PROPHECIES CONCERNING PRESENT DAY ISRAEL

PROPHECIES CONCERNING PRESENT DAY ISRAEL

ST. PAUL’S PROPHECY

CONCERNING ISRAEL IN THE FLESH

“I say then, has God rejected his people? May it not be so! I myself am an Israelite, a descendent of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.  Do you know what the Scripture says of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?  Lord they have killed your prophets, they have  demolished your altars and I alone am left, and they seek my soul.  But what is God’s reply to him?  I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed their knee to Baal.  Even so, in the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace.  And if by grace then it is no longer by works, otherwise it is not by grace. 

    What then? Israel failed to obtain what it sought. The chosen obtained it but the rest were hardened because of their sins, as it is written” God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day . . .  

WHO WILL GO TO HEAVEN?

WHO WILL GO TO HEAVEN?

   The general opinion in our days concerning those who have departed, is that they are going to "a better place, or that they are in heaven now and  thank goodness their suffering is over." But what about  their  faith,  what type of life did they lead, and what works they have they done for the Lord’s sake?  We do not seeking answers for those who have departed as they are in God’s hands;  may he have mercy upon them. But these questions really concern the living, especially who will go to heaven?   This question is of great importance to all of us, who are still living, and it is better that they be resolved before we leave this world.  The Lord has something to say about this question. Do the majority of people enter the heavenly realm and gain eternal life with the Lord?

SOME SCIENTISTS ARE TAKING MANKIND DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE

SOME SCIENTISTS ARE  TAKING  MANKIND DOWN A SLIPPERY SLOPE

 Some scientists, dealing with the human brain, whether they believe in God or not, are gradually leading humanity to total chaos and disaster by promoting the myth that the human brain is the source of all of man’s decisions and  actions including his consciousness.  Denying that man has an immortal soul, and is responsible for all that he does, they attribute the immaterial soul’s activity to the material brain. Why is this a slippery slope?  Because they are stripping man of his God-given freedom, his necessary morality and his neglected conscience.  Failing to realize their error, they also fail to realize where their unscientific ideas are leading society.  

PROPHECY OF THE GREAT MOSES TO THE JEWS

PROPHECY OF THE GREAT MOSES

TO THE JEWS

YOU SHALL HANG CHRIST 

THE LIFE OF ALL MEN ON A TREE

“You shall see your Life  hanging before your eyes”

  The great Moses warned the Jews that they would be dispersed among nations for their rejecting and crucifying Christ, and he went into more detail vividly describing how they would behold their life and the life of all men hanging upon the Cross.

Moses speaks:

 “And the Lord God shall disperse you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall worship other gods, wood, stone, which you and your fathers have not known.  Moreover, among those nations he will not give you rest, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest.  And there the Lord God will give you a misgiving heart, failing eyes and a wasting soul.  And you shall see your life hanging before your eyes, and you shall be afraid day and night, and shall have no assurance of your life.  In the morning you shall say, Would that it were evening, and in the evening you shall say, Would that it were morning.” 

                                                                       (Deu. 28: 64-67)

      The Orthodox Church of Christ, the servants of God who have accepted the true God worshiped by the Jews, behold the Christ before us and we sing solemnly on Great and Holy Friday:

Η ζωη εν ταφω κατατεθης Χριστε,

      “O Life how can you die? How can you be laid in a tomb?    You  freed us from the reign of death and from Hades you raised the dead.

   

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD MORAL LIGHT AND MORAL DARKNESS

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

MORAL  LIGHT AND MORAL DARKNESS

     Jesus Christ said of himself: “I am the Light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.”

     There are three types of light that illuminate the souls of men, the first being physical light which lightens our eyes and viewable objects, enabling us to move about without stumbling. The second light is the light which enables us to realize our existence and that of the world around us, which is metaphysical light, differing in effect and purpose than the former. Consciousness is metaphysical light and while asleep or unconsciousness we are in metaphysical darkness, knowing nothing.  When we awaken the light of consciousness returns.  The third type of light is the moral light, the source being Jesus Christ who is the true Light who came into the world.  Moral light coming from the moral Sun, enables us to walk without stumbling in an upright manner, humble and meek, kind and merciful, conducting affairs with justice and honesty and keeping all the commandments of Christ, which radiate like beams of the sun into our souls. Unlike the other two lights, moral light when shining in our souls fills them with divine awe and love of God and the greatest of joys, for  “This is the true light that lightens every man who comes into the world.”

Christ Is Born

Today the Virgin
Gives birth to the transcendent One
And the earth now offers
A cave to the unapproachable One.
Angels come with the Shepherds
And glorify Him,
Magi come,
After they were following a star.
Unto us is born upon this day,
A New Child,
Who is the God before the ages.