The second book of wonders

“Now come to the believers. They have read your books thoroughly, but never discerned that an earthly marriage temporal marriage must take place before your writings can be fulfilled. You yourself had not noticed it since I ordered you to print your desire to go to glory original: "go to glory" meaning to die and enter heaven, so that no one might try to persuade you to marry. But since the believers have not seen what was so plain before them—that no fulfillment of your writings can happen before the Bride is joined to an earthly Bridegroom—it is therefore said in my Gospel: ‘He who has the Bride is the Bridegroom.’ But the friends of the Bridegroom rejoice greatly; and so all your friends will rejoice when marriage has removed your reproach disgrace or shame among women, and everything is made as clear as the noonday sun. Then your rejoicing will be great when everything is made so plain to them that no room for doubt remains.

I have told you I will now make this clear to everyone, to open my Gospel, prove the visitation of my Spirit according to my Gospel, and prove that my Kingdom is near at hand. For everything will happen as suddenly and unexpectedly as this Book will appear to believers, to the surprise and astonishment of them all. It is brought about in a way that they never observed, because they always judged that your ‘awful Trial’ was nothing but your Trance. But now I ask you, what kind of ‘awful Trial’ would that be for you if I were to take you as soon as you entered the room, and have angels convey you to glory, placing all the joys of heaven before you? That would be a day of rejoicing for you, as there would be nothing fatal or sorrowful about it; nor could it be anything awful for you—only for them. Therefore, it could not be called your Awful Trial,