Israel, Jewish people

    From Wiki Maria Valtorta
    Jesus went through the villages with his apostles and disciples. On the way to Jerusalem, he taught the Jewish people and healed the sick - James Tissot, Brooklyn Museum.
    Israel is said to mean "People of God".[1]

    In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

    • Jehovah has struck you, yes, at present, in your pride and your pretension to be a "people" according to the ideas of the earth. But how much He has loved you and has used patience with you more than with any other, granting you the Savior, his Messiah, so that you would listen to him and save yourselves before the hour of the divine wrath![2]
    • Friends, truly I tell you that in Israel are found all the sins and that the demons have established their dwelling there.[3]
    • I come to call to the Kingdom the righteous of Israel, because it is through Israel and with Israel that the tree of life eternal must be formed and grow, whose sap will be the blood of the Lord, the tree which will extend its branches over the whole earth until the end of the ages.[4]
    • What is the announced thing that must be fulfilled? - The gathering of all Israel under the teaching of the word of the Christ.[5]
    • And truly, I tell you that Hebraism will only be pierced by the proportion of one percent.[6]
    • The "idols" of Israel.[7]
    • "The life of Israel is a teaching not only for the days on earth, but also for the conquest of the eternal days."[8]
    • Israel is said to mean "People of God".[9]
    • The conversion of the Jews at the end of times.[10]
    • Announcement of the diaspora and the ultimate conversion.[11]
    • It is true, I judged God inexorable, like many people in Israel. We were taught to believe Him so: the God of revenges.[12]
    • The Prophets were holy because they belonged to Israel and because their actions were righteous. For not all Israel has been and is holy, while being Israel.[13]
    • Israel, in its most cultivated part... struggles to follow the new thought!..." "And yet, it is always the same thought!" "Yes. It is always the Decalogue, it is always the prophecies... The Messiah, for them, cannot be the gentle, poor man who does not aspire to power and wealth.[14]
    • This love of the neighbor, which is the second part of the fundamental precept of the Law of God, but which in truth had fallen into disuse in Israel.[15]
    • Israel cannot perish, because it has remained in its religion… This people cannot be silenced by any human force. There is in it a force more than human.[16]
    • Imprecations against pharisaism.[17]
    • Believe at least in old Israel. In it, the prophets cry out the dangers and the misfortunes of the Holy City and of our entire Homeland if it does not turn to the Lord its God and if it does not follow the Savior.[18]
    • My people, save yourself! Believe in your Lord! Follow your Messiah! Recognize him for what he is. Not a king of peoples and armies. He is the King of souls, of your souls, of all souls.[19]
    • In God's thought, the reconstruction of the Kingdom of Israel was not limited, as it has been for you, in time, in space, and in means.[20]

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