About fasting and almsgiving
Let the disobedient and immoral man no longer say that he loves Me and that he believes in Me and that he knows Me ; let him no longer say such a thing , for he says it in vain , and he says it to himself , not to Me . The man listens only to himself and to his own instincts , which fell on the earth . And here is a question from heaven from God : who is the one who knows what fasting for God is ? The man fasts from food if he fasts , but he does not fast from greed . The man does not fast from hatred , from worldly joy , from slander , from pride , from lust and from immorality . The man does not fast from worldly clothes , from riches , from avarice . He is greedy of all these when he fasts from food . Who shall teach the man what the truth of the word “ fast ” means ? Behold , I come and I teach him .
Be attentive , earth , for the One Who created you speaks over you . It is not the man , who rules over you , that created you , but I created you , man , who set yourself as master over the earth . I told you to eat and not to eat . When I told you to eat , I also taught you what food and obedience were . Obedience means love and life , and disobedience means pride and death , and there between the two stand belief and disbelief . The one who believes in Me has eternal life , a life that does not die , and the one who does not believe in Me , is judged because of the deed of his unbelief . Soon , soon , I bring upon all the flesh the reward of disbelief , a right reward according to the deed , for the man has not liked to listen to the commandment of the life . Behold , the man made yes from no , and no from yes . I taught him what yes meant , and what no meant . I told him that obedience meant yes , and disobedience meant no , and when I told him yes , he said no , and this is what he did ; and when I told him no , he said yes , and this is what he did . From that moment on the man had no longer known what fasting was . I had to come down from heaven then in order to show the man what fasting was . When I fasted from food , I said no to any kind of evil that came to draw Me to the kingdom of this world , and I said yes to the Father , for « in God all things are yes », as it is written .
When the man speaks to himself not to eat , he does not speak to himself about those of the world , but only about food , and this is not fasting for God . The women , which are immoral and made-up , naked and proud in the things of the world , they do also fast during these fasting days . And the same is with men ; they also fast from food and do not know what fasting is , and others do not even want to hear about fasting from food at all , for if those who are over them do not walk in a godly way between heaven and earth , those under them do it likewise .
Sons , teachers on My behalf , be My mirror for those who have life , which does not die , and for those who look for My life with them . Be a mirror for those who have to see their soul and their body into the mirror , for I do not have any other mirror on the earth . The people have a mirror for them on the earth , but I have not . Be My mirror , so that the man may see My mirror ! The man does not like My mirror , but I do not want to be blamed by the man that I did not come into his way to help him . I come soon with the reward that every man has earned , for the man is tired of iniquities . The joy of the lawlessness has been by now the reward of the man separated by God , but now it is otherwise , and it will be the pain of lawlessness , for the man did not say no to his own iniquities , but I will speak of it , and I will speak of it with pain and by pain , for I am tired of pain . The man is tired of lawlessness , and I , the Lord , am tired of pain . The man fell for food and debauchery and is oppressed in his heart by these , and I come like a thief and this is how I find the man , for the man does not watch and does not know My day . The one who watches does no longer have to know My day , for I am his day , and he is humbled for Me , and he stays before Me with his door opened , with his house cleaned , and with his heart from heaven , an illuminated place , a place with pasture , a life that never dies .
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