1.3. The Fall of Man; the Fall of the Angels
The Father gave Me work to listen to Him, and the Father has been in Me from eternity. After the creation of heaven and earth and all that was created by the word, the Father sent Me to earth the first time, He sent Me to work on earth, and the earth was the footstool before My feet (See Isaiah 66:1); it was the dough from which I made man. And when I had finished the work given to Me by the Father, I placed the spirit of life in the man created from the earth in My image and likeness. Then the Father placed His wisdom in man and placed him before Him so that he might work the work given to him with obedience, and Adam named all of God’s creation and remained obedient as a child, until he wanted to be great, higher than his Father, and then the kingdom of the Father in him was shaken, and then he also was shaken and saw the reward of his disobedience.
excerpt from The Word of God at the Feast of the Lord’s Meeting of February 15, 2024
I created man and I put life in him to remain Mine and to work for Me and for himself, too, and then to enjoy the paradise and all its love. I created the paradise with so much love and it was only love for man, the garden of Eden was all beauty, all sweetness, all harmony, oh, and there would have been more than enough for man and for his soul in him. Oh, and then man fell from paradise, and this happened because he did not want Me to be with him, too; that is, he to be My son and both to have the paradise as a home and holy feast.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of the Prodigal son. The feast of the three saint hierarchs: Basil, Gregory and John of February 12, 2023
When I built man, I made him to be able to eat and then I hurried to make him a garden with holy food and I set him at the table and then told him what to eat and what not to eat of the good things of heaven. (Gen: 1/29) However, he did as every man on earth does, and resisted to obey and by so doing, he despised his Father and disobeyed. He could listen but did not choose this, and, therefore, he could no longer stay in the place where he violated his obedience to the Father and then man came out from under the will of God and lived on earth according to his will, working with sweat for his food, working since then and up to this day.
excerpt from The Word of God at the Synod of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel of November 21, 2022
I would glorify Myself over the earth all the time, only that someone may believe in Me and in My words, for the word is My glory, as with it I made the heaven, the man and all the creation between heaven and earth in order to put the man into its midst and that he may have dominion in My name over all things. However, because man did not work and did not live in My name, oh, he has become conceited more and more and wanted to be over My throne of glory, over the God of creation and man, and because he has become conceited above God, he has become My enemy.
I have taken a little bit of the man’s body that I had built and made the woman out of it, for I said: «It is not good that the man should be alone». (Gen: 2/18) And I gave him a helper. And because I gave him the woman, I put her before him and again man became conceited face to face with God and he said: «This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She will be called woman, because she was taken out of man». (Gen: 2/23) And I, the Lord, Who made his woman, no longer had the name of Maker, but only he and his word spoken with respect to his woman, and he said: «She is taken out of her man, therefore, a man will leave his father and mother, and will join with his wife and they will be one flesh». (Gen: 2/24) And since then, man has separated from God for his woman, but the woman separated Adam from paradise, for without God the man has no longer had the paradise as his home, and returns into the dust of which he was made. And I, the Lord, had to come on earth and to pay for the man’s life to snatch him from the enemy, who deceived him by this woman, so that I could be able to give him life from God again, and behold, I am coming on earth as word to teach him to know Me and to believe in Me and in My words, to follow Me as a disciple, as followed Me the disciples two thousand years ago with whom I walked to prove Myself before them as God of God and so that they might confess Me far and wide by My sending them all over the earth and by their word for My confession the man may receive the power to become a son of God.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Saints Apostles Peter and Paul of July 12, 2022
Oh, how shall I not cry? I built the man with such great love in order that I may dwell in him. I had looked at My image and so I made the clay which I moulded with My own hands and made it a man and then I dwelt in him breathing from My inside over him the spirit of life of My life, of My being, and I stayed face to face and spoke then with this creature and gave him the rank of a cherubim, and in the same way I gave him work to do; I gave him to work and keep as his work given to him to do, oh, and it was no chance for Me to remain one with him. I gave him to fulfill holy work and I set him to protect the law of paradise as well as that of a cherub, and I adorned him like Me on the day when I placed him. However, he shook the angelic armies that knew he was great and served him, as one made by God, and submitted to him; oh, and the creature God created fell into haughtiness and with it the angels near to God fell too, and those closer to God fell with all their group, with their leader, because the man thought he was great, he thought that he was God, and man wanted to be over God, as it is written that he was thinking in the time of his fall.
excerpt from The Word of God on the sixth Sunday of the Lent, of the Palm Sunday: The Feast of the Lord’s Entrance in Jerusalem of April 25, 2021
I was working happily, I was working by the word and the heaven and the earth appeared, and after every fulfilled word I was looking and saying: «It is good!». However, after I had made the man, I lost the entire happiness all of a sudden and pain came, and even from the beginning the man has inflicted pain on Me, because he has wanted to be more than he is, and he who is not satisfied with how he is and what he is, that one gives birth to the evil spirit, the spirit against the wellbeing that comes from God and to God’s will with the man.
excerpt from The Word of God to the nations on earth and to their leaders, at the Feast of the Saint Hierarch Spyridon of December 25, 2020