1.5. The People of Israel according to the Flesh
– Oh, my Son, Who are full of word now, in the end of the time! In the time of Moses, when You had been speaking into the midst of the people of Israel for forty years on its way to Canaan, You had appeared as a strong God over the nations of the earth so that they might become the way of Your path with the people of Israel from place to place to the land of promise, but like Adam in paradise, Your people became haughty and fell from the way, and that people fell because of its haughtiness, because its haughtiness made it forsake You and forget You, Lord. However, You had accompanied the people with great word to support it somehow and that it might not deny You among the nations. You made it the light of the nations in that time, for You were that light into its midst. However, it became darkness, for it hid from Your commandments and it did no longer have You as its Savior, neither You nor Moses, for woe to the one who doubts after he believes before he sees!
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Assumption of August 28, 2008
Now We have come down, in the end of the time, with the glory of Your word on the earth, and You work again the word of man’s creation as You did when You spoke to Moses for the people of Israel to make it a kingdom of God. God’s kingdom is there where God speaks and where He can work with His power, but the man has always stood against and become haughtier and haughtier in the face of God, as it also was with the people in the time of Moses, to which You had been speaking for more than forty years and into whose midst We had greatly showed Our glory and power spoken by the word to be and to work on sight so that God might have a people among nations.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration of August 19, 2008
I had done great and much work in the time of Moses for My victory for the Israel people of that time and who were caught into slavery in Egypt as a reward of his sins, the reward of his haughtiness, and from it, the reward of not loving and fearing God. And if Israel cried with repentance and humility, I lifted him to be victorious and skilful in faith and humility and through Him I had showed My mercy to Israel, who was crying waiting for Me to stretch out his hand and to take him again into My bosom. I spoke to Moses and I told Him everything I was about to do by My strong hand and by his hand for those who mourned calling Me to save them. My power worked wonderfully against the power of the haughty man who was ruling over My people enslaved in Egypt because of his trespasses. However, My mercifulness is woken up when repentance and humility cries out to Me from man to show for Him My godly power, a power that the man cannot fight against, but who rather he gives up, because the man cannot do everything what only God can.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the saint martyr and archdeacon Stephen of January 9, 2006
The Jews saw My light when I, the Lord and the God of Israel made the blind from birth see?
excerpt from The Word of God on the sixth Sunday after Passover, of the blind man of June 1, 2003
However, My people of today, I made the blind man from birth see, and the rulers of the Jews judged Me that I violated their Sabbath, because I did this in a day of Sabbath, in their day of feast and their day of rest. They judged Me that I worked, but I worked out a miracle and not a human or earthly work and to the one who was blind and testified to them about the miracle of healing of his eyesight they judged him and said to him: «You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?».
Oh, My people, it was so blind the people of that time, which called itself God’s people by the grace of its forefathers from the beginning, through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and through Moses, whose disciples they said that they were! Israel was so blind and he said that everyone that is born with a disease is born in sins and of sins. Who was supposed to tell him that it was not good for the man to judge in the place of God? Who is supposed to tell the man if the man does not walk into My light? When My disciples saw the blind man from birth they asked Me: «Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?». And I answered them saying: «Neither did this man, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. I must work the works of Him Who sent Me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world». Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the sixth Sunday after Passover, of the blind man of June 1, 2003
I came into the world and I said: «While I am in the world, I am the light of the world». However, the world does not want Me. Those of that time did not want Me either; those of that time did not want Me either, who saw the miracle when I spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva to get wet and then I anointed the blind’s man eyeholes with the mud, of which I made eyes for the one who had no eyes. The world does not want Me to be its light, but I am the light of the world as long as I am into its midst. If the world does not see Me, it is judged, because I said when I made the eyes for the one who had not have any eye: «I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind».
Every man who does not love My teaching is blind. The man has no greater sin among others sins than the sin that he does not love My teaching, to see than and to walk in light, because I am the Light of the world, at the beginning and at the end, and the light is the word, My miracle by which I raise the dead. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God on the sixth Sunday after Passover, of the blind man of June 1, 2003
I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and I am the same from everlasting to everlasting, but My people Israel killed Me when I came because I released the obligation of Saturday and because I said that God was My Father and because I said that I also was God.
excerpt from The Word of God on the fourth Sunday after Passover, of the paralytic of May 18, 2003
I went to the sheep gate when the Jewish people was celebrating and increasing in number and I came near to the pool in which My angel used to come and touch those who were suffering to make well the one who would enter first into the water, and then the angel would leave; and I saw the one who had been suffering for thirty eight years, for no one was there to help him, and I said to him: «Do you want to be made well? Arise, take up your mat, and walk». And because it was Saturday, the Jews found cause to say to him that it was not lawful to take his mat and walk. Instead of marveling at him that he, who had been sick for so many years, could take his mat and walk on his foot they judged him and they judged Me as well after they found out that it was I who healed him and that I told him to take his mat and walk in a day of Sabbath. It was in vain that I told them that the Son could not do anything of Himself if He did not see His Father doing. It was in vain that I told them that My Father had been working by that time and that I had also been working.
excerpt from The Word of God on the fourth Sunday after Passover, of the paralytic of May 18, 2003
Oh, My people, when I ascended into glory from the disciples, they put Me among the invisible ones to help the man not to remain in the spirit of the temptation of God, but I told them: «I shall be with you to the end of the time». This is what I told to My disciples who wanted to ask Me about the time of the kingdom of Israel. If the kingdom of Israel had been the kingdom of God, he would have not needed his kingdom on the earth as he wanted, and as even today he wants and believes it. I told them that My kingdom is not from this world, but Israel did not like this. It liked to be a king through Me and this is what it wants even today. But only he, who has God’s kingdom with the word and deed, can be the king; the kingdom of incorruptibility, and the kingdom of the holiness. This and only this means kingdom. Amen.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Ascension of May 24, 2001
Oh, what Israel of old had done to Me! It was afraid not to lose its glory in which I established it in the midst of the nations of the earth, but it was not worthy of its glory from Me. And because it was not worthy, it was afraid of Me. If it had been used to the spirit of humility, Israel would have been glorified. However, because it was unworthy for glory, it tried to be glorified through the spirit of haughtiness and it had become great and it lost its glory by getting high against Me, for this is what I said: «The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified, and now is the judgment of this world, and its prince will be cast out». And it was so, because after My crucifixion that the rulers of the world put Me to, I was resurrected and they incurred an eternal disgrace because they loved human greatness more than God’s greatness. They glorified themselves before the nations, and they put Me down and tried to hide Me by the death they put Me to. They did not love My greatness and the one who does so remains in the darkness as the people of Israel has remained from then and until today. It was only I Who has been taking care not to destroy the fulfillment of My promises, and I have put aside a remnant beforehand, chosen by grace, so that it may be someone to judge Israel, from its midst.
excerpt from The Word of God at the feast of the Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem of April 8, 2001