Unity and Veracity of All Prophecy

Chapter: Unity and Veracity of All Prophecy
Page: 559-563

December 9, 1943


Jesus is speaking,

“I think I have repeated a number of times that one either believes or does not believe, that my time is not measured by your measure, that those who believe without demanding proofs will be blessed.

“I now add that prophecy may go through periods of repetition or apparent negation which later turn out, instead, to be only a trial sent by God for men’s faith.

“All ancient and modern prophecies (I call those from Adam unit my coming ‘ancient’ and those from my coming until the present moment ‘modern,’ for your twenty centuries are a fraction of an hour compared to my Eternity) present points in which they appear to be mistaken, for, in your view, they should have taken place in a given period and did not.  But the eye of my servant sees with my Eye.  You, on the other hand, see with yours.  So that my servant speaks or repeats in my Name, and what you believe has already occurred by be an event still to take place in the future.  This holds for all prophecies, including those for the greatest spirits.

“Even the perfect Prophecy—mine—may seem to be mistaken and contradicted by the facts to those looking with their human eyes.  From the reading of the Gospels, wouldn’t it seem that the end of the world follows shortly after the destruction of Jerusalem?  But how many centuries have elapsed since then?  And yet, the end of the world will be preceded by the signs I speak of, which have already seemed to be close, on so many occasions, to your ignorance and fear.  I alone know the moment they will begin, and I do not deem it necessary to say when.  Out of goodness, too, towards those living at that time.

“You would certainly not want to think that I, the perfect Prophet, because I was the repository of the secrets of the Divinity, was mistaken!  As you would not want to think that Peter, Paul, and above all, John—who remained fused to his Master even beyond the time of my stay among men—were mistaken.  And doesn’t Peter say, ‘The end of all things is near’?  {1 P 4:7}  And Paul: ‘…Those of use who remain alive until the Lord’s coming,’ {1Thes 4:14,15; 2 Thes 2:6-7} and further, ‘You well know that the one holding him back is the Lord, so that he will not be manifest before the time comes.  The mystery of iniquity is already at work.’  It would seem, then, that the Antichrist was at work from that time on, and God simply did not let him manifest himself fully so as to be burned to ashes by Me.  And he exhorts the Christians at that time to remain firm in faith to withstand iniquity at work.  And, finally, doesn’t my John—the most enlightened one, he to whom the Heavens were made known with panoramas of events to come known only to God and to whom my Heart was opened with all the most secret secrets—end the book which is so sublime that it seems to have been written with a pen seized from an archangel with the words ‘…The time is close…Behold, I am coming soon.  The One who attests to these things says, yes, I am coming soon”’?

“Now then I say the same words to you as my saints said: “Before the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years, one day.  It is not that the Lord is delaying, but He uses patience… There are things difficult to understand which the ignorant and unstable distort for their perdition.’

“Oh, blessed are the believers and those content with no need for excessive proofs; blessed are those who rest on the word of the Lord, even if it seems obscure to them, and do not procure for themselves the torments of Thomas, who suffered for many days that the others because he did not believe in my Resurrection, and for additional days, later, through repenting of not having believed except after having observed!

“Flee from foolish questions, genealogies, disputes, and battles, for they are useless and vain,’ as Paul says.  {Titus 3:9} Remember that John, a few lines later, says, ‘…Even now there are many antichrists; hence we can understand that it is the final hour… I have not written to you as to those who do not know the truth, but as to those who know it and know that no lie can come from the truth.  {1 Jn 2:18-21} Finally, I remind you that whoever repeats God’s words or speaks directly does not do so by human will, ‘but inspired by the Holy Spirit,’ as St. Peter says in his Second Letter.  {2 P 1:21}

“On his own account my spokesman is a poor nothing who never feels so much like a nothing as when I place a point of Scripture before him and say, ‘Interpret it.’  He then resembles a little bird that has fallen into a net and is frightened.  I, who scrutinize his heart, see it melt into wonder and trembling, like the heart of a student forced to respond to the examiner concerning what he does not know.  And I like this not knowing of his, for it keeps him lowly and flexible like a silken sail.

"As for the passages it is useless to scatter them as food for reptiles, who may make use of them as a harmful weapon and as a gag upon my little christs.  I have already stated and repeat that a lot of prudence is needed, for you are living amid poisonous reptiles.  Why do you want to satisfy foolish curiosity?  I do not dictate what I dictate for your amusement or to bend to your unhealthy thirst for the knowledge of the future.  When you know, do you perhaps change?  No.  Do not be liars or naive.  You do not change.  The upright spirits already have more than enough of what is said for all without lifting the deepest veils.  The others... Oh, the others!  When they do not make it an instrument to harm many, they make it an instrument to harm themselves, for they study--do not receive, but study--my new Word, exclusively with a human light and method.  And didn't I say that this method is a slayer?

"I said--if I do not get tired of repeating my Doctrine, I do get tired of repeating my commands regarding the 'spokesman'-- that only when he is no longer in the world will everything be known about his labor.  Don't be impatient to make general expositions.  He isn't.  He doesn't care about being known and admired because of both the effort and the mass of work.  With tears of blood, he goes on letting you use the pages 'entirely his own,' for the good of many and out of love for Me.  He wants nothing else because I don't want anything, and in my 'spokesman' there is only one will: mine.

"In the dictations you have coffers with gems sufficient to make the world luminous.  Why do you also want to extract the diamonds, which only in a few years can be handled without the forces of Evil appropriating them to destroy them?  Don't you realize you are in the hands of the enemies of Christ?

"The one who writes is led.  But the one who copies must be able to understand what should be made available to one alone who since he is in turn led by Me can understand and bless.  Conserve, then, all the work of my 'spokesman' until the time I indicate and give the world's poor according to their condition what should be given.  And pray so as not to let yourselves be carried away by humanity in your choice."

"For the events of the day, P.M. has already been able to observe the concomitance and can testify to it.  Aside from this, I repeat, act as did the director of Benigna, who was in better times than these and was holding less explosive material in his hands, I would say, so as to remain in character with the present time, full of explosions which do not involve so much chemical powders as infernal substances.

"Do not repeat the questions because I will not answer.  Do not seek to depart from the rule because I will not bless.  Take your work and give it to my Spokesman.  He will give you the points which should not be made available to the curious and the wicked.  I will guide him by the hand in choosing.

"It is children who instinctively sense danger, like little birds.  And my 'spokesman' is no less a child than I was in my Mother's womb.  I love him for this reason."