The Word of God about the graven image (icon) and the sign of the cross (2) - Lord Jesus (classic english novels TXT) 📗

Excerpt from the Word of God on the first Sunday of the Lent, of the Orthodoxy, from 16-03-1997

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What can the man do? He can do nothing good. He also made a body, but the body is of no good, as the Spirit is the One Who gives life. I created the first man; I created him out of the dust and I gave him a living soul, and then I also gave him a spirit of life; for it is one thing to say soul, and it is another thing to say spirit of life. The man also made a body; he made it of iron, of stone, of dust, of gold, of bronze, of wood, but he could not give him a living spirit. The man also created a body, and called it god, and worshipped him. There have been some many rows of people who made a body without a soul and have dedicated it to the devils, as that which comes out of the body is body, and God is the Spirit Who gives life. The man could not give any living soul to the body, which was made by the hand of the man, but I gave a living soul to the body that I made and I called him man; I made him into My image and after My likeness, and after I created him, I called him man, but the man made by the hand of the man is called devil.

Excerpt from the Word of God at the feast of the forty saint martyrs from Sevasta, from 22-03-1997

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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.

Oh, wandering man, I have called you to see My bride and to receive a longing for the bride who waits for his Bridegroom. The evil spirit is the spirit of the world. I have called you to see My image and I have called you to see My bride people through whom I glorify Myself over the earth for you, the one who is wandering away from his Father. I bring you from time to time near My manger and from it I give you My word, which is born in it from My mouth. Oh, teach yourself to speak from heaven not from your heart, for your heart is not right with Me. You say that you have Me in your heart and you do not need to have Me outside of you too, in your appearance, and I tell you that even the devils believe in Me, but they do not submit to Me. Behold, the one who does not confess Me, that one is not on My side. Who can confess Me? The one who takes after Me, the one who is from Me. Amen.

Excerpt from the Word of God at the Feast of the Romanian Christianity, the second day, from 09-06-2001.

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I am sharing now teaching over those assembled at the feast, for this is My work. My look is always upon you and upon those who come for the feasts here, oh, and there is so much need of new and powerful advice, lest I may be sorry after that because I did not bow as much as it was required to lift up many, more, more truly, for the life with mistakes can bring about many sorrows, and I, the Lord, have great mercy on those who have faith in the word of My today’s coming, even if they do not want to fulfill that what I bring to instruction and then to fulfillment.

Now we are sitting down. I am taking it in details again and again for those who know from Me and do not want to fulfill My advice full of fatherly care. I have told them that fasting is to be kept in such and such manner, and I am not going to start all over again with the teaching about clothing, about the walking on the way and about the world, and I have told them too that the world is bitter, it is not sweet, that it is ugly and not beautiful. I have exhorted to humility, repentance, patience, cleanness and holiness in everything, to a decent and noble conduct and speaking as well. (See the selection topic: „About fasting and almsgiving”, r.n.)

Oh, I have got pains and worries for many of you, and I am speaking to you, sons gathered at the spring. The Holy Spirit is the Teacher for you on this day. Oh, open yourselves and open to Me too, sons! I am speaking to you and asking you. The mystery of the place here, and My whole work in the middle of the citadel of My word, oh, I have got a high mystery here with you; however, the higher this mystery is, to which you have come too, oh, the deeper is the fall of the one who does not want to go on to the end with this mystery and with its teaching, and he is shaking on this top of the mountain on which I am standing, speaking and sharing Myself, and the one who is shaking has to take care not to fall. Oh, that is why My word is watching and wisdom for its fulfillment is required, and this is possible only when the man comprised within this mystery wants to do it.

Oh, there is, sons, with you, there is work done by you, and it draws you too much to it, if you have chosen it for you. I have been looking during the feasts here and I have seen many of you without respect for this bedding, where I, the Lord, am having a stopover with My saints. I would like, oh I would like you to receive Me to tell you what I want to tell you now. I have a reservation to tell you, but at the same time I cannot stand aloof and not to show you the danger, which you have not been thinking about it that it may be.

Oh, behold, sons, I am speaking with you in the today’s language of the world, because I see that all of you, almost all of you have got a dangerous thing for the man’s mind and heart, a toy which all the people keep in their pockets and hand today, (Smart-phone, r.n.), as though they have never lived by this time, and this nuisance has been taken as a pleasure and used day by day even by those that know from Me about this danger, and all, almost all worship this little toy, (Worship as a small icon, which was worn in old Christian times as a personal protection against temptations, r.n.) in which they catch their ears, their eyes, their minds and desire, and it brings them only restlessness, and I have