Too little use is made of God’s grace, and that is why people are in such great spiritual need. They don’t let it take effect although it is available to them without measure. For they lack the will to make use of God’s help because they don’t believe in Him and therefore not in His willingness to help, in His love and His power. God knows about people’s weakness, about their lack of strength to strive upwards, and therefore He wants to give them strength, He wants to support them in every way so that they will reach their aim; He wants to help them and demands nothing more from them than that they want to be helped, that they gratefully accept His support, that they open themselves to the supply of strength …. that they therefore allow the blessings, the means of help, to take effect, that they use them and thereby prove their will to come closer to God. But this first requires faith in Him. If this faith is missing, then the human being will never be willing to make use of His grant of grace. And then it will never be possible for him to progress in his development. For he will not take the path of ascent on his own because the temptations on the part of God’s adversary are too strong for him to be able to resist them. Without divine help he is too weak, and this weakness can only be remedied if God grants the human being His grace, i.e. the human being makes use of the grace he is entitled to. He does this by consciously requesting grace, strength and protection and help …. Then he confesses his faith in a God Who can help and wants to help. And the human being must be aware of his weakness, his inadequacy, he must turn to God in humble prayer that He will have mercy on his weakness, that He will help him in spiritual as well as physical adversity. Then God will dispense His grace without measure, He will consider the human being according to his faith, He will strengthen him and remedy his spiritual and earthly hardship. For God is a God of love Who lifts up to Himself everything that is weak and fallen, Who raises up what is depressed, Who gives strength to the weak, help to the helpless, even if the human being does not deserve it ….. Only His gift must be requested and gratefully received …. And people fail to do this and are therefore in a spiritual low from which they cannot save themselves alone. They need God’s grace, and if they spurn this God’s adversary has an easy game. For he will supply them with strength, yet since it comes from below it will only be used for bad thoughts and bad deeds, and humanity will sink ever lower …. But God respects people’s free will. He does not force His grace upon them but leaves it up to them whether they want to accept it and let it take effect on them or carelessly spurn God’s grace …. And according to their will they will now be considered, yet without God’s grace no-one can become blissfully happy ….

Amen

Every test on earth is a rung on the ladder upwards as soon as the human being passes it and thus his soul matures on it …. Every test is, so to speak, a phase of battle which ends in victory or defeat, and the human being has to fight as long as he lives if he wants to gain an advantage for his soul. Every test forces him to make a decision of will, and how he decides is decisive for his spiritual development. Good and evil forces will always try to persuade the human being to join them; the evil forces will tempt him with the goods of the world or other earthly pleasures, whereas the forces of light can only use spiritual goods but these are not very desirable for people who are earthly minded. But such trials have to come upon them in order to urge them to make a decision; for the human being has to prove his will to resist by taking refuge in God and pleading for strength in prayer and thereby climbing a rung on the ladder of his development. For every connection with God and appeal for strength leads him upwards. But if he succumbs to temptation and prefers earthly goods to spiritual goods, then he stops on the step of his development. He does not take up the fight with the tempter, but gives himself up to him. Every resistance strengthens his power and he will pass every next test more easily, whereas the weaker the person, the less will he musters to resist, until he allows himself to be used by God’s adversary as a tool for his evil plans …. This is why a life without struggle will never be granted to a person because it signifies a standstill in his development, and a spiritually striving person will also be exposed to many trials which, however, are always signs that his soul is being fought for on the part of the spiritual power. And he should always entrust himself to the forces of light, he should leave himself to them, and he will pass every battle victoriously, for his will gives them the right to help him, and then he will also remain victorious in the face of every temptation, and he will ascend step by step ….

Amen

Deeds of unkindness are rampant and My patience is overtaxed, My justice is challenged, humanity heaps sin upon sin and does not think of the consequences, which are dreadful. It accelerates its own downfall, for it may not exceed the limit set for it. But this limit will soon be reached …. People can still act freely, they are not hindered by Me …. and they can use their freedom …. But soon My will will hinder them and their fate will be dreadful. They don’t want it any other way, for all people’s thinking and striving is evil, it gives birth to evil deeds, and unkindness increases, the distance from Me grows ever greater and can only end in complete numbness of spiritual substance, because My emanation of love no longer touches the spiritual substance which distances itself from Me. And complete degeneration of spiritual substance means being enclosed in solid matter, deprived of free will, and having to act according to My will which contradicts its own. And thus it is a state of torment towards which the spiritual itself strives through its wrong will during the last embodiment on earth. All love has disappeared from the hearts or it only applies to the world and is therefore wrong. The will is turned away from Me as well as the love does not apply to Me, and My adversary gains power over people’s souls because their will is turned towards him. And thus there is no stopping it, the day of judgment draws ever closer, and every day before is a mercy, a proof of My greater than great love and patience, to still give people the opportunity to change. Every day brings so much suffering that people would have to pay attention and direct their thoughts spiritually …. And it would not yet be too late to change. For the sake of the few I still exercise patience who learn to recognize Me in suffering and adversity. I take no pleasure in annihilation and destruction, yet I do not hinder human will …. But one day I will oppose them with My will which, although it also expresses itself destructively, is combined with wisdom and love and therefore has a beneficial effect on the spiritual substances which are still developing and which can also have beneficial consequences for the human being if he recognizes Me and My might in them. I will put an end to unkindness as soon as the limit is reached …. but the end will be dreadful, for My justice will condemn the sinful person to atonement because he does not pay attention to My admonitions and warnings and does not make use of the short time of grace which is still granted to him through My greater than great patience and mercy ….

Amen

God constantly conveys His word to earth where only the connection with Him is established by a willing earthly child. And if the word is to become effective amongst people it has to be received and followed with the heart, only then will the human being feel the strength of the divine word. The direct recipient must be involved with the heart, otherwise he would not be able to hear the voice of the spirit. Nevertheless, he will only feel the full strength if he lives out the word of God, that is, if he strives to fulfil God’s will revealed through the word. The word teaches love, and the human being must first be active in love in order to receive the promised strength. The word of God is a source of strength because God expresses Himself, because God is the centre of strength from eternity and His word is the source from which everyone can refresh and strengthen themselves. Anyone who lives in love also longs for the divine word because he recognizes it as the connection between God and himself and longs for it. And God Himself approaches him in the word by speaking to him through the voice of the spirit and he hears Him in his heart if he listens attentively. If the word of God becomes effective in the human being then spiritual maturity is inevitably the result, for the strength of the divine word promotes the human being’s upward development, which is the aim and purpose of earthly life. The human being will shape himself into love, the strength of the divine word helps him to carry out his will, it impels him into loving activity, love again unites him with God and makes him receptive for the emanation of love from God, and this lets him mature spiritually and find union with the father of eternity. And now God works in him by making Himself known through the spirit. The human being is now in direct contact with God and hears Him at all times. He hears His voice resounding in his heart and is already blissfully happy on earth, for now he feels God within himself and there is neither spiritual nor earthly adversity for him. He stands in fullest abundance of strength which he constantly draws from God, and this means overcoming all opposition, overcoming death, i.e. the lack of strength, and an eternal life …. Man has reached his aim, he has returned to the one from Whom he once came ….

Amen

Everything must go towards perfection. This is divine law, thus the will of God, which must be complied with now and in eternity. For a short time this divine will is opposed by the free will of man, who can now submit to the divine law or also act contrary to it. The latter, however, is a sin against the divine order, which can never lead to perfection but favours imperfection and increases the distance from God. God is the most perfect being who can never be reached in His perfection. Nevertheless, whatever wants to unite with Him must reach a degree of perfection which makes God’s nearness bearable for the being, because the imperfect would inevitably perish in union with God. But the strength which once flowed out of God must return to the original source again, thus the beingness, which emerged from this strength and became imperfect of its own free will, must walk the path of perfection …. It has to constantly progress upwards, it has to become ever more perfect or it will never be able to enter into a bond with God as the original strength. Thus it must subordinate itself to divine law, it must fulfil God’s will and constantly reduce the distance from God …. it must strive for perfection. According to God’s will there is no regression but only an upward development. Where regression takes place, there the human being’s will is active, which God does not hinder in order not to prevent its becoming perfect. Therefore, the free spiritual can oppose divine order, but then it becomes unfree and cannot redeem itself from its bondage. A violation of the divine order always results in distance from God, and distance is powerlessness. Thus the beingness itself bears the consequences of disregarding the divine will, it separates itself from the original source of strength and makes itself incapable of returning to Him. It falls into another world which is completely separated from the kingdom of God where everything strives towards perfection …. The return into this kingdom is extremely difficult and only possible through God’s grace, Who in His love also descends into that kingdom and full of mercy offers the fallen being His hand to raise it up. But then the will of the being must have seriously submitted itself to God’s will, it must have given up all resistance and be willing to travel the path of perfection once again in order to find union with God. Then God’s merciful love will come into action and give the being the opportunity to once again walk the path of ascent development, which can bring it success if it lives within the divine order ….

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The miracles of creation testify to God’s love, wisdom and omnipotence, and yet they are not enough for people to believe in Him, otherwise humanity would not be able to live so faithlessly. God gives them proof of His existence, but people do not want to accept it ….. They do not deduce the creator of heaven and earth from creation but remain completely unimpressed by it, they do not let creation speak to them, they do not make it the content of their thoughts and therefore never gain faith in God because they do not strive to gain it. And they could so easily attain convinced faith if they dealt with the miracles of creation, for God Himself speaks through them and His language is easy to understand for the willing, seeking human being who longs for truth. All works of creation breathe God’s love, nothing has come into being without purpose or meaninglessness, and the purpose of every work of creation is always the existence or preservation of other works of creation in which His love is expressed again. And every purpose is wisely considered …. every work reveals God’s omnipotence, and the detailed contemplation of the works of creation should lead to convinced faith as soon as the human being wants to occupy himself with them in thought. Yet the unbelieving human being does not look for evidence because he does not desire and search for truth. He could obtain proof of the existence of a loving, wise and omnipotent God at any time, yet he does not want to believe and consequently cannot gain faith either, because the will must first have become active, because the human being must first strive for truth before he recognizes God. He blindly passes by the miracles of creation and thus they mean nothing to him and he remains faithless ….

(28.8.1945) And it is also difficult to give him any other proof which could lead him to believe in a God of love, wisdom and omnipotence. Creation in all its diversity is daily before his eyes, he himself stands in the midst of it and is likewise one of the wonders of divine creation, and the question should always arise in him: Who has brought into being all that I see? …. And this question would be followed by a chain of thoughts that would make him wonder if he persisted in them. To reject a creator, to deny Him, would then no longer be possible for him because this would immediately be refuted in his mind by forces of the spiritual kingdom which endeavour to give him bright light as soon as he asks for it. Only the sincere will for truth is required, then he will mentally receive the teachings which fully correspond to the truth. But this will is lacking in the human being who is indifferent to the works of creation, and without this will he will never attain faith either. Worldly knowledge contradicts the teachings of faith imparted to the human being and the latter remain without impression as long as the human being does not have the desire for truth. The desire for truth, however, does not find satisfaction in worldly knowledge, but worldly knowledge means everything to the person who is indifferent to truth, and from it he draws evidence against the belief in a God as creator and sustainer of all things. He is misled by the forces which are in battle with the eternal truth, and the fact that their teachings appeal to him is merely due to his will, which also resists the eternal truth. He neither sees nor hears anything which informs him of God’s greatness, he does not feel His love and does not see it in creation either, and thus he does not understand God’s language either because he closes himself off to it. And he remains without faith, for faith first requires the will to do so. As long as he lacks the will he still belongs to the power which let him become by using the power out of God. He acknowledges the latter but he does not want to acknowledge God, he is still in a state of complete ignorance, yet it is his own fault, for everywhere he has the opportunity to change the state of ignorance, to step out of spiritual darkness into light, yet he does not make use of it. Creation, however, is like an open book in which everyone can read and whose contents will also become comprehensible to him if he eagerly absorbs the truth …. Then God will speak to him and he will understand His language, he will learn to believe in God as a supremely perfect being Who is active with immense love in order to make His living creations happy and Who also wants to make Himself known to every human being ….

Amen

The days the human being leaves unused on earth for his spiritual higher development are irretrievably lost, for as soon as earthly life is over he is deprived of the opportunities to carry out works of love out of his own strength. Admittedly, he can also strive upwards in the beyond but he only receives strength in a certain degree of maturity. But if the soul has not reached this then it is completely powerless, whereas on earth even the most imperfect human being has strength at his disposal which he can use to work in love. And although he also has the opportunity to mature spiritually in the beyond …. the unused time on earth is lost to him which he could use to achieve the highest aim …. the childship to God, which requires a degree of maturity which can never be made up for in the beyond. The human being has to strive for this aim with all his strength, he has to completely devote himself to God and live according to His will, but then he will also make use of every day on earth, he will consciously always live his earthly life with his eyes upwards, he will live a spiritual life which overrules earthly life. But anyone who is lukewarm and indolent, whose heart is divided between God and the earthly world, will spend days where he is only purely earthly-minded, and these days will be lost to him for eternity. For the world awakens earthly desires, it awakens impulses in the human being’s heart which lack love, and the soul will not be released from its fetters, the shell will not be burst but rather thickened, and the spirit will be hindered in its actual activity, it will not be able to work, and the human being will be at the mercy of the forces which strive to win him through the world. However, higher development on earth requires the release of the spirit, for only when it can work in him will the human being progress upwards, driven by the spirit which prevents his downfall and introduces the soul into the spiritual kingdom. Once the spirit in the human being has awakened it will no longer sink into sleep, then it will be constantly active …. then the human being will also use every day for his spiritual well-being. But as long as he slumbers the soul remains on the same level, then it only lives in the earthly but not in the spiritual world. And these days are lost to it. A fully utilized earthly life belongs to the attainment of childship to God, a life where the will is always turned towards God, although the human being is exposed to great temptations which are meant to test his will. As long as the human being’s will has not yet decided in favour of God the soul cannot develop upwards either, rather, the danger of regression is great because God’s adversary leaves no means untried to win the soul. And his means is the world with its enticements and its illusory glamour, to which the soul too easily falls prey. Therefore, the human being only belongs to God when he has overcome the world, only then will he ascend, and then no day may remain unused if full success is to be achieved. In the beyond there is certainly also higher development for the soul if it has the will for it, yet until it has reached the degree of light it is extremely laborious and requires a long time …. it first has to acquire the treasures which it can easily gain on earth and which follow it into the spiritual kingdom. And therefore anyone who uses the time on earth and gathers spiritual treasures which allow him to enter the kingdom of light, where he then constantly strives upwards, will be blessed …. yet the souls who come to realization in the beyond and remember the unused time on earth, which they will never be able to make up for even if spiritual ascent is still possible for them, will painfully regret it ….

Amen

In times of greatest earthly adversity the spiritual state of individual people clarifies itself insofar as faith is either strengthened or completely lost, if it was previously only a formal faith which could not yet convince people. Many fall away from faith, their eyes are still too earthly directed and they cannot bring world events and their own fate into harmony with the eternal deity, from Whom they only expect a happy earthly life due to their ignorance. They only want to acknowledge a God Who gives them all the comforts of life, but the fact that they themselves forfeit their well-being on earth through their way of life, through their distance from God, is incomprehensible to them. The more severe the hardship becomes, the more they distance themselves from Him, they reject Him, they do not surrender to their fate but grumble and complain and try to reduce their state of hardship through unjust actions and unkind behaviour towards their neighbour. Their faith in God was only a formal faith which did not stand up to serious scrutiny, but which was also worthless and must first become a convinced faith. There are only a few people who cling more closely to God in times of adversity because they firmly believe in Him and do not let themselves be diverted from this faith. They see suffering for what it is, as a means by which God wants to win over people who have fallen away from Him. They constantly ask God for strength and are now also able to endure suffering. Faith gives them this strength and God does not rely on His own, i.e. those who believe in Him and take refuge in Him in every adversity. But the state of those unbelievers is hopeless as long as they only pay attention to earthly events and don’t think about the meaning and purpose of them. But a clarification must take place, for the faith in form is not faith as God demands it …. It has been scholastically transferred to people and has not yet come alive in them; it is a dead faith which does not support the soul in its development and therefore requires a strong examination so that the human being will become clear about his thinking and his attitude towards God. Anyone who rejects Him, impressed by adversity and earthly events, by his own fate, will have to go through greater trials in order to still gain faith after all, or he will get lost and in the end belong to those who are condemned, who belong to God’s opponents and therefore receive the just punishment, who will have to travel the path through the new creation again for the purpose of their redemption. The believers will also be exposed to severe trials, yet a convinced faith cannot be shaken so easily, and God stands by those who are faithful to Him, who withstand all trials and attach themselves to God all the more intimately because they firmly believe in Him and His love, omnipotence and wisdom. And this firm faith will be rewarded to them on the day of judgment, when God Himself will lead them into paradise, where all adversity will come to an end and they will be exceedingly happy in the presence of God ….

Amen

Spiritual bondage is when a person is forced into a belief by decrees and commandments and is forbidden any examination of it under threat of temporal or eternal punishment. As soon as a person can freely decide for himself whether he wants to accept the spiritual knowledge offered to him or not, he is not spiritually enslaved and thus also fully responsible for his thoughts and actions. And that is why Jesus did not say to His disciples: “Command men what they shall believe ….” but He sent them into the world with the words: “Go and teach all nations ….” No other commandment is spoken of than only the commandment of love of God and love of neighbour …. This commandment also includes all the ten commandments which God gave to men through Moses, because the man who fulfils the commandment of love of neighbour does not in any way transgress against those divine commandments. And sin is everything that violates the divine commandment of love. The consequences of sins are their punishments, thus the human being punishes himself, but God does not impose a punishment on him, instead, according to divine justice the effect of unkindness, of sin, is always painful for the human being and he has to accept the consequences of sin on earth or in the beyond. But if human commandments are issued whose non-observance is reckoned to the human being as sin, which results in God’s punishment, this is spiritual bondage, it is a curtailing of free will, for the human being will do what he is supposed to under pressure and have little success in his upward development. For only what the human being does of his own free will and for God’s sake is valuable before God. He must feel inwardly driven to do it and comply with the inner voice, then it is a work of freedom which is valued by God. In the same way, faith must be acquired by the human being himself by examining and thinking through what he is asked to believe. It must be a convinced faith, acquired of its own free will, but not a faith which must be demanded by force, which must be accepted unconditionally if it is transferred to a person in a scholastic way. Then the human being is in spiritual bondage, and such faith is dead, it is worthless before God. Countless people, however, are kept in spiritual bondage, they are taught, often also by ignorant people, they are put into a certain state of compulsion in that sin with its punishment accompanies every teaching of faith, i.e. the non-acceptance of faith is portrayed as sin which entails its punishment. Thus the human being could shift the responsibility away from himself if he did not also have doubts of faith which partly come from within and partly from without and which stimulate him to think about it as soon as he is serious about standing in the truth. God often shakes the thinking of people who live in spiritual bondage; they are prompted to reflect by external influences, by their own fate, so that they use and test the gift of intellect despite the counter-pressure of those who believe they are entitled to teach …. And he who is serious about the truth will free himself from spiritual bondage, he will recognize the unreasonableness of the desire to unconditionally accept something which people have imparted to him. For what is divine of their teachings the examiner also recognizes as divine, yet very soon he will learn to distinguish God’s work from human work, very soon he will recognize the flimsiness of teachings which are not of divine origin, and very soon he will learn to regard the human being’s free will as the main factor which is decisive for his soul’s ascent development. And then he will free himself from the shackles which are man’s work, then his faith will also become more convinced and far more valuable than the formal faith which many people call their own and defend out of tradition but which does not hold up when serious trials come upon people. For then a structure will collapse which has stood its ground for a long time but which cannot remain in existence because it is the work of human beings and disregarded the freedom of the will by issuing commandments which do not correspond to God’s will. For if the human being is to answer for his actions one day, he must be able to act in full freedom of will but never be forced to make a decision by the threat of punishment for sin …. because otherwise he could not become eternally perfect.

Amen

The more the soul strives towards God, the more it is harassed by the forces of darkness which try to distance the soul from God again by all means. And the human being will be in constant battle with these forces if he wants to resist and withstand all temptations. God’s adversary uses all his power in order to succeed, and he works through people who are weak-willed and allow themselves to be influenced by him. But it will only take a short time and the power will be taken from him. And therefore he rages all the more because he knows that his time is coming to an end and he tries to make use of it in order to seize power completely, but he will not succeed. But anyone who obviously works for God need not fear him because God’s adversary is powerless where the strength from God is active. But God has also promised His strength to His servants, and thus all efforts are fruitless which aim to stop the work of a servant of God. God protects His workers, He gives them grace and strength to carry out their mission on earth, and thus He also prevents His adversary if he tries to assert himself wherever the lord’s servants are active. Their faith is like a bulwark and God’s adversary has little success …. Despite his power he is powerless where God’s spirit is active, for this, as God’s portion, has greater power, and every attempt to keep the human being from his work for God is in vain. Where God’s spirit is active the adversary’s power is broken by God, the human being already belongs to God because his will is completely turned towards Him, and the forces of light stand by his side and protect him from the corrupting influence of the enemy of their souls. And thus a servant of God can no longer be hindered in his activity on earth for the kingdom of God, for he only acts as the spirit of God instructs him, and he is immune to all temptations of evil. And no matter whether the attacks become ever stronger, the strength of the human being who is willing to serve God constantly increases, and thus he will always and constantly offer resistance, he will remain victorious in the battle with the powers of darkness, for the light is with him, and where there is light there is also strength. The human being is in union with God and no power will be able to remove him from God, because God Himself holds him and will never allow him to fall into the adversary’s hands who wants to be His child on earth and testifies to this through his will to serve Him ….

Amen

You have a powerful Helper by your side, and yet you still want to lose heart? You may approach Me in prayer at all times by merely using this grace and you will call Me to your side and you will assuredly receive support. Regardless of the danger you find yourselves in …. My power is greater and can banish every calamity in an instant. Bear this in mind if you are at risk of feeling anxious and fainthearted. Your Father in Heaven will not abandon you, in a crisis He is closer to you than ever as long as you consider yourselves His children and trustingly call upon Him for help. Time and again I assure you of My protection, time and again I lift you up through My Word, and time and again I impart upon you the strength to resist evil. And My love will embrace you more closely than ever if you suffer adversity of body and soul and take refuge in Me in full confidence that I will help you. You may always consider yourselves safe and secure when the world around you runs riot, when earthly measure frighten you and make you tremble …. Then you need simply stretch out your hand to Me so that I will guide you, and I will take you along a path that leads away from disaster …. For I will walk beside you, and the power of evil will truly not come close to Me. He avoids Me and chooses people who walk in darkness like himself and ignores those who walk by My side in the light and who are therefore out of reach for him. Believe and trust in Me and don’t allow earthly adversities to get you down. Only pay attention to your souls and let Me worry about your earthly life …. and give Me the right to take care of you by totally handing your will over to Me. And your life on earth will be bearable for you …. For I Am always with you as long as you send your thoughts up to Me and desire to be in contact with Me. I will call My little sheep when I have found them, when they have returned to their shepherd, I will not let them go astray again, I will stay with all those who want to stay with Me and will never ever leave them again. So if I give you this assurance, why are you still worried? My Word is truth and will remain truth for all eternity. I always draw close to My children with all My love as soon as the slightest call reaches Me, and therefore you should always come to Me if you labour and are heavily laden …. My love is always willing to give, My love is always willing to help, I can help you and I want to help you, I only require your faith, your trust, so that My strength of love can take effect ….

Amen

God is omnipresent and thus close to every person who longs for His presence. It is an uplifting thought to know oneself closely connected with the heavenly father in prayer, to know Him present, that the human being can speak to His father like a child and does not need to look for Him in the far distance. To feel God present also proves a strong faith, for the unbelieving human being is unable to imagine God in close proximity and even less to feel His presence. The believing person, however, is delighted by His presence. He knows that he can constantly connect with God and that this connection is only possible when God’s love leans towards people, thus He Himself proves His love to him through His presence. Every intimate thought of God is a call which does not go unheard but draws the father close to His child because He loves His child and also wants to be united with it. And God will be everywhere where this call sounds on the part of His children, for there are no obstacles for Him to dwell wherever He wants. He is a spirit which is not bound to time and space, His love radiates continuously into infinity, His spirit is everywhere and people can feel His presence everywhere if only they desire Him. Anyone who calls this profound faith his own, that he knows he is safe in the vicinity of the heavenly father every day and every hour, no longer fears, for he always feels accompanied by God, and this faith in God’s presence instils the deepest calm and security in him in the face of every danger which threatens him. He knows that nothing can happen to him as long as he is assured of His presence through intimate thoughts of God; he also knows that His love does not diminish, that He faithfully leads His child by the hand, and every worry and anxiety vanishes before this faith in God’s presence, for where He is there is no room for evil and no danger threatens the earthly child. It is an extremely happy feeling to be convinced of God’s presence, because then the faith is also of such strength that it can no longer be shaken …. And the human being will live in deepest peace, for he will never be alone again, he will know that one is always with him and that this one is his father from eternity Who longs for His children and therefore will never abandon them ….

Amen

God’s love is exceedingly great and His decision is wise. And everything He decides serves the redemption of the spiritual, which is wretched because it is far from God. In order to bring it closer to Him He directs all events according to His eternal plan of salvation, which is determined in profound wisdom and infinite love and will also lead to the aim one day. Salvation from greatest adversity is the basis of it, for God’s love only wants blissful creatures with whom He is eternally united. This is the ultimate aim and purpose of everything that happens in heaven and on earth. But where God’s love and wisdom is active, fullest success must also be guaranteed, only it takes infinite times because God’s will alone does not bring about the redemption of the unfree spiritual, but God lets the spiritual’s free will make the final decision in the embodiment as a human being and this shortens or lengthens the period of redemption itself. God’s love and wisdom only arranges all events in such a way that they stimulate the human being to use his will and suggest the right decision to him. And this has to be recognized, even in the greatest suffering that goes over the earth and oppresses people …. The love and wisdom of God must also be recognized in this, Who wants to come to people’s aid so that they make the right decision. And thus the coming time of the battle of faith and the imminent dissolution of earth also belong to God’s eternal plan of salvation, Who uses all means to enable the spiritual beings to reach the final aim. It is a hard time and yet inevitably necessary, for God’s wisdom saw the unsuccessfulness of all means to gain the spiritual in the last days, and His love again applies new means to bring help to the spiritual. God’s plan of salvation underlies every work of creation and every event in the universe, nothing exists and happens without meaning and purpose, the spiritual being’s adversity and redemption is always the cause and aim and God’s love is constantly intent on reducing the distance between Himself and the spiritual being which has fallen away from Him. The more resistance the spiritual being puts up to Him the more painful its fate, and as a human being it therefore likewise shapes its earthly fate for itself, extremely painful if it does not bow to God and submits its will to Him, or more bearable through the supply of grace and strength if it gives up its resistance and approaches Him of its own free will. This is the meaning and purpose of the eternal plan of salvation, which has to be recognized and the realization of which also already signifies the beginning of redemption, for now the spiritual being steps out of the darkness enveloping it into the light …. It recognizes God’s love and wisdom, it knows about the meaning and purpose of earthly life, about the meaning and purpose of creation, about the blessing of suffering, which testifies to God’s love, and it now strives fully consciously upwards …. It will also not fail in the last battle of faith as soon as it has gained this knowledge, and after a difficult but short time it will maturely enter the kingdom of light or paradise on the new earth in order to live eternally in the proximity of God, from Whom it once took its origin ….

Amen

God’s decision to reshape the earth and let new creations come into being which are to become carriers of spiritual entities for the purpose of redemption is unalterable. And since eternity the time has also been fixed when this transformation, which is preceded by the dissolution of the old earth, will take place, for God has known since eternity when humanity will have reached the low point which requires a reshaping of the earth, so that the spirits close to God and far from God will finally be separated from each other. Eternities have passed in this period of development, but since God Himself has put an end to it, this end must come one day, even though this seems incomprehensible to people. God, however, has announced it since the beginning of the time period when people live on earth. He has constantly predicted the end through seers and prophets and always pointed to the future which this transformation of the earth is to bring with it. But people do not want to believe that one day the future will become the present, that one day the time will approach which God has proclaimed in word and scripture …. that one day the redemption period will come to an end and a new one will begin again. Once the time has come to an end which God has granted to the spiritual for redemption, and if the spiritual fails it will have to live through a period of redemption once again, and this means a renewed course through the creations of the new earth. People don’t want to believe it, and therefore they will experience the last end completely unprepared, because now the time has expired and the time is no longer far away when the announcements will come true according to the divine plan of eternity. For humanity has reached the low which necessitates a reshaping of the earth, which is the occasion for the dissolution of the old earth with its creations and results in new creations which God’s wisdom and love will allow to arise again in order to give the spiritual new opportunities for upward development. The time has come of which it is written that no stone will be left upon another …. Everything that lives on earth is approaching its end, and the day is no longer far away when God Himself will sit in judgement to separate the good from the evil …. to redeem the former and banish the latter again in the new creation. The time of the end has come, as it has been determined since eternity ….

Amen

Only the perfect can unite with God because otherwise it would not be able to bear His nearness, because every immature substance would be dissolved if it was affected by God’s irradiation of love. And since God does not let anything pass away which has emerged from Him, He also prevents the union of the imperfect spiritual substance with Him, and He keeps away from it and only grants the fusion to mature beings, which signifies supreme beatitude. God’s love, however, desires all His living creations, and thus He also wants to guide the still imperfect towards Him by moving it to strive for the state of perfection, so that the union with Him can take place completely. But the first thing that belongs to perfection is love, which, as the original substance of the eternal deity, must also completely fill the being that seeks to join God. Thus the being must assimilate itself to God, it must likewise become love in order to be perfect, because the father in heaven is perfect. It must be in God-like will, it must have become love, it must carry within itself the wisdom arising from love and thereby be full of strength and power, thus it must have approached its original state again, where it was able to create and shape as God’s image in all freedom for its happiness. Only a few people are granted this degree of perfection on earth, but it is still possible if the human being wants it. The soul can enter the spiritual kingdom in different degrees of light when it leaves earth, but depending on its degree of perfection it will be a recipient of light and strength, thus it will be further or closer to God, yet it will always already be in His circle of light, thus it will feel His emanation of love as beatitude and strive ever more towards Him. But the soul can also be so united with God during its departure that it can unite with God in all perfection and enjoy supreme bliss as a child of God, thus it is directly permeated by His strength of love and is inconceivably wise and powerful …. Then it has become love itself and cannot think, want and act differently than God wants it to, because the fundamental substance of the eternal deity, love, fills its entire being …. Nevertheless, it can strive ever more towards God, for in eternity God is unattainable in His perfection, and despite most intimate union there is no cessation of striving towards Him for the being, yet constant desire and fulfilment is the epitome of beatitude, there is no limit to it, just as there is no end either …. God will remain the highest and most perfect being for all eternity, Who in His love draws all beings to Himself in order to let them enjoy the happiness and bliss of the perfect being ….

Amen

I am, Who I am, from eternity to eternity …. I am without beginning and without end …. For I am a spirit Who is power and love in Himself, from Whom all that is comes forth, Who possesses will and the ability to think and thus works in all wisdom …. I am Who I am …. without Me nothing is, and without Me nothing can exist that is …. I am the strength which flows through the whole universe, the will which governs everything, and the love which sustains everything which has emerged from My power. Everything that fills the universe in visible and invisible creations originated from Me, and everything created by Me remains eternally in connection with Me, for strength cannot be divided, it cannot be separated from the source of strength, it remains what it is …. radiation of Myself. All creations are the will which has become form, which works with strength and lets My thoughts become deeds. Yet I Myself am creation and creator at the same time, for it contains My strength, the fundamental substance of Myself, thus I Myself must also be everywhere where My creations come to light. I am a spirit Who is omnipotent, loving and wise, Who is constantly active and thus works in love and wisdom, for Whom nothing is impossible because the strength of love is unimaginable and knows no limits. I am a spirit and therefore without time and space, I am from eternity and everywhere, nothing remains hidden from Me, nothing is inaccessible to Me, for I am the most perfect being and only perfection emerges from Me. What originated in Me was spiritual substance which was formed in My image in all perfection and was enlivened by My strength of love. It was a part of Me, indissolubly united with Me, it was My emanation to which I gave a form which, as a free, independent being, was now able to create and shape like Me through My strength which continues to flow towards the being. And My spirit flows through all beings which originated from Me. And thus I Myself am in them, and I will never cease to be, just as the beingness which originated from Me can never cease to exist because it is part of Me, of My strength of love. And thus everything I have created bears witness to Me, just as everything contains My strength, for nothing can exist without it. I work visibly and invisibly to the human eye, and My working is always the expression of strength from Me, Who is from eternity to eternity. Anyone who has recognized Me sees Me everywhere, he knows Me to be present everywhere and he feels Me, for with every breath he receives the strength from Me which reveals My nearness to him. And every thinking person should recognize Me, for nothing exists which does not bear witness to Me. The being and becoming of every work of creation is conditioned in Me, and every creature is enlivened with My strength and My spirit, and life alone is proof of My being, it is proof of a creator Who gave life to His work, since no being can give and sustain life itself. And life carries everything in itself which is apparent, for even dead matter lives, nothing remains unchanged in its external form, thus it is active in itself, albeit in the most minimal measure, and activity is life. I was, I am and I will remain for eternity …. the most perfect being, Which is able to do everything by virtue of Its will, Its love and Its wisdom, Which is active in creating and shaping, Which has created countless entities and wants to make them happy for all eternity. No being will ever come close to My perfection and yet I draw everything up to Me into My proximity in order to bestow bliss through My emanation of strength, which flows through everything that longs for its origin …. thus through direct transmission of strength has found union with Me, Who was, Who am and will remain from eternity to eternity ….

Amen

The change that takes place in seemingly dead matter is imperceptible, and that is why man cannot detect any life in it. But in long periods of time even this matter takes on a different form, because every activity, even the most minimal, brings about a reshaping or transformation of matter and activity is life. The process of transformation, if it is not carried out by human hands, is often of very long duration in works of creation over which human will has little influence, i.e. in creations of nature, because it will take place according to divine will. God knows about the resistance of the spiritual bound in matter, and depending on its will for activity the rigid lifelessness decreases; activity starts according to God’s will, and matter changes, even if in a hardly noticeable way. And there is nothing in earthly creation that does not show this slow transformation, even though the human eye does not see it because it happens extremely slowly. Yet everything in creation on earth is in slow upward development, subject to the law of compulsion …. Consequently, nothing remains in the same form but changes, partly slowly, partly quickly, depending on the resistance which the spiritual opposes God in the works of creation. And thus there is nothing dead on earth, i.e. lifeless in itself, but everything harbours life, for the spiritual substance, even in hardest matter, has the urge for activity and it only depends on its will whether it can carry out this activity, in contrast to the state of death in the beyond where the spiritual substance lacks all strength for activity, where it remains completely inactive but is nevertheless aware of its existence. This is why the state of bound will in matter is still preferable to the state of death in the beyond, because it once improves, albeit after an infinitely long time, because the spiritual being in matter has the urge for freedom and only needs to direct its will in the right direction, whereas the being’s will in the beyond is completely weakened and therefore it no longer uses it …. It remains completely without will in a dead state and sinks ever more into the abyss until it is used as a cold mass, as a cover of the spiritual substance, as matter itself, which is now dependent on the will of the spiritual substance sheltering in it for how long matter exists unchanged. For a distinction must be made between the spiritual, which is bound in matter, and matter itself, which is likewise spiritual, yet much more God-opposing. Hard matter in itself could therefore be called dead, yet the spiritual substance within it gives it life, so that the process of dissolution will one day begin for it too and thus also the beginning of the upward development in a new epoch of redemption. The spiritual in matter can escape from it as soon as it is destroyed and continue its development in a new form which is less hard, but matter itself is not yet dissolved and is again enlivened by spiritual in corresponding will to resist, so that matter often grants endless times to such spiritual stay before it can dissolve itself. The state of death is so agonizing that it signifies the deepest hell, and the powers of the underworld are only satisfied once they have brought the soul into this state, because it signifies utmost distance from God, thus withdrawal of all strength from God. But God also has mercy on this spiritual being and gives it the opportunity to redeem itself again from the dead state. But eternities pass before this process of redemption begins, which again requires infinite times before it is finished ….

Amen

God’s love and grace is inexhaustible and therefore nothing can get lost, for God is always willing to help what has gone astray to find its way back to Him. The help that the lost receives undeservedly is grace, and this is available to people without measure because God’s love wants to win them for eternity. As long as the human being lives on earth he can make use of the treasure of grace, it will never ever be denied to him but will be at his disposal more abundantly the more it is desired. Divine love is always willing to give, and thus it also distributes grace without restriction, and anyone who now avails himself of His grace is saved from eternal ruin, he has found the path which leads to God, he has accepted God’s help and can now no longer go astray. Every person is allowed to desire God’s love and grace, it will flow to him and he only needs to use it and it will take effect in him. Thus the human being’s will only has to be willing to open his heart for the influx of love and grace …. he must want to receive in order to be abundantly provided for by God. And therefore he must pray for an influx of grace …. By doing so he demonstrates to God his will to let Him help him, he weakly and humbly approaches Him in prayer and will truly not go away empty-handed, for his prayer for an influx of grace will always be granted because it concerns spiritual well-being and is always granted. Anyone who asks for grace recognizes his inadequacy and wants to remedy it with God’s help. He is not arrogant in spirit but humble in heart, and to the humble God gives His grace. All that feels weak is strengthened by God, and this is grace …. What is helpless will find help from God because His love leans towards the weak, the helpless and He assists it. It is a gift bestowed upon the human being because he has fallen into a state of weakness through his own fault and God wants to help him rise from it. But because it is a gift from God the grace must also be consciously requested, the giver of the gift of grace must be approached so that His love will give the human being what he needs in order to ascend again. The lost person should find his way back to God again, and he cannot do this on his own. Therefore God’s love has mercy and opens the source of grace, it distributes unmeasured …. It provides the human being with all means of help which enable his return to God, and this is grace. Everything that helps man to ascend is grace …. And His love will never end and again and again bestow grace upon the human being until he has reached his final aim, until the return to God has taken place, which is the human being’s first and final aim on earth ….

Amen

The slightest resistance prevents the influx of divine grace and its effectiveness, although divine love always and constantly wants to bestow gifts of grace upon people. The opening of the heart, the will and desire for God’s grace, is absolutely necessary for it to become effective in the human being, because God’s grace is a sure means of attaining maturity of soul, which the human being must strive for and achieve of his own free will. A gift of grace offered to him without his will to receive it would promote his development without his will having changed, but this is the purpose and aim of his earthly progress. The extent of the human being’s innermost desire to be supported by God can only be judged by God alone, yet He already takes the slightest will into account and grants the human being His help …. He gives him His grace and it will also have its effect on him. The realization of one’s own inadequacy is the first step towards desiring and requesting God’s grace, God’s help, for in the awareness of his weakness he reaches out longingly for salvation, and thus he opens himself to the influx of grace which God hands out unmeasured to anyone who desires it. Every aid which promotes the human being’s spiritual development is grace, offered to him by God’s great love so that he may become blissfully happy …. It is a gift which, however, is only given to the weak, the needy, who are aware of their condition and who humbly come before God in their weakness, asking for His grace …. This condition has to be imposed by God because He respects the human being’s free will, but a gift of grace against the human being’s will signifies a constraint which impairs the soul’s maturing. God places every conceivable means of help at people’s disposal, yet He does not force it upon them but requires the willingness to accept it and to respect the giver in gratitude and love, but then the human being will effortlessly cover the path of ascent and be able to record rich success for his soul. For whatever God gives to people in His infinite love has to be successful if it can take effect on them through their will ….

Amen

The father’s love wants the best for His children, even though the children do not recognize it. And thus the heavenly father will also take care of His earthly children, He will bestow His care upon them and guide their destiny as is helpful for them to attain maturity of soul. And therefore earthly life will often take a different course than people desire, yet God truly knows best what is good for each individual. Earthly time will soon be over and it shall be utilized in every way for the human being’s soul, and therefore exceptionally heavy burdens are sometimes imposed on the human being by which he can already mature in a short time if he bears them devotedly and is thereby led closer to God. The father calls His children through this, and blessed is he who takes refuge in Him, who prays to Him that He may help him carry the burden …. This person truly has a greater advantage than an earthly life in earthly comfort can bring him, for earthly life will come to an end but the soul will not pass away. But the soul is purified through suffering and adversity and enters the beyond in a state of maturity, and it eternally thanks God Who helped it to achieve this through a difficult earthly life. Earthlessness may seem difficult, but God gives the human being the strength to endure it if he faithfully takes refuge in Him. And therefore the human being need not fear anything, no matter what may come …. If he establishes the child’s relationship with the father he will be guided by the loving father’s hand and always be under His special protection, for the father’s love is certain for His child. And it will also feel this love, and the more it trusts Him the more faithfully ….

Amen

During the last battle of faith there will be great confusion amongst people who do not have a living faith, who have only accepted a formal faith out of tradition and did not let it come alive through love and by using their intellect so that their faith would become a convinced one. Events will overtake each other and make many waver in their faith because they lack knowledge due to a lack of loving activity. For this results in wisdom, thus also recognition and knowledge of God’s eternal plan of salvation, which underlies all events. People make too little use of the gifts of understanding by neglecting to think about teachings of faith which have been imparted to them from outside. And such doctrines of faith have not yet become mental property, they have not been seriously tested for their truthfulness and therefore cannot be convincingly defended either, rather, the human being will be severely shaken and himself will be in danger of throwing away his faith and that through his own fault. God has given the human being the gift of intellect so that he may use it, so that he may think through everything of spiritual good offered to him by his fellow human beings. Doctrines of faith which are accepted uncritically without having taken a stand on them themselves are not spiritual goods of their own, and they will not withstand the strong shaking of the mind which the coming battle of faith will bring. Then people will be seriously confronted with questions which they will have to answer for themselves and the world and whose answers will strongly contradict the teachings of faith and, since their faith is a dead one, they will drop it without hesitation. Even those who appear believing before the world do not stand firm, for they themselves lack conviction, being without any deeper knowledge, without insight. At a time when decision is demanded, spiritual poverty becomes particularly apparent …. For even those will fail who thought they were steadfast in the face of the threats from the world. For in this time only one thing gives strength …. the word guided to earth by God Himself, which flows to people from the intimate connection with Him as a result of living faith …. For this word gives people full knowledge and such convinced faith that they will stand firmly by God and not allow themselves to waver even in the face of the worst threats. And this word must be heard if the still dead faith is to become a convinced, living faith …. It is the source of strength from which the weak can strengthen themselves, from which they can constantly draw knowledge which gives them bright light and lets their faith grow to such strength that they will never ever give it up for the sake of earthly goods, that they resist the world’s desire and faithfully persevere in their love for God, Whom they confess before all the world. The time of battle will be short but hard, yet no-one will remain without the strength to resist who hears the pure word of God and accepts it, for it will earn him the strength of faith which helps to overcome everything, and God Himself will be with him ….

Amen

No spiritual gifts can be passed on to people who do not establish a spiritual connection with the beings of light of the spiritual kingdom or with people who are direct recipients of spiritual gifts. For they are not to be handed out like material things which are visible and tangible to people, but they are goods which are solely to be addressed as thought material and which therefore can only be transferred through mental transmissions, thus require a person’s mental activity in order to be taken possession of. Thus, as soon as the human being directs his thoughts into spiritual territory, he unconsciously makes contact with those forces whose activity consists of influencing thinking. And then spiritual gifts can be received from them. Since this is a prerequisite, the human being acquires spiritual wealth for himself or he remains in spiritual poverty …. It is true that spiritual goods can be supplied to the human being through fellow human beings in the form of writings or speeches …. But the acceptance of these absolutely requires one’s own reflection, thus again the connection with spiritual forces. For word or writing remain dead and therefore without impression if they have not first become spiritual property of the human being through mental activity. And this explains why the word conveyed by God to earth is so little received, because people have no desire for spiritual knowledge and therefore neglect to establish the connection with the spiritual world, because they usually only listen to the word without thinking about it, and thus it falls on their ears completely without impression. And therefore it also remains without effect, it is only a sounding word which does not become spiritual property, it is no spiritual strength as long as it is only heard with the ear and not with the heart because the human being’s intellect does not process it. Thus it is a spiritual gift which is not recognized as such and therefore remains ineffective. Yet God respects the human being’s free will and does not force him to accept His gift, which, however, would be the case if it also became effective in him without the human being himself testifying to his will to receive the spiritual gift through reflection. God leaves him free will, He leaves it up to him how he wants to utilize the gift of grace, which only then brings him spiritual wealth if he himself establishes the connection with knowing forces which instruct him in truth. Only then will he recognize their value, even though they are not earthly visible or tangible, and then they will have a beneficial effect on him; he will recognize them as a divine gift which brings him spiritual maturity and he will try to become worthy of them through a God-pleasing way of life ….

Amen

By lacking the right knowledge the human being often endorses deceptive knowledge, and thereby demonstrates such tenacity which only the representative of true knowledge is entitled to. Yet this, too, is an effect of the lower forces which endeavour to spread error throughout the world and avail themselves of any person who, due to his low state of maturity, is willing to accept their thoughts. It is an endless battle between light and darkness, between truth and untruth. And the more people are inclined towards one or the other, the more violently it is waged. However, during the end time the battle will rage in a way which will manifestly point to the end. For under the guise of spiritual aspiration many representatives of misguided teachings will deem themselves called to convey their knowledge to their fellow human beings, and it will require an excessive amount of work on part of the spiritual world of light to invalidate this knowledge and to make the pure truth accessible to people instead. The spiritual influx of the right knowledge will always be recognisable in the representatives themselves, for true knowledge can only be found where a life a love is lived according to God’s commandments, Who requires selfless neighbourly love from people, and this will always result in an influx of divine wisdom. And attention must be paid to whether their actions are entirely unselfish, for all selfish love presents a welcome target for God’s adversary, the prince of lies, who influences a person’s thoughts and lets him believe in his own value, thereby adding to his selfish love and making him unsuitable to recognise truth and error. The human being must exercise strictest self criticism; he must constantly strive for perfection and, with profound humility, pray to God for grace and strength, for protection from misguided thinking …. But if he is taken in by his mental information, then he must seriously question the source it comes from …. whether it was gained intellectually or flowed to him without intellectual activity, for pure truth will illuminate a person like a flash, often without pondering and researching, in that case he will be touched by emanations of pure spirits, if he deeply and sincerely desires the truth without any selfish thought. On the other hand, clearly comprehensible knowledge, which is manifestly offered to a person without his own mental activity, ought to be accepted as absolute truth, for then the transfer to the human being is a process of emanation of strength which only beings of light, thus the bearers of truth, have at their disposal, whereas mental knowledge gained though intellectual activity can also be an influence of beings of darkness, and this necessitates strict scrutiny. Light and darkness will constantly fight each other. Light, however, is recognisable to anyone who wants to recognise it. However, the dark forces seek to weaken a person’s will for the pure truth and to increase his selfish love, so that he will tenaciously hold on to his endorsed mental knowledge because he believes it to be the product of his superior intelligence, of his ability to solve profound spiritual problems. This is a sign of arrogance; it displaces the heart’s profound humility and allows the forces of darkness to enter the human being’s heart. For this reason the source of spiritual knowledge should be carefully scrutinised and God should be called upon for enlightenment of spirit, if a person is offered information which lays claim to being the truth. And God will help the person to recognise what is right, He will help him to separate the truth from error, if he truly desires the truth ….

Amen

And anyone who is offended by My word has not yet recognized Me …. Anyone who doubts that I manifestly express Myself also does not believe in My love and omnipotence, otherwise he would seek the reason in it …. And anyone who therefore regards My word as the adversary’s work or as human work is not in contact with Me through loving activity and prayer, otherwise he would recognize Me in every word which is conveyed to him through My will. And I cannot be more recognizably present to him than in the natural event which is to bring him the confirmation of what I have previously proclaimed through My word. This evidence will suffice to let him recognize the truthfulness of My word, yet it will take all strength from him if he himself loses earthly life in the process. Then unimaginable remorse will be his fate in the spiritual kingdom and a state of complete darkness. But if My mercy leaves him alive this is a grace of inestimable value, for then he will still have the opportunity on earth to stand up for the word which he previously rejected because he did not recognize it as My word. He can become an eager representative of My word in the last days before the end, and then he will gratefully acknowledge the great grace that I left him life. The natural event will also contribute to the separation of spirits, for it will shake the thinking of many who are not firm in their faith, whose knowledge is too small to recognize My love and wisdom in it. The difficult situation in life afterwards will make them rebel against everything spiritual, and they will willingly comply with the world’s request to surrender their faith to Me and to take action against all those who remain faithful to Me. And then My word, which they have heard before, will have a beneficial effect, for anyone who has knowledge of My plan and the forthcoming natural event through it will see the truth of the word confirmed and believe in it all the more firmly, and even those who still have weak faith will be strengthened by it. I will bring people the evidence but it will be felt very painfully by those who disbelieve My word. Nevertheless, I will also have mercy on them and their fate will be according to their will. Everyone will come to recognize the truth, yet if this is only the case in the beyond then his fate will be exceedingly regrettable, because then his remorse will be immense if he thinks of the opportunity on earth which he left unused ….

Amen

Always and constantly request My grace …. and pray to Me without ceasing, i.e., often send your thoughts upwards, to Me, so that you will draw strength from the connection with Me for the coming time. For it is drawing to a close. Know that you need strength more than ever and that you can request it from Me at any time, but that you also have to request it because otherwise My grace, My strength, cannot take effect on you. Therefore pray often and sincerely and unite your thoughts with Me ever more; strive to merge completely with Me through loving activity and never let Me leave you again …. And you will be able to overcome the coming time and all obstacles of life, for I stand by you as soon as you call upon Me …. More than ever the gifts of grace will be at your disposal in the end time, the attention of My grace will be recognizable everywhere, yet you have to walk carefully on the path in order to feel My love and grace and accept it with a grateful heart. Anyone whose senses are spiritually inclined will see and feel My abundant work of grace, and he will be strengthened and comforted in every adversity of body and soul. But anyone who only turns his eyes to the world will be without support and powerless in the face of the resistances which shall awaken him from his state of twilight. And the graces will also approach him, but if he does not recognize them as grace, they will remain ineffective. Only when it is sincerely desired and requested will the human being open himself to the influx of My grace and love, and only then can the grace become effective in him. And therefore direct your senses spiritually, seek Me and call upon Me in adversity, don’t try to find earthly salvation but recognize Me as the only helper in every tribulation and turn to Me for help and strength …. And I will help you and never ever let your call go unheard if it rises from your heart to Me. I respect the one who asks but I do not hear the one who demands, and therefore you should come to the father like children and humbly plead your need to Me …. And My grace will flow to you without measure, for My love for you will always be abundant, so that you will not be lost ….

Amen

The bestowal of My Word is a purely spiritual process which can only be achieved by a person who establishes heartfelt contact with Me and then consciously listens within. Since the person does not actively need to think but is merely the recipient of thought emanations he must place himself into a state which enables him to be affected by these emanations, and this state is one of being totally detached from the earthly world and immersed in the spiritual realm, i.e., it is a conscious turning away from all earthly things and a focussing of the senses on My kingdom, which is not of this world. The spiritual emanations then touch the person’s heart in the form of thoughts which subsequently can be written down by the recipient. The easier a person can detach himself from his earthly surroundings the more unimpeded will the imparting of spiritual knowledge proceed. The disputed question as to the spiritual origin of the thought transference is answered by the substance of the latter. Wherever love is taught, wherever My act of Salvation is thoroughly dealt with, only I Myself can be the origin and the mental transmission will have to be recognised as My Word. Heartfelt prayer has to precede every bestowal of My Word, otherwise the process cannot take place, otherwise the person would have to accomplish a purely earthly work which, however, even then would still be free from error because the person’s thoughts are also guided by the beings of light in order to prevent the endangering of the Word which is intended to be conveyed to the person. This only applies in instances where contact with Me is less profound, for a person who is called by Me to work for My kingdom, who is appointed as a mediator between Me and people who don’t strive towards Me, has been vetted by Me and his thinking will not go astray because he is of good will and thus wants to be of service to Me. I will prevent lying and deceptive spirits availing themselves of his will and his hand, just as every ignorant being will be stopped from accessing him if he wants to work for Me. And every reception is an act of freedom of will, it is the evidence of his will to be of service to Me, and thus I take hold of his will and guide him so that he will only accomplish My will.

This spiritual knowledge is not comparable to human mental concepts which are acquired through a person’s own thinking without the conscious submission of his will to My will. After all, the human being has free will and can think in any direction of his liking. He is not compelled by Me to think correctly, just as he is not stopped from thinking wrongly either. Consequently, he can be accessed by all spiritual forces which he then favours through his will. However, if the person consciously submits his will to Mine he can only have My will within himself, for I will never leave him at the mercy of forces which are still opposed to My will. I will take possession of that which desires Me and will never ever let go of it again. And only if a person consciously offers himself to Me, if he thus hands his will to Me, can I appoint him to an office on earth in which he can work for Me. But then he will also be protected from misguided thinking, from evil spiritual influence, for it is important to receive and spread My Word …. which My love conveys to earth, and I will truly protect My Word from impure and untrue content which the opposite side wants to present to people. Wherever My Word is being received that is where truth exists and misguided teachings are excluded, because misguided thinking is the influence of evil forces which cannot affect a person who wants to serve Me as long as he is working for Me. A purely spiritual process can only take place in a purely spiritual way, a transference of thought absolutely has to take place because a person’s own thinking, i.e., the use of intellectual activity, requires more time in order to produce results of this nature. Hence there is a recognisable expression of strength which can only ever come forth from those who provide strength, that is, from beings of light which are recipients of strength. And this also guarantees pure truth, for all illuminated beings know the truth, and I Am the Eternal Truth Myself ….

Amen

The mystery of divine revelation consists of God manifestly revealing Himself to people who do not represent an official school of thought but only prove to be followers of Christ’s church through their way of life …. who thus live as Christ taught people on earth and are thereby filled by God’s spirit like Him. In addition, they must believe in the working of the spirit, in God’s eternal love which wants to make itself known to people. They have to believe that intimate contact with God is possible, they have to believe that God expresses Himself as soon as He is approached for it, and since this faith is only rarely found divine revelations always remain something mysterious for people, even though they are only a natural consequence of profound faith and intimate contact with God. Everything that cannot be explained earthly remains mysterious to man. A divine revelation comes from the spiritual realm and will therefore only be explained spiritually. For this reason, however, the human being must lead a spiritual life alongside his earthly life in order to be able to ascertain the truth of divine revelations for himself, insofar as the working of the spirit is explained to him through them. And if he then seriously works on himself, i.e. leads his way of life in accordance with the divine revelations which express God’s will, he himself will belong to those who are appreciated of the direct divine revelation. For him it is then no longer a mystery but only a joyful knowledge to be so intimately connected with God that he can hear His voice. The fact that God wants to present knowledge to people through His revelations which corresponds to the truth requires a mediator, a person who is able to receive the word of God in intimate contact and is willing to pass it on to the world. And thus He chooses His servants on earth. He makes them His apostles to whom He teaches His word again and trains them to be bearers of truth on earth. And the nature of His teaching is mysterious, however, only for the unbeliever and ignorant because he does not acknowledge God and therefore does not want to recognize His working either. But whoever believes in God, in His love and omnipotence, nothing is impossible and unfounded for him that seems extraordinary. And this faith also enables him to receive the divine word …. Thus he allows himself to be taught by God Himself …. and thus receives divine wisdom …. God reveals Himself to him through His spirit. This is something so powerful, so sublime, it testifies to the immense love of a being Who, in His highest perfection, condescends to His imperfect creatures by speaking to them …. This is an extremely gratifying process for the human being who feels like His child and who finds the explanation in the father’s love, and a mysterious process for the one who does not know the strength of divine love but cannot reject the revelations. Whoever is therefore called to receive them belongs to the chosen ones who have a mission to fulfil on earth. And since they are in knowledge they are God’s willing servants, they let themselves be guided by Him and offer Him no resistance, they have subordinated their will to God and are merely the organ through which God Himself speaks to people because they urgently need His word. God always reveals Himself to people in times of adversity, and this must always be recognized as the working of the spirit which can only unfold where faith is profound and a person’s way of life corresponds to the divine commandments …. where Christ’s teaching is followed and the human being is thereby in intimate union with God, Who then fills him with His strength and Himself is now working in him ….

Amen

It is within My power to destroy everything that opposes Me, and thus I would also have to declare war on people who do not acknowledge Me, who act against My commandments and thus oppose Me, if love for My living creations did not prevent Me from doing so and determine Me to help them so that they will find Me. For love for that which I have created remains eternal, and it always finds means for the recovery of that which believes itself to be able to distance itself from Me. My love and My mercy are intent on giving life back to that which is dead in spirit. For what is of Me I do not destroy eternally, it remains in existence, merely remaining in a more or less blissful state. And therefore My love and My mercy take the place of My power and strength …. I spare the transient and give the imperishable the opportunity to find its way back to Me. But the spiritual itself determines the duration of time through the duration of its resistance against Me. The spiritual being has been allotted a period of time for its liberation, which it can shorten or also lengthen through its own will, depending on its attitude towards Me. If this period has expired and the spiritual being has not yet been redeemed, then I will nevertheless not completely let it fall, even then I will still protect it from destruction and help it again to new possibilities to reach its final aim and to become free from form and enter the spiritual kingdom as a blissful being. But the process of becoming free does not happen arbitrarily, but it unfolds according to My eternal plan of salvation. And thus every event has already been predetermined since eternity, for I have known since eternity about the degree of maturity of every individual soul as well as of the entire human race, I know about the degree of maturity of the spiritual in the entire universe, and My will and My strength will also be active accordingly. Permanent possibilities of change are a prerequisite for the spiritual’s development, and permanent transformations are therefore My will and My work. As long as a form is used for further development it remains in existence, if it is left unused it passes away purely materially and the spiritual takes on a new form according to its will to be active. If the state has now occurred that all My works of creation on earth no longer fulfil their purpose, that material creations are destroyed by My adversary’s will using the human being’s will, that people themselves do not make use of the time on earth by surrendering their will to My adversary for their liberation, for their final redemption, then the earth will also no longer exist in its present form but the spiritual substance in and on it will require other forms, and My love corresponds to its need …. It lets the old pass away and something new arise, so that the will, the degree of maturity and the love of the spiritual substance on the old earth is taken into account …. that it revives the form again to which its love and will applies …. And whether it also appears as if My power and My will is active to finally destroy what is opposed to Me …. My love and My mercy only create new possibilities for the spiritual, which does not yet recognize that it can develop upwards, for My love does not rest until the spiritual reaches its aim, which once originated from Me and shall return to Me again ….

Amen

The human being’s will itself determines the direction his thoughts take, and therefore he is also responsible for his thinking. Many different thoughts impose themselves, i.e., different spiritual emanations touch the human heart in the form of thoughts and want to be received. And now the human being’s will has to become active and open his heart to the thought material which flows towards him, and he can now accept or reject …. i.e. linger longer with the thoughts he receives or quickly reject them. And this will corresponds to his nature, his spiritual state of maturity. And the more mature person will persist with good thoughts, whereas the still immature person takes pleasure in thoughts of a bad kind but would nevertheless also be able to accept good thought material, to overcome himself and eliminate the bad thoughts. All people are indeed tempted when the bad spiritual forces try to gain access and exert their mental influence. But their attempts fail because of the human will, as soon as the human being is good and does not like the mental emanations of the evil spiritual world. Although most people do not realize what thoughts actually are …. they believe that through intellectual activity they can assert their influence. They believe to generate them themselves through intellectual activity and would also be responsible for their thoughts with this idea, because even then the will would be decisive for the human being’s direction of thought. And this will, if it is weak and undecided, can be strengthened through prayer for right thinking …. Therefore the human being is not defencelessly exposed to spiritual forces which want to cause him to think badly, but as soon as only his will is good, his strength will also be increased to defend himself against spiritual knowledge which is detrimental to his soul. For thoughts are the originators of deeds and thus also of the way of life the human being leads on earth. And therefore he should keep a watchful eye on his thoughts, he should always give account to himself in which direction he is urged by the thought material, whether it encourages good or evil action, and he should defend himself against the latter, if he is too weak he should take recourse to prayer, and he will always receive strength to resist, he will be guided into right thinking by the spiritual beings, which look after him and only await his appeal in order to be able to develop their strength and power, in order to resist the beings which oppress the human being and to impart the spiritual knowledge to him which comes forth from them and is good and valuable, because these spiritual beings are bearers of light and truth and their mental emanations, if they are received, guarantee spiritual higher development. And just as the human being’s will is, so is his mental knowledge, for the will alone is decisive ….

Amen

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

Amen

Thus rely entirely on the guidance of your father in heaven and only strive to fulfil His will …. Always remember that your path of life is prescribed for you and that you have to travel it according to God’s will, but that you can also make suffering and adversity bearable for yourselves as long as you don’t lose contact with God, for then they will only touch you dimly, the suffering will not depress you but only strengthen you and make you resilient for the tribulation which the last days will bring. It is only a short battle that you still have to endure, but it requires all your strength …. And you will also fight it out victoriously if you always rely on the heavenly father’s help. For He is with everyone who desires His nearness. Draw strength from this certainty and don’t be afraid, no matter what may come …. under His protection you are well protected, no matter how dangerous your situation may appear on the outside. For you have His word, and thus you lie down at the source of strength and may draw as much as you desire to strengthen and refresh yourselves …. It is His will that you shall be fed and watered if you hunger and thirst, and therefore He has opened up the source for you, the spring, from which living water flows forth unstoppably, the enjoyment of which protects you from falling prey to eternal death. And if you strive to gain eternal life you need never worry about the preservation of earthly life, about your fate and about earthly events, for God arranges all this for your benefit according to His wise discretion, He Himself guides you by the hand and also instructs His heavenly messengers to look after you spiritually and earthly. And so cover your earthly path without worry, believe and trust and fear nothing that seems insurmountable to you …. You will master life with God’s help, for He will not forsake you for ever ….

Amen

Do not comply with the world’s request if it contradicts the divine commandments, if it is directed against the divine will or endangers your faith in Him. And do not fear the threats of worldly rulers who are meant to force you to give up your resistance. Stick to what the voice of your heart commands you, through which God Himself admonishes you to remain faithful to Him. And don’t be afraid that you are defenceless against the rulers, for the one stands protectively by your side Whose power is greater and Who can destroy everything that deems itself great on this earth. And if you know that He stands by your side your strength will increase, for only your strength in the face of the world lies in faith and trust in Him, and you will be and remain victorious. And therefore seek to first penetrate deeper knowledge about your purpose of earthly life, about God’s love and His plan of salvation. And this knowledge will let you become a convinced believer which nothing can shake, not even the storms you have to expect for the sake of faith. And no matter how meagrely you are provided for and how much hardship your body seems to be exposed to, God will also make the earthly hardship bearable for you and provide you with what you need to maintain the body if only you remain faithful to Him and persevere, for He Himself will be the giver of comfort and strength, He will also know how to miraculously maintain the body when it lacks everything due to human will …. His power is greater and His love will not leave His own in adversity. And even if the world and its rulers think they are strong and are supported by the forces of the underworld in their work against God and against the earthly children who adhere to Him …. God sends His messengers to earth so that they will come to the aid of the afflicted people, and they will work visibly and invisibly, and the believers will feel safe in their protection because they recognize them as God’s emissaries and because God Himself speaks through these messengers and imparts strength and comfort to them. The greater the earthly adversity the more noticeable God’s presence will be for His own, and they will humbly accept whatever is granted to them by the earthly rulers, yet always with the joyful certainty that it will only last for a short time and that God Himself will deliver them from their adversity. The complete downfall of the believers seems to be achieved but their faith is stronger than ever because God Himself appears so obviously that it gives them strength to resist. Whoever wants to see will see, whoever wants to hear will hear the voice of God, and all anxiety and fear will disappear from the hearts of His own. The faith and teaching of Christ will be challenged like a bulwark, but those who have Jesus Christ as their commander, who are His fighters on earth and therefore will be brought home by Him into His kingdom will stand firm and remain victorious …. Therefore, no matter what is done against you, do not let yourselves be disturbed …. take refuge in God in your distress and He will hear your call, He will not leave you without protection, for you shall be the pillars, you shall serve your fellow human beings as a testimony of what the strength of faith is capable of, so that the weak will be lifted up by you and gain strength of faith and so that the opponents will recognize their powerlessness towards you and your faith …. It is the last battle of light against darkness on this earth which you humans have to fight through in order to then enter as victors into the kingdom of peace, into paradise on the new earth ….

Amen

From the world of appearance the soul enters the world of being, the spiritual world, which is the real realm of the soul. But it is not always able to recognize this spiritual world, for as soon as it imperfectly departs from earth, it still takes the world of appearance over, only no longer materially, but as mental phantoms, thus even more illusory world, which fades into nothing before its eyes, if it wants to take possession of the goods. But for the perfect soul true life only begins now, it recognizes itself in its nature, knows about its spiritual task and through knowledge has only become a being which is aware of its strength and therefore is also blissful. It now also knows that every phase of development was previously necessary in order to reach the aim, the soul’s true life, it knows that previously it was only an illusory life, a transition from the spheres of darkness into the spheres of light; it knows that darkness is not an eternal state, whereas light is and remains for all eternity. For what once stands in the light will never again fall back into darkness, it will live eternally and recognize every state before as a lifeless state …. it has overcome this state and has returned to the world of being from which it once emanated …. The illusory life wants to place itself in the foreground, and for the most part the soul grants it power over itself, i.e., it is willing to do everything that provides the body with the comforts of the illusory life, and it does nothing for itself, because the work for itself would be the effort for true life, but which it completely disregards. And that is why, through God’s will, the illusory life will again and again approach the soul in all heaviness; God Himself wants to show it what the earthly world really is by often causing the body to suffer hardship, by depriving it of what it desires as valuable, by letting what the human being has built up collapse in order to show him the impermanence of what he makes the aim of his eager striving and earthly work. He wants to lead him to the realization that the earthly world is only an illusory world which has no lasting value for him, in order to make him aware of the necessity of working on his soul which ensures a constant life, a life in the spiritual world which not only appears but is what it represents …. the world of light, where everything is power-flooded and blissful, where there is no more decay, no more decline, no hardship and no ignorance, where everything lives and is active in the will of God, Whose love unmeasuredly considers and makes happy the perfect, which, as inhabitants of the spiritual world, is in intimate connection with God and, in the fulfilment of His will through everlasting activity, finds its highest happiness in the world of being …. in the world that never passes away but remains what it is for all eternity ….

Amen

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

Amen

The faith in Jesus Christ as the son of God and redeemer of the world will be severely tested, but it will remain, it will not be able to be eradicated despite all the efforts of the world …. It will be championed by the small flock of the faithful full of courage and determination, for Jesus Christ Himself gives them the strength to represent His name and His teaching, to confess Him before the world. Without Jesus Christ there is no salvation, for the power of hell is too great and gains control over people who are not helped by an even greater power, by Jesus Christ, Who, as a true child of God on earth, took upon Himself the death of the cross in order to break the power of evil. Only through Him can the human being find salvation from the shackles of those, and only he who believes in Him can be redeemed, only he who believes in Him calls upon Him for help, for the strengthening of his will, and he is able to wrest himself from God’s power of the adversary. And therefore God will never allow faith in Jesus Christ to be lost, to be eradicated by human will which is only the executor of satanic will. And as soon as faith is in serious danger of being sacrificed by people for the sake of the world, God will break the power of satan Himself, for he fights against Him with inadmissible means …. he seeks to withhold the knowledge of God, His love and His act of salvation from people, and thus this is a constraint of the human being’s free will who has to know about both works in order to be able to make a decision. And therefore the end will come as soon as serious action is taken against faith. Therefore this last battle will mean a severe test for the believers, yet they will remain victorious because Jesus Christ Himself fights with them, because He imparts strength to all who want to be faithful to Him, who take refuge in Him and entrust themselves to Him in profound faith to find salvation with Him. In confessing the name of Jesus and His teaching of love, the human being decides and finally renounces His opposition. But to do so he has to muster a strength of will which he will never have on his own; yet if he confesses the divine redeemer before the world his will is already strengthened by Him, Who died on the cross in order to redeem people from their weakness of will, in order to buy them a strong will with His blood. And no-one need fear not being able to pass the final battle, for as soon as he believes in Jesus Christ and wants to fight for His name he belongs to the small flock whose courage to confess will grow the more difficult the earthly adversity approaches him, for this is God’s working in him, that the power of the spirit overcomes him, which again can only be effective in faith in Jesus Christ, which lifts him above all earthly hardship, makes him strong and able to defy the world and its demands, which lets him fight the last battle with success and brings him the final victory. And faith will remain until the end of the world, and Jesus Christ will be preached again on the new earth as the son of God and redeemer of the world …….

Amen

An unusual roar will fill the air as the Day of Judgment arrives. And this will be the last sign for people, yet it will only be recognised as such by the believers, which will cause them great joy. For then they will be anticipating the coming of the Lord …. It requires a strong faith to expect God to be coming in the clouds, for this is such an extraordinary process that godless people just ridicule and make fun of it when it is mentioned to them. They will indeed hear the sound, too, yet they won’t see the Lord in the clouds and thus take little notice of the unusual noise in the air and won’t let themselves be distracted from their lives …. exuberantly and without scruples they will continue to enjoy themselves. The faithful, however, will get together and, with a happy heart, prepare themselves to receive the Lord. They will have reached the limit of their physical endurance and know that their time of suffering has come to an end, and in the final hour they will unanimously profess their faith in God although it will mean the loss of their earthly life, because they will be mercilessly attacked by the world. Yet the appearance of the Lord will thwart the plans of their godless pursuers …. For suddenly they will see the believers being lifted off the ground and rising into the air …. At the same time there will be a sound of dreadful thunder and people will realise with dismay that something dreadful is going to happen. Paralysed by the unusual process of the rapture they will be unable to think, they will try to flee and see the same everywhere …. flames of fire bursting through the earth from which there is no escape. And their life will end in a most dreadful way, for the people who rage on earth like devils and are rife with sin cannot be saved.

But the flock of the faithful will witness the end of the old earth; the divine work of destruction will take place before their eyes, while they will have escaped and will be safe and secure in a place of peace, as promised by God. This will be the end of one period of Salvation and the start of a new one as soon as the old earth is shaped anew through God’s will. Then the faithful will continue to live as the root of the new human race and the new period of Salvation will begin. The process of rapture is only understandable and therefore credible to a knowing and profoundly enlightened person, yet it will be the culmination of an anxious time of hardship and suffering, it will be the conclusion and the evidence of God’s glory, Who will also prepare a fate for His Own which testifies of His glory …. It will be an act of profoundly divine love for His living creations who will recognise in Him their Father of eternity, who will have returned to Him and become as one with Him through love …. with whom He will then be able to stay because divine love meets with no obstacle once the human being has become love himself ….

Amen