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5471 Shortening of the days.... No shortcoming for the people....

August 25, 1952: Book 60

People's spiritual development is only progressing minimally, an alarming state has arisen, only a few people are increasing their degree of maturity but the whole remains on the same level with visible deviations downwards. And if the Eternal Plan of Salvation did not provide for an end to this earth, even those people with a higher degree of maturity would be thrown back into the abyss. But God has shortened the days for the sake of the chosen.... The complete decay and apostasy from God can no longer be stopped, which is why a shortening of the days is no longer a shortcoming for fallen humanity but still a salvation for those who are only able to hold their ground with difficulty and who have to struggle terribly in order to resist the onslaught from below. Humanity is heading towards the end because people are hastening it itself, because the days are being shortened for the sake of the salvation of the believers; people are only hastening the end because it is clearly recognisable that there is no more salvation for people and therefore their days are not being shortened as they could still be saved.... They have finally decided in favour of God's adversary and therefore only His children shall still be helped so that they will stand firm during the last tribulation on this earth. And thus salvation will come suddenly and unexpectedly for these children of God.... before they falter, for Satan won’t stop until he is bound. All possibilities shall be used beforehand in order to still promote people's spiritual development.... yet without success, as God knows since eternity.... People will not be open to any admonition or warning, they only know one goal, to live on earth in joy and pleasure.... and everything that could prevent them from doing so, they will reject and attack it. They mock God and even more His servants. The time has come of which it is written: "It will be as in the days of Noah, when they ate and drank and let themselves be courted.... until the day of judgement. People will truly lose nothing when the earth is destroyed, for what they possess is so worthless and what is of value they no longer strive for, but the sooner these people's lives are over, the sooner they will set out on the path that will one day lead to the heights again.... There is no longer a long time, for the days will be shortened for the sake of the chosen.... Therefore, if the conditions of life seem unbearable to you, who want to remain faithful to God, remember that you will receive strength to persevere until the end, and that this end will not be long in coming, for the promise will be fulfilled that God will shorten the days for the sake of the elect in order to help them attain eternal bliss....

Amen

Translated by Sven Immecke