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0581 Renegades.... honour and glory.... earthly reward.... gods....

September 12, 1938: Book 12

Woe to the apostates who recognized Me and yet left Me again.... Their fate will not be easy in the hereafter.... They rejected, although they recognized what was right, and now bear witness against Me, for they are more tempted by earthly power and favour than by the crown I promised to My own.... And so their life on earth will certainly leave nothing to be desired in terms of honour, fame and prestige, yet they sacrifice their soul to it and depart from the world in poverty.... Whoever claims fame and honour for himself will be without My grace, for only the humble are entitled to it.... everything that pays its tribute to the world must also receive its reward from the world, and this will be meagre for the soul. If you are offered the food of heaven, you will stand high above them, for you will be granted divine favour where they crave human recognition. There are no people so great before God that they should be celebrated like gods.... Everything breathes only self-love, imperiousness and pride.... The free man feels this and turns away, whereas the slaves of the world and its rulers unite and offer their gods the sacrifice of their subservience....

Thus countless people do not see the coming time as a spiritually revolutionary turning point.... instead, they only pay attention to earthly goings-on and do not focus their attention on the most important thing, how God Himself relates to all earthly events. How many thoughts people give to trivial problems and how unimportant the one problem seems to them.... the question for what purpose they are here on earth.... And it is certainly such a desolate time that they would have to turn their attention to their inner life and would like to pay full attention to every time phenomena, in what connection these are with the eternal deity. Life's only task is to redeem the soul.... it is infinitely more important than to raise perpetual questions of controversy which have absolutely no connection with spiritual fulfilment.

O, what strength these people waste on trivialities and how poorly they consider their own soul.... which is far more in need of help in adversity and misery.... As a result, live peacefully side by side, you who are all My creatures, and make no distinction between the value of the peoples.... Have I not created them all, and who will presume to be the most valuable of their kind? If you had grasped the true meaning of life, then the noble instinct should prevail in your hearts, which turns to protect the oppressed and abhors the oppressor. The time of suffering on earth will still teach you many things.... But before you do not become humble and stretch out your hands, pleading for help.... until you first give glory to God and recognize Jesus Christ as the son of God, the suffering on earth will not turn away from you, for He Who took all guilt upon Himself and suffered on the cross for mankind.... He was one of the least of these and had all power to exalt Himself as king of the people.... He remained poor like His poorest brothers on earth, He was a friend and saviour of all the poor, and His redemption was the ignominious death on the cross.... Whoever on earth becomes a partaker of worldly honours is far inferior to the lord Jesus Christ.... He must first descend from his throne and humbly bow his knees before Him, the crucified.... before the ruler of the universe and all creatures.... so that He may raise him from the dust and draw him to His father's heart....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers