Jesus says:
“One must be able to read the Book not with one’s eyes, but with one’s spirit. Then the supernatural Knowledge which inspired it is illuminated with the light of Truth. But to obtain this one must have a spirit united to my Spirit. Then it is my Spirit that leads you.
“Now, look: in the pages of Isaiah let us take the words of the chapters read together,110 like tesseras in a mosaic, and line them up with supernatural vision. They will prove to be clearer for you. Begin with the ones I have pointed out to you for the blameworthy.
“ ‘Even if compassion is shown to the wicked one, he will not learn justice; he will do evil things in the land of the saints and will not see the glory of the Lord.
“ ‘Therefore, listen to the word of the Lord, O mockers, the leaders of my people that is in Jerusalem. You have said, “We have made an alliance with death; we have formed a pact with hell: when the scourges pass by, they will not come upon us, for we have placed our hopes in deceit and by deceit we are protected.”
“ ‘ “Your alliance with death shall be destroyed; your pact with hell shall no longer exist; when the scourge tempestuously passes, it shall sweep you away with it. And only the exhaustion will make you learn the lesson.”
“ ‘So, then, do not mock, so that your chains will not be tighter.
“ ‘Woe to you that hide yourselves in your hearts to conceal their designs from the Lord! They do their works in darkness and say, “Who sees us? Who recognizes us?” This thought of yours is perverse.
“ ‘Woe to you, children that desert and conceive designs, but without Me, and weave a cloth which is not according to my spirit and pile up sin upon sin.
“ ‘Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Since you have disdained this word and have hoped in slander and turmoil and grounded yourselves on these things, this iniquity shall be for you like a ruinous, imperceptible breach in a high wall which suddenly, when no one imagines, brings about a collapse and breaks into a thousand pieces.”
“ ‘Woe to those who go down into Egypt to seek help and hope in horses and trust in chariots, for they are numerous, and in cavalrymen who are exceedingly vigorous, and have not placed their trust in the Holy One. They have not sought the Lord.
“ ‘Egypt is man and not God; its horses are flesh and not spirit. The Lord will stretch out his hand, and whoever offers help will collapse; whoever is helped will fall, and they will all be destroyed together.
“ ‘Woe to you, sacker! Won’t you be sacked, too? Woe to you, mocker! Won’t you be mocked, too? When you have finished sacking, you will be sacked; when, weary, you finish mocking, you will be mocked.’
“Before speaking about topics and God’s promises, let us comment on this passage.
“The heart of man, which the prophet calls wicked, is a mixture of pride, overbearance, and rebelliousness. The threefold lust is in it, the throne on which the Evil One sits to fill that heart, which has repudiated God and his Justice, with demoniacal thoughts. From this heart nothing but iniquity can emerge, for its King is the Spirit of Evil, who grants ephemeral triumphs paid for later by everlasting ruin. The wicked man, who reigns under the sign of the Beast, passes like a torrent of pain and corruption in the land of the saints - and Rome is a land of saints - dragging the lesser wicked into evil and tormenting the children of the Lord.
“It is just that the Lord should conceal his glory before the wicked, in this dwelling and the other. The wicked man will see my glory twice, and he will want not to see it, for it will be terrible for him: at his death and on the last day. Then I will ask him, ‘What did you do with my people? With my gifts?’ And it will be a question which splits him, like an arrow from a bow, in the depths from which one does not emerge.
“My second earthly Jerusalem is Rome. A beloved land where I have wanted my Church to be and which, since it is the center of the world, should be treated like a shining relic by whoever is its leader. And, instead, how have the new mockers of God behaved? Allying themselves with the crime which produces death, wedding their souls to Satan, and believing that they can save themselves from the scourges to which they subjected others by such sacrilegious prostitution.
“No. The lie does not save. The Father of Truth tells you so. The lord of the lie ensnares you in it and when he gets the chance, he turns it against you to make you perish. I am the one who saves, and there is no one except Me.
“You will be stripped of your false armor precisely in the hour when my punishment strikes you, for Satan acts that way. Nor can he act otherwise, for he cannot give you lasting fruits. I alone give protection which knows no end, and when I appear, to save or to damn, Satan flees, leaving you alone, O foolish children of sin.
“You will understand who God is and who Lucifer is only in the grip of torture. A terrible lesson! And the more you sin, the more ferocious the grip will be, for there is a limit even to my limitless, but intelligent, Goodness. Remember this.
“Nothing of what man schemes in the shadow, even in that secret shadow of the heart, is hidden from the Lord. And if your poor brothers and sisters see nothing but the outside and can be deceived by your hypocrisy, I see everything and act as your actions deserve, and, like a wall undermined by a little breach, your edifice, based on sin, will collapse when no one - neither you, that consider yourselves sure of the alliance with the Father of the Lie, nor the people that fears you, believing you to be invincible - imagines.
“Woe, woe, woe to you that lead my people to believe that I protect your evildoing. Woe to you that lead my children towards distrust in my Justice! You will also answer for this, for scandal falls back upon the one creating it. And what greater scandal than to lead the little ones to believe that God unjustly protects the great who sin?
“How many souls you have wrested from Me, O workers of iniquity! But they will still be daughters of my Mercy. You will not, you to whom I had given all to draw you to Myself and make you instruments of Good and who have forgotten everything and subordinated Me to Satan.
“Woe to you that form alliances from which only evil can come to my people: evil for the flesh and evil for the spirit, and you know it is evil, and you do it all the same, using power badly, provided your persons triumph on the earth. And what is your person? A handful of clay conserving a shape as long as Mercy keeps it wet with heavenly dew and, once dry, crumbling like sifted clay and scattering.
“Your alliances, a real union of the precursors of the Antichrist, have no basis and lack the power for victory. Like you yourselves, they will crumble, and only a memory of horror in the flesh, in the homes, and in the souls of my poor children will be left of them.
“When God thunders, what are numerous horses and vigorous cavalrymen? Chaff which the wind disperses in all directions. It is I who give strength to armies. But it is necessary for the armies to be moved for a just reason and not out of cruelty and pride.
“Every sin will be punished, and every mockery will be punished by God, for God, the Lord says, will never be mocked, and it is not licit to oppress the lesser ones.
“However, observe one thing, Maria. Respect for the Law on the part of the lesser ones, too, is needed so that you will always have your God with you.”
110 At this point the writer leaves a short space in which she later adds in pencil “Chapters 26-33.”