Source: https://www.bertha-dudde.org/en/proclamation/2365

2365 Time of decision.... struggle of faith and suffering....

June 11, 1942: Book 32

An unusually hard time will force you to make a decision insofar as that the path to God will remain open to you, Whom you can approach for help in adversity, but on the other hand faith in God will be forcibly eradicated and now you will be required to decide in favour of or against faith, i.e. in favour of or against God. The name of God will indeed be mentioned, i.e. He will be acknowledged as creator of all things, but otherwise you will deny everything God asks you to believe.... that He is full of love, wisdom and omnipotence and that the meaning and purpose of the human being on earth is different from what people imagine it to be, and that the human being's life does not end with physical death.... True faith requires a different earthly life from man, and because such a life does not appeal to people, they want to eliminate all faith from the world. But this means spiritual decay for humanity, which God wants to prevent or save from what wants to be saved. He wants to bring them into situations where they absolutely have to establish a connection with God if there is only a little faith in people in order to make them realize the frailty of what people teach. He wants to manifest Himself to them so that their weak faith will be strengthened again, and therefore earthly adversity is unavoidable because it is the only way to awaken the thought of God in people or to strengthen their faith. If they establish contact with Him in their adversity then God will also reveal Himself, for then the human being's free will will have decided in His favour and he will have escaped the greatest danger of completely losing faith. The forthcoming time will bring so much suffering that people without faith will be close to despair if they are not already completely distant from God and make their lives bearable by exploiting their fellow human beings or by unjust actions which are the result of their complete lack of love. These will mock all faith and make life extremely difficult for the few believers, for they are the willing organs of the one who strives for people's spiritual downfall and who therefore also carry out what the power that opposes God demands of them.... who take physical action against the few people who still stand firm in faith. This battle of the demon against faith will be so obvious that people will have to recognize the truthfulness of what is proclaimed to them beforehand. And this alone should determine them to resist the demands of the power that opposes God. Then the suffering that comes upon the earth will have had a beneficial influence and will have forced people to make the right decision. But woe to those who give ear to the ideas of the adversary and surrender their faith. Although they will now be less harshly afflicted on earth, they have sold their souls. For the sake of the short time on earth that brings them fulfilment of their physical desires, they will have to live through an unspeakably agonizing time in eternity.... But God's love still tries to avert this agonizing state through exceptionally severe suffering on earth, which is far easier to bear than the suffering in eternity....

amen

Translated by Doris Boekers