. 28:1-15; and do not forget how to read quotes with coordinates (the author of the verbal form and the book from which the quote is taken is indicated) – 20 chapters before the quoted passage, and not less than 20 chapters after it – in the broad, native context). “Your prophets (Ukrainian people – V. A.) have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity” (see Lam. 2:14). “If a man walking in the spirit of falsehood lies, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine and strong drink,’ he shall even be the prophet of this people” (see Mic. 2:11). He who has ears to hear, let him understand!
By the way, let us remind you that when you see verbal forms-indications with a reference (where the quote is taken from), it means that the author calls the prophet (or another author quoted) as a witness to the truthfulness of his own experience, which he testifies-reports, and that witness’s testimony should be read-understood in the broader native context of the work from which the quote is taken. And when there is a similarity-identity of verbal forms with some author, but there are no references to him (he is not called as a witness), the content of what is said should be understood only in the context of the word-book you are reading! The author took only the verbal form and used it for his own purposes, to achieve the goal set before him (filled it with his content-knowledge). The father of the word (verbal form) could use these words with a different meaning-content (filled the vessels – words-phrases he created – with the sense-content-spirit he wanted to convey to others), possibly even with the exact opposite of what the one who used this ready-made verbal construction-form-vessel means (e.g., the words “personality,” “hypostasis” (and others) were used by pagans with one meaning, and Christians filled them with a diametrically opposite content, so it is incorrect and very dangerous to read the holy fathers, understanding these words as pagans did and do (who are the “fathers” of the word); the same with rites and ceremonies borrowed from pagans (the fathers of the word) and filled with a different content; or the use of parables, analogies… – the “father of the word” emphasized one thing, and the one who used the ready-made parable, analogy… focuses the reader’s attention on another thing, using them to call in a different direction, pointing to another reality… When someone refers to someone (calls them as a witness to the truth of something), it means they know-believe the same way, and when this is not the case, then even if they speak the same way, it says nothing about their faith-knowledge (although Christians and heretics use the same texts of Holy Scripture, their faith-knowledge is incompatible; for example, heretics of the UOC-KP read the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, which the Church of Christ uses, the words are pronounced by both Christians and heretics of the UOC-KP, the same, but the experience of knowledge is diametrically opposite: Christians point to the parish-eucharistic experience-knowledge of the Kingdom of God – the life of the Holy Trinity, and heretics of the UOC-KP – the satanic (everyone is for themselves) way of living in the hell of alienation and isolation, so by the fruits of the UOC-KP it is visible that it is a synagogue of Satan and heresy). Keep this in mind when reading books.
We will say something about heresy. Heretics of the UOC-KP profess their faith “in One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church” and under these words understand not the Body of Christ (as the Church testifies-confesses, expressing its experience-knowledge of marital hypostatic life in Christ), but a synagogue of Satan – created according to the principle of hell: “each for himself”! When the Church speaks of heresy, it is not about formalities, not about words, but about spirit, about the way of existence (in death, alienation from life), different from the way of life in the Personal Unity in Freedom and Love, which is God-Trinity. The essence is not in formal dogmatic (verbal formulas-texts) differences with heretics (their – formal differences, verbal formulations-formulas – can be unified – to develop common symbols of faith, or heretics will sign under the existing Orthodox formulas-dogmas, that is, they will accept the formulas of the Church tradition), but in the spirit: heretics – the spirit of Satan, the Antichrist, and Christians – Christ’s, the Holy Spirit. Therefore, heretics need not to change words, not formal (texts, declarations, Scriptures), verbal confessions of faith, but to change the spirit, content, way of existence (because heretics can pronounce or sign any documents of any verbal form, but read (deceitfully or sincerely – it doesn’t matter) them in their own way, filling them with their satanic, anti-Christian spirit!). Therefore, the Church does not check words (dogmatic formulas), but discerns the spirit and commands its faithful: “discern the spirits whether they are of God, for even Satan himself transforms into an angel of light; do not look at the face, the external, the form – but at the spirit, the essence, the content!” Therefore, we do not need to check words (nowadays modern heretics do not openly oppose forms – they pronounce all the words of the Church tradition, accept all the rites) – there are no differences there now (regarding Catholicism, Protestantism, we are not talking about these old heresies-archetypes, everything is obvious there both in form and in spirit, and in fruits – and we have already said enough about this – see Part I). Modern heresy (of secularism-Satanism) is the most dangerous because for everything the Church says, heretics say: “amen!”!? The verbal clothing is the same as that of the Church, that is, heretics wear the image of “an angel of light” (over two thousand years of fighting against the Truth, the children of the devil have learned to deceive God’s people: if you do not want to accept our poison in our forms (Nestorianism or Monophysitism of various shades and modifications), we will give you the heresy of hellish existence (in satanic selfhood and egotistic alienation from being as personal humble-loving communion of hypostases of free beings, that is, from life) in your forms-vessels (that is, in the forms of the Church tradition: Scripture (the Bible, writings of the Holy Fathers and Mothers, Symbols of Faith… – literally identical), rites of Sacraments, ceremonies… – in one word, externally – Orthodox)! For example, all who consider themselves members of the Church of Christ (Orthodox and “Orthodox”) read-confess one and the same (in verbal form, literally) Creed (Nicene-Constantinopolitan, 381 AD). And when you ask: what do you sing about, Whom do you confess? Which “Father,” “Son,” “Holy Spirit”? About which “Church”? What are you waiting for eagerly? What is that “life” you dream of? – from the answer it immediately becomes clear what spirit they confess: the Holy, Christ’s, or Satan’s, anti-Christ’s! You start asking heretics: about whom are you speaking, about which “God the Father, Almighty,” whom do you name by that name (“God the Father, Almighty”), to which known reality (faith) do you point?! And it becomes clear that it is about the devil, all the signs-energies-fruits of Satan, “the prince of this world” (see John 12:31; Eph. 2:1-2), “the ruler of this world” (see 2 Cor. 4:4) (Satan said: I will give you all the power over all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, it is given to me (“I am the ruler”), and I give it to whom I will (see Matt. 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13)). So, heretics call the devil by the word “Father” (“Now you seek to kill Me, a Man (and the prophets of God, who speak-prophesy by the Holy Spirit the Truth of God – V. A.), who has told you the truth, which I have heard of God. You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him: we be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. And Jesus said to them: if God were your Father, you would love Me (and Mine – Christians, – V. A.), for I proceeded forth and came from God… You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it” – see John 8:40-45). And when they start explaining who “the Son” is – it becomes clear (by all signs) that it is the anti-Christ! And when they talk about the “Holy Spirit” – all the signs of the spirit of this age, the spirit of alienation, selfhood, pride…, in one word, the spirit of Satan! When heretics explain what they mean by the word “Church,” it is not the Body of Christ, but a synagogue of Satan (the constitution of which: each for himself!)! And what do they “expect”: not the acquisition of the Holy Spirit (= Resurrection of the dead), not the Kingdom of Heaven (of God), not the Eucharist, but an earthly paradise – democracy of rights and freedoms, comfort, and pleasure on earth (serving-enjoying the lusts of the flesh, eyes, and pride), the kingdom of the anti-Christ (of this age, not the age to come) in this life (and not the life of the age to come)! So, the words are the same, but the content, which Christians and heretics invest (faith = experience-knowledge), is absolutely different, like Heaven and earth, like paradise and hell. He who has ears to hear, let him understand… and begin to repent!