The catastrophe St Irenaeus of Lyons (+202)
writes of in Against the Heresies happened
when the last Roman emperor, St-Tsar Nicholas II, was martyred and the Orthodox
Roman Empire centered in Russia fell to the Communists:
Chapter
XXVI.-John and Daniel Have Predicted the Dissolution and Desolation of the
Roman Empire, Which Shall Precede the End of the World and the Eternal Kingdom
of Christ. The Gnostics are Refuted, Those Tools of Satan, Who Invent Another
Father Different from the Creator.
1.
In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord's
disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concerning the ten kings who
shall then arise, among whom the empire which now rules [the earth] shall be
partitioned. He teaches us what the ten horns shall be which were seen by
Daniel, telling us that thus it had been said to him: "And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but shall
receive power as if kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and
give their strength and power to the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb,
and the Lamb shall overcome them, because He is the Lord of lords and the King
of kings." It is manifest, therefore, that of these [potentates], he who
is to come shall slay three, and subject the remainder to his power, and that
he shall be himself the eighth among them. And they shall lay Babylon waste,
and burn her with fire, and shall give their kingdom to the beast, and put the
Church to flight. After that they shall be destroyed by the coming of our Lord.
. . .
Source: Book V, http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/irenaeus-book5.html,
opened 13 Oct. 2017
We
are now in the time when Antichrist can appear:
St. Paul made it clear to
the Thessalonians that before the Antichrist can make his public appearance,
there first must be a massive
apostasy, or falling away, from
the Christian Faith. “The falling away comes first, and the man of sin is
revealed, the son of perdition.” (2 Thess. 2:3) St. Paisios of Mount Athos (d.
1994), a modern day saint who lived through most of the twentieth Century was
of the opinion that this requirement has been fulfilled. Commenting upon our
times, he said that “The situation is horrible. Madness has gone beyond all
bounds. Apostasy is
upon us, and now the only thing left is for the ‘son of perdition’ (2 Thess.
2:3) to come. The world has turned into a madhouse.”3
Source: Fr Andrew J. Anderson, http://orthochristian.com/106805.html,
opened 13 Oct. 2017
However,
several holy elders in the 20th hundredyear made it clear that if
there was true repentance in Russia, one last flowering of the Orthodox Church
would occur before the end.
Knowing
this, what should the South be doing?
Exalting the non-culture of ‘Americana’ with its nihilistic freedom,
muscle cars, and professional sports? Trying
to make a scene with torches at nighttime rallies? Playing fantasy dress-up in Crusader outfits? Sulking and shouting about slavery?
None
of that means anything. Our task now
ought to be to live the sober-minded, repentant Orthodox life of our forebears
in Western Europe and Africa, which turns the dark, stony heart of the heathen
into a clear crystal lamp radiating the Grace of the Holy Ghost (that is, the Orthodox Church
makes actual holy saints, not the weak imitations of Roman Catholicism and the even
weaker imitations of Protestantism), which steels a man for martyrdom (for the
Orthodox life itself is a lifelong martyrdom), which gives us a foretaste here
and now of the Kingdom that is to come during the Divine Liturgy and during moments
of pure prayer.
And
along with this, as we have said before, the South must support Orthodox Russia,
pray for her, become her ally.
These
are the things that matter. If we turn
our backs on them, the Orthodox Roman Empire will not be restored in Russia,
Antichrist will come, and the world will end.
He
who loves the Tsar and Russia loves God…He who does not love the Tsar and
Russia will never love God sincerely.
Elder
Nikolai Gurianov
We
Orthodox Christians of the Empire of Rus suffer, for through sin we lost our
earthly leader one hundred years ago. Then fell the Third Roman Empire, Holy
Rus. Since then there have been many schisms and vain rivalries in Local
Churches, attempts to meddle everywhere and human foolishness and weakness of
every sort. Thus, at the present time the last bulwark of the Christian world
is only a republic, called the Russian Federation, as it has no Emperor and is
not even ready to choose a new Emperor, as many still reject the former
Emperor-Martyr.
All
of us Orthodox Christians who have been deprived of earthly leadership belong
to this Empire in spirit and eagerly await its reconstitution. For whatever our
earthly passports say, all conscious Orthodox Christians belong to this Empire,
for it is our identity. When it is restored, then the whole world will find its
balance and peace once more. But when will that be?
The
Empire of Rus will be restored when its three main parts have repented for all
that was and is alien to Orthodox Christianity, in the centralized
pre-Revolutionary Empire and Soviet Union and in the Wild East corruption of
the post-Communist Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus. Like the other
parts, the Russian Federation is very far from being an Orthodox country:
alcoholism, over 600,000 abortions a year, corruption, divorce, ecological
disaster, foul language (ABCDEF) simply reflect the lack of church-going among
the baptised but still unChurched masses.
Superficial
Orthodox Christianity leads but to the Ukraine. For there large numbers of
baptised prefer a religion of Fascist nationalism and folklore to the real
Orthodox Christian faith. The result of such shallowness is schism and civil
war, with hatred expressed by so-called Orthodox Christians for real Orthodox
Christians, who are threatened with persecution by the nationalists.
And
if the Empire of Rus is not restored, then the end of the world will be at
hand.
Written
on this sixth day of October in the 2017th Year from the Incarnation
in the County of Suffolk in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom of England in the
Empire of Rus.
Source: Fr Andrew Phillips, http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/when-will-the-russian-federation-become-the-empire-of-rus/,
opened 13 Oct. 2017
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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