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Revealed through the Inner Voice to Bertha Dudde in accordance

with the promises of John 14:21 & 16:25

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'And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing 'And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing 'And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing 'And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsalso into the vineyard; and whatsalso into the vineyard; and whatsalso into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, oever is right, oever is right, oever is right, thatthatthatthat shall ye receive.' shall ye receive.' shall ye receive.' shall ye receive.'

Matthew 20:6, 7

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Index :Index :Index :Index :

The CallThe CallThe CallThe Call

BD 2099 – GOD’S CALL TO SERVICE… INNER VOICE

BD 4170 – GOD’S CALL INSIDE THE HEART

BD 4171 – WORKING FOR GOD AND HIS KINGDOM

BD 4174 – CALL TO WORK… MISSION OF GOD’S SERVANTS

BD 5091 – SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY… WORKING TOGETHER…

BD 6783 – MISGUIDED OVERZEALOUSNESS…

BD 4963 – WORDS OF LOVE… WORDS OF WISDOM… TEACHING MINISTRY… CRITICISM ON PUBLISHING

BD 8325 – TRUE SERVANTS OF GOD… INSTITUDED WORDS… WORKING OF THE SPIRIT

BD 3284 – WORKING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD… MISSION

BD 8529 – ENCOURAGEMENT FOR DILIGENT VINEYARD WORK

BD 8635 – VINEYARD WORK ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL…

BD 8663 – TASK TO SPREAD THE TRUTH…

Printing and distributing the Word of GodPrinting and distributing the Word of GodPrinting and distributing the Word of GodPrinting and distributing the Word of God

BD 1742 – MY COMMISION… HELP THE NEEDY

BD 3390 – OBLIGATION TO PASS ON SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE

BD 4561 – PRINTING ON THE DIVINE WORD…

BD 1797 – DUTY OF DISTRIBUTING THE DIVINE REVELATIONS…

BD 5976 – PROCLAIM MY WORD TO THE WORLD

BD 8899 – PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE MESSAGES

BD 7734 – UNSELFISH DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD

BD 7809 – SELFLESS VINEYARD WORK

BD 7531 – DISTRIBUTING THE DIVINE WORD

BD 7744 – SELFLESS DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORD

BD 4742 – REMINDER TO WORK DILIGENTLY FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD

BD 7528 – SPREADING THE GOSPEL… JESUS CHRIST

BD 7708 – TRUE NEIGHBOURLY LOVE: PASSING ON THE DIVINE WORD

BD 8942 – SOULS IN THE BEYOND PARTICIPATE IN TEACHING

BD 2193 – HARSHEST MEASURES… FEARLESS SPEAKING… STRONG WILL

The healing power and strength of the pure Word of GodThe healing power and strength of the pure Word of GodThe healing power and strength of the pure Word of GodThe healing power and strength of the pure Word of God

BD 5605 – AWAKENING THE DEAD THROUGH GOD’S WORD

BD 6768 – BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF GOD’S WORD… AWAKENING – LIFE …

The cThe cThe cThe cleansing effect of the pure Word of Godleansing effect of the pure Word of Godleansing effect of the pure Word of Godleansing effect of the pure Word of God

BD 6611 – ABOUT ‘BAPTISM’

BD 8643 – EXPLANATION ABOUT BAPTISM WITH WATER

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Word of God in its pure form… a truWord of God in its pure form… a truWord of God in its pure form… a truWord of God in its pure form… a true nourishing food for the soule nourishing food for the soule nourishing food for the soule nourishing food for the soul… … … … Communion with the Lord at His table Communion with the Lord at His table Communion with the Lord at His table Communion with the Lord at His table

BD 5518 – AWAKENING SPIRITUAL HUNGER

BD 5977 – IMPORTANT MISSION… SPREADING THE GOSPEL

BD 7909 – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HOLY COMMUNION

BD 5771 – GUEST’S AT THE TABLE OF THE LORD (Matthew 22:1-14)…

BD 8385 – FEEDING THE SOUL IS A PRIORITY… COMMUNION

BD 0764 – LAST SUPPER

BD 4379 – LAST SUPPER – SPIRITUAL MEANING… FLESH AND BLOOD

BD 5384 – COMMUNION

BD 6717 – ‘INSTITUTED WORDS’ FOR THE LAST SUPPER

BD 7255 – SCRUNITY OF SPIRITUAL VALUES FOR DIVINE ORIGIN

Teachers and fighters for TruthTeachers and fighters for TruthTeachers and fighters for TruthTeachers and fighters for Truth

BD 5205 – FIGHTERS FOR TRUTH… MISGUIDED TEACHINGS…

BD 5335 – SPECIAL MISSION: FIGHTING FOR TRUTH…

BD 5627 – FIGHTING WITH THE SWORD OF THE TONGUE… TRUTH…

BD 8555 – ACCEPTING THE TRUTH IS A COMMITMENT… ERRORS…

BD 8676 – PURIFICATION OF CHRIST’S SPOILT TEACHING

BD 8814 – EXPOSURE OF MISGUIDED TEACHINGS IS GOD’S WILL…

BD 8818 – BATTLE AGAINST ERROR…

BD 8832 – THE TASK OF FIGHTING MISUGIDED TEACHINGS

BD 8877 – SPOILT SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE HAS TO BE CORRECTED

BD 8915 – THE VINEYARD LABOURERS’ DUTY IS TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST ERROR…

BD 4733 - TOLERANCE

The last battle of FaithThe last battle of FaithThe last battle of FaithThe last battle of Faith –––– Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist Antichrist –––– Publicly confessing Jesus Christ Publicly confessing Jesus Christ Publicly confessing Jesus Christ Publicly confessing Jesus Christ

BD 1567 – CONFESS JESUS CHRIST BEFORE THE WORLD – DIVINE PROTECTION

BD 1762 – BATTLE AGAINST CHRIST’S TEACHINGS… PERSECUTION AGAINST THOSE WHO CONFESS HIM

BD 2880 – REMINDER TO INFORM PEOPLE ABOUT BATTLE OF FAITH

BD 3184 – GOD PERMITS THE BATTLE OF FAITH

BD 4429 – ANTICHRIST… BRUTAL LAWS

BD 4566 – DON’T FEAR THOSE WHO KILL THE BODY, BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL

BD 4635 – BATTLE OF FAITH… PUBLICLY PROFESSING CHRIST… ‘I WILL SHORTEN THE DAYS’

(MATTHEW 24:22)

BD 4831 – PROFESSING JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD… VOICING THE NAME OF JESUS…

BD 4947 – ANTICHRIST… THE FAITH IS IN DANGER

BD 5621 – BATTLE OF FAITH… ANTICHRIST… PUBLIC CONFESSION

BD 5719 – STRENGTH OF FAITH… ANTICHRIST… COUNTERACTION

BD 6538 – BATTLE OF FAITH… HOSTILITIES… ANTICHRIST

BD 6590 – WORLD EVENT… NATURAL DISASTER… BATTLE OF FAITH

BD 6619 – JUSTIFICATION BEFOR THE COURT… PUBLIC TESTIMONY

BD 6758 – BATTLE OF FAITH – ANTICHRIST

BD 6762 – WORLD EVENT… CHAOS… ANTICHRIST

BD 7023 – REASON FOR THE PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE… THE BATTLE OF FAITH

BD 7068 – THE LAST DISCIPLES’ ORDEAL IN THE TIME OF ANTICHRIST

BD 7778 – THE ADVERSARY OVERSTEPS HIS AUTHORITY

BD 8464 – GOD’S INSTRUCTION TO EDUCATE FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS ABOUT JESUS…

Labouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the End

BD 5259 – GOD REQUIRES MANY LABOURERS IN THE TIME BEFORE THE END

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BERTHA DUDDE - AUTOBIOGRAPHY

I have been writing messages, received through the inner Word since June 15, 1937. In answer to the many requests

of my friends I will give you a picture of my earthly life, a short explanation of what I received spiritually, and my

own feelings about all this.

I was born April 1, 1891, the second oldest daughter of an artist of Liegnitz in Schlesien, today’s Poland I had a

normally peaceful childhood, with six sisters in our parent home. I learned the cares of life at an early age. The desire

to make money to help my parents made me learn the trade of a seamstress. As the financial needs of my parents

continued, so the burden, and in this way I made myself useful.

My parents belonged to different denominations. Father was a Protestant -Mother a Catholic. We children were

brought up in the Catholic faith, but never experienced pressure or force to follow the practices of the church so that

each child in later years could pursue their own chosen course.

I myself was religious, but could not accept the doctrine of the Catholic system, although I respected the church. I

could not represent something on the outside that my inner conscience had not accepted. So I did not continue to attend church, heard little preaching and had no knowledge of the Bible. I did not read any religious books or

scientific literature and did not join any other group or religious sect.

Anyone knowing the Catholic teaching knows what a conscious struggle one finds himself in when he wants to

loosen himself from it. I also was not spared from this. But the question as to what is the Truth, and where it is to be

found, remained.

Often when I prayed the Lord's prayer I would beseech the Lord to allow me to find HIS kingdom. This prayer was

answered in June 15, 1937, as I prayed quietly and waited on the inner voice. In this attitude I persisted often, for a wonderful peace came over me and thoughts which came to my heart, not my head, gave me comfort and strength.

Still I did not know that these thoughts were given to me, until in a strange dream I experienced something, which

later proved to be the Truth and caused me to write down these thoughts.

So on a certain day as I listened inwardly a stream of words came to me, which I wrote down. This was the first

message I wrote which started like this: "In the beginning was the Word, 'a TE-DEUM' to the Creator of

Heaven and Earth."

Then came doubt, ….did you write this by yourself? In short, I have wrestled, prayed and gone through many struggles, but again and again the words came to me like a stream, a wisdom, which made me tremble. Then GOD

HIMSELF took away my doubts. HE answered me and I acknowledged HIM as our Father, in HIS Word. My faith

grew, doubt diminished, and I received and wrote daily.

The contents of the writings were beyond my understanding. Phrases, which I had never heard of, or read about,

strange and scientific expressions and references continually came to me. Then came unheard of expressions of the

Heavenly Father's Love giving refuge and providing enlightenment to all the questions of life.

The "Words" came to me in the following manner: After sincere prayer and a short period of composure I listened

inwardly. Thoughts then followed coming to my mind, clearly, distinctly, and the words flowed smoothly always

three or four, one after another, like writing a radio announcement or a weather report, slowly so that I could easily

keep pace, writing line after line.

Now, I write the words in shorthand as a dictation without having any constructive or intellectual part in it. I am in no

way in a 'trance', nor do I even form the sentences, but it comes to me one word at a time, neither do I understand the context while I am writing the words down.

After days, sometimes weeks, I transcribe the shorthand writings into longhand without changing or correcting a syllable. Each dictation takes about half an hour. I must stress that this could not happen forcibly or in a state of

ecstasy. It all takes place simply and consciously, without any excitement or influence of my own will. I can interrupt

myself at any time and finish the sentence after hours or days without reading the previous writing the dictated words

continue again.

My will is under no compulsion, all that I desire is to serve GOD and do what HIS Will wants me to do.

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I can truthfully say that I was led into this Truth, and these concepts were, in all respect foreign to me. It was only

after years that I found confirmation of what I received, when I came to know the writings of Jacob Lorber. No one

can imagine my joy when I discovered the literature of Jacob Lorber; "The Great Gospel of John" and the "Youth of CHRIST" Then I understood that other people were given the Word of the Lord, that GOD had spoken to HIS

children at all times and that GOD will continue to do this in HIS endless Love and Mercy.

I found in Lorber' s writings the same as was given to me. I often could not understand the word that came to me, but

in HIS Love the Heavenly Father gave me the explanation. How wonderful are the innumerable manifestations in

which the Father displays HIS exceeding great goodness.

It became clear to me that my short education, due to lack of money and my lack of time to read good books or visit

performances, became my advantage. I could now concentrate on my work from early morning to late at night, and

each day I received that precious spiritual Word without knowing for whom I received it.

It is because of my ignorance of the Bible and the Catholic doctrine that I accepted the Word from Above without resistance. In my experience an earnest Catholic or Protestant whose knowledge is rooted in dogmatic theories is too

much bound to their dogma to accept and embrace Divine revelations without resistance.

Still there are scientists at several faculties who earnestly discuss these Divine teachings with increasing interest.

Their interest does not only concern the irrefutable explanation of the origin of matter and the possibility of its

dissolution, but also the principle of the wrong teachings of different religions, systems and confessions. In the

messages I received these errors are recorded and everyone is urged to give instructions concerning these doctrinal

errors whenever there is an opportunity.

But everyone is free to take the LORD' s Word to heart or not. But whoever understands the spirit in the Father's

Word and does not act accordingly makes the distance between himself and the Father even greater. When he does

not follow the warning words of Love he puts himself inevitably under the law. He will also in the same measure lack in Grace, disregarding GOD' s commandment of Love.

In GOD' s Grace people are led anew to the gospel, which emphatically points out the purpose of man's being. For

the merciful Love of GOD seeks to save all who still can be saved be fore the turning point comes. And it will come.

The end-time of which seers and prophets have proclaimed is now here. According to the revelations given to me, the

LORD does not differentiate between HIS children. "Come ye all to ME" sounds HIS call and blessed is he who

hears HIS call and follows HIM. GOD Loves HIS children. HE wants to make them all happy, even when they do

not want to know HIM.

Recorded Nov. 22, 1953

BERTHA DUDDE.

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The CallThe CallThe CallThe Call

B.D. 2099, October 5, 1941

God’s call to service.... Inner voice....

You should subordinate yourselves to the Lord in every respect, that is, you should always be willing to do that which is

pleasing to God. You should only ever accept His will and whatever the inner voice then advises you to do will be right,

for God Himself manifests His will to you through the inner voice. Thus, you carry out your will, so to speak, and yet it

goes hand in hand with God’s will. In that case, you no longer need to worry, for then you will live on earth under the

protection of your spiritual friends who will mentally inform you of divine will. And spiritual striving will always be

first required of you, although your earthly work ought not to be neglected, yet if you offer your services to God it is His

will that you are at all times at His disposal, that you serve Him when He calls you to do so…. And you hear His call when you listen within. To be of service to God means to be ready for Him at all times and to follow His call. However,

the call from above sounds gently and subtly in your heart, and in order to hear it you must practise humility, love,

gentleness and peacefulness. Thereby you shape the heart’s ear which will perceive the most subtle call and you will always know when the Lord is in need of you…. Then He will no longer call you in vain, for then you will hear His

voice and hurry to be of service to Him…. Amen

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B. D. 4170, November 18-19, 1947

God’s call inside the heart

You should heed the needs of the moment, i.e. you have to hold yourselves in readiness, so that when My call resounds in your heart, you can be of service to Me without hesitation, as the hour of assuming your ministry is near. And this is a sign

and proof of My Word, that worldly obligations no longer seem important to you when you have heard My voice, which

clearly directs you what to do. You will have no hankering after this world but find your joy exclusively in your spiritual

activity, and you shall be helped in keeping up with it because it is My will.

A spiritual drought shall precede this, a time when you shall hunger for My Word, and for lively activity in the spiritual field,

and when you shall lack all opportunity for spiritual debate. You shall be receiving My Word indeed, and My love shall

constantly and always look after you, yet you shall stand isolated amidst a life-hungry world which can give you nothing. You

will get little understanding from your fellow men and feel crushed, but you shall be more firmly conjoined to Me; and thus your hunger for My soul-food shall constantly grow, until you will suddenly hear Me within you.

Then your hour has come, the start of your ministry. And I shall see to it that you are able to commence your ministry, that

you drop all inhibitions that all misgivings and fears leave you.

You shall be speaking, thinking and acting only in accordance with My will, you shall represent Me personally on earth, i.e.,

speak what My spirit gives you, you shall be living witnesses of My Word. You shall again go before men as My disciples and proclaim My Word to them with this addition - that the end is near and that I shall come Myself to fetch Mine, when the

time has come which I had determined from eternity.

And in order for you to speak freely and unhindered, I shall put people at your side who shall be supports to you materially -

satellites, as escorts, being protectors and umbrellas against the world, even though you shall always enjoy My protection, and

I shall not leave you till the end.

Yet My care extends to you also materially, and you shall attend you your ministry without worldly cares, as same shall

completely absorb your vitality and hence you shall be made rid of all worldly cares.

But one thing I do demand of you, that you pass on the gifts you receive from Me, making them accessible to fellow man; that

you carry My Word in to the world verbally as well as in print, that you spread the Truth and acquaint mankind with My

administration, so that their thoughts are directed to the spiritual kingdom. And I want to give you strength till the end and

once reward your work in eternity. AMEN

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B. D. 4171, November 20, 1947

Working for God and His Kingdom

And thus, a new period begins for you, a time of brisk activity for Me and My kingdom; and you shall not regret to have

offered Me your services, as you shall sense blessedness - you shall multiply My church - the flock of faithful shall expand and you shall be able to teach, and My spirit shall steadily manifest itself through you; you shall always be certain of My

presence, and this awareness makes you confident among fellow men of hostile mind.

The fight between Truth and the lie goes on, because mankind is already too deeply entangled in the latter. Men shall

nevertheless lend an ear initially, and this phase following the catastrophe should be exploited to the full, due to freedom of

speech being unrestrained by worldly power.

That is why I need faithful servants for this period and enlist them all the time, as it is a question of bringing help to those

whose hearts were hardened by their lot, and who are looking in all directions for reasons and purpose of yonder natural phenomenon, as they still possess a modest idea of God's justice; it is then of paramount importance to provide these people

with what they are after: light and strength, fullest cognition and a living faith in Myself, Who speaks to them through you in

order to draw them unto Me and bless them with My presence.

You shall have to put in much work, and shall be so guided materially that you can devote yourselves fully to your task. And

you should therefore hold yourselves ready and hearken for My call, and not hesitate when it resounds within you. Because I

shall so guide your destiny that you can place yourselves at My disposal at all times, as time demands urgent work. You shall however be gaining brilliant insight and a refined sense, and always be conscious of where and how your work will succeed.

And I shall be leading the people I want to help to you - those willing to believe. Because I look after all those men who are not yet fully dominated by My adversary and who are of goodwill. Them I approach with My Word. To them I want to speak

and win them over to Me and My Kingdom, to bless them everlastingly. AMEN

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B. D. 4174, November 23, 1947

Call to work.... The mission of God’s servants....

How you will hear My call to work for Me and My kingdom depends on each of My servants’ state of maturity on earth, because I need many labourers in My vineyard and everyone who is ready will be given the task he can meet in

accordance with his ability, which again depends on his soul’s maturity. One person will feel an inner urge to speak

about spiritual things, to attract people to Me and lead his fellow human beings into faith, he will be called by Me

through an inner desire. I will effectively place this task into his feeling and he will accept this feeling and comply with

the inner desire.

Another person will hear the inner voice; he will follow an inwardly prompted train of thought. He will be unable to

detach himself from ideas which will motivate him so much that he will have to discuss them, and I will bring him into

contact with people to whom he can talk about his thoughts and enter into spiritual conversations which inspire the fellow human being to dwell on it, and thus he will likewise be invited to My kingdom.

But I will also make Myself audibly heard to My servants, whose particularly advanced state of maturity allows for it. I

will tell them clearly and understandably how they should work for Me, where they should go and what they should

teach. And they will have a very special mission.... they will, encouraged by My spirit within themselves, preach My

Word where My adversary is openly active…. where misguided teachings are spread by people who also call

themselves My servants but who have not yet received the pure truth from Me because they refuse to accept it.

This mission requires a special ability.... it requires the gift of oratory, which My servant need not have but which will

be given to him during his time of working for Me because he will have attained a certain degree of maturity allowing the working of My spirit through him. But at the same time the person has to intellectually grasp what he, prompted by

My spirit, is saying. He has to be able to cope with hostile attacks and disprove any contention of My Word. Although

he indeed merely has the task to spread My Word, the pure truth from Me, he will also have to speak freely since debates will arise which make intellectual activity indispensable. Furthermore, the comprehensively informed

challengers have to acknowledge My servant’s spiritual superiority if they are to pay attention to what they will be told,

as they will argue about important and profound problems which can only be handled by an awakened and spiritually

enlightened human being with Me Myself as a teacher, and therefore also presents himself confidently and is not afraid

to contradict those who pride themselves in being intelligent and knowledgeable.

These servants will receive a special call; they will audibly hear My voice within themselves so that they will be

completely certain of My will and then totally subordinate themselves to it. If they win one of these teachers over for

Me and My doctrine, for the absolute truth, which they can only receive from Me Myself through you, it will be a great

spiritual success because he, in turn, will then likewise campaign for the truth again and teach a larger circle, and thereby make My Word available to many people in its purest form and for the benefit of everyone.

Anyone ordained for this mission can call himself a servant of God with full conviction because he will speak on My behalf, he will only do My will, he will be guided by Me and take every step in My company, he will only be My

mouthpiece so that I can manifest Myself to people without infringing their freedom of faith or will. For this reason I

need such servants devoted to Me during the last days before the end because work has to be done everywhere and

constantly in order to make My pure Word accessible to people, which is blessed with My strength but which also

comes directly from Me and is sent to earth in order to liberate people from misconceptions…. Amen

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B.D. 5091, March 22, 1951

Spiritual community.... Working together....

A spiritual community can convey many blessings, for it distributes My Gospel in Words and deeds. However, I do not call members of an organised association a spiritual community but only people who, in spiritual unity, strive towards

the same goal of coming close to the truth and thus to Me and who therefore also want to lead their fellow human beings

to Me. For organisations can also exist without truly spiritually striving members, and I only acknowledge spiritual

aspiration as the right desire for Me. An association of people who seriously discuss spiritual topics, whose hearts

silently love Me and desire a bond with Me, is a spiritual community which is pleasing to Me, My blessing will always

rest on them and the very spiritual work they do will be blessed by Me. Wherever they are together I dwell among them

and guide their thoughts in the right direction, I intervene in their conversations Myself by expressing Myself through a

person who is particularly devoted to Me, who will then effectively instruct the others and also be acknowledged

because the others will feel that I Am at work, because they will feel addressed by Me and will be convinced that what they hear is true. A spiritual community will always render Me a great service, for they will achieve far more than an

individual person can achieve by only working for Me and My kingdom. Yet every individual person should try to gain

followers for Me, every individual should strive to expand the spiritual community and always lead new labourers to Me

because many reapers will be needed during the last days and the work that still needs to be accomplished before the end

will require every effort. Together you can be very successful, for people will always look at a solitary person with

distrust and lend little credence to his words. However, as soon as other like-minded people join him everything he says

and does becomes significant. Therefore try to find like-minded people with the same striving to be of service to Me and to do redemptive work on earth during the last days before the end. By doing so you will gain very much yourselves but

you will also gain new souls which you can lead to Me, which you can prepare for their mission of becoming co-

workers for Me and My kingdom, to whom you can proclaim the Gospel so that they will pass it on to all those who suffer spiritual hardship. What is not possible for an individual person can be achieved by many; they will find it easier

to be believed and will always be strengthened by Me, for I bless all who are of service to Me.... Amen

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B.D. 6783, March 13, 1957

Misguided overzealousness....

The size of field you shall cultivate will always correspond to your will to be active and your suitability.... It may be

very large if you wholly support this cause, and it may only be a small area, depending on your will and your eagerness

to serve, for I do not exert any pressure or coercion, I give as you desire.... But often My vineyard labourers expect too

much of themselves insofar as that they take on tasks beyond their abilities for which I have not appointed them.... that

they want to arbitrarily handle areas due to a certain ambition somewhat ambitiously, with the intention of

distinguishing themselves. In that case they will cause more damage than blessing, for due to their ambition they leave My sphere and this signifies a welcome opportunity for My adversary to give his instructions, which are also frequently

listened to. And this is a danger which threatens every vineyard labourer who does not strictly adhere to My instructions,

who is impelled by overzealousness because he has lost his inner humility.... because he wants to achieve much but does not want to help many. It is just a fine difference but all My vineyards labourers should sincerely check what motives

impel them to work in My vineyard. They should not fail to approach Me in silent prayer for My instructions and then

always carry out what impels them from within. But they should not engage in tasks which I have not allocated to them

and which therefore must be more described as worldly work although they apparently pursue spiritual goals.... You

humans have no idea what methods My adversary works with and how easily he can draw you into his nets of lies; but

you need not fall prey to him as long as you submit yourselves to Me with profound humility and desire only to be

guided by Me. But I will not entrust you with work in an area as long as you are not proficient in this area. If, however,

you enter it without My instruction then you will be influenced by the opposition, because he knows your weakness of

wanting to distinguish yourselves. And then he will serve you according to your wishes….

People have often taken this path before, they had been willing to serve Me but didn’t want to work in a small circle,

instead they looked for an area of activity which enabled them to become more publicly known without, however, having received My instructions to do so.... And then they often carried out tasks without realising who had prompted

them to do so.... And thus it was possible that initially good servants became unsuitable for the work in My vineyard

because too many worldly instincts still laid dormant in them which came to the fore and justified their misguided overzealousness.... On the other hand, however, not everyone wanting to be of service to Me needs to fear this danger if

they regard Me Myself as higher, if they also entrust their weaknesses and imperfections to Me and pray to Me for

protection from their own failure and always wait for My instructions before they embark on a task. Temptations

certainly approach all My servants as well, because each one still has weaknesses and imperfections to show which he

knows and tries to take advantage of. But the human being’s close bond with Me protects him from falling prey to

him.... whereas the bond with the world weakens a person’s resistance and puts him subsequently at risk of succumbing

to him. Therefore you should always look within, do not pay too much attention to global affairs but more to the

spiritual development in the world, in your surroundings and in yourselves.... Then you will also diligently render

detailed work, you will work at improving yourselves, you will always helpfully stand by your fellow human beings’ side, you will provide them with the spiritual nourishment they are lacking…. And this field of activity will be as large

as you are capable of working on. However, you should not venture further afield if you don’t want to work for the one

who is My and your adversary.... Amen

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B.D. 4963, September 5, 1950

Words of love.... Words of wisdom.... Teaching ministry.... Criticism on publishing....

In realising your task in life, which consists of distributing the pure Word of God, everything will cause your rejection

that has not come forth from the primary source of truth. But they can nevertheless be Words of love with no indwelling

God-opposing spirit, and everything that is not in favour of Me is good if it inspires love. In the spiritual kingdom the

beings which are permitted to teach recognise each other by their radiance, it is therefore impossible for a still spiritually

unenlightened being to intervene. The earthly child which willingly opens itself to the spiritual influx will be lovingly

grasped and protected by the beings of light.... I, your God and Father of eternity, Am present in spirit to all those who want to be in contact with Me. I do not abandon these people, for they are My children who have already informed Me

of their will. Hence they also sense My presence, they hear Words of encouragement and of comfort from Me, they hear

Words of love, which I have on hand for all people who want to listen to Me. It is also My will that they speak to their fellow human beings of My love, I want them to actively stand up for Me, that they motivate their fellow human beings

to establish contact with Me as well, that they therefore guide all those into a living faith who allow themselves to be

led, thus who are willing to recognise Me. I also give them the ability to speak on My behalf so that they can be

successful when they vividly describe My working in them by filling their hearts with profound love for Me and their

subsequent hearing of divine Words of love. This has to be said to all those who can hear Me speak in spirit, to whom I

reveal Myself so that they will learn to recognise and love Me. They shall proclaim that they themselves experienced

My working in them.

However, not all are assigned the task of instructing their fellow human beings, the task of imparting the divine wisdom, the eternal truth to them. For this teaching ministry requires more, only the chosen ones among those I have called shall

hold such a teaching ministry and it is them who must therefore first be instructed by Me for the teaching ministry

before they can work on My instructions. Anyone who wants to proclaim wisdom must be wise himself and accept his wisdom from Me, for that which should address a person’s heart must also be acceptable to the intellect. Wisdom must

be recognised as wisdom, for although it requires good will to do so first it must nevertheless also stand up to serious

scrutiny, which can only be expected from truthful knowledge. The intellect must not be excluded where it concern the acceptance of My pure teachings of faith. Since I gave the human being the ability to think I must also provide him with

knowledge which his intellect is unable to reject if the heart is open to My instructions. Consider this, then you will

understand that not everyone can be a teacher for his fellow human beings, that a person must first have penetrated the

wisdom himself before he can instruct other people. Furthermore, consider that all instructions spread through print or in

writing are intended to be a blessing…. that you should therefore proceed very judiciously if you don´t want to endanger

the pure truth, which cannot be taught by everyone who is not called to do so. For you endanger the truth if a serious

seeker of good will discovers flaws which make My nature seem implausible or imperfect to him, because his intellect

also wants to form an opinion. I, your God and Father of eternity, certainly recognise your will to be of service to Me

and bless you for it, yet you should not step into the public domain without My specific instruction, since you have plenty of opportunities to work in privacy, that is, in the circle I Myself bring close to you. For I look into the human

hearts and know whom I bring together so that they can find Me. Yet I also know what causes deliberate rejection if it is

not offered to people in the right way. I certainly give evidence of My love to all those who desire it, yet not all of them have attained the degree of maturity in order to hear My Word audibly, just as not every soul is capable of repeating

what My love conveys to it mentally. For this reason such souls are not called for teaching work, although they can be

very beneficial by communicating their thoughts to people in their vicinity since, if they love Me, their thoughts cannot

be wrong as soon as they speak on behalf of Me and My kingdom.

On the other hand, it is quite a different situation where it concerns the public distribution of spiritual information to the

human race, which lays claim to having emerged from Me directly and which should be accepted as purest truth. Then those who seriously and with good will scrutinise it intellectually must also be able to accept it, because the pure truth,

having originated from Me, can certainly stand up to any test, since it speaks for itself. Even the pure truth will meet

with more rejection than acceptance, but the reason for this cannot be found in the fact that it is unacceptable for a person, but that the person, due to his God-opposing relationship, is no longer capable of recognising it. But even the

person most incapable of recognising relentlessly uncovers what prevents him from accepting spiritual knowledge and is

delighted if he encounters a target in order to doubt the pure truth. And you should not provide him with these targets if

you want to work for Me and My kingdom. You can certainly be of service to Me and constantly present Me to your

fellow human beings as a God of love and mercy; you should, wherever possible, influence your fellow human beings to

practise love, by living a way of life according to My will you should be an example to them, you should strive

spiritually and also strive to encourage your fellow human beings to do the same, you should sincerely unite with Me

and pray to Me in spirit and in truth, and you will feel My emanation of love increasingly more, you will think, act and

speak correctly and thus be My faithful fighters in the battle against the one whose aim it is to ruin all those who don´t resist him. And thus you should wait until you hear My call to carry out specific work in My vineyard, for the time is

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not far away when I will need those of you who want to be of service to Me, and when I will assign a task to everyone

according to his ability…. and blessed will be the one who serves Me…. Amen

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B. D. 8325, November 9, 1962

True servants of God…. Instituted words.... Working of the spirit….

You, who believe in Me and the working of My spirit within you, receive extraordinary knowledge from Me.... And this

knowledge obliges you to communicate with your fellow human beings, for you don’t just receive it for yourselves, you

merely act as mediators between Me and people whom I cannot address directly but who urgently require truthful

information in order to be able to fulfil their earthly task. Their will to draw closer to their God and Creator again has to

be stimulated, and therefore they must be enlightened about Me and their relationship with their God and Creator….

They know about My will and their task on earth…. Only then can they be held to account as to whether and how they make use of their earthly life. They must also be informed of the process of return they are going through themselves

and the reasons on which this is based…. For all this knowledge can help people to reflect about themselves and give

their presently purely worldly attitude a spiritual outlook so that their pilgrimage across this earth will not remain unsuccessful but result in their return to Me and to supreme bliss, as was destined for them in the very beginning.

This task of distributing the knowledge conveyed to you from above is your most important work, the implementation of

which can lead to tremendous blessings…. I Myself will support any task you undertake on My behalf, for the result

could be that I will win back countless saved souls which My adversary has to return to Me if it is their own will. And

then these souls will have completed a process of development which has lasted for an infinitely long time already….

but which can be prolonged for an infinitely long time again if the human being fails on earth…. I convey to you, My

messengers of light, such extensive knowledge as to enable you to carry much light into the spiritual darkness…. And

your fellow human beings need only open their hearts and ears in order to partake in a greater than great treasure of grace which you are permitted to unearth because you want to be of service to Me. You shall only ever distribute the

bread of heaven and the water of life, the healing strength of which is true wine for your souls…. Then you will be My

true disciples to whom I give this instruction just as I gave it to My first disciples when I took the last Supper with them. Although I handed them food for the body they nevertheless knew that My instruction meant the distribution of spiritual

food…. they knew that My Words called them to the teaching ministry, that they should carry My Gospel into the

world, that they should nourish their fellow human beings’ souls with My Word which they had received from Me and continued to receive through the working of My spirit within them….

Thus I called these disciples and instructed them to go out into the world…. But this instruction first required them to

receive from Me the bread of heaven, the water of life, for they were meant to pass on divine gifts and not human ideas

which do not benefit the soul. Thus, as long as these proclaimers of My Word and their successors were called to teach

through the working of My spirit within them, they were My representatives, My disciples, and therefore the successors

of My first disciples who had received the true Gospel from Me…. And everyone can regard himself as My disciple, as

successor of the first disciples whom I had called to the teaching ministry…. in whom My spirit works such that he is

introduced from within to extensive knowledge which cannot be intellectually acquired…. And even traditionally adopted spiritual knowledge first necessitates My spirit’s working in the proclaimer so that he can fully understand this

spiritual knowledge and pass it on in a way that it will have a truly beneficial effect on those who are being taught….

Only a spiritually awakened proclaimer of My Word is a true successor to My disciples.... and not those preachers who

decided for themselves to make it their career and who believe that they can academically acquire the knowledge with

which they then want to work in My vineyard…. These labourers are unsuitable for they have to wait until I call them

Myself, prior to this they cannot work properly in My vineyard because I Myself want to work through My spirit in

those who are active for Me and My kingdom. And neither can this calling come from fellow human beings, from

someone who, in turn, has also taken up his office without an inner calling, who was also made a ‘servant of God’ by his

fellow men…. This teaching ministry carries so much responsibility that it truly also requires the qualifications for it and human will or human action can never suffice to confer such an office…. I descended to earth Myself in order to bring

My Word to humanity, the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, which grants complete enlightenment and returns

a person into a state of realisation which was his share before his apostasy from God…. I brought this Word to people Myself and.... since I was only able to stay for a limited period of time on earth…. chose suitable vessels for Myself

whom I filled with My flow of spirit, whom I instructed Myself and…. since they lived a life of love…. to whom I also

promised the working of My spirit while they carried out My instructions….

And you humans know that due to people’s free will the purest truth can be spoilt if the conditions no longer exist which

permit the working of My spirit…. Do you really believe that all people who claim to be My ‘representatives on earth’,

who claim to be the successors of My first disciples, displayed the prerequisites which enabled the working of My

spirit? And thus the pure truth was no longer guaranteed, for a person who has not shaped himself into a vessel for My

spirit can be easily influenced by My adversary, whose sole intention is to always undermine My pure truth…. This is why countless misguided teachings were able to assert themselves without being recognised by them as such.... For

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wherever My spirit is as yet unable to work darkness still prevails, for only My spirit ignites the light in the human

being, for My spiritual spark is love, and love is also light and strength….

As the divine spark of love in the human being.... the spark of God’s spirit…. unites with the eternal Father-Spirit a

bright light has to shine which no error can endure, because it will be exposed and refuted by the truth from Me, Who

will only ever support the pure truth and make it accessible to you humans…. Understand that this was the real meaning of My last Supper with My disciples, that they thus received the instruction to bring the pure truth to people and at the

same time mention My act of Salvation and My human manifestation in Jesus, therefore I said: Do this in remembrance

of Me…. For only by proclaiming the pure Gospel was it also possible to provide people with the knowledge of My act

of Salvation…. And since this knowledge is extremely important I mentioned it with the above Words, for all people

who want to become blessed should remember Me…. But as long as precisely these ‘instituted’ words are

misunderstood and associated with a completely senseless action there is still profound spiritual darkness in people….

And this I why I now instruct My last disciples again to carry My Word into the world, the pure truth which I was able

to convey to them through My spirit ‘which effectually worketh also in you that believe’…. Amen

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B.D. 3284, October 8, 1944

Working for the kingdom of God.... Mission….

People who are permeated by the spirit of truth are chosen to spread this truth, and this is a responsible mission on earth,

for receiving the truth is also a commitment to pass it on. Constant activity is expected of them, activity for the kingdom

of God which conveys the truth to earth through these people. Yet the hearts of those chosen to do so are able to love,

otherwise the spirit of God would be unable to take effect in them. And this ability to love lets the work of spreading

the divine truth become a joyful task which they gladly and readily comply with. As soon as a person is imbued by

divine truth he also loses the sense for the pleasures and goods of the world; he only derives joy from spiritual

knowledge and therefore the spiritual work becomes his purpose in life. And yet it is a responsible task if he bears in mind that he has the opportunity to lead untold souls onto the right path, onto the path of realisation, and that he must

make the most of this opportunity in every way.... As a representative of God he is placed into a field of activity where

he can work exceedingly successfully; however, it requires a firm will, great love, patience and perseverance, it requires the keen activity of body and soul, both have to yield to the urging of the spirit, which constantly spurs them to do this

work. Thus the human being must place himself entirely at God’s disposal Who informs the human being through His

spirit about what his work consists of. As long as the soul is still in two minds it cannot hear the voice of the spirit

clearly enough and must try to banish this state by unreservedly handing itself over to God and appealing to Him for his

correct guidance in every way.... It must not anxiously speculate and think but must completely and trustingly hand

itself over to the spirit’s guidance and it will always take the right path.... Then all events in life will approach a person

so that he can accomplish his spiritual work, so that he can work for the kingdom of God.

This work is not obvious at first, for the time has not yet come for the working of the labourer’s of the Lord.... As yet His labourers are prepared in silence, and their activity, too, is limited; however, they shall even be active in silence

until the time comes when great activity will start for the salvation of the souls which will suffer great adversity. But the

spirit in the human being will guide him to where his work is needed. For time and again souls will be prepared who will likewise be responsible for working for the kingdom of God, for many labourers will be required in the vineyard of

the Lord. Prior to this the divine truth will be conveyed to them, so that they will become competent labourers and be

able to work for God in the coming time. For they will be needed by countless souls who still linger in spiritual darkness and will not be able to find the path to the light.... but where divine truth exists that is where light is shining, and if the

light is given to people in the right way, if the truth is offered to them with love, many a heart will open up and allow

itself to become enlightened. Being able to save souls for eternity is a happiness-inducing mission, it is a mission which

is constantly accompanied by God’s blessing, and every labourer in the vineyard of the Lord can be assured of divine

help by merely eagerly striving to speak on behalf of the kingdom of God on earth, for then he will always be supported

by spiritual forces and his work will be blessed.... Amen

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B.D. 8529, June 15, 1963

Encouragement for diligent vineyard work....

The fact that I Myself arouse the thoughts in you to convey My Word to those who will derive the greatest benefit from

them should also spur you to carry out diligent spiritual work. People so often ponder over questions which I answer for them through you, and often they are delighted that they are granted this answer and thereby also recognise Me Myself

and My activity.... Nothing truly happens by chance and I know every thought.... I convey My Word to you and Am

therefore in constant contact with those of you who also think of Me, for it requires a heartfelt bond for My Word to

affect you, be it directly but also indirectly, if you receive it through My messengers. But you, to whom I can speak

directly, should use every opportunity to pass it on and always know that you thereby radiate many blessings, that

nothing is done in vain and that I Myself guide you and direct your thoughts and only require your will to let yourselves

be guided by Me.... Once a person has recognised My voice, every Word from Me will be a tonic for his soul, and

the right nourishment and right refreshment will constantly be desired by him.... He will no longer be satisfied

with human words, My Word alone will grant him strength and his soul will nourish itself by what it is offered from the Father Himself.... And thus you can believe that I will always be willing to pass the bread of heaven to those

who long for it.... You will also feel urged to pass My Word on and shall always comply with your inner urging and

truly, you will spray sparks of light in many a heart which ignite a fire again. And the desire for Me and My presence

will grow ever stronger, it is the purpose of My address from above that people shall be affected by it and that their faith

in Me will come increasingly more alive, that their desire to unite with Me becomes ever stronger and that My will,

which is revealed to people through My Word, is subsequently also complied with.... Through diligent vineyard work

you can contribute much towards it, hence you should not tire in distributing My Word and make use of every opportunity to inform your fellow human beings of the divine transmissions from the spiritual kingdom.... of the

working of the spirit in the human being.... which I Myself promised when I lived on earth.... You should try to draw

your fellow human beings onto the spiritual level, which certainly is hard work but it can be achieved…. Your willingness to serve Me, and your love for your neighbour will always let you find the right path, for I Myself direct

your thoughts and will always be active in you as well. I will lead the people to you whom you should please again, and

I watch over you so that your work will not be disturbed by My adversary. And therefore you can rest assured that you are not at his mercy even if he would like to stop you and your activity on earth.... The end is approaching and I need

your work in My vineyard, for people need to speak up where I Myself cannot express Myself but where I also want to

be active so that people will attain beatitude.... For time is coming to an end and much work shall yet be done, this is

why I bless every one of My servants who works for Me and My kingdom.... Amen

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B.D. 8442, March 18, 1963

Vineyard work according to divine will….

I will bless every effort that applies to the distribution of My Word. You cannot imagine how necessary it is for people

to be informed of their purpose of earthly life, for they only consider it to be the maintenance of their body and live a

life which can be called everything else but spiritual. The dark of night prevails everywhere and nothing else will help

but to spread sparks of light which tear the darkness apart and can stimulate people into following the right path they

recognise in the glow of the light, and I will truly see to it that the illumination of light will increase.... I will still make

My Word from above available to all those who can yet be affected by it such that they will listen to the One Who is addressing them and accept His admonitions, so that they will finally allow themselves to be led and will no longer be

able to go astray. I know the means and ways and will truly employ them. I leave no opportunity unused and you, My

servants, shall only ever willingly carry out what you are urged to do from within, for this urging comes from Me, to Whom you have offered your service. So let Me tell you that you need not fear the weakness of your body either, that I

will give you strength to work for Me, because I need diligent labourers in My vineyard and recognise full well who

serves Me with complete dedication.... Yet don’t tear yourselves apart by zealously embarking on things which I did not

assign to you.... You should always pay attention to My instructions and do what I ask of you.... For you can believe Me

that true success will be achieved in silent activity, that I Myself will only powerfully manifest Myself when otherwise

nothing else can be accomplished anymore and the end is near.... But if you want to win over the ‘world’, if you want to

teach the masses, much of your work will be done in vain, for there will only be a few more and you will not manage to

change the ‘human race’, you will not succeed in bringing many people to their senses, instead, only individual ones

would reward such overzealous efforts.... Then you will have employed your strength in vain, for these few will…. because they mean well.... also still be won over through silent activity, because they are known to Me and I will make

My Word accessible to them too....

However, My paths are different than yours, hence you should pay attention to the inner voice and comply with it as My

instructions. This inner voice will never induce you into drawing particular attention to yourselves or into embarking on

great campaigns which I know will not be very successful. I will therefore exclude My co-workers from the world time and again, because then the work for Me and My kingdom can be carried out more intensively and because My vineyard

labourers should also increasingly perfect themselves, which heartfelt dedication to Me will achieve and is more likely

to happen in seclusion then in the flurry of the world, for everything you expect to be very successful requires worldly

preparations which, in turn, are not suitable for internalising the person. For this reason I repeatedly advise you to carry

out silent vineyard work, which consists of lovingly influencing your fellow human beings into shaping themselves into

love and of informing them of My Word.... hence of contributing the most important thing towards distributing My

Word which is conveyed to you directly from above.... Believe Me that the effect of My Words will yet achieve the

greatest blessing and spiritual progress…. Believe Me, that you will gain extraordinary merits if you utilise all

opportunities to inform your fellow human being of My Word, for it will affect everyone who is still of good will.... whilst people will only accept all other efforts to teach them spiritual knowledge with their intellect without involving

their heart apart from a few, who, however, I will also win over for Me by other means, because I know the human

hearts. Consider the fact that it takes intellectual thought to present My divine revelations to people such that they will be gripped by them…. but that only the intellect is addressed and that it will rarely lead to spiritual success.... but that

the direct conveyance of My Word or the passing on of My direct revelations will be far more successful because My

Word is blessed with My strength and because those people who shall contribute towards inducing spiritual

advancement among people had to already possess a certain degree of maturity prior to it.... Believe Me that I will bless

all silent work for Me and My kingdom, and make every effort to be diligent labourers for Me who will only every

follow their Lord and Caretaker’s instructions and lovingly look after their fellow human beings.... I will do everything

else for you and also guide you such that you will offer My Word to those who will gratefully accept it as an unusual gift of grace which will truly have the desired effect.... Amen

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B.D. 8635, October 4, 1963

Vineyard work according to God’s will....

Every one of My co-workers is blessed by Me and given the silent assurance of My support as soon as he works for Me. For I need his cooperation, even though it is truly within My power to shape everything according to My will, and thus

also to perfect you humans through My will. However, My plan for bringing you to perfection requires the human

being’s free will, for this reason the redemptive work must also be carried out by people, so that everything takes place

within the framework of natural progression and no unusual activity compels a person to believe.... Time and again I

give you the assurance that I will guide your every thought and that you then will also undertake the vineyard work

according to My will. Yet I keep reminding you to work diligently and take pleasure in your willingness to help.

However, in the final analysis, a blessed vineyard work will always consist of industrious detailed work.... the

distribution of My Gospel will always take place on a small scale, for even if masses congregated in order to hear the

proclamation of My Word, My Word would nevertheless only take root in a few hearts where the seed would grow. The success will decrease ever more during the last days, for the majority of people will turn away, they will close their ears

because they no longer believe. But I know the individual human hearts and it is to these that I will convey the gifts of

grace; I will bring them together with My vineyard labourers in order to speak through them directly....

You can believe that I will not leave out one soul where there is still hope that it will gladly listen to Me. And you, My

servants on earth, will truly achieve more with diligent detailed work than with major campaigns which will not yield

the success you hope for. But if I Myself foresee a success, then I will also guide your thoughts correctly and put the means at your disposal so that you can work again according to My will. Yet you should not rush into things nor worry,

just grant Me your will and let yourselves be guided, and leave everything else to Me. How few people are open to

spiritual knowledge because only a few have an awakened spirit.... You must bear in mind that most people don’t understand it even if it is conveyed to them because they live without love and are spiritually entirely unenlightened.

This is why the spiritual knowledge that originates from Me directly cannot be distributed to the same extent as any

other writing which is and can be offered to the broad mass of population, because the world only appreciates worldly goods. But I know what will be successful, and from My side everything will be done in order to increase the number of

those who will be saved, and you should only ever do what is within your power, and always lovingly help your fellow

human beings in their adversity. And I will bless every effort regarding this rescue work. I Myself will support them in

every way but I also foresee the achievement and therefore also know which work is fruitless, thus I will prevent it so

that you won’t use your strength and effort ineffectively. Yet the achievements of silently rendered vineyard work

cannot be estimated by you, where the souls pick up and observe every thought that moves you, and therefore your

redemptive work will never be in vain, for I want to address all souls, which you will always enable Me to do if you

unselfishly work for Me.... Amen

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B.D. 8663, November 3, 1963

Task to spread the truth….

The spiritual wealth you own also commits you to passing it on, and since it is My will that you spread the truth I will

also always bless your efforts. Therefore, don’t allow yourselves to be discouraged by obstacles or difficulties which My

adversary will always put in your way, for if I promise you My blessing My adversary’s activity will be futile. I only

want you to trust Me completely, I do not want you to undertake anything without having appealed for My blessing and

My help…. I don’t want you to forget Whom you are working for, because you are not doing earthly work when you try

to spread the truth.... it is the fulfilment of the task I gave you Myself, and even if you work in a more or less earthly way, you will nevertheless only undertake it with the support of spiritual forces which may influence you in My name in

every sort of work you do for Me and My kingdom. For time and again I say to you that people urgently need light….

Even if only a few ever desire it, but even these few can be effective in their circle, and you will be surprised where the truth from Me will shine to, you will notice the strangest correlations and be happy that you were able to contribute

towards the fact that people receive light. And even though My guidance is obvious, people must nevertheless be at

work so that everything proceeds within the framework of natural progression and no person is compelled into

believing, yet always shows the love, wisdom and power of a God and Creator. However, you, My servants, shall also

experience My love and care time after time, for every good Caretaker looks after his labourers. But I also regard My

labourers as My children and I will not withhold anything they need from them. Just hand yourselves over to My

Fatherly care, give yourselves to Me completely and, truly, I will guide you wherever you go, I will bless your work for

Me and My kingdom and make sure it is successful. You should always know that I need you, for people must carry out

what I deem to be good and successful, but due to people’s free will I cannot work visibly Myself since it must be left up to people as to whether or not they want to accept the truth from Me which is offered to them by you. Nevertheless,

they are in urgent need of this pure truth, and therefore I repeatedly try to attract faithful co-workers, and they can be

assured of My Fatherly blessing.... Amen

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Printing and distributing the Word of God Printing and distributing the Word of God Printing and distributing the Word of God Printing and distributing the Word of God

B.D. 1742, December 17, 1940

My commission.… Help the needy…

Accept in all humility every gift offered to you from above, then you fulfil God's will and serve Him. What He has

intended for you merely requires your unlimited devotion to Him and your will to obey Him. Countless souls on earth

are struggling for knowledge, they cannot find the way to God alone and urgently require help. And you shall take that

help to them by bringing God’s love and kindness, which expresses itself so obviously, to their attention. And as you

give so you may receive. And your soul will be able to receive ample nourishment and need never starve. The bread

from heaven will never be withdrawn from you as long as you feed the needy. Time and again it will give you renewed

strength and always and forever make you happy. Barren and dry is the earth without the living water, empty and joyless the life of the soul without refreshment from heaven. And you shall help these souls: offer them the refreshing drink and

take every opportunity to distribute God’s precious gift because it will remedy a great need. Truth will be spread, the

light will shine brightly and in turn attract souls seeking to escape the darkness. And God will bless your effort, He will

give you strength to carry out your mission, He will guide you in your task and provide you with all the help you need to

work for Him.... Amen

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B.D. 3390, January 3, 1945

Obligation to pass on spiritual knowledge....

You are constantly instructed to increase your knowledge, and strength is also constantly conveyed to you which you ought to use for spiritual work as well. Therefore you should make use of this strength by distributing what is conveyed

to you through the spiritual instruction, use it by passing on what you have received yourselves. Spiritual strength

should never rest, that is, a person with strength at his disposal should never remain inactive, and thus spiritual strength

should also continuously be used or it will be taken away from the person who leaves it lying idle. Spiritual work,

however, is everything which contributes towards another person’s knowledge.... It is irrelevant in which way this

knowledge is imparted to him, only the fact that it is imparted is important. And this task is given to you who receive the

spiritual knowledge from God either directly or through His instruments. Everyone who is offered spiritual knowledge,

who accepts it and, after deliberating on it, accepts it as his spiritual possession, will only benefit from it if he passes it

on with love. For once it has become valuable to him he shall also share it with his fellow human being, otherwise he is still gripped by powerful selfish love and the blessing of God’s grace will barely be felt by him. Spiritual knowledge

should never lie fallow if a person does not want to risk having it entirely withdrawn from him. For it is divine law that

he who gives will receive, because unselfish neighbourly love is a prerequisite that the human being can receive. The

spiritually striving aspirant should pay attention to his feelings…. his desires will be granted but it also obliges him to

give the truth to the one who, like him, desires to know it. Furthermore, it also commits him to convey the truth to

wherever error still exists, for the truth shall displace the error.

And therefore a bearer of truth must make an active effort to bring light to all places where darkness still exists. This is

spiritual work which may never be excluded again if the human being is blessed to be educated by the spiritual

kingdom. For the human being is only ever the organ of being’s of light which want to bestow truth upon all people, especially those who are entrusted into their care to be spiritually guided by them. People themselves can only rarely

hear the light beings’ gentle voice; therefore they cultivate instruments for themselves which shall speak on their

behalf.... This activity should never be ignored by a recipient of light, he should speak wherever the opportunity presents itself, he should communicate verbally and in writing, he should make use of every day and every hour and

thus carry out the work he himself had offered to do for God, and constant achievement will be granted to him. He will

be able to advance himself spiritually and likewise the people who are spiritually endowed by him. This admonition

applies to all who are being refreshed by the font of eternal life and draw strength and fortitude from the divine Word.

Everyone moves within a field of duty where he can be very industrious, and he should not neglect this, otherwise he

makes himself unworthy of receiving the truth that is offered to him from above. For it is precious knowledge and shall

be passed on for the benefit of people, so that it will remedy the immense spiritual adversity which is the cause of

humanity’s spiritual decline and which also results in earthly adversity and suffering.... Amen

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B.D. 4561, February 8, 1949

Passing on the divine Word….

A word-for-word rendition of the information you receive through the inner voice will always have the greatest impact, even if you are also capable of educating your fellow human beings yourselves people will nevertheless be less able to

close themselves to the direct Word from above, for this reason written distribution is a blessing. And therefore I will

bless every work which concerns the distribution of My Word and help you in every way, for it is particularly necessary

that people take notice of My extraordinary working, which they can ascertain through the written Words if they are of

good will. Anyone who wants to reject it will reject it in any form. But in the written rendition people will recognise My

spirit, My voice, and open themselves to its effect, for My Word speaks for itself, no explanation needs to be added, it

will always be understandable to people because I speak to every individual person Myself if he attentively and, with a

desire for truth, accepts it in his heart, thinks it through and pays attention to the feelings he experiences as a result. You

humans have so many means of help at your disposal, all of which are gifts of grace from Me to make the path of ascent easier for you…. However, My Word offered to you from above is the greatest and most effective means of grace which

will guide you upwards for sure, for it is blessed by My strength, it is a direct emanation of Me Myself which must

always have an extraordinary effect on you, it just depends on your will to let it take effect on you. And this is why

many people shall receive knowledge of it, many people shall experience the blessing of My Word on themselves, they

shall be born again, they shall live again and forfeit everything lifeless, all formalities for My Word. They shall

recognise Me Myself in the Word, believe in Me and learn to love Me, they shall accept Words of wisdom which they

can never ever be offered elsewhere if they did not originate from Me. They shall know that I, as the Creator of eternity, do not forget My living creations, that I as the Father do not leave My children on their own, that I want to help

everyone to return to the Father´s house, and that they desperately need My help and that they therefore should approach

Me in prayer and appeal to Me for grace and strength in order to be able to shape themselves into love.... that they must know My will in order to fulfil it. Every work concerning this endeavour is blessed, for the time is rapidly approaching

the end.... Amen

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B.D. 1797, January 1, 1941

Duty of distributing the divine revelations....

It is indescribably commendable to spread the Word of God. That which is conveyed to people through God’s grace

shall not remain the sole property of the individual but shall be passed on to the many people who require it for their

soul’s salvation. Humanity is in serious trouble, it is so distant from God that it does not even recognise His will

anymore and goes through earthly life in complete ignorance. However, the human being needs to know what God

expects of people, consequently the information has to be imparted to them. And for this reason earthly children who are

willing to be of service to Him are chosen by God with the task of making His will known to people. He Himself

instructs them first so that they can subsequently pass on their knowledge to fellow human beings. The human race would perish without active help, and active help can only be found in the Word of God. But at the moment everything

is rejected by people if it admonishes them to remember God or if they are taught about God in the usual traditional

way. This is why God gives His Word to people again.... He provides them with an explanation about their purpose and their task.... He wants to come closer to them through His Word, He wants to familiarise them with everything

pertaining to the creation; He reveals to them the correlation of all things and gives them the commandments, which are

the basic conditions for their ascent to God. And willing people shall help to distribute the divine gift; they shall

diligently strive to make the divine revelations accessible to the human race; as God’s eager servants they shall always

and forever make His activity known; they shall let their fellow human beings partake in the delectable gift of grace, so

that the divine Word will find acceptance among people, that it will strengthen their faith and motivate them to do

whatever it takes in order to live in a God-pleasing way.... thus to fulfil the commandments of love for God and their

neighbour. Only when a person has knowledge of God’s will can he be held to account if he does not live up to them.

Admittedly, uninformed people cannot be held to account but neither can they utilise their life on earth and attain a higher degree of spiritual maturity, for they would have to be extraordinarily lovingly active of their own accord, that is,

love must be within them, but in that case they will also know the meaning and purpose of earthly life and their task. For

God imparts His Word to everyone who desires it, it is just not always outwardly noticeable except in the shape of mental transmissions. But those who receive the Word such that they are able to write it down are particularly

responsible for the distribution of this Word, for they receive much grace and shall therefore also share it. They shall

proclaim the Gospel to all those who do not reject it.... Amen

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B.D. 5976, June 15, 1954

Proclaim My Word to the world.… (17th anniversary of receiving the Word)

Thus I spoke to My disciples and filled them with My spirit so that they could proclaim Me and My teaching because

they constantly heard My Word within themselves and then became living heralds of the divine kingdom.… They could

never have accomplished this task had they not been in contact with Me through My spirit whose voice they listened to

and whose guidance they followed. By the Word they knew Me and were conscious of My presence.... And if I now, in

the last days, want My Gospel to be proclaimed to people, it again has to happen such that I choose disciples for Myself

who are also able to hear My voice, who therefore allow My presence within themselves and let Me speak to them

through the spirit.

Therefore, it is not My disciples speaking to the people to whom they bring the Gospel but I Myself address My earthly children with My Fatherly love to bring them salvation, encouraging them to turn back before the end because they are

not on the right path and are losing their way again into the abyss. Human words would not achieve this.… My Word,

however, can penetrate and cause enormous upheaval in a human heart because My Word has an incredible effect if it is

not openly resisted. Where it is possible to speak to a human being Myself.… if only by way of My chosen

instrument.… there is also hope for success, because this, too, requires a loving person, a mediator.… whose love

overcomes the opposition.… just as I can only speak through such a person because his love permits My presence. My

first disciples were filled with love for their fellow human beings, and similarly I shall choose the right disciples for Myself in the last days because it is necessary that My voice shall call to earth as a last reminder and warning. I want to

proclaim My Gospel to humanity once more to save them before the Last Judgment…. to bring them salvation.…

And thus speaks the Word that is God Himself.… because I Myself Am the Word.… And when you hear My Word, I

Am with you Myself. You don’t hear a human being, you hear the Spirit of Eternity Who, in His power and love, called

you into being and Who will always be connected to you through His Word.… And you should want to belong to this eternal spirit of love, for this reason He constantly appeals to you with His Word that you should listen to Him,

recognise Him and completely give yourselves to Him. He wants to give you, whom He created in His love, unlimited

happiness which you can only endure if you become light and strength yourselves.… which My Word should therefore

achieve for you.… And wherever a loving heart allows Me to enter I will speak to you always and everywhere.… where

My spirit is not rejected when it wants to express itself.… there will also be the Spirit of Eternity, Whose love includes

all His living creations since the beginning.… Amen

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B.D. 8899, December 24, 1964

Print and distribution of the messages (Reply to Habermann) (Time of printing)

You have already been told several times that the spreading of the truth is extremely important, because people’s eternal

life depends on their attitude towards the truth, and therefore everything should be done to present them with the truth.

But I know every human heart, I know who is receptive, and I also know the ways to reach those human beings who are

still able to receive, whose heart is willing to love and who thus can also understand the Word which is given to them

from above. And I let them have this knowledge by making the most unusual connections and sending My Word to

wherever it will be received with a grateful heart. And there it will be passed on again, although only infrequently

because worldly people have no desire for it and there are only few who can be approached. But do not forget that My

Word needs to be offered with love in order to become effective, and that it requires a loving heart to receive it.

Therefore any work which is performed to this end is blessed….

And now you can understand that every small effort pleases Me if I can speak to the heart of every person Myself and

My direct communication is also felt as such, just as I bless every contributor who unselfishly adds towards the

circulation of My Word.… Because I truly care for everyone who works for Me, I look after him like a good caretaker

so that he can pass on My Word in the same way as he has received it himself: as a gift of love.… Moreover, My Word

is not merchandise, but which it will always become when unenlightened people handle it, who can neither appreciate

its value nor muster the necessary understanding for it and turn it into a mass-produced commodity.… which only devalues the Word and again only reaches those who similarly do not appreciate it as My message. The circle of those

who can still be impressed by it is very small and will certainly be reached by Me. Every now and then you will find a

few souls but then they are also completely convinced of My love and mercy. But intending to appeal to the crowds with it is a pointless undertaking.… since people will be ever more captivated by the world and will prefer to listen to the

voice of the world.…

Every spiritually enlightened human being knows how difficult it is to persuade other people to accept Words from

above.… he knows that the adversary’s actions are so clearly obvious that they have no desire for a gift of love

offered by My hand.... And you should also consider that it merely adds to the many publications, which are also of a

spiritual nature but do not originate from Me Myself, which requires spiritual awakening in order to recognise it as ‘My

Word’, but this awakening is hardly ever found any longer.… I Myself, however, know the souls to whom I can send

My Word. It would not benefit your souls to know the length of time you still have at your disposal but you would be

horrified to know how close you are to the end. For that reason I constantly urge the workers in My vineyard to work

diligently.… each one should do his utmost, he should not tire, because everything which was and shall still be offered

to people will one day follow him into eternity as rich treasure or give him comfort and strength in times of severe spiritual hardship, which is yet to come. But I Myself will be with all those who serve Me and bless their work, for it is

extremely important and intended for all of those who are caught up in misleading notions and desire the truth with all

their heart.... Amen

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B.D. 7734, October 30, 1960

Unselfish distribution of the Word.…

When you take part in the distribution of My Word you should only be motivated by your love for Me and other people. You should want to carry out the task I have appointed you to do, and you should try to lessen the other person’s

spiritual need which has prompted Me to endow you with gifts of grace abundantly, so that you share these where I

cannot take action Myself. Your work for Me and My kingdom should only ever be inspired by love. Then success

won’t fail because love is a strength which is never without result. Although your spiritual work will be ridiculed by

people who have no faith whatsoever because it is incomprehensible to them why someone would work without material

gain.… but then you can be even more certain of My blessing which rests upon every selfless act of labour in My

vineyard.… You have not understood the value of My gifts of grace until you regard them as spiritual values which

alone can result in spiritual success. Only then are you useful servants to Me who do not serve their master for their own

benefit but who seek to increase his profit.… And this consists of the acquisition of souls for the celestial kingdom.

One day you, too, will have to discard your body and you cannot bring your earthly possessions into My kingdom....

And yet you can enter it richly blessed because spiritual possessions follow you into eternity, which were disregarded on

earth by those who did not become aware of the meaning and purpose of earthly life. They have acquired earthly goods

for themselves on earth and consequently have already received their entitled reward for their actions and way of life.

But they will have little to show for it at the gate of eternity because they took no notice of spiritual wealth. Those of

you who want to work for Me and My kingdom should disregard earthly gain, only love should motivate you to do your work.… You should look around you and recognise the spiritual poverty in humanity’s life.… You should want to help

in the knowledge that humanity is approaching the abyss, and you should work untiringly because this is necessary in

view of the end.

Then you will also understand why you become isolated from the outside world which can distract your attention from

the task you should fulfil.… You will understand that time and again I will seek faithful servants to take part in the work, who want to bring the Gospel to their fellow human beings, because people ought to hear My Word which I

repeatedly send to them through you.… And you will understand that I will knock on every door, that I send you before

Me to announce the Lord, Who wants to come Himself, Who wants to take abode with them.... Since they cannot yet

hear Me you have to go before Me so that I can speak to them through you, because they badly need to be informed of

Me, of My love, which wants to save them before the end. And thus everything should be done to inform people that I

work through My spirit in the heart of every human being who is of good will.... You should tell them with love and

kindness of Me and My actions, you should bring them My Word which I have blessed with My strength, and you

should not tire to take care of your fellow human beings’ spiritual poverty by helping to spread My Word.… And I

Myself will lead the people to you, I shall bless every selfless work done by you for Me and My kingdom.... Amen

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B.D. 7809, January 21, 1961

Selfless vineyard work....

And you were given the task to spread My Word which is conveyed to you from above by Me.... I truly want to smooth

the way for you, I want to help you take My Word to wherever people hunger and thirst for it. For I know whose hearts

will not reject My Word when it is offered to them. And thus you only ever do the work which you are capable of doing

and should know that I Myself will arrange everything else that serves the distribution of My Word. For this much is

certain, I do not convey My Word to earth without purpose, even if it occasionally seems to you that the spiritual

information does not fulfil any real purpose….

You should only patiently and with perseverance cooperate and carry out the work which has to be done by people,

because I cannot affect all people directly and therefore need you to serve Me as mediators; for not all people would allow Me to have a direct effect on them, and yet they, too, shall receive My Word in order to enable their souls’

maturity. And time and again opportunities will arise when My remarkable work with you can be mentioned; there will

be receptive hearts who recognise that it is an extraordinary gift of grace and gratefully offer to assist in My vineyard,

and whose willingness to help is gladly accepted by Me. For only love will achieve spiritual success. Therefore don’t

believe that you can attain such where this love is missing. Don’t believe that I will give My blessing for an undertaking

that clearly betrays the spirit of worldly interests….

My Word shall speak to the heart, and I can truly find other ways than the way people in the midst of the world want to

take…. For they are not interested in My Word, they are still worldly minded, and therefore they will not contribute towards the spreading of My Word which shall have a liberating effect from the world…. The human hearts which shall

accept My Word must have conquered the world already, just as My fellow workers on earth must have overcome the

world in order to be able to work for the benefit of their fellow human beings. Thus worldly minded people cannot be accepted as labourers in My vineyard, for they will never work in accordance with My will but pursue their own

interests, since they are driven to do so by the lord of the world, to whom they still belong. But I have enough means and

ways to achieve My objective even without such ‘assistants’. Love always has to be part of it if success is to be achieved, and love will also recognise My Word as an invaluable gift of grace and therefore also support it.

And thus you will also recognise your true fellow workers who gladly offer their help, and you will not hesitate to

accept their help; and you will also know that My blessing only rests on your work when all of you carry it out with love

and don’t expect any worldly benefits from it…. For as you receive it you shall also pass it on; as My love has an effect

on you, your love, too, should have an effect on your fellow human being. And this happens when My Word is

unselfishly distributed, which is conveyed to you from above and, as the most valuable gift of grace, shall impart help

and strength to people in their spiritual adversity during the last days, so that they will endure until the end…. Amen

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B.D. 7531, February 25, 1960

Distributing the divine Word....

You shall proclaim My pure Gospel.... There is great spiritual hardship amongst people who no longer hear My pure Word because they don’t believe, because their faith is not alive or it would enable them to understand My Word

wherever it is offered to them…. For if they requested it with a living faith then they would also truly receive the Word

such that they could understand and draw strength from it. But people lack this living faith, just as the messengers lack

the strength of spirit which would enable them to accept My Word directly from Me, or even allow Me to speak through

the messengers to people Myself. For only the Word that is conveyed by Me has the strength to penetrate a person’s

heart and become effective. And thus you should mention everywhere that My Word is sent to you directly from above

and that it can truly give you the blessing of the Gospel if you accept it gratefully and are not just hearers but true doers

of My Word.

You should proclaim My Word wherever the opportunity presents itself, for people have to know about My Gospel,

they have to know about My divine teaching of love, they have to know My will in order to live on earth accordingly, in

order to fulfil My commandments of love and always use My Gospel as a guiding principle for their way of life. For

only then can a change of character occur in the human being, only then can he shape himself to love and fulfil the

purpose of his earthly existence. Hence I convey My Word from above to you humans time and again, hence I use

every opportunity to reveal Myself to a human being in order to get access to all people through him, in order to inform

everyone of My will and My commandments.

And whatever you humans can do in order to spread My Word, in order to carry it into the world, should be done by

you, and your fellow human beings’ attention should be drawn to the extraordinary grace bestowed on people by receiving My Word. You should acquaint them with the living God with Whom you should associate, Who wants to be

accepted into your hearts and Whom you have to approach by yourselves if you want to unite with Him. You should

inform them that I Am people’s eternal Father and also want to be acknowledged by them as their Father…. You should encourage them to acquire a living faith and thus proclaim the commandments of love, the fulfilment of which will

awaken in them a living faith and their spirit, so that they then will strive towards Me of their own accord and establish

the union with Me because their nature has changed into love, and love thus strives towards love…. For it is the Eternal

Love which reveals Itself to you humans, it is the Eternal Love Which longs for Its children, it is the Eternal Father Who

bends down to you in order to inform you of His will. And the messengers of My Gospel will be blessed; they will

experience My grace and My protection as long as they live on earth and also one day in the spiritual kingdom, for they

have been faithful servants to Me who will receive their reward…. Amen

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B.D. 7744, November 13, 1960

Selfless distribution of the Word....

Thus step into the circuit of My flow of love and let yourselves be instructed by Me: It is a tremendous gift of grace

which you may receive from Me, and this gift of grace flows to you undeservedly. It is, so to speak, the evidence of My infinite love for you, who became sinful of your own will and shall return to Me voluntarily. And in view of the near

end I truly try everything in order to make this return possible for you, to change your will and to provide you with the

strength to take the path of ascent, which will lead you back to Me. You humans have not deserved this grace as long as

are you still deliberately turned away from Me. And yet I convey it to you because I love you. I choose a suitable

instrument for Myself which is willing to accept My Word directly and to forward it to its fellow human beings.... This,

therefore, happens from My side in order to still gain all of you who defected from Me and to a large extent still are....

But now your task starts by making the right use of this great gift of grace…. And this involves first of all the unselfish

distribution of that which is granted to you by My love. Thus you should do the same as I do: let My flow of grace pour

into the vessels which open themselves.... You shall give what you receive, just as I give to you…. out of love. Most of all you should remember that it is spiritual knowledge that is imparted to you from Me, and that this spiritual

knowledge must never be utilised in a material sense. It is self-evident to anyone who recognises Me and My love in

this unusual gift of grace that it is only possible on a spiritual level to convey My Word to its destination, to the souls

which require nourishment, which shall be addressed by Me so that they will obtain the blessing of My Words.... so that

they will find and take the path back to Me into their Father’s house. And thus you will also understand that no earthly

interests of any kind may devalue this gift of grace. You have a Father Who is wealthy and can also share His wealth

with you.... Who can and will also provide you with earthly blessings if only you serve Him selflessly.

As long as you have not understood this truth, you are not suited to distribute a divine gift of grace, and then you should

keep your hands off it because you will only desecrate what your God and Father gives to you in His love and because it will not be a blessing for you either, because I don’t support what contradicts My will.... I will never give My blessing to

such an undertaking as soon as it entails an earthly desire for the goods of this world. It is My will that you should be of

selfless service to Me and have given you the promise that I will take both earthly and spiritual care of you providing you only ever consider your salvation of soul the most important issue. You merely prove your unbelief if you worry

too much about your earthly life, for then you will not primarily consider your soul’s salvation.... for I have said to you

‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God.... and all these things shall be added unto you....’ And if you now even receive a gift

from heaven, which should truly demonstrate My love as well as My presence to you, then you should also forego all

earthly considerations.... you should let yourselves by guided by Me and only ever try to fulfil My will.... However, the

distribution of My Word from above is necessary, and for this reason I convey to you this serious Word of Mine which

you should heed.... Entrust yourselves to Me entirely and believe that I will not let you, who are willing to help Me

selflessly, get into difficulties.... but also know that you reduce the value of My gift yourselves if you associate it with

earthly expectations which I will never fulfil but which might impair the spreading of My Word with the result that the blessing from above will fail to materialise. And thus you should first realise what an unusual gift of grace you receive

from Me…. Then love and gratitude will overwhelm you and only then will you be true vineyard labourers for Me, for

you will also know that My blessing will accompany every work you do and that you will work successfully for Me and My kingdom.... And then you will experience an abundance of blessings, for My love will have seized you and escort

you until the end.... And then you will serve Me forever and be blissfully happy.... Amen

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B.D. 4742, September 18, 1949

Reminder to work diligently for the kingdom of God....

You should tirelessly work for Me and My kingdom.... then you will fulfil your earthly task in accordance with My will,

and then you will also master your earthly life, you will not need to be afraid that you cannot meet your worldly

responsibilities, for earthly life will merely be secondary when spiritual life becomes more important.

Work diligently for Me and My kingdom, that is, try to inform your fellow human beings about My activity with you,

try to instruct them of the truth, and draw their attention to the end and the signs of the time…. Take an interest in your fellow human being’s state of soul and explain to them how vain and insubstantial worldly goods are, how people

merely strive for worthless commodities and give scarcely anything to their souls because they don’t know about their

earthly task. Tell everyone whom I send your way. You have been instructed of the truth by Me and thus are capable to work as representatives of the truth amongst your fellow human beings. I have given you a rewarding task which will

have beneficial results for you as well as for your fellow human beings, for the achievements won’t just apply to earthly

life but to eternity…. Fulfil this task with enthusiasm and do everything that furthers the distribution of the truth you

have received from Me. Don’t become indifferent in your work for Me and My kingdom but know that parched and

starving souls everywhere are awaiting nourishment, which you should give to them with My gift from above.

And by remembering them you will be practising neighbourly love, for their souls require the sustenance from heaven,

they need food and drink to strengthen themselves for their path of ascent. Work tirelessly, for time is short and requires

diligent work in My vineyard, the souls suffer hardship, they are starved because too much attention is paid to the body’s requirements and thus the soul’s requirements are forgotten. Therefore help these souls, draw people’s attention

to the state of their souls, to a sudden end and their fate after death. Use every opportunity for spiritual conversations

and thus motivate people to think about it. And then you will be doing the work for which I have employed you as labourers, and I will bless you, now and in eternity…. Amen

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B.D. 7528, February 22, 1960

Spreading the Gospel.... Jesus Christ.... Every person who proclaims the Gospel to the souls…. who tries to bring My Word consisting of the divine teachings of

love to his fellow human beings, contributes towards their redemption…. Everyone who reminds his fellow human

beings to love proclaims this Gospel when he simultaneously teaches that these are the most important commandments I

have given to people, and when he informs them of the results of fulfilling these commandments. Everything that

contributes towards educating people to love is already redemption work, because the human being redeems himself

through love alone and because love has to be practised in order to thus enable the salvation of one’s own soul…. For

love will always seek contact with Jesus Christ, the divine Redeemer, Who only now can bring true redemption to the person believing in Him….

The human being has to find Jesus Christ without fail because redemption without Him is impossible.... And thus every person renders redemption work if he points or leads his fellow human beings to Jesus Christ…. This is vineyard work,

it is a spreading of the seed…. which is the divine teaching of love…. into the human hearts. It is a conscious effort

performed by a person for the benefit of his fellow human beings’ souls.

Anyone who has found Jesus Christ himself, who has found redemption from sin and death through Him, will then not

grow tired of proclaiming Him to his fellow human beings and will also help him to become redeemed…. anyone who

has found Jesus Christ will not rest until his fellow human being has found Him too, and thus he will keep talking about

love and inspire his fellow human being to also take the path of love which has Jesus Christ as its goal…. He will not

rest until the other person has also found deliverance from sin and death.

As long as the human being is still distanced from the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ his love has not yet become

powerful in him, for this love knows and acknowledges the divine Redeemer and cannot help but proclaim Him…. And he who has found Jesus Christ can’t help himself but to proclaim His Gospel of love to everyone he comes into contact

with.... He will be constantly active on His behalf and thereby lead many souls to Me, for he makes My Word accessible

to them, which is the task of everyone who receives My Word himself, who desires it and to whom I therefore speak…. irrespective of whether this happens directly or through reading or hearing My Word. For it is always Myself Who

speaks to you humans if you desire to hear My Word.... This is why proclaiming My Gospel is extremely necessary, and

everyone will be blessed who accepts this mission of helping to redeem his fellow human being’s soul, of making the

knowledge accessible to him of how and why he has to be redeemed if he wants to become happy one day….

Anyone who lives with love has found Jesus Christ and the light of realisation shines in him.... but anyone who is not

yet redeemed has to be educated, the image of the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ has to be brought home to him and he

has to be reminded to turn to and appeal to Him that he, too, should find redemption through Him and His act of

Salvation…. And therefore every person spreading My Gospel throughout the world is blessed, for he leads long lost souls to Me who will find salvation through Jesus Christ Himself, Who has redeemed him, too, with His blood…. Amen

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B.D. 7708, September 24, 1960

True neighbourly love: Passing on the divine Word....

You cannot accomplish a greater work of neighbourly love than unselfishly distributing My Word, the Gospel, which your fellow human beings have to know in order to travel their earthly path successfully. Spiritual work is not valued by

fellow human beings because it doesn’t generate earthly success, yet as soon as you are spiritually active, expect no

earthly rewards and only impart to your fellow human beings what I Myself offer you from above…. you are truly doing

works of neighbourly love which extend into eternity, for they are helping the souls to mature, they can prepare them for

entry into the kingdom of light when the soul discards its earthly body and has to leave everything behind…. Then it

will have spiritual possessions to take across into eternity. You shall provide and bestow upon others just as I have

bestowed upon My disciples the bread of heaven, the water of life…. This is the greatest gift of love which you can give

to your fellow human beings…. it is true neighbourly love if you unselfishly carry out the tasks which are necessary to

pass on My Word, for I Myself want to address people through you, since they are unable to hear My voice directly.

People are suffering great adversity, for they only use their earthly life to acquire earthly profits and yet shall consider

their soul, which ought to mature during their earthly life. Whatever you therefore undertake in order to lead your fellow

human beings onto the path of faith…. whatever you undertake on My instruction in order to proclaim the Gospel to

them is selfless neighbourly love and blessed by Me. You yourselves are not yet aware of the great gift which you

receive from Me every day, you are as yet unable to estimate its value and its significance or all of you, who know about

the working of My spirit, would eagerly distribute what is sent to you by My love and grace.

You don’t realise that you are able to scatter seed which can bear glorious fruit.... you should not leave the seed unused,

and you should always rely on My help, for where you get into difficulties My angels and guardians are ready to help and protect you, so that you can just do your spiritual work in order to bring help to those who won’t find the right path

without you. For there are still many I want to address through you, and to do so I only require your will to be of diligent

service to Me…. I accept your service, for I Am only able to speak through a human mouth, given that people’s state is already too unspiritual as to speak to them in any other way, and their freedom of will has to be upheld. Yet you shall

derive strength from the fact that I promise you My support as soon as you are just willing to take care of your

neighbour’s spiritual adversity. There is not much time left, and the Words I speak to you will sound increasingly

admonishing; however, you only need to entrust your will to Me and then you will also conduct yourselves in

accordance with My will. And everything will sort itself out if you commend yourselves to Me with complete trust and

only ever let Me reign.

Thus, all of you who are of service to Me, accept My blessing and work tirelessly in My vineyard, for the day is soon

over and the night is approaching…. a turning-point is coming earthly and spiritually, the time of the harvest is coming.... the day of Judgment is approaching…. But first I still want to win souls over for Me, and you shall help Me

and consider your neighbour with love…. You shall work for Me and My kingdom, you shall proclaim My name in the

world and testify to My working in you, so that people will be able to believe and become blessed…. Amen

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B. D. 8942, February 23, 1965

Souls in the beyond participate in teachings….

You should always accept My instructions for only I can offer you truth, only I can provide you with the nourishment

and drink which your soul requires in order to perfect itself. Although the time until the end is brief you will still be able

to do much work in My vineyard, because just a single spiritual thought will attract untold souls in the beyond who

gather around you, who all want to participate in order to receive food and drink, and whom I support in every

conceivable manner. These souls shall partake in what I give to you and work with it in turn, and thus no vineyard work

whatsoever is done in vain. They frequently ask questions which I will answer through you, for they have a considerable

desire for knowledge, especially if they did not receive the correct explanation on earth…. if they were taught wrongly and now realise that their misguided knowledge is of no use to them.

Their most important question concerns a truthful explanation about Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, and they cannot be informed often enough of the fact that they need to appeal to Him for their forgiveness of sin…. Only when

they take the path to Him, when they have carried their entire guilt under His cross may they take pleasure in the light.

Then they will receive My emanation of grace at the same time, then they may receive the light directly from Me. As

soon as they gather around you they already have the will to receive a light, and then they only have to take a small step

to find Jesus Christ and entrust themselves to Him. This work is so necessary for the souls in the beyond because it has

an immense effect and signifies a countermeasure for the one who had already extended his hand to pull them into the

abyss. Once the souls have found their way to you they will stay in contact with you, because My love has seized them

and will never exclude them….

But all these souls need to be informed of the truth, because every error is like a shadow that confuses their senses, and

the souls had been subject to many errors during their earthly lives, which they gradually have to lose and thus need to

know the truth. For this reason truthful information is conveyed to you humans on earth or you would have to cope with the same problems in the beyond, yet you have the great blessing to be taught by the Eternal Truth Itself. For every

wrong concept you hold on to at the time of your passing from earth will follow you into eternity and can prevent you

from accepting the truth when it is offered to you.

The reason why I draw your attention to so many misguided teachings is due to the fact that you should not enter the

kingdom of the beyond in this state as well, that you should know the pure truth beforehand already and can then pass it

on to those who also desire to know the truth…. The beings of the beyond have access to them all, every recipient of

truth is surrounded by countless beings who all want to receive beneficial nourishment from them…. Hence the study

group is vast and is also supported by the beings of light, who will only be listened to when the souls in the beyond have

already gained a small amount of knowledge through earthly inhabitants. Then they will be open to their instructions too

and proceed with their higher development. Those of you who receive the truth from Me directly should only ever aim

to spread the truth throughout the world. Use every possible avenue that serves to spread My Word, and you will not have worked in vain…. For the end cannot be delayed, it is approaching with absolute certainty faster than you think….

it will surprise all people, and blessed is the person who knows the truth, which you can only gain through My Word….

Amen

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B. D. 2193, December 24, 1941

Harshest measures.... Fearless speaking.... Strong will....

It requires strong-minded people to fearlessly spread divine revelations, for everything which signifies spiritual progress, which these revelations aim to achieve, will result in harshest countermeasures and war will be declared on all

spiritual striving. But in addition, divine revelations are so implausible to people as long as they are still spiritually

unenlightened. Every message from the spiritual kingdom requires an element of faith in order to be unhesitatingly

accepted. Where faith does not exist, they will be rejected and efforts will be made to fight against the bearers of light,

who only want to pass on divine wisdom….

People will want to ban the distribution of truth and for this purpose establish almost unrealisable laws. And an

irresolute person will yield to these laws and deny God his cooperation. Divine love, however, wants the truth to be

spread. It seeks to guide people towards this knowledge and for this very reason reveals this knowledge to them through a person. But this person, too, will fearlessly have to pass on the information he heard through the grace of God and His

spirit. For as soon as he is deemed worthy of receiving this extraordinary grace his path of ascent becomes easier but he

also has the task of showing his fellow human beings the path leading upwards, i.e., of making the divine grace equally

accessible to them. Thus, he must speak up and try to pass on what he received through spiritual mediation. And this

needs courage regarding the worldly authority, even though the proclaimers of the divine Word should acknowledge

every earthly authority providing it does not openly oppose God’s commandments.

Anyone who tries to live according to these commandments will also recognise which worldly measures are justified or

not…. and he will know which laws he has to follow first. Proclaiming the divine revelations to these people will not be

unsuccessful…. They will be accepted due to the existing faith in a God of love and of mercy, of wisdom and of omnipotence. But where no faith exists at all, the proclaimer of the Word will have to fight with the sword of his tongue

and may not be afraid if he is told to stop speaking. He is needed as a mediator between God and people, and he must

faithfully administer this position as a mediator…. He must untiringly pass on the Word he receives and mention everything that is revealed to him. For it is essential that humanity wakes up from its slumber and that it is given the

information about God’s obvious working which is based on His love for people who are close to their spiritual

downfall. These are the people he wants to save and guide out of darkness into light.... He offers His grace to them and

leaves it up to them to avail themselves of it…. And this gift of grace should be fearlessly mentioned because it is God’s

will…. Amen

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The Healing power and strength The Healing power and strength The Healing power and strength The Healing power and strength of the Pure Word of Godof the Pure Word of Godof the Pure Word of Godof the Pure Word of God

B.D. 5605, February 18, 1953

Awakening the dead through God's Word….

You shall awaken the dead to life…. you shall draw the lifeless from the abyss and breathe life into it; you shall touch it

with a strength that will give life to it…. And this strength is My Word which comes to you from above, which I convey

to you Myself, so that you, as mediators, will pass it on in order that My strength will also touch those who are still dead

in spirit. You own something exquisite, a gift that has a miraculous effect, you own spiritual strength and can use it to

bring the dead back into life. But having received it from the Eternal Love you must also impart My Word with love;

your will to help must urge you to share what had awakened you to life…. Then you will always be successful and able to work beneficially on earth as well as in the spiritual kingdom. There is immense darkness everywhere and countless

spiritually dead souls dwell in this darkness. But life also means light….

Only the soul that is touched by a ray of light which radiates warmth of love and thus has an invigorating effect on the

hardened soul will awaken to life. These dead souls have to be touched by a light of love, then they will awaken to life

for sure. And you shall take this ray of light to them by giving them My Word, which has a most comforting effect on

them if it is offered with love. This healing water of life constantly flows to you as a result of My love and grace so that

your souls will recover and find the true life, and thus you need not fear the death of the soul any longer…. Yet the

many souls which rest in their graves.... which in their thoughts are still living on earth and yet are spiritually dead and

in depressing darkness…. are surrounding you, and you should help them by lifting them out of the night of death into

the light of life. For you have an effective remedy, you have the only medicine which can help them, you have My

Word, the emanation of strength and light of Myself, which will never remain ineffective if only it can touch the soul….

As long as My Word is merely reaching a person’s ear it cannot as yet affect the soul, for only the soul is receptive to

the effect of My Word. Yet only love will open the door so that I Myself can touch the soul with the strength of My love. And your love will open the door for Me if you endeavour to help these dead souls and proclaim to them My Word

with love. Consider how much power is given to you: You are able to awaken the dead to life with My Word…. And if

you are only urged by love to spread My Word I will bless your efforts…. Carry the Word into the darkness wherever it may be.... look after all those who are dead in spirit, remember your lifeless fellow human beings as well as the dead in

the beyond…. want them to awaken to life and bring My Word to them with love…. And the strength of My Word will

work miracles, the souls will awaken to life and light, and they will never ever lose their life again.... Amen

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B.D. 6768, February 21.-23, 1957

Beneficial effect of God’s Word… Awakening – Life…

My Words are spirit and life for you… You cannot remain in a dead state when you permit My Words to enter your

heart, you must feel the strength of My Word and with this strength become active, hence alive… When the Word

touches your hearts then you have come into contact with Me because of My Words, or you would not hear My voice

even though you hear the words. For that reason I ask that you allow My Word to enter your heart, don’t let the ear just

hear so that the Word won’t merely pass you by without meaning. You must hear Me talk to you Myself and you can

only do that when you give yourselves to Him, Who speaks to you… when you open your hearts, when you consciously and attentively listen to what your God and Father wants to tell you. Then you truly receive strength in abundance and

you find life. What you now receive because of My love will give you life because I feel sorry for you as long as you are

still dead in spirit. For you are not in a perfect condition even if you believe that you are in full possession of strength on earth … The life I want to give you is not comparable to earthly life… You are supposed to achieve the life of the soul

and this life is a gift that you all can receive if you desire it. But it can only be given to you by Him Who is life

Himself… The flow of life only comes from Me but it eternally flows to human beings by means of My Word which is

the emission of My strength of love and therefore has to be revitalising as soon as it touches the dead. And you either

consent to this touch or repel it… Thus you yourselves decide over life and death of your soul.

Consequently you should understand that I, Who since eternity Am the Word Myself, only aim to give life to the

hitherto dead by sending My Word to earth and that the acceptance of My Word thus has to be of the greatest

significance for you… because it saves you with certainty from a degrading and wretched condition. Because no divine gift remains ineffective if only you humans would allow it to take effect. Thus My Word must also have an extremely

beneficial effect on you in as much as you can feel its influence on yourselves, you must irrevocably feel urged to live in

accordance to My Word, that is, to carry out My will which is made known to you by means of My Word… But you should not resist it, you must hear it willingly and allow yourselves to be guided by it in order to live your life

accordingly… Then you will accomplish the greatest spiritual achievements, you will acquire the necessary maturity of

soul and enter the realm of light after the death of your bodies. Thus you have a definite means, a means of undeniably beneficial effect for your soul… Yet only few people make use of this beneficial means… And My divine flow of

strength cannot touch their souls who walk their earthly path ailing and miserable and depart from this world without

success. As a result the most effective means is not or only rarely heeded and unusual spiritual experiences, which

would be more noticed, cannot always be applied since they would compel to believe and therefore the success for the

soul would scarcely be worth mentioning unless they internalise the person and make him receptive for My Word… My

wisdom perceives this in advance and therefore it may appear at times as if a human being was bestowed by Me with

unusual gifts of grace which guarantee him an easier ascent… I know the degree of a soul’s maturity, I also know when

the resistance of a soul has become so weak that it only requires a slight spiritual experience to break down this

resistance… And in that case the acceptance for My Word is present too, and now every soul has to perform the same work: to voluntarily live in accordance to My Word… only then the unusual gift of grace has been utilised and

subsequently My Word will have the same effect on him, because it is strength in itself and now raises the dead.

When I speak to a human being it has to have a healing effect on a fatally ill soul because it comes into direct contact

with the energy of life… but the same success cannot be expected where My Word is opposed because this opposition

does not allow a favourable effect… it is, after all, a renewed sin against My love and a sin never results in a positive

effect… But you humans could easily receive life and therefore strength too. Every human being has the opportunity to

hear My Word, to read it or to speak to Me in thought himself. Even if he is fully in the world… It would be possible

for everyone to disassociate themselves from the world for a short period of time and to offer nourishment to the soul: to

get engrossed with My Word and thus voluntarily make the connection with Him, Who has to be acknowledged as God and Creator. And I would truly bless his will, I would meet him and talk to him in such a way that he would time and

again request to hear Me and My Word… But the world replaces every thought of Me, My Word is carelessly ignored,

the opportunities to hear My Word are even considered intrusive and the rejection of My gift of love comes so evidently to the forefront that it is not surprising that humanity is ever more overcome by weakness… that the lowest spiritual

level becomes ever more noticeable and that My opponent is winning authority over the human beings who themselves

prevent every supply of strength. They would not even benefit from unusual gifts of grace as these would be ineffective

because the people don’t want to see the light brought forth to them. Thus humanity causes the end of this earth

themselves because a significant ascent can no longer be made, human life on this earth is not being utilised and

therefore has become without purpose… First an order has to be established that makes a progressive development

possible again… And I certainly will put this order in place as soon as the hour has arrived, as it is decided since

eternity… because human beings shall attain life and not remain in a dead state eternally … Amen

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Cleansing effect of the Pure Word of God…Cleansing effect of the Pure Word of God…Cleansing effect of the Pure Word of God…Cleansing effect of the Pure Word of God… ‘Baptise them in the name…’‘Baptise them in the name…’‘Baptise them in the name…’‘Baptise them in the name…’

B.D. 6611, August 1, 1956

About ‘Baptism’….

You cannot appreciate the immense grace of receiving My Word, since all your questions are answered by Me and any doubts are expelled whenever you turn to Me for an explanation. I answer such questions mentally too, but you are

frequently unsure as to whether you have received these thoughts from Me and thus your doubts are not dispelled,

whereas the Word you receive makes you happy as soon as you make use of the grace bestowed upon you by receiving

the Word. Many more questions are on your mind and simply a trusting prayer to Me would suffice to receive an

explanation from Me, but you far too seldom turn to Me with such requests and thus you are not yet fully aware of the

immense grace at your disposal:

Every human soul requires a thorough cleansing, a bath, which removes all its impurities, which refreshes and revives it

and makes it suitable for the work it has to carry out on earth. And every human soul has to be willing to undertake this purification or to submit to it in the knowledge that prior to this it is not as I want it to be, as it has to be in order to

approach Me and to stay with Me eternally. But such a purifying bath is not to be understood purely externally, it is an

act which has to take place internally, which only becomes outwardly recognisable by a change in a person’s character, thus giving the person himself the certainty to have worked himself out of a morass, to have had a refreshing bath and to

then leave it completely cleansed. However, clear water with a refreshing effect cannot be stagnant, it has to be a

flowing, living stream, the kind of water that has the strength to purify and revive. Hence you require ‘living water’....

and you also know what is to be understood by ‘living water’….

Time and again I invite you to come to the source from whence the living water flows, time and again I want you to

enter into the sea of My love, to immerse yourselves, to allow yourselves to be ‘baptised’ by Me Myself with My Word,

which alone has the strength to effect a change in you, which purifies and revives your soul and gives it true life….

Thus when I said to My disciples ‘Baptise them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost’ .... it is meant

that they were to bring My Word to people in My name, the living water which originates from Me…. that people have

to go to the source. Love Itself.... the Father.... offers you humans the Word which enables you to reach profound

wisdom if you live accordingly and thereby awaken the spirit within you which will give you complete

enlightenment…. Your soul needs this Word which alone has the same effect as pure water on your body: that it leaves

the bath strengthened and suitable for every task it will be required to do… And thus My disciples were supposed to

carry My Word to all people, who were meant to receive something precious with love which was to kindle their love in

turn and bring the spirit within them to life…. Living water, however, only originates from Me. I Myself Am the source

from whence living water flows, and every human being must have descended into the well of My love in order to

receive divine wisdom and to recognise it through his spirit.

This is the baptism which every person must have received in order to become a member of the church of Christ.... the

church I Myself founded on earth…. Consequently your will is required first, which has to make the free decision to descend into the stream of My love, to accept My living Word and thereby purge its soul, which then makes My

presence possible. My Words are only ever to be understood in a spiritual sense, and no outward process will ever

achieve the inner transformation of a being, the purification of a soul. Therefore you should always endeavour to

discover the spiritual meaning of My Words which, however, will become quite clear to you when you ask Me Myself

in your heart for clarification, because if you genuinely desire it you cannot do anything else but think correctly…. But

then you will also accept My Word without resistance when it is given to you by My disciples, and then you will enter

into My divine abundance of love.... you will receive baptism…. My love will permeate you with My spirit and guide

you into truth…. love, wisdom and strength will then be the soul’s share…. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost will then

be constant companions of the souls who let themselves be baptised with the water of life and love…. Amen

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B.D. 8643, October 13, 1963

Explanation about baptism with water…. You still do not understand the spiritual meaning of My Word.... you interpret the letters intellectually and therefore

cannot get the correct results. You cannot understand what I wanted to say when I told My disciples ‘Baptise them in the

name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.’ By ‘baptism’ you only ever understand the immersion in water.... an

external formality performed by people to demonstrate their obedience to the commandment of baptism…. which,

however, is and always was merely an accompanying formality but it does not affect the real core of My commandment.

Baptism with water as such does not actually effect a transformation of the person, as you humans will have to admit…

Only the contribution of what emanates from the Father, the Son and the spirit…. which proves the Father’s love, the Son’s wisdom and the spirit’s strength…. can cause a change in the human being and is the true baptism, which every

person must have received in order to reach his goal on earth: to perfect himself in order to be eternally united with Me.

The Father.... love.... is an eternal fire which emanates the light of wisdom…. the Son, and the strength of the spirit has

to express itself as a result. The human being…. as a weak creature, has to be so permeated by love and wisdom that he

in turn attains strength and freedom himself once again. He has to be permeated by My spirit, hence love, wisdom and

spiritual strength have to characterise him as a divine living being which has returned to perfection. The human being

has to immerse himself in the sea of My love, he has to be guided into truth, which will always come about by way of

My will, My strength and My greater than great love.

Baptise them in the name of the Father.... be kind when you give them My Word which is wisdom, and thereby enable

the working of the spirit in the human being, which presumes an activity of love, because the manifestation of My spirit is the gift of My love which expresses itself in the conveyance of wisdom…. of truthful knowledge…. Love, wisdom

and strength.... they have to be truthfully clarified to you humans, and this clarification is a true baptism of spirit which

cannot be replaced by an immersion in water.

Try to understand that you humans should not adhere to external formalities.... try to understand that I truly do not

demand outward appearances from you but only ever evaluate what is done in spirit and in truth. And if you now, as evidence of your correct thinking, refer to My baptism by John in the river Jordan, then remember that people knew

very little about Me in those days, that outward actions meant a lot to them then, and that every person needed a certain

degree of maturity first in order to explain to him the spiritual meaning of baptism. Besides, by their willingness to be

baptised by John people proved their desire to come closer to their God and Creator, and in those days this was indeed a

substantial spiritual gain. And thus I, too, submitted Myself to this formality in order to legitimise the actions of My

forerunner John. It would have been futile to explain the unimportance of this external action to people because they

would have been unable to comprehend the pure spiritual truth. The baptism with water caused them no harm, but would

only be beneficial to them when they also accepted the Word of God, which John passed on to them....

And therefore the human being today will also receive ‘baptism’ when he accepts My Word, which is conveyed to him

by My infinite Fatherly love, and lives accordingly and thereby finds wisdom…. as a result of love…. which awakens

and activates My spirit of light and strength inside of him…. However, all this cannot be replaced by baptism with water, the latter will always remain a symbol, an external formality from which people do not want to part because they

try to demonstrate everything outwardly and are not content with the value of purely spiritual experiences.

I can only ever repeat that all external actions and customs are of no benefit, that I will never judge a person by his

outward action but solely by his inner attitude towards Me and My Word. As soon as a human being accepts My Word,

acknowledges it and lives accordingly he will perfect himself while still on earth, because My Word is the water of life

which comes forth from the source of all being. And in this water you should immerse yourselves, this water will flow from your body and you will experience the spiritual baptism when the spirit within you awakens to life, when you are

permeated by love, wisdom and strength and you once again become the original being you once were, when by the

water of life you achieve eternal life which you will never lose again…. Amen

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Word of God in its Pure Form…Word of God in its Pure Form…Word of God in its Pure Form…Word of God in its Pure Form… a a a a truetruetruetrue nourishing food for the soul nourishing food for the soul nourishing food for the soul nourishing food for the soul………… Communion with the Lord at His tableCommunion with the Lord at His tableCommunion with the Lord at His tableCommunion with the Lord at His table

B.D. 5518, October 27, 1952

Awakening spiritual hunger.... Spiritual hunger shall be awakened among people. This requires the offer of tasty morsels which precisely contain that

knowledge which was ambiguous to the human being. Every person can be touched somewhere, every person has a

specific question which occupies him and if he can receive an explanation to it he will also open his heart for further knowledge, and then it will be most successful if the teacher does not deny him an answer, if all concepts are known to

him and clear enough so that he can pass his knowledge on to another person.... so that he can satisfy the hunger of

someone who desires the truth. The desire for truth has not yet been awakened in the human race, people casually

dismiss what is incomprehensible to them, they don’t desire clarification and therefore it cannot be offered to them

either. But the reason for this can always be found in the fact that their thinking was not stimulated, that no samples

were offered to them, that they were not impelled to express themselves, to clearly state their own thoughts; a question can be extremely interesting to them if it is asked at the right time and in the right way and the answer can be extremely

satisfying if it is given by an authorised teacher who represents the pure truth and can pass it on. Then the desire for

more knowledge will arise by itself in them, and only then can a famished person be nourished with the bread from heaven. An answer which betrays ignorance does not satisfy and can prevent people from wanting to find some kind of

clarification; the pure truth, however, speaks for itself and therefore also to every person who wants to know it. And this

person will always be offered the heavenly bread which is conveyed to him from above, he will no longer need to starve and live in want, he will always receive according to requirement and worthiness.... For enjoying the bread from heaven

only requires the will to correctly revive the soul, it requires being receptive for what God’s love offers him. Therefore

you should, as true representatives of God and His kingdom, always proclaim His Word, even if there is no desire for it

as yet, for He Himself will bless you if you speak and you will experience this blessing, because the listeners will want

to know more themselves, they will look for every opportunity where the divine Word is proclaimed to them. What you

received through God’s great love yourselves must be distributed by you with love.... Then it will not fail to make an

impression on your fellow human beings.... Then you will be promoting God and His kingdom and will render faithful vineyard work, for you are His servants, you should show the table of the Lord to those who want to eat and thus bestow

good gifts; you should always proclaim the Word of God wherever the spiritually famished are sent to you, you should

offer the bread of heaven to them and keep their spiritual hunger alive, so that time and again new nourishment will be requested for the souls who once have tasted the heavenly bread.... Amen

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B.D. 5977, June 15, 1954

Important mission.... Spreading the Gospel....

Your mission is so important because My teaching shall be preached in all purity, for that which I once gave to people

did not remain pure but became progressively spoilt so that it no longer contains the strength which can be found in My

pure Word. But people urgently need this strength flowing to them from My Word.... they are weak and incapable of

developing further and I can only give them strength by having My Word imparted to them…. as unspoilt and pure as it

originates from Me. Only this Word is capable of giving them strength, only this Word is the right kind of nourishment

for the souls which enables them to mature fully, which gives them strength. This is why no-one can attain eternal life

without My Word, and therefore I convey it to people in a way which seems unusual and yet is an entirely natural process.... by speaking through a human mouth Myself, I Am speaking to all people and thus the absolute purity of My

Word affects the ears and hearts of those who willingly listen to it…. Indeed, you only hear one person speak yet they

are not his Words, it is not his doctrine which he offers to you…. it is really and truly the emanation of My love which you may take hold of because it is I Myself Who speaks to you…. It is I, of Whom it is written ‘Behold, I stand at the

door and knock…. if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he

with Me….’ I want to give you the bread of heaven, I want to revive and refresh you with nourishment which your soul

is in urgent need of….

I want to strengthen you and bring salvation to your soul.... It want to provide it with what it needs in order to become

blissfully happy. There is immense hardship on earth; it is a drought which leaves the souls without sustenance, so that

they starve and in their utterly weakened state are unable to lift themselves off the ground…. And I know of this

hardship and want to help people. From My hand they shall receive the invigorating nourishment, I Myself want to entice them to the font where they can draw the delectable water of life and thus gain renewed strength…. and all

adversity shall have ceased for the one who accepts what I offer to him: My Word from above, which I impart to those

of you who want to be of service to Me, which shall be passed on through you to people in order to help them…. My Word, which is only effective if it can touch the heart in its pure form and without being spoilt and which thus shall be

spread anew throughout the world by disciples I choose Myself…. For the hardship is immense and My love wants to

help.... it wants to heal the sick and strengthen the weak; it wants to give life to those who are dead and therefore convey the flow of life into barren land…. In the last hour My love still wants to wrest from death the souls which cannot resist

it and through My Word make them blissfully happy…. Amen

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B.D. 7909, June 3, 1961

The significance of Holy Communion....

How often has the significance of Holy Communion been explained to you already, how often has the offering of My

flesh and My blood been described to you as the offering of My Word…. How often have I told you that I Myself Am the Word of eternity, that I offer Myself to you, that you eat My flesh and drink My blood when you accept My Word

in your heart…. Your soul needs nourishment which will help to heal and strengthen it, since prior to that it is sick and

weak…. It must be fed with the bread of heaven and be given the water of life. It needs healthy nourishment which only

I Myself can administer, for it must be spiritually fed, it must accept food from the spiritual kingdom. And this is why

you must partake of the Supper at My table with your host, Who invites all of you to come to Him and let yourselves be

fed by Him. Your soul shall receive bread and wine, My flesh and My blood is the proper nourishment, and thus it

accepts Me Myself when it accepts My Word which I Myself convey to the soul from above. For regardless of whether I

speak to it directly or whether it accepts My Word through My servants…. I always break the bread Myself, I always

give the water of life Myself, and then it will always partake of My Supper at My table, which is richly laden so that no soul wanting to be My guest will lack nourishment. Yet by this I do not mean an outward practice, I Am not satisfied

with the fact that you perform external rituals and acts in the belief that I Myself will then be within you, that you unite

yourselves with Me when you take part in the ceremonies which you understand as the Lord’s Supper, as Holy

Communion…. They will only ever remain mere external acts and rituals if you do not wholeheartedly desire to hear

My Word, to be addressed by Me…. if your soul does not hunger and thirst for the bread of heaven and the water of life:

for My Word….

For I Myself Am My Word, and only when you are seized by great longing for My Word can you say that you

intimately unite yourselves with Me and take Supper with Me, for only then will I be able to offer you bread and

wine…. My flesh and My blood.... Only then will you have come to My table in order to take Supper with Me, then you will receive Me Myself, as I have promised…. I Am the Word…. And the Word has become flesh…. And thus you

should understand My Words correctly which I spoke on earth ‘Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My blood, hath

eternal life….’ Only the person who hears My Word and allows the strength of My Word to affect him can attain eternal life, for his soul will heal, it will mature fully, through My Word it will know My will, and My Word will provide it

with the strength to live in accordance with My will…. hence it will not just hear My Word but also live it and gain the

true life, which it will never be able to lose again…. And because I know how urgently you humans need nourishment

for your soul I send My messengers into the world and invite everyone to come as guests to My table and take

Communion with Me…. And no-one will need to leave My table hungry, for it is richly laden for all those who come to

Me with the desire to receive food and drink from Me…. I have wholesome food and a health-giving drink waiting for

all of you, but you must come to Me yourselves, hunger and thirst must drive you to Me, then your soul will receive

refreshment; time and again it will fortify itself anew for its pilgrimage on this earth, it will not exhaustedly fall by the

wayside, for time and again it will be offered nourishment as soon as it desires it, as soon as it closely unites with Me and requests to be fed by Me…. I Myself will come to you, I will knock at the door of your heart and with anyone who

willingly lets Me in I will indeed take Holy Communion and he with Me…. However, do not believe that you can find

Me where only outward formalities are being observed.... where you close your ears to My Word which comes to you from above, for anyone who does not listen to My Word does not listen to Me Myself either; anyone who rejects My

Word rejects Me Myself and his soul will remain without nourishment. It will have to starve and enter the spiritual

kingdom in an immature and poor state when the hour of death arrives…. Amen

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B.D. 5771, September 17, 1953

Guests at the table of the Lord (Matthew 22:1-14)…

Come to My table and you will receive food and drink as nourishment for your soul.… What more do you need than what serves to strengthen your soul? What can you be lacking when your soul is provided for.… when you first strive to

benefit your soul… Then you completely fulfil your purpose of earthly life and the body will also have what it needs as

long as it is inhabited by the soul. And I surely know how long your soul needs its cover, how long you have to live on

earth as a human being to achieve the necessary maturity for your soul. And for that time the body will be sustained too.

Therefore, if you desire something from Me only for your soul you will receive plenty, your soul need not starve and the

body will have in abundance too because you first make the effort to carry out My will, to receive My Word, to listen to

Me, and therefore you are guests at the table of the Lord who are ready to receive. I forever want to give you food for your soul, I want you to feed yourselves with the bread of heaven, to accept My Word which provides strength for your

soul to ascend.

And I want you to ask Me often for this, I want that you are always willing to listen to Me when I talk to you.… I

constantly invite you to be My guests whom I want to refresh with bread and wine, with My flesh and My blood.… with

everything that the soul needs to increase in light and strength.… And that is why I always send forth My servants to

call people from the street into My welcoming house.… All are called to come to Me and be My guests if they want.

But My house is away from the broad road and thus they have to leave it if they want to find Me but they will never

regret it because on the broad road they will never find the delicious refreshment they are offered at My table. And they

always long for more, the more often they have been My guest. Yet they have to come to Me voluntarily because,

although I send them messengers, I will not force anyone to come to My feast; however, those who refuse to follow My call will remain empty-handed since the world cannot offer what My love wants to give to them.… My Word, which is

strength and light and life, to guide them into blissfulness… Amen

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B.D. 8385, January 19, 1963

Feeding the soul is a priority… Communion…

I repeatedly have to impress on you the distress you soul experiences if it does not receive the right kind of nourishment.

After all, the most important thing in earthly life is to provide your soul with everything it requires to reach the goal which is its reason for living on earth. It is supposed to mature fully and needs the right nourishment, it needs

appropriate food and drink that directs it to a life which guarantees it the greatest happiness… An immature soul cannot

enter My kingdom of light, it must have matured fully on earth and is living on earth for this purpose … You take the

greatest care to maintain the life of its physical cover, the human body, everything is done that it stays preserved and

feels as comfortable as possible…

Yet you do little for your soul… even though it needs good, healthy nourishment for its eternal continuation far more,

whereas the body is transient and its lifespan might well be quite short… At the beginning of its incarnation as human

being the soul is mainly weak and ailing and should be helped to overcome its helpless condition. It should receive the right food and drink to become purified during earthly life and be handed the right medicine so that it can recover and

leave its earthly body fully matured when the hour has come to exchange its life on earth with the spiritual kingdom to

be infinitely happy. And the right food can only be offered by means of My Word because then it receives its strength

and support directly from Me and I will indeed only offer what serves the soul to achieve perfection… But I need your

free will to do so and therefore you have to come to My table yourselves and accept the nourishment for your soul from

Me directly.

Time and again I invite you to be My guests, to refresh and strengthen yourselves at My table and to receive the right

food and drink from Me because they are necessary for your soul’s successful earthly progress. After all, the human

being only lives on earth to achieve the soul’s full maturity… His body is merely the physical cover for the spirit which has almost completed the process of return and just needs to pass its test of volition to be finally admitted into the

spiritual kingdom. Of course the body also needs its due to exist and to carry out its task to serve the soul, but taking

care of the soul should be priority and you should offer the soul everything it needs to mature completely. And since the soul is the spirit within the human being it can only be given spiritual food and drink.

Therefore My Word is and remains its right nourishment which I offer you in all fullness if only you give Me the

opportunity to speak to you and after that live in accordance with My Word. Then the soul cannot fail, it will irrevocably

shape itself to constantly come closer to Me; since every contribution of My strength, which it receives through My

Word, helps to transform itself into its original nature… because it reforms itself and can now also get consistently more

enlightened by the light of My love …

You humans have to hear My Word many times, then you give your soul the right nourishment which won’t remain unsuccessful. For this reason you should constantly come to My table and hold communion with Me and indeed, your

soul will be grateful that you nourish it first. Then your earthly progress is not in vain as your soul will constantly come

closer to Me until one day the ultimate unity is achieved and the soul can create and work in light and liberty with Me in My kingdom again … Amen

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B.D. 0764, January 29, 1939

Last Supper....

The motto of your life should be ‘To serve the Lord in all things will be my constant endeavour….’ and His blessing will be with you wherever you go. Now hear what is intended for you from the Father: The most holy sacrament of the

altar was given by God, but its meaning will have to be understood wisely. You are now surrounded by a protective

shield of spiritual friends who will keep everything that is wrong and misguided at bay, so that people may receive

clarification through you about a question which has become a frequent matter of dispute. Over a period of time

people’s correct thinking had been infiltrated by an entirely wrong point of view which caused further conflicts and

divided opinions. Without first having asked for consent from the divine Lord and Saviour a directive was issued which

is contradicts the divine teaching.

The living portrayal of the Holy Communion is always the acceptance of God’s Word in one’s heart…. Whoso eats My flesh.... i.e. who receives My Word with a hungry heart…. and drinks My blood…. i.e. who receives the truth with My

Word and lives by My Word entirely truthfully …. he receives Me. And My Words ‘This is My flesh.... this is My

blood….’ should be understood in this sense: Just as the human being needs bread for the well-being of his body, so the

pure Word of God is needed for the preservation of eternal life.... And just as wine will give strength to the weak, so

shall the truth from God strengthen the soul, providing it accepts it. And when it is said that the bread and wine are

transformed into My flesh and blood then the correct understanding of this should be that My Word will bring Me

Myself close to the person at the same time, if it is complied with…. i.e. if it is eaten and drunk, and that, therefore, the human being accepts Me Myself with My Word, because My Word teaches love, and I Myself Am love ….

He who loves Me will sincerely accept Me in his heart and thus will be filled at My table by My bread and My wine…. by the Word of truth and life. The meaning was in fact understood correctly. However, it was decided to ceremonially

intensify the impression of My Words but then greater significance was given to the ceremony, so anyone not

complying with it was declared to have lost all blessing. And thus the formality was observed first, but the deeper meaning became lost, Communion increasingly became a formality, divine truth could no longer enter into people’s

hearts. In contrast, the ceremony has been preserved to this day, and the human being believes to have fulfilled his

obligation sufficiently by approaching the Lord’s altar with faith…

But how can I take abode in a human being who has not changed himself to love first, who will not comply with My

Word and keep My commandments? Anyone who wants to receive Me physically and spiritually and carry Me in his

heart has to eat My bread and drink My wine.... he has to desire the bread of life as nourishment, which comes from

heaven, and he has to drink the wine, the living truth, which flows to him who is thirsty. Only then will he eat My flesh

and drink My blood and he will live eternally, because then he is in Me and I Am in him....

Only in this and no other way should the Communion be understood which I inaugurated with the said Words, but

which you humans have interpreted at your own discretion without recognising the deeper meaning of My Words. The more eagerly you try to observe only the ceremony and the more often you merely externally receive My bread and My

wine, the less I will be present Myself, and thus you will not receive Me Myself but you will only be close to Me in your

imagination. Because I Am only present where profound love for Me expresses itself by fulfilling My commandments

and living in accordance with My Word…. For he eats My flesh and drinks My blood who complies with My will and

serves Me…. who bears witness to Me before the world, he will truly be My disciple with whom I will take communion

and whom I will fill, to whom I will give his share…. he will be nourished by Me and receive the bread from heaven in

all eternity…. Amen

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B.D. 4379, July 18, 1948

Last Supper..... Spiritual meaning.... Flesh – blood....

The constant desire for nourishment at the table of the Lord assures you His love.... And thus I repeatedly invite you to

take communion with Me, as often as you desire it. My table is always set for all who are hungry and thirsty and want to

be refreshed, and they will be able to satisfy themselves with the bread of life, with the manna that comes from heaven.

Every nourishment at My table is communion, it is the unification with Me without which the offering of My flesh and

My blood…. of My Word and its strength…. cannot take place. Thus you, who receive My Word directly or through

My messengers, are communing when you desire to accept My Word in your heart. Then My spirit will unite with the

spiritual spark within you, then marriage will take place, the union, the spiritual communion. Then I will give you the bread of heaven Myself, I will give you food and drink, I will take supper with you…. you will experience the same

event as My disciples, for whom I broke the bread and offered the wine with the Words: Take and eat, this is my body,

take and drink, this is my blood….

Do you now understand the meaning I attached to these Words? How immensely important it is that you take

communion at My table, because My flesh and My blood will give you the strength to reach eternal life. You have to be

nourished with food for the soul so that it matures, so that it safeguards its eternal life…. it constantly has to receive

strength which it can only receive from Me directly and which I will give every time it unites with Me. Then I will break

the bread and offer it to the soul, and when it thus eats My flesh…. My Word…. it is permeated by strength…. the

blood…. with which I have blessed My Word. No one who longs for food for the soul, who wants to be My guest, need

ever starve and go without…. I will come to him Myself and invite him, I will stand before his door and knock and if he

opens it for Me I will enter and take supper with him…. I will feed him at My table and he will be truly satisfied and never need to go without….

And thus, everything I said on earth should be understood in a spiritual sense. I taught My disciples and they understood Me and carried My Word into the world. And since people were taught correctly they understood and lived in

accordance with My will, in accordance with My Word in complete understanding of it. Consequently, My church, the

community of believers, was established entirely in My spirit at first.

But later this was no longer enough for the overzealous representatives of My Word, they wanted to excel before the

world. And thus events, which were only intended for the soul, were visually presented to people and associated with

external actions, which at first could not be condemned since they were carried by the spirit, since people took My will

and its fulfilment seriously. But people changed and with them changed the characteristics of My church.... What was

meant to be a profound inner experience became an external action which was placed at the fore and the deeper spiritual

meaning became lost…. until the simple process of spiritual communion, of union with Me and the direct acceptance of

My Word, was no longer understood by people. So now they no longer believe that a direct transmission of My Word is

possible, although I Myself clearly and comprehensively promised them My direct working through My spirit, although I Myself…. the Word that had become flesh…. referred to the sustenance with the bread of life, with the manna from

heaven…. People no longer understand the simple meaning of My Word and in their blindness don’t want to accept the

simple explanation either. But anyone who wants to hear and understand will realise it, and the truth will be plausible to him, he will strive to establish a connection with Me Myself, he will be My guest, and I will take supper with him and

he with Me…. Amen

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B.D. 5384, May 6, 1952

Communion....

The spiritual communion, the link of the spiritual spark in yourselves with the eternal Father-Spirit, can only be

established through love…. You can certainly associate with Me in thought through heartfelt prayer, in which case you call Me and I draw close to you, but it remains a call from afar as long as you are without love; no heartfelt relationship

has yet been established which, however, will instantly happen through actions of love. Then you will be closely

connected with Me at the same time and in this state you will be able to take supper with Me, i.e. I Myself can provide

the nourishment for your soul…. I can give you the bread of heaven, My Word, which you can only hear when you

allow Me to be present in you, thus when you entered into communion with Me. To commune therefore means to accept

flesh and blood.... My Word and its strength…. from My hand, for which it is absolutely essential that a human heart is

alive with love or My presence is unthinkable…. No human being will ever be able to speak of My presence who does

not prove his love to Me through unselfish neighbourly love. No human being will ever be able to unite with his eternal

Father who does not regard his fellow human being as his brother, who is without love for him and therefore can never love the Father either, Whose child is the fellow human being….

You should realise that only love unites the child with the Father, that the human being only enters the child relationship

through love, and that the child will then receive the gift of food and drink at the Father’s table and need never again

suffer hardship…. And the most delectable gift a human being can receive is My Word, it is truly refreshing and

strengthening, and where My Word is spoken My presence is proven, whereas, alternatively, My presence is

unthinkable without an expression of strength. And since I Am strength and light Myself I also reveal Myself to people as light and strength, by being present in anyone whose actions of love allow My presence in him. But light and strength

flow from My Word, light and strength are needed by the souls for higher development, thus light and strength are the

nourishment I offer to the soul when the human being takes supper with Me, when he is My guest and in closest relationship with Me finds a response to his love….

This alone is to be understood as Communion, only in this way do I want the Last Supper to be understood to which I invite you all, which I instituted with the Words: ‘Take and eat, take and drink…. this is my body, this is my blood….’

You should take the nourishment for your soul from My hand and this necessitates the close relationship with Me which

cannot be established in any other way but through love…. Amen

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B.D. 6717, December 17, 1956

‘Instituted words’ for the Last Supper....

You will often be asked questions which you should answer truthfully, and then you will always have to ask Me to

instruct you through My spirit, to give you the right thoughts, so that you will say the right words when it is requested of you. But since I want people to receive the truth I will always enlighten My bearers of light, I will not allow them to

accept misguided mental concepts, I will always support their strength and will of resistance and increase their feeling

for the pure truth and thus will also always be ready to solve problems which can lead to differences of opinion and

spiritual debates. Everything is known to Me and every doubting or questioning thought is obvious to Me, for this

reason I repeatedly give people on earth and even the souls in the beyond the opportunity to voice any questions of

doubt in order to answer them truthfully. Because far more questions of that nature are posed in the spiritual kingdom

than on earth, where people are still too distracted by earthly thoughts and objectives and frequently do not allow such

thoughts to bother them.

But at the same time they are also frequently the cause of the immense spiritual decline, because error is rejected by

thinking people and thereby every religious doctrine is also frequently rejected …. thus error can lead to total unbelief.

Yet truth can make such doubters thoughtful, they can even regain their faith if they are of good will.... Hence it is of

particular importance to keep explaining the ‘instituted words for the Lord’s Supper’, which are used by you humans as

a reason to portray a publicly visible ceremony as My will, the disregarding of which you denounce as a punishable

omission, and now have completely lost the meaning of My Words…. So now one person eagerly follows the humanly

decreed instructions and customs while the other realises that they are worthless and then completely repeals My Words, whose meaning nevertheless is, was and will remain very meaningful, because I used these Words to remind you

humans to establish a heartfelt union with Me, which is the meaning and purpose of your earthly life…. Because only

by way of this intimate union will you enable yourselves to receive light and strength in the form of My Word from Me, which will help you to perfection. You humans believe that you can form a close relationship with Me by a purely

external process, by the acceptance of bread and wine which you regard as ‘My flesh and My blood’…. Thus time and

again this wrong idea has to be corrected....

I cannot enter into unity with you until you have shaped yourselves into love.... Only love establishes a union with Me,

and only then can I take supper with you, I can satisfy you with the bread of heaven, with My Word, with My flesh and

My blood.... My instituted Words ‘Do this in remembrance of Me’ requested that My disciples should give in the same

way as I had given them, because what I gave them…. bread and wine…. they had received abundantly from Me, for I

taught them and gave them knowledge. I had offered them My Word in all fullness and now they were meant to spread

My Gospel throughout the world.... They were to pass on My Word so that people would receive knowledge of Me, so

that they would not forget about Me, because humanity had to be informed of Me and My act of Salvation as it could

only attain beatitude through its faith in Me…. Hence by way of these instituted Words ‘Do this in remembrance of Me’ I gave My disciples the direct task to offer their fellow human beings My Word, the bread of life, the manna, which

comes from heaven…. And as a sign of the urgently required spiritual food by people I offered them earthly bread and

earthly wine….

My disciples, however, understood Me because I often spoke in parables to them since My spirit enabled them to

understand it. I handed the bread to them with the Words ‘This is My flesh’, and I let them drink the wine with the

Words ‘This is My blood….’ and meant by this My Word with its strength, because I Myself Am the Word that became

flesh for you humans….

The significance of taking supper with Me, to be nourished by Me Myself with My Word which alone is the right food

for the soul, which helps the soul to come alive, has been completely misinterpreted by people who were satisfied by

merely figuratively walking to the table of the Lord. With such external actions they can never induce Me to unite with them if the first requirement, for the person to shape himself into love, has not been met. Secondly, the human being has

to desire with all his heart to hear My Word, only then will he desire to be fed, and only then can he be offered

nourishment for his soul. Then you ‘eat My flesh and drink My blood’.... The Word that became flesh will give Itself to him, and then food for his soul will flow to him in abundance, because his hunger and thirst will then be satisfied at My

table, he will be My guest, and I Myself will take supper with him, as I have promised….

When I descended to earth ‘the Word Itself’ came to earth.... I brought to people what they urgently needed, and because

I only lived on earth for a limited time I trained My disciples Myself by revealing Myself to them through the Word and

giving them the office to convey My Word to people on My behalf. By living in accordance with My Word people

would get into a position to enter into closest contact with Me and desire from Me the bread from heaven…. flesh and blood are living things, and only living things can awaken your dead souls…. Even My Word can be mere dead letters

to you, and then it will not be able to bring you to life….

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Only when you enjoy My flesh and blood.... only when you allow yourselves to be refreshed by Me at My table, will

you feel the life and the strength of what I offer you Myself, and then you will eat My flesh and drink My blood, and

you will recover and live eternally.

But the significance you humans have ascribed to My Words cannot satisfy any thoughtful person who is seriously

striving for truth, for it causes confusion and darkness, it gives no light…. Complying with external formalities will not result in spiritual progress. But where heartfelt love for Me and other people has created the conditions, a connection

with Me will be established and the process of communion need not be an empty formality any longer, because then I

Myself will give nourishment to the soul, and because it will now be revitalised by My Word which will give it

consciousness of life…. because My flesh and My blood will be enjoyed in truth by the person with whom I can take

true Communion…. Amen

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B.D. 7255, January 14, 1959

Scrutiny of spiritual values for divine origin…

You can only receive spiritual food directly from Me, therefore everything offered to you as ‘spiritual nourishment’ has

to be scrutinised for its origin. Indeed all presenters of the divine Word claim to offer the pure truth from Me but in that

case all presenters would also teach the same, there should be no different schools of thought or denominations all of

which, however, differ from each other in their teachings. Consequently it is absolutely necessary to examine which

teachings can be traced back to Me as the originator. And that requires thinking about… which is not to say that

thinking alone results into an undisputed judgment because that too might lead to different results of thought … intelligence alone is therefore not decisive for the judgment of the claim of truth in spiritual values. But at least the

desire for truth is a step forward, given that the human being actually thinks about whether he was offered the truth or a

misleading notion… Then the will for truth ensures his correct reasoning during the ‘investigation’ for truth, the person begins to critically review what is offered to him. And such a review is necessary because misguided spiritual values do

not have the sanctifying strength to heal the soul so that it can fully mature and feed itself with the food it needs. A

misguided doctrine is not the right food for the soul, on the contrary, it can even contribute that the soul remains ailing

and weak and yet does nothing to recover… because the human being simply fails to notice that he is given unsuitable

nourishment. Hence spiritual food has to originate from the kingdom to which the soul should return one day because it

is only a guest on this earth to become suitable for the spiritual kingdom. Therefore it has to become suitable by way of

food and drink, by way of nourishment which helps it to achieve a certain maturity of soul. And this maturity in turn is

necessary to enter the realm of light, which is the soul’s true home but which requires the soul to be in a state which it

must first accomplish on earth.

And now I Am offering the right food, and blessed are those who accept the heavenly bread directly from My hands,

blessed are those, who do not look elsewhere for nourishment, blessed are those, who drink from the source and refresh themselves for their pilgrim’s journey across the earth. Their souls will mature with certainty and become suitable for

the spiritual kingdom… but not the souls of those who accept misguided values, whose nourishment is impure and can

no longer claim to have been given by My hand. They will not derive much healing power from the food they accept and would do well to retrace the river’s flow to discover whether it leads to the right source… whether I Myself Am the

provider of what they are offered. And now they much rather take their nourishment from the source. Now the human

being is no longer satisfied with a diluted teaching, now he can also judge for himself what is beneficial for the

development of his soul because he can sense the truth when he is given strengthening food and stimulating drink, the

truth which he previously could barely feel.

The soul which is ailing and wants to get well needs healthy and strengthening nourishment. And no soul walking across

the earth is fully mature; each one needs support, it needs food and drink which enlivens and restores it, which returns it

to the state it once was but which can only be guaranteed by My hand… when the human being takes the direct path to Me and now allows himself to accept food and drink from Me. Then the soul will recover, it will approach its perfection

because what is given by Me can only be a blessing for the soul… because My love wants to help the soul to get the life

which it will never lose again… Amen

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Teachers and fighTeachers and fighTeachers and fighTeachers and fighters for Truthters for Truthters for Truthters for Truth

B. D. 5205, September 5, 1951

Fighters for truth.... Misguided teachings....

You task is to teach.... to spread the truth amongst people, to disperse the darkness which engulfs and prevents them

from feeling the benefit of the light. As long as his spirit is still in the dark the human being is taking the wrong path, for

the right path is called truth…. Truth only comes forth from Me and leads back to Me again. You humans should

understand that I cannot make any concessions concerning your beatitude…. Understand that I, the Eternal Truth,

cannot be tolerant of lies or errors…. Understand that I transmit the truth to earth because you need to know it, because

every day lived without truth is lost to you. Only truth portrays Me as I Am, and only a true representation of Me

enables you to love Me and thereby attain beatitude. Every wrong teaching is My adversary’s attempt to distort My

image and lessen your love for Me. Every wrong teaching is a good foundation for new misguided teachings, and soon you are faced by an inextricable thicket which no longer lets the light shine through to illuminate your spirit.

And therefore I prepare bearers of light for Myself who are to bring the truth to you humans, thus I first guide them into the truth and instruct them to bring illumination wherever it may be. I frequently confront misguided teachings with the

truth so that they can oppose each other, because I want to raise doubts in people’s hearts, because only a doubter will

start to think and look for truth. The teaching I gave to people on earth has been so infiltrated by error from the human

side that it no longer has a healing effect on people…. And therefore I want to purify it; therefore I give it to you in its

purest form again and make sure that this teaching is conveyed to people of good will. Anyone who wants to accept it

will gain utmost blessing, anyone who rejects it also has to accept the consequences....

Nevertheless, I need messengers to spread My pure truth on earth, I need disciples to whom I can say once again: go and

teach all nations…. Thus I need apostles who speak in My name on earth and proclaim My Word to people. And these should courageously confront the representatives of misguided teachings, because the office to which I have called them

is to unhesitatingly confront error with truth, to freely explain what damage is caused to the soul as long as it is wrongly

educated, as long as it is not living in truth which alone leads to Me. Although you humans can certainly strive to attain Me in spite of misguided teachings it is, however, a futile effort, for you need to understand that error and lie are not

Mine but My adversary’s doing and that every ascent is therefore prevented (made impossible). Furthermore, My

adversary’s works can never result in progress, only truth will help you to ascend.

I cannot make concessions and assess the error the same as the truth, I can only acknowledge good will and bless it by

making the truth available to you, but then you will also have to be receptive, you should not close your eyes to the truth

or your will is going to fail…. You have to long for Me and thus for truth, and then you will surely receive it. But do not assume that I agree with you if you want to hold on to your misconceptions. Anyone who receives the truth from Me is

also able to examine and recognise it as truth, for I do not demand the impossible from you. But anyone who receives it

from Me should also support it and not shy away from upholding it, he should not fear to appear too harsh since error cannot be emphasized harshly enough since it is My adversary’s work who is manifestly turning against Me....

Error and lies cause hopeless confusion and strip a person of all realisation; they are not light but come forth from

intense darkness. Therefore you should proceed boldly against error and untruth, because you have a weapon in truth

which will assure your victory. I have chosen you as My fighters, and you should fight with the sword of your tongue,

you should not be afraid to remove your fellow human being’s childish faith…. as it will not help a person to attain

perfection as long as it is wrong. But you can replace it with something good, pure and extremely effective, the truth,

which you have received from Me Myself. You will be able to give them more than you take away, you will seize their

soul from My adversary’s power and lead it back to Me…. Amen

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B.D. 5335, March 12, 1952

Special mission: Fighting for truth…. As a result of your willingness to serve, your mission is carried out conscientiously and you are true workers in My

vineyard. Therefore you were given tasks which are not suitable for everyone, which require a special willingness and

are of extreme importance…. You shall fight for truth…. It is certainly very necessary to preach love, since no-one can

gain beatitude without love, yet spiritually enlightened people can handle the preaching ministry, even if they have no

fighting spirit…. anyone can inspire love who has love himself…. The battle for truth, however, requires a special

aptitude, knowledge of truth and a fighting spirit which supports what is right and true, as well as an extremely strong

faith in My Word…. for a person can only endorse what he recognises as truth, what he does not doubt because it has been conveyed to him by the ‘Eternal Truth’.

In order to support truth convincingly he first has to be firmly convinced of it himself and this, in turn, requires a life of love.... so that My spirit can work in him. Hence his love for his fellow human being has to motivate him to convey the

truth to him too, and therefore he will proceed against falsehood and error with passion…. These are the kind of servants

I need on earth during the last days before the end…. And this mission is so important that I will help these servants

especially by preparing the field of their activity in every way…. by helping them in spiritual as well as in earthly

difficulties, by smoothing their path of earthly life, and by strengthening and encouraging them into ever more

wholehearted spiritual activity to make their mission successful. The presence of lies and error make it difficult for the

light to penetrate….

Where a field is covered by weeds, good seeds cannot develop and the field has effectively become worthless to its owner. And therefore My servants first have to remove the weeds, which is an extremely laborious task that requires

perseverance and strength…. Where lies and error have established themselves in human hearts, the cleansing process

can only be carried out with unyielding vigour…. the representative of truth must relentlessly uncover everything that contradicts the pure truth, consequently he himself has to own what he wants to give to his fellow human beings…. He

should not uphold the result of his personal thinking…. albeit it can also be true if he is enlightened by My spirit. Yet

the extraordinary work of My spirit within him should give him the self-confidence to take courageous action against error and falsehood. And, being enlightened, he will know where error and falsehood are present.... he will confront

them with pure truth and not allow himself to be disconcerted by opposition, by hostility or persecution, he will boldly

fight with the sword of his tongue and be fully convinced that he has the truth….

I need servants on earth who fear no-one and will do anything for their Lord…. I need people with a strong faith and a

firm will, with an absolute love for truth and a realisation of the immense spiritual hardship. And when I find them I will

prepare them first by conveying the truth to them and acquaint them with their mission. I will educate them to become

fearless advocates, I will enlighten their spirit Myself so that they will clearly recognise where and when their

intervention is necessary, where and when they are confronted by lies and error in order to publicly denounce it. Not every labourer in My vineyard can cope with this task, because the opposition has already grown too strong, because

people are happy to live in falsehood which allows them a comfortable life, whereas pure truth requires self-denial,

which they don’t want to muster. Knowing this, My servant therefore has to honestly reveal the consequences of incorrect thoughts and misguided teachings and should not shy away from telling the supporters of error the truth to

their faces. For good seed cannot be sown and flower until the field has been cleared of weeds, which are useless and

have to be relentlessly destroyed. Truth must and will prepare the way, and therefore I will bless every bearer of truth

and support his work for Me and My kingdom, just as I will smooth his earthly path so that he can carry out the work for

which I have chosen him…. Amen

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B.D. 5627, March 15, 1953

Fight with the sword of the tongue…. Truth….

Take up the fight against everything that is spiritually opposed to you, fight with the sword of the tongue, for it is a holy

battle.... you are fighters for Me and My kingdom. And whatever is spiritually opposed to you when you represent Me and My Word before the world is directed against Me. My pure Gospel shall be proclaimed to people, this is why I sent

My disciples into the world to teach all nations.... Only through the pure Gospel, only through the truth, were they able

to acquire the kingdom of God, for the truth proclaimed Me and showed the path to Me. As soon as the truth gets

distorted the path to Me also becomes uneven, I can no longer be properly recognised and people’s goal becomes

indistinct and will no longer be aspired to…. If the path to eternal life is to be shown to people again, then the truth must

pave the way to it first, people must be able to clearly and distinctly recognise Me, only then will they strive towards the

right goal again, they will be able to reach Me and attain beatitude and everlasting life….

I Myself Am the way, the truth and the life.... And you, whom I have chosen and educated as My disciples in the last days, you know the truth, you have received it from Me Myself, and you also know how dangerous error and lies are

and how much spiritual adversity people suffer who are not instructed in the truth. This is why error and lies are My

great enemy and also yours who live within the truth. And this is the enemy you shall fight…. Time and again I give you

this task that you shall argue for Me and My teaching, that you shall fight with the sword of your tongue. Although you

will find many enemies who will support their wrong doctrine with conviction, you will be able to counter their

misguided teachings with the pure truth and win every time, providing they are not obvious followers of the prince of

darkness and don’t really want light and truth, that they don’t fight for what they have accepted as right but only for themselves and their power.

Your sword will truly be razor-sharp, for you will be able to refute everything that is wrong, the Words will be put into your mouth, My spirit will guide you, thus I Myself will be at your side as your commander-in-chief and the truth will

be victorious indeed but can also cost the enemy many victims who would rather perish than abandon their error so as

not to lose their power. They are not interested in the pure truth; instead, as My adversary’s representatives they aim to darken the light with which they are confronted. Consequently they will be the victims of this battle which, however,

has to be fought out at the end of this time, for the prince of darkness will finally declare war on Me, he will try to

dethrone Me with lies and defamation. And then you shall face up to him, I want to speak through you to those who are

controlled by My adversary, and I also still want to show them the path which leads to the goal, to eternal life which,

however, can only be taken by means of the truth…. Amen

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B.D. 8814, June 18, 1964

Exposure of misguided teachings is God’s will....

It is My will that you should spread the truth, including the exposure of misguided teachings that have crept into My

Word. This can only be done by confrontation with the pure truth. You must always ask yourselves who guarantees that

My teachings, which are submitted to you, are the truth. You cannot simply accept human words as truth since you

know that they can also be influenced by My adversary who is always interested in plunging humanity into confusion. If

you really want to know the truth you will definitely receive the right answer providing you don’t want to live in error

and request the answer from Me which I certainly won’t deny you. And first I will tell you that you have free will which

may never be compelled.… I will point out to you that it may not be forced by either side, neither by good nor by evil influences, and that you are responsible as to how you have made use of this will. Hence every teaching which you are

required to accept.… as dogma.… is against My will. You have the freedom to determine for yourselves what you want

to believe and no human being can limit your religious freedom. You also have the right to evaluate different directions of faith and take what you agree with from all schools of thought.…

Therefore I will always speak to those people who want the pure truth because all others are not interested, they are

indifferent whether truth is presented to them or not. They are satisfied with teachings which have been added to My

Gospel by people but which could be recognised as completely absurd if people cared to investigate them. My adversary

has tied a solid knot by forcing people into ‘obedience’ which has eliminated every personal religious opinion because

no one dares to have their own point of view or believes it to be a great sin.… And here God’s will should come first.…

Therefore I draw your attention to free will which you would have to dispute if you submit yourselves to human law.…

The ‘working of the spirit’ in the human being, the only means of receiving pure truth, is also unknown to you. You do

not believe that ‘I Myself will guide you into truth’, and you reject all knowledge gained this way. But this alone is the

truth and exposes many misguided teachings. However, as long as you bow to Satan’s commandment that you may not freely accept a teaching which you have recognised as right, as long as you cannot liberate yourselves from something

that I Myself will never demand of you.… you will be slaves, completely without freedom. I Myself will force no

human being to accept the truth who does not recognise it as such since I have given the human being free will.

You so often raise the objection that human beings have to be educated in one direction of thought.… In that case you

should just keep to the two commandments which I Myself have taught people on earth.… Just teach them the

commandments of love and you will indeed be doing whatever human beings need to attain maturity of soul.… Because

now it will show who has the sincere will to live in love. And then he will experience the working of My Spirit within

himself too, he will be introduced to truth, to the knowledge of the meaning and purpose of creation, to the knowledge

of the meaning and purpose of life on earth, and above all to the motivation and significance of the act of Salvation by

Jesus Christ without Whom no human being can achieve blissfulness.

You, however, are not living Christians.… Christians, who are successors of Jesus and completely convinced of the

strength of the Salvation work.… Christians, who belong to My Church, whose founder I Am Myself.…otherwise you

would also hear the voice of My spirit who would inform you of the many misguided teachings which find acceptance in the world and which I will always and ever fight against…. Because only truth will lead you to Me, and only through

truth can you become blessed. And hence I will convey the truth to My helpers on earth again and again and at the same

time give them the task to spread the truth in the world because the human being must live in truth if he wants to

become happy.… Amen

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B.D. 8818, June 22, 1964

Battle against error….

You will have to fight hard against error for it has already infiltrated the whole world, and it could not be any different

since God's adversary rules and endows a person’s intellect in accordance with his own will. But since his thinking is already turned away from God he can be influenced by Satan who will always do so in order to spread darkness amongst

people…. in order to extinguish the light of truth wherever he succeeds. It would be so easy to live within pure truth if

all people let themselves be taught by God Himself, if He had access to all of them, in which case there would also be

unity in people’s thinking…. But as things stand there is great confusion, people are not aware that the purpose of their

earthly life concerns the maturing of their soul. And all concepts have become confused…. There are only a few who

can be offered the truth by God Himself so that their thinking is enlightened and they know the purpose of their earthly

life….

However, they are unable to get their message through and enlighten their fellow human being by offering them the pure truth from God and exposing the many misconceptions which darken their spirit. And not just there is the pure truth no

longer recognisable…. Even in circles which want to serve God the adversary works, where possible, through people

who still harbour traits similar to his own nature. They all strive for truth as well but do not approach God directly, they

try to obtain it by indirect means…. they associate with beings in the universe which also still belong to the adversary

and they lead people in the wrong direction again…. As long as God does not convey the truth to earth Himself, which

can also happen through beings of light possessing full knowledge and God’s consent to teach, the pure truth cannot be

offered to people and time and again they will have to come to terms with misguided teachings.

Darkness fights against the light, and due to people’s low spiritual level the darkness will triumph, for the end will be

the new banishment…. Yet as long as God still speaks to people he also instructs the recipients to work for Him and the distribution of truth and to convey His Word to all who accept it…. You need not be afraid even if you meet with

hostility, for He Himself is with you, He will guide you such that you impart the light to all those who urgently need it

and want to know the pure truth. You, who are taught by God and receive the spiritual knowledge either directly or through His messengers, are fully aware of the spoilt teaching which no longer corresponds to the Words of Jesus

Christ…. you were given the reasons why erroneous thinking has crept in…. But now you shall also pass on the pure

teaching as it was imparted to you.... for the truth must establish itself…. anyone who receives it must also spread it and

do everything possible to expose the error as the work of God’s adversary. You will be helped in every way, for since it

is His will, He will direct your thoughts in a way that people will receive what they need for the benefit of their soul. For

error does not lead to Him and even if people entertain misguided thoughts…. even if they are good and do not sin

consciously…. they will not gain beatitude in the beyond until they have recognised the pure truth and freed themselves

from error and lies, for God Himself is eternal truth and He can only be found through truth. Error and falsehood can

never ever lead a person to the goal…. to union with Him, to glorious everlasting life…. Amen

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B.D. 8832, July 19, 1964

The task of fighting misguided teachings….

It is your task to counteract misguided teachings, and I Am giving you the proclamations in a way that they are clearly

understandable to everyone so that they recognise for themselves the absurdity of what has been presented to them, as long as they are willing. I Am concerned for those who have slight doubts already and want to convey the truth to them.

But those who do not want to let go of their church can be given the purest truth and will not recognise it because they

have no desire for truth. Even so, it is good if they get to know your opinion that nothing will benefit their soul’s

maturity if it is not based on the principle of love. And while you still have the freedom of speech you should use it and

speak quite openly.... you should voice your opinion about wrong teachings and always know that I Am the Giver (of

truth) Myself, that you work with My knowledge which gives you every right to support it. For you work with a gift

from above which already has the inherent strength to bestow realisation on a person who does not resist it, even if you

only succeed in informing a person of the error, for the knowledge of it can still stimulate doubts. For once their belief is

shaken much will have been gained already.

Pure truth gives brightest illumination to someone who seriously desires it.... but only to him; and he will not reject

these explanations either, and thus I intend to help those who are receptive to it. And there are many who are not content

with the traditional spiritual knowledge they are being offered but who are aware of a Deity Who gave them life and

Who also takes care that people will reach the goal set for them during earthly life…. who also know that there can only

be one truth and that this must therefore come forth from the One Who is the Eternal Truth Itself. As soon as they realise

this it will be easy to convey the information to them for they won’t resist long in accepting it because they will recognise that it originates from the relevant Authority.

Hence you should frankly expose every error since it cannot lead people to beatitude; on the contrary, nothing good can come from it because…. if the opportunity were offered to them…. they would reject the pure truth. Consequently, what

you receive from Me is intended for distribution but how and in what form you offer the spiritual knowledge shall be

left up to you since every person reacts differently, yet whatever you do in order to guide people into truth will be blessed by Me…. Amen

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B.D. 8555, July 11, 1963

Accepting truth is a commitment.... Errors....

You are supposed to spread the truth.... That is the task you accepted voluntarily and which you should now put into

practice if you want to serve Me as My disciples in the last days. But to spread the truth also includes fighting against

error as soon as an error becomes evident to you. I keep telling you that you cannot be tolerant where it concerns the

pure truth from Me, that you should support it firmly and not, due to alleged tolerance, allow for a continued existence

of error …. You should denounce it as error and not shy away from proceeding against it, because it is My adversary’s

doing and will never serve to provide benefit for the human soul.

And especially you, who recognise the error because you have been instructed in the truth by Me Myself…. should not

shy away from it, because you have the right to fight it. You are sent by Me amongst people as bearers of light with an ample supply of spiritual knowledge that justifies your actions against error because you are able to refute and decry it

as a work of My adversary…. He is at work where error exists because only purest truth originates from Me, but he

constantly tries to undermine the pure truth.

The human being has free will which will be seized by the direction of its choice. If he looks for contact with Me he will

be given pure truth indeed, and he should work with it too, i.e. he should pass it on to his fellow human beings whose

thoughts remain misguided as long as they are not educated by Me Myself as the eternal truth.

My adversary will try to work in the same manner and will also be successful with people who are not aware of the great responsibility, who do not understand what it means to receive purest truth and to pass it on…. who do not fear error as

it should be feared and who therefore do not inwardly resist when My adversary tries to convey error to them. My

adversary will also disguise himself as an angel of light but he will not be able to deceive you, My bearers of light. You will recognise his activity and then should also take action against it, since this is the task which you have volunteered to

do for Me.

Wherever you recognize wrong thoughts you should enlighten your fellow human beings about the pure truth, you

should help them to let go of the error and realise what is right. Show them their wrong opinion clearly and openly, so

that they, too, will arrive at the truth and deliver themselves from My adversary, who is still able to influence them

because he still somehow has a claim on those he plunged into error due their similar inclinations …. It is not advisable

to abandon such a misguided person, rather, he should be helped to recognise his error and agree to accept the truth,

only then will he derive a benefit from it himself, and only then will he, too, be a true vineyard labourer for Me.

A bearer of truth cannot be tolerant and leave his fellow human beings in error due to kindness…. He should clearly

point out that the other person does not think correctly, that he was influenced by My adversary irrespective of how the error was imparted to him.... For the adversary will always be able to interfere with a person’s thoughts who is not so

intimately in contact with Me that I can protect him…. But it is certain that I Myself do not transmit spiritual knowledge

to a person which does not correspond to the truth, and this has to be clear to the person, otherwise My love, wisdom and might could in fact be doubted…. It follows that a direct transmission of My Word to a person cannot have taken

place if it is associated with error….

You humans cannot be careful enough and always have to fear the adversary’s influence as long as you do not give

yourselves to Me completely and ask for My protection, which I will truly grant everyone who sincerely wants to live in

utmost truth and pass it on to his fellow human beings in turn, if they are destined by Me for this truth…. Error is true

poison for the human soul, consequently you should take action against it and repeatedly oppose it with truth, since you received it from Me because it is necessary that light should shine into the darkness…. Your free will allows the influx

of misguided thoughts, for if you would inwardly resist them in the awareness only to serve the pure truth, misguided

mental concepts could not become established in you…. But I can never acknowledge that something which contradicts the pure truth has originated from Me…. You therefore should only ever make sure to spread purest truth and declare

uncompromising war on error, and you will act in accordance with My will and on My behalf…. Amen

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B.D. 8676, November 17, 1963

Purification of Christ’s spoilt teaching.…

The reason for the present transmission of My Word by which I send the pure truth to earth is the very spoilt teaching that is proclaimed on earth as the doctrine of Christ.… It is no longer the pure Gospel as brought by Me through Jesus to

the people.... His Words have been subjected to many changes, a lot is no longer understood properly and much is also

misinterpreted.… Over a period of time the Word, which is described as ‘My Word’, has caused differences of opinions

which resulted in divisions amongst those who campaigned for the truth of their own points of view.… Words with a

spiritual meaning were interpreted in a worldly sense, and people hold on to this tenaciously because they simply cannot

understand the spiritual meaning any longer. The result is a structure of faith whose teachings completely diverge from

what I Myself brought to the people when I lived on earth.… As a result many people are no longer spiritually

approachable at all because their intellect refuses to accept teachings which they regard as obvious error, which has

indeed crept into the truth and which is now only upheld as truth by fanatics.… Such a distorted doctrine has to be purified if it is to be of any benefit for people’s souls.

Hence this intention is the basis for My new direct revelation, which can be recognised as divine revelation by every

willing person. But only the willing person will accept and acquire the pure truth again, and he will be able to see how

and where humanity was moved by misconception until now. However, even this process of transmitting the pure

truth.... of correcting misguided teachings.… can only be accomplished in a completely normal way. No unusual signs

may decisively or forcefully influence the faith of other human beings.... Consequently, this task is not associated with strange phenomena, the transmission from above takes place in a most natural manner whereby a person hears with his

spiritual ear what I Myself tell him and he transcribes My Word as he receives it from Me. Thus there is available

evidence now and the person cannot be wrongly accused of confusion, self-deception or a deliberate literary work with the intention of deceiving or startling other people. The process of receiving spiritual messages cannot be denied

because there is written evidence for it. And yet every individual human being has the option to accept it as credible or

to reject it in order to retain his religious liberty.

However, the misguided spiritual knowledge which has crept into people’s thoughts urgently needs to be examined and

exposed as wrong and useless or dangerous for the development of the soul.... Because error can never lead to Me, the

eternal truth.… As a result, the majority of people are taking the path which leads away from Me, and these people shall

receive clarification, providing they want it and are willing to accept it.... And this task by the person I have chosen will

be supported by Me in every way, because it is a necessary work to combat My adversary’s activity, who will always

fight the truth by seeking to contaminate it with error in order to prevent people from attaining the light of

understanding. Therefore I will indeed bless everyone who contributes to this important work by wanting to spread the

spiritual knowledge, conveyed to earth by Me, among his fellow human beings. For truth is a light which should shine for all who want to take the right path to Me, to their Father of eternity, Who can, however, never be found by way of

misguided teachings.… For this reason war has to be declared on error, as well as on the one who has brought error into

the world. And yet, truth will only gain entry into human hearts where there is a desire for it.... Because this desire proves that they also desire Me Myself and want to become free from the one who would like to keep them in spiritual

darkness.… They shall receive the pure truth, and therefore the teaching of Christ as it is currently preached to people

shall be cleansed, and My uncontaminated Word shall be made accessible to people once again, so that they can become

blessed, because only truth comes from Me and only truth leads back to Me again.… Amen

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B.D. 8877, October 30, 1964

Spoilt spiritual knowledge has to be corrected….

You humans will not succeed in refuting the pure truth, you can always rely on what you received through My spirit.

For even if the Word was mentally transmitted to you it is and will always remain My Word which you would be unable to hear had you not first shaped yourselves such that ‘My spirit’ can pour into you. For then your thoughts will be

guided by Me as well, you will be unable to have wrong thoughts if you hand yourselves over to Me first and appeal to

Me to receive the truth…. However, it is a different situation if a person does not fulfil the prerequisites which allow the

working of My spirit within him…. In that case he cannot be certain as to whether his thinking is misguided, as to

whether his thoughts are going astray. Thus it is essential for you humans to check first as to if and to what extent one

can speak of spiritual activity…. which can be easily established when hitherto unknown knowledge was conveyed to a

person…. knowledge which reveals the secrets of creation and explains the meaning and purpose of his earthly

existence to him….

If, however, this information was gained from books.... if a person studies existing spiritual knowledge…. if he thus

analyses knowledge, he cannot claim to be ‘filled by My spirit’. His thinking can certainly be correct if he had acquired

the necessary prerequisites, but then the spiritual knowledge, which came to earth through the working of My spirit, will

not be changed either. But if such changes had taken place and I correct them Myself, then time and again the question

has to be asked ‘Who is enlightened by God’s spirit?’ I don’t educate bearers of truth for Myself without imparting the

pure truth to them. And once I called someone to stand up for the truth I also gave him the task of accepting knowledge

from Me and of considering himself a recipient of the pure truth. For I truly know where error has crept in and will always correct a misguided teaching. Yet one thing is certain…. My adversary has succeeded in plunging you back into

darkness, he has succeeded in deceiving you…. who believe to live in truth because you accepted it from one of My

devoted servants…. and to present his own ideas to you which you now eagerly advocate and thereby make it difficult for Me to bring you the pure truth again….

Error will not lead you to the goal.... and if you do not wholeheartedly desire the truth you will not be able to detach yourselves from erroneous thoughts either. Your vision is clouded, it did not remain a matter of the simple spreading of

My Word through a spiritually awakened servant…. so many unenlightened co-workers played a part in it. They

wilfully added explanations or changed the original text and thereby did not help but harm the work.... And due to their

free will I was unable to prevent them from doing so. The simple, clear Word which was intended to make people happy

lost its value as soon as people started to change the original texts and brought them into line with common linguistic

usage…. You humans should take the length of time into consideration and the fact that My adversary’s work during the

last days will always relate to the amendment of My Word. Consider that he avails himself of the worldly spirit in order

to captivate people…. consider that only the spiritually awakened were able to guard this knowledge and that protection

from above was only guaranteed to these servants…. who would then have kept to the truth…. but that no such guarantee existed with worldly co-workers who therefore still had worldly interests and also turned these new

revelations into a ‘worldly issue’.

This is why I always chose people who had withdrawn from the world to whom I could reveal Myself, because rising

above the world is the fundamental requirement in order to be able to convey My revelations to earth. And they never

had to worry about their earthly needs. If a person is so devoted to Me that he supports the spreading of these revelations

they will be his last resort as a source of income because he knows that I take care of him Myself…. And as long as a

‘vessel of My spirit’ has this attitude it will also distribute purest truth, for since it is spiritually awake itself it will reject

every misguided teaching…. Yet how long will spiritual knowledge stay pure once it passes through human hands again

which are not as pure and as willing to serve Me? Therefore I have to pour My spirit time and again into a clean vessel

so that errors are exposed which I have to correct again. And if I now tell you that even the Book of Books is no longer

pure and unadulterated you can also count on the fact that new revelations will not stay so pure that they would not need any correction. And if the error consists of the fact that My perfection is questionable, then My adversary’s influence

can be clearly recognised who, in the last days, will make every effort to stifle people’s love for Me, which alone unites

you with Me now and forever…. Amen

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B.D. 8915, January 22, 1965

The vineyard labourers’ duty is to take action against error....

Your task is to stand up for the truth you receive from Me. If I inform you of things which are erroneously presented

otherwise you are duty bound to support the imparted spiritual knowledge and not quietly tolerate it if you are being

opposed by misconceptions. I emanate the light of truth to earth precisely because I want to invalidate falsehood and

error, since they are a danger to people if they continue to be ignored and thus exist side by side with the truth. Try to

understand that it is not irrelevant whether the truth is bestowed upon you or not, try to understand that you cannot find

the path to Me with an error and that you will have to discard it.... if not on earth then in the kingdom of the beyond….

and as long as you do not know the complete truth there cannot be any bliss for you.

Therefore I also require fighters who always highlight the truth, who do not shy away from informing their fellow

human beings of their knowledge, so that everyone can chose between error and truth…. You don’t know how much error exists in the world, but I know and therefore cannot tacitly tolerate it. But since I do not compel any person into

accepting the truth I can only educate fighters for Myself who will speak on My behalf and also fight against error

where it becomes distinctly evident…. For as a rule it hides behind a mask which conceals My adversary….

The greatest evil consists of the fact that he works in the same way in order to extinguish Me and My light…. This is

why it cannot be fought rigorously enough, and anyone who knows himself to own the pure truth should always uphold

it, because he receives a most important gift of grace which makes his battle considerably easier, for he can substantiate

everything and need not be afraid that My adversary will be superior to him, for faced by the light he will always give

up the struggle. And I give you light in abundance so that you can easily recognise the origin of the spiritual knowledge which opposes the light from above. And thus you must not tacitly tolerate it, for that which opposes the truth is a lie,

and I declare war on untruth. People don’t know in what mass of misguided spiritual information they live. And anyone

who cannot free himself from it on the basis of the pure truth conveyed to him will be burdened by it on entering the kingdom of the beyond, unless his degree of love will assure him instant realisation, yet in that case he will already be

able to recognise the error in his earthly life and dismiss everything that does not correspond to the truth. For love

enlightens him and he will instinctively refuse to accept wrong spiritual knowledge.

The closer it gets to the end the more supposed ‘Word-recipients’ will show up, and they will all want to spread their

wrong messages, and then it is important to differentiate between the spirits, for they will include truly satanic

messengers who work on instruction of the one who wants to corrupt the world and tries to completely prevent people’s

path of return to Me. But you, who want to serve Me, will recognise them and know what to make of these messages.

You should never accept these messages for the sake of tolerance, for anyone who does not fight against falsehood

allows himself to be ensnared by it, it will confuse his thinking and he will no longer be able to recognise the pure truth.

And it is My adversary’s intention to also create spiritual confusion in those who want to separate themselves from him

in order to get control over them again…. For no means is too evil and no cunning too despicable if he is to reach his goal…. Amen

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B.D. 4733, September 7, 1949

Tolerance....

Tolerance on a spiritual level is inappropriate when it involves defending the truth, highlighting misguided teachings

and combating lies. Then a straight path has to be followed, no concessions can be made against one’s own conviction as soon as a human beings works on My behalf and thus is also instructed in the truth. Truth, however, is and will

always remain the same, and if I educate a person Myself, then he will also be able to intellectually justify what he

represents as truth to his fellow human beings. If then the other person’s opinion does not agree with this explanation,

then the advocate of My truth should not be tolerant and give in or accept the other person’s opinion against his

innermost conviction. Such tolerance would be the same as a denial of what the bearer of truth has received from Me.

For he recognises the error and will not contradict it.

As soon as people’s opinions differ they don’t all have the truth, and only that person’s opinion is correct, who has

received the truth from Me Myself, who thus, after heartfelt prayer, is firmly convinced of his mental concept because he was taught by My spirit. This, understandably, presupposes that the person believes in Me, keeps My commandments

and desires to know the truth. This person can consider himself to have been educated by Me and also be able to

convincingly uphold his ideas to his fellow human beings. Anyone who is clearly recognisable as a bearer of truth, who

receives his knowledge through the unusual process of the inner Word, can justifiably reject every other doctrine and

denounce it, for it is his duty to uphold the truth he has received from Me directly. Tolerance towards someone who

thinks otherwise makes him unworthy of the immense gift of grace he receives from Me, for he does not value it if he

does not support it.

Hence, a bearer of truth should never be accused that he is intolerant towards supporters of misguided teachings, for

only truth will result in people’s spiritual progress. Only truth will lead to Me, to eternal life in bliss, and only truth results in knowledge and thus means light for the being that is embodied as a human being on earth. Therefore it would

be wrong to let a fellow human being live with misconceptions due to consideration in order to be regarded as tolerant.

It would be an admission of personal uncertainty and doubt of the truth the person is expected to uphold. Furthermore, it would be half-hearted work for Me and My kingdom, which would entitle other people to doubt the mission as well as

the source of the spiritual knowledge, which is not being as eagerly endorsed as a divine gift of grace should be

endorsed. For this reason I choose strong-willed people as bearers of truth for Myself, who are also able to represent My

Word intellectually and who neither fear the world nor My false servants. And I choose courageous fighters who will

fight on My behalf with the sword of the tongue wherever the truth is being distorted…. Amen

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B.D. 1567, August 14, 1940

Confess Jesus Christ before the world…. Divine protection.…

Whoever declares his faith in Jesus Christ puts his life into God’s hands, even if the world and its power threaten him

with a most bitter battle indeed, since the mere articulation of the divine name emits strength. The Saviour’s love blesses

all who give themselves to Him, i.e. who believe in Him and keep His commandments. Jesus’ life serves only a few

people as a guiding principle of their life. However, anyone who tries to follow the Lord in all things will soon become

enlightened and will not want to renounce the divine Saviour and Redeemer because His love expresses itself so

comprehensively that it perpetually increases the human being’s longing for the Father in Heaven. It is like an unceasing rain which soaks the parched soil with His indispensable Word that comes from above to the people on earth

and forever urges them to acknowledge Him, Whom the world wants to deny. And the human being who so obviously

feels God’s strength should support this Word, he should speak frankly and freely about everything the Lord has taught on earth Himself.

First the person should do everything to prepare the human heart to receive the truth, which is mentally conveyed to the

person from above. The Lord Himself says ‘Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My

Father.…’ Thus Christ gave people the duty to defend His name so that anyone who does may likewise receive divine

protection when he requests help from the Heavenly Father. Whoever upholds the divine name will be involved in the

fight against Him, and the world will attempt to remove every memory of His activity on earth from people. People will

be threatened with harsh penalties which are intended to undermine the faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour of the world….

And the human being will have to struggle considerably in order to stand firm against all suggestions of evil minded influences. Only that person will be strong and free enough to speak on behalf of Jesus Christ who, in faithful prayer to

the Lord, conveys his distress and worry and asks for protection and strength. Because the Lord grants this to all of His

defenders when they confess Him as the divine Lord and Redeemer to the people.

Here the divine might will provide visible proof that it is stronger than worldly power, it will guard each earthly child

irrespective how it confesses the Lord and Saviour. Consequently the human being need not worry that he could be harmed by the earthly power if he is a supporter of the true Christianity. Jesus Christ can never be eradicated from the

world of hatred and heartlessness even when the fight is openly conducted. Anyone who loves his earthly life will find

his heart beating anxiously and will observe the worldly power’s law and hence betray his Lord and Saviour for the sake

of earthly success. However, anyone who does not fear death will openly confess the name of Him, Who has redeemed

the world from its sins. And worldly power wants him to do penance for this.… But the Father in heaven shields the

earthly child with His hands and to the adversary it now appears as if superhuman forces are fighting against him, and

by the unmistakable calm in spite of threats he recognises the strength of the divine Word and the loving care of the

heavenly Father Who protects His Own if they confess Him before the world.… Amen

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B.D. 1762, January 2, 1941

Battle against Christ’s teachings…. Persecution of those who confess Him.…

It is indisputably better to confess before the world to belong to the church of Christ than to be subject to the adversary’s

will and to deny Christ. For whoever is powerful in the world has nevertheless no power to stop what God will send

against him. Whoever denies Christ, denies God, even if he mentions His name as proof of his faith.… For if he is

profoundly faithful he will also recognise the Deity of Christ, because then he has love and love affirms Jesus Christ as

the Son of God and Saviour of the world. This insight is the result of profound faith. However, unbelief prevents the

human being from recognising the Deity of Jesus. Therefore, where Jesus Christ is rejected there is evidence of the human beings’ unbelief and such people belong to the world which openly opposes Jesus Christ. And the world will

demand to reject Him completely, it wants His name no longer mentioned, it wants to erase all memory of Him and raise

subsequent generations in ignorance; it wants to destroy everything that refers to Him and thereby suppress the knowledge of Him and His works. And thus the battle erupts.…

Those who follow Him will defend His name, confess Him to the world and readily speak on His behalf and of His

teachings.… They will be pursued and yet patiently endure persecution for His name’s sake, they will receive strength

from above and the more they are attacked the more eagerly they will proclaim His teachings. God’s power will visibly

be with them, his love protects them and the mighty of the world will have to realise that their power is futile. They will

have to acknowledge a greater power Whose work is evident. They become outraged and now strive to impose their will

by any means and for that reason they shall be punished by God’s hand.… For when human beings arrogantly want to

fight against God Himself they are completely controlled by the adversary and then God will put an end to this…. Hence the time will come when laws upon laws are endorsed and people will be placed into a position to choose for or against

Christ.… The supporters of the world will let go of Him for mere rewards; they will gain earthly advantages and sell

their soul. And many will give up what should be their holiest possession.… the divine Redeemer and Saviour of the world.…

Yet those who suffer persecution for His name’s sake will be blessed a thousand fold because He Himself will approach them and lead them into battle and victory will be where He Himself is in command. And even if it seems as if the

enemies’ intentions might succeed, the battle only lasts a short time, but those who fight for the name of Jesus will be

victorious.… Amen

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B.D. 2880, September 13, 1943

Reminder to inform people of the battle of faith….

There will be a great desire for spiritual nourishment as soon as the earth’s upheaval has taken place but it will merely be temporary; motivated by the serious hardship people are at first willing recipients and God’s Word shall provide

them with comfort and strength. They will certainly recognise it as the Word of God, they will be faithful, but only for a

short period of time. Because the world and its demands become more important again and they forget their hardship,

thus they also forget Him Who allowed this hardship to happen. Their thoughts and aspirations only seek to re-establish

the old life-style and they find it inconvenient to observe the commandments presented to them by the Word of God.

Consequently people agree with the actions against the faith and its followers and only a small group will hold on to the

Word; only a few people will stand firm against all confrontations and remain loyal to God and the faith. And yet the

earlier desire shall be fulfilled to the utmost extent; God’s Word shall be offered to human beings wherever possible so

that many people will receive knowledge of it, since during the subsequent battle of faith everyone will once again be divinely reminded of it. The believers will be full of strength and accomplish extraordinary deeds, and find the strength

for this entirely in their profound faith.…

And even disbelievers will be able to recognise the power of faith because they had been introduced to the teachings of

Christ beforehand and much becomes clear to them as they witness the proof of what they had been told. God leaves no

option unused, He leaves no stone unturned, and wherever people can yet be helped He will help them, providing they

are willing. And God will instruct many servants to speak in accordance with His will where it concerns the spreading of His teachings and to inform people of the forthcoming event. The battle of faith is unavoidable and will be conducted as

never before. And the stronger people adhere to their faith the more brutal the adversary will proceed to annihilate it

completely. But the believers have great strength too and can endure much, because God Himself will give them strength, because He strengthens them with His Word and because He will always be with those who defend Him and

the faith before the world. You should tell people of this in advance, you should inform them of the coming battle of

faith, you should tell them about the strength of faith and the strength of the believers whose leader in the battle against the world is Jesus Christ Himself.… And many from the opponent’s side will join, many will become faithful in view of

the things which take place.… For God Himself will work through His servants on earth in order to save what will not

entirely oppose Him.... Amen

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B.D. 3184, July 9, 1944

God permits the battle of faith.…

People will experience serious psychological conflicts as a result of worldly laws, and this time is not far away. They will be required to openly declare their faith, and God allows this to happen because it is necessary that people should

give serious thought to the question of their salvation which they had disregarded so far. He allows them to be put under

pressure by the earthly power, to experience serious difficulties due to their faith, so that they have to make a clear

decision regarding their belief. He allows every human being his freedom, that is, God will not force anyone to

acknowledge Him if he is not warned by his inner voice to remain loyal to God and thus feels the inner urge to confess

Him before the world. God will indeed allow this inner voice and observer to speak where there is still doubt and the

human being is weak-willed. He will help all those who are hitherto undecided, He will send them devout people and

through them touch their hearts, He will come close to everyone in His Word, in suffering and in need; He will reveal

Himself to them, and with the good intention to recognise God and to fulfil His will a human being will also know how he should decide, because then the beings of light, who care for him, will also guide his thoughts right. But many people

will discard what should be their most precious possession.… their faith in Jesus Christ as the divine Saviour.…

They will choose the world without hesitation and cause serious distress to their souls. And God cautions them in

advance by confronting them Himself through His servants.… by teaching them to know the strength of faith and thus

giving them remarkable evidence which can result in faith if they are not entirely opposed to God. And for that reason

He will allow the battle against the faith, He will allow it to assume shapes which indicate the depravity of people because He Himself wants to speak during this time in order to save those people who need a convincing reason to

believe. Therefore He will not prevent the earthly power when it openly advances against people who confess God. And

then people are forced to make a decision, and this decision is vitally important for the souls as it will determine the soul’s fate in eternity, whether it will awaken to life or to death after it departs from this earth. To help people make the

right decision God will try beforehand to make them understand, He will try to influence them through His earthly and

spiritual servants who will help them if they are uncertain what they should do. But He will not force their will and therefore it is necessary that people are compelled by earthly means to make a decision in order that the freedom of their

actions is guaranteed.… Amen

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B.D. 4429, September 7, 1948

Antichrist.... Brutal laws....

A visible power will control you which will refuse to acknowledge an invisible Power.... And this power will provoke your last test of faith, for it will be fighting against Me and will also want to educate you into becoming My adversaries.

And this is why you will require your entire strength of faith in order to resist it. Many will bow down under the sceptre

of the ruler promising them golden mountains but will demand the surrender of all faith in return, of all spiritual

knowledge, the acknowledgement of his power and sovereignty and the denial of an eternal Creator, of a loving and

righteous God, Who will call people to account one day for their will, thoughts and actions. And thus he will oppose

Me, and although the last battle will not last long it will be very difficult for My believers because they will be placed

under inhuman pressure which will make professing Christ incredibly difficult for them. Yet the knowledge of the pure

truth, My obvious help and the hope of My coming and life in paradise on the new earth will give you the strength to

persevere and to defy every onslaught on part of the worldly authority. You have My Word that I will not let you remain in adversity, you can be firmly convinced of that. I know My Own and will support every one of them if only they rely

on Me, if only they believe in Me. But the one who will come will dazzle people with his intellectual sharpness, his

comprehensive knowledge, with his easy-going conduct towards other rulers, and they all will grant him the right of

organisational activities with the ultimate goal of displacing all spiritual schools of thought.

For he will try to portray spiritual striving as the wrongly applied energy of life, which should be used for the

construction and improvement of earthly requirements. And he will find followers everywhere, who will acknowledge him and likewise proceed against all spiritual work. And thus My servants on earth will have a difficult time. At first the

intention will be to take all means which enable you to be spiritually active away from you, but you will also be

individually persecuted and will have to give account to the earthly authorities about your convictions and activities. Furthermore, you will also be plunged into earthly hardship as a result of laws which seem, and indeed are,

extraordinarily hard and brutal for the believer if I was not going to manifestly stand by you and sustain you by spiritual

means. And you will feel My obvious help, you will sense that I Am with you and know the hardship of every individual person which I will remedy when the time is right. The Antichrist will come and with him all the signs of the

approaching end. For as soon as the battle of faith commences you can be certain that the end will not be long in

coming, because the battle of faith will be waged with such severity and so brutally that I Myself will have to come in

order to rescue My Own from deepest distress and lift them up into the realm of peace…. And then the last Judgment

will happen and My adversary’s power will be broken for a long time…. Amen

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B.D. 4566, February 14, 1949

Don’t fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul (Matthew 10:28)….

Don’t fear those who can physically harm you but only the one who tries to pull your souls into the abyss. Yet you can even face him with courage if you call Me to your side, in which case he will not be able to do anything to you because

then you have a shield that makes you invincible, thus your soul will be protected from all danger. The world, however,

will badly oppress you and the authorities will try to destroy you, because they will rise up against anyone loyal to Me

since they don’t want to acknowledge Me as Lord and therefore demand all power and veneration for themselves alone.

You will be badly oppressed and can nevertheless face every battle undauntedly and without worry, because I will go

into battle with you as your commander-in-chief and fight on your behalf just as you fight on My behalf and for My

name. And victory will be yours…. Do all you can to attain an ever deeper and steadfast faith, then you will also lose all

fear of those who can only kill the body. If you pay more attention to the life of your soul you will also remain

completely unaffected by everything of a worldly nature, enticements and threats.... you will only live according to My will, and if the demands of the worldly powers oppose My will, you will recognise them as Satan’s emissaries and stop

being afraid of them, for your faith will give you the strength to resist them; then you will no longer dread the world and

its advocates but increasingly more side with Me as the One, Whom you fear and love at the same time.

Anyone of weak faith will be anxious and also observe earthly proceedings with worry; I Am not constantly present to

anyone of weak will. He still pays too much attention to the world, albeit he does not desire it he will nevertheless not

remain unimpressed, it will still occupy his mind, it will still hold him back from spiritual striving. And he will be afraid and hard pressed by the earthly powers. I would like to help him dispose of his fear, I would like to call to Him: You

will always find a Saviour in Me if only you have complete faith in My love and My power. I can achieve everything,

and I want whatever is beneficial for you. Believe this and know that I will always stand by your side when you are threatened by Satan’s advocates who want to push you away from Me. And once you have become aware of My

presence you will lose all fear and courageously confront the enemy. You will be strong due to your faith in Me and will

no longer fear your physical death because you will know that death does not exist for those who believe in Me…. that therefore your body can be killed but never your soul, but that I will also protect your physical life as long as your hour

has not yet come…. Amen

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B.D. 4635, May 11, 1949

Battle of faith.... Publicly professing Christ.... ‘I will shorten the days....’ (Matthew 24:22)

You will still have to endure a harsh battle when you have to confess Me before the world. You will be expected to renounce all earthly possessions completely, you will be dispossessed and have to do the kind of work that seems to go

beyond your strength, you will be prevented from doing what is important to you, you will be pursued and pressured

without reason and will find no peace from the pursuits of your enemies who are likewise My enemies and thus fear no

avenging hand above themselves. And you will wonder why I allow all this to happen without calling them to account,

but you will also be surprised that you are not as deeply affected as it seems to the world, so that you will nevertheless

remain cheerful and bright and full of confidence and hope that the hour of retribution will come for you as well, and

that even these pursuits will come to an end one day. And thus you will speak out ever more convinced on behalf of My

name and confess Me before the world. And I will shorten the days so that you will become blessed…. Always

remember My promise that it will only last a short time before you will be delivered from the hands of your tormentors, remember that you belong to My chosen ones after all, whose every suffering will be rewarded for their loyalty’s sake;

and remember that through your confession lost souls shall still be won and saved for Me and My kingdom just before

the destruction of earth. And for the sake of these souls take the cross upon yourselves which, admittedly, will weigh

you down but it will nevertheless be bearable since I will also provide you with exceptional strength. The battle of faith

will be difficult and therefore you already have to prepare yourselves in advance by strengthening your souls with the

right nourishment, by accepting My Word and with it the strength with which I have blessed My Word. For when you

accept My Word you unite with Me and therefore have to be permeated by strength and thus will be and remain resistant against your enemies until the end…. until I will come and deliver you from all adversity…. Amen

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B.D. 4831, June 2, 1950

Professing Jesus before the world.... Voicing the name of Jesus....

Profess Me and don’t hesitate to frankly mention My name when your attitude regarding your faith and Me is demanded of you. For your heartfelt avowal draws Me Myself to your side and all fear will leave you, you will speak candidly and

without inhibition about matters of faith, about My teaching, about My working in you and on your behalf and also

about the future. Then you will pull down a wall, a wall of silence, behind which much can be concealed and which is

therefore suitable for covering-up the truth. Speak fearlessly wherever it may be, for I Myself will take you to where you

will be asked to profess Me. Not much more time will pass until you, who still believe in a God, in life after death, will

be mocked by the world, for increasingly more worldly people fall away and everything that is neither visible nor

tangible is unreal to them. These worldly people will develop an open enmity towards the believers who, as a constant

target, can barely protect themselves against the animosities. Nevertheless, it should not make you fearful, it must

happen like this because the time is fulfilled when a separation between My Own and the supporters of My adversary takes place, who aims to stifle all faith in Me and by whom they are enslaved. You should know that I Myself Am with

you, both in spirit as well as visibly, where necessary.... Know, that you are far stronger than they are, even if there are

more of them. For as long as I fight by your side no-one will ever be able to defeat you. Yet you must openly and

confidently stand up for Me, so that the enemy will recognise Who provides you with strength, because it will be

obvious that you receive exceptional help. Simply voice My name with complete faith if you are being pressured,

confront your assailants with My name, call upon Me with your heart and mouth and fear no earthly power.... and I will

provide strength to all those of good will, to all who want to be My Own, as I have promised. In the name of your divine Redeemer you possess a weapon which truly cannot be surpassed, because all My love belongs to every person who

manages to find faith in Me during the last days.... And anyone who professes Me before the world also proves his

unwavering faith to Me and I will take particular care of him. Soon you will be forced to confirm or reject Me, then don’t fear the worldly power, instead, merely remember My Words: Whosoever therefore shall profess Me before men,

him I will also profess before My Father.... You will be forced to make a decision for Jesus Christ or against Him. Then

gladly profess Him before the world, for you can only reach Me through Jesus, only through faith in His act of Salvation and His help can you come close to Me, the Father, Whose love wants to unite itself with everyone as it united with

Jesus, Who redeemed the world from sin on account of His infinite love.... Amen

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B.D. 4947, August 6, 1950

Antichrist.... The faith is in danger....

The Antichrist will irresponsibly proceed against all who still believe in a God of heaven and earth. For he will force

people to deny their faith which, on My part, is entirely a matter of the human being’s free will. He will force them by

threatening measures which appear intolerable to people, hence they will be too weak to resist. The faith is in danger....

This should make everyone think who is approached by Me through My messengers on earth, who receives My Word

which I have conveyed to My messengers. The faith is in danger…. Do you know what it means having to make a

public declaration and at the same time heading towards extreme earthly hardship?.... Do you know how people will pull every single religious doctrine apart with the intention to demonstrate its uselessness to you and how little you will be

able to answer? Do you know how difficult they will make it for you to stand firm in faith of Me, your God and Father

of eternity? How they will take and destroy everything that hitherto seemed irrefutable to you?

Everyone who determinedly rejects their demand of denying Me will be treated brutally, and in the face of this many

will weaken and betray Me without resistance, for they lack the strength of faith which arises from the pure truth. I want

to draw your attention to this time and enlighten you in advance, because I know every individual person’s character and

the spiritual adversity you will experience resulting from My adversary’s activity, who can be distinctly recognised by

the Antichrist’s measures. And I want to inform you of his success.... since he will fight with much cunning and force he

will find many followers…. He will succeed in doing what many before him had failed to do, he will shake the faith

which seemed unshakable…. He will overturn religious doctrines with the greatest of ease for he will be an effective

speaker and will show people the error of their thinking, and those who don’t carry Me in their heart will cheer him on and agree with him, considerably strengthening his power even more.

He will achieve what no-one else has achieved before.... he will overthrow a power which was deemed insurmountable. But there is one wall he will not be able to pull down, he will meet with one resistance, namely wherever My fighters

are under My guidance…. There he will fight in vain, for My fighters will be invincible since they will be protected by

the shield of faith which is so alive that it is strength in itself and cannot be shaken. These fighters of Mine will draw the strength directly from Me, for they will be able to hear and even see Me and not succumb to any temptation…. they will

be enlightened and therefore will also recognise what hour has tolled and how close it is to the end…. The right

knowledge will provide My Own with the strength to persevere to the end; but the majority of people will lack the right

knowledge, and when it is given to them they will not accept it.

But I know what will happen and want to help you, and Am only able to do it such that you will be informed about the

battle of light against darkness in the last days before the end, about My adversary’s great power and your heavenly

Father’s even greater love and grace for everyone wanting to remain His Own, who thus have the sincere will to belong

to the small flock whose shepherd I Am and whom I therefore will not abandon during the worst battle of faith which the people of this earth will still experience before their end…. Amen

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B.D. 5621, March 11, 1953

Battle of faith.... Antichrist.... Public confession....

A tough test will be imposed on you in the last days before the end. Something will happen that you don’t believe

possible: every faith will come under attack with the result that people will mutually renounce each other, that no-one will admit their conviction anymore and that each person will be the other person’s enemy. And then I will require of

you, My representatives on earth, an open confession, for this is the time of which it is written: Anyone who confesses

Me before the world, him I shall also confess before My Father (Matthew 10:32)…. For this confession can still

strengthen many others, so that they will not hide and fear their earthly enemies. It will be a difficult time and yet, you

need not fear it as long as you mentally unite yourselves with Me, for then I Myself will be with you and guide your

steps, your words and your thoughts. Don’t fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul….

As soon as it relates to your faith you will also know that the time I proclaimed has come and that the final end is not far

away. The battle of faith beforehand is the last phase on this earth, and with the same certainty as this will erupt so, too, will the end come, which you, My servants and loyal followers on earth, can only yearn for, since it will deliver you

from all adversity. Yet the time prior to that needs to happen in order to provide people with the opportunity to make a

decision. Only then will the decision be made who belongs to Me and who belongs to My adversary, who loves the

world more than Me and who therefore has handed himself over to him, for he is the one who will deny Me, and the

most shameful actions against My Own testifies to My adversary’s activity, who will embody himself in the Antichrist

and take action against My Own and thus against Me Myself. Your strength, however, your courage of conviction and

your will to love will increase, and I shall support you so obviously that you will recognise Me and profess My name before the world ever more loudly. Yet for the sake of My chosen few I will shorten the days…. the end will come very

quickly, for I Myself will come to help My Own and will take them away, so that they will be spared the work of

destruction of earth, so that they will find peace after this difficult time of trial. Yet all others will be met by the Judgment, for it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture…. Amen

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B.D. 5719, July 9, 1953

Strength of faith.... Antichrist.... Counteraction....

Intensive counteractions will have to be carried out when the Antichrist starts his last work of curtailing all spiritual

aspirations, when he visibly works against God by trying to eradicate every Christian belief and thus his anti-Christian attitude becomes clearly evident. Then all forces of heaven and earth will have to be mobilised, for this will be the start

of the most difficult battle the Christian community has ever experienced…. Then the last battle of faith will commence,

which is the beginning of the end and which will be waged with ruthlessness and brutality, because Satan himself will

rise against God in order to bring Him down and elevate himself to His throne. But then all servants of God on earth will

also be greatly supported by the world of light, for then diligent work has to be done in order to refute the enemy’s

offensives, in order to proclaim Jesus Christ and to confess Him before the world…. Then the secrecy will be over and it

will be revealed who believes in and loves God, who is strong enough to acknowledge Jesus Christ as his only Lord and

does not fear the orders of the opposing power…. Then every proclaimer of the divine teaching of love will be blessed

twice over, for then his work will be urgently required.... he will proclaim God with conviction, Who is supposed to be renounced, he will fight on His behalf and not fear those who threaten him with death…. Such work can only be carried

out by someone who has gained realisation, who knows about everything including the signs of the end and who

therefore cannot help but speak up on behalf of Jesus Christ and His act of Salvation, because he has been seized by His

love and grace and feels His activity and because this provides him with the strength to achieve anything, including

openly confessing his faith, which will result in a most bitter earthly fate. He disregards the difficulties because he has

become knowledgeable and no longer fears anything in this world.... because he has recognised the right Lord and also

gladly gives up his life for him.

The counterwork demanded of God’s fighters is to offer clarification where doubts exist, to persuade the souls to hand

themselves over to Jesus Christ, Who is every soul’s Redeemer and Saviour and Who will also deliver them from the earthly adversity and distress when the end has come…. Their work consists of spreading the recognised truth and of

courageously confronting slanderers and blasphemers, representatives of misguided teachings and all those who are

hostile-minded towards Christ’s teaching…. Their task consists of spreading light because people are enshrouded by the darkest spiritual night. And even then there will still be people who are undecided which way to turn, and to present the

true nature of God to them is likewise part of the work for the kingdom of God, for the pure truth can and will not fail to

have an effect on a truth-desiring heart, and this applies to the few who are undecided, who will have to be treated

particularly kindly in order to come over into your camp and to become your friends instead of your enemies…. The

weapons used by the Antichrist in the last battle of faith will be devoid of all love, however, you, too, shall eagerly fight,

but with the weapon of love…. you should try to impart to them that which you possess yourself, which you received

from God…. His Word, which will affect everyone according to his will. Anyone who truly desires light will become

enlightened, and anyone who possesses light will also know how to conduct himself in the days when God’s adversary

rages and tries to seize all souls for himself. The battle will indeed be very unfair, for you will only be a small flock but your enemies will be large crowds…. Yet you will truly have more strength, for you receive it from God directly, and

this strength can defeat your worst enemies. With your strong faith you will also be able to give evidence of Me and My

might to the enemy…. and can thereby ruin the finely laid plans of God’s adversary, for the strength of faith obviously testifies to God, the strength of faith can still defeat your enemies before the end so that they voluntarily let themselves

be taken prisoners by you. They can come over into your camp and be saved forever…. Amen

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B.D. 6538, May 3, 1956

Battle of faith.... Hostilities.... Antichrist....

I want to bless you so that you will be My firm supporters when the edifice of faith which, for My Own, is the essence

of the church of Christ, is being shaken.... when they shake what I have erected Myself and what I keep teaching people

time and again through My Word. The time is approaching when not only the representatives of misguided teachings

will treat you with hostility, but when all faith per se is intended to be rooted out, regardless of whether it is misguided

or corresponds to the truth, because then My adversary will be determined to use his sharpest weapon: to displace all

knowledge and belief in Me and My act of Salvation and replace it with materialistic points of view and plans. And this will be the dawning of a period which you as yet consider impossible, for My adversary will embody himself within a

worldly ruler and start his work so cunningly that at first he will only be recognised by few people as to who he really

is….

And so he will win many over who will subsequently follow and obey him blindly as he inconspicuously changes his

plans…. For in the beginning he will only proceed against individual denominations and will be supported in this by

others who will be only too willing to help him when it concerns removing their opponents. And this is why you will at

first believe that you are only subject to hostilities by those who only fight the pure truth because they are

representatives of errors and lies themselves. And then you will have to be careful as not to endanger yourselves

deliberately. Not long afterwards they will be treated with the same hostility, and then the Antichrist’s activity becomes

obvious…. And even then he will still be followed by many, because they will already be under his control and he will

have an easy game with them. Not much time will pass anymore before the first signs become apparent…. The battle of faith will not start with an act of violence, for My adversary will proceed cunningly and even deceive many believers,

who will consequently follow him and, at a later time, become his welcome servants. Yet he will be unable to deceive

you, who are spiritually awake, for I will open your eyes and guide your thoughts into the right direction…. For then it will be time to arm yourselves for the final battle, which will be waged with inconceivable brutality. But I will bless

you…. I will be with you Myself and leave no one defending Me and My name without protection. For this battle will

be decisive since it will, after all, separate the sheep from the goats and be the work of My adversary which will condemn him.… As soon as he fights Me Myself, as soon as he wants to stop the distribution of knowledge about Me

and My act of Salvation he will have passed his own judgment, he will be bound and deprived of his every power

without fail.

But a clear separation must nevertheless take place, because far too many people are still neither fish nor fowl....

because far too many deem themselves devout and first have to pass this test and regretfully fail because they are not

living in truth, because they have little love and therefore can neither receive nor recognise the truth for what it is….

This is why you, My servants, still have to be incredibly active, for then many opportunities will still present themselves

where you can enlighten those who then…. beset by doubts…. will be incapable of discernment and desire advice. And you will indeed succeed in helping those who are weak of faith into becoming strong believers; you will succeed in

drawing a few over into your camp, you will be able to give them clear and intelligible information and present Me as a

loving God and Father Who only requires firm faith in order to also be able to help them in utmost adversity and to grant them the strength to persevere until the end…. Amen

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B.D. 6590, July, 1956

World event.... Natural disaster.... Battle of faith....

Bear everything with patience and don’t allow your faith to waver…. Many a time I will still have to exclaim this to you

for you will have to suffer for the sake of your faith, although you are as yet unable to understand this. Up to now you still enjoy a certain freedom of thought; your fellow human beings still pay little attention to the spiritual life of those

who want to remain loyal to Me. Nor are you as yet prevented by the authorities from carrying out your spiritual work....

But the time will come when you will no longer be free regarding spiritual matters, the time will come when fellow

human beings as well as earthly powers will be hostile especially towards those who think correctly, who take their

psychological development seriously, who speak truthfully and want to help their fellow human beings’ souls to

salvation…. And it is precisely them who will be put under extraordinary pressure while the advocates of misguided

teachings will still be tolerated and even supported rather than hindered in their work. And then you will also often ask

yourselves why I allow this to happen, slight doubts will arise in you and you will weaken because you have to suffer…. And therefore I keep calling out to you: Endure everything and remain strong in faith, for you will walk away with the

crown of victory.... Precisely these Words are still barely believable to you, for so far there are no signs at all of this

difficult time.

Yet suddenly a change will occur, because a worldly event causing people a tremendous shock will provoke open

rebellion against the One Who, as God and Creator, lets something happen that has devastating effects on people…. And

therefore they will deny this God and Creator all acknowledgment, every belief in Him will be discarded as unfounded, and all who defend the belief in Me contrary to this opinion, all who confess Me and also want to inform their fellow

human beings for the better, will be treated with hostility.

Time and again I have announced that I will express Myself through the forces of nature in order to awaken the sleepers

and the lethargic.... And a few of them will indeed wake up but, in contrast, many more will lose their still feeble faith in

the face of the widespread destruction and the great human cost of this event. And then the most diverse opinions will be voiced, and many people will hatefully deny a God and Creator and be hostile towards anyone who doesn’t share their

point of view. And then My adversary will work with great cunning to incite this hatred, and he will be successful, for

the earthly loss suffered by people as a result of this natural event will embitter them and impel them to make unfair

demands and to exploit defenceless fellow human beings. People’s heartlessness is increasing and whatever they embark

on clearly betrays the adversary, the Antichrist, on whom they depend. And laws and decrees will be issued which will

severely affect especially My Own who have to suffer on account of their faith and are barely able to comprehend the

severity of their fate. And then I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own.... so that they will not lose heart, so that

they will not fall by the wayside…. so that they will become blessed….

Just hold on to My Word that you will be delivered from utmost adversity, and await the fulfilment of this Word, for I

will come Myself and rescue you, I will also manifest Myself extraordinarily beforehand in order to strengthen you if

you are in danger of weakening…. You don’t have to be afraid as long as you put your trust in Me, as long as you make contact with Me in prayer, for then you will also always receive the strength to offer resistance.... And always remember

that the enemies might well be able to kill your body but not your soul…. remember the reality of eternal life and that

every human being’s life on this earth will soon come to an end…. Then your fear will vanish, then you will be filled

by the strength of faith and you will persevere and only ever bear witness for Me and My name….

Firmly commit these, My Words, to your memory and they will comfort and strengthen you in the forthcoming time….

Secure your strength in advance, accumulate it, for there will still be some time before I will express Myself through the

natural event.... And if you use this time well in order to strengthen your faith then the subsequent battle of faith will not

frighten you, it will find you armed, and the earthly adversity will hardly touch you, because then you will expect My coming with certainty, because your faith will have grown so strong that neither threats nor proceedings against you will

be able to shake it…. Then you will be good fighters for Me and My name and all the powers of hell will not be able to

conquer you, for I Myself will fight with you and I will truly lead you to victory…. Amen

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B.D. 6619, August 11, 1956

Justification before a court.... Public testimony....

Step forward, My servants, when it concerns defending Me and My teaching, for you will be pushed into situations

when you publicly have to acknowledge Me. The circumstances surrounding the act of Salvation will be more and more publicly discussed…. The life of the man Jesus and His earthly fate, His humiliating end, will certainly be deemed

possible, but a divine mission of this human being will never be acknowledged, and therefore the belief in Him as

humanity’s Redeemer will be rejected and ridiculed in every respect in order to establish a matter-of-fact and non-

religious way of thinking in people. And that is the time when you shall come forward.... And anyone permeated by My

spirit won’t be able to help himself but to take a stand on behalf of Me and My name, since his inner conviction will let

him speak and counteract eagerly and also try to convince his fellow human beings. Hence I prepare suitable

instruments for Myself, hence I convey to them the truth and with it also the power of perception, for then it will

become necessary that they come forward with their knowledge in order to fight the opponents with the sword of their

mouth. Wherever Jesus Christ is demeaned, wherever His mission is doubted and this doubt is openly voiced, you, My representatives on earth, shall recognise and accomplish your task.... You are able to do so because you are informed of

My plan of Salvation, because all correlations are clear to you and because you firmly and confidently believe in Him,

Who has delivered you from bondage…. Only confident objections such as you are able to voice due to your knowledge

can silence your opponents or make them think…. And even if you do not succeed in convincing these opponents you

will nevertheless still gain a few people who were affected by it and start to think.

Then you will have to speak boldly and without hesitation, for I will put the words into your mouth and the obvious wisdom of your words will astonish those who are not yet entirely under My adversary’s control. Admittedly, your

opponents will scorn and ridicule you, yet for the sake of My name you will have to accept this, as it has often been

foretold that you will be judged because you are My representatives on earth. This time will come as certainly as one day will follow the other…. Even if it seems to you at the moment as if the number of avowers is constantly growing….

it concerns the living testimony of Jesus Christ which My adversary seeks to prevent ever more…. His influence is such

that people will combine everything…. even religious life…. with the world, that they themselves will finally turn it into something secular but rarely, if ever, establish heartfelt contact with Me, depending on how much influence he is able to

exert on the individual person.

Only rarely can true, living Christian faith be recognised, which consists of people cultivating love between each other,

of living in the spirit of My divine teaching of love, of their every thought and action being determined by love and thus

also being My will. And this is why affirmation before the world becomes ever more necessary, because everyone is

anxiously trying to hide their inner attitude if it is good, that is, directed towards Me, whereas campaigns against Me and

My teachings are openly coming to the fore. People will always frankly admit their rejection of My Word and Myself,

yet fearfully try to conceal their walking in unity with Me. And fellow human beings, still being weak, are unable to get the strength they need and shall also receive by people who eagerly acknowledge Me…. This is why I demand that you

will manifestly stand up for Me and My kingdom when this declaration is demanded of you…. For you will only be able

to counteract and undermine My adversary’s influence by publicly testifying about Me. Anyone who honestly confesses Me before the world will be able to do so due to his inner conviction, and he will be successful with his fellow human

beings and strengthen their faith….

But as soon as fearful silence is kept, those of little faith will not find the courage to admit to their faith either. The

outspoken declaration, however, will release all inhibitions and take away fear, for I Myself will give you strength in

abundance if you openly want to bear witness to Me. And then you will also confidently face those who sit in judgment

over you. Admittedly, they will spit poison and bile at you but it will hardly touch you, for then the strength of faith and

the strength of the Word, with which I Myself will address them through you, will demonstrate themselves…. They will

be unable to answer and merely try to pursue you with helpless fury but be unable to get anywhere against My might and strength. But anyone anxiously trying to hide his attitude towards Me will grow increasing weaker, for I will be

unable to support him until he acknowledges Me. Hence I keep admonishing you and time and again remind you of My

Words ‘Whosoever shall confess Me before the world, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven….’ Remember this when the time comes that you have to make this decision, and remember that it will not be to your

disadvantage, because I alone can give and take, and that you therefore shall first consider My will, My demands, before

you comply with the requirements of earthly powers…. if they are aimed against Me and My name…. Confidently bear

whatever threatens you if you want to remain faithful to Me, for I can and will avert everything from you if you openly

acknowledge Me, and then My might and glory will reveal itself…. Then you will find out what the strength of faith is

capable of doing…. Amen

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B.D. 6758, February 8, 1957

Battle of faith – Antichrist....

The closer the end, the fiercer will the battle between light and darkness rage…. However, you will not experience the

full horror of the battle until it turns against My followers, when it is planned to banish the faith in Me in Jesus Christ,

when the act of Salvation will become My adversary’s target…. when people will be demanded to openly confess their

faith and brutally forced to renounce it. Only then will the hardship and adversity start, the time I have promised My

Own I will shorten…. And then My adversary’s fury will become obvious, for people will lose their inhibitions, nothing

will hold them back because they will be incited by Satan and shall completely submit to his will. Let it be said that

there is not much time until this battle of faith, but that it will be preceded by an immense crisis on earth which, however, will come from a different source…. It is My will that it shall fall upon people so that they can already prove

or even strengthen their faith. Precisely this crisis, which will be inflicted on humanity through a natural disaster of huge

proportions, will be used by many people as a reason to already take action against the faith, because now more than ever they will doubt a God and Creator Who Himself destroys what He has created. However, anyone who knows the

truth will also have a correct explanation for everything, and then he can inform his fellow human beings of this truth

too. Then the ensuing battle of faith can even result in a strong faith in them, which subsequently will withstand all the

threats the believers will be exposed to.

However, the fact that most people will no longer have a living faith is My adversary’s doing, who therefore will not

cease to work against Me and the truth, and he will be far more successful with people than the representatives of the

pure truth, the true representatives of Christ’s teaching…. For they rarely will be believed, but My adversary can offer

people what he wants…. it will be accepted. And that is why it will already have to be clarified in advance, everyone will have to openly and freely declare whether they are for or against Me…. Everyone will have to make this decision

within himself during the coming time of need which comes upon earth due to My will, for when I speak through the

forces of nature everyone will have to choose: to call upon Me for help or to entirely isolate himself from Me…. which is the same as turning to My adversary…. Following this, however, the decision has to be taken again publicly: when it

will be demanded of you humans in the last battle of faith on this earth to testify of Me in Jesus Christ or to deny Me….

But then you, who were instructed in the truth by Me Myself, will know that the end has come.... Then you will know that I will shorten the days for the sake of My Own, that I will come Myself to help them and release them from their

suffering…. that I will gather them from this earth and take them to a place of peace, before I carry out the work of

destruction, which will mean the end of all created beings on this earth….

If only you would believe what I have announced to you time and again…. the conditions on earth should prove My

adversary’s rage to you already, because he knows that he is running out of time. And the fact that he is raging and the

earth is populated by his own kind can be recognised by all of you and should make you think. Every day is still a

blessing for people, for even the most depraved person still has the opportunity to change and gain faith in Me before

the end…. because I will try everything to still snatch souls from My adversary before the end. And anyone with faith in Me will be blessed, but the unbelievers will have to share the fate of him whom they followed voluntarily…. And you

will not go short, even if everything you need to live will be taken away from you…. As soon as you believe that I

Myself will take care of you, who are persecuted for My name’s sake, My adversary’s measures need not frighten you…. For what they take away from you, you will receive from Me again, although in a different form, but you will

not need to starve for I Myself will satisfy your hunger…. For ‘behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do

they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them….’ (Matthew 6:26)

Remember these Words, remember that He Who created everything will truly also be able to maintain what He has

created.... and that He will surely do so when His Own suffer adversity. But the time will come when people will try to

force you with most brutal measures to forsake your faith…. and anyone of weak faith will not be able to endure these

measures…. Severe tests of faith will be imposed on you, but I want to prepare you precisely for this time, then you will be able to be a shining example to your fellow human beings, you will be able to demonstrate to them what a firm faith

can accomplish: that you live despite the fact that everything you need to live will have been taken away from you….

Seek always only the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and everything else will be added to you (Matthew 6:33).

And this promise will then be visibly fulfilled on My Own, on those who stand up for Me and My name before the

world, who do not fear the earthly power because they feel safe under My protection. And only then will it become

evident who has a living faith, and there will only be few. Then the structures which were built on sand…. which were

not built on the rock of faith on which I built My church, will collapse too…. It will be a difficult time which no-one

would be able to survive had I not conveyed the truth to earth in advance, which is an explanation of everything and

which alone can result in a strong faith…. But error will not give anyone the strength to persevere, and only where there

is love, can strength of faith also be found.

An extraordinary person will offer himself as a visible cover to My adversary, and this person will then instigate the last

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conflict on earth. Pay attention to this and you will know that the hour of the end is very near.... But also pay attention to

My messengers from above who will appear at the same time in order to guide you with their light, which you should

follow…. Pay attention to all of those who spiritedly announce My Word and join them, so that the small flock will stay together, so that they can constantly get light and their faith can steadily grow stronger…. But to all these I promise My

protection, My Fatherly care and My blessing….

They need not fear to fall prey to this brutal power, for I Myself will come to get them as soon as My adversary goes too

far, as soon as even My Own are threatened by grave danger…. For this reason I will shorten the days, so that My Own

will be able to endure and not weaken in view of the measures of persecution. But since I can still see a possibility to

save individual souls I will also hold My hands protectively over those who represent Me before the world, so that the

former can gain strength from them, so that a Power will be recognised which is stronger than earthly power…. And

therefore I will also take extraordinary care of My Own, and despite adverse measures they will survive physically and

spiritually.... And all this will happen soon…. What you cannot suspect today will happen then, but that is why already I

draw your attention to it, and you, who are taught by Me, also know why it will happen….

The spiritual hardship on earth is evident to you as well, and by the signs of the time you will be able to identify the time

on the world’s clock…. But once this battle of faith flares up you need only expect a very short time, because everything

will take place especially fast…. For the man chosen by My adversary as cover will not have a long life-span, and his regime on earth will not last long. He will be recognisable by his supernatural abilities, for he will be exceptionally

endowed by My adversary, and that is why he will work for him and his plans. And even if the whole world pays

homage to him, you will recognise and see through him.

But then you will have to be very careful and should not deliberately endanger yourselves due to excessive zeal ….

Then you will have to be as cunning as serpents and as gentle as doves (Matthew 10:16)…. But when the decision is

demanded of you, then you must stand your ground and firmly trust in Me and My help…. for no matter how powerful

people are, they cannot match My might and a wisp of breath from Me would suffice to destroy them…. And thus I will

also call a stop to it when the hour has come. I will bring those to Me who are in utmost earthly distress but place the oppressors themselves into chains, for the time will be up, a period of redemption will come to an end and a new era will

start so that the deliverance of all spirits can continue.... Amen

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B.D. 6762, February 15, 1957

World event.... Chaos.... Antichrist....

There will be indescribable chaos after I have spoken through the forces of nature, since for as long as the earth has

existed nothing of this kind has ever been experienced by humanity. Fear and terror will render people incapable of

thinking and doing anything, for their fear that this happening will repeat itself will leave them unable to give a hand in

order to help and to rescue where it is still possible to help. Only a few will realise what has happened because it will

have been revealed to them before and the truth of My Words will be evident to them…. Hence they will also enlighten

their fellow human beings with complete conviction but, once again, only be listened to by a few, because people will accept anything but not that a divine plan of Salvation would be carried out in this way. Nevertheless, this time must be

used well and at the same time people should also be informed of the forthcoming end…. That which has taken place

cosmically cannot be denied by them and the fact that it had been announced in advance may still make individual people thoughtful. However, the will to live, the personal instinct for preservation, will nevertheless prevail, and people

will do whatever it takes to get the earthly adversity, which was triggered by the natural disaster, under control. And

again, the degree of love will be the crucial factor, people’s willingness to help their neighbour, whether or how their

own circumstances will improve, for I will help all those who care for their fellow human beings’ hardship too…. Yet

many will have to struggle hard if they trust in their own strength.... or they will clearly be helped from below if they

rigorously proceed at the expense of their fellow human beings. Earthly hardship will be as immense as the chaos that

was caused by inconceivable destruction….

Then countless people will forfeit their faith in a God and Creator because they were sorely affected…. But their faith was a mere formality, it did not stand firm to a serious test…. However, I proclaim this event in advance so that you

humans persevere, so that you know that it is My plan, that I Am also Lord over natural forces and that it therefore will

also be an easy matter for Me to help those people again who appeal to Me for help…. I wouldn’t have to announce anything to you in advance, I could suddenly intervene and surprise all people. Yet then no-one would want to believe in

Me either. But I want you to recognise Me, and you will be able to recognise Me if everything comes to pass such as it

has been proclaimed. Then you will know that nothing can happen on this earth without My will, and then you will be able to incline My will towards you by handing yourselves over to Me with complete faith and pray to Me for

protection.... Hence this is why I transmit to you the information of what is to come, this is why I initiate you into My

plan of Salvation, and this is why I constantly ask you, My servants, to pass your knowledge on to your fellow human

beings as well, for your bond with Me will be your most assured protection, regardless of what happens….

And then the one will become evident who will be My opponent in the last days, who will seize the reins because the

immense hardship will make it easy for him and he will subsequently also issue instructions which will clearly prove

that he belongs to Satan. And he will find many followers and give unscrupulous orders, he will also want to snatch

those of little faith from Me, yet he will meet with resistance from My side too, for I furnish My Own with great strength and the worse the adversity will seem to get the stronger will be My Own, because they will feel Me and My

presence and thus will fearlessly communicate what My spirit instructs them to say…. However, all this will have to

precede the end, just as it has been proclaimed, because every single soul will still have to be fought for and the great adversity will still push those people towards Me who still call upon Me at the last moment and thereby escape the fate

of a renewed banishment…. Amen

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B.D. 7023, January 23, 1958

Reason for the profound knowledge.... Battle of faith…..

The deeper I guide you into My eternal plan of Salvation the more valuable work you can accomplish, for you will only be capable of serving your fellow human beings as a teacher if you possess much knowledge yourselves. I educated My

first disciples Myself and will also teach My last disciples such that they will be able stand up for Me and My kingdom

when it is demanded of them…. so that they then will be able to step forward when the faith in teachings which cannot

be verified has to be defended. For the time will come when every religious doctrine will be come under attack; the time

will come when war will be declared on all spirituality, when no existing spiritual movement will be spared being

attacked and slandered. And neither will it be difficult for My opponents to destroy the foundation, for many are only

built on sand, that is, their teachings cannot stand up to contradictions, they can be pulled to pieces, and their adherents

themselves will start to doubt and very easily let go of them…. unless they fanatically hold on to their school of thought

but without being able to endorse it with inner conviction…. And then the truth, too, will be fought against and action will also be taken against those of you who were chosen and taught by Me as representatives of the truth which is

conveyed to you by Myself. You will also be drawn into this battle but your opponents will find it difficult to bring you

down because you will be able to defend the truth in line with your realisation and refute every objection, since you will

be able to logically substantiate the more profound correlations. This is why I guide you into My eternal plan of

Salvation and thus grant you the knowledge that entitles you to pit yourselves against your enemies. And then you shall

fight with the sword of your tongue….

Do you now understand why I keep transmitting the information from above to you, why I let you have an insight into

spiritual knowledge which is not denied to anyone providing he only shapes himself such that he can be enlightened by

My spirit? People’s thinking has truly become confused; they are ensnared by a net of errors and lies and can’t find their way through because they don’t have the will to do so. And precisely this darkness will demonstrate itself when they

seriously have to state their position in regards to their faith, to their relationship to Me and to the act of Salvation. Then

everything will collapse like a house of cards, for the adversary will relentlessly pick every single teaching to pieces or mock and ridicule everything which had been sacred to people so far. My disciples, however, will not be afraid, they

will courageously enter the battle by giving full explanations, and this truly with substantial authority, because then they

will not be speaking, instead I Myself will speak. But these true fighters of Mine must nevertheless have been educated

by Me Myself, they must speak of their own accord and use their own Words so as not to force people to believe. But

even from the adversary’s ranks they will be joined by fighters too who are impressed by their words and unable to deny

their validity. And thus one day the time will come when you will be able to use all your knowledge, and for this time I

Am educating you and supply you with teaching material which not everyone can show and which…. since it originates

from Me…. will not remain ineffective either. For I still want to help many people.... However, whether they will accept

this is up to their own free will, since I certainly allow unusual things to happen but always in a way that it will not compel them to believe…. I will still pour out many blessings yet they must voluntarily be used …. Amen

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B.D. 7068, March 19, 1958

The last disciples’ ordeal at the time of the Antichrist....

And once again, like in the past, My Own will be persecuted for the sake of My name. As yet you are still at liberty to proclaim the Gospel, as yet you can still stand up for Me and My name without being restricted…. as yet you are not

opposed by any authority prohibiting your speeches and activities. But the time will come when you will no longer be

able to work in freedom, instead you will only be able to work secretly for Me and My kingdom. Hence you should use

the time well and thus work and be active as long as it is still day…. You don’t know what it means for you to be able to

speak with complete freedom and not have to fear that your work for Me will be impeded. And therefore you should

fight with the sword of your tongue, you should seize every opportunity to bring My Word and thus the eternal truth

close to people, and you should also work through the strength of My name. You should mention Jesus Christ’s act of

Salvation and proclaim Him everywhere, for wherever people exist without faith in the divine Redeemer there is barren

land…. And you shall bring them life, you shall eagerly proclaim My Word, because you will not have much time left to work so freely amongst your fellow human beings.

Once the Antichrist appears you, too, My servants, will be deprived of this freedom, although your activity should not

end you should nevertheless carry out your vineyard work with greatest caution and wisdom, which you certainly will

be able to do with My strength. That which seems questionable to you today will become reality at the time when he

comes to power…. Yet even then I will need courageous confessors of My name who will not fear the world and its

rulers and openly take responsibility for their actions when they are being held to account. What once happened to My disciples will also happen to you, whom I have chosen as My last disciples in order to spread My Gospel, but I also

assure you of My protection and again I say to you ‘take no thought beforehand what you shall speak, for I shall put the

words into your mouth (Matthew 10:19, 20).’ And so you need not fear the earthly authority as long as you call Me Myself to your side, for then I Myself will answer them and they will not find any reason to take action against you….

until you mission is fulfilled, which is entirely decided by Me alone and not by those ruling powers who are also subject

to Me and My will.

Consequently, you will also understand that the work that has been carried out for Me in advance will contribute

towards strengthening the faith of people who are still weak and that therefore not enough groundwork can be done by

you, so that people will then stand up to the pressures of the Antichrist, who indeed wants to prevent them from their

spiritual striving but will never achieve it with those who have already found living faith in Me. For they will form a

wall against which he will fight in vain, which he will be unable to sway. But he will have an easy game with those who

merely possess conventional faith, which they will renounce without a fight in view of My adversary’s brutal measures.

For these people are weak and also without light.... They don’t know about the strength of My name, about the strength

of a living faith and about the strength and might of a God Who is Lord over life and death…. However, as long as you have the opportunity of free speech and free activity you should proclaim Me and My love and might to fellow human

beings, you should preach My teaching of love to them and inform them of the forthcoming time during which they can

only survive in profound faith in Me in Jesus Christ; which will result in victory for all those who loyally stand by Me and also openly profess Me and My name before the world when this avowal is demanded of them. But you should also

warn them of the near end so that they will know how worthless it is to yield to the enemy’s pressure, to the adversary’s

demands, for the sake of material possessions…. For no-one may take pleasure in his supposed possessions for long

because the Antichrist’s time will be limited and therefore also that of his followers, since for the sake of My chosen

few I will shorten the days and bring his activity to an end….

And therefore you, who eagerly serve Me in these last days, can no longer lose anything but only gain indescribably

much, for if you are persecuted for the sake of My name you, as My true disciples, will nevertheless still save souls

which take refuge in your camp, and the fate of you all will truly be a far more glorious one than you can ever be offered in an earthly way by those who try to force you into betraying Me…. For I Myself Am with everyone who fights for Me,

and I will truly lead you to victory…. Amen

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B.D. 7778, December 21, 1960

The adversary oversteps his authority....

The adversary’s activity will be stopped once the hour has come when I will judge the living and the dead…. One day this Judgment has to take place again, after all, everything has left its order and therefore the spiritual beings’ higher

development is no longer guaranteed. Humanity no longer resists My adversary’s activity, it is completely enslaved by

his will, and he abuses his will such that even My followers will find it difficult to remain with Me… He oversteps his

authority by trying to completely displace Me from people’s memory and thus he will find many followers who

implement his will: to wage open battle against faith. And you humans live on earth in order to choose between two

lords, hence you must also know about both lords.... He, however, aims to prevent the knowledge about your God and

Creator, he tries to deprive you of all faith and his method of force is to impel the earthly authorities to rigorously fight

against faith and thus against My Own who profess My name before the world. And therefore he will not have much

time left, for he will be bound on the Day of Judgment. If you humans are thus able to observe this beginning, if you see how the battle against faith will openly erupt then you can also consider with certainty that the last days of the end have

come, for then he will overstep his authority and will inevitably be doomed to be judged. For he has great power and he

misuses it.... But I will put a stop to him so that not all people will succumb to him, so that My Own will be able to

remain faithful to Me until the very end. As yet you can still observe his activity and keep away from those who follow

him; you, who want to be My Own, can still come together and strengthen and comfort each other, but once My

adversary enters into the last battle on this earth you will have to withdraw, you will no longer be able to speak openly,

because then you will be treated with hostility by the world and those who belong to the world….

But then it will be important that you profess Me openly.... And you need not be frightened either, for My strength will

flow to you so that you will be able to remain faithful to Me, so that you will cheerfully profess Me and manifest your strength even more…. I predicted this time to you and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed; you will find that you will

encounter ever more opponents, that the hatred against those of you who proclaim My Word will become greater, and

then you will be well advised to avoid the enemy, so that you will not deliberately expose yourselves to danger…. Then you should be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves…. but you should not betray Me…. But who else but Me

would be able to give you strength, who else but Me could protect you and lead you out of all adversities again? My

adversary will also be bound by Me when the time is fulfilled, and his activity will come to an end…. And you can rely

on the fact that I Myself will take care of you when the time of the end has arrived, when you have to make your

decision which lord you want to acknowledge. For he will be unable to topple those who want to be My Own, because I

Myself will fight by their side and he is truly no match for My power. And he will be bound for an infinitely long time

again along with his followers, so that an era of peace will start again for people who can no longer be harassed by him.

However, this time of peace will on be on the new earth, because first order will have to be established again, first the

spiritual beings will have to be ‘judged’…. Only then will higher development continue, only then will there be peace again in heaven and on earth…. Amen

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God’s instruction to educate fellow human beings about Jesus….

Wherever the opportunity of mentioning the divine Redeemer Jesus Christ presents itself to you, you should speak of

Him and emphasise His great significance for every single person…. Where possible, you should motivate people to

remember Him, for everyone knows Him, everyone has heard of Him, yet only a few have a living faith in Him, and

only they can partake in the blessings of the act of Salvation…. But they are precisely the ones who should try to

invigorate their fellow human beings’ faith in Him, Who alone can save them from spiritual adversity, which will only

be perceptively felt after their body dies. You should not fail to make use of every avenue in order to steer the

conversation towards Jesus Christ, even if the other person feels uncomfortable about it…. you should simply ask him

what Jesus means to him, whether he has already thought about the doctrines regarding Him and what conclusion he has come to…. Even if they only want accept Him as a human being, Who advocated His own philosophies of life and

sacrificed His life for these opinions, you can nevertheless explain to them that He was certainly a man who lived

among people, but that He had to fulfil a spiritual mission and that every person can derive benefit from that mission if he wants…. Indeed, most people only regard their life on earth as an end in itself and don’t believe in their souls’

continuation of life…. Nevertheless, you should also try to unsettle these opinions and truly, I will place the right Words

into your mouth if all you endeavour to do is kindle a small light for these blind people, if you want to help them fulfil

their purpose of earthly life. If you are imbued by the knowledge which corresponds to the truth, you will time and again

feel impelled to convey this knowledge to people and then opportunities will arise where it is possible for you, and I

truly bless everyone who tries to persuade his fellow human beings to believe in Jesus, because Jesus must not be by-

passed if the soul wants to attain bliss one day when it enters the spiritual realm after physical death. This faith in the

soul’s continuation of life is likewise lacking in most people, consequently, it is difficult to educate them, yet no stone

shall be left unturned, for the misery such souls are approaching is indescribable and if you can help them spare such wretchedness they will be eternally grateful to you, for one day every soul will gain realisation, even if it still takes

eternities….

Everything relating to Jesus, His life on earth, His crucifixion and His ascension, is a myth for people which they

certainly know, but cannot believe that these events, which are hugely significant for each individual still unenlightened

soul, to be true. However, you humans live on this earth to attain the goal of releasing yourselves from every form and

entering the kingdom of the beyond in a spiritualised state. But to do so it is crucial that you find redemption through

Jesus Christ, that He helps you attain freedom, because only He can loosen the chains which still tie you to God’s

adversary. He alone can help you attain eternal life, and thus you must acknowledge Him and hand yourselves over to

Him so that He will take your immense guilt upon Himself and so that He might have given His blood for you as well, which He shed on the cross for all people, past, present and future. If you accept Him and appeal to Him to take the

immense guilt from you, you will also suddenly be able to think differently…. many things you previously were unable

to understand will become comprehensible to you. For this reason you should at least accept information about Him when it is conveyed to you, for no-one shall go astray, but it is up to the human being himself whether he wants to let

himself be saved…. Let yourselves be educated about Jesus and His act of Salvation, about the spiritual reason for it and

about your past original sin, which you cannot atone for yourselves but can only be released from through the divine

Redeemer Jesus Christ…. And don’t walk past Him in earthly life, try to muster the understanding for the kind of

mission He had to fulfil on earth and believe that every person must take the path to the cross…. believe that every

human being must carry his guilt of sin under the cross, which means, that he must acknowledge Jesus Christ as Son of

God and Redeemer of the world, in Whom God Himself became human in order to redeem humanity from sin and

death…. Amen

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Labouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the EndLabouring in the time before the End

B.D. 5259, November 25, 1951

God requires many labourers in the time before the end....

I will take all of you who are willing into My service, for I require many co-workers during the last days before the end

who shall do redeeming work. If you declare your willingness to Me then your destiny will also proceed according to

your will, that is, you will always have the opportunity to work for Me and My kingdom according to My will. You will

feel My instruction in your heart and, once you have offered your service to Me, will sensitively represent Me to your

fellow human beings, you will feel inwardly impelled to speak on behalf of Me and My name and proclaim My teaching

to all those who cross your path, with whom you will be able to have spiritual discussions and who require your help, or

I would not send them on your way. The work for Me and My kingdom need not be externally recognisable as

missionary work, it can be carried out in everyday life, unobtrusively and yet beneficially, for precisely those people shall be won over who have no religious connections whatsoever, who are not affiliated to any church organisations or

still belong to them as a mere formality. My Gospel shall especially be made accessible to these people, and this is far

more effective during an exchange of ideas where everyone can express their own point of view.

Once people are stimulated to think about it success is more likely to be expected, this is why My representatives, My

labourers on earth who want to serve Me, must be convinced of Me and My teaching themselves, so that they will also

be able to speak with conviction to their fellow human beings. Anyone who has accepted the truth himself is also

permeated by it, and he is a suitable co-worker in the last days before the end, for he will always and forever feel urged

to offer the truth where it is missing. This is why you won’t need any particular instructions from Me, because I will tell

you through your heart what you ought to do and this heartfelt expression will be felt as your own will, as an inner

urge…. Therefore act according to your inner impulse once you have informed Me that you want to work for Me and

My kingdom. I accept all of you and give you My blessing for this work, because the immense spiritual hardship necessitates much help and this has to be brought through a human mouth if fellow human beings are to keep their free

will but nevertheless be shown a way which leads out of the great hardship. I bless every good will which applies to

your fellow human beings’ souls and help you to accomplish it…. Amen

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ADDITIONAL REVELATIONS AND TEACHINGS FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THESE

SUBJECTS:

(from the Revelation as received from Jesus Christ by His prophet Jakob Lorber)

The Lord’s “living food”. The great harvesting mission. Sabbath foolishness. [John 4: 31-38]

31. Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him: “Rabbi, have something to eat!”

1. While the considerable crowd from the town set out towards the well, My disciples urge Me to have something

to eat beforehand, for they knew that as soon as people came to Me, I did not take any food; and they loved Me and

feared that I might become weakened and ill. Although they knew that I was Christ, they still regarded My body as weak

and frail, wherefore they urged Me to eat.

32. But He said: “I have food to eat of which you know nothing.”

2. But I look at them with loving earnest and say, ‘My dear friends, I have now a food to eat of which you know

nothing.’

33. At this the disciples said to one another (asking each other): “Has someone already brought Him something to

eat?”

3. The disciples looked at each other, asking, ‘Has then someone already brought Him food from somewhere?

What kind of food would that be? Has He already eaten it? Nothing can be seen anywhere - except the still quite full

water jar. Maybe He has changed the water into wine?’

34. Jesus says to them: (“Oh do not make such foolish guesses!) It is meat and drink for me to the will of Him

who sent me until I have finished His work!”

4. Say I to them, ‘Oh do not make such foolish guesses as to what I have or have not eaten. You have already often

seen that while I am with you I have never had Myself served separately. I am now not speaking to you of any food for

the body, but of a much higher and worthier spiritual food which consist in that I do the will of Him who sent Me and

complete His great work. And He who sent Me is the Father, who you claim is your God, although you have not come

to know Him as yet. But I do know Him and because of that am doing His Word, and that is My true food which you do

not know. I tell you: Not only the bread, but every good deed or work is also food, although not for the body, but all the more so for the spirit.’

35. “Do you not say: ‘Four more months, and then comes the harvest?’ But look, I tell you: Lift your eyes and

look round on the field: it is already white for harvest!”

5. Many of you have fields at home, and you yourselves say, “Another four months and the time for a full harvest has come. Then we shall have to go home and gather in the harvest.” But I tell you: Better lift your eyes. Already now

all the fields are white, ripe for the harvest. I do not, however, mean the natural fields, but the great field which is the

whole world, where men are the ripened wheat that has to be gathered into God’s barns.

36. “And the reaper is drawing his pay and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice

together!”

6. And behold, this gathering-in is true work and this work a true food which I as well as you will get to eat in

abundance. He who is a true reaper on this field gathers in the true crop for eternal life, so that at the end of the harvest both sower and reaper may rejoice together.

37. “For here the saying is true: One sows and another reaps.”

7. For after the harvest the sower as well as the reaper will both eat of one and the same fruit and one and the same

bread of life. Then the old saying will come true completely: One sows and another reaps, but both will equally live

from their work and eat one and the same food.

8. Look at the great crowd that has come to us from the town to see the Promised in Me, and as you can see, more

keep coming. Behold, all those are already fully ripened ears of wheat which should have been reaped long ago. I tell

you with much joy: The crop is heavy, but there are still too few labourers; therefore, beg the owner to send more

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labourers to harvest his crop.’

38. “I sent you to reap a crop which you have not sowed; others sowed and you have now come in for the harvest

of their toil.”

9. I have taken you on and thereby already sent you out in spirit to reap what you have not sown, for others have sown and you have now come in for the harvest of their toil, for which you should consider yourselves extremely

fortunate. - He who sows is still remote from the harvest, but he who reaps also harvests and has the new bread of life

already before him. So be now zealous reapers, for your effort brings more bliss than that of the sower.’

10. Most of the disciples did understand this teaching and started right away to preach My Word of the love for

God and the love for one’s neighbour to the Samaritans; also, that I was truly the Christ.

11. But a few in their heart’s understanding still rather stupid ones came to Me and asked Me secretly, ‘Lord,

where could be get sickles? Besides, it is the Sabbath today.’

12. Whereupon I replied, ‘Did it ell you to reap the natural barley fields that lie before us? Oh you foolish men,

how long will I have to bear with you? Do you not understand anything? So listen and grasp this:

13. My Word about the Kingdom of God, first in your own hearts and from there passing through your mouths to

the ears and into the hearts of your fellowmen and brothers, is the spiritual reaping sickle which I give you to gather the

people, your brothers, in to the Kingdom of god, the realm of true cognition of God and eternal life in God.

14. It is indeed Sabbath today, but the Sabbath is foolish and senseless like your heart, and you think of the

Sabbath because in your hearts you look still very like the Sabbath. But since I am also a Lord over the Sabbath, it ell

you:

15. If you want to be and stay My true disciples, free your hearts from the Sabbath as soon as possible. For us

every day is a day for work; when the Lord of the Sabbath is at work His servants shall not be idle.

16. Does not the sun have to rise and set on the Sabbath just as on every work day? If the Lord of the sun and of

the Sabbath ceased to work on the Sabbath, would you be satisfied, with a pitch-dark Sabbath? See how foolish you still

are! So start now to do what I and also your brothers are doing, and you will be celebrating a truly alive Sabbath

pleasing to Me.’

17. Following these words also the weaker disciples went to the Samaritans, who had already in great numbers

come to Me from the town, and taught them what they had learnt about Me. ‘The Great Gospel of John – 1/30’

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(72) ‘Eating His flesh and drinking His blood’ from J.Lorber’s revelation

[9] You are completely right when you say that the Kingdom of God has come to you in Me and is now with and among

you, but this is still not sufficient to attain to the eternal life of the soul and keep it completely, for although the Kingdom of God has come to you in Me, it has by that not yet penetrated in your inner self, which only can and will

happen when you will have completely accepted My teaching in your will and thus also in everything that you do,

without considering the world. Once this will be the case, you will say no more: ‘Christ, and with Him the Kingdom of God has come to us and He lives with us and is among us’, but you will say: ‘Now it is not I who lives, but Christ lives

in me’. When this will be the case with you, then you will also completely understand that the Kingdom of God does not

come with outer pomp and splendor to and in men, but that it develops only inside of man and draws the soul into the

eternal life of that Kingdom of God and will keep him permanently in it.

[10] It is true that the way has to be shown to man first from the outside by God’s word, which comes to man from the

Heavens and by which man can say: ‘Peace be with you, for the Kingdom of God has come near’, but therefore man is

still not yet in the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God not in him.

[11] Only when man begins to believe without doubting, and makes his faith alive by acting according to the teaching,

the Kingdom of God develops itself in man, as the life in a plant develops itself unmistakably in spring from the inside when the plant is shone by the light of the sun, warms up and is by that urged to inner activity.

[12] Although all the life is stimulated and awakened from the outside, the originating, the development, the unfolding,

forming and strengthening comes always from the inside.

[13] So also, animals and men must first absorb their food in them from the outside, but this absorbing of food and drink

is still by far not the real feeding of the body, but this happens only after, from the stomach to all the parts of the body.

As the stomach is in a way the life-feeding heart of the body, so is also the heart of man the feeding stomach of the soul

for the awakening of the Spirit from God in himself, and My teaching is the true food of life and the true drink of life for the stomach of the soul.

[14] So in what I am teaching men I am a true nourishing bread from the Heavens, and acting according to that teaching

is a true drink of life, a very good and strong wine that by its spirit awakens the whole man to life and enlightens him throughout by the illuminating blazing flame of the fire of life. Whoever will eat that bread and will drink that wine, will

no more see, feel or taste death in eternity.

[15] If you have understood this now, then act also accordingly, then My words will become full, living truth in you.”

(73) Explanation of the Lord about ‘eating His flesh and drinking His blood’

NOW the disciples said: “Lord and Master, this lesson that You gave us can be well understood, but once in Capernaum where so many people from all regions around Jerusalem followed You and when You gave a similar instruction about

eating Your flesh and drinking Your blood, it was clearly a hard teaching, namely for those people who did not

understand Your simple, clear word as it should be understood according to its true meaning, and that is why many disciples of that time left You. We ourselves did not understand it at first, but the innkeeper, who has never been a

disciple of You, gave us its interpretation. And if we now compare that teaching with this one, it means the same as

what You have now very understandably and very clearly explained to us. Are we right or not?”

[2] I said: “Indeed, because bread and flesh are one and the same, as well as wine and blood, and whoever will in My

word eat the bread of the Heavens and will drink the wine of life by acting according to that word, thus by doing the

works of the true, most unselfish love for God and his fellowman, will also eat My flesh and drink My blood, for as the

physical bread that is eaten by men is changed in man into flesh and the wine that is drank changed into blood, so will

also in the soul of man the bread of My word be changed into flesh and the wine of the active love be changed into

blood.

[3] But when I say: ‘Whoever will eat My flesh’, then by that is also indicated that he has not only taken My word into

his memory and into his brains, but at the same time also into his heart, which is – as I already said – the stomach of the

soul, and he also did the same with the wine of the active love, which is by that no more wine but already the blood of life, because the memory and the reason of man are in relation to the heart, just like the mouth is in relation to the

physical stomach. As long as the physical bread is still between the teeth in the mouth it is still no flesh but bread, but

when it is chewed and comes into the stomach and is there mixed with the stomach juices, then it is, what concerns its fine feeding particles, already flesh, because it corresponds to the flesh. So also with the wine or with water, which

certainly contains also wine substances, because without water, which is carried by the Earth to feed all plants and

animals, the grapevine would die. As long as the wine is kept into the mouth it will not change into blood. However, in

the stomach it very soon will be changed into it.

[4] So whoever hears My word and keeps it into his memory, keeps the bread in the mouth of the soul. When he

seriously begins to think about it with his reason, he chews the bread with the teeth of the soul, because the reason is for

the soul what the teeth in the mouth are for the physical man.

[5] When My bread, thus My teaching, is chewed by the reason, or has been understood and accepted as the full truth, it

also has to be accepted in the heart by the love for the truth, and by the firm will it has to be changed into deeds. When

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this happens, then the word is changed into flesh and by the serious decisive will into blood of the soul, which is My

Spirit in him, without which the soul would be as dead as a body without blood.

[6] The serious decisive will corresponds to a good digestive capability of the physical stomach by which the whole body is kept healthy and strong. When the digestive power of the stomach is weak, then the whole body is already sick

and weak and will even become sick from the best and purest food.

[7] It is the same for the soul in whose heart the will to transform the teaching into deeds has become weakened. He does not achieve the full, healthy, spiritual power, is divided, falls easily into all kinds of doubts and objections, and

tastes one time this and then again another kind of food to see if perhaps that one may have a better and more

strengthening effect. But with that the soul, who once has become somewhat sick, is still not completely helped. ‘Yes’,

you ask yourselves, ‘can a sick soul then not be helped at all?’ O yes, I say. But how?”

(74) The meaning of acting according to God’s Word

LISTEN, when someone has a weak stomach, he once takes a drink of herbs that is well known to you, by which the

badly digested foods are moved away from the stomach and the intestines along the well-known natural way. Those

badly digested foods can be compared with the objections that are absorbed in the soul, namely if he should believe this or that completely and should act accordingly.

[2] Once the physical weak stomach is cleansed, then what has to be done to make it strong again and that it should

remain strong? Such a person should become really active, and at the same time take good exercise in the fresh, pure air.

By that, the stomach will in the first place regain its full and healthy strength. Look, this is what the soul should do also.

He must cleanse his heart of all false doctrines, wrong notions and ideas. Then he should absorb the truth as I am

teaching you, with love, willfully and in full faith, and should be busy and active with it, then by that he will soon

become much stronger and also become fully and permanently healthy.

[3] Therefore, none of you should only be listeners, but should also seriously and zealously act according to My word.

Then in a very short time all objections and doubts will have disappeared from his soul. [4] The physical stomach of the body, being in a healthy, strong condition, can take up all kinds of clean and if

necessary also unclean food into itself without suffering damage, because through its activity it removes all that is

unclean from itself or transforms it into something clean. And this is also what the strong and completely healthy

stomach of the soul does. And thus for the pure everything is pure. And even the most impure spiritual stench of

pestilence of Hell cannot cause any damage to him.

[5] When you will completely possess My Kingdom in yourselves, you will be able to walk over snakes and scorpions

and drink poison from Hell without causing you the least of damage.

[6] If you all have well understood this now and have grasped it, you will now also perceive according to the full living

truth what I wanted you to understand in Capernaum with ‘eating My flesh’ and ‘drinking My blood’, and from now on

you surely will not call it a hard teaching anymore. [7] Already in the visible natural world the deeper causes of things and of many phenomena are so difficult to explain

for the pure human reason in such a way that it can remain free from all possible errors that feeds the bad superstition,

and that it can in this way walk the way of the truth. How much more difficult will the pure reason of the brains understand the heavenly spiritual things, powers, actions and phenomena which are invisible for the physical eye of man

and to make it perceptible for the soul.

[8] Therefore I always say to you: you will only be initiated in all wisdom related to the spiritual, heavenly life’s

conditions and its power and might when you will be completely newly born in My Spirit in the manner that I have

extensively and clearly shown to you. And ask yourself now if you also have completely understood the correct, full

truth of all that.”

[9] The disciples said: “Yes, Lord and Master, if You reveal to us the secrets of the Kingdom of God in this manner,

they are also for us easy to understand, but when You speak in parables, then the meaning of Your words is for us

always difficult and sometimes not at all to understand. But when after that, You explain the parables to us, we realize that only the godly all-wisdom can give such images and parables. O Lord, we thank You from the deepest of our heart

for Your more than great patience and Your love for us. If we as men would ever become weak and tired on the way to

the true new birth – the rebirth of Your Spirit in us – then do not leave us, Lord, but strengthen us and let us never become weak. And when our mind becomes fearful and sad when in the future You will no more visibly walk among us,

then come with Your mercy and compassion, and comfort us, and revive our love, our faith, our hope and our

expectation.”

[10] The innkeeper and his healed chief helper said: “O Lord and Master, we also ask You for what the disciples have

asked You.”

[11] I said: “Truly, truly, I say to you: that which you will ask the Father in My name, will also be given to you. Where

can you find a father among men, who are mostly bad, who would give to a child a stone when he asked him for a piece

of bread, or who would give to a daughter a snake when she asked him for a fish?

[12] When men who are – as already said – only bad, can give their children all good gifts, how much more will the Father in Heaven, who is the only One who is more than good, do good things for those who lovingly and believingly

ask Him.

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[13] Therefore you always can have a cheerful heart and be in a happy mood, because the holy and more than good

Father always watches over you and takes care of your well-being and salvation of your soul.

[14] And the Father is in Me, as I am always and eternally in Him, and I give you the full assurance that I will never leave you behind as orphans, until the end of times of this Earth.

[15] Truly I say to you: who truly loves Me and keeps My commandments I will come to him and reveal Myself to

him, and then everyone will be able to convince himself that he is not like an orphan in this world. The one to

whom I will reveal Myself to him in this manner should however not keep it to himself, but should also tell this

comfort to his brothers, so that also they may be comforted and strengthened by that.

[16] Who gladly will strengthen the weak, comfort the sorrowful and gladly will help those who are suffering, can in all

these things expect tenfold the reward of life from Me. You always can be completely sure about that.”

[17] These words of Mine made everyone happy and cheerful, and the innkeeper let our cups again be filled with his

best wine, and we drank and talked then also for about 1 hour with each other.

'The Great Gospel of John – 9/72:9-74’

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Spiritual correspondence of ‘eating’ from the writings of E.Swedenborg

As the natural eye is the servant of the understanding, which we have called the spiritual eye, extending the sight of that

eye out into the natural world, and as the natural ear is, so to speak, an extension of the spiritual ear, just so the whole

human body is but the garment which the spirit weaves for itself, that it may live in this natural world. All the organs of

the body are in close relation with the spiritual organs; they are their natural agents, and they are, as it were, models of

the spiritual organs; in a word, they correspond to them. In their number, their uses, and their mutual relations the organs

of the body teach us, as in an object lesson, of the spiritual faculties. (ISB 11, 12; HH 432; AC 7850; DLW377) We are now to discover, if we can, the mental process which corresponds to eating.

Does the mind, as well as the body, need food that it may keep healthy and strong, and may grow? Suppose children are

given plenty of bread and butter and good natural food, is this all they need that they may grow up to be useful men and women? If parents spread the table, but did no more for their children, would the children become strong and healthy in

mind as well as in body? Their bodies might grow, but their minds would starve and remain undeveloped for lack of

food of another kind. Why do children want to know so many things, and ask so many questions, except because their minds are hungry? They need interesting "food for thought," as we say, and they need knowledge of what is good which

will satisfy their affections. Instruction in such knowledge is the mind's food.

The reception of food into the body is a wonderful and most interesting process. Food is taken by the lips, its hard parts are crushed by the teeth, it is moistened with the saliva, tasted by the tongue, swallowed, digested in the stomach and

intestines, and its good parts drawn up into the currents of the blood. This process, so wonderful in itself, is even more

wonderful when we think of it as an object-lesson, teaching us how the spiritual food of instruction is received into the

mind and made a part of it.

Little children receive simple instruction unquestioningly from their parents, as they take milk and other soft food. But

presently they like to seek knowledge for themselves, and to examine into things a little, and at the same time they have

some teeth to bite with. As they grow older they learn not to take everything on trust, nor even for what it pretends to be.

They examine it closely to see what it really is, before they accept it. This critical examination of what comes to the

mind for acceptance is like the opening of food by the grinding teeth. The principles which we have established as fixed

and sure, by which we make the examination, are like the teeth. Little children are without teeth spiritually as well as

naturally. They gain spiritual teeth as they learn to set guards at the doors of their minds which permit nothing to pass

till it is opened and explained. (AE 990; AC 4795, 5565)

Natural food must now be moistened. If food is perfectly dry we cannot taste it, and cannot by any possibility swallow

it. We speak of instruction sometimes as being "dry "; if it is very dry we cannot receive it at all. What do we mean by

calling it "dry"? That it is uninteresting. And what makes a subject interesting or uninteresting? I can imagine a lesson

about the details of travel in some foreign country, or about certain chemical or mechanical processes, or about a hundred other things, which would be to me so dry that I could not grasp and remember them at all. But if I was about

starting on the foreign journey and had need of those particulars, they would not be dry. Instruction is always dry if we

are not shown its application to our needs and circum stances. The perception of its relation to us, makes it possible to receive it. To have this relation of instruction to our life pointed out is like receiving with the food refreshing drink

which makes the food easy to swallow. (Chapter 28) Better still if we perceive for ourselves the relation of the

instruction to our needs, as the mouth itself moistens the food.

But even when accepted, new knowledge does not become at once a living part of ourselves. Very much that we are

taught and accept as true, lies long in the memory before it really becomes a part of our character. In fact, we usually

need a little time to ponder a new bit of knowledge before we appropriate it as our own and find our thought made richer and our life made stronger by it. So the food must be digested in the stomach and intestines, before it can be drawn up

into the blood and be built into the tissues of the body. (AE 242, 580; DP 80) The reception of instruction and making it

our own is a process which exactly corresponds with the natural process of eating. It is quite another thing from simply

understanding another's idea; that is seeing. Spiritually as well as naturally I see a thousand things which I do not eat.

Is it possible that children might have abundance of natural food, and also new and interesting instruction about

scientific and, worldly things, and still their heavenly characters remain starved? The angel in us cannot live and grow strong on merely worldly knowledge. That we may "increase in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man,"

we need also instruction from the Lord in regard to what He knows to be really good and true. "Wherefore do ye spend

money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye

that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Come ye, buy, and eat." (Isa. iv. 2, 1) We could of course

apply the words to the persons we imagined above who thought only of providing natural food. Can we not apply them

also to ourselves when we are content with merely worldly thoughts and interests? We eat that which is good, when we

receive from the Lord instruction which feeds the soul and makes it grow strong and beautiful for heaven. (AC 680,

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5576; AE 750) It is this good food of which the Bible speaks. Let the class recall passages where hunger and food and

eating are mentioned, and see that they tell of instruction in heavenly life from the Lord.

"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." (Matt. v. 6) We are spiritually

hungry when we earnestly desire to know what is good, and for the purpose of building it into our characters. (AR 323;

AE 386) In the prophet we read of "a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the

words of the LORD." (Amos viii. 11) The verse itself explains that the famine meant is a great lack of knowledge of what is good and true, such as the Lord's words can give. (AE 386) The satisfying of such hunger is described in the

verse, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me joy and rejoicing of my heart." (Jer. xv.

16; AE 617) In contrast with the good food of His own instruction, remember how the Lord warned the disciples, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." At first they thought only of natural bread, but

afterward they understood "how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees

and of the Sadducees." (Matt. xvi. 6, 12; AC 7906)

Read, in the Revelation, of the little book which the angel gave to John, saying, "Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make

thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey." (Rev. x. 9) The little book represents some instruction from

the Lord, especially the truth that the Lord is the Savior and Redeemer, which it is pleasant to hear and acknowledge; but it is very difficult to understand and acknowledge the Divine Human presence and power which make salvation

possible, on account of confirmed false ideas about the Lord. Still more difficult is it to make the truth really ours in life.

(AE 6I7, 6I8; AR 48I) In the Psalm also we read, "How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to

my mouth!" (Ps. cxix. I03), also telling of the first pleasure in being instructed from the Lord's Word. (AE 619) "Not

that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. . . .

Whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast out into the draught. But those things which proceed

out of the mouth come forth from the heart." (Matt. xv. 11, 18, 19) Natural food does not defile nor strengthen the spirit;

no more does knowledge, so long as it lies only in the memory. It is still outside the man, as food in the stomach is

outside the living tissues of the body, and not a part of them. What is good must still be chosen and worked into the character; and it is not too late to reject what is evil. (AE 580, 622)

The disciples were one day gone into the city to buy meat, and returning to the Lord at Jacob's well, "prayed him,

saying, Master eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. . . . My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." (John iv. 31-34) So we go searching for natural food and knowledge which shall

make us strong in worldly life, but forget that the Lord is strong with perfect knowledge of what is good and true, and

that we "should have asked of him," and He would have given living food and drink. (AC 5293; see also John vi. 27;

Matt. iv. 4; AC 5915, 9003)

The people who heard the Lord, and took His words into their lives, grew strong in spirit. Once, yes twice, when He had

for many hours been teaching the people, He caused them to sit down on the grass, and fed their fainting bodies with

loaves and fishes. (Matt. xiv. 19; xv. 36) What spiritual work is pictured in this feeding of the multitudes? (AE 617) Let

us think of all the Lord's gifts of natural food as coming from the same hand which fed the multitudes; and they should,

like that miracle, be reminders to us of His constant desire to give us the knowledge which will make us strong in spirit.

Let us not forget the Lord's gift of natural food when we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. vi. 11 ), but

think also of the "living bread " which strengthens the spirit. (AC 680)

The Lord shares with us knowledge which is ever living in the currents of His own Divine mind. He feeds us with His

very own; with Himself. "I am the living bread, which came down from heaven," the Lord declares in John. "If any man

eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the

world. . . . My flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." (John vi. 48-58; AC 4735) When we receive any

good affection or true thought into our life and are strengthened by it, we ought to remember that the Lord is feeding us

from His own life. As He gives us instruction of what He knows to be good and true, so He would have us share with

others who are ignorant but desire to know, the knowledge in which we have found strength. "Is not this the fast which I

have chosen? . . Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? . . . If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul," etc. (Isa. lviii. 6-10; AE 386; AC 9050)

Can we see why the Lord so many times speaks of heaven as a feast? "A certain man made a great supper, and bade

many." (Luke xiv. 16) "And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." (Isa. xxv. 6) "I appoint unto you a

kingdom . . . that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom." (Luke xxii. 29, 30) "Blessed are they that are called

unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." (Rev. xix. 9) Such words mean that heavenly life consists in receiving constantly from the Lord a knowledge of what is good and true, and in working it into our character as our very life,

sharing it also with one another. That it is the Lord's feast, and that we eat at His table, means that He gives us of His

own, and that in receiving we become united with Him. (AE 252, 617) Can we see also why sacred feasts formed a part of the ancient representative worship? (AC 3596) And also why the Lord welcomed publicans and sinners - by whom

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are represented those who see and confess their sins - to His table, to eat with Him?

Finally, do we see why the Lord instituted the Holy Supper as the most sacred act of worship? "And he took bread, and

gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance

of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you."

(Luke xxii. 19, 20) This eating with the Lord pictures our reception from Him of His own knowledge of what is good

and true, and our conjunction with Him as we appropriate it into our lives. (TCR 702-710) And does the sacrament merely picture this reception of spiritual food from the Lord? or does it actually promote that reception? It actually

promotes it; and partly for the reason explained in the beginning of this chapter, that the physical organs and physical

processes are in close relation with the corresponding spiritual processes. (AC 7850) While we are eating natural food, we are more open than at other times to receive and appropriate spiritual strength from those with whom we are eating.

The knowledge of this fact led in the old time to the custom of eating with friends as a means of sharing with them good

things of spiritual life. We still regard it as helpful to good understanding and friendship, to break bread with others, and

to ask them to our table. In the same way we are especially open to receive and appropriate from the Lord knowledge of

what is good and true, while we are partaking of His Holy Supper. (TCR 433, 434, 727; NJHD 210-213)

W. Worcester ‘God’s explanation of the Bible – ch. 6’

Abbreviations for works of Emanuel Swedenborg cited

AC Arcana Coelestia AE Apocalypse Explained

AR Apocalypse Revealed

CL Conjugial Love

Cont LJ Continuation of Last Judgment

Cor. Coronis

DLW Divine Love and Wisdom D Life Doctrine of Life

D Lord Doctrine of the Lord

DP Divine Providence EU Earths in the Universe

HH Heaven and Hell

ISB Intercourse between the Soul and Body. (Soul-Body Interaction in recent translations) Inv. Invitation to the New Church

LJ Last Judgment.

NJHD The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine

PP Summary Exposition of the Prophets and Psalms

SD Spiritual Diary. (Spiritual Experiences in recent translations)

SS Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture

TCR True Christian Religion. WH The White Horse