The Last Judgment is not an act of overthrowing, the judgment of the soul at the time of its separation from the body, but rather to effect a union with the transformed, risen body with which the soul will continue to live forever. After the separation, the soul is conscious and consequently, feels, understands, and in general exercises all the energies of the soul (Revelation 6:9-10, 7:15; 1 Peter 3: 19; Hebrews 12:23; Luke 16:27-28). The word "sleep", by which death is characterized, does not refer to the soul, but to the body. In Matthew 27:52, we read that many Saints who had fallen asleep, were raised. The Last Judgment will take place on the second coming of Jesus Christ, a strong belief of the Church recorded in THE CREED that "He (Jesus Christ) shall come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead". The time of the second coming of Jesus Christ is not known and, according to Revelation, cannot be conjectured by any means.
This humility is largely absent from modern NDE accounts.
Also missing from today's NDE stories is the cruelty of Saint Niphon, whose skeptical attitude once sent a bad spirit. The demon appeared to the Saint in the form of a holy angel and said that Niphon would be given the power to perform miracles, as a reward from God. Nifon was not fooled. He recognized this vision as a deception and a call for pride. "Wait a minute," he said to the demon, "and I will do a miracle for you." He turned to a nearby stone and told him to move to another location. The rock was submerged. "A lot for your gift," said St. Niphon, and he came to his senses. Then the Saint prayed to God and the demon disappeared.
Remember the wisdom of these two saints in relation to the NDE phenomenon. They are models for dealing with misleading, non-Orthodox "visions" of the afterlife. Only the enlightened, cautious, and well-informed soul is able to clearly see the demonic illusion involved in the NDE. and as each year passes, the need for clear thinking about the NDE and what it represents - the emerging religion of the Antichrist - increases. Just as a demon in an NDE (or comparable vision) can disguise himself as Christ, the Antichrist will one day appear as the Messiah. Thus, the NDE provides a preview of the false belief that the Antichrist will trap the world.
Evidently, the modern-day NDE phenomenon is part of what St. Paul described in 2 Timothy 4: 3-4: itchy ears; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and they will turn into myths. "
Will the faithful believe in the doctrines of the New Age NDE when they are told the truth about these false visions? In most cases, probably not. But because few can hear and respond, we Orthodox Christians must offer a clear and unequivocal testimony to the lies and dangers of the NDE phenomenon. Indeed, we can partly judge how clearly we are delivering this warning. what is false here is the being of light, and what is talking about, other experiences don't have the conversation with that creature and does not mention that creature exclude that these things whenever this creature is the picture of the experiences, for me are demonic and are trying to confuse the reality of the afterlife
For those who believe is just aliens of outer space who have created everything?. I Say God has created Anyone of us. AND can give his own interpretation, about what might understand from one picture, on the ground or into the sky. Our limited IQ has made A-lot of mistakes so far...Hitler has started with the occult, and the manufacture of UFOs several years ago and they continue nowadays in AREA 51. There is the demonic and human manufacturer. Is it not just the one and we eliminate the other? We have the existence of both. Th
at s is why we have the confusion
,...If they cannot express, themselves, And say for instance...we come in peace✋😅Aliens=Demonic beings. There can be no abduction when you use the name of Jesus. Doesn't this say something to you?
The advanced weapons you see nowadays=Was made up let's say 50 years ago, can you imagine them nowadays? You will see this soon on your screens=Τρίτο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο
You will see high-speed aircraft, They will take everything out all kind of weapons, And the world you know now,, will go back 100 years from the disaster
THE POWER OF THE ELITE=LUCIFERIAN Many have not even realized the potential of the New World Order to be introduced in our mind and know exactly what we think, something systematic experiments for decades. Besides, it is obvious that it is no longer sufficient administrative supervision, and employs the direct control of thought and opinion, as we know, "thoughts become acts
The extraterrestrials of our time match the demons and the fallen angels mentioned in the Bible as to their behavior.
As the Bible offers strangers, they never confirm the deity of Christ nor claim to come to his name.
Aliens change their stories to deceive people into believing their lies. An example of this is that before people came out or sent the satellites there, aliens could claim to be the planets like Jupiter in our solar system. As time passed and man learned more about our planet, we realized that no one could live on a planet like Jupiter, so the aliens changed their story. They now claim to come from other solar systems and star clusters, such as Andromeda and the Pleiades.
Although the aliens said to go, they seem to have to survive, just as fallen angels need people to plunder.
The foreign abductions stopped by invoking the name of Jesus.
Aliens bring ideas to the earth to help people join the world in a new era of consciousness. This combination opens the way for their leader (who is the Antichrist), makes mankind forget his religion and beliefs in their countries.
Aliens are often called "newcomers" and occultists, unlike Christians. This is not always the case, as people from all walks of life come into contact with "strangers". However, I think these "space brothers" are not very interested.
Aliens do not contradict their loved ones, as people can also deny their creator (God). Instead of claiming that the creators. This serves to pull the man away from God.
Aliens give human technology, but these "achievements" are usually devastating. There are secret plans of many governments in their budget, which usually concern the creation of new weapons systems. Much of the technology for such weapons is said to come from aliens. Why do strangers never give us the technology that saves lives?
Aliens often emit terrible odors, such as sulfur. Christians believe not only in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection
of the body. According to God's proposal in our first creation, the human soul and the
human body is intertwined and no one can be right without the other. SA
As a consequence of the fall, the death of the body, these two separate, but this separation is
permanent and permanent. At the Second Coming of Christ, we will be resurrected from the dead with the soul
of us and our body. So, having the soul with the body again, we will advance
to our Lord for the final judgment.
In Revelation, John the Theologian sees a war of 200 million cavalries, in which a third of the people die. Evil affects souls and bodies (like a motorized army). (Rev. 9:16).
After this war, the 2nd Presence of the Lord does not occur, because John manages to tell us that people did not repent, that is, life was extended to humanity, but few took advantage of this to be saved. Father Athanasios Mytileneus also explains this.
By the miraculous intervention of God, evil spirits (who led people to war) are obliged to pacify the earth and spread the pure gospel throughout the world, as stated in Revelation in chapter 10:
10-1 And I saw another angel coming down from heaven, clothed in a cloud, and with a rainbow on his head, and his face like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire,
10-2 and holds an open book in his hand. And he put his right foot on the sea, and his left on the ground ...
This powerful Angel helps the unstable (like the sea) unbelievers with more power, symbolically using his right leg and with less power (indicated by the left) those who are more stable in faith (who love the earth).
10-5 And the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the earth raised his right hand to heaven 10-6 and swore to Him who lives in the ages to come, who built the heavens and all that exists. his, and the land, and everything that is on it, and the sea, and everything that is in it, that time no longer exists.
That is, there will be no further extension for repentance. The Son is the most reliable person to swear to the Father, because, as we say in the Creed, through Him “everything was created” (by which everything was created), as well as space and time. And since even the angels in Heaven do not know the day of the Second Coming, as the Lord said: "And neither man nor the angels of heaven know about that day and hour, but only My Father." Matt. (24:36).
Revelation:
10-11 And they say to me: Holy angels, who were with the mighty angel. You must prophesy again to nations, nations, languages and many kings. Thus, John, the great theologian of the Church, takes responsibility for the dogmatically pure preaching of the word of God throughout the world in the post-war period of peace. For, according to the word of the Lord to Peter, John remains on earth until the Second Coming. he follows me. "(John 21:22) That is, if I want him (John) to stay until I come, what do you care? Follow me; The two prophets Elijah and Enoch are physically present on Earth because they did not die and they will obviously rule over the Antichrist. John, who also appears in the hagiography after his metastasis (which the Church celebrates on September 26), is spiritually present and thus will not be killed by the Antichrist like the two prophets.
Since there is not much time left before Sintelea after the catastrophic war, John's sermon will be very short, as indicated by the "booklet", that is, a very small book that symbolically contains it and was presented to him by the "Mighty Angel". ...
Definitely, then the Gospel will be preached again, and virtually without distortions by ecumenical and other errors, and this is guaranteed by the Theologian John, who was called to his new mission with the words: "You must prophesy again" ...
In our time, before the World War, Saint Paisios says:
Now it will be a downpour, a little possession of Satan's antichrist. Then he will eat the slap from Christ, all nations will be shaken, and peace will come into the world for years to come. This time, Christ will give the opportunity to save His creation.
Will Christ leave His creation? He will appear at the dead-end of people in order to save them from the hands of the (then) Antichrist. They will return to Christ, and the spirit world will come to the universe for years to come. Some associate this with the intervention of Christ the Second Coming. I can not tell. My reasoning tells me that it will not be the Second Coming of Christ when He comes as Judge, but the intervention of Christ, because there are so many events that have not yet happened. Christ will intervene, close this whole system, crush all evil and, in the end, lead it to good. The streets will be filled with shrines. There will be photographs outside the buses. Everyone will believe. They will pull you to tell them about Christ! Thus, the gospel will be preached throughout the universe, and then (when this period is over) Christ will come as Judge to judge the world. Another crisis, another intervention of Christ to help His creation! (REASON II "Spiritual awakening")
Demons are hiding behind these things, their purpose is to drug man into delusion and sin,
so as not to gain eternal life, demons hate man because they were angels, and they lost their holiness due to their fall from their sin, so they fight man because man has the ability to become holy like at his first stage, before the fall and go again to his creator=GOD, GAVE US FREE WILL TO DECIDE WHAT WE WANT, gave us freedom, Jesus came to earth and paid for our sins, in order to win eternal life, to give our fight against sin, so we gain our first stage as God created us, because is written in scriptures that man is an image of God, man is an image but becomes assimilation when he comes to his previous state, before original sin, meaning holiness, so stay away from these things nothing is free, there is also an impact, yes I will remove these two because they have occult meanings, yes at the beginning, I was getting into the temptation to throw the cards again, but after because I did go for confessing my sins something change inside of me for the better, and i didnt have the feeling that i had to go back, Christ after all for me was a hug for me, of experimentation and search within religions, and it's true that if you don't have christ you feel lonely hopeless ,
WELL ABOUT YOGA...
I have noticed that each one of us believes and does what his brain told him to do, the posture in yoga invokes deities and therefore it works with the spirit of man it's not just exercise,
to wake up the kundalini is not so simple what people do its levels and the top above all is when you have kundalini awakening, and you do not have to be a Hindu monk=to be activated, people have managed so in sort time, as far as it concerns people who say I did yoga nothing happened to me
.... I say that that was the first steps of yoga there are many levels, AND KUNDALINI YOGA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ENLIGHTENING COMING FROM GOD.when you have kundalini awakening feels a fire inside you for days and you cannot relax=you have nausea I feel bad
the burning intensity you can not sit-these are the words of those who had a kundalini awakening,
I didn't have. I will show you now a scene from a woman who had also said that she had a suicidal tendency, and she does not seem to be particularly concerned about it.
The ascetic monk Paisios, who became Saint Paisios by the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church in January, was known for his prophecies and predictions. One of them was that Istanbul, once the capital of the Byzantine Empire Constantinople, will become Greek again. Specifically, Paisios wrote: “Events will start that will culminate with us taking back Constantinople. Constantinople will be given to us. There will be war between Russia and Turkey. In the beginning, the Turks will believe they are winning, but this will lead to their destruction. The Russians, eventually, will win and take over Constantinople. After that, it will be ours. They will be forced to give it to us.” The text reads further, “(The Turks) will be destroyed. They will be eradicated because they are a nation that was built without God’s blessing. One-third of the Turks will go back to where they came from, the depths of Turkey. One-third will be saved because they will become Christians, and the other third will be killed in this war.” This is based on the Saint Kosmas prophecy. Saint Paisios was reposed on July 12, 1994. One of the things he wrote was, “I wanted nothing else but God to keep me alive for a few more years so I could see my country expand. And it will expand…” “Turkey will be dissected. This will be to our benefit as a nation. This way our villages will be liberated, our enslaved homelands. Constantinople will be liberated, will become Greek again. Hagia Sophia will open again,” the text reads. “Turkey will be dissected in 3 or 4 parts. The countdown has begun. We will take the lands that belong to us, the Armenians will take theirs, and the Kurds their own. The Kurdish issue is at the works,” the text continues. Paisios wrote further: “As long as there is faith and hope in God, a lot of people will rejoice. All that will happen in these years. The time has come.”
EΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ Αριθ. 2953 Μυστική Εγκύκλιος Ο ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ Προς το Πανελλήνιον. Προς τους κατά το Αιγαίον Πέλαγος και την Πελοπόννησον Εκτάκτους Επιτρόπους και τους Αρχηγούς των κατά ξηράν και θάλασσαν Δυνάμεων. Γνωρίζει η Κυβέρνησις, ότι Πολίται τινές επιμένουν πιστεύοντες και τους άλλους πείθοντες, ότι αι μυστικαί Εταιρείαι χορηγούσι μέσα σωτήρια εις την Πατρίδα, ή τουλάχιστον Αιγίδα υπό την οποίαν συνδεόμενοι μεταξύ των οι άνθρωποι δια μυστικών δεσμών δύνανται να απολαύσωσιν εντός της Πατρίδος των και δια της ξένης επιρροής αξιώματα, τιμάς, και το πλέον τύχην, ό εστι χρήματα. Όσον και αν ελεεινολογή η Κυβέρνησις την απειρίαν των Ελλήνων των από τοιαύτας εισηγήσεις παρασυρομένων δεν ήθελε δώσει την προσοχήν της, αν δεν ήτο καταπεπεισμένη πόσον ολέθρια αποτελέσματα δύναται να φέρη εις την κρίσιμον ταύτην στιγμήν η περί τούτων γνώμη, την οποίαν οι εχθροί της Ελλάδος ήθελον συστήσει και εις τον Κόσμον, και εις τας Ευρωπαϊκάς Κυβερνήσεις. Αν η Ελλάς εγκατελείφθη από το 1821 έως τον Ιούλιον μήνα του τελευταίου έτους, τούτο προήλθε διότι οι εχθροί της την παρέσταιναν αδιακόπως προς τους Βασιλείς, ως λαόν επαναστατωθέντα και αγωνιζόμενον υπό την διεύθυνσιν και υπό τους σκοπούς Μυστικών Εταιρειών, όθεν επήγασαν αι καταστροφαί της Ισπανίας και Ιταλίας. Εύκολον ήτο αναμφιβόλως να αναιρεθή η σφαλερά αύτη δόξα. Μ'όλον τούτο εχρειάσθησαν ολόκληρα επτά έτη βασάνων και δυστυχιών εις αναίρεσίν της. Μόλις ανηρέθη, και ενώ η Ελλάς αρχίζει να λαμβάνη δείγματα ευνοίας και καλοκαγαθίας εκ μέρους των Συμμαχικών Δυνάμεων, οι εχθροί της θέλουν πάλιν την παραστήσει ως υπεξούσιον των Μυστικών Εταιρειών, και εις απόδειξιν τούτου θέλουν φανερώσει, ότι υπό διαφόροις ονόμασιν αι Εταιρείαι αυταί υπάρχουν και πολλαπλασιάζονται μεταξύ των εν τοις πράγμασι και της πολιτικής τάξεως, και της στρατιωτικής δυνάμεως, ίσως και αυτού του στόλου. Τόσον ουσιώδες θεωρεί τούτο η Κυβέρνησις ώστε μη εγκρίνουσα να δείξη διά τινος δημοσίου και επισήμου πράξεως την ύπαρξιν αυτού του κακού, εκπληροί δια του τύπου της παρούσης εγκυκλίου το χρέος, το οποίον δεν ημπορεί να παραμελήση χωρίς να καθυποβληθεί εις βαρυτάτην ευθύνην. Τω όντι τοιούτον δημόσιον έγγραφον μεταξύ των Πολιτικών, οι οποίοι επιμένουσι να μην παραχωρώσιν εις την Ελλάδα έντιμον μέλλον, ήθελε χρησιμεύσει ως μέσον του να αποδείξωσιν, ότι οι Βασιλείς δια των ευεργεσιών των υποθάλπουσιν εις την Ελλάδα τον εχθρόν, τον οποίον και αλλαχού, και τας ιδίας των Επικρατείας πολεμώσι. Η παρατήρησις αύτη, Κύριοι, σας διδάσκει με πόσην φρόνησιν και οξυδέρκειαν απαιτείται η εκπλήρωσις της ακολούθου παραγγελίας της Κυβερνήσεως. Θέλετε κοινοποιήσει δια ζώσης φωνής εις τους υπαλλήλους σας ή τους υπό την οδηγίαν σας αξιωματικούς το περιεχόμενον της παρούσης, και θέλετε τους κάμει να σας φανερώσουν αν ανήκουν εις καμμίαν των Μυστικών Εταιρειών, ή όχι. Αν είναι το πρώτον, θέλετε τους παρατηρήσει, ότι εάν εις την παρελθούσαν κατάστασιν της αναρχίας, και της αταξίας ήταν ίσως αναγκαίον εις τους πολίτας να ζητήσωσι προσωπικήν ασφάλειαν δια του δεσμού μυστικής τινος Εταιρείας, ο δεσμός ούτος διαλύεται καθ' ήν στιγμήν ο του νομίμου όρκου και προς την Κυβέρνησιν, και προς τους Νόμους, χορηγεί εις ένα έκαστον και εις όλους, όλας τας απαραιτήτους ασφαλείας. Από τοιαύτην αρχήν ορμώμενοι ευκόλως θέλετε αποδείξει το ασυμβίβαστον των δύο όρκων, ήγουν του υπηρετείν το Κράτος, και υπηρετείν μυστικήν Εταιρείαν, της οποίας ο σκοπός είναι ως επί το πλείστον άγνωστος εις τους Εταίρους. Αν λοιπόν οι υπάλληλοί σας ή οι υπό την οδηγίαν σας αξιωματικοί ανήκουσιν είς τινα Εταιρείαν, ανάγκη να παραιτηθώσι, και περί τούτου οφείλεις να μας βεβαιώσεις. Εξ εναντίας θέλετε τους εξηγήσει τους κινδύνους εις τους οποίους εκτίθενται πλανώμενοι από ολίγους τινάς όλως διόλου εις τα τοιαύτα ενασχολουμένους. Από την κατηγορίαν των Εταιρειών των μη συμβιβαζομένων με τα κατά Νόμους καθεστώτα δεν αποκλείομεν και την προ αιώνων γνωριζομένην υπό τω ονόματι της Αδελφοποιείας, ή Αγάπης. Παραγγέλλεσθε, Κύριοι, κατ' επανάληψιν να κάμετε χρήσιν της κοινοποιήσεως ταύτης κατά τον συνετώτερον και ωφελιμώμερον τρόπον. Προθύμως η Κυβέρνησις θέλει δεχθή τας ειδοποιήσεις, όσας εν καιρώ και τόπω θέλετε δυνηθή να την χορηγήσετε. Εν Πόρω τη 8 Ιουνίου 1828 Ο Κυβερνήτης Ι.Α. Καποδίστριας
Στις 22/8/1831 ο Καποδίστριας έστειλε και δεύτερη εγκύκλιο (Αρ. 4286) για το ίδιο θέμα για εφαρμογή σε όλες τις δημόσιες υπηρεσίες με αυστηρότατο τρόπο.
Jesus Christ is Orthodox =Άλλο οι ψευδοθρησκείες που είναι φαντασία των ιδρυτών τους και άλλο ο Χριστός ο οποίος είναι ο Ίδιος ο Θεός! Τα θαύματα Του Χριστού δεν σταματάνε κ γίνονται αντιληπτά κ από αλόθρησκους ακόμη όπως π.χ το Μέγα Θαύμα Του Αγίου Φωτός το οποίο ανάβει τα καντήλια του Πανίερου Ναού Της Αναστάσεως που βρίσκονται ψηλά στο ναό ενώ τα πρώτα λεπτά δεν καίει! Επίσης ο Αγιασμός δεν χαλάει ενώ τα λείψανα των Αγίων ευωδειάζουν θαυματουργούν και πολλά είναι άφθαρτα!----Don't pay attention,to every heretic,deceiver,who tells you about,its not true
Another is the false religions that are the imagination of their founders and another is Christ who is God Himself! The miracles of Christ do not stop and are perceived by even non-religious people such as the Great Miracle of the Holy Light which lights the candles of the Holy Temple of the Resurrection that are high in the temple while the first minutes do not burn! Also, Agiasmos does not spoil while the relics of the Saints smell of miracles and many are indestructible!
Jesus Christ is Orthodox. How do we know this? From the sacred light delivered only to the Orthodox Patriarch Jesus christ came to earth to build his church and this is the orthodox church. The temperature of the Holy Fire is around forty degrees Celsius for a few minutes after its defeat, so the faithful can take it freely in their hands and "wash" their faces in it during this time because they are not burned , Archbishop Gennady Zaridze, of Orthodox Christian Scientists and Rector of the Church of the Mother of God protective veil in Voronezh region, said in an interview with RIA-Novosti. "I used a pyrometer and recorded the temperature of the Holy Fire immediately after the descent: I immediately wash my face with this Fire (and I did not burn!) And I measured its temperature and it turned out that the average temperature of the Fire I was holding and the fire held by my neighbors was forty-two degrees Celsius. Fifteen minutes later I remeasured the temperature and reached 320 ° Celsius until that time ", the archbishop investigating the miracles using physical-scientific methods for many years a. Fr. Gennady Zaridze used a pyrometer, which uses a non-infrared infrared thermometer to measure the surface temperature of an object to measure the temperature of the Holy Fire. A silver width of five millimeters and one-millimeter width was used as an object. Since silver is one of the biggest heat-generating metals, when you place a slab on the fire, you will immediately get the flame temperature. Fr. Gennadi Zardine visited the Holy Land in April 2016 for Easter at the invitation of the St. Joseph Foundation. Andrew and with the blessing of the metropolitan Sergy Voronezh and Liski. "I have no doubt that the Holy Fire is the work of the grace of God, it is a kind of divine mercy in the sinful world that is designed to preserve and strengthen faith," said the shepherd in an interview with RIA-Novosti, adding that there have been cases of healing wonders during the feasts of Saint Photius. that in 2008 Andrei Volkov, a scientist from the Russian Research Center of Russia (Kurchatov Institute), had come to Jerusalem before the conquest of Saint Photius and brought with him an instrument that recorded various electromagnetic spectrum ranges Bolia. That day he was the first man (even before the patriarch went to the believers to fire) to learn that the Holy Fire had collapsed because the bodies showed a very strong electrical discharge. The time that Orthodoxy will prevail is near We know that it is not only the natural laws but also spiritual. Therefore, the wrath of God can not be addressed by cooperative sinners (why double rage will become), but by repentance and adherence to orders Lord. Elder Sophronius of Mount Athos (1993) telling Essex, England like Saint Paisius: "The Union of Churches is difficult if not impossible for them. speak for the Union Churches do not know the mentality of the heterodox or level Orthodoxy. Saint Paisius the above knowledge was, advises everyone to be more restrained because there will be the time when the Lord will present the Marcus Polite and fast palms to gather all kataskandalismena our brethren, to confess the Orthodox faith, to clinch tradition, and give great joy to our Mother. Essentially the elder prophesying a truly Orthodox Synod Perhaps the 8th. Ecumenical Council for which prophesied to become the Holy Nile Myrovlytis: Then he made at the eighth meeting, and wants to choose good from evil, ie Orthodoxy, as the farmer selects the wheat from the chaff. and Then make peace little people again will change the agreement in their evil .... Peace in the world can not come without a peacemaker, living and unadulterated teaching Orthodoxy. Dissemination However, although continued after the fall of City, to a degree, it should be maximized and will officially spread dynamically after the 3rd World War general war as onomastic Agios Kosmas of Aetolia. This will be the period glimpse of Orthodoxy, for a short time, because then start again people are lured into evil. believe it or not, there is going to be a glimpse of orthodoxy around the globe, Because God wants you to know what's the real truth is. Before the ascension of the Antichrist
Roman Catholics believe that purgatory is a place where "we atone for our sins" while atonement is the work of our Lord Jesus Christ alone. The Basis of the doctrine of Atonement and Redemption is that man is incapable of paying for the Divine Justice no matter how much he does, suffers, or is punished.
The Holy Bible says,
"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed" (Rom 3:24-25).
"If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world" (1 Jn 2:1-2).
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 Jn 4:10).
2. Purgatory is against the doctrine of Salvation
Salvation is only by blood and only by the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ is the only purge. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (1 Jn 1:7). 'All sin' refers to every kind of sin mentioned by the Catholics the mortal, the venial, or any other. The only condition is repentance "confess our sins" "walk in the light" (1 Jn 1:7,9). St Paul says, "But with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption" (Heb 9:12). Purgatory is an insult to the work of the Cross for we say that on the Cross appeared the Divine Love "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (Jn 3:16) How would that love agree with the pain of purgatory for forgiven sins and unintentional sins?
To believe in purgatory is to believe in partial salvation as if Christ came to save us from the shame of sin not from its penalty.
3. Purgatory is against the sacrament of repentance
Repentance blots sin, God forgives it and does not remember it.
"Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" (Acts 3:19).
"I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins" (Isa 44:22).
"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, nailed to the cross" (Col 2:13,14).
"I, even I, am He Who blots out transgressions for My own sake and I will not remember your sins" (Isa 43:25).
The Coptic Orthodox view on the Prayer for the Departed
We pray for those who departed from this world not because we believe in the purgatory but following St. Paul who prayed for Onesiphorus saying, "The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day" (2 Tim 1:18). In that Day meant in the Day of Judgment, as he said "Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing" (2 Tim 4:8). St. Paul was not asking for mercy in the purgatory but on the Day of Judgment when he stands before the Just Judge. We pray for the departure that God may grant them rest in the place of waiting for the Day of Judgment has not come yet. Those departed are awaiting without worry or unrest. The litany for the departed does not mention the purgatory at all. We pray saying, "Sustain them in a green pasture, by the water of rest in the paradise of joy, the place out of which grief, sorrow, and groaning have fled away" This is definitely not the description of the purgatory for the purgatory contrarily is a place of grief, sorrow, and groaning.
Our Church absolves the soul of the departed during the prayer. She absolves her from all the sins she committed while in the flesh. We say to God, 'this soul has departed from us absolved by the church. We do not retain any sin for her...we intercede for her for You O Lord know the weakness of man.
"In all my exhibitions I try to honestly present the events I lived through in the 48 years of my life. On July 11, 1976, just before 10 in the morning, I drove from Kragujevic to the Baths of Mataruska.
Arriving at the Ibar bridge in Kraljevo, I turned left due to a collision that had blocked the road, taking direction to the monastery.
This is how this shocking story begins
On the way, he picks up two strangers in his car. A solemn monk and a revered nun. On his way they say everything about his life, even details. He is surprised…
- Dusan, you are returning from the memorial in Kragujevic, aren't you? How did they know my name and where did I come from? They were completely unknown to me…
- In fact.
- And now you go to the Baths of Mataruska, while you do not bathe…
- I do not dare, because the water is very hot. The monk has just stopped. The nun asks me.
- Where are you from Dushan? From Zakuta? Your father is Dimitri, your mother is Derinka,… They believe in God, but as soon as they get angry they curse him. Your brother, Milovan, is highly educated but an atheist. Great atheist ...
He paused for a moment and continued;
- And you Dushan, you believe deeply in God, despite your apostasy.
You stopped and picked us up, while others passed by us and spat on us.
I was trembling with fear. Through the driver's mirror I turned and hugged them. Horror seized me. Two large halos with dazzling light blinded me above their heads.
Really, I was not dealing with ordinary people…
They continued talking to me about the prodigal life I was leading. Fear and shame had overwhelmed me. In the courtyard of the monastery I stopped to go down. I ran to open the doors for them. I pulled the knob and bent inside.
The seats were empty!
UP FROM THE CLOUDS ...
Depressed, anxious, terrified, I arrive at my hotel. I lay down on the bed. A pain, like a stitch, pierced my chest, throwing me into a deep sleep.
As if in a dream, the door of my room opened. The walls shine strangely, and a bright angel, the same ancient image, enters.
He is talking to me;
- Shower, get up to walk. Do you know who you were transporting today? Agios Apostolos Petros, and Agia Petka (Friday) that your family honors very much σαμε We arrived at a mountain. We entered a cloud and began to rise in space, like in a fairy tale.
The angel said to me;
- Look down at the Earth. What do you see;
The whole earth was like a sphere, but I recognized in spite of all the heights, faces of people, animals, etc.
- Dushan, God supervised you to receive a small sample of the afterlife and the resurrection of the dead when Christ comes to judge the world. This is how it will happen then…
Like in a movie, I saw bright Archangels trumpeting, tombs being opened all over the earth, and the dead coming out of them whole and whole. I saw men, women, children coming out of seas, lakes, fires, etc. as they had died.
The strangest thing was that on everyone's forehead, as if on paper, many or a few words were written.
The angel spoke;
- Why do you admire Dusan? What you see written are the works of everyone, even their thoughts are written. Nothing is going to be hidden….
Among the dead I saw friends, relatives, acquaintances. They reached out, they talked, but I could not distinguish their words. Another multitude of shadowy creatures hovered in the air around us. Distinguished pure human characteristics. What were you?
"These are human souls," the angel told me, deepening my thought.
The soul that comes out of man contains sight, hearing, speech, memory, emotions. Without a soul man is but a mass of flesh. Without a soul there is no life.
When the soul leaves the body (death) then, for 40 days it passes again all the life it lived and it is shown everything it did, the places it lived, but also the places where it sinned, which it benefited, etc. Then he ascends to heaven for judgment.
You should know Dushan, that in hell there are sinners, but also the so-called "good" people, according to the measures of the world… They are the people who consciously did not want to hear anything about Christ and their salvation. They were indifferent thinking that the issue did not concern them !
We have traveled through space, but I am not in a position to describe details. We finally reached a place with endless huge walls. A gate in the shape of a Cross was shining ...
There were many souls, more or less bright, many angels, but also demons with monstrous forms, as in the hagiographies we see, who tried to prevent the souls from entering. We passed this gate and reached a second station, where the savagery of the demons to grab souls, filled you with horror.
Through the gate, however, a powerful, crystal clear light, which no human being like him saw, illuminated everything. Houses, rivers, trees, flowers, and Churches with chants, shone indescribably….
The ground of Paradise was like glass, I would say crystal, while huge green fragrant gardens covered the surrounding areas. Hymns and Praises to Christ filled the air.
Also, from a great distance, on a hill, I saw a huge Cross and on it Christ, while a blinding light was springing around him. Angels and saints were beside him.
- Dushan, here is the throne of God… You are not worthy to go further. Take care to take advantage of the little life you have left, to be baptized, and to be saved by fasting and prayer, keeping every commandment of God…
Watch out!
BUT ALSO, THERE IS HELL ...
".... We came out of Paradise like a dream and were transported to a place, like an abyss, dark . No earthly darkness can be like this. A terrible stench, the stench of Hell, was drowning me.
I felt like we were facing something unknown, something terrible, but I did not know what it could be . The angel-guide directed me ...
In the background, a vast sea was seen, from the surface of which was boiling huge fires. I realized that we are in front of an endless wall while a few meters beyond our feet the water was boiling like a volcano.
These words do not describe! ...
Woe to those who will go to hell, and who will burn in this place for endless years. Woe to those whom Satan deceives and tells them that the devil and Hell are fairy tales of the priests, and throws them into prostitution, adultery, suicide, drugs, homosexuality, abortions, etc. , and reassures them by telling them;
"Do not be afraid, God is good ..."
He still tells them,
"And where will everyone fit in Hell ..."
When they land in these places forever and the doors close behind them, then they will realize their fatal mistake.
I saw innumerable terrible animals, huge snakes, with many heads, twisting, standing up, and squeezing the sinners, dragging them to the depths of the fiery sea ...
And when the mouths of the monstrous animals devoured the sinners, then these bodies were made again as before, so that the same cycle of torments could begin again ...
"Do not be afraid, Dushan," said the angel. The serpents and the animals that swim in this boiling water, God made them so that they will not be destroyed ... They will bite forever and all together they will boil and roast in this fire, but they will never boil, nor will they be cooked completely…
This will be their punishment ...
MY RETURN ...
The sight of torture was unbearable. I closed my eyes several times, but when I turned them in the dark, then there I was greeted by black monsters, with fiery eyes, screaming and flying around us.
I was scared…
- Do not disturb Dusan. They are demons that we bother them with. Many people today do not believe in demons.
He considers them fairy tales and laughs. But the time will come if they do not repent, if they do not confess sincerely, and do not communicate regularly, who will live in these places, and then they will believe… Remember this Dushan!
Here they will live, whether they like it or not! ...
Only a change of life can save them, before of course death overtakes them ...
With these words the angel took me out of hell and its darkness.
Returning to Earth, he crucified me and disappeared.
Since then, the evolution of my life into repentance and life change has been rapid. Today, close to Christ and His mysteries, I feel insured against the other life so much that no Human Life Insurance Company can offer. I hope, how many people will think so, and how this real story needed to be made public…
( This vision, translated from a Serbian text, was made public for information only).
Commenting on this, some people talked about a symbolic vision of allegorical significance that has nothing to do with reality ...
Who of us however, either patriarch or archbishop or spiritual, can responsibly say that he knows well what he meant when Christ talked about Hell?
Of course no one! ...
Others laughed ironically, calling the description "a true tale ..."
What if it is not so?
But if one in a thousand , things are there ... as described above, then what happens?
