BD.5983
June 23, 1954

THE LAST JUDGEMENT ALSO IS AN ACT OF DIVINE LOVE

The last judgement also has to be counted among God's acts of mercy, because it too has as its foundation the upward development of that spiritual which failed in its last earth-test and has to be incorporated into a new ripening process, in order for it to once achieve its final goal. The last judgement is also as it were a terminal ordering of that which drifted into disorder, it is an assessment and an insertion into the multifarious forms corresponding to the degree of ripeness of the spiritual, it is the end of one developmental period and the beginning of a new one, in accordance with My plan from eternity, which has the deepest wisdom and love as its foundation.

A God of judgement too remains a God of love, because My justice can only act in accordance with the way My love foresees benefits for the spiritual, and yet to also create a counterbalance for the wayward thinking and acting of men who become the target of this judgement, and the greatest sin has to also be expiated somehow, if not handed over to the One Who gave Himself as a sacrifice.

A balance has to be created in order to diminish this great guilt, and this balance is established through this very judgement, by the transfer of the guilty into a situation where it has again to level down its transgression, since it did not accept voluntarily the gift of atonement.

The last judgement is by no means an act of divine anger, and nothing other than an act of love, where My righteousness comes into play as well because the latter cannot be circumvented by a being Who is exceedingly perfect. I could without difficulty, let every individual feel My righteousness by himself, I could so to speak punish every sinner promptly, but this would not accord with My Wisdom and My Love would also be then recognisable only with difficulty.

Because I am exceedingly long-suffering and patient and put off a judgement such as at the end of a development period as long as possible, in order to win people to Myself first. And I hold My protective hand over the unrighteous and the evil, because I seek to conquer them with My love, since I do not want to be feared by them as a God of punishment.

But when the point in time has arrived when I restore order because there is no further hopes of a voluntary return to Me, then My love must seemingly step back and yet it alone is the driving force.

My love terminates a satanic state and holds My adversary back from further destructive action. I rescue souls from falling into the deepest depths. I bind them again within solid matter and thus re-incorporate them into the developmental process - a judgement which yet again has salvation and not everlasting death as its aim, and which therefore highlights the more My love for everything I created - for everything that is dead but is to gain life eternal.

AMEN