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You are Peter the rock
25th Mai 1847
You are Peter (a rock), on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of hell shall not overpower it! To you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven; what you shall loosen on earth shall be loosened in heaven, and what you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
[1] Because of these scriptural texts, the greatest error and delusion still prevails to this day in all Christian districts on earth; for all without exception consider themselves more or less to be the church-rock of Peter and think they have the real keys to the kingdom of God and think they can open or close it at will for those who want to enter, that is, to give the Word of the Gospel arbitrarily, to mutilate it, to withhold it, to forbid it, to give arbitrary commandments for it, and to lay on it the eternal punishments, to tempt people to as many sins as possible through such commandments, to then arbitrarily abate or withhold these, and, in exchange for certain penitential works, to grant or well also withhold even full or partial indulgences for all sins committed!
[2] If a man had but an atom of great pure intellect, he would, for the sake of My Divinity, have to realize after all that I, Who merely preached the law of general brotherly love at every opportunity, could not possibly have given the apostle Peter, like all other apostles, such a power of authority and such a destiny, which, finally evidently behaves with charity just like hell and heaven!
[3] He who gives laws, gives also the judgment; is the judgment love? But that is why I took upon Myself all judgment on the cross, so that love alone would remain for mankind – but where is this conceivable, where a billion seats of judgment are set up among those who are supposed to be brothers, and wherever one looks, sees nothing but laws upon laws?! Is that Peter the rock on which My church, which is and is to be nothing but just love and love again, is to be built?
[4] Everyone who recognizes and loves Me like Peter, is a true rock, on which I can build My true church – the true love and wisdom out of Me – and also really build it in all seriousness. But how then shall any large or small church under any leader be a rock, since everyone thinks and believes what he wants; where one mumbles incomprehensible words with his lips and sells such mumblings for a useful prayer, the other one curses and mocks and laughs about them, a third acts as judge and condemns everything into the deepest bottom of hell? Can such a church or it’s board be the rock on which My church is built, that shall never overpower the gates of hell?!
[5] I said: By love – if you love one another as I love you – they will recognize that you are truly My disciples! Love, then, I gave as the sole characteristic from which one can recognize whether someone is a true rock on which My church is built. But how then is the now so multiplied judgment seats among the brothers, which they are to be, a mark of the from hell not vanquished rock of Peter and My church built upon it?! Oh you dreadfully blind stupidity of the people of this time, you who keep yourself unconquered by hell and, according to everything you do, are for already a long, long, long time right in the middle of it!
[6] If I had wanted to found a visible church with it, I would certainly have said to all apostles and disciples: You all are Peter. But I said to Peter alone too palpably for that reason, since he was the first who recognized Me according to My divine nature! He was therefore also the first to whom I, in his faith and trust, gave the keys to the kingdom of heaven, which is a kingdom of love for God in the heart of man, and out of it only true love for neighbor, but to which love no-one can get without previous knowledge of God, since surely everyone must first know Him before he can love Him.
[7] This love of God and neighbor is thus the true kingdom of God, the only true living church, built on the rock of right knowledge and the firm and unshakable faith and trust derived from it, which of course no hell can destroy any more.
[8] But external communal ceremonial parade- and pomp-work of a supposedly insurmountable Church of Christ on some golden and silver rock of Peter, is no more church and rock of Peter than hell is heaven or the excrement of a pig is a diamond. Or have I indeed ever said: By gold, silver, precious stones, precious Mass clothing, in great earthly power and in the greatest earthly prestige, in the most magnificent church buildings, bells and organs, by the Latin language and the like more, it will be recognized that you are My disciples? Verily, verily, such a thing has never been mentioned and predicted by Me as a characteristic of My true church; through John indeed in the Revelation, where the great whore is spoken of – but this will not be the rock of Peter, will it?!
[9] Simon Jonah, who was a true Peter, said to one, whom he healed with My true Spirit in him: "Gold and silver I have not, but what I have I will give to you!" I wonder if the successor of Peter in Rome, who wants to be and should be, the bishops in England, some superintendents in Germany and the mighty patriarch of all Greeks could say the same about themselves with a clear conscience, without making themselves ridiculous in front of the whole world? Do they also have no sacks, no shoes and no canes? Oh see, how was Peter and how was his church of love built on the rock of his heart, and what was it's ground, and how are all the present churches built, and what are their cause? I think even a blind man must understand and see this, let alone one whose eyes are already wide open.
[10] The time will come where one will worship God everywhere in spirit and in truth, and not in Jerusalem and not on Mount Gerizim! So you also read in the Scriptures! But according to this then spirit, truth, true knowledge, faith, trust and true love for God and neighbor in the heart of every single man, is the one and only true rock and the church, which is then built alive on it by Myself, which alone can offer defiance to hell eternally. But everything else is a vain work of man and applies to nothing at all, and does not give the slightest protection against hell when the true rock and the true living church built in every single person, is lacking in it.
[11] It is therefore also a vain question, which outer, visible church is the right one among the many who carry My name. The answer to this is and can eternally never be otherwise than: None at all! Only the church in the heart, which I have made, is the only right one and is eternally secured from hell; Everything else has been concocted by the world, belongs to it and is eternally worthless before Me.
[12] Therefore also the keys to My kingdom are to be sought only in the living, alone true church, but never in any church community or it’s executive boards. What someone will then loosen or bind for himself out of this his own living church, built by Me in his heart, on the earth of his natural life and the life of his brothers, that is already loosened or bound in heaven, because this sole true church is already heaven itself – or even more clearly stated: Whatever someone will accomplish in and from such of his mighty church of love, that will also be accomplished in heaven forever.
[13] These are therefore also the real keys to the kingdom of heaven, that you recognize Me as your holy truest God and Father, love Me above all things, and love your brothers and sisters as yourselves. If this is the case with you, then you have Peter – the true church – fully developed and the real keys to the Kingdom of Heaven; but everything else is a zero! So understand this well, and live accordingly, Amen, Amen, Amen.