Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/1816

1816 Fight against Christ.... warriors of God.... worldview....

February 17, 1941: Book 27

The spiritual battle is making itself felt throughout the world, but is not yet being waged openly. A world view where the attitude towards God is only considered incidentally is already a suppression of what is actually the most important thing in earthly life. The consequence of such a world view must therefore be the fight against everything spiritual, for where the right relationship with God is not established, humanity is in bondage to the power that opposes God, and this determines people to fight against everything that is divine. People's wrong thinking is merely due to the influence of this power, and the only protection against it is to call upon the good spiritual power, to call upon God.... But how can God be willing to help if this willingness of God is denied?.... And it is a denial of it if God is not recognized as an entity Which is in closest contact with Its living creations. This belief in an essential deity is tried to be taken away from humanity, and thereby the right relationship with God is also made impossible. These are the signs of the actual, i.e. public battle against Christ and His teaching. And this battle will take on such forms that the activity of the opposing forces will be quite obvious.... And therefore God gives equally obvious evidence of His working and His love for misguided humanity.... For this reason He lets His divine word flow to earth everywhere so that the few who still have the right attitude towards God will also recognize the consequences of them, that these few stand in truth and can stand up for God's visible working and for His divine teaching with complete conviction. Such visible evidence is permitted because God's adversary spares no means to oust Him from people's hearts. God does not hinder the work of those forces, but equally sends out His fighters and equips them with His power. He gives the pure divine word there where man is willing to receive it and therefore descends to earth in the word himself to prepare his fighters for the fight which is meant for the spiritual. And it will turn out that the small band of God's fighters is more powerful than the adversary, who certainly wages his battle with the support of all forces from the underworld but will nevertheless be defeated because God's fighters have a strength at their disposal which far surpasses theirs. God does not allow Himself to be mocked, He is loving and merciful and He wants to come to the aid of people who err and fall short due to ignorance, but He will never allow the spirit of darkness to rule the world and it will now try to establish its dominion, thus the battle will now be fought and the confessors of the essential deity, the confessors of Christ, will truly emerge victorious from the battle.

Amen

Translated by Doris Boekers