But it cannot be the same for the Lamb when he introduces himself to the world. Foretelling the Saviour is one thing, and this is what the Scripture does. But being him at the appointed time and to demonstrate it to the incredulous is another, I tell you. So be attentive and patient. Because if I would not first open your mind on the Scriptures in order for you to at least be capable of reading the psalms and Isaiah, and if I would not afterwards teach celestial things, you could not have confidence in me, nor understand what I say.
However, the moment has come for you to understand what is shown in the book of life and to follow my instructions, otherwise you would perish. For that, you must leave your religions! But I know it would be easier for me to tear up trees with my bare hands than to withdraw the religions from amongst you. This is why, in these ultimate days, the religious sects will kill even more men than they have ever done all along the centuries. But you will not believe it, because you will say: He resurrected three persons, and then he died on a cross because of the Jews!
How then will you see me as the one who comes to graze his sheep? Or then again if you say, incredulously: Could you then allow me some time to explain that it is as such and it is to save you that the Father sends me?
I answer to the latter: You would then not be able to enter in the kingdom, because I am life and the narrow door through which you must go through in order to be saved. Did they warn you that the Son would suddenly come to put an end to the corrupted world? You are not of this or that religious obedience like you say, but only men who understand the Scriptures or do not understand them.
You belong only to God.
Remember it, because you depend of his breath and not some religious order. Indeed and even if it is obvious that, over the world, religions are loosing the peoples, no one could prevent men to believe in them. And it is because of this the end comes! Listen to me, you who has become hardened: He only wants you to circumcise your heart with his law brought by Moses, so your actions are favourable to his entire creation and to the upcoming generations.
For this, one must first look for God in order to grasp we are one of his homes, and exclude the laws coming from the men of darkness. No, there will be only the law from above to which all peoples will refer to, because it will enable them to remain free, to stay away from any danger and to live in serenity without closing any doors to the posterity. If not, give me some time to open your eyes.
After which, you will know that we can only live with a moral law that keeps man delivred from evil. If you do not believe me, I will not beg you. The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. Also ask them who is Emmanuel and why Jesus said at the end of the new testament: Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. Question them about baptism, the resurrection of the dead, and on the meaning of the expression: Let them explain to you what is the day of the renewal of all things, as well as the purgatory, the passover and the last judgment, and also what is the separation of the goats from the sheep as foretold the last day.
Let them speak to you about the beast and the false prophet, as well as the fights of the Lamb to defeat the corrupted world, what he has to do with the Son of man that Jesus foretells relentlessly. Do not forget to also ask them what the kingdom is, and make sure they answer you publicly, in front of everyone. Then, you will know who is who, and what exactly is your religion in darkness. Your salvation and that of your offspring go through these interrogations, will you refrain from it? But your attitude towards him today will also be the one of narrow and sectarian spirits, because for them, the coming of the Son at the last day is a story.
Those who claim to be christian in order to polish their image, will they follow the Son of man today? We will see, we will see… But there is something sure that will lose many, it is that they will mistrust me and not themselves. It is known that the one who tells the truth is rejected by all. However, the Scriptures testify of me, and this entire book testifies of me as well; because it is the Father who prescribes to me everything I must say.
Therefore, I recommend to all of you to not be suspicious about me, but to be suspicious about yourselves, and of your way to receive me. I do not come to humiliate you. I come on the contrary to enlighten and elevate you to the sky in order to save you; because in the whole universe, there is no greater creature than a humble man of heart and saint of mind. When one is from God and walks with him, one has nothing to be afraid of. But great is the danger when one is not on his side and that there are only elevated men for help and refuge. Hence a certain fears who engenders the stupid worshippers of statues and fetishes, as well as the superstitious.
Matter is matter, and those who worship statues and fetishes are impious! I disgust this race, and God has erased their names from the book of life. Since ever they are rejected from God, because it is written in the psalms:. But their idols are silver and gold, Made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak, Eyes, but cannot see. They have ears, but cannot hear, Noses, but cannot smell. They have hands, but cannot feel, Feet, but cannot walk, Nor can they utter a sound with their throats. Those who make them will be like them, And so will all who trust in them.
You shall not make for yourself a statue which are in aversion to the Eternal, your God. Is this prohibition not defied however by the religions and all those who refer to them? They claim to be religious men but they do the opposite of what God asked through his prophets, because they are faithful worshipers of Satan!
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These men are hypocrites from which you must stay away from now on. Because with their simulacrum and their ritual practices, they deceit credulous children who think they are seeing Scripture characters through illuminating gases on top of hills, in caves or along roadsides where decomposing bodies are found.
They then make exhibits out of these intrigues, in order to lure you to them. How many of you will die from this today, where you must follow the Son to keep your life? In this way, read Ezekiel, while being attentive to what God says to the Son of man regarding those who prostrate themselves before figures and statues furnishing the walls of their buildings where they gather. You will then understand why today, where the Son comes to separate the goats from the sheep, the statues will be the cause of a lot of deaths.
But all the peoples have been warned. They have chosen their own ways, And they delight in their abominations; So I also will choose harsh treatment for them And will bring on them what they dread. For when I called, no one answered, When I spoke, no one listened. They did evil in my sight, And chose what displeases me. Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, Following one who is among those, the religious who live apart the world Who eat the flesh of pigs, Rats and other unclean things the vile food of the spirit , They will meet their end together, declares the Lord.
Because of what they have planned and done. Most certainly, these are not quotations from the Scriptures that priests take in reading to you Abstain yourselves to follow them, because all they do is practice what is in aversion to the Eternal while still invoking Jesus who says:. Why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I say?
As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, Along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them And make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. But those who trust in idols, Who say to images, You are our gods!
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Will be turned back in utter shame. Flee from their priests and the superstitious they arouse, and who would have more self-confidence if they would confide in God. Do not lean against them, because they are like worm-eaten wood which does not support the weight of the wind! Condemned, the kingdom is closed to them; they will not enter it. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime.
The Awakening: The Resurrection
Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the institutionalized church. The novel also explores the economic philosophy of Georgism , of which Tolstoy had become a very strong advocate towards the end of his life, and explains the theory in detail.
It was first published serially in the popular weekly magazine Niva in an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Doukhobors. The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid had resulted in her being fired and ending up in prostitution.
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Ten years later, Nekhlyudov sits on a jury which sentences the maid, Maslova, to prison in Siberia for murder poisoning a client who beat her. The book narrates his attempts to help her practically, but focuses on his personal mental and moral struggle. He goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that below his gilded aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of cruelty, injustice and suffering. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.
The book was eagerly awaited. Despite its early success, today Resurrection is not as famous as the works that preceded it. Some writers have said that Resurrection has characters that are one-dimensional and that as a whole the book lacks Tolstoy's earlier attention to detail. By this point, Tolstoy was writing in a style that favored meaning over aesthetic quality. The book faced much censorship upon publication. The complete and accurate text was not published until