Translation from Spanish
Blessings, beloved people of the Lord. To begin, I want to share a passage from a powerful prophecy about the war between Iran and Israel, which the Lord gave me on May 7, 2018.
Surely, war is coming. Iran and Israel will fight fiercely, but the war will not prevail; it will be cut short. I Myself will protect My wayward people. Iran will not prosper, but will receive what it deserves for conspiring against My name.
Iran, daughter of Elam, you will be struck with strategic weapons when you rise up against Me, for your hatred of My name is displayed before the world. Everyone knows that you don’t cherish Me, My dear.
I will come upon your house to bring you to your knees before Me, and many of your own will come to My throne to be reconciled with Me. Many among your people will turn, and in the midst of war, will surrender to Me and acknowledge the sacrifice of the cross.
Do not hesitate to do what you must do, for I have already prepared the next move on the chessboard. Rise up and try to touch Me, and you will see how I respond to your injustice.
Poor wayward servant, you ran through the desert, you fled from Me, even when I was calling you and telling you I was your Father. Not even then did you believe Me, My child, but you wanted to go your own way and fled like a servant running desperately to escape Me.
But now your hour has come: the hour for someone to put a stop to you, the hour to show you who I am through the apple of My eye.
Return to Me and I will heal your wounds, and you will no longer be an orphan, but will have a Redeemer who seeks you and watches over you.
This will happen tomorrow, at the appointed time. The clock keeps ticking, and every step of My plan is being fulfilled, with nothing left out.
Oh Iran, why did you leave My streams of fresh water, where you once drank of My tenderness? Now look at what has become of you without My patience, for you believe your strength lies in your weapons. How foolish you are to think you have more power than Me, your Creator.
So when you rise up against My name, I will remind you who I am, and you will retreat like a dog that tried to bite but then regretted it, slinking away in tears, humiliated. So it will be, for this is what I have purposed in My perfect mind.
Many nations will rise up and open their armories, which have been kept in storage for a long time, striving to prevail. But I am the One who gives victory, so that what is written about these times may be fulfilled.
What the Lord spoke has come to pass in detail: that the war would not prevail, and that Iran would receive what it deserved.
Now we see how this war, which once seemed destined to drag on and spark even greater conflict, has come to an end in terms of fighting. Yet there is no peace, and this is one of the Lord’s messages, first and foremost for His people. The serpent will not be still.
It’s the supreme leader of Iran and the regime that rules that nation whom the Lord calls “serpent,” not the citizens of Iran who are not moved by a spirit of antisemitism, but specifically those who hold the reins of that country and various terrorist groups, whom they use in their attempt to exterminate the Jews if they could.
I saw this serpent laying eggs like explosives in different countries around the world, and even now we see how the Iranian regime has risen up against all Jews living there and against anyone who might threaten the regime.
Let’s pray for them, let’s pray for the people of Iran, let’s pray for Israel, for the United States, and also for Argentina. Because, according to the Ayatollah and his puppets, anyone who becomes a friend of Israel automatically becomes an enemy of Iran.
This is a time when many prophecies are being fulfilled—things written long ago in the Word, and also more specific things, with precise locations, which the Lord has spoken about for many years through His prophetic voices.
It’s necessary to listen to God’s voice through His prophets in this turbulent time, when, even though the weapons have been set aside for now, there is no real peace, no white flag raised, and we must keep preparing for what is coming.
Now I see a leviathan moving in the ocean, beneath the waters, and getting ready to lift its head. And the Lord says this to His people:
Little ones, I say to you again: you must prepare yourselves and not trust what they say, for this peace is forced, says the Lord. It is not true peace. And even though I have put a stop to this dog, who in turn has other dogs behind him holding other reins, this is not over, for this is what is written for this time.
Noelia: Bible passages like Matthew 24, Luke 21, and Mark 13 come to mind, passages that speak of the end times and say that nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
This time, I want to remind you of Luke 21, where the same things mentioned in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 are written in an even more striking way.
[Luke 21:10-11] Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
They speak of peace, says God, but it is only a momentary peace. It is a false and forced peace, which you must not believe.
Noelia: The Lord is showing me that what has happened these days between Iran and Israel, with the intervention of the United States, has simply been a pause—a pause that comes from God, because more nations are still to rise up against Israel.
This pause is necessary, because time is needed for even more people to come to hate Israel, so that the spirit of antisemitism, which has been unleashed across the earth, continues its work and gathers followers, so that when the time comes, all those armies mentioned in the Bible will come against Jerusalem in the last days.
While Israel claims to have achieved peace with Iran, Iran is preparing even more and buying time to conspire against Israel.
All these things must happen, says the Lord. And remember, there is no peace. Not because My servants say so, but because I left it written: that there will be wars and rumors of wars, and that nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.
Noelia: The Lord has shown me that when the Word says “kingdom against kingdom,” it also refers to coalitions and alliances between nations.
The head of the serpent is still alive, says the Lord. So it will continue its work, devouring whatever it must devour and making the most of every second it has left, says the Lord, speaking of Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran.
The Lord is showing me now that every moment of life he has remaining, he will use even more fiercely against Israel—worse than before—because now he values his life more than he did a month ago.
His life has been offered to Allah for the satanic purpose of destroying My people, the chosen descendants whom I planted in that land, says the Lord.
Oh little ones, says the Lord, how many times have I spoken to you? How many times have I warned you not to believe what is being said? They shake hands and boast, saying, “I achieved peace,” or, “No, no, I was the one who achieved it,” or, “Yes, but you only achieved it because of my actions, my intelligence, my wisdom,” and they have no idea that they already have nuclear weapons.
Noelia: The Lord is showing me that Iran already has nuclear weapons, and that they are hidden underground.
Those weapons are already there, says the Lord, whether they say so or not, whether they make it known or not, whether they admit it or not.
[Daniel 2:22] he revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
The other nations were talking of something they believed was still being built, when in reality it’s already complete, and what was really being discussed in Iran was pressing the red button to exterminate the people of Israel.
Friends, says the Lord, I have told you so many times that you must prepare for the worst. The Bible warns that when they say, “peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come.
When you saw that this twelve-day war was not a game, and that the doors to the world’s most important weapons stockpiles were truly being opened, and the fastest, most powerful, and most advanced planes were being used, says the Lord, your knees trembled for a moment and you thought, “Maybe we should start paying more attention to what God is saying and what God has warned us about.” But as soon as you heard that the weapons were being set aside and a flag of peace was being raised, you sat back down again.
You don’t need to pay attention to what they say, but to what is written in My Word, says the Lord.
[1 Thessalonians 5:3] For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
This message is not just for those in the world, says the Lord. This message is not only for those who don’t know Me, but also for My church. My church treats these announcements of peace and safety as if they were real, permanent, and lasting, and ignores the part of Scripture that says, “sudden destruction will come upon them.” Sudden destruction will come upon all who believe that lasting peace and safety are on the way.
Noelia: For years the Holy Spirit has warned that this is the time of birth pains, and this verse connects with the passages I mentioned earlier (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21), which say that the signs of the end are only the beginning of sorrows. We are already in those birth pains, and the woman will continue to have contractions, suffering and groaning, until the end truly comes.
You have been warned, cautioned, and notified for years and years, says the Lord, and you are witnessing how the pot is heating up, the waters are being stirred, and everything is coming to pass just as it was written. Yet you are still quick to return to your beds, acting like spiritual slackers, like irresponsible people of faith, like negligent people, even with what I am calling you to do.
Oh My friends, says the Lord, I have raised up prophets for you who sound the alarm day and night all over the world, who have nearly run out of breath from blowing those trumpets, but you have refused to listen, and you haven’t taken them seriously.
My people love to hear the prophetic word, says God, but they don’t like to obey it. My people don’t understand that it’s far more important to obey the word than merely to listen to it. Many of you hear it, but that prophetic seed falls on ground that is not fertile, because your hearts lack depth. You hear the word, says the Lord, but you don’t let it take root, and you don’t nurture it with obedience so it can grow.
I am weary of seeing My people put on a blindfold and deny what is coming upon the world, says the Lord, when what you’re seeing now is only a sketch, just the tip of the iceberg. My people don’t react.
I sound the alarms, says the Lord, but when things calm down, instead of staying set apart and no longer sitting down as before, you return to your former state. You become lukewarm again. Once more, you take off your engagement ring with Me, says Jesus.
My friends, now comes the worst part. Now, whoever hasn’t fastened their seatbelt on this turbulent flight will face the consequences of that negligence. Now, those who refused to listen will have to learn quickly, and they won’t have the same amount of time as those who did heed the warnings and alerts.
Now the truly dangerous part of the roller coaster is coming: the highest point, the fastest sections, the sharpest curves. That’s what is coming now, says the Lord. Everything that has happened so far was only a rehearsal for what is about to unfold.
Noelia: I’m seeing a play right now. And the Lord is showing me that what we’ve seen up to this point has only been a rehearsal. These were like the first contractions of a pregnant woman—the least painful, the easiest to bear, the shortest, and the most spread out.
But now time is speeding up, and the days truly are growing difficult, says the Lord. Many of My children will feel as if they have been slapped in the face, as if someone threw a bucket of cold water over their heads, as if they are being shaken awake.
This is what will happen, says the Lord, and I will do it to save you from your own denial, your own laziness, your own lack of commitment, your own lukewarmness. Everything that is coming from now on, I must do to rescue as many as possible, says the Lord, because if I didn’t, worse things would come and more souls would be lost.
I will do everything within My reach and everything I must do to save as many as possible of those who are now asleep and who call you crazy—you who do understand, who do respond, who do listen.
There is a remnant who truly hear, who open their ears, who have understanding, who long to know. And not only that, but they obey, they respond, they are moving, and they are trying to redeem the time.
And there is another part of the church that now mocks this obedient remnant, that reviles us, calls us crazy, exaggerators, alarmists, conspiracy nuts, and many other things. Sometimes they even insult us, push us aside and turn away from us, accuse us and cast us out of churches.
But the time will come when many of them will repent and realize that what we were warning them about was true, the Lord is showing me.
They don’t believe the Scriptures, or the prophetic voices, or even the simple brothers and sisters I am using as watchmen for what’s coming, says the Lord. They don’t believe what is written, much less the dreams and visions I am giving them.
They boast about knowing what is written, but they don’t truly believe it. Yet, says the Lord, everything that is written will unfold before their very eyes, like a canvas descending from heaven, and then they will understand what was written.
There are things that most people do not understand, and will not understand until they see them fulfilled, says the Lord. And then the false teachers will be exposed for having taught things that were not true.
Hold on tight and take My hand, says Jesus, for now, when the true shaking comes, only those standing on the Rock will endure as victors.
My beloved, death is coming, says the Lord. Greater plagues are on their way, and they cannot be stopped. Unknown cancers will appear—swift, incurable, and deadly.
Scientists and doctors will rejoice when they discover cures for certain cancers, says the Lord, not knowing that what is coming will be far worse than anything seen before. When they find cures for today’s deadly diseases, what follows will slip through their fingers, and they won’t even have time to celebrate their breakthroughs in medicine, says the Lord.
Far worse things are coming because of the sin in the world, because sin keeps increasing and spreading. The devil, therefore, gains a greater legal right to afflict mankind in more terrible and widespread ways, to torment them through disease, says the Lord.
Noelia: And these verses come to mind:
[Revelation 9:3-5] And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
[Revelation 6:7-8] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
I see cancers coming more swiftly to devour flesh, and I also see animals killing people—sometimes to eat them alive, and other times simply to kill them.
The Lord is showing me that this will happen because of the extent to which people are giving place and permission to the spirit of murder to manifest through them—not only in their actions, but also in their hearts—which gives the devil greater legal rights to kill.
This happens not only among unbelievers, but sometimes even among believers. When they hate someone, they’re already sinning and giving place to a spirit of murder in their hearts. The legal ground this spirit has on earth is so great that the devil can even use wild beasts to kill people, because we’ve allowed it.
These last days are extreme times, when people will no longer act as they did before, in a balanced way. There will be no more gray areas. You’re either on one side or the other. Either you sanctify yourself, or you become more and more demonized.
Those who once gave themselves to the enemy in such a way that one, two, or three demons could dwell in them will now give the devil the right to fill them with legions of demons. So people won’t act the same, and we can already see that they don’t act the same.
That’s another thing the Lord has been speaking about through this ministry. And the prophecy called Hedonism Without Limits comes to mind, where the Lord speaks, for example, about the insane things people will do with robots, something that’s becoming more and more common today.
Some think that’s for a distant time, that it will take much longer, and they don’t realize that the Bible says time will speed up in these last days, and things will happen faster than before.
Prophecies are being fulfilled more and more quickly. Science and technology are advancing at an ever-increasing pace. People’s lives are changing, and so are their mindsets and ways of thinking. Mankind sins at a greater level and with more intensity, without restraint and without gray areas, and this gives the devil the right to destroy mankind in horrific ways through new viruses and new pandemics.
The COVID-19 pandemic was only a rehearsal, just the beginning to prepare us. But what’s coming will be worse, faster, and harder to stop, and it will be much harder to protect ourselves. It won’t be enough to close doors and windows and go into a normal quarantine, because the viruses will be far more contagious.
Truly hard times are coming upon the earth, and that’s when you will remember me (Noelia). That’s what the Holy Spirit is telling me. Sometimes, when I receive revelations, I say, “Wow!” because I’m astonished myself, and some of you criticize me for that. But when you see what’s coming, you’ll say, “Wow! Now I understand why Sister Noelia used to say ‘wow.’”
That’s what’s going to happen to you, because the Lord pays attention to every detail, to every just and unjust act. And that doesn’t make me happy. I’m only repeating what God wants me to say, because there are hearts that were thinking exactly what I’ve just mentioned.
Luke 21 says there will be terror. There will be terror. There will be terror. The weapons have not been stopped. These are weapons of mass destruction. Again, I see bodies disintegrating while still standing, when these weapons are detonated.
There are lasers that will make men vanish, as in science fiction movies, says the Lord.
This is not a time to play roulette, says the Lord. Wake up and get right. Stop going in circles and do what you must. Warn those who need to be warned, says the Lord, at least with the passages already written in the Bible. You don’t even need to share prophecies outside of Scripture. At the very least, use what is already written while you still can, says the Lord.
Today people laugh at My watchmen. They mock them, call them alarmists and crazy, says the Lord, but tomorrow they will say, “How I miss them. I wish I had listened. I regret not believing.”
Noelia: That’s what you’ll say, because you’ll see through your windows what I’ve been announcing for years, and plagues will enter your homes, because God is going to test His people. What’s coming isn’t just for those outside, but especially for those inside, for judgment begins with the house of God.
It won’t only be those outside who feel the terror spoken of in Luke 21, says the Lord. Some outside will be better prepared than those inside, and many of them will truly turn to God with all their hearts and surrender completely—not like you, the lukewarm, who hear and toss aside the words I’m giving you.
Those who say they belong to Me but do not will feel terror, says the Lord. They will be terrified when they see the prophecy of the asteroid fulfilled, changing the world forever and leaving it on the edge of the abyss.
That’s when they’ll kneel and repent for being unbelieving, disobedient, bad brothers, and traitors to the true church, which warned them for so long about what was coming, says the Lord.
I am outraged, because you don’t respond to the signs of war, or the signs of plagues, or the signs in the heavens, or the signs I give you through journalists.
Noelia: The Lord is showing me that sometimes the Holy Spirit inspires journalists around the world to use biblical words, even if they don’t know the Bible—key words written in Scripture for these end times—to catch the attention of God’s children who are listening, so they’ll say, “Wait, that word is in the Bible, and now a journalist who doesn’t know God is saying it. How strange.”
Many of you are obsessed with getting a new car, reaching new financial goals, finding a wife or husband—putting anything before the Lord. And if you don’t truly come to the place where you put God above everything else, what will happen to many of you is that when you finally get what you want, contraction after contraction will come, and the floodwaters of judgment coming upon the earth will sweep it all away. What you waited so many years for will be taken from you.
This isn’t because God wants to take these things from you or because He doesn’t love you, but because in these judgments, many of us are going to lose people we love, people close to us. Fathers, mothers, children, family, friends, pastors, brothers and sisters in the faith will be taken in the midst of these judgments.
I’ll say it again: it’s not just for those outside. There are people who are going to die, just as during COVID. How many Christians died during COVID, never thinking it would happen to them? They said, “It won’t touch me, because I’m a child of God,” and they were wrong.
God will test our faith, even to the point of death if necessary, through sickness, catastrophic events, wars, and everything that is written. God will test us precisely because we claim to have faith.
And for many of you who are caught up in the things of this world, right at the moment when you finally obtain that thing you idolized and longed for so much—instead of first fixing your eyes on the kingdom of God and His righteousness, instead of loving God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength as the first commandment says, instead of putting Him first on the throne of your hearts—right when you receive what you wanted, the waters will come and sweep it away. A sinkhole will open and swallow up that car you worked ten years for instead of dedicating your time to serving the Lord.
I’m not saying it’s wrong to have a wife or a car, but to idolize them is wrong. To put them first is wrong. To labor to fulfill our own desires before fulfilling the Lord’s desires is wrong. To waste time, knowing that we came with nothing and will leave with nothing, as the book of Job says, is wrong.
[Job 1:21] and said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Now fasten your seatbelts, says God.
Noelia: And God is showing me that a cycle of years is closing and another is beginning, and things are taking a different direction.
An economic crisis is coming upon the world such as has never before been seen on earth, and all the savings you put your security in will be taken from you in the blink of an eye. Your accounts will be left empty, with nothing.
Are you ready for that? What will you think of the Lord when He allows this to happen to you, to test your faith, to see if you are able to trust in His provision and not your own?
The waters are coming over the coasts, says the Lord. Tsunamis are coming to the shores. The volcanoes will keep roaring in fury and will continue to pour out the hatred that men pour out. And what will you do? asks the Lord. Will you keep your mouth shut as you have until now, or will you speak to them about Me, so that perhaps, while the body is destroyed, their souls may be saved?
Stop harvesting and working for what perishes, says the Lord, and begin to harvest for what endures to eternal life. Understand that you need to take your eyes off earthly things and fix them on heavenly things. Realize that what you have today can be taken from you in an instant—not from one day to the next, but from one moment to the next. In a single second, you could lose everything you’re clinging to today.
Read the book of Job, for many will go through that process. This is necessary so that you may be stripped of everything that holds you back and binds you to this earthly world, that keeps you from growing spiritually and is robbing you of your faith.
[John 6:27] Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Ladies and gentlemen, says the Lord, I have filled your table with food. I have given you simple food to eat, I have given you elaborate dishes, and I have even given you delicacies. I have set sweets on your table, I have set desserts, I have set the finest bread and the best wine, says the Lord, and you threw it all to the floor, despising what I have spoken to you.
You refused to eat, whether it was easy or hard, whether good or bad. You refused to listen, whether it was easy to digest or took longer to digest. And now the time comes for the separation of the wheat and the tares.
[Proverbs 23:5] Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
This is what will happen to many children of God who thought they were invincible because of what they had accomplished, who became proud of their own achievements, who put their trust in anything but God, who became worldly and ceased to be spiritual.
Reflect on this and change your heart, removing anything that comes before Me, says the Lord, so that perhaps it won’t be necessary for it to be taken from you.
I spoke to you about white and I spoke to you about black, says the Lord. I spoke to you about the change that would come upon mankind. I spoke to you of the two extremes to which the earth would be brought. I warned you about an impartiality that was beginning to fade from people’s hearts in these last days. I told you about the polarization of all things, says God.
I spoke to you as one who surrounds a person and speaks from every side, says the Lord, forming a circle around them to see if by any means they would listen. I surrounded you with opportunities, says the Lord, and you rejected every one of them. I called you through gentle ways and through harsh ones, through what was easy and through what was hard. I raised trumpets that sounded softly, others at a moderate volume, and others loudly, says the Lord, warning you that what was written would be fulfilled in this time.
Turn your eyes to Jerusalem and see how that cup shakes the whole world, says the Lord, for that is the purpose of the cup: to stir up the nations, to pour out the blood of the Holy One of Israel, who was hung on that land, on that cross. That blood, poured out, is what filled the cup in the land of Israel, and it is what will bring judgment upon the nations.
Understand that these are apocalyptic times, that these are the foretold days, that these are the last days, says the Lord. This is only the beginning of sorrows. Things will grow worse, and you will be persecuted even to death.
You will be handed over by your own brothers, and they will receive a reward like Judas for delivering you to your own shepherds, for I went through this first, says Jesus. My own friend betrayed Me and sold Me for silver, and the same will happen to you, for I went before you, and you are not greater than Me, says Jesus.
Persecution is coming upon the whole world. There will be armies of persecution, armies of global control, armies set to enforce the world order they will establish. There will be a single authority over all the earth, says the Lord, and you will flee to the mountains, to the hills, to the caves, wandering among all the nations, says the Lord. This will surely come to pass.
Open your mind and interpret the Scriptures just as they are, says the Lord, not as you wish to interpret them, for persecution is coming upon the whole world, and the Desire of the nations will not return until all who must be tested have been tested.
The rapture of the church will not happen until things reach their breaking point. It will not happen before you fall into the abyss, before the final move is made, says the Lord.
That’s when I will take you: when you truly show Me that what you say is true and that you are not lying, says Jesus, when My own take seriously what it means to follow Me. That’s when I will come: when your eyes are open and not closed as they are today, when there is so much light in you because you are filled with the Spirit of God. That’s when I will return, and that’s when I will call you with the sound of a trumpet: when you are awake, active, believing, and alert, and not before.
And for that to happen, and not just for a few to be taken up, says the Lord, I must shake all things.
[Hebrews 12:26-27] whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
When He says “all things,” the Lord means all things: politics, the economy, personal relationships. Everything that can be shaken in a person’s life will be shaken, and we will remain here until the critical moment, when we have passed the test that is coming upon the whole world.
Faith must be immovable, says the Lord. Therefore, I will shake everything around your lives, everything that can be shaken, so that only what cannot be shaken will remain, if indeed it cannot be shaken, which is faith. I want only what is immovable to remain, for I desire nothing from you but your love and your faith.
Noelia: We are like someone carrying so many things that the Lord must shake them off, so that only what cannot be taken away remains: faith and love for God.
Get ready, My friends, says the Lord, and hold on to hope. Instead of hanging your heads, lift them up, for your redemption is near. When you see everything accelerating, when things grow more intense, when the pot boils hotter than before and the final events begin to unfold, you should rejoice all the more, knowing that your redemption is close at hand.
I love you, says the Lord. I’m not telling you anything you haven’t already read, nor am I speaking anything that isn’t written, but I am stirring you up, hoping you’ll set things right and wash your robes, those of you whose robes are stained, and stop playing games with spiritual matters, those of you who still think like immature children when it comes to the faith of Jesus.
I am shaking you with this prophetic word so you will believe that what is coming upon the world is deadly, says the Lord. Take this to heart, and don’t give in to fear. Don’t be afraid of physical death, but do fear spiritual death.
[Matthew 10:28] And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
The Lord says everyone should be ready, as if tomorrow you’ll be called to leave everything behind and begin a new life. For that is what will happen to many. Your life will change so suddenly you won’t have time to sell your house. In some cases, you won’t even have time to pack your bags, because you’ll have to flee.
Some will face sudden changes and won’t have time to prepare. That’s why it’s so important to be detached from all material things. You must be ready now—today, this very moment—so that if you’re told, “We have to leave the city because such-and-such volcano erupted, because a tsunami is coming, or because we’ve been invaded,” you can leave everything behind in an instant. Your heart must already be prepared for that.
What I’m saying is very important: don’t cling to any house, any car, any clothes, anything; always have your backpack ready for disasters and for fleeing at a moment’s notice, the Lord is showing me, because what is coming will be sudden, precisely to test us. It’s easy to have time to prepare and to keep walking in faith, but it’s not so easy when the Lord tests our faith in such a way that we have to leave everything behind.
We must be free in our hearts. If I have to leave my house today and let go of everything I have, I shouldn’t regret anything—not that pretty dress, not that piano I finally bought and am still paying off, not that car I just got after years of work, not that job I was just promoted to.
We have to keep living our lives as usual, but with our hearts free from everything: as if we have everything, but also as if we’re ready to have nothing; free to be carried by the wind at any moment and to live like nomads, with no fixed home.
Amen.