Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 270

My advice is not a commandment and does not force anyone

16th January 1843, in the evening

On a request of Ans. H. due to relocation

[1] So tell My friends about what they have inquiringly turned to Me: My advice is not a commandment and therefore does not force anyone to any action; but nevertheless, the one to whom it was given, should not take it too lightly if he wants to fare truly happily.

[2] I have already on several occasions expressed My most just displeasure about all city life in every respect. I have shown how the cities now already live without exception in the most perfect antichristianity and nowhere else lives in the same self-love, avarice, envy, fraud of all kinds, fornication of all kinds, hornyness, sensuality, usury, grub, gluttony, depravity of all better manners, and in general all kinds of vice of an outrageous nature!

[3] What could be more natural than that I turn away My face from such a common dwelling place of all vice as soon as possible, yes, certainly will turn away completely, and will pass a strong judgment on such a Satanic dwelling! Whether it will be safe to stay there, that may you, my friend, judge for yourself now!

[4] Therefore I tell you: Get away from the city as soon as possible, leave the dwelling of vice, because I will haunt them very soon with great dearth (*), with great darkness I will strike them and let it pass completely into all fornication, so that it suffocates in the mud of the night and it’s worldly life, which is most annoying to Me.

[5] So I advise you to move out of the city; but I don’t command it to you at all. But I think, if one of Mine knows that it is no longer safe to remain in a house because a near collapse threatens it, then he is a great fool if he will not follow the advice of Him who knows only too well what relevance it has with the house!

[6] Yes, so I also led the Israelite people out of Egypt, because I knew how it stood with this country. So Lot had to get out of the city, because I knew how things were with the city. So I let the ones who were Mine also all rather flee from Jerusalem, when I judged her, that old adulteress.

[7] Behold, thus My counsel is always constituted; He who obeys it at the right time will not be touched by the judgment – for this will come like a lightning bolt quite unexpectedly!

[8] But you ask: To where should I – pleasing you, oh Father – relocate? I do not say to you: See, there or there! Wherever you want to, go there, and I will, blessing you, be with you and go with you! Whether the land of Carinthia is the right one, ask not; but if you go there, I will be with you.

[9] But you shall not easily settle down in Styria whose heart is the city where you live; for as the heart, so also the body!

[10] But Carinthia, Switzerland and Wuerttemberg are still the best countries. Tyrol would also not be so bad, if the valleys were not so full of night – but it is much better than Styria and other Austrian countries. Therefore I will also still keep it for a time before the coming pestilence!

[11] But what shall you tell your rich relatives, when they ask you why you would do such things? Firstly, you are a master of your will and can do what you want; but secondly, it is better to listen to Me than to your relatives! Let the dead man bury the dead, but you follow Me!

[12] But at the moment when you intend to follow My advice, I will already literally give it to you what you have to say, and no-one will hinder you in your venture that is pleasing to Me. But do not prolong the date too much; for My cannon is loaded and precisely aimed!

[13] But I will also protect My other friends. How? That know I! So take this advice if you want, Amen.