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3166 Fight of faith....

June 21, 1944: Book 41

The earthly battle will come to an end and instead the battle will break out which is directed against faith and against everything spiritual. This has also been announced before so that men recognize when the end is near because this fight precedes the last end. Both men as well as God demand the last decision, only that men demand that faith is rejected, while God demands that he is acknowledged and this decision has to be made absolutely. The battle for faith is even more important than the battle for earthly possessions and earthly power, for now it will be shown to what extent humanity is still connected to God, to what extent it makes use of the strength from God and thus resists the world's desire. It will become apparent what immense strength is hidden in faith, i.e., how much more powerful the person is who deeply believes and thereby also lives in accordance with God's will, for he need not be active on his own but is always in contact with God and can make use of God's strength if he is to stand up for God and faith in Him for the sake of his fellow human beings. And this is why the coming battle of faith will be unavoidable, after all, a final clarification is to be achieved by a separation of spirits, i.e. of good and evil people, who will appear particularly conspicuously in the end. Then there will only be people who live in love and strive to grasp God with all their senses, and those who ridicule and persecute everything that points to divine striving, who deny God, who are utterly hostile towards His followers and who will not shy away from any means in order to achieve the goal of displacing God from people's thoughts. And there will no longer be any undecided or fickle people who have not yet finally made up their minds, but anyone who is not for God and the faith is completely against Him and must be addressed as an opponent of God. And this final separation of spirits has to take place so that a time of spiritual blossoming can follow again, which admittedly only starts on the new world but nevertheless begins after the completely disinherited time before the end of the old earth, for people who are in love and in truth will find each other and pass the short time of the battle of faith together and still prove the strength of faith to the unbelievers on earth, so that a few will still be offered the last opportunity to cross over into the camp of those who are faithful to God....

(22.6.1944) And before the end has come a clear separation will have emerged between the people who belong to God and the apostates, whom God will now judge according to law and justice. Yet only a battle of faith will bring about this separation, and this has to be carried out with all tenacity, and it will make great demands on people who want to remain faithful to God, for the adversary's way of fighting is brutal and ruthless and can very easily persuade those people to apostatize who are not completely firm and feel certain of protection from above. Yet God remembers their need and He is always ready to help.... He will reveal Himself to His own in great adversity and strengthen them to resist until the hour of deliverance from danger has come for them. The spiritual battle is far more significant than the battle of nations against each other, for in the latter people only lose their temporal life, they lose or gain earthly possessions, whereas now it is about their soul life, which is imperishable and therefore has to be valued quite differently. No battle is too difficult and no sacrifice too great if it is for the salvation of the soul for eternity. And since people do not ask themselves the decisive question as to whether they should strive for God or the world, the coming battle of faith will have to confront them with this question, and the decision will be difficult for those people who have not found God of their own accord and yet do not want to betray Him. The spiritual battle will require great strength which, however, can only be received from God Himself. And the human being must now seriously seek the connection with Him if he wants to survive this battle. Yet the end will inevitably come, and it can be recognized by the fact that people will become devils because of their faith, for they will try to take the life of those who give themselves to God, and they will now take action against God Himself. And this is the end.... A spiritual turning point is imminent but the old earth and its inhabitants will not experience it. A reshaping of the earth's surface is necessary so that a new period of redemption will start again with people who have a higher degree of maturity. And that is why there is a time of peace on the new earth where all struggle, spiritual or earthly, is eliminated because people live in love and know His will in most intimate union with God and eagerly strive to fulfill it. His will, however, is to live in the divine order.... in love for God and neighbor....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers