Friday, September 5, 2014

PROPHECY WE UTTER TOGETHER SURELY WILL BE FULFILLED

PROPHECY WE  UTTER TOGETHER

SURELY WILL BE FULFILLED

       In the Holy Orthodox Church, we not only are exposed to many prophecies but, on a regular basis,  we even utter them ourselves, often without being aware.  Speaking of the future, the following prophecy is spoken by all of us when we say the Sacred Creed.  “An He (Christ) shall come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”  Christ being the Logos of God is perfect God and became perfect man,  and He will be the Judge of the entire race of man, and who is  able to escape this judgment? Fulfillment of this prophecy is unescapable and should be very important to us.

But when? It doesn’t matter, for with each of us,  our own death is the first step toward our judgment by the Lord. This brings the final  judgment very close to us, about a hundred years or so. The important thing when this day comes will be ourselves and our conscience. Do I have complete faith in the Lord? Did I keep His commandments? Do I pray to Him? In the morning? In the evening?
     If we had no real communication with God while in this world, we certainly will find our souls naked and destitute on that fearful day, resulting in our being cast into outer darkness as the Lord has warned us.

     However, our Lord Jesus Christ is compassionate and merciful and filled with forbearance toward man. So let us look a t a good judgment from Him that would cause us to enjoy the beauty and majesty of the kingdom of heaven forever. How can we achieve eternal life and the kingdom as we escape the judgment that can cast us into outer darkness.

     Christ makes the difficult easy and the impossible possible.”Come uno me all you that labor and are heavily laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light " ``(Mat.11:29-30

Monday, September 1, 2014

WHY UNITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IS IMPOSSIBLE! TIME, MONEY RESOURCES WASTED

WHY UNITY OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IS IMPOSSIBLE!
TIME, MONEY RESOURCES WASTED

  Efforts to unite Holy Orthodoxy with other Christians will never happen for the Guide of the Church, the Holy Spirit, and the Head of the Church, Jesus Christ together with the laos to Theo (the people  of God) all reject any such unity and will expose its true nature, which is nothing other than a modern attempt to corrupt the ancient and true Church, by mixing unmixable truth with falsehood.

     Behold, how many years have passed since the ecumenists and philopapists started their work in 1954.  Spending millions of dollars of the Church member’s money on futile missions, airplane fare, hotels and restaurant, this waste will go on and on. Even worse, they do not  attempt to bring anyone into the Church and holy Baptism as Christ commands.  “Go forth and preach this Gospel, baptizing in the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit. This is the main purpose of work outside the Church.  If we leave the heretics to their false beliefs, we prove a lack of love for them, not caring that they  die in their sins, which is cruel and is certainly against the will of Jesus Christ, who desires that men be saved and come to knowledge of truth.

From “Be Reconciled to Your Brother:”

ARTICLE 1954

“THE PATRIARCHAL DELEGATION AT GENEVA AND ITS WORK 

      The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate anointed the establishment of the office and the appointment of its director on December 17th 1954, and began to function March 1 of 1955 under the direction of Archbishop of North and South America, Iakovos, then bishop of Malta. (P 7)

  The ecumenists proclaim their efforts  as having lasted almost 60 years!  Yet they have not settled a single dogmatic difference. They are not bringing members into the Church. They have not challenged papal supremacy and infallibility, nor has he offered to abandon his blasphemous claims to be the vicar of Jesus Christ. Catholics and Protestants alike have not left their errors and poured into the true Church. Why are there no discussions on the great differences that separate the true Church from heretical churches?