BD.6417
December 4, 1955

SPIRITUAL DECLINE AT THE END-TIME

Men on earth will no longer change because they are devoted to the world with body and soul, and also to the one who is the master of this world. All warnings are useless. A few will separate themselves from the crowd and acknowledge their destiny but the majority remains indifferent. And whatever happens they see it only through the eyes of the world, never considering the spiritual, and so men will change, neither in their thoughts nor in their actions. Their stay on this earth becomes completely meaningless and so it must be terminated. Men have become prematurely ready for destruction, for the day of the end has been decreed since eternity and it will take place although this spiritually deficient condition had been reached long before. Although even up to the last day everything will be done even for the sake of a few who will decide for God shortly before the end. And for their sake the end has been delayed. The battle for these last souls is extremely hard and requires much endurance, but it is not hopeless for God has seen this from eternity.

Each individual soul is precious to Him, so HE does everything to win them before the end. Thus His servants on earth must be ever alert always considering that every soul that HE tries to reach could be the one of the last to be reached by God's redemption for which God has postponed the end until such work of redemption is accomplished.

So they must not grow weary in their work in the vineyard, knowing that each soul is near to God's heart and moves HIM to patience and longsuffering because HE loves them. In the end-time the Godless will more and more come to the fore and sometimes it will seem as if the world is full of devils so that the work of the Kingdom would appear to be the work of retarded people.

Still it must zealously continue and it will not be unblessed. Even men who are called away from the earth may come in the beyond to the Light sooner through the work of servants of the Lord on earth, and may help those who were near to them to a change of heart. There are only a few people still to be won and for their sake the end is postponed. So the works of the enemy of God will become evident because he finds so little resistance among the people, everyone listens to him because they have allowed themselves to be bound by the world, which is his kingdom. He is truly reaping a great harvest, but this will do him no good since everything he has gained he will lose when the new earth arises. For they will be taken from his power and banished anew, which will weaken his power considerably, and he himself will also be bound for a long time.

Yet he still triumphs over men whom he has drawn into the abyss, but at the end of the earth he will no longer be victorious because there is One, stronger than he who allows him his time and does not hinder his work until the hour has come as it has been written Then he will be chained and with him all who resist God. Then will the end come for the earth and its inhabitants. Then a new age will begin, in peace and happiness for men who remain true to God until the end.

AMEN