Orthodox Reflections

There are many aspects of this article below, from Fr. Andrew in the UK, which we simply don’t know how to evaluate. Being in medicine, technology, law, academia, and other secular disciplines does not give one much experience in discerning prophecy. Even the priests who work with us kind of shrugged their shoulders after reading it. After a lot of discussion, we decided to go ahead and run it. Not only the mainstream press, but also many organizations related to the Ecumenical Patriarch, are relentlessly anti-Russian at the moment. The Russian Church is portrayed as a corrupt tool of the state. Russian society is criticized as being dysfunctional. At the same time, “democracy” has been elevated as the highest possible governing system – the veritable “end of history” as it were.

Could it be possible that we are mistaken in many of our deeply-held conceptions about the world?

Especially at a time when the Ecumenical Patriarch gives speeches, and sponsors documents, in which he sounds like a spokesman for the World Economic Forum:

However, instead of advancing, the necessary for global action political unification of the World stays more or less stagnant; it even regressed recently, because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. Finally, it became more than clear that beyond the political and economic unification, there is urgent need for a spiritual one. Nevertheless, in this field, as well, instead of progress, unfortunately, we have experienced constant regression.

 

During the past decades, the illusion that economic globalization would bring about cultural and spiritual convergence, and ultimately lead to global peace, was widely diffused. This idea was expressed in Francis Fukuyama’s famous writings about “The end of History.” We are gradually aware of the contrary, going even beyond Samuel Huntington’s theory of the “clash of civilizations.” Indeed, after more than three decades of globalization, the spiritual distance between the various communities inhabiting our world has increased. This form of divergence leads towards multi-polarity and fragmentation.

More and more, the Ecumenical Patriarch seems to be endorsing one-world government and extreme religious ecumenism, possibly ending in a syncretic “many paths to God” kind of “unity” religion.  We have no idea where all of this goes in the future. At this point, all we can say for sure is that Western Civilization (as represented by US, Canada, Western / Central Europe, Australia, NZ, Japan with honorary ally status) seems to be barreling towards complete oblivion. Can that trajectory be changed? Could the change come from Russia?

No clue. However, one thing is quite certain. If we are to ever stop the crazy train we are on, then we need to listen to challenging perspectives that cause us to think and pray deeply. In that spirit, read on for Fr. Andrew’s article. Comments are open below and across all our social media.

—OR Staff

Introduction: Conditions for Peace in the Ukraine

The present head of the Kiev regime, born in the eastern Ukrainian Krivij Rih in early 1978 and who still speaks Ukrainian badly, is a ‘co-religionist’ (= atheist) of one who was born almost exactly 100 years earlier, 350 km almost due north in Ukrainian Yanovka. He was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, called Trotsky. Both were sent to the Russian Lands to foment war by the elite of the USA and Great Britain. Indeed, Bronstein died in North America, as his successor may also do.

In an interview with RTVI on 29 March, as also reported on the English-language Pravda website, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Galuzin, stated that the conflict in the Ukraine can be resolved, but that there are eight conditions (1). These are:

1. The West must stop supplying weapons to the Armed Forces of the Ukraine (the Kiev Army).
2. All armed forces must cease hostilities.
3. All foreign mercenaries must be withdrawn from the Ukraine.
4. Kiev must renounce any ambition to join NATO and the EU
5. Kiev must confirm its non-nuclear status
6. Kiev and foreign governments must recognise the territorial realities that the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson, not to mention the Crimea, are now part of the Russian Federation.
7. Kiev must restore its contractual and legal situation with the Russian Federation and the civilian infrastructure, that it has destroyed since 2014, must be restored at the expense of the West, which was responsible for it.
8. Kiev and the West must lift all anti-Russian sanctions, withdraw lawsuits, cease legal proceedings against Russia, Russian persons and juridical entities.

So speak the politicians, but what do the men of God say?

The Third World War and the Prophecies of the Saints and Elders

For us it is clear that we are in World War Three and have been for some time. True, some consider that there has only ever been one World War, but in three parts. This generational World War Three, or, as some would have it, World War One, Part III, began in 2014 in Kiev. It broke out on the centenary of World War One (Part I), which effectively began in Sarajevo in 1914 and 75 years after World War Two (Part II), which effectively began in Warsaw in 1939. All of these Wars began further and further to the east, as a result of the Western world’s aggressive expansion eastwards.

Since 2014 the world has been facing a financial crisis, whose roots go back to 2008 and in fact well before, as well as facing the genocide launched by the US-installed Kiev regime, and then the global control attempt using the genetically engineered and then leaked Covid-19 virus. World War One lasted over four years, World War Two nearly six. If World War Three ends in 2024 as many think, it will have lasted for ten years, the same length as both previous World Wars combined. The prophecies which foretold all these things are, like all prophecies, conditional. Negative prophecies come about because of lack of repentance, positive prophecies come about because of repentance. If there is only lukewarmness towards them, then the timings of the prophecies expand like elastic, which is why the times are always vague, as in the Book of Revelation, for whose fulfilment we have been waiting for nearly 2,000 years.

Many recent and canonised saints from the Russian Lands have prophesied today’s events. Among the saints are Seraphim of Sarov (1754-1833), John of Kronstadt (1829-1908), Seraphim of Vyritsa (1866-1949), Laurence of Chernigov (1868-1950), Kuksha of Odessa (1875-1964), John of Shanghai (1896-1966) and Amphilochy of Pochayev (1894-1971). Among the elders, as yet uncanonised, are Fr Tavrion Batozsky (1898-1978), Seraphim Tyapochkin (1894-1982), Christopher Nikolsky (1905-1996) Nikolai Guryanov (1909-2002), Zosima Sokur (1944-2002) and Iona Ignatenko (1925-2012).

All these speak of a Tsar who is coming, some say as the successor to President Putin. It is said that he will lead Russia after World War Three is over. It is said that he already lives in Russia and knows his destiny. Fr Seraphim Tyapochkin, whose blessing I received in Russia in 1976, said that any in Belarus and the Ukraine who oppose Russia are ‘servants of the devil’. He also said that the monks of the Kiev Caves Monastery, under threat of expulsion as I write, also have ‘a weighty word to say and will pray and obtain from God the union of the three brother-peoples’.

Schema-Archimandrite (a title denoting a senior monk) Christopher (Nikolsky) of Tula prophesied of the early 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR and the freedom obtained by the Church, that: ‘They will adorn the churches. But that will be unnecessary, only prayer is necessary….Open the churches so you can pray. That is all! There is no need to decorate them from top to bottom. That is just a Satanic temptation, we do not need that, we are Orthodox Christians, we need everything that is simpler. We must save our souls, and all that beauty is unnecessary….That luxury is unnecessary, we need prayer, we need salvation’(2).

This Elder greatly venerated Tsar Nicholas II and his Family and in the 1980s foretold that they would be canonised: ‘The Tsar and his irreproachable servants suffered for us, washing Russia in their blood….The people will pay because we betrayed him’. ‘Gregory Rasputin was a great, great man of God. He will be canonised together with the Tsar and the Tsarevich. He was honourable and great before God; he was slandered’. ‘Russia will prosper, there will be a new Tsar, Russia will rise from the dead and free itself from this Satanic infection…but all depends on our repentance, collective repentance…without repentance a Tsar will not come…before then there will be wars…they want to trample underfoot the Orthodox faith and rub it out into dust…After 2008 time will fly, a year will be like a month, after 2008 be especially humble…Orthodoxy will be gathered together from the splinters and go on its way’.

As for Elder Tavrion, he said: ‘The Church (by this he meant the episcopate) consciously betrayed the Tsar. (This is a fact). It was on the side of the enemy – the crucifiers of Christ….The Tsar bought back Russia through his suffering and death. But Russia will for long reject him. Many bishops will be against his veneration, but after a time they will nevertheless glorify him, but they will not glorify him as he is glorified by God in heaven….but the time will come when the people, not many, will glorify him as is needed…then all will fall down in front of him and weep and ask for forgiveness…and then Russia will rise up from its chains’.

Conclusion

Years ago it was foretold that a worldwide war was coming, a universal revolt, sicknesses and famine, but that the Russian Lands will again be led by a still unknown Tsar and he is already carrying his Cross of service. Elder Nicholas (Guryanov), the saint of the Pskov Lake, called himself the Tsar’s priest, as do many others among us and we indeed have our Tsar’s passports ready. We are soldiers of the future Tsar, still implementing the martyred Tsar’s wishes for the spread of Orthodoxy, interrupted by the judases in 1917. And, as we know, St Seraphim of Sarov prophesied the same 200 years ago.

Even though over a century ago apostate Russians betrayed their Tsar, a betrayal that began at the very top, among the Romanov Family, aristocrats, most bishops of the Church, generals, lawyers, journalists and the professional classes, Russia still has not repented. On the Tsar’s feast day on 17 July, most churches are largely empty, icons are decorative but few venerate them. Russia is still asleep – hence this dread conflict in the Ukraine now. The Lord will keep us until the providential day when he appears and lays low our enemies, the enemies of the Church.

Fr. Andrew, published originally at his blog Orthodox England

Notes:

1. https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/156198-russia_paceful_settlement_ukraine/
2. Here by ‘adornment’ the holy elder refers to the effeminate decadence of gold and marble that came in, especially after the fall of the USSR and the homosexual episcopate. This led us in our parish to put a homosexual dating app called ‘Grinder’ onto a mobile phone in order to alert us to danger. The app shows at what distance you are standing from a member on that app. It went off only once – when a certain notorious bishop visited us, indicating that the dating app had picked up that he was standing just two metres away from the phone. There was only one person it could have been. We had received the confirmation of our impression. We could clearly identify him. Since then he has gone on to destroy the church, trying to close churches, ordaining a homosexual and a bisexual. And yet such people are actually defended by others. But God is not mocked.