Prophecies of the saints of God about Russia and Ukraine. Prophecies of the elders about Russia by years

Appeal of St. Anatoly of Optina

My child, know that in the last days, as the apostle says, hard times will come.
And so, as a result of the impoverishment of piety, heresies and schisms will appear in the churches, and then it will not happen, as St. Fathers, on the thrones of hierarchs and in monasteries are experienced and skillful people in spiritual life.
From this, heresies will spread everywhere and deceive many.
The enemy of the human race will act with cunning, in order, if possible, to incline even the elect to heresy. He will not rudely reject the dogmas of the Holy Trinity, about the Divinity of Jesus Christ, about the Mother of God, but will imperceptibly stand and say: "The Tradition of the Holy Fathers from the Holy Spirit is the teaching of the Church itself."

The trickery of the enemy and his regulations will be noticed only by a few, the most skillful in the spiritual life. Heretics will take power over the Church, they will place their servants everywhere, and piety will be neglected. But the Lord will not leave His servants without protection and in ignorance.
He said, "By their fruits you shall know them." Here you are by their fruits, just as by the action of heretics, try to distinguish them from true shepherds. These spiritual thieves who plunder the spiritual flock, and they will enter the sheepfolds and wander around, as the Lord said, i.e. they will enter in an unlawful way, destroying the ordinances of God with violence. The Lord calls them thieves.

Indeed, their first duty is the persecution of true shepherds, their imprisonment, for without this it will be impossible to plunder the sheep. Therefore, my son, when you see the desecration of the divine rank in the Church of patristic Tradition and the order established by God, know that heretics have already appeared, although, perhaps, I will hide my wickedness for the time being, or they will distort the divine faith imperceptibly in order to be in time even more. , seducing and luring the inexperienced.
There will be persecution not only against shepherds, but also against the servants of God, for the demon who leads heresy does not tolerate piety. Recognize them as wolves in sheep's clothing by their proud disposition, voluptuousness, love of power - they will be slanderers, traitors, sowing enmity and malice everywhere, therefore the Lord said that you will recognize them by their fruits.
The true servants of God are humble, brotherly-loving and obedient to the Church.

Rus' was renewed in holy Baptism, because it accepted the mystery of the new life brought to earth by the incarnate Christ God. Before Christ, the world did not know this mystery, and outside of Christ it cannot know it even now.” The mystery of the new, grace-filled Christian life lies in following Christ's commandments and is known through humility and repentance, filled with love.
The Russian people were renewed in the search for the truth of God, family and social life was imbued with the Spirit of the Gospel. Rus' has always recognized itself as a sinner and has always risen to holiness. Walk along the paths of pilgrimage routes that have trampled the entire Russian Land, and you will find out the truth about the soul of our people.
In this, Rus' fulfilled its calling, and loyalty to this calling on the part of the whole people made our Motherland a repository of Divine truth. Thank God! Our people, strengthened in Orthodoxy, first of all took care of purity of conscience, softening of the heart, perfection according to the word of Christ.
Therefore, he surrounded the bearer of power, the God-chosen Tsar, with love, obedience and willingness to cooperate, and handed over his Monarch to the all-perfect grace of God.
The supreme rulers of Rus' themselves, the Grand Dukes and Tsars of All Russia, were aware of their responsibility to Christ, the King of Kings, and looked upon themselves as servants of God: “And therefore,” writes St. the will of the people", and by the kings "God's Grace".
Now the glorification of the ever-memorable Saint Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow is being prepared, who worked hard to ensure that our Russian peoples have an evangelical vision. So necessary for salvation. Therefore, let us turn our attention to the lines written by him: "The people who honor the king, please God through this, because the King is the dispensation of God."
“God, in the Image of His heavenly unity of command, established a Tsar on earth; in the Image of His omnipotence, an autocratic Tsar; in the Image of His Kingdom, imperishable, He gave an earthly kingdom and a hereditary king.
Oh, if all peoples understood enough the heavenly dignity of the King and the structure of the kingdom, earthly in the image of Heaven, and constantly marked themselves with the features of the same image, ... removing from themselves everything that has no image in heaven ... Then ... all earthly kingdoms would be a worthy threshold for the kingdom of heaven."
"Blessed is the fatherland on earth, which provides its citizens with the means to reach the Heavenly Fatherland! Russia, you have a share in this good. "Keep what you have, so that no one will take away your crown" (Rev. 3. II) ".
"Serving faithfully the king of the earth, we serve the King of Heaven. A thin citizen of the kingdom of the earth is not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven." “Yes, there is some benefit in having the altar and the throne in union, but it is not mutual benefit that is the first foundation of their union, but an independent truth that supports both.
The priest who preaches reverence for the king is right: but not by the right of reciprocity, but by pure obligation.” “Who places the kings of the earth on the throne? - writes about. John of Kronstadt - He Who is one from eternity sits on a fiery throne, and alone reigns over all creation - heaven and earth ...
The kings of the earth are given royal power from Him alone ... therefore, the king, as having received royal power from the Lord ... must be autocratic. Shut up, you dreamy constitutionalists and parliamentarians! Get away from me, Satan! Only the king is given from the Lord power, strength, courage and wisdom to manage his subjects.

The newly glorified Saint Theophan the Recluse warns us:
“The fundamental elements of Russian life are expressed by the familiar words Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality (that is, the Church, the Tsar and the Kingdom). That is what must be preserved!
And when these principles change, the Russian people cease to be Russian. He will then lose the sacred tricolor banner."

The Elder of Optina Hermitage Schema-Archimandrite Barsanuphius says:
"... Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, they keep true faith Christ's".
A person who is indifferent to the fate of Russia has a heart of stone, but with a heart of stone they are not allowed into Paradise. The vocation of Russia is to smell sweet about Christ, offering the incense of prayers. But how did it happen that in the midst of it the throne of Satan was established, a fetid source of all pride and absurd teachings to our destruction? The answer to these questions must be sought from our saints, the true leaders of the people of Christ.

Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow says:
"From secret, assemblages ... godless, a whirlwind of rebellion and anarchy has erupted, and it especially breathes furiously against the Russian state, with noise and cries, as against a strong and zealous defender of legitimate authority, order and peace ..."

Extract from a prophetic sermon delivered by Fr. John of Kronstadt on the day of St. Archangel Michael in 1902:
"... We are not afraid of the current barkers at ... the Church, for our Ascetic and almighty Head Christ is always with us, and will remain until the end of the age, and the current time of troubles will serve only to the greater glory of the Church of God."

The Russian Church obeyed its prophet of God, and the prophecy of Fr. John Russia shone with a host of martyrs, glorified in them. During a period of calm, in 1907, Fr. John ominously prophesies: “The Russian kingdom is wavering, close to falling.
...If in Russia....godless and anarchists are not subjected to the righteous punishment of the law, then...Russia...will become empty...for its godlessness and for its lawlessness. ... And what would we become Russians, without the king? Our enemies will try to destroy the very name of Russia, since the Bearer and Guardian of Russia, after God, is the Sovereign of Russia, the Autocratic Tsar, without him Russia is not Russia ... For All-Good Providence, he will not leave Russia in this sad and disastrous state. It righteously punishes and leads to rebirth."

His Eminence Archbishop Seraphim Bogucharsky addressed those gathered in the church with the following word:
"... The appearance from among the Russian people of such a great saint of God and a miracle worker as Fr. John of Kronstadt serves as unshakable proof that Russia has not perished and will not perish, but will come to life and be reborn with new strength. And why, right? Because ", - said Vladyka, - that Fr. John, St. Seraphim, St. Anthony of Voronezh and all the saints who shone in Russia, canonized and non-canonized, are the branches of the great tree of Holy Orthodox Rus'. If the branches are mighty and glorious, then the tree that grew them, it cannot be bad - it is also powerful and glorious and will overcome all the evil that has attacked it from the outside, and will be reborn.

Archbishop Averky in his work "Modernity in the Light of the Word of God" writes:
“The world is heading towards obvious destruction, but, as many predictions of spirit-bearing men soothingly say, Holy Rus' still has to rise for a “little time”—for an apocalyptic “half an hour.”

Elder Porfiry, a well-known seer, our shepherd, who lived in the Glinskaya Hermitage, said:
“Over time, faith in Russia will fall. The brilliance of earthly glory will blind the mind, the words of truth will be reviled, but for faith, unknown to the world will rise from the people and restore the trampled.”

One of the last in the Optina Hermitage, Elder Nektary also warns us:
"Hold firmly to Orthodoxy ... (and) Russia will rise up and will not be materially rich, but will be rich in spirit ..."

Elder Alexy Zosimovsky, being in the Miracle Monastery during the election of the patriarch, loudly exclaimed:“Who is it that says that Russia has disappeared? She will perish and not perish."

Father John of Kronstadt addresses his appeal to us:"Return, Russia, to your holy, immaculate, saving, victorious faith and to the Holy Church - your mother - and you will be victorious and glorious, as in the old believing time."

May God grant that these days come soon! Let us prayerfully ask our Lady, the Most Holy Theotokos, the chosen one of Her Reverend Seraphim of Sarov, the New Martyrs of Russia and all Russian Saints to prayerfully intercede before the Throne of God for our Motherland and for all of us, in order to correct our sinful life for us, ... to be faithful to the Truth and to be able to see the future glory of our Fatherland.

Has anyone in the history of other Christian nations heard of the height reached by the Russian Elder Seraphim? The Most Blessed Queen of Heaven and Earth herself visited the monk 12 times. At the direction of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Monk Seraphim arranged the Diveevo monastery - this is the fourth lot of the Mother of God on our sinful earth.
The monk spoke much about the great sorrows that would have to befall Russia: “More than half a century will pass, then the villains will raise their heads high.
It will certainly happen, - said the elder, - the Lord, seeing the unrepentant malice of their hearts, will allow their undertakings for a short time, but their illness will turn on their head ...
The Russian land will be stained with rivers of blood, and many people will be beaten for the Great Sovereign and the integrity of His Autocracy; but the Lord will not be completely angry and will not allow the Russian land to be completely destroyed, because in it alone ... Orthodoxy and the remnants of Christian piety are still preserved.

The Monk Seraphim of Sarov is closely connected with the history of the Russian state, but his activities in Russia will continue ahead: The great elder Seraphim spoke to his children about the great Diveevo secret the following: "I, ... a wretched Seraphim, from the Lord God is supposed to live much, more than a hundred years ... But it is pleasing to the Lord God to take me, a wretched Seraphim, until the time from this temporary life and therefore resurrect ... Opening ... this great and terrible secret, the great elder told... that after his resurrection, he will move from Sarov to Diveevo and there he will open the sermon of universal repentance. ... like ears of corn in the field ... "

“We have a prophecy from the greatest saint of God, St. Seraphim of Sarov, that for the sake of the purity of the Orthodoxy she professed, the Lord will have mercy on Russia from all troubles and it will exist until the end of time, as a strong and glorious power ... The Lord will restore Russia, and It will again become great and will be the most powerful stronghold in the world for the coming struggle against the Antichrist himself and all his hordes. (From the book "Russian Ideology" by Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev) "So, the time will come when the power of the theomachists will fall, Russia will be restored to the former Orthodox Kingdom, and the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, guided by the Lord God alone, will be the herald of this historical event and the restorer of our Motherland" .

Elder Barnabas of Gethsemane, shortly before the start of the revolution, predicted trials for Orthodox Russia; he said: "Persecution against the faith will constantly increase. Unheard-of grief and darkness will cover everything and everyone, and the temples will be closed. But when it becomes unbearable, then liberation will come. And the time will come for prosperity. Temples will begin to be erected again. Before the end will flourish."

Sche-hieromonk Aristokliy, an Athos elder, said before his death:"Now, we are living through the pre-antichrist time. And Russia will be saved. Much suffering, much torment. All of Russia will become a prison, and you have to beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to do even the slightest sin, but try to do good, although even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales.

Living in Moscow, ten days before his death, on August 6, 1918, the elder said:
1. God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people look only at Him.
2. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself - this is so that the Russian people trust in the help of the Lord.
3. Hear that riots will start in other countries and like that that in Russia, and about the war, you will hear and there will be wars - now the time is near - but wait until the Germans take up arms, for they are chosen by God as an instrument of punishment for Russia, but also a weapon of deliverance too.
That's when you hear that the Germans take up arms - now the time is near.

And then the elder said that “The Cross of Christ will shine over all the worlds, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone. Some unusual explosion will happen and a miracle of God will appear. And life will be completely different on earth, but for a very long time."

St. Theophan of Poltava (Rector of St. Petersburg Theological Academy), famous abroad, wrote:“You are asking me about the near future and the coming end times. I am not talking about this on my own behalf, but what the Elders revealed to me. The arrival of the Antichrist is approaching and is already very close. But before his arrival, Russia must be reborn, although short term. There will be a king, chosen by the Lord Himself. And he will be a man of ardent faith, deep mind and iron will. This is what was revealed to us about him. And we will wait for the fulfillment of this revelation… It is drawing near.”

“... If we want the salvation and revival of Russia,” writes Archbishop Seraphim Sobolev, “then we must strive in every possible way to ensure that we again have an autocratic tsar, the Anointed of God, who, like the soul of the Russian people, will revive Russia, and it will again become great and glorious for the fear of all her enemies, for the happiness of her people. Let us not be embarrassed by such a widespread opinion that the autocratic system in Russia, as it were, has already outlived its usefulness. This opinion is directed against Holy Scripture in order to destroy His saving influence on us. "The autocratic power in Russia was based on the words of the Holy Scriptures. And these words are the verbs of the eternal life (Jo. 6, 68)."

Father John of Kronstadt says:"Yes, through the sovereign persons, the Lord watches over the good of the kingdoms of the earth and especially the good of His Church ... - and the greatest villain of the world, who will appear in the last time, the Antichrist, cannot appear among us, because of autocratic power .."
"Russia is forged by misfortunes and misfortunes. Be strong, Russia! Repent and pray... The Lord, as a skilled doctor, subjects us to various temptations, sorrows, illnesses and troubles in order to purify us like gold in the crucible. This is the goal of troubles and sorrows, sent to us by God in this life."
“But I also foresee the restoration of a powerful Russia, even stronger and more powerful.
On the bones of such martyrs, remember, as on a strong foundation, a new Rus' will be erected, according to the old model; (i) strong in her faith in Christ God and in the Holy Trinity; and it will be according to the testament of St. Prince Vladimir - as a single Church. The Russian people have ceased to understand what Rus' is: it is the footstool of the throne of the Lord. A Russian person should understand this and thank God for being Russian."

Elder Seraphim Vyritsky was the last confessor of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. This blessed pastor prayed for a thousand days and a thousand nights for the salvation of Russia, repeating the feat of St. Seraphim of Sarov. Here is one of his prophecies, recorded in Vyritsa: “A thunderstorm will pass over the Russian Land. The Lord will forgive the Russian people their sins, and the Holy Cross with divine beauty on God’s temples will shine again. the ringing of all your Holy Rus' from a sinful sleep to salvation will awaken. The terrible hardships of its enemies will subside, Russia will win, and the name of the Russian, Great People, will rumble like thunder throughout the universe!

Rev. Seraphim of Sarov at the beginning of the last century said: “Everything that bears the name of “reformers” and belongs to the “life-improving party” is true Anti-Christianity, which, developing, will lead to the destruction of Christianity on earth and partly of Orthodoxy and will end with the reign of the Antichrist over all countries of the world, except for Russia, which will merge into one whole with other Slavic ones and form a vast national ocean, before which other earthly tribes will be in fear. And this is as true as 2 x 2 = 4. "
"We have the Orthodox faith, a church that has no vice. For the sake of these virtues, Russia will always be glorious and fearful and irresistible to enemies, having faith and piety - the gates of hell will overcome these."

From the history of Russia it is clear that there is a correspondence between the external fate of our Motherland and the internal state of the national spirit. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that just as sin led to a catastrophe, so repentance can lead to the restoration of Russia. The events of the 20th century have shown that the world is facing doom. May the Lord give everyone the courage to wake up in order to understand that they have lost their way in the darkness of seduction. That's when the world will need an unquenchable lamp - Holy Rus', because without it you can't get out of the quagmire. RUSSIA! BE WHAT CHRIST NEEDED YOU! AMEN.

“European peoples have always envied Russia and tried to harm her. Naturally, they will follow the same system for future centuries. But the Russian God is great. We must pray to the great God that He preserve the spiritual and moral strength of our people - the Orthodox faith ... Judging by the spirit of the times and the ferment of minds, it must be assumed that the building of the Church, which has been shaking for a long time, will shake terribly and quickly. There is no one to stop and resist ...
The current retreat is allowed by God: do not try to stop it with your weak hand. Remove yourself, protect yourself from it: and that is enough for you. Familiarize yourself with the spirit of the times, study it in order to avoid its influence as far as possible... Constant reverence for the fates of God is necessary for a correct spiritual living. Into this reverence and obedience to God one must lead oneself by faith. The Providence of Almighty God vigilantly watches over the destinies of the world and every person, and everything that happens is done either by the will or by the permission of God...

No one will change the predestinations of the Providence of God about Russia. The Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church (for example, St. Andrew of Crete in the interpretation of the Apocalypse, chapter 20) predict Russia's extraordinary civil development and power ... And our disasters should be more moral and spiritual.

“If in Russia, for the sake of contempt of the Commandments of God and for the sake of weakening the rules and regulations of the Orthodox Church, and for other reasons, piety becomes impoverished, then the final fulfillment of what is said in the Apocalypse of John the Theologian must inevitably follow”
Rev. Ambrose of Optina, 1871

“Modern Russian society has become a mental desert. serious attitude to thought has disappeared, every living source of inspiration has dried up ... The most extreme conclusions of the most one-sided Western thinkers are boldly presented as the last word enlightenment ... How many signs the Lord showed over Russia, delivering her from the strongest enemies and conquering her nations! And yet, evil is growing. Shall we not come to our senses? The West has punished us, and the Lord will punish us, but we are not taken into account. We got stuck in the mud of the western up to our ears, and all is well. There are eyes, but we don’t see, there are ears, but we don’t hear, and we don’t understand with our hearts ... Having inhaled this hellish fumes into ourselves, we are spinning like crazy, not remembering ourselves.
“If we don’t come to our senses, the Lord will send us foreign teachers to bring us to our senses ... It turns out that we are on the path of revolution. These are not empty words, but a deed affirmed by the voice of the Church. Know, Orthodox, that God cannot be mocked.”
“Evil is growing, malevolence and unbelief are raising their heads, faith and Orthodoxy are weakening… Well, should we sit back? Not! Silent shepherding - what kind of shepherd? We need hot books, defensive against all evils. It is necessary to dress up hacks and oblige them to write... It is necessary to stop the freedom of ideas... To declare disbelief a state crime. Prohibit material views on pain of death!”
Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1894

EVERYONE GOES AGAINST RUSSIA

“The persecution and torment of the first Christians may be repeated ... Hell is destroyed, but not destroyed, and the time will come when it will make itself felt. This time is not far off...
We will live to terrible times, but the grace of God will cover us... The Antichrist is clearly coming into the world, but this is not recognized in the world. The whole world is under the influence of some kind of force that takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. It is an outside force, an evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only an instrument through which it operates. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.
In the Church we don't have living prophets now, but there are signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world... Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is preserved in them.”
Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina, 1910

“Heresies will spread everywhere and deceive many. The enemy of the human race will act by cunning, in order, if possible, to incline even the elect to heresy. He will not rudely reject the dogmas of the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the dignity of the Mother of God, but will imperceptibly distort the teachings of the Church transmitted by the Holy Fathers from the Holy Spirit, and his very spirit and statutes, and these tricks of the enemy will be noticed only by a few, the most skillful in spiritual life. .
Heretics will take power over the Church, they will place their servants everywhere and piety will be neglected ... Therefore, my son, as you see violations Divine rank in the Church, patristic tradition and the order established by God - know that heretics have already appeared, although, perhaps, they will hide their wickedness until the time comes, or they will imperceptibly distort the Divine faith in order to succeed even more, deceiving and luring the inexperienced into the network.
There will be persecution not only against pastors, but also against all the servants of God, for the demon who leads heresy does not tolerate piety. Recognize them, these wolves in sheep's clothing, by their proud disposition and lust for power...
Woe will be in those days to the monks who have committed themselves to property and wealth and are ready to submit to heretics for the love of peace... Do not be afraid of sorrow, but be afraid of pernicious heresy, for it exposes from grace and separates from Christ...
There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be broken. But after all, even on chips and debris, people are saved. And yet, not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its own way, God intended. ..”
Reverend Anatoly of Optina. 1917
“Now we are living through the pre-Tichrist time. The judgment of God over the living has begun and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be touched by this. It started with Russia, and then further ...
And Russia will be saved. Lots of pain, lots of pain. It is necessary to suffer much and much and to repent deeply for everyone. Only repentance through suffering will save Russia. All of Russia will become a prison, and one must beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the smallest thing outweighs goodness in the cup, then God will show His mercy over Russia ...
But first, God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people look only at Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself. This is so that the Russian people trust in the help of the Lord. Hear that in other countries unrest will begin and similar to that in Russia (during the revolution - ed.), And you will hear about wars and there will be wars - now, the time is near. But don't be afraid of anything. The Lord will show His wonderful mercy.
The end will be through China. There will be some unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”
Schieeromonk Aristokliy Athos. 1917-18

“Russia will rise up and will not be materially rich, but rich in spirit, and in Optina there will be 7 more lamps, 7 pillars. If even a few faithful Orthodox remain in Russia, God will have mercy on her. And we have such righteous people.”
Venerable Nektarios of Optina, 1920
“You ask me about the near future and about the coming end times. I do not speak about this from myself, but what was revealed to me by the elders. The coming of the Antichrist is approaching and is already very close. The time separating us from his coming can be measured in years, at most in decades. But before his arrival, Russia must be reborn, albeit for a short time. And the king there will be chosen by the Lord Himself. And he will be a man of ardent faith, deep mind and iron will. This is what was revealed to us about him, we will wait for the fulfillment of this revelation. Judging by many signs, it is coming; except that because of our sins, the Lord will cancel it and change His promise.”
“The monarchy, autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised.
Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne.

Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930

A thunderstorm will pass over the Russian Land.
The Lord will forgive the Russian people their sins
And the Holy Cross of divine beauty
On God's temples will shine again.
Monasteries everywhere will be reopened
And faith in God will unite everyone
And the bell ringing of all our Holy Rus'
From sinful sleep to salvation will awaken.
Dangerous hardships subside
Russia will defeat its enemies.
And the name of the Russian, great people
Like thunder throughout the universe will rumble!
Rev. Seraphim Vyritsky, 1943

“Russian people will repent of mortal sins that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, did not protect the Anointed of God - the king, Orthodox churches and monasteries, a host of martyrs and confessors of saints and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness...
When a little freedom appears, churches will be opened, monasteries will be repaired, then all false teachings will come out. In Ukraine, they will strongly take up arms against the Russian Church, its unity and catholicity. This heretical group will be supported by a godless power. The Metropolitan of Kyiv, who is not worthy of this title, will greatly shake the Russian Church, and he himself will go into eternal perdition, like Judas. But all these slanders of the evil one in Russia will disappear, and there will be a United Russian Orthodox Church ... Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar - God's Anointed One. All schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. Jews from Russia will leave to meet the Antichrist in Palestine, and there will not be a single Jew in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church.
The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus' because it had a terrible and terrible time before Antichrist. A great regiment of confessors and martyrs shone forth… All of them implore the Lord God, the King of Forces, the King of Kings, in the Most Holy Trinity of the glorious Father and Son and Holy Spirit. You need to know for sure that Russia is the lot of the Queen of Heaven and she cares about her and intercedes purely for her. The whole host of Russian saints with the Mother of God are asked to spare Russia.
In Russia there will be a flourishing of faith and the former rejoicing (only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead). Even the Antichrist himself will be afraid of the Russian Orthodox Tsar. Under the Antichrist, Russia will be the most powerful kingdom in the world. And all the other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures
The Third World War will no longer be for repentance, but for extermination. Where it passes, there will be no people. There will be such strong bombs that iron will burn, stones will melt. Fire and smoke with dust will reach the sky. And the earth will burn. They will fight and two or three states will remain. There will be very few people left and then they will start shouting: Down with the war! Let's choose one! Install one king! They will choose a king who will be born of a prodigal virgin of the twelfth tribe. And the Antichrist will sit on the throne in Jerusalem.”
Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov. Late 1940s

RUSSIA WAITS FOR GOD!

In 1959, the journal of the Canadian branch of the Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Job of Pochaevsky's "Orthodox Review" published a vision of an elder, told by him to Bishop Vitaly (Ustinov) of Canada, who later became Metropolitan of ROCOR. This elder saw the Lord in a thin dream, Who said to him: “Behold, I will glorify Orthodoxy in the Russian land, and from there it will shine on the whole world ... The Commune will disappear and scatter like dust from the wind. It is allowed to make in Russia one people with one heart and one soul. Having cleansed it with fire, I will make it My people... Behold, I will stretch out My right hand and Orthodoxy from Russia will shine on the whole world. The time will come when the children there will carry stones on their shoulders to build temples. My hand is strong and there is no such power either in heaven or on earth that would resist it.

In 1992, the book “The Last Destinies of Russia and the World. Brief review of prophecies and predictions. In particular, it contains the following prediction made in a conversation by one of the modern elders in September 1990: “The last days of the West, its wealth, its depravity, have approached. Sudden disaster and ruin will befall him. His wealth is unrighteous, evil, oppresses the whole world, and his debauchery is like the depravity of a new and worse Sodom. Its science and technology are the madness of the new, second Babylon. His pride is apostate, satanic pride. All his deeds are for the needs of the Antichrist. He was possessed by "the assembly of Satan" (Ap. 2.9).
God's fiery wrath on the West, on her Babylon! And you raise your heads and rejoice, sufferers of God and all the good, the humble, who endured evil in their hope in God! Rejoice, long-suffering Orthodox people, the stronghold of the East of God, who suffered according to the will of God for the whole world. To you, for the sake of those chosen in you, God will give strength to fulfill the great and final promise of the Son of his Only Begotten Beloved about the last preaching of His Gospel in the world before the end of the world, as a testimony to all peoples!

The arrogance and gloating of the West about the present disasters of Russia will turn even greater wrath of God on the West. After “perestroika” in Russia, “perestroika” will begin in the West as well, and an unprecedented strife will open there: civil strife, famine, unrest, the fall of power, collapse, anarchy, pestilence, famine, cannibalism - unprecedented horrors of evil and depravity accumulated in the souls. The Lord will give them to reap what they sowed for many centuries and by which they oppressed and corrupted the whole world. And all their wickedness will rise up against them.
Russia withstood its temptation, for it had within itself the faith of martyrdom, the mercy of God and His election. But the West does not have this and therefore will not stand it ... Russia is waiting for God!
The Russian people need only a leader, a shepherd - a Tsar chosen by God. And he will go with him to any feat! Only the Anointed One of God will give the highest and strongest unity to the Russian people!”

Archbishop Seraphim of Chicago and Detroit (1959): “The Lord recently, during my first pilgrimage to Palestine, honored me, a sinner, to get acquainted with some new, hitherto unknown prophecies that are thrown New World on the fate of Russia. These prophecies were accidentally discovered by a learned Russian monk in ancient Greek manuscripts kept in an ancient Greek monastery.
Unknown Holy Fathers of the 8th and 9th centuries, that is, contemporaries of St. John of Damascus, in such, approximately, words, these prophecies captured: “After the God-chosen Jewish people, having betrayed their Messiah and Redeemer to torment and shameful death, lost their chosenness, the latter passed to the Hellenes, who became the second God-chosen people.

The great Eastern Fathers of the Church honed Christian dogmas and created a coherent system of Christian doctrine. This is the great merit of the Greek people. However, to build a harmonious social and state life on this solid Christian foundation, the Byzantine statehood lacks creative forces and opportunities. The scepter of the Orthodox Kingdom falls from the weakening hands of the Byzantine emperors, who failed to realize the symphony of Church and State.

Therefore, to replace the decrepit spiritually chosen Greek people, the Lord Provider will send a third God-chosen people. This people will appear in the North in a hundred or two years (these prophecies were written in Palestine 150-200 years before the Baptism of Rus' - Archbishop Seraphim), will accept Christianity with all their hearts, will try to live according to the commandments of Christ and seek, according to the instructions of Christ the Savior, first of all Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. For this jealousy, the Lord God will love this people and add everything else to them - large expanses of land, wealth, state power and glory.

Due to human weakness, this will more than once fall into great sins. great people and for this we will be punished with no small trials. In a thousand years, even this God-chosen people will waver in faith and, in standing up for the Truth of Christ, will become proud of their earthly power and glory, will stop worrying about seeking the City of the future and will want paradise not in heaven, but on sinful earth.

However, not all of that people will follow this disastrous wide path, although a significant majority of them, especially the stratum leading them. And for this great fall, a terrible fiery test will be sent from above to this people, despising God's ways. Rivers of blood will spill over his land, brother will kill brother, hunger will visit this land more than once and gather its terrible harvest, almost all temples and other shrines will be destroyed or desecrated, many people will die.
Part of this people, not wanting to put up with lawlessness and untruth, will leave their native borders and disperse, like the Jewish people, throughout the world (isn't it said about us, Russian foreigners? - Archbishop Seraphim).

Yet the Lord will not be completely angry with His third chosen people. The blood of thousands of martyrs will cry out to heaven for mercy. The people themselves will begin to sober up and return to God. Finally, the period of purifying trial determined by the Just Judge will pass away, and holy Orthodoxy will again shine with the bright light of rebirth in those northern expanses.

This wondrous light of Christ will illuminate from there and enlighten all the peoples of the world, which will be helped by the providentially sent in advance to the dispersion of this people, which will build the centers of Orthodoxy - the temples of God - all over the world. Christianity will then reveal itself in all its heavenly beauty and fullness. Most of the peoples of the world will become Christians. For some time, a prosperous and peaceful Christian life will reign in the entire sublunar world ...

And then? Then, when the fulfillment of times comes, a complete decline of faith and other things predicted in Holy Scripture will begin all over the world, the Antichrist will appear and, finally, the end of the world will come.

ALL ENEMIES OF ORTHODOXY WILL BE DESTROYED

In 2001, a group of Samara priests and laity, led by their archpastor, Archbishop Sergius, visited the Holy Mountain. Impressions from this pilgrimage were published in the first issue of the Orthodox almanac "Spiritual Interlocutor" for 2002. Often, during meetings with the inhabitants of Svyatogorsk, the discussion turned to the fate of Russia.
In particular, in the Greek monastery of Vatopedi, the 85-year-old elder monk Joseph (Joseph Jr.), a disciple of the famous Joseph the Hesychast, who died in Bose, especially received the Samara bishop. This ascetic now lives in a cell not far from the monastery and takes care of the monastery. Father Kirion, who accompanied Vladyka as an interpreter, said after this meeting: “The elder has grace written on his face. He told us about the fate of the world and the coming terrible events. The Lord endured our iniquities for a long time, as before the great flood, but now the limit of God's long-suffering is coming - the time for purification has come. The cup of God's wrath is overflowing. The Lord will allow suffering for the destruction of the wicked and theomachists - all those who have created modern turmoil, poured out dirt and infected the people. The Lord will allow that they will destroy each other with blinded minds. There will be many victims and blood. But believers do not need to be afraid, although there will be sorrowful days for them, there will be as many sorrows as the Lord allows for purification. There is no need to be afraid of this. Then there will be a surge of piety in Russia and throughout the world. The Lord will cover his. People will return to God.
We are already on the threshold of these events. Now everything begins, then the atheists will have the next stage, but they will not be able to carry out their plans, the Lord will not allow it. The elder said that after a surge of piety, the end of earthly history would be near.”
The elder did not deprive other Russian pilgrims of his conversation either. “We pray,” he told them, “that the Russian people will come to that normal condition, which was before the destruction, because we have common roots and are worried about the situation of the Russian people ...

This deterioration is now the general condition throughout the world. And this state is exactly the limit, after which the wrath of God already begins. We have reached this limit. The Lord only endured by His mercy, and now he will not endure, but by His righteousness he will begin to punish, because the time has come. There will be wars and we will experience great hardships. Now the Jews have seized power all over the world, and their goal is to eradicate Christianity. The wrath of God will be such that all the secret enemies of Orthodoxy will be destroyed. Especially for this, the wrath of God is sent to destroy them.
Trials should not terrify us, we should always have hope in God. After all, thousands, millions of martyrs suffered in the same way, and the New Martyrs suffered in the same way, and therefore we must be prepared for this and not be horrified. Patience, prayer and hope in the Providence of God must be. Let us pray for the revival of Christianity after all that awaits us, so that the Lord would really give us the strength to be reborn. But this harm must be endured ...

Tests have long begun, and we must wait for the big bang. But after that there will already be a revival ... Now the beginning of events, difficult military events. The engine of this evil is the Jews. The devil compels them to start in order to destroy the seed of Orthodoxy in Greece and in Russia. For them, this is the main obstacle to world domination. And they will force the Turks to come here to Greece and begin their actions. And Greece, although it has a government, but as such, in fact, it does not exist, as it were, because it has no power. And the Turks will come here. This will be the moment when Russia, too, will move its forces to push back the Turks.
Events will develop as follows: when Russia comes to the aid of Greece, the Americans and NATO will try to prevent this, so that there is no reunification, no merging of the two Orthodox peoples. They will also raise more forces - the Japanese and other peoples. There will be a great massacre on the territory of the former Byzantine Empire. Only the dead will be about 600 million people. The Vatican will also actively participate in all this in order to prevent the reunification and the growth of the role of Orthodoxy. But this will result in the complete destruction of the Vatican influence, to the very foundation. This is how God's Providence will turn...
There will be God's permission to destroy those who sow temptations: pornography, drug addiction, etc. And the Lord will blind their minds so much that they will destroy each other with gluttony. The Lord will allow it on purpose to do a big purge. As for the one who rules the country, he will not last long, and what is happening now will not be long, and then immediately the war. But after this great purge, there will be a revival of Orthodoxy not only in Russia, but throughout the world, a great upsurge of Orthodoxy.
The Lord will give His favor, grace, just as it was at the beginning, in the first centuries, when people with an open heart went to the Lord. This will last three or four decades, and then the dictatorship of the Antichrist will quickly come. These are the terrible events we must go through, but let them not terrify us, because the Lord will cover His own. Yes, indeed, we are experiencing difficulties, hunger and even persecution, and much more, but the Lord will not leave His own. And those who are placed in power should force their subjects to be more with the Lord, to be more in prayer, and the Lord will cover His own. But after the big purge there will be a big revival…”
The pilgrims also heard about another amazing revelation. Georgy, a novice of the Russian St. Panteleimon Monastery, told them about him, with the blessing of his elders: “The vision was revealed this year to one inhabitant of Mount Athos on the day of the murder royal family July seventeenth. Let his name remain a secret, but this is a miracle that can amaze the whole world. He consulted with the elders of Athos, thinking that perhaps this was spiritual delusion, but they said that this was a revelation.

He saw a huge, enormous ship thrown onto the rocks in semi-darkness. He sees that the ship is called "Russia". The ship tilts and is about to crash off the cliff into the sea. There are thousands and thousands of people on the ship who are in a panic. They already think that the end of their life should come, there is nowhere to wait for help. And suddenly a figure of a rider appears on the horizon, he rushes on a horse right across the sea. The closer the horseman, the more clearly it is seen that this is our Sovereign. He, as always, is dressed simply - in a soldier's cap, in a soldier's uniform, but insignia are visible. His face was bright and kind, and his eyes said that he loved the whole world and suffered for this world, for Orthodox Rus'. A bright beam from the sky illuminates the Sovereign, and at that moment the ship smoothly descends into the water and lays down on its course. On the ship you can see the great rejoicing of the saved people, which cannot be described. Orthodox Slavs do not sell their Motherland.
Washington does not expect recognition of Kosovo from Serbia and does not consider such a step a condition for improving bilateral relations, US Vice President Joseph Biden said during his recent visit to the Slavic country at a joint press conference with Serbian leader Boris Tadic, held after the conclusion of negotiations a-tet and as part of delegations, - reports the Bulletin of the Sovereign Union of Russia.

“I arrived in Serbia with a message: the United States is committed to strengthening cooperation with Serbia and with the entire region. We want to help Serbia become a factor of stability in the entire region,” Biden told reporters. – Belgrade and Washington should find mutual language and overcome existing disagreements, primarily with regard to Kosovo,” Biden said, however, without specifying what the basis for such a compromise could be.
The Vice President also said that the United States "supports the prospect of Serbia's accession to the EU" and intends to "use all resources" to implement such a prospect. Biden said he had "a very open and sincere conversation with President Tadić about renewing US-Serbian relations and the key role that Serbia plays in the region."
However, if we quote Biden's speech in categories accessible to all outside of diplomatic clichés, then the meaning of his speech is as follows. Washington intends to force the Serbian people to come to terms with the rejection of Kosovo, Montenegro and other primordially Serbian territories, for meager credit and debt handouts and the dubious “honor” of accepting Serbia into the European Union, which the peoples of the former socialist countries who recklessly joined the EU already bitterly regret.
But God has other plans for Serbia. The great Serbian elder Thaddeus Vitovnitsky prophesied in early XXI century that the Albanians will soon leave Kosovo. This heart of Serbia will once again return to its composition. And Serbia itself will merge with all the Slavic states into one state headed by the Russian Orthodox Tsar. Recall that Father Thaddeus in 1996 predicted that in three years there would be a war with NATO. This is the basis of our universal confidence in the imminent fulfillment of other prophecies of the Elder. Therefore, Biden's hopes to buy the Serbian people with meager American and Western European handouts are futile. Orthodox Slavs do not sell their Motherland.

“The Tsar will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all heretical bishops”
Saint Theophan of Poltava (1874-1940)

Archbishop Feofan (Bystrov, 1872†1940) of Poltava and Pereyaslavsky: “The general conclusion from all the materials that I have about church life both here and in Russia under the yoke turns out to be terrible. But, of course, among the general darkness there is also a “graceful remnant,” by which the Orthodox faith is still kept both there and here. “Our time is like the last. Salt is suffocating. – In the higher pastors of the Church, there remains a weak, dark, confused, incorrect understanding of the letter, which kills the spiritual life in Christian society, destroys Christianity, which is a deed, not a letter.
It is hard to see who are entrusted into the hands of the sheep of Christ, who are given their guidance and salvation. But this is the permission of God. Let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains!”
The great Russian hierarchs, Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow and Bishop Ignatius (Bryanchaninov), once characterized the state of contemporary church affairs with such words sixty years ago. Is it not with great right that we can repeat these formidable words of theirs at the present time!?” (December 9, 1931).
“Regarding church life, in the speeches of the Savior, it is indicated for us, as one of the most amazing phenomena of the last times, that then the stars will fall from heaven (Matthew 24:29). According to the explanation of the Savior Himself, the stars are the Angels of the Churches, that is, the bishops (Rev. 1:20).

The religious and moral fall of bishops is thus one of the most characteristic signs of recent times. The fall of bishops is especially terrible when they fall away from the dogmas of the faith, or, as the apostle puts it, when they want to change the gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:7).
The Apostle commands such people to pronounce an anathema: whoever preaches to you something other than what you have received, let him be anathema (Gal. 1:9). …
The judgment of God is approaching over the nations and hypocritical Christians, beginning with the heretical and lukewarm hierarchs.” (April 31, 1936).

“The times of quiet, calm are over. Ahead of grief awaits people and severe suffering.
First of all, there will be a world war, as it is said in the Gospel: nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom (Matthew 24:7). For the multiplication of iniquities, for the apostasy, which the Lord called the abomination of desolation, standing in a holy place (Matt. 24:15), in other words, this is the Church [which stopped offering prayers for the Anointed King, for the Incarnate name of God!], for sins [renunciation of his God-anointed Tsar], first of all, the episcopate, and then the priesthood, as well as the ruling persons in the state, for all this the Lord allows [a Jew to scour the Russian Land with a scorpion, plunder its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best people Russians, so that the Russian people come to the mind of Christ] ...
In the Church, disasters will reach the point where only two, many, three hierarchs will remain faithful to God. I don't speak for myself. And what I heard from the inspired elders, I conveyed... The Lord will have mercy on Russia for the sake of a small remnant of true believers. In Russia, the elders said, by the will of the people, the Monarchy, Autocratic power would be restored. Russia will be a powerful State... The Lord has chosen the future Tsar.
This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church [as its Head], removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place. He will be from the Romanov family. Russia will be a powerful state, but only for a “short time”... And then the coming of the Antichrist will come in the world [he will be able to reign in all countries except Russia], with all the horrors of the end described in the Apocalypse...” (Russia before the Second Coming. T2. S. 436.)

But the horrors of the end will take place in all countries, except for the resurrected Russian Tsardom. True, it should be understood that prayers at all services for the "Great Lord and Father of All Russia" in relation to the patriarch, who is only the ruling bishop of the city of Moscow and, as a clergyman, is not endowed with any lordly (Royal) powers by God, in the eyes of our Just Lord mean only one thing: “Lord, hear us and destroy us, as those who have fallen away from the Orthodox faith, for at the head of Your earthly Church we want to see not Your Incarnate Name, but people who have appropriated the titles of Your Anointed Ones and dream of stealing even Their power!” We have every reason to hope that such prayers to the Omniscient and Just God cannot be heard, and such "prayer books" will receive according to their false belief.

And therefore, in fulfillment of their prayers for their own extermination, the blood of these crooked believers will also be shed in Russia, but it will be cleansing blood to eliminate all schisms and heresies. We can only advise these "prayer books" so that their prayers are heard more quickly and their request is fulfilled sooner, try to please Satan by slandering the God-anointed Tsars (for example, the faithful zealots for the establishment of Orthodoxy on the Russian Land of Emperor Peter the Great and Tsar John Vasilyevich the Terrible) and on the faithful Tsar's Serfs (for example, on Grigory (Malyuta) Skuratov and Grigory Rasputin-New).

These prayer books about their "Great Lord and Father" will also greatly please Satan, which means they will bring their destruction closer, and by trying to persecute and defame the now living Tsar's serfs, calling them heretics without proof.
With these attempts, they will provide themselves with very warm places in the depths of hell. So, “prayer books” for your “Great Lord and Father”, go ahead, but remember: God is with us, and not with you, and therefore tremble both about your earthly fate and about the posthumous reward for your false belief! “I don’t know anything about the Eighth Ecumenical Council yet. I can only say in the words of St. Theodore the Studite: "Not every assembly of bishops is a council, but only an assembly of bishops who stand in Truth." A truly Ecumenical Council does not depend on the number of bishops gathered for it, but on whether it will philosophize or teach "Orthodox".
If he departs from the truth, he will not be universal, even if he calls himself the name of the universal. The famous "robber cathedral" was at one time more numerous than many ecumenical councils, and yet it was not recognized as ecumenical, but received the name "robber's cathedral"! (June 11, 1930).

“When someone was ordained to the priesthood, the Monk Lavrenty of Chernigov bitterly shed tears. He was once asked why he was crying so much.
The elder replied that many of these priests would perish for their negligence and negligent spiritual life! [The majority of the priesthood will betray the holy Church and lead the people.]. They will not think about their own salvation, much less about others.”
Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov.

Archbishop Theophan of Poltava (1930): “I am answering your questions. The first question concerns your inner life: “Is it possible to have a negative feeling towards the enemies of the Russian people and the Orthodox Church, or do you need to suppress this feeling in yourself, repeating the words of God: Vengeance is mine, I will repay?” It is natural to have a negative feeling towards the enemies of God and towards the enemies of the Russian People. On the contrary, it is not natural not to have this feeling. But only this feeling should be right. And it will be correct when it has a principled, and not personal, character, that is, when we “hate” the enemies of God and the enemies of the Russian People not for their personal insults to us, but for their hostile attitude towards God and the Church and for their inhuman treatment of Russian people. Therefore, we must fight these enemies.
And if we do not fight, then for our lukewarmness we will be punished by the Lord. Then He will reward His vengeance not only to them, but also to us, ”moreover, it is very possible with their hands.
“Oh, Russia, Russia! .. How terribly she sinned with the goodness of the Lord. The Lord God deigned to give Russia what he did not give to any people on earth. And this people turned out to be so ungrateful. He left Him [and His Incarnate Name – the God-Anointed King], denied Him [and His Incarnate Name], and therefore the Lord gave him over to demons for torment.

The demons entered the souls of people, and the people of Russia became possessed, literally demon-possessed. And all that we have heard terrible about what has been and is being done [and now!] in Russia: about all the blasphemy, about militant atheism and theomachism - all this comes from being possessed by demons. But this obsession will pass by the inexpressible mercy of God, the people will be healed. The people will turn to repentance [in the sin of perjury to their God-anointed Kings, to the right] faith. Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But that [warm-cold, tsareborsk] Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. The great elders said that Russia would be reborn, the people themselves would restore the Orthodox Monarchy. God Himself will put a strong King on the Throne. He will be a great reformer and He will have a strong Orthodox faith. He will bring down the unfaithful bishops of the Church, He Himself will outstanding personality with a pure, holy soul. He will have a strong will. He will be God's Chosen One, obedient to Him in everything." (Betts R., Marchenko V. Confessor of the royal family. M. 1994. S. 89.)

“You ask me about the near future and about the coming end times. I do not speak from myself, but I communicate the revelations of the elders. The coming of the Antichrist is approaching and very near. The time separating us from him [from his coming] must be counted as years, or at most several decades. But before the coming of the Antichrist, Russia must still recover, of course, for a short time.
In Russia, the Monarchy, Autocratic Power will be restored. And in Russia there must be a Tsar, pre-elected by the Lord Himself. He will be a man of fiery faith, great mind and iron will. So about Him openly. Let us wait for the fulfillment of the open." (May 25, 1925).

From the life of St. Cyril the White, the miracle worker of Novoezersky: “The year 1532 was the last year of the life of St. Cyril. ... He turned to the brethren: “My brethren and fathers! This [in our] time is already a rebellion in people [destruction of the power of the Monarch], there will be a great misfortune on our land and great anger on people, and they will fall from the edge of the sword, and they will be captivated ... as the Lord showed me.

Elder Dionysius asked the Monk to reveal what would happen after that. “Now I saw the Tsar,” said Cyril, “on the Throne sitting and before him standing two brave youths, having royal crowns on their heads. And the Lord gave them into their hands weapons against the opposite, and their enemies will be defeated, and all nations will bow down, and our Kingdom will be pacified by God and arranged. But you, brethren and fathers, pray with tears to God and His Most Pure Mother of God for the power of the Kingdom of the Russian Land.” (Lives of the Saints. Book. Additional second. M. Syn. Type. 1916. S. 213-214.)
It seems that it will not be a sin against the truth, if by the Tsar we mean the coming Tsar-winner, and by the youths who have royal crowns, the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. And the royal crowns on their heads mean that the Tsar-winner, the Chosen One of God from the Royal House of Romanov, delegates to them, the chosen people, part of His Royal power to fulfill their duties of leading the Governing Synod and the Governing Senate.

Blessed Pelagia of Ryazan predicted: “The Antichrist will come to power and begin the persecution of Orthodoxy. [The persecution of Orthodoxy will only be outside of Russia, for although the servants of the Antichrist will try to establish the power of the Antichrist in Russia, the Lord will not allow his power in Russia. And therefore, in Russia itself, before the discovery of the Tsar-victor, only the Krivoveri will suffer, because they dare to fight with those in power. All those who are expected will be destroyed, first of all those infected with the heresies of papism and tsarism. Practically all the crooked clergy will perish, for their environment provides abundant food for these heresies.] And then the Lord will reveal His Tsar in Russia. He will be of the Royal family and will be a strong defender of our Faith!
... To serve this King will gather a multitude of people from all over the earth. He will not allow Antichrist power in Russia, and [the Tsar] Himself will give an account to God for each of His loyal subjects. When the Lord gives us this smartest person, life will be good!” (Pelagia Ryazanskaya. Issue 4. P. 22)

Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov (1868-1950): “Russian people will repent of mortal sins: that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, that they did not protect the Anointed Tsar of God, Orthodox churches and monasteries and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness. … [“But there will be a spiritual explosion!”] Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will constitute a mighty Kingdom.
The Orthodox Tsar, God's Anointed One, will nourish him. The king will be from God. All schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. [“Jews from Russia will leave to meet the Antichrist in Palestine, and there will be not a single Jew in Russia.”] There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church. The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus' because it had a terrible and terrible time before Antichrist.

... It is necessary to know for sure that Russia is the lot of the Queen of Heaven and She cares about her and intercedes for her purely. The whole host of Russian saints with the Mother of God are asked to spare Russia. In Russia there will be a flourishing of faith and the former rejoicing, only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead. The Russian Orthodox Tsar will be feared even by the Antichrist himself. Under Antichrist Russia will be the most powerful Kingdom in the world.

And all other countries, except for Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures. Russia repent of the sin of renunciation of its God-anointed Tsar; glorify God and the Tsar-redeemer Nicholas II, who redeemed with His blood this sin of perjury of the Russian people; rejoice and rejoice in your coming resurrection, as the Orthodox Kingdom under the autocratic hand of the victorious Tsar!

The above text is taken from chapter 9.1. and from chapter 9.2. works by Roman Sergiev
"The expiatory sacrifice of the holy Tsar Nicholas became the key to the inevitable resurrection of Tsarist Russia."

About the future of Russia

Elder Anatoly Optinsky, in the very first days of the revolution, in February 1917, prophetically described the future of Russia:"There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be wrecked. But people are saved on chips and debris. A great miracle of God will be revealed, yes ... And all the chips and debris, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite and the ship will be recreated in its beautiful and will go his own way, ordained by God. So this will be a miracle that is obvious to everyone.
The Monk Seraphim of Sarov is closely connected with the history of the Russian state, but his activities in Russia will continue ahead: The great elder Seraphim spoke to his children about the great Diveyevo mystery as follows: ... But it is pleasing to the Lord God to take me, the wretched Seraphim, until the time from this temporary life and therefore resurrect ... Having revealed ... this great and terrible secret, the great elder told ... that after his resurrection, he was from Sarov will go to Diveevo and there will open the sermon of universal repentance. And for that sermon, and even more so for the miracle of the resurrection, a great multitude will gather to the people from all ends of the earth ... like ears of corn in the field ... "

Batiushka often repeated conversations about the Antichrist. Such words spoke: "There will be a time when they will go and sign for one king on earth. And they will strictly rewrite people ..."


Angels serve instead of unworthy clergymen, Father said. Bishops and priests, lovers of shortening church services, will go to eternal fire, and believers will be saved by prayer, fasting and good deeds
The priest warned: “So that we are faithful to the Moscow Patriarchate and in no case enter into any schism. That those bishops and priests who were led into confusion did great harm to themselves and destroyed many Orthodox souls. that it is not in the diptych of the Orthodox Churches. Our long-suffering Church has endured in a godless state. To her honor and glory and eternal praise! Our country is not foreign and our Church is not foreign! Our country is permanent! We have no foreign churches..." Our reverend Father Lavrenty Chernigovsky said that when the Last Judgment comes, it will last so long, like a "six psalm" in a singsong voice.

Venerable Elder Lawrence of Chernigov
... Russian people will repent of mortal sins: that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, that they did not protect the Anointed of God Tsar, Orthodox churches and monasteries, and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness. But there will be a spiritual explosion! And Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar of God, the Anointed One. Thanks to him, all schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church. The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus' because it already had a terrible time before Antichrist. The Russian Orthodox Tsar-Autocrat will be afraid even of the Antichrist himself. And all other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures. In Russia, however, there will be a flourishing of faith and rejoicing, but only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead....

Pleasure of God Pelagia of Ryazan The blessed maiden Pelagia has long said that this power will change, that before the Antichrist there will be reforms... She also said: and now these... communists will come back!.. What a capitalist, what a communist, everyone takes care of himself... Only the Tsar cares about the people. God will choose him! And almost all the people, the corrupted people right now, will choose the Antichrist for themselves! .. This will happen! .. As soon as the righteous will be saved! ..

Blessed old woman Pelageya of Ryazan
The God-loving reader is offered a series of brochures about the blessed old woman Pelagia of Ryazan, compiled according to the recollections of many people. The publication was prepared according to the text published in the almanac "Eternal Life" N 18 for 1996.
... "Blessed Pelageya the perspicacious predicted that the Antichrist would appear from America. And the whole world would bow to him, except for the royal Orthodox Church, which would first be in Russia! And then the Lord would give His little flock victory over the Antichrist and his kingdom. .... sim - won!!!" Editor-compiler - Kuznetsov Vadim Petrovich. 1996

Rev. Nil the Myrrh-streaming (+1651) about the last times.
Rev. Nil Myrrh-streaming (+1651) about the last times, about the Antichrist and his filthy seal. How the Antichrist will deceive and deceive people. Characteristics of the people of the last time.

Schema-nun Nila "Prophecies about Russia"
... It is forbidden for women to wear men's clothes, and men - women's. For this, you will have to answer to the Lord. Don't wear it yourself and stop others. And know that women who wear trousers will be drafted into the army during the coming war - and few will return alive ...
...Children, the Mother of God will not leave Russia, She loves Rus', will protect her, save her. Russia is the country of the Mother of God, and She will not let her be destroyed, she will intercede for us. After all, she loves Russia so much! Russia will rise and become a great spiritual country...
...Stocks will not save, because hunger will not start immediately. Every year it will become more and more difficult, crops will fall, less and less land will be cultivated. Everyone needs to try to be closer to the ground. Life in big cities will be very difficult. There will be such a famine that people will climb into houses to find something to eat. They will break glass windows, break doors, kill people for food. Weapons will be in the hands of many, and human life will cost nothing.
...At the coming of the Antichrist there will be such a famine that there will be no cereals. It will be necessary to prepare a linden leaf, nettle and other herbs, dry, and then brew - this broth will be enough for food. ... Mother said that by the end of time there would be a sea in the place of St. Petersburg. Moscow will partially fail, there are many voids underground ...
... Mother of the holy apostle and evangelist John the Theologian loved more than all the saints. She said that the holy apostle loves Russia and will come to us in the time of the Antichrist...

Memoirs of the servant of God Nikolay about his own aunt Gradislava and her spiritual mother, nun Catherine
When the war of 1941 began, mother said: “Granyushka, this is not that war, the last war will be two or three months and peace will be concluded in Vologda. There will be no Petersburg, Minsk, Moscow, Kyiv. Vologda will be the capital. don’t leave, not a single bomb will fall on Vologda, Reverend Gerasim will plead for it, and I for Pechatkino.

Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin, + 6.4.1982)"... The elder said that the Lord would allow the loss of vast lands granted to Russia, because we ourselves could not use them worthily, but only polluted, spoiled ... But the Lord would leave behind Russia those lands that became the cradle of the Russian people and were the basis of the Great Russian state.This is the territory of the Grand Moscow Principality of the XVI century with access to the Black, Baltic and North seas. Russia will not be rich, but it will still be able to feed itself and force itself to be reckoned with. To the question: "What will happen to Ukraine and Belarus?" The elder replied that everything was in the hands of God. Those who in these nations are against an alliance with Russia - even if they consider themselves believers - become servants of the devil. The Slavic peoples have a common destiny, and the reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves will still say their weighty word - they, together with a host of Russian New Martyrs, will beg new union three fraternal peoples...

The Monk Theodosius (Kashin, + 1948), Elder of Jerusalem:"Was that the war [the Great Patriotic War]? Here there will be a war. It will start from the east. And then from all sides, like pruzi [locusts], enemies will crawl to Russia. This will be a war! .."

Mother Alipia of Kyiv... “Don’t leave Kyiv,” mother punished, “there will be hunger everywhere, but there is bread in Kyiv.” And the deeper you immerse yourself in the life of Kyiv ascetics of piety, the more you are convinced: there are so many shrines here that will nourish you like daily bread in a difficult hour! “The Lord will not allow his people to die, he will keep the faithful on one prosphora,” mother prophesied ... ... “The war will begin against the apostles Peter and Paul,” said mother. You will lie: there is an arm, there is a leg. This will happen when the body is taken out.”
“States will differ in terms of money,” the old woman opened another time. This will not be a war, but the execution of peoples for their rotten state. Dead bodies will lie in mountains, no one will undertake to bury them. Mountains, hills will disintegrate, will be razed to the ground. People will run from place to place. There will be many bloodless martyrs who will suffer for the Orthodox Faith.”
... The day of the apostles Peter and Paul, according to her reckoning, fell in autumn. In November 1987, mother said: "Well, here are Peter and Paul." The difference was three months. The date was also named a year ago. It turns out that in the eyes of God, earthly time is ahead of reality by a year and three months. Is this not an indication that time has shortened? “The day will turn like an hour, a week like a day, a month like a week, and a year like a month,” prophesied St. Nile the Myrrh-streaming. The elements themselves will rush to finish the number prophesied by God for the 8th number of centuries (that is, the eighth thousand years from the creation of the world)...
... We go across the road without crossing, the cars are standing in their tracks. “Soon these turtles will completely die,” said mother... ...The elders say that because of the ferocity of the Antichrist, the Lord will shorten the last 3.5 years, they will fly by like one year. Mother Alipiy confirmed: "Otherwise, no one is saved." Today the days are rushing by at breakneck speed. The hour hand circles faster than usual. Seven years can pass on earth when in the eyes of God there is only a year. A recent conference of mathematicians officially established that for some time now time has been moving faster. Compressed, concentrated, it is so dense that it can hurt. The funnel of events is swift, the people caught in their whirlpool are aging before our eyes...

THREE FURIOUS YOGAS. EVIL IS GROWING...

“The monarchy, autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord has chosen the future tsar. He will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. , with few exceptions, almost everyone will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen.
Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne."

“But the Lord will not be completely angry and will not allow the Russian land to be destroyed to the end, because in it alone Orthodoxy and the remnants of Christian piety are still predominantly preserved ... We have the Orthodox faith, the Church, which has no vice.
For the sake of these virtues, Russia will always be glorious and fearful and irresistible to enemies, having faith and piety - the gates of hell will not overcome these.
"Before the end of time, Russia will merge into one great sea with other Slavic lands and tribes, it will form one sea or that vast universal ocean of the people, about which the Lord God spoke from ancient times through the lips of all the saints:" Terrible and invincible Kingdom of All Russia, pan-Slavic - Gog and Magog before whom all nations will tremble." And all this is the same as twice two makes four, and without fail, as God is holy, who from ancient times foretold about him and his formidable dominion over the earth.
By the combined forces of Russia and other nations, Constantinople and Jerusalem will be filled. With the division of Turkey, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... "

Rev. Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32 ...

Batiushka often repeated conversations about the Antichrist. Such words spoke: "There will be a time when they will go and sign for one king on earth. And they will strictly rewrite people ..."
The Antichrist will come from a prodigal virgin - a Jewish woman of the twelfth tribe of "fornication". Already as a boy, he will be very capable and intelligent, and especially since then, when he, being a boy of 12 years old, walking with his mother in the garden, will meet with Satan, who, coming out of the abyss itself, will enter him. The boy will startle with fright, and Satan will say: "Do not be afraid, I will help you." From this lad, the “antichrist” will mature in the form of a human. At his coronation, when the “Symbol of Faith” will be read, he will not let it be read correctly, where there will be words for Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, he will renounce this, but recognize only himself. And at the same time, the Patriarch will exclaim that this is the Antichrist, and for this he will be put to death.
At the coronation, the "antichrist" will be wearing gloves. And when he takes them off to cross himself, the Patriarch will notice that he does not have nails on his fingers, but claws, and this will serve to greater assurance that this is the Antichrist. The prophets Enoch and Elijah will descend from heaven, who will also explain to all people and exclaim: "This is the Antichrist, do not believe him."
Some Jews who truly lived under the Law of Moses will not accept the seal of Antichrist. They will wait, keep an eye on his actions. They know that their ancestors did not recognize Christ as the Messiah, but even here God will give it so that their eyes will be opened, and they will not accept the seal of Satan, and will recognize Christ and will reign with Christ.
And until the number of fallen angels is replenished, the Lord will not come to judge. But lately, the Lord also counts the living, written in the book of Life, among the Angels of the missing count, "fallen away."

Angels serve instead of unworthy clergymen, Father said. Bishops and priests, lovers of shortening church services, will go to the eternal fire, and the faithful will be saved by prayer, fasting and good deeds. who were led into turmoil, did great harm to themselves and destroyed many Orthodox souls. Beware of the so-called foreign church and know that it does not stand in the diptych of Orthodox Churches. Our long-suffering Church has endured in a godless state. To her is honor and glory and eternal praise! Our the country is not foreign and our Church is not foreign! Our country is permanent! We have no foreign churches..."
Our Reverend Father Lavrenty of Chernigov said that when the Last Judgment comes, it will last so long, like a "six psalm" in a singsong voice.

Russian people will repent of mortal sins: that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, that they did not protect the Anointed of God Tsar, Orthodox churches and monasteries and all Russian saints. They despised piety and loved demonic wickedness.
But there will be a spiritual explosion! And Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar of God, the Anointed One.
Thanks to him, all schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church. The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus' because it already had a terrible time before Antichrist.
The Russian Orthodox Tsar-Autocrat will be afraid even of the Antichrist himself.
And all other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures.
In Russia, however, there will be a flourishing of faith and rejoicing, but only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead...

Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin, + 6.4.1982) "... The elder said that the Lord would allow the loss of vast lands granted to Russia, because we ourselves could not adequately use them, but only polluted, spoiled ... But the Lord will leave for Russia those lands that became the cradle of the Russian people and were the basis of the Great Russian state.This is the territory of the Grand Moscow Principality of the 16th century with access to the Black, Baltic and North Seas.Russia will not be rich, but still be able to feed itself and make itself reckon with. question: "What will happen to Ukraine and Belarus?" The elder replied that everything is in the hands of God. Those who in these peoples are against an alliance with Russia - even if they consider themselves believers - become servants of the devil. The Slavic peoples have a common destiny, and the reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves will still say their weighty word - they, together with the host of the New Martyrs of Russia, will beg for a new Union of three fraternal peoples ... ".

The Monk Theodosius (Kashin, + 1948), Elder of Jerusalem: “Was that a war [the Great Patriotic War]? Here there will be a war. It will begin from the east. there will be war!
..The elders say that because of the ferocity of the Antichrist, the Lord will shorten the last 3.5 years, they will fly by like one year. Mother Alipiy confirmed: "Otherwise, no one is saved." Today the days are rushing by at breakneck speed. The hour hand circles faster than usual. Seven years can pass on earth when in the eyes of God there is only a year. A recent conference of mathematicians officially established that for some time now time has been moving faster. Compressed, concentrated, it is so dense that it can hurt. The funnel of events is swift, the people caught in their whirlpool are aging before our eyes...
...According to the testimony of the Holy Fathers, the Last Judgment, which ends the story, by earthly standards, will also not last long, as long as the Six Psalms at Matins. Everyone who comes to the Judgment will have the deeds that he did written on his forehead, and all the Books of Life will be opened. Mother used to show half a finger: "That's how much time is left, and if we don't repent, it won't happen either." The world is moving by leaps and bounds to the final, and it depends only on us what this final will be...

Prophetic Instructions About the Church for the End Times

Prophetic Instructions of Archbishop Anthony, Golynsky and Mikhailovsky
Before his death, Vladyka ordered his spiritual children and cell-attendants to take care of themselves in the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, warning, however, that there would come a time when it would be impossible to go to those churches where the Creed would be changed, where they would switch to the “new-style” calendar, or would read the Gospel and the Apostle on Russian, not in Church Slavonic.
At the same time, he noted that if at least three priests perform all services correctly, then the Church has stood, and it will stand, since the Lord said that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

Prophecy of the Monk Leonty Ivanovsky
The Monk Leonty Ivanovsky said that the communists would come to power again and destroy monasticism. Monks and nuns will be exterminated without exception, they will be put under the knife and a terrible persecution will be raised against Orthodox Christians. Then the hierarchies will enter into a direct and open bond with the Catholics and will plant obvious heretics in churches. The Mother of God in the altars of these temples Herself will invisibly flip the thrones and it will not be possible to go to those temples.
And then the Lord will lead the Chinese against us. He also said that in the last days, the priests will almost all be apostates from God and their necks will be like those of fattened bulls. He also said: "To whom-nism, and to whom - the Kingdom of heaven."
Rev. Leonty Ivanovsky also warned that the last census should not be evaded, since it would be a religious act.
It will be necessary to indicate belonging to the Church. Our Church is Christian Catholic, and there will be another column next to it: "Christian Catholic". You can't go wrong here! When the ruling bishop of the Ivanovo diocese confiscated pre-revolutionary books in the Church of the Archangel Michael, Archimandrite Leonty (Stasevich) said with tears that not only we, but the books themselves were crying, that they would not be used for service, which at the same time had a special grace. (recorded according to the memories of the spiritual children of the saint)

Prophecy of the shegumen Jerome of Sanaksar
The spiritual daughter of the shegumen Jerome of Sanaksar begged his blessing to store food in case of predicted famine, war, in times of disaster. And he answered her: "Grace, stock up on grace." And she again insisted on blessing her to store food. Seeing her stubbornness, he said to her: “Well, I bless you. Store crackers and honey. She rushed to store biscuits in sacks, honey in flasks.
But this time he also blessed her to stock up on grace, since honey means prayer, and bread means communion.

From the book "Byzantine Prophecies", Moscow 2000, supplement to the almanac "Eternal Life"

In the prophecies of the Hieromartyr Cosmas the Equal-to-the-Apostles (XVIII century), the following is said about this:
“The time will come when our enemies will take everything from us, even the ashes from your hearth. But do not lose faith, like others. (…) We will see people flying through the air like black birds and dropping fire on the ground. People will run to the graves and shout: "Come out, you dead, let us lie down in your graves"
(Prophecies about the last times of the holy martyr Cosmas. "The Angel of Balaam" No. 2, 1992)

From a letter written by Rev. Seraphim of Sarovsky to N.A. Motovilov:“The Slavs are loved by God for keeping the true faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to the end. At the time of the Antichrist, they will completely reject and do not recognize him as the Messiah, and for that they will be rewarded with the great blessing of God: there will be an omnipotent language on earth, and there will be no other kingdom more omnipotent Russian - Slavic on Earth (“Literary Study”, Book 1. 1991 pp. 134).

From the prophecy of the Monk Abel about the last Tsar - the winner:“And the Great Prince will rise in exile from the (Romanov) family, standing for the sons of his people. This will be the chosen one of God, and theology will be at his head. It will be one and understandable to everyone, the very Russian heart will smell it. His appearance will be sovereign and bright, and no one will say: "The king is here or there," but everyone: "This is he." The will of the people will submit to the mercy of God, and they themselves will confirm their calling. His name is thrice destined in Russian history. Holy Bible speaks of him like this: “Vlad, having a bow, and a crown was given to him; and he went out victorious, and to conquer” (Rev. 6:2), “he judges righteously and fights. From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which to strike the nations. He shepherds them with a rod of iron." (Rev. 19; 11.15).

The holy prophet Jeremiah predicted this:“And the Lord said to me: from the north, disaster will be revealed on all the inhabitants of this land. For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord, and they will come, and each one will set up his throne (...) in the cities of Judah. And I will pronounce My judgments on them [the cities] for all their iniquities, because they forsook Me” (Jer. 1; 14-16).

Vladika Feofan (Bystrov) reported on the prophecies of his confessor, Elder Alexy of Valaam:“In Russia, the elders said, by the will of the people, the Monarchy, Autocratic power will be restored. The Lord has chosen the future King. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind of iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place. In the female line, he will be from the Romanov family. Russia will be a powerful state, .(…) And in Russia there must be a Tsar, pre-elected by the Lord Himself. He will be a man of fiery faith, great mind and iron will. So it's open about him. (…) Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy, which was before, will no longer be. (…) God Himself will put a strong King on the Throne. He will be a great reformer and will have a strong Orthodox faith. He will overthrow the unfaithful hierarchs of the Church, he himself will be an outstanding personality, with a pure, holy soul. He will have a strong will. He will come from the Romanov dynasty on his mother's side. He will be God's chosen one, obedient to Him in everything."
(Confessor of the Royal Family. St. Theophan of Poltava. M. 1994, pp. 111-112, 272 - 273, 89).

From the life of St. Cyril Bely, the miracle worker of Novoezersky:“The year 1532 was the last year of the life of St. Cyril. (...) When he died, the brethren (...) looked with great sorrow at their fading mentor. (...) After two hours, he (...) again turned to the brethren: “My brothers and fathers! This [in our] time ALREADY REVOLT IN PEOPLE [destruction of the power of the Monarch], there will be a great misfortune on our land and great anger on people, and they will fall from the edge of the sword, and they will be captivated (...), as the Lord showed me.

Elder Dionysius asked the monk to reveal what would happen after that. “Now I saw the Tsar,” said Cyril, “sitting on the throne and in front of him standing two brave youths, having royal crowns on their heads. And the Lord gave them into their hands weapons against the opposite, and their enemies will be defeated, and all nations will bow down, and our kingdom will be pacified by God and arranged. But you, brethren and fathers, pray with tears to God and His Most Pure Mother of God for the power of the kingdom of the Russian land ... ".
(Lives of the Saints. M. 1916. P. 213-214).

Prophecies about Russia

"The twelfth flu is coming..." / 21.01.2006"The twelfth flu is coming. This terrible disease and there will be no escape from it. You have remedies for plague and cholera, but not for this flu. Don't blame anyone for this but yourself. This is the wrath of my Son because of your sins and because you are not corrected...
"Blagovest" (Samara) / 14.03.2003

Russia has 7 years to repent / 01/21/2006
After being killed Royal Martyrs, the Russian people were visited by madness. People in an insane obsession commit unthinkable sins. You need to repent for your entire family, for the living and the dead, and ask for forgiveness. Because unrepentant and unforgiven sins fall on our children, and it is very difficult for them to bear the sins of our ancestors...
"Blagovest", Samara / 30.05.2003

"There will be a storm..." Prophecies and predictions about the future fate of Russia / 01/21/2006
About the fate of the Russian state, in prayer, there was a revelation to me about three fierce yokes: the Tatar, the Polish, and the future one - the Jew. The Jew will scour the Russian land like a scorpion, plunder its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best Russian people. This is the permission of God, the wrath of the Lord for the renunciation of Russia from the holy Tsar ... "
Archpriest Nikolai Guryanov about Putin and Russia: “His power will be linear…” / 21.01.2006
This event happened several years ago, but even today not a day goes by that I don’t remember about it, about the prophetic words of the elder Fr. Nikolai Guryanov about the next ruler of Russia after B. Yeltsin. And it was like this...
www.blagoslovenie.ru / 31.12.2002

They stayed and we went / 21.01.2006 I saw the beauty of God, in the distance, in front of a verdant beautiful garden, like a forest, the rays of the sun made their way through the trees and everyone was heading there along the same road. They walked with lamps: in front of the Patriarch, Bishops, clergy, monastics, among them we are, and behind us are the laity ...
"Orthodox Rus'", No. 56, 2002 / 01/21/2002

Schema-nun Nila - Prophecies about Russia / 01/21/2006
Where there is holiness, the enemy climbs there. Mother predicted that times would come when, as in the days after the October Revolution, Christians would be driven into prisons, reservations and drowned in the sea. - When the persecution of believers begins, hurry to leave with the first stream of those leaving for exile, cling to. wheel trains, but don't stay. "Those who leave first will be saved...
"New Age", No. 1(17), 2001 / 01/21/2001

Appeal of St. Anatoly of Optina / 21.01.2006
My child, know that in the last days, as the apostle says, hard times will come. And so, as a result of the impoverishment of piety, heresies and schisms will appear in the churches, and then it will not happen, as St. Fathers, on the thrones of hierarchs and in monasteries are experienced and skillful people in the spiritual life... S. Fomin, "Russia before the Second Coming" / 21.01.2000

On the future of Russia / 21.01.2006 Rus' has always recognized itself as a sinner and has always risen to holiness. Walk along the paths of pilgrimage routes that have trampled the entire Russian Land, and you will learn the truth about the soul of our people...
"Tsar-Bell", No. 2 / 05.05.1990

Revelation - a vision of the Diveevo old woman
In 1917, when the Sovereign was still alive and reigning.

The old woman ... looks and sees
Making an honest prayer
Next to Christ - the Passion-bearer of the King Himself.
His face is mournful; sadness on a sovereign face;
Instead of a crown, he wears a crown of thorns;
Drops of blood quietly fall from the brow;
Thought deep in the folds of the eyebrows lay ...
Addition to the visa-free regime with Israel established on September 20, 2009 St. Lawrence of Chernigov predicted to his children back in 1948: “The time will come when it will be possible to freely enter and leave Israel. But there will be nothing to do there, because even the elect will be seduced there.

Alexandra: Now, on the Soyuz satellite TV channel, I heard a prophecy in the early works of M.Yu. Lermontov: "A year will come, a black year for Russia, when the crown will fall from the tsar." Most of our Russian writers were prophets. Well, in what country of the world can you still find this! Holy Fathers about Antichrist

St. Ephrem the Syrian. Word on the coming of the Lord, on the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist / 06/23/2005
Great is the feat, brethren, in those times, especially for the faithful, when signs and wonders will be performed by the serpent with great power, when in terrible ghosts he will show himself like God, will fly through the air, and all demons, like angels, will ascend before the tormentor . For he will cry out with strength, changing his appearance and immeasurably frightening all people ...
Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, 1993 / 01/01/1998

Hieromartyr Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome. About Christ and the Antichrist. Part 1. / 23.06.2005
In this case, it will be quite fair if we turn to the Holy Scripture itself and, on the basis of it, show: what and from where will the coming of the Antichrist? In which certain period and time will the wicked one be revealed? Where will he come from and from what nationality? What is his name, which is determined by the number in Scripture?...

Hieromartyr Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome. About Christ and the Antichrist. Part 2. / 23.06.2005
All this, drawing from the Holy Scriptures as a fragrant (source), and weaving (on the basis of it) a heavenly wreath - out of love for the Lord, I offer you, my brother, dear Theophilus, in short words with the goal that you, preserving with faith what is written and looking through what is to be, could keep yourself unstumbling, both before God and people, waiting for the blessed hope and the appearance of God and our Savior ...
St. Petersburg: Brotherhood of St. Gennady Novgorodsky, 1996 / 01/01/1996

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Announcement Fifteenth / 06/23/2005
But we are looking for our sign regarding the coming; belonging to the Church, we are looking for a sign of the Church. The Savior says: and then many will be offended, and betray each other, and hate each other (Mt. 24:10). If you hear that Bishops go against Bishops even to the point of bloodshed, clerks against clerks, and laity against laity, then do not be embarrassed: for this is foretold in Scripture... Synodal Library of the Moscow Patriarchate, 1991 / 01/01/1991

Saint Nil the Myrrh-streaming and his prophecies about last destinies of our world / 23.06.2005
"The love of money is the forerunner of the Antichrist... Everything that economically and providentially prepared and prepares 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..."
"Orthodox Rus'" - church and public body, No. 22 / 28.11.1989

Prophecies of Russian saints

Prophecies of the Rev. Lawrence of Chernigovsky about Antichrist / 06/23/2005
"... The abbess of the Domnitsa monastery with two cell attendants went to Father Lavrenty for tea. And at dinner he said: - You and I, mother abbess, will not live to see the Antichrist, but these your cell attendants will live! It was in 1948. Both the nuns were born in 1923. Nun N told...” Excerpts from the article “Reverend Elder” (Newspaper “Eternal Life”, May 1996) / 06/23/2005
Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov (1868-1950) about our time and the coming Antichrist / 06/23/2005

We offer you a collection of Teachings and Prophecies of Elder Lavrenty of Chernigov, compiled on the basis of currently published biographies and publications about this lamp of Orthodoxy of our time. How important it is in our time for the salvation of the soul to remember, to bear in mind and heart these most precious predictions and instructions of the great lamp and prayer book of our Rev. Lawrence of Chernigov. And we see how many of his prophecies are already happening and coming true before our eyes, and how it is therefore necessary for us to be attentive and careful so as not to fall into the trap of the coming Antichrist and Satan.

St. Theophan of Poltava (1873 - 1940), confessor of the Royal Family. "He will come from the Romanov dynasty." Oh, Russia, Russia!.. How terribly she sinned before the goodness of the Lord. The Lord God deigned to give Russia what he did not give to any people on earth. And this people turned out to be so ungrateful.
He left Him, denied Him, and therefore the Lord handed him over to demons for torment. The demons entered the souls of people, and the people of Russia became possessed, literally demon-possessed.
And all that we hear terrible about what has been and is happening in Russia: about all the blasphemy, about militant atheism and theomachism - all this comes from demonic possession.
But this obsession will pass by the inexpressible mercy of God, the people will be healed. The people will turn to repentance, to faith. Something that no one expects will happen.
Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it.

But the Orthodoxy that was before will no longer be. The great elders said that Russia would be reborn, the people themselves would restore the Orthodox Monarchy. God Himself will put a strong King on the Throne. He will be a great reformer and will have a strong Orthodox faith. He will overthrow the unfaithful hierarchs of the Church, he himself will be an outstanding personality, with a pure, holy soul. He will have a strong will. He will come from the Romanov dynasty. He will be God's chosen one, obedient to Him in everything. He will transform Siberia. But this Russia will not last long. Soon there will be what the apostle John spoke about in the Apocalypse.
According to many undoubted data, the time for the salvation of Russia is approaching. The coming joy will abundantly cover all our real sorrows and sorrows. And in the last mournful time, all believers and faithful to the Lord will live under the special protection of God's grace, which will protect and save them from all the wiles of the Antichrist!

Elder Barnabas from the Gethsemane skete predicted the martyrdom of the last of the reigning dynasty. Apparently, under the impression of these predictions, Nicholas II told P. A. Stolypin about the premonition of his martyr's end.
“... I am doomed to terrible trials; but I will not receive my reward here on earth.
How many times have I applied the words of Job to myself: "For the terrible thing that I was terrified of, that also overtook me, and that which I feared, that also came to me."
On the eve of the revolution of 1905, the same Barnabas announced: “The persecution against the faith will constantly increase. Unheard-of grief and darkness will cover everything and everything, and the temples will be closed.
He also predicted the appearance of the Antichrist, bringing lawlessness into the world, as well as the circumstances preceding it: “When lawlessness grows on earth, when people hate each other and persecute, then the world-deceiver will appear as the son of God, and he will perform false signs and wonders, the whole earth will be delivered into his hand. He will create iniquities such as never have been since the beginning of time.”
However, the future is not so hopeless. According to the elder, “when it becomes unbearable to endure, then liberation will come. And it's time to flourish. Temples will be built again. Before the end, there will be blossoming.”
The pictures of the future on our earth, which appeared to Barnabas by the will of God, alternate, as we see, with periods of fall and rise, decline and flourishing, like the very phenomenon of Christ, who died and rose again, which, perhaps, symbolizes eternity, going into nothingness and reborn through certain time segments on the line of infinity.
Which is a confirmation of the cyclical nature of the world course of history and the development of the human tree of life. From which it follows: our country will not perish, Russians will not perish at this stage of world development.

And as the poet said Vladimir Kostrov:
The time has come.
Set up a sleigh in the summer
And we will move a difficult cart
Through the white snow
About how the last Russian Tsar will denounce and punish in the Old Testament Apocalypse - the last book of the holy prophet Ezra: oppress them to the judgment of the living, and having reproved them, he will punish them.

He, in mercy, will deliver the remnant of My people, those who are preserved within My boundaries, and will gladden them [kingdom] until the end [of the world], the day of judgment, comes ”(3 Ezra 12; 34).
At the end of the 18th century, the perspicacious old man Abel the Tein-Seer predicted: “Russia will be great later, throwing off the yoke of the Jews (...). He will return to the origins of his ancient life, to the times of the Equal-to-the-Apostles, he will learn the mind-reason by the bloody misfortune. Russian hopes will come true: on Sophia in Tsaregrad, the cross will shine with the Orthodox smoke of Incense and prayers will be filled and flourish, like a krin (white lily - glorious) heavenly. great destiny intended for Russia. That is why she will suffer, in order to purify herself and kindle the light for the revelation of tongues” (Reverend Abel the Seer “Eternal Life” No. 22, 1996, p. 4).

From a letter written in his own hand by the Monk Seraphim of Sarov to N. A. Motovilov:
“Russia will merge into one great sea with other Slavic lands and tribes, it will form one sea or that vast universal ocean of the people, about which the Lord God spoke from ancient times through the lips of all the saints:“ The terrible and invincible kingdom of All Russia, all Slavic - Gog Magog, before whom in all the nations will tremble."

And all this, everything is true, as two times two make four, and without fail, as God is holy, who from ancient times foretold about him and his formidable dominion over the earth. By the combined forces of Russia and other (peoples), Constantinople and Jerusalem will be filled.
With the division of Turkey, almost all of it will remain with Russia ... ”(“ Literary Studies. Book 1. 1991, p. 133). The holy prophet Daniel speaks of the same thing: “Then the judges will sit down and take away from him [the Antichrist] the power to destroy and destroy to the end. And the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom in all the heavens will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High (Christians) ”(Dan. 7; 26 - 27).
Of all the Christian Sovereigns, the Turks most of all fear the Sovereigns of Muscovy. Through the mouth of the holy prophet Isaiah, the Lord predicts the punishment of the traitor at the hands of His last chosen one: “I raised him up from the north, and he will come; from the rising of the sun he will call upon my name, and trample down the rulers like mud, and tread [them] like a potter's clay” (Isaiah 41:25).

The Monk Lawrence of Chernigov, like other saints, in his prophecies claims that this is the Russian people: “Russia together, with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will make up a mighty state. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar of God, the anointed one. (…)
Even the Antichrist himself will be afraid of the Russian Orthodox Tsar ”(Teachings, prophecies of the elder Lavrenty of Chernigov and his biography. M. 1996, pp. 157 - 158).
From the message of the elder Elizarov Monastery Philoreus (XVI century) to the clerk [minister] Mikhail Munekhin: “The whole Christian kingdom has passed to the end and descended into the one kingdom of our Sovereign, according to the prophetic books, that is, the Russian kingdom; two Romes have fallen, the third [Rus] is standing, and the fourth will not be ”(V. Sokolsky. Participation of the Russian clergy and monasticism in the development of autocracy and autocracy. Kyiv. 1902, p. 115).

Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) wrote the following on October 26, 1861:“Special mercies of God are poured out in the city of protection. For the world it is not clear. (…)
But (no one) will change the predestinations of God's providence for Russia. The holy fathers of the Orthodox Church (for example, St. Andrew of Crete), in their interpretation of the Apocalypse (ch. 20), predict Russia's extraordinary civil (state) development and power.
Foreigners also feel this ”(Letters from Ignatius Bryanchaninov, Bishop of the Caucasus and the Black Sea, to Anthony Bochkov, Abbot of Cheremenetsky. Letter 11. P. 73 - 74)
The blessed old woman Pelagia of Ryazan predicted that “the Antichrist will appear from America, and the whole world will bow to him, except for the tsarist Orthodox Church, which will first be in Russia! And then the Lord will give his little flock victory over the Antichrist and his kingdom!” (Pleasure of God Pelagia of Ryazan. Issue 1. M. 1999, p. 30).
The Monk Seraphim of Sarov wrote about the same: “For her love for the Mother of God (...) France will be given up to seventeen million Frenchmen with the capital city of Reims, and Paris will be completely destroyed.
The House of Napoleonids will be given Sardinia, Corsica and Savoy. (“Literary studies”. Book 1. 1991, p. 133). One can learn about the development of events in this direction from the prophecies of the Sanaksar elders:
“Over time, the territory of North America and Eurasia will become part of the holy Russian empire (...) in the Middle East, Russia will literally tumble into the Indian Ocean, and the part between the Russian [Black] and mediterranean seas, Suez Canal, Black and Arabian Seas, and above the Indus River. In Europe, the primordially Slavic-Russian lands will join Russia - part of Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, East Germany [Bavaria], Scandinavia, as well as Greece and Italy below the Arno River. (...)
Those who oppose will be evicted to desert spaces for the mercy of God (...) Rus', which reigned with Christ for a thousand years, without bowing to the beast, will save the peoples, will save the peoples with an iron rod. The revelation of John the Theologian says that “the woman clothed with the sun [Church of Christ], gave birth (…)
a male baby [the last Russian tsar], who is to rule all nations with an iron rod” (Rev. 12; 1.5)

Vladyka Michael, Bishop of Tauride (1856-1898) predicted:“Russia will have to take advantage of its position, prepared by God Himself, in the history of the militant church on Earth” (“Tsar Bell”, No. 8. M. 1990, p. 23).

ABOUT THE KING WHO WILL OVERCOME THE ANTICHRIST

The Lion is the Anointed One preserved by the Almighty!

About the King who will defeat the Antichrist.
The lion is the image of the King of the last times.
The helmsman of the earthly Church is the King.
About the Kingdom of the Faithful in the Last Times.
Other prophecies about the Victorious King.
The victorious king will be bone of bone and flesh of the flesh of his people
The Lord will exalt the horn of His anointed David.

The third book of the prophet Ezra is God-revealed.

The third book of the Prophet Ezra is God-revealed, and whoever rejects this will curse
On the need to study books Old Testament.
The people of God must study the books of the Old Testament in order to hear and obey the voice of God
Jews must study the books of the Old Testament in order to accept Jesus Christ
The Jews were chosen by Satan for rejecting Christ.
Russians must study the books of the Old Testament in order to understand God's plan for the Russian People and work together with Him

About the King who will defeat the Antichrist

About the King - the winner of the Antichrist, about the King of God's Chosen People of the last times, is spoken of in many places of Holy Scripture. This is how the Lord Himself explains about Him to the Prophet Ezra (help, Heb.): The lion that you saw rising from the forest and roaring, speaking to the eagle and reproaching him for his iniquities with all his words that you heard (3 Ezra 11:38- 46), this is the Anointed One, preserved by the Almighty at the end of world history against them (against the enemies of God's Chosen People and the Legacy of God) and their wickedness, who will convict them and present their oppression before them. He will put them before the judgment of the living, and having reproved them, he will punish them. He will graciously deliver the remnant of my people, those who remain within my borders, and will gladden them with his reign, until the end of the world comes, the day of judgment, about which I told you at the beginning (3 Ezra 12:31-34).
The Church of Christ teaches that, when embarking on any business, it is necessary to pray first. Prayer before reading the Holy Scriptures and other spiritual books begins like this: Lord Jesus Christ, open my eyes of the heart, so that when I hear Your Word, I understand it and do Your will.
Let's try to understand the prophetic words of the 3rd book of Ezra addressed to our time, as it follows from the Revelation itself, in the light of the mind of Christ, so that the Word of God would not be read to ourselves as a sin, but in renewal and enlightenment, and in the salvation of the soul, and in heritage of eternal life (from prayer before reading spiritual books).

The lion is the image of the King of the last times

From what does it follow that the lion seen by the Prophet Ezra is the image of the Orthodox Tsar of the last times, and not the image of Jesus Christ? Let us together carefully, as wise of the people of God, read what is reported about him by the prophet Ezra. For in the words of this last book of the Old Testament, according to the word of the Lord Himself, the conductor of the mind, the source of wisdom and the river of knowledge (3 Ezra 14:47-48).
The prophet Ezra remained faithful to God even in Babylon, and therefore the Lord God revealed to him about the Anointed One, who will be preserved for the last times (for our times!).
The Lord Lord (3 Ezra 12:7), when explaining to the Prophet Ezra his dream, the word Anointed indicates the anointing of the lion with the Holy Spirit. The words: He will put them to judgment, punish them, deliver the remnant of My people (3 Ezr. 12:33-34) indicate his royal ministry to shepherd and protect the people of God, Jacob, and the inheritance of God, Israel (Ps. 77:71). The Lord uses the following words in relation to the lion:
1) saved by the Almighty to the end;
2) make them glad until the end comes, the day of judgment;
3) One will come who will protect. These words indicate that this lion is not the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Let's see why.

It is said: saved, and not born, by the Most High to the end (3 Ezr. 12:32). And from the Creed we know that Jesus Christ was born before all ages. The words: risen from the forest (3 Ezra 12:32) show that by the end of world history the Anointed One will be gained by God's Chosen People and God's Inheritance from obscurity, from the thick populace. That is, it will be saved on earth!

It can be assumed that He will be, like Jesus Christ, from the lower strata of society: the son of a carpenter, the son of a coppersmith, the son of a peasant. This assumption is all the more valid if we remember that the Tsar's Children of Emperor Alexander III were brought up together with a hooligan boy from the lower strata of society, which allowed the future Tsar to have an idea of ​​the many needs and problems of His People.

The victorious King will be bone of the bones and flesh of the flesh of His people, for He will be taken from the midst of the Inheritance of God (Genesis 2:23). Therefore, He will know the fierce oppression that has lived on earth for such a long time with deceit under godless power (3 Ezra 11:40); all the unrighteousness and wickedness of the Krivoverians (3 Ezr. 12:31-32) is not by hearsay. But, being from birth a son of the Russian Orthodox Church, He Himself, as a servant of God, will endure these oppressions, untruths and wickedness. This is what will allow the King to rebuke them with knowledge of the matter and present their oppression before them (3 Ezra 12:32). And in general, the Tsar, as the son of His People, will bear with him all the intelligible hardships and sorrows allowed by God in order for the Russian God-chosen People to come to the mind of Truth.

The words towards the end against them and their wickedness indicate that at the end of time, the Most High Himself will clothe (3 Ezr. 11:38-46) the enemies of His heritage, Israel (Ps. 77:71) in all their unrighteousness, therefore they will be the words of a lion with power. Remember how at one time they marveled at the teaching of the Son of the Carpenter, for His word was with authority (Luke 4:32)? And at the end of time, with power, the Anointed One, preserved by the Almighty, will rebuke and judge for all their deceit and villainy.

It is said about those whom the Anointed One will clothe: he will put them before the judgment of the living, and, having reproved them, will punish them for these very iniquities and their oppression (3 Ezra 12:32-33). The Judgment of the Living is a different judgment than the Last Judgment, for by that time the end of the world, the day of judgment (3 Ezra 12:34), will not yet come, although, according to the words of St. Lawrence of Chernigov, there will be little time left before Him.

It is said: He will come who will protect (3 Ezra 16:51), and not judge. As you know, Jesus Christ will come to earth for the second time not to protect anyone, but to judge the living and the dead.

It is said: He will make them (people from the remnant of God's people) gladden until the end comes, the day of judgment (3 Ezra 12:34). These words promise the joy of earthly life to the remnant of the faithful for some short time, after the punishment of the wicked and crooked believers for all their lies and their oppression of Orthodox Christians, but until the Last Judgment. The Lord grants His true worshipers (John 4:23) for this time His Anointed, the conquering King. And in his kingdom, under his care and protection from temptations and from sin, the faithful will praise the Almighty God and zealously serve their King until the glorious coming of Jesus Christ and His judgment of the living (from this kingdom) and the dead (those who, by the time of gaining the Anointed are already dead). Please note that until the day of judgment comes, and not until the reign of the Antichrist, as many researchers are mistaken, for example, the compiler of the book "Russia before the Second Coming" S. Fomin.

And the punishment of the enemies of the God-chosen People is absolutely inevitable, for the measure of their villainy has been fulfilled (3 Ezra 11:44). The Lord commands them with the mouth of a lion: disappear you, eagle (Christ-fighting terrible (3 Ezra 12:13) state), with your terrible wings (godless kings-rulers of this kingdom), with your vile feathers (immoral ruling clique), with your evil heads (independent republics of a large Kingdom, in which they rule with even greater oppression of the inhabitants (3 Ezr. 12:23-24) of these republics, especially Russians), with your cruel claws (the power structures of the eagle) and with all your worthless body (with all institutions this godless kingdom-state), so that the whole earth can rest and be freed from your violence, and hope for the judgment and mercy of its Creator (3 Ezra 11:45-46).

The helmsman of the earthly Church is the King

The words: so that the whole earth rests and is freed from violence, they also predict to us that before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, hoping for the judgment and mercy of its Creator, the Kingdom of the victorious King Antichrist, the kingdom of the remnant of those faithful to God and His Anointed One, will live and prosper. And of course, in this kingdom, in this ship of the earthly Church of Christ, the helmsman will not be the president or the patriarch, but the Tsar Father. Although now some "venerable" archpriests, preaching the heresy of papism, assert: "His Holiness Patriarch, helmsman of our Church ...". But the patriarch does not have the functions of managing the earthly Church!

The earthly Church in the dogmatic and canonical sense is governed by councils, while the Tsar directs the implementation of these decisions in the life of Christians. Without the will of the Sovereign, which is decisive for the execution of conciliar decisions, no one would have carried them out. The will of any bishop, including a patriarch, is not decisive for the entire earthly Church, for in the Orthodox Church “all bishops are equal in terms of the rights of ordination, differing in mutual relations only in certain advantages of the honor of some over others, [and therefore] ... each bishop, within the limits of his diocese, acts by his spiritual authority exclusively” independently. Only an external bishop, the ecumenical Tsar, can lead them to a common understanding and unequivocal execution of the decisions of the councils (and of the entire teaching of the Church as a whole). The tsar, announcing the decisions of the councils as the laws of his kingdom, ensures their strict implementation by all his subjects, from the layman to the patriarch. All those who do not comply with state laws concerning the life of the earthly Church of Christ are persecuted by the relevant government bodies and therefore all heresies are exterminated by the means of the Orthodox Kingdom.

Here is how the honored professor A.S. writes about this in the Course of Church Law. Pavlov: “To resolve the dogmatic disputes that agitated the entire Empire, the Emperors convened councils and communicated their sanction to their definitions, as a generally recognized expression of the Christian spirit and consciousness; as a result of [only] this sanction, the conciliar formulas of the church doctrine became nationwide for [all] subjects of the Empire, as nationwide laws, and heresies entered into a number of state crimes subject to criminal penalties. As a result of such state laws, all the subjects of the Tsar, regardless of religion, built their relationships with each other on the basis of Christian principles and, at least outwardly, observing the laws of Christian morality.

The patriarch, being the ruling bishop of the city of Moscow (a patriarch is a position in the hierarchy of the priesthood, and a priestly rank is a bishop), according to the canons of the Orthodox Church, does not have the power to interfere in the affairs of even the neighboring diocese of the Moscow region, where the ruling bishop is Metropolitan Juvenaly, who has the position (title) in the hierarchy of the priesthood is the metropolitan, and the spiritual dignity is the bishop.

About the Kingdom of the Faithful in the End Times

The words: within Mine, make it clear that the people of God's Chosen People will be gathered in some limited area of ​​the earth. This lot of land for the People of God will be like the city that John the Evangelist spoke of. This city is located in a quadrangle, and its length is the same as its breadth (Rev. 21:16). The prophecies of all the saints of God (before Christian and early Christian ones, according to the interpretation of later saints) indicate that this territory is Russia, which is the Third Rome, and there will be no fourth! or in 3.1.1. works by Roman Sergiev “The expiatory sacrifice of the holy Tsar Nicholas became the key to the inevitable resurrection of Tsarist Russia”.

* “In a letter to the deacon Mikhail Munekhin, (who served under the Tsar’s governors in Pskov from 1510-1528), the elder of the Pskov Eleazar Monastery Philotheus wrote: there is the Russian Kingdom; two of Rome have fallen, the third [Rus] stands, and the fourth does not exist. The Christian kingdom is drowned from the infidels, only our one Sovereign, the Kingdom, by the grace of Christ, stands. (V. Sokolsky. The participation of the Russian clergy and monasticism in the development of autocracy and autocracy. Kyiv. 1902. P. 115-116).

Other prophecies about the Victorious King

The victorious king will be bone of bone and flesh of the flesh of his people

The most ancient prophecy of the prophet Ezra about the kingdom of the remnant of the God-chosen People, headed by the Anointed One, preserved by the Almighty at the end of time, is very consonant with the words of St. Theophan of Poltava (Bystrov), which were recorded by Archbishop Averky: “I do not speak from myself. And what I heard from the inspired elders, I conveyed... The Lord will have mercy on Russia for the sake of a small remnant of true believers. In Russia, the elders said, by the will of the people, the Monarchy, Autocratic power would be restored. The Lord has chosen the future King. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. He will first of all restore order in the Orthodox Church [as Her head], remove all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place. In the female line, he will be from the Romanov family. (Betts R. and Marchenko V. Confessor of the royal family. M. 1994. S. 111-112).

It should be noted that along with untrue and heretical bishops, all lukewarm priests will be removed, as well as crookedly "theological" deacons. And none of the pseudo-Orthodox (slaves of men, not servants of God) will be in resurrected Russia. Therefore, while there is still time before the time (Dan. 11:35), while you still have freedom and while a place is open for you to repent (3 Ezra 9:11), repent of ignorance and non-confession of the teachings of the Orthodox Church. This is especially true of the oblivious Dogma of Tsarist power.

And a hundred years before St. Theophan, “The Monk Seraphim of Sarov in 1832 on Easter said to Motovilov the following:““The Lord and the entire Royal Family will be preserved by the Lord with His invisible right hand and will give complete victory to those who raised arms for Him, for the Church and for the good of the indivisibility of the Russian Land - but not so much blood will be shed here, but when the right side, which has become the Sovereign, receives victory, and catches all the traitors, and delivers them into the hands of Justice, then no one will be sent to Siberia, but everyone will be executed, and now here even more blood will be shed, but this blood will be the last, cleansing blood, for after that the Lord will bless His people with peace and exalt the horn of His anointed David, His servant, a Man after His own heart, the most pious Sovereign Emperor (...). His holy right hand over the Russian Land has affirmed and more will affirm him.” (from the letter of N.A. Motovilov to the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas I, dated March 9, 1854)”.

Both Saint Theophan, according to the words of the elders, and Saint Seraphim speak of the Lord's Christ, who will be preserved by the Almighty by His invisible right hand to the end against the Christ-fighting rulers of the godless state (the eagle from the vision of the prophet Ezra), who, according to God's providence, carried out the Jewish yoke over the heritage of God for enlightenment about the sin of infidelity to the Autocratic Tsars from the Reigning House of Romanov. This sin also includes breaking a vow. given to God until the end of the century in 1613 at the Zemsko-Lomesny Sobor. Moreover, since 1613 this sin of unfaithfulness to the Anointed of God grew and multiplied. The multiplication of this sin by the time of the abdication of Nicholas II from the Throne overflowed the cup of God's long-suffering. And the Lord took away from us the Retainer.

The Lord will exalt the horn of His anointed David

The Monk Lawrence of Chernigov spoke of the victorious Tsar of the last times as follows: “Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will constitute a mighty Kingdom. The Orthodox Tsar, God's Anointed One, will nourish him. The king will be from God. ... In Russia, the Orthodox Faith will flourish ... only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead. The Russian Orthodox Tsar will be feared even by the Antichrist himself. Under Antichrist Russia will be the most powerful Kingdom in the world. And all other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments described in the Holy Scriptures. (Reverend Lawrence of Chernigov. Compiled by T. Groyan. M. 1998. P. 201).

That is, the Orthodox Tsar, who “on the female line ... will be from the Romanov family,” will deliver the remnant of God’s people (those who have survived within Russia) from godless power, and the earthly Church from the crooked clergy, and will delight them with his victorious reign, until the end of world history will come, the day of judgment, about which the Lord spoke to the prophet Ezra at the beginning (3 Ezra 12:34).

The prophet Ezra in the third book, at the command of the Lord, tells what God Himself showed him and explained to him about the end times. He explained to the Prophet Ezra: the signs that I showed you, and the dreams that you saw, and the interpretations that you heard, put in your heart ... For the age has lost its youth, and times are approaching old age (3 Ezra 14:8, ten). Blessed Theodoret recalls: “It is natural for a prophet to lend his tongue as an instrument of the grace of the Spirit, according to what was said in the Psalms [by king and prophet David]: my tongue is the reed of a scribe who writes quickly (Ps. 44:2).” And below St. Theodoret adds: “But only one knows the exact interpretation ... he who, like him [the prophet], received the illumination of the Holy Spirit.” (Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Kirr. Psalter with explanation. M. 1997. S. 6-7)

The Third Book of Ezra is Divinely Revealed

We propose to beg the Lord to accept the illumination of the Holy Spirit and read a book from the Old Testament in the light of the gospel Truth, in the light of the mind of Christ, checking our understanding with the teaching of the Church and the prophecies of other saints of God, who, like the Prophet Ezra, spoke prophecies not from themselves . The Lord, explaining the importance of what they saw and heard, commanded them to pronounce prophecies in order to convey them to the wise of His people who will live in the last times, because in them (in the prophecies) is a conductor of reason, a source of wisdom and a river of knowledge (3 Ezr. 14:47 -48). And the prophecies themselves are true and true (3 Ezra 15:2), and therefore will allow people who are in the mind of Christ to understand the reasons for future events and prepare for God-pleasing participation in them.

Therefore, the correct Christian understanding of the third book of Ezra for the end times is of the greatest importance and value for the salvation of the remnant of God's heritage. And it is not by chance that the Old Testament ends with this non-canonical book, and then the books of the New Testament follow. The Church of Christ considers all texts of the Bible (canonical and non-canonical) Sacred and revealed by God. It should be understood where the concept of “non-canonical book” came from. Non-canonical books include those parts of the Bible whose originals in Hebrew have been lost, but their texts have been preserved in other ancient languages, which in no way affected their revelation to God. The Russian Orthodox Bible, like the Slavic one, contains all 39 canonical and 11 non-canonical books of the Old Testament.

The idea of ​​the inferiority of non-canonical books is quite sectarian-Protestant. To be convinced of this, it is enough to pick up the so-called canonical Bible of the Protestant edition, which lacks not only 11 non-canonical books, but even individual chapters of other books. For example, the last two chapters of the Protestant (but canonical!) Bible are removed from the canonical Book of the Prophet Daniel.

Here is what St. Theophan the Recluse writes about the Bible, the original texts of which are available only in Hebrew (he calls it Jewish): “The Church of God does not know the Jewish Bible. She received from the apostles the Bible in the translation of the seventy and still observes it. She was also called inspired, where this was discussed. So at cathedrals, so do all the holy fathers. [The Hebrew Bible is imposed] ... on the faithful by the ruling ecclesiastical authority [i.e., internal church leadership] apart from the word of God that is in the Church. …This [imposition] is an ungodly thing! Discord will come out of us. …The Orthodox will begin to read and they will see: one is in the Russian Bible, the other is in the Church [in the canonical texts accepted by the Church as true]. What's from here? Nothing good can be expected.” From his other letters: “Why did they bring someone else's Bible into the Church?! The Orthodox Church does not know the Jewish Bible. She has one inspired Scripture, that which is known in the translation of seventy. The Church honors him... And her children [those of the bishops who imposed the truncated Bible on the Church, having circumcised the entire 11 books in it and many chapters and verses in the remaining books] will whore [spiritually fornicate]. Are they really kids?!” As we can see, the falling away of bishops from the Church does not shine with novelty!

*It is interesting to note that the Jews themselves do not recognize the canonical text as the true text. Here is what a specialist in Kabbalistic texts writes, who deciphered the mysterious signs left by the Jewish Kabbalists at the site of the ritual murder of the Anointed Tsar Nicholas II: “The text is Greek, known under the name of the text of the seventy interpreters. This text was written at the request of Ptolemy Lagos for the Library of Alexandria by five wise men. The translation was then approved by the council of 70 from Jerusalem, who declared it correct.

Subsequent translations of the Greek text, such as the Latin Vulgate, are not recognized by the Jews. ”And why the Third Book of the Prophet Ezra is not in Hebrew (because of which it does not cease to be God-revealed, although it is not considered a canonical book) is also clear. The Lord is a prophet Ezra commanded: put part of the revelations openly so that both the worthy and the unworthy can read (3 Ezra 14:46), but save the last revelations, or rather the revelations about the last times, in order to pass them on to the wise of My people (3 Ezra 14:47). The Jews, having rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah, were forced to destroy the Third Book of Ezra, since in it the Messiah is called Jesus Christ: For My Son Jesus will be revealed (3 Ezra 7.28) and My Son Christ will die (3 Ezra 7.29) It is no coincidence that the ancient inscription of the last book of the Old Testament: the Apocalypse (Revelation) of Ezra. This book "depicts in the form of revelations God's consideration of the Church [His and] ... speaks of the coming of the Messiah and the last judgment. " In addition, the events described in this book, refer to the last times of the world, and the Prophet wrote them down not for the Old, but for the New Israel, and therefore they refer to Russia of our time.

This book informs the wise of the people about the Anointed One, preserved by the Most High, who, having the Royal service of God, will overcome all enemies of God's people and all enemies of His heritage. This King will bear the name: the conqueror of the Antichrist. This book also tells about the remnant of God's people, about those who will remain within the borders of Russia until the end of the world comes, the day of judgment (3 Ezra 12:34). It is this, about the conquering Tsar and his Orthodox kingdom, that is the most unbearable for Satan and his adherents, and therefore the Third Book has not been preserved among the people who, for rejecting Jesus Christ, were abandoned by God and picked up by Satan.

Satan seems to be in charge of the Jewish people. For this reason, the Jewish Talmudists and Jewish Kabbalists (both are servants of Satan! True, their proximity to Satan is different) draw their main personnel from the Jewish people, who lost their high title of God's Chosen People at the moment when Jesus Christ, The Son of God, hungry, and seeing a fig tree on the way, went up to her and, finding nothing on it, except for some leaves, said to her: let there be no further fruit from you forever. And immediately the fig tree dried up (Matt. 21:18,19).

But the Jewish people, like all other nations, have the opportunity to be saved. All that is needed for this is to come into the mind of the True God. Just as in the Old Testament times, for salvation, it was necessary to become a Jew (praise God) and rally around the first God-chosen Jewish People, so now, for salvation, it is necessary to become Orthodox (Orthodox - a New Testament Jew!) And rally around the third (and last!) God-chosen Russian People. And at all times those who fought in God's Chosen People were destroyed. Remember the God-revealed Book of Esther, in which a pagan who dared to try to raise his hand against the first God-chosen Jewish People was hanged on the tree that Mordecai had prepared for the son of this People.

On the need to study the books of the Old Testament

The people of God must study the books of the Old Testament in order to hear and obey the voice of God
We want to pay attention to the words of the wise of the people. It does not mean the wise of this world, but the wise in the eyes of God. The Lord explains to these wise people among the people: I have said this to you, so that you will not be offended (John 16:1) by “wisdom” and persecution from the wise men of the world, which lies in evil (1 John 5:19). It is the wise of this world who declare that the books of the Old Testament are books about the ancient history of the Jewish people. That is why these sages reject the need for Orthodox Christians to study these books, as having, supposedly, nothing to do with their salvation.

But this is an outright lie! For until now, when they read Moses and other books of sacred Scripture, a veil lies over their hearts; but when they turn to the Lord and begin to read them in the light of the gospel truth, and not according to their own wisdom, then this veil is removed. It must always be remembered that the Lord is a Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:15-17). Even under the yoke of Jewish Kabbalists, an Orthodox Christian, as one who has the Spirit of the Lord, is always spiritually free! And he is not afraid of any intrigues of the servants of Satan, for Christians, looking at the glory of the Lord and His Anointed One, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord's Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:18). And the texts of the books of the Old Testament allow us to see the glory of the Lord, the providence and omnipotence of God, His boundless love and paternal care for people.

The veil of the sages of the world lies on the heart also because they are mistaken, thinking that these books are about the Jewish people, as such, and not about the People of God, not about the God-chosen People. They do not know that God has given in these books through the prophets the most valuable instructions to His Inheritance, the fulfillment of which will lead the faithful to salvation. The Lord does not open spiritual eyes the wisest of the world because they, having lived for a long time in the world outside the right faith, and therefore not praying for the health of God's Anointed One, do not want to have this right faith. They replace it with their wisdom of life in the world (they became academicians without knowing Christ Jesus) or the wisdom of other people (these even became Soviet doctors of "theology", not knowing and not confessing the entire dogmatic fullness of the Church of Christ), and therefore they are not happy about Christ the Lord - the Anointed One of God.

Yes, now the believing sages of this world have no time to profess Orthodoxy in the Dogmas of redemption, icon veneration, royal power, because they are busy with very "important" and very "patriotic" deeds of saving Russia without taking into account God's plan for her. This is the organization of prayers and religious processions (and not a word about the Anointed Tsar!), arranging various parties in the name of saving Russia with their own hands (and not a word about the coming Tsar-winner!). They do not have time to pray for the Tsar-father, because they are busy, by suggestion of demons in the flesh (by suggestion of the Jews), "saving" mankind and the Russian People from globalization, from TIN and from other Jewish and women's fables (1 Tim. 4.7).

The Lord God Himself, as the All-Knowing, foretold through His prophets, including through Moses, to His people, Jacob, and to His inheritance, Israel (Ps. 77:71) about their coming disasters: you will become corrupt and make a statue depicting something or (an idol), and you will do this evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, and provoke Him (Dt. 4:25). And the Lord will scatter you among all nations, and you will remain in a small number among the nations to which the Lord will lead you (Dt. 4:27) (for education, for temptation or for destruction) and you will serve [other] gods made by hands there human made of wood and stone (Dt. 4:27-28). But when you seek the Lord your God there, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in trouble, and when all this comes upon you in the last times, you will turn to the Lord your God and listen to His voice (Deut. 4:29-30). Even if this voice comes from the lips of the unwise of the world. For God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong (1 Corinthians 1:27)

Jews must study the books of the Old Testament in order to accept Jesus Christ
The prophet Moses warned the Jewish People: you will become corrupt and make a statue depicting something (an idol), and do this evil before the eyes of the Lord your God, and provoke Him (Deut. 4.25), offering sacrifices, including human ones, on high (1 Kings 3:2).
To get a larger size - you need to click the mouse. Image taken from the taradronme website.

The Old Testament God's Chosen People, the People of God, was the Jewish People. And the Jews should study the books of the Old Testament in order to know the history of their people at that time, when they belonged to God, were His People, were His Inheritance. Studying the God-revealed books of the Old Testament, they learn that the Lord God Himself, as the All-Knowing, predicted to them (the Jews): you will become corrupt and make a statue depicting something (an idol), and do this evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, and irritate Him (Deut. 4:25), offering sacrifices, including human ones, on high places (1 Kings 3:2). And the Lord will scatter you among all nations, and you will remain in small numbers among the nations to which the Lord will lead you (Dt. 4:27) (as a negative example for Christians and for their temptation). But when you seek the Lord your God there, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in trouble, and when all this comes upon you in the last times, you will turn to the Lord your God and listen to His voice (even if it comes from the mouth of the fishermen) (Deut. 4:29-30).

The Jewish God-chosen People were punished by the Lord for fornication in relation to the True God, which manifested itself in the Jews following the instructions of the Talmud, and not the word of God. The Lord Jesus Christ himself accuses them: you are already allowing nothing to be done for your father or mother, eliminating the word of God by your tradition, which you established; and you do many things like this (Mark 7:13). The result of spiritual fornication among the Jewish people was the rejection of the Son of God Jesus Christ and His crucifixion on the Cross.

Jews for rejecting Christ were chosen by Satan

The prophet Ezra begins his prophetic book like this: The word of the Lord came to me: go and tell my people their evil deeds and their sons - the iniquities that they committed against me, so that they will tell their sons' sons; for the sins of their parents increased in them; forgetting Me, they offered sacrifices to foreign gods (3 Ezra 1:4-6). Pay attention to the word iniquity. Not just some violations of human law, but those that are committed against the law of God.
The Jews were chosen by God to wait, meet and receive the Savior. This chosenness of waiting ceased from the moment He came. For who was to be expected next? It was for the rejection of Jesus Christ that the Jewish people were chosen by Satan to wait for the Antichrist. Since then, it has been an unchosen people, and by itself forms an anti-church. We repeat: the Jewish people, like all other nations, has the opportunity to be saved. For this, only a little is needed: to come into the mind of the True God, into the mind of Christ.

And there are many prophecies among the saints of God that a small flock of the Jewish people in the last times will accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God, as the Redeemer of the human race. The Apostle Paul writes: I do not want to leave you, brethren, in ignorance of this mystery - so that you do not dream about yourself - that hardening took place in Israel in part, until the time when the full number of the Gentiles will enter (Rom. 11:25). The Monk Lawrence of Chernigov said: “The Lord is so merciful that the true Jews, who live according to the commandments of Moses, will have mercy in recent times and instill in the third heaven.” (Reverend Lawrence of Chernigov. M. 1998. P. 58).
Only there will be very, very few such Jews! The Lord Himself, through the prophet Isaiah, predicts to the Jewish people: even if you had as many people as the sand of the sea, only the remnant of it will be converted, and therefore saved from destruction. And the reason for this is your desire to steal royal power at all levels (in the Church, in the state, in foreign families), which does not belong to you in any way, and this property, exposed for centuries, has firmly entered the character of your people. This is also manifested in your desire to illegally rule, and even illegally reign; in your arrogant attitude towards people, in your disregard for the royal dignity of other people. It is these properties that the Lord had in mind for centuries through the prophets, denouncing your cruelty. The destruction of the arrogant is determined by righteousness abounding; for a certain destruction will be done by the Lord, the Lord of hosts, in all the earth (Isaiah 10:22-23).

Please note: the extermination will be carried out by the Lord of hosts, and not by disgusting anti-Semites or scum-slaughterers, although it may be by their hands. And against the Lord of Hosts, no laws to combat extremism and terrorism can help the Jews, and this will be the case throughout the earth, and not only in Russia. Thus says the Lord, and His word is strong! We remind you that the word of God predicts that in the last times the remnant of the Jewish people will turn to the Lord God and, finally, will obey His voice. Thus, it is easy for the Jews to be saved, you just need to seek the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul, and then not a single hair will fall from the heads of the Jews who become Orthodox Christians. But it is necessary to seek the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God the Father and no one else!

Russians must study the books of the Old Testament in order to understand God's plan for the Russian People and work together with Him
At the present historical stage, the legacy of God, by the will of the Lord God, are Orthodox Christians, for the most part this is the third God-chosen Russian People, but not only Russian. That is why it is necessary for Orthodox Christians to study the books of the Old Testament in the most thorough manner, of course, in the mind of Christ, in accordance with the centuries-old teaching of the Church of Christ. To those who study the word of God, the texts of Holy Scripture, the Lord grants the righteousness of faith. But the age belongs to the faithful, the righteous, and for their sake the Lord watches over the age (3 Ezra 9:13).

The words of the prophet Moses are words both about the Russian God-bearing People and for them, and the Lord God Himself, as the All-Knowing, predicted to them: you will become corrupt and renounce “your anointed One” (Christ the Lord) and make a statue of the leaders of Marxism-Leninism from stone. And create for yourself an idol, from the papist opinion of the clergy, who have fallen away from Me, about the superiority of spiritual power over royal power. And this opinion, depicting the teaching of My Church, is theft of power from legitimate kings and masters, and is spiritual fornication. And the heresy of papism is similar to the teaching of My Church, but all the same the teaching is not mine, but the enemy of the human race. And you will do this evil (choose a patriarch instead of the Tsar) in the eyes of the Lord your God, and irritate Him (Dt. 4:25), by obedience to unruly masters. And the Lord will scatter you among all the peoples, and you will remain in a small number among the peoples to which the Lord will lead you (Deut. 4.27), and will give Russia under the yoke of Christ-fighters (for the education and admonition of the Russian God-bearing people, and those who do not want to reason to come and for extermination). But when you seek the Lord your God there and in Russia itself, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in trouble, and when all this comes upon you in the last times, you will turn to the Lord your God and listen to His voice (even if it does not come from the lips of the clergy) (Deut. 4:29-30).

The Russian God-bearing People was punished by the Lord for fornication in relation to God, which manifested itself in the violation by the Russian people of the Cathedral Vow of allegiance to the Tsars from the House of Romanov, given to God at the Zemsko-Local Council in 1613.

For God's forgiveness of the spiritually recovered part of the Russian people, see Roman Sergiev's notes "The parable of the prodigal son is a prophecy about the future resurrection of Russia."

The above text is taken from chapters 1.1. – 2.1. works by Roman Sergiev “The Lion is the Anointed One, preserved by the Almighty!”

Fathers of the Svyato-Vvedenskaya Optina Hermitage

The foundation of the desert dates back to the end of the 14th - beginning of the 15th century. AT early XVII century in the monastery stood the Church of the Introduction "wooden in a cage"and there was hieromonk Theodosius with the brethren. In 1689, a cathedral stone church was laid, in the construction of which Tsars Ivan V and Peter I and Princess Sophia assisted. In 1724, the monastery was abolished due to poverty, but in 1726 it was restored. In 1764, with the introduction of the states, she was left freelance. In 1773 only two monks lived in Optina. Only towards the end of the 18th century, with an increase in the flow of private donations, did Optina turn for the better. With the money received, they managed to acquire new lands, a mill and build stone buildings.

The spiritual rise of the ancient monastery began in 1821, when a skete was set up in the monastery apiary. At this time, eldership was revived in the monastery - a type of spiritual mentoring, practiced since ancient times, but almost forgotten in later times. The elder was in charge of the entire spiritual life of the monastery. Suffering laity, from the poorest peasants to noble persons, were drawn to him for a word of consolation and advice. "Pillar"Optina eldership was the Monk Ambrose (1812-1891), canonized in 1988. F. M. Dostoevsky came to talk with the elder in 1878. Being the center of eldership, the monastery attracted outstanding figures of Russia and left an amazing mark on the national culture. The historians Pogodin, Vl. Solovyov and Slavophile Shevyrev, writers Gogol, Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, A. K. Tolstoy, the brothers Kireevsky and Aksakov, A. Zhemchuzhnikov, Apukhtin ... Members of the imperial family also visited Optina.

In 1923, the temples of the monastery were officially closed, a sawmill was set up in the monastery itself, and a rest house in the skete. In 1988 Optina Hermitage was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Fourteen elders of Optina Hermitage, canonized as saints:

Reverend Leo,

Reverend Macarius,

reverend Moses,

reverend Anthony,

Reverend Hilarion,

reverend Ambrose,

Reverend Anatoly Sr.,

Reverend Isaac the First,

reverend Joseph,

Reverend Barsanuphius,

Reverend Anatoly Jr.,

Venerable Nectarius,

Rev. Nikon the Confessor,

Venerable Hieromartyr Isaac II.

Prophecies of the Fathers of the Holy Vvedenskaya Optina Hermitage

In 1848, a storm swept over the St. John the Baptist Skete of Optana Hermitage. The whirlwind tore roofs, broke crosses. Elder Macarius said: “This is a terrible sign of God's wrath against the apostate world. In Europe, political passions are raging, but in our country, the elements ... It began with Europe, it will end with us ". Soon there was a revolution in France.

In 1866, Count A.P. Tolstoy turned to the famous senile monastery. He asked to interpret the dream that the Tver priest D. M. Konstantinovsky, the son of Gogol's confessor, had a dream. Dmitry Matveyevich dreamed of a cave lit by a lamp, filled with many clergy, among whom were his late parent Father Matthew and Metropolitan Filaret, who was then still in good health. Among the silent prayers, distinct words were heard: “We are going through a terrible time, we are living out the seventh summer”. After these words, Amitry Matveyevich woke up in agitation and fear... Elder Ambrose of Optina said that the cave lit by a lamp is the current state of the Church. A new paganism is spreading across Russia, where the light of faith barely flickers. The living and the dead pray together, which means that they equally belong to the earthly Militant and the heavenly Triumphant Church. Seeing the disastrous state of the Orthodox faith, bright men implore the Queen of Heaven: may she spread Her Veil over suffering Russia. "Live the seventh summer" - these words may mean a time close to the Antichrist, when the faithful children of the Church will hide in the caves and only the prayers of the Mother of God will have the power to save people from persecution and confusion.

Half a century before the Russian Revolution, Elder Ambrose already knew about it. “Somehow Father Agapit came to me,” recalls the novice Nikolai, the future father Nikon (Belyaev), “and says that Father Ambrose, he himself heard from him, said that the Antichrist was not far off ...”

One day, Father Barsanuphius mentioned to Hieromonk Nectarius that he had a dream that the Antichrist had come to him. He promised to tell in more detail, but he did not resume the conversation, and Elder Nectarios did not dare to ask questions. A few years later, the elder himself will tell his spiritual children about this: “We will live to terrible times, but the grace of God will cover us. Christianity is hated everywhere. It is a yoke for them, preventing them from living freely, freely committing sins. Decay, smolder, degenerate newest generation. They want to live without God. Well then! The fruits of such strife are obvious... The Antichrist is clearly coming into the world. And for the first time, his hordes will go to Orthodox Rus', and the second time they will want a third [meaning world wars] ”.

Once, at the very beginning of the 20th century, Elder Barsanuphius prophesied:... From here, from the monastery, you can see the net of the devil more clearly... And in the last times the temples will be destroyed. In their place will be arranged temples of idols and so on. The monasteries will be in great persecution and oppression. True Christians will huddle in small churches. The persecutions and torments of the first Christians may be repeated... All monasteries will be destroyed, Christians in power will be overthrown. That time is not far off, mark this word of mine. You will live to see these times, then you will say: “Yes, I remember, Father Barsanuphius told me all this” ”.

Once in Optina, paroemias were read at vespers. Suddenly, one of the priests' eyes were confused: the altar and all the servants seemed to dissolve, and crowds of people appeared before their eyes, fleeing in confusion to the east [meaning the Great Patriotic War]. An angel appeared and said: "Everything you see has to happen soon".

Father Nectarios prophesied about the "cold" war: “Three decades or more will pass, and we will erect high walls, and the gnashing of teeth will be heard behind these walls, and there will be enmity quiet, but dangerous ...”

Father Nectarios did his best to warn his spiritual children about what they would have to endure during the revolution. They hoped that the new government would not last long, but the priest did not share their hopes, he even blessed them to teach children in a Soviet school. From now on, they should receive Christian education in the family, through the example of their father and mother.

“Russia, if you fall away from your faith, as many intellectuals have already fallen away from it, then you will no longer be Russia or holy Russia,” warned the Optina Elder Macarius back in 1905. - And if there is no repentance among the Russian people, the end of the world is near. God will take away the pious king and send a scourge in the face of wicked, cruel, self-appointed rulers who will flood the whole earth with blood and tears..

In 1916 cmapeii Anatoly (Potapov) talked with Prince N. D. Zhevakhov. “There is no greater sin than resisting the will of the Anointed One of God,” said the priest. - Take care of Him, for He keeps the Russian Land and the Orthodox Faith... But... - Hesitating, he finally finished his thought: The fate of the tsar is the fate of Russia, 11 will rejoice, ar - Russia will also rejoice. The tsar will cry - Russia will also cry ... Just as a man with a cut off head is no longer a man, but a stinking corpse, so Russia without a tsar will be a stinking corpse ”.

“The fundamental elements of Russian life are expressed in familiar words: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality [i.e. e. Church, Tsar and Kingdom], warned Elder Nikon in 1915. This is what needs to be saved! And when these beginnings change, the Russian people will cease to be Russian. He will then lose the sacred tricolor banner.".

When "Holder", that is, the king will be taken away from the public environment, the mystery of iniquity will prevail - so the apostle warned. This became a reality in 1917. “And now the Sovereign is not himself, how many humiliations he endures for his mistakes,” said Elder Nektary. - 1918 will be even harder. The sovereign and the whole family will be killed, tortured ... If people do not repent before 1922, they will die ".

Soon after the revolution, the Optina chronicler S. A. Nilus stayed in Kyiv, where he talked with the old woman of the Rzhishchev monastery. Her female novice fell into a trance on February 21, 1917, in which she remained for 40 days. In delirium, the girl told her visions, which others carefully wrote down. In particular, she said the following: “And I heard how the martyrs were talking among themselves, rejoicing that the last time was coming, and that their number would increase, and that churches and monasteries would soon be destroyed, and those living in monasteries would be expelled, that they would torment not only the clergy and monastics, but also all those who did not want to accept the seal and will stand for the Name of Christ, for faith, for the Church. I heard them say that the Tsar will no longer be and earthly time is drawing to a close, I heard, but it is not very clear that if the Lord does not add time, then the end of all earthly things will be in the 22nd year.. By His infinite mercy, the Lord has added a period...

“Before the throne of God, our Sovereign is standing in the crown of a great martyr,” Elder Nectarios prophesied a year before the Yekaterinburg atrocity. - Ka, this Sovereign will be a great martyr. In the last time, he will redeem his life, and if people do not turn to God, then not only Russia, all of Europe will fail..

In the 1920s, a certain Nina D. directly told Elder Nectarius: “Everyone says that the signs of the second coming have been fulfilled.”. - “No, not all,” replied the priest, “but, of course, even a simple eye can see that much is being fulfilled, but it is open to the spiritual: before the church was a vast circle to the entire horizon, but now, you see, like a ringlet, but in recent days before the coming of Christ, it will all be preserved in this form: one Orthodox priest and one Orthodox layman. I'm not telling you that there will be no churches at all, maybe there will be, yes, but Orthodoxy will survive only in this form. You pay attention to these words. You understand. It's all over the world".

Saint Nectarios testified in 1917: « One pious girl had a dream: Jesus Christ is sitting on the throne, and around Him are the twelve apostles, and terrible torments and groans are heard from the earth. And the apostle Peter asks Christ: “When, Lord, will these torments end?”, and Jesus Christ answers him: “I give until the 22nd year; if people do not repent, do not come to their senses, then all will perish like this” ”. The year 1922 has come. The end of the world has not come. Question - why? The real answer is, of course, one. This is Christ's answer to the question of the apostles: "Not at this time, O Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel?"The Lord replies, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons which the Father has set in His own power.” (Acts. 2, 6-7). Having said this, the Lord leaves the earth, giving the disciples the command to go and preach the gospel to all creation, even to the ends of the earth. We know from Holy Scripture cases when the Lord postponed already appointed events. So, the death of Nineveh, determined by the sermon of Jonah after 40 days, was postponed by the repentance of the king and the townspeople for another 150 years. Regarding the fact that the end did not come in 1922, in the book "Russia before the Second Coming"an opinion is given about the importance of the Zemsky Sobor in Vladivostok in July-August 1922. At this council, repentance was brought on behalf of Russia for apostasy. The book expresses the opinion that this was begged from God to continue the story. In August 1922, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich declared himself "Guardian of the Russian Throne". Whether these are the reasons for the providential deeds of God or not - it is hardly given to us to know.

And here are the words of the Optina elder Isaac II about our times:“Shortly before the accession of the Antichrist, closed churches will be repaired and equipped not only outside, but also inside. The domes of both temples and bell towers will be gilded, and when the main one is finished, the time will come for the reign of the Antichrist. Pray that the Lord will extend this time for us to strengthen: a terrible time awaits us. Repairs of temples will continue until the very coronation of the Antichrist, and we will have an unprecedented splendor..

Elder Nikon echoed him:“See how insidiously all this is being prepared? All the temples will be in the greatest splendor, as never before, and it will be impossible to go to those temples, since the Bloodless Sacrifice of Jesus Christ will not be offered there. Understand: there will be churches, but an Orthodox Christian will not be able to attend them, since there will be all the “satanic gathering” (Apocalypse 2:9)! I repeat once again that it will be impossible to go to those temples: there will be no grace in them).

To one deacon, Father Ambrose, shortly before his death, said bluntly: « You will live to see the Antichrist! Do not be afraid, but tell everyone that this is he, and there is no need to be afraid! There will be a war, and where it takes place, there will be no people there! And before that, the Lord will send small illnesses to weak people, and they will die, and under the Antichrist there will be no death. The third world war will no longer be for repentance, but for extermination. And the Lord will leave the strongest to meet with him..

The Monk Elder Nikon often spoke of the Antichrist: “The time will come when they will fight and fight and a world war will begin. And in the midst of it they will say: let's elect ourselves one king for the whole universe. And they will choose! The Antichrist will be elected as the world king and the main "peacemaker"on the ground. We must listen carefully, we must be careful! As soon as they vote for one in the whole world, know that this is already him and that you can’t vote. ”.

And here are the words of the venerable elder of Optina Barsanuphius: « Russian people will repent of mortal sins: that they allowed Jewish wickedness in Russia, did not protect the Anointed of God Tsar, Orthodox churches and monasteries and all Russian saints, despised piety and loved demonic wickedness. But there will be a spiritual explosion! And Russia, together with all the Slavic peoples and lands, will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be nourished by the Orthodox Tsar of God, the Anointed One. Thanks to him, all schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church. The Lord will have mercy on Holy Rus' because it already had a terrible time before Antichrist. The Russian Orthodox Tsar-Autocrat will be afraid even of the Antichrist himself. And all other countries, except for Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures. In Russia, faith will flourish and rejoice, but only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead..

And one more prophecy of the elder Barsanuphius: “Blessed and blessed is the man who does not wish and therefore will not see the godless face of the Antichrist. Whoever sees him and hears his blasphemous speech with the promise of all earthly blessings, they will be deceived and go towards him with worship. And together with him they will perish for eternal life, they will burn in the eternal Fire! The abomination of desolation will stand in the holy place and show the filthy deceivers of the world, who will deceive people who have apostatized from God and work false miracles. And after them the Antichrist will appear! The whole world will see it once.". To the question "Where in the holy place, in the church?"Saint Barsanuphius said: “Not in the church, but at our house! Previously, there was a table with holy icons in the corner, but then there will be seductive accessories to seduce people. Many who deviate from the Truth will say: we need to watch and listen to the news. The Antichrist will appear on the news, and they will accept him.”.

The Optina Elder Nectarius said: “Our most terrible sorrows are like insect bites compared to the sorrows of the next century.”.

“There will be a storm. The Prussian ship will be broken - this is how the Optina elder Anatoly described the future of Russia. - But after all, people are saved on chips and debris. And yet, not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently. And what happens after the storm? After the storm, there is calm. But that ship is gone, broken, everything perished!

“Not so,” the father said further, “a great miracle of God will be revealed, yes .. And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in its beauty and will go its own way, God intended. So it will be a miracle for everyone.”. This prophecy was uttered in February 1917, when the disturbances were just beginning, the tsar had not yet abdicated the throne, and the Sovereign Mother of God had not yet appeared in the village of Kolomenskoye as a sign that henceforth she herself was taking leadership over Russia ...

In his New Year’s speech for 1918, Father Nikon said: “Our builders wish to make a name for themselves, to benefit not only the unfortunate Russian people, but the whole world and even peoples much more cultured than we are with their reforms and decrees. And this arrogant undertaking will suffer the same fate as the plan of the Babylonians: instead of good, bitter disappointment is brought. Wishing to make us rich and in need of nothing, they actually turn us into miserable, miserable, poor and naked.. This is not only the result of the first revolutionary months, but also a prophecy characterizing the end of the century, strikingly in tune with all the cataclysms that are being experienced today...

“And yet this is not the end! Russia will be saved, - a year after the October Revolution, the elder Isaac II proclaimed. - A lot of suffering, a lot of torment. All of Russia will become a prison, and one must beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sin, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the maleim neck on the cup of good will outweigh, then God will show His mercy over Russia ... "

“If even a few faithful Orthodox remain in Russia, God will have mercy on her,” Father Nektary predicted in the early 1920s, who remained the only elder of Optina Pustyn after the death of Father Anatoly Jr. And he added with a smile: “But we have such righteous people.”.

And the elder said: “In the last times the world will be girded with iron and paper”.

In 1919, Elder Anatoly predicted what is little by little coming true today before our eyes: “Inactive churches will be repaired and equipped not only outside, but also inside. Domes will gild both temples and bell towers. Repairs of temples will continue until the advent of the adversary - the magnificence will be unprecedented. And when everything is finished, the time will come when the Antichrist will reign. Pray that the Lord will continue this time for us to strengthen, because a terrible time awaits us. In this last time, true Christians will be exiled, and let the old and weak at least grab the wheels and run after them. Of you, my children, many will live to see him ... "

As a sign of this time, Elder Anatoly points to the possibility of free entry into and exit from Jerusalem (he did not bless his spiritual children to make such a pilgrimage), as well as the appearance of mass false signs. The earth will cease to give birth, part and give cracks. The lakes will begin to dry up, there will be no water in them.

Two months before the start of World War I, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna visited Optina Hermitage. The next day, Her Highness left for Shamordino. Returning in the evening, under the pretext of fatigue, she closed herself in the cell. After some time, the Grand Duchess, alone, without an escort, quickly walked through the senile forest. Elder Nectarios silently opened the door of the hut for her. They talked for a long time in private. What they talked about remained a mystery ... The hour of parting has come. Surrounded by the Optina fathers, Elizaveta Fyodorovna slowly walked towards the ferry. Crossing over to the other side of the Zhizdra, she looked around and crossed everyone with a wide cross. The monks, as one, bowed down to her. Everyone foresaw what they would have to endure soon...

"Russia is dead, but Holy Rus' is alive", - the Grand Duchess will say in the autumn of 1917, and when she is offered to go abroad, she will have to share with this land everything that is appointed to endure from the Lord.

The meeting with Elder Nectarius was not accidental. A few decades later, in 1981, when Russia has passed its way of the cross, both of them will be glorified by the Russian diaspora: the Grand Duchess as the Passion-bearer, and Elder Nektary in the Cathedral of the Reverend Fathers of Optina. The canonization of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia will be based on the fragrant relics of the one who, secretly from everyone, came to the porch of the Optina elder to receive a blessing from him and offered up prayers for him until her last breath ...

“The abyss will be stretched out on the earth,” Elder Barsanuphius predicted, “and the Sirks (demons) will all come out and be in people who will neither be baptized nor pray, but only kill people, and murder is original sin. It is interesting to seduce people more with this sin. And yet the hour will come when we remember this year, which today seems so unbearable, and yet extremely favorable for salvation, for it contains the real possibility of Repentance and Action..

Here is what the Optina Elder Nektary answered to the nun Nektaria, who in 1924 asked the priest “about the end of the world”: « ... it is not useful for people to know the time of the second coming. "Watch and Pray", - said the Savior, it means that there is no need to foresee events, but in due time everything will be revealed to be true”.

These words are thought-provoking... In an Orthodox country, the prophecies of the elders enjoying unconditional authority, if they were widely publicized, could be used by the destroyers of the state in their political manipulations. How? Take, for example, a statement on television on June 20, 1991 by a supporter of B. N. Yeltsin that the day of the election of the President of the RSFSR - June 12 - was determined based on the predictions of the last years fashionable Nostradamus.

“My heart bleeds while talking about our dear fatherland, Russia, our mother, where is she rushing, what is she looking for? What is expected? - wrote the elder Anatoly Jr. in 1918. - Enlightenment rises, but imaginary; it deceives itself in its hope; the young generation does not feed on the milk of the teachings of our Holy Orthodox Church, but on some foreign, muddy, poisonous spirit; and how long will this continue? Of course, in the fate of God's Providence, what should be written is written, but it is hidden from us due to His indescribable wisdom. And it seems that the time is coming, according to the prophecy of the father: "He who saves, save his soul!".

Elder Nektary echoes him: “Leaving European customs, we need to love Holy Rus' and repent of the past passion for them, be firm in the Orthodox faith, pray to God, repent for the past”.

The Monk Nikon adhered to the same opinion: “Beneficent Europe taught us external arts and sciences, but internal kindness takes away and shakes the Orthodox faith; attracts money".

In 1918, Elder Anatoly Jr. said:

" one. God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people look only at Him.

2. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself - this is so that the Russian people trust in the help of the Lord.

3. Hear that riots will begin in other countries and similar to that in Russia, and you will hear about the war, and there will be wars - now the time is near ”.

And then the elder said that “The Cross of Christ will shine over all the worlds, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone. There will be some unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time..

The words of Elder Nectarios: “Stocks will not be saved, because famine will not begin immediately. Every year it will become more and more difficult, crops will fall, less and less land will be cultivated. Bey needs to try to be closer to the ground. Life in big cities will be very difficult. There will be such a famine that people will climb into houses to find something to eat. They will break glass windows, break doors, kill people for food. Weapons will be in the hands of many, and human life will cost nothing..

Reverend Nikon:“At the coming of the Antichrist there will be such a famine that there will be no cereals. It will be necessary to prepare a linden leaf, nettle and other herbs, dry, and then brew - this broth will be enough for food.

The elders prophesied that by the end of time there would be a sea in the place of St. Petersburg. Moscow, on the other hand, will partially fail, there are many voids underground. When they were asked about Optina Hermitage, the elders said:

Nothing will be left of the desert. One hut, there will be one more. There will be war, destruction, but the hut will remain. I won't see it, but you will. That road will remain and one hut, and there is nothing near it. When there is a war, everything will be destroyed.

The time will come when the Chinese will attack us, and it will be very difficult for everyone.

Father Nikon gave the following prayer to one of his spiritual children: “Lord, may Your will be done in me a sinner on all paths of life, help me to remain faithful to You to the end. Holy Mother of God, save me a sinner. Holy Apostle John the Theologian, be my mentor, be my intercessor and intercessor before the Lord and His Most Pure Mother. Amen".

Four centuries ago, when Russia was close to destruction at the hands of external enemies and internal turmoil, the All-National Repentance of the Russian people took place in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, and the holy Patriarchs Job and Hermogenes performed the rite of remission of sins for their people, the rite of repentance. This repentance helped to defeat civil strife, to expel foreigners from the Russian land. Then our ancestors learned from bitter experience that true peace in the Russian state can only be with the autocracy of the anointed of God - king. They accomplished the great feat of conciliar unity in Christ and signed the Diploma of the Moscow Zemstvo Local Council of February 21, 1613. The drafting fathers of the Letter, expressing the conciliar will of Russia, made a vow for themselves and for their descendants: to faithfully serve Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, the “ancestor” of the rulers in Rus' from generation to generation. And in order not to repeat the turmoil, the compilers of the Charter wrote: “And whoever goes against this Council Decree, let him be cursed by such in this century and the future, do not wake blessings on him from now to the century.”

The betrayal of the king by the people and thereby renunciation from the Cathedral Oath of 1613 began in 1905. The natural continuation of this was the assassination of the tsar and the fall of the monarchy in Russia. The end of autocracy, the end of tsarist Russia has come. Because of the renunciation, we were cursed by our ancestors.

KNOWN PROPHECIES OF THE HOLY ELDERS ABOUT THE FATE OF RUSSIA

Answer The persecution and torment of the first Christians may be repeated... Hell is destroyed, but not destroyed, and the time will come when it will make itself felt. This time is not far off...

We will live to terrible times, but the grace of God will cover us... The Antichrist is clearly coming into the world, but this is not recognized in the world. The whole world is under the influence of some kind of force that takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. It is an outside force, an evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only an instrument through which it operates. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.

In the Church we don't have living prophets now, but there are signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world. Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is preserved in them.

Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina, 1910

How to understand the prophecies about Russia Grigory Rasputin?

The last prophecy was made in October 1916, shortly before his death. "There was Russia - there will be a red pit. There was a red pit - there will be a swamp of the wicked who dug a red pit. There was a swamp of the wicked - there will be a dry field, but there will be no Russia, but there will be no pit either."

Father, if it is possible, could you open for us spiritual meaning these words of Grigory Efimovich.

Father Oleg Molenko's answer:

I first learned about this prophecy from you in this matter, but my heart immediately accepted it. It is very consonant with the prophecy of another great saint of the land of the Russian elder Theodosius of Jerusalem, who said that Russia has no earthly future, but only a heavenly one.

As for the words of Grigory Rasputin directly, they are true and do not cause me any doubt. Their meaning is as follows: There was Russia - there will be a red pit - i.e. there was an Orthodox country, but it will become a death pit for Bolsheviks and communists who declared themselves red. The swamp of the wicked is all those who, after the rule of the communists in Russia, will come to power: Yeltsin, Putin. The field is dry - this is the state of the new Russia after the violence of the wicked rulers. This is the repentant state of its population, without tears, weeping and proper repentance. Further conditional prophecy: If there is no Russia, there will be no deadly pit.

Predictions

Predicting the future is now the domain of futurists like Francis Fukuyama. As a rule, their “prophecies” are based on the most complex fundamental analysis and the latest Information Technology. However, in most cases their "foresights" do not come true. On the other hand, the prophetic tradition has existed from time immemorial among the ascetics of Orthodoxy. Of course, the holy fathers relied not on fundamental analysis and the latest achievements of computer science, but only on Faith in the Lord… Further, some of the predictions of the holy fathers about Russia and beyond.

Accurate predictions of saints about Russia for 2016

There are many predictions about the fate of the world and the future of modern, new Russia. Most of the prophecies made by different people at different times predict the same events in the first quarter of the 21st century.

The visions of psychics and clairvoyants, the predictions of the saints about the future of Russia for 2016 are almost absolutely similar in one thing: the new Russia, having survived the horrors and devastation, like the Phoenix bird will be reborn, rise from the ashes and reveal its greatness to the world. The Lord will have mercy on our Motherland, and at a time when terrible disasters will fall on many powers, Russia will be saved.

The holy fools were loved in Rus', they were called God's people, and even the rulers listened to the words of the holy fools. They said that the truth speaks through the mouth of a baby and a holy fool, and if a fool says something wrong, then there is nothing to be offended by. In essence, foolishness was special calling, the only way to participate in the social and political life of the state.

It may seem strange to us that the realization of those rights and freedoms that every citizen in our country has today took such an exotic form. But, once upon a time, attempts to express one's point of view, to reach out to those in power could easily cost a person freedom, or even life. So thinking people had to become holy fools in order to tell people the truth under the guise of a “fool”.

It is noteworthy that most of the information that these thinkers uttered fell on the future of Russia. These predictions of the saints about the future of Russia for the coming year 2016 speak of the end of times and the end of the world, disasters, terrible large-scale wars and the salvation of Russia.

The strong predictions of the saints about Russia, relating to 2016, relate primarily to the problems of faith. So, the Monk Seraphim of Sarov noted that "before the end of time, Russia will merge into one great sea with other lands and Slavic tribes ...".

Father Aristokliy Athos spoke that: "The end will be through China, and Russia will be saved." Many, many clairvoyants and saints prophesy about the salvation of our country when the end times come. It is said that we now live on the eve of these last times before the Third World War and the reign of the Antichrist.

Saint Aristocles of Athos, in his faith, speaks of salvation: “After all, the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales. And when the smallest thing outweighs goodness in the cup, then God will show His mercy over Russia. “The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”

Sources: www.pokaianie.ru, adonay-forum.com, www.omolenko.com, uznayonline.ru, www.sudba.info

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Appearance of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov r.B. Tatyana. About the universal card and not only.

Recorded by Priest Sergiy Polishchuk, from the words of the Servant of God Tatyana.

“Soon this universal card will be introduced, which is already a denial of Christ, and a rather weighty renunciation of Christ. After this card will be the seal of the Antichrist.

The people who accept this electronic universal card will have their will suppressed, and even if they have made a decision for themselves not to take the seal of the Antichrist, they will not be able to resist their intention. It will be impossible for the one who has accepted the universal electronic card to repent before the Lord God, because the attitude towards sin will change. A person will not feel like a sinner and there will be no such proper repentance, which the Lord accepts and for which forgives sins.

The Monk Seraphim said that the grace of God began, especially in recent times, to move away from Moscow. This is connected with the two most terrible sins - this is the sin of Sodom and the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and the Mother of God (swearing). Now our life, our speech is sprinkled with foul language, sin. Whether it's even ordinary speech, and not swearing, a mat is already used for a red word. But in fact, this is a very terrible sin, and because of these two sins, the grace of the Holy Spirit departs. After a while, Moscow will begin to fail. Father Seraphim said that Moscow is a dead city, collapsed streets, collapsed squares, said that in a few years the capital will be in a completely different place.

Father Seraphim noticed that with the acceptance of cards, morality will be lost and things will be happening on our streets and in our homes that are scary even to imagine. He said: “You don't need to know what will be in these houses, in this city after a while. Sodom parades and stuff ... "

People who will not hesitate to accept this card will also gladly accept the seal of the Antichrist. The Antichrist is already on the threshold of Moscow. He is not allowed to enter Moscow only by the prayers of the monks and the righteous. In order for this entry to take place, the prayer in the temples will soon be changed, and when this happens, it will no longer be possible to go to the temples. Not to churches, not to Communion.

There will be a terrible war, there will be a famine, very strong and for several years; the heat will be strong and the water will go deep into the ground, BUT if you pray, and there will be conciliar repentance, then the Lord will extend the time.

YOU NEED TO PRAY NOW CONSTANTLY AND EVERYWHERE!!!”

Predictions of schemamonk John from the village of Nikolskoye

“When they take out the“ bald ”from the Mausoleum, there will be a failure of Moscow in salt water and little remains of Moscow (according to the latest research, there is an ancient sea under Moscow under the layer of the earth's crust - approx.) Sinners will swim in salt water for a long time, but there will be no one to save them. They will all die. Petersburg will be flooded. Only those who leave the cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg) to live in the countryside will have a chance to survive. It is not worth starting to build houses in the villages, there is no time left, you will not have time. It is better to buy a finished house. There will be a big famine. There will be no electricity, no water, no gas. Only those who grow their own food will have a chance to survive. China will go to war against us and occupy all of Siberia to the Urals. The Japanese will be in charge in the Far East. Russia will be torn apart. A terrible war will begin.

Russia will remain within the borders of the times of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The Monk Seraphim of Sarov will come. He will unite all the Slavic peoples and states and bring the Tsar with him. The government will literally go berserk. There will be such a famine that those who have accepted the "seal" will eat the dead. And most importantly - pray and hurry up to change your life so as not to live in sin, since there is no time left at all ... "

PROPHETIC PREDICTIONS OF SCHIARCHIMANDRITO CHRISTOPHER THE OLD OF TULA (1905-1996)

“The Antichrist is at the door. It's already hard to live. His (Antichrist's) seal will be placed only on those who do not have the seal of God. He also said that there would be a sharp cooling in the Church towards everything: towards prayer, towards repentance, towards faith... good deeds... to all. (...) There will be no heat in the Church.” “The Lord will shorten the time for the salvation of our souls. And if it does not reduce, then we will not be saved. (...) You will run around looking for elders all over the world, but there will be no true elders anymore. The Lord will take them all (...) and you will remain at the will of God. (...) But not long after me there will be a mixture of faiths, and it will no longer be possible to go to churches, there will be no Eucharist and there will be no Communion. This horned one will crawl so cunningly that you will see: the temples will be open, and the services will continue as they went, as they sang, and they sing there. (...) It will no longer be possible to go to church, the Orthodox faith is already everything, it will not exist, and there will be no Communion. Two or three priests of true believers will remain in Tula, no more. (...) Pray in your cells, but never leave prayer.”

“There will be no crosses. First, monastic crosses will disappear, then small crosses on the pectoral... if you want to baptize a child, there will be no crosses. Save your crosses. Store candles, store oil, so that you can light a candle, a lamp and pray at home. (...) “Chop the prosphora finely, dry it and put it in hermetic jars, and then, through the prayers of your Epiphany water, the Lord will impute a drop and a drop of prosphora to you in Communion. It will be impossible to go to church, and Epiphany water and prosphora will be given to you instead of Communion ... And then our churches will be occupied, and everything will collapse, as it was then, and it will be again.

“Lately, people will get sick a lot, but do not despair, this will be for the purification of your souls.” He said about Petersburg: “After all, the city is doomed. He will go under the water. Moscow is doomed. There are only a few prayer books left.” “The wheel of the Apocalypse moves at great speed (...). Yes, Russia will be reborn... And Moscow? Moscow part will fail, and in Tula it will fail. (...) In Moscow - where is the mausoleum and further away, across the river, and where is the hotel Rossiya. In Tula, the Leninsky district will fail and Skuratovo will fail. (...). And Peter will go under the water. (...). So please the Lord God. Were there Sodom and Gomorrah? Also here." “The elders pray very much that there will be a war, and after the war there will be famine. And if there is no war, it will be bad, everyone will die. The war will not be long, but still many will be saved, and if not, then no one will be saved.

He said that soon everything would be Catholic in the Church, as the Symbol of Faith would be changed in the churches, it would be impossible to walk, and then all the churches would be closed. “We must have a supply of water and crackers for ten days, and it will be such that it will not even be possible to leave the house. But for the elect, everything will be reduced.”

He greatly revered the tsar and the royal family, and even then, in the 80s, he said that there would be a glorification of the tsar (Nicholas II). "The Tsar with his immaculate children suffered for us, washed Russia with his blood, redeemed us." The priest said that “the Tsar is God's anointed, the people will still cry. (...) So we need it, that all this is happening to us. (...) it’s all for the king-father, for betraying him.”

“Soon I will be gone, but I leave you a prayer. Read it always, especially in the morning: "Lord, deliver us from the Antichrist, the enemy of violence and sorcery." Everything is contained in this prayer; wherever you are, it should be read."

“This is how Sodom and Gomorrah died for debauchery, this is how the Lord will burn us with fire, this world will burn. Such large cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg will perish.” “Russia will prosper, there will be a new tsar, she will rise again and be freed from this satanic infection, and life will be very good, pious, but everything depends on our repentance, we need conciliar repentance so that we have a new tsar, without repentance the tsar will not come. For a short time, the Lord will send us a king again, but first there will be wars. The war will be very fast, missile, and such that everything will be poisoned. Batiushka said that everything would be poisoned a few meters into the ground. And it will be very difficult for those who remain alive, because the earth will no longer give birth. (...) He said that after the war there would be so few people left on earth.

(...) There will be heat after the war and a terrible famine all over the earth, and not only in Russia. And the heat is terrible, and there will be crop failures for the last five to seven years. At first everything will be born, and then it will rain, and everything will be flooded, and the whole crop will rot, and nothing will be harvested. All rivers, lakes, reservoirs will dry up, and the oceans will dry up, and all glaciers will melt, and mountains will leave their places. The sun will be very hot. (...) People will be thirsty, they will run, look for water, but there will be no water. They will see - something glitters in the sun - and they will think that it is water, they will run up, but this is not water, but glass glitters. “Lately, you won’t live alone... They will run away from the monasteries! (...) The devil will take possession of the monasteries ... and it’s good if someone has a house left, his own corner where to run! And those who have nowhere to run will die under the fence.” Batiushka was very negative about apartments. “Buy, he said, - a house with a land. Relatives do not disperse, but unite, buy together. (...) Buy houses in the village, even a dugout. God's blessing is on it. Buy and immediately dig a well so that you have your own water, and immediately plant a willow (on the north side), because there is always water under the willow (...)

It will be possible to collect water drop by drop. These drops are the tears of the Mother of God. (...) We will eat roots, herbs, and we need to collect a linden leaf. Here you will have bread and water. The Lord will feed by a miracle, by a miracle. Then the Lord will give crowns to the living, whoever does not betray God, whoever follows Him. (...) There will be a terrible famine, the corpses will be lying around, and you will have your own land, it will feed you. And don't be lazy, don't be lazy. The Lord loves work. You will return "scythe to scythe" - as the blessed Matronushka said, (...), - plow to plow, you will all return to manual labor. (...) In those days, it would be possible to save oneself only in one's own homes. And in the city ... what passion will be! The light will be turned off, the gas will be turned off, the water will be turned off ... there will be nothing, and people will almost rot alive in their apartments.” Christopher worried about Russia and wept: “Mother Russia, poor Russia! What awaits you, what awaits you!

In recent years, the priest was very sad, and sadness was characteristic of the time. Batiushka said that the world is not going to salvation, but to its imminent death. When Boris Yeltsin was still in power, he said: “He did nothing good, but he does not touch the Church either, and this is the main thing. And after him he will be young, he will generally confuse everything. And then such a thing will begin that only God will figure it out. The elder said that now is not the time for rebirth, but for the salvation of souls. Everything, he said, will be done cunningly and slyly. Did not bless to take electronic numbers, plastic cards, passports, all this, he said, is antichrist, he did not bless anything, starting with vouchers, he did not even bless marriages. He warned me not to vaccinate. Recently, no doctors can be trusted, as they will be very cunning and can introduce these chips under the skin.

Rev. Kuksha of Odessa (1875 - 1964). Spiritual children.

My dear sisters in Christ our Lord Jesus, peace and grace to you from the Lord for the letter I received recently. I thank you and save you, Lord, that you have not forgotten me, a sinner. My dear sisters, I believe your grief and thank you from the bottom of my heart in everything, but it is a pity that I cannot get rid of it, but bear with me, my dear sisters, for it is pleasing to the Heavenly Father! My sisters, know that everything is sent from God: good, bad and sorrowful, and you will gladly accept everything from the hand of the Lord and do not be afraid, God will not leave you! He will never send grief, grief and heavy burdens beyond your strength, but gives everything according to your strength. Your great woe to him - this means that you have a lot of strength to endure him, but this or that grief, endure everything patiently, for time is coming to death. Now the chapter of the 3rd book of the prophet Ezra is beginning to be fulfilled. Death is fast approaching us. Oh, my sisters, what a terrible time is coming when you don’t want to live in this world, but it’s here ... here it is.

Oh my God, my God, my God! Terrible disasters are coming to earth: fire, famine, death, death and destruction, and who can avert them! And this time is very close, do not listen to anyone if they say that there will be peace, no, there will be no peace, there will be war. And then there will be a terrible famine. And where does it all go! There will be nothing to eat, and death awaits people from hunger. The people will be sent to the east, but not a single soul will return, they will all die there from hunger, there will be a terrible death, and whoever remains alive will die from pestilence. It is a contagious disease with no cure. It was not in vain that the holy prophet Ezra said: woe, woe for you, our land, one grief will pass, a second and a third will come, etc.

Oh, God, my God, do you know, dear sisters and brothers, that even now the Lord has put an end to earthly prosperity. Truly I tell you that now is not the time to get married and get married, because the Lord gave us these days only for repentance and repentance from the sinful life of the flesh: this time is not for feasts and weddings, not for overeating and drunkenness, we all must leave this ... We should cry day and night to our true God for the forgiveness of our grave sins. We must ask Him with tears to have mercy and mercy on us at His Terrible Judgment, for after all these disasters, the glorious Terrible Day of God's Judgment will come. The Scripture says that the chosen ones of God can find out, that is, the Lord can reveal to them the year of the end of the world, but no one knows the day or the hour, even the Angels in Heaven; only the Lord knows about it… A terrible, terrible time is approaching, God forbid, since the creation of the world there has never been such a thing, Lord, but who will not be afraid of you!

Listen, my sisters and brothers, know that I will tell you that God has prepared such a pit for the world that there is no bottom and He will put all the wicked there... Oh, God forbid to get there, Lord, save and have mercy! Truly I tell you, I do not lie, that it is by His grace that the Lord has revealed to me. Telling lies is a terrible sin. God save us not only talk about marriage and marriage now, but you can’t even think about it, this is a terrible sin. Young boys and girls should not marry. Those who live in marriage also need to live chastely, Lord, save and have mercy on us. There was a time when they lived quietly and the Lord Himself blessed the marriage, but now all this has come to an end. But the people of this world will do iniquity to the very end, and for sins they will be cast into a bottomless pit into hell-fire, because they do not know what they are doing. What the Lord revealed to me for the people of this world is a mystery. I feel sorry for everyone that they don’t know all this and people walk like blind people, they don’t see this bottomless pit in front of them into which they are about to fly. I thank the True God to everyone that He is merciful and announced to me about this and showed me everything. Do not think that it was shown to me through my prayer, only through His mercy the Lord revealed and showed me everything that should be soon. But the Lord does not give everyone such joy as He has shown me, a great sinner. Give Him thanks and praise forever and ever. Amen.

Kind people! Say goodbye to earthly goods, for no one will live. Pray and be saved in the Lord! Precious time given for the acquisition of eternal life. Strengthen yourself with deeds of mercy and love for your neighbor! Fulfill the commandments of the Lord! The last times have come. Soon there will be a great council called "holy", but it will be just the Eighth (Impious!) Ecumenical Council, at which all faiths will unite into one, holy fasts will be canceled, bishops will marry. Then they will be driven there, but in no case can you go there. Stand for the Orthodox faith until the end of your days and be saved. May peace and salvation be upon you and us forever. Amen.

Prophecies of Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim

Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim (Tyapochkin, + 6.4.1982) from Rakitnoye (1977): “During the memorable conversation, a young woman from a Siberian city was present. Christians and those who disagree with their rule. "This was an answer to her doubt about the words of the elder that almost all of Siberia would be captured by the Chinese. The elder said what was revealed to him about the future of Russia, he did not name dates, he only emphasized that the time of the accomplishment of what was said - in the hands of God, and much depends on how the spiritual life of the Russian Church will take shape, how strong faith in God will be among the Russian people, what will be the prayer feat of believers [...] The elder said that the collapse of Russia, despite the apparent strength and rigidity of power, will happen very quickly. First, the Slavic peoples will be divided, then the union republics will fall away: the Baltic, Central Asian, Caucasian and Moldova. After that, the central government in Russia will become even weaker, so that autonomous republics and regions will begin to separate. Further collapse will follow: the authorities of the Center will no longer actually recognize individual regions, which will try to live independently and will no longer pay attention to decrees from Moscow. The biggest tragedy will be the capture of Siberia by China. This will not happen by military means: due to the weakening of power and open borders, the Chinese will begin to move to Siberia in droves, buying up real estate, enterprises, and apartments. Through bribery, intimidation, agreements with those in power, they will gradually subjugate the economic life of cities. Everything will happen in such a way that in one morning the Russian people living in Siberia will wake up ... in the Chinese state. The fate of those who remain there will be tragic, but not hopeless. The Chinese will brutally crack down on any attempts at resistance. (That is why the elder predicted the martyrdom at the stadium of the Siberian city of many Orthodox and patriots of the Motherland). The West will promote this creeping conquest of our land and support China's military and economic power in every possible way out of hatred for Russia. But then they will see the danger for themselves, and when the Chinese try to seize the Urals by military force and move on, they will prevent this by all means and can even help Russia in repelling the invasion from the East. Russia must endure in this battle, after suffering and complete impoverishment, she will find the strength to rise in herself. And the coming revival will begin in the lands conquered by the enemies, among the Russians who remained in the former republics of the Union. There, the Russian people realize what they have lost, realize themselves as citizens of that Motherland that still lives, wish to help it rise from the ashes. Many Russians living abroad will help restore life in Russia... Many of those who can escape persecution and persecution will return to their original Russian lands to fill abandoned villages, cultivate neglected fields, and use the remaining unexploited subsoil. The Lord will send help, and, despite the fact that the country will lose the main deposits of raw materials, they will find on the territory of Russia both oil and gas, without which a modern economy is impossible. The elder said that the Lord would allow the loss of vast lands granted to Russia, because we ourselves could not use them worthily, but only polluted, spoiled ... But the Lord will leave behind Russia those lands that became the cradle of the Russian people and were the basis of the Great Russian state. This is the territory of the Grand Moscow Principality of the 16th century with access to the Black, Baltic and North Seas. Russia will not be rich, but it will still be able to feed itself and force itself to be reckoned with. To the question: "What will happen to Ukraine and Belarus?" The elder replied that everything was in the hands of God. Those who in these nations are against an alliance with Russia - even if they consider themselves believers - become servants of the devil. The Slavic peoples have a common destiny, and the reverend Fathers of the Kiev Caves will still say their weighty word - they, together with a host of new martyrs of Russia, will beg for a new Union of three fraternal peoples. Another question was asked about the possibility of restoring the monarchy in Russia. The elder replied that this restoration must be earned. It exists as a possibility, not as a predestination. If we are worthy, the Russian people will choose the Tsar, but this will become possible just before the accession of the Antichrist or even after it - for a very short time."

Venerable Theodosius (Kashin, + 1948), Elder of Jerusalem

"Was that the war [the Great Patriotic War]? Here there will be a war. It will start from the east. And then from all sides, like pruzi [locusts], enemies will crawl to Russia. This will be a war! .."

Blessed Kievan Elder Nun Alipia

“This will not be a war, but the execution of peoples for their rotten state. Dead bodies will lie in mountains, no one will undertake to bury them. Mountains, hills will disintegrate, will be razed to the ground. People will run from place to place.”

Quarreling over housing: “Here you quarrel, swear for an apartment, disperse ... And there will be a time when there will be a lot of empty apartments, but there will be no one to live in them”

Matushka paid special attention to the topic of land - those who had houses in the villages, land, livestock were forbidden to sell, indicating that they still need a farm.

Pasha Sarovskaya's prediction

On August 1, 1903, the holy prophetess Pasha Sarovskaya predicted a terrible fate for the Tsar and Tsarina: to be killed along with their children in 15 years. And so it happened.
“Next,” said the saint (she was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church), “four of your servants will be martyred with you. For each of the 11 people killed, the Lord puts 10 years. For Your Family - seven people, take it out and put it - the devil will walk And for each of Your servants, the Lord will double-check every ten years: has the Russian people repented? so much the better, the sooner he repents. But I tell you, Tsar, by the end of these 110 years there will be a Tsar in Rus' from your dynasty."

The Russian people betrayed and rejected Christ - God, when they betrayed and rejected the Holy Tsar, the Anointed One, thereby committing a terrible SIN. After they betrayed and rejected the King of God, Russia was captured by the forces of the devil, who are destroying Russia, the Faith and the Russian people. The only salvation of Russia is ALL NATIONAL REPENTANCE for the sin of regicide and PRAYER for the Coming King of God's ANOINTED. When ALL RUSSIAN PEOPLE REPENT THE SIN OF TSARMURDER AND WILL PRAY FOR THE COMING KING BEFORE CHRIST GOD, then the Lord will give the Tsar the Conqueror, who will save Russia and the Russian people from the Antichrist and the horrors of the last times.

Prophecy of Saint Malachy

One of the most famous prophets Roman Catholic Church is Saint Malachi, who died in 1148. This Irish priest made a list of all future popes since Celestine II (1143).

On April 2, 2005, John Paul II died, in the world a Pole Karol Wojtyla. He was 110th in the list of Malachy, who awarded this Pope with the motto "from the labors of the Sun."
About the 111th pope ( Benedict XVI) Malachi succinctly reports as the "glory of the olive" (in another translation - "the triumph of the world"). Malachy does not say how long the peace-loving Pope will last in power, but with his successor (already replacing Benedict XVI in early 2013), whom the soothsayer calls by name, the world is in for a catastrophe. When the holy throne is occupied by the 112th Peter of Rome, or Peter II (the first, as you know, was the Apostle Peter, a disciple of Christ, who established the institution of the papacy), the end of the world will come. Against his custom, Malachi dedicates a whole paragraph to the last Pope of Rome, which says the following: "At the end of time, the place of the Holy Roman Church will be occupied by Peter of Rome, who will feed the weak-willed, committing many disasters. At this time, the City of Seven Hills will be destroyed and the Monstrous Judge will judge the nations. The end."

Here is such a picture of the future...

The Lord will resurrect the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who will be alive - a decent time. Whoever wants to see him alive! Oh, how many miracles will be then! The relics of the Reverend Father Seraphim are in Moscow with a pious old woman. The Angel of the Lord, when necessary, tells her to turn to the First Hierarch and say...

OLD MAN VLADISLAV (SHUMOV):
1. Cards will be introduced in Moscow, and then famine.

2. The earthquake in Moscow will be big. Six hills in Moscow will turn into one.

3. No one needs to move from their places: where you live, stay there (to the villagers).

4. Do not go to the monastery in Diveevo now: the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are not there.

5. Yes, persecution Orthodox Faith there will be more!

6. In Russia, the communists will still come to power ...

7. As soon as you find out that such and such a priest was driven out of the temple, cling to him during the time of persecution.

8. Japan and America will go under water together.

9. All of Australia will also be flooded.

10. The ocean will flood America all the way to Alaska. So the very Alaska, which will again be ours.

11. There will be such a war in Russia: from the west - the Germans, and from the east - the Chinese!

12. The southern half of China will be flooded by the waters of the Indian Ocean. And then the Chinese will reach the city of Chelyabinsk. Russia will unite with the Mongols and drive them back.

13. When China goes to us, then there will be war. But after the Chinese conquer the city of Chelyabinsk, the Lord will convert them to Orthodoxy.

14. The war between Russia and Germany will begin again through Serbia.

15. Everything will be on fire!... Great sorrows are coming, but Russia will not perish in the fire.

16. Belarus will suffer greatly. Only then will Belarus unite with Russia... But then Ukraine will not unite with us; and then more crying!

17. The Turks will again fight the Greeks. Russia will help the Greeks.

18. Afghanistan is waiting for an endless war.

19. Know! There will be war here, and war here, and war there! .. And only then the warring countries will decide to choose one common ruler. You can't participate in this! After all, this single ruler is the Antichrist.

Blessed Elder Pelagia of Ryazan:

In the end times, there will be a hundred or more sorcerers for every Christian!<...>How many books of sorcery and sorcery under the guidance of Jews are published all over the world?!

There will be a great tribulation when the servants of the Antichrist deprive the believers food, work, pension... There will be groaning, weeping and much more ... Many will die, and only those who are strong in faith will remain, whom the Lord will choose, and live to see His Second Coming.

When the Lord allows the Antichrist to appear, then the majority of the clergy will immediately convert to another faith, and the people will follow them!
The Antichrist will sacrifice many nations that Satan will prepare for this, turning them into ruminant cattle!<...>
There will be no food, no water, unspeakable heat, remorse by animals, strangled men will hang at every step...<...>
Most people in the world from hunger will accept the seal from the Antichrist, very few will not. This seal will forever seal those who accept it for the grace of repentance, that is, they will never be able to repent and will go to hell!

The Antichrist will only have enough food for those who have received the seal for six months, and then they will begin a great tribulation, they will start looking for death and will not find it!

The Russian people will be strangled by all means! And Adventists - the satanic faith - the green light! There will be so many suicides in our country! Still ahead! Hunger, and with hunger - cannibalism! War and then choose the Antichrist!

Put all your care so that the Lord delivers from the sin of Sodom. Satan will give the command to shame this sin especially the clergy and monasticism!<...>(This sin) will be spread on a large scale, this is sodomy!

The teaching of Antichrist will differ from the Orthodox teaching of Christ only in that it will deny the redemptive Cross! - the saint of God Pelagia of Ryazan warned, - Seventh-day Adventists are the first enemies of the Cross of Christ!

Rich priests crucified the Lord!
Wealthy priests overthrew the Tsar!!.
Rich priests will lead us to the Antichrist!!!

There will be three great miracles:
The first miracle - in Jerusalem - the resurrection from the dead of the holy patriarch Enoch and the holy prophet Elijah on the third day after they were killed by the Antichrist!

The second miracle - in the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra; resurrect, after the accession of the Antichrist, St. Sergius. He will rise from the shrine, reach the Assumption Cathedral before everyone's eyes, and then ascend to heaven! There will be a sea of ​​tears here! Then there will be nothing to do in the monastery, there will be no grace!

And the third miracle will be in Sarov. The Lord will resurrect the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who will be alive - a decent time. Whoever wants to see him alive! Oh, how many miracles will be then!

The relics of the Reverend Father Seraphim are in Moscow with a pious old woman. The Angel of the Lord, when necessary, tells her to turn to the First Hierarch and say that she has the relics of St. Seraphim. These holy relics will be carried on their shoulders through Kashira along the Volgograd road through Mikhailov to Tambov, and from there to Sarov. In Sarov, Father Seraphim will rise from the dead!

At a time when his relics will be carried, the people will be in darkness, and a great many of the sick will be healed! About his resurrection in Sarov will be announced on radio and television, and the people will be - innumerable!

At this time, many foreigners from all over the world will arrive in Sarov: both the priesthood and simply curious people. Everyone will be convinced of the resurrection of the Monk Seraphim: yes, truly, this is the elder who consecrated himself to God on this earth, in this area! This is going to be a world wonder!

REVEREND BARSONOPHIY OF OPTINSKY:
The whole world is under the influence of some power which takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. It is an outside force, an evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only an instrument through which it operates. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.

In the Church we don't have living prophets now, but there are signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world... Everyone goes against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is preserved in them.

REVEREND ANATOLY OF OPTINSKY:
Heresies will spread everywhere and deceive many. The enemy of the human race will act by cunning, in order, if possible, to incline even the elect to heresy. He will not rudely reject the dogmas of the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the dignity of the Mother of God, but will imperceptibly distort the teachings of the Church transmitted by the Holy Fathers from the Holy Spirit, and his very spirit and statutes, and these tricks of the enemy will be noticed only by a few, the most skillful in spiritual life. .

REVEREND THEODOSIUS (KASHIN):
Was it a war (the Great Patriotic War)? There will be war. It will start from the east. And then from all sides, like pruzi (locusts), enemies will crawl to Russia. This is going to be a war!

REVEREND KIRILL WHITE:
This time is already a rebellion in people (the destruction of the power of the Monarch), there will be a great misfortune on our land and great anger on people, and they will fall from the edge of the sword, and they will be captivated<...>as the Lord showed me.

Now I saw the king sitting on the throne and before him standing two brave youths, having royal crowns on their heads. And the Lord gave them into their hands weapons against the opposite, and their enemies will be defeated, and all nations will worship, and our kingdom will be pacified by God and arranged. But you, brothers and fathers, pray with tears to God and His Most Pure Mother of God for the power of the kingdom of the Russian land.

SCHIARCHIMANDRITO STEFAN (Athos):
America will soon collapse. It will fall terribly, cleanly. The Americans will flee, trying to save themselves in Russia and Serbia. So it will be.

OLD MATTHEW OF VRESFENSKY:
This war of the world, perhaps of the entire New World Order, against Russia will be terrible in its consequences for humanity, claiming billions of lives. The reason for it will be painfully recognizable - Serbia.<...>After the resurrection of Russia, there will be a Third World War and it will begin in Yugoslavia. The winner will be Russia, the Russian Tsardom, which will be able to establish lasting peace and prosperity on earth after the war, although it will not conquer most of the lands of its opponents.

STARETS VISSARION (Optina Pustyn):
Something like a coup d'état will happen in Russia. In the same year, the Chinese will attack. They will reach the Urals. Then there will be a unification of Russians according to the Orthodox principle ...

OLD NICHOLAS (GURYANOV):

Father Nikolai, who will be after Yeltsin? What can we expect?
- Then there will be a military man.
- Soon?
- ... His power will be linear. But his age is small, and he himself.

The prediction found in the ancient Greek books of the Lavra of Savva the Sanctified by the Russian monk Anthony Savait, built on the prophecies of the Holy Fathers from Greek texts:

The last times have not yet come, and it is completely wrong to believe that we are on the threshold of the coming of the Antichrist, because one and the last flowering of Orthodoxy is yet to come, this time all over the world - led by Russia. It will take place after a terrible war, in which either 1/2 or 2/3 of mankind will perish, and which will be stopped by a voice from heaven.
And the gospel will be preached all over the world!

For until now it was not the Gospel of Christ that was preached, but the Gospel distorted by heretics (meaning, of course, the preaching of the Gospel in the world by Catholics, Protestants, and all sorts of sectarians).

There will be a period of worldwide prosperity - but not for long.

In Russia at that time there will be an Orthodox Tsar, whom the Lord will reveal to the Russian people.

And after that the world will again be corrupted and will no longer be capable of correction, then the Lord will allow the reign of the Antichrist.

OLD ANTHONY

They are called now aliens, somehow, but these are demons. Time will pass, and they will freely show themselves to people, being in the service of the Antichrist and his minions. How difficult it will be to fight them then!

PAISE OF ATHO:

Unfortunately, today people who have no relation to the Church and with absolutely worldly sophistication are pushed into theology, who say different things and perform unlawful actions, with the aim of deliberately removing Christians from the faith by their position.

When you hear that the Turks block the waters of the Euphrates in the upper reaches with a dam and use them for irrigation, then know that we have already entered into preparations for that great war, and thus the way is being prepared for the two hundred millionth army from the sunrise, as Revelation says.

Apostasy (retreat) has come, and now it remains only for the "son of perdition" to come. (The world) will turn into a madhouse. Sheer confusion will reign, in the midst of which each state will begin to do what it pleases. God grant that the interests of those who make big politics are in our favor. Every now and then we will hear something new. We will see how the most incredible, the most insane events take place. (It's only good) that these events will follow each other very quickly.

Ecumenism, common market, one big state, one religion tailored to their measurements. Such are the plans of these devils. The Zionists are already preparing someone to be the messiah. For them, the messiah will be a king, that is, he will rule here on earth. Jehovists are also waiting for an earthly king. The Zionists will present their king, and the Jehovists will accept him. They all recognize him as king, say, "Yes, it is he." There will be great confusion. In this turmoil, everyone will want a king who could save them. And then they will put forward a person who will say: "I am the imam, I am the fifth Buddha, I am the Christ whom the Christians are waiting for, I am the one whom the Jehovists are waiting for, I am the messiah of the Jews." He will have five "I".

He will appear to the people of Israel as the messiah and seduce the world. Hard times are coming, great trials await us. Christians will suffer great persecution. Meanwhile, it is obvious that people do not even understand that we are already experiencing the signs of the (end) times, that the seal of Antichrist is becoming a reality. As if nothing is happening. Therefore, the Holy Scripture says that even the elect will be deceived. Those who do not have a good disposition will not receive enlightenment from God and will be deceived into the years of apostasy. Because the one in whom there is no Divine Grace does not have spiritual clarity, just as the devil does not have it either.<...>

(Zionists) want to rule the world. In order to achieve their goal, they use witchcraft and Satanism. They look at the worship of Satan as a force that will help in the implementation of their plans. Little by little, after the introduction of cards and identity cards, that is, the compilation of personal dossiers, they will cunningly begin to apply the seal. With the help of various tricks, people will be forced to accept a seal on their forehead or hand. They will give people trouble and say, "Only use credit cards money will be abolished."

In order to buy something, a person will give a card to the seller in the store, and the store owner will receive money from his bank account. Anyone who does not have a card will not be able to sell or buy.

Blessed JEROME:
One should not think that the Antichrist is either the devil or a demon, but one of the people in whom all Satan has bodily dwell.