3.3. The Calling of Man to Be Born Again

Man separated himself from God from when the two were in paradise, the man and the woman. Come, oh man, come back to the first love! You are neither cold nor hot. Oh, what shall you do if I shall spew you out of My mouth? Come back, come, come into the happiness of the love from paradise, for you sinned in paradise, you sinned against love and you need the first love between you and God. Come, come now! I wait for you.

It pains Me for the whole creature; and the Scripture of the end of the world is being fulfilled, which I keep giving Myself to cry out and for them to hear Me and to believe Me and to let themselves toward salvation and toward the faith that God is and that the Lord comes with His work among men so as to save those who believe.

The Lord cries out to you, carried upon clouds by angels above you, helpless men. The Father sends Me to make Myself known to you as Saviour in a hard time and without light. Oh, sons, give Me your hand so that I may draw you toward escape and toward faith, for without faith no one can be God’s. How am I to do with you so that you may believe that God cries out to you in a hard time and without help for you, when you perish while sinning and are reaped unawares, gladdening satan, who puts at your disposal much sinning and then throws you into the scythe of death so that you may perish with your soul on his side?

Sons, sons, God said let there be light, and the devil said let there be sin; and sin made itself an enemy to the man set in paradise, in eternity; and it took him out and taught him upon the earth the life with sin against the Maker of the heaven and of the earth and of man. Let all men hear this word and let all understand that they were fallen into sin through man’s disobedience while he was in paradise and when the evil spirit took him out and taught him sin, taught him the separation from God and the cleaving to sin, which entered into his woman; and she did not choose to remain in obedience of God and she let herself toward a strange master sneaked into paradise so as to entice man toward insubmission and then to take him out from God and to teach him sin.
Oh, behold why the work of My word comes upon the earth and cries out and keeps crying out for man to come back to God, to his Maker, and to work his paradise, for I gave him paradise and I told him to work it and to guard it and to rejoice in its fruits; but when it was for him to eat them with obedience, oh, he changed his master and he obeyed the snake and he sinned and he sins for seven thousand years.

Oh, how should I not come after so long a time of the lie of the life of man, who did not want to work himself a life? How should I not come with the saints of My heaven, with those who trod over satan and returned within the love from the beginning? I come and keep coming so as to urge man to come out from under sin and to give himself back to God and to escape from satan and from the darkness which is from sin. I come and keep coming with the spirit of the comfort over the wounded body of those struck by sin and by the payment of sin. I come upon the earth as word, oh, for I cannot stay in heaven while the work of the making is attacked, and the man made for God, for the rest of God within him.

I have had no rest since the day when I lost man. Man let himself on the side of the deceitful spirit and I lost him from paradise and I no longer have comfort, oh, I no longer have it. Man forsakes Me for seven thousand years for sin. Oh, it is not love when the man and the woman are drawn to one another, but it is the longing for sin. Sin draws the two, who unite for sin, for the lust of sin; and who is still to tame the world which loves sin and to tell it: “Enough, the payment of sin is coming, enough!”?

Behold, sons, blessed are those born from above, for those are the ones who have within them the longing for heaven, for God, for paradise, for holiness, oh, sons. Behold those born from above saying “no” to sin until their passing to God.

Elijah the prophet was born among men so as to prepare My way for Me so that I might come and show Myself and work with My grace over many and choose for Myself from among the many those with whom to fulfil the works written through the time and set in the Scriptures so that their fulfilment might then come. This prophet is now both with those from heaven and with those upon the earth, for upon the earth he has his work, since I work fulfilments of the Scriptures among men. Oh, if men heard him and saw him, the prophet Elijah, how he cries out to them, they would not rejoice, since they like the life without everlasting fruit, poor of them; but he cries out and tells them all, and behold what he tells them:

— Heal yourselves, oh men, heal yourselves of weaknesses and replace them with great virtues and be born again through their grace, for the evil spirit seeks to give you what he likes you to work, and he urges you through them toward your perishing afterwards; and he mocks all men for seven thousand years, since man replaced God with the woman, with the weaknesses, with his utterly weak nature, for woe to the one who does not have in his dwelling, in his body, God as an inhabitant at the helm of his life; and woe and again woe of this old woe over men for seven thousand years; and therefore man does not like it with the greatness which is from God, for the rest of his life is an abomination before the Maker of man at the beginning of time, for the time began together with the man separated from God for the woman, for passing weaknesses, but punishing everlastingly afterwards, oh, and the time passes; and therefore the maker of the time also passes, man; but the Lord and His eternity do not pass; and the Lord comes upon the earth as word, and He comes with the saints and cries out far and wide the mystery of the birth from above of those who give themselves to ask why they were born and what should be with them today and tomorrow, oh, for man has nothing left but a crumb of life and he uses that too toward his everlasting perishing; but the Lord comes with His saints, He comes, for it is written for Him to come and to awaken them all; but behold them, they fear neither fire, nor waters, nor earthquakes, nor sudden death, they fear nothing; and they pass through everything and they learn nothing and again they amuse themselves, singing and dancing and revelling and working for money so as to have for joys and revelries which destroy eternity, for they gather nothing for the days of eternity; and the weeping which is for sin does not reach them in their life in the body; but when they cross the threshold they see the Lord and they see the heaven and the way up to the scale of life, and they fly like the bird; and man then has to give an answer for his time; and behold, the time is of great price for the everlasting life of man; and therefore the heavenly urging says that the time must be redeemed thread by thread, like a gift given by God to the man fallen from life, from eternity, for his return; but man loses the time for the passing and priceless things, and he does not give God his life so as not to lose it, oh, and he does not give up and he does not realize that he loses by losing and squandering the time.

Oh, so much time, so many days man loses and does not gather them as fruit for heaven; and the time of life passes, oh man, and you have not gathered for yourself in heaven so as to have fruit and to draw to the things which suit the kingdom of the heavens, if you were not upon the earth a son of this kingdom lost together with your fall from paradise.

— Oh, sons, behold how My saints work, behold how mysteriously, how much, and with how much sighing; and men live only for themselves all their days! Sons, sons, woe to the man who lives for himself, and who does not ask himself thoughtfully: For what, indeed, was I born, how, indeed, am I to find this answer?

Man shall put to himself the question: How, indeed, am I to understand this? Oh, come to Me, come, oh man, come so as to find out what to do in the days of your life upon the earth; but come, for your time passes and you lose My time which is for you, your time in the body, the same time, for you have no other with which to gain the paradise from which you fell if you did not want to obey with submission and with joy and then to guard the fruit of your work. Oh, leave the plan of your mind, leave yourself aside and do not lose the time so, for you have God to guide you, if you shall not go before Him so as to guide yourself the time and the body of yours; and I shall not have before My Father as testimony for you your work with Me in the field of eternity, in the place without pains and sadness and sighing, but only sweet life, only endless joys, for upon the earth you rejoice and the joy passes; but it is not so in eternity, after man crosses the threshold and forgets of pains and of the turmoil of life if he believed the Lord; and therefore he shall be alive, and he shall not pass through judgment, for he moves from the body into the spirit, from death to life, as it is written, as I promised for those who believe.

Elijah the prophet passed into eternity with the body and he passed flying like the bird without hindrances in flight. So flies every man who crosses the threshold, and like saint Elijah he flies freed of all bitterness, of all heaviness; and I then return with them, with those who sanctify themselves through My grace upon the earth while they stay in the body, oh, and I come again with them, with My saints I return from heaven after those still remaining for the work; and we work for them and with them as we work with you, sons from the citadel of My word; and so do I prepare My way of My coming as word over the earth; and I have the heaven of the Romanian people with which I carry Myself for My coming to you and I share Myself out through you for so long a time, sons; and I have a wonderful name, My name of the end of time, the most beautiful name, and My name is called The Word of God, oh, sons. Amen, amen, amen.

Oh, sons, I have mercy. I would want the breath of My mouth to be heard, My crying out toward the men separated from God for sin. I would want sin to be able to rule no longer upon the earth, but man too does not want so. My work is upon the earth, not in heaven, oh, sons. I work there from where the pain comes. I want to show Myself while the sinful man is alive, oh, but how am I to do, indeed, when man is so estranged from God?

Oh, sons, seek to chew My word well, and do this asking of Me over men the spirit of the knowledge of God, the spirit which awakens man from sin, for it is written that the understanding shall grow of those who shall search the wisdom of God and many shall awaken. I have you as announcers of My coming upon the earth as word; and I teach you, sons, to keep the word given to God and to work the weeping for sin, for yourselves and for those who do not awaken by themselves so as to cleanse themselves. Ask of Me with pain, ask that I may be able. What is impossible with men is possible with God, but I need work from the earth together with Me, for sin is much, oh, and it leaves no one wherever it passes.

I am merciful, sons. Be like Me too and then keep the word you have given, for all promise themselves to Me and to My wills and then tread upon their word; and behold, the Christian is not a man of his word. Oh, what am I to do, what are we to do, indeed? I speak with you, with Mine, sons. The weeping which is for sin is heaven’s greatest awaiting to come from the earth, oh, and there is no one attentive to the signs of the time, which speak to men in their own tongue, in God’s tongue through these signs.

I come as a Shepherd upon the earth so as to raise men from sin. I come with the saints, I come to you with a table of word, sons. I come to fulfil with you My word over the earth and to keep My word; and I am in the fight with satan, the ruler over men; and it is written for Me to overcome this evil and harmful ruler.

It is a day of your remembrance in heaven and upon the earth, My Baptizer, and We meet in word in the midst of the sons of the citadel of My word and We have word with humility, for such was Our living and Our work upon the earth while we stayed, and when we used to meet and to need one another and to fulfil the Father’s plan of that time, oh, and how sweet, how sweet were Our meetings and Our spending of time, how sweet and how holy!

— Oh, meek Lamb, Lamb Jesus, You worked in a hidden manner, and one for the other we humbled ourselves and one to the other we bowed down. So are the sons of God, so do they behave among themselves, so do they build themselves, so do they give God to one another; and God humbles Himself, conceals Himself, hides His face and His Being carried in mystery, before the things from above with which He works His work.

O, as much as You carried Yourself unknown, Lord, so much did You show Yourself uncovered and known through the work, according to the ability of the one with whom You spoke and shared out like a Shepherd so holy and good and tender.

Oh, how much humility it would have been for man too to learn to have; but he forsook You in paradise and no longer obeyed You, for man loved and loves the woman; and it is more than seven thousand years since then and he has not escaped this fall, always a fall, always the woman, Lord.

Oh, man, you are fallen. You need humility as God does too. Oh, how is it that God has it, and you do not have it as your work? What shall you do if you shall not be born from heaven for humility, for your everlasting place beside God, beside the One Who is humble from everlasting to everlasting? You fell into haughtiness in paradise and you fell into discontent through disobedience and you lost paradise, which spewed you out. Return within humility and make yourself through it after the image and the likeness of God, your Maker, so that you may know your origin and the spirit of life and the hand which built you. Oh, humble yourself, do not forget this!

I took, Lord Lamb, I took from You the spirit of a shepherd and I worked a word of the making of man, who is estranged and more and more estranged from You. Glory to You, Lord! You are the Shepherd, and I Your disciple taught by God. Amen.

— We are both with them at table, My Baptizer. We humble ourselves one for the other so as to teach them humility and the beauty of the behaviour of the humble ones, and so that these counsels may go over the earth.

Oh, obey God, you, sons of God, and you, sons of men, for almost all men work horror for their eternity. Woe to those separated from God upon the earth and living as in hell in the places of the vanities of their life and through their occupations for vanities in devilish buildings and places, on seasides and in dancing halls, in halls and sports grounds of every sort, striking with the ball and with the fist, in debauched amusements with days and nights of dance with sin, with all sorts of summer and winter sports, for all are devilish places according to satan’s liking, who has brought to light and prepares hell for those who lose their time against God with their life and with their body upon the earth; and worthy are they to find their everlasting reward, for which they struggle so much to keep gathering upon the earth. These occupations are all sprung up from hell above the earth, and through which almost all men fall with an endless fall.

Oh, sons, keep away from all that puts God away from beside you, keep away and draw heaven near to you! And you, sons of men, come toward God and flee from the things come out of hell, and which write you everlasting workers of the condemnation which waits for you at the corner, if you shall not separate yourselves from sin and from time for sin! With pain I speak, with pain I carry the pain for those who work their everlasting perishing, and to which those worthy of it shall be drawn, after they finish their way of the body.

I wrap in heavenly spirit the citadel of My word and I shall stand with it face to face with all the devilish abominations from the places with sin, and loved by the sons of men, who debauch themselves step by step, naked and estranged from life through all the delights prepared with toil for a life without God, and through which they draw sinful profits, which punish them afterwards.

On a day of the feast of the Annunciation I come and call to mind to the people of My word, the one called to cleansing in a time of fasting for the meeting of the feast of My resurrection, I come and tell them that I called them and shepherded them and counselled them toward the other two steps of those who desire to become sons of God after grace, and citizens of heaven beside the saints; and now no one can say that I did not work over their mind and their heart enough for each to understand My word and My calling and their steps then toward the things they have to fulfil between themselves and God without wavering and with much longing and with great faith that God can make Himself sons, if only there be someone to desire this sweet and holy life through My fulfilment on their part as often as I come and shepherd and sit at table with them; for I came two thousand years ago for nothing else, and for nothing else do I come now upon the earth as a word of new making, of fresh wisdom over man, if only those who find My coming and My word and My calling and My waiting would make themselves time and would search themselves; and I said and again I say that I shall look and shall keep watch whether those called and shepherded and made wise through My word receive Me, with which in these days I give Myself to choose and to grow a people beautiful as I am, and just as obedient as I am before the Father; and those who shall not receive My coming and its work and then its fruit shall remain earth in which the seed of My word is choked by the cares of life or eaten by the birds or fallen upon stony ground and cannot then take life and bear fruit.

Oh, man, if you marry, do not do this for sin, for the Scripture says that for all this joy you shall give account before God. And if you want to have children, let the pregnancy be fulfilled and let the child grow cleanly who waits to be born and to grow; and then keep clean the body of the mother who suckles the child, and do not mingle with sin his growing at the mother’s breast; and behold, the true Christian is he who marries for descendants and that is all, and the rest of his life he gives to God, from Whom he has life, oh, but such true Christians through marriage are no longer upon the earth, they are no longer, oh, sons.

Oh, such a holy law could not be embraced by those who found Me in this word, and therefore the people who knew Me did not remain; and now, after tens of years of word, I shepherd a people after My will; and therefore the Christian who finds Me in this word cannot in any manner whatever, he cannot in any manner whatever have a share at My table with this people apart, grown and formed; and I, the Lord, do My duty and teach them all and forgive the sins of those who draw near, and then let them make themselves holy and no longer love sin and the world and the things of it, and let them guard themselves from mingling, from dwelling with those far from God through sin; and let all the things within them be for Me from them, and not for the world; and let the world be able to understand, seeing them, and let the sons of the world who look to see how the sons of this word are desire after Me, for otherwise the world shall despise Me because of them, if they do not make themselves the light of the world as I am.

Amen, amen I say to you, you who seek after God as you know how on side paths which lead nowhere, stop and listen! For two thousand years I have awaited the repentance of those fallen from the right faith, oh, and much humility is needed for those fallen into the bondage of sin and of parting from God; and a head turned toward heaven is needed for those who have erred and are wanderers in the Babylon which is everywhere, for the example of the prophet Daniel speaks clearly, when he confessed in the bondage of Babylon his sins and those of his forefathers, humbling himself for himself and for them so as to draw the mercy of God over those who remained under punishment and bondage after times of disobedience toward God.

Oh, prayers of such a kind no longer come toward heaven, they no longer come. No setting right through repentance is seen any more as in the time of the first Christians, when there was humility and contrition and when they spoke about their errors when they met for searching out. Likewise the saints, they showed their errors in prayers toward heaven and prayed for their forgiveness and for that of those before them; but today do Christians still speak so? Do they still take care to heal one another of errors? Oh, the brotherly and church gatherings have no fruit any more, and they are of no use if the healing is not sought of the errors which part them from God.

You, Christian sons of the orthodox flock, let nothing be more in your occupations than the brotherly gathering for the cleansing and the forgiveness of the errors which, being men, you commit in your days upon the earth with the deed, with the word and with the mind above all, in which you hide yourselves with the things ill worked by you before men and before God.

There must be a spirit of prayer between you and God, beloved Christian, oh, and do not be content that you keep the Christian rule if you have not a spirit of steadfast prayer for unshakenness, for the binding of your spirit with My Spirit, for only so can the enemy devil do nothing against your life, for he is brought out into the open. Oh, do not listen to the devil. Listen only to God, Who shepherds you toward holiness, for the devil prowls to catch you in disobedience and to cast you into unbelief toward My word of Shepherd, for I come from heaven and shepherd you, Christian son. The prayers of the saints teach you how much they humbled themselves, how sinful they believed themselves, and how much they asked My mercy for themselves, sons.

Oh, love the vigil and pray always, you Christian sons shepherded by My word of My time with you! Love only the sleep which is from God, not that from yourselves, oh, sons. In vain do you rise early and lie down late if the Lord did not give you sleep, beloved ones, so it is written; and what is more than this is from the devil, is from the body, and keeps you far from God and from His saints. Therefore watch and pray, and only so does the temptation depart and you guard yourselves from it, if only you believe what I tell you.

And now, behold, again I come after you, O man, for you do not turn toward Me so as to escape from the hand of satan, who put you out of paradise that you might do his will; oh, and I long to overcome satan and to tear you away from him, as it is written in the Scriptures that I should come and fulfil My coming, and a new heaven and a new earth and a new Jerusalem and a new man for all these great mysteries of the making and of the eternity which awaits its coming upon the earth to men together with the glory of the coming of the day of the Lord, as it is written; and you, O man, oh, you do not give yourself to turn and to meet with faith these great fulfilments, with which I overcome satan so that he may no longer find a place for himself; and behold, the Lord had to come, O man, and He had to bring with Him these fulfilments uttered long ago that they would come and would settle upon the earth among men.

Behold, the mind of those who left Me and went into the world no longer finds Me in this word, and therefore they seek everywhere and are always casting the beans and are restless to do the pleasure of satan, who flutters them from one road to another and blocks up all the paths on which they give themselves to walk and to seek powers and props for their unbelief; oh, but how can you forget so easily that the written history of My word has you contained within it with all the years spent beside Me, and bears witness of your time on the way with Me and with the people of My word. And if you want Me to give Myself to open this history to sight, it shows you as witnesses of My word, oh, and this is the heaviest judgment of you, face to face with the straying in which you stand now among the dead of the world, among sorcerers and fortune-tellers, among antichrists clothed with holy vestments so as to seem and to be known as shepherds of My sheep, when they have the stamp upon their forehead and papers in order as antichrists, as traitors, as My persecutors, as thieves of souls, showing themselves as carers for flocks; but do you know their deeds? Oh, you do not know them, but I know them, and I cannot take anything from their hands for Myself, for they are liars and they lie to you as to many like you, and they are antichrists with you beside them, for this word is Jesus Christ, Whom you give yourselves to make out a liar, as did those of two thousand years ago, and who remained put to shame, for the Christ crucified by them rose face to face with the antichrists of that time, who said that it was not I, as you also say now about My word which has been speaking for seventy years in a time of darkness and of persecution and has not been silent and is not silent, but cuts the lie; and antichrist is angered and he too draws out weapons when I am not silent; and behold, you have made yourselves his servants against Me, you who were gathered into the love of this word

Oh, sons strayed and straying, you have killed in you the love which was for Me, and out of which I had kneaded you also when you knocked to enter, you also, at the table of My comfort. You have sold your mind to the evil in it, you believe yourselves clever when you go after men who work wonders, poor of you, oh, and you forget that the wonders are for the unbelieving, not for the believing, for My word is written which tells you: “He who gains his life shall lose it, and he who loses it for My name shall gain it”.

Again and again I give Myself to counsel those fled from Me, and I tell them: Be still, if you have fled! The time comes for your time beside Me to bear witness of itself, beside this word of My longing after man. I am the Lamb of God and I am He Who overcomes. Do not believe that you strike at those who were once your brothers in faith and in holy love. Your fight is against Me, and you strike at Me, at the Lamb of God, for I am this word. And those whom you read and whom you know as saints of the church of Christ, leave them in peace in their rest, do not make of them any more weapons with which to strike at My word, reading from their words so as to slander the truth of My word. Behold, you have lost your faith, and together with it also your love and your mind and the fear of God, oh, and you have utterly weakened the work of the angel, who ought to be sheltering for you; but around you stand in a chain only spirits foreign to God, and only the conceit which feeds you with its straying; and the thorns which you give yourselves to drive into My forehead shall be witnesses for Me between Me and you, oh, and therefore I urge you with mercy: Be still! You have fallen worse than the prodigal son who goes away and spends his father’s wealth, for you strike at Me, sons who do not keep watch for yourselves.

I speak a lot, and more and more I give to console a lot and I give to teach man to give Me resurrection in him and to resemble Me in word and deed, after seven thousand years and better since his separation from Me and from My first love, the one from the beginning for him. I am full of longing and impatience for My first love, and as great as My impatience is, so great is My patience, for I am the God of love, I am the word of love.

I showed My longing and sighing for you two thousand years ago, man, wanderer of heaven with your footsteps on earth. I then came after you to make Myself known as your Maker and God. But you again hid from Me and played well and said that it is not Me. Your humility from sin shamed you then, and you hid with it and worked on the face of insolence and said I am not, and you remained on the side of sin.

I came for you in vain, for you said I did not come. For seven thousand years your disobe-dience has delivered you into the hands of the devil, who lies in wait for you and forsakes you before Me and he believes you to be his. The least disobedience draws you from Me to his side, and this means your state in disobedience for seven thousand years, and you would understand and see well the cunning of your enemy and know whose you are, for he knows that you are his, and I that you are Mine for I built you, and therefore with impatience and longing I have been following you for so long, and you still do not let know whose you are

— I come after man, therefore I come upon the earth, and I stand wrapped in the word.

I come after you, O man who seek and do not find if you have not within you that which you seek. Oh, do not be afraid. I have come to give you wisdom from heaven that you may know, for otherwise you shall never know anything. I have come to forgive you. I have come again from the Father to give you again forgiveness and resurrection. I long for you, therefore I have come. Not to rebuke you for your sins, not for that have I come. I have come to speak to you of love and to tell you to love Me as I love you, and to make yourself holy as I am, and that you may be able with Me. I want you to be diligent that I may give you grace. Oh, take care, the time passes, take care! I wait for you to open to Me that I may enter and no longer depart, and you have need of God.

In a spirit of the Epiphany I gather you. Learn My humility, for you have nowhere to learn it from upon the earth, and I come from heaven and come with the renewal, which is written to appear and to show all its beauty, and all for you, O man, because I long for Myself with you.

Oh, it cannot be with half a service, O man! Not even between two masters upon the earth can you divide yourself with your service without disappointing them, and you must choose one of them. So it is also when you give yourself to believe that you can serve both God and satan. Oh, these two masters are enemies between themselves. Could you serve divided?

Behold, the mind of man has no more room in it for God, for the Lord does not stay with mingling, and He departs, and man remains to serve the enemy of God and his own.

Oh, you can no longer be with God, O man. The spirit of the world deceives you moment by moment, and you are no longer free from under this spirit, which stands at the helm of your mind and draws you to the left; and the world is the enemy of God and of man and lusts after man, after his mind, after his body, after his eyes, after his spirit, after his time; and man does not listen to My crying out after him and cannot escape from the master whom he serves against his life which is from God and for God.

Satan walks in step with man from the morning until the evening and guides his walking and his mind. Oh, so were lost so many sons and daughters, all deceived by satan in the wake of My crying out with the word of seventy years; and behold, drop by drop the fulfilments of My word are uncovered and come out of mystery, oh, and there is no one to choose himself wholly on the side of My coming with visible glory, for man is divided, and his mind has no choosing, has not the Lord as counsel and as power that he may be able on the side of his deliverance before the things which come to try those upon the earth.

O man, do you hear Me? I travel together with your journey, together with your walking. Oh, how good it would have been for Me with you, and how good it would have been for you with Me, if you had not risen up, if you had not sought to have desires! You have from God all you need to follow Him as a disciple and to love Him Who loves you and cares for you. But you cannot be without desires, so as to fulfil them afterwards. Oh, do you see what harm you do yourself with the spirit of your discontent? Behold, discontent is the sin which parted you from your first house when you rose up toward desires and lost paradise. The desires are the spirit of pride, and this sin has nothing in Me and keeps you far from your Maker, from His will.

The whole making is content and asks of Me with prayer for itself, and prayer is the wisdom of the love which submits. Oh, seek you also through prayer, seek, O man, that you also may come to understand and to seek that which helps your humility, that is, Christ in you, Him Who gives you life that you may have it; and the Lord is full of the humility of love.

Love means the Holy Spirit and His inbreathing, the gift through which God works among men. The birds and the animals and all beings with a living soul have this gift, and through it they guide their steps and their joys and the hardships which try their love and their walking toward the place of their rest, toward their Maker. But man uses his mind, oh, and the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit cannot come forward and guide man, for the Holy Spirit finds dwelling and work only in him who denies himself for God or for his neighbour, with whom God works for him. But when man takes his prompting from himself, when he parts from God for his own will, he is no longer guided by the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit, since he cannot be on the side of the Holy Spirit.

There has been much bending down on My part with man, who cannot otherwise; but the lack of fruit fed the lack of love of those who only came and did not grow, for they waited for fulfilments in order to believe, oh, and so it happens for seven thousand years with man upon the earth.

Oh, man, if your toil does not help your salvation, take counsel from Me, for your time passes without fruit. Remember the counsel of John the Baptist given to those who sought their salvation, and John told them: “Repent and make fruits worthy of repentance, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near to you!” But the kingdom of the heavens came and was fulfilled upon the earth without men understanding, oh, and many heavenly words were fulfilled without men seeing their fulfilment, since they were not worthy of God; just as neither did the people of Israel, over whom so many words were set for great fulfilments, see their fulfilment, for it did not give itself to become worthy of great gifts, and it lost the fulfilments which sought to set them within themselves, oh, and so it shall be with all the things of the Lord if men are not worthy of them, for the work of the Holy Spirit does not ring the bell, but works in a hidden way only for His own, only with them, as in all the times of His works upon the earth among men.

In days of the feast of the birth I teach you, O man, to love paradise and to carry it after you wherever you go, for from the sides the wolves hungry for you attack you, and you do not see them and do not know them, for all is hidden and well covered lest you should understand and escape from the snare. Take paradise with you, that the wolves may flee from you and that you may clear your way and bear fruit and carry it with you for the reward if you shall work. Paradise is your standing with God, your walking with Him and with the angels who accompany Him, for the smell of the wolf departs and the angels of God come to help you to walk and to love as God does.

A teaching of the birth I have left in the book on this day at My table with you in the citadel, sons. I have with Me holy martyrs, who bear witness among themselves to the martyr Stephen, My confessor, oh, and we still have at the table fourteen thousand child martyrs, sent to the Father by the emperor Herod, who was afraid of Me when I had not yet been born a Child; and the Father covered Me and I was born in a hidden way and I grew, and the unbelief of the great ones upon the earth was overcome, and they died in their sins, oh, and there is no heavier sin than unbelief, a sin hostile to the Holy Spirit, and from which even the greatest enemies ought to guard themselves, oh, sons, for everything else is still forgiven, but unbelief is not.

O man, do you hear Me? You have need of birth anew. You have lost the way home. You have lost your garment and your mind and your tongue and your speaking with God. I have come after you. Give Me your hand that I may raise you and that you may walk and see and find the way! I came after you two thousand years ago, and I have come again now. It is no longer written that I should come again, for I have come. Now come you, come beside Me with your life, for otherwise it is not called coming! Reckon up your unfruitfulness and call upon Me to give you life, that you may then bear fruit with heavenly life between you and Me. Oh, you have not learned what life is. Call upon Me to teach you!

Oh, it is written and it keeps being written, My coming upon the earth after man. I am full of patience, but also of much and great work between heaven and earth, for the time has come for Me to come with the beginning and to bind it with the end, that I may set established the new making upon the earth. I am the Alpha and the Omega, and these two works are joined now, the beginning and the end and a new beginning, as it is written.