Punishment, penalty, to punish
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Jesus, deeply saddened, prophesies the future destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, as Divine punishment - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.
Jesus said: "Let me be the one to judge, to punish, to Reward. Seek only, for yourselves, to deserve my reward. And be consistent and honest (...)"[1]
In "The Gospel as Revealed to Me"
- One does not have to be dead to receive reward or punishment.[2]
- Jesus strikes with sudden leprosy the murderers who accused an innocent of their crime.[3]
- He who is in fault feels punished. This guilt must give you pain, but not the punishment itself.[4]
- In the prophecies, it is symbolically said that ill will come to those who do not welcome the Messiah. Can Prophets lie? — No, Bartholomew. And what is said will come to pass. But the Most High is so good, infinitely good, that He wants, to punish, more than what is happening now. You be good too, without always desiring punishments for those who have a Heart hard and rebellious mind. Desire for them conversion, not punishment.[5]
- The violent Alexander is struck with sudden blindness following one of his blasphemies: "May God confess if I lie and if I have sinned."[6]
- Thus it happens to he who does not remove from his spirit all disorder against love. Today he asks to be able to punish. Tomorrow he punishes without asking. The day after tomorrow he even punishes without reason.[7]
In other works of Maria Valtorta
Notebooks 1943
- Catechesis of July 24 : Let me be the one to judge, to punish, to Reward. Seek only, for yourselves, to deserve my reward. And be consistent and honest. It is inconsistent, dishonest, cowardly to relentlessly attack the defeated, whatever their defeat, whether just as a punishment or painful as the result of undeserved circumstances.[8]
- Catechesis of July 30 : When the hour of indignation rings in Heaven and justice descends to strike, have as a norm charity and prudence. Withdraw instead of cackling like young hens seeing the kite, withdraw instead of murmuring, for it belongs only to God to judge, and pray to the Lord. Charity and prudence to obtain that evil is overcome by Good and that Peace triumphs in states, in institutions, in Hearts. To punish, God needs no advice from you. He knows when and how to use the sword to kill the eternally reborn, the monster who seduces you, who opposes the eternal Resurrected who saved you and saves you by His Blood; too often the great and small of this world do not listen, remaining deaf to my prayers full of sadness, that you give asylum to wearied Love, to your Jesus who suffers from His perfect love always rejected.[9]
- Catechesis of December 2 : By acting as you do, you not only push God to punish you in your fields, in your herds, by hunger and drought, but you prevent from spreading from the Heavens a dew carrying more life than the nightly dew that pearls the stalks in the meadows and makes harvests and hay grow. It is the dew of Grace in the Hearts that you forbid yourself. It is the Christ who cannot operate in you.[10]