Message from Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 309.
“I was with you tonight and heard the address of the preacher, and his explanation of the causse of the great war, now raging in Europe, and it was a very intelligent and truthful explanation, and identified the real foundation of the war.
“But I will not come as “Prince Michael,” as the preacher said, to establish my kingdom on earth, and to take unto me those whose names are “written in the book,” and destroy those whose names are not therein written. For I have already come and am now in the world, working to turn human’s hearts to God, and to teach them the way by which they may become at-One with Him, and receive into their souls His Divine Love.
“In no other way will I ever come to humans on earth, for they will not need me as a visible king, with powers and invisible armies of the spirit world, to subdue the evil that exists. There will arise no “Satan” to fight against me or my followers in the sense that the preacher teaches – for besides the fact that I am already in the world fighting for the salvation of human beings, there is no Satan. The only “devils” who are trying to influence mortals to evil thoughts and actions are the spirits of evil people who still retain all their sins and wickedness – these and the evil that exists in the hearts of humans themselves.
“How pitiable it is that the preacher and his followers believe that the spirits of humans who have died the natural death are still “dead” – resting in the grave or in oblivion, waiting for the great day of my appearance on earth, in order to come again to life and be called by me into my kingdom. How much they lose by such belief, and how great and surprising will be their awakening when they pass through the change called death.
“There will be no “battle of Armageddon,” except as each person’s soul is now fighting the battle between sin and righteousness. This is the only battle that will ever be fought between the Prince of peace and “Satan;” each soul must fight its own battle. In that fight the powers of God will help that soul overcome the great “enemy” – sin, which enemy is of their own creation.” To be continued…