Tyranny

To everyone who is a friend of Monk Michael here on this page,

I do not write much very often as all here know, as expected by everyone regarding one who calls himself a monk, my life is dedicated to Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, by the Power of the Holy Spirit. I struggle quite a bit with the way of the world today like everyone else and I pray; a lot.

Many would think that one who calls himself a monk would be a pacifist; however, this is not the case. The United States justified its intervention in the Middle East and its attacks into Moslem countries as a holy war, one that is being fought against ungodly people.  This writing is not about that but it is about ungodly government, the government that I am going to speak about is the United States government, it has become one of the most corrupt and deceitful governments on the planet.

Most tyrannies or dictatorships do not disguise their intentions; those that attempt to do this are not as deceitful or as skillful as the United States government. Do you the people actually believe that the President alone can determine the outcome of anything? How much have the people forgotten the participation of the Congress and the Judicial System?  Elections are coming up and the people need to think long and hard, is voting enough?  Is there enough morality left in this country to make a difference? I will become a voice against tyranny, for those who do not wish to hear about it and wish to remain complacent you may wish to elect to stop receiving posts; that is your free choice.

For those who wish to participate and bring others in while we gather the people as best as we can to stop this tyranny, I welcome you. I am not advocating armed militias storming congress, yet, something must be done. I am not a politician nor am I a political activist. I am a man of God who is sick of the tyranny and of the government who is slowly destroying this nation that started under God and which allows its people to starve, lose their homes, separate families, rewards those who refuse to work with monthly paychecks and takes the work and the lifetime of savings away from those who have spent a lifetime of working.

Being Christian does not mean that we do not speak out, the idea that Christians are not supposed to speak out against a government that does not represent God on this earth is wrong, Priests and Pastors need to begin to speak out loudly. The people need to speak and be heard, pulpit pounding needs to grow by leaps and bounds.
Please feel free to respond.

In Christ,
Monk Michael
Rev. FR. Michael Valentine

End of Times?

Greetings to all!

I pray that this new year will bring peace into the heart of all regardless of circumstances. I also pray that for all who are in dire straights that their lot will greatly improve and that during the time of bad circumstance their faith shall increase rather than decrease.

Amen!

I am perplexed over the excitement of the year 2012 and the end of life on earth. So much of the world including Christians seem to be fixated on the end times. Scientists, self-proclaimed prophets, astrologers and philosophers are all abuzz over this issue that is to occur on December 21, 2012. There are several things wrong with this fixation;

1. Jesus Christ Himself stated that we cannot know the time of the end of ages, even He Himself, the Son of God, the Word of God, the great I AM said that he doe not know, only the Father knows the time. As Christians we should already know this and not be concerned.

2. If the world is about to end and in fact does end, what are we, you, or I going to do about it? Nothing! Almighty God is in control.

3. On a personal level, in our own daily life, we cannot know from one breath to the next whether we will draw another, we cannot know from one blink of the eye to the next if we will blink again. Our own personal end of times can happen in our very next heartbeat.

Should not these things be our concern? Should we not be preparing our salvation with every breath? The scriptures that we read tell us that if everything that Jesus Christ taught was written down, the books would fill up the world. However, there is quite a bit of information that is written and contained within all of this information is in my humble opinion a very simple message that we must at all cost pay heed to and it is this;

1. Love God first.

2. Love your neighbor a yourself.

3. Repent and be baptized.

4. If you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood you will have no part in me.

5. I pray that they will be one as we are one. Do you know who prayed these words?

The very last words that the Apostle John spoke to anyone in public when he was carried out in a chair to speak were these;

My brothers, remember to love one another.

I don't care what group you belong to, I don't care how elite you think your group is, the message is still simple, heed it. It is your very life.

In Christ,
Monk Michael
Rev. FR. Michael Valentine
American Orthodox Church/North American Orthodox Church
New Warrior Ministries

Repent!

My Friend,

I realize that the time has been long since I have had direct communication with you, I am working on getting things in order in our new place but it is no easy task here where we are staying currently. I have moments where I may get a message out and so I send it quickly to the many people that I work with in the Lord. Remember, if you are doing God's will then you have been called by God; do His work with your whole heart and think on Jesus Christ and how you may be able to get closer to Him. Be fair in your dealings with everyone, remember the women and the children and be sure to care for them who are weak in health and teach those who are weak in faith, I am sending out a warning, God has placed this on my heart to get this message to everyone, the message of repentence, please be sure to pass this to everyone, all must repent, the church will be purged, do not be alarmed, those who repent will see God but the times here will be tough for the repentent because the world will not repent and those who claim the Christ but live for the world will not repent either and they will be even less merciful on the repentent than the pagans will be.

Keep up the faith and the courage to withstand the evil one, do not be fooled by one who comes and claims that he is the Christ and performs miracles in the sky for all to see. When the true Christ comes He will not have to perform miracles in the sky or anywhere else, the world will know immediately and all will be transformed in the twinkling of an eye, there will be no doubt. Do not be fooled by the miracles and visions that are coming, they are false no matter how real they seem, it is the Anti-Christ.

I hope that this quick message finds you doing well, I am sure that the political church around the world through Christendom has you alarmed. The church at large is a sham in my opinion. My message for the moment is this; the Angel of Repentence is here, the church and mankind is running out of time to repent, it is the understanding of the modern church that God will never run out of patience, I guess that the world has forgotten that man was cast out of the Garden and later that the world as it existed was destroyed by a flood.

Israel was left how many times because of sin? It was final repentence that brought them back into grace every time but nevertheless, they were cast aside for hundreds of years at a time because there was no repentence. The patience of God will run out, the Angel of Repentence is here and in case any one in the church at large has forgotten, the Angel of Repentence guards the Gate to Eden, the Garden of Paradise with a flaming sword, no one gets there without repentence.

The time is now!

In Christ,
Monk Michael

What is Sin?

Let us take a moment to look at sin. This is a word that so many people today avoid and would like to erase from all languages. Too bad, erasing the word will not erase the issue and will only make eternity really really suck. Sin is any action that is against God, period, whether in thought or in deed. We are all sinners, as human beings we find it impossible to avoid some sort of sin in our daily life. This is what the mercy of God is all about, through Jesus the Christ we can obtain mercy and forgiveness. Far too many people today have no idea of confession of sins whether privately or publicly. The day of doom will not be a good day for those of us who choose this route of ignoring the sin, sin is not relevant to anything or anyone except to God. It is popular today to claim that what is true for me may not necessarily be true for you or anyone else.

Our creator has established a truth and it is the only relevant truth that exists, you can believe it or pay the ultimate price, we are allowed the choice of free will. Use it wisely. In creation man was created with a soul, that soul lives forever and where it lives will be determined by the choices that we make here today, through time we will look at the soul of man and the many powers that it has.

The soul has five basic powers, three of these powers are principal powers and two of these powers are secondary. The three principal powers are; memory, reason, and will. The two secondary powers are; imagination and sensuality. We will begin to look at these powers in future writings. For now allow yourself to think on this idea of sin, look at Jesus Christ to discover what is relevant to the Father. We will discover the powers of the soul soon enough. First we must understand that there is a soul, that it can be separated from not only it's own body through physical death but from it's creator through sin as well.

You can write to me for questions and thoughts at; michael.monkmichael@gmail.com

In Christ,
Monk Michael

Why Christians celebrate Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

My friend in Christ, why do we celebrate Christmas? Why did Jesus Christ even come in the first place? Was it really necessary for Jesus to die on the cross?

These are honest questions that I receive and so I will answer them to the best of my ability. First I will show you an Old Testament quote from the prophet Isaiah who foretells of the coming of the Messiah centuries before the birth of Jesus the son of the Virgin Mary and the Son of Almighty God. Here is the quote from the prophet Isaiah;

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.

So we see that the Word of God or God's word does things according to the will of God; it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. Where else have we seen God's word in action or doing something? Look at the beginning of the Book of Genesis; Genesis 1:3; And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

God's word is action, it is not idle, it does not simply rest on the ears of the hearer but it does things just as Almighty God has said it will. So why is the word of God so important to Christmas? Let's jump ahead to the New Testament, after the birth of Jesus to find what is said regarding the Word of God;
Gospel of John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

We can see that the first five verses tell us the same thing that we learn in the Old Testament; that the word of God was of course with him because it is his word and that it does things, in the word of God there was life and the life was the light of men and that all things were made by the Word of God as stated God said; let there be light. All of creation to include the life of man is because of and directly related to the word of God. God also said in the Old Testament that his word would go forth from his mouth and do all things as he commanded it and it would not return unto him void. It was going to be sent out and do something good as commanded and then return to him. What does the New testament say about this?

Gospel of John 1:10-14 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

God sent his Word to be born of a woman and dwell among us and to teach us all truth because man had distorted the truth and would not live in communion with his creator. God, whose love for his creation is undying, placed his word in the flesh to walk the earth and be among us, man refused to come to God to God came to man. Christ came to be our Savior, sin and death had to be conquered, it was man who subjected himself to Satan and allows sin to run rampant through the world and so it must also be through man that sin is destroyed in a sense because man alone cannot accomplish this, Almighty God can accomplish this but not in the manner of stamping it out, this would only serve the purpose of having mankind without choice, we were given free will, God does not want robot worshipers, but only those who by choice have determined to live an eternity in his light. This is how you know true love; when it is given freely.

What does Jesus say regarding the doing of the will of the Father? Remember; God sent his word out to do his will, the word was made flesh to do what the father had sent it to do, and Jesus says this; Gospel of John 5:30; I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

In order to give us some hope death and sin had to be conquered in the flesh, this was the job of Jesus, he had to defeat sin and death in the flesh in order to conquer it and therefore he had to die literally and descend into hell bodily, the enemy must be met fully and destroyed fully, there is no other way. The man Jesus physically died, the flesh died and by descending into hell and rising again death was defeated, this of course could not be accomplished without living a sinless life here before hand.

So the Word of God came in the flesh, the flesh walked with us, ate and drank with us and taught us by word and example how we are to live, he then willingly gave up his life in the flesh in a most horrible death, descended into hell and rose again, conquering sin and death in the flesh. He rose bodily and sits on the right hand of the Father. Flesh has now conquered sin and death and now resides with the Father. Because of this immense accomplishment through love and sacrifice freely given, man may now reside with God in the flesh through Jesus the Christ We must simply cling to Jesus and live as he commanded us and showed us by example and that is only through love.

What does Jesus say about being from God the Father? Matthew 11:27; All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; neither knows any man the Father, save the Son, and [he] to whomsoever the Son will reveal [him].

John 14:10; Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John 10:30; I and [my] Father are one.
The Father, Almighty God, by way of His Word, is in the flesh. God in the flesh, talking to us, living the plan of redemption so that everyone of his creation who freely chooses may live an eternity in the light.

This is why we celebrate the birth of Jesus, it does not matter that we do not know the date, we do not need to, it is not important. We know that he will come again, we do not know when this is going to happen but rest assured, even before he comes again in the flesh he will come again in spirit to many of us upon our own fleshly death. This is also why we celebrate the birth, it is holy and of God. The first or early Christians did not celebrate Christmas, they were busy trying to stay alive during the persecutions, it was only after the Christian church was free to walk about did it begin to celebrate things like Christmas.

Contact me with questions or comments; Monk Michael

In Christ,
Monk Michael