About fasting and almsgiving
it is a time with sin and then with bitterness for sin and people die in their sins , and I call upon them so that they may hear Me and that I may heal them somehow , and the one who hides from My calling that one becomes like Adam , which hid from Me because of the sin in him , for after he had sinned against Me and against himself , he wanted to hid from My face , and hearing My walking and My voice , he hid even more , for his sin departed him from God .
Oh , the man is a stranger ; he is so much of a foreigner , poor of him , for he departs from Me by his sin and then he walks within this condition , and the more I would try to call the one tormented by his conscience , the more he runs away and hides in himself . However , I come and keep coming and I want to touch his heart with My word of fire and I want to give him hope and salvation and take him into My service and then I want to tell him as well : « Behold , this has touched your lips and your iniquity is taken away ». ( Is : 6 / 7 ) Amen .
And now I am writing Myself into the book with the commandment of life and I bring it into the man ’ s memory , the commandment from the beginning and which I , the Lord , and John , My beloved disciples , renewed it two thousand years ago and I said : « I give you a new commandment : love one another with the love of God ». ( John : 13 / 34 )
Moreover , I spoke to man and said : « You shall love the Lord your God , man ; you shall love him with all your being , and you shall love your neighbor as yourself ». Man does not understand how to fulfill what I have given him to work , and I want to advise Him now . My Spring of word becomes ember and a burning coal to touch the man ’ s heart and then the man to take it on his lips , and I call the man from the midst of the citadel to hear Me , and I am calling him from the midst of the citadel of My today ’ s word , from the midst of those who hear from My mouth My word of fire in order to take it and throw it down on earth and then this fire of My word to be kindled and to burn the people ’ s iniquities , for the devil has established the sin on earth as a law . Oh , woe to him , for his destruction is coming ! Amen .
Oh , man estranged from God , I have told you a word even from the beginning , a word of fire , and I wrote with fire on the stone and I have told you to love God and to love your neighbors as yourself . When I have told you to love God , I have also added word near this , and for the fulfillment of the love of God , I have given you your neighbor as your helper , the one who brings you from Me the commandment of the love of God , for God has to be loved in obedience and submission , and there is no other stairway on which the love for God in man may ascend to Him . Oh , man , you are not going to see , you are not going to see the wisdom in man that may perceive and understand this commandment for man ’ s love of God . Man calls other man his neighbor . Oh , no , as behold , man kills man by his sinful lust , which becomes hell in man , and the commandment of the love of God wants to make God man . Man cannot be man ’ s neighbor , but only the enemy of his salvation . Only God ’ s messenger to man , only that one is the man ’ s neighbor , only the man who has become godly by grace , and from whom God overflows before man with His holiness from above , with those from above , not with those from beneath . John , My Baptizer , such a messenger before My face , such a dead man to sin and dead to the unbelief on earth , only such a man can be man ’ s the neighbor . The people do not welcome this kind of people , for men are used to those who are from among them and like them , as John went to Herod , who was a stumbling block to the people because of his iniquities and estranged the people from God , and he told Herod that he was not permitted to do those things which he took the freedom to do , but those
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