What the Fathers predicted Russia? Bashny.Net

Predicting the future is now a lot of scientists, futurists, like Francis Fukuyama. At the core of their "prophecies" are usually the most difficult and fundamental analysis of the latest information technology. However, in most cases, their "Foresight" (projections) are not met.

On the other hand - the prophetic tradition existed for centuries among the zealots of Orthodoxy. Of course, the Fathers relied not on fundamental analysis and the latest achievements of science, but only faith in the Lord ...

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St. Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32 years

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"Before the end of the time Russia will merge into one great sea from other lands and tribes Slavic, it will be one sea or one huge universal ocean People, on the means the Lord God anciently spoken by the mouth of all the saints," menacing and invincible kingdom of All-Russia, AllSlav - Gog and Magog before whom trembling all nations shall. " And all this - just the same as two and two are four, and certainly as God is holy, anciently predrekshy about him and his formidable dominion over the Earth. United by the Russian and other peoples of Constantinople and Jerusalem will be full. In the division of Turkey, almost all of it will be for Russia ... »



St. Theophan the Recluse 1894 years

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"What the Lord showed signs of Russia, eliminating her from the enemies of the strongest nations and conquering it! And yet Well, evil is growing. Shall we not reason with? West and punish and punish us Lord, and we all sense is not taken. Stuck in the mud of the Western ears, and all is well. There eyes but do not see, have ears but do not hear, and the heart does not mean the ... Sniffing in this hellish frenzy, we lace, like a madman, forgetting themselves. If you do not come to their senses, the Lord will send us foreign teachers to lead us into the feeling ... It turns out that we are on the path of revolution. These are not empty words, but the case, argues the voice of the Church. Veda, Orthodox, God is not mocked. "



St. Seraphim Vyritsky, the beginning of XX-th century

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"The time will come when not persecution but money and the delights of this world, people will turn away from God and die much more souls than during an open rebellion. On the one hand, will erect crosses and golden domes, and on the other - there will be a kingdom of lies and evil. True Church will always be persecuted, and can be saved only sorrow and disease. Persecution will take the most unpredictable and sophisticated. But the salvation of the world - from Russia. "



Shiieromonah Aristoclius Athos. 1917-18 years

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"Now we are experiencing the time Antichrist. A trial of the living God, and there will be no country on earth, a single person, which is not affected. It began with Russia, and then ... And then Russia will be saved. A lot of suffering, a lot of suffering ... The whole of Russia will become a prison, and have a lot of begging the Lord for forgiveness. Repent of their sins and be afraid, and do the slightest sins and try to do good, even the smallest. After all, the wing of a fly has weight, but God's scales are accurate. And when the smallest good in the bowl outweighs, then God will show mercy to Russia ...

The end will be in China. An unusual burst of will, and will be a miracle of God. And life will be completely different in the land, but not for very long. The cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because it magnified our homeland and will be like a beacon in the darkness for all. "



Bishop John of Shanghai, 1938

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"Shake off the dream of despondency and indolence, sons of Russia! Behold the glory of her suffering and be clean, clean from your sins! Be strong in the faith of the Orthodox to be worthy to dwell in the house of the Lord, and dwell in the holy mountain. Awake, Awake, arise, Russ, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath! When would end your suffering, your righteousness shall go with you, and the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. The nations shall come to your light, and kings - the rising of you shine. Then Lift up your eyes round about and vizhd: behold, they come to you from the west and north, and the sea, and eastern Chad yours in Christ blagoslovyaschaya you forever! »



Rev. Anatoly Optina, the beginning of the XX century

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"There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be smashed. But even on driftwood and pieces of people are saved. Yet not all perish. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently ... revealed to be a great miracle of God ... And all the splinters and fragments, by the will of God and the power of His will gather and unite and recreate the ship in all its glory and go its own way, God intended ... »



St. Theophan of Poltava, 1930

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"Russia will be restored the monarchy, autocratic power. Lord predyzbral future king. This will be a person of faith fiery, brilliant mind and iron will. Above all, he will establish order in the Orthodox Church, by removing all untrue, heresy and lukewarm bishops. And many, many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and the new, true, unshakable become bishops in their place ... There will be something that no one expects. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy in her revive and triumph. But the fact of Orthodoxy that was before, will not be. God Himself will put a strong king on the throne. "



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