After the Antichrist, then will come Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
from heaven.
The Parousia of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - The Nuzul i 'Isa
al-Maseeh and Qiyamah, judgment of all men, at the Resurrection.
The Antichrist comes first. We are to have nothing to do with that, even
at the cost of our lives.
Chapter fourteen
Of the Lamb and of the virgins that follow him.
1 And I beheld, and lo a lamb stood upon mount Sion, and with him an
hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his
Father, written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven,
as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and the
voice which I heard, was as the voice of harpers, harping on their
harps. 3 And they sung as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and
before the four living creatures, and the ancients; and no man could
say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand, who were
purchased from the earth. 4 These are they who were not defiled with
women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he
goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and
to the Lamb: 5 And in their mouth there was found no lie; for they are
without spot before the throne of God.
Of the judgments upon and the eternal damnation that shall fall upon the
wicked who take the Mark of the Beast.
6 And I saw another angel flying through the midst of heaven, having the
eternal gospel, to preach unto them that sit upon the earth, and over
every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people: 7 Saying with a loud
voice: Fear the Lord, and give him honour, because the hour of his
judgment is come; and adore ye him, that made heaven and earth, the sea,
and the fountains of waters. 8 And another angel followed, saying: That
great Babylon is fallen, is fallen; which made all nations to drink of
the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall adore the beast and
his image, and receive his character in his forehead, or in his hand; 10
He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled
with pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the
Lamb.
Note: the Vatican Double Eagles of the
Knights of Malta and the Double Eagles of the Russian Duma are the same
and have the same root: Satan worship of the Ancient Cretan Double
Eagles of the Mediterranean,
embedded in the ancient Graeco-Egyptian religion based on the
Mesopotamian religion of Ur
and Babel and Nimrud in Chaldaea of
Mesopotamia, the land of Shinar, 6,000
years ago
Salaam al-Maseeh, peace in
Christ! Jesus Christ is the true Messiah and no one else!
Zionism
was conceived and hatched in Europe
along with its parent: Communism. The United States is then expected to
be the Freemasonic Shield of the European Union and its Vatican Power
behind the Throne and their puppet Zionists while the biggest
genocidists, the Communists (1 billion murdered worldwide in a century),
are considered to be within the political mainstream of European
politics along with their clones, the Greens and various Socialists. All
the while the Treaty of Rome (1956) based European Union Central Banks,
including most notably the Vatican Bank and its secret holdings,
pillage the entire earth financially and stay secure behind their
Freemason Colony, the former United
States of America. It began centuries
before by European princes who patronized the Jew usurers they employed
to squeeze taxes out of peasants – most notably the Guelph or Black Nobility of
Germany who were then and are now aligned with the Vatican.
It is the old "nobility," the European houses of the Dragon - the
Illuminati, who control the farce that is the United Nations and who
taught the Zionists to be parasites, while embracing their Satanic
Talmudic Lurianic Cabala in the form of Freemasonry.
The Houses of the Dragon are
what promoted the Roman aligned religion of Saturn, read Satan, in Europe. These were the houses
of nobility in Medieval Europe that continued the secret power of the
dragon, that serpent of old (Revelation 20, verse 2 And he laid hold on
the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him
for a thousand years. [a thousand years is not literal]) This was the
same Satan worship that was part and parcel of the Ancient Cretan Double
Eagles of the Mediterranean,
embedded in the ancient Graeco-Egyptian religion from 3,500 years ago
to the present. That, in turn was based on the Mesopotamian religion of Ur and Babel and Nimrud in Chaldaea of
Mesopotamia, the land of Shinar, from
twenty five centuries before that, in other words 6,000 years ago. The
Haburah of the Jews is a recent version of this, which is only 2,500
years old. The Haburah is the basis for Zionism and the Jew form of
Freemasonry (which is the arm of Talmudic Judaism into Gentile religion
and government).
The Talmudic Jews are used and
controlled by the Illuminati, both are utterly evil.
The houses of the Dragon are
the European controlling nobility of the Illuminati. The Illluminati are
throughout all of Eurasia.
The arms of the Illuminati to pollute all other religions and political
bodies are Freemasonry and Zionism.
The ancient Mesopotamian
Satanism is the ancient religion of Gnosticism which opposed the Old
Testament Patriarchs and Prophets and the Church. This ancient religion
of Gnosticism is that which seeks to pervert Islam as well. Some of the
current forms of this Gnosticism are Communism, Zionism, Christian
Zionism, Vatican Ecumenism and Evolution.
Vatican Double Eagles of the
Knights of Malta - the Double Axes since the time of Minos are preserved
in the halls of government as the various forms of that or the Double
Eagles
In the Ancient Minoan Empire
of Crete before 1,500 B.C. the Double Axes were the sign of the Imperial
Authority. That symbol was derived from the even more ancient Egyptian
religion which was imported to Crete from the Egypt
of the Pharaohs. Politics and Religion and murder were inextricably
intertwined in ancient Egypt.
The combined Graeco-Egyptian religion and body of real-politik that
syncretistically developed was and is the base for all of the nobility
of the Mediterranean and the Middle East and Europe and Asia and North
Africa.
The Double Axes since the time of Minos are
preserved in the halls of government as the various forms of that or the
Double Eagles. In these various forms (the "fasces lictoriae" [bundles
of the lictors] of ancient Rome, or the dual Keys of the Vatican, for
instance) in many halls of government, as in the Duma of current modern
Russia or the ancient Roman Empire, are preserved the symbol of the
Lodge of Ancient Egypt, now for millenia spread throughout the world in
all of the major Capitals. That lodge is the true Freemasonry and the
true base of the Illuminati and the owner of the 300 trillion dollar
($300,000,000,000,000) secret money fund that currently manipulates all
of the wars and governments and economies and nations on earth. The weak
imitation of that which the Haburah of the Jews in Baylonia, a mere
2,500 years ago (circa 500+ B.C.) came up with, is only the base for the
Jews' form of Apostasy from God which is Zionism in its political form
and Talmudic Judaism in its religious form.
The
Illuminati are the ones in control of Moscow and Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv and theVatican and Berlin and Beijing and Tokyo
and the Zionists and the Persians and the oil Sheiks etc. It is the
Illuminati who use Zionism and the Jews and the Americans and the
Russian and Chinese Communists etc. as willing totally complicit evil
pawns in the Illuminati scheme to rule the world. The Illuminati are the
ancient behind the scenes Nobles of ancient Satanic Diabolic Anti-God
paganism. These "Noble" houses are in actuality the most evil thing on
earth.
The evil that European elites have caused,
centers on Palestine
and the Middle East as the nadir of the world and the place where they
want to build their Satanic one world Government capital in Quds - Jerusalem.
The
key player in this is the Apostate Vatican and the current Anti-Pope
Benediktos along with all of the antipopes since the 1958 Stolen
Conclave and ongoing. That is the Whore that will sell out the world to
the New World Order and their representative, the Jew Zionist ad-Dajjal
Masih (False Messiah, the Antichrist), in Jerusalem.
Reference Links – The Church
without the poison of trying to rule the world from the “Bishop Behind
the Throne.”
· Reference Link: Daily Catholic
One of the symbols of the
military orders of the Vatican,
the Masonic double-headed eagle emblazoned with the Maltese cross,
signifies omnipotent royal dominion over both East and West. The orb
signifies temporal dominion over the globe of Earth, and the scepter
signifies control over the spiritual and religious impulses of humanity.
This eagle symbol is used in the Masonic rite of Memphis
and Misraim, under which it reads, “Order Out of Chaos”, the Hegelian
method of crisis creation.
It is found on the seals of many
European and Eurasian nation states including that of Russia, indicating
direct Vatican
control over those countries. It symbolizes the desire of a predatory
elite with virtually unlimited resources, to totally dominate the entire
world under a New World Order global government system using secrecy,
manipulation, coercion and terror with the ends justifying the means.
The Zionists are merely a diversion to
the truly evil among us. They either work with or are being used to
shield the world from the truth of who is behind the drive for world
government. However you look at it, Zionists are pawns, not the top of
the pyramid. it is time to up the ante and meet the next layer of
criminals above the Zionists. Meet the Knights of Malta (SMOM -
Sovereign Military Order of Malta) whose ceremonies and feudal ritual
dress, members embrace a certain caste/class mentality; they are
sociologically and psychologically predisposed to function as the
''shock troops" of Catholic reaction. And this is precisely the
historical role the Knights have played in the wars against Islam,
against the Protestant "heresy,'' and against the Soviet ''Evil Empire."
False Prophet - The
Pope's Attitude towards Judaism
Journalist Robert K. Dahl says that
Pope John Paul II's acquiescence to Judaism "has the appearance of
treason, regardless of intent" (The Remnant, [St. Paul, MN], April 15,
1998). Indeed, in 1999, when John Paul II made the unprecedented decree
that "the seeds infected with anti-Judaism" must "never again take root.
. . " he was forbidding opposition to the religion of the Pharisees and
proscribing the basis of the mission of Jesus Christ (Statement of Pope
John Paul II in his "General Audience" at Rome, April 28, 1999, as
reported in the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, May 5,
1999). Neither Truth nor Papal 'infallibility' can hinder Rome's grand design to rule the
world from a reconstructed temple at Jerusalem
in non-Semitic, anti-Semitic, Zionist Israel.
"Such a secular, earthbound
state could easily become the political and military power base for the
Antichrist when he comes. For the Antichrist will be in perfect accord
with the ideals of such a Zionist state. Moreover, the State of Israel
has demonstrated that it has the will and ability to go to war and win
the secular goals to which its heart is attached. Thus when the
Antichrist comes to power as head of such an efficient, superbly
equipped, scientific State, founded on nationalism, race and blood, he
will be able to conquer the rest of the world. He will be the first, the
only Jew to reign with political, economic, military power over the
whole world from his capital city, Jerusalem, the city in which Our Lord
was crucified" (Fr. Vincent Miceli, S.J., The Antichrist, p. 152).
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* * * * * * * *
The false Prophet: Rebuilding
of the temple in
Jerusalem. A project
that all of the Church Fathers and Doctors said was what the Antichrist
would do and we would know him and his henchmen thereby. The Church has
always warned, based on the warnings given by God himself in the Bible,
that there would be a great Apostasy which is the Antichrist Zionist
movement, with a false Church which would be where the false Prophet
arises from, and a false Messiah which would be the Antichrist. To take
the side of the Antichrist Zionist movement, the false Church, the false
Prophet or the false Messiah is to be sealed with the mark of the beast
and to be condemned by the Lord Jesus Christ to hell forever:
http://www.templeinstitute.org/
and
http://occult-advances.org/temple.shtml
See these reference links:
Bloody Passovers Reported by a
Jewish Scholar
In this
presentation, Professor Bowersock will speak on the emergence and
interrelated fates of Rome, Constantinople and Moscow. Rome became the
capital of a great Mediterranean empire, which tried through myth and
mystique to reconcile its legendary Trojan origins with its presence in
Italy. As Roman power grew, the city's name became synonymous with the
center of imperial government and, as Christianity grew, of
ecclesiastical authority too. But when Constantine transferred the
imperial capital to Byzantium and re-named the city after himself,
Constantinople became a new or second Rome. For many centuries, this
eastern Rome was both the capital of the Byzantine empire and the center
of orthodox Christianity. It succumbed to the Ottoman Turks in 1453,
and the Russians, who had accepted Christianity from the Byzantine
Greeks, could then claim that Moscow had become the Third Rome.
Professor Bowersock will discuss the implications of the triadic
concept, and the lessons it has to teach us about our past and our
present.
Three
Romes: A Stark Warning
Two
Romes have fallen, but the third stands, and a fourth there will not be.
The Russian Monk Philotheus c. 1520
Foreword
From an Orthodox point of view, Old Rome fell when it
lost the Orthodox Faith and cut itself off from the Church in the
eleventh century. The Second Rome, Constantinople, fell when it was
conquered by Muslims in the fifteenth century. As for the Third Rome,
Moscow, it fell to militant ‘humanist’ atheism in 1917. However, such
simple notions need closer examination, for they conceal greater truths
from which we can still learn for our benefit. These truths are all
concerned with the question ‘Why?’
Why did the
First Rome fall?
Old Rome fell, because it saw in itself the
continuation of the old pagan Roman Empire, the leaders of its Church
substituting themselves for the old pagan Roman Emperors, who had
claimed universal jurisdiction. This imperialism was taken up by
newly-converted Germanic peoples and imposed ideologically through the
teaching of the filioque. This was a doctrinal heresy, added to the
Creed of the Universal Church, which made the Popes of Rome substitutes
for Christ, from Whom, according to their novel doctrine, proceeded the
Spirit of Truth and all authority. Thus, arrogant Germanic nationalism,
added to historic Roman narcissism, caused the Schism of the West, which
ripened and fell from the Tree of the Church in the eleventh century.
The new faith was called ‘Roman Catholicism’, a contradiction in terms,
for something merely local, ‘Roman’, cannot in its local form also be
universal, or ‘catholic’. The essence of the fall was imperial
‘Romanism’, what can be called doctrinal nationalism (1).
Why did the
Second Rome fall?
New Rome, Constantinople, came soon after its
foundation to be dominated by Greek culture and language. Again and
again, the political centralism of the Greek-speaking Emperors and
Empresses in Constantinople led them into both heresy and brutality,
especially in the form of blinding its enemies. The imposition of this
centralism led to the alienation of other races. Thus, Persian Orthodox
were led to fall into Nestorianism, which spread to Afghanistan and
China, meaning that the first Christians there were not Orthodox. In
turn, Armenians, Copts and Syrians fell into Monophysitism, not
necessarily because they were Monophysites, but because of their sense
of outraged nationalism.
The fact that the Greek elite of Constantinople had
already alienated these peoples only encouraged the spread of Islam. The
fact they also showed such contempt for the ‘barbarian’ Western peoples
did nothing to prevent their fall into heresy. Even Orthodox Bulgarians
and Serbs at times rose up against the imperialistic injustices of
Constantinople. The racism, or ‘phyletism’ of the Greek cultural elite,
who even called other Orthodox ‘barbarians’ (2), led to their
willingness to compromise the Orthodox Faith at the Council of Florence
in 1439 and become Uniats. Any sacrifice could be made, provided that
the elite could keep its racial heritage. The result was that very
swiftly the Second Rome fell to the Muslims, the Lord allowing the
Empire to be taken away. The essence of the fall was something that the
Apostle Paul condemned, Hellenism, what can be called ‘ethnic
nationalism’.
Why did the Third Rome fall?
After the
fall of the Second Rome, there remained only one source of power in the
Orthodox Commonwealth and that was in Moscow. With the First Rome fallen
into doctrinal error, the Second fallen to the ‘Hagarenes’ after
compromising the Orthodox Faith, responsibility for Orthodoxy fell to
Moscow. However, this responsibility soon became mingled with
nationalism. Tragically, those who had a broader vision of the Orthodox
world, like Patriarch Nikon in the seventeenth century, were deposed and
from 1700 on the Russian Church found itself controlled by a Department
of State on the Protestant model. The aim was to reduce Orthodoxy to a
mere national ritualism of outward observance.
Then the
understanding of the Church Fathers was submerged beneath the knowledge
of German philosophy and Western technology, which together formed the
bedrock of the new centralizing Russian national chauvinism and its
imposition of Muscovite language, culture and customs, even in ancient
Orthodox lands and regions like Georgia, Belarus, Galicia and other
border areas. This inevitably led to the fall of 1917. Soviet Communism
preached the supremacy of Russia withoutOrthodoxy, replacing the
Third Rome by the Third International. It replaced icon banners with
portraits of its demons and in the centre of the Third Rome enshrined
the ‘relics’ of its 'immortal' founder, Lenin. His forename, Vladimir,
meaning ‘the ruler of the world’, echoed that of St Vladimir, who had
baptized Russia nearly a thousand years before.
At that
time, millions of Russian Orthodox were massacred by other Russian
‘Orthodox’. The difference was that the former were practising Orthodox,
the latter were apostates and had quite lost their Faith. The symbol of
them was Stalin, the apostate Orthodox seminarian, who became probably
the greatest mass murderer in all human history. The problem was that
the Orthodox Faith had for them been reduced to a mere external rite or
ideology, for which an easier ideology, promising paradise on earth without
God, could be substituted. The Communists behaved like Orthodox,
but without Christ, i.e. anti-Orthodox. And that is what they were,
Christless, and so devilful. The essence of the fall was externalism,
what can be called ‘ritual nationalism’.
The Third
Rome and the Future
It may be argued that there is one vital difference
between the first Two Romes and the Third. The First has not repented,
but persists in its errors. The Second is still occupied, partly due to
its ever-willingness to compromise the Faith, as we have again recently
seen in Istanbul. The Third, however, is in the process of repenting.
What truth is there in this argument?
True,
Communism fell fifteen years ago. However, the scars which Communism
left are everywhere clearly visible. Everywhere, alcoholism from the
dread Polish vodka, everywhere, sexually transmitted diseases and
abortion, everywhere, ecological catastrophe, everywhere, crime,
injustice and intimidation, everywhere, the rule of the Mafia (3). It
took seventy-five years for Communism to fail so utterly. It may take
seventy-five years for repentance for Orthodoxy to work so utterly.
Today, over 27,000 churches are open in Russia - a miracle when compared
to the 6,000 churches open fifteen years ago. But we shall only be
assured of popular repentance, when there are 100,000 churches open in
Russia. There is still so far to go. We are only just beginning.
Afterword
Thus,
human-beings have compromised the Faith brought by the Son of God, with
three sorts of nationalism. Firstly, they corrupted the teachings of the
Church, directly contradicting the words of Christ in the Gospel, that
the Spirit proceeds from the Father (Jn. 15, 26). This was doctrinal
nationalism. Then they sold their Faith for the mess of pottage of
their race. This was ethnic nationalism. Then they substituted
mere external ritual for the Faith. This was ritual nationalism.
And yet by virtue of the repentance and sacrifice of the New Martyrs and
Confessors, the Third Rome has, miraculously, been allowed to rise
again. Crucifixion is followed by Resurrection. However, this rising
again is only for a time. Here, there is a stark warning. If Russia
makes her Orthodoxy once more into a mere national ritual, she will lose
it again, and this time for ever.
All the best elements in Russia’s history worked not
nationally, but internationally. They understood that Russia’s
responsibility was multinational and multilingual. Whether it was the
wonderful mix of Russian, Bulgarian, Greek, Syrian, Hungarian, Serbian
and others in Kievan Russia, St Anthony and St Macarius the Romans
living the ascetic life in Russia’s forests, whether it was St Stephen
of Perm converting the Zyrians, St Solomonia the Tartar, Patriarch
Nikon, ‘Russian, but whose faith and religion are Greek’, with his
international Monastery at New Jerusalem outside Moscow, whether it was
St Herman of Alaska, converting Inuit and Eskimo, St Nicholas of Tokyo,
converting the Japanese, or St John of Shanghai, celebrating in Greek,
Chinese, Dutch, French or English, they all understood that Orthodoxy is
not a national cult, but a Commonwealth, of which God has put Russia in
charge, and that if Russia is not worthy of that charge, it will be
taken away from her.
Thus, when contemporary Russia builds and opens new
churches in China, Iceland, Korea, Italy, Vietnam, Holland, South
America, India and Cuba, and translates the Gospel and the catechism
into many languages, from Chinese to those of Siberian peoples, she does
well. But she must also realize that her responsibilities are not only
to her own ethnic peoples, but to World Orthodoxy. Local Orthodoxy can
quickly sour into a narrow chauvinism, if it is not combined with love
of the Orthodox Commonwealth. May the New Russia learn from the errors
and betrayals of the First and Second Romes, but may she also learn from
the errors of the Third Rome. The Orthodox Christian Faith cannot be
reduced to a mere ritual or language, for what is important is its inner
content. Let us hear much less about ‘The Third Rome’, and much more
about ‘Holy Russia’, which is the defining essence of the spiritual
meaning of Russia. For it is to the example of Holy Russia, and to no
other, that we must all turn and repent.
Fr Andrew
25 November/ 8 December 2006
Hieromartyr
Clement, Pope of Rome
Notes:
1. This is the error repeated by all Western European
leaders ever since. Thus, to take a local and contemporary example, the
failed moralist and politician and anti-Serb warmonger, Mr Blair,
considers that some vague and undefined State ideology, which he calls
‘Britishness’, must be considered to be more important than every
religion. So, he has called for all who live in the United Kingdom to
put every religion and culture after ‘Britishness’. It seems
extraordinary that this arrogant lowland Scotsman should admonish, in
his usual Calvinistic dictatorial manner, fifty million English people,
telling them that they can no longer put Christ first. Is this a call to
martyrdom?
2. See for example pp. 284-285, 345, 354-356 and
366-367 in The Byzantine Commonwealth by Dimitri Obolensky,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1971.
3. As seen
in the recent assassination in London of the spy Litvinenko, poisoned
possibly by expatriate Russian-Jewish Mafia oligarchs, who made huge
fortunes from the ‘privatization’ of Russian national assets in the
1990s, under the alcoholic President Yeltsin.
Imperialisms
and the Three Romes
Introduction: Secular Imperialisms
Imperialism
is in fact a form of idolatry, more precisely national idolatry, the
personality cult of the nation. Like all attachments to human
organisations, imperialisms are secular in nature, even if sometimes
they may be camouflaged in religious guise. And because they are
secular, they are often evil. In any case, imperialisms make the
countries infected by them disliked and even hated.
Thus, there
is today’s American imperialism, Pax Americana, with its legions
bankruptingly sent out to defend its many bases all over the world. It
leads to hate-filled American flag-burning from Iraq to Afghanistan,
from Iran to Cuba, from Venezuela to Saudi Arabia, from North Korea to
Vietnam, and the list goes on. Its predecessor, British imperialism, Pax
Britannica, also means that the words Britain and British are hated in
Ireland, in parts of Scotland, in large parts of Africa, the Middle East
and on the Indian subcontinent.
Similarly,
Spain and Portugal earned themselves hatred for their imperialism in
Latin America, French imperialism brought hatred for France, especially
in North Africa and Vietnam. Austro-Hungarian imperialism brought hatred
in Central and Eastern Europe, Belgian Imperialism brought hatred in
the Belgian Congo, the Netherlands won hatred in the East Indies and
Italian Imperialism won hatred for Italy in Libya and Ethiopia. As for
Germany, its two European Wars brought it hatred all over Europe and
even today, in Greece, Spain, Ireland and other countries, Germany’s
economic domination of the EU earns it the name of ‘The Fourth Reich’
and demonstrators against it appear on the streets of Europe.
‘Christian’
Imperialisms
However, further back in history, long before the
‘Enlightenment’ (by neo-paganism) and the ‘Renaissance’ (of
neo-paganism), which gave birth to the arrogance of modern imperialisms,
there were ancient imperialisms. Apart from pre-Christian and
Non-Christian forms, these include imperialisms brought by the secular
into the Christian Church, which attempted to Christianise them – not
always successfully.
Thus, in Christian life, Roman Imperialism (a vestige
from paganism, though later theologically justified by the barbarian
‘Emperor’ Charlemagne with the indefensible and unBiblical ‘filioque’
doctrine) brought Roman Catholicism into doctrinal and therefore visible
and practical compromise. It also brought it undying resistance from
the rest of the Christian world. Its crimes, atrocities and massacres,
many of them very recent, all stemming from the pagan claims of the Pope
of Rome to universal domination, will never be forgotten by the
Orthodox, Protestant and secular worlds.
Thus, a
victim of barbarianism, the First Rome fell and the Second Rome of
Constantinople took its place. A victim of Imperialist nationalism,
‘Hellenism’, condemned by the Apostle Paul and alienating Copts,
Semites, Latins and other races, that Empire also fell, though the
Church remained doctrinally uncompromised. In its turn it was replaced
by the Third Rome in Moscow. And that Empire also fell, a victim of its
own imperialism, but again the Church remained doctrinally
uncompromised.
The Imperialism of the First and Second Romes
Within the
Roman Catholic world, the Imperialistic ideology of the First Rome lives
on and is aggressively pursued for want of any viable justification for
its existence.
However, the second imperialism also lives on, on the
fringes of the Greek Orthodox Church. Megalomania, the unreal fantasy
for a diminished Second Rome that disappeared 568 years ago, continues.
It pursues its unrealistic, colonialist illusions, for example, in
Alexandria and Jerusalem, colonial outposts of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Athens. This imperialism is all the more absurd, in that it
is uni-national.
Currently, for instance, the Patriarchate of
Constantinople is revoking the autonomy given to parishes in Great
Britain which call themselves ‘of the Russian Tradition’ (i. e. those
under the Rue Daru jurisdiction in Paris). They now have to go directly
under the jurisdiction of the local Greek Archbishop. Presumably,
Constantinople will later cast adrift the rest of the parishes on the
Continent which are still under the jurisdiction of its ailing last
bishop, Archbishop Gabriel. It already did this between 1966 and 1971,
and tried again in the 1980s, when its true intention of hellenisation
at last became clear to me, then a deacon in Paris. Having experienced
the appalling behaviour of Moscow, I had naively thought that
Constantinople could behave better.
I can
remember in the 1980s how the fear of being cast adrift by
Constantinople was the haunting nightmare of its then Archbishop George
(Wagner). Indeed, Patriarch Demetrios of Constantinople said at the time
that his parishes would indeed have to return to the Russian Church one
day, a statement recently repeated by Archim. Placide Deseille. In the
early 80s, the Rue Daru group was forbidden to expand its jurisdiction
by taking in a former OCA priest in England, who had fallen out with
both branches of the Russian Church here. Constantinople’s policy at the
time was to remove parishes from the Rue Daru jurisdiction one by one,
country by country, and place them directly under its Greek bishops.
Its policy
now seems to be to let the last bishop die and so, bishopless, Rue Daru
will have to be ‘athenagorised’, or else to die out altogether. The
Patriarchate of Constantinople also seems to have backed out of
ambitions in the Ukraine and perhaps Estonia. It may also give up its
jurisdiction over Ukrainian parishes in the Diaspora. Presumably, all
this is in exchange for Russian financial and diplomatic support with
the Turkish government and Constantinople’s struggle to reopen its
seminary there. There is also the threatening fact that more Russian
Orthodox live in Turkey (15,000) than Greek Orthodox (800). Another
bargaining counter would be the Russian abandonment of the uncanonical
Cold War period autocephaly, embarrassingly given by the Soviet-period
Russian Church to a group of parishes in North America and known as the
OCA.
Locally, we too have suffered from the empire-building
of a tiny new calendarist group, sponsored by the Patriarchate of
Constantinople. Some years ago it set itself up on our doorstep and
tried to steal both our parishioners and even our music. All this
attempted destruction under the pretext of the ‘Pan-Orthodox’ myth, was
directed from a military-style map with its drawing-pins.
The
Imperialism of the Third Rome
The Third
Rome Imperialism of Moscow has been less nationalistic and in some ways
more justified than that of the Second Rome. This is for the simple
reason that the Russian Empire (most of which now forms the Russian
Federation) has always been huge (varying between one seventh and one
ninth of the planet). It has also always been multinational, with over
100 nationalities and languages), unlike the Second Rome, which rapidly
became narrowly Greek. (I still remember a well-known Cypriot priest and
reputed ‘elder’ assuring me 35 years ago how Plato had been Orthodox
and that God spoke Greek by preference!).
As a result
of its size and variety, the Russian Orthodox Church is less centralised
than the Patriarchate of Constantinople. She is made up of a
Confederation of autonomous Metropolias and Churches, such as the
Ukrainian, Belarussian, Moldovan, Latvian, Kazakhstan, Japanese and
Chinese Orthodox Churches and the Church Outside Russia (ROCOR). (This
does not include the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches of Poland and the
Czech Lands and Slovakia, which in the unspoken reality are also former
parts of the Russian Orthodox Church).
However,
Russian imperialism still won it many enemies, especially in the
Caucasus, the far western Ukraine, Finland and in much of Eastern Europe
(Is not Poland the Russian Ireland?) This Russophobia was much
reinforced by later Soviet imperialist crimes. The Russian Orthodox
antidote to the Third Rome imperialism of the Russian State and its
provincial (‘Old Ritualist’) obscurantist nationalism, the construction
of the New Jerusalem, was stopped. This came about with the beheading of
the Church and the imprisonment of her rightful Patriarch Nikon in the
second half of the seventeenth century. Thus, his New Jerusalem complex
was not finished until now. This beheading of the Russian Church was
achieved by Roman Catholic intriguing, Greek venality and Russian
ignorance - three imperialisms conniving together.
After the
Russian Revolution of 1917, plotted and greeted by the Western Powers,
the Orthodox world fell into chaos. British imperialism began picking at
the soft underbelly of the Orthodox world in the Middle and Near East,
Greece, Cyprus and even Romania, introducing freemasonry, the ‘new
calendar’ and other divisive modernist reforms. They thought that the
invention of a ‘Diet Orthodoxy’, an ‘Orthodoxy Lite,’ would be enough to
degut, divide by schism and so rule over those Local Churches. Often it
used puppet German princelings the Western Powers had placed in the
Balkans or else Anglicanism, as its weapon to divide and rule, making
especial use of Arab Orthodox bishops acting uncanonically and, on the
other hand, the zeal without knowledge of the outraged uneducated.
With the
collapse of British imperialism after 1945, American imperialism took up
the ignoble task, working to crush the last vestiges of spiritual
resistance to its materialist idolatry, its ultimate aim to destroy
every trace of spiritual life in the Greek Orthodox world. However, more
recently, it has turned its attention to destroying Serbian, Ukrainian
and Georgian Orthodoxy, particularly humiliating the Serbian Church in
recent months. The EU has now also taken up satan’s cause, infiltrating
the Local Churches in Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus in particular, and
working against Serbia too, using its traditional divide and rule
method, in order to create an EU-friendly and politically correct
pseudo-Orthodoxy, softened up by papal visits.
During the
Cold War period, not so long ago, and the appalling moral decadence in
parts of the Patriarchal Russian Church in the Diaspora at that time,
the KGB only appointed the compromised to positions of responsibility.
Thus, it could hold power of them (‘every man has his price’). It also
encouraged the personality cults which were so divisive in the Russian
Church. Thus, many faithful and clergy fled it for other jurisdictions
in the freedom of the Diaspora, though many of them, especially in
ROCOR, remained most loyal to the Russian Tradition. Although this has
all changed today, we have not forgotten and the wounds are still raw.
Many lives were ruined by the Cold War and, sadly ‘distrust’ is still
the word which best sums up attitudes to the Patriarchal Russian Church
in the Diaspora. Apologies, though decades late, would greatly help.
But what of
the Patriarchal Russian Church inside Russia in all this today? To the
intense irritation of the US/EU duo, She has revived through the blood
of the New Martyrs and the tears of the New Confessors since the fall of
Western-imposed Communism. At present the West is hoping that the
suicidal and self-imposed mixture of ecological catastrophe, financial
corruption (also among the Church elite), abortion and alcoholism will
be enough. If Russians want to commit suicide in any of these four ways,
it can only be to the benefit of the US/EU power in its so-called
‘secret’ project to install Antichrist in Jerusalem.
Conclusion:
Solutions?
Those who are being cast adrift by the Patriarchate of
Constantinople today can always return to the Russian Church, either
directly to the Patriarchal part or else to the autonomous ROCOR, which
now has the most open and understanding Metropolitan in its history.
They will be welcomed back. We too suffered before you and understand
you. Although you were unable through naivety and inexperience to listen
to the warnings which we gave at the time, warnings learned from our
own sorry experience, we are still open to you. We must not condemn
ourselves never to learn from history.
There are
those who, like ourselves, have for decades wanted to see and have
worked for an autonomous Orthodox Metropolia for Western Europe, as the
basis one day, if God wills, for a local European Orthodox Church. Only
this can witness to Christ in the compromised and dying heterodox world.
And the fact is that there is only one Church which can establish this
Metropolia and has publicly announced its intention to do so. This is
the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite Third Rome imperialism,
increasingly balanced by the restoration of the New Jerusalem outside
Moscow and the re-establishment of the seventeenth century multinational
ideal of the Russian Orthodox Church, this Metropolia is viable and is
coming.
Cynics may doubt this, given some of the individuals
involved, but cynics should remember three things. Firstly, this
Metropolia is real - it is not just another uncanonical disincarnate
fantasy of Parisian philosophy. Secondly, it is the only offer on the
table, for the Patriarchate of Constantinople has never freely granted
anyone autonomy, let alone autocephaly, as Dr Basil Osborne told me some
35 years ago. The recent history of the Church of Bulgaria proves this.
Finally, cynics should remember that the Church is not governed by men,
but by God. It belongs to Him, His Body, not to us. It is God’s Will
that we are trying to do, not our own. The recent history of the Russian
Church and its miraculous resurrection after the Soviet Golgotha proves
this.
To those who seek a safe haven and the uncompromised
Orthodox Tradition, we would say: Don’t miss the train. And remember
that although man proposes, it is God Who disposes.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips,
Colchester, England
25 May/7 June 2011
The Holy
Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
180th Anniversary of the Reunion
of 3,000,000 Uniats with the Church at Vilna in 1831
The
Three Babylons
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THE THREE BABYLONS
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BABYLON: THE PLACE
Daniel, the only one
who could interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream, was a nobleman of Israel,
deported to Babylon in 605 B.C. in his early teens. His book describes
current and future conflicts, but God's control over all events is
clearly demonstrated.
Addressing
Nebuchadnezzar (who represented ruler of Babylon, gold, the world
system) Daniel interpreted his dream thus: "It is thou, O king,
that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and
reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. And
whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven,
and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of
the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in
the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven,
and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times
pass over him;
This is the interpretation, O king,
and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the
king: That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as
oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times
shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the
kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
And
whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy
kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that
the heavens do rule. Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable
unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities
by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy
tranquillity. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.(Daniel
4:22-28)
The tree stump represents Israel
which is restrained with an iron ring until the time of Jesus's return.
"Israel
is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of
Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
hath broken his bones. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God
of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I
have punished the king of Assyria. And I will bring Israel again to his
habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall
be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. In those days, and in
that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought
for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and theyshall
not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve."
(Jeremiah 50:17-20)
"A sound of battle is in the land, and of
great destruction. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and
broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! I have
laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast
not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven
against the LORD. The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord
GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. Come against her from the
utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy
her utterly: let nothing of her be left. Slay all her bullocks; let them
go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the
time of their visitation.
"The voice of them that flee and
escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of
the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. Call together the archers
against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about;
let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work;
according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been
proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel. Therefore shall
her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut
off in that day, saith the LORD. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most
proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I
will visit thee. And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none
shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall
devour all round about him.
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed
together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused
to let them go. Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name:
he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. A sword is upon the
Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon
her princes, and upon her wise men. A sword is upon the liars; and they
shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the
mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as
women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
"A
drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the
land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Therefore the
wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall
dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more
inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities
thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any
son of man dwell therein. Behold, a people shall come from the north,
and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of
the earth. They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and
will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall
ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle,
against thee, O daughter of Babylon.(Jeremiah 50:22-46)
"The
king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed
feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto
the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away
from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who
is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd
that will stand before me? Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD,
that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the
flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation
desolate with them. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is
moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
"Thus saith
the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that
dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty
her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round
about. Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against
him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her
young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. Thus the slain shall fall in
the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her
streets. For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God,
of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the
Holy One of Israel. (Jeremiah 51:1-5)
"Flee out of the
midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her
iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render
unto her a recompence. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the
LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken
of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Babylon is
suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if
so be she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not
healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for
her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
"The
LORD hath brought forth our righteousness [Our righteousness is Jesus
Christ]: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the
LORD our God. Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is
against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD,
the vengeance of his temple. Set up the standard upon the walls of
Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the
ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake
against the inhabitants of Babylon. O thou that dwellest upon many
waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy
covetousness. The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I
will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a
shout against thee.(Jeremiah 51:6-14)
"Every man is
brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven
image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them; for
he is the former of all things:and Israel is the rod of his
inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. (Jeremiah 51:17-19)
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U.S. SEIZES PALACE AND SAYS
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IT INTENDS TO REMAIN IN BAGHDAD, IN IRAQ (BABYLON, THE PLACE)
The New York Times, by Jane Perlez - KUWAIT CITY,
April 7 2003 — American forces took control of a major presidential
palace on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad early this morning in
the strongest coalition thrust yet into the city. Explosions thundered
and thick smoke covered portions of Baghdad as the Americans entered the
city center in the early hours.
As many as 70 tanks and 60
Bradley fighting vehicles rolled down the wide streets as A-10
Thunderbolt planes, nicknamed the Warthog, and pilotless drones flew
over Baghdad unchallenged.
There were reports of heavy machine
fire and mortars during fighting around the presidential compound.
American commanders on the ground said that three army battalions would
stay in the city center, and not leave as happened in an initial lighter
raid on Saturday.
Two American soldiers and two journalists — one
Spanish and the other German — were killed and 15 people were wounded
today in an Iraqi attack on a tactical operations center established by
the Third Infantry Division, Second Brigade on the outskirts of Baghdad.
"Some
sort of a rocket hit near the Second Brigade's tactical operation
center south of the city," Major Michael Birmingham, chief public
affairs officer for the Third Infantry, told Reuters.
Elsewhere,
British commanders told reporters traveling with them in Basra that they
had found the body of Ali Hassan al-Majid a cousin of Saddam Hussein
known as "Chemical Ali." Mr. Majid, who the United States says ordered a
poison gas attack which killed thousands of Kurds in 1988, is commander
of Iraq's southern front and his death would be interpreted by the
people of Basra as a sign that the regime was close to collapse.
The
British defense secretary, Geoff Hoon, said in London that the ministry
had strong indications that Mr. Majid was dead.
At the daily
briefing at Central Command in Doha, Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent K.
Brooks, said that the Iraqis had blown up one of Baghdad's major
bridges. He also said that there were pockets of resistance in the
Baghdad area.
"What we don't see is an overarching structure that
can order action from north to south and east to west, throughout the
country. Only the coalition has that capability right now," General
Brooks said. `And as each day passes, there's less and less that the
regime can do to order action by their forces.`
In an effort to
discourage too much confidence too soon among the British public, Mr.
Hoon described the progress of the war as a mixed picture outside the
cities of Baghdad and Basra. The results so far, he said, were not as
good in some areas as the coalition forces had hoped.
This was an
apparent reference to instability in towns in the south that the
Americans passed by on the way to Baghdad. Mr. Hoon said that military
officials estimated the operating ability of the elite Republican Guard
at 50 percent.
In Baghdad, however, American officers appeared
pleased with the gains today. Aside from the major palace on the river
bank, American soldiers had captured another palace in the city center
belonging to Saddam Hussein, they said.
"There are two palaces, we
own both of them," Lt. Col. Peter Bayer, operations officer for the
Third Infantry Division, told reporters traveling with the troops.
At
one of the palaces, half a dozen Syrian soldiers were found, one of
them hiding in a refrigerator, military officials said. The Republican
Guards responsible for the security of the palace had fled.
The
Americans were also reported to have toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein
astride a horse.
A spokesman at Central Command headquarters
described the morning's efforts in Baghdad as an armored raid through
the city bringing down resistance and attacking leadership capabilities.
At
the Pentagon, a spokesman cautioned that today's raids should not be
interpreted as the battle for Baghdad but rather as a message that the
Americans could come and go as they choose.
In Qatar, General
Brooks said: `The commanders on the ground will make the decisions on
what parts of Baghdad they wish to retain control of."
he defiant
Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahaf, denied that Baghdad's
defenders had lost ground.
But this morning, he was forced to
appear on the streets, talking to reporters in the open air instead of
the usual briefing room. The city was strong, fortified and safe, he
said, a short time after the American warplanes had flown overhead and
clouds of smoke obliterated the skyline.
American officers had
said earlier that their forces surrounded the Information Ministry and
the Rashid Hotel, but it was not clear later in the day whether those
forces had stayed or had entered the facilities.
As an
illustration of how the Iraqi government had lost its grip, Gen. Brooks
said workers at the airport outside Baghdad had helped American soldiers
turn on the electricity, and showed them around the complex.
In
Basra, the second city of Iraq, British forces strengthened their
control by pushing in to the narrow alleys of the old part of town.
Iraqi fighters were believed to be holding out in the warren of streets
where the thoroughfares are too narrow for the coalitions armored
vehicles.
It appeared that British soldiers could have to flush
out the Iraqis in the old city by fighting on foot. But in a show of
control of the population of just over 1 million, about 400 British and
American troops, guarded by tanks and helicopter gunships, walked
unopposed almost to the city center this morning. The soldiers had taken
off their helmets and chemical warfare gear.
Residents, including
women and children who have been more reluctant to emerge, came out and
smiled at the passing troops. Some of the residents asked for water.
Earlier,
British troops easily took an elaborate presidential palace in Basra
belonging to Mr. Hussein. British soldiers met no resistance there, and
inside found an immaculate residence decorated with polished marble,
mosaic tiles and fretted woodwork.
In the northern city of Mosul,
coalition airstrikes continued their bombardment on military targets,
particularly ammunition dumps.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/international/worldspecial/07CND-MILI.html?ex=
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BABYLON: THE APOSTATE CHURCH
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April 4, 2003 - Salina, Kansas
Before I get
into our 4-hour fellowship with Michael, a professor in philosophy at
Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, I'd like to answer a letter from
one of our brothers, which we met along the way-I think this will be
helpful and it will address a number of his concerns, as well as yours.
Actually,
the correspondence was addressed to Dene, but, since Dene was not in
that meeting, and I was, I think that my answers will be much more
realistic than Dene's, in that Dene simply was not there in
Winston-Salem for the "give and take" of the conversation and atmosphere
- so here goes:
Dear Jay -
I would like to answer your
letter as an "open letter" to our subscribers because it will accomplish
several things:
(1) Give me an opportunity to share with you the
answers to your questions-yet maintain a modicum of privacy, and . . .
(2)
Give me an opportunity to express how I feel to everyone out there -
both our subscribers, and many individuals who will be "hitting" on our
site throughout the world.
Dear Dene,
I would like to try to
summarize my impressions on this eve of war. I do so with CNN faintly
flooding the background with its many words.
On Friday evening I
met with Steve, and Doug and a number of other saints in Clemmons, NC.
In
summary, I would describe their focus as a call to, "come out of
Babylon". Babylon, the, "apostate church", as reflected in the
evangelical constituency of George Bush. (They made a very good case.)
As
I understood them, the apostate church is riding the back of the beast
which is the "American New World Order System".
In our sharing, of
course, we present what we call: THE TALE OF TWO CITIES. Steve presents
the "Big Picture" of God's eternal purpose and plan - i.e., that God's
original intent and purpose is to build up His City, the Holy and New
Jerusalem - wherein He has effectively done, and is doing so, by working
with Israel from Abraham until the time of Christ (approximately 2,000
years); and then, seemingly, He has placed Israel aside for the past
2,000 years to work on the Church (from the time of Christ until today).
Both Israel and the Church constitute the New Jerusalem, prepared as a
Bride descending out of heaven prepared for the Lamb.
There are a
multitude of Scriptures, which at each of our gatherings, we will read
in order to substantiate this thesis.
Also, the antithesis of the
New/Holy Jerusalem (i.e., that which is being built by God and is called
the "Bride" in the Revelation) is Satan's counterfeit City: Babylon the
Great. This City, as well as its administration and development,
actually commences from the fall of humankind (wherein man's attempt at
deification ("you shall be as God, knowing good and evil"), by partaking
of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,
commenced Satan's strategy to build the Great City, Babylon.
However,
in actuality, after the flood, the first "expression" of such a Great
City was the founding of "civilization" on the Plains of Shinar, and the
building of the Tower of Babel under Nimrod. From here, although there
as a "confounding" of languages and a disbursement of false unity under
Nimrod by divine intervention, the concept of "Babylon the Great"
continued through civilization's ever-increasing march through history
until we reach the Kingdom of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar.
The
CONCEPT of Babylon the Great, the counterfeit city, the antithesis of
the New and Holy Jerusalem, is the ever-expanding march of the Biblical,
and ultimately, the DOMINANT civilization of the world. This concept
was outlined in King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which was interpreted by
Daniel the prophet. The dream was that of an IMAGE of a man wherein
different metals and parts of the body of the image are singled out as
EXPANSIONS of that ever-increasing civilization. [Source
http://www.endtimesnetwork.com ]
BABYLON: THE CITY
"And after
these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily
with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,
and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul
spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations
have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of
the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the
earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
"And
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered
her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her
double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to
her double.
"How much she hath glorified herself, and
lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in
her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no
sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for
strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who
have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail
her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that
great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy
judgment come. (Revelation 18:1-10)
Israel
is without a husband. God divorced her and she is a widow but defiantly
calls herself a queen.
The vengeance of the Lord is of long
standing. In the Old Testament's Book of Jeremiah 52:10-11, we find that
the King of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew
also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. Then he put out the eyes of
Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him
to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. Next
followed the destruction of the First Temple of the Lord:
"Now
in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the
nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, And
burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses
of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:And
all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard,
brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about". (Jeremiah
52:12-14)
[This below is the second
great error here - "the Bride of Christ is removed" - in this article:
the Secret Rapture and Chiliast Millenium and Jews ruling from Jerusalem
in fulfillment of pretended Old Testament promises. This is
Judeo-Freemasonic Christian Zionist absolute heresy and apostasy. The
Antichrist will occur and the final judgment of all creatures at the
return of Christ, but nobody is vanishing into thin air and NOTHING
replaces the final covenant of God which is the Sacrifice and Gospel of
Christ 2,000 years ago.Also see: The
Coming of the Antichrist: The Great Purification Hoax = Catholic
Charismatic version of the Secret Rapture inverted ]
The
final battle will involve the great city of Jerusalem, also called
Babylon, when the times of the Gentiles are concluded and the Bride of
Christ is removed. The Antichrist makes his appearance in Jerusalem and
claims the world's highest position and calls himself a god, a god above
all gods, who is to be worshipped by all human beings of the world.
"And
the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is
done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was
a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so
mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided
into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great
Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of
the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and
the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out
of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed
God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was
exceeding great. (Revelation 16:17-21)
Here
is why God considers Jerusalem Babylon..
Yet
will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall
escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through
the countries. And they that escape of you shall remember me among the
nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken
with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with
their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall
lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their
abominations. And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have
not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas
for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall
fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. (Ezekiel
6:8-11)
" Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son
of man, causeJerusalem to know her abominations, And say, Thus
saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the
land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not
cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ... I have caused thee to multiply
as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and
thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and
thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
"Now
when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the
time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with
thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. Then washed I thee
with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I
anointed thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and
shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen,
and I covered thee with silk. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I
put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel
on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon
thine head.
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver;
and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou
didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went
forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my
comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
But
thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because
of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that
passed by; his it was. And of thy garments thou didst take,
and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the
harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be
so. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and
didst commit whoredom with them, And tookest thy broidered garments,
and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before
them. My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey,
wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD...
And it came
to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord
GOD;) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast
made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast built thy high place
at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and
hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy
whoredoms.
Thou hast also committed fornication with
the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Behold, therefore I have stretched
out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and
delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of
the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Thou
hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest
not be satisfied. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the
land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these
things, the work of an imperiouswhorish woman; In that thou
buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine
high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou
scornest hire; But as a wife that committeth adultery, which
taketh strangers instead of her husband! They give gifts to all whores:
but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they
may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
And the
contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none
followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward,
and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness
discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols
of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them; Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with
whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with
all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about
against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may
see all thy nakedness. (Ezekiel 16:1.. 37)
The
ten horns depicting 10 kings will receive power as kings one hour with
the beast. These haveone mind.. The ten kings hate the whore, in
other words they hate Israel even though they run together and they
will make her desolate and naked, and burn her with fire. (see
Revelation 18:12..16)
"For God hath put
in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the
woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the
kings of the earth. (Revelation 17:17-18)
"And he cried
mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen,
is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of
every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For
all nations havedrunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies. (Revelation 18:2,3)
The reason Jerusalem becomes
the habitation of devils: And I saw three unclean spirits like
frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are thespirits
of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the
earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great
day of God Almighty. (Revelation 16:13,14)
JESUS
WARNED US:
- Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
- (Revelation 16:14-15)
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