1 Timothy 2:5-6 KJV
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in
authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have
all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

1 Tiomthy 2:1-6 KJV
Russian Synodal Translation
1 Итак прежде всего прошу совершать молитвы, прошения, моления, благодарения за
всех человеков, 2 за царей и за всех начальствующих, дабы проводить нам жизнь тихую
и безмятежную во всяком благочестии и чистоте, 3 ибо это хорошо и угодно Спасителю
нашему Богу, 4 Который хочет, чтобы все люди спаслись и достигли познания истины.
5 Ибо един Бог, един и посредник между Богом и человеками, человек Христос Иисус,
6 предавший Себя для искупления всех. Таково было в свое времясвидетельство

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While in the same holy books there is One God Creator of the Universe, one Heaven,
one Earth, one Hell and one Paradise, when we come to religions, we see divisions.

Mark 16:15 KJV
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature.

While the world is primarily concerned with capital, science, technology and riches,
the Faith appreciates God, Messiah, traditional values, holiness of life, spirit,
angels, soul, life, earth, soil, water - the matter that sustains life and the holies
that are provided by spiritual teachers, Prophets and the apostles to teach the
generations about the next life and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Hegemony over power, capital, commodities, ideology and territory bring conflicts
that profit only the Enemy of our souls.

The Scripture says:

Ephesians 4:3-6 KJV
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope
of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father
of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Now, from what is seen, people hate and kill each other based on territorial
reasons in the physical, ideological or spiritual realms.

None of that is faith by Ephesians 4:3-6 the apostle Paul preached: you will
probably not end up well if you start preaching Gospel in the local synagogue
like the apostle Paul.

In fact, the reason is only fear, because the prophets and the apostles witness
that God had already provided the ultimate price for the redemption of the entire
mankind (Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 53:12, John 1:29, Romans 10:10).

As of Isaiah 53:12, the promised Messiah was to be numbered among the transgressors
(criminals), and take their blame and punishment upon him.

Isaiah 42:3
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

(Compare Matthew 12:20).

This parable might mean that Messiah is supposed to save any person with a trace
of good in them.

But the discerning factor is not the racial purity of genetical origin, but spiritual
faith - that which is without partiality given to nations (Latin: Gentiles, Greek: ethne),
as the apostle Peter says in Acts

Acts 10:34 KJV
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with him.

You will undoubtedly know that this verse speaks about the salvation of the Roman
centurion Cornelius, who did many charitable deeds and prayers the way he knew
under the laws he had known.

Not all divisions come from the Enemy - the first after the Great Flood is the
well-known "Babel": there the mankind wanted to build a tower with no purpose but
to make a Name for themselves, instead of worshipping the Almigthy God of Heaven.

When Babylon Empire appeared in the same place, it resulted in global slavery in
the area, with absolutist power of the Emperor Nebuchadnezzar, as written in the
Book of Daniel.

The ultimate discernment will be the righteousness.

This would imply repentance from deadly and mortal sins.

May the mercy and grace of God be with us all.

As the End Days approach, the sky and lower heavens are densely populated with
spirits of those who did not ascend. This makes prayer harder, and salvation not
a matter of the strength of our faith, but of God who has mercy.

2 Tiomthy 2:13 KJV
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the
joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

in this it should suffice that we:

1. Deny Satan the Devil.
2. Confess we're sinners, confess sin for sin and not the "reproductive right"
but murder of unborn children and infanticide, the list of mortal sins is defined
by immutable Law that shall not pass and "Sooner the Heaven and Earth shall pass,
than a yota of Law will change".
3. Ask Jesus to become our Saviour.
4. For Gentiles (nations), the apostles defined to abstain from fornication (including
homosexuality and paedophilia - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11), blood (including incest),
strangled (or hanged, smothered or drowned, torn by a beast or died by itself)
and idols (Acts 15:20, 15:29, 21:25 KJV).
5. The church of Christ generally agrees on keeping the Ten Commandments,
and abstaining from seven mortal sins: pride and arrogance, envy, anger and wrath,
lust, greed, gluttony and drinking without moderation, and laziness or sloth.

All Abrahamic religions agree in their Scriptures that Judaism and Christianity in
their original form were true messages of God.

Vast majority of us has never seen a miracle of Christ like raising Lazarus from
four dead being dead, or healing ten lepers while they were walking to show themselves
to priests, nor a lame man from birth suddenly standing upon his feet and walking.

So it is probably not likely that we would be ready to face lions out of our chairs.

Our faith is therefore based on hearing the message from the previous generations
or reading the Scriptures ourselves. While the Church burned people like William
Tyndale for translating into the nation of the people from Latin, Slavonic nations
appear to have been evangelised by brothers and apostles Cyril and Method, with the
permission of dukes of the nations. They also in that time, around 880 CE, invented
their own cyrillic alphabet.

The rev. Martin Luther finally restored the authority of the Holy Scriptures,
and salvation by faith in Jesus Christ and the grace of God.

Romans 10:5-10 KJV
5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man
which doeth those things shall live by them. 6 But the righteousness which
is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend
into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend
into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what
saith it?

The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is,
the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.

So, the corruption of Bolsevism is not to be blamed on the evangelisation work
of Cyril and Methodius.

The problem is closer to the atheist and materialist ideology that promised to
liberate work from exploitation, and introduce sexual freedoms, which were never
free, because "in war and in love the innocent suffer": both imply predation.

Thereof Greek language had four words for love: eros, philia, storge and agape.

(to be continued)

in Christ Jesus
Amen

a disciple