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Watch out!
4th May 1848
Oh Lord! We – who hold on to You alone and always believe what Your holy word teaches us exceedingly mercifully – ask You that in this oppressed time, You would like to show us in advance what misery can come upon us and will most probably also certainly come, so that we all and everything could judge ourselves according to Your most holy counsel for the safeguarding of our spiritual treasures, with which You, oh most holy Father, have so abundantly provided us all, for which we, of course, can never thank You enough for eternity! Oh Lord, oh Father Jesus, hear this our request! Your holy will be done!
[1] So write then: I have already indicated to you on the occasion of the funeral of the magistrate official N. (See the announcement of November 21, 1847, "My teaching teaches love and forbids judgment," i.e.) as on other occasions, what will shortly come over the world. Therefore you must not be too much surprised now, when the predicted bad weather begins to unload itself little by little, where the thunderclouds have risen the highest, of course still only partially. Because all the storm clouds, which have now risen from all sides quite high above the horizon, have not yet gathered. But now I want to let an unequaled judgment be passed upon the world that has completely forgotten Me!
[2] Rulers, who today still study how they could oppress My poor peoples even more shamefully spiritually and naturally, will seek shelter still this year – and I tell you: Verily, verily, they will not find it because they have completely forgotten that I alone am the Lord, and that all people are their brothers! Woe to you, masters of the world, the end of your time has come! In vain do you arm yourselves; in vain do you gather together in great numbers soldiers who swear and curse hell; in vain do you pronounce summary judgments; in vain do you build fortresses and secret gallows.
[3] I, the old eternal God and Lord over you brood of vipers and generation of adders, have raised an enemy over your heads, who shall chastise you for all the old abominations which you have committed against My people. You who are still splendid in gold today, tomorrow you shall go around as a beggar and like a walking savage seek a hole for yourself, which would be suitable to shield your life in!
[4] Woe to all of you who do not feel in your rich dwellings the great need of poor brothers and sisters, who are therefore mostly poor because you are too rich in My opinion – and that in the most unlawful way! I tell you: This time I will put the keys to your treasures into the hands of the poor and hand over to them your too great store!
[5] Do these great and mighty masters of the world think that the old God and Lord has even ceased to be, because He has watched their bad actions and doings with the greatest patience for so long? Oh these masters of the world have been very wrong! I am still what I was from eternity – a Father to those who know Me, love Me and keep My commandments, and a merciless judge to those who have long since rejected Me in reality and have established in My place a blind paganism for the complete suppression of the peoples blinded for this purpose!
[6] But I now say to you who are My friends, do good to the poor bodily and give them real consolation, so you will be spared from the forthcoming judgement. He who has much among you, give also much; but he who has little, give also according to his wealth; and he who has nothing, gratefully take what is given to him. So when you will act with Me in sight, My hand is to shield you from every stroke of judgement. But who will not submit to this rule, which is nothing new there, but only a purest old commandment of love, from him I will withdraw My shielding hand and let it happen with him as the court will form it and make it's great demands!
[7] You ask and say: Oh Lord, what is certain to happen? Oh tell us, that we may prepare and adjust accordingly! But I say: Ask not so much what will happen, but rather ask whether your heart will joyfully fulfill My commandment of love! If it will fulfill that, then anything whatsoever may happen; yet not a hair on your head will be harmed.
[8] But whoever at this time will only consider the commandment of love for the neighbor lukewarmly and will not consider in depth in himself how hard it must be for the brother and how miserable for the sister who has nothing and also does not know where to get anything and do not know what they will eat tomorrow and with what they will cover their body – he will have it hard at the time of the very near judgment!
[9] But I tell you something else: It is not enough that you only pray what love demands, but seek also to get still more disciples into the industrious exercising of neighborly love, so the judgement will be greatly softened; because the more true lovers now will arise, the less also the now in the highest degree truly miserable ones will arise and oppress you in your possession!
[10] I tell you: Look at this word with very earnest eyes and do not think that it will not become so bad after all; the Lord can certainly soften the judgment again. Yes, I will indeed do that at least locally when you do what I want; but if you do that only lukewarmly, you will very soon convince yourselves of how that will all come about in excess, which I indicated to you, that now war of the greatest kind will ensue over almost all countries as well as mutiny in all places and inflation, famine and all kinds of pestilence. And anarchies upon anarchies will arise, and the house of your rulers will become small, and their kingdom will easily be measured with the yardstick!
[11] Now do not think how you will provide for your children; I tell you, by that you will give them death – but above all always strive more and more for My friendship, then also your children will find an undisturbed supply.
[12] I tell you: Now it has come about that whoever helps the poor brother will invest his capital in a safe place and will soon get it back with good interest. But he who will now borrow his earthly capital at interest will soon lose the capital together with the interest. And should anyone rescue it from the world by worldly wise measures, he will not rescue it from Me!
[13] For as the world has now become usurious and self-serving and domineering, so mankind can no longer exist! If one wants to usurp everything, what will millions then have to live from? Therefore it can no longer be; therefore, take care to do good works; everything else I will then certainly do and will shield all your worldly and especially the spiritual treasures and goods!
[14] But also remember the needs of My servant who is restored to you, who is like a salvation and a good messenger, who tirelessly carries you living goods from heaven like a beast of burden and makes do like a donkey with little and bad food, while he nevertheless carries the greatest treasures for you!
[15] I tell you that I love the weak, and because I love him, I test him with poverty until the right time. But regardless of this I still say to you: Verily, what you do to him, you do directly to Me, – and everything is to be well reimbursed to you at the right time! For where the Lord is, there He has a servant with Him; and where the servant is, there the Lord is not far away. Remember therefore also the servant, and I will be with you through the servant. Amen, I tell you all this truly, truly, truly. Amen, Amen, Amen.