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1999.07.12
for God. The One, Who sends His word on earth, is the Lord, Whose Word runs fast; it is the
Lord, Who proclaims His word to Jacob, applying His corrections and judgments for Israel.
Amen.
Listen, you, sons of Israel! What good is it to the one who knows the Law from cover to
cover, if he does not fulfill it? Behold, the teaching and the life are not received from those that
are learned, for the poor man thanks to the one who gives him, if he gives him well, and he does
not look to see if the one who gives him alms and life is wise or simple. Do you believe in the
prophets? We know you do. The prophets made a name for themselves and for their people,
testifying about God’s justice. This is how we work too, we who were faithful disciples of the
Truth, Who came from heaven on earth into the midst of Israel two thousand years ago, when
you became callous not to believe in order to fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy which says: «You will
ever be hearing with your own ears but never understanding, you will be ever seeing but
never perceiving, for this people’s heart has become calloused, and they hardly hear with
their ears, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with
their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them».
Then the Lord left wondering away with His grace into His arms, and He chose again
a place for Him. He made a new people and asked it into marriage and called it the country of
His returning to the end of the time, the country of brightness, for the things that He put on
them now, at the end of the times; the country of the Romanians, which has been raised through
Christ, at the preaching of His messengers. The Lord set in it our judgment seats for Israel as
well, for we are Israelites. We have no way of staying in the country of Israel, because of Is-
rael’s disbelief, because Israel’s haughtiness, but we are Israelites on earth and in heaven, and
we are alive by our faith in Jesus Christ, Who came on earth by a Virgin, fulfilling Isaiah’s
prophecy through the people of Israel. However, you did not believe and grew callous. Now,
we, God’s chosen remnant through grace, preach this word over you saying: it was not by the
law that Abraham and his seed received the promise that they would inherit the world, but by
the righteousness that comes from faith, for if the heirs are those that have the law, then their
faith is futile, and the promise was abolished, since the law brings about a cause of wrath.
However, where there is no law, there is also not a law breaking. So the promise is by faith
alone, so that it may be as a gift and to have reliability for everyone; both for those who live
according to the law and for those who live according to Abraham’s faith, whom the Lord told
this way: «I made you a father for many nations, and this is how your seed will be». Amen.
Or, do you not know that the law has power over the man as long as he lives? For if the
married woman is bound to her husband by law as long as he lives, and if her husband dies,
she is free from law. And so it is with us; we died to the law by Christ and by His body, to be
His, of the One Who rose from the dead, to be fruitful to God for the renewal of the Spirit, not
by the oldness of the letter. The law is holy and spiritual, and the commandment is also holy,
good and right, but the body is flesh and is sold under the sin. However, Jesus Christ saved us
from the body of this death, to be His for the renewal of the Spirit. Amen. We are the witnesses
of Christ’s resurrection, Whom God raised from the dead, and to Whom He put His enemies
under His feet. Let the entire house of Israel know that the One they crucified was made Lord
and Christ.
Take it to your heart, Jacob’s sons, for we are Israelites and are the witnesses of this
fulfillment. Repent from the sin of unbelief and be baptized into the name of Jesus Christ as we
are for the forgiveness of your sins, so that you may have the Holy Spirit and be able to perceive
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