Many Will Be Fooled

.Greek News Report

     News Year's Day in Constantinople:
https://www.newgreektv.com/news-in-english-for-greeks/omogeneia/item/38372-vasilopita-cutting-by-patriarch-bartholomew-in-constantinople-marred-by-series-of-omens-blackout-and-broken-knives

     It's time to cut the St. Basil's bread.  Black Bart does the honors.  But he is unable to cut the bread.  First the electricity goes out.  Candles are lit.  The knife breaks.  Another knife is provided.  The second knife bends.  Black Bart says, "This is a bad omen."  World Orthodoxy buzzes with suspicions that God is showing His displeasure with Black Bart's ecumenism.

  
     clip from YouTube (link not activated on purpose)
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaWmAi5ftU

      St. Ignatius Brianchaninov instructions in three parts:  "On Signs & Miracles" is serialized in Orthodox Life magazines 1995 Nos. 2,3,4.  
https://orthodoxlifemagazines.blogspot.com

     We pray for ourselves, "Lord, let me recognize You when You come." And, "Lord, please don't let me be fooled."

     Our friends and relatives in world orthodoxy have trust and hope they will be with God for eternity.  But how much hope is there when they so easily think these cheap theatrics are a message from God?  How can they really believe this is from God?   Two of the demons' favorite amusements are messing with electricity and  spoon-bending.  This is what happens to people when they have deviated from Truth — they lose God's protection, and then the demons can come in and get their fun.  God allows it, and it should be horrifying and frightening to everyone there, that demons have such freedom to crash their gathering in God's name.

     In part I of his essay "On Signs & Miracles," St. Ignatius writes something that is later repeated to us by St. John Maximovitch in his sermon "On the Last Judgement":

"The false spirits, sent throughout the world, will incite in men a general high opinion of the Antichrist, universal ecstasy, irresistible attraction to him."  

 

     The deception will be so powerful, unlimited power, that the only way the elect will be able to escape is through a special Divine Grace that will allow the elect to stand against it — to confess the Truth before the enemy of God and before men.

     Read that carefully, about the "false spirits," because this can be applied to the deception that brought about the ROCOR-MP union.   Demons that were sent to ROCOR people by the MP caused people to lose their reason.  And for some it happened overnight — even at the last minute.

     For a long time MP has been doing experiments using evil spirits to control people.  There was a book published in the 1970s: Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain.  Fr. Seraphim Rose owned this book, as we can see in this photo of his book shelf:
https://startingontheroyalpath.blogspot.com/2024/05/photo-fr-seraphims-bookshelf.html 

     Demons sent by witchcraft are of a different ilk than the ones we invite into our lives with our sinful thoughts and desires.  "Howbeit, this kind only comes out with prayer and fasting..."  Only with help from God will we be able to escape the deception/cunning of the Antichrist.  Recognizing Antichrist is half the battle — the other half is having the strength to endure.  Remember back how with the ROCOR-MP union how many reasonable people succumbed (submitted) even though they knew it was wrong. 

     There are "dry runs" being done before Antichrist actually sets foot on the world stage.  Demons are practicing and have been practicing for a long time.  Anyone who falls into ecumenism, any one who fell for the ROCOR-MP union, — all these are already fooled.   They are already participating in Antichrist's agenda to "dissolve" the Church into the "cup" of all religions pooled together, which cunningly seems like a godly thing to do.