« This age the Almighty created for many,but the future is for the few… Many are created, but few will be saved…

Do not try any more to experience the multitude of those who perish. For they, having received freedom, despised the Most High, despised His law and forsook His ways, and also trampled on His righteous ones, and said in their hearts: “There is no God,” although they knew that they were mortal. Just as what was said before awaits you, so also their thirst and torment, which are prepared.

God did not want to destroy a person,but the created ones themselves dishonored the name of Him,Who made them and were ungrateful to the One who prepared life for them. Therefore, now My judgment draws near” (3 Ezra 8:1:3:55-61).

“Then those who have now strayed from my ways will have pity, and those who reject them with contempt will be in torment. Those who did not know Me, receiving benefits during their lifetime, and They despised My law, did not understand it, but despised it, while they still had freedom and while a place was still open for them to repent, they will know Me after death in torment. You no longer wonder how the wicked will be tormented, but find out how the righteous will be saved, to whom the age belongs and for whose sake the age. …There are more who die than those who who will be saved like a wave bigger than a drop" (3 Ezd.9, 9-13, 15).

Posthumous broadcasts of the Monk Nilus the Myrrh-streaming (1815)

Prophetic characterization of people before the end of the age

Rev. Nil the Myrrh-streaming (1815): “Then (in those days before the Antichrist) they will all think a lot about themselves, among themselves they will all condemn each other…

What an embezzlement then! What kind of courage, adultery, incest, debauchery will be then? To what decline will people then descend, to what corruption through fornication? Then there will be confusion… (i.e. revolutions and struggle of parties), they will squabble incessantly and will not find a beginning or an end… They will have only one destruction, one common fall into destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah, i.e. and five righteous people will not be found ... And a brother will have a sister as a wife, a mother will have a son as a husband, the son of the father will kill and commit adultery with the mother; and other darkness evils become a habit. Inasmuch as evil deeds will be grafted onto people, calamities will be found on them..

... People, the more disasters are found on them, the more evil they will cultivate, i.e. . instead of repenting, they will be angry with God… Everyone will talk only about evil, only evil intentions, evil permission, everyone will have only evil deeds, universal evil theft, universal evil oppression, universal evil isolation; universal evil separation. With all this, they will think that even the doer of evil is saved.

Then they will have treasured gold, i.e. will have capital and say that they do not have (i.e. complain that there is not enough). Then they will have gold in growth, they will increase growth upon growth; they will beg for alms, they will cry that there is nothing to eat. The goal (main) they will have is the collection of capital (treasures) in order to acquire more property; as covetousness will increase, so will disasters in the world increase…

The root of evil is covetousness. Love of money is the spirit of antichrist

Covetousness is the guide of death. Non-acquisition is the guide of salvation. He began to covetousness - and he lost his salvation. That is why human salvation is threatened by the perilous danger from covetousness. This accursed covetousness is precisely what will bring misfortune into the world, destroy the well-being of the world. The world will forget what prosperity is, misfortune will dominate everywhere. This accursed covetousness will establish and has established dissension in the world...

Covetousness is the forerunner of the Antichrist. Prophets, i.e. The Holy Spirit in the prophets prophesied the dispensation of the incarnation of God, i.e. they proclaimed the truth to the world, but covetousness brought falsehood into the world. The prophets proclaimed to us the way of salvation, but the covetous ones proclaimed the way of perdition; just as salvation and the grace of the All-Holy Spirit shone upon us through the apostles, so the many cares of this world will darken the salvation of man; pernicious carelessness will draw people into the path of iniquity, on the path of those who lie, who offend with unrighteous theft, and who treasure treasures with their deceitful souls.

Treasure hoarders will gather, but what treasures will they gather? Treasure lies with their deceitful disposition. They rejected and reject the truth from their feelings; penetrates and has penetrated falsehood into their senses. Their feeling became insensitive to the truth; they will not feel what is true, but they will only feel what is false, they will submit to lies; the truth will not be heard.

But do you know what is truth and what is false? Truth is the economy of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, i.e. Christ; the lie is the economy of the incarnation of perdition. Those. everything that has prepared and is preparing people for faith and following the Lord in a dispensational and providential way is, has been and will be the truth; on the contrary, everything that prepares people to reject the law of God and their Savior is a lie; this lie economically prepares the coming of the Antichrist and his acceptance by the human race. Falsehood will lead to the embodiment of destruction, when the great calamity for the whole world comes; just as the speech of the prophets was a foreshadowing of the coming of the dispensational incarnation of salvation, so growing worldly cares foreshadow the near incarnation of the economy of destruction in the world, those. the birth of Antichrist, who will be entirely the vessel of the devil, will be the incarnation of destruction. Just as the Forerunner preached baptism with the Truth and thereby turned people to the path of salvation, so (on the contrary) much concern will darken a person’s feelings in order to make a person insensible to his salvation, so that he cannot feel salvation from many carnal cares, i.e. people will not feel any desire eternal future life, nor the fear of eternal condemnation (which is still evident in distrusted intellectuals).

Salvation will remain and will not be taken away from the world, i.e. opportunity to be saved, and those who are being saved will continue until the end of the world. And then there will be salvation, but for whom will it be? For those who will not submit to the deeds of the antitype (spirit of covetousness). The manifestation of the antitype, ... is this: worldly concern, treasury of earthly metals, care for the things of this world; these are the chief principles of evil, which destroy human salvation and lead to the path of destruction. The path of destruction is the destruction of salvation, i.e. . the disappearance in people of zeal for salvation and fear of eternal torment. For when death reigns in a person, then salvation (i.e., the feeling of fear of God) is lost by a person, then people turn away into all kinds of destructive deeds, despairing as someone heavily owes; so do sinners despair of their salvation.

Therefore David says: All evading, together indecent bysh"(Ps. 13, 3). They evaded, but what did they evade? They have deviated into untruth, into theft, into disobedience, into hoarding gold…

What is the treasure of gold? The treasure of gold is precisely the antitype, we say: the Antichrist (i.e. the forerunner of the Antichrists). For sensually the Antichrist must yet come, but mentally he is already in the world; since he fell into the world with his accursed throne, since then he has been in the world, producing all evil in the world. He tries to do this evil by all means; firstly, it takes away from a person the feeling of salvation by worldly care and concern for worldly vanity. ... There will be many people and they will acquire sodomy; they will care for and acquire fornication, they will lay up the treasure of adultery. Thus people will lose their feeling, they will not feel God. They will indulge in carnal drinking and the eating of luxurious things, in building up themselves with the most beautiful buildings; in these buildings they will indulge in their carnal feelings ... Since they will put their feelings into the carnal, then only beauty and goodness will be palpable for them, to which they will only strive. Through such a desire for carnal impurity, people will be vile to God.

God abhors them, as he abhorred the antediluvian people, but nevertheless God showed mercy to the antediluvian people ... He had mercy on them with the ark of repentance, since God wished that the ancient people, looking at the construction of the ark, would repent; but they plunged their senses into the fleshly, became insensitive to God and to the ark, did not feel what the ark means. It was this insensibility that brought them into the depths of the waters! ..

... So now it (insensitivity) will destroy people, because even now people bake, care and acquire like the antediluvian people. They loved this activity so much, as if it were some beautiful and good food ...

Yes, this food is good (i.e. tasty), but not saving, this food is destructive; he who eats this food spends his life to his own destruction. And death takes possession of the feeling of a person, dragging him along the path of insensibility, a person no longer feels where the path of salvation is, but only spends his life on death. He spends his life happily and in luxury but how does it work? He spends his life with iniquity, with theft, with theft, with betrayal, ... with gluttonous gluttony, with pride, with grumbling hopelessness, in carelessness, that is, carelessness in the matter of salvation and blasphemous laying the blame of all troubles on God, with cruel anger of the heart , with an ungrateful enmity of rancor and ... love of money.

... All these fruits of covetousness will bring the world to extreme depravity, the crown of which will be the coming of the Antichrist.

The Antichrist will be born when the world is spiritually impoverished and when world anarchy will come. Worldwide Reign of the Antichrist

The Antichrist will be born from the unclean prodigal virgin. In this virgin lewdness will be copulated, she will be a treasury of adultery; every evil of the world, every impurity, every lawlessness will be embodied in it, i.e. in what she has conceived from secret fornication, they will unite together in the womb of impurity and, with the impoverishment of the world, will be revived. When the world becomes impoverished from the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, then this one will be revived in the womb of impurity, from the most vile and evil imaginary virgin, the worst of all who have ever been; a fruit will be conceived from secret unnatural fornication, which will be the container of all evil, in contrast to how Christ was the perfection of every virtue, and His Most Pure Mother was the most perfect in women. This fruit will be born into the world when it impoverishes the world with virtues.

... But what kind of impoverishment will befall the world? There are many types of this poverty, which will surround and, as it were, gradually embrace the world. Firstly, impoverishes the world with love, unanimity, chastity. Secondly, every village and city is impoverished from its subjugation, the dominant persons will move away from the city, village and district, so that there will be no dominant person either in the city, or in the village, or in the district. Likewise, the Church is almost impoverished by the supremacy of spiritual authorities.

After this impoverishment, "the love of many will dry up"(Matthew 24:12), "keep from Wednesday yat will be"(2 Thess.2, 7) - and an unclean one will be born from the womb of uncleanness. Then this impure birth will produce signs and wonders through the dreams of demons.

The world will imagine that this Antichrist is meek and lowly in heart, but in reality he will be a fox in his heart, a wolf in his soul; the embarrassment of the people will be his food. When people are transformed (ie die), then the Antichrist will live.

The confusion of the people will be this: condemnation, envy, vindictiveness, hatred, enmity, covetousness, courage, forgetfulness of faith, adultery, boasting of fornication. This evil will be the food of the Antichrist. In contrast to how it was Christ's duty to do the will of His Father, so the act of Antichrist will be to do the will of his father the devil.

And the Antichrist will become the head over the cities, over the villages and over the districts of villages, after there will be (i.e., abolished) no head in the villages, cities and rural districts. Then he will seize power over the world, become the manager of the world, and begin to rule over the feelings of man as well. People will believe what he will say, because he will act as an autocrat and autocrat for the destruction of salvation, i.e. people, who have already become vessels of the devil, will have extreme confidence in the Antichrist, will make him the universal ruler and autocrat, since he will be the devil’s instrument in his last attempt to exterminate Christianity from the face of the earth. Being in perdition, people will think that he is Christ the Savior and that he will work their salvation. Then the Gospel of the Church will be neglected.

Therefore, when destruction brings great calamity into the world, then terrible signs will occur during these calamities. There will be a terrible famine great hunger (i.e. insatiability) will find on the world: in comparison with how much a person eats at the present time, then he will eat seven times more and not be satisfied. The great tribulation will come everywhere. Then the covetous will open their covetous granaries, that is, capitalism will be abolished, property will be equalized on the basis of socialism. Then the gold will depreciate like manure along the way...

The Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of Antichrist

Then the evil of the world will come to life (that is, it will be conceived and born) in the unclean womb of the virgin of evil, who will give flesh to the Antichrist. Then, for the lawless deeds of the world and its impurity, the grace of the Holy Spirit, which until now contains the world, will depart from the lawless world, and then the measure of the lawlessness of the world will be fulfilled, according to the words: “I will not reckon with their chosen ones”(Ps. 140, 4); then the spirit of antichrists, now acting in the world, will be incarnated, that is, a man will be born who will be defiled and become the most perfect vessel of the devil even in his mother’s womb: he will be born from an evil virgin and in a virgin of fornication, i.e. from an evil harlot, although on the outside signs and virgins.

Evil will be incarnated (i.e. the Antichrist will be born) without any male seed. He will be born with seed, but not with human sowing, but with poured out seed he will be incarnated. (Here the word “aulos” is placed, which, depending on the sign on the upsilon, has two meanings, namely: poured out and immaterial. The saint means both of these meanings, firstly, to mean how the imaginary miraculous conception will occur Antichrist from an imaginary virgin, about which other holy fathers also prophesy, and secondly, he uses the word "Aulos" in the sense of the immaterial seed of Antichrist or his spirit, acting in people ...)

What is an immaterial (antichrist) seed? Seed immaterial (antichrist) is malice, care, care and acquisition.

However, the essence of care is of various kinds, i.e., not all care is disastrous and not all carelessness is good; The most important thing for a person is to take care of his own salvation. The salvation of man is: love, meekness, chastity, non-covetousness, virginal purity, justice, mercy mercy, which is the "oil" of human salvation, that is, the inflowing gospel oil of the wise virgins. Righteousness is Compassion for Man; Mercy is of two kinds: one is mercy, expressed by generosity, the other is consolation by a word, with which someone comforts some oppressed. If there is no way to help the unfortunate, then let them console (the unfortunate) with a consoling word. AND for one comforting word with which you console the unfortunate, be worthy that the Righteous Judge will console you with His decisive words at the Righteous Judgment, when he says: “Come, bless my Father: inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” If you do not console the afflicted with comforting words, then you yourself will later hear inconsolable words from the Righteous Judge: “Depart from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angel!” For merciful love frees man from the wrath of God.

Love does to a person that he becomes meek and humble in heart. Enmity makes a person violent. Love always endures and never causes temptation; vindictiveness is always impatient, always causes temptation to the heart of a person, so that his heart never has peace.

Resentment is the mark of the Antichrist, for vindictiveness seals the heart of a person, as it were, with the seal of Antichrist.

What is the seal of the Antichrist that now seals the wicked,and what is the one that the Antichrist will seal according toaccession?

Rancor is the seal of the Antichrist, and the heart of the vindictive is sealed with his seal. And when the Antichrist (i.e. the spirit of antichrist operating in the world) puts this seal, then from this seal of vindictiveness the human heart always dies(those. becomes, as it were, dead, incapable of mourning for sin, for other spiritual feelings and the fear of God). I say: this is how a man dies when his heart is sealed with hatred. This accursed vindictiveness makes a person so insensible that people themselves kill themselves with various deaths. It makes otherwise an apostate from the faith; another - suicide; makes another go to the knife; makes another a traitor; makes another a blasphemer; otherwise - dreary; And does not in the least allow the heart of a person to make peace. Unfortunate people do not notice that all this produces vindictiveness and brings them to death.

(We should pause a little on these lines: the saint, revealing the root of the main troubles of mankind, the cause of revolutions, the hatred of children for their parents and other disorders, tells us that all this is from vindictiveness, i.e. proud condemnation of the shortcomings of others, disrespect to parents subordinates to superiors, etc. If we delve into the spirit of the times and the mode of action of the opponents of the Church and the State, we will see that they base their entire success precisely on the fact that poison people with condemnation and hatred, and, having poisoned, - to make obedient with his tool. This poison of condemnation is especially subtly poured out in the works of Tolstoy and other celebrities of modern literature. Young people who read them with enthusiasm are poisoned from their youth with the poison of malice and condemnation, are imprinted with the seal of the Antichrist, lose confidence in the Church, in their parents, and often commit suicide. The writer of these lines can personally testify to this, for out of his school comrades 6 people. ended in suicide).

So, when the Antichrist will put his seal on people, their hearts will become as if dead.

During that predicted disaster, the Antichrist will begin to print people with his seal, supposedly in order to save them from disaster with this sign, for only those who have the seal, according to the Apocalypse (Apocalypse 13, 17), bread will be sold. Many will die on the roads. People will become like birds of prey that pounce on carrion, they will devour the bodies of the dead. But what kind of people would devour the bodies of the dead? Those who are sealed with the seal of Antichrist; Christians, although they will not be given or sold bread for lack of a seal on them, will not eat corpses; those who are sealed, despite the availability of bread to them, will begin to devour the dead. For when a man is sealed with a seal, his heart will become even more insensible; unable to endure hunger, people will grab corpses, and anywhere, sitting on the side of the road, devour them. Finally, he himself will die, imprinted with the antitype; the following will be written on the seal:

"I am yours." “Yes, you are mine.” “I go by will, not by force.” “And I accept you by your will, and not by force.”

These four sayings or inscriptions will be depicted in the middle of that accursed seal.

The disasters that will befall the world after the reign of the Antichrist;the sea will dry up; animals will die; time will speed up

Oh, unfortunate is he who is sealed with this accursed seal! This accursed seal will bring great calamity upon the world. The world will then be so oppressed that people will begin to move from place to place. The natives, seeing the aliens, will say: oh, unfortunate people! How did you decide to leave your own, so fertile, place and come to this accursed place, to us, who have no human feeling left?! So they will say in every place where people will move from their place to another ... Then God, seeing the confusion of people, from which they suffer evil, moving from their places, will command the sea to perceive the ardor that was previously characteristic of it, which it used to have, so as not to would move to move from place to place. And when the Antichrist sits on his accursed throne, then the sea will boil as water boils in a cauldron. When water boils for a long time in a boiler, does it evaporate with steam? So it will be with the sea. As it boils, it will evaporate and disappear like smoke from the face of the earth. Plants will dry up on the earth, oak trees and all cedars, everything will dry up from the heat of the sea, water veins will dry up; animals, birds and reptiles, all will die.

The day will rotate like an hour, the week like a day, the month like a week and the year like a month. For human cunning made the elements become tense, began to hasten and strain even more, so that the number prophesied by God for the eighth number of centuries would end as soon as possible. (Ie, the eighth millennium from the creation of the world).

Enoch and Elijah preaching to the people so that they would not acceptthe seals of the Antichrist and were always marked with a cross.The killing of these righteous

When will the accursed glory see Enoch and Elijah preaching and talking to people lest they receive the seals of the Antichrist, he will command them to be seized. They will convince people not to accept the seal of the Antichrist, they will say: whoever shows patience and is not sealed with the seal of Antichrist will be saved, and God will certainly accept him into paradise, for the mere fact that he did not accept the seal. And let each be marked with an honest cross, making the sign of the cross at every hour, for the seal of the cross frees a person from the torment of hell; the seal of the Antichrist leads a person to hellish torment. If you are hungry and require food, be patient for a little while, and God, seeing your patience, will send you help from above; you will be quickened by the help of the Most High God. If you do not show patience, you will be printed with the seal of this impure king, then later you will repent of it.

The people will say to Enoch and Elijah, "Why are those who have received the seal grateful to the Antichrist?" Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “They are grateful, but who is grateful (i.e., who thanks them with their lips)? It is not people who thank this, but the press itself only thanks (i.e., malice, having dominated people, expresses joy and joy through their lips, because it managed to destroy these people, as it happens with villains who triumph and rejoice over a crime committed).

And what is their gratitude? Their gratitude is what satan sat down in them, imagined himself in the feeling of a man, and the man does not realize what is happening to him.The one who is sealed with the seal of the Antichrist becomes a demon; although he claims that he allegedly feels neither hunger nor thirst, he still hungers and thirsts even more, and not only more, but seven times more against you. Just be patient for a little while. Don't you see that the one who receives the seal of the Antichrist will not live(i.e. is dead in spirit and eternal torment awaits him)? Do you also want to perish with a seal in eternal torment, so that you can be there with those who were sealed with it. Where are weeping and gnashing of teeth?

And Enoch and Elijah will preach to the people with many other admonitions.

Antichrist will hear what two people are preaching, calling him a flatterer, a sorcerer, a deceiver and an insidious devil; Hearing this, he becomes angry, orders them to be seized, brought to him, and with flattering words he asks them: “What kind of lost sheep are you, for you are not sealed with the royal seal?” Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “A flatterer and a deceiver! Daemon! It is your fault that so many souls perished in hell! Cursed be thy seal along with thy glory! This cursed seal of yours and your desecrated glory have brought the world to ruin; your death has brought the world to this state, the world has died and its end has come ... ”The antitype will hear such words from Enoch and Elijah and say to them:“ How dare you speak like that before me, an autocrat and a king? And Elijah will answer: "We despise your kingdom, but we curse your glory, along with your seal." Then the Antichrist will be angry, having heard such a contemptuous answer, he will become like a mad dog and will kill them with his own hands.

After the murder of Enoch and Elijah, the Antichrist will take off his maskmorality, extreme atrocities will be committed.People will be identified with demons by craftiness. a signthis will be a gradual decrease in the growth of people. At the timeAntichrist, the average height of a person will be 1 ¾ arshins

After the murder of Enoch and Elijah, the Antichrist will release his most evil children (i.e., will give free rein evil spirits which he had hitherto held back). These children, or evil spirits, are: adultery, fornication, sodomy, murder, theft, theft, unrighteousness, lying, torment, selling and buying people, buying boys and girls to roam with them like dogs in the streets. And the Antichrist will command the evil spirits, obedient to him, to bring people to the point where people would do ten times more evil than before; his most evil children will fulfill this pernicious command and rush to destruction human nature variety of iniquities. From the increased tension and extreme energy of his most merciful children, human nature in people will perish sensually and mentally ... People who have become so crafty in soul and in body will be diminished, they will be 1 ¾ arshins tall, we say: five spans the length of the human body. By the deeds of their craftiness, these people will surpass the demons, and they will be one spirit with the demons.

Antichrist will see that human nature has become more crafty and vain than his worst children, he will rejoice greatly that evil is in humanity multiplied natural properties human ones were lost and people became more crafty than demons…

And now, on the Antichrist, rejoicing at the sight of human evil, a “double-edged sword” will suddenly find from above, with which he will be struck, and his unclean spirit will be torn out of his defiled body. With the death of the Antichrist, there will be an end to the murder of people; Cain initiated the murder, but the antitype (Antichrist) will make the end, that is, it will end there.

Who are the "goats" and who are the "sheep"

When the work of murder is accomplished and ends (i.e., when the murders on earth end with the death of the Antichrist), heavenly and earthly bonds will immediately develop (i.e., universal gravity will be broken) ... What will happen then - only God knows. We know only one thing, that the deeds committed in life will be tortured: fornication, adultery, sodomy, malakia, dissolute masculinity, slander, idle talk and condemning verbosity, slander, malice, envy, envy, hatred, rancor, enmity, enmity, anger, malevolence, deliberate betrayal, conceited pride, arrogance, avarice, covetousness, disobedience to the Church, luxury, gluttony eating and other great iniquities committed in this life - all will be sorted out so that good deeds are separated from evil deeds, as they separate sheep from goats.

These sheep are: love, peace, unanimity, chastity, meekness, non-acquisitiveness, purity, righteousness, good obedience to the law, obedience, humility, temperance, fasting, good speech, diligence in salvation, gratitude, obedience to the Church, obedience to spiritual life, keeping Divine baptism unspotted, in order to preserve his pure, non-omission of church services and the canon in monastic life; these are the essence of the good works of salvation.

On human impenitence and God's long-suffering

God is longsuffering and longsuffering with infinite mercy, waiting for repentance. For the sake of immeasurable mercy and long-suffering mercy, God expects the repentance of people, having mercy on them as on children: he has mercy on the young, and the old people are long-suffering. ... Today, children know all the tricks, do all the obscene deeds, but they don’t know what repentance is, and they don’t even know his name ... And God expected repentance from the old man from childhood to youth and did not find it: from youth he spent his summers in vain in fuss their. As they say: youth is vain? This, for the sake of touching repentance, God requires even in old age. The repentance of an old man, therefore, should be a pitiful cry of repentance: that is, he must remember all the lawless deeds that he did from childhood to his youth, from his youth to his old age ... Until evening, God waits for repentance from the old man; we say: until his death, he looks to see if there is repentance in the elder; if, even in old age, he does not see repentance in a person, then he is angry with the old man for his insensitivity.

And finally, the elder opens his eyes (spiritual eye, inner vision), finding himself in the hell of punishment, and is executed for his disobedience, for not resorting to repentance for his iniquities. God gave him to repent, but he ruined himself from morning to evening(i.e., all the time of his earthly life), by evening he rested and fell asleep, and by dawn (woke up) in the torments of hell ...

People today have become very knowledgeable, but what are they knowledgeable about? In the authenticity of earthly things and on these earthly things, corruptions of corruption, they are affirmed and for the sake of much guardianship of treasure they destroy themselves. Treasure, fill pantries with various delicacies; then, looking at the pantries full of delicacies, they rejoice and say: “This, God could and I will glorify him” ... Oh, crazy, crazy old man! At midnight your soul will be tortured by you; with all your treasures, you will wake up in the torments of hell and you will be cruelly tormented for these various delicacies that you have treasured. So, you gathered these corruptions of corruption, filled your warehouses with them for your torment, you will be tormented in a fiery flame; then you will remember those who (during life) did not collect vain and false things, like you, a madman, who did not care about your salvation, did not make efforts to quickly free yourself from torment and fiery flame, with which you will burn ardently amid torment and ask for one drop of water ... You will ask for a small drop of water to cool language is yours, who brought you here with immeasurable idle talk condemning your(indicates how great the sin of condemnation is).

How to avoid the flames of fire

And today people, like the one who did not care about his own salvation, neglect salvation, preoccupied with vain and false, preoccupied with the material things of the world this for his punishment in the unquenchable fiery sea. Here they labor in vain and falsely, in iniquity, but there they will ceaselessly torment themselves and ask for drops of water to cool their tongues...

Oh man! (While) you have a cool time here, cool your tongue with repentance with tears of tenderness from a contrite heart, cry about (your) exile, refrain from sin! Keep yourself from all those who do iniquity, i.e. from sinful thoughts, weep for yourself, but not in front of people, like the Pharisees, but alone, in the secret of your heart, just as you cultivated sins in the secret of your heart. Lament within yourself that you have become a criminal of your promise given at St. baptism; with touching words, cry tears of repentance, repent of the iniquities you have committed and of your evil deeds.

If you want to quench the fiery flame and do not want to be executed in torments of torment, then do this: have love among yourselves, keep the purity of chastity, have abstinence with humility; with a tender heart, confess the deeds you have committed. I beg and beg you... leave the condemnation by which you condemn one another with idle talk. This is, I tell you, the means to get rid of that fiery river, which will drag a person for his deeds into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. This accursed condemnation puts a man on the left side, where the goats are. This accursed condemnation renders man a bitter death. This accursed, damning slander leads a man into the womb of a great apostate. (The mouth and larynx bring food to the stomach, and the sins of the tongue lead a person into the womb of the devil, make him satanic food). This accursed, condemning verbosity plunges a person into the blato of impurity. This accursed, mental condemnation brings a person into enmity; because of this, people fight with each other and greatly anger God with this.

On self-justification of one's condemnation

Today a person makes such a condemnation of his neighbors, and through this cultivation his thought is clouded by demonic slyness, he mentally begins to be tempted by everything (i.e., he finds something condemnatory in everyone), and he justifies himself with a purely justification (i.e., not only justifies himself, but blames others for his sin), attributes everything to the temptation of others.

... Do not justify yourself in a person (ie, do not blame another person for your sin) and do not justify yourself with a temptation. Neither people are to blame for you, nor temptations-reasons (sins), but you yourself gave place to your passion and therefore blame people for seducing you...

By will, you gave place to passions in yourself, they dance with you as they want, you have become one with them; why are others to blame? ... If everyone knew his passions, with which he is tempted, he would never, in his temptation, make another guilty.

A person is so entwined with passions, like a tree with ivy. What will happen to the tree when it allows ivy to grow on itself? The ivy has the power to act on the tree and ascend it, but only when the tree trunk receives it; then he goes upstairs; if the tree does not accept him, ivy will never grow on the tree (i.e., if the tree itself does not provide it with its branches to climb). If ivy had such power to climb the tree itself, even though the tree did not want to accept it, then all the trees would wither on the ground ... We say: if the main apostate, or the ruler of darkness, had the power to ascend into the mind of a person and darken the meaning him against his will, then a person could never turn out to be bright, but would always be in sin and completely darkened. The apostate has the power to seduce, but over whom does he have power? What mind man has the power to darken? The one who accepts temptations; he is shot with the bow of an apostate, the head of the power of darkness.

Prophecy of the Myrrh-streaming Nile.

According to the testimony of the Athos monk Theophanes, on January 18, 1817, the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming appeared to him, and in a long conversation, under the guise of an elder, spoke to him “Broadcasting”, which the monk Theophanes, by the “grace of the Holy Spirit”, then wrote down in detail with the help of a competent friend of Father Gerasim. They published their manuscript of the Broadcast in 1819 in Greece.
[Nil the Myrrh-streaming (died in 1651) – an Athos hermit, a righteous man, known as a zealous exposer of the deviation of Athos monasticism, the author of ascetic writings, was born in the 16th century in Morea, in modern Greece. In his early years, he lost his parents and was brought up by his uncle, Hieromonk Macarius.
The desire for great deeds in monastic work led the uncle and nephew to Mount Athos. After the death of his blessed uncle, ascending to higher spiritual feats, Nil settled in a rocky cave, in which he built a small temple for himself, and lived there for the rest of his life. After his death, the Monk was glorified by the abundant outflow of healing myrrh, which flowed out in a rocky cave, where the holy relics of the Myrrh-streaming Nile were located. The name of the Reverend became even more known after his appearance from afterlife Monk Theophan and the appearance of the book “Posthumous broadcasts of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming”].
Theologians and theologians argue that the "Broadcasting" due to the richness of the material can rightfully take a prominent place among such famous works as: "The Ladder", "Words" of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Isaac the Syrian or Macarius the Great.
Today, "Broadcasting" attracts attention also by the fact that they say a lot about the modern fate of our world.
The monk warned the monks seeking salvation on the Holy Mountain, so that they would not lose faith and would not leave Athos until the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God left it, for for the wickedness of the peoples of Europe, the Holy Mountain would sink into the sea. The pious monks must hasten to leave Athos as soon as the miraculous Iberian icon leaves:
Athos will beat with a terrible noise, a thin voice will come out; when the Face of the Lady of our Mother of God departs, there will be a terrible and trembling sign. The sign will be this: all the churches will be bowed down for the removal of Salvation, like a wire to Salvation and a bow. Because of this, I tell you, insensibility will feel, and the feeling will be darkened, and will not realize that Salvation is withdrawn.
So, I tell you, most reverend fathers: as long as the face of the Lady of our Mother of God is inside this Mountain, let no one move to leave this honest Mountain. As soon as he moves to leave this honest Mountain, he immediately has to find a punishment of his soul and body on him. When they see that the icon of the All-Holy One has departed from this honest Mountain, then you, too, leave, wherever you like, just keep your vow of monastic life whole and pure” (“Posthumous broadcast of the Monk Nilus the Myrrh-streaming Athos”, Edition of the Cell of the Annunciation by Elder Parthenius on Athos, p. 317).
The Reverend also opened with “great details” about the times of the “Antichrist”: about the global anarchy that will precede the coming of the “Antichrist”, about when this should be expected, about the degree of depravity of the population of Europe and the world, about how it will act on human hearts, their acceptance of the seal (sermons about tolerance and justice) of the Antichrist, etc.
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Now let's get acquainted with a part of the prophecy of the Myrrh-streaming Nile, omitting the general phrases:
“... Now it is autumn for monasticism, and the queen of perdition will take possession of it. You ask: What is this autumn? Autumn is the time we are in now. Now is autumn, in which the grace of monastic life is dying. But hold on […], hold on to what you still hold, lest you become guilty of destroying monastic life […]
Now autumn! Fading grace, the beauty of the soul, that is, the former beauty of ascetic souls in monasticism. Winter is coming! The queen of perdition heard that the monastic life had been abandoned, called upon the seven-headed beast of iniquity, mounted this beast and commanded him: “Take possession!”. He also took possession of the first bridle of disobedience, monasticism, i.e., the obedience of monastics to the rank of monastic and senior […]
The seven-headed beast of iniquity ran into the feeling of monasticism and jumps in it in order to make monasticism drink the cup of insensibility [...]
When the twenty-fifth anniversary is four minutes, what will the monastic life be like then?
When three twenty-five years have passed from them, we say: the number of the seventh years and five ascending to the middle of the eighth, there at half the number of five, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth?
[For the sake of this I say to you: when it is four; twenty-five; tiya, then what is the camp; then, monastic life?
If they pass and; u; another three twenty-five; the number of five, what embarrassment will occur; t from the fourth to the fifth] (Part II, chapter 31: “Two types of vices in which prayer cannot inhabit a person”).
Recently, Orthodox monks began to deviate into the perdition of perdition, and cultivate the Path of lawlessness. About 25 years ago, monasticism took a turn; perdition invaded the environment of monasticism. Monasticism was impoverished by grace; there were few ascetics in it.
If in these twenty-five years perdition has invaded the circle of monasticism with such ease, that is, if the spirit of worldly multiplicity of care has strongly developed in it, then what will monastic life be like when another twenty-five years have passed?
And in the third twenty-five years, what disastrous expanse will there be among monasticism?
At the end of the fourth twenty-five years, we will have: 7 and 4, i.e. - 7400 from the Creation of the world, what kind of will will death in monasticism receive then?
[Over the last time; the mopahs began to deviate into the perdition of perdition and cultivate the path of iniquity. About 25 years ago, monasticism began to turn, pain invaded the environment of monasticism, monasticism became impoverished by grace, that is, there were few in them;
If for these twenty-five years, then death invaded with such lightness the circle of monasticism, that is. greatly expanding in the nom the spirit of the worldly manyness, then what will the monastic life be like when another twenty-thousand;
; in tr; tyem twenty-nine; tin, what a perilous expanse of life; t in er; d; monasticism;
In the fourth, twenty five; what kind; then the nobility in monasticism will receive the will;? ...] (Part III of “The exposure of the gr; hov of the holy mountaineers of the last table; tiya”, chapter I, “For the time being, the ascetic spirit began to change; the ascetic spirit began to become monastic; and it began to be carried away by fuss”) […]
At that time, thanks to the power of great perdition and fornication, people will lose the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism, and they will also lose remorse. The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious shepherds, and then the trouble will be for the Christians left in the world, who will completely lose their faith, because they will be deprived of the opportunity from anyone to see the Light of knowledge. Then they will withdraw from the world into holy sanctuaries in search of relief from spiritual suffering, but everywhere they will meet obstacles and constraints.
When it will be?
Accept this sign, and you will know how I say to you: when I take my hand away from them, then they will hold vigils and Liturgies galloping along the high road. They will mutually send messages, and receive messages of different content. And they will show good to the good and evil to the evil. The farmer separates the wheat from the chaff. They will be excommunicated, the good will be separated from the evil, the orthodox from the heretics, and they will be at peace for a while.
When the time approaches the coming of the Antichrist, the minds of people will be darkened from the passions of the flesh, and ungodliness and lawlessness will increase more and more. The world will become unrecognizable, the appearance of people will change and it will not be possible to clearly distinguish men from women, thanks to shamelessness in clothing and the shape of the hair of the head. Love will disappear. Christian shepherds will become conceited husbands, completely unable to distinguish between right and left. Then the manners and traditions of the Church will change. Modesty and chastity will disappear, and fornication and licentiousness will reign […]
What will be the theft then?
What kind of courage, adultery, incest, debauchery will be then?
To what decline will people then descend, to what corruption through fornication?
Then there will be confusion with great quarreling (addiction to disputes), they will constantly quarrel and will not find either a beginning or an end. Then the Eighth Council will meet to sort out the dispute, and to show good to the good and evil to the evil […] the good will be separated from the evil, i.e. believers from heretics, and for a little while people will be peace […].
But then they will again turn their disposition, turn to evil by the evil death of those who are perishing, so that they will not know what a brother is and what a sister is, what a father is with his mother, and what a mother is with her son, they will not recognize even the marriage crown. They will have only one destruction, one fall into destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah, i.e. and there will be no five righteous […].
And a brother will have a sister as a wife, a mother will have a son as a husband, the son of the father will kill and commit adultery with the mother, and other darknesses of evil will enter into custom. Inasmuch as evil deeds begin to be grafted onto people, calamities will come upon them […]. People, the more they find disasters on them, the more they will cultivate evil, instead of repenting, they will be angry with God. The atrocities that people will do will surpass the atrocities of the people of the time of the flood. Everyone will talk only about evil, only evil intentions, evil permission, only partnership in spite, everyone will have only evil deeds, universal evil theft, universal evil oppression, universal evil isolation; universal evil separation. With all this, they will think that even the doer of evil is saved […]. Since greed will multiply, so will disasters in the world […]” [“Posthumous broadcast of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming Athos”. Edition of the Cell of the Annunciation by Elder Parthenius on Athos. The Russian edition of "Broadcasting" was made from a complete and carefully checked list found in the book depository of Athos in 1911, was published in the Russian press in 1912, pp. 170-175].
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In the Russian Empire, the Greek manuscript became known after 1830, its free translation was brought by pilgrims visiting Athos. Soon hundreds of transcribed copies were circulating around the country.
When to the second Great Optina Elder reverend father Macarius (Ivanov, 1788-1850), asked for clarification, he replied:
“The manuscript, like other prophetic books, if you wish, read, but do not go into subtleties, do not fall into the temptation of calculations and foreseeing events, but pray to God to enlighten your mind and give you peace.
- Why is that? the Reverend was asked.
– You will get confused, only elders who have reached moral perfection and have acquired wisdom inaccessible to the world can read such manuscripts. Our statutes do not allow spiritual acquisitions to be taken outside the monastery walls and protect ascetics from worldly temptations. To read such manuscripts in the world is to subject your soul to a great temptation, and who knows whether you can resist the temptation […].”
This answer of the elder was perceived by the monks as an indisputable postulate, now all spiritual children were asked not to analyze the events taking place in the world.
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Note of the first Orthodox "researchers":
“[…] “Now is autumn, in which the grace of monastic life perishes,” i.e., the fruiting from the Holy Spirit ceases.
“I will take away my hand from them,” that is, the grace of the Holy Spirit will be taken away by the Lord from the Church in the last period.
“Recently, Orthodox monks have begun to deviate into the perdition of perdition, and to cultivate the Path of lawlessness” - that is, monastics will not devote time to the flock itself, but will devote more time to considering scientific, theological and political issues, thereby they will turn from the spiritual to worldly, spiritual things, especially prayer, will be curtailed.
The saint said this to Theophan in the summer of the Nativity of Christ in 1817, or from the Creation of the world in 7325. Therefore, the Saint says: when four twenty-five years have passed, that is, one hundred years, the year 7425 will come, then what will become of the monastic life?
If there are still 75 minutes, then the year 7500 will come, that is, seven thousand and five hundred years, “ascending halfway to eight,” that is, when it reaches the middle of the eighth millennium, then what great confusion will be among the nations. We believe that from the fourth to the fifth, as (Saint) says, that is, from 7400 to 7500 […]” [“Posthumous broadcast of the Monk Nilus the Myrrh-streaming Athos”, Edition of the Cell of the Annunciation by Elder Parthenius on Athos, 1912, p. 176].
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In the "Posthumous broadcast of the Monk Nilus the Myrrh-streaming Athos" ["The Orthodox Way", Jordanville, 1991], the footnote to this text says:
“Christian shepherds will become vainglorious husbands, completely unable to distinguish between right and left. Then the morals and traditions of the Church will change - see the prediction of St. Athanasius the Great about the transfer of church power in recent times into the hands of worldly dignitaries and the prediction of St. Seraphim of Sarov about the fall towards the end of the hierarchal rank and the impoverishment in it of zeal for the glory of God. Also, in the instruction of the Optina Elders, it is said that in recent times there will be no people experienced and skilled in spiritual life on the thrones of hierarchs and in monasteries, and as a result of the general impoverishment of piety, heresies and schisms will enter the Church, and will deceive many, and how, finally, heretics will take power over the Church and will place their servants everywhere and will in every possible way oppress and expel the true servants of God.
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Modern researchers of "Broadcasting" supplemented this interpretation:
“In general, the prophecies of the Reverend are distinguished by amazing accuracy. In order not to be unfounded, we will give one of the predictions that came true.
In a miraculous apparition that took place in 1817, the Monk Nil said to the monk Feofan:
“When four twenty-five years have passed, what will the monastic life be like then?
But if another three twenty-five years pass, we say: the number of the seventh year and five, ascending to the middle of the eighth, there in the middle of the number of five, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth?
“A note from the first writers: the saint said this to Theophanes in the summer of the Nativity of Christ 1817 [from the Creation of the world - 7325]. Therefore, the saint says: when four twenty-five years have passed, that is, one hundred years, and the year 7425 (1917) has come, then what will become of monastic life? If, however, the other three twenty-five years pass, that is, 75 years, and the year 7500 (1992) comes, “the number of the seventh year and five”, that is, seven thousand and five hundred years, “ascending halfway to eight”, that is, when we reach the middle of the eighth century (millennium), then there in the "middle of five", that is, the fifth century, "what confusion will be (from the fourth to the fifth)?"
We believe that from "fourth to fifth", as the saint says, is from 7400 to 7500: 1817 = 7325 +100 = 1917 = 7425 + 75 = 1992 = 7500 - 50 = 1942 = 7450
We, who live in 1996, see with our own eyes what monasticism has become since 1917 (7425 from the Creation of the world) - it has almost disappeared. As for the "confusion" that occurred in the year 7450 from the Creation of the world or in 1942 from A.D. - the critical year of the Second World War, then everyone knows it ”(“ On the last fate of our world. Three views from different eras ”, Otchiy Dom publishing house, Moscow, 1997).
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Such an interpretation of the "Broadcasting", to conduct calculations from the moment of the appearance, that is, from 1817, is found in many works devoted to the interpretation of the prophecy of St. Nil the Myrrh-streaming.
However, how true is it?
After all, interpreters for some reason do not take into account the beginning of the prophecy, which reads:
“About 25 years ago, monasticism took a turn, death invaded the environment of monasticism” - the vision was in 1817, which means 25 years ago means 1792 - the time of the French Revolution, that is, the starting point should not be taken from the moment the Reverend Monk Theophan appeared, but from 1792.
“Monasticism was impoverished by grace; there were few ascetics in it. The spirit of worldly multi-care was strongly developed in him” - during this period there is a massive departure of the population, both in Europe and in the Russian Empire, from Catholicism and state Orthodoxy. So massive that in 1815 the government turned its attention to this phenomenon in the life of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The anxious Emperor Alexander I set before the members of the State Council the task of appeasing the millions of schismatics “by granting them the freedom to worship,” but so that the dominant Orthodox Church would be fully secured from any damage from the schism.
The researcher of the Russian schism Andrei Pechersky (P.I. Melnikov, 1818-1883) writes:
“The failure of the common faith was recognized by all. Not without reason, in 1819, Yekaterinburg merchants spoke to the Minister of Spiritual Affairs, Prince A.N. Golitsyn:
“Your Excellency is not unfamiliar when the government, reassuring the Old Believers, on various complaints to this day, allowed to have churches according to the points of Metropolitan Platon. What came of it? Of these churches, some have been abandoned, others have remained with several families ... ".
main reason The failure of the common faith was that the Old Believers and schismatics were left under the authority of the Orthodox diocesan authorities. Dependence for spiritual matters on a pastor who recognizes the pre-Nikonian rites as wrong - the very rites in which the zealots of "ancient piety" see the very essence of faith - was contrary to their conscience, and therefore they considered joining the Orthodox Church on the terms of common faith apostasy from those beliefs. for which their fathers and grandfathers died at the stake and chopping block, suffered torture, exile and all kinds of persecution. Moreover, experience has shown that not all diocesan leaders looked condescendingly at the common faith, in which, due to their jealousy for the rites corrected under Nikon, they often saw the same split [...] ”(“ Essays on priesthood ”).
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“At the end of the third twenty-five years, what perilous expanse will there be among monasticism?” – (1792 + 75 = 1867), the government of Emperor Alexander II began to carry out reforms in the spiritual sphere: the heredity of church positions was abolished, the sale of church positions, the possession of “serf souls” by clergy, it was forbidden for “holy fathers” to engage in manufacture and crafts outside the walls of monasteries . There were also reproaches expressed by the authorities that bishops sometimes show "irresistible stubbornness" in not paying attention to parishioners' complaints about the parish clergy that do not satisfy them. It was said: "the stubbornness of this kind is irresistible", it was easier to remove the bishop from his post than to force him to do anything for the clergy or flock, that is, for the people.
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“At the end of the fourth twenty-five years we will have: 7 and 4” - (1867 + 25 = 1892, that is, 7400 years from the Creation of the world).
In 1867, St. Theophan the Recluse wrote, addressing the Synod (in the world, Georgy Vasilievich Govorov):
“What have we been up to? And what will happen to us?
The Church in Russia has become detached from the people and lives on its own. We often praise ourselves: Holy Rus', Orthodox Rus'. Oh, when would we forever remain saints and Orthodox - at least, loving holiness and Orthodoxy. What a sure pledge of indestructibility would we have in these titles. But look around. It is not only the corruption of morals that is mournful, but also the apostasy from the manner of confession prescribed by Orthodoxy.
Have you ever heard in Russian - blasphemy against God and Christ? And now they don’t just think, but they say, and write, and print a lot of God-fighting things. Do you think it will be a gift?
No. He who lives in heaven will answer us with his wrath, and with his fury he will overwhelm us. You rightly mourn the reduction of parishes and the closure of churches. It is necessary to do something, but there are no figures. Nobody wants to do anything. Let us pray to God that the Lord have mercy on our holy Church, since we ourselves do not want to do anything. We see everything, we understand everything about the need for change, but there is nothing we can do. We say a lot that faith among the people has weakened.
In the people or in us? There are no living actors. The incendiaries of people's hearts must themselves burn. Grief, go everywhere - and in an oral conversation kindle hearts. That's what is needed now.
Where can we get it? We have forgotten how to talk with the people, we don’t want to listen to people’s complaints about oppression by officials, we don’t want to help the humiliated and offended, we don’t want to stand up for the robbed. It remains only to pray again to the Giver of all gifts.
But where will this lead the Church? Evil is growing: malevolence and unbelief are raising their heads, the Orthodox faith is weakening. Shall we not come to our senses? Lord, save and have mercy on Orthodox Rus' […]” (“Thoughts for every day of the year according to church reading from the Word of God”, M. 1902).
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“What kind of will will then the death of a monk receive?” – the history of the renovation movement in the Russian Church of the 20th century is divided into two periods, the boundary between which was the events of the revolution of 1917 and the work of the All-Russian Local Council of 1917-18. Until the fall of the autocratic power, the position of the Russian Orthodox Church was very far from the rosy picture that some later historians and especially publicists of the period of the “Beast from the Abyss” paint for us. Statistical data on the number of active in tsarist Russia churches, monasteries and the clergy serving in them do not provide an exhaustive description of the internal church situation on the eve of the events of February 1917. A serious examination of the sources and a number of the latest studies in this area shows that already on the eve of the 20th century, the Russian Orthodox Church was in a serious crisis. A visible manifestation of this trouble was the decline in the religiosity of the population, the strengthening of religious indifference and the growth of sectarianism, in a word, the gradual loss by the hierarchy of its former authority in society.
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“The Orthodox faith will be trampled on, the bishops of the Church of God and other clerics will depart from the purity of Orthodoxy, and for this the Lord will punish them severely” - the February Revolution, the October seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, civil war and the beginning of the Soviet period in its history, the Orthodox Church met with 68 dioceses, in which there are approximately 50 thousand parishes, 1253 male and convents and a skete with almost 95 thousand monastics and novices. The highest hierarchy consisted of 200 metropolitans, archbishops and bishops. The number of white clergy (priests and deacons) was approximately 70 thousand people. Church cadres were trained by 185 county theological schools, 57 seminaries (22,734 students) and 4 theological academies (995 students). However, the moral authority of the clergy in society was seriously undermined. Contemporaries wrote about the "cultural and social isolation" of the provincial clergy, whose "gravest vice" "remained drunkenness, caused by difficult living conditions."
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“When the twenty-fifth anniversary is four minutes, what will the monastic life be like then?” - (1892 + 100 = 1992, that is - 7500 years from the Creation of the world). Here we can agree with all the researchers of the Broadcasting: “Those who live today see with their own eyes what monasticism has become since 1917 (7425 from the Creation of the world) not only in Russia, but throughout the world - it has almost disappeared.”
“When three twenty-five years of them have passed” - (1892 + 75 = 1967) Bishops and other clergy departed from the purity of Orthodoxy. Incomplete data on the persecution of the Church during 8 months from January to August 1918: metropolitans were killed - 1, bishops - 18, priests - 102, deacons - 154, monks and nuns - 94. 94 churches and 26 monasteries were closed. 4 bishops, 198 priests, 8 archimandrites and 5 abbots were imprisoned for "counter-revolutionary" activities.
This was only the beginning, the arrests and executions of priests continued uninterruptedly until May 1953.
Data on the number of clerics who died in clashes during the seizure of valuables and were shot in court only during 1922: white clergy - 2691, monks - 1962, nuns and novices - 3447 (from the book "New Russian Martyrs" by Archpriest M. Polsky).
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“We say: the number of the seventh year and five ascending to the middle of the eighth, there at half the number of five, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth?” - By 1967, the old pre-revolutionary priests had gone into another world, a new generation of priests had appeared. Children who began to be born from this year will accept Active participation in III the Shaking of the Foundations (Islamic Revolution) and in the IVth Shaking of the Foundations (the period of the Master of the World) [read "Revelation" of John the Theologian].
1992, (that is, 7500 years from the Creation of the world) + 7 years = 1999 - the arrival of the King of Intimidation.
1999 + 5 = 2004 is the first term of the reign of the King of Intimidation.

First, 2004 + 4 (halfway eighth) = 2008 is the second term of the King of Intimidation.
Secondly, 2004 + 8 = 2012 - Ukraine: Orange Revolution - a wide campaign of peaceful protests, rallies, pickets, strikes, which took place in a number of cities in Ukraine from November 22, 2004 to January 2005. It began after the November 21, 2004 Central The election commission of Ukraine announced the preliminary results of the presidential elections, according to which Viktor Yanukovych, who was then prime minister, won with a 3% advantage. Supporters of Yanukovych's main rival in the elections, Viktor Yushchenko, believed that Yanukovych's advantage in the vote was achieved due to election violations. On December 3, 2004, the Supreme Court of Ukraine recognized that it was not possible to determine the winner, and scheduled a re-vote for December 26, 2004. The second vote recorded the victory of Viktor Yushchenko with a margin of 8%.
The center of the Orange Revolution was Maidan - Independence Square in the center of Kyiv, where a continuous rally was held for about two months and a tent camp of protesters stood.
In fact, ten years later, everything was repeated from the beginning: the period from the “Orange Revolution” to the “Euromaidan”.

“There, at half the number of five” - firstly, 2008 + 2.5 (half of the number of five) \u003d July 2010 - events in the Russian Federation, including the Russian Orthodox Church.
Secondly, 2012 + 2.5 (half the number of five) = July 2014 - Ukraine: Euromaidan - a mass multi-month protest in the center of Kiev, which began on November 21, 2013 in response to the suspension by the Azarov government of preparations for the signing of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and supported by the performances of the population in other cities of Ukraine.
On December 1, there was a people's assembly on the Maidan, and the radicals seized the building of the Kyiv City Council and the House of Trade Unions, and also tried to storm the Presidential Administration. Among the protesters, there has been a split into radicals and "moderates".
On January 16, 2014, the protest action took on a sharply anti-presidential and anti-government character and ultimately led to a change in state power in February. The main reasons for the radical development of events are called social injustice, a huge polarization of incomes and living standards of the population of Ukraine and rampant corruption penetrating the executive and judicial authorities, law enforcement agencies.
On February 23, President Viktor Yanukovych flees Kyiv.

“What embarrassment will happen from the fourth to the fifth” - firstly, July 2010 + 4 = July 2014, events in the Russian Federation, the beginning of an active confrontation between Europe and the United States against Russia over Ukraine.
Secondly, July 2014 + 4 = July 2018, events in Ukraine.

First, July 2014 + 5 = July 2019, events in the Russian Federation.
Secondly, July 2018 + 5 = July 2023, events in Ukraine.

Moreover, the Myrrh-streaming Nile predicts:
“At that time, thanks to the power of great perdition and fornication, people will lose the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism, and they will also lose remorse. The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious shepherds, and then the trouble will be for the Christians left in the world, who will completely lose their faith, because they will be deprived of the opportunity from anyone to see the Light of knowledge. Then they will withdraw from the world into holy sanctuaries in search of relief from spiritual suffering, but everywhere they will meet obstacles and constraints […].
The love of money is the forerunner of the Antichrist […].
Everything that has prepared and is preparing people for faith and following the Lord through dispensation and providence is, was, and will be the truth. On the contrary, everything that prepares people to reject the law of God and their Savior is a lie, this lie prepares economically for the coming of the Antichrist and his acceptance by the human race […].
Just as the Forerunner preached baptism with the Truth and thereby turned people to the path of salvation, so much concern will darken the feelings of a person in order to make a person insensible to his salvation, so that he could not feel salvation from a multitude of carnal cares. People will feel neither the desire for an eternal future life, nor the fear of eternal condemnation […]
Likewise, the Church is almost impoverished by the supremacy of spiritual authorities […]. “After this impoverishment, the love of many will grow cold (Matt. 24:12), and He will be taken away from the midst” (2 Thess. 2:7) […].
What will happen according to this - only God knows. We know only one thing, that the deeds committed in the life of each person will be sorted out so that good deeds are separated from evil deeds, “like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats” (Matt. 25:32) ”[“ Posthumous broadcast of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming Athos ”, Edition of the Cell of the Annunciation by Elder Parthenius on Athos, 1912, pp. 170-175].
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Chapter 28: Prophetic characterization of people before the end of the age

For this I tell you ... If the seventh number of years and five ascending to the middle of the eighth, there at half the number of the fifth (or five), therefore, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth (i.e. after 7,400 years from the creation world, then between the fourth and fifth centuries, from the fourth century to the fifth, or, so to speak, during the twentieth of the last century). What an embezzlement then! What kind of courage, adultery, incest, debauchery will be then? To what decline will people then descend, to what corruption through fornication? Then there will be confusion with great quarreling (i.e., revolutions and the struggle of parties), they will constantly bicker and will not find either a beginning or an end. Then the eighth council will meet to sort out the dispute, and to reveal (lit.: create) good to good and evil to evil ... The farmer separates the wheat from the chaff. Wheat is for man, but chaff is for livestock. We say: the good will be separated from the evil, i.e., the orthodox from the heretics, and for a short time people will be at peace. (This is also mentioned in the Byzantine prophecies). But then they will turn their disposition (good) over again, turn to evil, the evil destruction of those who are perishing, so that they will not recognize what a brother is and what a sister is, that a father is with a mother, and that a mother is with her son, they will not recognize even the marriage crown. They will have only one destruction, one common fall into destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah, that is, there will not be five righteous ... And a brother will have a sister as a wife, a mother will have a son as a husband, the son of the father will kill and commit adultery with matter; and other darknesses of evils will become a custom. Insofar as evil deeds begin to be grafted onto people, calamities will also be found on them.

The current gold will then walk like the current foul (less than a half). People, however, the more disasters will be found on them, the more they will cultivate evil, that is, instead of repenting, they will be angry with God. The evil deeds that people will do will surpass the atrocities of the people of the time of the flood. Everyone will talk only about evil, only evil intentions, evil permission, partnership only for evil, everyone will have only evil deeds, universal evil theft, universal evil oppression, universal evil isolation; universal evil separation. With all this, they will think that even the doer of evil is saved.

Then they will have treasured gold, that is, they will have capital and say that they do not have (that is, they will complain that they do not have enough). Then they will have gold in growth, they will increase growth upon growth; they will beg for alms in order to live, they will cry that there is nothing to eat. The goal (main) they will have is the collection of capital (treasures) in order to acquire more property; as covetousness will increase, so will disasters in the world increase. Then greedy deceivers will go about naked in order to collect gold to return at interest ...

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Prophecy about the increase in poverty, the persecution of the poor peasants, their resettlement and the grain monopoly before the time of the birth of the Antichrist

The poor will be oppressed for the sake of regional expenses. The poor, not being able to allocate part of their expenses (required, regional), will leave their places and move to others in order to rest and reconcile there, but even there they will find the same thing and even in two times worse. Then, no longer able to move to another place, they will go to the graves and say: “Pick us up too; you have rested enough, let us also rest a little, a little, until the righteous Judgment awakens us.

Many other things will be said on the graves of the dead, and the wailing of the poor will rise up, like incense before God. Seeing such groaning, God will give prosperity to the whole world (harvest), and the poor, seeing such prosperity, with great joy will praise God for the harvest; when the fruits are gathered in the threshing floor, the covetous man will come to the threshing floor, carry the grain into his barns, and give a command that whoever demands wheat should go to him, the covetous man, and receive as much as he wants. Then the poor peasants will go to the covetous for bread, that is, the peasants will buy their own bread from the monopoly and buy wheat. The covetous will then charge double the price for wheat against its previous price last year; the poor, seeing that the covetous person has turned the blessing of God into high cost, will grumble against God - all, small and great, we say: poor and rich, - moreover, the rich will grumble even more than the poor, for the poor are alien to lustful acquisition: and, what she has two, she gives one for her soul, i.e. duty, the other keeps to himself; if he has one, and he gives it away involuntarily; if he has none, and for this he praises God. The covetous man will imagine that the poor man allegedly has property, and will oppress the poor man in order to take the latter from him. He will seek for this every reason, the smallest, will oppress him. She will oppress, but how? According to the judgment, everything that he has will be taken from him; if he does not have anything, he will oppress him with prison, where he will torment the poor because he has nothing to give in order to free himself.

The covetous man will come into prison and torture the poor in order to receive gifts from him under the pretext that he exacts them for local expenses; his goal is to get his growth on gold, which he gave as growth on local expenses; therefore he strives to make it abundant. And where does he get too much from? The covetous man wants to multiply his income from the poor. Yes, he will multiply his income from the poor, but the poor have nothing to give him what he is looking for ... The poor have nothing to eat, but he, the rich, is still trying to take something away ... The poor man marvels at this and wonders what to give to the covetous ? The covetous man marvels, wondering what to take from the poor? If it is left like this, then it will suffer a loss, i.e., gold given at interest will not give growth. However, although he longs to take something away from the poor, he has nothing to give ... The covetous man sees the rich man that he walks in torn clothes, that is, the one who gave his capital in growth for local expenses and due to the poverty of the peasants income he did not receive, and the poor man, that is, the peasant walking in clean clothes, and the rich man will feel sorry for the poor man, because his clothes are clean; The covetous man does not understand that the pure clothes of the wretched are the likeness of his pure heart, for he has no cunning of deceit in his heart to deceive and pretend that he does not have (what to wear). But the rich man has ... and has made his heart as tattered as his clothes by his craftiness (i.e., by lamenting in keeping his gold). Such was and will be the heart of the rich; but the heart of the poor is and will be resplendent. But what poor man will have a shining heart? The one who is patient and who will endure the covetous person, that is, not be angry at his unjust oppression. Blessed is the one who will endure to the covetous everything that he will do to him, for in the hour of Judgment, before the terrible judgment seat, he will be recognized as a brother by the Terrible Judge, who will say: “Because of this alone, create my brethren the least of me.” You see, you hear: for whom does he recognize the poor at the terrible judgment seat? He says: “These are the least of My brethren?” (Matthew 25:40).

Chapter 29: Rebuking the Covetous and Appealing to the Poor

Oh covetous! Rogue your soul. How long will you torment the poor?.. Someday you will hear a terrible saying that will be said to you: “Depart from Me, damnation, into eternal fire.” Yes, you prepare it for yourself: but (do you know) in what ways do you prepare it for yourself, tell me? You do not know, therefore, listen and look at the deeds with which you are preparing him for yourself. Preparation (for oneself of eternal fire) is care, care and treasure. You prepare (fire) for yourself by only taking care of earthly things, you prepare (fire) for yourself by only taking care of the substances of the world. You prepare (fire) for yourself by the fact that you only (and do) that you treasure earthly metals in your treasury. Hey, you prepare (fire) for yourself by collecting treasures and treasure. But what kind of treasure have you collected and what treasure are you hoarding? You have accumulated and are accumulating: envy, malicious intent, rancor, enmity. Hey, you got a treasure, but what did you get? You have acquired and you acquire: love of money, covetousness, extortion of growth from the poor. Hey, you got a treasure, but what did you get? You acquired fornication, adultery, courage, malakia, sodomy of a sodomist. Yes, you have acquired: wasteful gluttony, insatiable theft and dissolute drunkenness. Hey, you attracted: vainglorious pride with your puffy pride and arrogance. Yes, you acquired the negligent laziness of your carelessness with the scattered hopelessness of cowardice, with your godless oblivion. Yes, you have collected a treasure, but what have you collected? Collected: cruelty, cowardice, blasphemy, anger, with which he was embittered against the poor. Hey, you have accumulated a treasure, but what kind of treasure have you accumulated? Accumulated: verbosity, slander, condemnation, by which you judge that you are so-and-so thin, so-and-so despicable, and you yourself seem to be the best ...

So, then (in those days before the Antichrist) everyone will think a lot about themselves, among themselves everyone will condemn each other ... The covetous will condemn the poor and say: “The poor have (money)”; for the fact that the poor will not pay his yearly rent, the covetous man will begin to put the poor in prison and torture him, he will rip them off until he takes silver and gold from them in order to collect growth with his money. The poor, however, seeing that the covetous man is torturing them, they themselves will also begin to accumulate and store up silver and gold in reserve for the sake of the covetous man. The poor will collect money for the sake of the covetous, but at the meeting the poor will be seduced (acquisition) himself, will begin to accumulate for himself; having collected in excess, he will want to double his surplus, and when he has time in this, he will want to make these double surpluses quadruple surpluses; and behold, slowing down in this achievement of quadrupling, he rested, fell asleep, and woke up in hell, and his body was buried according to the custom of the country. The covetous people see that the poor man had double savings, but immediately they untruthed him, that is, they justify their covetousness and extortion, saying: “You see the poor man, who wept and said that he had nothing, we took pity on him; Look what double savings he has. When they spoke thus, another poor man died, and when this one was also buried, he had a quadruple savings. The covetous man, seeing again that another poor man had a quadruple savings, again begins to justify himself and says: “What pity can there be for the poor now? Is anyone worth pitying?"
Oh, unfortunate covetous man, what was the poor man guilty of before you, that you extorted from him with violence and he had nothing to give you? You did not look at the fact that he had nothing, but oppressed him with violence ... You saw that he had nothing to give you, and therefore you raped him even more in order to take silver and gold from him, to get growth, taking growth for gold (your own, given as growth for local expenses), because if you do not rape the poor, you will not be able to receive growth in gold. For the sake of this, you raped the poor in order to take gold and get growth on growth. The poor, seeing how evil you are, began to try and try to collect in order to pay you. But when the poor, by accumulating money, accumulated a surplus, then this surplus that they accumulated was your fault, because you rape the poor, and when he has nothing to give, you torture him with prison.

Seeing your atrocity, the poor began to forget Christ for the sake of acquiring gold. Thus the poor, little by little, forget Christ and acquire gold. Because of you, covetous man, in order not to fall into prison, the poor man multiplies (gold), collecting it, slows down in this gathering, falls asleep and, having fallen asleep, opens his eyes in hell; But you, seeing that the poor have savings, condemn him and the poor (all) because they have savings? For the fact that you so humiliate the poor before others, especially since you yourself caused it (of which he is to blame), the Righteous Judge will also humiliate you for this at His Judgment and will say to you: “Because you will not create My least brethren to one of these. .. do not create for Me.

But you, poor man, why did you undertake such a soul-destruction, i.e., amassing and accumulating money? You spent your whole life in non-acquisition and God did not let you perish: now, at the sight of the violence of the covetous man, you were captivated by covetousness, became a couple to the covetous man, received part of the covetous man, and robbed your soul, like Gehazi? All your life you enlightened your soul by non-acquisitiveness, and the covetous man pounced a little, was frightened of his coercion and received part of it - began to covetousness with him? Therefore, he became equal to him. Covetousness is the guide of death. Non-acquisition is the guide of salvation. He began to covetousness - and he lost his salvation. That is why the salvation of man (threatens) with a perilous danger from covetousness. This accursed covetousness is precisely what will bring misfortune into the world, destroy the well-being of the world. We say: forget the world, what prosperity is, misfortune will dominate everywhere. This accursed covetousness will establish and has established dissension in the world... In particular (disastrous and threatening) the covetousness of monastic life, where this accursed covetousness with its discord has succeeded so much that it threatens to destroy the very monastic life. And the blessed monastic life almost perished! And not only monastic life was upset, but almost the whole world was upset because of this accursed covetousness.

Chapter 30: The root of evil is covetousness, that is, the love of money. Love of money is the spirit of antichrist

Covetousness is the forerunner of the Antichrist. The prophets, that is, the Holy Spirit in the prophets, prophesied the dispensation of the incarnation of God, that is, they proclaimed the truth to the world, but covetousness brought falsehood into the world. The prophets proclaimed to us the way of salvation, but the covetous ones proclaimed the way of perdition; just as salvation and the grace of the All-Holy Spirit shone upon us through the apostles, so the many cares of this world will darken the salvation of man; pernicious carelessness will draw people onto the path of lawlessness, onto the path of those who lie with lies, offend with unrighteous theft, and treasure treasures with their deceitful soul.

Yes, treasure-mongers will collect, but what treasures will they collect? Treasure lies with their deceitful disposition. They rejected and reject the truth from their feelings; penetrates and has penetrated falsehood into their senses. Their feeling became insensitive to the truth; they will not feel what is true, but they will only feel what is false, they will submit to lies; the truth will not be heard.

But do you know what is true and what is false?

Truth is the economy of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is, Christ; the lie is the dispensation of the incarnation of perdition. That is, everything that has prepared and is preparing people for faith and following the Lord through dispensation and providence is, was, and will be the truth; on the contrary, everything that prepares people to reject the law of God and their Savior is a lie; this lie economically prepares the coming of the Antichrist and his acceptance by the human race. Falsehood will lead to the embodiment of destruction, when the great calamity for the whole world comes; just as the speech of the prophets was a foreshadowing of the coming incarnation of the dispensation of salvation, so the growing worldly cares foreshadow the near incarnation of the dispensation of destruction in the world, i.e., the birth of the Antichrist, who will be completely the vessel of the devil, will be the incarnation of destruction. Just as the Forerunner preached baptism with the Truth and thereby turned people to the path of salvation, so (on the contrary) much concern will darken a person’s feelings in order to make a person insensible to his salvation, so that he cannot feel salvation from a multitude of carnal cares, i.e. people will not feel neither the desire for an eternal future life, nor the fear of eternal condemnation (which is still evident in distrusted intellectuals).

Yes, there will be salvation and will not be taken away from the world, that is, the possibility of being saved and those who are being saved will remain until the end of the world. Yes, and then there will be salvation, but for whom will it be? For those who will not submit to the deeds of the antitype (i.e., the forerunner of the Antichrist or the spirit of covetousness). The manifestation of the anti-type, that is, the manifestation of the spirit of Antichrist in the world, is this: the care of this world, the treasure of earthly metals, the concern for the things of this world; these are the chief principles of evil, which destroy human salvation and lead to the path of destruction. The path of perdition is the destruction of salvation, that is, the disappearance in people of zeal for salvation and the fear of eternal torment. For when death reigns in a person, then salvation (i.e., the feeling of the fear of God) is lost by a person, then people turn away into all sorts of destructive deeds, despairing as someone heavily owes; so do sinners despair of their salvation.

Therefore, David says: “All deviated, together they were indecent” (Ps. 13, 3).

Hey, they evaded, but what did they evade? They deviated into falsehood, into theft, into disobedience, into the treasure of gold...

What is the treasure of gold? The treasure of gold is precisely the antitype, we say: the Antichrist (ie the forerunner of the Antichrists). For sensually the Antichrist must yet come, but mentally he is already in the world; ever since he descended into the world with his accursed throne, since then he has been in the world, producing all evil in the world. He tries to do this evil by all means; firstly, it takes away from a person the feeling of salvation by worldly care and concern for the vanity of the world. Hey, they will be busy and take care of a lot, but about what? There will be many people and they will acquire sodomy; they will care for and acquire fornication, they will lay up the treasure of adultery. Thus, people will lose their sense of themselves, they will not feel God. They will indulge in carnal drinking and the eating of sumptuous food, in building up themselves with the most beautiful buildings; in these buildings they will indulge in their carnal feelings, i.e., comforting their flesh, supposedly creating a marriage to it for an everlasting feast. Since they will put their feelings into the carnal, then only beauty and goodness will be palpable for them, to which they will only strive. Through such a desire for carnal impurity, people will be vile to God.

She, God abhors them, as he abhorred the antediluvian people, but still God showed mercy to the antediluvian people. She showed mercy, but what kind of mercy? He had mercy on them with the ark of repentance, since God desired that the ancient people, looking at the construction of the ark, would repent; but they plunged their senses into the flesh, became insensible to God and to the ark, did not feel what the ark means. It was this insensibility that brought them into the depths of the waters! ..

Do you see to what a state a man has been brought by his insensibility? And so now it will destroy people, for even now people bake, care for and acquire like the antediluvian people. They loved this activity so much, as if it were some beautiful and good food...

Yes, this food is good (that is, tasty), but not saving, this food is destructive; he who eats this food spends his life to his own destruction. And death takes possession of a person’s feelings, dragging him along the path of insensibility, a person no longer feels where the path of salvation is, but only spends his life on death. To her, he spends his life cheerfully and in luxury, but how does he spend it? He spends his life with unrighteousness, with theft, with theft, with betrayal, with false tongues, with courage in conversation, with gluttonous gluttony, with pride, with grumbling hopelessness, in carelessness, that is, carelessness in the matter of salvation and blasphemous addition of guilt all troubles against God, with cruel anger of the heart, with ungrateful enmity of rancor and covetous love of money.

And, since then someone will succeed in acquiring treasures in his thieves' treasury with his covetous love of money, at the same time, at the same time, he will be more and more darkened by insensitivity and treasure all sorts of deeds that will make him guilty of all the iniquities of the world, i.e., all these fruits of covetousness will bring the world to extreme depravity, the crown of which will be the coming of the Antichrist.

Chapter 31: The Antichrist will be born when the world becomes spiritually impoverished and when global anarchy sets in. Worldwide Reign of the Antichrist

The Antichrist will be born from the unclean prodigal virgin. In this virgin lewdness will be copulated, she will be a treasury of adultery; every evil of the world, every impurity, every lawlessness will be embodied in her, i.e., in the conceived by her from secret fornication, they will unite together in the womb of impurity and with the impoverishment of the world will be revived. When the world impoverishes from the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, then this one will be revived in the womb of impurity, from the most vile and evil imaginary virgin, the worst of all who have ever been; a fruit will be conceived from secret unnatural fornication, which will be the container of all evil, in contrast to how Christ was the perfection of every virtue, and His Most Pure Mother was the most perfect in women. This fruit will be born into the world when it impoverishes the world with virtues.

Yes, it will revive (i.e., be born) when the world is impoverished; but what kind of impoverishment will come upon the world? There are many types of this poverty, which will surround and, as it were, gradually embrace the world. First, it impoverishes the world with love, unanimity, chastity. Secondly, every village and city impoverishes from its subjugation, the dominant persons will move away from the city, village and district, so that there will be no dominant person either in the city, or in the village, or in the district. Likewise, the Church is almost impoverished by the supremacy of spiritual authorities.

After this impoverishment, “the love of many will dry up” (Matt. 24:12), “keep it from the midst of it” (2 Thess. 2:7) - and an unclean one will be born from the womb of uncleanness. Then this impure birth will produce signs and wonders through the dreams of demons. The world will imagine that this Antichrist is meek and lowly in heart, but in reality he will be a fox in his heart, a wolf in his soul; the confusion of the people will be his food. When people are transformed, then the Anti-Christ will live.

The confusion of people will be this: condemnation, envy, malice-mindfulness, hatred, enmity, covetousness, courage, forgetfulness of faith, adultery, boasting of fornication. This evil will be the food of the Antichrist. In contrast to how it was Christ's duty to do the will of His Father, so the act of Antichrist will be to do the will of his father the devil. This will feed the Antichrist.

And the Antichrist will become the head over the cities, over the villages and over the districts of villages, after there will be (i.e., abolished) no head in the villages, cities and rural districts. Then he will seize power over the world, become the manager of the world, and begin to rule over the feelings of man as well. People will believe what he will say, because he will act as an autocrat and autocrat for the destruction of salvation, i.e. people, who have already become vessels of the devil, will have extreme confidence in the Antichrist, will make him a universal autocrat and autocrat , since he will be the instrument of the devil in his last attempt to destroy Christianity from the face of the earth. Being in perdition, people will think that he is Christ the Savior and that he will work their salvation. Then the Gospel of the Church will be neglected.

Therefore, when destruction brings great calamity into the world, then terrible signs will take place during these calamities. A terrible famine will come, but a great hunger (i.e., insatiability) will come upon the world: in comparison with how much a person eats at the present time, then he will eat seven times more and not be satisfied. A great calamity will come everywhere. Then the covetous will open their covetous barns, that is, capitalism will be abolished, property will be equalized on the basis of socialism. Then the gold will depreciate like dung along the way...

Chapter 32: The Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of Antichrists

Then the evil of the world will come to life (that is, it will be conceived and born) in the unclean womb of the virgin of evil, who will give flesh to the Antichrist. Then, for the lawless deeds of the world and its impurity, the grace of the Holy Spirit, which until now contains the world, will depart from the lawless world, and then the measure of the world’s iniquities will be fulfilled, according to the words: “I will not reckon with their chosen ones” (Ps. 140, 4); then the spirit of antichrists, now acting in the world, will be incarnated, that is, a man will be born who will be defiled and become the most perfect vessel of the devil even in his mother’s womb: he will be born from an evil virgin and in a virgin of fornication, i.e. from an evil harlot, although on the outside signs and virgins.

Yes, evil will be incarnated (that is, the Antichrist will be born) without any male seed. Yes, she will be born with seed, but not with human sowing, but with poured out seed she will be incarnated.

(Here the word “aulos” is placed, which, depending on the sign on the upsilon, has two meanings, namely: poured out and immaterial. The saint means both of these meanings, firstly, to mean how the imaginary miraculous conception will occur antichrist from an imaginary virgin, about which other holy fathers also prophesy, and secondly, he uses the word "Aulos" in the sense of the immaterial seed of Antichrist or his spirit, acting in people. semen is already being produced, to produce foals from the most famous stallions in the West).

What is an immaterial (antichrist) seed? Seed immaterial (antichrist) is malice, care, care and acquisition.

However, the essence of care is of various kinds, i.e., not all care is disastrous and not all carelessness is good; The most important thing for a person is to take care of his own salvation. The salvation of man is: love, meekness, chastity, non-covetousness, virginal purity, justice, mercy of mercy, which is the “oil” of human salvation, that is, the inflowing gospel oil of the wise virgins. Righteousness is compassion for man; Mercy is of two kinds: one is mercy, expressed by generosity, the other is consolation by a word, with which someone comforts some oppressed. If it is not possible to help the Unfortunate, then let them console (the unfortunate) with a consoling word. And for one comforting word with which you comfort the unfortunate, you will be worthy that the Righteous Judge will comfort you with His decisive words at the Righteous Judgment, when he says: “Come, bless my Father: inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

If you do not comfort the afflicted with comforting words, then you yourself will later hear inconsolable words from the Righteous Judge: “Depart from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angel!” For merciful love frees man from the wrath of God.

Love does to a person that he becomes meek and humble in heart. Enmity makes a person violent. Love always endures and never causes temptation; evil-remembrance is always impatient, always causes temptation to the heart of a person, so that his heart never has peace.

Resentment is the seal of Antichrist, for resentment seals the heart of a person, as it were, with the seal of Antichrist.

Chapter 33: What is the seal of the Antichrist that seals the evil ones now, and what is the seal that the Antichrist will seal upon his accession?

Rancor is the seal of the Antichrist, and the heart of the vindictive is sealed with his seal. And when the Antichrist (i.e., the spirit of Antichrists, acting in the world) puts this seal, then from this seal of vindictiveness the human heart always dies (i.e., it becomes, as it were, dead, incapable of mourning for sin, for other spiritual feelings and fear of God). I say: this is how a man dies when his heart is sealed with hatred. This accursed rancor makes a person so insensitive that people themselves kill themselves with different deaths. It makes another an apostate from the faith; another - suicide; makes another go to the knife; makes another a traitor; makes another a blasphemer; otherwise - dreary; and does not at all allow the heart of a person to make peace. Unfortunate people do not notice that all this produces vindictiveness and brings them to death. (We should pause a little on these lines: the saint, revealing the root of the main troubles of mankind, the cause of revolutions, the hatred of children for their parents and other disorders, tells us that all this is from vindictiveness, that is, a proud condemnation of the shortcomings of others, disrespect to parents, subordinates to superiors, etc. If we delve into the spirit of the times and the mode of action of the opponents of the Church and the State, we will see that they base their entire success precisely on poisoning people with condemnation and hatred, and, having poisoned, - to make obedient your instrument. This poison of condemnation is poured out especially subtly in the works of Tolstoy and other celebrities of modern literature. Young people who read them with enthusiasm are poisoned from youth with the poison of malice and condemnation, are imprinted with the seal of the Antichrist, lose confidence in the Church, in parents and often ends his life in suicide.The writer of these lines can personally testify to this, for out of his school comrades 6 people ended in suicide).

So, when the Antichrist will impose his seal on people, their hearts will become as if dead.

And then [i.e. e. during that predicted calamity, the Anti-Christ will begin to seal people with his seal, allegedly in order to save them from disaster with this sign, for only those who have the seal, according to the Apocalypse (Apocalypse 13, 17), will bread be sold] . Many will die on the roads. People will become like birds of prey that pounce on carrion, they will devour the bodies of the dead. But what kind of people would devour the bodies of the dead? Those who are sealed with the seal of Antichrist; Christians, although they will not be given or sold bread for lack of a seal on them, will not eat corpses; those who are sealed, despite the availability of bread to them, will begin to devour the dead. For when a man is sealed with a seal, his heart will become even more insensible; unable to endure hunger, people will grab corpses, and anywhere, sitting on the side of the road, devour them. Finally, he himself will die, imprinted with the antitype; the following will be written on the seal: "I am yours." - "Yes, you are mine." “I go by will, not by force.” “And I accept you by your will, and not by force.” These four sayings or inscriptions will be depicted in the middle of that accursed seal.

Chapter 34: Disasters that will befall the world after the reign of the Antichrist: the sea will dry up; animals will die; time will speed up

Oh, unfortunate is he who is sealed with this accursed seal! This accursed seal will bring great calamity upon the world. The world will then be so oppressed that people will begin to move from place to place. The natives, seeing the newcomers, will say: oh, unfortunate people! How did you decide to leave your own, so fertile, place and come to this accursed place, to us, who have no human feelings left?! So they will say in every place where people will move from their place to another ... Then God, seeing the confusion of people, from which they suffer evil, moving from their places, will command the sea to perceive its former hotness, which it used to had that they would not move for resettlement from place to place. And when the Antichrist sits on his accursed throne, then the sea will boil as water boils in a cauldron. When water boils for a long time in a boiler, does it evaporate with steam? So it will be with the sea. As it boils, it will evaporate and disappear like smoke from the face of the earth. Plants will dry up on the ground, oak trees and all cedars, everything will dry up from the heat of the sea, water veins will dry up; animals, birds and reptiles, all will die. The day will rotate like an hour, the week like a day, the month like a week and the year like a month. For human cunning made the elements become tense, they began to hasten and strain even more so that the number prophesied by God for the eighth number of centuries would end as soon as possible. (Ie, the eighth millennium from the creation of the world).

Chapter 35: Sermon of Enoch and Elijah to the people, so that they do not accept the seal of the Antichrist and are always marked with a cross. Killing these preachers

When the accursed glory sees Enoch and Elijah, preaching and telling people not to accept the seal of the Antichrist, he will order them to be seized. They will convince people not to accept the seal of Antichrist, they will say: whoever shows patience and is not sealed with the seal of Antichrist will be saved, and God will certainly accept him into paradise, for the sole reason that he did not accept the seal. And let everyone be marked with an honest cross, making the sign of the cross for every hour, for the seal of the cross frees a person from the torment of hell; the seal of the Antichrist leads a person to hellish torment. If you are hungry and require food, be patient for a little while, and God, seeing your patience, will send you help from above; you will be quickened (lit.: satiated with life) by the help of God Most High. If you do not show patience, you will be printed with the seal of this impure king, then later you will repent of it.

The people will say to Enoch and Elijah, "Why are those who have received the seal grateful to the Antichrist?" Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “They are grateful, but who is grateful (i.e., who thanks them with their lips)? It is not people who thank this, but the press itself only thanks (i.e., malice, having dominated people, expresses joy and joy through their lips, because it managed to destroy these people, as it happens with villains who triumph and rejoice over a crime committed).

And what is their gratitude? Their gratitude is that Satan sat down in them, imagined himself in the feeling of a person, and the person does not realize what is happening to him. The one who is sealed with the seal of the Antichrist becomes a demon; although he claims that he allegedly feels neither hunger nor thirst, he still hungers and thirsts even more, and not only more, but seven times more against you. Just be patient for a little while. Do you not see that the one who accepts the seal of the Anti-Christ will not live (that is, he is dead in spirit and eternal torment awaits him)? Do you also want to perish with a seal in eternal torment, so that you can be there with those who were sealed with it. Where are weeping and gnashing of teeth?

And Enoch and Elijah will preach to the people with many other admonitions.
Antichrist will hear what two people are preaching, calling him a flatterer, a sorcerer, a deceiver and an insidious devil; Hearing this, he becomes angry, orders them to be seized, brought to him, and with flattering words he asks them: “What kind of lost sheep are you, for you are not sealed with the royal seal?” Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “A flatterer and a deceiver! Daemon! It is your fault that so many souls perished in hell! Cursed be thy seal along with thy glory! This cursed seal of yours and your desecrated glory have brought the world to ruin; your death has brought the world to this state, the world has died and its end has come...” The antitype will hear such words from Enoch and Elijah and will say to them: “How dare you speak like that before me, an autocrat and a king?” And Elijah will answer: "We despise your kingdom, but we curse your glory, along with your seal." Then the Antichrist will be angry, having heard such a contemptuous answer, he will become like a mad dog and will kill them with his own hands.

Chapter 36: After the murder of Enoch and Elijah, the Antichrist will remove the guise of morality from himself, extreme atrocities will be committed. People will be identified with demons by craftiness. The sign of this will be a gradual decrease in the growth of people. By the time of the Antichrist, the average height of a person will be 1 3/4 arshins

After the murder of Enoch and Elijah, the Antichrist will release his most evil children (that is, he will give free rein to the evil spirits that he had hitherto restrained). These children, or spirits of evil, are: adultery, fornication, sodomy, murder, theft, theft, untruth, lies, torment, selling and buying people, buying boys and girls to wander with them, like dogs on streets. And the Antichrist will command the evil spirits, obedient to him, to bring people to the point where people would do ten times more evil than before; His most evil children will fulfill this pernicious command and rush to the destruction of human nature with a variety of iniquities. From the heightened tension and extreme energy of his most merciful children, human nature in people will perish sensually and mentally ... People who have become so crafty in soul and in body will be diminished, they will be 1 3/4 arshins tall, we say: five spans body length human. By the deeds of their craftiness, these people will surpass the demons, and will be one spirit with the demons.

Antichrist will see that human nature has become more crafty and vain than his worst children, he will rejoice greatly that evil has multiplied in humanity, human natural properties have been lost and people have become more crafty than demons ... And now at the Antichrist, rejoicing at the sight of a human evil, will suddenly find a "double-edged sword" from above, with which he will be struck, and his unclean spirit will be torn out of his defiled body. With the death of the Antichrist, there will be an end to the murder of people; Cain initiated the murder, but the antitype (Antichrist) will make the end, that is, it will end there.

Chapter 37: Who are the "goats" and who are the "sheep"

When the work of murder is accomplished and completed, the heavenly and earthly bonds will immediately develop (that is, universal gravity will be broken) ... What will happen then - only God knows. We know only one thing, that deeds committed in life will be tortured: fornication, adultery, sodomy, malakia, dissolute courage, slander, idle talk and condemnatory verbosity, slander, malice, envy, envy, hatred, vindictiveness, enmity hostility, anger, malevolence, deliberate betrayal, pride of vanity, arrogance, love of money, covetousness, disobedience to the Church, luxury, gluttony eating and other multiple iniquities committed in this life - all will be sorted out so that good deeds are separated from evil deeds, as wean the sheep from the goats.

These sheep are: love, peace, unanimity, chastity, meekness, non-possession, purity, righteousness, good obedience to the law, obedience, humility, temperance, fasting, good speech, diligence for salvation, gratitude, good obedience to the Church, good obedience to spiritual life, keeping Divine baptism unspotted in order to keep it pure, not omitting church services and the canon in monastic life; these are the essence of the good works of salvation.

Posthumous broadcasts of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming Athos. Per. from Greek Manuscripts, Edition of the Cell of the Annunciation by Elder Parthenius on Athos, 1912, pp. 72-88.

That is, they will not achieve any sense.

Even now the socialists are preaching general sexual debauchery.

And now, in most cases, no matter how much money a person has, it seems to him not enough, and he strives for more.

Catastrophes in cultural cities, e.g. earthquake in New York (1906), flood in Paris (1910), etc.

Obviously, here we understand the socialist desire - to take away private property from everyone, even the poor. The disasters described are possible only with the strengthening of absurd socialist ideas.

Under the "covetous" one should most likely understand the Jewish capitalist bankers, who entangled almost all of Western Europe with networks of capital.

Of course, cares that stifle the sprouts of higher spiritual aspirations.

In the course of speech, it is clear that "feeling" is used here in the sense of an inner feeling, spiritual vision the way in which we acquire higher knowledge. Cf.: Proverb. 1, 7 - according to the Slavic translation: "Piety in God is the beginning of feelings", in Russian translation: "Reverence for God is the beginning of understanding."

The meaning of the expression prp. Neil's "feeling" has already been explained in the preceding footnote.

That is, to die.

This expression is explained above.

Probably, due to the perversion of spiritual abilities, the bodily needs of a person will also be perverted (abnormal hunger for food).

That is, the spiritual height of a Christian is always inseparable from mercy to others.

This is quite possible in the case volcanic movements the bottom of the sea.

That is, when the death of the Antichrist will end the murders on earth.

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Perhaps there is no person who would never think about the end of the world. In many ways, the popularity of all kinds of Hollywood disaster films is connected with this. For centuries this has prompted Christian (and not only) theologians and philosophers to write eschatological treatises. About the End of Times, the reign of the Antichrist, Armageddon (the last battle between good and evil) and the Second Coming of Christ. There are several saints whose prophecies on this subject are considered authoritative and are recognized by the Orthodox Church. And, perhaps, the most striking among them are the posthumous predictions of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming.

Saint Nile was born in the 16th century in the area of ​​Morea, in the south of modern Greece. His uncle, father Macarius, was a clergyman, a hieromonk. It was he who brought up the future elder, instilling in him a love for the monastic way of life. And therefore, as soon as the pious young man came of age, he was immediately tonsured a monk with the name Nile. After that, he was ordained first to the diaconate, and then to the priesthood.

For many years, the Monk Nil spent on the Holy Mount Athos in hermitage - in a rocky cave practically inaccessible to people. After his blessed death, the holy myrrh began to flow abundantly from this cave, which healed many believers over four centuries. And that is why, in the folk Orthodox tradition, St. Nilus of Athos has been called the “Myrrh-streaming” for more than four centuries.

But the Monk Nil became even more famous after a miraculous appearance at the beginning of the 19th century to the Athos monk Theophanes. In these, repeatedly published, posthumous conversations, prophecies about the End Times were told by Saint Nile:

“The love of money is the forerunner of the Antichrist… Lots of concern will darken the feelings of a person in order to make a person insensible to his salvation, so that he could not feel salvation from a multitude of carnal cares. People will feel neither the desire for an eternal future life, nor the fear of eternal condemnation ... "

It is difficult not to draw obvious parallels with modernity. Enslaving loans, mortgage slavery, the impossibility for most people of the 21st century to live by subsistence farming, leads to just this. We see that even in the most seemingly prosperous countries, people are increasingly moving away from faith in God, which is replaced by faith in money. But this, according to the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming, is the first sign of the imminent arrival of the Antichrist. But how will this man come to our world, the “son of perdition”, about whom dozens of horror films have been made in recent decades that have little in common with church tradition? Saint Nile answered it like this:

“The Antichrist will be born from an evil harlot... Evil will be incarnated without any male seed. Yes, it will be born with seed, but not with human sowing, but with poured out seed it will be incarnated ... This fruit will be born into the world when the world is impoverished by virtues ... "

More recently, such a saying of the Monk Nilus did not lend itself to an unambiguous explanation. However, now, in the 21st century, unnatural methods of conception - in the first place, the so-called "artificial insemination" - are put on stream. As well as, other gender anomalies are rapidly becoming the norm. About which, as clear signs of the imminent arrival of the Antichrist, St. Nil the Myrrh-streaming spoke. Moreover, it is precisely these signs, according to his prophecies, that will become the norm of the antichrist kingdom.

“Adultery, fornication, sodomy, murder, theft, theft, lying, selling and buying people, buying boys and girls to roam with them, like dogs in the streets. And the Antichrist will command the spirits of evil, obedient to him, to bring people to the point where people do ten times more evil than before. His most evil children will fulfill this pernicious command and rush to the destruction of human nature with a variety of iniquities ... "

Just a few decades ago, this might have seemed like anti-science fiction or even the plot of a horror movie. However, this is no surprise today. Especially in "progressive Europe", where social movements are already emerging in support of the legalization of pedophilia! And the symbol of Eurovision, so popular in dozens of countries last year, was a lustful creature of an incomprehensible gender, the likes of which had previously only been found on the frescoes of the Last Judgment. Somewhere in the region of the fiery underworld depicted on them (in the person of its servants and "auxiliary workers").

But all this is only the threshold of the real "hell on Earth", which will certainly come. But only when everyone submits to the Antichrist and his "values". And it is at this very moment, according to the prophecy of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming, that the true End of the World will begin:

“A terrible famine will come… A great calamity will come everywhere… Gold will depreciate like dung on the road. And then the Antichrist will begin to print people with his seal... for only those who have a seal, according to the Apocalypse, will bread be sold. Many will die on the roads. People will become like birds of prey that pounce on carrion, they will devour the bodies of the dead ... "

Isn't it creepy? However, each person should be well aware that this will definitely happen: almost all world religions agree on this, differing only in details. And yet, according to Orthodox doctrine, we are still quite capable of putting it off. So, according to the same apocalyptic prophecies, the Antichrist will be able to reign only when there is no one left in the world who restrains from iniquities. And today this Retainer, in Greek - "Katekhon" - is an Orthodox civilization with a center in the Third Rome. In Moscow.

For a monastic way of life, there is no other more convenient place than Mount Athos, which I received from My Son as my inheritance, so that those who want to leave worldly cares and embarrassments can come there and serve God there without hindrance and calmly. From now on, this mountain will be called My garden. I love this place much, and the time will come when it will be filled from end to end, north and south, with many monks. And if those monks with all their hearts will work for God and faithfully keep His commandments, then I will grant them great gifts on the great day of My Son; while still here on earth they will receive great help from Me; I will begin to alleviate their illnesses and their labors and give the opportunity, with small means, to have contentment in life, I will even weaken the enemy’s battle against them, and I will make the name glorious throughout the earth, ”the Mother of God said to St. Nicholas in Her wondrous appearance with this saint Peter, the first desert inhabitant of Athos, more than 1000 years ago.

Therefore, Holy Athos is the lot of the Mother of God— with his ascetics, with those which the whole world was not worthy(Heb. II, 38), for more than ten centuries has always been sweet and dear to every Orthodox heart. Many glorious men, whose names are written in the Book of Life, shone on this stronghold and beacon of Orthodoxy; many vessels of the Holy Spirit, who did not want to be glorious from the sons of this age and retired from the many-rebellious and vain world to the desert heights of transcendent Athos, flourished in this ascetic garden, in this monastic nursery, in this school of asceticism and piety ...
Relatively recently - four centuries ago - here I have fought a good fight, I have completed my course, I have kept the faith(2 Tim. 4, 7) and God glorified one of those who wandered through the deserts and mountains, through the caves and gorges of the earth (Heb. II, 38).
The name of this ascetic is Nile myrrh-streaming. With his exploits, he surpassed not only his contemporary, but also many ancient ascetics.
The birthplace of the Monk Nilus was Greece. The pious parents of the saint, who lived in the village of Saint Peter, were called by God to a better world when Neil was still very young. All care for the upbringing of the youth was taken over by his uncle Hieromonk Macarius. He vigilantly followed all the movements of the mind and heart of the future vessel of the grace of the Holy Spirit. And it was not in vain that the uncle's vigilant efforts for his nephew were not in vain: the lad showed rapid progress in mental and moral relations. Having reached the age of majority, Neil took monastic vows and was ordained a hierodeacon, and later a hieromonk. At one time, uncle and nephew labored together.
Flaming with the desire for great deeds, they retired to Holy Mount Athos and, having received a blessing from the abbot of the Lavra of St. Athanasius, they settled in a deserted, extremely wild place - waterless, very convenient for silence, called the Holy Stones. It cost them a lot of work to build a small temple and a cell here. After arranging everything necessary, Blessed Macarius peacefully rested in Bose.
Upon the death of his mentor, the Monk Nil moved to an even wilder place, inaccessible not only to people, but also to animals, allowing him to stay with the One God. As in the abandoned place, a church was built here and consecrated in the name of the Presentation of the Lord. “... What feats did the cave that contained this courageous ascetic see? How was it watered by an outpouring of warm tears, crying before God day and night? What struggle with demons and what victories over dark forces? By what means was she sanctified by heavenly visions and the standing of angels who came here to comfort the equal-angel ascetic? All this we do not know well; this is known only to the Omniscient God. But for us, the very place of his exploits is a silent and loud preacher about their greatness; testifying to them is the glorification of his sacred remains” (from the Lavra manuscript of the cells of the Monk Nilus).
In this cave, the monk ended his earthly journey, betraying his peaceful spirit in the hands of God, and moved, “where there is no sickness, no sorrow, no sighing.”
At the cave, the brethren reverently buried his many-victorious and long-suffering body and approved an inscription over the headboard with a prohibition to open the body of the ascetic, for before his death the monk himself made such an oath testament.
He who, during his earthly life, did not seek human glory, soon after death filled the whole world with the glory of his name. The Lord glorified His saint by the fact that his virgin and youthful body consecrated to God, cleansed and refined with fasting, washed with tears, fragrant with prayers, God turned this most holy body into myrrh, deigned it to flow from the tomb through a small hole and flow down a sheer rock to the sea. (up to which about 128 meters - in a plumb line) to appear to people.
Such an unprecedented phenomenon attracted many people who came from all countries of the Orthodox East. Countless healings and miracles occurred from the holy world and through the prayerful invocation of the holy Nile. The Orthodox Church canonized him among the saints, giving him the name Myrrh-streaming, and set him to be commemorated on the day of his death on November 12 and on the day of the transfer of his holy relics on May 7.
At the present time, part of the holy relics of the monk is located near the cave, in the Church of All Saints, and the rest - in the Lavra of St. Athanasius. They were moved here in 1815.
The name of the Monk Nil the Myrrh-streaming became even more known after his appearance from the afterlife in the period from 1813 to 1819 to one holy mountaineer, the monk Theophan, when in several conversations the Monk Nil told him everything that is contained in the book "Posthumous broadcasts of the Monk Nilus the Myrrh-streaming".
“By the wealth of material from the field of ascetic psychology,” says Archimandrite Alexander, “Broadcasting” can rightfully take a prominent place among such famous patristic creations of this kind, such as, for example, “Ladder”, “Words” of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Isaac the Syrian, Macarius Great and others…
Getting acquainted with the content of the book, we see that the spiritual life of a Christian, and, in particular, monastic life, is considered from the most diverse sides.
But in our apostasy (from apostasy- heresy, schism) the twentieth century "Broadcasting" is also attracted by the fact that they say a lot about the last fate of our earthly world.
The reverend foretold what was to come scary times about which the Lord spoke: But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?(Luke 18:8).
Neil announced to those seeking salvation on the Holy Mountain under the Protection of the Mother of God, so that they would not be embarrassed, not horrified, would not lose faith in this Protection and would not leave Athos until the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God left him; so that the monks abide in repentance and the hope of salvation, in silence, humility and obedience, trying to preserve inviolably the little that still remains of the former lofty monastic life. For for the wickedness of the wicked, the Holy Mountain will sink into the sea, this will be when the Mother of God takes away Her Protection from Her inheritance. The pious monks must hasten to leave Athos as soon as the miraculous Iberian icon leaves. The saint opens with great details about the times of the Antichrist: about the worldwide anarchy that will precede the coming of the Antichrist, about when to expect this, about the degree of depravity latest generation, about how hard it will be for human hearts to accept the seal of the Antichrist, about the preaching of Enoch and Elijah ...
Many predictions of the Monk Nilus have already come true, but much of what he predicted is coming true before our very eyes.
In general, the prophecies of the monk are distinguished by amazing accuracy. In order not to be unfounded, we will give one of the predictions that came true.
In a miraculous apparition that took place in 1817, the Monk Nil said to the monk Feofan:
“When four twenty-five years have passed, what will the monastic life be like then? But if another three twenty-five years also pass: we say the number of the seventh year and five, ascending to the middle of the eighth, there in the middle of the number of five, what confusion will occur from the fourth to the fifth? .. "
The Russian translator of a book published in 1912 to explain this passage (part II, ch. 31, p. 170) places a note by the first scribes who lived in the last century.
“Note of the first describers: the saint said this to Theophanes in the summer of the Nativity of Christ, 1817; from the creation of the world - 7325th. Therefore, the saint says: when four twenty-five years have passed, that is, one hundred years, and the year 7425 (1917) has come, then what will become of monastic life? If, however, the other three twenty-five years pass, that is, 75 years, and the year 7500 (1992) comes, “the number of the seventh year and five,” that is, seven thousand and five hundred years, “ascending halfway to eight,” that is, when we reach the middle of the eighth century (millennium), then there in the middle of five, that is, the fifth century, "what confusion will be (from the fourth to the fifth)?"
We believe that from the fourth to the fifth, as the saint says, there are from 7400 to 7500; this we suppose; who can interpret better

We, who live in 1989, see with our own eyes what monasticism has become since 1917 (7425 from the creation of the world) - it has almost disappeared. And as for the confusion that occurred in the year 7450 from the creation of the world or 1942 from A.D. - the critical year of World War II - everyone knows.
This amazing accuracy of fulfilled prophetic predictions prompts us to acquaint the reader with those prophecies contained in the Broadcasts that have not yet come true (or have just begun to come true).

PROPHECY ABOUT MOUNT ATHONS AND THE DEPARTURE FROM IT OF THE IVERIAN ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD (Part III, Ch. 94)

O most reverend fathers, the removal of Salvation will be like this.
First, in a short time ahead, the monastery will shake, in which the face of the Queen of Salvation lives. This means that the insensible earth will feel that it has to impoverish from its Guardian, Who keeps it to this day. After the shaking, all the trees planted will shake very much and will bow all those planted, we say, all those who are rooted, for the sake of the Queen into captivity (that is, there will be a martyrdom of Orthodox monks on the Mountain). Athos will beat with a terrible noise, a thin voice will come out; when the face of Our Lady Theotokos departs, there will be a terrible and trembling sign.
The sign will be this: all the churches will be bowed down for the removal of Salvation, like a wire to Salvation and a bow. Because of this, I tell you, insensibility will feel, and the feeling will be darkened, and will not realize that Salvation is withdrawn. So, I tell you, most reverend fathers, as long as the face of Our Lady Theotokos is inside this Mountain, let no one move to leave this honest Mountain; as soon as he moves to leave this honest Mountain, he immediately has to find punishment of his soul and body (allowance). When they see that the icon of the All-Holy has departed from this honest Mountain, then you also leave, wherever you like, just keep the vow of monastic life intact and clean.

PROPHETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD (Part I, Ch. 28)

If the seventh number of years and five ascending years pass by the halfway point of the eighth...
What will be the theft then? What kind of courage, adultery, incest, debauchery will be then? To what decline will people descend then, to what corruption through fornication? Then it will be more embarrassed by great quarreling (addiction to disputes), they will constantly quarrel and will not find either a beginning or an end. Then the Eighth Council will meet to resolve the dispute, and to show good to good and evil to evil ... the good will be separated from the evil, i.e. orthodox believers are from heretics, and for some short time people will be peace ... But then they will again turn their disposition (good) and turn to evil by the evil death of those who are perishing, so that they will not know what a brother is and what a sister is, what a father and mother are, and what mother and her son will not recognize the crown of marriage. They will have only one destruction, one fall into destruction, like Sodom and Gomorrah, i.e. and five righteous people will not be found ... And a brother will have a sister as a wife, a mother will have a son as a husband, the son of the father will kill and commit adultery with the mother, and other darknesses of evil will enter into custom. To the extent that evil deeds begin to be instilled in people, they will find disasters on them ... People, the more disasters they find on them, the more evil they will cultivate, instead of repenting, they will be angry with God. The atrocities that people will do will surpass the atrocities of the people of the time of the flood. Everyone will talk only about evil, only evil intentions, evil permission, only partnership in spite, everyone will have only evil deeds, universal evil theft, universal evil oppression, universal evil isolation; universal evil separation. With all this, they will think that even the doer of evil is saved… Since greed will multiply, so will disasters in the world.

PROPHECY ABOUT THE RIGNING OF THE ANTICHRIST (Part I, Ch. 21-25)

The love of money is the forerunner of the Antichrist… Everything that has prepared and is preparing people for faith and following the Lord is, was, and will be the truth. On the contrary, everything that prepares people to reject the law of God and their Savior is a lie, this lie economically prepares the coming of the Antichrist and the acceptance of him by the human race... feelings of a person, in order to make a person insensible to his salvation, so that he, from a multitude of carnal cares, could not feel salvation. People will not feel either the desire for an eternal future life, or the fear of eternal condemnation ... Yes, salvation will exist and will not be taken away from the world, the opportunity to be saved and those who are being saved will remain until the end of the world. Yes, and then there will be salvation, but for whom will it be? For those who will not submit to the deeds of the antitype (forerunners of the Antichrist)… Antichrist will be born from the impure prodigal. In this virgin lewdness will be copulated, she will be the treasury of adultery. Every evil of the world, every impurity, every lawlessness will be embodied in it. Conceived by her from secret fornication, they will unite together in the womb of impurity and, with the impoverishment of the world, will be revived ... A fruit will be conceived from secret unnatural fornication, which will be the container of all evil ...
This fruit will be born into the world when it impoverishes the world with virtues... But what kind of impoverishment will befall the world?..
First, it impoverishes the world with love, unanimity, chastity.
Secondly, every village and city is impoverished from its subjugation, the dominant persons will move away from the city, village and district, so that there will be no dominant person either in the city, or in the village, or in the district.
Likewise, the Church is almost impoverished by the supremacy of spiritual authorities... After this impoverishment, love will grow cold in many(Matthew 24:12) will be taken from the medium holding(2 Thess. 2, 7) and an unclean one will be born from the womb of uncleanness.
Then this impure birth will produce signs and wonders through the dreams of demons. The world will imagine that this Antichrist is meek and lowly in heart, but in reality he will be a fox in his heart, a wolf in his soul. Confusion of people will be his food. When people turn (die), then the Antichrist will live.
The confusion of people will be this: condemnation, envy, vindictiveness, hatred, enmity, covetousness, courage, forgetfulness of faith, adultery, boasting of fornication. This evil will be the food of the Antichrist. In contrast to the way Christ's brasno was fulfilled by the will of His Father, so the Antichrist's brasno will be the fulfillment of the will of his father the devil. This will feed the Antichrist.
And the Antichrist will become the head over the cities, over the villages and over the districts of the villages, after there will be no head in the villages, cities and rural districts. Then he will seize power over the world, become the manager of the world, and begin to rule over the feelings of man as well. People will believe what he will say, because he will act as an autocrat and autocrat for the destruction of salvation. People, who have already become vessels of the devil, will have extreme confidence in the Antichrist, will make him the world's sole ruler and autocrat, since he will be the devil's instrument in his last attempt to exterminate Christianity from the face of the earth. Being in perdition, people will think that he is Christ the Savior and that he will work out their salvation. Then the Gospel of the Church will be neglected.
After, when destruction brings great calamity into the world, then, during these calamities, terrible signs will occur. A terrible famine will come, and a great hunger (gluttony) will attack the world. Compared to how much a person eats at the present time, then he will eat seven times more and not be satisfied. The great tribulation will come everywhere. Then the covetous will open their covetous granaries (wealth will be abolished, property will be equalized on the basis of the equality of all). Then the gold will depreciate like manure on the road.
And then, during that predicted calamity, the Antichrist will begin to seal people with his seal, supposedly in order to save them from disaster with this sign (for bread will be sold only to those who have the seal, according to Apocalypse 13:17). Many will die on the roads. People will become like birds of prey that pounce on carrion, they will devour the bodies of the dead. But what kind of people would devour the bodies of the dead? Those that are sealed seal the Antichrist. Christians, although they will not be given or sold bread for lack of a seal on them, will not eat corpses. Those who are sealed, despite the availability of bread to them, will begin to devour the dead. For when a person is sealed with a seal, his heart will become even more insensible, being unable to endure hunger, people will grab corpses, and anywhere, sitting on the side of the road, devour them.
The following will be written on the seal: “I am yours” - “Yes, you are mine.” “I go by will, not by force.” “And I accept you by your will, and not by force.” These four sayings, or inscriptions, will be depicted in the middle of that accursed seal.
Oh, unfortunate is he who is sealed with this seal! This accursed seal will bring great calamity upon the world. The world will then be so oppressed that people will begin to move from place to place. The natives, seeing the aliens, will say: “O unfortunate people! How did you decide to leave your own, so fertile, places and come to this accursed place, to us, who have no human feeling left ?! So they will say at every place where people will move ... Then God, seeing the confusion of people, from which they are in evil misery, moving from their place, will command the sea to take on the hotness that was previously characteristic of it, which it used to have, so that people would not cross for resettlement from place to place. And when the Antichrist sits on his throne, then the sea will boil as water boils in a cauldron. When water boils for a long time in a boiler, does it evaporate with steam? So it will be with the sea. As it boils, it will evaporate and disappear like smoke from the face of the earth. Plants wither on the ground. The oak trees and all the cedars, everything will dry up from the heat of the sea, the veins of the water will dry up, animals, birds and reptiles will all die.
The day will rotate like an hour, a week like a day, a month like a week, and a year like a month. For human cunning made the elements become tense, began to hasten and strain even more, so that the number prophesied by God for the eighth number of centuries would end as soon as possible.
When the accursed glory sees Enoch and Elijah, preaching and telling people not to accept the seal of the Antichrist, he will order them to be seized. The prophets will convince people not to accept the seal of the Antichrist. They will say that whoever shows patience and is not sealed with the seal of the Antichrist will be saved, and God will certainly accept him into paradise, for the sole reason that he did not accept the seal. And let everyone be marked with an honest cross, making a sign for every hour, for the seal of the cross frees a person from the torment of hell; the seal of the Antichrist leads a person to hellish torment. If you are hungry and require food, be patient for a little while, and God, seeing your patience, will send you help from above; you will be quickened (literally: satiate with life) with the help of the Most High God. If you do not have patience, you will be printed with the seal of this impure king, then you will repent of it later.
People will say to Enoch and Elijah, "Why are those who have received the seal grateful to the Antichrist?" Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “They are grateful, but who is grateful (who thanks them with their lips)? It is not people who thank, but the press itself only thanks, malice, having dominated people, expresses joy and joy through their lips, because it managed to destroy these people, as happens with villains who triumph and rejoice over a crime committed. And what is their gratitude? Their gratitude signifies that Satan has sat down in them, imagined himself in the feeling of a person, and the person is not aware of what is happening to him. He who impresses himself with the Antichrist becomes a demon; although he claims that he allegedly feels neither hunger nor thirst, however, he hungers and thirsts even more, and not only more, but also seven times more against you.
Just be patient for a little while. Do you not see that the one who receives the seal of the Antichrist will not live, he is dead in spirit and eternal torment awaits him? Do you really want to perish with a seal in eternal torment, so that you can be there with those who were sealed with it, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth(Matthew 25:30)?”
And Enoch and Elijah will preach to the people with many other admonitions.
The Antichrist will hear that two people are preaching, calling him a flatterer, a sorcerer, a deceiver and an insidious devil. Hearing this, he becomes angry, orders them to be seized, brought to himself, and with flattering words asks them: “What kind of lost sheep are you, for you are not sealed with the royal seal?” Then Enoch and Elijah will say: “A flatterer and a deceiver! daemon! so many souls perished in hell through your fault! Cursed be thy seal along with thy glory! This cursed seal of yours and desecrated glory brought the world down to destruction, your death brought the world to this state, the world died and its end came ... "
Antichrist will hear such words from Enoch and Elijah and will say to them: “How dare you speak like that before me, an autocrat and a king?” And Elijah will answer: "We despise your kingdom, but we curse your glory, along with your seal."
Then the Antichrist will be angry, having heard such contemptuous answers, he will become like a mad dog and will kill them with his own hands.
After the murder of Enoch and Elijah, the Antichrist will release his most evil children, will give free rein to the evil spirits that he has hitherto restrained.
These children, or spirits of evil, are: adultery, fornication, sodomy, murder, theft, theft, lying, selling and buying people, buying boys and girls to wander with them, like dogs in the streets. And the Antichrist will command the spirits of evil, obedient to him, to bring people to the point where people do ten times more evil than before. His most evil children will fulfill this pernicious command and rush to the destruction of human nature with a variety of iniquities. From the heightened tension and extreme energy of his most merciful children, human nature in people will perish sensually and mentally ...
People, having become so crafty in soul, and in body will be diminished, will be 1 3/4 arshins tall (1 arshin \u003d 71.12 cm), we say: five spans (1 span \u003d 17.78 cm) is the length of the human body ( from 88.9 to 124.5 cm). By the deeds of their craftiness, these people will surpass the demons and will be one spirit with the demons.
The Antichrist will see that human nature has become more crafty and vain than his worst children, he will rejoice greatly that evil has multiplied in humanity, human natural properties have been lost, and people have become craftier than demons ...
And now, on the Antichrist, rejoicing at the sight of human evil, a “double-edged sword” will suddenly find from above, with which he will be struck, and his unclean spirit will be torn out of his unclean body.
With the death of the Antichrist, there will be an end to the killing of people. Cain initiated the murder, the antitype (Antichrist) will make the end, it will end with him.
What will happen according to this - only God knows. We know only one thing, that the deeds committed in the life of each person will be sorted out so that good deeds are separated from evil deeds, how the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats(Matthew 25:32).