Life on earth is given to man in order to acquire the Holy Spirit. To do this one must learn also to distinguish the worship of the true Spirit of God from the counterfeit spirit, the spirit of this world whose prince is satan, the enemy of God.
The whole earthly happiness of man consists in conscious growth in the knowledge and practice of the law of Christian spiritual life which, according to Bishop (Saint) Theophan the Recluse, is a realm into which the wisdom of this world does not penetrate. Christian life must be wholly devoted to “walking in the Spirit” (Gal. 5:16). For some, this may be a long, patient process up to old age and a blameless Christian death; but the martyrs, have acquired their heavenly crowns in a brief moment when death found them with a sober heart entirely directed to God, confessing Christ even unto torture and death. For Christ has said, “What shalt it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36.)
The first martyrs for Christ were the 14,000 Innocents, the children born at the time of Christ’s Nativity whose death was the immediate result of the hatred of the Prince of this world for the Divine Infant. Even without knowing it, these children were witnesses of Christ, and all the martyrs who have followed them, even until now, are the same victims of satan’s malice, and at the same time a sacrifice pleasing to God.
Today, as even worldly philosophers and historians have begun to admit, mankind has reached a dead-end, and the events of these times are unparalleled in all world history, as if pointing to the end of history itself.
These terrible times began in earnest in 1917 with the taking away of that which restraineth the coming of Antichrist (II Thes. 2:7) — that is, the lawful Christian authority which was especially incarnated in the Emperors of Byzantium and Russia. At this time, again, the attack of the anti-Christian power took first the form of the slaughter of the Royal Innocents, the children of the Tsar who were martyred with their father, even as earlier the very first of Russia’s New Martyrs had been a simple-hearted pastor who was killed on the very eve of the feast of the 14,000 Innocents (Dec. 28, 1904), in front of his own children. [Fr. Seraphim is referring to the Martyr Fr. Vladimir Troepolsky who for his fearless apostolic preaching of pure Orthodoxy against the revolutionaries and, the Protestant sect of Stundites, who worked together, was stabbed to death in his home before the eyes of his wife and children after being warned to stop his flaming sermons.]
Indeed, the innocent children who have been victims of the Soviet Yoke cannot be counted; there have even been special concentration camps in the USSR solely for children, as if to prove the satanic maliciousness of the Soviet system. For Orthodox Christians these are not “coincidences,” but profound lessons: we Orthodox Christians of these last times must stand in Christ’s Truth in utter simplicity and childlikeness, not trusting our own wisdom in order to reply to the wise inquisitors of this evil world, for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say (Luke 12:12).
Russian history in the 20th century has given the world something of incalculable value: Saints who have endured and triumphed over the greatest experiment in anti-theism, warfare against God, in the history of the world – the New Confessors and Martyrs of Russia. They have proved that for the human soul there are no higher values than:
(1) FAITH in the purity of the Orthodoxy of Christ’s Church,
(2) HOPE in everlasting life after death, and
(3) the all-conquering power of LOVE. both for men here on earth and for God in heaven. They have been tested in every conceivable trial and temptation and have withstood, being refined even as pure gold in the furnace, fit for the heavenly kingdom.
The New Martyrs of Russia fall into two periods: the period before and the period after 1927, the year of the infamous “Declaration” of Metropolitan Sergius.
First, there were the martyrs who were made by the first wave of the Revolution, when the servants of satan were probing to see how they might snatch the very essence of Orthodoxy from the people’s hearts: they accused the faithful of “politics” and persecuted them ostensibly for this and not for their “religion”; they robbed the Church under the pretext of helping the victims of famine (a famine which was artificially created by the Soviets themselves); they instigated churchmen of weak conscience to “renovate” the Church (the “Living Church”). But these probings all failed. Millions lost their lives, churches were pillaged and destroyed, the holy things of Russia were desecrated – but the heart of the Church remained untouched, and the faithful stood as one man behind their Patriarch, the holy hieromartyr (Saint) Tikhon.
Then, the Soviets having failed to gain their end, they sought a Judas to betray the Church from within by a kiss: a hierarch who would be “Orthodox,” who would “violate neither dogmas nor canons,” who would draw to himself the whole Church people and stand at their head – solely in order “to blow the Church up from within,” as Metropolitan (Saint) Cyril of Kazan has expressed it, by making the Church the servant of atheists who were conducting warfare against God.
After many attempts, the Soviets finally found such a Judas in Metropolitan Sergius, whose “Declaration” in 1927 bound the Church to the atheist State and destroyed its power to confess the Truth. Then indeed did the winnowing of the chaff and the wheat begin in the Russian Church.
Those who accepted the “Declaration” fell into a subtle trap from which it is scarcely possible to escape, sinning against the very dogma of the Church by identifying the Church with the church organization, binding the Church of Him Who is Truth to the Soviet lie. Thus they perpetrated a schism in the Russian Church, for the True Church of Christ cannot be so bound. The heroes of this second period of martyrdom are those who rightly distinguished between True Orthodoxy and its “outwardly correct” counterfeit, the Sergianist church organization, which is [now was] so brazen as to deny the very existence of the New Martyrs of Russia; they (those who battled against Sergianism) are greater than the confessors and martyrs of the first period of the Communist Yoke, for the temptation was greater.
This battle is still being waged today [this was written in 1974] in Russia. On a “secular” level this battle has been described by A. Solzhenitsyn as “not living by lies” – but few are they who are capable of discerning the very subtle lie upon which the Sergianist church organization (the “Moscow Patriarchate”) rests.
To the lovers of this world, living in the Truth is an impossible Utopia or else something totally incomprehensible; after all, almost the whole of public life both in the USSR and in the free world is based upon lies of varying degrees, and it is not only the Sergianist church organization that is eaten through with them. The voice of the confessors against Sergianism is not for Russia alone; thanks to the Russian Diaspora the Cry of the New Martyrs
can now be heard everywhere, and the opportunity to understand and live True Orthodoxy has become universal.
The New Martyrs are the intercessors of all who stand in True Orthodoxy, wherever they may be or whatever the nature of their struggle against the counterfeit Christianity and counterfeit Orthodoxy of our times.
We, Orthodox Christians today are perishing! We need the New Martyrs to call us to authentic spiritual life. They touch in us something so deep and elemental that our souls and minds, made shallow by modern “enlightenment,” can scarcely grasp it; and yet we know it.
Let us join their army in the march to eternal bliss, making the resolve to stand for the Truth even unto the death of the body. This stand, if only we knew it, contains the secret to the deepest happiness possible on earth, because it is natural for the soul created by God. Let us listen to the cry of the New Martyrs! Let us hear their clarion call and follow their beacon and become, in the words of St. Herman:
True Christians – Warriors fighting our way through the regiments of the unseen enemy to our Heavenly homeland. Amen.
Source (from Youtube Channel of Gregory Decapolite):
“Now [apocalytptic] things and events are opening up to us, as it were, in a bright light. How?
And this great mystery is revealed to us while reading the Revelation of St. John the Divine. It says: “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them” (Rev. 13:7).
Reading this revelation about the last times, I was in great confusion, I was ashamed to confess, and in my thin mind I decided in my soul that this was apparently a typo in Revelation, that is: “And it was given to him to wage war with the saints and defeat them” – the Saints!
Is it possible, with a simple mind, to admit that one dragon defeats the Holy Fathers? No way! But in Revelation it is written! The dragon defeated those whom we resort to in prayers? to whom we turn for help? Suddenly they themselves are defeated by the dragon? Mystery, great mystery!
Two thousand years ago it was said: “And he will win!” And here we are witnesses, who are faithful to the fact that the dragon defeated the saints: Metropolitan Sergius, Alexei, Pimen and others like them! Look, saints are not only the prophets, apostles, etc; also called saints are living patriarchs, metropolitans, bishops and priests… For example we say: “Holy* Father, bless us!” Now carefully follow.
[*The word Άγιος (Agios) in Greek means both “holy” and “saint”.]
The Dragon, that is, the Bolsheviks, by God’s permission was given to defeat, to break this assembly of Saints into 4 parts:
1.) The holy martyrs Patriarch Tikhon, Metropolitans Joseph [of Petrograd], Peter [of Krutitsa], Cyril [of Kazan], and others like them – these were not defeated by the dragon.
2) Those who left and went abroad – these were not defeated by the dragon.
3) Those who hid in the Apocalyptic wilderness – are not defeated by the dragon.
4) Sergius, Aleksey, Pimen and others like them were and are defeated by the dragon. These are the fathers who are now friends with the Bolsheviks, i.e. with the dragon, and serve in the Church of modernized Orthodoxy.
Revelation says: “And the dragon was angry with the woman [Orthodox Church], and went to make war with the rest of her seed” (Rev. 12:17). “And it was given to the dragon to make war with the saints and to conquer them.”
What weapon did the dragon use to defeat the saints: threats, seductions, deceits and violence?
Patriarch Tikhon and the Hierarchs did not wish to surrender to the dragon, they rejected his evil will and from torment went to the torment for Christ the Lord!
Others, who did not want to submit to the dragon, left and went abroad.
And the third part of the Holy Fathers who did not want to submit to the dragon – the Lord appeared to aid them. He opened the Apocalyptic Desert to them, where the purity and truth of the Orthodoxy of the holy Catholic and Apostolic Church would be kept. After all, even the idea is terrible, to submit to the dragon!
The fourth part of the Church. “Great” hierarchs, “holy” fathers, scientists and clever ones: such as Sergius, Alexy, Pimen – these obeyed the dragon – the beast…
The “saints” bowed their heads before the one who opened his mouth and spoke proudly – blasphemously.
These “holy” Fathers worshiped the one about whom Revelation says: “And he opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, in order to blaspheme His name, His habitation, and those who live in heaven” (Rev. 13: 6). And the “saints” Sergius, Alexy, Pimen and their ilk worshiped him.
This is who Sergius, Alexey and Pimen submitted to. They bowed their heads before the beast, which was like a leopard, his legs were like those of a bear, and his mouth like those of a lion. And they became friends with such a terrible monster, and said to him:
“Your joy is our joy,” and they do what the dragon orders them.”
Concerning Fr. Nicetas Lekhan – he was born in 1893 in the Poltava district. In 1923 he was ordained to the priesthood in the Dnepropetrovsk diocese and served in the village of Ovsyuki, Cherkassky province.
In this village there lived some True Orthodox nuns, who had come there from various closed monasteries. They told him about sergianism – the way in which the official Russian Church under Metropolitan Sergius had surrendered to the communists. But he was young then and did not listen to them particularly.
But then, as he himself related, the Lord sent him a penance for his service in the “sergianist church” – he was arrested. Throughout his years in prison he considered it a punishment, and not an exploit. He thought the same with regard to those convinced sergianist bishops and priests who were arrested in spite of their agreement with the atheists. When Fr. Nicetas had worked out the real church situation, he even wrote a book about it.
After the end of the Second World War he was offered the chance to remain a priest and serve officially in a church, but for this he would have to join the communist party. He refused, was arrested on the denunciation of a komsomol member, and was given a 25-year sentence.
After being released in 1955, he led a life of wandering before settling in Kharkov.
Later in life, he was able to make contact with Metropolitan Philaret of the ROCOR. They both had deep respect for each other.
In 1985, Fr. Nicetas passed onto eternity after beholding a vision of Sts. Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and Dimitry of Rostov.
This faithful confessor of the Russian Orthodox Catacomb Church has been known to work miracles for those who approach him with faith in prayer!
May we Orthodox Christians of these last times ask his holy prayers, so that we too can face the trials, and endure the sufferings, which lie ahead!
Notice which country is still standing up to God’s Law. No wonder it’s being propagandized as the world’s axis of evil & being blamed for all the horrors of the world. It won’t be long before a new visitation of the Three Holy Angels (who visited Sodom and Gomorrah), in the form of a right believing and highly spiritual Emperor will be manifest SOON.
Although the West will stage for millions of deaths before this comes to pass – some holy people today predict as much as one third of the world’s population. Every murder is a direct affront to the Law of Christ- it’s blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, because its agenda is to eliminate God’s greatest creation, replacing it with the “law of the demons”. A direct affront to the God-Man. To God Who took upon Himself our nature, as the pinnacle of Creation for all eternity.
We suggest you record this post address. When we know more certainly we will announce.
The “evolution” of social agendas in Russia starting with the 17th century, and really getting the big boost after the communist takeover of Russia. This (the first link) is a good article documenting the progress of this cancer of Orthodoxy that in recent years has got to take center stage in the Church itself, culmination with the Synod in Crete that consecrated the relatively new mission of the Church as doctrine. We can see how the communist ideals have slowly made their way into society and ultimately into the Church to the point of becoming the main focus.
While reading the article it becomes obvious that communist revolution was the perfect opportunity to “launch welfare reforms”.
“The Social Welfare Statute limited government aid to persons “whose means of sustenance come from their own labour without exploitation of other persons’ labour”. This new law (of 1918) entitled workers to medical aid, maternity grants, and old age and disability pensions.
The administrative welfare system took shape gradually. The 1st Congress of Social Welfare Commissars was convened in Moscow on 25 June 1918 and made strides by establishing an organisation responsible for the welfare management on the national, gubernia and local scale.
The People’s Commissariat (ministry) of Social Welfare engaged in mother and child protection, work in orphanages, supervision of underage criminal suspects, distribution of food rations, the welfare of the military’s disabled and healthcare.”
But, as the article states, the real boost to the agenda was truly after the “fall of communism” (sic!):
“In 1992 a first-ever comprehensive programme for the social support of specific categories of Muscovites was adopted on the basis of the above resolution. Around this time social welfare bodies were renamed “social protection bodies” and the Committee for Social Protection of the Public was established.
Over 1.3 trillion roubles were allocated to the social protection of low-income persons from the city budget and the extra-budgetary Social Protection Fund in 1994.
The 623 home care offices catered for 74,721 against 30,085 in 1990.
Social service centres’ development had never been as dynamic as they were in 1997-1998. New premises were opened, the range of services being offered increased, and new personnel was recruited. The first half of the 1990s was characterised by quantitative accumulation: the establishment of social service centres itself was so revolutionary that it took time to store up experience and evaluate their pros and cons, potential and limitations.”
(there you have it, the explosion of social centres is in fact a continuation of the revolutionary process – “revolution against iniquity” – that started long ago)
The Moscow patriarchate last year organized the 8th edition of the “Congress of the Church Social Ministry”. Certainly this is something new that did not exist previously in Orthodoxy, and as shown above has its roots in the communist ideology.
Quote from one of the Bishops (Panteleimon) attending the conference (assuming the translation from Russian of this website is accurate):
“Our business should be no verbal preaching, and the preaching of Christianity, which is to reveal the divine way, said Bishop Panteleimon. A person receives information not only through words but also through our faces, tone, behavior, ability to listen and sympathize”.
We see here the visible change in the mission of the Church from preaching the word of God towards serving a social agenda …
Isn’t this new congress that was held last year, this time under the auspices of the Church, just a continuation of what started in 1918 when “The 1st Congress of Social Welfare Commissars” was held? It certainly looks like what was once a communist agenda promoted mainly at the political level is now business conducted from inside the church.
As we draw closer to the arrival of antichrist who will come as the one who will fix all the social issues (even if for a short 3 1/2 years), the mission of the Church is being perverted in a progressive way towards serving a social end. In other words, we are witnessing the conclusion of a slow process of preparing the Church for the arrival of the lawless one.
“The Antichrist will offer the most successful project for solving the world crisis from the perspective of political and social wisdom, which would establish a uniform political and social order in the whole world. Exhausted from the shock of war, spiritually blinded humanity will not only by unaware that this project is a cowardly trap, enticing it into the most degrading and merciless slavery, but on the contrary, will recognize it as a manifestation of scholarship and genius.”
Since the globalists (through globalization) have created even bigger social issues at global level, the problem will require a global effort to fix it …
“There was a particular philosopher in China in the late nineteenth century who brought this philosophy to its logical conclusion, as far as it could go. His name is K’ang Yu-Wei (1858-1927). He’s not particularly interesting except as he incarnates this philosophy of the age, this spirit of the times. He was actually one of the forerunners of Mao Tse-Tung and the takeover of China by the communists. He based his ideas not only on distorted Christianity, which he took from the liberals and Protestants in the West, but also on Buddhist ideas. He came up with the idea of a utopia that was to come into being, I think, in the twenty-first century according to his prophecies. In this utopia, all ranks of society, all religious differences, and all other kinds of differences that affect social intercourse will be abolished. Everyone will sleep in dormitories and eat in common halls. And then with his Buddhist ideas he began to go beyond this. He said that all distinctions between the sexes would be abolished. Once mankind is united, there’s no reason to halt there—this movement must go on further. There must be an abolition between man and animals. Animals also will come into this kingdom, and once you have animals… The Buddhists are also very respectful to vegetables and plants; therefore, the whole vegetable kingdom has to come into this paradise, and in the end the inanimate world, also. So, at the very end of the world, there will be an absolute utopia of all kinds of beings who have somehow become intermingled with each other, and everybody’s absolutely equal.
Of course, you read about this and you say the man must be crazy. But if you look deeply, you see that this is coming from a deep desire to have some kind of happiness on earth. No pagan philosophy, however, gives happiness; no man-made philosophy gives happiness. Only Christianity gives hope for a kingdom that is not of this world. The idea to have a perfect kingdom comes from Christianity, but since the early Socialists did not believe in the other world or in God, they dreamed of making this kingdom in this world. That is what communism is all about.”
But what has changed since then? One thing that did change is that these communist ideals have not at all dissappeared but have made their way into the Church through the adoption of various social doctrines (often in local synods) that culminated with the adoption of the document defining the “Mission of the Orthodox Church in the Contemporary World” in Crete.
In other words the Church’s mission has been corrupted to preach earthly ideals such as justice and equality, care for the environment and for the ecological systems etc, thus making the Church a militant activist for a false cause: happiness on earth just as described by Fr Seraphim in his lecture.
Of Course a spiritual person with a deep spiritual life understands that all things were created by God and would not try to destroy them. With the fall of Adam, together with man the whole world got corrupted, for the world was created for man and not the other way around. So we can see that this whole world, in its current state, is heading for destruction with the hope of restoration into another world which we know as paradise. The Church teaches that the redemption of the world is through repentance, death and resurrection into a new world. We can see why the hope for perfection in this world is at best misplaced. We as Orthodox Christians understand that perfection can only be attained “in the other world” through salvation. Thus any doctrine that comes to preach perfection in this world can only be of the Antichrist.
Sure, there is destruction visible in the world today, which some blame on “climate change”. Whether that is caused by us as humans “destroying the Earth”, or induced artificially by some obscure powers through technology widely available today in order to influence this worldwide movement of “caring about the Earth” is open to discussion. But regardless, calamities like this did happen in history, the most profound one being the Great Flood, in which many of the animals dissappeared (like the dinosaurs). The Great Flood was not “man made”, but allowed by God for the cleansing of the world and the purging of sin. Maybe what we face today is indeed man made, but not by us the little people, but by the powers that be who wish us to bow down to such new social doctrine.
(note: there are some elements in the summary that are not covered in the lecture, as well as some topics in the lecture that are not in the summary. please check out both)
The apostasy – the corruption of everything, the destruction of God and the corruption of the moral values. Fr Seraphim and Herman’s Orthodox Survival Course. The fall of the world into Nihilism.
The period of chaos and decadence, wars, financial crises (very important), and every other unimaginable iniquity, slowly being revealed to the world through events of increasing intensity; this is in fact the mystery of iniquity and lawlessness being slowly revealed to the world in the end times: out of this widespread iniquity, lawlessness shall present itself as righteousness, darkness shall present itself as “an angel of light”
The false antichrist – the revelation to humanity of the existence of a secret group of evil people trying to control the world – this could also materialize into a single person emerging as the leader of this occult group; These secret groups have taken control of all the governments through which they push their control agendas in an ever increasing blatant way.
The false awakening – people are becoming increasingly aware (intentionally – that is the goal) of the existence of all these secret societies and start to mount a “unified” effort to push back against these occult interests; all conspiracy theories start to become true one by one, creating the perfect breeding ground for this false awakening to develop.
It is a false awakening because it is not a spiritual awakening driven by repentance, but people waking up to a grand scheme of control of all nations perpetrated by these secret groups with the specific purpose of raising the revolutionary spirit in man who will be brought to a point where he cannot endure anymore and seek his own justice.
This false awakening is also manifested through the emergence of a new social doctrine, as a recognition of the fact that all current and past social systems have failed to address the challenges the humanity faces, starting with Pope Leo XIII and making its way into the doctrines of the Orthodox Churches today.
The false awakening leads to the creation of a “common front of action” – the very essence of the new social doctrine, with Ecumenism being the most visible manifestation of this unity in the Church; the world religions have to unite in order to “counter” this “antichrist”, because only a united humanity can face the threat of this “great enemy”. The unity is not only the unity of “faith” but equally importantly also “the unity of action”. Both these aspects of unity were addressed by the Synod in Crete – the Relations Document addressed the unity of faith, and the Missions Document covering the unity of action. This is what makes this synod truly the synod of betrayal: the betrayal is complete and on all fronts.
The calls for a new “just and equitable” social system are becoming the mainstream topic, so important that they become the UN’s agenda 2030. The same old socialist and communist ideals, but returning in a new “more humane form” become the new goals of the Cretan Church, and Humanity in general. We observe here the corruption of the mission of the Church from that of saving souls for the kingdom of heaven, towards achieving a better society here on earth. Her (the Church’s) message becomes one of advocating social justice, social acceptance and inclusion, rather than individual repentance before God.
A humanity in distress seeks through its own means to find solutions to this global crisis. We see here there is no call to repentance but actually a call to revolution. As a result we see a very concerning pattern of revolutions and counter-revolutions forming, some very liberal in nature, others presenting themselves as “traditionalist”, none of them having anything in common with Christ, yet both sides claiming they fight for some “universal set of moral values”, but without God these moral values are just idols. You notice in the ecumenist gatherings they never mention Christ, but God, or Almighty, or the Creator. So we are witnessing a depersonalization of God.
In this great distress of entire nations and multitudes of people, we can see how the humanity is actually being prepared for the moment of “great liberation” and the arrival of the grand liberator – the one who will be able to put an end to all this pain and suffering, and offer a most successful social and political solution to all the problems the humanity faces. This whole process has already been “tested” in Latin America, where Liberation Theology has been a predominant factor in the teachings of the Catholic Church. The whole of Latin America has been a major “testing ground” of this grand social experiment which is about to be applied to the whole of the Western world. And the results of this experiment are quite obvious today: look at the ongoing social crises in Venezuela, Argentina and everywhere else in that region.
This is followed by the rebirth of humanity on her own; being liberated from the oppression of the “evil doers”, it finds a new spiritual identity and becomes conscious of her own potentials. A new world order emerges based exclusively on human wisdom, but at the same time it will be recognized as a natural “evolution” of humanity towards a higher state – the kingdom of antichrist. Humanity reaches “the omega point”, the triumph of humanism is proclaimed.
All these ideas are found in Rene Guenon, who was a mason. If you read about him, you will see that his “traditionalist” philosophy has been embraced both in Trump’s and Russia’s administrations (see Steve Bannon and Alexandr Dugin) and presented as the response to the liberal ideology that has been promoted over the last decades. There is evidence that in fact both the liberals and the traditionalists are in fact controlled by the same people. There are great resources, articles and posts both on Orthodox Australia website and Facebook group.
In support of these new social doctrines, the case is being made that all previous forms of social and political systems, including socialism, communism and capitalism, are obsolete and unable to address the common problems of the world. A new “social contract” is presented to the humanity as the solution.
A new system is proposed, a new “social contract”, which today we can identify as “Distributism”, which is the most common name for the practical implementation of the new social doctrine that we come across today. Incidentally Distributism happens to advocate the same ideas of “going back to the traditional values”, of “going back to a simpler way of life”. In this new “social contract” the aim is eliminate all the corrupt centralized institutions that have facilitated all the iniquities of the ruling elites, and to “give the power back to the individual, the family and the small communities” which will feel liberated from the oppression of the capitalist oppressors – from the big banks (including central banks), or any other form of “capitalist exploitation”. It will be argued that people will be able to take back control of their own finances and ultimately their own destinies. Overall it will appear to be the best social system and it will come as a “new revelation”, and it will have such an impact on people’s lives that they will ask themselves “how was it possible that for so long such a small group of people could control them for so long” etc etc.
This is where blockchain comes in. If you look at what it promises, it becomes obvious that this must be that “perfect system”. The problem with this system though is that it requires everyone and everything be registered in, and will exist only in a digital form. Every person, every aspect of his/her own life are recorded in this system and nothing will be allowed to exist outside of it.
A little bit of history of blockchain: It all started with Bitcoin which was “invented” by Satoshi Nakamoto, but nobody knows who he is, yet there are strong indications that behind this name hides some of the most powerful spy agencies, like the NSA. Bitcoin was born in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 and as a response to the corruption of the centralized banking system of the Western world. Sounds very much as an important part of the response to the iniquities of the banking cabal and their ability to endlessly manipulate the current dollar centric financial system for their own obscure (and occult) interests. There is plenty of evidence that the current financial system has been an important part of the economic warfare arsenal used to subdue nations and peoples.
It can bee argued that in a sense Bitcoin can be considered as the “fore-runner” of the blockchain technology we see today, also known as “distributed ledger technology”
What is blockchain? Well, as they say it, it is “the technology” that will change everything about your life:
From the way you bank…
To how you buy and sell stocks…
It will change the way you use legal and health care services…
How you purchase items online…
How you book a hotel room or buy a car…
Even how you use your email…
Ending health epidemics…
Saving lives after natural disasters hit…
Drastically reducing electricity usage and lowering utility bills…
Eliminating fraud in humanitarian aid to help needy families get cash and food…
And even help create a person’s identity… allowing access to basic human rights like voting, getting health care, going to school and traveling…
They say this about this technology:
This technology allows any user in any industry to record data and transactions on a ledger instantaneously…
And it’s completely unhackable.
The key is that the transaction ledger isn’t maintained or stored by any one user…
But every user involved in the transaction has access to it.
Everyone can see when changes are made or transactions are performed…
It is completely impossible to manipulate
What will be registered in the blockchain? Here is how one article describes it – basically every aspect of one’s life:
“Innovators are programming this new digital ledger to record anything of value to humankind — birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds and titles of ownership, rights to intellectual property, educational degrees, financial accounts, medical history, insurance claims, citizenship and voting privileges, location of portable assets, provenance of food and diamonds, job recommendations and performance ratings, charitable donations tied to specific outcomes, employment contracts, managerial decision rights and anything else that we can express in code” https://medium.com/world-economic-forum/blockchain-blockchain-the-ledger-that-will-record-everything-of-value-to-humankind-b4a370f58464
An Orthodox Prophecy from the 15th century about the system of antichrist says this:
“Each person will be registered; not only every facet of his affairs and his life, but his every word, every movement of his mental faculties will be under constant surveillance so that he will lose the habit of thinking for himself out of fear that the expression on his face might involuntarily reflect something incompatible with the authority of the world ruler, i.e., Antichrist. Everyone will wear “stone masks.” All labor, every square inch of ground, every grain of wheat will be under the authority of Antichrist… And only those who have accepted the mark of the Beast, i.e., Satan, will be allowed to exist for a time, although in the most servile and base conditions of utter penury and contempt for the human dignity that man received from his Creator. Everything will be filled with Antichrist: the earth, the sea, the air.” http://orthodoxaustralia.org/2016/04/22/all-labor-every-square-inch-of-ground-every-grain-of-wheat-a-prophecy-from-15th-century/
The blockchain technology is being implemented today, mostly with very little fanfare. In general I have been trying to raise awareness about this for some years already. But recently things do seem to precipitate indeed. I have recently shown how the Australian Government has just signed a $1 billion dollar agreement with IBM to implement this new system that will cover everything: social security, welfare, Medicare, Human Resources, Labour and Defence departments etc etc – basically every aspect of our lives! Here is what they say about the agreement:
“Under the agreement, all government agencies can access the financial benefits and technologies. For the major agencies that partner with IBM today – Department of Human Services (DHS), the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), and the Department of Defence (DOD) – the agreement improves the current arrangements and gives them the autonomy and flexibility to change the profile of their technology over the next five years. Making it easier, more efficient and cost effective to access emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, quantum enables the agencies to accelerate the deployment of digital services that are smarter, more resilient and better integrated for Australians.” https://www-03.ibm.com/press/au/en/pressrelease/54124.wss
These developments are not at all isolated to Australia, but it is indeed a world-wide agenda. Government insiders from the US are saying that president Trump is about to make a major announcement about the very same technology being adopted in the US too. All brought to you by the people you got to trust because they are the “good guys”. Right?
IBM have also revealed that they are working hastingly to embark most governments of the world into this new system, as soon as possible. They have said that it was actually a certainty that the system will be brought online by the end of the year:
“I think you will see some solutions that IBM has been backing making use of this certainly before the end of this year.”
“Back then (in October of 2017) IBM announced it had been working with the Stellar protocol and its native token, lumens, as a bridge currency between money transfer operators in a number of South Pacific island nations. Since then IBM has been busy expanding this into a larger production ready network. We haven’t announced anything yet but it includes regulated financial institutions in a whole bunch of other jurisdictions”
In fact IBM has just revealed the new crypto-US dollar. They have just launched a so called “stable coin”, a crypto-dollar pegged to the US dollar but that exists as a digital currency only.
As you can see, at the forefront of this efforts is IBM. People need to look up their troubled past. Some say this company was founded by the Nazis and facilitated the regimentation of people in the second world war. There are a lot of articles we put out on Facebook documenting all these things.
How are they going to make the new system credible? I showed how above when I talked about the “stable coin”. Here is what IBM said in a recent statement:
“Today, I’m excited to discuss the development of a new kind of digital currency that is gaining in popularity — stable coins — which can help increase the viability of performing everyday financial transactions on blockchain. A stable coin is a digital currency that is pegged to another stable asset like gold, or to major fiat currencies like Euros, Pounds or the US dollar. The “stability” of stable coins could translate into improving the entire backbone of international banking operations, giving banks an innovative way to significantly update their core banking and compliance infrastructure while also helping to improve operational efficiency and regulatory transparency; not to mention, these types of enhancements tend to greatly improve user experience and can help bolster a renewed trust in banks.”
Like it is the case for the US, they will create a digital currency for each country, as they themselves admit. It will give the appearance that countries will still have their own currencies, but the reality is they will be all digital and part of the same network. Eventually each country will be asked to back their own currency by something. This is where I believe a new gold standard is emerging. And the East (mainly Russian and China) have been buying all the available Gold for years. There are also numerous other signs they are preparing a gold-standard. First is the petro-yuan framework which is backed by gold contracts on the Shanghain exchange. Then there are rumours that Trump himself is preparing to announce a new “gold standard” for the US dollar which may involve an overnight revaluation. This is supported also by one of the prophecies of St Seraphim of Sarov who said that a last true Ecumenical Council would be called:
“to deliver to a final curse against the whole of Masonry and all the parties similar to it (under whatever names they may appear), the leaders of whom have one common aim: under the pretext of complete egalitarian earthly prosperity, and with the aid of people who have been made fanatical by them, to create anarchy in all states and to destroy Christianity throughout the world, and, finally, by the power of gold concentrated in their hands, to subdue the whole world to antichristianity in the person of a single autocratic, God-fighting tsar – one king over the whole world.” http://orthodoxeschatology.blogspot.com/2008/10/let-us-consider-some-further-prophecies.html
What we have here is a very strong clue that key for the acceptance of the new system would be the gold backing. For most people this will look like nothing more than a return to the gold standard, but deep underneath the surface it will be the currency of the antichrist, for this currency will only exist in the digital realm. In the end, blockchain money will probably end up being backed by gold and silver, and probably gold and silver will be accepted in exchange for the new currency, at least in the beginning.
How should we as Orthodox Christians prepare for these frightening developments? First we have the Holy Fathers that say buying a little block of land is a good start. Not owing money to any financial institution is also important. If one cannot afford a small block of land, then like-minded people can associate towards achieving this goal. Second, people have to consider moving all their assets outside of the current financial system – in physical form. Third, people should think to form small communities where they can look after their own needs without the need of sourcing anything from outside. Fourth, but really the first, unceasing prayer for God to intervene and show us a way out of all this.
What have all the “smart” people doing for quite a few years now? They have been exiting the system themselves. When you hear of slogans like “make America great again”, don’t think that will actually happen. It is just a smart way to give a last boost to the stock markets so the rich can cash out through stock buybacks (using company money to buy shares from individual investors) and move into physical assets, one of them being gold which they buy at manipulated low prices on COMEX and taking physical delivery in London through the EFP contracts (exchange for physical).
As a conclusion of this short presentation I would like to challenge you with one simple proposition. Try to find out one government in the world, that identify themselves as “Orthodox” or not, that has not expressed a wish to adopt this technology in their own economy.
Psalm 21 foretells the supernatural birth of Christ, in which the Mother of God was virgin before birth, remained virgin during birth and continued to be a virgin after birth.
As the Psalm indicates, God the Father “took” God the Son “out of the womb”. The Psalm does not say that “my mother gave birth to Me” or anything like that, but the Psalm says “For Thou are He that took me out of the womb”.
Who can “He” be that “took Me out of the womb”?
The Psalm then continues with other verses which make it clear that it refers to Christ Himself, as indicated in other parts of the scriptures as being one of the prophecies being fulfiled:
“They have parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
It is indeed bizarre. A fight between a Church that has lost her soul after Crete and the babylonian EU, over the legacy of a saint that prophesied that both tragedies would happen: the falling away of the Church, and the destruction coming from the west through their loyal traitors in Romania (who he called the hatchet men of the west). Indeed bizarre. I pray this is not part of an effort to hijack the image of a Saint towards a false cause as I said in the past I feared would happen. Sounds like they are trying to “rush through” the canonization (as currently proposed) under the pretext of “fighting the EU”, another double-ended deception.
People have no idea of the war that has been raised against this saint in recent years. They have printed loads of books with falsified testimonies of people allegedly saying Fr Arsenie was all pro-Catholicism, saying the Orthodox people can pray to Catholic saints etc. People have no idea. And that is the false basis on which the Romanian Orthodox Church want to canonize St Arsenie. All based on lies and false testimonies! He will be canonized as an Ecumenist saint. It will be the ultimate mockery of an Orthodox saint. People in the West have no idea of what the reality is …
The following story only captures the legalistic aspects of the battle, without knowning what really lies behind these bizarre developments.
16. Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17. Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
18. And I also say to you that you are “Peter, and on this rock I will build My church”, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Here we have our Lord Jesus Christ confirming Peter did not know Jesus was the Son of God by His physical appearance or moniker, but that it was revealed to him in Spirit, through his strong faith, that He was The Son of God.
Let’s examine carefully Peter’s answer when Jesus asks him who he though He was: “Christ, the Son of the living God”. So first Peter identifies Jesus by His moniker (Christ) followed by His heavenly title: “The Son of God”.
The Lord replies back to him saying “I also say to you”, meaning he was going to respond back to Peter in the exact same manner. And so He did, identifying him first by his other moniker, “Peter”, followed by the spiritual significance of what it represented: “The Rock” on which the Church will be built. The Lord did use Peter’s real name in paragraph 17 (Simon Bar-Jonah), but in paragraph 18 he used his other moniker in order to make the point: to many He was just someone known as “Christ” but few understood that “Christ” meant “The Son of God”. Likewise many knew someone known as “Peter” but few understood that “Peter” meant “The Rock”.
So as we see here, our Lord did not say that the foundation of the Church was a person (known as Peter), but what he represented in the spiritual sense (known as The Rock): the unwavering faith and love for God that helps man get to know the Father as revealed by the Spirit:
“flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven”
P.S. “Peter” already meant rock as that was the Apostle’s nickname, so there was no need to say “you are Rock, ‘the rock’ on which the Church will be built”, but the Lord simply said “you are Peter, and on this ‘rock’ the Church will be built”. But it is clear the rock in the second part has a different meaning, a spiritual one.
Here is another way one can look at this. I am not saying that what I am about to say is the correct interpretation, I am just saying maybe the correct interpretation has somehow slipped through and nobody noticed (just like nobody noticed the betrayal in the Missions Document in Crete). I am just trying to give here something people can reflect on.
What if the two wars, the hot war involving Turkey and the war mentioned in the Greek prophecies that refers to a “big war followed by a period of 30 years of peace before the arrival of Antichrist” are not the same war? What if they are two different wars, and the actual (physical) war with Turkey is the one during which all peoples will cry out “let’s stop this war and let’s choose for ourselves one leader so there can be no more wars”?
The “30 years of peace” refers to the “half an hour of silence” before the end as mentioned in the book of the Apocalypse. If we have that in mind, then the big war preceding it (preceding the peace) could be the war the Soviet Antichrist rose against the saints martyrs of communism, and the “half an hour” of silence after that are the 30 years of ceasing of physical persecutions (for a while). The Apocalypse does call the persecution of the martyrs of communism WAR, would not the prophecies call it WAR as well?
Rev 13:7 “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them”
The Book of revelation says the silence was in heaven:
Rev 8:1 “there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour”
“in heaven” gives a clear indication the peace is not related to a physical war, as there can be no physical war in heaven!
Many Russian prophecies (like that of St Lavrentii of Cernigov) speak about a short flowering of Orthodoxy right before the arrival of Antichrist. Well that in itself is astonishing. How can, straight after a period of flowering of Orthodoxy, the Antichrist come, just like that out of the blue? Unless the flowering was not really a re-birth but the ceasing of persecutions which, when compared to what Orthodoxy had to endure during the persecution period, would look like a re-birth?
Quote: “On the other hand, compared to the drying up of the faith and general spiritual decadence in Western Europe, it is also true that even this small revival in Russia, starting at the grassroots, looks like a spiritual rebirth.”
St Lavrentii of Cernigov: “In Russia the faith will blossom and there will be rejoicing as before – but only for a short time, for the Dread Judge will come to judge the quick and the dead.”
Elder Alexis of the Zosima Hermitage prophesied: ‘The Russian people must be purified of sin through great trials. We must pray and fervently repent’. (Orthodox Russia, 1970, No. 1, p. 9). In February 1917 St Anatolius the Younger of Optina made this prophecy: ‘There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be smashed to pieces. But people can be saved even on splinters and fragments. And not all will perish. We must pray, everybody must repent and pray with fervour. And what happens after a storm?…There will be a calm…A great miracle of God will be revealed. And by the will of God and His power, all the splinters and fragments will come together and be united, and the ship will be rebuilt in its beauty and will go on its own way, as foreordained by God. And this will be a miracle clear to all…(Orthodox Russia, 1970, No. 1, p. 9). Also in 1917, St Nectarius of Optina said: ‘Russia will arise, she will not be materially rich, but she will be spiritually rich and in Optina there will be another seven luminaries, another seven pillars’. (I. M. Kontzevich, Optina Monastery and its Age, Jordanville, 1973, p. 538).
Here is another Prophecy that seems to indicate that the period of flowering already started with the fall of communism (as my presumption is).
Not long before his repose in August 1918, Elder Aristocleus (1838-1918), foretold: ‘Now we are going through the time before Antichrist, but Russia will still be delivered. There will be many sufferings, many torments. The whole of Russia will become a prison, and we must greatly beseech the Lord for forgiveness. We must repent of our sins and fear to commit even the slightest sin, but strive to do good, even the smallest. For even a fly’s wing has weight, and God’s scales are precise. And when even the smallest good in the cup overflows, then God will reveal His mercy to Russia. Ten days before the end of his life the Elder said that the end would come ‘through China’. He said that there would be an extraordinary outburst and a miracle of God would be revealed. And there would be an utterly different life, but non of this would be for long (Orthodox Russia, 1969, No. 21, p. 3).
He also said: ‘Russia’s rebirth will begin after a most powerful explosion on the banks of a great river’. Many have seen in this the explosion in 1986 at Chernobyl, which in Ukrainian means ‘Wormwood’ (Revelation 8,11) (Bishop Alexander of South America, Easter Message 2005)
Some prophecies actually say that the Tsar will be re-instated at the same time as the coming of the Antichrist, and some prophecies say that even the Antichrist himself will fear the Tsar.
