Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/1530

1530 Omnipotence of God.... visible expression....

July 21, 1940: Book 25

The omnipotence of the most high is doubted by humanity's behaviour and therefore the lord God will have to express Himself so that people will regocnize Him again and learn to fear Him, whereas they should actually love Him. But in order to regocnize Him people have to believe in Him, and this belief shall be awakened through the visible manifestations of His strength and His might. People who do not regocnize His loving hand should feel His punishing hand and now, in their distress, remember a supreme being and ask Him for mercy. And thus He appears visibly in the clouds of heaven, i.e., He is close to earth.... He floats down to earth like a cloud.... And He gives dew and rain to the earth.... He opens the fountain of truth, He waters the thirsty earth with His word, so that strength and refreshment may come to those who remember Him, so that they may be strong when He visibly manifests Himself. He will come in the clouds of heaven.... Mankind does not believe in it because it does not regocnize Him, it is blind and unwilling to believe, it does not pay attention to the signs, it rejects everything that could lead to the recognition of the truth. And if the lord now wants to express His power, the necessity for this is also given, for where a power is not regocnized it has to express itself in its strength, and this is imminent. People no longer hear the voice of their lord, they only pay attention to the voice of the world, and so faith in the world, in earthly power, has to be shaken first. An event must occur where earthly power fails completely, where people regocnize the impotence of those whom they have feared and obeyed until now. They must regocnize that this power cannot bring about the slightest change or improvement in their situation and now, in their distress, turn their thoughts to a power which is above all earthly.... therefore now strive for the connection with this power through prayer. Mankind's thinking is misguided and therefore something has to happen which causes people to think differently, they are as it were pushed into different thinking where God, i.e. a power above all, is the centre, and this is no longer possible other than through violent indications, through natural events of unimaginable impact.... People will face unexpected difficulties, they will realize with horror that earthly help is impossible.... that they are in a situation where antidotes are ineffective, they are at the mercy of the elements and have to surrender, i.e. to expect their physical end or to call upon divine help, to call upon God in fervent prayer, thus to acknowledge a power above themselves Which can still bring salvation to the human being from this adversity. Only then will the spell be broken, only then will it be possible for God's strength to express itself and flow towards the human being, either securing his earthly life or allowing him to pass from earthly life into the beyond in full realization, which is tantamount to awakening to life. Earthly life is not the highest fulfilment, but only a means to an end. However, once the end has been achieved on earth, life can be surrendered without hesitation, for then entry into the beyond is only the moment of release from all earthly hardship. And even if people's hardship seems unbearable, it is the last opportunity for people to reflect on their actual purpose in life. It is the last means of recognizing the omnipotence of God and the worthlessness of earthly goods....

Amen