WHAT NEXT, IN THESE EXTRAORDINAY TIMES?
As mainstream figures like Joe Rogan are now discusssing the revelation that our global elite are worshippers of Satan, and the Book of Revelation, I think back to my visit to the island of Patmos in December 2014 when I visited the Cave where St John had his vision.
The overall impression I had is not what people may think.
The Cave of the Apocalypse is far below the entrance to it, located on the side of a hill. To reach it, you have to walk through a series of passages and down flights of steps.
When you enter the Cave through anarrow door, the most dramatic sight is a stunning view of the blue sea sparkling in the bay far below and green hillS. There was such an atmosphere of sweetness and freedom about the Cave and the entire place. Patmos really is a place of magical charm, heavenly, gorgeous. And the first thing, you notice in the Cave is the expansive view outside of Patmos.
On the walls and ceilings of the tiny cave and in corners we can find icons and pictures of St John and the Apocalpyse, which arevery hard to see in the dim light.
Even in December when I went, it was so warm, the sun was so bright outside the Cave, there were flowers in bloom, brilliant colours everywhere, the woods are green, the birds sang melodiously. The place seemed full full of life
The tranquil, magical and beautiful place which is Patmos illustrates the most important truth of the Book of Revelation.
That is is the End Times are really about the victory of Christ over Satan, of beauty over ugliness, goodness over evil, life over death, life over darkness, of joy over despair.
Satan makes a power grab over the world and all the people in it
But he fails. His time is short, Christ allows it to shake us up out of our stupour and help us to realize we must chose between good and evil and face the consequences in this world and the next.
The images of the Book of Revelation, of trumpets, seals, bowls of wrath, plagues, catastrophes, wars, the Anti Christ, Mark of the Beast, the 666, ugly and festering sores, Kingdom of Beast plunged into darkness, Great Prostitute sitting on a beast covered in blood may fill us with fear and horror and dread.
Yet, the point of the Book of Revelation is that this evil s reign of terror is brief.
The worst is just three a half years.
This chaos paves the way for a new era, a new approach to Christianity, which impacts politics, society.
Surely with the Epstein file revelations we have one more reason to say we are, indeeed, living the times described in the Book of Revelation especially Chapter 17 where the world is described as being under the rule of an utterly depraved elite personified by the Great Prostitute sitting above a Beast drenched in blood.
This time of incredible evil seems as far away from Jesus Christ as anyone could imagine
But seen from another angle, it is the time closest to Him.
For Jesus has given us a special book to describe this very time, this time of extreme evil, under a Satanic global leadership, which is characterized by a singular project to mark everyone in the world
In Jersualem around 2000 years ago, John stopped to marvel at the incredible dimensions of the Temple. Jesus Christ told John not to be impressed. Soon not one stone of the Temple would be left on the other. An incredible, unbelievable prediction!
Yet, forty years later John saw that predicton come true.
In 70 AD in an unprecedented act of destructions, the Roman army on the orders of the Emperor Titus tore down the Temple, erasing its very foundations, leaving literally not one stone on the other.
All the inhabitants of Jerusalem were either killed or sold as prisoners. Josephus says there was so much blood
Many of those people who had, when young, called for Jesus Christ to be crucified and for the crime to be on their heads and their children in 30 AD along with the chief priest, were killed along with their children.
Jesus Christ also told John He would be put to death and rise again to life.
In the next days John saw that incredible prediciton too come true.
Jesus was put to death, and came back to life. It was John who entered the empty tom band found the linen shroud and head cloth . A singular, unique burst of radiation is woven into the fabric of that linen cloth, now known as Shroud of Turin, as we can verify by science.
We can share John s amazement 2000 years later as we examine the evidence for the Resurrection in the studies of the Shroud of Truin,
The theme of the slain Lamb coming back to life pervades the Book of Revelation.
Around 90 AD, around 20 years after the destruction of Jerusalem, when Israel as a nation was erased from the map, John was given a vision of how the history of the world would unfold.
Having seen Jesus Christ s predictions come true, we can be sure, John took very seriously Jesus Christ s instruction to write down the vision of a terrible time to come when Satan and his forces of evil would dominate the world only to be destroyed by Christ Himself
St Paisios said Christ would appear at a time when things reach an impasse and give Satan such a slap the world would be shaken. Then there would be a period of serenity and everyone would have the chance to learn about Christ.
Christ himself marked out this time as special two thousand years ago.
He appeared to John when he was on Patmos to tell him about its significance
This, so that John could communicate the warning to us as well to ensure we are prepared.
He told us to look out for signs.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest we have seen the Mark of the Beast, the covid jabs, which give ugly and festering sores and the 3 and a half years of the Anti Christ.
The entire period of Biden presidency was dominated by the covid vaccine campaign
Biden was only president to resign 36 months.
Joe, Hunter and Ashley Biden are also on the Epstien list.
The revelations of the activities o fthe elite have shocked the global public.
We have only just found out about them the past few weeks.
How did Jesus Christ know all this before we did? 2000 years ago? After all, it is conceivable that 2000 years of history would have seen real progress led to a globe government by a genunely advanced elite raising living standards, education standards, cultural standards, no? To governments run by genuine Christians, no?
The opposite has happened.
How did Jesus Christ know that 2000 years of history would culminate in a time of utter evil and barbarism?
That a Satanic elite would control the world?
That they would launch a global project and the weapon of tyranny used to enslave the world is a vacicne and economics, that covid jabs, the mark of the beast, would give, ugly and festering sores, be neeed to buy and sell, that Christians would be persecuted? That the Christian churches would be filled with false prophets?That there would be blackouts like in the Ukraine, the Kingdom of the Epstein, Soros elte> That there would be natural catastrophes like storm Daniel in Thessaly when fish died in the sea, huge hail stones fell, that the Euphrates would run dry, all at the same time, that a coastal city like Tel Aviv would be devastated by hypersonic missiles, in the 3 and half period.
Because Jesus Christ is all knowing and all powerful and always victorious.
He is the lamb who died for us to give us the capacity for eternal life with hin in Paradise.
But whether we want to be in Paradise depends entirely on us. Christ does not force us. He respsects our free will. Satan forces us, tyrannizes us, hates us. But we can escape his captivity over our soul by reprentance. That is the great promise of Christ to everyone.
