Dear Christians,
It is usually very difficult to test the spirits, to see if they be of God, as the Apostle writes us. World events and religious events that directly effect your life and mine are rapidly spinning out of our control in every direction, and every kind of deception meets us everywhere.
Greek and Russian have a special word, plany or prelest for spiritual deception, for which the arch-type is the deception of Eve, then Adam.
Eve blamed it on the Serpent, and Adam blamed it on Eve, but God did not accept that either were guiltless. Adam even tried to blame it on God, ("that woman that YOU gave me). Anything but repentance, which only came when it was too late. On 9-11 I was reminded of this. Everyone was looking for someone to blame, but no one looked...in the MIRROR. Even now we could be free from terrorism in one day, if America guaranteed a Palestinian State. However, no American politician dares alienate World Zionism, which controls the Media and the Money , absolutely.....under God!
The Jewish State which is constantly expanding calls itself Israel. Jewish Leaders believed that they chose this name, rather than, say, New Zion, New Judea, Hebrewstan, the United Jewish State, or some other, all of which would be more accurate. Did they really have a Choice, any more that the Antichrist , will choose his name. The Antichrist MUST be called Jesus Christ, King of Israel, and MUST be enthroned there in the reconstructed Temple. We all have a choice of whether to unite with the Antichrist, or simply to suffer him, but resistance is foolish, because all the prophecies must be fulfilled. Eliyah and Enoch MUST preach, and must be killed.
And what of the Church, the Bride and Body of Christ, Who is Its Head? The Church MUST continue to exist until the End, (if this were not so, the Bishops and Clergy would have destroyed it already, but it is Divine and Immortal, even if small) It cannot be destroyed, but it cannot be more than a tiny remnant, because this is what God has foretold through the prophets. It is not that He wills that mankind sin and betray the Church, one by one, but it is what He permits and foreknows.
And we Christians in the Russian Orthodox Church, how do we know who is right and who is wrong, and what we should make of contemporary events? There is one simple test; Truth, because the True Church will not need or use any deceit.
The Russian Orthodox Church is simply the first to evangelize America in the 18th century, a part of the One Orthodox Church The Beginning of the End was World War One. Almost over night, all the pillars of Western and Eastern Civilization disappeared. The Orthodox Christian Empire which had existed since Constantine, the Caliphate of Islam which had existed since Mohammed, the Holy Roman Empire of the Germans, the Kaiser...millions of Christians were massacred , millions were ethnically cleansed, thousands and thousands and thousands of churches, especially those founded by the Apostles, disappeared from Anatolia . Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, Myra, Cappadocia, Tarsus, Nicea...all vanished, almost in one night. That was the beginning of the End.
We must know and note this to understand what is happening now. This IS the Great Apostasy of which the Apostle Paul wrote. The morality of two thousand years has vanished in a generation. It is not possible that True Christianity the Religion of the Cross of Self - Denial, thrive in a world of Pleasure - seeking Hedonism. Every scientific advance to make the world a better place in which to live causes that WORLD to thrive, of which Christ said, Not for the World do I pray. Christianity thrives on hardship. Nothing is so dangerous for the soul as bodily comfort. No one would be Christian, if there were ANY OTHER WAY to be saved. Since this is absolutely true, false prophets and other antichrists (St. John says Many antichrists MUST come into the world) have established many false religions. The True Church is the Body of Christ; so antichrists found false churches, which have nothing to do with that One Church founded in Jerusalem by the Messiah 20 centuries ago. Every church or religion which has any other date than 33 A.D. or any other origin than that Jerusalem the Mother of All the Churches, headed by St. James, the Brother of God, to whom Sts. Peter and Paul were accountable, as the Acts of the Apostles show, any other church is an antichurch, created by Satan, not God, to deceive men, and to inoculate or vaccinate them against the the One True Faith, As there is only One True God, there can only be One True Faith. As there is only one True Christ, (but many antichrists) there exists only One True Church which is His Body. It is Divine and Immortal, and unchanging, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Roman Catholic Church that separated from Orthodoxy about one thousand years ago, the Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist Pentecostal, etc. are all satellites of Rome, which is the Cult of the Pope. Every false church was founded by a man, not God in Jerusalem in 33A.D. These deluded men who rejected APOSTOLIC TRADITION for their own human opinion, as those who founded all the non-Orthodox denominations, were in fact, antichrists heading anti -churches.
And in the Orthodox Church today we see the same tragic apostasy. Orthodox bishops are falling like the stars of the Heavens, abandoning what the Church had done and taught for 2,ooo years, to be relavent, comtemporary""meaningful. In the Russian cChurch there are apostasies. How can we discern who is right? TRUTH!
Those on one side are suave in their careful use of words well chosen to conceal the TRUTH. The TRUTH is that they now wish to unite with the Moscow Patriarchate, which previously they never would recognize as a Church, and never would even sit with at the same table or platform, which we were forbidden by all our ruling primates. NOW we know that not only Mark, but Laurus and Alypy as well have been more than once to meet with Druzdov and his administration, in absolute defiance of Metropolitans and Synods which they did not obey, but now they tell us to obey them! During the last year and until now, lies and deception have been the daily bread they offered us. Whatever the Metropolitan said or tried to say, they ruthlessly surpressed.
I) According to Bishops Varnava, Lazar, Venyamin and Agathangel, the letter they signed to the Serbian Patriarch was not the one sent.They were deceived.
2) When Metropolitan Vitaly issued a Letter to his Flock, from his Cathedral, we had the unseemly spectacle, of Laurus and Gabriel, grabbing 600 copies, scurrying to squirrel them away (like rats) so they could not be given out. Access to Synod's official website was denied to the Metropolitan.
Some of his clergy were punished without his knowledge or consent.
3) His June Confession of Faith which he signed and ordered in his own hand to be read in every church, was surpressed.
4) He refused to resign, and closed the July Sobor, but the Bishops refused to listen to him, and at the end of all, forced from him a resignation, predated by several days.
5) Then they kept him confined, and forced his secretary out the door in slippers.
6) When the police were brought and freed him to go to a monastery in Canada, they seized him at the altar and carried him off to a mental hospital. Tests showed him perfectly competent, and he returned to the monastery. Thanksgiving, they tried to seize him again, and carry him to New York to their own specialist but were prevented by the Canadian Police. Bishop Michael was suspended for this, though whether it was for trying or for failing is impossible to say.
7) The Synod appointed the reverends Potapov and Lebedeff to attend a Symposium with the Moscow Patriarchate on Modern Church History. Everybody knows that Potapov and Lebedev are the most Pro-Moscow clergy anywhere, so by their appointment everybody can tell what result is expected.
8) Before all this in 1999 already, clergy of both the Moscow Patriarchate and The Paris Jurisdiction (deposed by Met. Anthony Khrapovitsky) were both serving and communing at the Ascension Convent on the Mount of Olives. When I asked if this were true and how it was possible, I was told that it had unfortunately happened and that I should write a letter of protest to the October Sobor. I was fooled into thinking that I was dealing with honest men. Since it has become obvious that the MP and Paris Clergy are WELCOME in Jerusalem.
I was lied to. You were lied to. The Russian Synod is whirling like a Tazmanian Devil to create such a cloud of dust in everyone's eye's that no one can be sure what is happening....until it is too late. Then all our churches will belong to Moscow, and KGB agents (which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police testify they believe have penetrated to the very heart of the Church !) will replace the Body of Christ with a government bureau, which recognizes Rome as a valid Church, and with which it is admittedly in Communion whenever there is a need, It is also in Full Communion with the Masonic Greek Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Athens, where abortions are blessed, fornication is blessed, and Mohammed is declared the Prophet of God and the Pope the other Lung in the Body of Christ.
What further need have we of witnesses? How is dialogue possible with such a strumpet, pretending to be the chaste Bride of Christ?
Should the Authorites appear, and arrest Potapov and Lebedev for Consorting with a Known Prostitute, they will say, OH! We were just procuring her for Vladika Laurus! And Laurus will say, Oh! And all the time I thought she was the Bride of Christ! Perhaps a Human Policeman, brand new to the neighborhood might be fooled, and a Human Judge of no experience, but you know and I know, and....God , the All-knowing Judge knows...the TRUTH. Stay away from ALL those traitors. They all have a deadly disease, Deception, which originates with Satan and leads to utter alienation from Truth, and the Bride of Truth, to Eternal Death.
Surely, you can all see that this is merely one more piece in construction of One World Religion, (Ecumenism, the Faith of the Lodge,) to fit with One World Government, (the American Empire). Ask any Serb or Palestinian.