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On Delaying the Coming of Antichrist: Universal Repentance and a Universal Prayer

In 1914 the leaders of Western Europe set out on a path of madness, dragging down the rest of the world into their folly. Since then that path of folly, invading other countries and repressing other peoples, has continued to be the one which this world treads, as it were winding up the spring of global tension so tight that, it seems, all can end only in a release of unparalleled global violence.

The key event which signified the leaders’ refusal to repent and return was the coup d’etat of February 1917 in Russia, when they and their Westernized Russian minions committed treason and overthrew the God-given ruler of Russia. After that there was no going back and so the folly spread through Europe again a generation later and then went global. For since 1917 there has been no peace, the world has become unbalanced.

After that catastrophe of nearly a hundred years ago, in Russia today many are realizing that only repentance there can bring restoration and so the rebalancing of the world. However, repentance is also necessary in Western countries, especially in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France, for it was their elites that engineered the treason of the February 1917 coup d’etat and so are indirectly responsible for all that came later. Using their agents, sometimes Non-Russian, sometimes Westernized Russians, they began the disaster.

Moreover, despite the abysmal deeds of the atheists in the former Russian Empire, especially between 1917 and 1941, most books and articles written by Western academics, authors and politicians about the so-called ‘Russian Revolution’ still maintain that this genocidal blood-letting of millions was good. And they have spread that ideology among the peoples of the West, most of whom still actually believe their lies about the Tsar’s Russia and therefore about contemporary post-Soviet Russia.

According to the propaganda myths of these ideologists the old order with its peace and prosperity had to be destroyed, because the Russian Empire was hindering their plans to obtain global secularist control. Thus, the calls to repentance of the Russian Orthodox Church to Russians apply also to all Non-Russians who consider that the overthrow of the Tsar and the Christian Empire were positive. What is needed is repentance not only in the lands of the former Russian Empire, but universally:

The misfortune that has befallen Russia is the direct result of grievous sins and her rebirth is only possible through cleansing from them. However, so far there has been no real repentance, the crimes committed have not been clearly condemned and many who took an active part in the Revolution continue and even now still affirm that at the time there was no other course of action…refusing to express any direct condemnation of the February Revolution and their rebellion against the Lord’s Anointed.

Bishop (now St) John of Shanghai at the Second Council of the Russian Diaspora in 1938.

We call on all to repent….regardless of their political opinions and views of history, regardless of their ethnic origins, religious background, their attitude to the concept of monarchy and the personality of the last Emperor of Russia.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, 18 July 1993.

As the end of history approaches with the coming of Antichrist, we can still postpone that apocalyptic event by repenting. That will gain us time for our own much delayed salvation and potentially that of billions of others, those close to us and those far from us, to the ends of the earth. Therefore let Non-Russians also pray:

O Lord, forgive us for the sins of not knowing and rejecting the Church, failing to keep the spiritual purity of Holy Orthodoxy and so failing to share in the missionary Cross of Holy Rus, the Christian Empire of the Third Rome, and betraying the memory of the Anointed of God, not understanding and revering the holiness of the last Christian Emperor and his Family.

On Collapsing Unions

Introduction

Many human structures last only three generations. After the grandparents have passed on their necessarily imperfect achievements to their children and they have passed them on in their turn to their grandchildren, the great-grandchildren reject them and all is dissolved. For the fourth generation stops looking back to the imperfect past and, freeing itself from the weight of history, looks to the future, hoping for better.

The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union was born out of the European suicide of the First World War. International empires centred in Western Europe were not content to limit themselves and continually wanted to expand. Having colonized the world, they were therefore obliged to clash with one another and also destroy the one remaining Empire outside its control, the Russian Empire, using its traitors to create the Soviet Union in its place.

The Soviet Union had a Marxist view of the world. Covering one sixth of the world’s land surface, but with little more than 5% of the world’s then population and responsible for only a small part of world production and trade, the vast Soviet Union was unable to meet the needs of its peoples and so became irrelevant. It had overreached itself out of hubris.

Twenty-five years ago the Soviet Union collapsed. It was effectively founded in 1917, more or less three generations before it collapsed (February 1917 to December 1991). The Soviet Union collapsed because people ceased to believe that its anti-patriotic injustices and straitjacket of tyranny were worth continuing it. They ceased to believe in its atheistic and materialistic ideology, realizing that there was greater.

The European Union

The European Union was born out of the European suicide of the Second World War. International empires centred in Western Europe were not content to limit themselves and continually wanted to expand. Having colonized the world, they were therefore obliged to clash with one another and also destroy the one remaining Empire outside its control, the Soviet Union. Having failed in this in 1945, the European Union was formed.

The European Union had a Eurocentric view of the world. Today, covering a tiny amount of the world’s land surface with little more than 5% of the world’s population and responsible for only a small part of world production and trade, this corner of Western Europe seems unable to meet the needs of its peoples and is so becoming irrelevant. It has overreached itself out of hubris.

Today, the European Union is collapsing. It was effectively founded in 1945, more or less three generations ago (May 1945 to 20??). The European Union is collapsing because people are ceasing to believe that its anti-patriotic injustices and straitjacket of tyranny are worth continuing it. They are ceasing to believe in its atheistic and materialistic ideology, realizing that there is greater.

Conclusion

Apostasy from the Orthodox Faith determined the collapse of the Russian Empire and its dissolution into the atheistic Soviet Union. In turn, the loss of belief in atheism determined the collapse of the Soviet Union and its dissolution into many constituent countries, above all the Russian Federation.

Apostasy from the Christian Faith determined the collapse of the European Nations and their dissolution into the atheistic European Union. In turn, the loss of belief in atheism is determining the collapse of the European Union and its dissolution into many constituent countries, perhaps into a Eurasian Confederation.

The Present Danger

Who is it that will harm you, if you are followers of what is good?

(1 Peter 3, 13)

1916 was the year when the bankrupt British government was taken over by new and alien forces dependent on transnational financiers in New York and the year that the Russian Revolution was planned, in part inside the British Embassy in the Russian Capital. One century on, 2016 is also proving to be a year of great temptation internationally, especially because of Syria, and for the Russian Orthodox Church. Here there is great controversy, as throughout the Orthodox world, about the documents prepared for the proposed Inter-Orthodox meeting in Crete in June, especially that on the Church. Secondly, there has been the surprise meeting between Patriarch Kyrill and the Bishop of Rome, which has upset and disturbed many within the Russian Orthodox Church in particular.

As a result, there are a few clergy who have ceased commemorating Patriarch Kyrill. Then there have been meetings in Russia, the Ukraine and Moldova where small numbers of activists protesting at the use of the word ‘Council’ and the contents of the documents and they have used words like ‘uncanonical’, ‘heresy’ and ‘heretic’. And certain Russian bloggers, well-known for extremism and immaturity, have made dishonest and disrespectful accusations, falling into abuse and gossip, insults and unjust accusations, rumours and innuendo, proving that they are in fact secular-minded, not Church-minded. Our modernist and ecumenist enemies, who want schism from the Church, are rejoicing at the actions of such zealots. they are already imagining the full-scale destruction of the Church.

What should our attitude be?

Firstly, we must pray for the Russian Patriarch. There are those around him who are still under the influence of the humanistic and unOrthodox ‘theology’ of the 20th century Russian emigration, of the Paris School of Bulgakovism and Schmemannism, and have learned nothing from the Sourozh schism. Individuals subject to that ideology, which is what it is, are in fact fifth columnists, who are bringing divisive spiritual impurity into the Church. Secondly, we must rewrite the documents for the Crete meeting, making clear that we will never accept compromises of the teachings of the Church and especially of the teaching on the Church, the main dogmatic issue here. Fortunately, many in other Local Churches, especially in Georgia, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus, are already undertaking this.

We must also make sure that the voices of all Orthodox in the monasteries and parishes, clergy and laypeople, those at the grassroots of the Church, are heard. The Church is not the bishops, and certainly not a select group of bishops, and certainly not a group of uprooted intellectuals and disincarnate philosophers; the Church is everyone, the whole body of the faithful, the people of God, both now and in ages past. That is the meaning of the word ‘catholicity’. However, in doing this, we must show honesty, respect and courtesy, defending the Church and Church Truth from all Her enemies, from left or right, whatever their sect. And we must act without hysteria, from inside the Church, for we know that the Church is not ours, but God’s, and that Christ will always be triumphant in the long term.