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Blessed is he who there reads and listens
22nd February 1842
Writer: Marie H. – Marie H. asks about Rev 1:3 "Blessed is he who there reads and gives ear to the words of this prophecy and keeps what is written in it, for the time is near”. Wilhelmine H. asks about John 7:29 "I know him, for I am of him, and he has sent me. – Pauline H. about John 6:48 "I am the bread of life!" Julie H. about John 8:1: "But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives." The Lord spoke of this through His servant as follows:
[1] As for these four verses, they are all taken from John, from different chapters of the Gospel as well as from one of Revelation. Will perhaps this disorder in the choice of verses not present a small difficulty in connecting them, as if they had always been connected with each other?
[2] Let us see how this not at all indifferent matter will turn out. That the matter is not indifferent, you will see very easily and thoroughly in the course of the following presentation.
[3] "Blessed is he there who reads and gives ear to the words of this prophecy and keeps what is written in it, for the time is near!” Thus reads this first verse from the Revelation of John.
[4] What is meant by the word "blessed" there? See, My dear little children, for this time I will in all brevity, like a good schoolmaster, analyze your mind and thus unfold it so that you will get to the bottom of the matter, even with little effort.
[5] Under the word "blessed" is understood so much as: "Alive through love". By the word „he who reads there" is understood: A person who takes the word into his heart. And by the word "give ear to the words of this prophecy" is meant: A man who, having received the word into his heart, then works according to it.
[6] Whoever therefore reads and hears the word of prophecy, preserves truly alive in himself what is written in it. And this one is it, too, for whom the "time has come close".
[7] But what kind of "time" is that then? Do you think that this "time" is the Last Judgment? Oh My dear ones, this is by no means the case here! For by the " near time " discussed here is not understood a time of demise, but well a time of resurrection. And thus this time applies only to the one who receives the word in himself and lives accordingly – but not also to the one who does not know the word at all and does not want to recognize it at all.
[8] But he who does not have the word active in him in the way already announced, he is a dead man. But what do the dead have to do with time? Or when is morning, when noon, when evening, when midnight for a fallen, dead tree-stump? When is time near to it, when far away? From this you will surely clearly see that the discussed "near time" is not a time of the dead, but a time of the living.
[9] If you now just go through the already given things a little attentively, you will also soon be able to proclaim with Me as in the Gospel of John: "We know him!" – namely in the Word. For such comes from Him and is the holy ‘I’ in every living man and is sent by the Father as a true word of life!
[10] Whoever therefore has this "bread of life" in himself, which is the living word from Me, is also like a living "Mount of Olives," upon which Jesus or the eternal Love of the Father passed over.
[11] For every human being resembles a mountain of the earth and is therefore either a glacier or a bare, rugged stone mountain or an Alp overgrown with sparse mosses or a proper forested mountain or a lower ore mountain or a vineyard or finally – though certainly more rarely – a mount of olives.
[12] But how a man can become a mountain of oil, that says just the first verse of this task: "Blessed is he who there reads and gives ear to this prophecy and keeps what is written in it; for the time of the Mount of Olives has come near to him". And blessed and more than blessed will be every man's inner Mount of Olives of life, when Jesus will come and walk on it!
[13] Behold now, My dear little children, so we would have already happily brought these four different verses under one roof! Except for the Mount of Olives within you, everything is pretty clear to you. But I will withhold nothing from you, and so know then that the "Mount of Olives" denotes true humility, gentleness, and the most willing composure and complete self-denial, which all is the "oil of life," of which the mountain bears the name and finally becomes synonymous with it’s fruit itself.
[14] And that furthermore the "Mount of Olives" is also synonymous with pure love and the actual eternal life from it (if Jesus finds Himself at the Mount of Olives) is almost unnecessary to mention, after it has already been over-abundantly shown what all is love and what all it contains.
[15] And so I need give you no further explanation here than merely to say: Whole and full of love is the first verse, just as the second, the third and the fourth.
[16] It will always give some, yes, even many things, that do not let itself be ordered and united in the way of wisdom – but under the regiment of love, everything is thus well-ordered, that in it the number thousand is not more distant from the number one than the number two. Does not wisdom go out on a certain hierarchy and did it not invent the number system?! Which hierarchy, however, does true love observe and what sole number is peculiar to it? See, Love – is all one!
[17] If you would take a stone that has been on a mountain for thousands of years, and carry it to another mountain, will it not rest there as well as on it‘s former place? See, so in love everything is in the "right place" and everything in the "right order". A heap of sand, which all four winds have brought together, is no less in the greatest order on the field of love, than such a wisest builder would have built it up from grain to grain. And thus also a drop of the southern sea fits perfectly with a drop of the northern one, so that it can be just as well the first as the thousandth or the eonth
[18] And it is just the same with every single word, verse and chapter of the Scriptures, since in love also here everything behaves criss-crossed, up and down, back and forth, forwards and backwards, and thus also in confusion, thus well ordered, that there can eternally never be thought of a disorder or of a contradiction.
[19] Therefore hold on to love in everything and in all things – so you will find life so certain that it would rather be possible to lose the standpoint of the sun on the brightest day with open, well- sighted eyes than, on the way of love, to miss the eternal order and with it, eternal life!
[20] My beloved little children, heed all this well and take it alive into your hearts, so you will also find Me and eternal life so certain and sure, yes, a thousand times more certain and sure than you can with your hand, although it is blind, find any part of your body!
[21] To say it once again in overabundance: In everything, hold on only to love, thus you have Me and eternal life! Amen.
[22] My love, My grace, My mercy and My blessing be with you all! Amen.