Jacob became a God-fighter, which translates to ‘Israel’.
But ‘God–fighter’ is a negative concept, a God-fighting one… How is it that the church is called a bogoboritsa?
Truly so! Her struggle, like Gethsemane, is a struggle in love: when the Most High, diminishing, wants us to get the better of Him, just as Jacob got the better of ‘Someone fighting him’.
The angel defeated God. After which, it is said, he called that place «Penuel» – a place where they see God in the face.
God wants us to ‘conquer’ him in a sense: to respond to His love – and he, who longs to be in our arms, will rest like a baby, and like a weak one, becoming like us. For it is fitting for us as children to be in his arms, so that we also become like him.
This is His language, called humiliation: belittling in love. He longs to say as Someone said to Jacob, who was struggling with him, when he embraced Him:
– Let Me go, for the morning has come, and the dawn has dawned.
In the same way, we need to love the Most High Father so much, embrace Him so much (!) and hold on to Him so that He, happy and contented, says: ‘Now put Me down. The dawn has risen, and I have many other souls whom I wish to embrace with love. Let Me Go!’
Embrace of love
The divine Someone, the divine ‘beyond that’, is an absolutely incomprehensible God, who transmitted the same love longing, the Gethsemane struggle of love, when He, the All-Conqueror, wants to be devoted to us – to surrender so that we do not let Him go.
In his longing for love , He says:
– Now let Me Go.
He does not leave first: now we, filled, can let Him go. This is already another, completely new language, far from the fall (when he expels): the embrace of love.
However, in order for Him to stay after leaving, God damages the compound on Jacob’s thigh: nothing more than a symbolic image of our vulnerability to the suffering of the Lamb of Christ.
May we also be wounded by the sacred disease of love for the crucified Christ! For so much light comes from her that Golgotha, the place of His crucifixion, is truly illuminated by Tabor. From the height of the Tabor of His glory, the cross is visible.
His appearance in glory is near and it is already being performed at the liturgy. Our holy Lady, the Mother of a new life without sin, the Queen, the Ever-Virgin, brings the glory of Christ to our hearts, the air and everywhere on earth.
Grace to you and the blessing of Jerusalem above to be victorious in the battle against the devil and defeated, and struck by the arrow of love for Christ!
Here is another mystery: having comprehended the love of God, Jacob saw Him as He is! Therefore, he erected a stone and a monument on the spot, saying: ‘I saw God with my own eyes.’
It is possible to see God firsthand with a new, open heart in the embrace of love! For His face is a multiplying love, accessible to spiritual vision at the highest levels of perfection.
And what’s next?
Jacob has been tormented for many years by a paranoid fear of death from Esau, because he received the succession from Isaac in a special way, although providentially blessed.
His brother, burning with anger, promises to kill Jacob. And according to legend and according to some mystical tales of the Haggadah and the Talmud, Esau also promised to kill Rebekah, who took the side of Jacob.…
That is why Jacob’s struggle is also the struggle of the world, which was given to him on the eve of his meeting with Esau.
If a divine Someone had not come and Jacob had not defeated him, perhaps Esau, who was walking with four hundred soldiers, would have killed Jacob and all his relatives, wives, children, cattle… Everything would have ended very badly – which is impossible, because God promised to always be with Jacob and keep him.
Today, before the liturgy, we performed the prayer of the ladder rapture (when God appeared at the top of the stairs to Jacob, who lay down by an oak tree and put a stone under his head).
So, Jacob, who has known the love of God in the divine embrace, opens his heart. He, who did not hide from the face of the Almighty Father, is no longer hiding from the face of his brother! He… suddenly sees his brother’s cross.
The very next morning, it is said, Jacob ran and saw his brother Esau. He saw him with different eyes already! He saw in a former enemy, in a brother who became an enemy, Someone who is closer to him than he is to himself!
The one who has seen clearly is the true master and successor from Abraham, Isaac… calls himself his slave, and longs to serve him!
Deeply shocked by the presence of God in Jacob, Esau is forced to admit: God wants to be with Jacob!.. He embraces his brother, and tears of emotion and joy flow from both of them.
Russia will become a great power of the world
A new era is coming.
Christianity has already firmly established itself on earth. There is no need for him to fight with other religions in order to establish himself. Islam – established, Buddhism – established, Judaism – approved… There is no need for religions to fight anymore!
However, now heaven wants something else – the peace of Jacob and Esau, the revelation of love during Jacob’s Gethsemane struggle with God.
After all, Christ also won the victory in his struggle. He also struggled with his Father, at the beginning saying: ‘No – I can’t. I can’t do it anymore’, showing us the very necessary struggle of Israel, the God–fighter, on the last forces.
Just as earlier individual religions asserted their uniqueness and uniqueness by suppressing and alienating others, so now they will be affirmed by accepting others.
Having opened our hearts, we will say to the Mohammedans: ‘Christ lives in you.’ Our Muslim brothers will exclaim: ‘And Allah lives in you!’.
We will tell them, ‘You are the children of Christ.’ They will answer: ‘We recognize Christ as a great prophet, along with Muhammad, and the Blessed Virgin as His pure Mother.’
– If so, and the mission of Christ is open to you, may God bless you! But we want to tell you that the Mother of Christ, the great prophet and King of the anointed, the Messiah, and God, is also the Mother of Muhammad. She is the Mother of God, and he is the prophet of the One She is the Mother of!
And they will accept and rejoice, and that’s how the great victory in heaven will be accomplished! It is called the Gospel of the Kingdom.
The age of churches, sects, institutions, confessions, denominations is coming to an end – everything that splits up and causes wars. The time of kingdoms begins. The eighth day is coming – the Kingdom of God on earth! The third millennium is the time of the Kingdom.
It will be preceded by purifying cataclysms, and we need to hurry in peace, because the enemy is not asleep, wanting to destroy the entire Adam family, plunging it into terrible global wars and an apocalyptic conflagration.
We will prevent, by the grace of the Most Holy Lady, this disaster!
And Russia, we believe, which was previously an evil empire for the whole world, a hotbed of war and hatred, will become a great power of the world in the most spiritual sense.
Even if the word peace has been profaned in every possible way, but there are many of its meanings: God-thinking, liturgical, Eucharistic… The world as a combination with God; the world as the life of God in us and us in Him.
Russia will become the power of the world and will lead humanity to the light of the third millennium.
The power of the Kingdom descends to earth. And we will be the creators of it!