About fasting and almsgiving
that I would work , that I would glorify Myself and that I would make new heavens and a new earth ; ( See the selection topic : „
The heaven – the throne , the earth – the footstool : the man deified 31 ”, r . n .) I had been preparing and advising this people and I had kept on preparing the thread of My coming ; I had kept on speaking and revealing that I would be working into the midst of this people when I came . It is not for something else that I had separated this people Israel from the other nations on earth ; oh , it is not because of that , but only because I had to come on earth after five thousand years from the man ’ s creation and from his fall from God then , for I did not create the man to die , to fall , but I rather created him as My house and I longed to rest in him after that . Oh , how was God supposed to show the face of His love , His Being , made out of love , if He had not created the man to give him His entire love and to make Himself known as God ? Then He decided to make the heaven and the earth and all that are , and then man , to set in him and upon him His love and then the man to confess God as his love and as his spring of love . Oh , it is for that that God created His people among the nations of the earth in the time of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , and then their people after them . With much workmanship , I took Abraham from his land and I set him in a new land and I let My voice come upon him and spoke My blessing upon him and upon My seed blessed through him . I had worked step by step then the way of My coming into the midst of the Israel people , and by the word spoken through the prophets I made My coming on earth , My descent in the body of a Virgin to be born of her as the child of the Father and of her and to grow up into the midst of Israel that I called My people , to prove My origin and My divinity into its midst , and all the nations of the earth have known since then and up to this day that Israel was My people and it did not receive Me when I came ; and more than that , it rose against Me by those who ruled upon it and they took Me away from them ; Israel took Me away of its house , for it wanted to be the master over the earth .
Oh , Orthodox people , take from Me the word of watch and get used to keeping your land , your mystery and your traditions ! Get up to watch for everything starts to go bad because of the paid shepherds who rule over you ; however , you look up at the saints and fathers and do not grow less under the hand of those who estrange you from your salvation , for the dyed face is not the face of a shepherd . Your shepherds are the saints and all those who sanctify themselves for Me and for you , and you should pay good attention to what you are doing , because I help you to know and to do , and I come as word to you and I exhort you to know . You should dedicate half of the days of the week for your soul and you should eat food for fasting after the sunset , ( Monday , Wednesday and Friday , r . n .) which guides the time of your days and nights for you to know the measure of the time , as if your faith does not exceed that of the Pharisees and the Scribes , who fast twice a week , as they boast about it , and who say that they do great things , then you will not have into your midst the kingdom of the heavens , the kingdom of the saints , who sacrificed themselves on the altar for your faith through them .
Oh , the bitter pain comes up to Me , as the heaven sees that many fast much , but they walk nakedly with their body and soul ; they walk uncovered before the heaven and before the people ; they dress in fashion and stir up each other ’ s senses for sin , from which they do not fast . Oh , a fast pleased to Me is needed from those who want to fast from food , as not
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