Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 329

Baal service

17th April 1844

[1] You may note some points about a certain feast, which I do not want to describe in detail and which I did not consider. For what the world does in splendor, there is deepest night with Me. And I will not and may not see what is and happens there. Beyond that, everything will be revealed anyway in the most exact way what was and happened in the world!

[2] Therefore, here I will pay very little attention to what you have seen and heard, because I have seen only as much of this feast as you have seen. And so write then!

[3] You have seen the "triumphal procession", which was more glamorous than Solomon in all his royal splendor! But do you also know about such a procession that I as the Lord of heaven and earth have ever held – except for the entry on the donkey in Jerusalem and then the great triumphal procession with the cross on Golgotha?

[4] You have also seen: the "isle crowns" of the bishops, how they shone with gold! Do you think that the crown of thorns, which adorned My head at My last triumphal procession on Golgotha, also shone splendidly?

[5] You have seen the "shepherd's crooks", of which one could provide for a hundred poor people for years with the value of just one – and the precious stones with which these scepters were decorated? I had to be content with one reed, and from birth I had not even a most ordinary stone to own, that I could lay it under My head before the world in full right.

[6] Can I not also ask you here as I once asked the disciples and Jews because of John the Baptist: "What went you out to see?" I think the answer is obvious here!

[7] But is it not in Scripture: "All that is great before the world is abomination before God"? What do you think of this sentence in relation to this feast? Was it great and shining before the world? Or was it the same as that which Nicodemus once gave Me at night time out of fear of the Jews and chief priests – that is, quite small and insignificant?

[8] So the "narrow gate" is praised also in the scriptures! Have you found the "triumphal arch" through which the glamorous train passed, maybe also "narrow"? To Me it seemed very wide!

[9] When Peter cut off the ear of the servant Malchus during My last triumphal procession, I said, "Peter! Put away your sword! For whoever handles the sword will also perish by the sword." So how did you like the heavily armed guards who accompanied this procession? Was that not a handling of many swords, taken quite literally?

[10] At the triumphal arch was a "Communion picture" on loan and was placed in such a way that it had to remain unnoticeable to the procession! What do you think: Am I Myself not a similar ornament in this purely pagan sect?

[11] Yes, I'm telling you: I am even less to them! The painting has a real artistic value after all. But I have no value there at all, except when gold and silver can be won through My name!

[12] I could tell you many things, but I get too angry about it! Therefore I tell you nothing more. For this is a too great scandal before My eyes.

[13] And truly! From now on I want to start to beat this sect and all who are with it, big and small, young and old! Woe now to all male and female lovers of the servants of Baal! For I now begin to wield My sword over them!

[14] Truly, those who are still rejoicing today when they are visited by the servants of Baal, these will soon be filled with great fear and grief, because they do not want to recognize Me and always seek their salvation with the idolaters! Amen.