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The Word of God[1] at the Feast of the Saint Apostle, the first Martyr and Archdeacon, Stephen

I come and I keep coming on earth, I am coming in the feasts, I am coming with the feasts, I am coming from near God the Father, and I am speaking from above, and the voice of My mouth becomes word and is placed into its book and is put on the way to go from place to place and that I may be proclaimed from margins to margins that Jesus Christ, the Word of God, (Apoc. 19/13)[2] is coming on earth as word and is preparing the day of His glory with it, of His appearance in the clouds, as it is written that the Lord will be seen by His faithful ones and by His adversaries, (See the selection topic: „He comes in the same way as He ascended: He comes with the clouds”, r.n.) but no one would be able to show his power or disbelief, and it will be only joy for those who wait for Him, and there will be only great terror for those who did not want to know of Him and of His word with which He is coming now to proclaim His kingdom and the work of the renewal of the world, as it is written.

I come down and keep coming in the word to you on earth, sons, the sons from the citadel of My word. I am coming down in the feasts and spend time with you speaking to you from above to set on the way My speaking with you, the word with which I come to you on earth. I have prepared your faith and calling to come near and to find the Lord speaking and to love to follow Him and then I have perfected Myself over you in the word and I have given you the adoption to be God’s sons and to take after Me so that you may be able to be God’s sons, for otherwise how shall someone become a son of the Lord if he does not look to see what He does and what a son of God is among those who are foreigners to this grace and to this great name?

Oh, sons, I am spending with you the feast in heaven of this day and which you have in the today’s spiritual work. The little young confessor, the disciple Stephen; it is his day of memorial today in heaven with Us and on earth with you and with those who, like you, keep the feasts of My saints back to their place in the calendar.  (See the selection topic: „The change of feasts - the denial (apostasy) of faith”, r.n.)

Oh, sons, I am exhorting now to look at all once and to see well the work of My disciples of that time and that of the disciples from disciples coming in that time by the work of the grace from above, when My church was growing and growing in the trial of the that time and when the rulers of Jerusalem chose to inflict a severe persecution, harder and harder, over My walking through the disciples on earth. Then I wanted to choose Paul and to make him an apostle over the Gentiles, oh, and I had to let him fall deeply so that he may know after that Who Christ is and to stop breathing storm over My flock which was growing more and more behind the grace making of miracles through My apostles and through their disciples, for I, the Lord, was working powerfully by their great faith, for the well-established faith has great power, that which is steadfast through all kinds of trials, sons.

Well sons, My Church had life and power of spirit thorough My confessors in its midst, and behold, this little and young Stephen, was kindled in the spirit before the Synod of priests in Jerusalem and he confessed Me before them, after he had showed them all God’s mystery and work over the people of Israel, and who strengthened their headstrongness so that they may not follow their Lord, the Lord of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the Lord of all the prophets, for this people kept on resisting through its rulers upon them lest they might lose their greatness and pride of being great and gods, and behold, it was so, and this has always been on earth, for some rulers are sitting over Christ’s flock, over the little ones, of whom they are not taking any care, for they are only staying under the name of rulers over those under them just as it was two thousand years ago, and I, the Lord, can hardly walk with My order in the people and I am walking through the little ones, through the confessors of the love of God, the confessors of one truth, sons, oh, and there have always been confessors, sons, for what really would have happened if they have not been over time to leave the power of the working faith down to those after them and My confession to go on, that is My spirit to go on to the end and to be in the confessing disciples to the end, sons?

Behold the one celebrated today through My church, the confessor Stephen, a brilliant knower of the Scriptures of the Holy Spirit, of the history of God’s work between heaven and earth! 

Oh, you, fresh fruit of that time of My church, a little bud opened at that time, coming out of My love into the midst of an unfaithful people and stiff-necked, come near your Lord as word now! Come, it is your day among the saints and martyrs, come, sit down to confess for the Lord, your God!

― Oh, my dear Lord, my love at that time, You embraced me in Your love and then You were my love and this proved me to be Yours before the synod of priests, of scribes and Pharisees, before whom I was taken in bondage to be judged of blasphemy against God, against Moses and against Israel. This lie had been well concocted so that they could find Me guilty in some way and to give me over to death, but I was strengthened in the spirit and I stood before them seized by the love, full of the apostolic flame, and which did not release me from its heat, oh, and I placed You with all Your work before them, that from the parents and through the prophets and I showed to all of them how narrow-minded they really were, how foreign they were from the truth of the Scriptures, from You, Israel’s God, oh, and I told them who they were, those liars, who stood over the multitudes without being worthy of this, and You, Lord, opened the heavens and looked at me and for me to see You, the One I was confessing; to see the Father and to see His beloved Son on His right, the crucified and resurrected One with great victory against death, Lord. On that moment of my confession, of that spectacle of the glory above me, the spirit of jealousy flew completely into rage in them and picking up stones they threw them at me, Lord; however, with Your love within me, I prayed for their forgiveness, for they did not know, poor of them, almost anything of Your greatness in those who confessed You. Oh, what shall You ask from those who have nothing to give? They are ungrateful, poor of them, but we, the wise ones from You, know from You, Lord, and we do know.

Then great hatred rose in the rulers of the people and they breathed persecution over the disciples, but in spite of this many approached and came to be disciples, many of the priests and Your confessing church and the grace of the holy miracles were growing and the flock was increasing as well.

I pray to You, lover of people, Lord, even if You are working so mysteriously now to be able to go through the unbelievers and lovers of passing life and without any price for it, oh, and I am praying with burning and I am praying with longing as well, do something to be seen with great brightness the work of Your grace and let many more become God’s sons by strong faith and by the work of the life lived after Your pleasure, after the likeness to You of those who find You and take in them the grace of the Holy Spirit to follow You, Lord, and to wait for Your glory and for Your visible return, for we have been waiting for a long time. (See the selection topic: „The coming in a visible way”, r.n.) All the saints wait with longing, Lord, Your appearance face to face with the unbelief on earth and with its people, to be ashamed and to give them the time of grace, the time of returning to God, the time of repentance, Lord. Oh, this is my longing and my prayer to You on my day of the feast among Your confessing saints. Amen.

― Oh, how sweet is your prayer, how loving, son and disciple in My image and after My likeness! How shall I leave such a prayer not to be fulfilled? You were a great confessor and worked, willing or not, at the election of the apostle of the Gentiles, Paul, the apostle, risen to the work of Christ over the nations, and he humbled himself, prayed, turned back and became a little lamb by My revelation before Me and he gave birth to lambs and grew them with the milk from above and he worked very much in My vineyard at that time and then to this day by his confession, for the Scriptures have been testified and the wise ones by faith have risen to their likeness to Me, and behold, I walked and keep walking through disciples and I walk through confessors as well.

Thirty years after My birth on earth, I have waited for the time to be fulfilled and to show the glory of My divinity and then to leave My work to go further to the end, until I will come again among people, oh, sons.

Then more than three years, after I came out of Jordan, baptized by John, I wrote My Gospel and left it to the disciples to carry all over and to write on earth and over the people God’s name, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and the people to have the true God as their God. Behold, people cannot do this, and now, sons, who have received My word, I have you here to reign on earth, oh, and God will overcome in order to write His name in many hearts and they will seek God, for this is how God will do to be their looking for Him over the people.

Now, peace to you, sons, so that I may walk further with you for My confession! Give power to My grace over you, sons! Only it, only My grace can set down Me on earth and over the people; only it and its work full of heavenly miracles among people, sons, and peace to you through My grace upon you, oh, sons! Amen, amen, amen.

09-01-2022. (N.S.) (27-12-2021 - Old style / after the Julian calendar[3])

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