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About God's forbearance
23rd June 1843, morning
Oh Lord and best Holy Father! – Yesterday I learned through your and My friend A.H.- W. that a mother cruelly abused her child worse than a hyena – and now I am also considering that such shameful cruelties are being practiced here and there to an even greater degree. Tell me, then, as the most just and almighty God of heaven and earth and of all people, do you consider such things or not? For, behold, when one considers the so great wrathfulness of the people, as it can be done totally unpunished, one comes, with the best will in the world, to at least half a thought, as if You do not at all want to care any more for humanity on earth in general as well as individually. Tell me therefore, how is it then with such dreadful things? Do You take note of them, or do you let everything go by rather unconcernedly, let it happen as it happens? Or does that happen necessarily, and must it happen? What should I think of it? Oh Lord, and most loving, holy Father of all the human children on earth, give me sufficient information about this! Your will be done! Amen.
[1] First of all, I must tell you that your question is quite unnecessary and, what is more, very stupid. For, if you see Me as a God of love, even if you do not yet completely trust and hope in Him and love Him, such a foolish question should hardly come into your mind already at the thought, let alone in your position, where you can now already talk to Me for more than three years in an unprecedented way at every second as to a man of your own kind!
[2] But secondly, I have already shown you several times the endless necessity of the free will of people and explained to you how the eternal life of the spirit in man depends solely on this that I, if I want to preserve it, must rather die Myself than to touch just this free will with My omnipotence in the slightest. Because the very slightest touch of the freedom of the human will with My will, will cost every man his life at once!
[3] I have already given you all this – how often did I show you! And you still can ask Me, Whom you should already know, such a terribly stupid question?!
[4] Behold Lot's wife! She was seized by the power of My will. But what has become of her?! In the days of Noah, My Will seized the earth. But where did their population go because of this, and what did I have to do in response, in order to bring again existence and life to the dead, the destroyed? Am I then to let Myself be killed again anew with mankind's every sin of anger, to give them a new life through it?
[5] But how do you then love Me, if you ask Me why people in their freedom do such evil with impunity – and would rather have Me as a disciplinarian than as an overly good Father – and thus bring Me anew to the cross? Do you then only have compassion for people, how is it then that I deserve none from you? Am I then to let Myself be crucified daily?
[6] If you see a foolish mother or a foolish father mistreating his child, you immediately in your armour and would even like to quarrel with Me, the most loving Father, and immediately boldly say: "But Lord, being who You are, how can You look at such abominations? But I say to you: The nasty woman in particular shall be a gospel to you. For she has upset your mind, and you would have punished her immediately with hellish fire, and chastised her with a torture infinitely greater than that with which she chastised her child!
[7] But you do not consider that all people of the earth are My children. And if you have already found the bad action of such a mother to be disturbing, then I would not like to look into your heart what this would say to Me, so I too would like to ruthlessly beat My erring children at every only somewhat notable offense?
[8] You want Me to make people merciful. But I am to beat to death mercilessly every erring child at once! Verily, with these concepts of Me, you can already remain at home for the future in a pretty fine way! Do you think then that I do not see the vices on earth? Oh you fool!
[9] I sure see them; but it is not yet time to extinguish the sun in the sky. It will be extinguished soon enough for everyone!
[10] But in the beyond however, everyone will find the reward for his work and on very special occasions even here! That is enough, and nothing more is needed!
[11] So get to know Me better and do not force Me to become as you are; but be as I am, then you will judge and punish more wisely. Amen.