Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 238

Elijah, the forerunner – a contemporary life-hint

30th June 1842

Malachi 4:5: "Behold, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord!" Matthew 17:10: "And His disciples asked Him and said: "What do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

[1] "Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you shall find, and knock and it will be opened to you." Tell Me, from whom are these consoling words? You say they are from Me. Good, I say, but if these eternally true words are from Me, say, what keeps you from following them actively so that it would be easy for each of you to understand such important and also most easily comprehensible passages from the Scripture of life?

[2] Do you know what is to blame for this? I tell you and have told you already often: Nothing but your still foolish conception of Me is to blame for this, according to which you still seek Me more and more in the infinitely powerful, mighty, great and super sacred, instead of in the sole gentle love.

[3] You sure see in Me the God, the infinitely great One, who created heaven and earth through His Word; but the God, the dear Father, who does not consider it beneath His dignity to set even the wings of a puddle mosquito in motion and to care for the mold plants on a moist crumb of bread, that they flourish – behold, this so deeply meek, this most gentle, this most patient and loving God and Father is still more or less strange to your heart!

[4] Jesus, who loaded sinners onto His shoulders, who called to Himself the weary and burdened; Jesus, the only good Shepherd, Him, the Crucified, you do not yet know!

[5] But since this most gentle Jesus is still strange to you in how and what He is, the great prophet Elijah is also strange to you and strange "the great and terrible day of the Lord!”

[6] If you do not understand things that are not here or that are too distant from your senses, you surely say apologetically: "Lord, to understand such a thing is given only to those whom You have called to it!" But the scripture of life is in your hands; with what valid excuse can you appear there, if I ask you: "Why don't you understand such things that you should understand first and foremost?"

[7] Who is the prophet Elijah here? Now open for once your ears and listen: It is My love, which precedes every judgment, as it is just now the case with you and with still some others elsewhere! This is the "Elijah"! When this (My love) begins to come to you, "Elijah" is also already there. Elijah is thus the foreglow of My love, which is now on it’s way to you in it’s infinite firepower, yes, in all of it’s infinite fullness.

[8] Whoever understands the gentle rays of this "Elijah" and lets himself be penetrated by them, will also persist in the coming sea of fire of My infinite love.

[9] But woe to him who will not have made "Elijah" his own! Verily, he will not persist in the great fire of My love when it will come in it’s fullness over all creatures!

[10] Who is not able to exist in the spirit with Elijah in the fiery chariot of love rising to Me towards heaven, how will he then exist even at the base of the fire, of which Elijah's chariot is only a small spark?

[11] Behold, this is what this – to you dark – passage says, which nevertheless should be brighter to you than the sun at noon! Now understand such things well and respect "Elijah" who is now among you, so that you are not destroyed by My coming great fire! Understand this well! Amen.