2856 The work of the adversary and its binding....

August 21, 1943: Book 37

The adversary works against God in many ways, and in many ways he tries to undermine Christ's teaching of love. He sows hatred and discord wherever the ground is suitable, and he uses every opportunity to incite people against each other and to encourage them in unkindness. For he seeks to supplant God; he seeks to fragment all good and slowly turn it into evil; he seeks to eradicate all sense of truth and to spread views among humanity which are completely opposed to Jesus Christ's teaching of love. And thus he tries to displace Jesus Christ Himself, for the knowledge of the greatest bearer of truth on earth will also be taken away from humanity along with the truth, and this is what God's adversary aims to achieve, for then people will also lose the blessings of the act of salvation as soon as the human being no longer knows about it and therefore no longer consciously desires the grace of it. But Jesus Christ has to be acknowledged as the son of God and redeemer of the world, only then can He bestow the blessings of His act of salvation upon people, and only then is it possible for him to become free from the power of God's adversary. Yet people's will itself gives the adversary this excessive power, for if people were to defend themselves, if they wanted to give their will to God, the adversary's power would be broken and the knowledge of the act of salvation and faith in it could not be taken away from people who strive towards God. Nevertheless, God likewise allows His strength to flow to earth so that people will be able to recognize the adversary's activity and resist him. And thus there is a battle between the good and the evil spiritual world, it is a constant struggle to gain influence over people's thinking and to lead them onto the right path. For only when a person's thinking is right will he recognize the truth and desire it. Yet the good forces have little success.... people are devoid of all love. Consequently, God's adversary has an easy time winning them over and they yield to his influence without resistance.... And thus they deprive themselves of all faith and all grace because their will is prepared to deny the greatest work of love, since they themselves are incapable of practicing love and therefore cannot grasp Christ's work of love either. And thus countless people will fall victim to the adversary's activities....

But God, in His infinite love and mercy, will only tolerate his activities to a certain extent, for as soon as his actions are directed against God Himself, as soon as, due to his influence, open action is taken against every person who still recognizes Jesus Christ, this is an open battle against God which He will not leave unhonoured. For now it will be an unequal battle in that the human being will no longer be left free to decide for God or for His adversary but will have no choice but to unreservedly confess God's adversary.... People are forced to surrender their faith, but only those who still want to hold on to it, for the others have already voluntarily surrendered their faith beforehand. Yet God will never allow His adversary to gain the power to oust Him, and His final intervention will take away all power and strength.... But before He binds him He stands by the believers in an extraordinary way, because for the sake of the unbelievers the fierce battle for faith has to break out, because they are to recognize the power of faith and because the extraordinary work of the believers can still lead them back to faith if they are not completely in the power of the adversary. But in the end it will become unbearable for the believers whom satan tries to force to be in bondage to him. And then the hour will have come that his power will break.... that God will put an end to his activities, that He will humiliate him and snatch all power out of his hands.... And all those who paid homage to him will be powerless, powerless they will be exposed to the hand of God, who now judges and separates the spirits from each other, who completely destroys everything that has not fought under His banner and rewards the few who have surrendered to Him, as He has promised. And no matter how much the adversary rages beforehand, the hour will come when his goings-on will come to an end and this hour is not far away. And by this you will recognize the end, that satan rages without mercy, that he incites people against each other, that he gives them thoughts which testify to unheard-of cruelty and unkindness, and that he will determine them to tear each other apart. Then the world will also be ripe for destruction, i.e. the earth and everything existing on it will be reshaped and destroyed by God's will after God has fetched the people who are loyal to Him to Himself so that they will be snatched away from satan's power....

amen

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