1999 21 Mar

The Word of God on the fourth Sunday of the Lent, of the Saint John Climacus, (or John of the Ladder) (Excerpt)

… Get drunk with longing, sons who are called by Me the people of My coming, for I come to those full of longing. The man gets drunk with wine, but the wine is a snake, and you know My mystery with you. The man has turned the wine into a snake. The man blames Me when he drinks wine, for he says that I have blessed the wine. No, man! I come against you and I say: no! I have blessed My cup, not your cup, and in My cup is sufferance not wine, for it is My Blood. Can you make the wine into My Blood? You cannot. Then be silent if you cannot do this. Be silent and do no longer sin against My mysteries, which are not from the earth, but are from heaven instead. Moreover, have you not seen what it happened to Noah if he made wine? Behold the wine is a snake and you say that this snake is holy. Only My Blood is holy, for I made wine into blood, and you turn the wine into sin. Only My Blood is holy; you bring about fun and not sufferance; you bring about death and not life, for it is written: «The wine rejoices the man’s heart».

Oh, sons, learn from Me, behold, from My speaking between Me and you, I give wisdom to the man. Oh, only if the man would receive the wisdom of the words to live and to be alive forever! Oh, sons, the man is careless, but I shake the heaven in such a way that My word may flow out from it over the earth and over the man who has dominion over the earth saying that the earth belongs to him. Behold, when I redeem the earth for Me, patch by patch, I struggle to pay to the man for the earth, for I want the earth to be Mine, because I made it, and not the man.

… I turn the heaven into a scroll, as I have prophesied. My book, which I give you to make it up upon you and over the earth, is called a scroll, the heaven made into a scroll, the word of the sky, which comes on earth and becomes scroll, the word of life, the holy word for a holy wisdom, the spirit of comfort for those who are comforted by Me, the spirit of joy for those who love My joy, the holy joy. Amen, amen, amen.