2331 Jesus Christ overcame death.... bound beings....

May 11, 1942: Book 32

Jesus Christ overcame death, that is, He broke the power of evil.... Its influence on the human being's will was so strong that he could not free himself and succumbing to this power meant death for his soul, for the souls who had to completely submit to it were so far removed from God that they were completely outside the sphere of the divine emanation of love and thus had to do without all strength, which resulted in a state of complete inactivity, i.e. lifelessness. The state of death is a state of agony, for death does not mean extinction. The being is still subject to evil power and must constantly do its will by oppressing all beings that still want to turn towards the light. It is only able to carry out evil but incapable of any good impulse and action, for it receives the strength to act evil from the power of darkness, but it completely lacks the strength from God, so that the soul would be unable to accomplish anything even if its will wanted to turn towards good.... Before Christ's descent, the whole of humanity was in this state. The power of God's adversary was so great that it forced their will under itself, so that even those people who wanted to be noble and good could not carry out their will because the powers of darkness constantly harassed them and prevented them from doing good wherever possible. It was a struggle between light and darkness, in which the darkness usually prevailed and gained more and more power over the creatures whose will was bound by the power of the one who raged against God. And death and darkness were the fate of those who departed from the world.... And Jesus Christ took up the fight against the power of darkness. He resisted the adversary of God, He opposed him with a will that was stronger, which the adversary could not subjugate, and He freed Himself from its power already in earthly life.... For God's strength was with Him, which was able to flow towards Him because His earthly life was a life of love, thus He was in the realm of God's emanation of love and was now able to receive God's strength unmeasured. And thus He showed people the path they also had to take in order to free themselves from the power of the enemy of their souls.... He had overcome death, i.e. the state of being bound by the will, and thus also the one who had bound the will.... He had overcome death, which was the inevitable consequence of succumbing to the will of the adversary.... the state of powerlessness and therefore inactivity, which is unspeakably agonizing for the being.... In order to redeem all His creatures from this unfree state, He accomplished the work of redemption by opposing His will to the will of the adversary, by being willing to give up His physical life in order not to allow the dark power to gain the victory. He completely subordinated His will to God's will and thereby deprived God's adversary of all power.... He overcame him and thus the death of souls....

Amen

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