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Material and spiritual inflation
16th May 1847
[1] So write a short word about the current inflation of material food!
[2] Behold, at all times of the world it has been and will remain so that material foods always keep pace with spiritual foods. The Israelites were often punished with malnutrition, dearth, famine and pestilence when their heart and spirit turned away from Me and turned to other gods. In today's idolatrous countries, there is more or less constant need and plague. Why is that? Because of the absence of My Spirit!
[3] As long as the people in general in the diversely sectarian Christian Europe were more concerned about Me and strove for My Spirit, there were angels in great multitude among the people. This blessed not only the people, but also the soil, so that it always bore abundant harvests. But these harvests brought the nations to pure industrial thoughts – and thoughts about Me have declined!
[4] Instead of the genuinely spiritual writings, which both Rome and the lower politics of the state have begun to frown upon more and more, indeed to ban them formally as heretical, the world has now been stuffed with a legion of meaningless and empty journals and other writings. They again hang out relics and arranges pilgrimages, again establish orders and similar other abominations.
[5] Thus a great famine has arisen for the spirit because of the preceding, ever-increasing inflation of spiritual food. The angels have withdrawn more and more again from the face of the earth, since the ever-increasing darkness of the earth no longer appeals to them at all, and the great fornication of the people – especially the Roman – certainly does not attract them. So it is therefore also easily understandable that the soil, in the ever greater lack of the heavenly laborers, must yield lean harvests of one or the other kind of fruit, even in the same circumstances.
[6] In the previous year, I have struck here and there over half of only the potatoes, and behold, almost all of Europe sighs! But what will then happen if I, along with the potatoes, also want to strike the corn, maize, and the barley – and I very certainly will strike them when mankind in this eagerness for darkness, fornication, immorality and all sorts of industrial zeal, continues and forgets Me still more? Then will you read and hear of such great need and distress and of the deepest misery, that your hair will stand on end.
[7] I sure wanted to let the cholera come to Europe. But I "repented", for I discovered quite a few benefactors among many peoples. But at the same time I also discovered an even greater mass of usurers, rising directly from hell, which is in them to the fullest measure. These devils in still human larvae, must feel My rod of punishment according to the measure of their iniquity. Therefore, all sorts of evils are now to creep upon the earth according to order. Until this brood is destroyed and it becomes lighter on earth, I will not bless the ground, except locally only where some people live, who truly carry Me in their hearts and believe that I am with them and can keep and nourish them best also with a few breads.
[8] Therefore do not fear this time either! When you truly trust in Me, you will never starve. If you have little, I will bless the little, and there will be a great abundance for you. But if you, in the consciousness of My blessing, would still worry and care and would ask: "What will we eat and what will we clothe ourselves with? Then I would let you worry and would withdraw Myself a little and take My poor and yet also very rich servant and brother from you. Then provide yourselves with a hundred Metzen (61,5 l) flour and all kinds of edible things – and you will still go hungry as if you had not eaten for weeks!
[9] For as everywhere, so here too, everything depends on My blessing! That is why you should continue to trust Me completely; may the time be as it will, I will never leave you, and you shall not
go hungry, neither spiritually nor bodily. And when the servant has already left , I still will always be with you in the same blessing as long as you will behave according to this short word.
[10] Therefore, mind you: Do not worry, fear, and be concerned for as long as I am with you; nothing will happen to you! You must not be depressed, sad and anxious; for that would be a figurehead of the heart, which would say "Behold, the Lord sure is here; but He sleeps and may not help us!” So get rid of this figurehead too! For where I am, joy and full, blissful surrender to My will must reign, and not fear, timidity and sadness! Then I too rule most powerfully in such a heart and in such a house! Amen.
[11] This I say, your God, Lord and Father, blessing you all. Amen.