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2339 Earthly violence.... fiasco.... lawlessness and persecution....

May 17, 1942: Book 32

Earthly powers can do nothing against divine power, and wherever they try to assert themselves against the latter they will experience a disgraceful fiasco. For it is God's will that His power should also be recognized by those who only fear earthly power. And thus a time will dawn when the human being will be rendered lawless who does not want to bow down to a power which does not respect the lord over heaven and earth.... People who live in faith in God will recognize that this power demands something that is against the commandments and will now refuse to obey it.... It will be a hard time, for the earthly power will proceed with all severity, and so man must decide in favour of God or that earthly power.... He who loves his earthly life will betray God and be despised by the world.... But he who loves God more than his life will be reviled by the world, and contempt, lawlessness and persecution will be his lot. For earthly violence seems to triumph.... But only for a short time.... only until humanity clearly recognizes who controls this earthly violence.... Then God Himself steps into action.... He proves His power, He proves that He is lord over heaven and earth.... that the earthly power does nothing against Him but is overpowered by His power. For now the time has come when humanity recognizes that it is powerless against the forces of nature, when it has to acknowledge a controller, a will which masters every earthly will, i.e. renders it ineffective.... The time has come when all plans and calculations will be overturned by divine intervention, when people will be unable to do anything, no matter how great their earthly abilities or powers. They will become small in the face of what divine will sends upon people.... they will recognize their powerlessness and want to feign power by acting all the more cruelly against the confessors of God and denying them all rights. But God stands by them, and the more unjust the action against them is, the more the will of God and His unrestricted power becomes apparent. The powerlessness of those who deny God, who dishonour Him and deny His omnipotence becomes apparent. And those who think they are great will become small, those who think they are mighty will be weak, and those who fully trust in God will feel the power of faith in themselves and be mightier than the rulers of the world.... For faith can do everything, for God does not allow a strong faith to be put to shame and He proves Himself to be the power to whom everything must be subject in heaven and on earth....

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers