Author: orthodoxaustralia

  • Greece in turmoil

    With the announcement of its prime minister Alexis Tsipras who called on a referendum on the agreement with its creditors, the situation in Greece has turned to turmoil. Capital controls are now being put in place by the banks, and long lines to the ATMs are forming at 2 AM at night. And what is worse, is that the June 30 payment to the IMF looks like it is going to be missed, meaning default.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11700327/Greece-debt-crisis-creditors-proposal-live.html

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-26/its-2-morning-and-greeks-are-lining-atms-alpha-limits-online-banking

    The next few days will be critical and the result of the referendum will decide Greece’s faith, but it is to be expected that Mr Putin may come out publicly in support for voting against extending the bailout accords and for Greece to leave the EU, promising a quick integration into the BRICS alliance.

    The Greek people may or may not choose to stay in the EU, but their faith is now in their hands. It is now up to which side of the media will be more skilled into deceiving the general public to go one way or another, for the real answer lies with neither of the two choices.

    Update: Mr Putin had actually invited Greece to join BRICS and move away from the West, last month.

    http://rt.com/business/257701-greece-russia-brics-invitation/

  • The West is the New Sodom and Gomorrah

    Lot is being called out of America, Lot must leave now!

    America has sealed her faith, and together with hers, of all those that have fornicated with her iniquities. God’s judgement must be near, for her iniquities have reached up to Heaven.

    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/26/gay-marriage-legal-supreme-court

    Woe to all those other nations that are trying to follow in her footsteps, as truly they shall share the same fate. Repent at once and choose not to serve the same master as America, for it is evil.

  • Ukraine coup is starting to unravel

    The lies that led to the US coup in Ukraine are starting to unravel. Soon, the harlot shall be left bare for everyone to see. Then, everyone will just jump ship, straight into the arms of BRICS ...

    But she will probably not give up without a war, to make the case even more compelling.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-22/ukraine’s-president-poroshenko-admits-overthrow-yanukovych-was-coup

    Ukraine's Defence Deputy Minister has also defected.

    fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/06/deputy-minister-of-defense-of-ukraine.html

  • Why can’t Orthodoxy stand on its own ground?

    Why is it that Orthodoxy has to join other confessions or organizations in standing up for what it is right, like supporting the traditional marriage? Why do our Orthodox leaders have to make Orthodoxy just another one of those groups that voice their concerns amongst many others? Does Orthodoxy not have a unique identity any more? Is Her message no different to that of the world any longer? Do Orthodox leaders fear they will be unsuccessful because they feel we are a minority? Has Orthodoxy forgotten that the Church is not where the many are but where the Truth is? Are they counting on the help of man rather than that of God? Why are they trading their unicity for unity?

    Ever since the beginning we have raised the concern that this sort of unity in face of iniquity is exactly the ecumenist trap that awaits World Orthodoxy and which will lead to the coming of the real Antichrist. It is now happening, and the fight against gay marriage is a prime example. Although fighting against this iniquity is the right thing to do, uniting with others towards achieving this goal is the greatest danger to Orthodoxy today.

    Many people look at the gay marriage issue as a trait of the coming antichrist, forgetting that Orthodoxy has always affirmed that the antichrist will come as a man of virtues that shall appear to put an end to all iniquities, for which he will self-proclaim as God. The gay marriage is only the iniquity part in the Mystery of Iniquity and Lawlessness we have talked about in the past, and thus looking only at the iniquity, we can easily miss the point. We wrote in the past that in our view, The Mystery of Iniquity and Lawlessness means that “through appearing of fighting against unspeakable iniquity, it shall be possible for the lawlessness to call itself righteousness”, thus looking at the iniquity part only, we miss the lawlessness part.

    Let us therefore dear brothers and sisters in Christ be vigilant and careful at what we are being asked to trade in exchange for joining this common front that is taking shape in fighting against these abominations, because it is our Orthodox soul that they want us to trade! Our voices should be united and heard loudly, but in unity only within our Holy Orthodox Church.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Christian_Lobby

    “In 2011, ACL joined a coalition of churches called the Committee for the Preservation of Marriage. They circulated a summary of their stance to politicians, stating that the preservation of the “unique meaning of marriage” is “not of special or limited interest, but serves the common good, particularly the good of children”. The document was endorsed by 50 national church leaders from the Anglican, Catholic, Christian Reformed Churches of Australia, Lutheran, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventist Church and a faction of the Uniting Church.[75]”

  • “Canonical” vs. “Uncanonical”

    Nowadays we hear so much talk about the “canonical” bishop or synod, but little do they explain to you what canonical really means. In the understanding of World Orthodoxy (wordly Orthodoxy), what is generally referred to as canonical is the ability to trace a bishop back to the Apostles through the bishop that anointed him.

    From a physical standpoint, all confessions claim this sort of canonicity, including Catholicism. Does this mean they are trully canonical? Yes, one who understands little about True Orthodoxy might say. In reality the answer is NO!

    The answer is NO because canonicity has two inseparable aspects: the physical canonicity (which is the only one invoked by today’s bishops and synods) and spiritual canonicity, which is almost impossible to find any more. These two aspects are never to be considered in isolation if one would indeed mean to refer to the true meaning of canonicity. Yes, physically, a bishop is anointed by two other bishops, but in the process there is also a spiritual transfer of authority involved – meaning the new bishop will continue into teaching the same doctrine, unchanged, following the same model in which teachings are passed down from the spiritual father to the spiritual son. It is the same principle that applies to the anointing of bishops. If the spiritual son continues in the same teachings, then the canonicity is continued, if not it is broken and heresy starts.

    Separating the physical aspect from the spiritual one would be like separating the Holy Trinity, Christ from the Holy Spirit. When Christ anointed the apostles, He also transfered to them the Truth of the divine Ortodox teachings with the explicit warning: “That who loves Me, keepeth my commandments”, My teachings. It is clear that the breaking of these teachings would mean breaking the canonicity, just as the Catholic Church did centuries ago.

    Therefore let us ask, which one of today’s bishops can trace their spiritual canonicity back to the Holy Ecumenical Synods and to the Apostles? Are they continuing in the same teachings, or has the spiritual canonicity been broken somewhere down the line in most instances? The truth is if they are not in the same spirit, not teaching the same doctrine, then their “canonicity” claim is really only an assumption, and their Orthodoxy caries just an Earthly meaning.

  • St Herman of Alaska Church Vandalized

    America has turned against its only True Christian roots by desecrating the very place where the one who established Orthodoxy in North America has been resting for a few centuries – St Herman of Alaska and All America, also the patron Saint of our mission.

    Is this a sign of the fast approaching judgement of a nation that has turned against True Christianity, and a true reflection of the precarious spiritual state of its people?

    http://oca.org/news/headline-news/kodiaks-holy-resurrection-cathedral-vandalized

    The light that illumined America is going out, will it be relit anywhere else?

  • Mr Putin visits Pope Francis

    “He started his visit at the green grass-roofed Russian Pavilion, where Putin groupies held signs saying “Putin—Save the world!”“

    “By the grace of God, I have nothing to regret in my life” he replied in an interview with Corriere Della Sera newspaper when asked if he had any regrets.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/10/did-pope-francis-just-dis-putin.html

  • You know it is getting really close when …

    When US intelligence admit ISIS was created by themselves
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-08/ex-us-intelligence-officials-confirm-secret-pentagon-report-proves-us-complicity-cre

    When George Soros is openly confirmed as being the puppet-master behind the Ukraine crisis
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master

    When Walmart stores in the US are closed down and transformed into FEMA Camps
    http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/06/02/evidence-suggesting-that-walmarts-are-staging-centers-for-fema-camps/

    When EU warns its member countries to urgently adopt bank bail-in legislation
    http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/bail-ins-coming-eu-gives-countries-two-months-to-adopt-rules/

    When the science is nothing but about the occult and a tool used to disprove God
    http://yournewswire.com/bizarre-dance-of-destruction-performed-at-cern-ahead-of-launch/

    When the government wants to take over the spiritual affairs of your own family
    http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/government-to-monitor-family-spirituality/

    And you know you are telling the truth when they are after you, trying to frame you … like trying to pass you a suspect packet at the train station …

  • The Setup

    For the Vatican and all of the world’s political heavy-weights to rally behind the agenda of fighting climate change, they must know something big is coming. They expect a huge support for their new initiative, their new doctrine of faith, but still, by the way things look today, it seems a little hard to achieve the goal of convincing the whole of humanity of the necessity of joining their cause. They must have some ace hidden in the sleeve. They need a catalyst event, an unprecedenyed “natural” disaster to support their cause.

    The scenario of such a disaster happening in the near future makes even more sense when considering that it would also give them the opportunity of shutting the voices of the skeptics up, forever, because it will offer them the chance to say: “look what happens when people listen to you. you are to blame for what just happened. because of you we could not do what we should have done much sooner!”.

    On the other hand, a “natural disaster” scenario that leads to global economic collapse and war would also be the perfect cover up. It will be seen as an “act of God” rather than the direct consequence of their own iniquities.

    Even the preparations for martial law and war in the US will thus look legitimate and welcome, rather than an hostile effort directed against their people!

    What a difference the cause of the coming events can make!

    Therefore dear Brethren in Christ, do not be surprised if we shall hear in the near future of news of a natural disaster or widespread pandemic, it is a real possibility, either before or soon after their September 2015 announcement. Let us thus pray!

  • The New, Spiritual, Communist Manifesto

    To this subject we dedicated many articles in the past, but the recent developments are starting to reveal in more detail how the spiritualized form of the coming global communism is going to look like, just as foretold by many our Holy Fathers of Orthodoxy, and reiterated by Blessed Fathers Herman Podmoshensky and Seraphim Rose in their Orthodox Survival Course, which the world so struggles to not be made known public for the obvious reason: it gives the Orthodox Christian a complete and accurate context in which he/she will be able to correctly identify the form the coming kingdom of antichrist shall take – that of a spiritualized Marxist utopian society, religious in nature, that will mobilize the “Christianity” to unite, against doctrinal differences, for the common goal of fighting for global “justice”, as a direct result of the injustices of the West.

    The common front is visible today, the ecumenist agenda is well advanced, and its final details are being worked out right now. In the West, the Pope is organizing the global mobilization of humanity for this goal, where in the East the Pan-Orthodox Synod of 2016 will surely share some of the same elements of fighting injustice and iniquity. East and West together, will join forces in fighting against the coming “ruthless antichrist” that shall emerge, and after a great period of turmoil and pestilence, shall defeat him and bring about a new era of justice and peace with the emergence of a “savior” who shall be identified as Jesus on his second coming – an earthly king, to whom every knee shall bow, except for the chosen ones, who will indeed understand that this will be the true antichrist.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/05/24/catholics-sierra-club-pope-francis-climate-change/27896225/

    When Pope Francis releases his much-anticipated teaching document on the environment and climate change in the coming weeks, a network of Roman Catholics will be ready. There will be prayer vigils and pilgrimages, policy briefings and seminars, and sermons in parishes from the U.S. to the Philippines. These environmental advocates — who work with bishops, religious orders, Catholic universities and lay movements — have been preparing for months to help maximize the effect of the statement, hoping for a transformative impact in the fight against global warming.

    “This is such a powerful moment,” said Patrick Carolan, executive director of Franciscan Action Network, a Washington-based advocacy group formed by Franciscan religious orders. “We’re asking ourselves, ‘What would be the best way for us to support the faith community in getting this out and using it as a call to action?'”

    What we are being described here has been implemented, in one form or another, for a long time now, and commonly known as UN’s Agenda 21. The Economic Collapse Blog gives us a good preview of what this red beast of the apocalypse (of which we talked about in detail in other articles) and its new communist manifesto look like (and which all are “expected” to adhere to, including World Orthodoxy!):

    http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/in-september-the-un-launches-a-major-sustainable-development-agenda-for-the-entire-planet

    1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

    2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

    3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages

    4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

    5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

    6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

    7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

    8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all

    9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation, and foster innovation

    10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

    11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

    12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

    13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts (taking note of agreements made by the UNFCCC forum)

    14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

    15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss

    16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

    17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development

    In parallel with these efforts, the other aspect of the agenda we presented is being readied – the effort of preparing a candidate for the role of the false antichrist is just as evident. In some earlier articles we noted the efforts in portraying president Obama as a strong candidate, but we can not go without observing that the Mr Obama is not really the only one. They need more scenarios, and they are just going to have to try and see which deception works better. Take for example of how the western media is trying to portray Mr Erdogan, the president of Turkey (which we know it will play a big role in the future events as prophesied by Elder Paisios of Mount Athos and others):

    http://shoebat.com/2015/05/23/erdogan-the-leader-of-the-antichrist-nation-of-turkey-confirmed-to-be-a-part-of-a-strange-homosexual-cult/

    http://shoebat.com/2015/05/27/erdogan-and-the-prime-minister-of-the-turkey-just-made-this-declaration-to-the-entire-islamic-world-we-will-gather-together-kurds-and-arabs-and-all-of-the-muslim-world-and-invade-jerusalem-and/

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    https://orthodoxaustralia.org/2013/06/28/the-beast-that-was-and-is-not-and-yet-is/