2004.12.12 - The Word of God thirteen years after the consecration of the Holy of Holies of the New Jerusalem, Lord Jesus [classic english novels .txt] 📗

to teach and to advise the flock and the brotherhood, not knowing that they are a useful image and an example for those who follow the good works and not perceiving that they will be called to account before God on the day of judgment for their flock. And because of the carelessness of the hegumens (the monks), who do not take care of the flock, they will be lost, and there will be judged not only those who have been lazy and idle, but also the brothers who had been refrained and had a good life.

After that, Moses, God’s servant, saw cloud and whirlwind, dark fog and dreadful temptations that had come upon the monks from the north side, which were putting the monks to rout and the monachal order began to be scattered because of the cursed heresies, and many were forced to give up the monachal clothes and to get married. Then, few of those who did not want, will be tested like gold and silver in the furnace and by many hardships, in troubles and persecution, will be refined. And as many as those who will be tested and who will overcome such many dreadful temptations, will be exalted and praised, and they will be glorified by God more than those who had endured the scorching, the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

After that, God’s servant, Moses, saw that that winter of hardships had passed and also the temptations and the tribulation of those dreadful heresies, and a time for peace had come. And after that a couple of years will have passed; again the flock of angelic monks will be despised and troubles will come again upon them, even more of them and more forcefully. He saw that the monks will spend time together with the nuns, and together with the evil lust will come tyranny as well, and even those who will not want, will be mocked forcefully.   

The priests will be defiled themselves by the sin of debauchery and their priestesses will commit adultery, and they also will commit sexual immoralities. Then God’s great wrath will come and will destroy that whole wicked generation and it will be sent into the eternal fire.

Therefore, blessed will be all those who will not bow to the greatest lawlessness of uncleanness, which is more violent and heavier than killing, but who will stand against it and will rebuke the lawlessness, as Saint John, the Baptizer, did, and they will persevere, rebuking the blood blending. And they will be killed by the lawless ones, defiled and very immoral people of that time, and then they will rest in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the most praised Patriarchs, and they will live in the kingdom of the heavens with all the saints, rejoicing and enjoying, and may it be that God will also make us worthy of such a great joy, with His Holy gift. Amen.

 

 

The Saint Hierarch Niphon of Constantia

            (The fourth century)

            (A vision about the dreadful Judgment)

 

…  These words, which the Lord spoke in a voice of a thunder by the Archangel Michael, have filled the countless angelic powers with terror.

Then He commanded that the seven ages from the creation of the world to be brought to Him. Michael received order to fulfill this work. That is why he quickly went to the house of the testament and fetched them. They were like some big books, which He put in front of the Judge. Then he stood aside looking respectfully at how the Lord was looking into the history of the ages. And He took the first age, opened it and said: “This is what it is written first: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God with three faces. The Son, and the Maker of the centuries, proceeded from the Father, because the centuries were made by the Word of the Father through the Son, and there were created the bodiless powers, the heavens were strengthened, the earth, the depths, the sea, the rivers and all those that are in them.”

Then, after reading a little bit further, He said: “The first man, Adam with his wife, Eve, is the image of the Invisible God. The Almighty God and the Creator of all that are seen and all that are not seen gave Adam a commandment. This was the law, which had to be kept with the whole power and most valuably, to the honor of his Maker and in such a way that he might not forget that God was above him.”

After reading a little bit further: “The lawlessness in which the image of God fell by deceitfulness, or better said by carefulness and negligence. The man fell and he was cast out from paradise, by a right judgment and decision taken by God. The beginner of lawlessness could no longer stay within these good things!” And He went on reading below: “Cain came down on Abel and killed him, according to the devil’s will. It is right for him to burn in the fire of Gehenna, because he did not repent. And Abel will live in eternity.”

And in the same manner He looked into the seven books of the ages. Finally, He took the seventh book and read it: “The beginning of the seventh century means the end of the ages. The evil, sexual immorality and cruelty start to be generalized. The people of the seventh century are evil, envious, liars, having false love, lovers of power and silver, enslaved by the sins of sodomy and by other sins.”

And He still went a little bit further, read something, and lifted up His sad eyes; He put one hand on His knees and with the other one He covered His face and eyes and He stayed like that thinking by Himself for a long time and then He whispered: “Indeed, this century far exceeded the other centuries with injustice and wickedness.”

And then He went on reading: “The Greeks with their idols were hanged on a tree, by the spear and by the nails, which nailed My body, the bearer of life.” He was silent for a couple of moments and then He reclined again over the book: “Twelve commanders of the Great King, as white as light, have troubled the sea, closed the mouths of the beasts, drowned the thinking dragons, gave light to the blind, fed the hungry and made the rich poor. They fished many dead souls, giving them life again. Great is their reward…” And then, after a little while, He added: “I, the Lover of people, also chose witnesses, who overcame by My help!” Their friendship reached into heaven and their love to My throne! Their longing to My heart and their sacrifice burns Me with power. My glory and My power are with them!”

After turning over many pages, He whispered with a smile of satisfaction: “The man who had held the helm of those seven hills (The Constantinople) with honor and then became their king was the servant of My love. He deserves the kingdom of the heavens because he was zealous and followed his Lord.”

Then after passing over many pages, He said: “Oh, Most beautiful and Most honored Bride! How many enemies have struggled to defile you! However, you have not betrayed Me, your Bridegroom! Countless heresies have threatened you, but the rock on which you were built did not move, because “the gates of the hell did not prevail against it.”

Down bellow, all the sins of the people were written, which the death found not wiped out by repentance. And there were so many, like the sea sand… The Lord read them dissatisfied and nodded His head sighing. The countless crowd of angels was standing trembling with the fear of the right wrath of the Judge.

When the Lord reached to the half of this age, He said: “The end of it is full of the stink of the sin, of the human things, which all are false and filthy: envy, hatred, lying, blasphemy, enmity, riots, sexual immoralities, murders, abortions, greed, love of silver, remembrance of evil things. But this is enough! I will cut it down in half! Let the reign of the sin come to an end! And by saying these things full of anger, the Lord gave to the archangel Michael the signal for the judgment. Immediately, that one with his army took the most shining and unspeakable throne and left.

That host was so numerous that the earth had no room on it. And running, they were crying within the voice of thunder: Holy, Holy, Holy, and the Lord Sabaoth! The heaven and the earth are full of His glory. And the heaven and the earth were shaken by this frightening crying. Holy, Holy, Holy, great and frightened, wonderful and glorified is the Lord forever and ever.

 

 

The Prophecies of the Devout Andrew, the fool for Christ

            (Who lived in the time of the King Leon, the Wise of Constantinople, in 882)

           

ONCE, while having rest, Epiphany with Devout Andrew, the disciple asked this, saying: “Tell me father, please, how is to be the end of this world? When is the beginning of the pains going to take place? And how will the people know that the end of the world is coming close and by what signs will be the appearances?

And the Devout said: “Listen, son, for the beginning of the pains and for the end of the world and for some other things:

… Therefore, my son, Epiphany, our city will be lost because of so many evil things and trespasses, which I have told you about, that will come to take place in the world, as our Lord, Jesus Christ said that it was the beginning of evils. After the destroying of our city, the end of the world being closed, as I have already spoken about this before, and after the fullness of time of all nations, which in their turn, had ruled in different times, God will raise the scepter of the Israelites (by antichrist), to reign in the seventh century towards the eighth one, which the Prophet Isaiah prophesied about, saying this: “God will raise a sign to the fullness of the nations, who ruled over the scattered sheep of Israel (that is, the Christians) among the nations, and the scattered Israel (that is, the Israelites who were deceived by antichrist) will be gathered together in the holy city of Jerusalem.” And then Israel, as then when it came out of Egypt, as the Saint Apostle Paul also confesses, who says: When the number of the nations will be fulfilled, then the entire Israel will be saved.

These both mentioned above, are the same with those spoken by the Saint Martyr Hippolytus (pope of Rome), who spoke about the coming of antichrist, and that the Jews were first to be deceived. And our Lord, Jesus Christ, testifies about this, saying: “I have come in the Name of the Father and you have not received Me; and that one will come in his name, and you will receive him.”

… – Explain me more profoundly, said Epiphany, which is the hypostasis of the ages.

– It is their endless extension, that is, the ongoing succession of the times and the endlessness of the years. Their essence is a very beautiful and wonderful spirit, which is set on its entire span by seven signs (points) (that is, it is divided by eight periods of time).

The people and the angels have learned from the ages. And the ages were given by the Lord for their incessant travelling, while He gave life to us and to the angels. Thus, by their incessant journey, the ages have been teaching us to walk in the same manner.

This journey of theirs has a beginning, but it has never come to an end. Adam also took this course of ages, but until