1.3. The Fall of Man; the Fall of the Angels
Even from his beginning in the Garden Eden, man has been speaking and he has not been speaking as God Who made him. The sin of ingratitude has made its nest in man even from paradise and because of this, man lost the paradise, and the paradise lost man, the one for whom the paradise was made by God and behold: «The ox knows his owner, but man does not know God», (See Is: 1/3), as it is written in the prophets.
I am coming down on earth to make the man know Me by My word and then to wait for Me and to ask for My advice. Let man reason with Me, and let Me reason with him, as it is for this that I built him, and I built him like that when I kneaded him out of dust and then I gave him breath of life and thus I made him into a living being. I am coming down on earth now, in the end of the time, to make see those that do not see and to take the sight of those who say that they see, for man has been despising Me even from his beginning with Me.
excerpt from The Word of God on the sixth Sunday after Passover, of the blind man from birth of May 9, 2010
Oh, the man did not listen not to touch those that were God’s good things, those that only God had to know, to keep under control and to protect the man from tempting God; however, man wanted to tempt God’s being and so he did, and then he saw his fall and was afraid of God and wanted to hide. However, I was walking and speaking over him and when I called him to answer Me where he hid, he died, he died to Me, for he who knows like God longs after himself and not after God and he does no longer have God to be great upon him, because he hides from Him, as Adam did. He, who hides, hides because of the evil in him, and men blame each other and from one another before God, as it was in the beginning and after man knew evil and thus becoming sin in man, that is God’s death in man.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of Adam’s expulsion from paradise of February 14, 2010
Adam had an immortal body, but his disobedience clothed him in a mortal body, in which the lust and the sin dwell together, and Adam took himself in his thought and put God away from him. Oh, it is not well with the man to live with himself in his own thought but with Me, for he who lives within his own self in his thought that one does no longer have God in him, in his thought, but only for fear, and the fear makes the man tired and it makes him hide as Adam did. I exhorted the man to seek to get away the sin of tempting God, and no longer commit this sin, for when Adam gave up his listening to God, he also started to tempt God and His work, His being and His wisdom, thinking that he might get above God, but his body, on that very moment, became mortal, for I told him that in the day he would violate My command he would die, and Adam had to fall from paradise then, like the one who would die in his body, and thus he inflicted this sufferance on the whole human race that has come after him.
Oh, behold how much damage a man who sins does! Instead of being good, instead of being obedient, instead of fasting, as I told him to do, Adam wanted to be above God and started to tempt God’s being and His work, by which everything has been made. Adam did not see Me but he only heard My voice and My walking, and with gentleness I asked him when he hid: «Have you broken My word?». (See Gen: 3/12)
Man has been asking himself why I did not stop Adam in due time and why I told him only after he had sinned against Me and against himself. Oh, I know what I did. I made the man out of My love and I wanted him to love Me as well, but if he does not want, then love does not have to be pushed from behind, but rather man has to do this freely, for it is no love otherwise. Even when I questioned him about his disobedience, I did it with gentleness, for I was the One Who had to be loved by the one built by Me for the love between Me and him afterwards. Love does not punish when it is in man, and I was the Love and I worked with gentleness before the one who trampled love, for this is how love works. Whoever does not have love does not have it at all, but he who has it, then love becomes pain in the one who has no way how to put it to rest.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of Adam’s expulsion from paradise of February 14, 2010
I am descending with a great sigh and with great brokenness of spirit and body; I am descending to the people of My word, which believes in My coming having long endurance for My pains and asking from Me powers, comforts and My coming to him to comfort him always in his endurance and wounds, for I am the endless mercy and I watch with great mercy for those who mourn and cry under all that strike against them because of the envy of the opposing devil, who has served man in his most painful moment for God, for the man I set in paradise was disobedient to God and listened to himself, and the angels served him as they served Me, and since then man has been doing Me harm. Since then there have been black angels as well, who pull the man out from Me, as the man paved the way for their falling from the light, from the ministry they were dedicating to Me closer than any other angelic armies, and behold, those who were My closest servants caused Me the greatest sufferance and since then they have been hostile to Me, for they fell into the man’s service, which punished Me by his fall from paradise, for the self-will took the man out of My arm and threw him down on earth.
excerpt from The Word of God on the Sunday of Adam’s expulsion from paradise of March 1, 2009
In a spirit of Epiphany I am embracing you in this day, My people. I am comforted within the feasts when I speak with you. It is a great comfort for God when He has someone to speak with on earth. Every man believes that I am happy near the Father, but My work given from the Father in My obedience was and is man. I am comforted when I can do something for man; however, I have little help from man. When I made the heaven, the earth, and all those visible and invisible things, I made them for man. Oh, the man does not know the pain he inflicted on Me when he pulled himself out of Me, withdrew into himself, and took away My happiness, for man was to be God’s happiness.
I am comforted with you, My people. There is great comfort when someone aggrieved and deeply wounded is able to speak about this wound. My wound is man. I breathed upon him with My mouth spirit of My Spirit when I kneaded him out of dust in My image, and I have it in him from Me and My wound in man makes Me suffer and man does not know how this comes. Oh, if a parent suffers so much from his child, fallen from him by disobedience, oh, how much sufferance has remained with God after man pulled himself out of Him and withdrew into himself!
excerpt from The Word of God at the synod of the saint John, the Baptizer of January 20, 2009