I am, sons, watchmen set in the citadel of My word to open to Me and to make My entering into My book of today with you. I am, and I am Shepherd from heaven and I shepherd those who set over themselves, fulfilled, My word of Shepherd, which has power to make sons of God of those who fulfil it over their life now upon the earth; and they then receive eternity with Me, the payment of those who have Me now as Shepherd and fulfil what I give them to work.
Peace to you, sons, to you and to those who have heard My voice and My calling of Shepherd and have come to the cleansing, to the cleansing from themselves and from sin; and they do this for themselves and for all their kindred after the body unto the thousandth kindred, and who may have erred more or less in their life upon the earth and have need of help for their forgiveness and for the full resurrection of those fallen asleep less prepared, for it is written about those alive in the body that they shall not go before those fallen asleep; and therefore a hand must be given to those first, and only then shall those be changed incorruptible who shall receive the Lord with the day of His glory!
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, sons, there are no longer now shepherds to heal man of sins, even if they say with their mouth that they loose the sin of man, while they themselves are not parted from sin.
I was upon the earth with My disciples and I told them also to loose the sins of the sinful that they might be forgiven; but those after them who made themselves shepherds did not understand what I did then when I made shepherds of those with whom I walked and healed and forgave many, oh, and I told them also to do this after Me; but first I made them holy as I am, that they also might be able to lift the sins from off the men who came toward them for their holiness and their salvation in their turn; for those whom they raised to the work of shepherds they counselled to leave sin altogether and to make themselves saints of the Lord, that they might then be able to help the sinful with the deed and to lead them toward holiness for the rest of their life as Christians of Christ and sons of God after grace and after obedience.
Behold, there are no longer shepherds, and all say that they have a blessing of marriage as at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, where I, the Lord, was for the blessing of the bride and groom. But I blessed those newly wed for holiness and made them shepherds as I am, and they worked for the holiness of those who heard of Me through their preaching from place to place; and behold, this is the way with Christ of man, for I am without sin, oh, sons; and I give power to those who find Me through My saints who shepherd as I do over many, and I give them power to make sons of God of those who come to believe in Me and follow Me through the denying of self for holiness, for their eternity with Me, for My coming with eternity upon the earth to them; for I want to make the earth ready and to make it worthy to receive My coming, oh, sons; and therefore I make ready for Myself from place to place a pleasing and clean people so as to begin drop by drop the making ready and to be known when I shall come in glory; and behold, faith is needed for this fulfilment and it must be kept whole, not doubting, and the Christian must not lose his patience waiting, but must remain in humility for My coming, and which man must first deserve in order to be able also to see it, according to how much he also has worked at My uncovering among men upon the earth.
But now on this day I gather into My grace all of you who have come together under the glory of My word, and I look toward you and toward the things within you, and that you may learn the cleansing and may then receive power to become after grace sons of God; for if man who finds Me shepherding still remains in sins, oh, that one does not want Me as his Shepherd and remains a slave of the sin which parts him from God upon the earth; and woe without the Lord for those upon the earth in this time, oh, sons!
Now I stand in a hidden way, and just so I also work on this day here, where we meet for the washing; and then I send My whole word of the shepherding of this day; but today I share out My grace with those who choose and choose themselves for the Lord, and I shall then look over the steps of their day-to-day life, which shall show how they shall love, what they shall choose to do and to be after this day of My meeting with them for their cleansing, for the birth anew, for a new man, after My image and likeness, casting off from themselves the murderous sin, for sin is death, oh, sons, it is the enemy which crucified Me two thousand years ago for every sinful man upon the earth.
Blessed be on this day the heart within you and its power, and I in it, I in you, for I long, sons! I long to be able in you and through you among men, and that this people may be My riches upon the earth and that I may have how to show Myself to the Father with joy, and that the seed of eternity may then grow from place to place, just as I began with My disciples the kingdom of the heavens upon the earth in that time, and which now, at the end of time, must be brought to perfection for the understanding of many, and the earth must be filled with this longing; for with longing I desire to come soon and that the table of the wedding may be set and that I may have a bride and that My bride may be clean, for I am the Bridegroom and I am the holy One, sons.
Blessed be this day of renewal and this work of it! Blessed be you, My servants in this citadel, with all the work which is for the holiness of those who love as God does the life of a Christian!
May My grace be with all those who remain in My love! Oh, sons, the spirit of the world is an enemy upon you who want to be Mine; and My grace is enough for you, if so you shall know how to choose and then to prize. I have a great name upon the earth through you, who receive Me as I come to you, with a work of a word of Shepherd, and over which I always set My new name shared out by you over the earth; and My name is called The Word of God, oh, sons. Amen, amen, amen.
Part two
I have left over you the spirit of holy love, and it has gathered you and washed you within, oh, sons. As the mother who bathes her child and dresses him afresh with clean little clothes, so has My holy love worked over you on this day, that you might feel to the full its taste, without compare with other kinds of love; and I call to your mind now My word spoken to you many years ago, once and twice, and I told you that love heals man of sin, and this is the holy love, which cannot be set with its holy name upon other kinds of love, oh, and only sinful man takes this holy name to set it over the loves with which he is accustomed, since he does not love the truth of all things and above all things for himself.
When you make prayers toward God and begin with the sign of the holy cross and with the beginning prayers, behold, sons, so do you say: "O heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, Who are everywhere and fill all things and share out good things and life over us, come and make Your dwelling in us and make clean in us and save us, O Good One!"
Oh, sons, men do not love the truth of all things and therefore they are not true. The spirit of truth is with those who sanctify themselves and cleanse themselves and make themselves afresh always for the Lord, for it is written in the Scriptures that the Lord does not let Himself be found by those who tempt Him, but He uncovers Himself only to those who have faith; but not faith in any manner whatever, for the wisdom which is from God cannot be in a cunning soul and does not rest with its riches in the man who enslaves his body toward sin. Behold how empty man is, how uncovered, poor of him, how poor, because of the sin in him!
Oh, read the Scripture and learn from it, sons. There is no way for the sons of the world to be wise if they do not take from the Scriptures understanding and their own making. Therefore ask for the Spirit of truth over you, for from Him the faithful one grows accustomed to the love which is for God, from Him he takes always life and understanding from heaven, and all things come from Him and are.
And now, sons who have gathered at My calling, behold, just as you have said today with the voice of your mouth at the hearing of the sins which have shown how many things a man can do in his life, and you have said for yourselves and for those before you "so I have done", I, your Lord and Shepherd, teach you now to say at the teachings which I give you after the meeting between Me and you, to say now "so I shall do"; for I set between Me and you a book for what he must know and fulfil who wants to be numbered and sealed among the sons of the people of My word of this time, and with whom I build true Christians for this time before My visible coming, according as I promised that I would come again; and behold, I grow you in this longing after Me that I may come as soon as possible, sons, oh, for I long, I long greatly to come soon, soon, if only I may have you ready in all things so that I may be able to show Myself with you and in you with My brightness, and that the world may see God with you upon the earth, sons.
Behold what the sons of this word, come from heaven upon the earth that I may shepherd with it a people and have it on My side, at My right hand, must know from Me and fulfil before Me day and night:
Oh, son, the inward things of your fulfilment must be the faith and its face and its work, kept from the longing and the taste of sin, from the snare wrapped in honey so that man may not know it; and then there must be the spirit of truth, the spirit of holy love, the spirit of those who sanctify themselves and cleanse themselves through love, for this love is My dwelling in you, sons.
Wherever you are and wherever you go, let the man of the world have how to see God in your life and let him also then desire Me through your visible bearing, the one which enchants and draws toward the Lord, oh, for it is a sin not to show the Lord in your day-to-day life, in your beautiful bearing and speaking, and which calls and urges man toward your beauty with God.
Keep the health of your body and of your soul through the fulfilment of the commandments of life, and bow beneath the tests which come to you for the trying of your faith and of your love for God, guarding yourself from the wave and from the spirit of the world, which tempts through itself the way of the cross and those upon this holy way.
Oh, do not seek to see the sin of the world, lest you lust with the body, My child. See that you do not lay down your weapons, see that you do not fail to make your prayers in their Christian order, and above all the one at midnight, your most precious gold for God.
But the outward things also of your fulfilment as sons of this people with so mighty a name upon the earth, a people of New Jerusalem, oh, these also are the fruits of the inward things of the life with Christ, so that you are not to resemble in your garments those of the world; and rather turn your face toward the mighty dress worked from clean linen and cotton cloth of the forefathers of the Romanian people, and bring it to the light and adorn yourselves with this Romanian greatness, and which shall draw the eyes toward the good teaching from you toward them; and the forefathers and the voivodes of this people, holy once upon a time in speech, in dress, as the poet says, shall thank you; and whether it be winter or summer, whether it be cold or hot outside, be you beautiful for the angels, whether you are children or young or older, for you must keep the angels near you, oh, sons, and you must bear yourselves after their pleasure, lest you drive them away from beside you by going about with the head uncovered or with the body not covered in a seemly manner, and not after the fashion of the world foreign to God between earth and heaven.
Oh, but neither in your little house seek to have luxury which is of no use to you and does not suit you and God; and seek only the things useful for your life as a Christian, lest you resemble the sons of the world and the Lord may not tell you apart from among them, for they are not beautiful, oh, they are not, because of their occupations which are without God, according as their life also is.
And now behold holy counsel for your holiness at all times, Christian child of My word of your time with Me: Oh, do not buy for yourself food made by the sons of the world, by unwashed hands and full of the sin which you touch and eat if you take from their hands. Everything you use for food must first be passed through water, you must first wash, and only then make food of it. Wash everything and always, wash and sprinkle with sanctified water everything you use, oh, and let it not be hard for you to listen so, for water cleanses and sanctifies and has its holy mystery, it has its work within and without the man who seeks to be clean for God, oh, for many are the mysteries upon the earth, and all have their ordinance which is from God for the service of the man pleasing to God; but the sons of men are strangers to God and to all the mysteries from above which serve upon the earth for man.
Therefore, you who desire to be the sons of this word and a people with a heavenly table apart, you, sons, feed yourselves with vegetables and with fruits, with roots for food and with seeds of every kind, with grains of every sort for the food of man, with greens and nuts of every kind, with all that you can first pass through water. All that you buy for food, let everything be washed first, washed and blessed and sprinkled with sanctified water and blessed through prayer with the sign of the holy cross, and only then make of them the food which is for you. Oh, eat nothing prepared, use nothing, for the world does not work cleanly, nay, it even makes offerings to the devil, and it also smokes, and it also curses and defiles itself and defiles everything; and therefore everything must be cleansed and washed and then prepared by you, and above all the bread, oh, sons, for those of the world have hands unwashed of their sinful body and they put into the bread unclean things of their own and they do this on purpose to defile everything and everyone; and behold, this I, the Lord, ask of those who want to stand beside the people of My word, a people prepared by Me how to stand beside Me and at My table of today, for I come to My table with it with My heaven of saints and of angels, sons.
Oh, from the very beginning of My word in the year 1955 I have kept seeking to urge and to accustom him who drew near to My spring of word, and I counselled him beautifully and tenderly to wash himself and to stand clean beside Me and then to feed himself cleanly, and to love cleanly, to love prayer and not to live without it between himself and God. To fast according to the ordinance I taught him and accustomed him; and therefore every son who wants himself of this word and people has to fulfil at all times the fast of three days in the week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, without oil and wine, apart from the days marked for a loosening among the church feasts; as also on the other days, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, adding oil and wine and monastic food, vegetables and fruits, grains and seeds, roots and nuts of every kind, food with greens, as I told the man of the beginning to listen and to live, feeding himself so; but he did not listen, neither he nor his followers; but now, at the end of time, I must build Myself a people who shall feed themselves after the ordinance given by Me now for him who stands near with his walking after My will; and if he cannot, he chooses to stand aside if so he chooses to do; but if he does not like being aside he must obey exactly, lest, not obeying, he draw upon himself the things of disobedience, which then speak their word, drawing him aside, as happened with those who did not obey and lost the walking with Me and wanted marriage, loved to sin and set aside the clean ordinance if they went toward marriage; and all that is apart from the birth of sons was sin to them and was written down to them as fornication, pleasure and bodily taste, for they did not want to love heaven and the Lord, Who paid upon the cross the sin of man.
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.
Therefore let the sons of this word be known by their spirit, by their dress, by their bearing, by their love, by their food, by all the things which I, the Lord, teach them, for the sons of the world are so foreign to Me with their life. And behold, at this meeting of Mine with you My book was open and there was read from it, from the years past, that the people of this word shall be distinct and separated from all the world upon the earth and shall have a holy walking, and so I, the Lord, keep it for Myself as My people. (The Book of The Word of God, vol. 3, p. 367, col. 2 — 11/24 September 1978, editor's note).
And I call to mind again and set in My book of today the counsel given for the brothers and sisters of this people, that I taught you and often repeated to you not to speak at the edges two by two, three by three, oh, sons, for this habit strikes at the love of God and of the brothers. Oh, even if your conscience is not heavy when you do not listen to this counsel, there comes a moment when you shall have pain, when you shall see what you have lost and no longer have, and you shall see that you erred through your scattering, through your idle speaking at the edges, through the weakening of the cleanness of the heart and through the lost time, which you can no longer bring back.
Oh, every time has had its share of someone to share out doubts and then the weakening of brotherly love; but if the Christian had not received it, oh, there would not have happened to him the losing of the holy power and of the fire of the first love, which helped him at the beginning to understand and to be able, he also, with God as the others who kept their faithfulness and their love.
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!
Sons, sons, on the day which has passed I stayed with you in a hidden way. How warm it was for Me in some of you! How sweet I felt the tenderness of the spirit in some of you! How beautifully I was set in you by those who bring Me from heaven to you with My word of a merciful Shepherd! What a stirring of love and of the humility of the heart was set in you by those who work for you between Me and you!
Oh, sons, how beautiful it is with God! The cunning have no share in this great grace, for they are unsteady and have discontents, even if they were to have no such right. Therefore be clean of heart always, through however many tests you might pass so that your love and your faithfulness which is for Me may be proved in you.
I give you now My embrace of Shepherd with great mercy for you, and I shall look toward you moment by moment to see how much you have prized this merciful moment from Me toward you, oh; and I send you now the whole book of this meeting, and soon I shall again leave My word in the book and shall shepherd My obedient people, the one which lets itself be shepherded and which much comforts Me, receiving Me with My counsel fulfilled with great care toward all the things which I, the Lord, have set in writing now for those at My right hand through the fulfilment of My word.
I end now My word and set My name upon My book with you, with which I have shepherded you now. I am Jesus Christ, The Word of God I am, oh, sons. Amen, amen, amen.