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  • World News – August 8th 2013

    14-Year Old Anti-GMO Zeitgeist Activist Publicly Schools CBC. Resisting and denouncing the system is a good thing, but without an Orthodox understanding of the world events, it will quickly lead down the other slope – being caught in antichrist’s “zeitgeist” awakening movement – this is the single greatest danger facing Christians today. If the fight is not lead for defending Christ and The Church but simply for “social justice”, then the fight is already lost. If we do not repent and ask God for forgiveness and we fail to understand that what is happening is the direct result of us continuously denying Him, and we do not understand that we are weak and we cannot fix this without His help but continue to seek our own justice and create our own “social justice movement”, then we are lost. The Old Testament shows clearly, time and time again, that the path away from God always leads a nation (or nations) into bondage, slavery to a totalitarian regime, and returning to God always results in being freed from bondage. That is what happened in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, and that is what is coming to the apostate West now.

    The latest religious experience – GoogleGlass!

    FEMA is making intense preparations. Are you?

    Smart money are exiting the “recovering” US housing market

    Police state on steroids: TSA invades train terminals, sporting events, music festivals and rodeos

    In your face: Obama – ‘We Don’t Have a Domestic Spying Program’

    Only in USSA – schools indoctrinating children to promote Obamacare to their families

    The USSA Congress has become simply irrelevant

    Young woman’s ovaries destroyed by Gardasil: Merck ‘forgot to research’ effects of vaccine on female reproduction

    The eternal Euro crisis

    31 Percent Of U.S. Honey Bees Were Wiped Out Just This Year

    Rothschild Dynasty Merging French & UK Banks Before “Fallout of Financial Crisis”

    Mission accomplished: This was the goal from the beginning – to drive out of business all private insurers so Obamacare would be the only option at the end of the day

  • Saint John Jacob the Chozebite (Jul 23 / Aug 5 1960) – Poems

    (translation from Romanian)

    StJohnJacob

    The Apocalyptic Beast

    And now when surging malice grows
    The Antichrist opens his school
    To teaching many people, shows,
    The atheist language is ‘cool’!

    Because the ugly ‘thoughtful beast’
    It moves its ugly heads in hew:
    The Free-mason, the communist
    And the mutinous, rebel Jew.

    The popes and likes from Rome
    With the pagans from Agar
    Start throwing from high dome
    The arrows of Veliar!

    From all seven heads of the beast,
    Appeared were just five in pus,
    When other two will be released,
    The end is very near to us!

    Another beast will get out, seen,
    With two lamb horns like in a knit
    With dragon voice of halloween,
    As it has power just from it.

    The beast has ten more horns like spins
    With of the lucifer’s well known signs,
    Which are the wicked harmful sins
    Which cry to Heavens, from lower than mines.

    That’s just the awful ugliness
    Be sitting on the Holy Throne
    Demonic power with wordless
    On earth, the master as its own!

    The Lucifers of Science

    The learners who today are striving hard,
    On and on, a work in vain,
    To fully do the prove of random card,
    That there is no God to Reign.

    With the progress of the science,
    Like a Lucifer swollen with pride,
    They go higher, in defiance,
    Higher than the Heavens, sliding glide.

    Just two doors stand up in front,
    Faithless stays astonished dumb,
    As in front of a new gate
    An ox stays beating the drum.

    One of them – entrance of life,
    That is closed for them right now,
    The other, of falling – rife,
    Which is widely open – bow.

    As much as a head can do,
    They will rush to do invention,
    For to make and produce ‘life’
    And to stop the death, they mention.

    Unbeliever, in your schemes,
    Life you try to fabricate…
    Win the clash with death? – just dreams,
    No success at this high gate.

    Everything of the inventions,
    When your near grave will seize,
    Has no value: husk – dimensions,
    Which gets spreading in the breeze.

    If you do not know in life
    Your Redeemer, personally,
    You will find after your death,
    Evil one’s, that’s tyranny.

    The Sign of the Holy Cross

    The sign of the Cross to us
    The salvific shield it is,
    Which makes the evil to depart
    Gives us so much strength from His!

    So let’s make it as perfectly today
    This Christian sign of ours stood,
    Because the enemies will run away,
    As from His Holy Precious Wood.

    And those who ‘play’ it like guitar
    And the Cross they mock “unplanned”,
    They have the seed of faith afar
    With the evil seal on hand!

    They have no piety up in the soul,
    Neither shame shown on their cheeks.
    Down bowing – they can not be in control,
    ‘Cause a “boss” on neck does tricks!

    The Lord of Heavens bows
    His Being for the human race
    But to Him the “Christian” shows,
    That does not bow his head – disgrace!

    He has stretched high on the Cross
    His Godly hands Divine,
    And you, man, don’t strive but loss,
    To make at least this Sign.

    O, Christian you, He saves us,
    By His death on the Wood,
    But you see the shame and fuss
    In crossing yourself good!

    The wind of desolation

    And again on battlefields, blood again,
    Again the noise, of the wars
    Once more unending, storm of tears.
    The tide is high, the need – it soars!

    When poor world wept
    On cheeks its tears,
    Another sudden tide
    Of sorrows, the world is pierced.

    Again the widows will be crying
    Along with old men – poor,
    And children will be left alone,
    In thousands orphans score.

    Cities will be emptied
    And so many will be slaves,
    In that place of worldly songs
    Bullets will go hit in waves.

    And instead of spoiling
    And of luxury astray,
    Fight will reign from now, on earth,
    And the quake will be gun play.

    That the ones of bustling habits,
    Walking naked with no shame,
    Will be forced to walk uncovered,
    As we’re poor, they will exclaim!

    When the malice keeps on growing,
    God is sickened, one can say.
    That is why the world is cracking
    And the wars don’t go away.

  • World News – August 5th 2013 – part 2

    Welcome to the USSA: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

    DHS ‘Constitution Free’ Zones Inside US Ignored By Media

    Boston Bomber Linked With Right-Wing, ‘Conspiracy Theories’. In other words confessing the truth makes you a terrorist. That is exactly why the US senate want to put bloggers who dare speak the truth in jail.

    This is how democracy works today in the USSA: “the definition of the word “journalist” means different things to different people, and two powerful Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin, say journalists only should enjoy extended First Amendment protection if they work for traditional media outlets on a paid basis”. In other words you are only allowed to speak if you are a lap-dog journalist, only do so from within “the framework” (mainstream media) and only publish allowed propaganda material.

    Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ’emergency’

  • World News – August 5th 2013

    Julian Assange announces a global awakening is sweeping the planet. Once again we need to emphasize that Orthodox Christians need to resist this “liberation” movement as it is a trap. Julian Assange has a lot in common with people like George Soros who are funding “both ends” – on one hand they are creating a global problem, and on another they are financing a “solution” sold as an “awakening movement” meant to fight the problem they help create. This is the awakening movement of the coming antichrist that is trying to mobilize all the resources of society into a global fight for “social justice”. BTW, do not be fooled, Edward Snowden is another actor in this play.

    Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is the name of a new book which seems, at least from the title, to make the Orthodox point on the complete apostasy of the West. Blessed Seraphim Rose spoke extensively about Voltaire and all the other French revolutionaries in his Orthodox Survival Course. As we did not read this new book we can not say how much the author’s views are in line with the Orthodox thinking, but those interested can always refer back to Fr Seraphim’s work where they can actually grasp the true Orthodox understanding of the progress of this apostasy in the West.

    The wart is getting bigger: US regulators ‘find evidence’ of banks fixing derivative rates

    US legislator to Tea Party: “get your guns ready for economic collapse”

    Syria – the latest target of the “economic hitmen”

    Gigantic Pentagram Found in Kazakhstan – Can (Could) Be Seen in Google Maps

  • Prophesy of Abba Pambo regarding the state of the world in the end times

    Then the disciple asked: “What sayest thou, o Abba, that the traditions and practices among the Christians will be altered? Perhaps there will be a dearth of priests in the Church when these unfortunate times come?”

    Pambo continued: “In those times, the love for God in most souls will grow cold and a great sadness will fall upon the world. One nation shall face off against another. Peoples will move away from their own places. Rulers will be confused. The clergy will be thrown into anarchy, and the monks will be inclined more to negligence. Church leaders will consider useless anything concerned with the salvation of souls, as much for their own souls as for the souls of their flocks: indeed, they will despise any such concern. All will show eagerness and energy for every matter regarding their dining table and their appetites. They will be lazy in their prayers and casual in their criticisms. As for the lives and teachings of the Holy Fathers, they will not have any interest to hear them, much less to emulate them, but rather they will complain and say that ‘if we had lived in those times, then we would have conducted ourselves similarly.’ And the Bishops shall give way to the powerful of the world, giving answers on different matters only after taking gifts from everywhere and consulting the rational logic of the academics. The poor man’s rights will not be defended. They will afflict widows. They will harass orphans. Debauchery will permeate these people. Most will not believe in God. They will hate each other, and devour one another like beasts. The one will steal from the other. They will be drunk and will walk about as ones blind.”

    The disciple again asked: “What shall we do in such a state?”

    Elder Pambo answered, “My child, in these times, whoever will save his soul and prompt others to be saved will be called great in the Kingdom of the Heavens.”

    (From the Prophesies by Abba Pambo, Orthodox Christian Witness, Vol. XL, no. 7 (562)(July 2006): 16-18.)
    Abba Pambo was born in AD 303. He struggled in the Egyptian desert.

  • The American Dream and St. Nilus the Myrrhstreamer

    If there ever was one society more materialistic, concerned only about earthly comforts, devoid of any spiritual life and farther from the Truth of Orthodoxy than anything, it is the American society – and the entire western society in general which has fully adopted her way of life.

    According to “The Onion”, in a new report released Wednesday by the Pew Research center, Americans indicated that when it comes to what they expect from their country, all they really want is to be safe, happy, rich, comfortable, and entertained at absolutely all times. This may be just satire but it certainly feels very close to reality.

    http://v.theonion.com/onionmedia/videos/videometa/1760/zen_mp4.mp4

    Quotes: “We are living in the greatest country on Earth, so I think I am entitled to wealth, love, cheap education”, “enough time to catch up with all the TV shows i have been meaning to watch”, “high self-esteem”, “central air conditioning in every building”, “a beach-front property” … the list goes on and on and on …

    A Prophecy by St. Nilus the Myrrhstreamer of Mt Athos (1651) describes what the world would like when the time of the advent of the antichrist is near:

    “From the year 1900, toward the middle of the twentieth century, the people and the world will begin to become unrecognizable. As the time of the advent of the Antichrist draws nigh, the minds of people shall be darkened due to the passions of the flesh (material desires). Ungodliness and iniquity are going to increase. Then the world will become unrecognizable. The faces of people are going to be changed. Men will not be distinguishable from women, on account of their shamelessness in dress and style of hair. These people will become wild, becoming like beasts because of the temptations and the deception of the Antichrist.

    There will be no respect toward parents and elders. Love is going to disappear. Christian shepherds, that is, bishops and priests are going to be filled with vainglory (with some exceptions), utterly failing to distinguish the right way from the left. The customs and traditions of the Christians and of the Church are going to change. Purity will depart from society and immorality is going to reign.

    Falsehood and greed are going to attain great proportions. And woe to those who lay up treasures of silver (earthly wealth)! Fornications, adulteries, homosexuality, theft, and murders are going to prevail at that time. Due to the power of such great crimes and licentiousness, people are going to be deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received at Holy Baptism, as well as remorse of conscience.

    The Churches of God are going to be deprived of godly and pious shepherds. And woe to the Christians remaining in the world at that time! And woe to those who would be utterly deprived of their faith, because they should not see the Light of knowledge in anyone! The Christians are going to then separate themselves from the world in holy places of refuge that they might lighten their spiritual sufferings and find relief. Everywhere they are going to encounter obstacles and distress.

    All these things are going to occur because the Antichrist would lord it over everything. He will take control over the whole earth. He will work signs and wonders. He will also give deprave wisdom to wretched men so that they would invent ways of speaking one to another from one part of earth to the other. As birds, they are going to fly through the air, and, as fish, they are going to penetrate the depths of the sea.

    Humanity that will be living in comfort shall be unfortunate, not knowing that all these things are the deception of the Antichrist. The Antichrist is going to advance to such an extent in the field of science that he will deceive men, so that the might not believe in the existence of the tri-hypostatic God.

    Then God, the all-good One, seeing the destruction of the human race, shall shorten those days for the sake of those few who are being saved, because, if possible, the Antichrist would deceive even the elect. Then suddenly the two-edged sword shall appear and shall slay the deceiver and his followers.”

  • NSA Admits: ‘We Do Store All Your Data But We Don’t Look At It All’

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-31/nsa-admits-we-do-store-all-your-data-we-dont-look-it-all

    Quote: “Although the programs collect a large amount of information, the vast majority of that information is never reviewed by anyone in the government. NSA access to telephony and email transactional information in bulk so that it can quickly identify the network of contacts that a targeted number or address is connected to.”

    After all the denial, finally the NSA admits that they are collecting all the data they can get their hands on. Before anything was ever revealed by Snowden, there were numerous sources we pointed to, like Brad Thor (appearing on Glenn Beck) who revealed the full extent of the spying, but it all sounded to incredible to believe.

    Here we are today, knowing for a fact that what was considered a conspiracy theory just months ago, is FACT today. And they even confirm it all for us: the data is there for it to be used when deemed necessary – just waiting for the right conditions, for the promised international crisis to emerge …

    The beast that has been slowly being revealed is now in full view.

  • World News – July 30th 2013 (you are delusional)

    Forbes is telling you that if you believe that The Illuminati or the Bilderberg Group influences the world, you are delusional. That is like saying to an Orthodox Christian that if he believes the devil exists and is at work, he is delusional. Same thing.

    Obama erases all campaign promises he made from his website. What promises? You are delusional!

    It is now known who supplied all the gold that was used to bomb the market from April to June – it was Bank of England! But remember, if you believe there is a group of people trying to manipulate the world, you are delusional!

    JP Morgan fined record amount for manipulating the energy market! BTW, JP Morgan have paid over 7 billion in fines to settle various manipulation allegations JUST IN THE LAST 2 YEARS. Do you think JP Morgan could also be manipulating the gold and silver markets? You are delusional!

    The Cyprus bail-in confiscation rate has just been raised to 47.5 %. Do you think the same will happen in other western countries? You are delusional!

    FEMA Insider: A Large Number of Truck Drivers Have Vanished While Delivering Weapons, Grenades, Ammo

  • Pope Francis ready to accept gay priests

    How far down the way of abominations road does Roman-Catholicism have to travel before people see what is happening? “Who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?” said pope Francis when asked how the Catholic hierarchy should respond to clerics who are gay.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324354704578635401320888608.html?mod=rss_europe_whats_news

    How can the Holy Spirit work trough a priest who is gay? What is a gay priest going to tell other people when asked the same question? Is he going to tell them that it is OK to be gay and Christian? How is this priest going to explain to the people what the reason was for which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God with fire – that they should not take everything in the Bible seriously? Or what other explanation will they offer? What kind of truth are they going to confess – the truth of the Bible or their own “custom tailored” one?

    There are numerous references in Scripture with regard to same sex relations and sexual activity. Starting with Genesis 19 where there is reference to homosexual activity among the men in Sodom (hence the term sodomy), as well as in Leviticus (18:22, 20:13) which makes reference to the adopted “Holiness Code” and the penalty for such an action — “If there is a man who lies with a male as those be with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act” — was death. The Old Testament viewed sexual relations to be “normal” as those between a man and woman with the express purpose of procreation. This view, thinking, and teaching continued to the New Testament as well with St. Paul writing most extensively on this subject. He condemns prostitution and homosexuality in 1 Cor. (6:9-10): “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral nor the idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals (arsenokoitai), nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

    So what kind of Christianity is this pope promoting? Certainly not a divine Christianity, but a very worldly one – and the most recent example – the mass on a beach in Brazil attended by 3 million people. What an odd place to have the Holy Liturgy celebrated – on a beach – it made it all feel like a rock concert or a South-American soccer game – what difference was there after all? “They danced, prayed and sang – and stood in long lines in front of the armadas of portable bathrooms along the beachfront” the article states. And take a look at the pictures, on the “altar” table there is not one Cross, neither there is any in the background or anywhere else – it feels like they are not even worshiping Christ but some kind of universal God.

    The apostasy is universal, Roman-Catholicism is far gone, but the sad thing is the mainstream Orthodoxy is following right behind. The propaganda is everywhere, there is even a site dedicated to Orthodox gays (if you can believe it!). Here is what they say:

    There are two main guiding principles of this website: One: The Orthodox Church is the Bride of Christ. Two: Being gay is a gift of God, the Creator. Therefore expressing that gift in a healthy and mature relationship is also blessed by God.

    An abomination that is “blessed by God”? Do they not read the scriptures that say it is the evil one that destroys God’s work? How can everything be blessed by God? These so called Orthodox Christians are nothing less than impostors that cannot differentiate between the “good seed” and the enemy that destroys it. In Matthew 13:24-30 we can read:

    24. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
    25. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
    26. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
    27. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
    28. He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
    29. But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
    30. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

    Unfortunately the list of so called “orthodox resources” dedicated to the subject goes on and on. How about an Inclusive Orthodoxy that “seeks a revitalization of the faith, which is both orthodox in theology and grounded in the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ—a message of love, a proclamation of hope for the oppressed, an invitation towards all regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.”

    It is hard to not notice here elements of “liberation theology” and “social justice” (hope for the oppressed?), about which we talk extensively on our website.

    Even Huffington Post has an orthodox writer who can’t really see any problem for the Orthodox in accepting gay marriage.

    So does the Pope’s statement “who am I to judge a gay person of goodwill who seeks the Lord?” really stand? Traditionally, the Orthodox Church, and in part the Roman Catholic for that matter, have always condemned homosexuality as a sin – would you call this judging? Were all the Holy Fathers that gathered for the ecumenical councils held throughout the history to affirm the True Faith and condemn heresies such as Arianism judging? The form of “judgement” the pope hides behind is nothing more than “politically correctness” and has nothing to do with True Faith. It is in fact an anti-christian idea in nature because what he is actually saying is that a gay priest can be saved and can save others, without having to cleanse this heavy sin and repent first!

  • Calligraphy and Freedom

    The Calligraphy class, that is the learning of writing beautifully from early years of schooling, disappeared and have been replaced by the typing lessons. A few years ago, a colleague told us that he was so happy when coming across with news that the handwriting will be fully replaced by typewriting in schools, very soon. So, the identification of the letters as symbols on the keyboard will be achieved by students very quickly, and then the typewriting will follow in these steps, to the joy of so many… A catastrophic event, similar with the placement of shackles on free hands!

    If the odd leadership in charge with almost every country decides to finish off with the handwriting, then the human being already manipulated heavily will be losing such ability, aptitude which is not just an ordinary skill. A short history of the written account versus the oral memory could be a good starting point. The spoken word has a higher ground than the written one as this superiority is found in the God’s Creation: “and God said…” Imitating own Creator is a natural way to go, especially in this fallen world. Everything that man achieved on the Right Path was passed to next generation of sons and daughters, by a direct and oral teaching.

    Jews of the Old Testament, waiting for God to be shown, knew very well all the instructions given to them by the Righteous Ones and Prophets. These instructions which also included rituals from on High, that man could understand and practice, were just briefly written. The reason was that the main transmission happened through spoken words and practice rituals, therefore written documents were ‘just’ the backup. Amongst other great Saints and Theologians, Blessed Metropolitan Bartholomew of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, who reposed into Christ in 2011, wrote about such facts in Theological reports to his Biblical translations.

    After Christ’s death and Resurrection, many Jews who rejected His teaching lost their connection with a past which became incomprehensible to them in these new circumstances of ‘evasion’. Therefore such Divine Writings became stumbling blocks to those unfaithful Jews who then decided to ‘alter’ the Old Testament account on all Prophesies about Christ’s Incarnation, Death and Resurrection. That alteration ‘had’ to be done and then followed by people who lost the position of Chosen Ones, producing instead demonic writings…

    Primary oral knowledge and additional written accounts were turned upside down. Since that change in favour of written documents, the descent to even worse written ‘proofs’ became evident, in the whole course of apostasy. But the Orthodox writings are very different, because the evidence is Christ Himself and His Teaching: the spoken Word was planted into the heart of man and latter on, written in a Divine and Beautiful handwritings, as Gospels and Epistles. With the invention of print press in the apostate West, the incunabula documents became easily multiplied with less trouble, especially in regards to the fake ones…

    The printer and copy machine from today are easily manipulated, multiplying deceptive documents. Even ‘non-religious’ people could feel the trickery of this un-natural activity in the sphere of making enormous copies of pornographic materials… One can point to the fact that so many true informative documents, available to everyone through the internet and quick printing and other mobile devices, are found with difficulty! Because the very availability of everything, through the random chance processes of searching, even with pages of great Orthodox documents around, makes this course of action almost impossible. Therefore, one has to know what to search for, before searching. Advertisements of all kinds, including on Orthodox sources, are producing deceptions and conflicting information. The gossip of the world is so loud and strong that is deafening all ears which are supposed to listen to the Word of God.

    The oral transmission turn into noise and the written words become no more comprehensible, or equally ‘intelligible’ in a way that this understanding kills the soul. The only Living Church has both of them, in the correct arrangement, for She brings the Right Order into everything which is useful for one’s Salvation. The beautiful handwriting that one learns to master could be a good starting point, in any spiritual journey. By means of calligraphy to write letters in needed documents will prevent us from using foul language, lies or heretical assertions. “Beauty will save the world” said Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which is exactly what we all need to think of, in this world, shackled with computer keyboards. We utilize one now, dreaming of penholder and inkwell, instead…