Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 452

Political Council. About time relations

23rd July 1848

To Andreas H.W.

[1] It is a different thing when individual people rebel against their rulers, which is a sin, and something completely different when whole peoples, driven by My Spirit, rise up against their rulers, who have become too unscrupulous, and lift them from their thrones together with their tyrannical laws!

[2] And look, that is unmistakably the case right now. Therefore you must now no longer cling to the old stuff, which will never and must never return. Or is it not written in the Gospel: "You put the must into new skins and not into old ones, which it would soon tear and thus perish together with the skins" – just as you do not put a new cloth on the tear of an old garment, where the garment would get a new tear with every stitch as soon as it is sewn on. Behold, therefore it would now also be unwise in the highest degree, if you would like to approach newly awakened mankind with the old rusty state law, and would want previous slavish peace and order, while you now appear as a newly awakened one!

[3] Embrace this time, do not hold on to the old dynasty, nor to the old laws, and certainly not to the aristocrats, who are an old cancer in mankind; but hold fast now more firmly than ever onto Me and to the people, whose need you know more than anyone else. Thus you will fare well and have secured all your earthly wealth in all its fullness. But otherwise, unfortunately, I must announce to you in advance that, by persisting in your present situation, you will soon be able to search for your important fortune with all the lanterns and will hardly find it again.

[4] But it is better that you believe Me now than that you would say later: Yes, now I do believe that the Lord, through his poor servant, has after all always spoken the purest truth, and has not permitted that he should, for instance, exploit the divine for the sake of his own good, so that they deserve less consideration, especially in the surely subordinate words.

[5] Dear Andreas, I tell you: You must be here now, study the time and administer your money here and do good with it, you will gain a lot. But down in the snail's shell you will in no case make any progression, neither earthly nor spiritual.

[6] For behold, I Myself healed some of those who were left alive in the country and cast out devils there; but I still held the triumphal procession in Jerusalem and the Lord's Supper and redemption and resurrection. If you now want to be a part of all these, you must stay in the place of the life of man and not in the place of the life of snails, turtles, and crabs.

[7] I tell you: This time will bring something completely different than you would ever expect! I tell you so that you can grasp it: Wind, water and fire whirls! Storm, fire, great howling! Revenge, blood, death! Reign of the people, freedom, blessing! Amen. This I say to you for your attention, peace and complete safety. Amen, Amen, Amen!