The Word of God about the Book of the Lamb (The Book of Life) by Jesus Christ - HTML preview

{1} 1 God’s Word in "Holy Citadel New Jerusalem" monastery, Glodeni – Romania, redactor note.

{2} 2 Translated by I.A.

{3} 3 Regarding the significance of the sun, moon and stars, see Genesis: 37/9-10. Today: the sun is head of the church - the Patriarch (or Pope of Rome for Catholics), moon, those dealing with domestic issues, community – that priests and our brothers are stars falling (spades) from the kingdom of heaven, r.n.

{4} 4 Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος Georgios; Latin: Georgius; AD 275–281 to 23 April 303)

{5} 5 Doina – lyrical poetry specific to the Romanian folklore which expresses a feeling of longing, of mourn- ing, of rebellion, of love, etc., being usually accompanied by an adequate melody; a musical variety of the folk- loric Romanian creation, characterized by its deep emotiveness and especially based on the feeling of longing, A good example by Doina is: Doina mourning or Mocirita & Doina de jale by Gheorghe Zamfir, r.n.

{6} 6 46 MT = 45 LXX

{7} 7 Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates) are sometimes used with dates to indicate either whether the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January (N.S.) even though documents written at the time use a different start of year (O.S.), or whether a date conforms to the Julian calendar (O.S.), formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian (N.S.)

The Church Calendar (in Romania) up to 1924 was the same as that of Nicaea, based on severe apostolic canons, but in 1924, the Scripture of the prophet Daniel was fulfilled: «the people made bold to even change the times», when the primate metropolitan - of that time, Miron Cristea, (Primate metropolitan = (in the past) a title given to the first metropolitan of a country; today it would be equal to that of a patriarch) introduced the Gregorian Calendar (Catholic) as result of a „pan-Orthodox” congress that took place in 1923, in Constantinople. At that congress, the patriarch of that time, Meletie, proposed the acceptance of the „revised” Julian Calendar, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar) which was in accord with the Catholic one for a period up to the year 2800 and „it was allowing that all the feasts to be celebrated at the same time with those of other confessions”. «… and he shall wear out the saints of the Most High and he shall think to change the times and the law…» (Daniel 7/25), r.n.

{8} 8 «And at that time Michael the great prince shall stand up, that stands over the children of your people: and there shall be a time of tribulation, such tribulation as has not been from the time that there was a nation on the earth until that time: at that time your people shall be delivered, even every one that is written in the book.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

The wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and some of the many righteous as the stars unto ages of ages.

And you, Daniel, close the words and seal the book to the time of the end; until many are taught and knowledge is increased». (Dan: 12/1-4)

{9} 9 «All the powers of the heavens shall melt and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll of book: …» (Is: 34/4)

«The sky has tightened like a leather book that you make a scroll. …» (Apoc: 6/14)

{10} 10 «Then the Lamb [Greek “He”] came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One Who sat on the throne.

When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four presbyters fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

They sang a new song, saying:

You are worthy to take the book,

and to open its seals:

for You were killed,

and bought us for God with Your blood,

out of every tribe, language, people, and nation.

You have made us kings and priests to our God,

and we will reign on [Or “over”] earth». (Apoc: 5/7-10)