About fasting and almsgiving
All people are sick because of the food used and eaten against the obedience to God for food . If the laws on earth set upon people punish by their power those who trespass them , oh , how is it possible not to incur punishment over those who violate God ’ s laws , ordained for men to keep so that it may be well for them and not bad ? Behold , why there are so many sick people on earth !
Oh , how much joy man has when he eats and drinks ! Without these he has no joy when he wants to rejoice . Is this really right between man and Me ? I suffer as a God from the man ’ s disobedience . Is this right ? It would be right for the man to give Me joy too , and not to give joy only to himself . I want to see that he fasts during the fasting time , to see him rejoicing for these , to make Me rejoice , for I suffered and suffer much for the man ’ s joy .
This day is Sunday , and the holy ancestors marked it in the Orthodox Christian calendar as the first Sunday of the Lent to be called the Sunday of the right faith , and to honor the faith then , because it is not hard to say that you love God when you do not love Him with the works of the faith and according to the order of His house , for behold , the church of the Romanian people and the sons it acknowledges do not fast the Lord ’ s Passover fast . It has been tolerated though and absolutions have been written there where a bond was done , and the rulers of the church still want to absolve those set from heaven on earth , but who gives them this permission ? Oh , they themselves take that which does not resemble the order from the saints and they alone write a curse for themselves and for those who use these permissions not to fast according to the order . It is written about those who are bound and sealed by God , it is written that man should not absolve them , for God ’ s Spirit worked by those who are holy and set an order from heaven over the church on earth .
There have been hard and dangerous times on earth , always , always . When should man fast by crying out to God if not in time of danger , of mourning and all kinds of difficulties ? All kinds of sufferings come on earth because of man ’ s disobedience to God and many are under sufferings and sufferance keeps coming , for men draw this on themselves . People cry out to Me in time of sufferance ; they cry so that I may hear them , but I also call out and tell them no longer to draw sufferance upon them , because I do not give them any sufferance to take it back after that . They themselves work for it , and they alone have to stop it , to stop its work and to stand before Me with fast and prayer so that I may write for them absolution with respect for the things of God they have been violating .
I am calling out to people , I am calling out to them and telling them this : Oh , if you love your children and want them to be healthy and good , then do no longer give to them to eat those that are not allowed to eat in the time for which is written fast , when they should not eat anything but food for fast . That which they eat in the time of fast is not bad , but their disobedience for the time of the fast is guilty . It is not the food which is tolerated that makes man healthy , but the obedience for health , this is the healing for those who are weak and sick , and now I am saying that man has to eat only heavenly food 32 if he wants to be healthy and to have power .
All people who eat , all die , but not all die who do not eat like all those who eat everything like those who are disobedient with respect to those that have to be eaten . Oh , many do no longer die , but pass on foot among those that are seen and those that are not seen and
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« God said , “ Behold , I have given you every herb yielding seed , which is on the surface of all the earth , and every tree , which bears fruit yielding seed . This will be your food .» ( Gen : 1 / 29 )
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