Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 497

The Millennial Kingdom

27th December 1850

A letter from Jakob Lorber to Dr. Zimpel, currently in Meran, contained the following words of the Lord in addition to Lorber's own words:

[1] Dear friend and brother! Do not marvel at the fact that I thus distinguish you! For you know that it is in the Good News: "Many are called, but only a few are chosen."

[2] Those who are called are children of the world, but if they follow the call, they can become My dear children and little children. But the few chosen ones are My brothers and are neither of this earth in soul nor even less in spirit, but from there, from whence I Myself am.

[3] You are from there where I am, and are therefore a true brother of My heart. But do not be vain about that! For behold, I Myself am humble with all My heart! How then shall it not be so for My dear brothers!

[4] What I give you is the life of life. And you will live forever, and you will never feel or taste the discarding of your flesh. For My brothers are free! In My light they freely chose the hard way of the flesh out of great love for Me. And again they will freely lay aside the flesh and move into their old and yet eternally new castles in My eternal Jerusalem and there rule with Me over infinity.

[5] But do not ask much about the beginning of the "millennial kingdom on earth"! For such a kingdom would be a kingdom of God with external show! There can never be a kingdom of God in matter, but only in spirit. And so the "Thousand Year Kingdom of God" does not come at all externally visible, but quite quietly and without pomp in the hearts of people who are of good will.

[6] Nor do you ask: when and how? For the coming of the "Millennial Kingdom of God" is the everlasting and always the same, full rebirth of the human spirit.

[7] The "bound dragon" are the tamed lusts of the flesh. And it's brief, singular and "final release" is the final discarding of the flesh, which for many a spirit is like departing from a dwelling which has been used for a long time.

[8] The material for a general kingdom of God on earth in the hearts of people is already in your hands in many ways. Put it soon into the hands of many, and you will see in it the true "Millennial Kingdom of God on earth"! Amen.

[9] My grace and My blessing go before you, and following, the blessing of millions of happy princes full of grace and wisdom! Amen.