Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Be Kind to Old People and Children

Jesus visits the house of a grandmother named Johanna who has a group of children gathered around her. With the permission of Jesus, one little boy named Marjiam speaks to every body with the wisdom he gained from Jesus. Marjiam says, "We must not make old people weep. In actual fact we must not make anybody weep because those who grieve their neighbor grieve God. The Master is kind to everybody. But he is more than kind and loving with old people and children because children are innocent and old people suffer. They have already wept so much! We must love them twice, three times, ten times, for those who no longer love them. Jesus always says that he who does not honor an old person is doubly-wicked, like he who ill-treats a child because old people and children cannot defend themselves. So be good to your old mother." (V. 3, Ch. 308, P. 174). It is cruel to make children and old people suffer because they are helpless.

The Need to take care of our Body

Jesus sends one of his disciples, John of Endor, to Antioch for missionary work. While advising him, Jesus says, "It is sinful to be avaricious for the future, which, perhaps, we shall never see. But it is not sinful to be thrifty to secure a piece of bread, also for one's relatives, when there is a shortage. The selfish care of one's body is sinful, when a person demands that all those around him should worry about him, and avoids all work or sacrifice lest his body should suffer, but it is not sinful to preserve it from wasteful diseases, the result of imprudent behavior, which diseases are a burden for relatives and a loss of profitable work for ourselves. Life is given by God. It is a gift of His. Consequently we must make a holy use of it, without being imprudent or selfish." (V. 3, Ch. 311, P. 187). 

On another occasion Jesus stresses the importance of remaining healthy, "It is our duty to preserve healthy, as long as God so wishes, or order to be useful to ourselves, to our relatives, to our town and to the whole country." (V. 3, Ch. 294, P. 114).

The Need to give Testimony

While speaking in the main square at Aera, Jesus says about faith and giving testimony, "They will say so many things against me, to persuade you to abandon the Light. I say to you: "Reply to the tempters with your silence". When the strength of the Lord descends into the hearts of those who believe in Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior, then you will be able to speak, because you will not speak, but the very Spirit of God will speak through your lips, and your souls will be firm in Grace, strong and invincible in faith. Be preserving. That is all I ask of you. Remember that God cannot agree to the witchcraft of His enemy. Let your sick people, those who have been comforted and whose souls have received peace, speak among you, only through their presence, of Him who came among you to say to you: "Persevere in my love and in my doctrine and you will receive the Kingdom of Heaven". My works speak even more than my words, and although it is perfect blessedness to be able to believe without the need of any proof, I let you see the wonders of God, so that you may be fortified in your faith." (V. 3, Ch. 296, P. 125).

The meaning of 'Jesus came to bring War'

After the conversion of Zachaeus, Jesus says to the author, "….Bear in mind that not to do evil serves only to avoid hell. To enjoy at once beautiful Paradise one must do good, as much good as one can do, struggling against oneself and other people, because I said that I had come not to bring peace but war, also between father and children, brothers and sisters, when such war was to defend the will of God and His Law against the abuse of human will aiming at what is contrary to what God wants." (V. 4, Ch. 415, P. 16). 

I understand that as good and evil always exist and cannot go together, there will always be fights among members of the same family in terms of who is doing according to the will of God and who is not. Those who do the will of God may have to undergo sufferings in the hands of those who do not do the will of God. 

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