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0468 False doctrines.... intervention of God.... hardened....

June 16, 1938: Book 10

There are so many misguided teachings which are all capable of shaking humanity's faith to the core.... which are also to blame for the fact that people have been seized by a nameless indifference towards everything that would be beneficial for their salvation.... In such adversity the lord has mercy, and it is only up to the will of the individual whether the true teaching of Christ finds its way back into people.... Every era has its manifestations.... so it is particularly remarkable how little man is concerned with spiritual problems.... He only has a sense for earthly advantages, for enjoyment and well-being and the increase of his earthly goods.... And with such materialistic thinking, a spiritual direction can never be taken. It will never be possible to unite the two, as only the one is conceivable without the other. That is why the lord Himself puts Himself in the middle.... He destroys where too much earthly construction has taken place.... Only when a person is completely thrown off course does his thinking begin to change.... All wise explanations about the origin of the divine teachings.... which people like to bring in order to present them as the fantasies of spiritually limited people, will collapse into nothingness when they are countered by the words of God.... given by the lord Himself.... There is only a short time left until the lord Himself will make Himself known in His power.... that this will work immediately and then a slight resistance can easily be broken.... on the other hand, the hardened must be struck with heavy blows if he too is to become pliable as wax and willingly submit to God's will. This will require much patience and effort on the part of the lord's servants.... The chosen ones will have to work in all gentleness and love and consider all those who go astray with explanations and loving references to the goodness of the lord and His care for all human children. But everyone will live who hears this word and believingly closes it within himself.... He has found the true stream of life that leads safely upwards.... But to many the lord must give trials of His power and might before they also confess the One and only highest over heaven and earth.... The world will first have to go up in flames before such hardened ones recognize the hand of the lord and try to completely change their inner life.... Yet the return to the father's house is never too late, and the more diligently a person now searches for the truth, the less he spares the effort to gain clarity of spirit and the more trustingly he turns to the heavenly father for His help and mercy, the more successful his search for the truth will be, and in recognizing his task in life the person now also knows how to focus his whole life and endeavours on creating imperishable values for eternity. And the lord's love and mercy has once again wrested a soul from the darkness and thus led it towards the eternal light....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers