In the Old Testament, I created and chose prophets to live among men. To them I told My desires, My sorrows and My joys, so that they could communicate them to everyone.
The more evil grew, the more My goodness urged Me to communicate with just souls so that they could transmit My commands to those who are creating disorder. Thus, I was sometimes obliged to be strict in order to reprove them; not to punish them-that would only have done harm-but to take them away from vice and lead them to their Father and their Creator, Whom they had forgotten and ignored in their ingratitude. Later, evil overwhelmed men's hearts to such an extent that I was compelled to send calamities upon the world to purify men through suffering, the destruction of their possessions, or even their death. These were the Flood, the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, man's wars against man, etc.
I have always wished to remain in this world among men. So, during the Flood, I was close to Noah, the only just man then. In the other calamities, also, I always found a just man with whom I could stay and, through him, I lived among the men of that time, and it has always been thus.
The world has often been purified of its corruption because of My infinite goodness towards humanity. I continued to choose certain souls in whom I was pleased, because through them I could be happy with Mycreatures, men.
I promised the world a Messiah. I did all I could to prepare His coming, showing Myself in the figures that represented Him, even thousands of years before His coming!
For who is this Messiah? Whence does He come? What will He do on earth? Whom does he represent?
The Messiah is God.
Who is God? God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Whence does He come? Or rather, who ordered Him to come among men? It was I, His Father, God.
Whom is He to represent on earth? His Father, God.
What is He to do on the earth? He will make the Father, God, known and loved.
Did He not say:
"Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"
("Nesciebatis quia in his quae patris mei sunt oportet me esse?" St. Luke, ch.2,v.49)
"I have come only to do the will of My Father".
"Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you".
"You will pray to Him like this: 'Our Father, Who art in heaven….', and elsewhere, since He came to glorify The Father and to make Him known to men, He says:
"Whoever sees Me, sees the Father".
"I am in the Father and the Father is in Me".
"No one comes to the Father except through Me" ("Nemo venit as Patrem nisi per me" St. John,ch 14, v.6)
"Whoever is with Me is also with My Father",etc.?
Realize then, o men, that for all eternity I have had but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by them. I wish to stay forever with them.
Do you want an authentic proof of this desire that I have just expressed?
Why did I command Moses to build a tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, if not to come and dwell, as a Father, a brother, a close friend, with My creatures, men? This was My ardent desire. In spite of this, they have forgotten Me and offended Me with countless sins. I gave Moses my commandments to remind them, in spite of everything, of God, their Father, and of His sole wish, to save them. They were supposed to observe the commandments and thereby remember their infinitely good Father, always intent upon their present and eternal salvation.
All this was forgotten and men sank into error and fear considering that the observance of the commandments as I had transmitted them to Moses was too taxing. They made up other laws in accordance with their whims, in order to observe them more easily. Little by little, in the exaggerated fear they had of Me they forgot Me more and more and heaped outrages upon Me.
Yet My love for these men, My children, never quite ceased. When I realized that neither the patriarchs nor the prophets had been able to make Me known and loved by men, I decided to come Myself.
But how could I come among them? There was no other way that to come Myself, in the Second Person of My divinity.
Would men know Me? Would they listen to Me?
Nothing in the future was hidden from Me; I Myself answered these two questions:
"They will ignore My presence, even though they will be near Me. In My Son they will treat Me cruelly, not withstanding all the good He will do for them. In My Son they will speak ill of Me, they will crucify Me to bring
about My death."
Shall I stop because of this? No, My love for My children, men, is too great.
I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were, more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself.
What I am telling you is so true that, if one of My creatures had been enough to atone for the sins of other men through a life and death similar to those of my Son, I would have hesitated. Why? Because I would have betrayed My love by making a beloved creature suffer, rather than suffering Myself, in My Son. I would never have wished My children to suffer.
This, then, in brief, is the story of My love until My coming among men through My Son.
Most men know of all these events, but they fail to grasp the essential thing: that love was the guiding principle in it all!
Yes, it is love. This is what I want to impress upon you. Now this love has been forgotten. I want to remind you of it, so that you can learn to know Me as I am, so that you will not be, like slaves, afraid of a Father Who loves you so much.
You see, in this story we are only at the first day of the first century, and I would like to bring it up to the present time, the twentieth century.
The more evil grew, the more My goodness urged Me to communicate with just souls so that they could transmit My commands to those who are creating disorder. Thus, I was sometimes obliged to be strict in order to reprove them; not to punish them-that would only have done harm-but to take them away from vice and lead them to their Father and their Creator, Whom they had forgotten and ignored in their ingratitude. Later, evil overwhelmed men's hearts to such an extent that I was compelled to send calamities upon the world to purify men through suffering, the destruction of their possessions, or even their death. These were the Flood, the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, man's wars against man, etc.
I have always wished to remain in this world among men. So, during the Flood, I was close to Noah, the only just man then. In the other calamities, also, I always found a just man with whom I could stay and, through him, I lived among the men of that time, and it has always been thus.
The world has often been purified of its corruption because of My infinite goodness towards humanity. I continued to choose certain souls in whom I was pleased, because through them I could be happy with Mycreatures, men.
I promised the world a Messiah. I did all I could to prepare His coming, showing Myself in the figures that represented Him, even thousands of years before His coming!
For who is this Messiah? Whence does He come? What will He do on earth? Whom does he represent?
The Messiah is God.
Who is God? God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Whence does He come? Or rather, who ordered Him to come among men? It was I, His Father, God.
Whom is He to represent on earth? His Father, God.
What is He to do on the earth? He will make the Father, God, known and loved.
Did He not say:
"Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business?"
("Nesciebatis quia in his quae patris mei sunt oportet me esse?" St. Luke, ch.2,v.49)
"I have come only to do the will of My Father".
"Whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you".
"You will pray to Him like this: 'Our Father, Who art in heaven….', and elsewhere, since He came to glorify The Father and to make Him known to men, He says:
"Whoever sees Me, sees the Father".
"I am in the Father and the Father is in Me".
"No one comes to the Father except through Me" ("Nemo venit as Patrem nisi per me" St. John,ch 14, v.6)
"Whoever is with Me is also with My Father",etc.?
Realize then, o men, that for all eternity I have had but one desire, to make Myself known to men and be loved by them. I wish to stay forever with them.
Do you want an authentic proof of this desire that I have just expressed?
Why did I command Moses to build a tabernacle and the ark of the covenant, if not to come and dwell, as a Father, a brother, a close friend, with My creatures, men? This was My ardent desire. In spite of this, they have forgotten Me and offended Me with countless sins. I gave Moses my commandments to remind them, in spite of everything, of God, their Father, and of His sole wish, to save them. They were supposed to observe the commandments and thereby remember their infinitely good Father, always intent upon their present and eternal salvation.
All this was forgotten and men sank into error and fear considering that the observance of the commandments as I had transmitted them to Moses was too taxing. They made up other laws in accordance with their whims, in order to observe them more easily. Little by little, in the exaggerated fear they had of Me they forgot Me more and more and heaped outrages upon Me.
Yet My love for these men, My children, never quite ceased. When I realized that neither the patriarchs nor the prophets had been able to make Me known and loved by men, I decided to come Myself.
But how could I come among them? There was no other way that to come Myself, in the Second Person of My divinity.
Would men know Me? Would they listen to Me?
Nothing in the future was hidden from Me; I Myself answered these two questions:
"They will ignore My presence, even though they will be near Me. In My Son they will treat Me cruelly, not withstanding all the good He will do for them. In My Son they will speak ill of Me, they will crucify Me to bring
about My death."
Shall I stop because of this? No, My love for My children, men, is too great.
I did not stop there. Understand well that I loved you, as it were, more than My beloved Son, or rather, more than Myself.
What I am telling you is so true that, if one of My creatures had been enough to atone for the sins of other men through a life and death similar to those of my Son, I would have hesitated. Why? Because I would have betrayed My love by making a beloved creature suffer, rather than suffering Myself, in My Son. I would never have wished My children to suffer.
This, then, in brief, is the story of My love until My coming among men through My Son.
Most men know of all these events, but they fail to grasp the essential thing: that love was the guiding principle in it all!
Yes, it is love. This is what I want to impress upon you. Now this love has been forgotten. I want to remind you of it, so that you can learn to know Me as I am, so that you will not be, like slaves, afraid of a Father Who loves you so much.
You see, in this story we are only at the first day of the first century, and I would like to bring it up to the present time, the twentieth century.
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