fr-Chapter 56 - Victory and Recognition of Christ's Spiritual Work

The Spread of the Spiritual Teaching Through God's Messengers

1. My Law will be the Ark of Salvation in this time. Truly I tell you: When the waters of the flood of evil, pain, and misery are unleashed, people from other nations will come to this land in long processions, drawn by its spirituality, its hospitality, and its peace; and when they have come to know this revelation and believe in what I have spoken upon My return as the Holy Spirit, I will also call them "Israelites of the Spirit."

2. Among these multitudes will be My messengers, whom I will send back to their peoples to bring the divine message of My Word to their brothers.

3. Yet not all will come to this nation to learn the teaching I brought you, for many will receive it spiritually. (10:22)

4. You will all receive the peace you have earned; yet I promise you better times.

5. After the purification that must take place on Earth, people sent forth by Me will appear—virtuous souls with great missions—to create the obedient family of humanity.

6. Four generations after yours will still pass before My teaching spreads across the globe and reaps beautiful fruits. (310, 50)

The Struggle for the Recognition of the New Word

7. Today it is a small flock that surrounds Me, but tomorrow it will be immeasurable multitudes who will gather around Me. Among them will come the Pharisees, the hypocrites, seeking errors in My teaching to stir up the opinion of the masses against My work. They do not know that—before they even examine My work—they themselves will be seen through. (66, 61)

8. In those days, three judges judged Me: Annas, Pilate, and Herod, and the people carried out the sentence against Me. Now I tell you that many are My judges, and even greater is the number of those who will cause Me pain in this time.

9. But the more people despise My law and My teaching—when these are most persecuted and rejected—the more the voice of the faithful will resound, for what happened in the "Second Era" will not happen again; now I will not be alone. (94, 67)

10. There will be a brief period during which My Word, given in this time, will seemingly have vanished from the face of the earth.

11. Then people will set about inventing spiritual teachings, teaching new laws and commandments. They will call themselves masters, apostles, prophets, and messengers of God, and I will let them speak and sow for a time. I will let them cultivate their seed so that, when they reap the fruit, they may experience what they have sown.

12. Time and the forces of nature will pass over their sowings, and their steps will be like a judgment for each of these children of men.

13. It is necessary for the world to come to know deception so that it may recognize the truth. Then the truth and the essence of life that I gave you in this time will rise again among humanity in all their purity and spirituality. (106, 9-10)

The Power of the Teaching of the Holy Spirit

14. A new era has dawned for humanity; it is the era of light, whose presence will mark a high point on the spiritual path of all people, so that they may awaken, reflect, and rid themselves of the heavy burden of their traditions, their fanaticism, and their errors, in order to then rise to a new life.

15. Some sooner and others later, all religions and sects will gradually arrive at the invisible temple, the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is present in My work, immovable as a pillar rising into infinity, awaiting the people of all nations and generations.

16. When all have entered the inner sanctum of My sanctuary to pray and meditate, both groups will attain the same understanding of My truth. Therefore, once this culmination on the path is achieved, all will rise united under the same law and worship their Father in the same manner. (12, 94–96)

17. Together with the people whom I am training and whom I have snatched from darkness and ignorance, I will fulfill the prophecies given in times past, and in the face of my proofs and miracles, the world will tremble, and the theologians and interpreters of the prophecies will burn their books and prepare themselves inwardly to study this revelation. People of high rank, men of science, those with scepter and crown will pause to hear My teaching, and many will say: "Christ the Savior has returned!" (84, 60)

18. Truly, I tell you, my word will transform the character of your present world and your entire life.

19. For the people of today, the world and its pleasures are the meaning of their lives. But soon they will value the soul more highly than the body, and the body more highly than clothing, and instead of chasing after worldly glories, they will seek the immortality of the soul.

20. At first there will be fanaticism for the sake of the spiritual; the pursuit of it will be taken to extremes; but afterward hearts will calm down, and spiritualization will blossom with truth and sincerity. (82, 30-31)

21. My teaching will bring about great upheavals in the world; there will be great changes in customs and ideas, and even in nature changes will occur. All this will signal the beginning of a new era for humanity, and the souls whom I will soon send to Earth will speak of all these prophecies. They will explain My Word and describe the works in order to contribute to the restoration and upward development of this world. (152, 71)

22. A "new song" will spring from the souls of all those who could not see Me and yet finally did see Me because they sought Me despite their imperfections; and you know well that whoever seeks Me always finds Me.

23. As for those who have denied Me, who have shunned Me, who have concealed My name, who refuse to acknowledge My presence, they will encounter on their path those trials that will open their eyes and likewise allow them to see the truth. (292, 35-36)

24. Like a raging torrent that sweeps everything away, so shall be the flood formed by the masses of spiritualists—a flood that no one will be able to stop, for its force will be insurmountable. And whoever seeks to stand in its way as an obstacle will be swept away by the current.

25. Who on earth could have the power to halt the development of souls or the fulfillment of God's decrees? No one. The only Being with absolute power and justice is your Father, and He has decreed that every soul shall progress toward perfection.

26. If my divine laws have been disregarded by humanity for a brief time, I will ensure that my voice, like the sound of a loud bell, is heard even by those who are dead to spiritual life. (256, 40–42)

27. When humanity then comes to know My teaching and grasps its meaning, it will place its trust in it and be strengthened in the belief that it is the sure path, the guide for every person who wishes to live in righteousness, in love, and in reverence toward their neighbors.

28. When this teaching takes root in the hearts of people, it will illuminate family life by strengthening parents in virtue, marriages in fidelity, and children in obedience, and it will fill teachers with wisdom. It will make rulers magnanimous and inspire judges to exercise true justice. Scientists will feel enlightened, and this light will reveal to them great mysteries for the benefit of humanity and for its spiritual development. In this way, a new age of peace and progress will begin. (349, 35)

The Realization of Christ's Second Coming Throughout the World

29. When man has sunk into the deepest depths of the abyss and, exhausted by struggle and suffering, no longer even has the strength to save himself, he will experience with wonder how, from the depths of his own weakness, despair, and disappointment, an unknown power springs forth, a power that originates from the Spirit. When he becomes aware that the hour of his liberation has come, he will spread his wings and rise above the ruins of a world of vanity, selfishness, and lies, and say: "There is Jesus, the rejected one. He lives. In vain have we sought to kill him at every turn and day after day. He lives and comes to save us and to give us all his love." (154, 54)

30. Truly, I tell you, just as kings of old marveled at the poverty into which I was born, so too will people in this age be surprised when they come to know the humble manner I chose to bring My Word to you. (307, 52)

31. At present, humanity is in the preparatory phase. It is My justice that is at work within it, without people having yet noticed it. For in their pride, in their arrogant materialism, they attribute all the events of their lives that are inevitable to them to chance.

32. But soon My call will reach their hearts, and then they will approach Me with repentance and ask Me to forgive their arrogance and their mistakes.

33. This will be the hour of the Cross for the human soul, in which, for a brief time, it will experience an absolute emptiness following its great disappointments, when it realizes the fallacy of its self-importance, the transience of its power, and the error of its ideologies.

34. Yet this state of confusion will not last long, for then My messengers will appear and spread My new message.

35. Once again, as in times past when the messengers of My teaching set out from the East and brought the knowledge of My Word to the West, so the world will again see My messengers at that time bringing the light of this message to the peoples and their homes.

36. Will it seem strange to people that the light now travels from the West to the East? Will they therefore refuse to acknowledge the message that my messengers bring to them in my name? (334, 42–45)

37. There are entire races that do not acknowledge Me; there are peoples who stubbornly turn away from My laws, who do not wish to learn My teachings, who resist them because they consider them outdated.

38. It is those who have not understood Me who insist on earthly freedoms. There are also those who often do good for their own benefit and not out of generosity.

39. Yet My justice and trials are intended for every people and every race, and these come upon them day after day to ultimately make their hearts and souls fertile, as if they were fields ready for cultivation, and to plant the seed within them after they have been tilled—the eternal seed of My love, My justice, and My light.

40. Those peoples will speak of Me with love; those races will then place their hope in Me; and in the souls of all the peoples of this humanity, songs of joy will resound—choirs of praise and love for the one Lord of all people. (328, 12)