Divine Revelation
My beloved brothers and sisters, I reveal Myself as the Christ-Spirit of God, the Spirit of love who was incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth. I became your brother, lived with you, and experienced being human to the last bitter drop. I came to free you from the fetters that the adversary had placed upon all human beings and souls; fetters that many of you still carry today without knowing it, or without being able, and often also without being willing, to cast them off with My help.
Out of love I accomplished the work of redemption and thereby made it possible for all who once left the heavens to return home. For you too I reopened the gates of heaven, your true home. Your return home, however, is linked to a condition that you find in your Scripture in the words: “No one comes to the Father except through Me”; by which is meant: “No one comes to the Father who does not live what I taught and lived out: love.”
These words therefore do not mean that it is enough merely to know Me by name or to belong to a community that calls itself Christian; for an entry in a church register says something about membership, but nothing about whether My teaching is practiced or not. My word tells you that heaven receives with open arms the person who has taken My teaching seriously, lived it in everyday life, and thereby—although individually to differing degrees, yet with honest effort—entered into following Me.
This condition is part of My universal law, which governs all creation and therefore also the events that have taken place on your earth since matter was formed. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is excluded from being integrated into My laws, not even the most sophisticated attempts to find solutions by circumventing My commandment of love. Such solutions are always only apparent solutions and in reality deepen entanglement in what is contrary to law—because it is without love.
The principle “like attracts like,” which is expressed in My word, ensures that justice is satisfied always and under all circumstances. In the positive case, when you experience good and reap the pleasant fruits of your actions, this principle promotes the realization that only the effort to put love into practice leads to the longed-for or desired goal. In the event that unpleasant and disharmonious things appear in your life, My law will sooner or later inevitably help you recognize suffering, worry, and distress as consequences of causes you yourselves set.
Over many centuries, intensely and with particular urgency in recent decades, I have enlightened human beings about the meaning of their earthly existence; again and again I have admonished them to come to their senses and turn back, and I have shown them the path that can protect them from the grave things coming toward them. And this even though everything has been recorded in writing in My teachings for 2,000 years and proclaimed countless times as My word and My will in streets and squares, in churches and halls, and can be read in all languages.
I did this in different ways through many of My faithful, so that everyone who wanted to reflect and decide could find and use his own personal possibilities to give his life a different direction with regard to what is to be expected; which means displaying behavior more loving than in the past. No one is excluded from the necessity of a corresponding change of direction in his life, for no one has yet reached a maturity of soul that makes further inner work unnecessary.
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My patience is boundless, but it does not prevent My law of cause and effect from doing its work at the required time. Whoever has preserved clear thinking will be able to answer for himself whether further admonitions would help change humanity’s behavior toward the positive, the selfless, and love of neighbor; and whether the ship of your fate would suddenly take a new course through further appeals and reminders from Me, a course whose destination is peace, harmony, love, and selflessness …
Accordingly, I will increasingly direct your attention toward what is coming; and those who have understood Me as all-embracing love will, despite the necessary seriousness of My words, not only recognize My brotherly care and My never-ending help, but will experience them personally.
For a long time now I have gone beyond merely telling you that things are “this way or that,” and that you should do or refrain from doing “this or that.” That was necessary in times when darkness had already succeeded centuries ago in largely switching off people’s thinking through threats of guilt for sin and by creating fear. Today I increasingly let you look behind the scenes so that you can recognize connections. For especially in the present time I need brothers and sisters who have not yet allowed themselves to be lulled to sleep, who have preserved their independent thinking and deciding, and who are honest and courageous enough to build a strong foundation in their souls upon the insights they have gained. Then people who urgently need answers can also seek and find refuge with them, answers without which they remain uncertain or fall prey to doubt and unbelief.
Part of the knowledge needed to gain or preserve spiritual stability and the necessary clear view is that you recognize the activity of what is negative in your world as a reality. And not only in theory, that is, not merely by saying, “I believe that” or “I know about it.” That is too little, My brothers and sisters. You might then perhaps be able to write books about it, but in your everyday life you would still be helplessly exposed to the unnoticed arts of seduction practiced by darkness.
In your assessment of the overall situation of your planet—but also in looking at your own life—you must include the knowledge that one of the cleverest moves of darkness consisted, and still consists, in making you believe that it does not exist at all. Once you have seen through this game, your eyes will gradually open, and suddenly you will see many things in a completely different light. Then, for example, you will also recognize the portrayal of evil as a horned devil figure as an attempt to make belief in My adversary and yours ridiculous, so that no one sees in it any longer a danger to body and soul.
It does not matter what name you use for the one who once set himself against Me, love. He appears both in personal form—invisible and unrecognized—and in impersonal form as energy, and the same applies to his vassals, who rule with him through the great host of souls dependent on them in their realms. I use the terms darkness, forces of darkness, adversary, the negative, opposing forces, My adversary and yours, the seducer, what is without love, and others.
This is meant to express that we are dealing with the “opposing side,” the force that opposed love, that still opposes it, and that blindly and ruthlessly pursues the goal of moving as many people as possible toward behavior directed against My commandment of love. The powers of darkness live from the negative energy these people generate; and the law “like attracts like” brings their souls, after they lay aside their bodies, into the realms under their rule.
As important as this knowledge is for you: Be careful! For connected with it is also the danger that you judge and condemn and thereby remove from your hearts your brothers and sisters who are presently passing through darkness. I deliberately draw your attention to this point, for it is part of the love of enemies that I taught and practiced, and that you too—if you have chosen or choose My path—should practice and live.
All beings, including those who from the invisible have promoted all the suffering in your world since human memory began and who move weak and influenceable people toward behavior contrary to love, are and remain My children, whom I love. They are and remain also your brothers and sisters whom you know and love from “earlier times,” and whom one day you will love again—even if at present this reaches or exceeds the limits of your human imagination. The same applies to those who have allowed themselves to be seduced and who carry out the works of darkness on this earth.
Forgiving precisely these people is one of the most difficult tasks that meets you during your incarnation, especially when you are personally affected and do not merely hear or read that something evil has happened again here or there. I knew that those who inflicted suffering on Me did not recognize in the depths of their souls what they were doing as people who had been seduced. That is why I was able to pray accordingly: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Can you who call yourselves Christians already do this as well? Or have you at least once reflected that there is a necessity to act likewise if you want to follow Me? The primary issue is that you forgive your tormentors or those who in your eyes have wronged you. Heaven has no problem with it if the sinner confesses his guilt, repents, and is willing to make restitution. But as long as you do not forgive, the other person indeed cannot become free, but you too remain bound to him and to your unwillingness or inability to forgive.
Take Me into the work of forgiveness with you if such work lies before you.
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When I repeatedly return to the law of cause and effect, there is a reason: through the falsification of My teaching, widespread ignorance has also arisen in this respect, and it is substantially responsible for the conduct of My brothers and sisters that is contrary to law. More precisely: Responsible for the misdirection and the resulting ignorance are your theologians and scribes, who many centuries ago could be influenced by darkness and have since spread a false teaching.
The great majority of people therefore do not look for the reasons for suffering, distress, adversity, and much more in causes that logically must have been set before every event; and time plays no role as long as the original actions have not yet been recognized and regretted. This leads to chance having to serve as the explanation, and faith in flawless heavenly guidance existing in very few people.
But whether people believe that they are integrated into eternally valid spiritual laws or not changes nothing about the fact that these laws work with incomparable precision. And that for everything there is a time of sowing and a time of harvest. What the time of sowing looked like and still looks like needs no further explanation. And because you cannot deny or cover up the atrocities that since human memory began—and especially in recent centuries—have been caused through disregard of My teaching, the opposing side has induced you in your thinking simply to pass over them and act as though all of that had indeed happened but were now past and forgotten and no longer had any influence whatsoever.
Do you notice, My brothers and sisters, how you, who pride yourselves on your intelligence in so many fields, have been lulled to sleep? How your thinking has been manipulated so that you were no longer even able to recognize and use the possibility of broadening your consciousness, as can happen only by following My commandment of love? You can indeed acquire knowledge, but you will not find wisdom in this way; never. For the great majority, this path is blocked by their orientation toward the world. It leads exclusively through the heart—and therefore through your love for Me.
The time of sowing was not used by the majority of people and their leaders to put good seed into the soil of their fate in the spirit of love for God and neighbor. It is still not being used even now, although all signs unmistakably indicate that the decline in every field—interpersonal, economic, cultural, and spiritual—can no longer be stopped. The gagging of human consciousness no longer makes a turning back possible, even if here and there the realization glimmers through that you have lost your way.
Now the time of harvest has begun.
To many of you this sounds like a threat of punishment; but not to those who recognize love in everything, love that with a wise hand planned and prepared everything long and carefully and is now carrying it out. I have never lost sight of the goal, which is: to bring all home again. Because this was not possible by a direct path on account of the influence of evil, it will now happen indirectly: through the law of sowing and reaping initiating what will finally bring even all who lack insight and resist to bow their heads in remorse and recognize love as the only true power in creation; even though a “small eternity” will still pass before the final homecoming of all.
It is like a birth: Before a new life sees the light of the world, labor pains begin. But the one who understands does not look at the unavoidable pains; he directs his attention to the joy that will appear and that he will experience when the difficult hours are over.
It therefore makes little or no sense to react with alarm to every change that appears negative in your eyes: “Now something has happened again here or there,” or “A new catastrophe is looming!” or “This too!” All of these are steps that must be counted among the labor pains, and not a single one of those pains begins outside My permission or My knowledge, though this is not immediately easy for some of you to grasp. It becomes especially difficult for a person to recognize and accept My ordering hand in it when My laws are foreign to him or he does not believe in them.
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Objection rises in one person or another, or perhaps only a feeling that what has been said is difficult to accept. That is understandable, My beloved, for it requires a high degree of trust to be able to look into the future without fear. But it does no good to close your eyes halfway or completely or to deny the activity of darkness. Nor does it help you to apply too small, too slight, or too weak a measure to the actual situation in your world, one that does not correspond to what I taught and what is governed by My law. You can see for yourselves how serious the situation is from a simple example:
Where in your world am I included in the solutions to the many problems that your political leaders seek and pursue with wrong decisions according to their own ideas? Where does the word “God” appear in situations of catastrophe, crisis, or war, to say nothing of an appeal to My commandment of love? Would people—even those who belong to a Christian church or group—follow someone who wrote the Sermon on the Mount on his banner? Such directives, if put into practice in your everyday life, would immediately cause an outcry from a large part of the people, regardless of nation, who do not want to give up their prosperity or advantages.
Love of neighbor? Sharing? Selfless help? Renunciation? Yielding? Forgiveness? Reducing one’s claims? Directing one’s gaze toward the time that comes after this earthly life? Or even love of enemies, as I taught and lived it?
If you are honest, you will have to realize with disappointment that humanity is not merely miles away from living My commandments, but that it—each group in a different way—practices the opposite. The main concern is increasing self-interest while disregarding the simplest humanitarian rules.
That, My brothers and sisters, is the sobering balance sheet that presents itself 2,000 years after I freed My human and soul brothers and sisters from the bondage of darkness. My teaching has been cut down and My example turned into a caricature. For some it is not easy to bear when I say:
Over the course of the centuries, the worldly representatives of My commandments and instructions constructed a teaching that no longer has much in common with the original. It was adapted to the needs of people who knew no better and who in their faith blindly followed—and still follow—the educated, the theologians, instead of the human being adapting his behavior to the standards of My teaching of love.
Thus a form of Christianity arose that resembles being a Christian on a low flame; in your modern language you would say “Christianity lite.” It has long since ceased to serve as an example that others gladly follow, because they do not see the good fruits I taught, which can be harvested as a consequence of behavior characterized by love of neighbor—and they do not see them because they are not there.
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Suppose, My beloved, that before an upcoming, difficult operation you had the choice between a well-planned procedure that gives you a few days for appropriate inward and outward preparation, and a rushed emergency operation because it has become urgently necessary: Is there really any question how you would decide?
Each of you is, figuratively speaking, in the situation of a person facing a difficult operation. Would you prefer that I speak in less clear language? That I make some things sound better so as not to let fears arise? Then I would not be love; then I would let you go unprepared and unprotected into the coming time.
Love is not characterized by cooing and covering things up and trying to satisfy everyone and everything. Love is also clarity, but it is always also brotherly help, granted to all who turn toward it. Whoever has already had experiences with Me, whoever already lives with Me as well as he can, knows what I am talking about. He also knows that I am the only One who has a solution for every situation; he also knows that there is absolutely nothing I am not able to take into My love.
This in turn means that evil can never succeed in harming the person upon whom I have placed My hand because he asked Me with an honest heart. Only My protection and My guidance will often look different from what a human being imagines or wishes. Then, My friends, your trust is required, trust that in turn does not arise “by itself” from one day to the next, but represents the sum of the experiences you have had with Me in the past.
So do not wait until an emergency operation becomes necessary. Prepare yourselves; you still have time, especially since an appropriate decision can be made within seconds or minutes. But this should not happen from fear of damage to body and soul, but from the realization, and perhaps the relief, that in My words you have found the truth.
If you then ask Me to walk with you the stretch of the path still ahead and—if it should be necessary—to turn being a Christian on a low flame into being a Christian as a beacon fire, then in Me you will experience a power you previously did not dare dream of. For remember that I live in you, that I am closer to you than your arms and legs; that only one thought of Me is needed to establish a connection without equal.
At the close of My word of revelation today I give you one more thought to take with you:
The younger generation will have to engage with events to an even greater degree than you must today and in the near future. See it as your task, through right thinking and action, to help your children and grandchildren toward better understanding and behavior that is right in the spirit of love.
Many of them consciously incarnated in this time because they are strong souls who already carry within themselves a highly developed love for Me and for their neighbor, and because they came to be light in a difficult time. Through your example you make their self-chosen task considerably easier, for at the beginning they need guidance and want to learn how they can build up the strength of their souls and gain trust. Who would be better suited for this than those who, being older, have already had their experiences with Me and who do not merely talk about them but can also express them in their everyday life?
Amen