God's great love and mercy will evidently become apparent in the last days before the end when the believers will live in hardest tribulation. It will be a time of most bitter hardship for people who want to remain faithful to Him, for the adversary will take drastic measures against anyone who stands up for his faith and for Jesus Christ and His teaching. The measures taken to enforce faithlessness will be of such severity that people will offer little resistance and almost without exception profess themselves against God. But those who know the truth, who live in love and therefore also in the right knowledge of God, who call upon Jesus Christ as redeemer for His help, will also recognise in the measures the one who is announced as the Antichrist for the last time before the end. And for this reason, they will stand all the firmer and wait full of confidence for God's help and His coming, and they will not be disappointed either. God's great love will be revealed to them, for He is close to them at all times, so that even the unbelievers would be able to recognise Him if they were not of bad will and therefore completely under the sway of Satan. Yet anyone who is still weak and not completely apostate will still be seized by God's mercy, and he will be offered many proofs of divine activity so that it will be made easy for him to believe and to withstand all threats from the world. Only good will must not be lacking, then God's hand will reach out to him even in the last hour. It is difficult to predict to people what will happen in this time, because Satan continues to work out new plans and outdoes himself with cruelties, inhuman decrees and shameful actions against the believers. The believers' fate is apparently unbearable and yet they will draw so much strength from God that they will be able to endure all oppression and not to feel the hardship as much because their gaze is directed heavenwards and the world and earthly things no longer tempt them. Moreover, they hear the voice of the Lord.... they know that He shortens the days, for His promise has given them comfort, and thus they every day expect to be delivered from earthly adversity.... And yet the last day still comes as a surprise even to them; it will come when there is no longer any possibility of winning souls, and this will be the case very quickly, for the separation will soon be completed, the courage of people's conviction is only slight, and the decision for or against God will be demanded in a short time, and therefore it will also be the prelude to the end, for the tribulation to which the believers are now subject calls for God's help, otherwise the small flock of His Own would also be overcome by weakness and God would never allow this to happen again.... And thus He will come as Saviour in utmost adversity and take His Own to Himself.... And then comes the Judgment as it is proclaimed in word and scripture....
Amen
TranslatorBožja velika Ljubav i Milosrđe sasvim će izvjesno stupiti na scenu u posljednjem vremenu pred Kraj, gdje vjernici žive u najtvrđoj stisci. To će biti vrijeme najgorče nevolje za one ljude koji Njemu žele ostati vjerni, jer protivnik će rigorozno postupati protiv svakoga tko se zalaže za svoju vjeru i za Isusa Krista i Njegovo učenje Ljubavi. Mjere, koje će biti donošene da bi se proširio ateizam, biti će takve oštrine da će ljudi pružati malo otpora i da će se izjašnjavati isključivo protiv Boga.
No oni koji su u znanju glede Istine, koji žive u Ljubavi a stoga i u pravoj spoznaji Boga, koji Isusa Krista kao Spasitelja zazivaju za Njegovu pomoć, ti će i u tim mjerama prepoznati onoga koji je kao Antikrist najavljen za posljednje vrijeme pred Kraj. I oni će stoga stajati utoliko čvršće i puni uvjerenja čekati na Božju pomoć i na Njegov dolazak, i oni neće biti razočarani. Njima će se očitovati Božja velika Ljubav, jer On je njima neprestano blizu, tako da bi Ga mogli prepoznati i nevjernici kad ne bi bili loše volje i stoga potpuno u vlasti Sotone. No tko je još slab i nije se skroz odvojio od Boga, njega još obuhvaća Božje Milosrđe, i biti će mu ponuđeni mnogi dokazi Božanskog djelovanja, tako da će mu biti olakšano vjerovati i da izdrži sve prijetnje (koje dolaze od strane) svijeta. Samo ne smije nedostajati dobra volja, tako da mu se Božja ruka još može pružiti u posljednji čas.
Što se događa u tom vremenu, to je ljudima teško predskazati, jer uvijek nanovo Sotona smišlja nove planove i nadmašuje sebe u užasima, u neljudskim naredbama i odvratnim djelima protiv vjernika. Sudbina vjernika naizgled je nepodnošljiva, a opet će (oni) od Boga primati tako puno snage da mogu izdržati sve teškoće i nevolju ne dožive tako jer im je pogled usmjeren u pravcu neba a svijet i zemaljske stvari ih više ne privlače. Osim toga čuju glas Gospodara.... Znaju da On skraćuje dane, jer Njegovo obećanje dalo im je utjehu, i tako oni dakle svakodnevno računaju da će biti izbavljeni iz zemaljske nevolje....
I pored toga posljednji dan i za njih dolazi iznenadno; on će doći kad više ne postoji mogućnost za pridobivanje duša, a to će vrlo brzo biti slučaj, jer razdvajanje će uskoro biti zaključeno, hrabrost za svjedočenje vrlo je mala, i odluka za ili protiv Boga uskoro će biti zahtijevana, zato će ona i biti početak Kraja, jer stradanja kojima su vjernici tada izloženi, zahtijevaju pomoć Boga, inače bi i tu malu skupinu Njegovih spopala slabost a Bog to nikada ne bi dopustio.... Tako da će On doći kao Spasitelj u najvišoj nevolji i Svoje će odnijeti Sebi.... A onda dolazi Sud, kao što je najavljeno u Riječi i Pismu....
AMEN
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