WE LIVE IN PROPHETIC TIMES!

WE LIVE IN PROPHETIC TIMES!

By Archpriest Andrew Phillips, November 30, 2015. Ft Andrew is an English parish priest of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), rector of St. John of Shanghai Orthodox Church in Colchester, Essex, in the United Kingdom.

The shooting down of an anti-terrorist Russian airplane by Turkey’s anti-Kurdish, NATO-run forces has implications far beyond the obvious one—that it was preventing the terrorist organization ISIS from selling cheap oil to Turkeys corrupt businessmen-politicians and therefore had to be destroyed.

First of all, it reminds us that Western secularism has always allied itself with militant Islam against Russia. It was thus in the thirteenth century when St. Alexander Nevsky fought simultaneously against the Teutonic Knights, vt ho stabbed Christian Russia in the back while it was already fighting the Mongol Tartars from the East. It was thus in the nineteenth century when Imperial Britain fought against the liberation of the Balkan Christians by Russia, and allied itself with the Muslim Ottoman oppressors.

It was thus in 1915 when Germans ally, Turkey, massacred a million Armenians, who had been protected by Russia alone. It was thus in the 1970s when the US and the UK allowed Turkey to invade and occupy northern Cyprus, wrecking its Christian shrines. It was thus in die 1980s when the Western- created, funded, trained and armed Al-Qaida in Afghanistan and in the 1990 s when its Western-funded and protected offshoots fought Serbia in the Balkans and Russia in the Caucasus. It is thus today in Libya and Syria. Western secularism and Islamic fundamentalism are simply the two sides of the self-same coin.

Secondly, it reminds us of the prophecies of the saints, of St. Cosmos of Aitolia and, more recently, of St. Paisios the Athonite (+1994), who foresaw the war between Russia and Turkey, the Russian liberation of Constantinople from its physical enemies and also from internal enemies who, though Orthodox in name, are in fact apostates from the Faith, being rather paid agents of the Wishington-Vatican axis. These prophecies speak of bloodshed, of a third of Turks converted to Orthodoxy, a third being driven away to Mesopotamia and a third dying.

Thirdly, it reminds us that Eden, Paradise, was in the east, somewhere in Mesopotamia, and that anti-Eden, anti-Paradise, is also in the east, in today’s blood-drenched Iraqi Mesopotamia. It reminds us that the war that is going on in western Syria, created by the West, is dangerously close to the place called Armageddon and that the war that is continuing there is a war against those who hate Christ and His teachings, including those who are planning to rebuild the Temple on Zion, ready for the enthronement of their master Antichrist.

Hie consequence are far-reaching. The Church meeting that the ecumenist-jminded and Western-guided Phanariots want for next year may now not happen. How can Russian delegates even enter Turkey? 

Does this mean that the Russian Church will hold a real Council for all free Orthodox? The situation in the Ukraine, on the northern shores of the Black Sea, just across from Turkey, is also concerned. The Western-installed and funded junta in Kiev looks ever more discredited, as it. welcomes the illegal Turkish aggression, but it is also fragile and bankrupt. How can the weak Western world still support the junta when isolated Western Europe is faced by mass Muslim invasion and the isolated USA by the joint might of Russia, China and India?

Today the minority of Orthodox, for so long undecided and ambivalent on the fringes of the Church, as well as all others who call themselves Christians, are being asked to face reality and decide whom they support: the pro-Islamic Western elite and its bandit consumerism, or resurgent Russia. No more so in the Paris Jurisdiction, whose Archbishop job has just been removed. Those on the fringes can hesitate no longer. Are they “Halfodox” apostates from Orthodox Christianity, or are they patriots of the worldwide Holy Russia that is, by the grace of God, hiring born?

Today is the time of St. John the Baptist. We are being called on to prepare the way for the enthronement of the new Emperor of the Christian Empire of Russia. He will be, by the grace and anointing of the Church, the only protector of Christians from those who are preparing the coming of Antichrist on Zion, even arranging in Paris the largest gathering of world leaders in history. Our destiny is to fight in the mystical battle against spiritual impurity and slander.

Last week I prayed in Odessa as a pilgrim at the grave of the humble Elder Jonah (+2012). Are his prophecies regarding the LJkraine and all Russia in 2016 to be realized? All depends on our repentance. All the fragments of Holy Russia, the footstool of the Kingdom of Heaven, in the words of St John of Kronstadt, are to be guarded, propagated and gathered together before the end. All Orthodox of all nationalities who know what is prophesied in the holy book of Esdras*, the enthronement of the last Christian Emperor before the end, are to repent and show the way.

 [*] lire books of Esdras, 1 and 2, are part of the Apocrypha books of the Bible. Τhe article’s author refers herein to the in A book wherein the seer is instructed by the archangel Uriel of seven revelations. the two books are hypothesized to have different authors and they are not treated consistently amongst all Orthodox traditions, the Greek Orthodox focus primarily on the 1“ book while the Russian use both books amongst the Apocrypha writing of the Russian Orthodox Bible. The prophesy relative to the last kingdom is contained within the 12th chapter of the 2,book. Ed.)

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