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2828 Size of the work of destruction.... natural disaster....

July 28, 1943: Book 37

People cannot imagine how God will express Himself because a work of destruction will take place the magnitude of which has not yet been experienced. And that is why the predictions will not be believed and also remain without effect, because people do not want to accept something extraordinary and they consider an intervention by God that destroys creations to be completely out of the question. However, God expresses Himself in a form that is unusual because the purpose of the works of destruction is to tear people out of their daily lives and place them in different living conditions that are intended to change their thinking and their way of life. And therefore God will prove His might and His strength to people through the forces of nature, He will reveal Himself to people in the elemental eruptions, He will deprive them of all strength and make them realize their helplessness so that they will turn to Him for help, so that they will confess Him in their hearts and call upon Him for His help. It will be a process which will make people freeze, for the raging of the forces of nature will be so powerful that they will believe that the end of the world has come.... And people will not know the extent of the natural disaster, they will only be able to survey their immediate surroundings and will be unaware of the actual extent of the work of destruction because every connection with the environment will have been severed. These will be terrible hours, hours of extreme hardship and deepest despair, because no human being will be able to fight the forces of nature, because everyone will have to endure what God has imposed on them. The divine voice will be audible to everyone, for it will resound with such strength that no-one will be able to close their ears.... it will cause fear and terror.... And yet it is the voice of love that speaks to people.... is only so powerful because the quiet voice is not heeded and because man must be called if he does not want to perish in the way of life he leads.... without God and without faith in a continuation of life after death. Admittedly, even this obvious manifestation of God will not be recognized by most people for what it is; a guiding and fate-determining God will be rejected by many all the more, yet the immense natural event will stimulate people to reflect, and then the will of the individual is decisive as to how far his thinking corresponds to the truth and how he allows the thoughts he now receives to have an effect on him. He can come to the right realization if he does not close himself to the bearers of truth who mentally try to instruct him and if he listens to people who preach to him about God's love and about the meaning and purpose of earthly life. God gives all people the opportunity to come to the right realization, and only the will for truth is necessary for him to derive the right benefit from the dreadful experience. Yet only a few will have this will and they cannot be helped in any other way, even if this natural disaster passes them by without leaving any impression. God uses the last resort before the final divorce.... He tries to change people's thinking once again, He makes them aware of the transience of earthly things and lets them get into situations where they should seek Him and long for Him in order to be able to help them. And therefore He allows a work of destruction to take place which, however, simultaneously signifies a redemption for the spiritual substance bound in solid form.... Ignorant mankind only sees the overwhelming destruction, but the knowing man knows about the necessity and the blessing of such destructions for the spiritual development of the being.... He also knows about the danger humanity is in, that it does not recognize its creator.... that it lives irresponsibly and does not fulfil its last purpose of earthly life. And He knows that God only lets His mighty voice be heard because He is pitied by humanity, which does not recognize His reign and work. He knows that God only wants to help the erring souls so that they will recognize Him when He speaks to them through the forces of nature....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers