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All those who won’t condescend to fast... all those who are afraid of fasting  - and during the important feast days of Christianity won’t bother in the least to respectfully fast – mostly worry about feeling hungry by skipping meals.

Note how things will be, for those who will be living in the days of the antichrist.  When they begin to hunger out of severe deprivations, the antichrist will offer to help them, saying: “if you want me to provide you with food, you will have to accept my seal”.  This will make them believe that by agreeing to his terms in order to secure food, they won’t ever feel hungry thereafter. But of course they will feel hungry again and unsatiated, even after having willingly accepted to be “branded” by him...

Then there are those who won’t fast, because they imagine if they do, they will somehow become sick and suffer harm.  “Fasting doesn’t interest me” – they say – “I always prefer to eat”...

Go ahead then, my brother – eat.  Just keep in mind that the very first things that will dissolve away to rot in the soil are the underbelly and the belly itself – they are the two items that mostly entertain sin before God. Those who allowed themselves to be controlled by these two parts of the body will have lost God... they will have lost God... they will have lost eternity... they will have lost Paradise...

My brethren, food won’t exist in the life to come; there won’t be tables, or forks of gold, or dishes or glassware... no delicious meals or splendid banquets...

In that new world, one’s satiety will come from.... where do you imagine?  What will make people there feel satiated – never to feel deprived and hungry again?  It will be their ability to see God! When you can look upon God, you will absolutely feel satiated and never deprived!

My brethren, may God make us worthy – just as we are all together here, to all be together there, in Paradise – near Him!

English text: A.N.