1441 Sin.... atonement.... creation.... will.... redemption....

May 29, 1940: Book 23

God's work of creation therefore came into being in order to bind the being's free will, which was misused, for a certain time, so that the being is therefore forced to do something which goes against its will.... that it has to serve where it previously wanted to rule. The being is pushed into a state which its free will would never have taken upon itself; the being is forced into an activity which corresponds to God's will and the adversary's power cannot change this state of the being. His power has therefore already been broken when God let creation come into being, that is why he used all his cunning and trickery to nevertheless subjugate the being again in the stage of free will, in the embodiment as man. And thus he harassed the being in an unheard-of way so that, even if its will longed for God, it was too weak to carry out this will but time and again got caught in satan's nets and was unable to free itself from them by its own strength. And in order to also abolish this state of weakness of the beings, which had after all originated from Him in the beginning.... to strengthen the beings in their willpower and at the same time to bring them the means that would free them from the evil power, the lord descended to earth. He also gave the adversary power over Himself, i.e. over everything that was earthly about Him, He presented Himself in battle against the worst enemy of all good. And He overcame him.... He broke the power of death, He was stronger than the one whose endeavour it is to withdraw everything from the realm of light and to enlarge the realm of darkness. He broke its power and showed the being a path that led out of the realm of darkness into the realm of light. He now admittedly left free will to it and also gave the adversary power over it, but he provided the being with a measure of grace which can let its will become strong and makes complete liberation from the adversary's power possible for it if the being consciously makes use of this grant of grace. Thus it is again dependent on the being's free will to which side it decides.... It can now take the path upwards or also downwards unhindered, only if it demands upwards it is also given the strength to be able to fulfil its desire, whereas previously the being was powerless and the will was weakened to the utmost by the adversary, so that the desire for the light became less and less, thus the distance from God ever greater. Through the work of creation the being is given the opportunity before the embodiment as man to develop upwards also against its will, so that therefore a certain state of maturity is already reached when the being is then allowed to embody itself as man. The course through creation has already brought the being closer to the deity, the distance is no longer as infinitely great as it once was. And therefore the possibility is also greater that the walk through the earth valley as man brings the being final liberation from the power of the adversary. If the gift of grace, which God Himself made accessible to people through His act of salvation, is utilized then the final redemption from this power can take place and the being can return to the one from Whom it originated....

Amen

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