“beast that was, and is not, yet it shall appear again” …

This is where everything comes full-circle, and really shows that everything that seems opposed is really of the same! It certainly explains a lot, and also offers a solid ground for understanding what we have noted since the beginning – that the current Moscow political and religious authorities are trying to take Orthodoxy down the road of charismatic revival, by posing as the saviours of Christianity from under the rule of a Western (or Muslim) dictatorship, thus appearing as the liberators of humanity from under the rule of the coming ruthless “antichrist”. This subject has been most written about on our website and much can be found about in our past articles.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/former-soviet-spy-we-created-liberation-theology-83634/

Indeed, the true Restoration of Russia will not really occur until this effort fails, by the grace of God!