On
July 4th, 1776, the Forerunner of Antichrist was born into the
world: the secular (or pluralistic at
best) democratic republics that would become the United States of America,
where man’s will replaced that of God’s, where selfishness became the spring that
puts nearly all in society into motion and keeps it in motion.
Like
most newborns, it looked mighty nice (and fairly helpless) lying in the crib,
so no one took much notice of it at the time.
Its true nature would be made known as it matured, though. But it almost did not come to its full
stature, as the Southern States began walking the way toward traditional Orthodox
hierarchical society. President
Lincoln’s War, however, put a stop to that (for now); the project of nurturing
the ‘rough beast’ of global totalitarian empire got back on track; and the
fruits of the Evil One have lately become manifest in many places and in many
ways throughout the world because of ‘American greatness’:
Same-sex
marriage. Abortion and infanticide by the millions. Brazen occult imagery at
the Olympic ceremonies, the Grammy Awards, and the Oscars. Teaching sodomy to
our five year olds in public schools. Allowing monuments to Satan in public
places. The body politic seems to have gone insane.
Source: Dean
W. Arnold, ‘On Christian Monarchy’, https://souloftheeast.org/2016/06/20/is-it-time-for-kings-to-replace-democracy-four-arguments-from-a-christian-viewpoint/,
accessed 1 July 2016
Rallying behind the Constitution and America are
useless against the Illuminati, since contrary to what many Americanists say,
the country was founded by a conglomeration of Protestant deists influenced by
Illuminism and ridiculous revolutionary philosophy. What, then, is America’s role
in all this? America’s
role seems to be, as one political philosopher noted, the “benign promulgator
of world government.” The United States is the power-horse of the elite:
it functions as a kind of Big Brother of the nations, cleverly seeking to
establish faux “democracy” in petty dictatorships like Iraq that the U.S.
itself financed and loaned money to in the 1980s, training Saddam as an ally.
The technological revolution of the genius of America’s best
and brightest is the main tool for the endgame of the NWO. The use of the
great engine of supercomputers and wireless technology is actually being used
for the purpose of setting up a Skynet control grid where world population will
be reduced 90% under the phony religion of Green Climate Change and Earth
worship. As the masses are dumbed down through the toxic culture,
poisoned food and water, they will become dumber and more docile and ultimately
sterile. Then, the AI robot supergrid will be revealed to stamp out the
last vestiges of biological humanity. Without a coherent philosophy and
religious faith, mankind will fall susceptible to a great deception of
technological utopianism and salvation. This great promise will never be
delivered: indeed, the entire Internet and Smart grid revolution is precisely
for the purpose of enslaving the masses after a long period of gaining “recon”
through tracking and tracing everything on the web since its inception.
Without a religious metaphysic, man falls prey to the quantification of
all things, irrationally brought under the sway of total mechanical,
“rationalq” enslavement. The idol that is the work of man’s own hands will be
the thing that enslaves him, rather than frees him. . . .
Source: Jay
Dyer, ‘What Is the New World Order and Why Does It Matter’, https://jaysanalysis.com/2014/02/25/what-is-the-new-world-order-and-why-does-it-matter/, accessed 1 July 2016
But
God, in His never-ending lovingkindness, has not abandoned the world to the
evils of The American Way. He has given
Americans a chance to repent. He has
given them witnesses in these latter days to guide them into the fulness of
life He wishes for everyone to experience even now. And He did this on the very day that things
began to go so wrong all those years before in Philadelphia.
On
July 4th, 1918, the Tsar of Russia, Nicholai II, his wife Tsaritsa Alexandra,
and their children, Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana,
Maria, and Anastasia, were martyred by the Bolsheviks (stabbed and shot), thus
receiving their glorious crowns of martyrdom from Christ their Immortal King
and God. In their martyrdom is a cry to America and the
West to come to their senses, to throw aside their selfishness and greed, their
delusional, satanic pride, their attempts to heal their sin-broken bodies and
souls through rationalism and science and not by the Grace of the Holy Trinity
found in the Orthodox Church.
Thomas
Jefferson once wrote, ‘the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it’s natural manure’ (http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/100,
accessed 5 July 2016).
It
is not so. The dialectic of unceasing
strife between ruler and ruled is false.
In Christ all have been reconciled, even the rulers and the ruled. Christ’s Holy Cross, not the rationalists’
constitution/bill of rights, is the true Tree of Freedom, and the blood that
renews its power to heal and to save the people of a land is the blood of the
Christian martyrs.
It
behooves all under the sway of American ideology, then, to pay much heed to the
Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia, and all the New Martyrs and Confessors who
suffered under the Communist yoke, if they and those who come after them would
see good days.
Why do Orthodox Americans, French, Swedes, and those outside Russia need to revere the New Martyrs and
Confessors of Russia?
It is clear what they did for Russia,
but why are the Russian New Martyrs so significant for people in the West? Why
should we pray to them? “PravMir” asked several people to respond to these
questions.
Father Andrew Phillips, Rector of St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox
Church in Colchester, England:
First
of all, the New Martyrs and Confessors are multinational, not merely Russian,
or even only East Slav, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian. Like the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire was multinational. At
once there comes to mind the heroic examples of the Royal Martyr Tsarina
Alexandra and her sister the Grand Duchess Elizabeth who were Anglo-German by
blood and upbringing. They represented the best of the West, but they were
brought to Paradise by their faithfulness to
Russian Orthodoxy. Then there were Nicholas (Johnson) (+ 1918), who was
Anglo-Russian, or St John of Riga, who was Latvian. And there were many, many
others of many nationalities, united by only one thing, the Russian Orthodox
Faith.
Their
witness is not political. They all witness to the Church; they are above party
or partial politics of left or right. Christ and His Church are paramount for
them and they were ready to die for Him. Yesterday, for instance, in Munich the New Martyr Alexander (Schmorell), a victim of Nazism,
was canonized by the Church Outside of Russia with representatives from Russia and his
name was added to the list of New Martyrs and Confessors. Their sacrifice is
not political, it is spiritual – a witness to the values that are not of this
world, a witness to the fact that our human destiny is not here, but on the
other side, which all human beings are called to and for which we must prepare
in the here and now.
Then
there are the numbers involved. This is greater than the numbers who were
martyred for Christ in the first three centuries. So far over 30,000 have been
officially glorified by the Church, but there are many more. It has been noted
that this number appears to be linked with the number of churches open in the
Russian Orthodox Church. The consciousness of the New Martyrs and Confessors is
what has changed Russia over the last 20 years and will change it further, if
people continue to repent and be Churched, taking on the spiritual and so moral
values of the Church. I believe that the Russian Orthodox are at the beginning
of this process, that there is still far to go.
We
recall the words of Tertullian, repeated by St Cyprian of Carthage: ‘The blood of the martyrs is the
seed of the Church’. I have baptized many people from Russia because
of the witness of the New Martyrs and Confessors. ‘It cannot be that all was in
vain’, said one of them. ‘I cannot live and ignore their spiritual feat’. In Russia of
course tens of millions have been baptized over the last 20 years. Although the
West still has little idea of the New Martyrs and Confessors, but word is
spreading.
In
them there is an alternative to the empty consumerism and indebtedness to
materialism of the West and the Western system which has spread worldwide. This
system is based on individualism, the convenience and comfort of the ego bubble
of self-absorption. Opposed to this is the spirit of sacrifice, to sacrifice us
for a great and noble cause. The only alternative to the spiritual deprivation
and poverty of Western materialism is the love of Orthodoxy of the Martyrs and
Confessors, the New Saints. This is not of the political left or right, which
simply argues about the details of distribution of material benefits. The Church
offers another system, which says that justice and just societies are good, but
that the salvation of our soul is more important. In fact there will only be
just societies when the human souls which make them up are convinced that
Christ and His Church, against which the gates of hell will not prevail, is at
the aim and at the heart of our lives. Where is the proof of all this? It is in
the New Martyrs and Confessors. If they were willing to die for Christ’s
Church, then we must also be willing to do so. In this sense the example of the
New Martyrs and Confessors is a warning to the West: Repent before it is too
late.
Father Sergei Sveshnikov, Rector of the world’s first parish named in
honor of the New Martyrs, in Mulino, Oregon:
I
think that this question can have several different answers, perhaps even on an
individual level, but I would like to focus our attention on two.
First
of all, for Christians, saints are the standards of life in Christ. In
canonizing a saint, the Church gives us a canon, a rule to follow. In this
sense, Russian saints are important to the French in just the same way that
French saints are important to the Russians – as examples and standards for
anyone who wants to lead a Christian life. In Christ, there is neither Greek nor
Jew; so, when we think of Saint Stephen, we do not often think of the fact that
he was a Jew or understand what he did for Israel, but rather see him as an
example of the kind of faith and boldness in Christ to which we all should
aspire. In much the same way, Americans or Europeans or Asians or Africans who
learn about the New Russian Martyrs will undoubtedly find them to be examples
of faith and love that were shaken by “neither tribulation, prison, nor
death.”[1]
But
there is another aspect of the glorification of the New Martyrs which may be
important to both Christians and non-Christians alike. The New Russian Martyrs
are a constant reminder to all who are working to build heaven on earth without
God. Nowadays, we think of the communists as some evil people who set out to
torture and murder, yet this is simply not true. The communists believed that
they were building the infamous “bright future” for everyone in the world – a
future of freedom, equality, brotherhood, [2] and happiness for all. People in
the Soviet Union did not think that they lived
in an oppressive and totalitarian society. In fact, they were convinced that
their country was the most democratic and free in the whole world. They
earnestly believed that they were building a life which was “better and richer
and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to ability or
achievement.”[3]
This
almost sounds Christian. Doesn’t Christ want all to be happy? Didn’t He come to
free us? Aren’t we brothers and sisters? And weren’t all men created equal? All
this is true, but not quite. To give people freedom, equality, and brotherhood
in the kingdom of
God, Christ sacrificed
Himself. To give people the same in the kingdom of communism, communists
sacrificed the people. According to Feodor Dostoevsky’s horrifyingly accurate
analysis, one hundred million people would die for the success of the
revolution in Russia.
[4] Not all of them were Christians, not all of them died for Christ, but
Christ died for each and every one.
For
three decades the Russian Orthodox Church has been lifting up the holy lives
and deaths of the New Martyrs as an example for the faithful and a reminder to
the whole world. It is a reminder that when people reject the “one thing
needful,” [5] when they reject Christ, they follow a path of
destruction—millions of human lives ground up to feed the communist beast, and
no “bright future.” “By their fruits you will know them” [6]; and the fruits of
godlessness are blood, death, devastation, and collapse. There is only one
ending to the story of the Tower
of Babel. And it would be
a horrible mistake to think that communist ideals can be substituted with those
of capitalism—the result will inevitably be the same. The only path which leads
to the true bright future for mankind is Christ.[7] For as long as we chase
after “the bright future,” the “American Dream,” or the same “rose” by any
other name—humanity is destined to failure. It is only when we start seeking
first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness that all other things will take
their rightful places in our lives.[8]
. . .
Source:
Sophia Moshura, ‘The New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia: Their Significance for People in the West’, http://www.pravmir.com/the-new-martyrs-and-confessors-of-russia-their-significance-for-people-in-the-west/,
accessed 30 June 2016
Pres
Lincoln’s ‘new birth of freedom’ and ‘government of the people, by the people,
for the people’ (Gettysburg Address, 1863) and many other such American ideals
are empty baubles at best, and weapons in the hands of the Antichristian elite
at the worst. Seek out the better paths,
all you who are entrapped in the forced union of America.
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