My life without and with Jesus Christ: The following are the reasons why I joyfully expect the entrance into the Lord’s Kingdom part 3

The following are the reasons why I joyfully

expect the entrance into the Lord’s Kingdom

(Part three: Blissful life in the Paradise of the New Earth;

Celestial bride and matrimony; also beauty in heaven)

‘His disciples say unto Him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. But He said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs (= castrated man or boy; (Informal) inefficient or unmasculine man), which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.’ Matthew 19:10-12.

One of the things that I am most questioned about on my Apostolic journeys (= especially during this last one when almost every person that I met had his own ‘vision’ about it J) and, in fact, wherever I go, is my marital status, and consequently, my opinion about the marriage J ♥♥!

Now, as more and more people are looking up to me (= validity of this statement can be evaluated from the simple fact that each month there are more and more visitors on my Prophet School web-site! = www.akademijavjecnogproljeca.org ), i.e. what I am doing and what I am going to say (= while giving a thought to it, it appears that this is of importance for the ‘seekers’ due to the fact that in me they are seeing/sensing something they themselves are in need and are striving for, peace of mind for example = see other Blog-texts, namely ‘The Gospel of Peace (1)’ + ‘Peace be to this house’; therefore, they consider my ideas and consequent doings or way of living to be a proper path for achieving the same, and this is why I want to explain properly my relation to this issue to avoid any misunderstanding in the future!), and as more and more are deeply affected with those very deeds and words of mine, and as this would be an extremely important subject, to wit, the marriage being the nucleus of the earthly and also of the heavenly society (‘Marriages are seed-plots of men, and thus seed-plots of heaven.’ E.Swedenborg ‘Spiritual Experiences – 6610:79’), and because I seriously doubt that any answer/statement of this type:

‘One evening, when walking back from a meeting, he was asked: "Sadhuji, will you ever get married? "I am already married," said the Sadhu. "What! Already married?" "Yes, I am already married to Christ (or ‘My real marriage is with Christ’)." "A friend once asked me why I did not marry," he said "I get greater happiness from the friendship of my Lord."

He seems also to have a fear, grounded on St. Paul's words (from 1 Corinthians 7:3, 4, 32-34), that if he married he might seek too much to please his wife, and would not devote his whole energy to God. But while he himself does not think of marriage, he does not advise others to remain unmarried. A married clergyman, who was deeply moved by his addresses, enquired of him anxiously how he, being a married man, could serve the Lord as effectively as the unmarried Sadhu; the Sadhu assured him that even as a married man he could be a faithful minister of God.’

B.H. Streeter ‘Sadhu – a study in mysticism and practical religion – X (MARRIAGE)’,

although it would be a most true and accurate one J, will satisfy anybody who is not completely devoted to our Divine Spouse, not to mention those who are eagerly pointing to me the following ‘rules’ from the legacy of my dear Colleague J (although, strictly speaking, I am neither ‘bishop’ neither a ‘deacon’, but an Apostle of Jesus Christ J):

‘A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.’ 1Timothy 3:2, 12

‘If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.’

Titus 1: 6,

, I feel an urge to share with you some perspectives (or ‘I will try to widen your perspective’) in regard to this question, leaving after it to each person to consider them and to make his own judgment about them (Please, dear friends, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, do not trust implicitly neither me neither anybody else, but ‘test the spirits, or doctrines, whether they are of God’, and also, ‘probe everything, and keep ONLY what you consider to be good and beneficial for your spiritual progress!’ 1 John 4:1 + Matthew 7:15-20 + 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21; especially because none of us will be judged in accordance with somebody’s other opinion, but in accordance with our own understanding and subsequent actions = Revelation 20:12, 13; two Thematic Booklets in English are available which are devoted to this subject, namely ‘Test all things and keep what is good – 1 & 2’, and I cannot but recommend them to you with all my heart J = www.wordofgod.de )!

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‘But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.’ 1 Corinthians 7:17

At the outset of this treatise I want to be very clear about the following important truth, to wit, not each of us is on the same level of the spiritual development, and consequently, not each of us have had developed the same ‘gifts’, and consequently we don’t have the same mission to be fulfilled (or are able to fulfill) here for the glory of our beloved Jesus Christ and for the salvation of all of His children (= our mission, therefore, being proportional to our spiritual perfection and thence our spiritual capacity)!

In another words, in this area, as in every other also, each person has to consider his own spiritual and natural life circumstances and than, after passing the right judgment upon himself and his own life situation (John 7:12), make a right decision for himself!

It would be a great mistake to judge oneself by the standards of the other people, moreover, this could indeed be a fatal mistake, which unfortunately happens often I am afraid, i.e. some still undeveloped or immature spiritual person, who is attracted with the ‘sphere’ of somebody who is already advanced (= ‘sphere’ here denotes his whole life sphere!), is imitating (this ‘imitating somebody’ here should not be confused with ‘being inspired with somebody’) that highly developed spiritual person and, while neglecting his own potential, is trying to live up to his spiritual standards!

Something like that would be like a walking in somebody’s other shoes… much, much bigger shoes J… which indeed can work for a little period of time … but then for sure we are to develop blisters and, if we persist, some more serious muscle problems and even a bones deformations!

What I am trying to say here, and all of that while having on my mind our subject, was clearly perceived and expressly stressed by that greater than great Apostle of our beloved Heavenly Father Jesus Christ, who in his 1 Epistle to the Church in Corinth wrote as follows:

‘Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.’ 1 Corinthians 7:1, 2.

It is more than a clear here that he differentiates between a two kind of the souls, those who are masters of their passions and desires, for which reason he said that ‘it is better (for THEM) not to touch the woman’, and those who are still prone to fall into the fornication, for which reason he continues ‘but if man is not able to do that, it is much, much better for HIM to get married, with the purpose of not burn in his flesh and consequently fall into the more grave sin (= he said this in the knowledge that ‘fornicators will not inherit the Kingdom of God’ = 1 Corinthians 6:9)!’ This is even more obvious if we consider the following words from the same Epistle (verses 7-9):

‘For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.’

1^st perspective – ‘Lord’s Kingdom of peace, bliss and harmony on the New Earth’

‘Yet blessed is he who experiences the end, who will remain loyal to Me and profess Me before the world…. I want to endow him with the delights of paradise, I want to transfer him onto the new Earth when the Day of Judgment has come…. and all adversity and suffering will be over for him, he will live in peace and beatitude and I Myself will be with My Own, as I have promised…’ (BD 7687)

Now, being an Apostle of Jesus Christ in these Last Days, and that of the kind who are recognizing that we are IN-DEED living in the LAST DAYS, as clearly portrayed and delineated through His faithful maid-servant Bertha Dudde [I am making this distinction here because there are surely some other kind of ‘Apostles’ around, who are also working for the benefit of the souls according to their best abilities, but who are nevertheless not aware of this important perspective!), you are surely to appreciate any free minute, any available energy and also all material means that you have on your disposal

[For such an Apostle as me, it would be almost impossible to have a natural children, to wit, I would have to find a ‘proper’ job, so I can provide for their necessities, and that further means, that I would have much, much less time for the spiritual children of this Earth, and also, a much, much less money for investment in that which is a most important occupation on this Earth in these last days, and that is ‘distribution of the Pure Word of God’ which is the ‘business’ into which I invest all my money (= I am particularly talking here about my ongoing world-wide Audio-Project + my Croatian Thematic Booklets project), and that is something, that I simply cannot afford (= why I place the needs of my ‘spiritual children’, or my still unredeemed brothers and sisters, before those of my natural children-to-be, will be clear to anybody who is acquainted with the knowledge about the future condition of the unredeemed souls once when a New Period of Salvation begins; see please the following Thematic Booklet – ‘New Banishment’ at www.wordofgod.de ).

Yet another thing, as an Apostle of Jesus Christ, I am going where His Spirit is leading me, or where people are calling me who are in need and distress, in all of that, of course, it would be very hard for me, if possible at all, to attend to both of my ‘families’, natural and spiritual one, which means, ‘to have them at home, and yet, live outside of it like they are not there at all’! = 1 Corinthians 7:29]

for the tasks to be fulfilled in the great Vineyard of the Lord for the benefit of those souls that still could be saved before the End!

B.D. 8072, 5.1.1962

The near end demands increased vineyard work....

Every one of you is reminded to consider the gravity of the time…. No-one among you should take it easy, no-one should believe themselves to have much time left, each one of you who wants to do so shall still work diligently in My vineyard, for everyone’s work is needed since it can still result in the salvation of a soul if it is carried out with a loving will to help (!!!). I see the many unhappy souls which still linger so far away from Me because they live without faith and only make use of their life on earth in a purely material way…. And I will guide you to wherever I can still see an opportunity to win them over through My Word (!!!), that is, I will guide your thoughts and actions such that they will obtain possession of My gift of grace, of My Word, which flows to you from above. Rest assured that you can still greatly contribute towards the redemption of erring souls, you just should not let yourselves become discouraged; you must constantly work (!!!) and I shall truly give you the strength so that you will be able to work according to My will. And you should also take note of the fact that you will be able to discover a greater will to live and increased self-indulgence the closer it gets to the end…. For people don’t believe in an end and thus will uninhibitedly satisfy their wishes and cravings. And it will be just like it was at the time of the Flood: they ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage…. they will live in an exuberant lust for life and the floodgates will be wide open for sin. For My adversary will have predominance and will certainly make use of it….

And this is the time you are approaching, and everyone who fails to remember Me and does not appeal for My protection and help will be at risk. However, anyone who believes in Me will also turn to Me and he will not go astray…. And anyone who wants to be of service to Me may also experience My special grace…. yet he shall also pay attention to My instructions which will only ever consist of doing redeeming work. And you can do this constantly by referring the people around you to the coming event, by admonishing and warning them, by conveying My Word to them wherever possible. Every such activity will be blessed even if the success is not immediately obvious.... So don’t get discouraged if you come across all kinds of opposition; don’t stop in your willingness to be a helpful co-worker for Me; consider the great spiritual hardship and carry out redemption work by distributing My Gospel, by spreading My Word, which is greatly effective and can touch those souls which are not yet entirely hardened belong to My adversary. And very soon you will realise the truth of My Word, since you are approaching the end with giant strides…. For the time is fulfilled and it will come to pass as it is proclaimed in Word and Scripture…. Amen

B.D. 5810, 23.11.1953

Final rescue work…. Callers and admonishers….

I want to accept all those of you who want to serve Me. Much work is yet to be done until the end, and precisely for this work I need faithful and enthusiastic servants who are aware of their task and so devoted to Me that they will only ever undertake what they recognise as My will…. but who also recognise people’s spiritual low level and their frightening end if they don’t change. The end will come without fail because it will be caused by humanity itself, and even if a few people strive towards ascent…. they will be unable to delay the end because these few cannot achieve a complete spiritual change and the whole of humanity would persistently strive towards the abyss…. thus, a change for the better is entirely out of the question precisely because of people’s utter decline of spirituality. The end of this Earth will certainly also signify a Judgment…. compensation for the profane way of life, a separation of good and evil…. But far more than that, it will be an act of mercy for the wretched souls in the abyss…. which intends to put a stop to its constant downward striving and therefore it will be deprived of its freedom of will again…. just as it will signify an act of love for the still bound spiritual substance which is still on the path of higher development. Consequently, the end can no longer be prevented…. And yet, prior to this, much can still be done for these downwards striving souls, for people who blindly rush headlong into disaster. Everyone who is being warned can come to a halt, take stock of himself and take a path which leads to a different goal…. every human being can be stopped in his fall into the abyss…. Although anyone who confronts these constantly downwards striving people and cautions them to stop…. who describes to them the horrors and torments awaiting them at the end of their way, who draws their attention to or leads them to the right path, will not prevent the end anymore but he will save individual people from the pit, for as long as a path of ascent still exists it will not be too late for them to look for and to enter it…. As long as the end has not arrived, every individual person can still avert the horrors of the end from himself. For I Am a God of love and not of wrath, I Am a God of life and not of death and destruction…. My plan has certainly been definite ever since the beginning and no-one will be able to overturn it, no-one can intervene in My law of eternal order, but everyone can integrate in this order before it is too late, and it is only too late when the day of the end has come…. For this reason I bless all those who place themselves at My disposal as callers and admonishers, who advise and help, warn and admonish; I bless all those who – taking the right path themselves – also try to entice their fellow human beings to enter it; I bless every act of love that is done with the aim of rescuing people before the end. As long as the Earth still exists it is a time of grace, since every individual can still turn back, come to his senses and change…. For as yet the human being is still capable of thinking and of praying…. However when the last day has come, it will be too late for those who neglected to look upwards…. Therefore you should all use the time which is still left to you and work diligently for Me, because those of you who are knowledgeable shall carry your knowledge amongst the people, and even if only a few seeds fall on good ground and take root…. it is an incredibly urgent and much needed rescue work which requires all your will…. But don’t grow tired and complacent, for there is not much time left…. Therefore take action and work while you still have the light of day, for the night will come when you will no longer be able to work…. Amen

[Of course, our beloved Father Jesus Christ gave to us much more Admonitions and Advices of this kind, for example BD 4848 & 4857 are worthy of our attention, but because of the space, I choose only these two; those of you who want to know more, see please ‘For End-time Disciples – 1 & 2’ at www.wordofgod.de ]

Consequently, the following words are definitely accurate for my own earthly life situation, and are fit for my own earthly perspective (= to act in this way that I am describing now, is ‘to make an eunuch from oneself for the sake of the Kingdom of God’ = see intro quote J; see also E. Swedenborg’s ‘Conjugial/Married Love – 156:2’; now, with this knowledge on your mind, please consider that first sentence below, or verse 26, where Paul so to speak placed a sign post for those words that are to follow, saying that this kind of behavior is especially advisable because of the ‘times we are living in’, i.e. ‘Last Days’):

‘I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband (= ‘The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.’ 1 Corinthians 7:4-6). And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction (!!!).’ 1 Corinthians 7:26-35.

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Anybody who is acquainted with the Revelations as given to Bertha Dudde, and especially those that are compiled in a two thematic booklets named ‘Rapture’ and ‘New Earth’, are well aware of the fact that we are facing the destruction of the whole surface of the Earth, together with everything that lives below, upon and above it,

'The last Judgment will suddenly and unexpectedly come upon people. And it will slay every creature on earth, for the earth will change in itself. Everything that can be called alive will be destroyed by a blistering firestorm which will change the appearance of Earth beyond recognition to people who presently inhabit it.’ (BD 2211)

that subsequently a new Earth will come into being, a Paradise

‘The Earth in its present form is in the last days of its existence…. None of you can possibly grasp what this means…. that everything will cease to exist…. that human beings, animals and all works of creation will come to an end and an entirely new earth will arise which will exceed your wildest imagination, because completely new works of creation will come into being which have never been seen by human eyes and which to you, who will experience and populate the new Earth, will mean one miracle after another…. All through the ages I have told people that a new Earth and a new heaven will come into being…. People failed to understand the meaning of it. But My Word is truth and will fulfill itself…. yet it will only be proof of My Divinity to the few whose profound faith in Me made them become My Own and to whom I can open the paradise of the new Earth because they are and will remain My children forever….’ (BD 6230)

populated with those who were worthy to be called His Own, who were His faithful servants during these Last Days, who persevered in their strong faith until the end and who didn’t denied His most Holy Name before the world despite all persecutions from their opponents, those, as we read for example in the B. Dudde’s Proclamation 5607 (all these thematic booklets, and consequently, all available English Proclamations, are free for download from the following address: www.wordofgod.de ), will be removed by the Lord, and that in their living bodies, from this old Earth to that place of an utmost peace and harmony (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17),

‘I will come Myself and fetch My Own into My kingdom…. I will lift them in the flesh from this Earth, which will require a complete transformation, and return them to the new Earth again once the work of transformation has been accomplished.’ (BD 3791)

and from that moment a new Period of Salvation will start and they, those PURE AND FAITHFUL SOULS, will become the root of the new generation of the pure human beings on the new Earth!;

‘And I will join people together and bless their union, and a new, spiritually highly developed generation will come forth which will receive My Word from Me…. which will humbly bow down to Me and yet be united with Me in deepest love…’ (BD 1827)

‘…and they belong to His Own whom He will remove at the end of days, who will occupy the new Earth as ancestral parents of the new human race, as it is constantly proclaimed. (BD 8754) ‘…

Now, I am sure that all of you can very easily imagine that there, on that new Earth, where ‘all which is of the satanic nature will be banished into the creations of the New Earth’, and ‘Satan himself will be bound for a very very long time’ (see also last passages in BD 4731 + 6864),

B.D. 5769, 14.9.1953

Satan bound…. The new Earth….

The power of evil will be broken for a long time, Satan will be put into chains.... a period of peace will replace the time of battle in the universe, no being of darkness will be able to oppress the people on earth; Satan himself and his followers will be bound for a long time, and people on the new Earth will not loosen his restraints because they will be closely united with God and will no longer strive for anything else but Him, Who will then take loving care of them, both spiritually and physically. This period of peace on Earth will make up for the time of indescribable adversity during the last days on this Earth, which is granted to those people who are and want to remain faithful to God. It will truly be a time of battle for them since they will be spiritually and physically persecuted and barely able to defend themselves against their pursuers, who will even threaten their lives if they refuse to submit to them. But time and again these people have been promised through seers and prophets a time of peace, a time when no one will be in danger anymore from any side, when body and soul may enjoy the wonderful works of divine love, when a blissful peace will fill their hearts through the presence of the One Whom they love and for Whom they have suffered.

Everything will be peaceful, creations and living beings alike will live in perfect harmony, and even the bound spiritual substance will progress and quickly surrender its resistance because it will sense the nearness of the One to Whom it shall surrender again, and because people’s spiritual emanations will soothingly affect the bound spirits within the creations. People will have already passed their test of will, therefore a decision will no longer be necessary on the new Earth, since people will belong to God with body and soul and cannot be separated from Him anymore. But everything pertaining to Satan will languish in darkness; it will be banished again into hardest matter and unable to influence the souls striving towards the light, it has to submit to God’s will and will be deprived of its power for an infinitely long time. Satan himself will be weak since everything which had supported him and his power will be bound and thus withdrawn from his influence.

In the midst of his world he will be without strength, until people’s wrong will once again provides him with power, but this will only happen after a long period of time, after the first generations of Earth, the inhabitant of paradise, their children and children’s children, have long since entered the spiritual kingdom…. when a rift occurs again in the direction of the emerging generations’ will…. Then people will once again let themselves become captivated by material things and through their desire will then also loosen the chains of the one who is lord of this unredeemed world. Then the state of paradise will also come to an end, the time of peace will once again be superseded by a time of battle between light and darkness, for then the struggle for people’s souls will start again until another developmental period expires, yet with the result that innumerable beings will have achieved their spiritualisation and Satan’s power will lessen increasingly until he, too, will have to surrender one day which, however, will still take an inconceivably long time and countless periods of Salvation…. Amen

where people will be living, and that is something that I AM TRULY LOOKING FOR (Psalms 27:4 + 1^st part of this serial!), in the Presence and in unity with Him Who is beloved Father of us all, namely, Jesus Christ;

‘Who will also prepare a fate for His Own which testifies of His glory…. It will be an act of profoundly divine love for His living creations who will recognise in Him their Father of eternity, who will have returned to Him and become as one with Him through love.... with whom He will then be able to stay because divine love meets with no obstacle once the human being has become love himself…’ (BD 3557)

‘This small flock, which will remain loyal to Me even during the harshest battle of faith, will be rescued by Me from extreme adversity, I will move them to a place of peace in order to then give them the reshaped Earth as their abode again, so that a new era will begin, a time of peace and of innermost unity with Me, so that I Myself will be able to stay amongst My Own because their deep love for Me allows for this…. The reward is truly magnificent but My Own will deserve it, for the last days on this Earth will be incredibly difficult for them, and yet they will remain faithful to Me. They will abide until the end...’ (BD 7425)

‘Whatever idea you might have of the new Earth, the reality will far surpass your imagination, because a blessed time will dawn for My Own, for the people who will endure to the end and be taken to the new Earth…. People will live together in absolute harmony and peace, surrounded by incomparable works of creation…. Even the animal world will coexist peacefully, there will be no hostility between the creatures, for their soul substances are also nearing embodiment as a human being, and all spiritual substances bound in the creations will sense the harmony surrounding them and noticeably change their resistance, which will become apparent by their willingness to be of service, because these spiritual substance, too, want to arrive at their final path on this Earth quickly…. People will be able to enjoy many magnificent things, given that they are fully matured for a life of beatitude, and they would enjoy this beatitude in the kingdom of the beyond were it not for the fact that they shall continue their life on the new Earth because the new human race shall arise from them….

The situation on the new Earth will be such that people will no longer be burdened by suffering and problems, so that they no longer will experience earthly or spiritual hardship, so that they will be able to enjoy the magnificent creations in perfect happiness, and that one person will love the other so much that he will want to discard everything that could burden the other…. And this love allows Me Myself to dwell among My Own, to teach them and to bring joy to them with My presence. A truly divine peace will spread across all created beings and remain for a long time, because every activity is determined by love, and thus even succeeding generations will allow Me to dwell amongst them…. and the adversary will be totally excluded…. For he cannot be where I Am present, and all people will have been redeemed in truth, for they live in the sign of the cross, they are brightly enlightened about Jesus Christ’s act of Salvation and love Me in Him with a passionate heart…’ (B.D. 8429)

[Knowing all of this, surely I am not to be blamed because of my ‘joyful expectations’ of the moment of ‘transition’ into that beautiful New-Earthly Kingdom where evil will be no more, where only peace and harmony will exist, and where I would be able not just to behold but also to continually live with my beloved Jesus Christ, and all of that together with my dear brothers and sisters of the same kind J]

, where their ‘tasks-to-be-fulfilled’ will be completely different than here during this Last Earthly period due to the completely new spiritual condition (= see above BD 5769 = no spiritual wars between good and evil, no souls to be saved or rescued, etc., etc.; it is easy to understand, I believe, that during the time of war, all men should go into the battle, and only after the war, when peace is established once more, they should think about their homes and wives, about their offspring and their earthly business J), amongst which one would be:

B.D. 4054, 1.6.1947

Passing on the divine Word to the new Earth….

Just a small flock will await My coming before Judgment Day; there will only be a few people whom I can call My Own, who remain strong in faith and confess Me before the world, and who will therefore be persecuted in every way and would have to fear for their lives if they had no spiritual vision and were not spiritually minded. But this small congregation will know about the end, it will expect Me with profound faith and therefore will devotedly endure the extreme time of hardship. It will confess Jesus as Son of God before the world and thus I will lift them up to Me and provide them with a heavenly place to stay until they may return to the restructured Earth…. This small flock has the task to pass My Word on to their descendants, so that it will be offered again just as unadulterated as I conveyed it to people and remain the fundamental teaching of Christianity on the new Earth. For I will continue to take care of My Own, which include all who accept My will, who aspire to reach Me and therefore act with love, since their desire for Me is already a manifestation of their feeling of love which also expresses itself towards their neighbour. Thus they will fulfill My commandments, and they will also receive My Word from Me, either directly or indirectly.

My Word comprises the teaching that Jesus Christ preached on Earth because He was permeated by My spirit of love, since the human being Jesus had already found union with Me on earth. And in order for people to achieve the complete union with Me on the new Earth they have to be informed of Christ’s teaching. Thus the pure truth, which is presently offered to you humans from the heavens, has to be taken along as My Word onto the new Earth, where its utmost profoundness and wisdom will be recognised as a message from above, as a direct instruction from God. For that reason it will remain the fundamental teaching for a long time, until people become more materially minded again and make corrections and changes to My Word once again. This is already the next cause of digression from their knowledge and will darken their state of mind, which determines Me to send My Word to Earth once more. But for the time being it will remain pure and reach many people. Every Word will be acknowledged as My gift and people will love and serve Me, they will love each other and be happy on Earth. For they will live in constant contact with Me and are therefore also recipients of light and strength, because My proximity will result in making them strong and wise, as I promised…. Amen

, then, and this second task of theirs surely should be considered as a truly important one, they will be ‘occupied’ with the populating of that still very unpopulated New Earth (= please note how many times is emphasized in those two above mentioned thematic booklets, i.e. ‘New Earth’ and ‘Rapture’: ‘… that only the small flock which faithfully follows the Lord Jesus as their Shepherd will not lose its life, because He have blessed this small flock and destined it for a continued life in the paradise of the new Earth…’ BD 5235) with the people,

‘And I will take them to a place where no suffering and sorrow exist…. I will create a new home for them, I will shape the Earth anew and prepare it to receive these faithful servants of Mine who henceforth will work for Me and in My will. And then there will be a time of peace on Earth, people will live in love; they will honour and love God and in truth will be My children, to whom I descend in order to feast with them. And I will join people together and bless their union, and a new, spiritually highly developed generation will come forth which will receive My Word from Me…. which will humbly bow down to Me and yet be united with Me in deepest love…. Amen’ (BD 1827)

‘Nothing will remain in its old form because the time has come to an end which God gave to the spiritual beings for liberation from the form.... It will be a new era in the period of salvation which will be realised with surprise by the people who will be returned to this newly shaped Earth in order to become the root of a new generation. They will know about the old Earth and will now live on the newly shaped Earth.... They will recognise the greatness of God, His wisdom and omnipotence and His infinite love, for their eyes will be presented with a scene which they will absorb with amazement and reverence. It is a realm of peace, delightful and graceful to behold with a most manifold array of exceedingly charming creations, yet completely divergent from those of the old Earth. And people will cheer and rejoice elatedly for having been granted the great blessing of inhabiting the new Earth. And the horrors of experiencing the last Judgment will fade from their minds, even though it had not affected them. For God will let the event that brings destruction to everything living on Earth happen before their eyes, yet they will emerge from it unscathed because God will move them in the flesh to a place of peace until He has accomplished the work of reshaping and then He will return them to Earth again. Then love, peace and harmony will unite the people who were allowed to experience this process of transformation; they will praise God, give thanks to Him and worship Him with profound reverence, they will live according to His will and God will bless them and let a new generation come forth from them which cannot be oppressed by the adversary for a long time, because all power has been taken away from him. And this will be a time of peace and of union with God, for God will stay in their midst because love dwells within these people.... Amen’ (BD 2211)

‘… And I will let a new human generation arise, which will emerge from people who are blessed by Me, who will have completed their spiritual development with love and loyalty to Me, who will have attained a degree of maturity which permits exalted spiritual care, so that the new human generation will have every guarantee to achieve the highest possible spiritual perfection and the bound spirits, too, will be able to achieve maturity quickly, due to the exceptionally good influence exerted by people on all nearby creations…’ (BD 5235)

Everybody can conclude from these words that those inhabitants of the new Earth will surely not stay or be ‘un-married’, but in contrary, they all will be ‘joined in marriage’ and they all will be very, very, VERY (J) ‘busy in making a new babies for the new Earth’ (= I am sure that all of you heard about the expression ‘baby boom’ = In the U.S., increase in the birth rate between 1946 and 1964; also, the generation born in the U.S. during that period. The hardships and uncertainties of the Great Depression and World War II led many unmarried couples to delay marriage and many married couples to delay having children. The war's end, followed by a sustained period of economic prosperity (the 1950s and early 1960s), was accompanied by a surge in population. The sheer size of the baby-boom generation, some 75 million…’; well, as far as I see it, the same situation will happen ‘there’ J ♥♥), which in fact would be, as already stated, one of the main purposes for which they were transferred there J (= see also Genesis 1:28 where we have the basically the same initial situation J), whom they will be able to instruct correctly about all that happened (because they were the only eye-witnesses of that ‘destroying-of-the-old-and-formation-of-the-new-Earth’ process!), and why, on this our old and reshaped Earth (in yet another words, what awaits for them who ‘endured until the end’, is a parenthood of a most exalted kind’ J!):

B.D. 5743, 9.8.1953

Witnesses to the end on the new Earth for descendants….

You shall be My witnesses on the new Earth, you shall give evidence of Me and My glory, of My might and love, for you will experience all these at the end of this Earth.... you will see Me coming in the clouds in radiant brilliance of My splendour…. you will feel My love when I save you from utmost hardship, when I remove you before your fellow human beings’ eyes who, with a truly satanic mind, have every intention to kill you. You shall experience the evidence of My power, because the last work of destruction on this Earth will take place before your eyes. And thus you will enter the kingdom of peace with an experience which you are meant to remember in order to bear witness to future generations, to people who will only receive knowledge about the events on the old Earth on account of your information, so that they, in turn, will pass it on again and thereby uphold the knowledge on the new Earth for a long time. You shall bear witness to Me and My glory....

A devout generation, faithfully devoted to Me, will indeed populate the new Earth, who will not doubt My strength and might, My love and perfection. And as long as I Myself can dwell amongst them because their faith and love for Me allows for it, it will not be necessary for you to testify of your experience…. But as soon as new generations come forth from them they will have to be given the knowledge again and the end process of the old Earth has to be particularly emphasised, so that these new generations will also intimately unite with Me in order to be and remain My children….The living testimony will have a remarkable effect on their hearts, and they too shall proclaim in future times what they received from you…. Then faith and love for Me will be upheld for a long time, for a long time the human generation will live in peace and unity, in harmony with the Infinite, in constant contact with Me, and My spirit will be able to flow into their hearts, they will be able to hear My Word and be blissfully happy.

And yet, even this situation will change. At first the influence of adverse powers will be only slightly noticeable and then gradually get ever stronger…. For the constrained spiritual substances in creation will arrive at the stage of embodiment as human beings once more, and these will have developed in different ways, so tendencies and instincts will surface in their human state which require more changes, which will still betray a tiny resistance to Me, and therefore human beings who need special, more effective methods of education…. will live on Earth again. And then it will be necessary to inform them about what effect a way of life in opposition to Me will have. Then the battle between light and darkness will start anew, for the desire for matter will start to grow stronger in people’s hearts again, they will no longer be able to hear My Word directly, and messengers of My Word will speak to them on My behalf. And for the sake of a living message, testimony shall also be given of the end of the old and the beginning of the new earth.…

And therefore, those of you humans of Earth who will experience the end, who will remain faithful to Me until the end, will also have a task on the new Earth (!!!)…. to make sure that the knowledge is preserved, that the following generation will be able to keep these events in mind, that it will be inspired to remain in My will, that it will let Me come alive within its heart and always endeavour to reach Me…. Amen

Therefore, knowing all this, and also knowing about my sincere hope:

‘Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.’ 2 Peter 3:13,

it should be more than clear that I am not against the marriage, neither I am indifferent in relation to it, I am in fact looking forward to it (= in fact, I CANNOT WAIT TO GET ‘THERE’ = in exactly the same manner as one soldier, who is presently on the battlefield surrounded by manifold horrors of the war, would long for his peaceful home and his wife and children there J!), and consequently, by this life of a complete devotion and service of mine, I am diligently preparing myself for it! J

‘Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.’ 2 Peter 3:14.

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‘Only those who have chosen God of their own accord and in spite of the greatest temptations will stay alive because they need no further test of will since they have endured the most difficult trial.

In the coming period only people who have undertaken this test of will can live on Earth, who knew the effects of the opposing forces, who were exposed to them and yet escaped them by virtue of their free will, because only they have attained the degree of maturity which allows them to live on Earth without being influenced by God’s adversary; while those who have failed must endure the long process of development again until they get at the stage once more when they can use their freedom of will.’ (BD 3359)

Now, for those of you who will surely ask themselves the following question: ‘And what about those who are already married here (or engaged to be married), on this old Earth, will they, when the destruction of this Earth will take a place, be transferred together there in the paradise of the New Earth?! (to understand this even better, it is advisable to read the third chapter in E.Swedenborg’s most significant revelation about this subject of ours, viz. Conjugial Love, namely ‘The state of married partners after death’ = see additional text to this teaching)’

‘When, due to My will and My might, the destruction of this Earth will take place, i.e. when everything living on this Earth will be destroyed, it will become evident who is truly redeemed, for only they will survive the end and be able to enter My paradise on the new Earth. For in order to survive this final work of destruction it is necessary to have utmost faith in Me in Jesus Christ as well as utmost devotion to Me…. thus it requires a complete separation from My adversary…. it necessitates the state of freedom which was purchased for humanity by Jesus with His death on the cross…. Only a being redeemed by His blood can inhabit the new Earth where Satan has no more power; where I Myself can dwell amongst My Own because their original state has been re-established….’ (BD 6227)

Well, it seems to me that answer to this question is quite a simple one, namely, if both of them will live until the end and are pure and faithful children of Jesus Christ, or ‘His Own’ as they are called throughout the whole body of that great Revelation (Bertha Dudde), then I have no doubts that both of them will be transferred there in their LIVING BODIES where they will continue to enjoy their relationship or marriage (= of course, if one of them is not a re-born or re-generated person, if one of them is not a true Christian or follower of our beloved Heavenly Father in Spirit and in Truth, i.e. if he is still un-redeemed by His blood, it is evident that he will not be able to ‘survive’ those Last Days happenings in the manner described, and consequently, neither he/she will be able to become an inhabitant of that New and Paradisiacal Earth = his or her’s un-pure soul would be unable to bear, and consequently to live in such an atmosphere: ‘And I will only populate the Earth with people of such advanced states of maturity that they will be able to endure a blissful life in paradise…. with people who remained true to Me in the last battle on this earth and whom I therefore will return to the new Earth as the root of a new human race…’ BD 7179),

‘But the flock of the faithful will witness the end of the old Earth; the divine work of destruction will take place before their eyes, while they will have escaped and will be safe and secure in a place of peace, as promised by God. This will be the end of one period of Salvation and the start of a new one as soon as the old Earth is shaped anew through God’s will. Then the faithful will continue to live (!!!) as the root of the new human race and the new period of Salvation will begin. The process of rapture is only understandable and therefore credible to a knowing and profoundly enlightened person, yet it will be the culmination of an anxious time of hardship and suffering, it will be the conclusion and the evidence of God’s glory, Who will also prepare a fate for His Own which testifies of His glory…. It will be an act of profoundly divine love for His living creations who will recognise in Him their Father of eternity, who will have returned to Him and become as one with Him through love.... with whom He will then be able to stay because divine love meets with no obstacle once the human being has become love himself…. Amen’ (BD 3557)

Where they will enjoy their life surrounded only with the people who are pure as they themselves are pure amongst whom, due to just said, to wit, their perfected love-nature, and on their indescribable joy and bliss, our beloved Heavenly Father can live in the Person of Jesus Christ (= please observe the sentence from BD 3557 above in which word ‘continue to live’ is used!):

‘I will dwell amongst them in the living Jesus…. Because all people who will then inhabit the new Earth will also entrust themselves to their divine Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ and in awareness of the original sin also consciously take the path to Him and therefore all resistance will have been broken, for then every person will consciously take the path of return to Me so that I Myself can be present to him since his great love for Me will allow it…’ (BD 8071)

‘He Himself will stay as Father with His children audibly as well as visibly…’ (BD 3204)

And yes, they will in-deed have a physical bodies there, although of the more pure nature, and therefore lighter in themselves than these we are using now,

‘And even the people themselves will not experience their earthly garment as burdensome…. to a certain extent they will already be enclosed by a more spiritualised form although it is still earthly-material substance, but they will experience no physical weaknesses and pain and will be able to live their life on the new Earth in a state which truly can be called paradise…’ (BD 7520)

and consequently, they will consume their marriages in the ‘old style’ way J, producing a ‘real’ children, i.e. children with the natural bodies, of course, children of the different quality than we, humans on this by Satan ruled world, are producing now:

‘The redeemed human beings will bring forth new people who are full of love, thus the divine principle is dominant in them, enabling them to mature fully within a very short time in order to enter My kingdom of light after their earthly life comes to an end…’ (BD 6227)

‘For I will establish the root of a new human race with those I was able to remove from the old Earth; they remained true to Me until the end and thus are chosen by Me as the new generation, who in turn shall bring forth people who live within My will and amongst whom I can dwell Myself by virtue of their faith and love…’ (BD 7297)

This material human earthly existence of course must be because of the purpose of redeeming the spiritual substance still bound in the material creations of the new Earth (= that spiritual substance is in need of the external shell for it’s further development)!

‘And once again souls will be able to incarnate who have achieved a higher degree of maturity due to the great changes, due to the exceedingly sorrowful last days and the immense destruction, who will now be far more willing to fulfill the final functions of service in the material form as a result of people’s loving way of life on the new Earth. Consequently, they will not be entirely without love at the beginning of their human incarnation and thus will progress faster, especially since they can not be troubled by the adversary, since their love also assures them the light beings’ protection and help…. so that they will be able to easily repel the instincts and longings which still adhere to them…. For their will is directed towards Me, and thus they shall also fully consciously pass their test of will in their earthly life as a human being, because My adversary is unable to bother them and people’s love establishes the bond with Me…. This privilege of an easier earthly progress for their descendants will be acquired by My Own through their successful battle before the end, which will truly necessitate a strong will and immense love for Me and which I therefore will also reward in every sense. In addition, I know when the spiritual substances in the form change their will, and accordingly I Am able to place them into external forms on the new Earth again which will guarantee the spiritual substances’ willingness to serve…’ (BD 8429)

‘They live a blessed and peaceful existence which is in fact eternal life, but experienced on Earth because they will start a new human generation, which is necessary for the higher development of the immature spiritual substances in creation, i.e. they have to fulfill earthly tasks to help the still struggling spiritual substances to ascend. Thus it is a heavenly paradise on Earth, and blessed is the person who is permitted to experience this peaceful state as an inhabitant of the new Earth. It will be a time of calm, of peace, because the battle between light and darkness has temporarily ceased, darkness being the furthest distance from God and light being the closest proximity to Him. The furthest away from God is banished and requires a period of time for its redemption which ensures a peaceful spiritual life for those who are closest to God, which will be unimaginably beautiful for the human beings who survive the end of the old Earth, because they had remained faithful to God during the previous extremely difficult time of battle and can now exchange the chaotic condition for a state of profound peace and divine order…’ (BD 3204)

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2^nd or Earthly perspective: ‘A virtuous woman’

‘Who can find a virtuous woman?!’ Proverbs 31:10

Now, I would not that you conclude from these above words of mine that I am explicitly determined to ‘wait’ for my wedding to take a place ‘there’, be it in the Paradise of the New Earth (1^st perspective), be it in the Heavenly or Spiritual Kingdom of our beloved Jesus Christ (3^rd perspective = see bellow), because that would be a wrong assumption, neither I behave in the way I described (= being an 0-24 or 100% devoted Apostle etc.) with the purpose of achieving the same or being rewarded in any way for ‘my’ doings and ‘accomplishments’ here, nothing could be more far away from me (Luke 17:10! + BD 8821), but, and now I am having on my mind our desired object, and that would be ‘our celestial matrimony’, I truly believe that this kind of the behavior, viz. when one is devoted solely to Jesus Christ and His cause, having only Him in his heart and in his mind while forgetting everything else, would be, and that in accordance with these most important words from the Gospel of Matthew:

‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.’

Matthew 6:33,

in-deed the shortest and also the best way to find not just the ‘perfect celestial bride/husband’ for oneself (it is irrelevant, especially for somebody who has a clear perception of the after-this-earthly-life, no matter if we are talking about ‘the continuation of it in the spiritual kingdom after shedding our natural body’ or about ‘being transferred to the Paradise of the New Earth while still in these living natural bodies’, if he is going to be married here, or in ‘this earthly month’, or there, in the following or ‘new-earthly month’, or finally, at the ‘end of the year’, or that ‘other-worldly month’, what is important for him is that his marriage will be blessed by that Most Highest Priest, i.e. Jesus Christ = ‘What I have joined together, no worldly power will ever separate.’ ‘The Household of God – 2/4:30’ J.Lorber; ‘when’, is truly not on his mind, because he knows in his heart that this will happen in HIS, and not in his own time J!), but also everything else:

‘Delight thyself also in (or ‘occupy thyself only with’) the LORD Jesus Christ;

and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.’

Psalms 37:4.

Furthermore, one thing was, is and will be in all eternity explicitly required from all of us by Him Who is the best Caretaker of, and Provider for our souls, and that would be:

‘And thou shalt love (Jesus Christ, Who is) the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.’ Mark 12:29-31.

Therefore, and talking about myself in particular, it is not that I am seeking to marry, or that I am seeking not to marry, in fact, in my daily life I am considering neither one of these options (LITERALLY!), because I am seeking only Him and how to fulfill His most holy will, and that with all my heart, and all my soul, and all my mind and with every living fibre of my body, and everything else, all these future worries and plans (Matthew 6:34), I leave to Him and His good pleasure,

‘I tell you: Do not be concerned about the things of the world (= which also includes our bodies), but let Me care for everything; for with all your concern you cannot even create a mote.

Since you want to care, care only to be without care so that your hearts might become pure and more and more filled with the true, inner love for Me. For the eternal, indestructible life consists in that you recognize Me at all times and love Me above all. Amen.’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/7:22, 23’

and this ‘everything’, of course, at least in my ‘calculations’, includes also our ‘marital situation’ J!

Consequently, if He considers best for me to stay alone while I am here, so I can serve Him and His children more effectively in this way, I am perfectly ok with that! If, on the other side, He considers for me best, and that for the very same purpose, to get married while I am still living here, again that would be a perfectly ok situation for me J!

Trust me, my dear friends, brothers and sisters, I would surely not reject her, my eternal bride, if she would be sent to me BY HIM even today, I mean, that would be the same as rejecting Him Whom, together with His most Holy Will, I would surely recognize in such a celestial being (= ‘She,’ as we read in ‘The Household of God – 2/3:30’, ‘would then be His will expressed by her to me!’ J; see also ‘The Household of God – 2/88:14, 15’)!

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‘Behold, this was a marriage truly contracted in heaven. Thus all marriages shall be contracted – now and in the future.’

‘(Eve said to Adam): Behold, you head of my life, this pair is telling me without words how we ought to have behaved before the Lord.’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/3:35; 5:9’

Now, in which way this ‘earthly meeting’ or ‘recognition of each other’ should occur, and what are the qualities of those who are ‘ready to enter into that celestial and therefore ETERNAL matrimony’, is beautifully portrayed in the following revelation (= what I deem to be extremely important for achieving that ‘goal’ I painted in the text below with the blue color!):

[According to my perceptions and knowledge, the state of marriage would in-deed be preferable to a state of celibacy (see below ‘The Household of God – 2/88:3-13’):

‘The state of marriage is preferable to a state of celibacy. This follows from what has been said so far about marriage and celibacy. The state of marriage is preferable because it exists from creation; because the origin of it is the marriage between good and truth; because it corresponds to the marriage of the Lord and the church; because the church and conjugial love are constant companions; and because the use it serves is more excellent than the uses served by anything else in creation, seeing that it results, according to order, in the propagation of the human race, and also of the angelic heaven, since heaven exists from the human race. In addition to this, marriage is the completion of a person, for by marriage a person becomes a complete person, as we show next in the following chapter. None of these things is true of celibacy.’

E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 156:1’

and our celestial matrimony, which would be a ‘marriage contracted in heaven’ (when I say here ‘in heaven’, I do not necessarily mean ‘in heaven’, but ‘between the two souls and before their Lord and Father Jesus Christ’), is a ‘crown’ of one’s successful life journey (= one is successful in fulfilling the purpose of his existence when he found the redemption through Jesus Christ and then, using the benefits of His Act of Salvation, perfected himself in love to the point of deification or ‘becoming one with Him’ J = John 17:20-26!!!!),

‘A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.’

Proverbs 12:4,

a 'reward' ('The Household of God – 2/4:25'; see also ‘Bishop Martin – 202’ at the end of this text) so to speak, or even a 'gift' ('The Household of God – 2/3:27; 2/88:17-23'), but, and I am sure that you will agree with me here, there are some conditions to be fulfilled if this most holy conjunction is to take a place and also if it is to be blessed by that Only High Priest, Jesus Christ, and it is to these that I want to turn your attention with the following most significant Revelation]

THE LORD JOINS IN MARRIAGE JORIAS AND BESELA, PARIHOLI'S DAUGHTER

1. When Jorias had finished this glowing speech, Abedam (our Heavenly Father was incarnated amongst those Ancient people as Abedam) promptly seized him and, drawing him to His holy bosom, blessed him and said:

2. "My beloved Jorias, you have truly and well rendered in accordance with My will what I demanded of you, because (1.) you were, and still are, through and through aglow with the love for Me and only out of Me for all your fathers, brothers, children, mothers, wives and daughters (= Matthew 6:33 = first condition to be fulfilled = Matthew 22:36-38).

3. "But in your spirit you are not yet mature enough to remain in this ardor permanently; for behold, because I am now walking among you, all of you are, where your spirit is concerned, merely prematurely ripe fruits on the tree of life needing a great after-maturing, - otherwise everyone of you would soon consume himself in the excess of his love and then die forever.

4. "So as to dampen your ardor somewhat, I will give you a wife since you are still single (J) and barely over a hundred years old (J). Only through the wife will you prove and gradually consolidate yourself for such a permanent ardor of the mightiest love for Me; for the time has not yet come when man will also without a wife enter into the most perfect union with Me _(!!). Thus, it is at present still necessary for everyone to take a wife so as to become again fully at one# before Me (= or ‘Adamized’!) through the wife, through whom he became separated from himself and, consequently, from Me.

5. "For, just as Eve went forth from Adam, every man's wife must again become fully at one with him and he become at one in himself through the reunion with the wife.

6. "Only when he stands again before Me as one man# [in original Hebrew tongue, ‘Adam’ (Mda) means ‘man’ or ‘human being’!], can he again fully unite with Me; but while he is still split, he is not permanently capable of the highest love out of, and again for, Me.

[#One of my first ‘deeper inner revelations’ was connected with this particular issue, namely, while reading the following words from the Book of Genesis:

‘So God created man (singular) in His own image, in the image of God (singular) created He him (singular!); male and female created He them (plural!).’ (1:27)

And further:

‘In the day that God created man (singular), in the likeness of God made He him (singular); Male and female created He them (plural); and blessed them (plural), and called their (plural) name Adam (singular), in the day when they (plural!) were created.’ (5:1, 2)

I realized that Adam, or one complete human being as created by God, was in himself BOTH, MAN AND A WOMAN (or in another words, that both of them, man and woman, were making one complete Man)! And when applying this perception to our earthly human condition, i.e. to our fallen nature, I realized straight away that ‘we’, as a human beings, man and women alike, are incomplete beings until we are again united or ‘Adamized’, in another words, man and woman as we see them in their external material bodies, are forming spiritually, and must form, ONE COMPLETE SPIRITUAL HUMAN BEING, who is then and only then in itself a perfect image of God!

‘Married partners together, or (their) conjugial love,

is the very image and likeness of God.’

Emanuel Swedenborg ‘Spiritual Experiences – 6110:10’

(I found this statement of E.Swedenborg only recently, and it perfectly accords with my earlier visions! Moreover, because I realized through my step-father’s description of his work ‘Conjugial love’ (Czeslaw Milosz in his 'Land of Ulro'), that E.Swedenborg inside of it speaks about this for me truly important subject, I ordered that book now already more than a 10 years ago, which was also the first book that I read from that great Servant and Apostle of our Lord and beloved Father Jesus Christ J)]

7. "Your wisdom has already taught you that without an opposite nothing is possible; behold, this is right!

8. "Woman was given to man as an opposite; therefore, unless a man becomes at one with his opposite beforehand, he cannot become in himself an opposite to Me.

9. "As long as he does not become this, he is completely in line with Me; yet, being this, he is not capable of receiving but, like Me, always only giving of himself.

10. "This is, indeed, the great difference between the Father and the child, that the Father deals out, whereas the children receive, thereby being at one with the Father as His opposites.

11. "However, if the children should not want to accept anything, placing themselves in line with the Father in order to deal out, like Him, tell Me: Who will then be the receiving opposite?

12. "If this is lacking, what will become of the children as time goes by? I tell you, they would deplete their substance to the last drop of their being, and the Father would have to cease forever His giving thereby forming His own opposite within Him so that He could remain what He was in Himself from eternity; an eternal, mighty God, completely sufficient unto Himself!

13. "You are now standing on the same line with Me and are as yet to Me no opposite, but on the same footing; therefore, you need a wife so as to become a complete opposite to Me and I thereby completely a Father to you.

14. "You are now asking in your heart: 'Where, then, is the wife I am supposed to take?'

15. "Behold, she is already here! Her name is Besela and the poor Pariholi is her father; behold, this is the one I have destined to be your wife.

16. "And you, Besela, come closer to Me and do not fear the man whom I shall now give to you; for he will carry you on his hands, and his heart will be your permanent dwelling-place and, as you will be one with him you will also be one with Me, in him and through him. Amen."

17. With these words Abedam bent down to Besela and, taking her onto His left arm, pressed her to His heart, blessed her and then said to her:

18. "Now, you very beautiful Besela, beautiful in spirit and in body, unveil yourself before him to whom you belong from now on, so that he may see what a wife I have bestowed on him on account of his mighty love for Me" J

19. And the barely thirty-year-old Besela pushed aside her somewhat darkish blond hair and Jorias' eyes beheld something of such beauty as to make him cry out:

20. “O Earth, O all of you heavens, how poor you are now before me; for, apart from God, you will never comprise anything more glorious a second time!

21. “O you poor sun, how will you fare tomorrow or when this sun will unveil itself before you?

22. "No, no, You dear, holy Father, I am surely not worthy of such a gift!"

23. But the high Abedam replied: "When I consider you worthy, you are so; therefore, receive this gift from My hand, go with her to Adam and Eve, receive their blessing and then also that of your father Jared as well as that of Besela's father, and then come back to Me so that I may ordain you in spirit as a prophet of the stars of all the heavens. Amen."

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/88’

And then, through the example of another ‘celestial wedding’ as recorded in the same Revelation (again, those extremely important parts, or conditions to be fulfilled for this kind of matrimony to be contracted and blessed by Him, are ‘painted’ in blue):

‘Following this speech the high Abedam summoned Lamech before Him and, after introducing him to Ghemela (‘It seems to me of extreme importance to note that in both of these cases, it was our Lord and Father Who introduced them to each other…’; see the continuation of this sentence below as a commentary to the verses 3 and 4), asked her:

2. "My beloved Ghemela, see this man; his name is Lamech and, (1.) like you, he is full of living, ardent love for Me. Behold, I shall give you this man; for I know that he will not touch you until I shall lead him to you.

3. “Therefore, you need not fear anything; (2.) for he is just as pure in his heart and full of chastity as you are. You do not long for him in your heart but solely for Me, and he is just like you. (3.) Look, just as you would like to run away from him he would like to run away from you.

4. "Behold, he is in everything exactly like you; like you, he has wept the tears of the most ardent love at My bosom (‘…. them who were completely lost in Him, neither seeking the spouse for themselves neither thinking about it!’; consequently, and this is the reason I introduced these two great revelations or ‘situations’ here, they ‘found each other in Him’, and not ‘in themselves’, and because they found them-selves in Him and are united not in them-selves but in and by Him, their marriage is to last eternally because He, and alone He, is Eternal!; this extremely rarely fulfilled condition is of extreme importance if any wants to understands what kind of the ‘female soul’ would be fit and able to ‘endure’ by my side all those present and future hardships of the Apostolic life, to wit, no other women but she who is completely lost in Him and HIS CAUSE, would be able to live next to the person who is 100% devoted to Jesus Christ and His children’s eternal welfare, viz. she would not be able ‘to be married and yet live as if not married’ = 1 Corinthians 7:29; another thing must be introduced here for you who are now thinking for yourself: ‘In which way we are to be introduced by the Lord Jesus into the relationships that are blessed by Him today when He is not visibly present amongst us, as He was for example here, in the human manifestation called ‘Abedam’?; the following should assist you in solving this important question: ‘For people who desire truly conjugial love, the Lord provides similar partners, and if they are not found on Earth, He provides them in heaven. This results from the fact that all marriages of truly conjugial love are provided by the Lord. They come from Him, as may be seen above in nos. 130, 131. But how they are provided in heaven, I once heard described by angels as follows: The Lord's Divine providence is most specific and most universal in connection with marriages and in its operation in marriages, because all delights of heaven flow from the delights of conjugial love, like sweet waters from a gushing spring. It is therefore provided that conjugial pairs be born, and they are raised and continually prepared for their marriages under the Lord's guidance, neither the boy nor the girl being aware of it. Then, after a period of time, the girl - now a marriageable young woman - and the boy - now a young man ready to marry - meet somewhere, as though by fate, and notice each other. And they immediately recognize, as if by a kind of instinct, that they are a match, thinking to themselves as from a kind of inner dictate, the young man, 'she is mine,' and the young woman, 'he is mine.' Later, after this thought has for some time become settled in the minds of each, they deliberately talk about it together and pledge themselves to each other in marriage. We say as though by fate, by instinct and as from a kind of dictate, when we mean by Divine providence, because when one is unaware that it is Divine providence, that is how it appears. For the Lord unveils their inner similarities so that they notice each other (!!!).’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 229’; although he refers here to the afterlife, the same principle works of course here J).

5. "And behold, although he is still very young, he is full of the most sublime wisdom of which a free man is ever capable, and is now, owing to his immense love for Me, in possession of great power and strength.

6. "If you want to convince yourself of his true love and wisdom out of Me, I permit you to ask him any question whatever which he will then answer out of his own heart.

7. "And so do ask him, just as if you were asking Me."

8. But Ghemela stood in great awe of Lamech and, not daring to look at him, said to Abedam:

9. "O You my most beloved Jehovah, see I cannot utter a word, for I am in great fear of him.

10. "If I am to obey You, my only, most beloved Jehovah, do free my heart of this great fear!

11. "I, Ghemela, who loves You alone, entreat You; but only if it be Your will. "

12. And Abedam touched her and said to her: "Ghemela, you pure one, so be it according to your love for Me. Amen."

13. And Ghemela's heart promptly felt a gentle flutter; she was freed of her fear and, looking up courageously, immediately asked Lamech:

14. "Lamech, could you, beside your love for Jehovah, perhaps also love me, a poor maidservant as compared to your splendid ancestry?

15. "Could you possibly do this? (4.) For behold, I want to love nothing but my Jehovah - and only then, after Him, everything else, provided it is filled with His love and mercy and can serve me as a road-sign to Him. Would you now answer this question of my heart?"

16. And Lamech sank to the bosom of Abedam and said, weeping: "O my most holy, above all beloved Abba Emmanuel Abedam!

17. "Do forgive me; behold, (5.) my heart is so full of the most ardent love for You that it is no longer capable of any other love except for the sweetest, purest, holy love for You!

18. "O my holy, good, most loving Father, You know all this. Did I commit a sin before You so that You want to punish me now?

19. "See, whoever this Ghemela may be, (6.) I have never longed for her nor for any other being of her sex. My heart was always only turned towards You. Every one of my ancestors, beginning with Seth up to my physical father Methuselah, knows this.

20. "O Abba Emmanuel! Have grace and mercy upon me if I should have unintentionally trespassed before Your all-seeing, most holy eyes and remit me this seemingly very great, indeed, immense punishment (although this seems unbelieavable for the natural people, it is indeed a great pain to have a thought that your love for Him could be divided!), - and permit me to be silent concerning the question which, though it is full of the purest desire, nevertheless came from a mouth the like of which I have never known. O Abba, Emmanuel, Abedam! Your holy will be done! Amen."

21. But Abedam lifted Lamech from the ground by grasping his arm and, releasing him gently, said:

22. "Listen, Lamech, you are a strange man, for your love for Me is greater than your trust. You love Me with all your strength, indeed, you love Me with the greatest possible ardor of your heart, but as far as your trust is concerned, this does not bear comparison with your so ardent love.

23. "Considering My love for you and your love for Me, how can you imagine even remotely that I might, or could, mete out a punishment to you when I intended a pure reward from heaven for you?

24. "Could you mete out such punishment to an unworldly man who loves you above all?

25. "How can you think this of Me? This shows a weakness in your trust in Me, where it ought to be firm.

26. "See, whatever can approach Me like this Ghemela, a purest daughter of Zuriel, is therefore surely worthy of My love; what I have carried on My own hands, how could this ever be intended as a punishment for you?

27. "I told you this so that you might ponder over it and realize the value of a gift you receive from My hand.

28. "See, she has never recognized a man in her heart except her father, wherefore she was seized by great fear at the mere mention of your name and even more so when she saw your person.

29. "I told her to ask you a question and she trembled all over with shyness towards you But in her great fear she remembered that she owed Me obedience, wherefore she asked Me to strengthen her.

30. "Did you not notice this with her? How, then, can you consider My will, expressed by her to you, a punishment?

31. "If I did not know you in your purity and great love for Me, you would now have lost this reward. But the pure ardor of your heart speaks for you; therefore, you are no guilty before Me, but nevertheless a little before the pure Ghemela.

32. "Therefore, give her what she, driven by My will, asked you to do so that you may pay also this debt Amen."

33. And Lamech recognized his error, asked the trembling Ghemela for forgiveness and then assured her of his pure love for her which was worthy of Me, whereupon they all were moved to tears of joy.

34. (7.) Thus she became his sole beloved wife. Both lived together in chastity for many years until Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old and only then, at My bidding, begot Noah.

35. Behold, this was a marriage truly contracted in heaven. Thus all marriages shall be contracted - now and in the future.’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/3’

Now, seeing in which manner this only true marriage is contracted before the Lord, and in hope that you are at least vaguely aware of the situation in this world, and after you learned in which way and with what intensity of feelings and zealousness we, His Apostles, are serving Him and all of you in these Last Days (= ‘For End-Time Disciples – 1 & 2’ = www.wordofgod.de ), I am sure that you are realizing where the ‘problem’ lies (speaking naturally, because by this teaching I am answering mostly to the natural people = 1 Corinthians 9:19-22; in my own soul, there is of course no problem at all J), to wit, it is indeed an extremely rare occasion, if that would be possible at all on this level that I am discussing here, to encounter on this darkened Earth (Matthew 24:29) a truly devoted human being who is, like those ‘just married’ couples from above, or even like my dear Madame Guyon for example, literally lost in Christ Jesus having no other objective but Him (and that would be, my dear friends, one of the most important conditions to be fulfilled here; see above ‘The Household of God – 2/3:2, 3, 15-19; 4:3, 5, 7, 22’),

‘O divine Spouse of pure souls, since the only satisfaction of my life was to receive and to honor Thee…’

‘The laws of my sacred marriage (between her soul and Jesus Christ) obliged me to give up all, to follow my Spouse whithersoever it was His pleasure to call me after Him…’

Madame Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon – ‘Autobiography – 1/16, 29’

who as such is so to speak ‘afraid’ to share or divide that love with another human being (I repeat, those two ‘encounters’ from above are in fact the true images of what lies in my head about the way those ‘Christ-like’ souls should meet and behave! = see above ‘The Household of God – 2/4:5, 22; 6:13, 14, 16’), who is and would be able to live a perfectly chaste life, to wit, who become the master of her own flesh and is vowed to our beloved Lord and Father that she will couple with her equally reborn husband only with the purpose of producing the human offspring (Hebrews 13:4 + see above ‘The Household of God – 2/3:2, 34; 4:35; 5:28’ + see below those yellowed parts; this further means, to make this important point even more clear, to have basically NO SEXUAL LIFE AT ALL J; my advice from the beginning of this treatise, about the danger of imitating somebody who is more spiritually advanced, is especially valid here J)?!

THE LORD'S RULES FOR THE NEWLY WED. HOW TO PROPERLY AND

FREELY FULFIL THE HOLY DIVINE WILL

1. After all this had happened and the fathers and mothers had blessed the newly wed, Jorias, following Abedam's previous bidding, with his young, very beautiful wife stepped up to Him.

2. When he was again before the high Abedam, the Holy One laid His hands first on Jorias and then on Besela and, touching their head and heart, namely, the left side of the breast, spoke the following words:

3. "Receive My blessing for life eternal! Beget true, living fruits of pure love! Far be from your bodies the dumb gratification connected with the flesh and thus also with sin, and you will truly and faithfully walk before Me at all times. But whoever pampers his flesh, nourishing it excessively and then seeking to please it through all kinds of sensual pleasure, nourishes his own sin and through the lust of the flesh relinquishes all power over him to eternal death.

4. „Therefore, control your desires at all times (!!!), unless it is time to beget a living fruit for Me (!!!), however, when it is time, call to Me so that I may hold you lest you fall when sacrificing to sin, and you will remain within My grace.

5. "For whoever falls then, will find it hard to get up, and with each fall the spirit will be bound in new fetters of death.

6. "If he then wants to escape from the imprisonment of the flesh, which is the old sin and the old death of the spirit, - how will he fare when, instead of one layer he has to break through several hundred, each of which is tougher than the preceding one!

7. "So care only for that which is of the spirit; leave the flesh to Me, doing My will in the same so that it becomes powerless and you will at all times grow in the spirit to that degree by which your death diminishes, which is the sin or the flesh.

8. „Therefore, I tell you again: Do not nourish, strengthen and pamper your flesh, for thereby you nourish, strengthen and pamper your own death, which now as a last dungeon confines the spirit prior to its liberation or resurrection towards full eternal life out of, and in, Me.

[‘For whoever practices harlotry and fornication is very sick in his soul. Through this sin a person’s heart hardens from day to day, becomes ever more unfeeling and merciless towards its fellowmen and in the end loves nothing but itself and the object of its lust, not for the sake of the object though, but only for the sake of satisfying its lust. Such a heart then flees God’s Word which admonishes it against its evil desire and in the end even becomes hostile to those who carry the Word of God in their heart and live accordingly. Many of you suffer form this sickness and that is why I returned to you to heal you from this very bad and fatal disease. Those of you who know that they suffer from this deadly disease should entrust themselves to Me and I shall heal them…

...In truth, I tell all of you: Those who are lascivious, unchaste and fornicators shall not enter the Kingdom of God unless they have drastically changed their most wicked way of life. For behold, all other sins man commits outside his body and can, therefore, rid himself of them more easily - for what takes place externally does not cause as much damage to a person as that which takes place within him. Fornication takes place within man, damages his soul and spirit and is thus the most dangerous of all evils. Therefore, shun it above all and flee it like the plague, for the appetite for sensual pleasure is Satan’s trick. Woe betide him who has allowed Satan thus to take hold of him. He will find it extremely difficult to free himself from Satan’s claws. Unspeakable suffering and pains will be his share. Do heed all this, or else the time and the days will come which you will not like at all. But now let us retire.’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Great Gospel of John – 1/86:3, 8’]

9. "You, My beloved Jorias, have seen the magnitude and sublimeness of what it means to be a child of My love. You have felt the ardor of My fatherly love in all its abundance. So remain faithful to My will; remain faithful to Me, your God; and remain faithful to Me, your holy, most loving Father.

10. "Whenever the flesh will make unseemly demands on your heart, look up at the stars of heaven, and I shall speak to you from the stars and shall tell you what to do.

11. "However, if you left this My road which I have just shown you, the heaven before your eyes will be hidden by dense clouds and you will henceforth fail to behold the eloquent stars until you return onto this My road, full of repentance.

[The following line of thought about ‘making His will our own will’, which is in fact that ‘sonship’or ‘perfection we all should achieve’ or, to be in line with the explanation here, ‘beget’, is our first duty if we want to produce the children in accordance with His order!; about this ‘proper begetting’ see additional Blog text to this teaching, namely, ‘Of the nature of threefold begetting – the proper physical begetting’]

12. "But, if you remain faithful to My will, you will soon begin to perceive the great might of the same within you; for by the very act of fulfilling My will you absorb it and make it your own.

13. "When then My almighty will becomes your order as it is forever Mine, tell Me, what power of death will be able to subdue you?

14. "I am giving you all such a commandment that by its fulfillment everyone may adopt the might of My will through which all things have been made and before which all things tremble.

15. "As long as a person fails to make My will his own, he remain a prisoner of death and a servant of sin, which is the old death.

16. "However, he who has made My will his own, has become perfect like I, his Father, am and will do the works of life I am doing.

17. "And whoever has thus come into possession of My will, has attained to the true sonship.

18. "But who is he who completely possesses My will? - I tell you and all you others: It is he who loves Me!

19. "And who loves Me? - He who does according to My will; but he who does according to My will has adopted My will as his own.

20. "This is the true sonship (!!!), namely, that everyone is in My will and My will is in him; and this is the true, living fruit of true love and is life eternal.

21. "This fruit above all you shall beget for Me with your wife. Once you have begotten it you will also beget children going forth from My will, who will fully resemble him who begot them (!!!).

22. "But this is My blessing, namely, that henceforth My will be yours, out of, and in, which you may live forever. Amen.

23. "Now go to My dear Jared, and Garbiel and Besediel shall come here. Amen."

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/89’

[Early this morning, March 18, during the prayer, I was ‘told’ that this was the true meaning of those words from the Paul’s 1 Epistle to the Corinthians 7:1, viz. ‘it is good for man NOT TO TOUCH THE WOMAN’!; what does it mean ‘not to touch’ is sufficiently made clear in this teaching; some translations have it incorrectly ‘it is good not to marry’]

Well, I tell you the truth, or if you like it better, my truth: I know not even one!

Furthermore, be honest to yourself and to me, and tell me now do you now personally any woman who in all truth cares not for her outward but solely for her inward beauty, who is

‘adorning herself in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.’ (1Timothy 2:9, 10)

Well, surely you will agree with me that the situation in this field is more like this:

4. Oh, what a difference there exists between the woman of that time (= when they were and lived in unity with God) and the woman of these days!

5. I tell you, among seven thousand there is hardly one who might not, owing to her vanity and love of finery, sometimes mark My words - within a second! - commit by a hundred deadly sins.

6. For, what is now their accursed mode of dressing like, particularly in public places (= during the summer time for example J?

7. I do not want to go into details. But this much I tell you, that in the city of Enoch, even in its latter days of utmost depravity, the worst whores dressed with greater modesty, keeping the most private parts of their bodies better covered up than is now a woman of great modesty!

8. When at that time such a whore had an affair with a man, she was even at this moment of surrender veiled and covered up, so much so that the lustful man saw nothing of her but that for which he came to her.

9. But nowadays even a ten-year-old female child is aware of her physical charms and keeps gazing into a confounded mirror. And once she is grown up and fully developed she would go almost half naked, if only it were the fashion and the local authorities allowed it.

10. However, what she does not dare do openly, she does in her heart and just plans and schemes to inflame and incite all men.

11. In truth, in very truth, say I, a woman in this time is worse than a hundred thousand of the worst devils from the lowest hell. Those at least flee before My name; but such a woman only laughs at Me and My name and does not bend her knees before Me, let alone before My name, before which all the heavens, all worlds and all hells must bend their knees in reverence (= although this statement could seem to harsh, I can assure you from my own manifold experience, that we are living in exactly the same world as described here!).

13. But preach for ten years in My name to a decked-out female of this time, and she will not give up an iota of her shamelessness, love of finery, vanity and seductive ways (again proved in my practice).

17. Behold, you My pure Ghemela, what an immense difference there is between you and the women and maidens of this time! What an abyss dividing two infinities!

18. You, O Ghemela, are resting at My heart. But these, scorning Me, have strayed so far from Me that My always far-reaching hand cannot touch them ever. Look, they have strayed from Me to a second infinity, yes; they have strayed to the infinity of My bitterest wrath.

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 2/2’

for which reason our beloved Lord and Father expressly advised them:

"But you women shall properly cover your private parts, also your whole body and preferably also your head so that the men are not enticed to unchastely by your lewd nature, as the serpent by the great, secret lasciviousness of its seductive eyes lures the free genus ofbirds into its venomous jaws… Therefore, be above all modest like the queen bee that does not venture out into the sunlight, but carefully crawls by day and night over the cells of its harmless little children...’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘The Household of God – 1/36:37’

Likewise, how many young ladies or even wives you know who are ready to fit into this ideal as portrayed by my colleague (1 Peter’s 3:1-6):

‘Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.’

Or in this one as delineated by that wise King (Proverbs 31):

11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Well, again, I tell you my own truth: I know not even one!

‘Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.’ Ecclesiastes 7:26

Now, knowing all of this, and also knowing the reality of these admonishing words of my colleague by my heart (2 Corinthians 6:14-18):

‘Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers (!!!): for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.’,

and also remembering these ‘orders’ from the Book of Deuteronomy 7:3, 4:

‘Neither shalt thou make marriages with them (= ‘pagan women and man’ or those who are un-redeemed, i.e. unspiritual and therefore in the evils of life)… For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly’,

I am sure that you will not ‘condemn’ me for having no desire to allow such kind of ‘partners’ to enter into my peaceful house and to ‘disturb’ my Apostolic ‘business’ J!

‘And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.’ Ecclesiastes 7:27-28.

[If you are of the opinion that I am too strict and too meticulous about these things, to wit, that I should not pay so much attention to the quality of the people’s souls, please consider also this perspective J:

A FRIENDSHIP OF LOVE, CONTRACTED WITH A MAN WITHOUT REGARD TO HIS SPIRITUAL QUALITY, IS DETRIMENTAL AFTER DEATH.

446. A friendship of love means interior friendship, which is such that not only is the man's external man loved but his internal also, and this without scrutiny into the quality of his internal or spirit, that is, into his mind's affections, as to whether these spring from love towards the neighbor and love to God, and are thus adapted to association with angels of heaven, or whether they spring from a love opposed to the neighbor and a love opposed to God, and are thus adapted to association with devils. Such friendship is contracted in many instances from various causes and for various purposes. It is distinct from external friendship, which relates only to the person and exists for the sake of various bodily and sensual delights, and for the sake of mutual interaction in various ways. This kind of friendship may be formed with anyone, even with the clown who jokes at the table of a nobleman. This is called friendship simply; but the former is called the friendship of love, because friendship is natural conjunction, while love is spiritual conjunction.

447. That the friendship of love is detrimental after death, can be seen from the state of heaven, of hell, and of man's spirit in relation to them. As to the state of heaven, it is divided into innumerable societies according to all the varieties of affections of the love of good; while hell, on the other hand, is divided according to all the varieties of affections of the love of evil; and after death, man, who is then a spirit, is at once adjudged, according to his life in the world, to the society where his ruling love prevails - to some heavenly society, if love to God and love towards the neighbor has formed the head of his loves, and to some infernal society, if love of self and the world has formed the head of his loves. Immediately after his entrance into the spiritual world, which is effected through the death of the material body and its rejection to the sepulchre, man for some time undergoes a preparation for the society to which he has been adjudged, which preparation is effected by the rejection of such loves as are not in accord with his chief love. Thus one is then separated from another, friend from friend, dependent from patron, also parent from children, and brother from brother; and each one of these is connected with those interiorly like himself, with whom he is to live to eternity a life in common with them and yet properly his own. Nevertheless, during the first period of the preparation they all come together, and converse in a friendly way, as in the world. But little by little they are separated, and in ways they are not sensible of.

448. But those who in the world have contracted with each other friendships of love cannot be separated like others in accordance with order, and adjudged to societies correspondent to their lives; for they are bound together interiorly as to the spirit, nor can they be torn apart, because they are like scions ingrafted into branches; consequently, if one as to his interiors is in heaven, and the other as to his interiors in hell, they stick together much as a sheep tied to a wolf, or a goose to a fox, or a dove to a hawk; and he whose interiors are in hell breathes his infernalism into the other whose interiors are in heaven. For among the things well known in heaven is this, that evils may be breathed into the good, but not goods into the evil; and for this reason that everyone is in evils by birth; and in consequence, the interiors of the good, who are thus joined fast to the evil, are closed, and both are thrust down to hell, where the good spirit suffers severely, but finally, after a lapse of time, he is released, and only then begins his preparation for heaven. It has been granted me to see spirits so bound together, especially brothers and relatives, also patrons and their dependents, and many with flatterers, the two having contrary affections and diverse inclinations. I have seen some who were like kids with leopards, who were kissing each other and swearing to maintain their former friendship; and I then perceived that the good were absorbing the delights of the evil, holding each other by the hand and entering caves where crowds of the evil appeared in their hideous forms, although to themselves, owing to the illusions of phantasy, they seemed lovely. But after a while I heard from the good cries of fear, as if they were in snares, and from the evil rejoicings, like those of enemies over spoils; besides other sad scenes; and I was told that when the good had been released they were prepared for heaven by means of reformation, but not so easily as others.

449. It is wholly different with those who love the good in another, that is, who love justice, judgment, sincerity, and benevolence arising from charity, and especially with those who love faith in the Lord and love to Him. Because these love the things within man apart from the things without, when they do not discover the same things in the person after death, they at once withdraw from the friendship and are associated by the Lord with those who are in like good. It should be said that no one is able to explore the interiors of the mind of those with whom he associates or deals; and this is not necessary; only let him guard against a friendship of love with anyone. External friendship for the sake of various uses does no harm. E.Swedenborg ‘True Christian Religion’]

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‘But it cannot be that in this whole wide world, and especially in such a religious country as Croatia, where there are around 98% of the religious people, there cannot be found for you a truly pious and believing woman?!’, you may object!

Well, looking from the external or purely natural point of view, this could in-deed be a right objection, but when viewed internally, from the heavenly and purely spiritual perspective (John 7:24), and also knowing that in this whole dying world, and especially in this country where people are ‘ruled’ by the Roman Catholic sceptre, almost no spiritual truth about God and our Salvation could be found any more, but only falsities to which they stubbornly stick and are not willing to let them go, and also knowing that marriage would be prior to everything an union of two souls, i.e. an union on the innermost levels of the human being:

‘It is the internal union or union of souls that makes a real marriage.’

E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial love – 49’,

an union which in itself corresponds with the heavenly marriage, or marriage between the Love and Wisdom in the Lord, from where it traces it’s Origin, and also between the good of charity and truth of faith in heavens:

To truly apprehend what I just said, see please the following most important chapters

in E.Swedenborg’s ‘Conjugial Love’, namely,

THE ORIGIN OF CONJUGIAL LOVE FROM THE

MARRIAGE BETWEEN GOOD AND TRUTH (chap. 83-102) +

THE MARRIAGE OF THE LORD AND THE CHURCH

AND CORRESPONDENCE TO IT (chap. 116-131)

I am assuring you my dear friends, in this world there are scarcely few (these ‘few’ are called ‘His Own’ or ‘His little flock’ in that great body of the Revelation as received by His faithful maidservant Bertha Dudde; see also above what was revealed about them in that 1^st Perspective J) who can be count as the members of The True and Only Christian Church, or Spiritually linked worldwide community which professes our beloved Jesus Christ in all Truth (= see also ‘The Church of Christ’ thematic booklet at www.wordofgod.de ), and as such are in possession of the Pure Truth out of Him, and thus it should become clear to you that in this by Satan ruled world, and especially in the country where people are raised in the dogma of the dominant church, it is near to impossible to find the soul who is to match my own religious perspective, and it is exactly there, in the realm of the soul, as already stated above, where true marriage, which is in itself a marriage between faith and charity, or wisdom and love, is and must be contracted!

‘Conjugial love joins two souls and thus two minds into one.’

E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 158’

Now, to understand fully what I just said and what I have on my mind, and also to apprehend the importance of this perspective, we must consider the following truths,

First, the Church (= love and wisdom, or charity and faith, or good and truth in the person, that is what constitutes the ‘church in him’) comes from the Lord and it exists with the people who go to Him and live according to His commandments:

‘The church comes from the Lord and it exists in people who go to Him and live according to His commandments. No one at the present day denies that the church is the Lord's, and that because it is the Lord's, it is from the Lord.

It exists in people who go to Him, because the Lord's church in the Christian world is founded on the Word, and the Word is from Him and from Him in such a way that it is Him. The Word contains Divine truth united to Divine good (= which means, the quality of the Church in the person is equal to the quality of the Divine Truth and Divine good in him!), and this also is the Lord. This is precisely what is meant by the Word which was with God and which was God, from which men have life and light, and which became flesh (John 1:1-14).

Moreover, the church exists in people who go to the Lord for the further reason that it exists in those who believe in Him (!!! = those who worship three Persons does not have the right belief in Him). And no one can believe that He is God the Savior and Redeemer, Jehovah who is Righteousness, the door by which one must enter the sheepfold (that is to say, the church), the way, the truth and the life, that no one comes to the Father except through Him, that the Father and He are one, besides many other things that the Lord Himself teaches - no one, I say, can believe these things unless he gets his belief from the Lord. No one can believe these things without going to the Lord, because He is God of heaven and earth, as He Himself also teaches. Who else should one go to? Who else can one go to (= ‘to go to Him’ means ‘to approach the Lord Jesus Christ as the Only God in Whom is Trinity’, and that is for sure what above mentioned Churches doesn’t do, to wit, they believe in three Divine Persons, and they approach the invisible Father! = see below those further explanations about these differences)?

The church exists in people who live according to the Lord's commandments (= this again refers to the Reformed Churches, or Evangelical Churches, who are separating the faith and charity making therefore the fulfillment of the Commandments of Love of no avail for the salvation!), because they alone have conjunction with Him. For the Lord says:

He who has My commandments and obeys them, it is he who loves Me....and I will love him....and (I will) make an abode with him. (But) he who does not love Me does not keep My (commandments).... (John 14:21-24).’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 129’

Second, Conjugial love (or Married Love) depends on the state of the church (or ‘religion’) in a person, because it depends on the state of his wisdom (see E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 130’).

So, then, because the church comes from the Lord, conjugial love comes from Him as well (E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 131’), and therefore it depends entirely upon the person’s relationship or state of conjunction with Him (E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 113’).

Consequently, when, for example, instead of the Lord, people turn to men living and dead and call on them (which is, as everybody knows, a hideous practice advised and practiced in the Roman Catholic Church), it follows that their state is not a state of the church with which Conjugial Love can be allied (E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 375’).

In yet another words, if one of the partners is united with the Lord and has a true religion in him, and is therefore wise, and other is neither united with Him neither he has a true religion in him, but falsities instead, and is therefore spiritually insane (as for example those who are claiming that they believe in One God, and after that they are talking about, and also worship, a THREE PERSONS OF WHOM EACH IS GOD AND LORD, as those in ruling churches; this share nonsense is also stated in the worldwide accepted Creed of the Christian Church which has it’s name after Athanasius = see for example E.Swedenborg ‘Athanasian Creed’ = all theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg can be found at www.theheavenlydoctrine.org), their marriage, if contracted, would be only an external union and as such would be doomed to the failure as soon as their inner differences will manifest itself, which in no way can be avoided:

‘Spiritual coldness in marriage is a disunion of souls and disjunction of minds, resulting in indifference, discord, contempt, loathing, and aversion, and leading finally in many cases to separation from the bed, bedroom and house. It is too well known to require any comment that this is what happens between married partners when their original love fades and turns cold.

These states occur because coldness in marriage is seated more deeply in human minds than any other feelings of coldness. For the essence of the conjugial relationship is engraved on the soul, in order that one soul may be procreated from another and the father's soul propagated into offspring. As a result, marital coldness starts there, and progressively descending into subsequent elements it infects these as well, and so turns the happy and delightful states of the earlier love into sad and unpleasant ones.’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 236’ +

‘Of these internal reasons, a fourth is ingrained falsity of religion. The reason is that falsity in spiritual matters either does away with religion or corrupts it. It does away with religion in the case of people who have falsified genuine truths. It corrupts it in the case of people who have acquired falsities indeed, but not genuine truths, which they therefore could not falsify. In these latter people elements of good may exist with which their falsities can be joined by the Lord through adaptations of them; for these falsities are like various discordant tones which through skillful interpolations and insertions are drawn into a harmony, from which comes also the pleasantness of the harmony.

In people like this some conjugial love is possible; but it is not possible in people who have falsified genuine truths of the church in themselves. They are the cause of the prevailing ignorance concerning truly conjugial love or the skeptical doubt that it is possible. They are also the source of the insane belief residing in the minds of many that adulterous affairs are not evils against religion.’

E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 243’

To make myself even more clear about this important issue, and to warn some of you who are still unaware of this danger, I will add here this most beautiful explanation about the differences in the apprehension of the Truth from the Word of God as exists between those as me and those who are the members of the ruling Churches in the world (Roman Catholics and Reformed/Protestant or Evangelical Churches), through which it must become obvious to anybody with at least little bit developed rational faculty, that between falsity and truth, or good and evil, cannot be found and established any lasting unity and peace, but in contrary, only the discord and enmity (this of course also works in the opposite case, to wit, the outcome would be the same if they in these churches are ‘right’, i.e. if they possess a genuine Truth and Faith, and I am in error and consequently in falsity and spurious faith):

‘The faith and concept of imputation in the new church (The Church of Jesus Christ is in that great Revelation as received by E.Swedenborg called ‘New Jerusalem’) cannot by any means be combined with the faith and concept of imputation current in the former church (Roman Catholic, Reformed/Protestant or Evangelical Churches). If they are combined, there is such a clash and conflict that a person loses all trace of anything to do with the church.

The faith and concept of imputation in the new church cannot be combined with the faith and concept of imputation current in the former or still existing church, because they do not agree to the extent of one third, in fact, not one tenth. The faith of the former church teaches that three Divine Persons existed from eternity, each of which is singly or by Himself God, and there are also three creators. But the faith of the new church is that there was only one Divine Person, and so only one God, from eternity, and there is no other God beside Him. The faith of the former church therefore has held that the Divine Trinity is divided into three Persons; but the faith of the new church holds that the Divine Trinity is united in one Person.

[2] The faith of the former church was in a God who is invisible, inaccessible and with whom we cannot be linked. Their concept of God was like their concept of a spirit, being like that of the ether or the wind. But the faith of the new church is in a God who is visible, accessible and with whom we can be linked, in whom is the God who is invisible, inaccessible and with whom we cannot be linked, just as the soul is in the body. Their concept of God is as a human being because the one God, who was from eternity, became a human being in time.

[3] The faith of the former church attributes all power to the invisible God, and takes it away from the visible God. For it holds that God the Father imputes faith, and by means of it confers everlasting life; and that the visible God only intercedes, and both give (or according to the Greek church, God the Father gives) to the Holy Spirit, who occupies the third position as God by Himself, all power to carry out the effects of that faith. But the faith of the new church attributes to the visible God, in whom is the invisible God, all power to impute and also to carry out the effects of salvation.

[4] The faith of the former church is primarily in God the Creator, and not at the same time in God as Redeemer and Saviour. But the faith of the new church is in one God, who is at the same time Creator, Redeemer and Saviour.

[5] The faith of the former church is that the gift and imputation of faith is followed automatically by repentance, the forgiveness of sins, renewal, regeneration, sanctification and salvation, without the person taking any part in or being connected with them. But the faith of the new church teaches repentance, reformation and regeneration leading to the forgiveness of sins with the person's co-operation.

[6] The faith of the former church holds that Christ's merit is imputed, and the bestowal of faith embraces this imputation. But the faith of the new church teaches that good and evil are imputed, and so is faith, this imputation being in agreement with Holy Scripture, while the other is contrary to it.

[7] The former church holds that faith, in which Christ's merit is contained, is bestowed, while the person remains like a block of wood or a stone; it also holds that a person is totally powerless in spiritual matters. But the new church teaches a completely different faith, which is not in Christ's merit, but in Jesus Christ Himself, God, Redeemer and Saviour, holding that a person has free will to devote himself both to receiving faith and to co-operating.

[8] The former church attaches charity as an appendage to its faith, but not that which brings about salvation, and this is the basis of its religion. But the new church links faith in the Lord with charity towards the neighbour, making them inseparable, and thus the basis of its religion. There are many other disagreements besides these.

* This and the following two sections are expanded from BE 102-104.

[To anybody who didn’t have a clue about here mentioned differences and who also wants to expand his knowledge about them, I can recommend to him this book of E.Swedenborg, namely, -The Brief Exposition-]

This brief review of the points of disagreement and dissent shows plainly that the faith and concept of imputation of the new church cannot by any means be combined with the faith and concept of imputation of the former church, which still exists. The existence of such disagreement and dissent between the faiths of the two churches and their concepts of imputation implies a complete difference in kind. If therefore they were to be combined in a person's mind, there would be such a clash and conflict that he would lose all trace of anything to do with the church, and as regards spiritual matters would suffer delirium or a faint, so that he would not know what the church is or whether there is such a thing as the church. Then he could hardly know anything about God, anything about faith or anything about charity.

[2] The faith of the former church, since it shuts out all the light that comes from reason, can be likened to an owl. But the faith of the new church can be likened to a dove, which flies in the daytime and sees by the light of heaven. So bringing them together in one mind (or one ‘house’) would be like bringing an owl and a dove together in one nest, where the owl and the dove would each lay their eggs, and when they had sat on the eggs and hatched the chicks, the owl would tear the dove's chicks in pieces and feed them to its own chicks; for the owl is a bird of prey.

[3] The faith of the former church is described in Revelation (chapter 12) by the dragon, and the faith of the new church by the woman surrounded by the sun with a crown of twelve stars on her head. This comparison can allow one to conclude what would be the state of a person's mind (or ‘his marriage’), if they were present at one time in one house: the dragon would stand close to the woman, as she was about to give birth, with the intention of devouring her child; and when she flew off into the desert would pursue her, and pour water like a river over her to drown her.

Much the same would happen, if anyone were to embrace the faith of the new church, while retaining the faith of the former church concerning the imputation of the Lord's merit and righteousness. It is this which has been the root from which all the dogmas of the former church have arisen like shoots. If anyone were to do this, it would be as if, for comparison, one were to snatch oneself out of the way of five of the dragon's horns only to become entangled with the other five. Or as if one escaping a wolf were to encounter a tiger. Or as if someone climbing out of a pit containing no water were to fall into one with water in it and drown. For he would in these circumstances easily relapse into all the beliefs of his former faith, and what these are like has been explained above; and he would make the damning mistake of imputing and actually applying to himself the Lord's Divine attributes of redemption and righteousness, things which can be revered but not applied to oneself. For if a person were to impute and apply them to himself, he would be annihilated as if he were tossed into the open furnace of the sun. Yet it is the sun's light and heat which enable him to see and live in the body. It was shown above that the Lord's merit is redemption, and His redeeming act and His righteousness are two Divine attributes which cannot be linked to man. Everyone then should take care not to copy the concept of imputation current in the former church into that of the new one, since it will have tragic consequences which will stand in the way of his salvation.’

E.Swedenborg ‘True Christian Religion – 647-649’

The same would happen if one of the conjugial partners believes in God, and consequently has a religion in him, and other believes not, i.e. is without religion:

‘Of these internal reasons for cold states, a second is one partner's having religion and not the other. The reason is that their souls cannot help but be discordant. For the soul of one is open to receiving conjugial love, while the soul of the other is closed to receiving it. It is closed in the one who is without religion, and open in the one who has religion. Consequently it is impossible for them to dwell together on that level; and when conjugial love is banished there, coldness develops - though only in the partner without religion.

This coldness is not dispelled except by that partner's acceptance of religion in harmony with the religion of the other, if the other's religion is true (!!!). Otherwise, in the partner who has no religion, coldness sets in, which descends from the soul into the body until it reaches the outer coverings of the skin. The result is that he finally cannot bear to look his partner directly in the face, or speak to her in such a manner as to breathe the same air (= live in the same house/space), or address her in anything but a restrained tone of voice, or touch her with his hand, and scarcely even to feel her at his back. We refrain from mentioning in addition the insanities ensuing from that coldness which creep into the thoughts of people like this, insanities which they keep hidden.

This is the reason that marriages of this sort naturally disintegrate.

Besides, people know that an impious person has little regard for his married partner; and all who are without religion are impious (and consequently adulterers in their heart).’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 241’

The same spiritual perspective was of course the main reason why I said ‘no’ to my Muslim she-friends who were ‘proposing’ a marriage to me (= the following would be the reason why I didn’t consider their offer J):

‘Of these internal reasons for cold states, a third is one partner's having one religion and the other partner another. The reason is that in their case good cannot be joined together with its corresponding truth - for a wife in form is the good of her husband's truth, and he the truth of his wife's goodness, as we have previously shown. Consequently, it is impossible in their case for their two souls to become one soul. The wellspring of conjugial love is therefore shut off; and when this is shut off, they come into a conjugial relationship that has its seat on a lower level. This relationship is one of good with another truth than its own, or of truth with another good than its own; and between the two there cannot be any concordant love. The result is that coldness develops in the partner who is caught up in falsities of religion, and this coldness increases as he grows apart from the other. (In a great city I once wandered the streets in order to find lodging, and I entered a house where partners of different religions were staying. I was unaware of it, but angels then spoke to me, saying, "We cannot remain with you in this house, because it has partners with discordant religions living in it." This they perceived from the inward lack of union between their souls.).’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 242’

Therefore, my dear friends, brothers and sisters, perceiving and knowing all of this, tell me, why would I build my ‘house’ on the ‘sand’ (= falsities and subsequent evils of life), and not on the ‘rock’ (= truths of faith and subsequent goods of life),

‘Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.’ Matthew 7:24-27

knowing that this former one would surely not endure all those ‘attacks’ of the Satan which are to follow during these Last Days (= see Thematic Booklets ‘The Battle of Faith’ and ‘Antichrist’ at www.wordofgod.de )!

‘Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.’

Luke 11:17 + Matthew 12:25

Now, it seems to me that there is no other way and means through which an earthly soul could be made ready for such an union that I am having on my mind, but the following one:

‘Behold, if you would have been born-again out of the spirit of My love, then you would have cleansed the virgin before you desired her to be your wife, in the streams of the living waters, and it would have flown from your being in infinite aboudance. And your marriage would been heavenly, and your children (procreated in the delight of the angels, which is a true unification of your love and wisdom), would be children from heaven.’

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant,

the prophet Jakob Lorber, dated June 8, 1840’

This further means that we would be most probably dealing with the soul which was not raised in the religious family, who is consequently an ‘empty’ or ‘unspoiled vessel’ without any imbibed falsities to which she adheres stubbornly due to her self love and subsequent pride of her own intelligence, a condition which will enable her, if her heart is good enough for that, to accept ‘my’ religion and by that to come into the harmony with my own soul:

‘This coldness is not dispelled except by that partner's acceptance of religion in harmony with the religion of the other, if the other's religion is true.’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 241’

This quality of the ‘spiritually blind’ or ‘ignorant of the truth’, but nevertheless a ‘good-hearted’ soul, is called in the Word of God ‘the heathen’ or ‘pagan’, when these words are used in the positive sense… and as you know, these were those who, instead of them with whom Church existed in those times, i.e. Jews, who deemed themselves a ‘spiritually superior class’, gladly accepted the Lord when He come and reveal Himself to them, and were therefore also accepted by Him in His Church J!

‘And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west (= those who are outside of the Church), and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven (‘the kingdom of heaven’, when mentioned in the Word of God, signifies not just ‘heaven’ but also ‘the church’; E.Swedenborg ‘Apocalypse Explained – 48’). But the children of the kingdom (= Jews and those of their quality in these our times, or those of the ‘vastated church’, who are without truth and consequently without goods of life) shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ Matthew 8:10-12.

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3^nd or heavenly perspective – ‘The Spiritual Kingdom of our Heavenly Father’

‘For people who desire truly conjugial love, the Lord provides similar partners, and if they are not found on Earth, He provides them in heaven.’ E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 229’

There of course exists yet another possible turn of events, and that would be that the level of my soul-perfection in the moment of destruction of this old Earth would not render me a worthy inhabitant of that New Earthly Paradise, but that instead I would be recalled before into the spiritual kingdom:

‘Admittedly, salvation through Jesus Christ can be experienced by people called away by Me from this Earth prior to the final end…. They, too, will be blissfully happy inhabitants in My kingdom where no evil power can harm or oppress them anymore, precisely because they are ‘redeemed’ from it…’

(BD 6627),

or, which I seriously doubt J, that I will die from my old age before the end of this old Earth comes.

Either way, it is my good pleasure to declare and inform you that in our Lord’s heavenly kingdom, where my hope lies J, there are also marriages, (= see additional text to this teaching, namely E.Swedenborg’s ‘Marriages in heaven’, from where I am selecting the following: ‘For those who after preparation are introduced into heaven, there is provided a marriage with a consort whose soul inclines to mutual union with the soul of another, so that they no longer wish to be two lives, but one. This is the reason why after separation there is given to the man a suitable wife and to the woman in like manner a suitable husband.’ E.Swedenborg – ‘Conjugial Love – 50’), and that there, too, it is STILL required from as that for our perfection and utmost bliss we live and work in a frame of the celestial matrimony (the following scene is happening in the spiritual kingdom):

THE CONQUERORS' REWARD. CELESTIAL MATRIMONY AS SUPREME PERFECTION OF THE DIVINE ORDER. ABOUT THE NATURE OF WOMEN. MARTIN'S GOOD CHOICE AND SUBMISSION TO THE LORD'S WILL. A HINT ABOUT CELESTIAL MATRIMONY. MARTIN'S CELESTIAL MISSION AS A PERFECTED SPIRIT.

1. (Say I): "And now there is something else, My dear children. Martin, Borem, and Chorel, come closer to Me! You have managed to get through all the hard trials and have emerged as victors from many a fierce battle. Thus you have fully qualified yourselves for My Kingdom of all the heavens (it must be stated that our dear Bishop, whose guidance from hell to heaven our Lord described in this great Revelation, arrived at this happy state at the end of his purification and perfection process, i.e. when he was ready to enter into such a holy union J).

2. You have now become skilled workers in My vineyard and are entitled to a proper reward, which you shall now receive (= see also second and third chapter of the Book of Revelation, where also manifold ‘rewards’ are promised for those who fought and conquer, i.e. who ‘endured until the end’!; Revelation 2:7, 11 itd. itd. …). I know and read it clearly in your hearts that I am your highest reward and that you never ever wish for another one. But it is just this attitude of your hearts that renders you worthy and capable of receiving every other reward (= this blue part is for me a perfect fulfillment of that above mentioned promise from the Gospel of Matthew 6:33) .

3. My order requires for your supreme perfection that in the future you shall live and work within the celestial matrimony. Therefore, each of you must have a wife so as to be perfect in every respect, to strengthen your wisdom for eternity and to receive the light which issues from the flame of love within your hearts.

4. A wife is like a spiritual vessel for the reception and preservation of the light from your hearts. At the same time, she is a servant in the heart's kitchen of life, feeding the sacred fire of life in the hearth which I have erected in your hearts. And, therefore, each of you shall now take a wife with whom to completely unite forever. Martin, I think you will not be opposed to this?"

5. (Says Martin, overwhelmed with happiness): "O Lord, You know my nature best! What You will give me will make me endlessly happy, be it Chanchah or Gella or, if possible, one of the sun-daughters. Oh, that would be supreme bliss!"

6. (Say I): "That is up to you. You are free and may choose freely!"

7. (Says Martin): "O Lord, only Your will be done!"

8. (Say I): "Well then, take the one next to you."

9. (Martin, turning happily round, catches sight of Marelisael, the first and most beautiful of the three sun-daughters. He leads her to Me and asks): "Lord, is this the right one?"

10. (Say I): "Yes, it is!" And I bless him for eternity. Thus Martin is now perfected.

11. In supreme bliss, he kisses his celestial wife and realizes that in this way his love has forever been united with wisdom. They now both praise Me from one heart and one mouth, for thus the segregated Adam becomes an integrated man again in heaven, although in the form of separate, individually blissful beings# (= see above the explanation which includes also Genesis 1:27 & 5:1, 2!).

12. After Martin, Borem is given Surahil, the second of the three sun-daughters, and Chorel is given Hanial, the third. And both Borem and Chorel are boundlessly happy.

13. (Martin, who can hardly contain himself for bliss and supreme delight, says): "O Lord, You best and most holy Father, now I could exclaim, like Peter once did on Mount Tabor: 'Lord, it is good for us to be here!' However, only Your will be done!"

14. (Say I): "My dear, now perfected Martin, have you never, when on earth, heard the old saying: 'He who has love, will take the bride home'? This will be the case, also, with you. Since we have now brought order into this large house, we shall again return home.

15. The road that we shall take will in the future remain open to My new children of this big world of light, and it shall take them into your house and Mine. And all those, whom you have taken into your house, shall remain yours and Mine forever. For, what is Mine is now, also, yours, and what is yours is, also, Mine forever.

16. Therefore, you will forever remain the guardian angel of this house and its community, in Me as I in you. But it will not only be the community of this earth; the twelve doors of your house will lead you to the communities of countless other earths where you will find beatitudes beyond measure.

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 202’

'The only constant and uniform form is that of man. The countless inhabitants of the different worlds differ solely in size and the grade of their love, wisdom and beauty; but all these grades are stil based on the unchangeable human form, which is in My own image. The wisest are the most beautiful and those who are filled with love are the most delicate and glorious.'

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber, and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 51:7'

Now, while I am here… with our re-born and rewarded Bishop Martin, I need to make another observation, and this time about the beauty of those heavenly brides(or husbands)-to-be… namely, unlike on this Earth, where external beauty could be a mask for a most hideous soul-creature,

‘I once heard some men having a charming debate about the female sex, whether any woman who constantly loves her own beauty, that is, who loves herself for her looks, can love her husband. They began by agreeing that women have two kinds of beauty, one natural, that of the face and body, and the other spiritual, that of love and behaviour. They also agreed that these two kinds of beauty are very often separate in the natural world, but they are always combined in the spiritual world; for in that world beauty is the form taken by love and behaviour (!!!). After death therefore it very often happens that ugly women become models of beauty, and beautiful women models of ugliness.’

E.Swedenborg ‘Conjugial Love – 330:1’

there, in heaven, beauty would be an expression of the affection of love for our beloved Jesus Christ and all of His children, i.e. our brothers and sisters, and as in heaven there are no other women or men but those who are in such a true love, this of course in bigger or lesser degree,

‘It is to be known that everyone's human form after death is the more beautiful in proportion as he has more interiorly loved Divine truths and lived according to them; for everyone's interiors are opened and formed in accordance with his love and life; therefore the more interior the affection is, the more like heaven it is, and in consequence the more beautiful the face is. This is why the angels in the inmost heaven are the most beautiful, for they are forms of celestial love (!!!). But those who have loved Divine truths more exteriorly, and thus have lived in accordance with them in a more external way, are less beautiful; for exterior affections only shine forth from their faces; and through these no interior heavenly love shines, consequently nothing of the form of heaven as it is in itself. There is seen in the faces of such, something comparatively obscure, not vivified by anything of interior life shining through it. In a word, all perfection increases towards interiors and decreases towards exteriors, and as perfection increases and decreases so does beauty. I have seen angelic faces of the third heaven of such radiance that no painter with all his art could possibly give any such light to his colours as to equal a thousandth part of the brightness and life that shone forth from their countenances. But the faces of the angels of the lowest heaven may in some measure be equalled.’ E.Swedenborg ‘Heaven and Hell – 459’

it is of no surprise that those of us who are coming there from this misguided Earth, will indeed have a serious ‘problems’ to bear such an expressions of internal beauty, or true love and charity, as it can be found in heaven (and especially in that part of it where our beloved Father dwells amongst His most loyal children, where of course my hope lies = see ‘Part one’ of this Blog ‘serial’, namely ‘Being at Home with Jesus Christ’) J!

4. (Bishop Martin)‘And in the background I can discern a vast crowd of completely naked human beings of both sexes. How beautiful they are, especially the females.

5. Ah, one of them is approaching me. Should I wait for her? Oh, yes, I have to, for this dish is not covered. Oh, no, not a bit!

6. What a breathtaking beauty! The whiteness of the skin, the well-developed figure and bust! It is overwhelming! The softly rounded arms, the divine feet, and this heavenly beautiful face with the tender smile!

7. Oh, oh, I can't bear it! I must leave! But no, I can't, it is impossible, and maybe she wants to tell me something. Here she is already; quiet - she is going to say something!"

8. (The woman speaks): "You must be the owner of this house for whom we have been waiting all this time?"

9. (Bishop Martin): "Oh, yes, but no - not quite! I have only just come to live here. The owner would really be the Lord Jesus, Infinite God. What could I do for you all, and especially for you, you heavenly beauty, who surpasses all beauty of the whole of infinity?"

10. (The woman): "Do not praise me so much, for over there are many of my sex who are incomparably more beautiful than I, and I, as the least beautiful, was sent to meet you so as not to dazzle you too much in the beginning.

11. We are all human beings from the planet Mercury, as you, children of the Almighty, call it. As this is your house, it is up to you to keep us here that we might serve you, or to send us away. But we all beg you to have mercy upon us."

12. (Bishop Martin): "Oh, please, you heavenly, sublime and sweetest beauty - if there were many thousands of you, I wouldn't think of letting you go. Come to me, you loveliest of all Mercurians, and let me embrace you. Oh dear, you are getting more beautiful every moment, especially when you smile at me so charmingly."

19. When we come to this door, it opens by itself.

20. Bishop Martin looks inside, full of curiosity, and is amazed when he is faced with quite a new world of splendor, including a crowd of blessed spirits in the most perfect human shape. Their beauty has an almost stunning effect on our bishop.

21. (Only after a while, does Bishop Martin exclaim): "O Lord, You glorious Creator and Master of all things, all beings - human and angelic - this is breathtaking, too superb for human comprehension!

22. What does this mean? Who are these beings? Are they angels or blessed human spirits?

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber,

and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 40’

Furthermore:

'How beautiful all this looks, my dear brothers. I find the splendor and beauty of this area breathtaking. And there is a big procession of sun-dwellers already coming to meet us. I can see the ones in front quite clearly. They are infinitely beautiful and so is their attire. Oh, oh, the nearer they get, the greater becomes their beauty! If this continues, I can say already that I will not be able to bear their nearness unless the Lord strengthens me for it.'

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber,

and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 135:2, 3'

And yet more:

'Ah, this inconceivable beauty! Those eyes, fiery like the sun itself, that hair like the shiniest gold! The softness of the neck, that roundness and indescribable tenderness!

And the bosom, oh, I cannot beat it any longer! There is nothing on Earth comparable with this!

Compared with this, what is the delicacy of the purest dewdrop, the purest cut of a diamond, the most tender cirrus floating around the setting sun carried by a slight evening breeze? Is there a whiteness like that on Earth? The purest snow in the midday sun would not even come near it!

One could feast one's eyes forever! And the arms, the hands, the feet! Martin, turn your eyes away from these much-too-beautiful maidens or you are lost!'

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber,

and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 136:10-14'

I must add additional note here, namely, that our dear Bishop was 'forced' to 'choose' his eternal bride from one of these earlier on his journey met 'candidates':

'When the three sun-maidens, escorted by their guides, have reached Me, Chanchah and Gella see their beauty and are quite startled. Chanchah says: (Chanchah): "Oh You, my almighty Father, what are these beings? No human heart could ever imagine such inconceivable beauty! O Father, are these also created beings, or are they primordial spirits who from eternity have been purer than the light of the purest star? How terribly ugly I must appear compared with them! When I look at them, I feel - forgive me for such a thought - as if it must be almost impossible for You, o Father, to make the female human shape so endlessly beautiful. Of course, such a thought is silly - just as I am silly at this moment. But that boundless beauty is really almost unbearable for me."

As received from our Lord and Father Jesus Christ, by His servant, the prophet Jakob Lorber,

and written in his ‘Bishop Martin – guidance of the soul in the beyond – 144:2, 3’

And of course, as we can read above, he choose a most ‘ugliest’ one J!

More or less the same reports about this particular situation in heavens we also find in our dear Swede, who in his most popular work wrote as follows (Heaven and Hell – 414):

‘Those who are in heaven are continually advancing towards the spring of life, with a greater advance towards a more joyful and happy spring the more thousands of years they live; and this to eternity, with increase according to the growth and degree of their love, charity, and faith. Women who have died old and worn out with age, if they have lived in faith in the Lord, in charity to the neighbour, and in happy conjugial love with a husband, advance with the succession of years more and more into the flower of youth and early womanhood, and into a beauty that transcends every conception of any such beauty as is seen on the earth. Goodness and charity is what gives this form and thus manifests its own likeness, causing the joy and beauty of charity to shine forth from every least particular of the face, and causing them to be the very forms of charity. Some who beheld this were struck with amazement. The form of charity that is seen in a living way in heaven, is such that it is charity itself that both forms and is formed; and this in such a manner that the whole angel is a charity, as it were, especially the face; and this is both clearly seen and felt. When this form is beheld it is beauty unspeakable, affecting with charity the very inmost life of the mind. In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young. Such forms or such beauties do those who have lived in love to the Lord and in charity towards the neighbour become in the other life. All angels are such forms in endless variety; and of these heaven is constituted.’

Consequently, it seems to me that little patience and perseverance here would not harm us at all but only bring us innumerable benefits once when we are recalled into that great Kingdom of the beyond!

Well, my dear friends, brothers and sisters… this ‘story’ could go on and on…

… but time is in-deed short …

… and there are other more important tasks to be adhered in the Vineyard of the Lord…

Therefore, with the earnest hope that this little treatise was able to clarify to you

what are my own ideas, hopes and ‘dreams’ about the marriage J

I will leave you now in these thoughts …

Lorens J

(Blato, March 8-23, 2010)

My life without and with Jesus Christ

utorak, 16. kolovoza 2011.

The following are the reasons why I joyfully expect the entrance into the Lord’s Kingdom part 3

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