6.3. The Mystical Kingdom of the Lord with His Chosen People; His Teachings, in the Spirit of Obedience

Oh, sons, I beg you, more than ever I beg you to bow down sufficiently and to receive Me with all the things with which I come and give you to fulfil; and I shall look toward you to see how much you receive Me, how much you fulfil My counsel which is for you, for I must have a people apart, with whom to support Myself in these days and with whom to prepare the great fulfilment of My visible coming, and that the world may know My walking from end to end with the glory of My word with which I stop at you that you may set it on its way over the earth, sons.

Oh, who is there to tell the sons of men that fasting and prayer are angels from heaven for the guarding from sins and from the enemies of souls, for the much good which they always lose through the lack of the fast which is for baptized men? They take their children to baptism to christen them and then they set about sinful amusements through speaking, through gorging with unchristian foods and through all manner of drinks and pleasures, oh, and the sons of the world do not like the fast at all; and men do not know what they eat, poor of them, for the fish eats men and all manner of dead things and defilements of men, and man puts it in the pan and fries it and eats it, and he does not know what he eats and does not know that the pan is no longer clean either for other, cleaner food; for the sheep or the calf or the hen from the yard eats nothing but grass or what man gives it, grains or bran, and the animal from the yard and the bird raised in the yard is cleaner than the fish.

I said through the word at the beginning of My trumpeting in the year 1955: “Christian, you have not seen a child eating parents, or parents eating children”. There was no one to make clear this speaking of Mine; and behold, the fish eats men, it eats all that falls into the waters everywhere; and man eats what he does not know, poor man, oh, and no one makes his reckoning when he uses something upon the earth if it is not uncovered to him that he may know.

You who have set out on the road toward the spring of My word on this day of the cleansing of the people of this word, bow down with a heart much and great and take from Me deliverance, sons. You have a spring of teaching from heaven over you, for I make Myself a spring of word over the earth for those who believe that I come in this time to shepherd, sitting upon a cloud, as it is written in the Scriptures that I shall come with the clouds.

Oh, open yourselves! Up with your hearts on this day! Be witnesses for yourselves and for those fallen asleep of your kindred after the body unto the thousandth kindred, but also for those fallen asleep from Adam until you! Be their rescuers, workers for them beside Me, oh, for there are no longer shepherds upon the earth who might raise the dead from the graves as I, the Lord, did two thousand years ago together with My resurrection, that which was for Me and that which was for them.

There is read on this day the many sins which a man can do upon the earth, and you shall have to answer that you have done them all and more than that, oh, for many sins are gathered before the Lord from all those who kept committing them for seven thousand years between heaven and earth, beginning from Adam until today.

Oh, if only someone were found to work a wonder so that the truth of things might come back against the untruths which have been worked and which have torn down so many people from the way, so many Christians weakened in faith and in the deed of the faith! Oh, there would happen then healing for many fallen from the way, and who have still not passed with the body.

Always has this people fed by My word of Shepherd had enemies from within, for envy is a devilish work, and satan is able with this sin through the spirit of discontent and of the exalting of the mind of some, and through which the walking of many is shaken again and again.

Oh, unsteady Christian, I opened to you when you knocked, and you were not quiet and content and you lived your life with a longing after sin. The sin of man put Me upon the cross then and now, oh, and you still love sin and you have no pity for My wounds which come from your sin, O scattered man. I loved you upon the cross also, and you pay Me with sin for My love. Behold how great is the love of the Father, the love of the Shepherd, the love from the cross!

I taught them two thousand years ago, those who loved Me and followed Me, I taught them the washing of the feet at all times, that they might be My saints among the sinful and that I might be able to sit at the table with them, cleansed and washed of the sinful things of the men among whom My saints walked. The sin of men touches everywhere they go and defiles the way and all the things touched by them, and therefore I told Mine to accustom themselves to wash one another’s feet that they might be clean.

The teaching of the washing of the hands is again of much use for cleansing, for the hands make clean everywhere and must be washed all the time on going out on the way and on coming in, for everywhere sin and the body of sin touch.

Oh, if things stand so with the cleansing of the body all the time, great and much need has the soul of cleansing and of washing, for even Christians love and seek freedom and roaming everywhere among those of the world, and they do not fear the evil fruits, which would do them harm upon the earth also, but in heaven afterwards as well. I Myself washed the feet of My disciples and urged them to do likewise to one another, oh, for there is no place and no way upon the earth untouched by the much sin of the sons of men who do not love God with their life.

I taught the people of My word of this time to wash their hands all the time that they may be clean, and I counselled them not to go out and not to come in without making themselves a path with holy water and without marking themselves with myrrh from the lamp in the sign of the holy cross upon the soles of their shoes, that they may be clean of the touchings from the way; and behold how much care the Christian must take for his holiness before Me because of the sins upon the earth!

Love is stronger than death. The death of which man is so much afraid is a deliverance, and man does not know that the sin which he keeps doing and keeps loving is the hidden face of the dreadful death, the death through sin; but who is there to tell man that sin is death?

There is no greater love than that of the parents for their children, but there is no greater pain than theirs because of the disobedience on the part of their children, who put them aside from the way of their life after they grow. The ugly bearing of the children toward their parents rises to heaven, and the children get themselves the losing of the blessing which I, the Lord, give them through their parents, and not otherwise.

Behold how much love, true love for the children on the part of parents who are true with their love! Therefore, the bearing of the children toward their parents must not differ from that with which they bear themselves toward God, toward their Father from heaven. And if their bearing is ugly and without obedience and with pain brought to the parents, those children lose the blessing from heaven of the children who honour and obey their parents as long as these are alive, for the parents are only for their children with all the love with which they share themselves out to them; and those who love their parents with submission and with obedience, those love God also, and otherwise not.

Oh, Christian, son, My place, the place of the Shepherd of the sheep, was upon the earth under guilt, under the cross and upon the cross, oh, and I often look at you, how much you give yourself to come out from under guilt at any price, how much, and far too much! Oh, why, then, do you do so, and so much, when you ought to see your guilt also and no longer struggle to show yourself innocent, as though it were not quite as is said and as is believed? Oh, why, then, do you do so, and so much? When, then, shall it be that you also can as I, the Lord, could for you, for your life for which I stood upon the cross that you might not stand there? Oh, when shall it be that you also want to be known as guilty, not innocent, but only guilty, and without making your guilt smaller? Can it be said, then, that man is innocent, or that he is only half guilty? Oh, what am I to do, then, with you and for you, you who do not like to be under guilt? Am I to ask the Father forgiveness for you, that you do not know what you want and what you do? Oh, Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he does! Can I speak so to the Father about you? Oh, I cannot. I would be unjust with the Father because of you.

Oh, sons, it is a day of teaching about the cunning sin, for behold, the evil spirit lends itself to you that it may work you, that it may work through you with its pride, when you do not give yourselves to be worked by God for the cleansing from guilt and for your holiness through the forgiveness of the guilt. Some of you the devil catches and guides your mind and your words and the spiteful outbursts of the tongue against Me and against My work tender after man; and then the devil makes himself room with doubt and shakes your faith even to unbelief toward My words and toward the mystery of the carrying of My work between heaven and earth, for your mind is narrow and you do not know with it on which side you choose to work.

Oh, sons, let us urge the people who believe the word of My coming, and let us beg them with much longing to leave off the weaknesses which are over them and to be able for the preparation with the life, with the body, with the soul and with the spirit for the fulfilment of holiness, for I am holy, sons, and just so must those be and be able who are and remain Mine after so long a time of My shepherding, that I may build with the word a handful of sons and daughters and may keep them before the Father and may have them as the fruit of My work over them after seventy years of a river of word from heaven over the earth upon the hearth of the Romanian people; for in order to believe this word you must fulfil it over yourself, Christian son. Oh, do not stand, do not stand far from Christ, do not stand parted from Me, for behold how I beg you to make yourself ready for Me, Christian son! Again and again I beg you, put away from yourself all that parts you from Me, from the inseparableness between Me and you, and choose Me, not yourself, for behold Me, I come to choose you, and may you want Me to choose you!

Oh, you do not need for yourself so many things as you give yourself to have and to lose your time which is for your life with Me. You need Christ, Christian son. If He is lacking to you, what more can you be? Take care, therefore, for the spirit of the world and of the devil, the enemy and cunning and tempting one, hinders you from being on My side and keeps giving you work on a field foreign to your steps with Christ; for you have seen how easily one dies when Christians fall from beside the people guided by My counsel of preparation for the glory which comes; and behold, the passing things come out into your way always and scatter the time of your life and keep tearing you toward them; and you have to fulfil My will for your part with Christ, Christian son of this word which comes from heaven to choose you for God, for upon the earth there is a great sifting and a lack of peace and a losing of the time of salvation over men; and behold, a great watch is needed, and always.

Oh, sons, stand in My arm of Shepherd and choose yourselves for obedience with holiness, for it does not go with the half, it does not go both with God and without God on your way with the Lord. It is the time of the great fast for the meeting of the feast of My resurrection, and you must have great love, oh, for those upon the earth no longer keep the fast and no longer know any Christian ordinance, and man no longer sets sin aside; but the people of My word has My counsel and My urging through which to be able with love for holiness, for My love is with it upon the earth to help it all the time; and let it all the time give itself to God as I give Myself to it, that I may work for it rescue and salvation and glory beside Me, if only the Christian will choose himself at My right hand, with My sheep who listen and have Me as their Shepherd upon the earth toward heaven. Therefore, whole fulfilment, as I have counselled you and counsel you always, sons; and so are you to fulfil. Amen.

All the world feeds itself with the flesh of animals and of birds, and for the cleansing of sins there is no more care. It pains Me and it has pained Me for seven thousand years, the lovelessness and the ingratitude of man, from whom I endure these things, so full of pain as I am and as I await the time of the enlightening to come over men. As for there being any talk of a time of his cleansing, man no longer has time to think and to reckon between himself and God.

I came to be born a Child among men and to grow and to receive death upon the cross so as to wash every man of sins through My body and My blood; and, oh, if you would also try the love which is for God, O man who love sin with your life! The love for Christ takes the place of all the longings of your heart and of your flesh, over which I would want to be your God. When you still remember the Lord, the Maker of man, you also give yourself to fast in the name of the times of fasting set by the Holy Spirit through the holy fathers, oh, but you give yourself that all may know you and show you as one who fasts from meat and from foods; but it does not come into your mind to fast from sin and no longer to be proud before men, oh, and you do yourself more harm through your fast mingled with sin.

He who fasts is serene, he is lively so as not to show men that he fasts, but only to the love of God; and the time of fasting helps you to eat more living food, to be more alive for God, to bear fruit of the spirit of prayer, of speaking with your Lord, of love like His for your fellows; and I say all these things to you, O man.

Oh, how beautiful is he who is great with love, how beautiful! You must love very much the one whose errors you do not take into account, even those against you and which do you harm. Oh, and why should you do these things with all your heart and your feeling? So that God also may do so for you, my Christian, my own. Do these things with this thought of the love of God and of the brothers, and with much humility of spirit, and you shall be saved through the spirit of love in your heart, and with which God works for you and for the one loved by you, for his salvation through your love; and save one another, as it is written.

“Forgive, and you shall be forgiven”, and for this you must love, O Christian man! In the time of the fast from foods, search yourself whether you do not have conceit of many kinds, or whether there is not straitness for Me in you through the coldness of love and through the lack of humility. Each must bring fruit, must bring souls to the light, to salvation, to faith, to holiness for salvation, to the love of God. But you give yourself to tear down those who give themselves to walk with longing toward heaven and toward the confession of Christ over those in the darkness of the spirit of the world. Oh, if you shall do so, what shall you do without fruit brought, or what shall you do when you shall see that you have torn down others who would have given themselves to walk on the way with a pleasing and holy life toward the Lord?

Oh, sons, enrich your hearts with the spirit of meekness from above. Meek hearts have sweet words of prayer, they have a river of words through their prayers and they ask the Lord that the promised fulfilments may come, and which wait to be called and brought and set upon the earth among men. The new heaven and the new earth and the new Jerusalem are promised to come down from heaven and to be among men, as it is written to be fulfilled so at the time of the fulfilments which has arrived for them.

Oh, how much weeping there shall be when the many shall see how much time they wasted in vain for their own occupations and longings and passing thoughts, when they could have redeemed their time with God, and which they did not understand so as to gain it for their eternity; and behold, they wasted the time of their life if they did not seek to have a counsellor whom to obey and from whom to take for themselves, so as not to steer their own steps alone and so as to err as Adam erred, who did not take for himself from his Maker, and did his own will if he did not listen.

You who feed yourselves from My word of this time, take from Christ the urging toward faith, for I, the Lord, counsel you to believe firmly that the new heaven and the new earth and the new Jerusalem are coming, a holy citadel about which it is written in the Scriptures that it shall come down from heaven upon the earth. Ask that these written fulfilments may come and appear and settle before sight, for all the saints await them; and I, the Lord, am with them in My arms and with all their paradise, for I went to the Father to prepare them, oh, sons; and behold, through the faith of the faithful I work that these fulfilments may come.

And now, peace to you and much holy power for the spiritual things between Me and you, between you and Me, sons! Be holy with your love and with your bearing, and let all things pass through your heart, there where I, Jesus Christ, wait for you to counsel you; just as Adam did not want to work a place for God inside his heart and lost paradise, lost God and was utterly lost. But I come to you upon the earth, I come everywhere where I have to redeem what was lost; and you, sons of the citadel of My word, are My fruit, you are My glory before My showing; and peace to you with Me, and to Me with you, sons!

Let the Scriptures of two thousand years ago of My coming be opened and read, and which bear witness to the fulfilment of the prophecies about Me in that time when I came down from heaven to make Myself man and that man might see God and might return to a life without sin and might seek the kingdom of God upon the earth with his steps, with his life, for a life without the love of God is not life, but is a departing from the Lord and from heaven, and is a life for sin and for the wages of sin afterwards, as it is written.

Let the Scriptures of the prophets of all the times under heaven be opened and let My coming of this time be read in them, and through which the sons of God, the sons of this heavenly word, may multiply their faith and their steadfastness and their love, lest any among them lose their part at My right hand when the sheep shall be separated from the goats; and behold how much watch is required of those who choose themselves at My right hand, lest they lose My calling which shall tell them: Come! Oh, some shall hear: Come! and others shall hear: Go away! but I come as Shepherd from heaven and I counsel, if only there be someone to believe and to listen to My counsel.

And now, you who take from the spring of My word for your faith and your walking with God, behold, sons, seek the knowledge from above and learn from the Scriptures the faith which is for My word, with which you are fed and which your mind would whisper to you to put in doubt; but the Scriptures tell you, as also two thousand years ago, that I, Jesus Christ, was and am for the falling or for the rising of many and a sign which shall stir up opposition.

Behold what I teach you: If you come toward Me to be Mine, and if you do not know how one comes and how one stays and how he is to be who gives himself to Me, oh, if you cannot give Me the heart that I may stay in it all the time and fill it with love for Me, at least give Me the mind that I may set in it the thinking which is from Me, that you may think of Me and that it may be comfort to you, sons, for I came and I come as word upon the earth for the comfort of man.

Oh, sons, do not go out for the things you have to work for yourselves and for Me, do not go out without prayer, without taking Me also and having Me with you on the way and at the work, for the wolf is everywhere in wait to set you snares, sons. Do not take a single step without the anointing with myrrh from the lamp, beginning from the forehead and down to under the soles of the feet; and in your little bag carry holy water with which to make yourselves a path all the time through the thorns and the thistles which grow from the sins of the world; and woe to those who do not believe when I make an announcement to the people that every Christian should take good heed!

Oh, sons, it is far better to err in the light, to err visibly, to speak visibly and audibly whatever comes to you to say with the word, so that the setting right may somehow be worked and the wolf may not take your track, and that forgiveness and love may somehow be worked again afterwards for the things unpleasing and hidden in the dark.

Oh, do not walk in the night, sons! What does this mean? Oh, my sons, do not follow your own head. Not so can you give yourselves to God to be His, that He may be the head and you the body of His church. Those who have the spirit of obedience seek to take their work from before them, not from their own head, lest satan write them with the disobedient and those hidden in the dark; for I work for each of you through those beside you, but this work I do only over those who love to walk in the light, and I submit those who submit themselves; and otherwise I do not work over man, for darkness is the work of the unseen satan, who is frightened of the light and has the work of a mole and digs in secret; and the hidden work is called darkness, and this work then punishes man, tearing him from under My sheltering, for I do not push in upon satan to overcome him when man does of his own will the pleasure of the spirit hostile to Me and to him, the spirit of satan, the spirit of darkness.

Read the Scripture, read it always so that its wisdom may grow in you, and read the word that comes to you from heaven at this time and gives you advice and work for holiness and holy watch. Rather than the work of the hand, choose the part that remains, and do not forget that God is the love that comes to earth and is made a word and protection for the sons of heaven, and who know whose they are.

You who find Me in this word of heavenly longing after you, take heed if you want to be on My side, while you have all those things which keep you far from My love! Weave your daily living together with the living of the spirit, so as not to lose the Lord Who comes out to meet you in order to shelter you then on the way with Him, for the wolf is hungry and comes and seeks a place beside you with his wolf’s habit, greedy for power, and he knows you by scent. Flee from those who love money or power, for money falls upon man as a punishment and changes into troubles and pain and straitness, sons who seek the Lord on the way. Oh, seek that God also may want to be with you, for I seek and come to such as these; but with those who gather for themselves upon the earth, with those I do not stay, oh, I do not stay with those who do not love Me as I am, poor and humble.

The disciples had begun to leave Me one by one, after they had followed Me for a while and could not understand the great cause which they were to choose, the work of the Father through Me upon the earth, oh, and they went away then for other choices and longings of their own; and those who remained, being few, I asked them: «Will you also go away?» Oh, they did not go away, and they remained with Me for the words of life which I set over them upon the earth, and they remained My friends.

The spirit of steadfastness until the end, with this must he begin who finds the great cause, My coming upon the earth as word among men; and such a one remains a faithful friend, as the dog stays full of submission and of love and with faithfulness for his master, and he is a friend, and not an enemy wolf.

man is puffed up upon the earth in every manner, oh, and he does not stand to be formed even under the glory of My word, which brings the birth anew of man; and behold, only those who have been born from above through My word, only of those do I have a share for My works upon the earth; and the others, who do not receive and do not stand under this change and birth from above, those cannot for Me, those do not remain, those cannot deny themselves, cannot make themselves small so that I may be able for them also, so as to give them also birth from above; and those who remain Mine and with Me are only those who know Me in this word and believe and walk after Me and do not stand scattered, for they know their Shepherd and walk with Him and after Him, and He pastures them, raises them from their weaknesses, gives them from heaven and carries them toward the spring and is Shepherd to them.

Heaven is with its sheltering upon the earth, oh, and men do not know this; and over you, My country of today, the Lord comes with those of heaven to you and works sheltering for you and announces Himself with you at work, that the peoples and the tongues may hear that you have over you My voice, The Word of God, Who shepherds you and shelters you with the saints in tens of thousands, as it is written; and behold, a feast of the Epiphany is being set in your region, and I shall be at a table of the word in the citadel with John the Baptist, from whom I hid Myself so much before him, announcing to him about the kingdom of the heavens and about Him Who comes with it, preparing His way to show Himself; and he took from Me and shared out the tidings about Me without knowing that it was I, I, He Who taught him about the King of the kingdom of the heavens, oh, and behold how one believes when the faith comes from God to man, not when man wants to believe; and so I fulfilled, through the faith given as a gift, so many mysteries, so many fulfilments, unknown by the unbelieving, who look after their own even when they believe, but they do not make themselves workers with Me for My glory of these days.

Peace over the citadel of My word and over you, who keep watch beside the angels over My citadel with you and fulfil the things for its care and for My way toward you with the word, sons. The world sings the hymn of the country and all manner of hymns, but the sons of God have the hymn of the faith, they have the testament of the sons of God; only that for faith this hymn must be well learned, so that the Christian may then understand not to do sins which strike at his creed, but to remain a son taught with God and Whom he may truly follow; and behold, I counsel every Christian for faith, all those who bear the name of Christians, and I give them the urging to learn with their whole being the faith and the faithfulness toward God and to say according to the truth: “I believe in one God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, I believe in the threefold work of God through the church left by Him upon the earth, and I confess and await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the age to come”.

Oh, he who believes in God and in the love with which He came upon the earth to men can no longer do sins against the faith; but on the contrary, such a one watches for his creed, for his God, for Him Who came down from heaven and was made Man in order to make man His disciple, and that he may then work as God does with the steps of his life.

Sons, sons, the testament for those shepherded from heaven must be well followed, for those who believe in God, in Him Who showed Himself with all His works for the faith which shall then guide the Christian toward the love of God, without turning aside from the way of love.

Sons, sons, I leave new counsel and remind those who believe and desire to keep their adoption, and I tell them to learn clearly the testament about God, about the Father, about Me, the Son of God, about the Holy Spirit, about the things which shall come through the faith of the faithful; and when they say: “I believe in one God…”, let them open well their mind and their heart as sons of God, not merely to learn the hymn by heart as a poem, for in this testament God is confessed and His works and the power of the faith, oh, sons.

Therefore, the work and the power of the faith are the foundation of the love of God afterwards, for I came from heaven to men and submitted Myself as a man and did not show Myself in all this time as more than man, nay, even much smaller than any man, and I was circumcised as a man and passed through all the things of the law; and through submission I was the One victorious over time, oh, for only God knows how to bend down and to show bending, and man must learn from God what God has done.

The love of God, only it can raise man from his fall, only it. With it I come to share it out and to announce it and to multiply My word and the number of those torn from under the deceit of satan and of the spirit of the world, for there are only hungry wolves everywhere, and the smell of the wolf has many faces with which it caresses until it brings down its prey; and I, the Lord, write My word of the calling and work with those faithful to My walking with them among men, and I strengthen their faith all the time; and the time is hard in every way against the love of God, for all pull with satan, with the ruler of this age painted in many colours which enchant; and if I say to a man: “Give Me your son, your daughter, that they may not perish as the world does”, oh, he would not agree; but when the world tears his child from beside him toward perdition and toward sin, he can no longer resist, for the spirit of the world does not ask, but only swallows the prey with greed, toward victory on the side of satan; and behold, man no longer has in his mind a dwelling for God, that he may choose his life.