By Rostislav Ishchenko
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
cross posted with http://www.stalkerzone.org/rostislav-ishchenko-anti-christian-ukraine-on-the-1030th-anniversary-of-the-baptism-of-rus/
source: https://ukraina.ru/opinion/20180727/1020709571.html
The Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the 1030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’. This event has two anchor points: Chersonesus – where Vladimir with druzhina, and Kiev – where the foundation of the baptism of all Russian people was laid…
Everything has been good for Chersonesus for already four years, which is located within the city limits of Sevastopol. Nothing threatened the celebration on Russian territory. In Kiev the situation is much worse. Ukrainian radical nationalists didn’t hide their intention to prevent celebrations and to disrupt them under the pretext of countering “the church of the aggressor state”, which is what they call the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
The question arises: why are they doing this?
The situation in Ukraine is far from being stable without even factoring in all of this. Civil war in Donbass is ongoing. It’s not quiet in the East (Kharkov) and in the West (Transcarpthia), in the south (Odessa), and in the North (Volyn, Rovno). The suburbs are ready to ignite at any time. Large cities (Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Odessa, Lvov) and their surrounding areas have practically turned into semi-independent feudal possessions that only conditionally recognise the government in Kiev.
And in the capital there is constant fermentation. The people are dissatisfied with impoverishment, oligarchs are fighting for power and property, nazis try to establish “Ukrainian order”, and State law enforcement structures degenerated into gangs of racketeers and death squads. Bureaucracy at all levels is only interested in milking money out of the population (by hook or by crook, and also vigilantly ensures that what was milked doesn’t fall into the State, regional, or municipal treasury, but goes straight into the pockets of the leadership of the corresponding institution.
In general, the country surely plunges into dark centuries. And all of this happens just because of the radical-nationalist cultural, language, historical, and educational policies, which look more like a stick of dynamite when compared to interfaith contradictions – an atomic bomb. But the authorities for three years, after the first attempt by nationalists to storm the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which was prepared immediately after the victory of Maidan, tried to smoothen religious contradictions (although formally supporting the so-called Kiev Patriarchate [UOC-KP]), but since the beginning of 2018 they started to work obviously not for a religious split, but for a religious conflict capable of turning the Ukrainian slow civil war into a nightmare worse than both the Syrian and Libyan wars combined.
Of course, there were earlier attempts to seize parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) by force (more than 50 were captured). But this happened mainly in the western regions (and in rare places where there is a concentration of nazi activists, in other regions of the country). But now it is a question of the possibility of the total capture of the property of the UOC MP, including Lavras and monasteries, and their transition to the jurisdiction of a non-existent “Ukrainian local orthodox church”. It is precisely for this non-existent church that two other public organisations, disguised as a church (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church) asked the Constantinople patriarch Bartholomew for Tomos of Autocephaly.
Bartholomew has been pressured by the US for more than two decades, non-officially and informally “recommending” to him to give autocephaly to the Ukrainian pseudo-church. Most likely the Constantinople patriarch – who already accepted similar requests concerning the restoration of the Estonian apostolic orthodox church and accepting under his omophorion bishop Vasily and some of the parishes of the Sourozh diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate on the British Isles – wouldn’t resist this time either, and would satisfy the wishes of Washington with pleasure. After all, most of the dioceses of the Constantinople patriarchy are located in precisely America, having in Turkey only the Fener quarter in Istanbul and no guarantee of permanence for private citizens. In addition, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada and the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese are included in its structure.
The problem is that the canonical (recognised by all the world’s Orthodoxy) UOC-MP existing in Ukraine didn’t ask for any autocephaly, despite the existence in its ranks of an autocephalist wing. And despite the persistent aspiration of Poroshenko to force orthodox hierarchs of the UOC-MP to sign a request for autocephaly, the synod and the head of the UOC-MP metropolitan Onufry took a firm position and were able to act as a united front.
Even the well-known autocephalists were eventually compelled to join the collective opinion of the vast majority of hierarchs, priests, and parishioners of the UOC-MP. I think that the danger of the actual submission of the canonical church within the framework of merging into a “united local” church – a pseudo-church of the citizen of Ukraine Denisenko calling himself “patriarch Filaret” – greatly helped to defeat the autocephalists in the ranks of the UOC-MP.
In these conditions it is very difficult for Bartholomew to decide on granting autocephaly. There is nobody to grant it. Orthodox Christians in Ukraine didn’t ask for autocephaly, and those who did ask for it are not Orthodox Christians. Having satisfied the US and Poroshenko’s wish, Bartholomew would bring himself and the Constantinople patriarchy outside the framework of world Orthodoxy, thus turning it into one of the many hundreds of American “churches” where anyone who desires can without big efforts register their “patriarchate” or any other name and be involved in the corresponding business – selling pseudo-Christianity to naive people. The branches of real churches on the territory of the US are not numerous in comparison with the sects of this sort that are engaged in profiteering on the back of faith, and the prestige of their “Primates” extends no further than the nearest sheriff.
Bartholomew is afraid of losing the status of the first orthodox hierarch in terms of honour. He should also be afraid of risking the salvation of his soul, playing with people who the UOC-MP softly calls schismatics, but who in practice are not schismatics but anti-Christians.
Firstly, by calling themselves a church they already act against a common Christian rule, proceeding from which a church can be born only from a church, i.e., it can be created and recognised, but not self-proclaimed. Even the apostles who created the first churches moved to teach people about faith with Christ’s blessing, and not under their own will.
A General, a King (president), and even a State can be self-proclaimed if it is recognised by its subordinates, citizens, and subjects. A church can’t be self-proclaimed, because its establishment doesn’t come from this world, and grace vanishes should there be a break in tradition, i.e., the self-proclaimed structure is graceless. As I described above, it becomes not a church acting with God’s blessing, but a public organisation registered on the basis of the norms of secular power.
Secondly, the hierarchs of UOC-KP aren’t believers. For them it is just business, like for American sectarians, and not at all an idea of life in accordance with Christ’s precepts. Let’s start with their leader, the defrocked anathematising former monk pseudo-patriarch Filaret (Denisenko). A monk from a young age (since 1950), a bishop since 1962, an Exarch of Ukraine and a permanent member of the Sacred Synod of Russian Orthodox Church since 1966, a metropolitan since 1968, and he had an informal wife and children starting from 1965. I will stress that this was not the involuntary weakness of a neophyte, the children were born at the peak of his episcopate career when Filaret was already known for his demanding strictness in relation to the observance of the smallest rules by subordinated bishops.
And this is not a problem of his private life. A person can either be a monk or have a private life. I.e., being in the bosom of the church and impudently violating its rules, Filaret was far from the idea of service that he preached in the line of duty. He was simply having a church career. For him, the rank of a church was like stars for a General — the more there are, the higher the rank, and the more extensive one’s powers are.
There are rumours about Filaret’s connections with the KGB and the Central Committee of the Communist Party [pre-1991 – ed]. It doesn’t matter who he was linked with. He was serving the atheistic power faithfully, and it, in turn, was leading him to becoming a patriarch. Having become an exarch of Ukraine at 37 and a metropolitan at 39, Filaret made an outstanding career and, at an age that is rather young for a bishop, became de facto the second person in the Russian Orthodox Church, having headed its largest branch, which he autocratically governed for more than 35 years – up to his career crash, when he had already achieved internal self-governance for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
He almost became a patriarch, having become the place holder of the patriarchal throne in 1990. He just wasn’t lucky. In 1971 when Patriarch Aleksy the First died, Filaret was still too young and became an archbishop too recently in order to apply to be the patriarchate, and when Pimen – who succeeded Aleksy – died in 1990, the atheistic state patronising Filaret became too weak and could no longer push forward its protege – and Aleksy II was thus elected. The ambitious Filaret couldn’t accept such a blow, he held a grudge and two years later (Ukrainian independence was barely 6 months old) he tried with the support of the secular power to proclaim the autocephaly of the UOC-MP that he headed at the time, because of which at first he was demoted, but since he didn’t repent and didn’t calm down, he was eventually defrocked and anathematised, having equated himself with this “achievement” to the hetman Mazepa.
I.e., someone who for all his life was busy not with church affairs, but with his personal career and enriching himself under the atheistic anti-church regime, who was undermining the church from within and who was eventually expelled from it, declared himself as a church and started ordaining bishops, trying to force the UOC-MP out of Ukraine for the purpose of appropriating the church property that he didn’t succeed to capture when he started being schismatic.
Is it possible to believe that this person is concerned about the salvation of his soul and is a Christian, even if he is misled? Absolutely not. It is possible to behave like this only if you are sure that God doesn’t exist, and it thus means that everything is allowed, and what you didn’t manage to seize during this life is lost forever. He fights against Christianity for power and money. He is worse than the pagan emperors who were sincerely mistaken and fought for an idea, albeit maybe a perverted one. He is even worse than the Nazis, who sincerely believed in their bloody anti-Christian mysticism. He doesn’t believe in anything besides his own unbridled desires.
But maybe this problem is the problem of one person, and the rest of the hierarchy of the UOC-MP is simply kept in line by his strong character and isn’t aware of what they are doing? No, they are the same.
Once, during Yanukovych’s reign, the hierarchy of the UOC-KP came to the conclusion that Filaret has no prospects and decided to return to the bosom of world Orthodoxy having sacrificed their Primate. And a problem immediately arose. The repenting sinners (schismatics) returned back to the bosom of the mother church as simple monks, and all associates of Filaret wanted to return to their previous rank. In full accordance with the Cossack tradition, they offered the head of their leader in exchange for forgiveness and even a certain reward.
It is clear that the UOC-MP simply didn’t have such a number of dioceses to satisfy the desiring bishops. After all, in order to prove that his church is bigger than the UOC-MP, Filaret ordained the episcopate in large quantities. Besides this, the UOC-MP couldn’t solve the problem of forgiveness individually, without the Moscow Patriarchate. It had autonomy concerning internal governance, but it nevertheless was in the structure of the Russian Orthodox Church, and it was the Russian Orthodox Church that proclaimed anathema to Filaret, and sinners returned not only to the UOC-MP, but, via it, to the Russian Orthodox Church too. The Russian Orthodox Church found itself in a difficult situation. On the one hand, how can they be “repenting sinners” if they make demands. On the other hand, a possibility to heal the split appeared, and it means the salvation of the millions of souls of the parishioners of the non-canonical UOC-KP. But there also was the danger of a provocation. After all, Kiev could interpret the fact of entering into negotiations as the Russian Orthodox Church’s de facto recognition of the UOC-KP.
That’s why the initial probing of the possibility of holding constructive negotiations was carried out in the format of private communication between Russian and Ukrainian politicians. Before solving the issue of the participation of the church in such negotiations there was a need to understand just how productive they can be. It looked approximately as follows: having met in an informal situation (at a restaurant, at a football game, at a resort) the Ukrainian politician said to their Russian comrade something like – “If archbishop ‘X’ was given such-and-such diocese, then he would repent and leave Filaret”.
So, negotiations ended without having begun, because it became clear that “repenting sinners” consider the situation only from the point of view of their personal career and business. They were ready to go to work as archbishops in Moscow and St. Petersburg and in other large and rich Russian dioceses. Church positions abroad were in great demand, while nobody was interested in holding an archpastoral service somewhere in the Far East or in the Far North.
These people were not repenting Christians. They are atheist careerists who threw on a cassock disguise and jumped off the ship that, as it seemed to them back then, was taking on water. But, boarding lifeboats, they vigilantly ensured that all their belongings were accounted for and at the same time had no objection to taking someone else’s baggage.
The Russian Orthodox Church, the UOC-MP, and the atheist careerists calling themselves the UOC-KP speak different languages. One believes in God, and the others believe in the Golden Calf. They can never come to an agreement. The episcopate of the UOC-KP will start “repenting” and looking for forgiveness only if the falling of the radical-nationalist regime reigning in Kiev becomes not only inevitable, but also obvious in the short term, and also when there will be a real threat of being bought to criminal responsibility under new authorities. But until then they will only strengthen the pressure on the UOC-MP with the help of State apparatus and by leaning on gangs of nazi mercenaries.
Now the situation becomes even more critical and extremely explosive. On the one hand, the will and courage demonstrated by the UOC-MP showed Poroshenko that it is senseless to try to convince metropolitan Onufry and the Synod of UOC-MP to play along with the autocephaly issue “in an amicable way”. He won’t receive an appeal from the only canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine [for the granting of autocephaly – ed]. And on the other hand, he made the obtainment of Tomos of Autocephaly one of the starting elements of his presidential electoral campaign and can’t just abandon this idea. Besides this, having felt the opportunity to finally get rid of the UOC-MP, Filaret’s circle actively puts pressure on the President – who lost all reference points due to fear and self-restraint – by demanding to declare autocephaly via the political decision of the authorities and to appoint the UOC-KP as the only legal Ukrainian church. In exchange they promise to independently “resolve the issue” with the UOC-MP, and also to ensure the full loyalty of believers during presidential elections.
It is clear that they deceive Poroshenko, hoping that he will issue the relevant decree, after which Filaret’s circle, having shielded themselves with nazi gangs, will start to seize temples, monasteries, and Lavras of the UOC-MP en masse, quelling possible resistance via armed force. Actually, they will start a religious war, or to be more exact – an anti-Christian war of atheist careerists against Orthodox Christians for possession of church property and for turning the temple into a lucrative place.
Poroshenko won’t gain anything from it. On the contrary, he stands a very big chance of becoming one of the first victims of the second (religious) stage of the civil war in Ukraine. But his position is weak, and Filaret’s circle makes promises, their lobby in the presidential environment offers assurances that promises will be kept, and Poroshenko catches Filaret’s straw.
If Filaret’s circle isn’t stopped in time and Ukraine will creep towards the religious stage of civil war, then everything that up to now was misfortune, death, loss, and despair will seem like enviable stability and progress in comparison with the bloody bacchanalia that the country will slip into. The UOC-MP is the only authoritative force in Ukraine sincerely supporting the restoration of civil peace. Its destruction will mean not just the destruction of the State (which, in fact, happened long ago), but the murder of the soul of the people and a definitive victory of ideas of revenge and punishment over ideas of forgiveness and reconciliation.
But “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay”.
Iscenko, Iscenko ……what about Pope interests? Jesuits? Opus dei? Again “some” Russians pretend “partners” dont exist? Communists are traditionaly partners in dismantling Ortodox faith. Black-red internationale. For naive people would be good if they read something about history of second world war and catholic butchers in Jasenovac. More than 1000 of them were active in massacring orthodox people. On their congress in 1900. they assimilated all Serbs catholics as Croatians on their cio-catholic “drang nach osten”. Active in taking gold from Serbs and common Jews.,hiding and transfering “nacists ustase” to Spain and South America. Vartolomey is under direct control of catholic Kuria. All uniats exactly including these ones in Okraine. Killing oriental orthodox christians on Midle east today is their reward as ministry of ecumenic faith in NWO. Tradition??? How many patriarhs of Rome catholics have today?…four, three white popes and one black. One is hiding, second is retired.
And what about erh… the elephant in the room? What if Ukraine is to become a non-Christian country altogether? Consider this:
“The Menorah center (Ukrainian: Центр “Менора”, Russian: Центр “Менора”) is a cultural and business center of the Jewish community in Dnipro in Eastern Ukraine. Some sources declare it to be the biggest multifunctional Jewish community center in Europe or in the world. The heart of the complex is the historic Golden Rose central synagogue, built in the 19th century.
The dedication ceremony of the Menorah center took place on October 16, 2012 with guests that included the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Shlomo Amar, Israel Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, representatives of Jewish institutions (including Hillel, the Jewish Agency, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee etc.), Ukrainian state and local authorities, and diplomatic corps.
The idea to create Menorah center, as one of the biggest such centers in the world, belongs to the President of the Dnipropetrovsk Jewish community Gennadiy Bogolyubov Europe[3] and the President of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (also the founder of European Jewish Union) Ihor Kolomoyskyi. They both provided full financial support for the project implementation” (Wikipedia).
And this:
“German journalists from Deutschlandradio published an article titled “Dnepropetrovsk will become Jerusalem”. Oleg Rostovtsev, a spokesman for the Jewish community, which has 50 000 parishioners, supports the renaming of Dnepropetrovsk to Jerusalem-on-the-Dnieper:
“Jerusalem for residents of Dnepropetrovsk is a city of peace, not conflict. Many of us have already visited Jerusalem, worshiped the holy places, came back and said: here it’s almost the same – next to the synagogue stands a mosque, and nearby there are churches and monasteries. We also respect our different traditions”.
https://www.fort-russ.com/2015/05/dnepropetrovsk-could-be-renamed/
And this:
“Call for Panel Proposal: “Jewish national and cultural autonomy in East Central Europe”, 2018 ASEEES Convention:
During the 2018 ASEEES Convention in Boston (Nov 6-9, 2018), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is organizing a panel devoted to Jewish national and cultural autonomy in East Central Europe. The panel is to be organized as a part of the Global education Outreach Program (GEOP). It will be chaired by prof. Antony Polonsky with prof. Konrad Zieliński as a discussant. We are inviting a scholar who would like to contribute to the panel with a paper on the autonomy of Ukrainian, Soviet (Birobidzhan) or Romanian Jews.
It will never happen, as the anti-christian minority, which is also the one pushing “non-religious” society does not have a real power. Donbas, as I understand is also pushing communism, but it is my belief that socialist society is fine only if Chist is in it .
zuckerberg the jew/’jew’? visited ukraine and has an interest there, they see the ukraine region as a second ‘jewish’ homeland, which is totally non-biblical.
Popov stated that yarosh – who once led wrong sector (yes, I’m mocking them) – is considered to be half-jewish, and was funded by jew oligarch kolomoisky.
Ukraine is hard-core Zionazi from top to bottom. Crimea, the Donbass, and whichever other parts that will eventually manage to break away from this utter ”abomi-Nation” are to be congratulated many times over, as will be explained right away.
The Ukros had better recognize the facts that:
a) Zionism reigns 100% supreme in the West
and
b) Zionism’s Oded Yinon plan for the Middle East is in great trouble thanks primarily to Syria, Russia, Iran, and Lebanon/Hezbollah.
Issue (b) above means that Greater Israel and its callous, congenital settler imperialist violence have to set eyes on ”other deplorables” as well. And issue (a) guarantees the full commitment of the solid, dependable Western Ziocolonies to this very honourable task. In other words, the Ukros’ fabulous Maidan success will, eventually, have them evicted from their habitat (I wouldn’t call it a country) at gunpoint and, of course, an insane torrent of irrefutable charges of anti-Semitism. Lord the Almighty works in strange and wondrous ways.
Nussiminen, the attack on the Donbass is not just about clearing the people there from their land, it is also about doing that in the remaining ukraine, but those attacking the Donbass are too stupid to understand this.
The West wants to plunder the whole of ukraine of its wealth, but first they crashed the grivna, so it’s only worth about 1/4 of what is was nearly 5 years ago, and that is not the low point, some think it will eventually go lower; it is being artificially held up, just like the gold price is, etc. Makes it much cheaper to buy & strip ukrainian assets.
Not only are forests being felled for the West, topsoil is being taken too, and bloody germany is one of the benefactors.
As the eu is getting people to flee ukraine, only the poor will remain, to be further exploited and turned into slaves, if they do not in fact die out: their health service is being attacked and stripped too, by that witch called ‘Doctor
Death’ – suprun, it would not surprise me if she is a satanist, or at least demon infested.
See what former Minister of Healthcare Oleg Musiy said, he even claimed there is a plan to exterminate ukrainians (one way or another), with regard to health bills 6327 & 6347 (I don’t know if they were passed into law, but the intention was to do so) last year. Municipal hospitals to be closed, doctors to lose work, & medical
instititions to be under the control of foreign Big Pharma companies.
Well, the panting, drooling, jumping Ukro slobs at the Maidan asked for ’European values’ and, boy, did they get European values! I usually don’t defend the You’re_a_peon Union, but I honestly believe it’s in its full right to take advantage of peoples ecstatically approving of Western imperial rape. When things don’t quite work out, the Ukros happily blame Putin.
But Putin wants to save them, the Slavs at least, and there are many millions of good people in ukraine still, who were also fooled and lied to about eu membership. Can you really criticise them for wanting to have a much better life, after eu ‘promises’ (and if you didn’t know better)? They looked at Poland, and saw how much better it was there, and they were hoping for the same. Also, the complicit murderous yank government – and soreass – spent at least $5 billion on propaganda etc, it had to have an effect.
@ Nussimen
Nope, you didn’t word that correctly: They asked for European values, but received American values instead. If you don’t know what I mean you may want to begin reading here: /erratic-empire-downfalling/ .
The writer did a real good job of giving you a taste.
‘European’ values as in the EU and its oligarcho-kleptocratic bunch is an Anglo-Zio-American construct forced on Europeans to create another serfdom more or less like in the not-so- Good ole’ USA.
The Ukros proudly flew the EU banner, so I think your point is moot. But at least they got some precious eatables from the Pindos, LOL.
So Nussimen, if you were ukrainian, say living in kiev before 2014, what would you have believed? Especially since the stated aim was to incorporate ukraine into the eu – think Eastern Partnership.
They proudly flew the EU banner without the slightest idea how the EU functions (and why) and that they didn’t have the slightest chance to become part of the EU anyways. All was based on the bovine scatology sold to the Ukrainian public by these 2000 plus western NGO’s paid for with one of these huge black budgets (5 billion +) arriving through the CIAeda or some Soros organization…
The real story is that the west wants all the remaining resources of the Ukraine for themselves, make an attack on Russia potentially more successful and destroy the Russo/Ukrainian population to create living space for the former Khazars (Ashkenazi zionists), and then some. What the Ukrainians wanted was not ever asked, the jumpers on Maidan were receiving payment in order to keep jumping.
As I have written before, that coup d’etat against Yanukovich in 2014 has started a chain reaction which cannot be stopped. Ukraine is on the road to breakup. Poroshenko is now having a tough time even controlling areas outside the Donbass. History and tradition cannot be so easily eradicated, something that Washington is incapable of understanding. Worse, Washington employed Latin American methods for regime change, concentrating on the elite against the interests of the majority and in the process turning the country into a feudal entity. We now have robber barons plundering the country. When the collapse point is reached, the oligarchs will be the first to flee with Poroshenko taking the lead. In attempting to turn Ukraine from Russia Washington did the opposite, turning it slowly towards Russia, and I don’t see how this can be stopped. The bulk of it will be reunited with Russia.
Hi B.F. The U.S. government learned, by early CIA MKUltra psychological experiments, to use torture and the psychology of fear to create public shock and confusion in order to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with an expanding American privatized corporate empire. Naomi Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine” explains in great detail, example after example of countries destroyed by using Milton Friedman’s “Chicago School Of Economics” shock doctrine and ultra-conservative theories called “neo-liberalism” to benefit multinational corporations and the wealthy elite at the expense of everyone else. Shock Doctrine techniques were discussed as used in Poland, Iraq, Argentina and other South American Nations. Though the Collapse of the Soviet Union wasn’t discussed in the book, it’s obvious to me that “The Shock Doctrine” was a large part of the collapse and the rush to privatize public facilities. Another good book is “Confessions Of Economic Hit Man”, told by a banker used for setting up good foreign countries for economic collapse. He eventually had a change of heart. Peace to you!
Hi Barry. Yes, this is well known to me. Liberal economics is what benefits corporations and banks. However, they are a catastrophy for any country.
Liberal economics were used in Russia under Yeltsin, when the country was plundered of 100 billion dollars a year. The country almost broke up. Putin reversed the process, using oil and gas exports to rebuild the infrastructure. Under Yeltsin 70.000 factories were closed down in Russia, while Trump has stated that 70.000 factories were also closed down in the US. Strange coincidence (or is it ?). What Putin basically did was reduce corruption in Russia and eradicate liberal economics by placing oligarchs under observation, warning them that no fraud will be tolerated. They started paying their taxes as well as paying their employees decent wages. The planned plundering of Russia’s vast natural resources was prevented, ie. it was not privatized. The country is on the rise.
In Ukraine, however, we have the exact situation we had in Russia under Yeltsin. Poroshenko is no Putin. He is just a puppet, who is destroying the country. He is also an oligarch, who rules the country with other oligarchs. This will be the ruin of Ukraine.
B.F. Yes! Thanks for the reply. True! I understand. I’ve been reading this blog, avidly, for almost two years. I now know what YOU mean by “liberal economics”. I would say that most people in the United States who identify themselves as “liberal”, would have no idea what “liberal economics” means and would disagree with it’s intentions. And most Americans who would identify themselves as “Conservative” would advocate privatization as free enterprise capitalism.
I’m not sure the meanings of “liberal”, “neoliberal”, “conservative” or “neoconservative” have accurate descriptive value any more. Their definitions change depending on who is doing the defining, but their basic intention is the same: the privatization of public property or industries. It is globalist in intent. It has no soul. It values only corporate and investor profits and unrestricted freedom for corporations with little to none for workers or “the state”.
The best to you! Barry
But “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay”.
Perhaps what the Ukraine needs is what the city of Singapore recieved back in the nineteen eighties:
Last year, the business leaders of Singapore got a vision from the Holy Spirit. They were to sponsor a national crusade to reach all of Singapore. They rented the local soccer stadium, which seats 70,000 people. One business leader alone, Mr. Wy Wy Wong, paid for the total advertising in every newspaper in the country. The committee was composed of pastors, professional people and businessmen. These men and women had one thing in common. They had a burning desire for revival in Singapore, which had a small Christian population. Night after night, for five straight nights, the rain came in torrents. But by six o’clock every evening, the sky would clear and we were able to have large crowds gather to hear the gospel. The total count of people that came forward to accept Christ amazed me. I repeated nightly. “Please only those who want to accept Christ as their personal Savior for the first time in your life, only you come forward.” Yet, we counted more than 50,000 people making decisions for Christ.”
Imagine Divine Communication came by way of climate change. Must have been quite the scene especially as day four arrived with the exact same kind of weather phenomena.
I love how Arthur Wallis Explains Gods ways:
Since the Reformation these have been more distinct and frequent. Jesus Himself told us, “The harvest is the close of the age” that is, the time of the latter rain, when the fruit of the earth is being prepared for the final harvest. In striking confirmation of this is the exhortation of James: “Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.” (James 5:7–8)
Amazing.
Uh, no, with respect, the last thing Ukraine needs is more fake Christianity. Between Turchynov and his co-religionists (pastors “leading people to Christ”) and the Uniates and the Kiev schismatics, they already have far too much to stomach. Did you actually read this article?
Besides, the United States has had a series of “Great Awakenings,” the latest being in the 1970s. And we’ve become a more belligerent and violent nation every time. You shouldn’t wish that on anyone.
O, good grief!!!!
Yep, the more I see the more I question if we in the Church will ever live to see the words of St. Paul from Ephesians came to fruition?
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
You Andrew I have given you a remarkable testimony about a work of God ie: climate change over the City of Singapore and all you have to do and say is rebuke me.
I guess what we all need to do in the Church universal is become Orthodox period. That would solve everything right?
By the way I’m no Fake Christian and no I’m not a Baptist either.
Andrew! Yes! I listen to to the church going, scripture spouting Christians in Rural Missouri and it would make Jesus weep. A “Bible Belt” town in Arkansas about 50 miles from here has an active Ku Klux Klan chapter and a huge billboard entering town that says “Blacks! Don’t stop here”.
There’s a huge population of American Christian Fundamentalist Protestants who want a world war to bring back Jesus, who will then convert any willing non-Christians to Christianity, and destroy those that won’t accept Christianity. These same people believe that they will be “raptured” up to heaven and avoid the chaos of war. On the surface they are polite, pray before eating, and say “Praise Jesus” a lot, or wear “Jesus Loves You” T-Shirts. BUT, they don’t care if the Anglo-Zionist war machine kills millions of innocents all over the world.
@ Uniates and the Kiev schismatics,
Ukraine wouldn’t need the Rodnovery buffoonery either.
Monsoon season happens every year. In Singapore you can set your watch by it on a daily basis, the rain is that regular in arriving and departing each afternoon.
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You know when it comes to climate change one of the greatest books ever written on the subject is the book of Job. Scientists want us to believe that industrial pollution is the cause but in actuality it is sin. The book of Job lays this out perfectly. Consider:
God’s voice thunders in marvellous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’ So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labour. The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. (Job 37:5–13, emphasis added)
You see this is the core to everything right here. God showed His love to the people of Singapore in a remarkable way.
On another matter when scientists are won’t to say that they “don’t understand certain abrupt meteorological events that pop up now and then.” guess where one can find the answer:
Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth. When the wall collapses, will people not ask you, “Where is the whitewash you covered it with?”
“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.” (Ezekiel 13:11–13)
When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. (Jeremiah 51:16)
The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail. (Isaiah 30:30)
See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong. Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind, like a driving rain and a flooding downpour, he will throw it forcefully to the ground… “I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.” (Isaiah 28:2, 17)
I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the Lord. (Haggai 2:17)
By the way the solution to climate change is really quite easy as well. That info I can’t provide however, Gerry Fox in his book Climate Change the work of God has provided that.
I grew up in Singapore. As kids we would dash out to dance and play when the rains started…with the sun still shining at the same time. The raindrops were so fierce that they would raise red marks when they hit our skin. We thought that incredible fun, being used to grey and drizzly Britain.
Singapore, of course, is a lot closer to the Equator.
The day´s events on INTER TV Ukraine. Watch it before they take it down. This tv network remains open thanks to some sort of miracle, it has been attacked by the Fascists, its offices raided, burned down, yet it still continues to be a sane voice in the middle of that nut house that is the oligarch controlled Ukrainian media, Poroshenko, Akhmetov, Kolomoisky, et al all of them have their own particular propaganda forum-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0BZeuvyPrI
It is estimated around 250,000 souls made the pilgrimage to Kiev from all corners of Ukraine and ancient Rus.
I remember when I was a teenager watching the Gorbachov era unfold I was quite taken by the man and that birthmark of his which looked as though someone had poured out a vial upon him. At the time it left me thinking was the mark from God and was he of some importance to watch or catastrophe about to unfold? Then 1988 arrived and with it the 1000 year millennium of the Russian Orthodox Church. I can still remember to this very day the news of the celebrations in Moscow but what got my attention was the very strange weather. It was unseasonably hot taking many by surprise. I thought too myself hmmmm perhaps God is smiling upon the people of Russia or was it just a coincidence?
Listen think what you will but start a diary, a weather diary and you will quickly begin too see a pattern unfold and pay attention to the news of the day and maybe a connection will present itself.
I know for me when I watched that documentary on the dustbowl of the 1930’s in the heartland of America a pattern, a deliberate pattern developed. Gerry Fox explains it this way in his book Let the Reader Understand in regards to the formation of the Federal Reserve:
“So, everything is beginning to dovetail into what the scriptures have foretold millennia ago and in relation to this is it just a coincidence that during the formation of this plan in America we find her suffering from what is aptly named the Dust Bowl in the very heart of the nation’s Bread Basket? To read and study the events of the years 1934 – 1939 and one is or should be struck with awe immediately at the rather odd events. A pattern of events developed that one can literally follow! The dust storms came in three waves beginning in 1934, 1936 and finally 1939. What is especially astounding though is the year 1935, which witnessed seven and I repeat 7 dust storms in the first four months alone culminating on Black Friday, April 14, Easter of all things, of a storm that was the most severe of any. A dust storm which occurred just after 12 noon and this after an especially beautiful day but turned the sky pitch black and was over 200 hundred miles long.
This is truly astounding and of enormous significance bringing up the issue of Divine Communication and the many references in the Old Testament about reaping the whirlwind.
“They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.” {Hosea 8:7}
Is this just a coincidence? Not by a long shot!!!! Politically speaking there was a tremendous amount going on and not just in America but throughout the entire world. Consider WW1 was a mere decade over and Europe was now on the verge of yet another and this due by the way to that despicable Treaty of Versailles signed by the Allied powers with this Colonel Edward House being one of its main architects? Really!!!!! John Maynard Keynes was especially horrified by the treaty because of the enormous amount of reparations that it imposed on Germany. Reparations that they could in no way pay. He correctly predicted that there would be social upheaval even commenting:
‘Men will not always die quietly…In their distress [they] may overturn the remnants of organization, and submerge civilization itself.’ “But who can say …in what direction men will seek to escape their misfortunes.”
The dirty thirties were exactly that and one can go on and on about the history of that time and morality or lack of it rather. But if this Dust Bowl doesn’t ultimately bring clarity to what the bible teaches!!! Weather events always follows mankind’s actions of a sinful nature this the bible clearly spells out:
“The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if these three men Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign Lord.” {Ezekiel 14: 12-14}
Do we need to open our eyes to the truth of the bible and to what is really going on? Most certainly!”
America may have had her Great Awakenings but unfortunately it never reached the people who needed it most her political leaders. Money for them was the greater good.
Perhaps this was the difference too, between countries like America and Russia. Russia was fully a Christian nation right up to its very political leadership under Czar Nicholas. For her there was none of the nonsense of the separation of Church and State as it turned out to be in America and elsewhere. The church had a say in her political efforts. Heck until the European wars Europe was ruled by Christian Emperors. My guess is the money powers and Satan himself despised that and brought an end to it all. and now we are surely on the verge of what Christ spoke the Abomination of Desolation.
So I leave you with a question to ponder are we the terminal generation?
I would also direct ones attention to this website about a groups desire to rebuild the third Temple of Solomon. https://dr-david-harrison.com/freemasonry/lodge-meeting-in-solomons-quarries-jerusalem/
Apparently they forgot the words of Christ that a greater than Solomon is here?
What a load of BS- forget the religious mumbo jumbo. It is all about a political struggle for the minds of the people, using religion as a pretext. The nationalists in Kyiv want it and so do the autocrats in the Kremlin. Consequently they use their respective churches as tools and pawns (bishops,possibly?) in that game and to that end.Get savvy,people!
Terribly sorry for not being ”savvy” enough for the usual Leftist jargon of Earth is flat and everybody’s equally rotten. Ukraine’s Uniate Church isn’t even a thinly veiled Satanist cult; it’s the real thing, just like ISIS in the Muslim world.
What ”autocrats in the Kremlin” are you talking about, and what sins has the Russian Orthodox Church committed in the context of fascist Ukraine?
Apologies for expressing myself somewhat incorrectly:within a nationalist government there can-and will-be several nationalists,whereas,in an autocracy,there by definition can be only one autocrat. I should have said “the executives inside the autocratic Kremlin system”. Apart from that,however,without taking sides or branding one or the other party as fascist or inherently evil,the whole thing looks like a straightforward power struggle to me,trying to win people’s hearts and minds.The more attractive party will prevail. interesting,don’t you think, to see who that will be?
Yakov Kedmi – What is Ukraine waiting for in the near future? 29 07 2018
Interesting video. You can change the subtitles to English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vk-mZer434
As a recently baptized Orthodox Christian, I find this situation disturbing but I suppose we should not be surprised. From the beginning, there has been persecution of believers and also infiltrators trying to corrupt Christ’s church. Bartholemews actions are also disturbing. He is so wobbly, it wouldn’t surprise me if he moved for union with Rome. I recently read a wonderful account, The Lives of the Holy Apostles. For them, there were no political intrigues. The kingdom of Christ their God is NOT of this world. They never sought personal benefits but sacrificed all to bring the gospel to others. They stood against evil in all its forms and willingly submitted themselves to often horrendous torture and death.
St. Maximus the Confessor is another excellent example. Acquaint yourself with his life if you haven’t already!
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Maximus_the_Confessor
Ukraine is not anti christ
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