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. 
 
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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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