too, was such a created being, a child of God, to Whom all the glories of His love were accessible, but Who had also professed Himself in free will when the army of originally created spirits rebelled against Him in the awareness of the abundance of strength which made them arrogant and brought them down. I had emerged from God’s emanation of love which powerfully drew Me to Him. I was set free as an independent being, but again and again I was drawn back to the original source of strength, which made Me blissfully happy and yet I was not able to see it. Yet I also saw the spiritual apostasy, I saw how the divine strength of love emanated into countless creations and I knew the purpose of this creation, which was to serve the return of the fallen spiritual. And My will of love became overpowering to involve Myself in the redemption of this fallen spiritual being …. to create opportunities for it to take up the position again which the spiritual being had voluntarily left. I knew about God’s eternal plan of salvation, the eternal love and creator of God-like beings which wanted to withdraw from Their expression of love ….

They voluntarily left the association with God and thereby forfeited their divinity. Consequently, they became powerless and lightless, and this powerless and lightless spiritual substance, which had fled from God’s love, hardened into solid substance which was still spiritual in itself but incapable of creating and shaping activity …. But eternal love seized this substance and shaped it according to its will into creations of the most diverse kind. Again, God’s immeasurable love was at work and His wisdom determined it to integrate the spiritual substance wanting to escape from Him into a process of change, the aim of which is the complete return of this spiritual substance to its origin. This plan of salvation made Me happy and My love for the apostate spirit moved Me to help it if it should fail …. I knew about My mission as the man Jesus from the very beginning because I offered Myself for it, but I also knew about the union with divine love which was to crown this work of Mine ….

(11.6.1951) For the being was indeed created by God, the eternal love, but only in order to achieve independence as an external being and in this independence to strive towards the original source of the strength of love and in union with it to be able to work to a greater extent, in the same principle but with constantly increasing strength. It is not a dependent state to work in union with eternal love and yet to work together with it; the being’s self-awareness remains and yet it is merged with God when it has reached the degree of perfection, since it is completely spiritualized through love …. Then it has become the image of God, and yet it cannot be spoken of several gods, because deification means the same as complete merging with Him …. As a being I once came forth from God, yet in God I found My aim; in a manner of speaking, the created being entered the state of its own free will, which is its destiny but which can never ever be created from God, because perfection in this degree presupposes free will, or else …. there is a difference between a creature and a child of God, the image of the father …. which again finds its final aim in complete fusion with the father. In completely free will I, as a human being on earth, strived for and achieved this aim, so that thus the father and I became one and at the same time humanity, which failed in the process of change, was granted help which extended to all that was bound, which had become weak and helpless due to its apostasy from God …. As a human being I brought it this help, for I gave the divine power and ability to it until the work of redemption had been accomplished in order to motivate people to turn inwards into themselves so that they, too, strive towards the aim which is the meaning and purpose of earthly life …. the union with God through self-shaping into love, which deifies everything and constantly increases the strength because it unites with the elementary strength from Whom it once originated ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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

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

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

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

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Whoever is taught by God requires no further external knowledge ….

B.D. 5150 from June 13th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Whoever receives the remarkable grace of being taught by Myself, whoever receives and accepts this directly imparted teaching material certainly has no further need to find knowledge elsewhere, for I will completely satisfy him with the bread of life. He no longer needs to accept other spiritual nourishment; he no longer needs to draw from a cistern when the clearest water flows to him from the spring which is indeed far cleaner and better. However, if fresh spring water is not accessible people should gratefully accept the water at their disposal and carefully protect it from pollution …. Do you understand what I mean by that? I do not, in any way, want to scorn what has been sacred to you since ancient times, the Book of the Fathers, which shall never lose its value to people who, in good faith of Me and for love of Me, try to derive knowledge from it …. since it conceals profound knowledge, but it can only be found by someone whose spirit has come alive …. But when I instruct you Myself, I give you the teaching and the explanation at the same time, because I adapt all lessons to your degree of maturity, I give to you in accordance with your understanding. First of all I inform you of My will, since it is your task on earth to comply with it …. But I also reveal Myself to you as God and Father, as Creator of all infinity and as the most loving Father to My children, who ought to achieve the childship on earth and hence require help and support. The meaning of My Words has become incomprehensible to you, and thus I want to explain their meaning in plain and simple terms to you. Consequently I Am once again sending My Gospel to earth as I had proclaimed at the time of My life on earth.

I don’t merely want to be present as God in your intellect, I want to live in your hearts, I want you to believe in Me with a living faith, and I want to teach you how you can arrive at this living faith …. not by means of much intellectual knowledge, even if you have taken it from the Book of the Fathers …. but only by means of a completely unselfish life of love. Your knowledge will become far more profound and your faith more alive when you fulfil My commandments of love for God and other people …. Then you will become knowledgeable and closely united with Me too, and you will also become able to educate other people in turn and inform them about the results of the right conduct in life. And then you will be My true followers on earth, you will be preachers after My will, because then you will draw all knowledge from within yourselves, then My spirit will guide you into eternal truth and you can make use of knowledge which you do not receive from an external source but always because of My grace. Then the fountain of life will have opened up for you, then living water will flow from the source of My love for your refreshment, and you should also offer the revitalizing drink to other people, so that they, too, can taste the pure clear water and never want to be without it again. All people could refresh themselves at the source of life yet only few will find it, only the few who are not satisfied with what is inexplicable and therefore look for truth. And since they approach Me Myself for revitalizing nourishment I will not refuse it to them. Take from the source of life, accept with a thankful heart the contribution of My love and appreciate the immense grace to be taught by Myself …. For you still will need much strength which you can always extract from My Word, which comes to you from above, because I have blessed it with My strength ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Reason of natural destructions ….

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

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

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

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Fulfilment of the commandments of love …. light – intercession – beyond ….

B.D. 5152 from June 16th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

My will is always to fulfil the commandment of love for Me and for your neighbour …. You should fulfil these commandments of Mine from the innermost impulse of your heart, for true love cannot be demanded, it has to awaken in the heart and then determine the person’s thoughts and actions. Love can certainly be won, on the one hand through the idea of the highest and most perfect being Which is inclined towards you in love, and on the other hand through the realization that the neighbour is also a creature of the highest God being. These ideas can awaken the feeling of love in the human being and now determine his actions and thoughts. A spark of divine love is present in every human being, only it can be buried or also inflamed, and precisely the latter is your earthly task. This is My will that you shape yourselves into love by nourishing the spark in your heart and letting it grow ever larger. For you are dead creatures without love, because only love enlivens you and gives you the strength to work, be it on earth or in the spiritual kingdom. Love alone brings you forward in your development, and without love you will always be dead, even if you are still alive on earth. And you will enter the spiritual kingdom just as dead if you don’t have love within you. Then you will lack light, warmth, life and bliss …. Blessed is he who has practiced love on earth, who has shaped himself in such a way that he takes a garment of light with him into the kingdom of the beyond, for he will easily find his way around and be able to work for the benefit of those who are still of dark spirit. Blessed are those who have expanded their knowledge on earth through the light of love and can already help to dispel the darkness on earth. Only light gives you beatitude, whereas darkness means torment for your souls, for it is simultaneously powerlessness, fear and ignorance, it is a state of complete blindness which is felt as torment. And therefore this state can also only be remedied in the beyond through loving activity, which again is only possible when the soul itself receives enough strength to be able to use it for this purpose. But it will not be left without strength if it has the will to work with love. But the will must first arise in a soul, otherwise it will always remain without strength. That is why your intercession for powerless souls is of utmost value, for the love of a person on earth can find resonance in those unhappy souls and help them to receive strength. A person’s love on earth can be the means to also soften hardened souls in the beyond and awaken love in them. This is why only love should ever be preached on earth, for the fulfilment of the commandments of love is of such immense importance because it also affects the kingdom of the beyond, where the lack of love is felt as unspeakable agony and yet cannot be remedied other than with love. You humans don’t know how miserable you will be in the beyond if you have lived a loveless earthly life; you humans don’t know how unspeakably the soul has to suffer as long as it is not helped from any side, which only love can do, for only loving remembrance helps such a soul and releases it from its great adversity. You are not yet aware of the immense strength of love, therefore I want to point out to you again and again that you, as long as you live on earth, should make an effort to live an active life of love, so that you can already work successfully on earth and one day in eternity and reduce the suffering of those who were negligent in fulfilling My commandment of love for Me and their neighbour ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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The souls’ redemption from the abyss through Jesus Christ …. Beyond ….

B.D. 5153 from June 17th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The cross of Christ is the sign of hope for all who have fallen, who are unhappy in their situation, be it on earth or in the kingdom of the beyond. The cross of Christ will show them that there is still salvation, a way out, which only has to be taken in order to surface from the abyss, from the kingdom of darkness, into the dawning morning. The cross of Christ points to the path of ascent which will never lead astray. For the One Who died on the cross due to His love for sinful humanity initiated this path, He paid the purchase price for the existing souls in the abyss, and every soul can utilise this privilege, the path of ascent is now open to every soul providing it has chosen Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, as its goal, providing it wants to leave the abyss in order to reach Him. Then it will be entitled to redemption, then the divine Redeemer Himself will lift it from the abyss, then its sins will be washed away by His blood, the guilt of sin will be cancelled and the act of Salvation will not have been made in vain for this soul. Jesus Christ died for all human beings, for people past, present and future ….

He descended into hell …. He also made the blessings of the act of Salvation available to the souls in the abyss, and there is salvation for the souls even in the kingdom of the beyond, yet never without Him, for only the blood He had shed for the sins can pay for the sins of a soul, and His forgiveness has to be consciously requested, He also has to be acknowledged as the ‘Redeemer of sin’ in the spiritual realm, or a deliverance from darkness will be impossible. An inconceivable act of love was accomplished by the man Jesus on earth, and this act of love is also effective in the beyond, His mercy even follows the souls who had passed away from earth without redemption. Yet, like on earth, the soul must willingly want to find salvation through Jesus Christ in the beyond too, that He should have mercy upon its suffering, that His love should seize it and raise it from the abyss. For this reason, the knowledge of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation as well as the belief in both is vitally important and has to be conveyed to the souls, if they have not gained it on earth already. But this work is far more difficult than on earth, for the souls of darkness have little knowledge and power of perception and are therefore not easily taught.

Nevertheless, their state is not hopeless when they are in distress and appeal for help to be delivered from their present situation. Then they will not be completely obstinate, and knowledge can be conveyed to them through intercession and loving mental instructions which will enable them to direct their thoughts towards Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour, and call upon Him themselves …. And every call in faith and confidence in His help will be heard …. Then the path of ascent will have begun and will be travelled step by step with His help. There is salvation from the abyss, but never without Jesus Christ …. This is what the souls in the beyond also need to know, otherwise they would never turn their thoughts towards Him, Who alone can save them from their hardship, Who, with love and mercy, is constantly willing to alleviate suffering and change an agonising state of affairs into a state of beatitude …. Nevertheless, it always requires the being’s will, and to change this correctly requires a lot of intercession on the part of people with faith and love, who are therefore also able to help those who are still unredeemed ….

Amen

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World people …. transience of the earthly …. conversion ….

B.D. 5154 from June 19th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

In the frenzy of worldly pleasure people lose all feeling for the divine-spiritual; for them everything supersensible is unreal, imagination and pathological self-suggestion, and therefore little success can be achieved with them if My servants want to instruct them correctly. There are two worlds facing each other, and the inhabitants of one world can hardly find their way in the other world. But since no tangible proof can be given to the worldly people, they reject everything spiritual as dream images which are not to be taken seriously. Therefore it is also difficult to preach the gospel to them which originated from Me, which testifies to Me and contains My teaching of love. For worldly people are egotists who have no understanding for My will, for My commandment of love. Hence they will not want to accept anything if My servants offer them a delicious gift, for they do not recognize its value. And yet, they are also My living creations whom I would like to help before it is too late …. However, as long as they pay homage to the world they still belong to My adversary …. but whether they will be able to detach themselves from him is a matter of free will, it is doubtful but not impossible, because the coming adversity will make them aware of the transience of earthly things and this can lead to realization if only they seriously want to do so.

My adversary drives people to works of destruction of all kinds …. He thereby wants to release the bound spiritual from matter so that it cannot develop upwards. However, he thereby unconsciously contributes to many of his followers becoming awake and recognizing the transitoriness of earthly things. And a recognition can lead to a change of will, a recognition of the impermanence of what people mostly strive for can lead to seeking and gaining something imperishable. Then even My adversary’s activity will have become a success and the human being will find his way back to Me from Whom he had distanced himself. But the world rarely gives its followers away because most of them are also in bondage to My adversary who constantly lures them with the goods of the world. Yet I also try to win the children of the world for Myself and therefore often have to inflict very severe hardship on people in which they can come to realize that everything passes away and is void and that only that which belongs to the spiritual world endures.

For this reason My servants on earth shall also influence worldly people wherever possible, for what they hear will more or less remain in them even if they reject it, and the coming time will revive many a word which they heard from My messengers but rejected. It will shine like a little light in them and, if they take the right attitude, can still grow into a bright flame, for time itself will do its part. No human being can escape adversity if it is My plan to win him for My kingdom. Yet his will remains free, and his fate will also correspond to it one day in eternity ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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The right Father-child relationship …. Free will ….

B.D. 5155 from June 21st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

I behave towards you in the same way as you behave towards Me …. I will allow you complete freedom if you want to withdraw from My influence, if you don’t want to make use of My grace; and if you don’t want to acknowledge Me and believe that you can live without My help I will not force you in this respect either …. Then you will have to test your own strength and recognise how weak you are, unless you prefer to avail yourselves of the strength from below which, however, will pull you down for an infinitely long time. I will come to meet anyone who looks for Me, I will hear whoever calls My name, but I will not hold on to someone who turns away from Me, and the wretched state of My enemy is his own fault and he will remain in that state until he changes his mind of his own accord. You humans create your own fate with your attitude towards Me. I will shower you with love and grace if you establish the right relationship with Me, whereas you will go without completely if your relationship with Me is not right. For I do not determine your thoughts, intentions and actions, but I will help you if you want to let yourselves be helped. However, the right relationship also guarantees right thinking, and therefore it is most important that you enter into the right relationship of a child with Me, since then you will infallibly take the path which leads to the goal, to your perfection, which is the purpose of your life on earth. The right relationship of a child includes everything, the sense of your own imperfection, faith and trust in Me and My help, the longing for unity with the Father and thus also the correctly inclined will …. Then you will have an excessive measure of grace at your disposal, then you will no longer be weak and helpless beings, instead, My strength of love will flow to you incessantly and you will more or less mature psychologically of your own will …. You join Me because your desire for Me will also be granted as proof of My Fatherly love. But anyone who isolates himself from Me, who does not acknowledge Me as Father and Creator of eternity, is still spiritually arrogant, he feels strong even without My strength and is nevertheless an unhappy being which allows itself to be deceived by appearances …. which regards the vitality of life as sufficient and which will recognise its utter weakness at the end of its life when it has lost its energy of life and is granted no help whatsoever from the One it had denied. I will give without measure if My gift is desired, but I will not force My gift of grace upon any being. I behave towards you in the same way as you behave towards Me, not because of a lack of love but so as not to endanger your free will, because My love is always greater than great and would never leave you in adversity if it is not detrimental for your soul. Consequently, I must let every person keep his freedom of will and wait until he himself inclines his will towards Me. But then I will seize him and never let him fall again …. Then his resistance will be broken and I can grant him an abundance of help. Then he will establish the right relationship with Me and move towards perfection ….

Amen

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Beings of darkness …. new banishment ….

B.D. 5156 from June 22nd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

A person’s complete failure on earth is when he departs without any faith, when his heart did not show any love for his fellow human beings, when his thoughts and actions completely contradict the divine commandments and there is no spiritual striving in him because he could not believe in a continuation of life after death …. It is extremely difficult for such souls to ascend in the kingdom of the beyond, for their unkindness on earth does not earn them any loving thoughts either, through which he would receive the supply of weak strength. Unbelief and its entire way of life results in a transfer into deepest darkness, where the soul now remains completely inactive and powerless in a state which becomes agony for it, because it does not lose its self-awareness and also feels the darkness. However, it has no strength to escape this state, it is completely without will and only emotionally rebels against its fate without thinking about what could have caused this state. Only its thoughts can bring about a change, for these thoughts correspond to its will and can be demanding help but also wrathful, and accordingly the beings it attracts through its direction of will will also approach it. It is also not alone but always together with beings of the same kind, which understandably leads to the strengthening of that which is to be fought against. For precisely the sins and faults come to the fore and provoke the other souls to respond, which always means a deeper fall, and only after an infinitely long time is there hope for a change of attitude, yet the ascent always becomes more difficult the longer the being remains in resistance. Again and again God’s merciful love approaches the being and gives small means of help, yet always without compulsion of will, which is why the help is, however, often rejected. Nevertheless, no soul is finally lost, even if an endlessly long time passes until it changes. It can also lose itself in the deepest depths, but even then there is still a hope of redemption for it, only on a different path …. on the path of new banishment in solid matter, so that the ascent development can once again begin and the being is offered the opportunity to reach the stage of free will where it can then discard its decision of will again. For God will not let anything be lost forever, only the being itself can prolong the time endlessly until it voluntarily returns to God, until it keeps His commandments in faith in God, until it enters God’s will through a life of love and thereby redeems itself from all bondage ….

Amen

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Way of salvation …. way of love …. Jesus Christ ….

B.D. 5157 from June 23rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The path of salvation is the path that Jesus Christ took, the man Jesus, who fulfilled the great mission on earth to pave the way to God, the almighty creator of heaven and earth, for all people of the past, present and future. This mission was so significant because He, as a human being, had to struggle with the same opposing forces as every other human being and yet He gave proof that it was possible to master them by using the right weapon. For He did not accomplish this work as God, although divine strength was expressed in abundance during His teaching activity; yet in order to attain this strength He had to have successfully fought this very battle as a human being. And thus He also provided proof that a human being could attain full possession of divine strength and wisdom and also showed the path He Himself had taken …. the path of love which leads to union with God and thereby also to the possession of light and strength in all abundance.

The man Jesus lived entirely in God’s will and His entire striving was directed towards coming close to the father He recognized; love for the father filled Him and expressed itself in love for His fellow human beings, for a heart which is full of love cannot help but draw everything into the realm of its love, because it is incapable of any other feelings which are opposed to love. So love was the weapon he used in the fight against the forces that wanted to bring him down. For love is the giver of strength, so that He could never be defeated, because through love He fought together with His heavenly father against the enemy and therefore had to win the victory. No-one can resist love, after all, it is the elementary power from which everything, even God’s adversary, once emerged, consequently it has to be stronger than everything and also conquer the one who does not want to acknowledge it ….. The man Jesus walked the path of love and this led directly to God …. Thus He opened it up and made it free for every human being, for everyone can now walk it with the certainty of reaching the aim. He alone is the path of salvation, He alone is the only path which the enemy of the soul does not take, on which the human being is safe from all attacks, for on the path of love he is accompanied by Jesus Christ Himself, Who is a safe guide for him and carefully guards him from backsliding or deviating from the right path. Whoever follows Him walks with Him at the same time and must also reach his aim. He has fought the battle for all people with God’s adversary …. But He also demands of those who want to follow Him on the path of salvation that they fight against him, that is, that they likewise use the weapon of love with which alone they can beat him. And therefore the path of salvation is no other than the path of love for God and one’s neighbour, for through love the human being liberates himself from the enemy of his soul, through love he gains power over him, through love he is a constant recipient of strength from God, and through love he establishes unity with God, the eternal love Itself …. Then his soul has found healing from an evil which clung to it through sin, through the former apostasy from God, which His adversary was to blame for because he was without love. Then his soul is united with eternal love again, for Jesus Christ Himself has brought it close to the original source of strength; it has returned home to the father’s house as a true child of God, because it has taken the right path, the path of salvation, which He Himself has shown it ….

Amen

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Power of intercession …. ascension through love …. free will also in the hereafter ….

B.D. 5158 from June 24th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The same applies in the kingdom of the beyond as on earth …. the will to love activity must be present if an ascent from the abyss is to take place, for the being’s will is not compelled over there either but it can determine itself, yet its state is also correspondingly. The souls in the beyond remain on the level in which they entered the spiritual kingdom until they have the desire within themselves to ascend and change their present state. And as on earth, love must awaken in them, they must want to help in view of the hardship they see around them. Only this will to help will give them so much strength that they can carry it out. The helping activity can already consist of kind encouragement, advice or warnings, only love for the suffering brothers and sisters must always determine them to do so; the desire to help will then become stronger and stronger and the supply of strength will increase accordingly. Then, however, their own condition will also become more bearable, the surroundings will appear brighter and clearer before their eyes, and the oppressive darkness will give way to a first dull, then ever more luminous light, and the souls will then strive steadfastly upwards. Their thinking becomes clearer and full of desire they also accept instructions which are offered to them by beings of light, however in veiled form. With increasing activity of love the knowledge of these souls also increases and now they themselves are able to hand out to the beings who still stand below them and suffer in the darkness just as those before. Once compassion for suffering souls has awakened in them, they are also saved from sinking into the abyss, but this compassion must first come alive in them because otherwise an ascent is impossible. For love then also directs the will right …. And in order for love to flare up in the unhappy souls, much intercession is necessary which lets them feel the strength of love themselves and awakens counter-love in them. Only love can save the poor souls, because only a prayer sent after them in love has the effect of kindling love in them, whereas prayers without love are completely useless and only put the souls in harness, because they increase their disgust against pseudo-piety and can easily even stifle their faith in God, if they have not yet completely lost it. Everything that happens without love is without effect, on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom; love, however, loosens the hardest fetters. And therefore every soul’s redemption in the beyond is assured if a person on earth takes pity on these souls with true love and, wanting to help, also transfers the will to help to them, for a soul cannot resist a loving intercession, it feels it as a benefit, and in this feeling it also wants to help and do good deeds. Then its ascent is assured, and it steps out of the darkness which enclosed it into the light ….

Amen

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Notice to the near end …. judgment day ….

B.D. 5159 from June 26th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You shall all experience My grace and in the last days be clearly informed of the end by being able to perceive many changes around you, the passing away of earthly possessions, the sudden passing away of fellow human beings who are torn from the midst of life, strange changes in nature and all in accordance with ancient prophecies which I always and constantly sent to people through seers and prophets in order to draw their attention to this last time. You humans will all be prompted to think and the question will be put to you as to what fate you yourselves are facing. Earthly and spiritually you will be troubled, for earthly events will frighten you and also give rise to spiritual thoughts, because you humans unconsciously feel that your order is very poor. All earthly events would not frighten you if you had established spiritual order, but you look for a substitute for the spiritual in the earthly, and since the former now seems uncertain to you, your thoughts are nevertheless directed towards the question: How will I survive when everything is over? …. And this question shall arise in you, this is why I allow so much adversity to befall people, for you don’t have much time left but still enough if you seriously want to change. All the strokes of fate that still affect you before the end are means of grace, even if you don’t want to accept them as such, but they can still bring you to your senses how miserable you are in the event of a sudden recall from this world …. Pay attention to all events around you, keep your eyes and ears open and prove to yourselves that there is still a spark of responsibility in you; don’t be indifferent, look into yourselves and quietly reflect on your intrinsic value if you are to justify yourselves before Me on the last day. For the last day is for everyone the day of his body’s death, which is closer to all of you than you realize and will befall some of you even more quickly, for much still lies ahead for all of you. You cannot prevent the death of the body when your hour has come, yet you can stop the death of the soul, indeed, you can give the soul true life which lasts forever, which can never be taken away from you once it has awakened to the life of the spirit. That is why I so often hold bodily death before your eyes, that is why you so often see it around you; you see everything pass away that was worthwhile to you and gave you joy, you see dear people pass away from where no return can be expected. I let you see all this so that you become thoughtful about your own ego, so that you give yourselves an account of what you have to record in order to secure eternal life for yourselves when the body passes away and nothing remains on earth. And if you think about it and only listen a little to the voice within you, you will have made use of a means of grace, for I cannot help you in any other way. Everything that comes from Me must look as if it comes from within you, only then will you accept it. You will still often have cause to think about it, and you should always remember that the last time brings extraordinary phenomena with it, so that all those who still have a good will can achieve in a short time what they otherwise have a lot of time at their disposal for. But the end is approaching with rapid steps and I still want to win many before the end comes. For this reason My grace is constantly distributed to you, anyone who recognizes it and makes use of the means of grace will not be lost on Judgment Day, even if it comes suddenly or only at the end. He will not need to fear it because My grace has saved him from spiritual death ….

Amen

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Fight with the sword of the mouth ….

B.D. 5160 from June 29th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

In a world of the worst unbelief, the most blatant lack of love and the most complete ignorance the pure word of God, which you receive as a special grace, will not be recognized as a divine gift, because the ability to recognize depends on a person’s faith and love and intellectual acuity alone does not replace the ability to recognize. And yet, people who are spiritually blind must be influenced, an attempt must be made to awaken faith and love in them so that knowledge will come as a result. An influence must be exerted insofar as people are reminded of the consequences of their wrong life, without faith and love, and they are made aware of the dreadful fate which awaits them if they don’t change. Without faith and love no understanding for spiritual teachings can be expected, yet if it is presented to people that they create an unbearable or a blissful fate for themselves they will acquaint themselves with the possibility of such and accordingly be receptive for further instructions or else completely reject and deny a continuation of life, if they have already completely fallen prey to the one who gave them this line of thought, who influences them in such a way that they neither believe nor love and are therefore spiritually darkened until their final physical and spiritual death. In the time of spiritual darkness it is not possible to influence people’s will in any way so that it decides in a certain direction. Only through speeches and ideas can the one thing be achieved that they think, and then the desire for truth is decisive which direction the thoughts take. And that is why it is a battle with the sword of the mouth, which can only be waged by the one who is able to refute everything that is held up to him by the opposing side or raised as a counter objection. People who confront them must be of sound mind, they must be under divine guidance themselves, they must only be the instrument through which God expresses Himself, Who nevertheless does not touch the human being’s free will if he wants to remain His adversary and cannot be convinced by divine words either. Nevertheless, the work of a person who tries to bring light into the spiritual darkness is an extremely beneficial one, after all, the thoughts of those who cross his path are stimulated as soon as he sets out to fight for the kingdom of God, as soon as he speaks out of innermost impulse to instruct his erring fellow human beings and to help them reach the light of day. He will certainly find much unbelief, he will be exposed to hostility, God’s adversary will confront him with worldly wisdom and he will have to refute ever new objections, yet he will also have supernatural strength which can be recognized from his unrefutable speeches and his conviction …. one will not be able to prove to him the opposite of what he advocates, on the other hand, with an earnest will and desire for truth he will be able to convince himself that his words deserve to be believed, that the promises will be fulfilled if the conditions attached to them are met. Only the will has to be there to let love arise within oneself, then faith will also be awakened and recognition will be easy …. Yet God’s adversary also constantly works to confuse people’s thinking, and therefore he impels them into unkindness and destroys all faith as long as the human being does not defend himself. It is a battle that must be waged with all ruthlessness if it is to bring victory. But the ruthlessness of God’s servants on earth consists of the fact that they mercilessly expose the intrigues which God’s adversary engages in, that they do not shy away from exposing him, that they present their faults and vices to people with the indication that they are under the influence of him who pulls them down into the abyss. For then they speak the truth, while the adversary seeks to win his followers with lies and glosses over everything people do in their unkindness. It is not spiritual arrogance if the fellow human being is made aware of his faults, for anyone who recognizes the causes of spiritual blindness also has the right, like a doctor, to draw attention to the causes of illness, and thus he must relentlessly expose the faults so that action can be taken against them and a recovery achieved which does not affect the body but the soul and secures it a life in eternity. Anyone who has faith himself knows about the disaster of faithlessness and should control it; anyone who has matured in knowledge through love also knows about the state of souls which are devoid of all love, and if he seriously wants to help them then he must test the power of the divine word on them and try everything to save them from greatest spiritual hardship …. he must fight with the sword of his mouth, and his spirit will guide him correctly, he will always find the right words, and his battle for the kingdom of God will be successful ….

Amen

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Strength of intercession ….

B.D. 5161 from June 30th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

You should give the strength of intersession to all those who have departed from you, irrespective of the degree of maturity you may think they have, for they all still need strength and are grateful for any help. It is a happy feeling to have helped souls to ascend, which you will only fully realise when you have entered the kingdom of the beyond yourselves and see the hardship of many souls who are not remembered in prayer, because no one on earth will remember them lovingly and provide them with the necessary strength in order to ascend. Once these souls have experienced the strength of love they will work with immense enthusiasm and use this strength, but the first impulse has to be given to them by people’s loving intercession, because this is what will affect them first and change the direction of their thoughts.

But this intercession has to be rendered consciously, i.e. with the intention of helping the souls to advance. You humans should know that your prayers are valuable, you should familiarise yourselves with the suffering of departed souls and with a loving heart pray for a gift of strength for these souls. They will surely experience this gift of strength and also gratefully feel the love intended for them which will cause them to love in turn, which will thus affect their environment like a small light that benefits all souls. You humans could do so inexpressibly much to release the souls if you have the will to alleviate hardship and suffering …. For this will motivates you to pray from the bottom of your heart, and only this comprises redeeming strength. You should do everything consciously, external formalities or lip-prayers have no effect, because they exclude the conscious will to help. Only love is liberating …. this has to be said time and again.

You can achieve inconceivably much with love, you can send bright light into the darkness through loving intercession, so that many souls will gather there and be touched by this ray of light, always with the result that their feeling of love will also be awakened and will want to express itself. Loving intercession is a tremendous flow of strength the effect of which will never fail. Include all your loved ones in your prayer, mentally call them to you and tell them that you want to help them and that they should accept your help quietly and without objection; mentally instruct them that they, too, will be able to ascend it they want to use the strength they receive through your intercession. And always point them to Jesus Christ …. Only One can redeem them, and this One can only be reached through love. Therefore inform them that they should use their imparted strength to help other souls in turn who also suffer great hardship, that these deeds of love will bring them ever closer to Jesus Christ Who, with utmost mercy, will then draw all souls to Himself and guide them into the kingdom of light ….

Once you have helped a soul to use its given strength correctly its progress will be assured, then the weakness of will and lack of strength will disappear and it will eagerly ascend and take untold souls along, for it then will also share its knowledge with them, and thus a single correct intercession will result in unforeseen blessings …. You humans on earth should not underestimate the strength of intercession, but always remember that it should be made with a loving heart in order to truly give strength …. And include all your loved ones, for they all are still in need of strength and will thank you forever if you increase their strength and remember them with love ….

Amen

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Determining the time of the end – False prophets ….

B.D. 5162 from July 1st 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The intention to determine the time of the approaching world judgment does not correspond to My will and My wisdom, which recognises full well that knowing the time and hour would not be beneficial to you humans, as it would influence your thoughts as well as your actions and therefore it will be kept a secret by Me, in spite of My constant announcements, warnings and reprimands. You humans have to conduct your life in free will, constant references to the approaching end are certainly good but not the exact knowledge of time and hour. Indeed the end, the world judgment, is very close at hand and I will repeatedly mention it to you, nevertheless you all will be taken by surprise because no one will expect it with certainty and believe in the approaching end. But anyone who believes that he can specify the time and hour is not My messenger, and his words should not be trusted even though he claims to speak on My behalf, even though he wants to guide his fellow human beings to the right faith in Me. All the same, this claim can not have been imparted to him by My spirit, it can not have originated from Me, it is his own product of thought which he firmly believes to be truth and therefore he tries to spread it ….

‘No one knows the day and hour ….’ Remember these Words, which I spoke to My disciples on earth …. As God and Creator of infinity I Am well aware of this day and hour since eternity, yet My wisdom prevents Me from proclaiming this knowledge to you humans. For it concerns the human being’s will which may not be infringed, but it would be infringed by any precise revelation of the last day …. The day itself has indeed been predetermined since eternity, but so are all events preceding it which aim to contribute towards the voluntary change of the human being’s will. And thus I will do everything which helps and enables the human being to expect My judgment on the last day in the right frame of mind …. But if a person himself makes no use of it, his fate is already decided for an infinitely long time.

To know the day and hour of the end would then result in a compulsory change of his nature which, however, would neither entitle him to enter the kingdom of light nor the paradise of the new earth, but it would not result in eternal perdition either …. because anguish and fear determine his will and not love, which should be the only reason for a change of will. Thus his love would not be sufficient, and therefore one cannot speak of a change of disposition; nevertheless, the human being has to be given credit for his will to do right, he effectively would be obedient, not due to love but due to fear …. yet love is the crucial factor in the end …. For I want to separate the sheep from the goats, I want to initiate a purification process and thereby end one period of redemption before the beginning of a new one …. Hence a clear decision of will has to take place, for which people have ample time and opportunity, and in order to motivate them they are informed of the end.

But they have to make their choice entirely without compulsion. Therefore I will keep the day and hour a secret but it will come like a thief in the night …. it will arrive when no-one is expecting it, when people find their satisfaction in the enjoyment of life, when they chase one enjoyment after another, when they forget everything around themselves and are merry, when they experience utmost joy of life …. Then the day will dawn which brings everything to an end …. And then it will emerge who will stand by Me or by My adversary, who is lord of this world …. Everything will then be revealed, light and darkness, truth and lie, love and hatred …. no-one will be able to hide himself or conceal his true nature …. Then everyone will show his true face, because the hardship around him pulls the mask off his face, and then everyone will receive his fair reward …. light or darkness, heavenly bliss or eternal damnation ….

Amen

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Bible – spirit work …. (after lecture of Jehovah's witnesses)

B.D. 5163 from July 3rd 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Only accept as truth what I send to you from above. What does not agree with it is not My but My adversary’s spiritual product, for My word will always remain the same and its meaning will never contradict itself if it is understood correctly. Precisely the wrong interpretation of My word is the cause that I convey it purely and unadulterated to earth again with the explanation how I want My word to be understood. Human intellect often gets confused and can no longer find its way around My word, but human intellect, in turn, is convinced of itself and believes itself capable of correctly interpreting My word, thereby completely disregarding the fact that divine words can only be fathomed with divine spirit and that the true meaning cannot be found without divine spirit. And therefore My spirit must first be able to work in the human being before he grasps the meaning of My word and can translate it to his fellow human beings.

As I always spoke to people, so I still speak to them today and only ever the pure truth, which is why My word can never change either. There should also always be the same understanding of it, yet a person’s thinking will always correspond to his will, for as this is directed so is the ability to recognize the truth; and since My word is the eternal truth it will always be recognized more or less correctly depending on the individual’s will …. Thus misguided teachings arise or came into being as a result of people’s free will, which affects the power of realization. And therefore people are not capable of spreading My word or of teaching activity as soon as the will has taken a wrong direction, as soon as it itself does not recognize that truth alone can only be gained when the will completely subordinates itself to Mine and thus truth is now its undisputed property. However, as long as it is not the will which decides but the intellect, the door is opened to error, for the intellect can be influenced by the one who campaigns against the truth. There is only one path to truth which must be taken without fail …. to call upon the originator of truth Himself in order to receive it, and what He then sends to the human being is the only truth …. The words from above speak to you humans in an easily understandable and credible way and are also accepted by those who are also of good will ….

(3.7.1951) For they speak to the heart, and the heart also receives them, whereas the intellect has to make unusual efforts if the heart does not explain the meaning of the words to it. The spiritual meaning can only be explained to you humans by Me Myself, and again only through the spirit …. The same also applies to the knowledge you humans draw from the book of the fathers. This, too, must first be explained to you by My spirit before you can penetrate the right meaning of the words. But this truly requires no study, no intellectual gathering of spiritual knowledge, even if the latter is called My word. For it only becomes My word when My spirit has become effective in you and then the spirit of the word speaks to you, not just the letter. And My spirit works in the person who has completely shaped his heart into love …. He will also clearly recognize the spiritual meaning which is hidden in every letter. But My word, which is imparted to you humans directly from above out of immense grace, because an immense spiritual hardship requires extraordinary help …. this word is transmission and explanation at the same time …. It provides you humans with information on all questions whose answer is necessary for you if you want to save your souls from the danger of ruin on the last day. This word can always be taken as a guideline even by those who try to penetrate the book of the fathers intellectually and are still unclear about the meaning of My words. And where the results deviate in meaning from My word conveyed from above you may calmly reject what does not correspond to the latter. However, I do not therefore reject the book of the fathers which contains My word but which, out of wise discretion, conceals the meaning of the letters in order to first induce people to awaken the spiritual spark within themselves which will then instruct them safely and truthfully and easily understandable. But as long as the spirit is still unawakened the human being will not fully know the truth either, because I reserve this for Myself but will not deny it to anyone who loves Me and keeps My commandments …. who proves this to Me through unselfish neighbourly love and then sincerely appeals to Me for the truth, for the enlightenment of his spirit. Everything will be understandable to him and neither doubts nor untrue thoughts will arise in him, for now My spirit can work in him, the comforter I have promised you, Who will guide you into all truth and also remind you of everything I have said to you ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

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Biblical research …. mind knowledge …. (after lecture by Jehovah's witnesses)

B.D. 5164 from July 4th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Only that which you understand can be of use to you humans, and I will truly not ask you to accept knowledge which is incomprehensible to you, because such will only confuse your thinking but not help your soul to mature. I certainly want to guide you into truth and thus open up spiritual knowledge for you, yet it is better to leave you ignorant than to offer you educated spiritual knowledge or to present you with food which is indigestible for you for the reason that the teachers themselves do not possess the right knowledge and therefore have no ability to instruct their fellow human beings. The food they offer has no nourishing power, it is rather only suitable to suppress the healthy hunger for right food and to burden the souls, thus to make the ascent upwards more difficult for them. There is so little you humans need to know in order to become blissfully happy and which divine teachings should be supplied to you. My commandment of love is the briefly summarized teaching which informs you of My will, and the fulfilment of My commandment of love will then also earn you the knowledge which is helpful for you to gain eternal life …. For the right knowledge comes as a result of a life of love, the right knowledge, which corresponds to truth, is the effect of a lovingly guided way of life. And therefore love need only be preached to you humans and you will then receive the right food which is suitable nourishment for your soul. And you can all understand this sermon, it only requires your will to fulfil what I demand of you …. I only require unselfish love from you, but not that you try to intellectually enrich yourselves with knowledge which is only correctly understandable if the heart is capable and willing to love.

Understand, you humans, that all spiritual knowledge only becomes true knowledge through a life of love and that without it it is of no value before My eyes and also not for yourselves. Therefore, if you want to teach your fellow human beings, then only present the blessing of a right life of love to them, make Me known to them as a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence, so that they will learn to love Me and also practice neighbourly love out of their love for Me …. And if you have accomplished this work of encouraging people to constantly work with love then you have truly been the best teachers, then you have indirectly helped them to gain knowledge which now flows to them as a result of love, because then the spirit comes alive in them which guides them into truth, because love enlightens their spirit and what cannot be explained to the human being intellectually only is now easily understandable to him …. For the spirit alone gives life to knowledge, the spirit alone teaches the human being right ….

(4.7.1951) And thus you can confidently count yourselves My disciples who receive My word from Me directly and who accept this word of Mine when it is offered to you by My recipients. I instruct all of you, for I know who is correctly attuned to My gift, I know what each individual needs and I also know how the individual evaluates and utilizes it. And that alone is decisive as to what he receives. But if I now consider My disciples according to their ability and will to accept it, you can see from this that a head full of intellectual knowledge has no other value than to be considered knowledgeable before fellow human beings. For if he passes on this intellectual knowledge it will neither ennoble the recipient’s heart nor supply the soul with spiritual nourishment. For spiritual nourishment is only that which strengthens the soul for ascent, spiritual nourishment is the knowledge which revives love for Me and for the neighbour, and this truly requires little but the right knowledge. But if you believe that you have to thoroughly research the book of the fathers, you will let your intellect become more active than your heart, and then whatever success you achieve will serve the soul less than worldly knowledge, even though it is of spiritual origin. For you rather seek to clarify worldly events and also indicate them in time than to penetrate My eternal plan of salvation, which, however, only aims at your spiritual recovery. The knowledge you draw from the book of the fathers is not very suitable for this recovery, after all, love is always the only means of recovery, and this can also be practiced without such knowledge, and it also has to be practiced first before the human being can speak of correct knowledge, of truthful spiritual thought material. The eagerness with which they believe to be of service to Me is certainly to be praised, yet this eagerness is only right if it expresses itself in love for your neighbour, because only then can the rebirth of spirit be achieved, which alone transfers you into all truth …. However, I recognize everything that is done for Me as love for Me, yet this love is only proven when it also applies to the neighbour, and this teaching should be spread everywhere as the most important gospel, for all knowledge, maturity of soul and also eternal life depend on it …. but not on his knowledge of historical events or on the interpretation of My word in an incomprehensible sense …. Only the fulfilment of My will leads you humans to the aim, and My will is and remains a life of love, a fulfilment of My commandment of love for God and neighbour ….

Amen

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Power of God …. life ….

B.D. 5165 from July 6th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

All life is the effect of My strength; My strength manifests itself in every work of creation. Thought itself is likewise an expression of strength on My part, and thus there is nothing which does not originate from Me, even if it has taken a wrong direction long after its origin than was originally intended. For a perpetual cycle of strength emanating from Me takes place for the purpose of constant increase of the same and constant awakening to new life and thus also constantly new creations …. So My creative will and My creative power is ceaselessly active to produce life …. And a withholding of My strength would mean a complete solidification of the entire universe, which, however, is never possible because My strength cannot consume itself and cannot pass away, just as I Myself do not pass away as the original source of the strength emanating from Me. I was, I am, and I will always and forever remain the same, and likewise the created by Me will always and forever remain, only in a constantly changing form, because My strength does not tolerate standstill and every influx of strength must have a constructive effect and this is expressed in ever more perfect creations. And My strength finds access everywhere, and nothing could exist if it were not touched by My strength. My love and My wisdom direct the strength as required, and My will determines the acceptance of it and nothing can oppose My will …. Yet My love and wisdom also created something of essence for itself in the desire to also give it the happiness and bliss of using strength, of creating, to give it a task and to make it supremely happy by being able to fulfil this task …. And this being had to be an image of Me, standing in equal perfection, endowed with divine abilities, which I wanted to provide with unlimited strength so that it could be creatively and creatively active like Me ….

Thus this entity was likewise the product of My strength and My will of love. It was called into life out of My strength and was able to develop completely freely because strength constantly flowed to it and it also had the free will to utilize this strength …. It became a recipient of strength but was also able to radiate strength, as this was its destiny. The first-created being felt overwhelming bliss, and it could cause overwhelming bliss again by likewise giving life to beings for free independent existence. My strength flowed inexorably to the first being and through it also to the innumerable entities which had emerged from its will using My strength …. This was the beginning of that which is apart from Me, although it cannot be thought of as eternally separate from Me …. For My strength and all that is from it eternally remains My share and eternally can no longer detach itself from Me ….

But the being which drew My strength directly from Me felt in full possession of My strength because it constantly created new beings without its strength being diminished. Its thoughts, will and actions were in no way influenced by Me, for as a perfect being, as My image, it also had to be completely free and feel independent. Yet its love had to be of the highest degree towards Me, from Whom it had emerged. But this love was stronger towards itself …. He gave himself first place in his thoughts although he did not lack realization due to his perfection, which also includes the recognition of truth. He exalted himself and fell ….

(6.7.1951) The strength which took its origin from Me moved an endless distance away from Me and now needs an equally endless path to return to Me again. But the return of the strength to its origin is a law which cannot be overturned eternally if it is to retain its effectiveness, for it is only fully effective in union with the original strength. Therefore the cycle of emanation and return must take place, but this also means a constant increase of strength, because the receptacles of divine strength must become active as soon as they are touched by it. The deeply fallen being is certainly still a bearer of strength but with only weak effectiveness. Yet it cannot remain completely inactive because My constant emanation of strength penetrates into the depths and achieves a counter-effect there and every resistance generates strength.

This generation of force means again the emergence of new life …. The emergence of any creations which again carry out an activity for the purpose of increasing strength …. Thus the highest bearer of light, the first being created in My image, unintentionally became the cause for the creation of countless works of creation through the fall into the abyss, in which My strength manifested itself and thus created immense life in the universe, because strength can never be inactive and flows towards the original source again and again, it always increases and can never decrease. That and why innumerable entities are involved in this increase of strength and, as spiritual substances dragged down by the fallen original spirit, inevitably have to return to their origin requires no further explanation than that My love for that which emerged from Me is unchanging and that this love does not diminish even if the products of My strength are endlessly far away from Me …. but that My will to love does not rest until it dwells close to Me again and can work and create with Me in bliss, as is its destiny ….

Amen

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God-ordained intercourse with the spirit world ….

B.D. 5166 from July 7th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

An immense number of spiritual beings surround the earth and stay close to people who are somehow connected to them through the same spiritual maturity, the same attitude or bonds in earthly life. They all sense that great things are preparing themselves, they know that something is about to happen to earth and its inhabitants; yet only highly developed spiritual beings know God’s eternal plan of salvation and thus also the course of the coming time. The spiritual world is extremely busy and wants to help earthly people on God’s behalf to increase their degree of maturity as much as possible before the day dawns which will end their lives. The ignorant souls in the spiritual kingdom also sense a general threat to earthly people and instinctively stay close to those they were close to. They cannot tell themselves what they are worried about and yet they are concerned about people, especially if they were lovingly attached to them. However, there is a law according to which there is no enlightenment as long as a person is without love and faith …. For as long as the human being’s soul is incapable of recognizing and accepting the truth. The same also applies to the souls in the spiritual kingdom which have still imperfectly left earth. They lack all understanding for the eternal truth, and thus God’s plan of salvation is also incomprehensible to them, in a manner of speaking there is a lack of thinking, they cannot grasp what higher truths are offered to them until they have awakened love within themselves and thereby attain a certain understanding. And thus, for the time being, no enlightenment can be given to these souls in the spiritual kingdom about the reason for their restlessness and concern. But they want to make themselves known to people and try in every way to direct people’s thoughts towards themselves in the belief that they can talk to them and be understood. It is a great disappointment for these souls when they are not listened to, as they believe, and yet they do not give up their efforts to make themselves understood. There is a certain kind of love around their retarded ones, and this love is credited to them by God and given them a way to express it. Wherever people come together on earth in remembrance of the deceased in order to help them, a God-willed communication from earth to the spirit world can be established. But the reason must always be love that wants to help, which will then also bring blessings on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. And now again the degree of maturity of those people is decisive which souls are admitted into the spiritual kingdom to be able to express themselves. People are surrounded by countless souls and each one wants to express itself, yet not every soul is allowed to do so, but all are allowed to listen and they will understand what is being said. A spiritual protective wall surrounds spiritually striving people, but the spiritual guides of the still ignorant souls also make an effort to bring them into a higher degree of realization by always hearing and understanding words of love and stimulating them to think about their own state and degree of love. Hence people on earth can also influence these souls beyond death if the connection with the spirit world is established on a God-pleasing basis …. to give and receive whatever is only helpful to the soul …. Spiritual strivers are therefore always allowed to make contact with the world of the beyond, but people should always give account of the motive which makes them establish such a connection. For the souls in the beyond it is a relief, a relief of their concern for people, if they can draw their attention to what threatens them, for which they have a fine feeling but not the right explanation. And they will always stay close to the endangered and want to help them. And this will to help will be valued by God and rewarded with counter-help ….

Amen

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Recognize the truth and utilize in love ….

B.D. 5167 from July 8th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

It is not man’s knowledge that makes him blissful, but the utilization of knowledge, because love is necessary for this and love alone has a blissful effect. And so man can certainly possess knowledge without living in love. But then it is only pure intellectual knowledge, gained through study, through eager reflection on problems which certainly reach into spiritual territory but can only be called spiritual knowledge when the human being has been taught about it by the spirit within himself through a life of love. Having absorbed extensive knowledge does not yet guarantee its possession, for what was gained through intellectual activity is just as transient as all earthly knowledge, even if it has spiritual content. It is dead knowledge which already has no enlivening effect on earth and is completely lost in the beyond. Only love awakens the letter to life, only love gives understanding for spiritual knowledge, and only love makes this knowledge happy …. But love constantly gives away what makes it happy itself in order to also make fellow human beings happy. Knowledge, however, will only make people happy if it is received with a loving heart ….

From this you humans can see that only love ever determines the degree of knowledge people have, for even though a loving person still lacks knowledge he will immediately understand it if it is presented to him. Love recognizes the truth and love also utilizes it …. Anyone who has the right truth cannot help but pass it on, because love impels him to do so but he also has to be in love in order to have recognized it as truth. Nevertheless, the human being can also stand up for knowledge which does not correspond to the truth, but then he should unsparingly give himself an answer to the question: To what degree am I willing to love? …. And this answer is also the measure of the truth of what he stands for. A loving person is full of eagerness to serve God because he has recognized Him as father and creator from eternity, as the most perfect being by Whom he knows himself to be loved. And therefore he will serve Him with all his heart and soul, even if it is not outwardly recognizable. But there is one thing he will not fail to do, to point his fellow human beings to Him and to seek to persuade them to believe in Him …. For he who believes himself also wants to persuade his fellow human being to hand himself over to the father as a child. And therefore he will always convey to his fellow human being what he knows himself. This knowledge is full truth and increases with increasing love activity. Intellectual knowledge, on the other hand, is passed on professionally, and this is mostly connected with earthly interests. Love gives without demanding payment, but he who demands such is not in love but only in occupation …. He makes use of his intellectual knowledge and only puts love in second place. And this knowledge will not bring much blessing, it only stimulates intellectual activity again, but the heart remains untouched and does not get to know the bliss of receiving truth. For knowledge can be truth but without love it will not be recognized as such. Therefore, first cultivate love, and whatever knowledge is then offered to you, share it out again in love …. Only then will your knowledge increase and remain your spiritual property, which is everlasting and enables you to be happy in the kingdom of the beyond and prepare you for bliss again.

Amen

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Prayer for grace and strength, for illumination of the spirit ….

B.D. 5168 from July 10th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

May your prayer always be and remain: “Father, fill us with your spirit, with your strength and your grace ….” With this request you testify to your spiritual poverty, that you admit your weakness and ask Me for love, for strength and grace and for enlightenment through the spirit. And I will hear you, for I hear and listen to every prayer concerning your spiritual sustenance and help you to ascend. As soon as you are concerned about your soul’s well-being you will also have grasped the meaning and purpose of earthly life, and then it will be easy for Me to give you what you desire without endangering your free will. Then you will be aware of your still imperfect state and seek to remedy it of your own free will. You come to Me for My help and you will truly be helped, for My heart rejoices at your desire for Me and I can think of you like little children who, in their weakness and ignorance, need to be cared for and taught so that they will grow and prosper and walk the right path …. so that they enter the path that leads to Me, to the height, to the light. Power, grace and illumination of the spirit …. if you ask for these, you will possess everything …. My love and mercy and complete clarity about your earthly task and its solution. You enter the state of realization and then walk along with sight where you were previously still blind and therefore also still wretched. If My flow of strength touches you, you will also feel My love for you, which powerfully attracts you. I love you even though you are still imperfect and therefore constantly convey My grace to you in order to let you become perfect if you use this grace. And you will do so because you also appeal to Me for enlightenment of spirit and therefore most clearly recognize what you lack, how you should live and which path you must take in order to become blissfully happy. You will achieve everything if you ask Me for strength and grace, for enlightenment through the spirit. For then your heart will already be open to the flow of strength of love, My spirit can be active in you, for you no longer prevent it from doing so because you open yourselves to My flow of grace and love and it inevitably becomes effective in a willing earthly child turned towards Me. I truly love you mightily and yet My grace has to take hold of you first, because due to your imperfect state you are not worthy to receive proofs of love from Me and therefore I have to grant grace in return for justice. I must draw you to Me since you will not come of your own accord, yet you yourselves can decide whether you accept My grace …. I don’t force you to follow Me, but My grace has a mighty effect on the one who offers no resistance. And every request for grace is a giving up of resistance …. Bear in mind that I can then shower you abundantly if you demonstrate through your prayer the will to accept and utilize the blessings from Me …. Cry out to Me for strength and grace and the outpouring of the spirit upon you …. Then you will have true humility, for you feel that you are in need of these gifts. And to the humble I bestow My grace …. He calls upon Me and has already come considerably closer to Me in his humility because he has established the relationship between child and child which includes love for Me and humility towards Me and shapes the human being such that I can shower him abundantly with My grace and My strength and My spirit …. which now becomes active in him and guides him into all truth ….

Amen

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Public confession …. living faith ….

B.D. 5169 from July 12th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

Anyone who only confesses Me with his mouth will not stand firm if it applies to confessing Me before the world, for he does not belong to those who are inwardly firmly convinced of Me and My teaching. And there will be many who will not stand firm because they have only superficially dealt with the truth so far, with spiritual thought material which testifies to Me. They are merely idioms which they use lightly when they are moved to religious views, yet if they are to take a serious stand they fail because they lack all realization, because their faith is only a formal faith and their life on earth, as good as it seems, is just an illusory life. They have not yet awakened the divine spark within themselves, it is buried and therefore cannot bring itself to bear, and this means ignorance, spiritual blindness and thus also lack of strength when strength is required. People are unaware of the spiritual hardship they are in because they have no strength to resist when this is demanded of them, when it concerns the public confession of Me and My teaching, because they are not convinced of it. And they could so easily acquire this conviction if only they were willing to gain knowledge of what My will consists of and how it is to be fulfilled. For faith also depends on the fulfilment of My will, the inner conviction, which then the human being can and will firmly uphold. Anyone who lives correctly, thus in accordance with My will, also knows the truth, and his faith is a living one, and he will confess such faith before the world without hesitation, such faith cannot be taken away from him, it is deeply rooted and withstands every external threat.

At present there are countless people who call themselves believers and yet would not stand up to any test of faith, there are countless people who have not yet bothered to seriously think about what they claim to believe, who avoid every religious debate because they know nothing and do not want to admit their lack of knowledge; there are countless people who, if they were to think seriously, would reject everything as untenable because the intellect cannot cope with it and because the heart is not involved in the form of loving activity, the only means of understanding what seems incomprehensible …. Yet all of them pretend to be believers in their fellow human beings until they are forced to make a decision …. to speak out publicly for or against, until they are forced to make a decision of faith …. Then many will discard what they have been holding on to without thinking whether what they are doing is wrong. Others will reflect and come to wrong conclusions because they believe they can fathom intellectually what requires the working of the spirit. And only a few will have the courage to openly profess Me and My teaching; and these few have gained the knowledge through their spirit, which was able to take effect in them as a result of a right life of love. These stand firm in faith in Me and courageously and without fear confess My name, for their faith has become a living one through love and they are in possession of strength in the face of every onslaught. They will remain faithful to Me until the end, for anyone who confesses Me before the world will constantly draw strength from Me, and he will receive what he believes …. an eternal life in bliss ….

Amen

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Periods of development – duration …. matter and influence ….

B.D. 5170 from July 14th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The plan of redemption of the fallen spiritual always unfolds in certain periods of time which correspond to the respective state of the spiritual. And that is why the individual redemption periods are different, both temporally and in their conditions and possibilities of maturing. There are longer and shorter periods of redemption as well as completely different creations in these, which mean a more or less hard fetter for the spiritual bound in it. And from this it follows that different demands are also made on people in such individual stages of redemption so that they attain their spiritual maturity. A gradation would be recognizable, so to speak, if the individual periods of development could be compared with each other …. and it would be evident that the creations always adapt to people’s state of maturity, i.e. their will, that therefore people without hard resistance against God also live in a world which allows for easier dissolution of the material form and therefore also requires a shorter time for a process of development. And this will always be the case when a total dissolution of the earthly creation has preceded and the spiritual substance which has escaped from it is to be brought into a new form again. Then this spiritual, as living in an environment beneficial to it, strives far more eagerly upwards, even if it is still unconscious of itself. But after such a total dissolution the human race on earth is also even more peaceful, more united with God, which beneficially influences the still bound spiritual and also helps it to ascend. Hard matter is indeed still enlivened by deeply fallen spiritual substances, and these spiritual substances will still want to exert their influence, especially when this period of redemption draws to a close again. But every epoch is an ascent from the abyss to the height, every epoch reveals spiritual substances which no longer offer resistance to God or very soon give Him up, but also those which remain in resistance to God, which have hard matter as their abode and again and again want to and will have an unfavourable effect on the more mature spiritual substances. The longer people withdraw from this influence, the longer the periods of development will be, because a conclusion will only occur again when these beings, bound in hard matter, are allowed to embody themselves as human beings again after an infinitely long transformation. For these beings now determine the time of the end or dissolution of the creation they inhabit …. Turning towards God also ensures a long existence, turning away from Him is renewed resistance and ultimately necessitates the destruction of that which does not fulfil its purpose …. a dissolving of the earth and a new forming of spiritual forms. For according to the law of eternity everything must strive upwards, and what fails will sink so low that it can again be integrated into the process of upward development, so that the law of eternity will be fulfilled …. constant upward development of what has fallen until it has reached the former height again ….

Amen

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God's blessing, i.e. help, in every spiritual work ….

B.D. 5171 from July 15th 1951, taken from Book No. 58

The spiritual work, the work for Me and My kingdom, is so extremely important at this time because you no longer have much time left to work for Me. And therefore I bless every activity which is meant for this work, be it the transmission of My word to fellow human beings or also the conscious pointing out of the end to them, be it admonitions or warnings or also good thoughts which apply to the souls in need on earth or also in the beyond. Everything that is done to release souls from this adversity meets My approval and thus also My blessing. For the will to help is valued which prompts you humans to work for My kingdom, to redeeming activity. And I will support you in every way so that your work will be successful …. I will not, as people do, disregard or disrespect your work, I will always help you and straighten out what you have bent out of ignorance …. thus never allow those who are taught by you to be wrongly instructed or those who hope for salvation from you to be disappointed. For I also help and rejoice over every soul I win back, on earth as well as in the beyond. For you, My initiates, know that even after death the soul can make up for what it neglected to do on earth but that it has to be helped in the beyond when it leaves earth imperfectly. And therefore I bless every effort which is also meant for these souls, and to bless means to help that all work is successful. Be eagerly active, for time is drawing to a close and I need labourers who shall cultivate the many fields which still lie fallow, I need many labourers for My vineyard who shall influence people’s hearts so that I Myself can accomplish the further work on them …. to give them My word in order to make Myself recognizable to them. I need you who want to be of service to Me, who possess knowledge which you can also impart to those who are still completely ignorant. I guide you to those who need your help and smooth all paths for you so that you can work for Me unhindered. But I also want you to remain eager, so that you don’t become lukewarm and forget the great hardship which causes Me to serve you …. You should always remember this hardship and be diligently active …. Then the work in My vineyard will not be in vain, then you will redeem the souls before the end comes, and these souls will thank you eternally for having taken care of them ….

Amen

Bertha Dudde · Word of God Book 58 (EPUB, 2026-08-25) · Friends of the New Revelation, Wilhelm Wegers and Hans-Willi Schmitz.

Translation handled by Doris Boekers

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