About the carved image ( icon ) and the sign of the cross
Oh , children from the manger of My coming down , the man asks from Me , he keeps asking from Me . The man asks from God ; he keeps asking from Him . How comes that the man does not ask God ? Oh , the love on earth is not like the love from heaven , which gives itself without asking . The love , which does not give itself , cannot go up into heaven , the love that asks from the man for him . It makes My compassion and My love to come down to the man , but it cannot ascend into heaven . The man asks from Me and he has been asking for seven thousand years . Why has the man not been asking from Me too ? I have been looking on the earth and no one wants Me to come down . It is written into the Scriptures that I come , and no one wants Me to come , and no one asks for Me to come . The man does not want to become beautiful for My coming . The man does not want to get ready for My coming . The man prepares for himself and he puts on ornaments , fragrances and soft clothing ; moreover , he makes for himself beds and weaves crowns and then he puts the crowns and his victories on his head . Oh , only for Me does the man not get ready any longer and I look at the man painfully , with deep pain . I see the man ’ s graven image and I am deeply aggrieved because of the man .
Oh , children sons from My manger , why does the man really not like the way I made the first created man ? I see the man ’ s image and I see him displeased with his image . The god of the darkness of this age has laid down over the man and teaches him to make a carved image for himself and even the man to worship it .
Man , stolen from My arm , you let yourself be stolen by a foreign god from your first and last Father . Your feelings are no longer from God and they are rather from the world and the world closed the heaven for Me so that I may no longer come on the earth to bring the man to life from death , from his sleep deepened into My death in the man . I have completely died in the man . Oh , who is to breathe over the man with My Spirit in such a way that I may come to life in the man and the man to see , at My sight , his carved image in him , which he worships ? Oh , where is My image and likeness that I put on the man ’ s body and image ? I look on the earth and see only a Sodom , and see only a Gomorrah , and the heaven is no longer on earth . I cannot stay with the man on the earth , for he has made a carved image of himself .
Man , you have violated My commandment ! I told you not to make a carved image for yourself and you did not listen to Me . I look at you and your carved image hurts Me . Here is why the hostile man to you and to Me has been teaching you . He stays into your way with his merchandise , with his teaching , and you take from it , and then you die because of it . I have become a merchant and I come into your way and I open Myself up before you with those of Mine taken from the Father . I am not your enemy . I am the One Who gives life and I am the Life . Take from it too , for I open Myself up with it before you . It hurts Me when you tell Me that you love Me loving yourself . It hurts Me when you tell Me that you have Me having yourself . Your carved image proves this out and I am true in the word . Oh , what I shall do with you ? Oh , how shall I take you easily so that you may receive Me and not hurt Me and not slap My hand if I want to work at your creation from Me ? Your creation from now is not from Me and it is from you instead . The one who loves Me is the one who stays at his making . You have come down to the spring and I am this spring , the Son of the Father God and I speak to you with a heavenly voice and I try to teach you how to drink . The one who drinks is the one who comes to life . You have an image borrowed from My enemy and your enemy . Do no longer tell Me that you love Me , if you bear the image of the foreign one . I cannot be in your inner being if My enemy and yours appears with you outside of you , that is the world with its face , which has settled down on you image and it mocks it with an image foreign to God .
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