tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18941306930809246392023-12-19T01:39:45.973-05:00An Orthodox Christian Examination of the Last ThingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-75906469865195400082023-10-27T10:06:00.013-04:002023-10-27T10:16:06.867-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsknjMnbNCz_CtS3IQuKZpela596dMhUJX7LPCCJzTI4YQGEfAOjVR_kfJ_C5xlJlcV52qnLYX_Jldc2fsGJ10n5LO4LisOmMuXf4Rq0wXEj6l-6hzBpil5fFQ0TxrZxfwyoSkuEfFIAQgV6IolPFAEnDn1EaeM3EghBECvTxiOjNsQRb49wp6x_P5ZM/s614/Screenshot%202023-10-27%20at%2010-00-58%20%CE%95%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%8C%20%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B9%20%CE%BC%CE%B5%20%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CE%9C%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B7%20%CE%9B%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D%20%CE%BA.%20%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%20%CE%94%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%A4%CE%A1%CE%99%CE%91%202023.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="539" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsknjMnbNCz_CtS3IQuKZpela596dMhUJX7LPCCJzTI4YQGEfAOjVR_kfJ_C5xlJlcV52qnLYX_Jldc2fsGJ10n5LO4LisOmMuXf4Rq0wXEj6l-6hzBpil5fFQ0TxrZxfwyoSkuEfFIAQgV6IolPFAEnDn1EaeM3EghBECvTxiOjNsQRb49wp6x_P5ZM/w562-h640/Screenshot%202023-10-27%20at%2010-00-58%20%CE%95%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%8C%20%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B9%20%CE%BC%CE%B5%20%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CE%9C%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AF%CF%84%CE%B7%20%CE%9B%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D%20%CE%BA.%20%CE%91%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%20%CE%94%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%A4%CE%A1%CE%99%CE%91%202023.png" width="562"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A few days before the feast of Saint Demetrios, Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol spoke at the Church of Saint Demetrios in Thessaloniki, answering the questions of the faithful in attendance. Among the things he spoke about, were certain &quot;prophecies&quot; of Saint Paisios the Athonite that circulate every now and then, especially during periods of distress and disaster. This is an excerpt of what he said specifically of one source of such prophecies that he was acquainted with:<br><br>&quot;I also hear a lot and various things that Father Paisios supposedly said to many who saw him and he supposedly told them...and that person...and another. I confess to you that he said nothing of all that they say. I say this with all responsibility and honesty. With all the power of sincerity from my high priestly status. I lived 16 years with this Elder. A certain brother who says every now and then &#39;Elder Paisios told me this... he told me that...,&#39; I assure you he never said these things to him.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2023/10/i-know-he-didnt-say-any-of-it-saint.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-62637902781281995892023-05-08T16:51:00.006-04:002023-05-10T13:36:32.972-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxeQ6fN2EKRclcOMo22SLmPJrTnSpYv2oXKsqTdvakuOUJyElr0b91JyZ7zrFiu-hELynAV7-5T1bCfQknKaptNI9rpxj_iauLGKuQMstDXj5Mko44KRMRP3G7_vXUKGz-FOGT8fLHOezjPKAYPcs7jZuJkMILEdyOeo33JSHRmNZMlGZzoz4TceC0/s1280/porphyrios.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1280" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxeQ6fN2EKRclcOMo22SLmPJrTnSpYv2oXKsqTdvakuOUJyElr0b91JyZ7zrFiu-hELynAV7-5T1bCfQknKaptNI9rpxj_iauLGKuQMstDXj5Mko44KRMRP3G7_vXUKGz-FOGT8fLHOezjPKAYPcs7jZuJkMILEdyOeo33JSHRmNZMlGZzoz4TceC0/w640-h338/porphyrios.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;">Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva narrated the following experience he had when he visited the Cave of the Apocalypse in Patmos, where Saint John the Theologian received the divine revelation that is recorded in the Book of Revelation:</span><br><br>We once went on a pilgrimage together with Mr. George and Mrs. Kaiti to Saint John the Theologian in Patmos. It was morning. I felt that the grace of Saint John was suffocating me. The Cave of the Apocalypse was crowded. I was afraid of betraying my feelings. If I let myself manifest, I would be taken for a madman. I restrained myself. I went out of the church. It is not good for others to see the experiences of secret contact with God. That&#39;s why I told them and we left. The afternoon of the same day it was quiet there. It was the three of us. There was no one else in the church. Before we entered I prepared them. I said to them:<br><br>&quot;No matter what you see, you will not move or speak.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2023/05/when-saint-porphyrios-visited-cave-of.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-35999776065051365402023-01-28T12:26:00.006-05:002023-01-28T12:40:37.842-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovKK8KF8raG-_jDlAK0Yjua00jyF7r4861Fv1e_qden5LI-64ML3OdELXRlimpOBikHHEzW_Mr6HpoTH2Fmasitf-T97fco3Os2RLhvWgeZM0816Z_jp4erWe1-jVQliK8lPW6IdwL_ReNAHiYwFfjIXPpI-VGPmpb97QdDJadGj5CrIVCI9f04FY/s1359/neb.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="930" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovKK8KF8raG-_jDlAK0Yjua00jyF7r4861Fv1e_qden5LI-64ML3OdELXRlimpOBikHHEzW_Mr6HpoTH2Fmasitf-T97fco3Os2RLhvWgeZM0816Z_jp4erWe1-jVQliK8lPW6IdwL_ReNAHiYwFfjIXPpI-VGPmpb97QdDJadGj5CrIVCI9f04FY/w438-h640/neb.jpg" width="438"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of the Dream of Nebuchadnezzar, with an inscribed stone smashing the feet of the statue that says &quot;Logos&quot;, which refers to the coming of Christ.<br></td></tr></tbody></table> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Book of Daniel is an eschatological text (some believe it to be a 2nd century Hellenistic text) that contains the well-known dream of King Nebuchadnezzar with the statue of which each part is made of a different metal and symbolizes/prophesies five kingdoms or periods of rule.<br><br>The value of the metal gradually decreases from the first to the fifth Kingdom. The head of Gold (Babylon), body of Silver (Persians), thighs of Bronze (Hellenic civilization), which presumably means the legs of iron is Roman Civilization.<br><br>Regarding the fifth Kingdom, which are the feet of the statue and are made of a fragile mixture of iron and clay, opinions differ.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2023/01/a-byzantine-interpretation-of-dream-of.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-5604034970243908872022-12-16T11:18:00.009-05:002022-12-16T11:24:15.391-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtY2VvxZzK1qB0-ZGsXRJMUW3U9nmE42OTEgFF7VNxGb9dgG5cI5_fcS4i89sNuEqCDKMOB3ENAmaU8Syo18Tz9D-bDs8pJDgc3SrDqLzkovf_OsAyMzXhxnmNuOiStDxuM1t2u10xNBQTT7kJpHpg6vhiwtWn4CEC3SJaUcGyw22NMj-tlh2Sx8g/s1080/teeth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1080" height="612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtY2VvxZzK1qB0-ZGsXRJMUW3U9nmE42OTEgFF7VNxGb9dgG5cI5_fcS4i89sNuEqCDKMOB3ENAmaU8Syo18Tz9D-bDs8pJDgc3SrDqLzkovf_OsAyMzXhxnmNuOiStDxuM1t2u10xNBQTT7kJpHpg6vhiwtWn4CEC3SJaUcGyw22NMj-tlh2Sx8g/w640-h612/teeth.jpg" width="640"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">14th century fresco in the Narthex of the Church of Panagia Forviotissa (more popularly known as <span>Panagia Asinou) in Cyprus<br></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>&quot;So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth&quot; (Matthew 13:49-50).</b><br><br><i>&quot;For whereas He Himself is the sower, and that of His own field, and out of His own kingdom He gathers, it is quite clear that the present world also is His. But mark His unspeakable love to man, and His leaning to bounty, and His disinclination to punishment; in that, when He sows, He sows in His own person, but when He punishes, it is by others, that is, by the angels... For lest, on being told, &#39;They cast the bad away,&#39; you should suppose that ruin to be without danger; by His interpretation He signified the punishment, saying, &#39;They will cast them into the furnace.&#39; And He declared the gnashing of teeth, and the anguish, that it is unspeakable&quot; (St. John Chrysostom)</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/12/there-shall-be-wailing-and-gnashing-of.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-59010620326065343112022-11-05T13:25:00.000-04:002022-11-05T13:25:00.045-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9rRzlcNFM_AkoDutYlo9O10We_fWmAB46AQB_FSYBMQDMT7TAxNW75YnMD-5Qft4NhjDgvIVWKFV7RysYF8DzUNozXjXB3Agwp2VtO41JZ45ebza5x92cWX91J3pWqmIsKkhnFKYO2qq4asRMHsgU0IYxPPXB0BscoOToqihRZ4D1KTdenBB-ojw/s600/the-rich-man-and-lazarus-icons-orthodox-christian-supply_496_459x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9rRzlcNFM_AkoDutYlo9O10We_fWmAB46AQB_FSYBMQDMT7TAxNW75YnMD-5Qft4NhjDgvIVWKFV7RysYF8DzUNozXjXB3Agwp2VtO41JZ45ebza5x92cWX91J3pWqmIsKkhnFKYO2qq4asRMHsgU0IYxPPXB0BscoOToqihRZ4D1KTdenBB-ojw/s16000/the-rich-man-and-lazarus-icons-orthodox-christian-supply_496_459x.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We regard Christ&#39;s parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus as the most suitable aid for guiding the reader into the subject &quot;life after death&quot;. Therefore in what follows we shall analyse this parable in the simplest possible way.<br><br>We could make use of many patristic texts that interpret the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus, but we shall not do so, because, as we have said, the aim of all that follows is to introduce the reader to the teaching of the Church on life after death. <br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/11/the-parable-of-rich-man-and-lazarus.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-61870552288348774102022-09-27T13:28:00.003-04:002022-09-27T13:38:38.291-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKLBrg5mYPxg2j4C2DHWShNVBgWHPXj5c7lsvkmxGxjymEu8Qmr8dmnNIlVbSt1jRCzyWrMiNCpv99Ksu65Mz-DFox8lPT6gXhamzCmteaPjHDz5jxviH0j9ywsmTn3jw7BFTm1cLHOVgttAbCRJD_scEUcl7vQ-NnH7AXjk5kOySfRh9qqphScoN3/s681/Screenshot%202022-09-27%20at%2012-30-57%20%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8E%20%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%20%E2%80%93%20Posts%20Facebook.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="681" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKLBrg5mYPxg2j4C2DHWShNVBgWHPXj5c7lsvkmxGxjymEu8Qmr8dmnNIlVbSt1jRCzyWrMiNCpv99Ksu65Mz-DFox8lPT6gXhamzCmteaPjHDz5jxviH0j9ywsmTn3jw7BFTm1cLHOVgttAbCRJD_scEUcl7vQ-NnH7AXjk5kOySfRh9qqphScoN3/w640-h636/Screenshot%202022-09-27%20at%2012-30-57%20%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8E%20%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%20%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%20%E2%80%93%20Posts%20Facebook.png" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elder Ambrose Lazaris used to say about the end of the world that it will last as long as the Six Psalms of Matins lasts, a few minutes.<br><br>At the time when we will be judged, in heaven the Angels will chant the Six Psalms [that is why we do not sit during the reading of the Six Psalms].<br><br>All people living at that time will experience death instantly and immediately after will be resurrected.<br><br>We will all be with our bodies in an intangible way, in another form, as the Evangelist Mark says, we will not take up space, but one will see and recognize the other and all will be at the age of thirty three years old.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/09/what-elder-ambrose-lazaris-taught-about.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-37600527298307033462022-07-02T11:10:00.006-04:002022-07-02T11:10:55.718-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpT3BoodDHJPvP6VjUzrNV-KKJ_MvIk9Tieno-3UE03xMQnAKM6orNNxl1cXvCVjGfNX9y05w5pcdecOqEYp2n5O7ZoTipc2587c7t6mpznhxgnqFo1rE3U2lmNeiKJIH4hFlISvrmR7U42asmdkE_6a0cXEzPxoixSmDx-g976Ef49KFox7c7m0V/s500/fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="500" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDpT3BoodDHJPvP6VjUzrNV-KKJ_MvIk9Tieno-3UE03xMQnAKM6orNNxl1cXvCVjGfNX9y05w5pcdecOqEYp2n5O7ZoTipc2587c7t6mpznhxgnqFo1rE3U2lmNeiKJIH4hFlISvrmR7U42asmdkE_6a0cXEzPxoixSmDx-g976Ef49KFox7c7m0V/w400-h381/fire.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By St. John Maximovitch<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">&quot;God is a consuming fire&quot; (Heb. 12:29). When an object touches fire, it changes: it either burns out or hardens.<br><br>So a person, touching God, either perishes or is saved.<br><br>Fire is always fire! But from touching it, both ashes and steel are obtained, depending on what it touches.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/07/god-is-fire-homily-of-st-john.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-15708429080643175662022-06-18T13:30:00.010-04:002022-06-18T13:43:59.740-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqIs52ZooY8WwrGHcdHt1Wzgk1_ijCyPjrevFvfHAoGzaPnKSdtlzlrNlDfN5KSvguPbaHrewMhtv5f9imOHt95BYPGxDJu0H0ylH91s5EpLY2N6KU8_hmHCMofZpEEg8c4azx7JJYwoBvnwMcPtX927xMlp24lXihdLmwxKativy-ZDVw4gQ0zrK/s1024/synod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="1024" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqIs52ZooY8WwrGHcdHt1Wzgk1_ijCyPjrevFvfHAoGzaPnKSdtlzlrNlDfN5KSvguPbaHrewMhtv5f9imOHt95BYPGxDJu0H0ylH91s5EpLY2N6KU8_hmHCMofZpEEg8c4azx7JJYwoBvnwMcPtX927xMlp24lXihdLmwxKativy-ZDVw4gQ0zrK/w640-h330/synod.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">June 14, 2022<br><br>To the fullness of the Church of Greece that bear Christ&#39;s name,<br><br>Topic: &quot;The Gifts of the Holy Spirit and False Prophets&quot;<br><br>Beloved children of the Lord,<br><br>One week after the feast of Pentecost, during which the Church of Christ was revealed to the world, we honor the offspring of this &quot;new creation&quot; of Grace, that is, the Church, who are all the Saints of God, people who are truly Spirit-bearers.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/06/a-message-to-faithful-from-holy-synod.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-7765020207455501152022-06-06T14:55:00.002-04:002022-06-06T14:55:18.072-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQpMozkZ-7GvmEWEFk0wgW7YIkU3VqGkAHRW9fxq9ye5WT60m_gMYqts_mzhg9hxOBU8JTd-wzk_s5vHPIM8t2wZ05aqvwt55P9Ibt-tYxfHw1Ay5inQ6Wc44bhsl3Da_XhQCQQ0smtD-hOH6H4C50oxPW-wc-wXB9G5ACUm0aQAkmPiVJrFxh7QV/s600/ascension2.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="444" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQpMozkZ-7GvmEWEFk0wgW7YIkU3VqGkAHRW9fxq9ye5WT60m_gMYqts_mzhg9hxOBU8JTd-wzk_s5vHPIM8t2wZ05aqvwt55P9Ibt-tYxfHw1Ay5inQ6Wc44bhsl3Da_XhQCQQ0smtD-hOH6H4C50oxPW-wc-wXB9G5ACUm0aQAkmPiVJrFxh7QV/w296-h400/ascension2.webp" width="296"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Demetrios Panagopoulos, Preacher (1916-1982) <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">One person says: <br><br>&quot;On Ascension Day, swimming begins.&quot;<br><br>This is what man sees ... Beyond his flesh, beyond his pleasures, etc. he does not see. <br><br>What is the Ascension? What is celebrated? What do you remember? People do not know this. And due to the fact that they do not know this, they score a low grade, but the fact that they do not want to know this, it nullifies them.<br> <br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/06/the-ascension-of-lord-is-penultimate.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-49319008901869480722022-05-12T13:36:00.006-04:002022-05-12T13:36:54.449-04:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <br><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNvU61RTgJfUK9C5I7iiYmOI4nvCmhOfvq8dyuAJfwMqJmxn9YVGJjcun3cwfdH2NtRko-EOmfqgCqe2IQfIzYsZz3j1_askXwvEO_8nKXJGN2VPNrj408hm0_E5-PVkmtc9E3gHWbg_SabKwBExWvA74Kg4Lxm5K9Uwl_sPLXLotGyfBWpNhzGkj-g/s2055/epi.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2055" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNvU61RTgJfUK9C5I7iiYmOI4nvCmhOfvq8dyuAJfwMqJmxn9YVGJjcun3cwfdH2NtRko-EOmfqgCqe2IQfIzYsZz3j1_askXwvEO_8nKXJGN2VPNrj408hm0_E5-PVkmtc9E3gHWbg_SabKwBExWvA74Kg4Lxm5K9Uwl_sPLXLotGyfBWpNhzGkj-g/w293-h400/epi.png" width="293"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In his polemic with pagans and heretics (especially with Origen), Epiphanios reveals the Church teaching about bodily resurrection: “Our holy Mother Church believes, as she herself truly preached and truly prescribed, that we shall all die and be resurrected with this very body and with this very soul (σὺν σώματι τούτῳ, σὺν ψυχῇ ταύτῃ), with all our members, so that each one may receive according to what he has done&quot; (Ancor. 119.11). <br><br>Against the pagans, Epiphanios proves the possibility of resurrection with examples from nature: day follows night, awakening follows sleep; seeds planted into the ground, as if dead, germinate and are reborn into a new plant, etc. (Ancor. 833-5). Pagan writers also knew and cited stories about the resurrection of people or their return from the underworld - for example, Alcestis, Pelops, Amphiaraus, Glaucus, Castor, etc. (Ibid. 85.2-4). <br><br><span></span></div></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/05/epiphanios-of-salamis-and-doctrine-of.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-59851187920845705462022-04-13T13:16:00.005-04:002022-04-13T13:19:40.818-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5AQFa27z9tHBfDKG32dtBJbLbCCwc3Xukxu2n4iq4YRI7nsM9cG1xALLRlndaD6kWS1wv5d598NSkFjG4PPs7wapWLtc57w6DH8VYcIl9IPb1k1zx8QgdwLF65mgX3DnkdCpVgFgVLTJ1tiOcUCYI3xY22Qebwv70r5TJekL50N7LTXwugPhi-XJ/s287/eumenius-saridakis_d181d0b2-d181d182d0b0d180d0b5d186-d0b5d0b2d0bcd0b5-e1567355762136.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5AQFa27z9tHBfDKG32dtBJbLbCCwc3Xukxu2n4iq4YRI7nsM9cG1xALLRlndaD6kWS1wv5d598NSkFjG4PPs7wapWLtc57w6DH8VYcIl9IPb1k1zx8QgdwLF65mgX3DnkdCpVgFgVLTJ1tiOcUCYI3xY22Qebwv70r5TJekL50N7LTXwugPhi-XJ/w279-h400/eumenius-saridakis_d181d0b2-d181d182d0b0d180d0b5d186-d0b5d0b2d0bcd0b5-e1567355762136.webp" width="279"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Monk Simon<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elder Eumenios once told me that the Third World War would have taken place, in the area of Russia, namely Ukraine, and he also said this later when we went on a pilgrimage to Russia. <br><br>&quot;We were all at the forefront,&quot; he told us.<br><br>&quot;What do you mean &#39;we&#39;?&quot;<br><br>&quot;All of us, Father Porphyrios was there, Father Iakovos was there, Father Paisios was there, all of us monks went to the forefront.&quot;<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/04/elder-eumenios-saridakis-on-how-third.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-49491692003203439052022-03-18T11:26:00.002-04:002022-03-18T11:30:45.426-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt3ap5OIlEvVJwcXB492haJwL8U0sGNMdjoUOC1wGxpmNT3l_Vy_KHN-RdhlS8XDXjdmnm8NziOLsd0sR9HacI1eVyLDKmNG8dkM2qrqpXqG_Qh8O6FHlBcoWs3bdEvE13XT3qwJ4dgk7D54xMAwSvQG8UfD56FSJyWVoibqbQdvvyASOR78oP1suC=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt3ap5OIlEvVJwcXB492haJwL8U0sGNMdjoUOC1wGxpmNT3l_Vy_KHN-RdhlS8XDXjdmnm8NziOLsd0sR9HacI1eVyLDKmNG8dkM2qrqpXqG_Qh8O6FHlBcoWs3bdEvE13XT3qwJ4dgk7D54xMAwSvQG8UfD56FSJyWVoibqbQdvvyASOR78oP1suC=w300-h400" width="300"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sikinos is among the Cyclades Islands of Greece. There one can find a picturesque little chapel dedicated to the Second Coming of Christ, the only shrine with such a dedication in the Orthodox world. The annual feast of this chapel is celebrated on Meatfare Sunday, because on this day the Gospel reading of the Divine Liturgy concerns the Last Judgment.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/03/chapel-of-second-coming-of-christ-in.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-1148217234233042172022-03-01T14:46:00.010-05:002022-03-01T15:01:59.276-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVo41FuZr6DfT46AOcQMSQt4jfFsF-mNaK2lVP7NGkjgv4Vem9iNq3M8qomOeoSK3x0_jtMGOeq62fD5qrDGx17hYvgP5h2QSUu41zKdferhik_538ByLmPX-x-ztDI6_8geXr9ls9BgP-Vo12AoPZmgjaxxsEIgqn1gEsUYxuGe-suX_iW8MSLwus=s1140" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1140" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVo41FuZr6DfT46AOcQMSQt4jfFsF-mNaK2lVP7NGkjgv4Vem9iNq3M8qomOeoSK3x0_jtMGOeq62fD5qrDGx17hYvgP5h2QSUu41zKdferhik_538ByLmPX-x-ztDI6_8geXr9ls9BgP-Vo12AoPZmgjaxxsEIgqn1gEsUYxuGe-suX_iW8MSLwus=w640-h416" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By St. Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and All Crimea<br><br>(Delivered on March 4, 1951)<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">&quot;As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be&quot; (Matt. 24:37-39) - the terrible second coming.<br><br>Will it be exactly like that? No, what happened in the days of Noah is cited by Christ in His discourse about the Last Judgment in order to show that just as suddenly, just as unexpectedly, the Son of Man will appear to us in His glory with all the holy angels to begin His Judgment.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/03/homily-for-meatfare-week-on-second.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-33651743177281016242022-02-25T10:05:00.004-05:002022-02-25T10:17:05.521-05:00<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU26xSBgDJEERN1bCHwyIDM97emarysf7QVQqipls4t0GHcBDJ7kO7LeQcUWjER19BzkJV3Ghdb9EAl-61JelkLpZIk0kuZXbGUAZDLrb88IESmJqFKIckg8elh3BHPg-ajji3N5bu-cQ614yw_XDretgm5U-53h-glihc1ZqsWZweKBKNxEZaXY6AgA=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU26xSBgDJEERN1bCHwyIDM97emarysf7QVQqipls4t0GHcBDJ7kO7LeQcUWjER19BzkJV3Ghdb9EAl-61JelkLpZIk0kuZXbGUAZDLrb88IESmJqFKIckg8elh3BHPg-ajji3N5bu-cQ614yw_XDretgm5U-53h-glihc1ZqsWZweKBKNxEZaXY6AgA=w400-h225" width="400"></a></div> <br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Archimandrite Bartholomew,<br>Abbot of the Monastery of Esphigmenou on Mount Athos<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a child I often heard people say &quot;war is coming, gather food!&quot;<br><br>Now that the world is objectively heading in dangerous paths, I hear some of a similar spiritual quality with the aforementioned, saying &quot;there must be a war to cleanse the earth of evil.&quot; They say it and it fills their mouths! They say it and are happy with the expectation of slaughtering people!<br><br>In the past, when there was no issue, they terrorized people with the threat of war, in order to paralyze them spiritually and control them. Now, when there is an issue, instead of being advocates of peace and law, they are publishing supposed prophecies, in order to paralyze the resistance of Christians to evil.<br><br><span></span></div></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/02/blessed-are-peacemakers-archimandrite.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-47816757972996228812022-01-25T11:00:00.004-05:002022-01-25T11:34:27.114-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIAvePkwPrnYldjGXX6ypB9WVObdT-MwcebPaIXb_ERXcJRTn7c3UZKxLo7KBvi0r9yX0IEQRgGANVRbScO4j4r0vmoYjJbXuZ_nDeYvpk8CE4h_ckRn7Kxds3mIrYn25C269_CBA6GqUQ5ULXZbGg9P6sEQCxoDgCUOEoHuJYHQgSS_d71t2CWM_Q=s323" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="156" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIAvePkwPrnYldjGXX6ypB9WVObdT-MwcebPaIXb_ERXcJRTn7c3UZKxLo7KBvi0r9yX0IEQRgGANVRbScO4j4r0vmoYjJbXuZ_nDeYvpk8CE4h_ckRn7Kxds3mIrYn25C269_CBA6GqUQ5ULXZbGg9P6sEQCxoDgCUOEoHuJYHQgSS_d71t2CWM_Q=w194-h400" width="194"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Frank Thielman <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After explicitly naming every other New Testament book but the Apocalypse, St. Gregory Nazianzen closes his poetical list of ‘the genuine books of the inspired scripture’ with the statement, ‘You have all. And if there be any outside these, it is not among the genuine books’ (Πάσας ἔχεις. εἴ τι δὲ τούτων ἐκτός, οὐκ ἐν γνησίαις).1 Studies of the New Testament canon commonly understand the omission of any clear reference to the Apocalypse in the list and these definitive closing statements to mean that Gregory did not view the Apocalypse as canonical.2 If so, then Gregory, whose list comes from sometime in the 380s, did not agree with Athanasius’ judgement in his famous Easter letter of 367 but took the position of many in the fourth-century eastern church that the Apocalypse stands among the excluded books. Three pieces of evidence, however, should caution against coming to this conclusion too hastily. <br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2022/01/the-place-of-apocalypse-in-canon-of-st.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-35285457954981100022022-01-11T11:22:00.004-05:002022-01-11T16:54:56.579-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAL7M5-tUPRcNWgOwpYwtylMlL3JODal_M0_dJedLs6tG00n-5rZJTc5k9i6LN7znZKJIZ-me-3SGhhBELe6lXXm6gjopGcj3AdiH3ye3JDHDpzUvTorqBF8V5rd0lf-KBv7EAHvmNOa3A9FzMrZdlp8NeFKtc67yVKbbCZFimwzobPyU9PgA9xDyv=s720" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="481" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAL7M5-tUPRcNWgOwpYwtylMlL3JODal_M0_dJedLs6tG00n-5rZJTc5k9i6LN7znZKJIZ-me-3SGhhBELe6lXXm6gjopGcj3AdiH3ye3JDHDpzUvTorqBF8V5rd0lf-KBv7EAHvmNOa3A9FzMrZdlp8NeFKtc67yVKbbCZFimwzobPyU9PgA9xDyv=w268-h400" width="268" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When I was a young monk, I was impressed by clairvoyance, foresight and the prophetic gift. Wherever I heard that there was an elder with such gifts I ran with enthusiasm to meet him.<br /><br />Now that I'm old, I'm not impressed by these gifts.<br /><br />For me it is more valuable to meet a man who has patience without complaining during long-term and painful sicknesses. This moves me and teaches me.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://apantaortodoxias.blogspot.com/2022/01/blog-post_22.html">Source</a>: Translated by John Sanidopoulos. <br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-31844557733412885262021-11-19T10:50:00.008-05:002021-11-19T10:57:32.149-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfYwV3TBYxk/YZfHib_8DqI/AAAAAAABcI4/ss29BDm1k_UhTJt4LS9cx4Pr01LqXtaJACNcBGAsYHQ/s624/Prof-Avdiou-IST2010.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfYwV3TBYxk/YZfHib_8DqI/AAAAAAABcI4/ss29BDm1k_UhTJt4LS9cx4Pr01LqXtaJACNcBGAsYHQ/w385-h400/Prof-Avdiou-IST2010.png" width="385"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Dr. Athanasios Moustakis<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On November 19, the Prophet Obadiah is celebrated in the Orthodox Church. His vision has been recorded in and is the smallest book of the Old Testament. The name Obadiah probably means &quot;servant of God&quot; and apparently was quite common in the Old Testament, since within the pages of its books it appears a total of thirteen people carry it. <br><br>In this little book we find a characteristic prophetic expression, the expression &quot;Day of the Lord&quot;, which also appears in the books of the prophets Joel (1:15, 2:1, 4:14), Zephaniah (1:14), Malachi (3:19), Isaiah (13:9), Jeremiah (32:33) and Ezekiel (7:10, 13:5). It does not appear in any other books of the Old Testament except in the prophetic ones we have noted, and refers to the day when the will of God will prevail in our world, restoring injustice, eradicating evil, and presenting to all the glorious name of God.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/11/the-prophet-obadiah-and-day-of-lord.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-8177379470668556142021-10-14T13:09:00.003-04:002021-10-14T13:09:44.960-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XW8AMB3Hjok/YWhhrq_3O5I/AAAAAAABbpU/Paaw2VtIfEIMhiDDcO1eGSoSml9VvryFACNcBGAsYHQ/s770/kerkiras-ieratiki_-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="770" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XW8AMB3Hjok/YWhhrq_3O5I/AAAAAAABbpU/Paaw2VtIfEIMhiDDcO1eGSoSml9VvryFACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h320/kerkiras-ieratiki_-4.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Metropolitan Nektarios of Kerkyra<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are not entitled to take responsibility for what does not belong to us. It is inconceivable to read how there are spiritual fathers who threaten with a penance to abstain from Holy Communion those who are vaccinated! Our spiritual authority is to &quot;bind and loose&quot; sins and not to deal with medical issues and to make our personal positions and views positions and views of God and the Church.<br><br>It is a delusion to shift the events of the times to an eschatological level and take risks by scaring people that the end of the world is near.<br><br>It is a delusion to think that those who have been vaccinated have become followers of the Antichrist.<br><br>It is a delusion to believe that the freedom of our will is abolished with the vaccine. This freedom is an element of the image of God given to us by the Holy Spirit.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/10/vaccines-and-antichrist.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-27295279405489742622021-09-27T11:05:00.007-04:002021-09-27T11:18:19.284-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRCNcFbN5t4/YVHEzsXUxCI/AAAAAAABbY0/Y_zLsw1vFeIsa9YHXyqi3hUNSADa9tGHgCNcBGAsYHQ/s735/kythera.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="735" height="250" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRCNcFbN5t4/YVHEzsXUxCI/AAAAAAABbY0/Y_zLsw1vFeIsa9YHXyqi3hUNSADa9tGHgCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h250/kythera.webp" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On an imposing mountain above Kapsali, the port of Chora on the island of Kythera, is perched the Church of Saint John on the Cliff. At an altitude of about 100 meters above sea level, and after climbing 130 steps into a beautiful pine forest, the visitor is in front of a cave, in which is a small church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.<br><br>Above the arched entrance is the guest house, with two rooms and a kitchen, originally built 500 years ago. Approximately 5-6 monks once lived at this skete in a couple of small cells nearby.<br><br>There are also ceramic basins for collecting water which was used for holy water and from which the faithful drank to cure their diseases. On the iconostasis there is the old icon of Saint John the Baptist which is the work of the great Cretan painter Angelos Akotantos of the 15th century which was offered by the Cretan Peter Kastrophylakas. Also on the iconostasis there is the icon of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist on which there is painted the coat of arms of the Kaloutsis family and the words: &quot;Prayer of the servant of God George Kaloutsis&quot;. At the entrance there is a built-in marble plaque on which is written the name of the monk Ioannikios Saninos, who renovated the shrine in 1725. Around the church there are renovated buildings where monks could be accommodated.  <br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/09/was-portion-of-book-of-revelation.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-42712976925882141082021-08-30T15:04:00.004-04:002021-08-30T15:04:29.036-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Le2QwVg_P4/YS0rY_cyowI/AAAAAAABa6s/UtaMXLdbG9cV6BMXVBZaJrW_tlC47AiLACNcBGAsYHQ/s1397/paisios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="883" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Le2QwVg_P4/YS0rY_cyowI/AAAAAAABa6s/UtaMXLdbG9cV6BMXVBZaJrW_tlC47AiLACNcBGAsYHQ/w253-h400/paisios.jpg" width="253"></a></div> <br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol<br><br>(Excerpt from a recorded lecture.)<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We will all hear what Christ our God said to the rich man:<br><br>&quot;Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?&quot;<br><br>This reminds me of some of our brethren, who live with visions of wars and disasters, and they ask about them and they want to learn - and now they even go on the internet to see - if there will be a war! <br><br>Why do they need to know if there will be a war?<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/08/saint-paisios-athonite-and-prepper.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-15260359437877167372021-03-27T16:03:00.000-04:002021-03-27T16:03:50.089-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ESBJsoomSg/YF-O7gyUYXI/AAAAAAABYbc/JHj10bw7Bn0Agy58rShnyl_6Ho4ATcpyACNcBGAsYHQ/s1566/141016-Strochlic-ebola-preppers-tease_uhnfvy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1566" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ESBJsoomSg/YF-O7gyUYXI/AAAAAAABYbc/JHj10bw7Bn0Agy58rShnyl_6Ho4ATcpyACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/141016-Strochlic-ebola-preppers-tease_uhnfvy.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"> By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ever since I became a Clergyman, fifty years ago (in 1971), and came into contact with various Christians, one of the issues I was dealing with was chresmology, which means the formulation of an oracle, a prophesy, a future event, which is given by various chresmologists.<br><br>Chresmology was systematically practiced by the Millennialists (Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses), who set various dates according to which the world would be destroyed, humanity would be unified by a single Government, and so on. And of course they were constantly shown to be deceived.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/03/orthodox-christians-and-chresmology.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-60726302393820242652021-02-25T13:18:00.004-05:002021-02-25T13:34:34.675-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_Ju18Z4VoY/YDfoVjGx-SI/AAAAAAABX68/F3E8hVWcH-E3NpuGKQttmf3gojJzfbBmACNcBGAsYHQ/s1280/resurrection.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1280" height="315" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7_Ju18Z4VoY/YDfoVjGx-SI/AAAAAAABX68/F3E8hVWcH-E3NpuGKQttmf3gojJzfbBmACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h315/resurrection.png" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By Demetrios Panagopoulos (1916-1982),<br>Preacher<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Give instruction that on your grave is written: &quot;I await the Resurrection of the dead&quot; (Προσδοκώ Ανάσταση νεκρών), not the other fairy-tales and verses of some sort that are often written there which contain no thought in regards to faith and no thought of the Resurrection. Everything takes place for this Resurrection. The Resurrection is what gives us comfort. There is so much sorrow in the world, so many tears and so much wickedness, that if there was no Resurrection, there would be no reason, not even for a second, for people to live here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Translation by John Sanidopoulos. </span></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/02/what-orthodox-christians-should-have.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-83297032842034471142021-02-10T16:38:00.004-05:002021-02-10T16:42:51.187-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vxOyEiJb7M8/YCRRpEsA7MI/AAAAAAABXsA/6jjNZF0lmUgVUE_FkkFJGMko3hByUAyBACNcBGAsYHQ/s400/orwell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vxOyEiJb7M8/YCRRpEsA7MI/AAAAAAABXsA/6jjNZF0lmUgVUE_FkkFJGMko3hByUAyBACNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h400/orwell.jpg" width="400"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>&quot;Everything other than working was forbidden: walking in the streets, having fun, singing, dancing, getting together, everything was forbidden.&quot;</b><br><br></div><div style="text-align: right;">- George Orwell, &quot;1984&quot;<br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/02/george-orwells-covid-1984.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-8549743144511522962021-02-04T16:31:00.009-05:002021-02-06T07:33:42.475-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8ZzmLYLmEY/YBxlLPceLRI/AAAAAAABXlc/UBV2woPupQoc4IjJtPFYFWALvlzBhAuzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s753/%25D0%2598%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BD_%25D0%259A%25D1%2580%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD%25D1%2588%25D1%2582%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B4%25D1%2582%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="525" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8ZzmLYLmEY/YBxlLPceLRI/AAAAAAABXlc/UBV2woPupQoc4IjJtPFYFWALvlzBhAuzgCNcBGAsYHQ/w279-h400/%25D0%2598%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BD_%25D0%259A%25D1%2580%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD%25D1%2588%25D1%2582%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B4%25D1%2582%25D1%2581%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B9.jpg" width="279"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: center;">By John Sanidopoulos<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Multiple Orthodox Christian websites have in circulation a text often known as the &quot;Prophetic Vision of Saint John of Kronstadt&quot;, allegedly written by Saint John of Kronstadt himself, concerning a vision he saw in January of 1901 that deals with specific apocalyptic events of the future, often with amazing details, revealed to him by Saint Seraphim of Sarov. Despite the confidence this alleged prophecy has in detailing future events, certain details have clearly proven to be false, but this does not stop anyone from continuing to circulate this false prophecy.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/02/the-truth-behind-alleged-prophetic.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1894130693080924639.post-16251190036009222822021-01-28T11:42:00.005-05:002021-01-28T11:46:19.781-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2RnnXOuVQVQ/YBLpbXrJzwI/AAAAAAABXco/RpS8Q1r6bM4o7ZPXpUq9y30-vOIMg4t0wCNcBGAsYHQ/s429/ephraim.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="319" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2RnnXOuVQVQ/YBLpbXrJzwI/AAAAAAABXco/RpS8Q1r6bM4o7ZPXpUq9y30-vOIMg4t0wCNcBGAsYHQ/w298-h400/ephraim.png" width="298"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>On the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ</b> <br><br>By St. Ephraim the Syrian<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Attend and come, ye sons of light, and hearken to that blessed voice of our Savior, who says to us: &quot;Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom of the heavens&quot; (Mt 25:34). Look, my brethren: let none of you be deprived of this blessed inheritance. For, behold, he is at the gates. Light from Light has come down to us and has illumined us and brought us up toward the Light. He has come down to us by becoming as we are, that we might be made like him. The Immortal descended to mortals and, making them immortal, ascended again to the Father. Now he comes with the glory of the blessed Father to judge the living and the dead. He has become a Way for us, full of light and glory, that we might walk in light towards the Father.<br><br><span></span></div><a href="http://www.eschatologia.com/2021/01/on-second-coming-of-our-lord-jesus.html#more">Read the complete article »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com