The Fate of Speculators and Profiteers

In 1847, Austrian mystic Jakob Lorber recorded various works through the Inner Word about our present times. This piece concerns speculators and profiteers.

Everywhere there is fruit in such abundance, the crops are overabundant, and the vineyards are so laden with grapes that we can expect a plentiful harvest. Despite these abundant blessings, there is a horrible trend in profiteering rearing its ugly, hellish head. These profiteers buy this year’s grain harvest at a high cost to maintain the high price and to sell the old supplies for an exorbitant price. In the future, this maneuver will create an artificial shortage of grain and thereby keep the price as high as possible. Does God no longer have for these true devils of profiteers any flashes of lightning or plagues? How long will He test His patience with these speculators and profiteers?

Lorber writes that flashes of lightning would have very little effect in this case, and the plague would affect the innocent as well as the guilty. And if God cursed the earth because of a few scum from hell, then immediately the conditions on earth would be as they were at the times of Noah and the times of Lot.

However, God will do something very particular to all profiteers and speculators. He shall give them a reward which will surprise even Satan and his angels. Whosoever laughs now in his abundance and wealth, while the countless poverty-stricken do not know where they should be begging for their bread, shall weep in a short time in such a manner of which this world has never seen. This event shall be indescribably more devastating for speculators, profiteers, realtors, barons of industry, buyers of large properties [developers], sellers and owners, all the various builders and large-scale planners and moneychangers, than flashes of lightning, plagues, and war!

The torch of God’s just wrath is already in the ground, and with an ocean of fire His wrath shall quench His old thirst for vengeance! The hellish brood, this ancient brood of vipers, shall feel who He is, the long forgotten God! This brood which ignored and completely denied the Father for so long, and now day by day denies Him more and more will have no choice but to tolerate the eternal almighty Judge, but in a way that hell and the world has never seen. But God shall not tell you how and when, so that He can easier and more dreadfully break into the houses of the above-mentioned offenders as a merciless thief, robber, and murderer at night, under the cover of darkness.

Behold, for flashes of lightning they have invented lightning conductors, for the plague they have antidotes and other effective remedies, and war is waged with the pen and with negotiations behind closed doors, but against God’s judgment on earth there is no antidote, except for the prayers of those who believe in Him.