The Word of God in Romania 1997.05.18 - The Word of God on the fourth Sunday | Page 5

1997.05.18
posed as saints into the house of My Father, for those who thought of themselves that they were
clean by washing their hands, but they were thinking in themselves to kill Me and to put the word
of God into the darkness, which revealed their iniquity. I said so, for the Pharisee that was washing
his outside part and was leaving his inside one full of greed. He was not washing his heart, but
only his hands, for fear that something unclean may come into him. For such a man, an unwashed
hand is an unclean hand, after the custom of the old people; that is, human commandments that
have put aside the godly ones, abolishing them with human observances given by the people.
The priests and bishops come to the gate of My word; they come to show their wisdom
from the Scriptures and say that I told Peter that nothing is unclean of what God blessed. But I said
to Peter that all which God cleanses, he may not call filthy. Peter was a Jew and had not eaten
something unclean and impure, and did not understand why My voice urged him three times to
eat from those that were not supposed to be eaten. And while he did not understand what his vision
from the Lord could mean, the men sent by the Cornelius, the centurion, came to seek him, and
the Spirit of the Lord said: «Behold, three men are seeking you, and you getting up, go with them
and do not doubt, for I sent them». And Peter went to Cornelius and told those from his house:
«You know that it is not right for a Jew to unite with the one from another nation. But the Lord
showed me not to call any man unclean or filthy, and I truly perceive that the Lord does not
show favoritism, but in every nation he who fears Him and works righteousness is acceptable to
Him»
Behold what are you doing, man of the church! You make so bold as to mix the food with
the creatures. My apostles were taken by surprised by the Jews that they eat with unclean and
unwashed hands; they did not have meat at their table; rather they had Christian not pagan food.
That is why I spoke these two words: “Christian” and “pagan,” but you mix them, not taking into
account as Peter did when said: «God showed me the way to perceive that He does not show
favoritism, but in every nation, the one who fears Him and works righteousness, is received by
Him». Behold, the Lord does not receive the one who does not fear him, because one like that does
not even follow the Lord, but rather only that comes who is afraid and works righteousness, and
the one to whom the Lord gets into His way to give Him according to His deeds. This is how you
should understand the Scripture, and not as you want, you people of the church. I write you a letter,
for I see that you do not have wisdom even if you sit on the table with the Scripture and accuse
with it the sons of righteousness and say that they forbid marriages commanding to abstain from
foods, which the Lord created to be received with thanksgiving. I come with this Scriptures into
your way as well and interpret it for you I, and not the sons of My word which you persecute
among you; you persecute them with your wicked deeds that you make, for you made out of the
dwellings sanctified by your parents, your dwellings, in which you commit transgression, greed
and blasphemy, and My righteous people fled from you, for it is written: «Flee, My people, flee
from the one who works the lawlessness before Me». They fled from you My children, but why
do you not say that they went astray. You are those who wondered away from the paths of right-
eousness, from the Orthodoxy and from the faith, and I say from heaven, from beside My Father,
and I came as a word on earth to judge the lawlessness on the earth. I came and I put aside a
people for Me and I work the Orthodoxy thorough the people who do no longer have shep-
herds; I work so that they may not lose their right faith, and not lose the Orthodoxy among
the people. You say that the sons of My word are astray and that they do not listen to Me and do
not submit to you. But do you listen to God? Do you submit to the wills of God? What did I use
when I came and told your rulers on the earth, who were ruling into the name of God upon the
people? What use it was for them if I submitted to them? And if I did not submit to them and their
wills, they made Me heretic; they called Me wonderer and strayed and cursed Me to death on the
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