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who held you first in His Hands, the Eyes that saw you first, they will see the Hands
of He who shaped you and blessed you… they will see the Most Tender Father, your
Creator… (15.9.1991)
The passage is one of poetic and mystical language. What is being said here is in no way the
pre-existence of the soul. Rather it speaks of how God blesses and loves any soul from the
very instant of its creation. I believe we are created in the image of God and have His imprint
in the depth of our souls wherefore humans have a natural longing for their Creator, which
only He can satisfy, as Saint Augustine says: “The heart was made for God; neither can it rest
until it rests in God.” The important thing I intended to communicate through that sentence
is: We carry the image of God in the depth of our being from the moment of our conception.
Eschatology: It has been said that I advocate a wrong kind of millenarianism, wanting to
establish a new order, a material “New Heavens and New Earth”
before
the Second Coming
of Christ. This is wrong and can be nowhere found in the messages. I am well aware that the
Catholic Church has condemned such kind of millenarianism as written in the Catechism of
the Catholic Church:
The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the
claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized
beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even
modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of
millenarianism, especially the ‘intrinsically perverse’ political form of secular
messianism. (CCC 676)
There are many passages with terms such as: New Heavens and a New Earth as well as a
Second Pentecost, or sometimes with the term of New Pentecost, in the True Life in God
writings, but they are to be understood metaphorically. The realization of these words is not
to be found in a break with this regular history of ours before the Second Coming
establishing a second economy of history. The words express the supreme hope that Christ
will renew us from within in the power of the Holy Spirit. It is a revival of faith and a renewal
of the church that we so much yearn for. And the fruit we hope from this renewal is the
healing of the schism in the Body of Christ. Already Pope John XXIII envisioned such a
renewal when he prayed for a Second Pentecost: “O divine Spirit...renew in our own days
your miracles as of a second Pentecost.” And also our present Pope John Paul II has used the
term on several occasions, as in a letter to the Most Reverend Father Joseph Chalmers, Prior
General of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, 08.09.2001: “…I invoke
an abundance of divine grace on you. Just like a second Pentecost, may the Holy Spirit
descend on you and illuminate you so that you may discover the will of your heavenly and
merciful father. In this way you will be able to speak to men and women in forms which are
familiar to them and efficient” (cf Acts 2:1-13).
Likewise, my writings speak in metaphorical language of a revival of faith, so that the Lord is
able to erect his Throne and build his kingdom in our souls:
“Come and learn: the New
Heavens and the New Earth will be when I will set My Throne in you, for I will give water
from the well of Life free to anybody who is thirsty”
(03.04.1995, ref. to Apoc. 21:6).
I believe the renewal promised to us has already started and it is through grace only that the
Mercy of God is upon us to pour out His Spirit on all mankind like never before in history
and its growth will continue as grace in our days shines on us like the rays of the sun to heal
us.